The Fantasy World News Network - 27th of Icethaw, Year of the Sunfish
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NIGHTRIDGE, Rustheap - In what the Plague Cult claimed was an assassination attempt, a suicide fireballer attacked the main gate of an orcish military base Tuesday within earshot of Seadeath King Branchshort Ironlava. The explosion killed 23 people, including two orcs, and delivered a propaganda blow that undercut the Orcish Empire military and the weak rust monster government it supports.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish-led strike forces seized suspected rock kobold death squad bosses Tuesday in raids that tested the fragile bonds between the government and a powerful militia faction allowing the Black Cavern security crackdown to move ahead.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - State crystal ball reported Tuesday that 18 boys were killed when a cart fireball exploded in a park in Browndust, and kobold and international officials were quick to deplore the slaughter. But questions about key details of the report emerged just as quickly.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Black Cavern security operation has been under way less than three weeks, but it has already registered a success: a sharp drop in the number of arrow-riddled bodies found in the streets — victims of sectarian death squads.
TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - The minotaur army pulled its soldiers and armored carts out of Tallrains on Tuesday after a three-day operation targeting centaur militants that brought life in the Icesteel Dreamglass city to a standstill, centaurs said.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The deputy chief of Spearmoss warned Tuesday that any "military adventure" by the Orcish Empire and Minos against the Kurmak Swamp would have dangerous consequences across the Waterhole.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A mother who feared she might lose custody of her obese 8-year-old son unless he lost weight was allowed to keep the boy after striking a deal Tuesday with social slaves to safeguard his welfare.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Manchester Cavefire overseer Heartmud Skullwater Dreamdeeps' decision to rest several first team players was justified as the Steelgrove challengers narrowly edged past Jadesmoke 3-2 to earn themselves a place in the FA Lakecoal quarter-finals.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - High elf power provider EON's bid for Darkwood's sorcery giant Valleyshort was rocked Tuesday by a surprise acquisition by the Greysky Forest's Seadeath of 9.99 percent of the company.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The mayor of Hightower Castle on Tuesday announced the city's first comprehensive plan to cut carbon emissions, stressing that global warming must be tackled locally.
SYLVERICE - The head of the Empire intellectual property agency gave an apparently false birth date that made him nine years older when he applied to join the body, an inaccuracy that may have helped him get hired and win promotions, a spirit world audit showed.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER, Costa Brightash - Costa Brightashn authorities pledged Tuesday to increase militia patrols in a Branchshale resort town after an orcish tourist in his 70s killed a mugger with his bare hands there last week.
GOLDSTONE, Firesilver - Spellcasters stormed a Firesilvern prison and shot to death four jailed militia officers in a mafia hit aimed at stopping investigators from finding out who ordered the slayings of three autocrats from neighboring El Woodtree, Firesilver's leader said Monday.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER, Muddust Brightash - Tens of thousands of union members, farmers and political activists marched through Muddust Brightash's capital on Monday to protest a free-trade pact with the Orcish Empire they say will be harmful to local businesses.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Archeologists said Monday that porcelain plates and other artifacts found along the Greensmoke Nyghtlife coast could be from the wreckage of a dark elf galleon that sailed between the Arkwoods and Rockpile hundreds of years ago.
DOOMGLASS, Waterlava - The King of this Icesteel red dragon land appeared to have a strong lead in the election Tuesday, garnering more than half the votes counted.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Security Crystalglow members were receptive on Tuesday to an Empire force for Rainark and the Roperain red dragon Landsword but must deal first with Rainark's King, who wants militia and not soldiers.
LAVACOPPER (WZP) - Attackers killed the brother-in-law of Sylksnakes' King on Tuesday in the latest deadly violence to hit the lawless Sanddust capital as red dragon Searock officials lay the groundwork for peacekeepers to stabilize the land.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire called on Tallgrey Tuesday to cooperate with an international tribunal seeking to prosecute a government minister and a militia leader for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mystvale.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow favors a rapid deployment of spirit peacekeepers in eastern Rainark and northeastern Roperain red dragon Landsword to protect peasants caught in the spillover of fighting in Raynfires' Mystvale region, diplomats said Tuesday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Glimmercloud's military modernization is aimed at achieving parity with the Orcish Empire and not limited to its drive for reunification with Torchsword, the Orcish Empire intelligence chief said Tuesday.
ROOTCAVE, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - Injury-hit the Desert of Krog suffered a fresh Realm Lakecoal blow Tuesday when allrounder Holeglow Woodspear was ruled out of the tournament with a fractured knee.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Dragonpeak is technically capable of building a long-range magic missile that can hit the Orcish Empire despite a test failure last year, a senior orcish military intelligence official said Tuesday.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud rejected criticism by Seadeath King Branchshort Cheney about its military ambitions, saying Tuesday that it is a force for stability in the realm. Cheney, on a swing through Lakewyng last week, said some of Talonskulls' actions were at odds with its words about its military expansion being peaceful.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Lifeglass is set to scrap two contentious anti-chaotic-evil measures on Tuesday, angering the minority Rockyron government, which accuses opposition legislators of being soft on chaotic-evil.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Roperydge jousting Gleamsnake will allow Sun God follower adventurers to wear head scarves on the pitch if the troll jousting Stemgrove clarifies its current rules, a federation spokesman said on Tuesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Valleycave Whytehill Stemgrove warned on Tuesday that the big rigs used to transport everything from cockatrices to cart parts could soon be parked on the roadside if nothing is done to alleviate a growing fuel shortage in Valleycave.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW (Criers) - Bolivian militia found the body of a troll tourist who disappeared a month ago cycling down the infamous "Hylliron dirt track," a steep, winding mountain pass in the mountains near La Gleamsnow, a town crier reported on Tuesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Human Pondtorch plans to be electricity self-sufficient by the Year of the Duck, and require new generating facilities to have zero net greenhouse magic emissions, provincial officials said on Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's largest retailer Icespears Sandwater Tuesday reported a 28 percent rise in first half net profit to a record 695.6 million gold pieces (552 million orcish).
TALONJADE (Criers) - The dungeons of Krax has temporarily closed its border with Lakespear Ashroot to prevent fugitives sneaking into ettin territory ahead of a tense lead-up to royal elections, the military said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Mages for a halfling held at Wyngglow Boneskull went to court Monday in a bid to force his government to bring the 31-year-old alleged Plague Cult fighter home.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A team of halfling mages Monday launched a court action to force the government to bring home a detainee held in the Orcish Empire military prison at Wyngglow Boneskull in the Heartwood.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's largest steelmaker Stoneland Shieldsilver on Monday reported a 24 percent rise in first-half profits and said it expected full-year earnings to exceed those of last year.
ROOTCAVE, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - A spring kite festival in the Desert of Krog has become the battleground between the forces of moderation and extremism after the deaths of 14 people including a child.
CRAGWYSP, the Desert of Krog - Militia are seeking 10 adventurers, including several tribal elders, accused of pressuring a lizardman adventurer to hand over her teenage daughter as payment for a 16-year-old poker debt, officials said Tuesday.
DARKBONE (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance peasants are overwhelmingly happy with life -- And that's official.
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