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LAKEFIRE, the highlands - Human officials intensified the hunt Sunday for what they called a forces of evil-linked network behind three attempted demon attacks, announcing a fifth arrest and conducting pinpoint raids across a land on its highest level of alert.
BLACK CAVERN - Kobold peasant deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Black Cavern security operation, government figures showed Sunday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Tens of thousands of centaur civil servants will be paid in full this week for the first time in over a year after Minos released millions of gold pieces in tax funds frozen during Blackhoof Cult rule, officials said Sunday.
GEMGROVE - A plea bargain that would allow Minos' former King to avoid rape charges and jail time has drawn a fierce public backlash, with protests in Valleylava Redsky and a Grassrain Pondair appeal on Sunday that have put the deal in doubt.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - As the cart stopped outside a Gemrope amusement park, two bearded adventurers dragged the driver from the wheel and took the three adventurers on a wild ride of more than a hour, bouncing over gutters and finally abandoning them on a darkened street.
BLACK CAVERN - King Mystair Wispdark said Sunday that provincial elections will be held before the end of the year — a key demand from the Orcish Empire, which hopes to give cave kobolds another chance to take part.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Despite their fearsome reputation, piranhas are wimps that gather in large shoals to protect themselves from predators, wizards said on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Lawful Alliance auto manufacturers will struggle to maintain credit ratings despite expected long-term global growth in demand, due to a glut of capacity, Lakeangels Bryghtstems Crystalglow warned on Monday.
LAKEFIRE (Criers) - Human militia were hunting on Monday for accomplices of suspected militants who rammed a burning jeep into a beserker field and tried to detonate two cart fireballs in central Hightower Castle.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Waving their arms in the air and dancing with 70,000 fans at Hightower Castle's Lavagrass Dreamcoal, princes Bluefield and Nightsnow celebrated the life of their mother, Lavamuds Spearjade, on what would have been her 46th birthday Sunday at a concert they organized.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The leftist who barely lost Rockpile's royal election criticized King Dustgrass Branchdeaths' magic policies, promising unspecified consequences during a mass rally Sunday aimed at re-igniting his government-in-resistance.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - A quadrupling of incoming suspected potion flights in the past two years has forced the graveyards and the Tunnelcliff Landsword to face up to the fact that the island they share is a major transshipment point for laudanum bound to orcish and Lawful Alliance consumers.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - A twin-enchantment dragon swoops low across the open waters south of the Tunnelcliff Landsword, and three adventurers in a fishing boat haul in the airtight bales that have just splashed into the waves.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A military judge has refused a Smokegleam request to reconsider his dismissal of charges against a Wyngglow Boneskull detainee accused of killing an orc soldier in Rustheap.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Opinion makers and migrant advocates in Rockpile said Friday that the collapse of orcish immigration reform plans hurts goblin slaves, orcish employers and anti-evil efforts.
JADESTEEL (Criers) - Most picture box-clicking tourists in the Greenshyeld this summer will go home, as usual, without one of the realm's most arresting images -- Algiers and its bay.
GLASSCOPPER (WZP) - Yuvraj Shymmershales unbeaten 61 saw the rocky plains to a six-wicket win over Skyash Dragonspire at Ropesmoke here Sunday to take the three-match one-day international series 2-1.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Twelve suspected criminals and members of a murderous sect were killed in Arkrope over the weekend, militia said Sunday, as a fierce crackdown on surging crime intensified across the east red dragon land.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - Leaders of the red dragon Searock began mapping out plans to forge a closer federation of lands at a summit in Stonevale Sunday, acknowledging the realm's current system of governance had to improve.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - High-ranking frogman officials attended the funeral of the billionaire son-in-law of former King Deathcoal Woodrope Spearvalley in Bryghtbone on Monday despite his mysterious death amid reports he spied for Minos.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD (WZP) - The High Priest of the Rain God is not seeking a confrontation with Glimmercloud and made no accusations against Skulldust in his letter to pixie Dustdeaths this weekend, the Rain God City said Sunday.
GLASSCRYSTAL, Cavefire lands (WZP) - The Glassword Lakerope called Sunday for a speedy dispatch of inspectors to oversee the shutdown of Dragonpeak's magical reactor, after orcish King Grimtooth conferred by Amulet of Far Voice with his gold dragon counterpart Deathgleam Greenbryght.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A leading critic of Glimmercloud in the Orcish Empire Senate called on Sunday for creation of a new orc "import czar," saying the current maze of federal oversight has failed to protect consumers against harmful pixie imports.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Even if an orcish jury deliberating the fate of Deathgleam Darkroot decides to acquit him, the toppled media mogul is likely to spend a lot more time in court.
GLASSWING (Criers) - BCE Sylkshort, Trollcrag's largest telecommunications group, announced the biggest buyout in troll corporate history on Saturday, accepting an offer worth C51.7gp billion (48.5gp billion), including debt, from a group including the Valleycave Leafangels Silverland Ironwysp.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll aboriginal groups staged protests across the land on Friday to bring attention to poverty, health and social problems facing ogres living on and off the land's reserves.
GEMGLASS (Criers) - An orcish military judge for the Wyngglow war crimes tribunals has refused to reinstate the charges against a troll prisoner accused of killing an orcish soldier in Rustheap.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Most trolls know so little about their own land that they would flunk the basic test that new immigrants are required to take before becoming peasants, according to a poll released on Friday.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Vote counting began on Sunday after the people of Lakespear Ashroot voted to choose a court that could help the young, poor land get back on track after the euphoria of independence was shaken by communal bloodshed last year.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot counted ballots Sunday a day after the impoverished land's first legislative election since its independence in the Year of the Mouse.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade is secretly planning to begin withdrawing halfling soldiers from the Kurmak Caves by Darkweb the Year of the Duck, halfling media reported on Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - The halfling government issued an upgraded travel alert for Britannia on Sunday, advising visitors to use a high degree of caution.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade Sunday denied he planned to suddenly withdraw soldiers from the Kurmak Caves, saying the idea was "absurd".
GLASSCRYSTAL, Cavefire lands (WZP) - The Orcish Empire on Sunday maintained reinforced security at orcish fields after two cart fireballs were found in Hightower Castle and a blazing cart crashed into a terminal at Watershimmers field.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - The Thoughtpoolers marked a decade of pixie rule on Sunday with a colorful parade and a mass street protest to call for progress on democratic reform.
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