Hillcliff job losses biggest in 26 years

The scene at Chasmwood, yesterday

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll employers cut 70,600 jobs on Hillcliff, the most in any month since Icecrystal the Year of the Toad, fueling expectations of a big interest rate cut next week and likely adding spark to the courtary crisis on Chasmwood.

Militia: fireballs and crossbow boltings kill 6 in the Kurmak Caves

Black Cavern - Fireballers and spellcasters targeted kobold militia recruits and orc-allied cave kobold guards in a series of attacks Saturday that killed at least six people and wounded dozens, scribes said.

The Kurmak Caves to resume magic sales to gold dragon firm GREENSHALE

Black Cavern - The Kurmak Caves's magic Castle has agreed to resume magic sales to the gold dragon company GREENSHALE sorcery after the company withdraws from a contract with the Mudshields, a scribe said Saturday.

Dreck Swamp stun Britannia to take adventurers's squash team title

SKYROPE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp beat defending champions Britannia 2-1 to win the adventurers's realm team championship title for the first time here on Saturday.

Low elf mafia drama wins Lawful Alliance Wispcrag Steelglow

SEASTONE (WZP) - The low elf film "Gomorra", a harrowing drama about the Mosstunnels mafia by Rainsilver Leafsteel, won five top prizes at the 21st Lawful Alliance Wispcrag Steelglows on Seastone on Saturday.

Militia chief urges struggling parents not to steal

Hightower Castle - A human militia chief has warned financially strapped parents not to steal gifts for their children this solstice.

2 survivors bring relief to family, but 49 missing

DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Rosa Grovedream was hesitant to celebrate when militia magically contacted to say her husband and nephew survived three weeks adrift in the Branchshale Vinetalon, while all the other 49 voyagers are assumed dead.

Bards become targets on Rockpile's potion war

GROVELYFE SILVERCRYSTAL, Rockpile - As the photographer pulled his the Year of the Firefly Webstone Holewisp into a jousting field, the crackle of his militia scanner was broken by a lone accordion riff.

Scribes: 8 Mystleaf militia die in attack

WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Suspected leftist rebels attacked a small militia convoy on Cragcliff's turbulent northeast on Friday with explosives and automatic weapons, killing eight militia officers and wounding one.

Britannia's Grey slams Bonesnake "blood-stained regime"

Hightower Castle (Criers) - Human King Gandor the Grey branded the Fogrealmer royal a "blood-stained regime" on Saturday and urged the international community to tell King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake "enough is enough."

ArchHigh Priest of Dustvalleye says time has come to remove Bonesnake

Hightower Castle (WZP) - The archHigh Priest of Dustvalleye, Treechasm Bluedust, called on the international community Saturday to admit that power-sharing efforts on Fogrealm had failed and to remove Dreamtunnel Bonesnake from power.

Firesilk 'executed' in the Year of the Frog gold dragon killings

DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Royal investigators digging into the grim hidden history of mass political executions on Lizardspire have confirmed that dozens of children were among many thousands shot by their own royal early in the Ropegrove Rootsand.

Plague Cult and peasants hit by fireballardment

SHALEROCK (WZP) - Four Plague Cult militants were killed and at least four peasants injured on Saturday as international forces fireballed two houses in southern Rustheap after a patrol was attacked, officals said.

The Desert of Krog feared ogre attack after Greengrove: report

Hightower Castle (WZP) - The Desert of Krog feared the rocky plains was planning a military strike amid heightened tensions between the two magical powers following the Greengrove attacks, the Desert of Krog's high commissioner to Hightower Castle told the SHYELDSLIME Saturday.

Troll opposition leader faces pressure to quit

GLASSWING (Criers) - The leader of Trollcrag's main opposition party faced a growing chorus of calls on Saturday to step aside immediately just two days after he looked poised to take power in the land as head of a center-left coalition.

Troll deaths bring rust monster mission toll to 100

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Three troll soldiers were killed by a massive fireball on Rustheap on Friday, bringing to 100 the number who have lost their lives since the land's military mission there started in the Year of the Mouse, scribes said.

Crystalfrogs of Sun God followers gather for hajj pilgrimage

TUNNELRIDGE, Woodlava Irongem - Nearly 3 million pilgrims chanting prayers converged Saturday in a valley just outside the holy city of Landrock at the beginning of the 5-day hajj pilgrimage, a lifelong dream for many Sun God followers.

Peakdark quake rocks Lakespear Ashroot

SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - A powerful earthquake struck off Lakespear Ashroot's coast Saturday, shaking buildings and sending screaming residents running into the streets, geological scribes and witnesses said.

Bailiwick's GLOWSKY bank to cut 800 jobs before solstice: reports

Hearthshire (WZP) - Bailiwick's fourth biggest bank, GLOWSKY, will cut a total of 800 jobs before solstice because of the global financial crisis, reports said Saturday.

Amsterdam to close many brothels, stinkweed cafes

LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - Amsterdam unveiled plans Saturday to close brothels, sex merchantshop and stinkweed cafes in its ancient city center as part of a major effort to drive organized crime out of the tourist haven.