Your News at 11 Episode 20: Squizzler Schools the Circle 29Oct25

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[P.N.N. — YOUR NEWS AT 11, GRANDVILLE]

 

TRISH TAKANAWA (reporting live from the shadowed alleys beneath the Spire):

“Good evening. I’m Trish Takanawa with the Paragon News Network, reporting from Grandville — where a violent confrontation between the enigmatic villain Squizzler, fresh from his defeat of ZenFlower earlier in the day, and a senior Circle of Thorns warlock, Veratzu, erupted earlier today in the heart of the city’s underbelly.

Eyewitnesses describe the encounter as swift, brutal, and deeply symbolic — a challenge issued and answered in front of Veratzu’s own acolytes.”

 

[Cut to shaky security drone footage: Squizzler taunting defeated Veratzu.]

 

TRISH (voiceover):
“Sources within Arachnos intelligence report that Veratzu had been consolidating power within the Circle’s Grandville chapter, attempting to rally the cult’s remnants after recent defeats. It seems Squizzler — whose pattern of attacks often straddles the line between chaos and calculation — decided to make an example of him.”

 

[Cut to a local witness — an Arachnos technician, face obscured.]
‘He didn’t sneak in or ambush them. He walked right through the portal chamber, laughing. Veratzu threw everything he had at him — spells, demons, the works. Squizzler tanked it all, dropped him in under a minute. Then he said, “Tell the Circle — the world’s already full of monsters.” And he walked away.’

 

[Cut to shaky security drone footage: Squizzler battling a large, fiery demon.]

 

TRISH (back on scene, the faint hum of lingering magic warping the air):
“Arachnos containment crews arrived minutes later to secure the site, where Veratzu’s ritual circle lay shattered and his followers scattered. Captain Verax, Arachnos’ field operations liaison, issued this brief statement earlier this evening.”

 

[Cut to Verax at a podium, stern as ever.]
‘Arachnos does not condone the interference of freelance operatives in sanctioned magical territories. That said — the Circle of Thorns are a threat to stability, and their humiliation today may serve as a warning to others who believe themselves untouchable.’

 

[Back to Trish, the Spire looming ominously in the distance.]
“Whether this was vengeance, message, or power play, one thing is clear — Squizzler has now taken his conflict with the Circle public. And in Grandville, where power is everything, that’s a dangerous move.

For the Paragon News Network, I’m Trish Takanawa — reminding you that in the Rogue Isles… even magic bows to momentum.

 

This has been Your News at 11.”

Edited Thursday at 03:30 AM by david665