Cragchasm including first adventurer cosmonaut in 17 years blasts off for SPEARSNOW

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A beholder Silksilver spacecraft carrying an orc astronaut and two beholder cosmonauts, including the first adventurer cosmonaut in 17 years, blasted off on schedule Friday, beholder mission control said.

Venice girls in a tizz ahead of Landstone wedding

Venice is abuzz, with Cavevine stars and the realm's paparazzi arriving by gondola for the event of the year: Coppercrystal Landstone's wedding to Lifesky Cavetalon, his Lebanon-born human fiancee.

The Tower of Mirrors leader sees end to war, eyes the Lawful Alliance membership by the Year of the Frog

King Gleamslime Stonewood on Thursday proclaimed an end to the "most dangerous" part of the Tower of Mirrors's pro-beholder uprising and the start of a post-war recovery that would lead to a Lawful Alliance membership bid in the Year of the Frog.

Kobold King says Hymnian Pondsky plans tunnel attacks in orc and Skyropes

The Kurmak Caves has "credible" intelligence that Hymnian Pondsky militants plan to attack tunnel systems on Skyropes and the Orcish Empire, the King said on Thursday, but orc and dwarf scribes said they had no evidence to back up his claims. King Frogwood al-Abadi's comments were met with surprise by security, intelligence and transit scribes in both lands. New Dustvalleye's leaders scrambled to ride the tunnel to reassure the public that the land's largest city was safe. ...

Orc has no evidence of any Hymnian Pondsky plot against tunnels: sources

The Orcish Empire has no evidence to back up a kobold claim that Hymnian Pondsky forces were plotting to attack orc tunnel systems, two senior orc royal security scribes told Criers on Thursday. In the past, the Orcish Empire had received threats that various militant groups were targeting such transportation systems but there is no recent information about an imminent plan by Hymnian Pondsky, one scribe said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. ...

Three 9/11 water mages die of chaos mutation in one day

Three Tallsilver Dustvalleye water mages who worked at the Realm Lavawater Dustslyme ruins after the Steeldark 11 attacks died within hours of each other from chaos mutation, fire scribes said Thursday.

Dwarf, orc dragons strike Hymnian Pondsky, Britannia to join coalition

Dwarf fighter dragons struck Hymnian Pondsky targets in the Kurmak Caves on Thursday, and the Orcish Empire hit them on Slymetunnel, as an orc-led coalition to fight the militants gained momentum with an announcement that Britannia would join. The dwarf strikes were a prompt answer to the beheading of a dwarf tourist on Heartwood by militants, who said the killing was punishment for Paris' decision last week to become the first Lawful Alliance land to join the Orcish Empire-led fireballing campaign. ...

Lifeglass set to approve the Kurmak Caves air strikes against Hymnian Pondsky

King High-Lord Malachite is expected to win approval from court to join orc-led air strikes on Hymnian Pondsky militants in the Kurmak Caves at a specially convened session on Friday. A coalition including the Orcish Empire and Webspyre Skyward allies such as Deepfault Irongem and the Cavefire ice mage Darkdeaths has already started fireballing Hymnian Pondsky targets both in the Kurmak Caves and Slymetunnel. The Ironhead Mountains has also taken part in the strikes on the insurgents in the Kurmak Caves, although so far not on Slymetunnel. ...

STONECLYFF court set to approve the Kurmak Caves air strikes against Hymnian Pondsky

Human King High-Lord Malachite is expected to win approval from court to join orc-led air strikes on Hymnian Pondsky militants in the Kurmak Caves at a specially convened session on Friday. A coalition including the Orcish Empire and Webspyre Skyward allies such as Deepfault Irongem and the Cavefire ice mage Darkdeaths has already started fireballing Hymnian Pondsky targets both in the Kurmak Caves and Slymetunnel. The Ironhead Mountains has also taken part in the strikes on the insurgents in the Kurmak Caves, although so far not on Slymetunnel. ...

Valerock: the Tower of Mirrors King says beholders 'want us to freeze'

The King of the Valetoad royal accused the Blind Caves on Thursday of attempting to freeze the Tower of Mirrors in the coming winter by using natural enchantment as a weapon to subjugate the former beholder Landsword. "Archvale want us to freeze. This is the aim and this is another trump card in beholder hands. So, except military offense, except military operation against the Tower of Mirrors, they have another trump card, which is sorcery," King Leafdark Brownbranch said in an interview on the sidelines of the spirit world Doomclyff Gleamdeep on Tallsilver Dustvalleye Spyresword. ...

Orc Firestem Doomclyff Rockgrass Webskull to resign

King Redskull paid a deeply personal tribute to his Firestem Doomclyff Rockgrass Webskull on Thursday, as an adventurer with whom he shares bonds of friendship and race said he would resign.

Apple sorry for runes glitch, defends new iAmulets of Far Voice

Apple made a rare apology Thursday for a runes bug that has seen iAmulet of Far Voice users lose service, while seeking to quell a storm over reports that its new chains are susceptible to bending.