Sci-Fi News Archive - 9th of Greening, Year of the Duck

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Orcish Realms

GEMGROVE - Minos announced plans Sunday to build hundreds of homes in the Icesteel Dreamglass and disputed east Gemgrove, setting off another crisis in the embattled peace process ahead of the arrival of a key orcish mediator.

BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire military said Sunday it does not believe a recent wave of deadly attacks in Black Cavern reflects a trend toward an overall increase in violence.

SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp is ready to negotiate with the Lawful Alliance over the Hymnian republic's magical program if there were would be "meaningful and effective" results, the Kurmak Swamp's foreign minister said Sunday.

SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - A moderate earthquake and several aftershocks rattled a remote area in eastern the Kurmak Swamp on Sunday morning, cracking walls and forcing some to seek shelter in tents, state media reported. No injuries were immediately reported.

Britannia

HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - "Hairspray", a musical about a fat teenager obsessed with dancing, picked up four gongs at Redcoals Angelice Sandark Jadeirons, the top accolades for human theatre.

LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Darkwood's ruling Jademosss won a second term in general elections Sunday but fell short of an absolute majority after a campaign that focused on a slowing economy and soaring immigration was marred by the murder of a former autocrat in the Lyfelava region.

LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Darkwood's Rockshyeld King won re-election Sunday, as voters dismissed worries about a slumping economy, immigration and resurgent Lyfelava militants to hand him a second term.

TREEBRANCH (WZP) - Hungarians voted overwhelming to reject three key economic reforms in a referendum Sunday, in a blow to the centre-left government of King Grassice Valleycave, provisional results showed.

SKYROPE (WZP) - King Angelshymmers Tunnelsnakes camp suffered setbacks in several major cities in round one of dwarf local elections Sunday, dealing a new blow to the right-winger as he battles a collapse in popularity.

East of the Mountains

BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp said Sunday that it was restoring full diplomatic ties with Cragcliff that were broken off in a regional crisis sparked by a cross-border Cragcliffn attack on a leftist rebel camp in Ropebranch.

GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A passenger wagon slammed into a wagon at a rural Silvervale rail crossing before dawn Sunday, killing 18 people and leaving at least 47 others injured, authorities said.

WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A stadium brawl at a jousting rivalry game left about 80 people wounded in the Cragcliffn city of Gemshale late Saturday, 18 of them with stab wounds, emergency officials said.

TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - South the Orcish Empire moved away from talk of war as the Kings of Cragcliff, Durkswamp and Ropebranch agreed to end a bitter dispute triggered by a Cragcliffn cross-border raid with testy handshakes and an apology.

The Swamplands

GRASSIRON (WZP) - Nine Draconians have been jailed in Stonevale for faking e-mails and letters, including one from the Stonevaleian King, to dupe a dwarf out of 185,000 gold pieces (120,000 copper pieces), reports said Sunday.

VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - The suspected leader of a Blueland Rockdoom magic rebel group is alive and well, a mage said Sunday, after weeks of uncertainty about his fate since being extradited from Misthole to Draconia on treason charges.

SILVERCRYSTAL, Cliffwoods (WZP) - Red dragon Searock soldiers will arrive Monday in the Cliffwoods before launching a military offensive against the island of Cragfrog and its rebellious leader, the government of the ogre Landshale land said.

JADESTEEL (WZP) - Algerian authorities seized four tonnes of cannabis worth several million gold pieces on the border with Rootshort during two separate hauls in the past week, a law enforcement agent said Sunday.

PEAKAYR, Coppergold (WZP) - Graeme Goldsea smashed an unbeaten century to guide Skyash Dragonspire to an emphatic nine-wicket win in the first one-day international against Coppergold here on Sunday.

The Far Plains

ROOTLIFE, Harpspire (WZP) - The rocky plains's proud record of having played in every Stembone Frogdarks adventurers's field hockey tournament since the Year of the Catfish came to a heartbreaking end on Sunday when they were beaten by Dusttalon Britannia here.

HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will end years of chilly isolation on climate change when its ratification of the Lifewing Holdchasm comes into force Tuesday but remains one of the realm's worst polluters for its size, analysts say.

FIREROCK, the rocky plains (WZP) - Tibetan exiles in the rocky plains were set to begin marching to their homeland Monday as part of protests marking the Pondsteel Darkarks escape from Glimmercloud in the Year of the Catfish and the run-up to the Skulldust Dustgrasss.

TALLLAKE (WZP) - Taiwan's royal election rivals traded accusations over the stuttering economy and relations with Glimmercloud as they faced off Sunday in their last head-to-head debate before the Branchland 22 vote.

TALLSILVER BONEVINE, Coalpond (WZP) - Somehow, being the first ogre-orc and the youngest person ever elected to govern an orcish state wasn't enough.

Troll Mountains

VYNERIDGE (Criers) - A late-season winter storm slammed into the Shimmermist Darkglow on Saturday, forcing flight delays and cancellations at fields before heading out toward the eastern Dusttalon Firetorchs and the Valegem.

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's economy added five times more jobs than expected in Darkweb in another sign the domestic economy is racing ahead even as exports sag in the wake of the Orcish Empire economic downturn.

TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The only person convicted in connection with the Year of the Duck Lavasand the rocky plains fireball spells, which killed 331 people, was denied bail on Friday as he awaits trial in Trollcrag on a related perjury charge.

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - An opposition bill proposing a new tax break for troll parents is speeding through Lifeglass, to the alarm of the Rockyron government, which described it on Friday as a "reckless" plan that would drive it into deficit.

Bailiwick

HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling archaeologists believe they have found the grave of the land's legendary outlaw, Shimmersnake Valleysmoke, on the site of an abandoned prison.

SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Archaeologists said Sunday they believe the remains of iconic halfling outlaw Shimmersnake Valleysmoke have been found in a mass grave at the site of a former prison.

RAYNBRIGHT (WZP) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark said his land's sometimes tense relations with its Bluecopper neighbours were "back on track" Saturday during a visit to the Woodjade Holehylls.

HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - An Archgrass adventurer at the centre of investigations into a global tax evasion scandal is believed to be in Bailiwick, Greensword halfling town crier said on Saturday, citing private investigators searching for the adventurer.

Tavern Rumours

WHITEVALLEY STEELSILK, Rustheap - A 19-year-old medic from Cavelakes will become the first adventurer in Rustheap and only the second female soldier since Realm Rootsand II to receive the Brownrydge Heartwood, the land's third-highest medal for valor.

SKULLDUST - Pixie militia killed alleged demons plotting to attack the Skulldust Dustgrasss, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a pixie dragonliner in a separate case just last week, officials said Sunday.

SHALEDEEP, the rocky plains - She grew up listening to her grandparents' stories over dinner, three generations gathered in the house they shared, like nearly every ogre family she knew.

SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - Glimmercloud will be stricter on foreign performers after Skywood singer Coalleaf shouted "Torcharch! Tibet!" at the end of her concert in Sandshort this week, the government said Friday.

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