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CROWN WORRIES OVER FUNLAND RUINS

Dateline: 18-09-517

Are we having Fun yet?

The Royal Treasury has expressed concern after Royal Agents sent to the ruins of the ‘Funland’ entertainment park in Homeward failed to return.

Funland was an attempt to develop a run-down estate in Homeward into an ‘entertainment park’. It was the vision of eccentric entertainment entrepreneur and impresario Elliot Wilde, and at the time it created considerable interest and excitement.

The endeavour had been meant to attract tourists from across Bereny to enjoy the thrills of magical rides, colourful shows and an amazing resident circus. However it proved to be a financial disaster and the park closed its gates after only a few weeks, and since then Funland has fallen into ruins.

“The failure of Funland was a tragedy for the circus community,” Circus manager Sebastian Topp told the Bugle. “Wilde made all these promises that the resident circus would be the biggest and best in Bereny, and he attracted all the best talent away from smaller circus ventures like my own. But it was an insane idea - that hundreds of people would travel the dangerous roads of Kingdom to some remote location in Homeward to see a circus, even if it was the best in Bereny? The miracle is that the Crown and all those financial backers ever believed it in the first place ... it was like Wilde had cast some sort of spell on them.”

The Crown recently decided to try to re-develop and reactivate the estate as a more regular Baronial tenacy, but Crown surveyors sent to the site never reported back. The Crown dispatched a more heavily-armed group of agents to investigate and they too have not been heard from. A recent appeal to the adventuring community for assistance proved fruitless, and the Crown is now rumoured to have approached the Lord Crusader of Merl and asked his order to investigate.

“The odd thing is though,” Sebastian Topp added, “even after Funland collapsed, those circus performers who had gone to join it didn’t come back into the wider circus community. It is like they all just vanished....”