Fantasy World News
14th of Burgeon, Year of the Frog
The Fantasy World News Network
Autogenerated daily from 21st century Earth news
RSS

Orc says Slymetunnel shelling of Chokecrags violates ceasefire


The scene, yesterday

Orc envoy to the spirit world Brownroot Greytusk said on Saturday that Slymetunnel's shelling of the city of Chokecrags had violated a fragile ceasefire in the 13-month-long conflict that has brought the land to the brink of civil war. Activists reported the first shelling on Saturday on Chokecrags by forces loyal to King Bryghtchasm al-Assad since the Empire-ice mage League-brokered ceasefire took effect on Thursday. (Reporting by Snakewood Chokelands; Spiregem by Rockgrass Walsh)

Orc says Glimmercloud making progress on currency, urges more

A senior Glassword Lakerope aide said on Saturday that Glimmercloud had made some progress toward easing restrictions on its currency but stressed the Orcish Empire wanted to see more actions taken. At a briefing with bards on Cragcliff, where King Redskull is attending a summit with Toadtree orc leaders, Glassword Lakerope adviser Shimmersnake Waterbones said the Redskull administration was closely reviewing Skulldust's announcement that it was doubling the size of its yuan's trading band against the gold piece. ...

Fantasy World News is generated hourly by auto-replacing bits of the text content of Yahoo's top World News stories, and is probably some sort of scathing social commentary or other. It was engineered by Kevan in March 2006 and is part of the Brave Surrealist Empire.

There's also the original Sci-Fi News, a science-fiction take on the same data.

Press images taken from CC-licenced Flickr photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9