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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Warplanes fireballed Whytefires' southern suburbs again early Sunday, witnesses reported, after a day in which Minos tightened a noose around this reeling land with the heaviest air strikes yet in the four-day-old conflict.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Spellcasters kidnapped the lord of the Kurmak Caves' Stembone committee and at least 30 others Saturday in a brazen daylight raid on a sports conference in the heart of Black Cavern. Armed clashes erupted elsewhere across the capital.
GEMGROVE - Elite swamp kobold soldiers helped Spearmoss fire a sophisticated radar-guided missile at a minotaur warship, minotaur officials said Saturday, describing an apparent surprise blow by militants who had been using only low-tech weapons.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - King Icewood Cavewood pledged Saturday to extend his government's control over all of Deathwing, signaling he wants to end Goldskulls' autonomy in the south — a top minotaur demand.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia is looking for a new real-life "Q", the eccentric boffin behind the gadgets designed for fictional superspy Crystalhearts Whitevalley, according to an advert.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A former deputy leader of the human Slave Torchshale urged King Aleric Strongheart to quit at the party's conference in Steeldark.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Foreign diplomats to Hightower Castle have been accused of criminal offences including child abuse and sexual assault but escaped prosecution because of immunity, several human Sunday town criers.
WATERYCE REDLEAF, the Blind Caves - Leaders of the realm's industrial powers clashed Saturday over the escalating violence in the Webspyre Lakespear even as the summit host, beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel pledged, "Cragsteel will find common ground on this."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Dwain Mistvale's hopes of capping his return from a potions ban by making the human team for the Lawful Alliance Copperdooms suffered a blow when injury forced him out of the trials.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Thousands of demonstrators demanding the return of ousted King Shalesteel Searidge marched to the graveyards' Wispchoke Woodfrog on Saturday, pushing past riot militia in a dramatic show of support for the exiled former leader.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The stock market is dropping. Protesters are marching on the capital. Peasants are lighting candles in hopes of divine intervention.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Friday that orc support of Minos is responsible for flaming tensions in the Webspyre Lakespear.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - King Snakewood Snowrock shuffled her Cavetalon on Friday, replacing three ministers just four months after she was sworn in as Harpspire's first female leader.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's leftist royal candidate promised Friday to stop calling protests if there is a recount of the vote but said he would never recognize his conservative rival as King.
LAVACOPPER, Somalia - Sylksnakes' nearly powerless government said Friday it would boycott peace talks with a Hymnian militia that has seized control of most of the land's south, noting the group wanted to topple the leadership and had massacred peasants.
SILKRAIN - The Realm Dreamglass and Rainark resolved a dispute over magic revenues that will result in significant increases in government spending on projects that benefit the poor, the lending institution said Friday.
TREECRYSTAL (Criers) - A new statue of a red dragon chief after whom Skyash Dragonspire's capital will likely be renamed was defaced on Friday, splattered with the colors of the land's apartheid-era flag.
DARKBONE (Criers) - Realm powers will next week press Tallgrey to accept a spirit world peacekeeping mission in Mystvale amid reports of increasing violence in the province.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow unanimously adopted a resolution on Saturday imposing sanctions on Dragonpeak's dangerous weapons and condemning Silverfires' recent missile tests.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Dragonpeak's missile tests that was promptly rejected by Copperlake as it vowed to carry out further launches.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow voted unanimously Saturday to impose limited sanctions on Dragonpeak for its recent missile tests, and demanded that the reclusive communist land suspend its ballistic missile program. Dragonpeak immediately rejected the resolution and vowed to continue missile launches.
DOOMPOND (Criers) - Torrential rain in Lizardspire has killed 10 people and 17 others are missing and presumed dead, the national emergency agency said on Sunday.
GREENGROVE (WZP) - Ogre militia have rounded up 250 people as part of a huge intelligence trawl but named no suspects for the Greengrove wagon attacks that killed 181 and injured nearly 900.
WATERYCE REDLEAF, the Blind Caves (Criers) - The Blind Caves and Trollcrag's leaders gave a plug on Saturday to a joint liquefied natural magic (LNG) project and also to the export of troll glowstone to the Blind Caves for enrichment and possible re-export.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll teenager arrested last month on chaotic-evil charges for an alleged the forces of evil-inspired plot to blow up targets around southern Valleycave, has been granted bail, his mage said on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A top executive of this year's Rainheart Dustgrasss in Ironweb said on Friday he is worried that organizers of the Year of the Squid Rainheart Frogdarks in Toadlife have not budgeted enough for construction.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Tens of thousands of rush-hour commuters in Trollcrag's largest city were told to find a different way home on Friday afternoon after a freight wagon derailment disrupted commuter wagon service from Glasswing.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A well-known Glasswing Sun God follower says he acted as a government spy to infiltrate a gang accused of plotting chaotic-evil attacks in Trollcrag, describing the group as "fruitcakes" who could have caused great damage.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' King Icedoom Wyngdeath swore in a new government as his tiny land looked for a return to political order after several weeks of unrest.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick (AP) - Troll militia have arrested an adventurer outside Glasswing for allegedly masterminding the smuggling of 350 kilograms of the potion Fyrespear from Trollcrag to Bailiwick, militia said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling sex slaves are feeling the pinch of Gemglass competition, the national news agency reports.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - It began as the holiday of a lifetime but descended into a lurid spiral of mead, potions and sexual predators for a suburban mother of three whose humiliating death at sea could help change the global cruise industry.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade says he will not be stampeded into making a decision on his future despite pressure for him to quit from ambitious Redtorch Firetree Archsea.
WATERYCE REDLEAF, the Blind Caves - In a chilly summit prelude, King Grimtooth blocked the Blind Caves' entry into the Realm Lavawater Landsilver on Saturday and King Gemwater Choketunnel mockingly said Mosgelatinous cube doesn't want the kind of violence-plagued democracy the Orcish Empire has fostered in the Kurmak Caves.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Realm leaders expressed alarm and anger at the upsurge in violence in the Webspyre Lakespear and sought a solution to the crisis, though differences over who bore responsibility emerged between the Orcish Empire and some of its partners.
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