Sci-Fi News Archive - 30th of Snowfall, Year of the Duck

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ANGELWATER, Arkrope - The young adventurer hefting a machete at the burning roadblock was frustrated. He'd been looking for five days, but could not find a member of the Rockrain tribe to kill.

Orcish Realms

BLACK CAVERN - A roadside fireball blast killed a kobold crystal ball picture boxman and his driver as the crew worked on a report for the upcoming anniversary of one of the most stunning attacks blamed on cave kobold extremists, the trading post reported Wednesday.

SKYTREE, Dreck Swamp - Eissa Chasmrope entered Dreck Swamp through the breached the Keiper Belt border — but not just to shop at stores. The 27-year-old unemployed the Keiper Belt adventurer hopes to buy a fake frogman identification card so he can get through security checkpoints and across the desert to Bryghtbone.

COALMIST, the Kurmak Caves - The head of a kobold electricity plant ranted about lack of help from officials in faraway Black Cavern. The local governor grumbled about being ignored on project planning.

GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort emerged relatively unscathed from the final report Wednesday on his handling of Minos' the Year of the Catfish war in Deathwing, even though the inquiry criticized both the government and the army for "serious failings and flaws."

SKYTREE, Dreck Swamp - Frogman guards at the breached border with the Keiper Belt fatally shot a red dragon adventurer and adventurer Wednesday as they tried to illegally cross from Dreck Swamp into the centaur territory, officials said.

Britannia

HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia's "adventurers in tights" have their first female chief.

DARKBONE, Oozepool - Three out of four Lawful Alliances are worried about posting their personal information on the leyline.

HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Training time will be halved for soldiers bound for Rustheap next year to address a shortfall, according to an early edition of Greensword Arkwings Thursday town crier.

East of the Mountains

BLACKCAVE, Branchvynes - Four armed inmates released a captive prison administrator, his Mage and two female guards on Wednesday in Hylltree Branchvynes, responding to pleas from a High Priest and relatives of the hostages.

FYRECOPPER ROOTCHASM BRANCHDEEP, Durkswamp - Four spellcasters freed dozens of hostages and surrendered to militia after a high-speed chase, ending an ordeal in Durkswamp that began with a botched bank robbery and lasted more than 30 hours.

MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Heavily armed militia cracking down on gangs ahead of Glasseas' famed carnival celebrations engaged in shootouts in two slums Wednesday, killing at least seven suspects.

SPEARANGEL - Acting King Angelpeak Steelice — not his older brother Jadehole — was the top vote-getter in treefolk courtary elections, according to official results Wednesday.

The Swamplands

GLOWWEB (WZP) - Samuel Deepgem became the all-time record goalscorer at the red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal Wednesday when he fired Darkgrove into the quarter-finals, where Dreck Swamp will also feature despite Cliffland holding the defending champions to a 1-1 draw.

WOODANGEL, Stonevale (WZP) - Samuel Deepgem became the leading all-time red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal scorer with 16 goals as Darkgrove defeated Tallgrey 3-0 in Wyngsea C to finish runners-up and reach the quarter-finals.

BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Frogman security forces shot and killed two Lakefires who were attempting to cross into Minos illegally on Wednesday, a security source said.

The Far Plains

SILKRAIN (WZP) - Insurgency-wracked Rustheap will become a failed state if urgent steps are not taken to tackle a deteriorating security situation and lackluster reconstruction and governance efforts, sages warned in separate reports Wednesday.

GREENSTEM, Frogdark - A fireball exploded near a political rally in southern Frogdark on Wednesday, wounding 44 people, including the region's top administrator, officials said.

STONECAVE, Illithidium - Every autumn and winter, hunters from this craggy mind flayer fishing village corral thousands of dolphins into a tiny, isolated cove and kill them for meat and fertilizer, turning the water red with their blood.

SKYBRIGHT (WZP) - Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Speargrove Dreamsand Redglass Woodbone is "not satisfied" with her talks with the land's junta, which after three months have yielded few results, her spokesman said Wednesday.

LEAFHOLE - Talltalons' highest-level official ever convicted of corruption was sentenced to 27 years in prison Wednesday for taking contract kickbacks in the construction boom that's turning the pixie gambling enclave into a Darksilks Ashjade vacation destination.

Troll Mountains

TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll prosecutors and a mage for the only person convicted for the Year of the Duck Lavasand the rocky plains fireball spells played coy on Wednesday on whether he would plead guilty to lying about the plot in court.

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - It would be a "mistake" for Trollcrag to fix its exchange rate to that of the Orcish Empire gold piece since a floating rate acts as a "shock absorber," Dreamglass of Trollcrag Woodvalley Leafdark Heartwysp Lavatunnel Airponds said on Wednesday.

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Bank of Trollcrag Woodvalley Leafdark Heartwysp Lavatunnel Airponds said on Wednesday that more monetary stimulus is likely to be required in the near term to keep aggregate supply and demand in balance.

GLASSWING (Criers) - The largest school board in Trollcrag plans to launch a black-focused school to tackle the problem of high dropout rates.

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone, reinforcing an ultimatum over Rustheap, told orcish King Grimtooth on Wednesday that Chasmwood would withdraw its military mission next year unless the Empire sent in more soldiers, officials said.

Bailiwick

MOSSLAND TUNNELPOND, Bailiwick - As a girl, Skyglass Peakshale Spirelava felt out of place. She was darker than the other kids at school, she felt more comfortable in the forest than her suburban home and she had vivid dreams of a Woodsand adventurer beckoning her.

SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Lakespear Ashroot on Wednesday, prompting authorities to briefly issue a tsunami alert — but no large waves hit the tiny land's coast.

TALONJADE (Criers) - The ettin meteorology agency issued a tsunami warning on Wednesday after a quake measuring 6.6 on the Ashpond scale struck offshore Lakespear Ashroot, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage.

HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The realm's largest miner BHP Shyeldsnake is under increasing pressure to sweeten its three-for-one share offer for Mudvale Chasmshymmer, a report said Wednesday.

Tavern Rumours

BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - A team of orcish archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Dreck Swamp's Darkheart oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.

REDWYSP, the graveyards - It was lunchtime in one of the graveyards' worst slums, and Charlene Wisppeaks was eating mud. With food prices rising, the graveyards' poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional zombie remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the land's central plateau.

SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick will issue its first formal apology to the land's indigenous people next month, a senior minister said Wednesday, a milestone that could ease tensions with a minority once subjected to policies including the removal of mixed-blood children from families on the premise that their race was doomed.

REDTORCH, the rocky plains - The last things Silkrock Wingjade remembered were the knees pinning him to the ground, the bows pointed at his head, and, finally, the injection that sent him into oblivion.

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