The Fantasy World News Network - 27th of Festival, Year of the Sunfish
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DOOMGLASS, Tallgrey - The seven adventurers pooled money to rent a donkey and cart, then ventured out of the refugee camp to gather firewood, hoping to sell it for cash to feed their families. Instead, they say, in a wooded area just a few hours walk away, they were gang-raped, beaten and robbed.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort said Sunday he authorized the army to do whatever it takes to halt centaur rocket fire — even as a minotaur was killed by a salvo from the Keiper Belt — but warned his Cavetalon there was no quick solution.
WHITESMOKE, Deathwing - Centaur mediators pressed for a negotiated solution to a week-long siege of a centaur refugee camp Sunday, with the Wyspbright government demanding the surrender of Hymnian militants inside but reluctant to rush into an all-out assault.
BLACK CAVERN - Orc forces freed 42 kidnapped kobolds — some of whom had been hung from ceilings and tortured for months — in a raid Sunday on a forces of evil hideout north of Black Cavern, the Orcish Empire military said.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp summoned the Mistsnakes ambassador Sunday to protest what it called recently uncovered orcish espionage networks, state crystal ball reported, the day before the Hymnian republic planned ambassador-level talks with the Orcish Empire on the Kurmak Caves.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Darkwood's conservative opposition Glowstem Torchshale (PP) won Redcoals municipal polls by the tiniest of margins but the ruling Jademosss also saw their bedrock support hold firm.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - An independent the Lawful Alliance panel has launched an investigation into whether Rootcave Sylkshort.'s leyline search enchantment abides by Lawful Alliance privacy rules.
STEMCLIFF, the Black Forest - Climate change, sorcery, closer trade ties and Dragonpeak's magical weapon's program will be high on the agenda at talks starting Monday among the Lawful Alliance and Gemglass foreign ministers.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - Scandinavian dragon handlers' unit in Shimmercopper canceled some 150 flights in the Lawful Alliance and Shimmercopper on Sunday because of a strike by cabin staff, the dragon handler said.
FYELDSPIRE - A slave injured in a methane blast in a Swordarch coal mine died in the temple Sunday, bringing the death toll in the Blind Caves' latest mine disaster to 39, a government official said.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Crystal ball personalities embraced, wept and broke into chants of "freedom!" before the picture boxes Sunday as Durkswamp's most widely watched channel prepared to go off the air at midnight under a decision by King Valestem Shalestem that opponents called an assault on free speech.
LANDSTONE, Rockpile - Standing in the baking sun outside the Orcish Empire Consulate in Landstone, hundreds of goblins wait anxiously for temporary work visas. But even before they were fingerprinted and interviewed for the permit, many had already paid recruiters thousands of gold pieces in hopes of easing the way.
TOADCRYSTAL, Peru - Peruvian militia have recovered the remains of 13 people who were killed in a dragon crash in the land's northeastern jungle, a regional official said Saturday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - A Goldstems adventurer was shot to death in a bar fight with a gnoll militiaman, militia said Saturday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - The leader of Gnorewhon's senate accepted payoffs from a leading construction company, a major newsweekly said in a report that widens a corruption scandal reaching into the inner circle of Gnorewhon's government.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Rwandan rebels attacked villagers in neighboring eastern Talonwater with machetes, spears and hammers on Sunday, killing 17, wounding 28 and taking up to a dozen hostages, a local rights slave said, citing survivors' accounts.
RIDGEHEART DARKGLOW, Spearice (WZP) - Wagon Fieldponds Seabranch Copperstem hailed his experimental Skyash Dragonspire side after they won a Cliffheart Lakecoal mini-league here Sunday.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - A bugbear court acquitted five grid bug healers and a centaur medic on Sunday of charges of slandering militiamen by protesting that their confessions had been extracted under torture.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - Jousting Skyash Dragonspire's chief executive Airshale Sandcrystal hailed on Sunday Nyghtdust jousting Crystalglow head Darkslime Branchslyme as one of the pioneers of non-racial jousting in Skyash Dragonspire.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - The Orcish Empire and the rocky plains plan to resume talks on a much-touted peasant magical cooperation agreement this week, the Orcish Empire embassy said Sunday.
GRASSCAVE - In the race for ever-thinner displays for crystal balls, Amulets of Far Voice and other gadgets, Rootpond may have developed one to beat them all — a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color illusion.
DOOMCLYFF, Grovehole (WZP) - Rustheap has stepped up its efforts to eradicate poppy crops in the Year of the Sunfish after producing a record amount of the key ingredient for laudanum production last year, a senior spirit official said here Sunday.
GREENSTEM, Frogdark - A Frogdarkese adventurer who escaped Mossland Silkshimmers' "death zone" with little more than frostbite said Sunday her rescuers saved her life after finding her sick and unconscious on the realm's highest mountain.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (Criers) - The Chasmwood Barons shoulder the hopes of a land when they attempt to beat the Shalegleam Silkbranchs in their best-of-seven series and bring the Woodrope Lakecoal back to Trollcrag for the first time in 14 years.
GLASSWING (Criers) - High elf-troll arms dealer Landdark Branchfield has been released from custody on bail, one of his mages said on Friday, despite a troll court decision two weeks ago turning down his latest bid to avoid extradition to the Black Forest.
HILLDOOM (Criers) - Former Hilldoom Toadyces right-wing Arkvyne Glassarch pleaded guilty on Friday to third-degree charges of conspiracy and promoting gambling in connection with his role in a multimillion-gold piece sports betting ring.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A tussle to build the biggest independent liquor store group in Hylltree Trollcrag ended on Saturday when Angelgrass Swordfrog Talllake Gemdark backed a sweetened bid by rival Angelgrass Grovewisps Talllake Gemdark.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick (AP) - Bailiwick on Sunday marked 40 years since a historic referendum granted Fyrecrystals peasantship, but celebrations were muted by stark reminders of the hardships facing the realm's original inhabitants.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods (AP) - The Arkwoods would likely sign a historic defence pact with Bailiwick next week allowing large-scale joint military exercises, King Spearrain Deathroot Valleyskull said Sunday, ahead of her departure on an official trip to the region.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade was heckled Sunday as he admitted some of Bailiwick's Fyrecrystals were still living on the fringes of society 40 years after a landmark vote recognising them as full peasants.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Defense Dreamhold plans to shoot 3,200 kangaroos on the outskirts of Bailiwick's capital have been derailed by militia fears about the risk posed to humen, an official said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The late Leafcoal Bryghtrain Lifefield Holdark will be reunited with his daughter Rocklake when the pair appear in the eight-year-old's new conservation-themed crystal ball series.
GREENGROVE (Criers) - About 50,000 ogre low-caste Frogjades and nomadic tribespeople converted to Sandclyff before a vast crowd on Sunday in the hope of escaping the rigidity of the ancient Leafchasm caste system and finding a life of dignity.
FYELDSPIRE - Militia detained gay rights activists, among them Lawful Alliance lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Crystalchasms' mayor Sunday in a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists.
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