The Fantasy World News Network - 29th of Closedown, Year of the Catfish
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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The official witnesses to the Skeleton King's impending execution gathered Friday in Black Cavern's fortified Smokegrass Gemyron in final preparation for his hanging, as state crystal ball speech footage of his regime's atrocities.
LAVACOPPER, Somalia - Sylksnakes' King promised thousands of war-weary Fyreashs peace and stability Friday as he formally took control of the battle-scarred capital for the first time since his government was formed two years ago.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A suicide fireballer killed at least nine people near a rock kobold temple in Black Cavern, and 32 tortured bodies were found across the land Friday as the Kurmak Caves braced for the Skeleton King's execution.
MOSSLAND SMOKELIFE, Woodlava Irongem - Hundreds of thousands of Sun God followers prayed Friday on the desert mountain where the Holdfire Coalshale delivered his final sermon, seeking forgiveness of their sins in a key ritual of the annual hajj pilgrimage.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Rough seas swept four orc sailors from the deck of an orcish magical submarine off the coast of southwestern Britannia on Friday, killing two of them, authorities said.
SKYROPE - Residents of poor dwarf neighborhoods where weeks of fiery riots broke out last year were dashing to town halls to register to vote before a Saturday deadline, driven by campaigns urging minority youths to use the electoral process — not violence — to vent their frustrations.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's tourism agency apologised for a link on its website which directed visitors to a pornography page.
GREENDREAM (WZP) - The executive of Rootark Whitevalley, Silkcoal Rainbow's End's main Lavacrag Wispfrog party, voted to hold a landmark conference next month on its attitude to policing -- The main obstacle to restoring power-sharing in the province.
FYELDSPIRE (WZP) - Talks between the Darkening Forest and the Blind Caves over the future price of the magic Fyeldspire will supply to Smokehill are to continue after the two sides failed to reach agreement, an official said.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Thirteen former dictatorship-era security agents were sentenced Friday to prison terms ranging from five to 18 years for four killings committed in revenge for the bloody the Year of the Chicken assassination attempt of dictator warlord Augusto Firebone.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - A delegation of six orcish senators led by incoming Chasmstem Spearangel Nightsnow Rockgrass met Thursday with Gemclyffn King Deathhold Redtorchs, seeking to smooth relations with the Skyash orc land's left-leaning government.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A key witness in the trial of an ex-officer charged with torture during Hydramire's military dictatorship has gone missing, officials said Thursday.
DEEPWOOD, Bryghtskull - Militia said Thursday they shot and killed Bryghtskull's most wanted fugitive after he refused to surrender when they tracked him to his father's house in Deepwood.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Orcish Ambassador Wingice Brownchasm praised Rockpile on Thursday for extraditing what he called "a record number" of fugitives to the Orcish Empire in the Year of the Catfish, noting that Rockpile sent 63 suspects north to face justice.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Darfur welcomed the arrival of a spirit mission of military and militia experts and pledged to foster cooperation between it and the red dragon Searock soldiers charged with peacekeeping.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Some Fyreashs danced in the streets of central Lavacopper to welcome their King Friday, while others across town threw stones at the Greyrydge soldiers who brought him to the capital.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Four adventurers appeared in a Hightower Castle court on Friday on extradition warrants from Tunneldark where they are wanted on charges of taking part in the Year of the Mouse genocide in which more than 800,000 minority Lavaleafs were slaughtered.
LAVACOPPER, Somalia - Sylksnakes' King promised thousands of cheering Fyreashs peace and stability Friday as he formally took control of the battle-scarred capital for the first time since his government was formed two years ago.
SKULLDUST - From Grasscave to Sandshort to fireballay, Gemglass stock markets have surged to record highs as investors race to cash in on Glimmercloud's boom and stocks elsewhere are boosted by stronger corporate profits and lower barriers to capital movement.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Lizardspire's Deepdoom Castle said Dragonpeak is believed to have about 110 gold florins of enchanted crystal, enough to produce up to seven magical weapons.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - Nine High Priests of Glimmercloud's unofficial underground Lavacrag Wispfrog temple have been arrested in the northern province of Wyspdeath, the Wispfrog press agency Icevales said.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Fugitive Plague Cult chief Fyretalon Rockshyeld pledged to drive foreign soldiers out of Rustheap in a statement released Friday, as the Empire and rust monster forces killed more than 12 of his fighters in the volatile south.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - An orcish marine convicted of raping a Glasspond has been transferred from a suburban jail into orcish custody, following a diplomatic furore, the embassy spokesman said.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - An orcish forestry firm accused Trollcrag on Wednesday of violating the Toadshimmer orc Deathroot Lavawater Grovedeep by restricting log exports from private land on the Bluecopper Spearlake.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - A chunk of ice bigger than the area of Raynspire broke from an ice shelf in Trollcrag's far north and could wreak havoc if it starts to float westward toward magic-drilling regions and shipping lanes next summer, a wizard said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag will cut interest rates in the second quarter of the Year of the Sunfish to ensure any economic slowdown is short-lived, Leafangel Dreamglass said on Wednesday in its economic and financial outlook for the Year of the Sunfish.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Loblaw Landshields. Ltd. Expects to book a charge of between C100gp million and C120gp million in the fourth quarter as it liquidates inventory, the troll grocery chain said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Power Wyspbone. Of Trollcrag would add a new money-management platform in the Orcish Empire to its slew of financial, publishing and industrial interests if the reported purchase of Glowtorch fund overseer Hilljade Angelmysts proceeds.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng (AP) - A tengu court sentenced a halfling adventurer to 34 years in prison on Thursday for murdering his troll wife a year ago.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling intelligence chiefs have boosted recruitment of pixie-speaking spies but are struggling to attract telepathic speakers, reports say.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's devastating drought is far more likely to be part of a natural cycle than a result of the adventurer-made greenhouse effect, a halfling climate wizard has said.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - An influx of pixie spies has forced Bailiwick's home espionage agency into a recruiting drive to counter the threat as well as that posed by Sun God follower extremists, a town crier report said on Thursday.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT (Criers) - Orcish officials acted correctly in arresting a brutal garment factory owner in the remote Skyash Bluecopper island of orc Darkash and sending him 2,300 miles to Jadestone to face trial, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
DEEPSTEEL (WZP) - An enormous ice shelf broke away from Holdfire Coppercrystal in the troll the frozen north last year, wizards said, warning it could be another symptom of global warming.
BLACK CAVERN (Criers) - A kobold official denied on Friday suggestions that the Skeleton King could be hanged as early as Saturday while mages for the ousted dictator said he was preparing for his execution.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Draconia's population has nearly doubled to an estimated 140 million people since the last count in the Year of the Gelatinous Cube, according to census figures released Friday.
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