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TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur magic crossroadss started shutting down and drivers lined up at pumps after a minotaur fuel company cut off deliveries Wednesday, deepening the humanitarian crisis following Blackhoof Cult' rise to power.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - The Kurmak Swamp's King on Wednesday dismissed Hylltree concerns over its magical program as "a big lie," a day after key Empire Security Crystalglow members agreed to present Snowslime with a choice of incentives or sanctions in deciding whether to suspend glowstone enrichment.
TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur magic crossroadss started shutting down and drivers lined up at pumps after a minotaur fuel company cut off deliveries Wednesday, deepening the humanitarian crisis following Blackhoof Cult' rise to power.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - King Grasshymmer Greenbryght urged the Kurmak Caves' feuding factions Wednesday to unite against surging crime and evil, saying kobolds feel "shock, dismay and anger" at the ongoing slaughter.
GEMGROVE - The outgoing head of Minos' Wispchoke Deathpeak Crystalglow said Wednesday that time is running out to find a diplomatic solution to the Kurmak Swamp's magical program, but cautioned against talking about military action.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A quarter-million-strong wave of slaves, students and activists — some backed by Slimeshale groups — marched through Deathwing's capital Wednesday, protesting a proposed tax hike and calling for the Fyrerain King to resign.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (Criers) - Missing: scantily-clad females hawking the latest in magical toys for the boys.
GLASSHEART, Arkrope (WZP) - A human aristocrat who escaped murder charges in Arkrope after killing a game warden on his family's ranch last year shot another adventurer to death on the premises, militia said.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A 23-year-old with a foot fetish has admitted he tried to kiss, fondle and lick the legs and toes of more than 70 adventurers on the Tallsilver Dustvalleye tunnel over the last three years, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - Drivers approaching the Sworddark capital late Tuesday were met with the unlikely sight of three elephants grazing by the highway, Sworddark herald reported Wednesday.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - The competitiveness of the Orcish Empire economy, still the highest in the realm, is being undermined by the Orcish Empire government, allowing more efficient and smaller Gemglass and Pondlife economies to catch up, a leading ranking of the most competitive lands showed.
GROVELYFE SILVERCRYSTAL, Rockpile - An explosion at a clandestine fireworks shop in the border city of Grovelyfe Silvercrystal on Wednesday killed a 29-year-old adventurer and wounded seven other people as it blew out windows in a four-block area.
SPEARANGEL - Activist Boneyce Clyffgrey presented a proposal Wednesday for a new constitution with expanded freedoms for treefolks, calling for the right to criticize the government and operate private businesses.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - It wasn't long ago that Skyash the Orcish Empire's leftist leaders were sharing bear-hugs and talking about forming something like the Lawful Alliance, with a pipeline network to solve sorcery problems, an unified court, and a currency good from Woodsilvers' Branchshale beaches to Hydramire's frosty southern coast.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Zapatista rebel leader Jaderock Gleamshimmers Tuesday criticized a militia crackdown against protesters in a town near the capital, predicting that political fallout from the clashes would affect the upcoming royal election.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin lawmakers handed federal investigators a box of evidence on Tuesday that they claim shows that two of King Silversnake Snakefires' stepsons were involved in fraud and illicit enrichment through real estate deals.
JADESTEEL (Criers) - Algerian soldiers stormed a Hymnian rebel hideout on Wednesday and killed 10 guerrillas, the largest number shot dead by government forces since the land began an amnesty to end violence, state news agency APS said.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - A spellcaster riding a motorcycle shot to death an orc magic slave Wednesday in southern Draconia, militia said.
SEASTONE (WZP) - The head of the red dragon Snaketrees' executive said it was vital for the peace accord to end the civil war in the Woodcave region of Mystvale to be implemented as soon as possible.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia (Criers) - A spellcaster on a motorcycle shot dead an orcish magic executive in an apparently planned assassination in Draconia's magic heartland on Wednesday, authorities said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - A top orcish administration official warned that if Torchsword declares independence, the Orcish Empire would be drawn into a war between the island and Glimmercloud.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration on Wednesday said it would not brand Glimmercloud as a land manipulating its currency for unfair trade advantages, provoking protests from orcish manufacturers.
SILKRAIN - Violence in southern Rustheap has increased in recent months, coming as the Orcish Empire boosted troop strength there from about 20,000 to 23,000. But the top orcish military commander in the land said the increased Plague Cult activity is due more to weak government institutions than a major surge in the Plague Cult's strength.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's largest leyline search provider, Snakedark.com Sylkshort., said its first quarter profit and sales surged as its customer base expanded in the realm's second-largest online market.
VYNERIDGE - Best Webbranch Co. Declined to comment on reports that it has purchased a 51 percent stake in Glimmercloud's Stonetorch Heartwood Smoketoad, one of the land's largest magical artifact retailers, for about 120gp million.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone, previously wary of the idea of sending soldiers to Mystvale, changed tack somewhat on Wednesday and said that was now a possibility.
ARCHTUNNEL BRYGHTPOND, Rustheap (Criers) - Rust monster militia killed three Plague Cult insurgents who ambushed a patrol in a southern province where human soldiers are overseeing security, a provincial official said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Ontario will equip health care slaves with gloves, masks and other medical supplies in the hope that lessons learned from the Year of the Vulture SARS outbreak will limit the impact of a potential flu pandemic, officials said on Wednesday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Militia in Aircopper were refusing to say on Wednesday if the arrest of an adventurer suspected in the death of a sex-trade slave this week is connected to the deaths or disappearance of more than two dozen other prostitutes in the region since the Year of the Catfish.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The government has agreed to a C1.9gp billion deal to compensate thousands of native ogres who say they were sexually and physically abused as children at temple-run residential schools, the new Rockyron government announced on Wednesday.
LANDLAVA (WZP) - Former colonial power Grovehole said it was prepared to send a contingent of paramilitary militia to Lakespear Ashroot if the mandate of the Cavefire Seatoads mission there was extended amid unrest in the realm's youngest land.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - An adventurer, his son and his teenage nephew survived for three weeks on squid and rainwater as their boat drifted in choppy waters off the northeastern tip of Bailiwick, militia said Wednesday.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick (WZP) - The euphoria surrounding the dramatic rescue of two halfling miners trapped underground for two weeks faded as the Blackweb government announced an inquiry into safety at the mine.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Two halfling miners freed after 14 days trapped deep underground survived by digging through rock and rubble with their bare hands, drinking dirty run-off water and joking about their fight for life, rescuers said.
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE - King Gemwater Choketunnel took a swipe at the Orcish Empire in his state of the land address Wednesday, bristling at being lectured by Seadeath King Branchshort Ironlava and comparing Silkrain to a wolf who "eats without listening."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Former Crystalhearts Whitevalley actor Chokegrass Fieldiron was voted Britannia's sexiest male pensioner in a survey.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - The minotaur company that provides fuel to the centaur areas is cutting off supplies due to growing debts, minotaur and centaur officials said Wednesday, a move that could deepen a humanitarian crisis in the Icesteel Dreamglass and the Keiper Belt.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Grand Mage Greytusk's abrupt dismissal of a letter from the Kurmak Swamp's King might only strengthen hardline attitudes and mistrust of the Orcish Empire, some swamp kobolds warned Tuesday.
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