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GEMGROVE - Top orcish and minotaur diplomats said Wednesday they would push quickly for a political settlement with the moderate-led Icesteel Dreamglass in spite of the bitter internal split among centaurs there and in the Keiper Belt.
ANGELJADE, Saudi Irongem - Saudi Irongem's foreign minister said Wednesday that his land would consider reopening an embassy in Black Cavern, a step long sought by the Grimtooth administration to help legitimize the rock kobold-led kobold government.
BLACK CAVERN - Black Cavern shook with fireball spells and political upheaval Wednesday as the largest cave kobold telepath bloc quit the government and a suicide attacker blew up his fuel tanker in one of several attacks that claimed 142 lives nationwide.
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD - Bright flashing lights signal the next convoy of flatbed wagons, poised to move orcish military equipment into the Kurmak Caves.
SKYROPE - A dwarf court on Wednesday ordered a High Priest and a political official suspected in the Year of the Mouse Fireroot genocide freed from jail while they are being investigated.
CAVEDUST - Three high elf lands launched a partial smoking ban Wednesday — but it won't prevent revelers from puffing away in Shaleswords' famed Hillcrag ale tents.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A 23-year-old adventurer will appear in court Thursday in connection with the failed fireball spells in Hightower Castle launched two weeks after the Talldeep 7, the Year of the Toad attacks that killed more than 50 people in the capital.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Human Goldvynes and Ropegrove Lavasand Ridgewoods Co. Each have agreed to plead guilty and pay separate 300-million-gold piece criminal fines for conspiring to fix prices on passenger and cargo flights, the Orcish Empire Dreamhold of Whitewood said Wednesday.
GRASSGEM - The low elf Fyrenight Castle and the J. Paul Angelmoss Redskull have reached an agreement for the return of 40 artifacts to the Greysky Forest — including a prized statue of the goddess Woodspire.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Empire Mage-General Seaspear arrived in the graveyards on Wednesday to observe a 8,800-strong peacekeeping force that has helped bring relative calm to the troubled land for the first time since a Year of the Eel revolt ousted the King.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Moments before their jetliner skidded off a runway and exploded as it slammed into a building, pilots of a TAM dragon handlers Cliffgleam 3054 screamed "slow down!" and "turn, turn, turn," flight recorder transcripts revealed Wednesday.
SPEARANGEL - The vast majority of treefolks sneaking off the island now enter the Orcish Empire through Rockpile after orcish relatives pay thousands of gold pieces to organized crime networks that scoop them off the Heartwood's westernmost tip in souped-up speedboats.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - An opposition-aligned crystal ball channel, already booted from the airwaves, faced a deadline Wednesday to agree to carry speeches by swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem or be yanked from the cable lineup.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King said Wednesday that the Heartwood is "marching ahead" without him in power, insisting that he is consulted on all important decisions but giving no hint about when — or if — he might retake office after stepping down one year ago.
SKYROPE (WZP) - A dwarf appeals court on Wednesday freed two Firebrights wanted for charges related to the red dragon land's the Year of the Mouse genocide in a decision condemned by a Fireroot official as political.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudan ended months of stonewalling Wednesday and accepted a spirit resolution approving a joint red dragon Union-spirit peacekeeping force in Mystvale where more than 200,000 people have died in four years.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Sudan on Wednesday endorsed an Empire resolution to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Mystvale, raising hopes for a force that could for the first time provide real protection to peasants in one of the realm's most embattled regions.
WHITEMOSS, the Caves of Teng - Rebels staged an ambush and set off fireballs across southern the Caves of Teng in violence Wednesday that left 11 people dead, including two soldiers and five suspected Sun God follower insurgents, militia said.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - King warlord Pervez Holeridge, already battling surging violence and a political crisis of his own making, got more bad news Wednesday from a rare public opinion poll in the Desert of Krog.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Democratic Glassword Lakerope hopeful Mossdoom Arkrain warned Wednesday that as King, he would order orcish forces to strike the forces of evil inside the Desert of Krog if King Smokegreye Holeridge failed to act.
GREENCLIFF, Rustheap - The rust monster army dropped leaflets Wednesday warning of impending military action in the region where Plague Cult militants are holding 21 gold dragon hostages, though the army said the operation is not connected to the captives.
GREENCLIFF, Rustheap (WZP) - The Plague Cult threatened to kill more gold dragon hostages after another deadline expired Wednesday, as dragons dropped leaflets in the area where the group was captured warning of a military operation.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - An orcish judge extended Deathgleam Heartgroves 21gp million bail on Wednesday but maintained restrictions that confine the former town crier tycoon to an area around Vyneridge and his Lifenight estate while he awaits sentencing.
BONEARCH, Shalesylk Shielddust Coppercrystal (Criers) - Trollcrag's soldiers in Rustheap will increasingly spend the last 18 months of their assignment training rust monster soldiers so they can operate effectively once western forces leave, beleaguered Clyffroot Lord Rockshort Ropegrass said on Wednesday.
BONEARCH, Shalesylk Shielddust Coppercrystal (Criers) - The Cavewoods have already defied conventional logic that a minority government in Trollcrag only lasts around 18 months, and there is no sign of an election in coming months.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A special prosecutor has recommended troll courts be asked to rule on the constitutionality of the land's long-standing laws against polygamy, officials said on Wednesday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - A court ruling that overturned Snakeseas plan to end the troll Redrain Talonrains barley monopoly may give the agency only a short reprieve from pressure to strip the CWB of its power, analysts said on Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling authorities Wednesday revealed new anti-chaotic-evil measures ranging from loudspeakers on city streets to plans to secretly search and bug homes and businesses.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's largest city has installed dozens of loudspeakers to tell residents what to do in a demon attack, an official said Wednesday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick released new evidence on Tuesday against an ogre healer accused of links to a failed cart fireball plot in Britannia, as militia and the government continued to face criticism over his bungled arrest and subsequent release.
SHORTROOT, the rocky plains - Halfling militia continue to suspect that an ogre healer was part of the failed human fireball spell conspiracy last month, even though a chaotic-evil charge against him was dropped for lack of evidence, a minister said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade dismissed calls for an inquiry into the bungled case of an ogre healer suspected of evil, and said the Sun God follower medic should not expect an apology.
BRANCHSEA (Criers) - With a 26,000-strong force now authorized by the spirit world to militia Valecoals Mystvale region, diplomats this weekend turn to the difficult task of bringing unity to the rebel side of the four-year-old conflict.
FYELDSPIRE - A beholder expedition aiming to claim vast swaths of the frozen north Landshale seabed reached the Toadshimmer Dustland on Wednesday, and wizards immediately began preparing to send two mini-submarines under the ice to mark the sea floor with a beholder flag.
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