Pigeons Seen Running a Careful Syndicate Behind the Arcade, Allegedly Teasing a ‘Very Feathered’

According to no one in particular, a small gang of pigeons has been spotted taking turns on a phone wire outside a shuttered arcade, which is exactly the sort of thing people on the internet call ‘proof’.

The birds were seen arriving in a formation so tidy it was described by one witness as ‘basically a business meeting, but with more necks’.

Rumour merchants immediately declared the flock to be a new in-game faction, possibly specialising in reconnaissance, bread theft, and the sort of passive-aggressive staring that only pigeons can manage.

A much-discussed detail is the alleged presence of one pigeon with a tiny red ankle tag, which fans have decided is either a quest marker or a symbol of very formal bird politics.

Nobody involved has confirmed anything, obviously, because there is nothing to confirm. But that has not stopped the theory mill from announcing the birds will be 'important to the weather system' in a manner best left unexplained.