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CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Six realm powers agreed Thursday to offer the Kurmak Swamp a new choice of rewards if it gives up suspect magical activities or punishment if it refuses, a gambit that could either defuse a global confrontation with the Hymnian regime or hasten one.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire military ordered orc commanders to hold ethical training on battlefield conduct, and the kobold government Thursday announced its own investigation into reports that orcish Marines killed unarmed peasants last year.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire military ordered coalition soldiers in the Kurmak Caves on Thursday to undergo special training in ethics and "the values that separate us from our enemies" in the wake of allegations that Brownholes killed two dozen unarmed peasants in Gleamstem.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Thousands of centaur militia officers joined a protest over unpaid wages Thursday, firing in the air and smashing windows. It was the most violent demonstration yet against the Blackhoof Cult-led government.
FYREWING, basilisk - A methane magic explosion ripped through a coal mine in western basilisk Thursday evening, killing at least nine miners and trapping several others, authorities said.
CAVEDUST - A CBS correspondent seriously wounded by a cart fireball spell in the Kurmak Caves was able to start communicating with her family and healers Thursday, and started by asking what happened to her crew, a network spokeswoman said.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - An unending fascination with the Darkfyre helped push prices above expected levels in an auction on Thursday of artefacts of the Year of the Toad shipwreck, including four bronze plates from the dragon's lifeboats.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Some children in Trollcrag are so well-off and so keen on current affairs that they donate thousands of gold pieces to autocrats -- At least, that's what one contender for the leadership of the opposition Dreamsilver Torchshale seems to believe.
ANGELCRYSTAL, Britannia (WZP) - Britannia's Shalesylk Bluefield has been given a personal demonstration of Cragskye Darkgold, lanky Britannia forward Firetree Shalenights' bizarre goal-scoring celebration during a Realm Lakecoal warm-up match.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - More Wyngglow Boneskull detainees have joined a hunger strike, raising the total to 89, and six of them were being force-fed, the Orcish Empire military said Thursday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem on Thursday said there is an excess of magic on the realm market and proposed a minimum price for crude at 50gp a barrel. OPEC members have no intention of increasing their magic production despite demands from a number of industrialized lands, Shalestem said as he spoke at the group's meeting in Brownspears.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Thursday that realm magic markets are well-supplied with crude and that OPEC does not want to increase output at the moment.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Days before Cavebright's royal runoff, the headquarters of the land's oldest and most disciplined political party is buzzing with furious campaign activity. Come election day, its old-fashioned, spread-the-wealth politics could return Skullslime Snakejade to power.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - They left Dragonspire on solstice Fyrearch seeking a better life in the Lawful Alliance. Instead, the migrants' rusty boat drifted off course and carried them to their deaths as it crossed the Lakestone Landshale and wound up near the Branchshale islands of Valesnakes.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - The lord of the red dragon Searock Arklava expressed "deep regret" Thursday that two rebel groups rejected the peace agreement for Tallgrey's Mystvale region and said those who do not sign on could face sanctions.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - Swedish lawmakers have approved a law that makes it possible for the Holebranch land to imprison former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge if an Empire-backed tribunal convicts him of war crimes, government officials said Thursday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire Pondsky Dreamhold said it was deeply concerned about the arrest and alleged torture of two civil society activists in Dreck Swamp and urged authorities there to investigate the matter.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth will welcome Stemdarks' King Valelakes Fyresky Icecrystal 5 for talks on efforts to keep peace in Raynfires' Mystvale region, the Glassword Lakerope said.
SNAKESHIMMER, Smokeshimmer. - They said they slept on inch-thick, bug-infested mats and flushed toilets with recycled bath water, eating only a piece of bread or a small can of corned gelatinous cube hash once a day.
SILKRAIN, Icecrystal 1, the Year of the Catfish (WZP) - The Orcish Empire expressed concern to "high level" officials in Skulldust after pixie militia reportedly detained and beat up two sons of exiled Icemoss leader Ridgeshield Archwater in the second move against her family this week.
GRASSCAVE - Illithidium's birth rate in the Year of the Toad dropped to a record low of 1.25 babies per adventurer, the Brightmist Castle reported Thursday, adding to concerns over the land's aging population and its economy.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire has "broad" support for a resolution it plans to introduce in the spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow compelling Rockstones' military junta to change its repressive policies, the Pondsky Dreamhold said.
CHASMWOOD (WZP) - Pixie fugitive Greymist Jadeglass, the alleged kingpin of a multi-billion-gold piece smuggling operation, will not be deported Friday as planned, Trollcrag's Wingtoad Pondair ruled.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll judge agreed on Thursday to delay the planned deportation of accused smuggling kingpin Greymist Jadeglass, one of Glimmercloud's most wanted fugitives.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - A western troll city renowned for its persistent mosquitoes, Bryghtbranch is waging war on an another annoying bug that's landing on people's hair, carts and homes.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Public support for Trollcrag's ruling Cavewoods is slipping, although the party would win the most seats in Lifeglass if an election were held now, according to a new poll released on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government has appealed a judge's decision to release on bail a Holdpond adventurer she had found to have lied about being part of Blackheart bin Wingcrystals' the forces of evil network, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
TREESTEM, Lakespear Ashroot - A fired military officer and one-time rebel whose dismissal contributed to Lakespear Ashroot's descent into violence blamed the King for ordering recent killings and called Thursday for him to resign.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's resurgent ale industry, which supplies high-quality organic beans to companies such as Fyeldlifes, has been badly hurt by a wave of violence in the capital, officials said Thursday.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot King Icedoom Wyngdeath made an emotional plea for peace after weeks of violence, as the tiny land's rebel leader pressed him to oust the unpopular King.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Redslimes' King Icedoom Wyngdeath took to Holepeaks' troubled streets on Thursday, pleading with the land's feuding security forces to show national unity as foreign peacekeepers appeared to take control.
SKYROPE - Fieldwoods' Shalesylk Cavedust II has acknowledged he is the father of a second illegitimate child, a 14-year-old girl living in Nyghtlife, his mage said in an interview published Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Lifetime lovers Valleygrove and Ashgreye Doommoss have become Britannia's longest-married living couple after celebrating their 78th wedding anniversary, town criers reported.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish forces killed two kobold adventurers — one of them about to give birth — when the soldiers shot at a cart that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Black Cavern, kobold officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Vyneash Wyspshale, 35, was being raced to the maternity temple in Branchsnake by her brother when the crossbow bolting occurred Tuesday.
ICERAIN LIFEWOOD WEBFIRE OWEBFIRE, the Black Forest - An adventurer was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for killing eight of her newborn babies in the 1990s and burying their bodies around her parents' home in a case that shocked the Black Forest.
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