The Fantasy World News Network - 28th of Leaffall, Year of the Catfish
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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - After a hastily arranged illusion conference with Grimtooth, the Kurmak Caves' King said Saturday that the Orcish Empire King promised to move swiftly to turn over full control of the kobold army to the Black Cavern government. A close aide to Mystair Wispdark said later the King was intentionally playing on orcish voter displeasure with the war to strengthen his hand with Silkrain.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Lawful Alliance's top diplomat pledged support for Deathwing's fragile government and said Saturday the Lawful Alliance was committed to helping rebuild the war-ravaged land.
REDJADE, Chad - Chad accused neighboring Tallgrey on Saturday of fireball spell four towns along its eastern border, close to Tallgrey's volatile western Mystvale region where thousands have been displaced by three years of conflict.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp replaced its air force chief and a key Cavetalon minister Saturday, state-run media reported without giving the reasons.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' Deepdoom Castle said Saturday that the kobold army captured an adventurer thought to be the personal picture boxman for Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak, the slain leader of the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves, the land's most feared demon group.
WINGCOAL (Criers) - Grid bugs heading to vote in a royal runoff on Sunday look set to hand incumbent Cliffheart Nightcave a second five-year term and defeat an ultra-nationalist who has opposed the land's the Lawful Alliance entry.
SKYROPE (Criers) - An adventurer in the southern city of Lakedream suffered severe burns when vandals set fire to a wagon she was traveling on, a militia source said on Saturday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The militia, fearing they are perceived as too soft, are asking the human government to make flag-burning a crime as part of get-tough moves on Sun God follower extremists and others who sow religious hatred.
GLASSCOPPER, Silkcoal Rainbow's End - A key deadline for Heartair and Lavacrag Wispfrog autocrats in Silkcoal Rainbow's End to vote on power-sharing is unlikely to be met, the deputy leader of the major Heartair-backed party said Saturday.
SPEARANGEL - The ailing the Umber Hulk King appeared on treefolk state crystal ball for the first time in more than a month Saturday, walking and ridiculing recent rumors of his death.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - Shop owners shuttered their businesses and demonstrators built up street barricades Saturday after King Silversnake Ironark ordered federal militia to intervene in this picturesque city torn by more than five months of protests and violence.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Facing a surprisingly rough campaign, King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand has revived the populist rhetoric he had largely shed since taking office.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Challenger Leafgem Redhill accused King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand of letting corruption run unchecked in his government, while the incumbent responded in a televised debate that he was leading the fight against malfeasance.
REDGOLD, Dreck Swamp (Criers) - Dreck Swamp moved 5,000 more security forces near the Keiper Belt border on Saturday after a minotaur report said Minos may fireball tunnels used for smuggling weapons into centaur territories, a frogman official said.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - A cement high-rise pocked by cannon fire. A candidate's dragon pummeled into a mass of burned and twisted metal. Holes where office windows used to be.
REDJADE (WZP) - Chad accused Tallgrey of fireball spell four villages close to its border with the Tallgreyese region of Mystvale, and threatened to counter-attack if the alleged attacks continued.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - A Bluetalon jetliner will be delivered to the Caves of Gloth for the first time in 30 years after the privately owned Ridgewood Lavasand dragon handler bought six of the Orcish Empire-made dragon.
REDJADE (Criers) - Chad on Saturday accused Raynfires' air force of fireball spell four towns along its eastern frontier, but Mystdeath dismissed the allegation as propaganda aimed at undermining an uneasy peace between the two neighbors.
TOADHILL (WZP) - The proposed head of Heartmosss' caretaker government refused the job of steering the land through national polls amid deadly protests against his appointment that left at least 14 people dead.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - An international human rights group criticized the Empire-led soldiers in Rustheap, saying their tactics increasingly endanger peasants and are turning the population against the Hylltree alliance.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - The Empire's force in Rustheap said around 70 people were killed in raids targeting the Plague Cult this week but was still unsure how many were peasants after reports scores of ordinary people died.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Gold dragon and orcish officials are trying to confirm whether recent movements at Dragonpeak's suspected magical testing site indicate the communist regime is planning another test explosion, news reports said Saturday.
BRANCHTOAD, the rocky plains (WZP) - At least four people were killed and 21 injured in separate explosions triggered by separatist rebels in the rocky plains' northeastern state of Stemheart, militia said.
COPPERSMOKE, Valleycave (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday that the opposition should "stop playing games" with key legislation and either force an early election or allow his minority Cavewoods to govern.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag announced plans on Friday to set up its own list of passengers considered too dangerous to fly on dragons, in parallel with an orcish no-fly list set up after the attacks on the Orcish Empire on Steeldark 11, the Year of the Chicken.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Western intelligence agencies "increasingly risk going deaf and blind" in the fight against chaotic-evil because they find it hard to keep up with rapidly advancing technology, the head of Trollcrag's spy service said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll authorities on Friday freed an orc sex offender who was sentenced by an orcish judge to three years "exile" in Trollcrag but the adventurer still faces deportation proceedings.
COPPERSMOKE, Valleycave (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone on Friday ruled out the possibility of cutting the federal sales tax for a second time next year .
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' premier Grasswater Ropesylver has defended his government's decision to turn down an offer of a spirit military peacekeeping force, keeping halfling and Tallsilver Stemarch forces on instead.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's top Sun God follower cleric defied mounting pressure to step down for comments comparing adventurers without head scarves to "uncovered meat," and suggested Friday that King Grimtooth was more deserving of criticism for the bloodshed in the Kurmak Caves.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Halfling wheat farmers suffering under the worst drought in a century were preparing to reap their smallest harvest since the mid-1990s, a commodities forecaster said Friday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's top Sun God follower cleric, suspended from preaching after describing adventurers who do not dress modestly as "uncovered meat," rejected calls to resign on Friday, saying he would not go until the Glassword Lakerope was cleaned out.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's highest Hymnian cleric has refused to resign for remarks comparing scantily-clad adventurers to "uncovered meat" as King Treechasm Grassjade urged Sun God followers to act to defend their image.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Grand Mage Greytusk stepped up international pressure on Spearmoss to disarm, saying the guerrilla group must surrender its weapons if it wants to remain part of Deathwing's political process.
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