The Multiverse Review

The Multiverse Review - your Sunless City's source for news, announcements and everything you need to know about the multiverse!

— Front cover blurb of the Multiverse Review

Go to any major store in Limbo, and you will undoubtedly hear some chatter about the most recent issue of the Multiverse Review. This daily journal is published every Earth morning under the auspices of its head editor, Andrew Gillespie, and his various journalists and writers. The newspaper contains news of recent decisions and events in the Seven, announcements of new rules or requested meetings between various Departments and sub-Departments, and advertisements for various local businesses.

By the People, For the People

The Multiverse Review is staffed by around two dozen writers, photographers, artists, printers, distributors and editors, all of them from a variety of different worlds and backgrounds in the multiverse. They all work together under Andrew's direction to deliver quality journalism to the Sunless City, as well as to various Sanctuaries and guilds throughout the multiverse.
A given story starts as an event, to which Andrew sends a journalist and occasionally a photographer to record what happens, what it means for the city and where it goes in the paper - less important stories go further back in the paper, more important ones closer to the front. This raw information either gets rewritten into the raw text of a story by the journalist themself or is given to an established writer to be reworked. An editor goes over the text, making sure there aren't any mistakes and making sure it's important enough to be included. Then artists and editors work on where it goes in the story, where photographs will go, where advertisements will be placed on a given page, and other space and layout concerns. Then the finished pages are given to Andrew, who sends them to the printers to be made into the day's issue, printed on special Universally Translated Paper. Afterwards the finished issue is given to distributors to be delivered to important points in the Sunless City and across the multiverse.

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The Multiverse Review

Sample Issue: 17 August, 2012

Justice: Troublemakers in Bloodied Chalice Expelled
Reports from the Department of Justice today relate that the assorted ruffians who started a fight in the Bloodied Chalice have been expelled from the city.
Yesterday, around 4pm, several travellers who looked to be from Orkanis showed up in the Bloodied Chalice. They proceeded to get involved in a deal with a local over a large tome before the arrival of two people claiming to be the real purchasers of the book in question. It was at this moment that a fight broke out over the tome in the middle of the common room.
"It was all so sudden." mentioned Aaron Rogers, owner of the Bloodied Chalice. "They were a little new to town, I recall, but...I hardly saw them as troublemakers until spells started flyin'." Rogers continued to relate that the troublemakers ran off into the street, jumping over the bar and making their way into the alleyway outside to chase down their enemies.
As is known to all members of the city's permanent population, fighting is not permitted in the streets of the Sunless City. In a press conference held last night, Keeper Borenius reaffirmed the importance of this rule, saying, "Let it be a gentle reminder that our city is a neutral party in the chaotic web of alliances in the multiverse. Many come here fleeing devastation, and so violence towards members of the city's population will not be tolerated."
He mentioned that in this particular instance, the troublemakers were "given a temporary ban from the Sunless City until such time as they make reasonable amends to the cityfolk." Reassuring the locals that such an event was "rather rare," he went on to discuss other topics (see page 4 for more on his recent overhaul of the Department of Justice)...

JOURNALIST NEEDED
The Multiverse Review is currently searching for a new journalist or journalists to help in reporting on large-scale events on the world of Dreandril. Interested parties should make sure to bring a list of qualifications and a writing sample to the Review's office and be prepared to be interviewed on their work experience and their fit for the position.

Important Meetings Scheduled for Today
The only meetings of note on this day are: 

• a meeting among Portal Engineers of the Department of Silver. This meeting is not open to the general public, as per the usual guidelines.
• a public hearing for those interested in the further development along Tower Way is scheduled for late in the day today so those opposed to or in favour of the proposed work can voice their opinions.

Yapo's Rise Begins
Today is the first day of the Banai holiday of Yapo's Rise in the Dreandrilan calendar. The holiday is in celebration of one of their people's most enduring heroes who is known for saving them from freezing sea creatures from the Curaith Sea. The holiday is marked by feasting, celebrations and storytelling...

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Type

Text, Newspaper

Medium

Paper

Location

Limbo

Advertising

The Multiverse Review contains space where businesses and organizations can place marketing materials so they can get more visibility or customers. Businesses that get this advertising space tend to be only local ones in the Sunless City, just due to the 85% of the paper's readership being in Limbo. Organizations, meanwhile, can be activist groups, movements, and concerned citizens from across the multiverse.

Where to Get It

Copies of the current issue of the Multiverse Review can be gotten from small painted metal boxes resembling Earth-style mailboxes throughout the city. All issues of the Multiverse Review, from its first to the most recent, are also kept in the Borarian Library of Archives. Outside of the city, local organizations that often interface with the Seven might have several recent issues kept in their libraries or even in guest quarters.