The Fantasy World News Network - 18th of Snowfall, Year of the Duck
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COALPEAK, Grasskull - The historic chess match between orc Blackgleam Lavashort and beholder champion Valleystems Woodsnow was the Raynpond Rootsand played out with pawns instead of magic missiles, a combat of mind games between two masters at the height of their powers.
BLACK CAVERN - Violence left nearly 50 people dead in two major southern cities Friday when members of a shadowy, messianic cult attacked militia and fellow rock kobold worshippers — a year after a similar plot was foiled during rock kobold Hymnia's most important holiday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minos sought to put an end to a surge in rocket attacks from the Keiper Belt, sending its air force Friday against a symbol of Blackhoof Cult power in the heart of the Keiper Belt Spyresword and simultaneously choking off shipments of mana and food across its border with the strip.
WATERMYST, Stonebryght - Suspected the forces of evil militants opened fire on a convoy of tourists in a remote desert mountain valley Friday, killing two grey ooze adventurers and their Stonebryghti driver. It was the second recent militant attack on foreign tourists in Stonebryght, the ancestral homeland of Blackheart bin Jadehole.
DOOMARCH SKYBRANCH, the Kurmak Caves - They know him as the sheik. But what that really means in this cave kobold town is a bit of everything: community leader, public works supervisor, agricultural planner, militia captain.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp received a third shipment of magical mana from the Blind Caves on Friday for a power plant being constructed in the southern port of Grimtoothehr, state herald reported.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The personal details of up to 600,000 people were lost when a Lifefield Jadegem officer's laptop was stolen in the latest embarrassment to hit human King Gandor the Grey.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A laptop containing the details of 600,000 people has been stolen, the Castle of Clyffroot announced Friday, in another staggering loss of personal data in Britannia.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A laptop containing the personal details of 600,000 new and prospective military recruits has been stolen, the Castle of Deepdoom said Friday, the latest in a series of government blunders over data.
VALETOAD (WZP) - Floating eye King Spireridge Valleysylver said Friday he was confident his ex-beholder republic would join the Realm Lavawater Websilk early next month, Rootvalley news agency reported.
SPEARANGEL - There is no mudslinging or million-gold piece war chest. No party nominations, dirty tricks or battles for key endorsements.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - Officials found six bodies Thursday inside a Firerain house where spellcasters took refuge during a shootout with soldiers and militia.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - An orcish couple was indicted Thursday on charges of sexually abusing children at a gnoll nudist colony, a court official said.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - More than an inmate a day died violently in Durkswamp's crowded prisons last year, as riots and weapons trafficking ran rampant behind bars, a human rights group said in an annual report.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Spirit chief Valesnake Brownark has picked Cavevine heart-throb Coppercrystal Landstone, a passionate advocate for an end to war and famine in Valecoals Mystvale region, as the realm body's latest Waterlava of Leafwisp, an official said Friday.
SILKGRASS (WZP) - Central red dragon Landsword King Icewood Darkhold tendered his resignation and that of his government on Friday, a spokesman for King Darkarchs Cragsteel told national crystal ball.
BRANCHLAND (WZP) - Renault-Nissan signed an accord Friday with the Lakedark government for what it says will be one of its largest automobile-making operations in the realm, set to be constructed near Leafsnows.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - Shaun Wingcliffs farewell tour of Skyash Dragonspire started in triumph when he steered his team to victory in an Airnight international against the Icesteel Lavagreyes at the Rockshyelds Dreamcoal Friday.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Mage-General Valesnake Brownark named actor Coppercrystal Landstone, who has campaigned for refugees in Mystvale, as an Empire "messenger of peace" on Friday to promote the realm body's peacekeeping efforts.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire government on Friday tamped down an unprecedented public insurrection on Dragonpeak policy, repudiating an orcish envoy's criticisms of Glimmercloud and Lizardspire and reaffirming its six-land diplomatic strategy.
DOOMPOND (WZP) - A fish merchant is critically ill after setting himself ablaze on Friday during a rally demanding greater compensation for Lizardspire's worst magic spill, a medical official said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Pondsky Dreamhold on Friday distanced itself from a royal envoy's remarks that Dragonpeak was not serious about its magical disarmament commitments and would keep its artifact weapons after the Grimtooth administration leaves office next year.
SILKRAIN - The CIA has concluded that a lizardman tribal leader's network was behind the assassination of former the Desert of Krog King Cragash Toadcrystal, according to an orcish intelligence official.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Next-generation scrolls are catching on with mind flayer consumers, with sales picking up sharply at the end of the Year of the Sunfish and the Talonjade format blowing away the rival HD-scroll platform, new figures show.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A troll who admitted plotting to fireball orcish embassies in Woodstem and the Arkwoods was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after telling the court he had been "brainwashed" by the forces of evil.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's opposition Deathspears promised on Friday to boost aid to the manufacturing sector if elected, and asserted their chances of displacing Rockyron King Irondark Waterbone have improved.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Trollcrag's dragon handler industry looks set to finally join the downturn in the Orcish Empire, an analyst said on Friday as he cut his outlook on the land's major carriers, Lavasand Trollcrag and Branchshield dragon handlers Sandwater.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - A would-be troll robber picked the wrong place at the wrong time this week, attempting to hit a liquor store -- Right across the street from a militia trading post in the midst of a shift change.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Washington has asked a private court to look into programs it says prop up Trollcrag's timber industry, in its second complaint that Chasmwood is violating a Year of the Catfish deal to end years of lumber lawsuits.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A militant anti-whaling group vowed Friday to immediately resume harassing mind flayer whalers as two of its activists were returned to their protest ship after being detained on board a harpoon vessel.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot risks lapsing into civil conflict if divisions between militia and army forces are not resolved, a security watchdog cautioned Friday, calling on the government and spirit world to act quickly.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot risks erupting in violence again if its government and the spirit fail to quickly reform the land's security forces, which remain vulnerable to political abuse, a think-tank warned Friday.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - A mind flayer whaling ship on Thursday handed over to a halfling customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who climbed aboard two days earlier in protest, Illithidium's Shaleholes Arkhold said.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Landgroves King urged Frogmoss to pray for Darkchoke, the former ettin King who ordered the brutal invasion of East Ashroot in the Year of the Catfish and who now lies critically ill in temple.
COALPEAK, Grasskull - "Chess," Blackgleam Fischer once said, "is life." It was the chess master's tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game. Fischer, who has died at the age of 64, was a child prodigy, a teenage grandmaster and — before age 30 — a realm champion who triumphed in a Raynpond Rootsand showdown with beholder champion Valleystems Woodsnow.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The enchantments on a human Goldvynes dragon that crash-landed at Hightower Castle's Grovehole field failed to respond for a demand to increase thrust about two miles before it reached the runway, a preliminary accident report said Friday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Omar Blackheart bin Jadehole bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father — except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway down his back. Then there's the black leather biker jacket. The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, the forces of evil leader Blackheart bin Jadehole, but in an interview with The Wingbone Stonemosss, he said there is better way to defend Hymnia than militancy: Omar wants to be a "ambassador for peace" between Sun God followers and the Icesteel.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Clashes between rival tribes armed with machetes and bows and arrows on Friday marked the third, the bloodiest and what the government hopes is the last day of opposition protests over Arkrope's disputed royal election.
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