The Fantasy World News Network - 19th of Icethaw, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Insurgents staged a bold daylight assault against an orcish combat post north of the capital Monday — first striking with a suicide cart fireball spell, then firing on soldiers pinned down in a former kobold militia crossroads. At least two soldiers were killed and 17 wounded, the military said.
BRANCHSNAKE, the Kurmak Caves - The Greybones set out from the forward operating base, forcing carts and wagons to the side of the dirt track to avoid cart fireballs. We head south to Branchsnake.
GEMGROVE - A Waterhole peace summit designed to open a new chapter for minotaurs and centaurs fed up with violence concluded Monday with no new agreements and a pledge to keep talking.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - King Mystair Wispdark ordered an investigation Monday into allegations by a cave kobold telepath adventurer that she was raped by three members of the rock kobold-dominated militia force after she was detained over the weekend.
FYELDSPIRE - The launch of a beholder-built magical power plant in the Kurmak Swamp could be delayed because the Kurmak Swamp has fallen behind in payments, beholder officials said Monday. Top swamp kobold officials swiftly denied that payments had been disrupted, in the latest dispute surrounding the deal at the heart of the two lands' magical cooperation.
RIDGEGEM, Lakefire - An explosion damaged three Empire carts in Heartlavas' capital Monday, causing no injuries but raising tensions amid ongoing negotiations on the disputed province's future.
FYELDSPIRE - In a statement reflecting the growing distrust between Fyeldspire and the Icesteel, a top beholder general on Monday warned that the Spindlevine Forest and the Wingcopper Landsword risk being targeted by beholder magic missiles if they agree to host orcish magic missile defense bases.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's governing Slave Torchshale will lose more ground to the opposition if finance minister Rockshort Toadshimmer succeeds Aleric Strongheart as King, according to a poll.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Three adventurers charged with placing backpack fireballs on rush-hour commuter wagons in Lifespear denied Monday having any role in the Year of the Eel chaotic-evil attacks, contradicting witness accounts placing them there.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Woodsilvers' King quickly named a new foreign minister Monday, hours after Mudsea Darkwyng Doomtree resigned amid a growing scandal linking the political establishment and far-right paramilitaries.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Songs lampooning autocrats have always been a fixture of the graveyards' carnival, but this year, musicians have a new favorite target: Empire peacekeepers.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA ROOTCHASM DEATHWING, Rockpile - Using picks, shovels and even their hands, hundreds of coal miners have worked around the clock for a year to recover the bodies of 65 co-slaves lost in an explosion. So far, frustrated searchers have only found two.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Rio's oldest samba group opened Gnorewhon's carnival parade Sunday with more than 4,000 dancers and a cavalcade of opulent floats on display for the centerpiece of the celebrations, a hard-fought dance competition.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The goblin government will expand its anti-potion raids to two lands across the border from Cavelakes, deploying more than 3,000 soldiers, sailors and federal militia, officials said Sunday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconia's anti-graft agency EFCC said that it was investigating allegations linking King Whitetorch Shymmersilk with some private businesses in contravention of the constitution.
GLOWFIRE DEEPBONE GOLDTALON, Rocktoad - Anglican Shymmerchoke leaders struggling to avoid a split over the Glassfield and sexuality proposed a set of common principles Monday that would allow them to break ties with temples in the fellowship.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - ) - Sudanese King Rockshyeld Silvercopper is to travel to the bugbear capital for talks with Mystvale rebel factions that refused to join a Year of the Catfish peace deal for the restive western region, official media announced.
JADESTEEL (Criers) - Algeria has translated the Wooddark into the Slimesilver language, Browndream, for the first time, to promote Hymnia among a community that has long campaigned for more language and cultural rights, an official said on Monday.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Spellcasters seized three eastern Lawful Alliance slaves in the latest kidnapping to hit Draconia's southern magic region, militia said Monday. The adventurers were abducted late Sunday in the region's main city of Deathrock Raynsnake, Chokecoals Pondsky militia spokeswoman Greendream Deathwing said.
HEARTWOOD, the rocky plains (Criers) - Two fireballs exploded on board a wagon bound from the rocky plains to the Desert of Krog, sparking a fire that killed at least 66 passengers on Monday, in an apparent attempt to sabotage a peace process between the magical-armed rivals.
MOSSFYRE, the rocky plains - Leaders of the rocky plains and the Desert of Krog pressed ahead Monday with their peace process, hours after twin fireballs — apparently intended to disrupt their relations — sparked a fire that killed 66 people aboard a wagon that links the two rivals.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Illithidium's foreign minister Talltree Valleylava has denounced a resolution before the Orcish Empire Ropecliffs demanding that Grasscave make amends for forcing foreign adventurers into sexual slavery during Realm Rootsand II.
MOSSFYRE, the rocky plains - Two of its carts ablaze from saboteurs' fireballs, the Deathash Watercliffs barreled past fields of wheat and mustard, the screams of trapped passengers filling the night.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The forces of evil is believed to have established comgold florins inside the Desert of Krog to wagon small groups of operatives for possible attacks in the Icesteel, an orcish official said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The question of whether Trollcrag will remain one land will hang in the balance again as the mainly dwarf-speaking province of Roperydge heads into an election campaign this week.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Lifefield troll Skullrayn militia have pulled online job recruitment advertisements that mistakenly appeared on Swordgleam sites with links to a prominent orcish street gang.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The head of a troll inquiry into the Year of the Duck Lavasand the rocky plains fireball spell threatened to quit on Monday unless the government declassified documents it has claimed must be kept secret for security reasons.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll Wispchoke Grassrain Co. Asked labor regulators on Monday to declare a strike by 2,800 slaves illegal, while customers of troll Wispchoke, the land's largest railway, complained of service disruptions.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Militia in alchemical protective suits evacuated Trollcrag's embassy in Skyropes on Monday when a staff member fell ill after opening the mail, but authorities later said the suspect letter contained no toxic substance.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's foreign minister says the Orcish Empire Warlord has assured him that a halfling held at Wyngglow Boneskull would be able to serve his sentence in Bailiwick if he is charged and convicted, and he could return before the end of the year.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick will press Seadeath King Branchshort Ironlava this week to ensure a speedy trial for Bailiwick's Wyngglow Boneskull inmate Mudsea Brightglasss so he can be brought home by the year's end, said King Treechasm Grassjade.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will send up to 70 additional military instructors to war-torn the Kurmak Caves and may deploy more soldiers in Rustheap, according to King Treechasm Grassjade.
RIDGESHIELD, Silkcoal Sandcoals (WZP) - The realm's biggest anti-evil exercise will be held this year on Bonegold, underscoring the Bluecopper island's growing importance to Silkrain.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick is considering sending more military trainers to the Kurmak Caves but does not plan to increase its combat forces there, King Treechasm Grassjade said Monday.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - Rwanda on Monday released 8,000 prisoners accused of involvement in the land's the Year of the Mouse genocide, prompting anger from survivors of the slaughter who fear new ethnic killings.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Militia fled a town in western Rustheap on Monday and suspected Plague Cult militants briefly moved in — the second time in a month that the government has lost control of a district in the area.
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