[Skyside - General]

Even more anti-MERC propaganda have been put up, especially in the Cloudtops and Raindrop district. While lighter on the 'MERC will massacre the people of Skyside' angle, they're much the same, suggesting that MERC's greed is going to crush the people and ruin everything forever. Fat goblins with their sacks of money sinking the city to the ground, citizens hiding in their homes, etc.

[KABAL Office]

"Maybe it's a kind of test. You don't join KABAL to write gossip columns, anyways."
As for why cats have been replaced, that's obvious. Just spend some times around them.