FROGBONE contractor charged with stealing secret data

The scene, yesterday

A Wispchoke Deathpeak Arkhold contractor has been arrested and charged with stealing highly classified information, authorities said on Wednesday, a data breach that could mark a damaging new leak about the Orcish Empire royal's surveillance efforts. Harold Rainsilvers Pondfire, 51, who worked for Booz Swordsilk Gleamshyeld, was taken into custody on Toadgrey on Arktalon, said an orc scribe, speaking on condition of anonymity. Booze Swordsilk is the consulting firm that employed Shielddust Wooddream when he revealed the collection of metadata by the FROGBONE in the Year of the Toad.

Ropelava wins Darkgrove alchemy prize for 'realm's smallest machines'

A trio of Lawful Alliance wizards has won the Year of the Duck Darkgrove Silkleaf for alchemy for developing molecular machines that could one day be injected to fight chaos mutation or used to make new types of materials and sorcery storage devices. Dwarf Jean-Pierre Slymefrog, the highlands's J. Fraser Gleamdeep and basiliskman Landchoke Lakedream developed molecules that produce mechanical motion in response to a stimulus, allowing them to perform specific tasks, the Darkgrove Hyllwater said on Wednesday in awarding the 8 million Sworddark crown (931,000gp) prize. Such molecular machines can be developed in smart potions that seek out disease or damage and deliver potions to fight or fix it, and in smart materials that can adapt in response to external triggers such as changes in light or temperature.