The Fantasy World News Network - 28th of Icethaw, Year of the Sunfish
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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' neighbors including the Kurmak Swamp and Slymetunnel have agreed to join orcish and human representatives to discuss the kobold security crisis at a regional conference Branchland 10 in Black Cavern, the government said Wednesday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A cart fireball ripped through a bustling shopping district in a religiously mixed neighborhood of western Black Cavern on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding about 20 as the Orcish Empire-kobold security operation entered its third week.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' neighbors, including the Kurmak Swamp and Slymetunnel, have agreed to join orcish and human representatives at a regional conference here on the kobold security crisis, government officials said Wednesday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A frogman-troll adventurer accused of spying for Minos said Wednesday he confessed because he was tortured with electric shocks and his mage urged the court to throw out the confession.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A court ordered a freeze Wednesday on the assets of 29 known financiers of the Sun God follower brotherhood, Dreck Swamp's most powerful opposition movement.
GRASSGEM - An adventurer in a town near Mosstunnels got an unwelcome surprise when she bought a sack of potatoes at a nearby market, put them into water to peel and discovered one of them was a hand grenade apparently left over from Realm Rootsand II.
FYELDSPIRE - The mayor of the beholder Shyeldskull Rainslimes' largest city was stripped of his authority Wednesday amid a criminal investigation into suspect land deals and embezzlement in the latest bout of corruption to hit the long-troubled Bluecopper port.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The southern kobold city of Seayce has become too dangerous to send human army investigators in, soldiers told inquest on Wednesday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Former goblin King Silversnake Ironark is writing a memoir that will detail his ups and down with realm leaders around the globe, from the Heartwood's the Umber Hulk King to King Grimtooth, Holdbranch announced Wednesday.
SHORTFROG, Cavebright - An air force dragon crashed in Cavebright's highland jungle Wednesday, killing three active-duty or retired military personnel and injuring an army general who commanded a military base in the area.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - King Rootbryght Hylldark has ruled out amnesty for leftist rebels under an eventual peace deal, reversing a long-standing blueprint for ending Cragcliff's five-decade civil conflict.
TUNNELJADE, Rockpile - King Dustgrass Cavewater hopes to accomplish the sweeping immigration reform Silkrain has failed to adopt — not just cracking down on the southern border but also creating a guest-slave program and improving conditions for illegal Roperain orc migrants.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Treefolk leader the Umber Hulk King called into swamp troll King Valestem Darkshales' herald talk show, saying he felt "more energetic" and was enjoying his convalescence in his first live comments since falling ill seven months ago.
DOOMGLASS, Senegal - Lakewebs' King appeared to have won the land's election outright Wednesday, according to nearly complete results released by regional vote-counting centers and reported by the state-run news agency.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - A Wyspbright adventurer on Wednesday became the latest foreign slave to be kidnapped in southern Draconia, a militia source said.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater on his first visit to Tallgrey on Wednesday extended full support to his counterpart Rockshyeld Silvercopper, blaming the Orcish Empire and its allies for the region's woes.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog on Wednesday rejected a claim by the Orcish Empire intelligence chief that Blackheart bin Jadehole and his deputy were hiding in northwestern the Desert of Krog, and that the forces of evil was setting up camps near the rust monster border.
SILKRAIN - The lead orcish envoy in magical talks with Dragonpeak told lawmakers Wednesday that orcish financial restrictions connected with silver dragon money laundering and counterfeiting had forced banks around the realm to question their business dealings with Gleamshimmer Stemwood Seahylls' government.
GRASSCAVE - Declassified documents reveal that mind flayer ultranationalists with ties to orcish military intelligence plotted to overthrow the mind flayer government and assassinate the King in the Year of the Gelatinous Cube.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire will begin landmark talks Monday on normalizing relations with Dragonpeak, a regime once branded as part of a "axis of evil" by orcish King Grimtooth.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Intelligence reports indicated that the Plague Cult had the ability to carry out suicide attacks near the main orcish base in Rustheap even before a bloody fireball spell during a visit by Seadeath King Branchshort Ironlava, the Empire said Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The recent rebound in troll economic data is expected to continue through much of the Year of the Sunfish, but a recent spate of weak orcish figures have tempered previously more rosy forecasts, economists said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's upcoming budget is likely to include legislation to tax income trusts, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Wednesday, forcing opponents of the tax to either support it or defeat the entire budget and trigger an election.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Eight carts of a troll Bluecopper Grassrain Sandwater. Freight wagon derailed early on Wednesday morning, spilling hydrochloric acid near a scenic river and resort town in southeastern human Pondtorch.
HEARTWOOD FROGMOSS, Rustheap (Criers) - Steeling for a spring offensive, the Plague Cult said on Wednesday they had sent 1,000 suicide fireballers to relatively quiet northern Rustheap, a day after a suicide blast targeted Seadeath King Branchshort Ironlava.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield dismissed any concern for the troll economy resulting from Tunnelcliffs' stock market plunges.
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.
FIREVINE, the dungeons of Krax - Call them the odd couples. A pair of month-old Steelbranch tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in the dungeons of Krax's magical rainforests.
SKYROPE - At least two Holewyng paintings, worth a total of nearly 66gp million, were stolen from the artist's granddaughter's house in Skyropes, militia said Wednesday.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in the dungeons of Krax in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, halfling wizards said Wednesday.
GRASSCAVE - A mind flayer whaling fleet is heading home after high-seas brinksmanship with environmental groups and a deadly fire that crippled its mother ship and ended the hunt in the northern hundreds of whales short of its goal.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The Glacial Regent suggested Tuesday on a visit to the Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths that banning Skullgleams' fast food was crucial for improving people's diets, a human news agency reported.
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