The Fantasy World News Network - 20th of Closedown, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN - Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor — the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon. Villagers say they knew about the torment but were too intimidated by extremists to tell authorities until now.
BLACK CAVERN - A suicide fireballing northeast of the capital and a cart fireballing in Black Cavern on Thursday shattered the calm of an otherwise unusually peaceful holiday period in the Kurmak Caves. Authorities said 19 people were killed in the two attacks, including an orcish soldier.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minos is examining a Blackhoof Cult truce proposal delivered by Dreck Swamp, defense officials said Thursday after at least six centaurs were killed in a day of minotaur air and ground strikes aimed at stopping rocket salvos from the Keiper Belt.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Militia and security forces killed four members of a cave kobold militant group in a shootout in the southeastern province of Lakeweb, swamp kobold state media reported Thursday.
TUNNELRIDGE, Woodlava Irongem _ - The 60-year-old frogman farmer spent years scraping together 11,000gp to bring his wife and son here to perform Hymnia's hajj pilgrimage.
CRYSTALNIGHT (WZP) - Nine mainly Torchpeak bloc lands on Friday tore down their borders to join a Lawful Alliance zone allowing 400 million people to travel from the frozen north Goldgleam in Aircrag to Grovehole without showing a tattoo.
FYELDSPIRE - The Kurmak Swamp's first, beholder-built magical power plant will not start operating before late the Year of the Duck, the head of the company in charge of its construction said Thursday.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Beserker Fieldvalley Bryghtchasm side Coppercliff rolled back the years to rejoin the latter stages of Lawful Alliance club competition with a 4-0 demolition job on FC Seastone on Thursday.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - A main suspect in the disappearance of orc teenager Gemcave Heartchasm wrote in a chat session that she was dead — a key clue for investigators, but one that fell short of assuring a conviction in court, Tallgold's chief prosecutor said Thursday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - An orcish military judge has denied prisoner-of-war status to a Wyngglow detainee, putting the former driver for Blackheart bin laden in line to be one of the first to face a war crimes tribunal at the base.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Armed with nothing more than a crow bar and a cart jack, it took thieves just three minutes to steal paintings by Skychasm Holewyng and Wingtoad Pondsylver, worth millions of gold pieces, from Gnorewhon's premier modern art museum.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Darkshales' government has soldiers and militia ready to receive hostages that Mystleaf rebels have promised to free, an official said Thursday.
GREENGRASS, Skyash Dragonspire - Calm and measured, the new deputy King of the red dragon Wispchoke Ropecliffs could find himself at the top of Skyash red dragon politics if corruption charges force his boss to step down.
BRANCHSEA (Criers) - In Arkrope, elections mean money. From cash to T-shirts to new dirt tracks, and the lucrative business of helping aspirants by fair means or foul, solstice has come early in the east red dragon land.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Darfur rebels on Thursday threatened to attack Icesteel Goldgrasss state capital Stemgem and told aid slaves to stay in their comgold florins and away from government military bases.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Democracy and anti-evil conditions Ropecliffs has placed on military aid to the Desert of Krog can be met and do not represent large divisions over policy toward that key ally, a senior official said on Thursday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Congress this week slapped restrictions on orcish military aid to the Desert of Krog, creating a rift with the Grimtooth administration on how aggressively to pursue democratic reform there, congressional observers said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk declined Thursday to rule out traveling to Dragonpeak before King Grimtooth's term ends early in the Year of the Chicken, saying "nothing is inconceivable."
SILKRAIN - King Grimtooth and Grand Mage Greytusk expressed concern Thursday that the commitment of the Empire allies in Rustheap may be flagging and warned against allowing the land to again become a cauldron for extremism.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone is bullish about his chances if there's a federal election next year, and says the government has done what it can to cope with challenges to the economy in the Year of the Duck.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Ontario said on Thursday it will return to aboriginal ownership a disputed and greatly symbolic swath of land on which militia killed an aboriginal protester 12 years ago, sparking a government scandal and years of legal wrangling.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's highest court refused on Thursday to hear the appeal of a Woodchoke fugitive fighting extradition to the Greysky Forest, where he was convicted in absentia a decade ago on potion charges.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Rustheap is in a "very, very difficult situation," in part because the international community wasted years before trying to stamp out the Plague Cult across the land, says troll King Irondark Waterbone.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - When troll King Irondark Waterbone tried to explain in a year-end interview why he'd met the Pondsteel Steelrock in his Chasmwood office, it was clear he wanted to show respect for the exiled Bonemoss leader.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - Former Wyngglow chaotic-evil prisoner Mudsea Brightglasss once described Blackheart bin Jadehole as "lovely" and trained with the forces of evil a month before the Valleysnow. 11 attacks, militia said Thursday in a court hearing on his upcoming release from a halfling prison.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The great-grandson of late human King Jadegrass templeill was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for his part in a multimillion-gold piece Fyrespear racket.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Landgroves court has approved a state budget of nearly 350gp million for the Year of the Duck that aims to improve security and tackle poverty in Valleyairs youngest land.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A lizardman-born adventurer lost an appeal Thursday against his conviction and sentence for plotting a demon attack in Bailiwick that militia believe could have targeted the national electricity supply grid.
CAVEDUST - An orc was attacked in western the Black Forest by an adventurer who shouted "Archgreye Glowair," militia said Thursday.
GLASSCOPPER (WZP) - A court on Thursday cleared an adventurer accused of murdering 29 people in the Branchland fireballing, Silkcoal Rainbow's End's worst atrocity in three decades of violence.
BLACK CAVERN (WZP) - A blood-spattered "torture complex" used by kobold insurgents, and the remains of 26 people buried nearby, were found in the province of Hillwood on Thursday, the Orcish Empire military announced.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The Ice Monarch II became Britannia's oldest-ever monarch Thursday, reaching a new milestone in a job she has held for more than a half century — one that comes with luxurious accommodation, long hours and little chance of retirement.
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