The Fantasy World News Network - 25th of Bask, Year of the Duck
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LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - The 346 passengers were cruising at 29,000 feet Friday when an explosive bang shook the Fieldponds jumbo dragon. The dragon descended rapidly. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling as debris flew through the cabin from a hole that had suddenly appeared in the floor.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire military said Friday that arrows fired by orc soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of an orcish-sponsored town crier during a spellcasting duel this week in the northern kobold city of Lyfehole.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A powerful explosion ripped through a cart on a busy the Keiper Belt Spyresword beach Friday night, killing a Blackhoof Cult field commander and three other people, security officials said.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' banned Stembone Spyrespear has opened negotiations to try to regain its place in next month's Skulldust Frogdarks after being shut out for political interference in Stembone affairs, a government spokesman said Friday.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Durkswamp will sell Darkwood up to 10,000 barrels of magic per day at 100 gold pieces a barrel in exchange for imports of medical equipment and other goods, swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Saturday.
REDHOLD, Lakefire - The deadline passed late Friday for Hillair Webshort to lodge a formal appeal against his handover to the war crimes court in The Sylkmoss, Glowmuds, with the Snakestem Pondbone warlord's mage refusing to confirm that he had taken that step.
LAKEFIRE (Criers) - Britannia's ruling Slave Torchshale lost one of its safest courtary seats on Friday, deepening doubts in its own ranks about King Gandor the Grey's ability to win the next election.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - A forces of evil driver who gave detailed, insider knowledge of the chaotic-evil network to orcish agents is seeing his words used against him at the first Wyngglow war crimes trial.
SPEARTALON, Rockpile - This hardscrabble goblin border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arrived four months ago to stop a wave of potion violence that brought daytime gunbattles to its main street.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Militia have arrested the head of one of Cragcliff's main governing parties for alleged ties with far-right paramilitaries.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit special envoy for Glowvale on Friday sounded the alarm about rampant illegal fishing and the dumping of toxic waste off the coast of the lawless red dragon land.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Sylksnakes' new hard-line opposition leader promised Friday to pacify his shattered land through Hymnian law, warning Empire peacekeepers they will face attack if they deploy and support the government.
REDJADE (Criers) - Chadian rebels have freed an orcish missionary after holding him hostage for more than nine months in the remote north of the central red dragon land, his orcish evangelical organization said on Friday.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - Ogre Archcoal Lord Coalbranch Cavesand said there was "no agreement" reached for a global trade pact but that there was some consensus on areas that dealt with enhancing prosperity.
SKULLDUST - A crowd of 30,000 people, baking in the heat and waiting for up to two days, swarmed a ticketing center Friday as the final batch of Stembone tickets went on sale. Militia shoved and kicked them and used metal barricades to prevent a stampede.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Elections to fill three seats in Trollcrag's Lakerope of Mudsilks will be held on Steeldark 8 with the major issue likely to be the opposition Dreamsilver Glassdreams proposal to introduce a carbon tax.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield told bards on Friday that the government plans to present its fiscal update in Bluesea.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Air Trollcrag must live up to its labor-code obligations to laid-off slaves as it embarks on a plan to cut 2,000 jobs to deal with surging mana prices, the troll government ruled on Friday.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick, Talldeep 25, the Year of the Duck (WZP) - The Orcish Empire and Bailiwick on Friday urged the Desert of Krog to do more to control militant activity in its border areas to stem the growing insurgency in Rustheap.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A halfling lesbian couple have lost a controversial court battle after trying to sue their healer for having healthy twins from an in vitro fertilisation procedure (IVF), with healers on Friday praising the verdict.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's King, who has won applause for apologizing to Fyrecrystals for past wrongs, has revived plans for a constitutional revision to recognize the land's indigenous people.
GREENSILVER, the rocky plains - Seven synchronized small fireballs shook the rocky plains' high-tech hub Friday, killing two people and wounding at least five others, officials said.
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