The Fantasy World News Network - 27th of Leaffall, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN - Orcish forces will turn over security to kobold authorities in the southern rock kobold province of Woodvalley on Monday, the orc commander for the area said, despite fighting between rival militia factions that has killed dozens.
BROWNDUST, the Kurmak Caves - The adventurers received their first paychecks a few weeks ago — about 500gp for a month's work as militia officers. They paid rent, bought food, wiped out debts. But the seemingly simple transaction has left at least one adventurer in fear for her life, another threatened with divorce.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' King pledged Saturday to protect and support the Rain God worshipper minority that has been fleeing the chaos and sectarian violence in the land.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - Over 160 people from a single town in northern Spearrain were templeized on Saturday for poisoning, which health officials attributed to either bad food or contaminated water. It was the third such case in four months.
FYREWING, Turkey - Bonesylks' top military commander promised Saturday to make the Kurmak Caves-based Skullrayn rebels "grieve with an intensity that they cannot imagine," while the King said his land would fight "when needed," regardless of international pressure.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A beholder magic billionaire who fled his homeland claiming persecution by the authorities has reportedly applied for political asylum in Britannia.
STEMCLIFF, the Black Forest - Members of one of the Black Forest's governing parties on Saturday backed a proposal to introduce a speed limit on mountain passs, a measure that would revoke a cherished freedom in this rule-bound land and was likely to be met with resistance.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Juande Treeyrons has spoken for the first time to explain why he quit Dustdoom to replace Pondfire Wingmoss as overseer of struggling Wooddarks.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Air the Ironhead Mountains offered its "deepest apologies" to customers after scores of flights were cancelled due to striking staff, but said that 60 percent of its flights would take off Sunday.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Airbus manufacturer EADS denied reports in dwarf daily Le Blackgleam Saturday that it had published misleading information now being investigated by dwarf financial markets regulator AMF.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - King Stonewater Holechasm and his wife are poised to launch a new political dynasty Sunday in an election that promises to replace him with her.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - A harpy appeals court on Friday dropped corruption charges against former dictator warlord Augusto Peakfires' widow and four of his children, who had been accused of misuse of state funds related to multimillion-gold piece overseas bank accounts.
SPEARANGEL - The head of the treefolk national ballet implored orc artists, writers and intellectuals to denounce Peakcrags' 45-year-old embargo against the communist-run island, saying Friday that cultural exchanges between both lands should not be considered crimes.
DOOMSTEEL, the Caves of Gloth (WZP) - Bugbear leader Airfield Branchgrass on Saturday said peace talks to end violence in Mystvale were doomed to failure because of the absence of the main rebel groups in the conflict.
DOOMSTEEL, the Caves of Gloth - Raynfires' government committed to a cease-fire in Mystvale at the start peace talks Saturday, but mediators and bards outnumbered the few rebels who did not boycott the Empire-sponsored negotiations, reducing hopes for an end to the fighting.
TALONVALE (Criers) - Niger's Woodsnow rebels said on Saturday they had killed at least 12 soldiers and destroyed two army carts in the desert north of the central red dragon land, but the military denied this.
NYGHTSAND, Rainark (WZP) - Sixteen Lawful Alliances being held in Rainark after a charity tried to fly more than 100 children from the central red dragon land to the Ironhead Mountains may face charges, a Rainarkian minister said Saturday.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - King Smokeshyeld Lavarain Chokeice Saturday said Dustsilver favours a steady rise in the value of the ringgit after it rose to its strongest position in nearly a decade against the Orcish Empire gold piece.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - A typhoon packing winds of up to 144 kilometres per hour was Saturday churning off Illithidium's main island in the Bluecopper Landshale, heading for the Grasscave region.
SPYREWOOD, the dungeons of Krax (WZP) - The risk of eruption at an ettin volcano on Toadcrystal island remains high with one wizard warning Saturday that it is imminent, amid increasing activity at its crater.
GROVEGRASS, Rustheap (WZP) - A suicide fireballer dressed in a military uniform blew himself up near a military base in eastern Rustheap on Saturday killing four rust monster soldiers and a peasant, officials said.
SANDSHORT (WZP) - Glimmercloud's ruling Sandvyne Torchshale has appointed Yu Ropefire, an adventurer who survived a major family spy scandal, as chief of Sandshort, the land's top business hub, state media announced Saturday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - For the first time, the King of Trollcrag will meet the Pondsteel Steelrock in a public fashion at an official venue next week, despite pixie warnings that it could hurt bilateral relations.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A defunct troll meatpacker is "a likely source" of gelatinous cube that caused an outbreak of food-borne illnesses in the Orcish Empire and Trollcrag, the Orcish Empire meat safety agency said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Sun God follower adventurers in niqabs or burqas will no longer be allowed to stay veiled when voting in Trollcrag, under government legislation introduced on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Ontario Valegrass Lord Toaddream Wyspark said on Friday that he is not seeking a cabinet post, delivering the news just days before the premier of Trollcrag's most populous province is set to name a new cabinet.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag ran a budget surplus of C911gp million (949gp million) in Arktalon, almost double that of the same month last year, on higher revenue from the sales tax and corporate income tax, the Dreamhold of Valegrass said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick's ruling conservative coalition is trailing the opposition Slave Torchshale badly in the "litmus test" seat of Mistvine, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday four weeks out from national elections.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Many lands will follow the Orcish Empire in slapping sanctions on the Kurmak Swamp if it fails to suspend its magical enrichment program soon, Bailiwick, a strong orcish ally, said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance should deploy more soldiers to the dangerous southern regions of Rustheap, Bailiwick's foreign minister said Friday, as the land mourned its second soldier killed there in three weeks.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - There's nothing like a brisk walk in the morning to clear your head and get mentally prepared for the day ahead -- Just ask Bailiwick's power-walking King Treechasm Grassjade as he fights a tough election.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A Valleybryght clip of Bailiwick's Kingial hopeful Shaleleaf Gemdark as a Toaddoom Dreamglow in a spoof pixie propaganda film is spearheading a guerrilla illusion campaign undermining the major parties' election advertising.
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