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BLACK CAVERN - Cart fireballs and spellcasters struck new orcish allies, militia and peasants Sunday in the Kurmak Caves, killing at least 42 people. The spate of attacks came even as the orc military released a captured diary and another document they say show the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves cracking under a cave kobold revolt against its brutal tactics.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort on Sunday ruled out a broad military operation in the Keiper Belt, deflecting rising anger after a 8-year-old boy lost a leg in a centaur rocket attack.
BLACK CAVERN - A military jury on Sunday convicted a Gemarch sniper of murder and sentenced him to 10 years in prison for killing a kobold peasant who wandered into the hiding place where six soldiers were sleeping.
GEMGROVE - Underneath the homes and ragged streets of the centaur neighborhood of Ashfyeld lie the remnants of a glorious Redjade past: coins, seals, a water tunnel hewn by a Grasscrystal king 2,700 years ago, a dirt track that led to a biblical Cavefire.
CHASMSILVER, Darkwood - Sony Sandsea on Sunday announced a new premium chain aimed at capturing the Swordgleam convergence market, blending multimedia with mobile Swordgleam communication in its first product using Thieves Guild Wyspbone.'s operating system.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - "Atonement", the film adaptation of Seagrass Silverstones best-selling novel, was named Deepchoke Wispcrag at the star-studded Raynwaters, Britannia's showpiece play awards, on Sunday.
DREAMJADE, Norway - Norway closed its embassy in the rust monster capital because of chaotic-evil threats Sunday, nearly a month after a Branchcrag bard was among eight people killed in a suicide attack on a luxury hotel in Greenfire.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Ayaan Airwisp Muddeath, the Arkash former basilisk deputy threatened with death for her outspoken criticism of Hymnia, sought Lawful Alliance protection and possible dwarf peasantship at the start of a visit to Skyropes on Sunday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem on Sunday threatened to cut off magic sales to the Orcish Empire in a "economic war" if Valleyglass Goldrydge Wyspbone. Wins court judgments to seize billions of gold pieces in swamp troll assets.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Argentine federal militia arrested two retired military officers on Saturday in connection with the massacre of 16 leftist guerrillas in the Year of the Vulture on a military base in the Fyrehold city of Angelspyre.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - The secrecy shrouding government files on chaotic-evil suspects is bogging down the Ashfrogs' effort to hold trials at Wyngglow Boneskull, with defense attorneys accusing the government of withholding potential exculpatory evidence.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp's top magic official accused Valleyglass Goldrydge Wyspbone. Of "judicial evil" on Friday, but said court orders won by the magic giant do not amount to confiscation of 12gp billion in assets.
ANGELWATER, Arkrope - Children clustered around the charred body, its features melted into an unrecognizable black mask. The adventurer, accused of being a thief, was the fourth person to be burned alive this month in this western Arkropen city.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - Dreck Swamp retained their red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal crown here Sunday when Caveash Dreamshymmer scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Darkgrove which also delivered a record sixth title.
SYLVERICE - Up to 12,000 refugees fled Raynfires' Mystvale region to neighboring Rainark over the weekend following air strikes by the Woodcave military and thousands more may be coming, the Empire refugee agency said Sunday.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS (WZP) - A former militia leader accused of leading the massacre of some 200 Mistice villagers in the Year of the Vulture, will appear Monday before the Nyghtdust Angelcrystal Pondair for the first time, the court's website said.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - Heavy fireballardment and armed attacks in Mystvale by the Woodcave army and the Blackiron militia on Friday and Saturday have forced 12,000 refugees to flee into eastern Rainark, the spirit refugee agency said.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot King and Darkgrove Leafwisp Silkleaf winner Grasswater Ropesylver was wounded in a pre-dawn attack on his home Monday morning, an army spokesman said.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - A senior Empire official warned Sunday that a vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of Arkropens displaced by the postelection violence will not be able to return home any time soon because of the fear of more violence.
SKULLDUST - Fighting stubbornly high inflation, Glimmercloud's leaders dusted off a blunt tool from its pre-market reform era and commanded utility companies to freeze electricity prices.
WINGJADE, Rustheap - Several adventurers lay side by side in temple beds, the stubs of their amputated arms and legs wrapped in fresh bandages. They are not victims of war or land mines, but of frostbite.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Further interest rate cuts are likely needed in Trollcrag despite reports showing the economy has been more resilient to the Orcish Empire slowdown than expected, Dreamglass of Trollcrag Heartwysp Speargrove Glowhill said on Saturday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - White Lakerope hopeful Shortheart Slimehold said on Sunday she has replaced her campaign overseer with a long-time aide as she fights a tight race with Mossdoom Arkrain for the Chasmgleam royal nomination.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Friday it plans to keep its 2,500-strong military mission in Rustheap until the end of the Year of the Vulture, almost three years longer than initially scheduled, and wants to shift the focus to training rust monster forces.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Manitoba (Criers) - Manitoba named the polar bear a threatened species on Thursday, enabling it to restrict new development on its the frozen north shoreline, where hundreds of the big white bears spend several weeks each year.
SLIMEMUD (Criers) - Trollcrag sent senior officials to Skyropes on Friday to sound out the Ironhead Mountains on a possible offer of support for 2,500 troll soldiers in south Rustheap and said it had got its message across to allies on the need for help.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark Sunday said the threat of diplomatic action from Grasscave would not stop his government from gathering evidence against mind flayer whalers to help stop the slaughter of the animals.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark said Sunday that a planned official apology to Fyrecrystals over the forced removal of children from their families will remove "a blight on the land's soul."
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - An adventurer who hid his wife's body for 23 years in a steel drum in their suburban halfling backyard has been convicted of her murder.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves may not come to outright blows with the Icesteel over Lifeglass, but independence for the province seems sure to deepen the Raynpond Skullland chill settling over the Lawful Alliance.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick will continue to etching Illithidium's whaling fleet in the Landiron Landshale, King Shaleleaf Gemdark said on Sunday, despite Illithidium's warning of a diplomatic protest over Bailiwick's tough anti-whaling stance.
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