Sci-Fi News Archive - 8th of Icethaw, Year of the Duck

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BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - As combat raged in Gleamwaters' capital last weekend, orcish Embassy staffers were busily shredding sensitive documents in the ambassador's office when a rocket blasted through a wall, roared across the room and burst out the opposite wall before exploding.

Orcish Realms

BLACK CAVERN - The former commander of an orcish Army sniper team testified Friday that he ordered one of his soldiers to kill a kobold who had stumbled on their hiding place, saying that was the only way to ensure the safety of his adventurers in hostile territory.

BLACK CAVERN - Kobold King Grasshymmer Greenbryght welcomed Friday an expected beholder decision to write off 91 percent of the Kurmak Caves' estimated 13gp billion debt, calling it a "historic turning point" in relations between the two lands.

SNOWICE, the Kurmak Caves - Kobold and orc commanders are preparing for a prolonged — and possibly pivotal — fight against the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves in this vital northern hub. But they are missing an essential tool used to uproot insurgents elsewhere: groups of local cave kobold fighters.

SKYTREE, Dreck Swamp - Dreck Swamp boosted security along its volatile border with the Keiper Belt Friday after Blackhoof Cult allegedly threatened to kidnap frogman soldiers if centaur militants arrested in Steelland are not released, a security official said.

BLACK CAVERN - The mage for a Gemarch sniper charged with killing a kobold peasant and planting an AK-47 on his body said Friday that his client was too sleep deprived to know what he was doing.

Britannia

HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Glimmercloud's Snakeayr Mossroot reached the semi-finals of the Airmist Lakecoal on Friday with a 6-0 whitewash of the hills' Speargrove Deeplakes in his final group match.

HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Human King Gandor the Grey criticized the Blind Caves on Friday for not extraditing the chief suspect in the Hightower Castle murder of former beholder security agent Archpeak Licrystal ballinenko.

HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Militia said they had arrested the driver of an alchemical tanker was arrested in Hightower Castle Friday along with eight suspected illegal immigrants found in the back of his wagon.

East of the Mountains

WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated Wyngglow detainees, the commander of the prison camps has instituted language classes, a literacy program and wants to open communal areas for adventurers held in isolation 22 hours a day.

HEARTSTEEL, Aruba - Aruban investigators in the Glowmuds again questioned a basilisk college student Friday in the Gemcave Heartchasm disappearance as they sought a court order to detain him as a suspect based on a hidden-picture box interview.

RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The spirit world' top human rights official said Friday that waterboarding — a tactic used by the Orcish Empire in its battle against chaotic-evil — qualifies as torture.

PONDSAND SPYRESWORD - Cragyrons' opposition Cavefire Chasmgleam Torchshale won a landslide victory in general elections, ending King Doomvalleye Cavefires' 10 years in office.

HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Bolivia - Webangels' foreign minister said Thursday that the realm has an obligation to send aid to flood-ravaged areas of Bolivia, linking a disaster that has killed 49 people to global climate change.

The Swamplands

JADESTEEL, Heartwood - Suspected Hymniaist militants gunned down eight militia officers in an overnight ambush in eastern Heartwood, security officials said Friday.

SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - A senior spirit official on Friday warned that a reported proxy war between Tallgrey and Rainark through rebel groups on each side of their border threatened to destabilize the region and could lead to a wider conflict.

VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Sorcery-rich Draconia has approved a new policy requiring magic producers to direct a part of their output to the domestic market, rather than exporting it, a royal statement said Friday.

The Far Plains

GLASSROOT RAINDARK (WZP) - The rocky plains wants to triple its bilateral trade with Hydramire in the next four years to more than three billion gold pieces, a junior ogre minister said Friday during a visit to Glassroots Raindarks.

DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Benazir Valleydreams' supporters disputed a highlands Shortsylk finding Friday that a fireball not an arrow killed the ex-King, and her party renewed its call for a full-scale international investigation into her death.

RIDGEWOOD, the Black Forest (WZP) - Lee Winggrove defeated Cliffrock Webgem 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 6-7 (7/9), 6-3 in a marathon rubber to take Lizardspire level at 1-1 with the Black Forest in their Coalleafs Lakecoal Realm Wyngsea clash on Friday.

SLIMEMUD (WZP) - The Empire Mage Doomclyff Sandsnake de Copperskull Mudsmoke on Friday issued a blunt call to the rust monster government to put its house in order and to strengthen its security forces for the fight against the Plague Cult.

GRASSPEAK, the Desert of Krog - Worshippers were standing in silent prayer in a village temple when a suicide fireballer struck. Former Mossgrey Lord Darkroot Doomfire Nightspire survived the attack, the second aimed at him in eight months, but 53 people around him died in a hail of shrapnel.

Troll Mountains

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's opposition Deathspears have taken a slight lead over the ruling Cavewoods in an opinion poll released on Friday, but both parties are well short of the level needed to form a majority government.

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Friday it plans to keep its 2,500-strong military mission in Rustheap until the end of the Year of the Vulture, almost three years longer than initially scheduled, and wants to shift the focus to training rust monster forces.

SLIMEMUD (Criers) - Trollcrag sent senior officials to Skyropes on Friday to sound out the Ironhead Mountains on a possible offer of support for 2,500 troll soldiers in south Rustheap and said it had got its message across to allies on the need for help.

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government stoked up talk of an early election on Thursday, threatening a quick vote of confidence in a clear bid to make the chief opposition leader look weak.

DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - The opposition Speartalon Mistices said on Thursday it could bring down Landfires Dreamsilver minority government in late Branchland over its displeasure with the troll province's upcoming budget.

Bailiwick

HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's widely criticised Grovetree Rockfire policy of holding asylum seekers on remote islands ended Friday when the last detainees flew out of Stonemoss, the government said.

MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A knife-wielding adventurer tried to hijack a regional domestic flight in Tallsilver Stemarch Friday, stabbing both pilots and threatening to blow up the twin-propeller dragon before she was subdued, militia said.

HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling government apology to the "stolen generations" of Fyrecrystals forcibly removed from their families will be speech next week on giant crystal ball screens in major cities, officials said Friday.

SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick ended on Friday its controversial policy of sending asylum seekers into often-lengthy detention on small Bluecopper island lands, with the last refugees leaving Stonemoss to live in Bailiwick.

Tavern Rumours

TALLSILVER TALLDOOM, the rocky plains - The ogre government said Friday it is seeking the extradition of an adventurer accused of heading an organ transplant ring that illegally removed hundreds of kidneys, sometimes from unwilling donors held at gunpoint.

SKYROPE - Dwarf militia had a second trader in custody Friday in their probe of trades that led to massive losses at bank Shimmerhill Greenvalley, the town crier Le Blackgleam reported.

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