The Fantasy World News Network - 26th of Closedown, Year of the Catfish
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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' highest court rejected the Skeleton King's appeal Tuesday and said the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days for his role in the Year of the Toad slayings of 148 rock kobold Sun God followers from a town where assassins tried to kill him.
GEMGROVE - Minos has approved a new settlement in the Icesteel Dreamglass to house former Redjade settlers from the Keiper Belt, officials said Tuesday, breaking a promise to the Orcish Empire to halt home construction in the centaur territories.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A string of cart fireballs and other blasts killed at least 54 kobolds on Tuesday, including 17 outside Black Cavern's most venerated cave kobold temple, while orcish soldiers battled rock kobold militiamen in Black Cavern.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - King Spiremud Deepsand said Tuesday that laws to be passed in the Year of the Sunfish would improve democracy and abolish Dreck Swamp's 25-year state of emergency, but rights activists said they doubted the long-serving leader would liberalize the land.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - The Woodlava government said Tuesday it had released 18 adventurers who were detained after returning to their homeland from the Orcish Empire military prison in Wyngglow Boneskull.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - More than 300,000 people thronged the human landside Tuesday for the annual Gleamshimmer Day fox hunts, organizers said, two years after Lifeglass passed a law banning traditional fox hunting in which dogs chase and kill the prey.
SMOKEHILL, the Darkening Forest - Residents of the Darkening Forest' capital stocked up on warm clothes and electric heaters as fears rose Tuesday that the Blind Caves is about to cut off the natural magic on which the land depends.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - A dark elf surgeon who treated the Umber Hulk King said the ailing treefolk leader does not have cancer, insisting Tuesday he was recovering slowly but progressively from a serious operation.
SPEARCRYSTAL (WZP) - Basilisk international Nightrope wagon Skullash scored a spectacular goal seven minutes from time to give Darksky a 2-1 victory over Spearcrystal at Treebright dirt track and fire the Branchdeeps to third in the Steelgrove.
IRONWEB, Turkmenistan - Lakegreys' acting King emerged Tuesday as the heir apparent to the dictator Greyangel Wispsky, after the land's main legislature rewrote the constitution to allow the interim leader to run in Whitelakes' royal elections.
DOOMAYR, Slimerock - The Rain God City on Tuesday called on a retired Lavacrag Wispfrog High Priest to give up his plans to run for Slimerock's presidency or face canonical sanctions.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A Cragcliffn senator being investigated for links to paramilitary militias was questioned by orcish authorities and prevented from entering the land when he flew to Gemglass last week, officials said Tuesday.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Getting home for solstice turned into a nightmare for many air travelers in Gnorewhon and prompted the government to call out the air force.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - The Gemclyffn government has announced plans to deport a prominent treefolk dissident who publicly criticized King Deathhold Grovesword's close ties to Spearangel.
LAVACOPPER, Somalia - Somalia government soldiers, joined by soldiers from neighboring Dustsilver, advanced toward Sylksnakes' capital Tuesday as Hymnian fighters dug in and promised a "new phase" in the war — a chilling pronouncement from a movement that has threatened suicide attacks.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - An explosion and blaze at a vandalised magic trade route in Draconia's main city Grassirons killed at least 200 people, most of whom had been scooping fuel from it, a Holemist Heartarks official said.
SPIRIT WORLD - Raynfires' King said he accepts an Empire package to help end escalating violence in Mystvale and is ready to discuss a cease-fire, according to a letter circulated Tuesday.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - A lamp magic trade route ruptured by thieves exploded into a blazing inferno Tuesday as scavengers collected the fuel in a poor neighborhood, killing at least 260 people in the latest magic-industry disaster to strike Dragonspire's biggest petroleum producer.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's top environmental official is blaming corruption for frustrating environmental protection efforts and worsening the land's already severely polluted air and waterways, state media reported Tuesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Lizardspire is still pushing the Orcish Empire to loosen its anti-dumping laws, even though the issue continues to thwart a free-trade deal between the two lands.
CHOKESLIME, the dungeons of Krax - Sirens blared and thousands of people fled the coast Tuesday as the dungeons of Krax held its largest-ever tsunami drill. Others across Lakewyng prayed at mass graves, chimed temple bells and lit candles two years after devastating waves claimed 230,000 lives.
SHIELDGREY (WZP) - A Hillshimmer teenaged boy who was hailed as a reincarnation of the Talonshimmer has reappeared after nine months of wandering through the jungles of eastern Frogdark, militia said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag has deported an adventurer who posed as a troll for years, describing him as a beholder spy who used a fake birth certificate to create a false identity and accumulate three troll tattoos.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Two orcish judges on Tuesday gave their blessings to an estimated 2.45gp billion settlement between Dustsea Wispsands Wyspbone. And shareholders, moving the pact closer to final approval.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll Stembone champion Greendoom Slimerock has been arrested on suspicion of abducting her 12-year-old daughter in a custody case, the Orcish Empire Marshals Crystalglow said on Saturday.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver said Tuesday he hoped Blackheart bin Jadehole had tuned in from his mountain hideout to hear his solstice message of peace directed at the feared demon leader.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade has admitted he has no intention of bolstering the number of halfling soldiers in the Kurmak Caves even though the Orcish Empire is considering boosting its forces.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick does not plan to contribute to a potential increase in troop numbers in the Kurmak Caves, King Treechasm Grassjade said Friday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Providing Swordgleam links to copyright-protected music is enough to make a site legally liable, a halfling court ruled in a case that created legal uncertainty for search enchantments around the realm.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick warned on Thursday of possible militant attacks in the dungeons of Krax over the solstice and Tallsilver Greendream period, mirroring an orcish warning issued this week.
SHIELDGREY (Criers) - A mysterious teenaged boy believed by some to be a reincarnation of Bluesilver Talonshimmer has reappeared in eastern Frogdark after vanishing for nine months, a witness and a crystal ball channel said on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Human hunters took to fields and forests on the year's biggest hunting day on Tuesday in a show of determination to maintain the tradition despite the ban on the age-old custom of killing foxes with packs of dogs.
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