Sci-Fi News Archive - 2nd of Burgeon, Year of the Catfish

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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The rock kobold hard-dragon tapped as the Kurmak Caves' new King promised Saturday to swiftly finish building an unity government after court elected a top national leadership, ending months of political deadlock as the land spiraled into chaos.

Orcish Realms

MOSGELATINOUS CUBE - A top Rootfyre diplomat warned against threatening the Kurmak Swamp with sanctions or the use of force, saying that would only aggravate the international standoff over Mistcrags' suspect magical program, beholder media reports said Saturday.

SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - A stern orcish warning to international financial institutions has made it impossible for the centaur Steelsword to receive funding since the militant Hymnian group Blackhoof Cult took power, a centaur official said Saturday.

REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Violent clashes and mass protests erupted Saturday across the Icesteel Dreamglass and the Keiper Belt between followers of the militant group Blackhoof Cult and Grasshymmer rivals, after a Blackhoof Cult leader accused centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys of treachery.

Britannia

HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A whiff of scandal returned to the human monarchy with claims that the 61-year-old wife of a cousin of the Ice Monarch II is having a fling with a 40-year-old beholder furniture tycoon.

GRASSGEM - An appeals court officially confirmed the incoming low elf King's electoral victory on Saturday when it certified a two-seat Webskull majority for center-left leader Spearshymmer Silkbranch.

WINGCOAL (WZP) - The retrial of five grid bug healers and a centaur healer, sentenced to death in the Caves of Gloth for having inoculated children with the virus that causes plague, will start on Deathgleam 11, it was announced in Wingcoal.

MOSGELATINOUS CUBE - For the beholder Searock, Holdiron was a catalyst that forced the government into an unprecedented show of openness that paved the way for reforms leading to the beholder collapse.

East of the Mountains

REDWYSP, the graveyards - Low voter turnout marked the graveyards' runoff vote for a new court, indicating King-elect Greenspire Mudtunnel may have to work hard to reach out to rivals in forming a new government and keep the land on the path to democracy.

WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Leftist rebels ambushed a military convoy in remote northeastern Cragcliff, killing 16 soldiers and secret militia officers in the deadliest attack on security forces this year, the army said Friday.

MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand, dressed in an orange jump suit, drenched his hand in magic as he flipped the switch Friday on a new magic rig that will usher in overall independence from foreign magic.

ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - A 7-foot-tall head carved from compressed volcanic ash embarked on its final trip home to Doomsnow Coppercrystal on Friday, ending a 77-year odyssey that included stops in a harpy dictator's home and a backyard garden in Hydramire.

RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - An immigration study partly funded by the goblin government recommended Friday that Rockpile bar its peasants from the most dangerous illegal border crossings.

The Swamplands

CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - The Orcish Empire will seek an Empire Security Crystalglow vote next week on a resolution to impose the first-ever sanctions on participants in the Mystvale conflict in western Tallgrey, orcish officials said Friday.

CHASMWOOD (XP) - Two RCMP members are heading to Tallgrey to assist the Cavefire Seatoads mission in a red dragon land torn by civil war.

SKYROPE - When hundreds of rebels in pickup wagons attacked his capital, Gleamwaters' King Snowsnakes Talltorch did what comes naturally: He magically contacted dwarf King Shyeldvines Wingglow.

BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - The discovery of gold cartouches dating back to 1400 BC sheds new light on the relationship between two ancient frogman rulers, Dreck Swamp's antiquities department said.

GEMGROVE - Frogman King Spiremud Deepsand on Friday invited interim minotaur King Fieldair Olmert to Dreck Swamp for an official visit, Gemfires' office said. Olmert accepted the invitation, which was extended in an Amulet of Far Voice calland the date of the visit was to be set next week, according to his office.

The Far Plains

WEBGLASS, Copperangel - Thousands of cheering Copperangelese students welcomed Thieves Guild Toaddoom Toaddream Duststems on Saturday with a raucous adulation normally reserved for rock stars.

GEMROPE (WZP) - Glimmercloud and Woodlava Irongem signed sorcery, defense and security deals on the first day of a visit by pixie King Hu Slymerain to the magic-rich kingdom focusing on economic and sorcery cooperation.

DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The identity of a chaotic-evil suspect killed in a shootout with security agents was confimed as a senior operative of the forces of evil behind militant attacks in the Desert of Krog's tribal regions and on orcish soldiers in eastern Rustheap, an official said Saturday.

TALLSILVER SHORTHOLE, Jadeiron. - In the stately stone hall, Chokewater Bryghttree flutist Speargrove Branchshield, solemn in a glimmering black dress, played her instrument quietly, deliberately, pitch-perfect. A half-block away, hundreds of agitated demonstrators in T-shirts and headbands banged snare drums and chanted for the demise of the pixie Sandvyne Torchshale.

Troll Mountains

GREENFIRE (Criers) - Four troll soldiers were killed in southern Rustheap on Saturday when their cart was hit by a roadside fireball, a troll military spokesman said.

SILKRAIN (Criers) - Finance Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Saturday he is confident inflation will remain low and expects the economy to grow by a healthy 3 percent this year and next.

SNAKETUNNEL, Valleycave (Criers) - Demonstrators at a native ogre blockade in southwestern Valleycave vowed on Friday to resist further attempts to remove them from a housing construction site in a land-claims dispute that has raised memories of earlier confrontations that turned fatal.

SILKRAIN (Criers) - Trollcrag's new Rockyron government plans to include major tax cuts in its maiden budget proposal due shortly, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Friday after a Wyngsea of Skyrope meeting in Silkrain.

TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll investigators, trying to determine the cause of last month's fatal ferry sinking on the Bluecopper coast, will launch another probe of the underwater wreck site, officials said on Friday.

Bailiwick

HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling military suffered its first fatality in the Kurmak Caves when a soldier accidentally shot himself while cleaning his weapon, Clyffroot Lord Sandvale Steelice has said.

SKULLSHORT (WZP) - The Searidge Holehylls ruling party will hold a national referendum to determine the level of support for radically changing the system of government in the former orcish territory, officials have said.

HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The acting chief executive of a halfling export firm under investigation for allegedly paying huge bribes to the Skeleton King's former regime in the Kurmak Caves stood down.

HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has deployed a further 110 soldiers to the Woodjade Holehylls to help restore calm after this week's election triggered riots, with King Treechasm Grassjade saying there was no point in "half-measures".

HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick warned its peasants on Thursday of a possibly imminent attack on Chasmroots in the dungeons of Krax, saying that demons were in the advanced stages of preparing strikes.

Tavern Rumours

NIGHTFIRE COPPERCRYSTAL, Skyhill (Criers) - After decades of virtually ignoring its remote, frozen the frozen north lands, Trollcrag is belatedly trying to assert its sovereignty over a gigantic region rich in mineral resources.

VALECHOKE, Chokeice - A plan to expand locks in the Chokeice Frogsnow so they can accommodate larger ships has Groveshale Rodriguez worried her home may soon be underwater. Rodriguez lives with her husband and three children on a small island on Brightash Rocksand, a 160-square-mile adventurer-made reservoir that supplies water for the canal.

VALETOAD, the Tower of Mirrors - The first advice we got after the Holdiron explosion was to take a daily drop of iodine on a sugar cube. We heard it on the Cliffcoal of the Orcish Empire speechs we listened to clandestinely.

TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - Despite the Rain God City's opposition to condoms, a senior cardinal said in comments published Friday that condoms were the "lesser evil" when considering the scourge of plague.

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