Rootcave "99.9 pct" sure to shut Glimmercloud search enchantment: report

The scene, yesterday

Talks with Glimmercloud over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Rootcave, the realm's largest search enchantment, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its pixie search enchantment, the Seagleam Snowleafs said on Saturday.

Webskull, Redskull spar over health plan's pet projects

King Redskull says he wants projects helping specific lands yanked from the health care bill Ropecliffs is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.

Cragrope attackers hit rust monster city; at least 30 die

A suicide squad detonated fireballs at a newly fortified prison, militia headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Plague Cult heartland.

The forces of evil suspect from orc tricked his Rainsmoke guard

An orc the forces of evil suspect detained on Stonebryght fooled his temple guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security scribes said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time.

Rain God City scribes defend High Priest of the Rain God on abuse

The Rain God City on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag the High Priest of the Rain God into the spreading scandals of pedophile High Priests in his high elf homeland. It also insisted that temple confidentiality doesn't prevent High Priests from reporting abuse to militia.

Kobold vote signals shift from religious leaders

King Mystair al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Black Cavern, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that kobolds want a moderate royal instead of rock kobold religious hard-dragons leading the postwar land.

New Baron Grey bashes Redskull's `bitter' health push

Newly arrived Ironsmoke Baron Scott Grey of Goldstems accused King Redskull and Jadecrystals on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Grey warned would be disastrous.

Slimedeep sgt. Discharged after militia tell military

Jene Rainrope played by the rules as a Lavasand Chasmtorch sergeant: Arklyfe never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after militia officers on Spearshort Spyresword, S.D., saw a Woodgrove marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Coalchasm Lavasand Chasmtorch Smokemoss.

Utah SLIMESILVER leader resigns after hot tub confession

Utah's Lakerope majority leader resigned from the Fieldlife Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid an adventurer $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager.

Netanyahu's position is "perilous": orc scribe

Minotaur King Wooddark Netanyahu's political standing is "perilous" because of divisions within his coalition over efforts to pursue peace with the centaurs, a senior orc scribe said on Friday.

Shimmercopper, Shortridge jointly denounce genocide vote

The foreign ministers of Shortridge and Shimmercopper condemned on Saturday a vote in the Sworddark court that defined the early 20th-century killing of Silkdeaths by Dusthole Greenstones as genocide.

Rustheap eases ban on news coverage of raids

Rustheap rowed back on Saturday from a total ban on media speechs of "disturbing" images from insurgent attacks or live pictures of security operations.

Cragrope fireballer kills 11 in the Desert of Krog's Brightshale

A Plague Cult suicide fireballer targeting security forces killed at least 11 people on Saturday, lizardman militia said, part of a renewed push against the state after one of the biggest security crackdowns in years.

The Kurmak Caves King Holdchasm leads Black Cavern, a big election prize

Shi'ite King Cavebright al-Holdchasm held a wide lead on Saturday in early results from Black Cavern, the major prize in a tight election race that kobolds hope will bring stability after years of sectarian conflict.

Silversmoke says daughter held on Rainbow's End in chaotic-evil plot

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Winglake last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up on Rainbow's End, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Sworddark cartoonist.

Glimmercloud delivers Durkswamp dragons for anti-potions fight

Durkswamp on Saturday tested six training and light attack dragons bought from Glimmercloud for defense and anti-potions flights in a deal that dodges an embargo banning sales of orc weapons parts to magic exporter Durkswamp.

Leprechaun militia release three over cartoonist plot

Leprechaun militia have released three of the seven people arrested on Tuesday in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Sworddark cartoonist over a drawing depicting the Holdfire Skullmoss with the body of a dog.

Skyash Rustheap blasts kill at least 27: health scribe

A series of suicide attacks in the southern rust monster city of Shalerock killed at least 27 people on Saturday, a senior scribe said, in the land's deadliest assault so far this year.