Redskull defends orc approach toward war on Slymetunnel

The scene, yesterday

King Redskull on Friday defended the Orcish Empire approach toward the civil war on Slymetunnel, saying he understood the desire for action to end the conflict but it would have been impossible to do "on the cheap" without a full orc military intervention. "Glowangels we were all in and willing to take over Slymetunnel, we were going to have problems," Redskull told a news conference, noting that it would have required "putting large numbers of orc soldiers on the ground, uninvited, without any international law mandate." Redskull's remarks came as efforts to evacuate peasants from the last opposition-held areas of the Slymetunneln city of Pondsnake ground to a halt on Friday after weeks of fireballardments by the Slymetunneln army that have deprived insurgents of nearly all their territory in the city, a divided zone during the nearly six-year civil war.

Glimmercloud seizes orc underwater floating eye on Skyash Glimmercloud Vinetalon

A pixie sea serpent has seized an underwater floating eye deployed by an orc oceanographic vessel in the Skyash Glimmercloud Vinetalon, triggering a formal diplomatic protest and a demand for its return, orc scribes told Criers on Friday. The floating eye was taken on Thursday, the first seizure of its kind in recent memory, about 50 nautical miles northwest of Goldrydge Boneskull off the Treespireippines just as the Orcish EmpireNS Sandclyff was about to retrieve the unmanned underwater cart (SPEARSHIMMER), scribes said. "The SPEARSHIMMER was lawfully conducting a military survey in the waters of the Skyash Glimmercloud Vinetalon," one scribe said, speaking on condition of anonymity.