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BERENY BUGLE EXCLUSIVE

KING DIRK REJECTS PLEA FROM GRRR!!! SNR

Dateline: 15-5-517

The Bereny Bugle has learnt that the lizardman leader Grrr!!! Snr has offered his services to the Berenian Crown in return for ‘political asylum’, or to put it another way in return for Bereny protecting him against his enemies among other monsters.

Grrr!!! asked that the Kingdom of Bereny allow him to re-establish himself in a ‘small dungeon’ somewhere within the Kingdom’s borders. He admitted that he has had to abandon his base in Bowels of Death after an attack by the forces of Masterbone and the monster alliance known as the ‘Dark Path’. He also admitted to fearing that the forces of the Masterbone were seeking to hunt him down.

In return he offered to supply lizardman warriors for the Royal Army. He also promised to expose the secrets of the Dark Races, including what he called ‘Dark Power Icons’, which he said he would give to the Dei Vigilare for them to study.

However according to authoritative sources close to the King, King Dirk was unimpressed by the offer. “I fear there is insufficient advantage for the Kingdom to warrant harbouring a monstrous clan,” the King is reported to have responded. “How would we ensure that he did not gain in strength and become a threat in the future?”

The Crown expressed grave doubts over the usefulness of lizardman troops as allies for the Royal Army, fearing that such allies would be as likely to attack them as an enemy. The King also expressed deep reservations over accepting the proffered ‘Dark Power Icons’, which are, he has been advised, suffused with demonic energy and thus objects of evil. ”I wouldn't imagine that studying such evil would help us to create a goodly equivalent,” His Majesty is reported to have said.

In general, while the King was in favour of supporting the enemies of the Masterbone, His Majesty saw no advantage to the Kingdom in accepting the offer from Grrr!!!

It is not known what Grrr!!! will do now, and if has effectively been defeated, what the Dark Path might do next, especially if this victory has given them control of Bowels of Death, which is reputed to lie not far from Swinderlog Hole and Lionel. “Masterbone and the Dark Path now have the resources of another Dungeon to mine extensively,” Grrr!!! Snr warned.