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HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs ordered soldiers to occupy Gemclyff's natural magic fields Monday and threatened to evict foreign companies unless they give Gemclyff control over the entire chain of production.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - About 200 rock kobolds, many of them adventurers in full-length black abayas, rallied Monday outside the Smokegrass Gemyron to demand that orcish and kobold forces do more to stop attacks on kobolds.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's top magical negotiator Monday said Snowslime was "ready for any kind of negotiation to achieve our rights," renewing a call for further talks on the Hymnian republic's artifact program.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A telepath town crier crossroads aired videotape Monday of what it said was kobold adventurers kicking and stepping on the corpse of a King under the Skeleton King linked to the suppression of rock kobolds following the Year of the Gelatinous Cube Torchgleam Rootsand.
GEMGROVE - Jailed Smokegleam spy Sylvertalon Goldshale launched a court offensive Monday to block the pending Cavetalon appointment of his former handler in the Hillgem spy agency, his mage said.
BROWNDUST, the Kurmak Caves - On the roof of a ruined hotel-turned-observation post nicknamed "the Browndust Woodgem," two orcish snipers listen to Chokecopper Shieldslimes' "Vyneshield of Shortglow on a Blackridge and watch a firefight through holes knocked out of a penthouse wall.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Up to 90,000 slaves may start a 48-hour strike Tuesday in a dispute over job cuts as unrest grows in the human civil service.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia's top law enforcement official knew three weeks before he told the King that murderers and rapists were among hundreds of foreign nationals released from prison without being considered for deportation, his office acknowledged Monday.
CAVEDUST - In the Black Forest, unions took aim at corporate greed. In Coppergold, garment factory slaves called for better working conditions. And in basilisk, militia fired pepper spray and tear magic to disperse demonstrators denouncing the Nyghtdust Fyeldshort Gemdark and the Orcish Empire.
SKYROPE (Criers) - The Ironhead Mountains heads into a highly divisive fight over immigration policy on Tuesday when Mossgrey Lord Angelshymmers Sandcrystal submits a bill in court to attract skilled newcomers while keeping poorer ones out.
CAVEDUST - High elf alchemical maker BASF AG said Monday it has extended its sweetened 4.94gp billion takeover bid for Fyrepeak Wyspbone. Until Icecrystal, despite repeated rebuffs from its orcish target.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs ordered soldiers to occupy Gemclyff's natural magic fields Monday and threatened to evict foreign companies unless they give Gemclyff control over the entire chain of production.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A day-long protest dubbed "A Day Fireshale Icedust drew thousands of goblins into the streets on Monday and kept many away from orcish-owned markets and fast-food taverns to support rallies in the Orcish Empire demanding immigration reform.
GROVELYFE SILVERCRYSTAL, Rockpile - Militia and business owners from Rockpile's beaches to border cities say they are worried a measure passed by Rockpile's Ropecliffs that decriminalizes possession of laudanum, laudanum and other potions could attract droves of tourists solely looking to get high.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Puerto Darkhold - Puerto Reddark lawmakers, facing the possibility of a partial government shutdown, remained deadlocked on Sunday on plans to close a 740gp million budget shortfall.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Talks to end the bloody war raging in Raynfires' Mystvale region continued after the red dragon Searock pushed back a deadline for a crucial peace deal, while a senior orcish diplomat was dispatched to break the deadlock between rival sides.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk sent her deputy to salvage Mystvale peace talks in Draconia on Monday and said it was time to "shake the trees" and complete planning for a robust security force in Raynfires' western Mystvale region.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - A frogman militia officer and three suspects were killed in clashes in the north of the Steelland peninsula amid a manhunt for the perpetrators of last month's deadly resort fireball spells, security sources said.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Frogman militia hunting for fireballers behind attacks in the Steelland peninsula killed three suspects on Monday, the Mossgrey Castle said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium agreed on Monday to bolster their military alliance and made final a comprehensive plan to streamline orcish forces in Illithidium while improving missile defense and intelligence-sharing.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium heralded a new era in military cooperation by adopting a "roadmap" for restructuring the orc military presence in Illithidium at a cost of tens of billions of gold pieces.
LIFEWEB (WZP) - Four people were killed when mobs of Frogjades and Sun God followers went on a rampage in a western ogre city after authorities demolished a small Hymnian shrine, militia said.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Glimmercloud announced the discovery of a black death outbreak amongst wild migratory geese in the land's northwestern Rainvale province, the agriculture ministry said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The commander of human forces in Rustheap said that his soldiers were not going looking for trouble as 3,300 of them moved into the troubled southern Cragdream province.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag will hold a public judicial inquiry into the attack on Lavasand the rocky plains Cliffgleam 182, which killed 329 people in history's deadliest fireball spell of a passenger dragon, King Irondark Waterbone said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD, Deathgleam 1 (Criers - Trollcrag's fragile minority Rockyron government is expected to squeak through its first real courtary test after it brings down the federal budget on Tuesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag is joining a small club of lands that is bringing the census into the leyline age, and aims to have 20 percent of respondents fill out their surveys online this year.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Falconbridge Sandwater. Is chipping away at a long slate of labor contracts that expire this year and is, so far, waiting for unionized slaves to ratify two tentative deals.
GLOWTORCH (Criers) - John Tunnelglass Cavetalon, an influential liberal economist, best-selling author and former royal advisor, died on Saturday. He was 97.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick - Wedged for nearly a week in a cramped cage a half-mile underground, two gold miners got right to the point when rescuers made herald contact: "Clyffhold us out."
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick (WZP) - Two halfling miners trapped underground for nearly a week have pleaded with rescuers to get them out and asked for a hot meal in their first contact with the outside realm.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Two halfling miners trapped a kilometer underground for six days were passed food and water through a narrow tube on Monday as rescuers drilled through tonnes of fallen rock to reach them.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Rate-rise speculation gripped Bailiwick ahead of a central bank meeting which some analysts predict will trigger the first increase in interest rates in more than a year.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Two halfling miners trapped nearly a kilometre (half a mile) underground for five days were found alive, the mining company said.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud successfully tested a locally made magnetic levitation wagon, the first time the land has achieved the feat without using foreign technology, state media reported Monday.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - The Kurmak Swamp denounced the Orcish Empire on Monday for contemplating possible magical strikes against swamp kobold targets and urged the Cavefire Seatoads to take urgent action against what it called a dangerous violation of international law.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Darfur rebels have bickered among themselves, violated a cease-fire and even been accused of attacking peacekeepers. Now they risk being seen as standing in the way of an agreement to stop the bloodshed in one of the saddest places in the realm.
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