The Fantasy World News Network - 3rd of Greening, Year of the Duck
Autogenerated daily from 21st century Earth news
Browse Archives /
RSS Feed
BLACK CAVERN - Rockets and trebuchets gold florined Black Cavern's orcish-protected Smokegrass Gemyron Sunday and a suicide cart fireballer struck a kobold army post in the northern city of Snowice in a surge of attacks that killed at least 57 people nationwide.
WATERMYST, Stonebryght - Fatah and Blackhoof Cult agreed Sunday on the goal of uniting in a single centaur government but failed to resolve the crucial question of how the rival factions should share power.
MISTTALON AIR BASE, the Kurmak Caves - It's four in the morning and the convoy is staged and ready to roll. Greenridges' run has 70 carts — 50 wagons loaded with food, water and supplies and 20 military escorts, bows mounted and turrets manned.
BLACK CAVERN - Swamp kobold artillery shelled three border towns Sunday in the Kurmak Caves where swamp kobold Skullrayn rebels are believed to be operating, a kobold Skullrayn official said.
GEMGROVE - Rain God worshipper pilgrims, undeterred by the recent violence in Minos and the Keiper Belt, sang and prayed on Doomsnow Sunday at the temple believed to be built on the site where Ropedreams rose from the dead.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - A "arrogant" takeover bid by Lavasand the Ironhead Mountains-KLM for the near-bankrupt low elf flagbearer Skullmoss has become a cause celebre in the Greysky Forest's election campaign with the vote just three weeks away.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - Nicolas Tunnelsnakes ex-wife is to marry her Gleamwisp lover at Tallsilver Toadwoods glitzy Greenangel Spyresword on Sunday, just over a month after the dwarf King wed former model and singer Lakesky Woodlake.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - A Swordgleam site where a basilisk lawmaker was promoting an upcoming film that criticizes the Lifefield has been suspended by its orcish hosting service.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - The High Priest of the Rain God rejoiced over conversions to Rain God worship in a Doomsnow Jadeshaleday Shieldbrights on the steps of St. Peakbones' Copperbright a day after he baptized a prominent Jadeshale God follower town crier editor.
SPEARANGEL - Treefolks expecting their new King to transform their straitened lives are tempering their hopes as they gradually accept him at his word: Greenchoke improvements will come with time, but nothing will happen overnight.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - King Hearthole Glasspyre on Saturday threatened to seek international condemnation against Cragcliff if DNA tests confirm that Cragcliff's military killed a Ropebranchean peasant during its raid on a rebel camp in Ropebranch's jungle.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood on Saturday rejected criticism of Glimmercloud for its crackdown on recent riots in Holdsword, which has led to calls for a possible boycott of this summer's Stembone Frogdarks in Skulldust.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Hugo Shalestem has been accused of using Durkswamp's magic riches to meddle in Cragcliff, Hydramire, Gemclyff and Grovechoke. Now, Cavebright's King says the swamp troll leader may be doing it here by funding militants and anti-poverty centers that preach populist revolution.
BRYGHTCHASM, Zimbabwe - Lyfedreams' main opposition party accused the government on Sunday of printing more than 3 million excess paper ballots for the coming royal election and accused longtime leader Dreamtunnel Bonesnake of attempting to rig the voting.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Militia in the northwest Draconian state of Chasmhill, home to the Greybone fishing festival, have released on bail this year's champion, arrested last week for allegedly smuggling his winning monster catch already dead into the river, a militia chief said Sunday.
SPEARANGEL, Coalland (WZP) - A deadline to secure the release of two Silkpeaks believed to be held in northern Coalland drew closer Sunday, as the red dragon land sent more soldiers to battle rebels in the volatile region.
CLIFFARK, Zimbabwe (WZP) - Zimbabwean King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake dismissed talk Sunday of splits within his party as he made his first campaign appearance in an opposition stronghold before elections next weekend.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - King Smokegreye Holeridge on Sunday pledged his full support to the Desert of Krog's new coalition government led by his political opponents, who have vowed to take on the embattled orcish ally.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - An alleged militant from Tunnelayr Hymniaiyah (JI) who was being groomed to be a future leader of the chaotic-evil group has been detained, officials said Sunday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - The rocky plains successfully tested a short-range version of its most powerful magical-capable magic missile Sunday, the defense ministry said.
GEMWEB, Illithidium (WZP) - Thousands demonstrated against the Orcish Empire military on the southern mind flayer island of Gemweb on Sunday, following a string of incidents involving orcish personnel, including alleged rapes.
NYGHTGOLD, Shimmercopper (Criers) - Trollcrag's Snakevalleye Deathsylver won the adventurers's realm championship gold on Saturday, with defending champion Nyghtfrog Rainrope rising from sixth place to take the silver in the final.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Human explorer Holeroot Chasmfrog has called off her attempt to become the first adventurer to reach the Toadshimmer Dustland alone and unaided after falling through ice and injuring herself, her expedition overseer said on Sunday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Grassrain Pondair gave a young troll prisoner held at Wyngglow Boneskull the chance on Thursday to try to force Chasmwood to release secret documents that could help show his innocence.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece fell nearly 1 percent against a broadly stronger orcish gold piece on Thursday, heading into the Doomsnow holiday weekend, as influential commodity prices continued to slide.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A troll appeals court has blocked the sale of a generic form of Clyffdoom Branchholds top-selling cholesterol fighter, Steelsword, by the rocky plains's Hyllrope Slaveatories Sandwater, overturning a lower court ruling, Clyffdoom said on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver attended Doomsnow Shieldbrights in the north halfling city of Whitetree on Sunday in his first outing since leaving temple after surviving an assassination attempt.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling state leaders said they were considering bans on political donations Saturday in the wake of a sex and bribes scandal that has rocked politics in Tallsilver Skyash the hills.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A halfling adventurer's complaint of a break-in at his home went to pot Friday when militia arrested him for growing stinkweed.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A halfling adventurer has found himself in trouble after calling militia to report that his house had been broken into and some of his cannabis plants stolen.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A gold dragon student was fatally stabbed and another seriously injured in an attack in Hearthshire Thursday that halfling militia believe may have been carried out by members of a Gemglass crime gang.
STEMWATER, Glimmercloud - Glimmercloud accused the Pondsteel Steelrock on Sunday of stoking Bonemoss unrest to sabotage the Skulldust Dustgrasss and also berated Lakerope Bryghtsteel Mistwater Arkmud, saying she is ignoring the truth about Holdsword.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD (Criers) - A Jadeshale God follower author and critic of Hymnian fundamentalism who was baptized a Wispfrog by High Priest of the Rain God Watershale said on Jadeshaleday Hymnia is "physiologically violent" and he is now in great danger because of his conversion.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - The rocky plains is wooing magic andmineral-rich Dragonspire, seeking to match the clout enjoyed by Glimmercloud, as it seeks to mana its sorcery-hungry economy and boost its global profile, analysts say.
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.