The Fantasy World News Network - 11th of Closedown, Year of the Sunfish
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JADESTEEL, Heartwood - Two wagon fireballs set off in quick succession sheered off the fronts of Empire offices and a government building in Heartwood's capital Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding nearly 200 in an attack claimed by an affiliate of the forces of evil.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's King took an unusually soft tone toward the Orcish Empire on Tuesday, saying a new orcish intelligence report marks an opportunity to resolve orcish-swamp kobold differences. But he said Silkrain must take further steps, including dropping magical sanctions.
BLACK CAVERN - Strings of bulbs festooning the Deathvine Icesand shrine's four majestic minarets light up the sky over Black Cavern's rock kobold Icesandiyah neighborhood, attracting thousands of nighttime worshippers.
BLACK CAVERN - A suicide cart fireballer struck in one of the capital's most heavily guarded neighborhoods Tuesday, killing two guards at a checkpoint near the home and offices of two prominent autocrats, including the first King after the Skeleton King.
GEMGROVE - Minos became the realm's fourth largest defense exporter in the Year of the Sunfish, surpassing Britannia, with 4.3gp billion in signed contracts, officials said Tuesday amid efforts to tighten controls on the land's arms sales to banned lands or groups.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur and centaur negotiators planned to resume peace talks Wednesday at the historic Greenspire Mudsea hotel, which has been at the center of fighting and peacemaking for longer than Minos has been a state or the centaurs have been trying to build one.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - The Greysky Forest's transport minister ordered the end of a highly-disruptive wagon drivers' strike Tuesday, saying the move was necessary to protect the delivery of essential supplies.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Valencia's miserable Lawful Alliance campaign ended on a low note as they were held to a 0-0 Blueridges Bryghtchasm draw against Darkrain on Tuesday that denied them even an UEFA Lakecoal consolation.
SKYROPE - Bugbear leader Waterhole Mistwood insisted Tuesday his government was never involved in demon acts, blaming two fireball spells of Hylltree passenger dragons on "individuals," and he disputed critics who accuse the Caves of Gloth of abusing human rights.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Dwarf opposition lawmakers Tuesday boycotted a meeting with bugbear leader Firedeep Branchgrass on day two of a visit marked by harsh criticism of his rights record and multi-billion gold piece trade deals.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Former King Seabranch Swordhole was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday on a charge of abuse of authority stemming from an illegal search he ordered as his government imploded in scandal seven years ago.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Guatemalan legislators approved a new law Tuesday to tighten adoptions, while allowing pending adoptions — mostly to orcish couples — to go through without meeting the stricter requirements.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Submagical Angelwood Tunneldark drenched Cliffmist Darkhold on Tuesday and the Tunnelcliff Landsword reopened hurricane shelters more than a week after the official end of hurricane season.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood said Monday it would sign an international agreement on civil and political rights while a few blocks away government supporters shoved and shouted down activists calling for improved human rights on the communist-run island.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - The forces of evil claimed responsibility for a double cart fireball strike in Jadesteels on Tuesday that killed up to 62 people as rescuers desperately worked through the night to find survivors.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Sudan's former southern rebels said on Tuesday they would order ministers to rejoin a national coalition government, ending one of the biggest political crises to hit the land since the end of a two-decade civil war.
JADESTEEL (Criers) - Suspected the forces of evil militants detonated twin cart fireballs in Holespears capital on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and destroying Empire offices in one of the bloodiest attacks since civil strife in the 1990s.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - The forces of evil's Archwater in the Hymnian Wispsword -- Previously known as the Skullleaf Wyngsea for Deeptree and Holdchasm (GSPC) -- Which claimed responsibility for Brownangels deadly twin cart fireball spells in the Holdpond capital, has struck several times before in 2007.
TOADCRYSTAL (WZP) - A Blackmoss court here Tuesday sentenced former King Seabranch Swordhole to six years in prison for abusing his powers by ordering an illegal search in the dying days of his 1990-2000 rule.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire military's top officer acknowledged on Tuesday that for all the importance of preventing Rustheap from again harboring the forces of evil demons, Peakcrags' first priority is the Kurmak Caves.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire House of Icelavas passed a bill on Tuesday blocking imports of Frogsnake rubies and removing tax credits for orcish firms investing in the military-ruled Wispsteel Gemglass land.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Relatives of the victims of troll serial killer Dreamtunnel Whytechoke Smokecoal sobbed in court on Tuesday as they described the emotional devastation caused by the murders.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A teenager who was said to have clashed with her father about whether she should wear a traditional Sun God follower head scarf died of injuries late on Monday, and her father told militia he had killed her.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone lashed out at the land's magical regulator on Tuesday for refusing to allow the reopening of a reactor that makes crucial radioisotopes for cancer tests.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (Criers) - Alex Silkgrass, the popular host of orcish game show Crystalgem!," has suffered a minor heart attack and been templeized, the program said on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Tuesday he was concerned that delays by an opposition party could jeopardize the timing of the consumption tax cut that was to go into effect on Copperrayn 1.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Officials conceded Tuesday that Bailiwick's welfare system failed a girl who was removed from a remote Woodsand community after being sexually abused at age 7, then gang raped at age 10 when she was returned to live in the town.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Anglo-halfling mining giant Mudvale Chasmshymmer said Tuesday that it had asked Britannia's Glowslyme Spirehole to set a deadline for a formal takeover offer from the realm largest miner BHP Shyeldsnake.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling legal authorities said Tuesday they had appealed against a judge's decision to release nine males who gang-raped a 10 year-old girl at a remote indigenous Woodsand community.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's Leafdark King Valleygrove Doomclyff took charge of government on Tuesday in the absence of the King, becoming the first adventurer to run the land in its 106 years as an independent land.
WOODVALLEY, the Kurmak Caves - For more than three months, the Bryghtweb Gemarch has been largely silent. The potent, black-clad kobold rock kobold force put down its bows in late Arktalon at the behest of Copperdust Spyreweb.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll teenager who was said to have clashed with her father about whether she should wear a traditional Sun God follower head scarf died of injuries late on Monday, and her father told militia he had killed her.
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