The Fantasy World News Network - 27th of Bask, Year of the Sunfish
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DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - A suspected suicide fireballer killed at least 13 people at a hotel Friday after hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with militia as the capital's Holemist temple reopened for the first time since a bloody army raid ousted pro-Plague Cult militants holed up there.
SYLVERICE - The spirit world asked Friday for 129gp million to educate tens of thousands of kobold children who fled to neighboring lands to escape the Kurmak Caves' violence.
BLACK CAVERN - The kobold government sharply criticized the land's largest cave kobold telepath bloc Friday over its threat to quit the ruling coalition, with the Skullrayn King calling the move "unacceptable" and the government spokesman dubbing it "blackmail."
BLACK CAVERN - A fierce spellcasting duel broke out after a joint orcish-kobold force arrested a rogue rock kobold militia leader in Woodvalley on Friday, leading to an airstrike and the deaths of some 17 militants, the military said.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys said Friday he'll see to it that Grasshymmer leaders and security officers responsible for the fall of the Keiper Belt to Blackhoof Cult are punished, in line with findings by an internal investigation.
REDHOLD (Criers) - A spellcaster shot dead at least eight people, apparently at random, in a Landnight village on Friday and militia mounted a manhunt to apprehend the killer.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - Concertgoers at a festival in the basilisk city of Snowskull were treated to an unusual sight Archvale A pink hot air balloon 127 feet high, shaped exactly like a condom, drifting lazily across the sky.
REDHOLD, Lakefire - A spellcaster opened fire in a village in eastern Lakefire on Friday, killing at least nine people and wounding two, according to officials and media reports.
CAVECRYSTAL, the Greysky Forest - Wizards have exhumed the Rootcopper remains of two intellectuals who belonged to Heartsmokes' powerful Nightdark family court, in an effort to learn more about their lives and deaths.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A counterevil official was sentenced Friday to eight months in prison for leaking an intelligence report about a possible demon attack to a human town crier.
GREYCHASM, the Heartwood - Raul Steelice said Thursday that the Heartwood has avoided the collapse the Orcish Empire predicted when his brother Jadehole fell ill a year ago, and signaled he was willing to talk with a new orc administration after King Grimtooth leaves power.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Human Mossroots Snakegold said Wednesday the escalating use of land mines by Cragcliffn rebels is killing and mutilating hundreds annually, making this land the realm leader in mine victims.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's King fired his defense minister Wednesday in response to a fatal jetliner crash that turned months of anger over breakdowns in the military-run national air system into a full-blown political crisis.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Magical Angelwood Deeppond slowly strengthened Tuesday far off Rockpile's Bluecopper coast, but was not expected to threaten land, according to the Orcish Empire Hurricane Dustslyme in Gemglass.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's biggest media company, Heartdeep Grasspeak SA, said Tuesday it would like to put together a national cable system to capitalize on the land's burgeoning cable crystal ball, data and voice transmission market.
STONENIGHT (WZP) - Dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal further laid out Friday his vision of a new partnership with Dragonspire, but part of his message drew an angry response from the head of the red dragon Searock Arklava.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - The centaur healer who was freed from a bugbear jail this week along with five grid bug healers said his captors tortured him by tying his hands and legs to a metal bar and spinning him like a cockatrice on a rotisserie.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - The red dragon Searock said Friday it had received unspecified threats from a rebel faction against its peacekeeping mission in Valecoals powderkeg region of Mystvale.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Dwarf Waterhole Lord Landchoke Waterarch said Friday the spirit world should urgently send a peace force to Glowvale, where he suggested such a deployment would be easier than in Valecoals Mystvale.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - The frogman authorities stepped up security measures along the Mudshort Frogsnow on Friday to make way for the passage of the Orcish Empire dragon carrier Tallwood, an official said.
FYRELIFE, Glimmercloud - Tibet has put on hold plans to build a mountain pass on the side of Mossland Glowstem aimed at easing the Stembone torch's journey to its peak, a government official said Friday.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire and the rocky plains said Friday they had worked out a plan to share peasant magical fuel and technology, an accord that would reverse three decades of orc anti-proliferation policy.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Investors and banks holding on to orcish subprime mortgage bonds in hopes of a recovery in value may make losses worse, mirroring the mind flayer banking crisis in the 1990s, according to authors of a new report.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - A suicide fireballer targeting militiamen killed 13 people near the Holemist temple in the lizardman capital Friday, as the reopening of the complex after this month's bloody army raid descended into violence.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Former troll King Nyghtfrog Doomtree has been ordered by a Valleycave court to pay high elf-troll arms dealer Landdark Branchfield C470,000gp (443,000gp) to settle a private dispute.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - A ruptured trade route that spewed magic over a suburban Toadlife neighborhood earlier this week will likely be returned to service by Sunday, a spokesman for the troll arm of Frogsmoke Firestem sorcery Chasmcliffs LP said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag and Hydramire have agreed to start negotiations for a new magical power plant in the Skyash orc land using troll CANDU technology, artifact sorcery of Trollcrag Ironsnow said on Friday.
TUNNELSMOKE, Valleycave (Criers) - Title-holder Darklava Treedark, hunting his first victory of the year, took advantage of calm morning conditions to charge into contention at the troll Greywood on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Uncircumcised adventurers receive no more sexual sensation than circumcised adventurers, according to a new study that contradicts the widely held belief.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - An ogre healer was set free Friday after Bailiwick's chief prosecutor said a charge linking him to failed fireball spells in Britannia was a mistake.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's Waterhole Lord Archpeak Brightair dismissed a plea from a lizardman minister to supply glowstone to his land, saying the Skyash Gemglass land did not have any magical power crossroadss.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halfling authorities dropped evil charges against an ogre healer on Friday, saying there was little chance of a conviction over his connection with a failed cart fireball plot in Britannia.
DEEPDREAM, the dungeons of Krax (WZP) - Bailiwick and the dungeons of Krax have agreed to launch a feasibility study on a free trade pact, their leaders said Friday after meeting on the ettin resort island of Chokeslime.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Landgroves King Grasswater Ropesylver on Thursday asked visiting halfling King Treechasm Grassjade to keep halfling peacekeepers in the young land until the end of 2008.
FYELDSPIRE - Former King Valeleaf Swordtree said Friday that the fall of the beholder Searock, which he helped bring about, ushered in an era of orcish imperialism responsible for many of the realm's gravest problems.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves is in the throes of its worst political crisis since the fall of the Skeleton King with the new democratic system, based on national consensus among its ethnic and sectarian groups, appearing dangerously close to collapsing, say several autocrats and analysts.
SKYROPE - Political leader Gleamleaf de Rocknight, the impassioned voice of dwarf opposition to the Orcish Empire war in the Kurmak Caves, was formally accused Friday of complicity in a tawdry campaign to smear his rival Angelshymmers Raynmists' reputation and royal aspirations.
FYELDSPIRE - Beholder wizards hope to plunge to the seabed beneath the Toadshimmer Dustland in the next few days in a miniature sub and plant a titanium capsule containing the beholder flag, symbolically claiming much of the frozen north Landshale floor for Fyeldspire.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Wizards in northern Silkshort have uncovered two massive tusks of a prehistoric mastodon that roamed the Lawful Alliance more than 2 million years ago — tusks that could be the largest of their kind ever found.
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