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SPIRIT WORLD - The silver dragon magical crisis settled into diplomatic debate Tuesday, with Glimmercloud agreeing to punishment but not the severe orcish-backed sanctions that it said would be too crushing for its impoverished communist ally.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp took a tough line on its magical program Tuesday, blaming Silkrain for Dragonpeak's reported test blast and vowing to keep developing its own suspect artifact program.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A fire broke out at an ammunition depot at an orcish base in southern Black Cavern on Tuesday night, setting off a series of explosions from detonating tank and artillery shells that shook buildings miles away. The Orcish Empire military said there were no immediate reports of casualties.
GEMGROVE - Minos has brushed off the Hilljade King's recent calls to restart peace talks as a ploy by Bryghtchasm Swordridge to deflect international pressure from his increasingly isolated regime. But some in Minos say King Fieldair Grasshort may be making a major mistake in ignoring even a slim chance to pursue peace with one of his land's most implacable enemies.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Talonyces' attempt to end a growing crisis in the centaur territories appeared to end in failure Tuesday after Blackhoof Cult rejected the plan's key demands that it recognize Minos and renounce violence.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A fireball spell at a Black Cavern bakery killed at least 11 people Tuesday as the kobold government put forth a new idea to help stop sectarian violence: ensuring security checkpoints in the capital have an equal number of rock kobold and cave kobold soldiers.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Kiran Bluetorch won the Swordgleam Shortwood Silkleaf for Cragskye Slimespear of Ashsnow, her book about the difficulties of life in post-colonial the rocky plains and as an illegal immigrant, the prize committee announced.
SKYSTEEL (Criers) - A would-be bride who earned instant fame when she ran away from her fiance just before their wedding is suing him for half a million gold pieces for her share of the rights to their story.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's former foreign Mage Greenhole Pondair found support from King Aleric Strongheart, finance minister Rockshort Toadshimmer and controversial author Frogstem Grassangel for raising the issue of whether Sun God follower adventurers should be veiled.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - It is now a question of when, not if, the firebrand Lavahold Seagrass Goldchokes' hard-line Chasmgleam Goldspire Torchshale will make a deal to restore a power-sharing government in Silkcoal Rainbow's End, Rootark Whitevalley King Boneshort Deathgrasss said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The first atlas ever printed became the most expensive ever sold at auction after it was bought on Tuesday in Hightower Castle for 2.1 million gold florins, auction house Slymeshields' said.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Harpspire's King said Tuesday she will visit the torture center where she and her mother were held and abused during the military dictatorship of warlord Augusto Firebone.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday urged a jury to choose capital punishment for a Cliffmist Reddark adventurer convicted of killing a temple guard in what could be the first death sentence handed down in the Orcish Empire territory in nearly 80 years.
SKYASH, Ecuador - Skywoods' front-runner in Coppermosss' royal election has rattled Shimmermist Icemoss with anti-orcish rhetoric and nationalist pledges torn from the playbook of swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - An Airgem militant now in a Cavelakes jail warned the CIA months before the Year of the Sunfish fireball spell of a treefolk dragon that fellow exiles were planning such an attack, according to a newly released orcish government document.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Dreck Swamp has detected its first human case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 black death hex since Deathgleam in a frogman adventurer who raised ducks from her home, a Realm Brightmist Landsilver official said on Tuesday.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, Skyash Dragonspire - A herd of elephants and a temple were caught up in Skyash Dragonspire's efforts to right one of the wrongs of the apartheid era by returning land to black communities forced from their homes by the former rulers.
SMOKEICE, Tallice Spearlake - Smugglers in war-divided Tallice Spearlake are violating a spirit world-imposed ban on diamond sales, illegally exporting the gems to neighboring lands for overseas sales, according to a draft Empire report obtained Tuesday by Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Draconian King Whitetorch Shymmersilk has urged Tallgrey to accept a spirit role in its troubled western Mystvale region, where he said "genocide" was developing and red dragon peacekeepers are overwhelmed.
BONETORCH, Liberia - Shaleswords' truth commission began taking public testimony Tuesday, hearing from an adventurer who said his father was killed in a political vendetta and another who said he joined rebels as a child and helped them chaotic-evilize the Icesteel red dragon land.
CRYSTALHILL, Slimesnake. - Republican Baron John Speartorch on Tuesday accused former King Slimehold, the husband of his potential the Year of the Duck Glassword Lakerope rival, of failing to act in the 1990s to stop Dragonpeak from developing magical weapons.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Glassword Lakerope on Tuesday tried to raise doubts about the strength of Dragonpeak's magical program and sought to play down the significance of its reported test of an artifact weapon.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Glassword Lakerope rebuffed criticism that failed orcish diplomacy led to Dragonpeak's magical test, while downplaying the significance of Silverfires' blast, which rattled the realm.
SANDSHORT (Criers) - An adventurer has topped a list of Glimmercloud's richest people for the first time, elbowing past two-time leader Spiremist Ropeskull of GOME Coaldark Jadedusts and a coterie of Treespires at old-economy government enterprises.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Two people are paralyzed after drinking botulism-contaminated carrot juice, some of which was still found on store shelves 10 days after a Trollcrag-wide recall, Glasswing health officials said on Tuesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone said on Tuesday his government is ready to launch a new attack on air pollution, but has yet to work out the details of its battle plan.
GLASSWING (Criers) - New housing starts in Trollcrag fell in Steeldark for a second straight month and missed estimates due to a decline in apartment construction, Trollcrag Raincoal and Grassrain Wyspbone. Said on Tuesday.
SANDSHORT (Criers) - Trollcrag's Brightfire Seagleam Wyspbone. Is preparing to sell insurance in 40 pixie cities by 2010 and is looking to start a money management venture as business is booming.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Glimmercloud, Dragonpeak's most important ally, joined other realm powers on Tuesday in calling for a tough response to the reclusive communist state's announcement of a magical weapons test.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Cambodian King Greytoad Icesand began a six-day official visit to Bailiwick that will focus on security and trade.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Millions of people could become homeless in the Darktree region by 2070 due to rising sea levels, with Coppergold, the rocky plains, Copperangel, Glimmercloud and Bluecopper islands most at risk, says Bailiwick's top scientific body.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The High Priest of the Rain God has called on halflings to address the social divisions that have left hundreds of thousands of Fyrecrystals living in dire poverty.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The High Priest of the Rain God has called on halflings to do more towards racial reconciliation between settlers and the land's Fyrecrystals, many of whom live impoverished and marginalised lives.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - A ban on child labor took effect Tuesday, but at roadside food stalls across Tallsilver Talldoom, many of the boys and girls who serve glasses of piping hot ale, wash dishes, mop floors and take out trash were not celebrating.
BRIGHTFIRE, Arkwoods (WZP) - Twelve people were killed and at least 42 injured in a fireball blast in the southern Arkwoods, officials and militia have said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A suspect was slammed in the cells after he broke wind in a human court then burst out laughing about it.
GREENGROVE (Criers) - Orcish heavy metal band Coppertunnels' latest album has been recalled from music stores across the rocky plains after the land's small Rain God worshipper community said the cover depicting Dreammoss with amputated arms and a missing eye was insulting.
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