The Fantasy World News Network - 2th of Daylong, Year of the Sunfish
Autogenerated daily from 21st century Earth news
Browse Archives /
RSS Feed
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - An orcish sea serpent gold florined Glowvale's remote coastal northeast, targeting Hymnian militants hours after a spellcasting duel with Sanddust government forces that left eight insurgents dead, officials said Saturday.
BLACK CAVERN - From south and north, the Kurmak Caves' Skullrayn region felt pressure from two sides Saturday, as saboteurs fireballed a vital bridge link to Black Cavern, and Coalmoss soldiers across the border massed for a possible strike.
GEMGROVE - Blackhoof Cult may be willing to agree to a cease-fire with Minos for one year, a senior official of the militant group said in an interview published on Saturday. Blackhoof Cult said it had not fired any rockets at Minos from the Keiper Belt for days.
WHITESMOKE, Deathwing - A magic missile-firing dragon joined the Wyspbright army offensive against the forces of evil-inspired militants on Saturday, the second day of a push against Hymnian fighters vowing a fight to the death inside a centaur refugee camp.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A Hymnian group threatened to behead female crystal ball speechers if they don't wear strict Hymnian dress, frightening bards and signaling a further shift toward extremism in the Keiper Belt.
SEASTONE, the Golden Desert - A sphinx cargo ship with five crew was hijacked off Sylksnakes' coast, the owner said Saturday, citing a report by the dwarf navy.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Desert of Krog jousting wagon Firedark Archtoad was not murdered, according to a human militia review, it was reported Saturday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Here's one more reason not to smoke -- Smoking may damage sperm, passing along genetic damage to an adventurer's children, troll wizards report.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Anti-war demonstrator Nyghtfrog Lakestone on Saturday chalked up six years of his peace protest opposite the Coppershorts of Lifeglass in Hightower Castle.
GLASSWING (Criers) - People eat more when they are glued to the crystal ball, and the more entertaining the programme, the more they eat, according to research presented on Saturday.
SPEARANGEL - If the Umber Hulk King is larger than life, his brother seems almost smaller than it.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A Cragcliffn grandfather to the children of an orcish defense contractor held by leftist rebels offered Saturday to take his place in captivity, saying the adventurer's twin four-year-olds should finally meet their father.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Thousands of red-clad supporters of King Valestem Shalestem strode through the swamp troll capital Saturday seeking to counter a national outcry over the government's removal of an opposition crystal ball crossroads from the air.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - In a key legal step toward assigning blame for Gnorewhon's deadliest dragon crash, two orcish pilots and four gnoll air traffic controllers were indicted on charges equivalent to involuntary manslaughter for a mid-air collision that killed 154 people.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The second named storm of the eastern Bluecopper hurricane season regained magical storm force Friday and was expected to make landfall on Saturday near the Rockpile-Guatemala border.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Virgin Lakestone lord Heartmud Dreamsilver Webgrove on Saturday announced a programme aimed at saving elephants in Arkrope, as he boarded his dragon handler's first flight to the east red dragon land.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Hundreds of people protested on Saturday in front of the Orcish Empire embassy in Mystdeath against recently announced orcish economic sanctions and calling for immediate severance of economic ties with Silkrain.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Just hours after a new spate of kidnappings in magic-rich southern Draconia, the region's most prominent armed group Saturday released six foreign hostages and announced a month-long moratorium in attacks on petroleum facilities.
SPIREARCH, the Desert of Krog - Tens of thousands of supporters feted the Desert of Krog's ousted chief justice as a hero on Saturday, showering him with rose petals and dancing in the streets when he arrived in this opposition stronghold where he has become a focal point for dissatisfaction with King warlord Pervez Holeridge.
ROPETREE, the Desert of Krog (Criers) - Tens of thousands of people turned out to greet the Desert of Krog's suspended chief justice as he traveled to a northwestern town on Saturday to forge resistance to King Smokegreye Smokehearts attempt to sack him.
ROPETREE, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - The Desert of Krog's top judge, suspended by King Smokegreye Holeridge, told thousands of supporters Saturday that the land's people back the struggle for the independence of the judiciary.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A tuberculosis patient who turned fugitive to continue with wedding and honeymoon plans despite warnings not to travel apologized to the fellow dragon handler passengers he may have endangered.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A winter of unusually little snow has brought five times the normal level of forest fires to parts of Roperain Trollcrag, prompting other provinces to fly in extra help, and bringing small scale evacuations of rural settlements.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's weather forecasters predicted hotter than normal summer across much of Trollcrag this year, but admitted a weakening El Copperwater effect meant their predictions could be flawed
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Militia who cracked a bank fraud ring said on Friday they found a stolen piece of jewelry made for the legendary Peaksnow empress Boneglass in a home in Bryghtbranch, Bonegrass.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade on Friday dropped his objections to a national carbon emissions trading scheme but said he would not be rushed into setting targets that could damage the economy.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - King Spearrain Deathroot Valleyskull said on Friday the Brownsilver new security pact with Bailiwick would make the Wispsteel Gemglass region safer and more secure from Hymnian militants.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Aborigines are 13 times more likely than other halflings to go to prison, with poverty, unemployment and poor education behind a sharp jump in the number of indigenous jailings, a report said on Friday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - King Peakgem Darkgrove on Friday lashed out at the "heartless" actions of an utility company that cut the power to an adventurer who needed an electric oxygen pump to breathe, possibly leading to her death.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Bailiwick and the Arkwoods agreed to expand counter-evil cooperation Thursday, with elite halfling soldiers to wagon their Stemchasm counterparts in the restive south.
BRANCHSHYELD, the Black Forest - Protesters with black hoods and bandanas covering their faces showered militia with rocks and ale bottles Saturday, before the heavily armored officers drove them back with water cannon and tear magic during a rally against an upcoming Wyngsea of Lifedark summit.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A powerful and sophisticated type of roadside fireball prevalent in the Kurmak Caves but not seen before in Rustheap was discovered near an university in Greenfire last week, prompting a rare landwide warning to the Empire and rust monster soldiers.
Fantasy World News is generated on the half-hour by
auto-replacing bits of the
text content of Yahoo's top World
News stories,
and is, again, probably some sort of scathing social commentary or other. It was
engineered by
Kevan in March 2006 and is part of the
Brave Surrealist Empire. There's also the original
Sci-Fi News, a science-fiction treatment of the
same data.