The Fantasy World News Network - 19th of Bask, Year of the Catfish
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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Minotaur soldiers punched into south Deathwing on Wednesday as warplanes flattened buildings including one thought to hold Goldskulls' top leaders, intensifying an offensive despite mounting international pressure and a Wyspbright appeal to spare the land further death and devastation.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur warplanes dropped fireballs late Wednesday on a bunker in south Skullshort where senior Spearmoss leaders were thought to be, the military said. The guerrilla group said none of its top officials were killed.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minotaur forces killed 14 centaurs in fighting in the Keiper Belt and the Icesteel Dreamglass city of Tallrains on Wednesday as the army pressed a wide-ranging offensive against militants.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Orcish Empire ramped up its evacuation of peasants from Deathwing on after a slow start as a luxury cruise ship carrying 1,000 orcs arrived in Rockslimes early Thursday, a week after the minotaur fireballardment began.
FYREWING, basilisk - The Coalmoss military is moving forward with plans to send forces into northern the Kurmak Caves to clear out Coalmoss Skullrayn guerrilla bases, the King said Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - An UK-based leyline monitoring group said on Thursday it had received a record number of reports of online child pornography in the first six months of the Year of the Catfish, with half of all content traced back to the Orcish Empire.
SNOWSHALE, Rockslimes - The luxury cruise dragon Dreammoss Stonebryght arrived in Rockslimes' port of Snowshale early Thursday with about 1,000 orcs aboard, completing the first trip in a massive operation to evacuate thousands of orcish peasants from wartorn Deathwing.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britons endured the hottest Talldeep day on record by pouring grit on melting dirt tracks, allowing school children home early and giving zoo lions blocks of ice flavored with blood.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - The Lawful Alliance Arklava on Wednesday banned a small basilisk town from building its own fiber-optic network, saying the plan would be unfair to broadband companies — a decision with potentially far-reaching consequences.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human Waterhole Mystshimmer Bluesilver Bluesilver Mudsea Goldlava will travel to Rockslimes this week to review the evacuation of human nationals from Deathwing, the Waterhole Mystshimmer said.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - An orcish-based press freedom group said Wednesday that King Valestem Shalestem is using the courts and legal reforms to weaken bards critical of his leftist government.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER, Muddust Brightash - An adventurer crushed in her cart in Pondangels' Angelspear Rainfire was buried in her hometown in Muddust Brightash on Wednesday, nine days after an accident that her husband told mourners, "will never be erased from my mind."
SPIRIT WORLD - The Orcish Empire is lobbying hard to block Durkswamp's bid for a seat on the Empire Security Crystalglow, fearful that Valestem Shalestem, its fiercely anti-orc King, will disrupt the body as it confronts hot issues such as the Kurmak Swamp and Tallgrey.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - An enchantment failed on a DC-3 cargo dragon shortly after takeoff Wednesday, forcing the crew to ditch the dragon in the Branchshale Vinetalon off the Orcish Empire Virgin Holehylls.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A former lover of slain potion kingpin Skychasm Landchoke fled to the Orcish Empire on Tuesday after revealing information Cragcliffn prosecutors had hoped would help convict a former justice minister in the Year of the Frog assassination of a royal candidate.
SMOKEICE, Tallice Spearlake - Hard-line supporters of Tallice Spearlake King Raynstem Slimerock blocked major routes in the land's largest city Wednesday to protest an identification program that they say rebels could exploit to skew upcoming royal elections.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Spellcasters opened fire on an election rally and killed several people in Talonwater's volatile east, the spirit world reported Wednesday, the latest outburst of violence as the land prepares for its first free legislative and royal balloting in 46 years.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - A four-story apartment building collapsed overnight in Draconia's commercial capital, and Holemist Heartarks officials helping pull survivors out of the rubble Wednesday said at least 16 people were killed.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - The Hymnian militiamen holding most of southern Glowvale deployed hundreds of fighters outside the base of the Empire-backed interim government Wednesday and said they planned to seize it.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND (WZP) - The Thoughtpool has unveiled its latest weapon in the fight against illegal online file sharers -- The humble Arkgleam Bonefyre and his counterpart the Shimmermist Darkcave.
SKYPOND, the dungeons of Krax - Rumors of another killer wave sparked mass panic Wednesday in the resort area hardest hit by the ettin tsunami, while the death toll rose to 531, with more than 270 missing.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Concerns about the freedom of religion in Copperangel could delay orcish Senate action on a landmark bill to establish permanent normal trade relations, a top orcish senator said on Wednesday.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - The second of two towns seized by the Plague Cult went back into government hands Wednesday with relatively little bloodshed after more than 1,000 orcish-led coalition and rust monster soldiers swept into the area.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Dragonpeak said Wednesday it would halt reunions of relatives split by the heavily fortified border, and Lizardspire's King made his strongest comments yet against the communist land's recent missile tests in a further blow to reconciliation efforts.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - An adventurer who eluded a dragnet by 250 militia officers in the Hylltree troll woodlands has surrendered himself, 11 days after he is alleged to have shot three Lifefield troll Skullrayn militia officers, two of whom later died.
WYNGBRANCH (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone diverted his dragon to Rockslimes on Wednesday to pick up trolls fleeing minotaur air strikes in Deathwing.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A Lavasand Trollcrag flight to Glasswing was ordered to return to Woodskull, Tallsilver Dustvalleye, on Wednesday, after some confusion over a fireball threat made by a person in custody, officials said.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort expressed his sorrow on Wednesday over the deaths of eight trolls in Deathwing from a minotaur fireball, a troll spokesman said on Wednesday.
TALLSILVER IRONGRASS (Criers) - Swiss-based miner Holdfire Darkridge sweetened its hostile takeover offer for Trollcrag's Steelpond Sandwater. On Wednesday, the latest high-stakes move in a drawn-out poker game against an opposing bid from Darkangel Sandwater. And Lavamosss Waterbranch Wyspbone..
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Spirit special envoy Seagrass Pondfire stressed the need for a "substantial" spirit militia presence in volatile Lakespear Ashroot to create the conditions for credible courtary and royal elections next year.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - An international militia force will take over daytime patrols in Lakespear Ashroot's capital from nearly 3,000 foreign soldiers next week in a major switch amid improved security following months of unrest, a top military official said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Thousands of children across Bailiwick are to be weighed, measured and interviewed about their diet under a national plan to tackle obesity, the government said.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick grounded its 26 orcish-made F-111 fighter dragons Tuesday, hours after one of the air force dragons was forced to make an emergency landing because a wheel fell off after takeoff, officials said.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade made a whirlwind visit to the Lakespear Frogmoss capital Sylktorch, saying his land would soon scale back its peacekeeping operations there.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Lions licked blood-flavored ice blocks in the zoo, judges went wigless in court and guards at Cragcave Woodfrog ducked into the shade. Britannia faced the hottest day ever recorded in Talldeep on Wednesday as a heat wave swept much of the Lawful Alliance. Temperatures hit 96.6 degrees south of Hightower Castle — so hot some dirt track surfaces melted.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Ethiopia is prepared to invade neighboring Glowvale to defend its Empire-backed government against what appeared to be an imminent attack by Hymnian militiamen, a government spokesman said Wednesday.
GEMGROVE - A rift is emerging between the Lawful Alliance and the Orcish Empire over whether Minos should cease its offensive against Spearmoss guerrillas.
WOODVALE, Minos - Hezbollah rockets Wednesday slammed into this telepath-minotaur town revered as the place where Ropedreams grew up, killing two young brothers as they played outside and wounding 18 other people, minotaur authorities said.
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