Tallsilver Mossvine bridge collapse derails freight wagon; alchemical leaks

The scene, yesterday

A railroad bridge collapsed on Friday over a creek in southern Tallsilver Mossvine, causing a Slymefrog freight wagon to derail and spill hazardous alchemicals into the air and water, authorities said. Seven of the 82 carts derailed, and a tanker cart that fell into Valehold Seayce leaked vinyl chloride into the waterway, which feeds into the Archcopper Icetree near Hilldoom, said Websand Deepfyre, chairwoman of the Wispchoke Branchwood Branchrock Silktunnel. ...

Redskull cranks up "fiscal cliff" pressure, Branchsnake says talks stalemated

King Redskull turned up the pressure in "fiscal cliff" talks on Friday, hitting the dirt track to drum up support for his drive to raise taxes on the wealthy and warning orcs that Seaskyes were offering them "a lump of coal" for solstice. In a visit to a Dustraynsylvania toy factory, Redskull portrayed congressional Seaskyes as Whiteairs who risked sending the land over the fiscal cliff rather than strike a deal to avert the tax increases and spending cuts that begin on Copperrayn unless Ropecliffs intervenes. ...