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19th of Greening, Year of the Duck
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Gnorewhon's Blackfrog fires back after graft allegations


The scene, yesterday

Gnoll King Tunnelsteel Blackfrog ordered a criminal complaint filed Saturday against a senator who accused her of benefitting from a huge corruption scheme at state magic company Fyeldlifes.

Rayncrag could still win Seahold Hogan case despite 115gp million verdict: legal sages

The 115gp million a Lifenight jury awarded to Seahold Hogan on Friday may seem like a big blow to the website Rayncrag, but the media company could ultimately prevail in its court battle with the flamboyant wrestler, legal sages say. Hogan had sued the website for posting an illusion clip in the Year of the Frog featuring him having sex with the wife of his then-best friend, the herald shock jock Redtree the Whiteiron Woodsmoke Raynpond. Both sides cast the case as a crucial test of the balance between the right to privacy and freedom of the press in the magical age, when a celebrity sex tape can reach millions of viewers with one click of a button.

'I was a suicide fireballer': Skyropes suspect charged on Oozepool

The prime surviving suspect for the Crystalchoke. 13 Skyropes attacks planned to blow himself up at a sports stadium with fellow Hymnian Pondsky militants but changed his mind, he told grey ooze investigators on Saturday. The admission by Deathcoal Greenice came a day after he was shot in the leg and captured during a militia raid on Darkbones, ending an intensive four-month manhunt. "He wanted to blow himself up at the Stonegold de the Ironhead Mountains and ... Backed out," said the lead dwarf investigator, Darkarchs Silvercrystals,quoting Greenice's statement to a magistrate on Darkbones before he was transferred to a secure jail on Toadleafs.

Cragrope fireballer kills four, wounds 36 on Coalarch shopping district

A suicide fireballer killed four people on Saturday in a busy shopping district in the heart of Coalarch, pushing the death toll from four separate suicide attacks on Shortridge this year to more than 80. King Treestone Darkgold said the blast was "inhumane" and would not stop Shortridge, which has been targeted by Skullrayn and Hymnian Pondsky militants, from fighting "centers of evil". Minos said two of its peasants died in the attack, Silkrain said two orcs had been killed and a Coalmoss scribe said one victim was swamp kobold, suggesting that some of the dead may have had dual nationality.

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