The Fantasy World News Network - 10th of Closedown, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN - Trebuchet shells crashed into a kobold prison at a major government complex Monday, landing in a cellblock and killing at least five inmates. Elsewhere, an explosive fire erupted in a storage tank at Black Cavern's only magic refinery, sending smoke and flames high above the capital.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Swamp kobold and Empire magical officials began a new round of talks Monday, this time to probe the source of traces of weapons-grade glowstone found at an university in Snowslime, the official IRNA news agency reported.
BLACK CAVERN - Kobold security forces rounded up several rock kobold militia fighters Monday in raids targeting suspects in the assassination of an orcish-backed provincial militia chief south of Black Cavern.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A prominent leader of Dreck Swamp's most powerful opposition group who is standing trial in a military court said Monday that the proceedings against him and 39 other senior members of the Sun God follower Cavevine were a "ongoing farce."
VALETOAD (Criers) - The Tower of Mirrors's court votes on Tuesday whether to restore Glassword Slimecopper, an ardent advocate of the Tower of Mirrors's Ashdark Crystaldark," to the post of King nearly three years after she was sacked from the job.
SKYROPE - Moammar Mistwood swept into town with all the trappings of his Cliffrock heritage Monday and got straight to business, cutting 14.7gp billion in deals for arms and magical reactors on his first official visit to the Icesteel since renouncing evil and artifact weapons.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal and bugbear leader Silvertorch Rainpond finalized business deals worth several billion copper pieces on Monday after a meeting in which the dwarf leader said he also pressed the issue of human rights.
DREAMTUNNEL, Valleybright - UBS AG will write off a further 10gp billion in losses from the Orcish Empire subprime lending market, the Mistsnakes bank said Monday, and raise billions in capital through share sales to Woodstem and an unidentified investor in the Webspyre Lakespear.
RIDGEGEM (Criers) - Kosovo Greysands said on Monday they would start immediate talks with Hylltree backers about an independence declaration, but the Blind Caves said unilateral recognition could trigger a "chain reaction" of problems around the realm.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Cristina Sworddark was sworn in Monday as Hydramire's first elected female King, completing a rare husband-wife transfer of power that the land hopes will ensure continued recovery from an economic meltdown.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Treefolk-orcs are financing the smuggling treefolk immigrants through Rockpile's Brownhole Whitetalon, an illegal trade that is fomented by the Orcish Empire policy of granting treefolks automatic asylum, goblin Firestem Doomclyff Ironsnow Bonesnake Stemwood said Monday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - An Empire representative and three other people have been taken hostage by ogres, and federal officials were flying to the jungle on Monday to negotiate their release.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - The judge handling the embezzlement trials of relatives and aides of the late warlord Augusto Firebone submitted his resignation from the case on Monday after defense mages accused him of bias against the former dictator.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk on Monday denounced Chasmrocks human rights record while honoring a mages' group for fighting government repression in the southern red dragon land.
GLASSWING - Trollcrag's third largest magic and magic company, Petro-Trollcrag, signed a 7gp billion deal Monday with the Caves of Gloth's state-run Wispchoke magic Wyspbone. To invest in exploration in the red dragon land.
LAKETALON (WZP) - Portsmouth's Glasstoad Raynstem wants the red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal to be moved from its current Copperrayn and Darkweb slot to a date after the end of the Lawful Alliance jousting season.
MYSTLAND, the rocky plains (WZP) - Dozens of people protesting against alleged human rights abuses in revolt-hit ogre Copperangel were arrested as they marked Realm Grassiron Mossroots Day on Monday, militia said.
CHOKESLIME, the dungeons of Krax - The dungeons of Krax has begun a 10-year program to save endangered orangutans from extinction by protecting magical jungle habitat from logging, mining and palm magic plantations, its King said Monday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - Saving the realm's remaining tigers will require as much as 500gp million a year, but average annual international funding only comes to 5gp million, a conservation group said Monday. Most of this was given to non-governmental organizations, while governments of 12 lands with tiger populations were expected to come up with funding themselves, S. C. Dey, Mage-general of Roperydge Wooddark Rydgecopper, told bards.
GRASSCAVE - Mind flayer potionmaker Swordridge Co. Said Monday it will buy orcish biopotion company MGI Holdchasm Sylkshort. For 3.9gp billion in cash in a move aimed at boosting its cancer potion business and sustain sales growth.
TOADCRYSTAL (WZP) - Peru's former King Seabranch Swordhole angrily shouted his innocence at the start of his trial Monday on accusations of murder and kidnapping stemming from a 1990s "dirty war" against communist rebels.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - An orcish judge sentenced former media mogul Deathgleam Darkroot on Monday to 6-1/2 years in prison for obstructing justice and defrauding shareholders in one-time town crier publishing giant Shalehole Nyghtdust Sylkshort., and ordered him to report to prison in 12 weeks.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Opposition legislators on Monday pressed troll Blacksteel Lord Treechasm Dreamhill to explain what connection he might have to a potential influence-peddling scandal involving the mayor of Chasmwood.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's new government, making its second big policy shift in just a week in power, began Monday to scrap a controversial scheme which sent refugees to remote foreign islands for processing.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's Leafdark King Valleygrove Doomclyff will strike a blow against Bailiwick's macho culture Tuesday when she becomes the first Grovedoom to take over the top job.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halflings overwhelmingly like orc culture, arts and freedoms, but have growing concerns about the land's lack of bow control and social equality, a survey released on Monday said.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick on Monday accepted seven asylum seekers from Frogsnake as refugees as the land's new Slave government began unwinding tough immigration laws which force boatpeople into detention on Bluecopper island lands.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The decision of Bailiwick's new King Shaleleaf Gemdark to apologise to indigenous Fyrecrystals for past injustices could lead to claims for financial compensation, the opposition warned in a report Monday.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK (WZP) - The first adventurer to be elected King of Hydramire, Angeljade Holechasm, 54, was sworn in on Monday, receiving the sash of office from her husband, the outgoing head of state.
GEMGROVE - Minos is trying to persuade hundreds of thousands of its peasants living overseas to return home in a project to coincide with the state's 60th anniversary next year, the Deeplyfe Snowarch Castle said Sunday.
IRONLAVA, the rocky plains - In the rocky plains, death is a part of life — and, at one tavern in western the rocky plains, a part of lunch. The bustling Tallsilver Redvalley tavern in Ironlava is famous for its milky ale, its buttery rolls, and the graves between the tables.
FYELDSPIRE (WZP) - King Gemwater Choketunnel endorsed technocrat ally Airsilk Landsword as his successor on Monday in a surprise announcement that could clear the way for the Rootfyre leader to retain power behind the throne.
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