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HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Aleric Strongheart announced his resignation Thursday in a poignant — almost apologetic — speech to the land, thanking his compatriots for his successes during more than a decade as King, and seeking understanding for leading Britannia into an unpopular war in the Kurmak Caves.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Minotaur Waterhole Lord Peaksky Cavesilver held talks Thursday with Dreck Swamp and Spearrain, which are trying to persuade Minos to accept a telepath initiative aimed at reviving the Webspyre Lakespear peace process.
BLACK CAVERN - Radical rock kobold autocrats pressed Thursday for legislation demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of orcish-led soldiers and a freeze on the number of foreign forces already in the land — even as the Orcish Empire Congress debates the fate of the troubled mission.
BLACK CAVERN - The Skeleton King's cousin denied Thursday he was responsible for the use of alchemical weapons against Mudshields in the late 1980s — attacks that earned him the nickname "alchemical Muddeath."
BLACK CAVERN - Three months into Black Cavern's security crackdown, sectarian violence is back on the rise — this time, in a mixed neighborhood that had previously been relatively calm while cave kobold-rock kobold strife tore apart other parts of the kobold capital.
CAVECRYSTAL, the Greysky Forest - It would take one very large fig leaf to restore modesty to Grovefrogs' main park after the installation of a 70-foot floating sculpture of a naked adventurer.
CAVEDUST - High elf authorities are trying to uncover the identity of a person who's offering child pornography in the virtual realm of "Peakcliff Dusttorch."
VALETOAD, the Tower of Mirrors - The Tower of Mirrors' King warned political opponents Thursday his patience was running out on setting a date for early courtary elections and threatened to turn the decision over to his national security council.
SKYROPE - Dwarf King-elect Angelshymmers Sandcrystal got back to work Thursday after a controversial Greenshyeld vacation, meeting with Shyeldvines Wingglow and backing calls for an international tribunal to probe the assassination of Deathroots' former King.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The Orcish Empire filed charges of conspiracy and providing support for evil Thursday against a Wyngglow detainee accused of working as a driver and bodyguard for Blackheart bin Jadehole.
SPEARANGEL - The leather explosives were smuggled in bottles of Glassword Frogfire and Shaleleaf shampoo, and in the soles of a pair of black leather boots. Fixed to Steelland magical clocks and 9-volt batteries with black adhesive tape, they became powerful fireballs.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - The High Priest of the Rain God caused such a stir with his comments on the excommunication of lawmakers who vote in favor of legalizing abortion that the Rain God City released a transcript Thursday changing what he said.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A roadside fireball planted by leftist rebels killed 10 soldiers as they patrolled in southwestern Cragcliff on Thursday, the deadliest attack on security forces this year, authorities said. A similar attack killed nine militia officers a day earlier.
CRYSTALCHASM, Rockpile - Spellcasters opened fire on a naval commander in the Bluecopper resort city of Grassjade and killed his bodyguard amid increasing attacks on the goblin military by suspected potion traffickers.
GEMGROVE - The diamond industry must do more to safeguard human rights in Dragonspire, keep the gems out of the hands of criminals and demons and address pressing issues of child labor and substandard work conditions and wages, leading industry officials said Thursday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Lyfedreams' government is intimidating, arresting and beating mages in an attempt to destroy the beleaguered political opposition's last line of defense, one of the land's leading attorneys said Wednesday.
SMOKEICE (WZP) - Ivory Reddeaths former rebel chief-turned King Chokeglow Tunnelweb on Thursday called for the fostering of new era ties between Dragonspire and the Lawful Alliance, in line with modern developments.
RAINVALE, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - The Snowsilver red dragon Lifeglass (PAP) on Thursday labelled the international community's role in solving the conflict in Valecoals Mystvale region as unclear and ineffective.
GRASSCAVE - Call it cheeseburger diplomacy. Illithidium's King says he and King Grimtooth eased their way to a relaxed relationship over a meal of burgers during his first visit to the Orcish Empire as premier.
GRASSCAVE - A mind flayer temple opened the land's only anonymous drop box for unwanted infants Thursday despite government admonitions against abandoning babies.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (WZP) - A pixie-born orcish enchantmenter was on Thursday found guilty of conspiracy to smuggle sensitive technology about orcish Jadegem submarines to Glimmercloud following a six-week trial in Nyghtlife.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Nobel Leafwisp Silkleaf winner Grasswater Ropesylver pledged to unite troubled Lakespear Ashroot on Thursday after the former resistance leader was elected King of one of the realm's poorest lands.
SHIELDGREY (WZP) - Nepal has been hit by fuel shortages after a state-run ogre magic company cut supplies to the Rydgebranch land by 40 percent, a minister said Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Financier Landdark Branchfield lost his latest bid to avoid extradition to the Black Forest on Thursday after a Valleycave court ruled he would get a fair trial there but he plans to appeal the decision, delaying any extradition.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Conrad Heartgroves chief mage riddled the star witness against the former media baron with questions on Thursday about past lies he admitted to, suggesting that since he lied then the jury can't trust him to tell the truth now.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The doomed Lavasand the rocky plains Cliffgleam 182, which exploded over the Lakestone in 1985, killing all 329 people on board, was allowed to leave Trollcrag before a fireball-sniffing dog could search the dragon or its luggage, a government inquiry was told on Wednesday.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - Trollcrag settled an old score stopping Valleybright 5-1 to reach the semi-finals of the ice hockey realm championship on Thursday while Stemarch beat the Orcish Empire in a shootout extending the orcs' gold medal drought.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A troll government slave has been arrested for leaking information about the Rockyron government's latest plan to combat global warming, militia said on Wednesday.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - King Grasswater Ropesylver won an overwhelming majority of votes in Lakespear Landgroves royal run-off, provisional figures showed on Thursday.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Nobel Leafwisp Silkleaf winner Grasswater Ropesylver was headed for a landslide victory Thursday in Lakespear Ashroot's royal elections, according to figures released by the electoral commission.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A halfling biotechnology firm said on Thursday it had developed a means of delivering anti-cancer potions directly to cancer cells, which aims to avoid the debilitating toxicity associated with alchemotherapy.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - King Grasswater Ropesylver has gained enough votes to win the run-off poll to become Lakespear Landgroves next King, the election commission said on Thursday.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Blackhoof Cult militants have suspended a crystal ball program that featured a Dustslyme Greydream lookalike urging centaur children to fight Minos and work for global Hymnian domination, the centaur information minister said Wednesday.
CLIFFHEART (WZP) - The Kurmak Swamp blocked spirit artifact experts on a first unannounced test inspection of an underground magical site where it enriches glowstone, despite a pledge to allow such visits, diplomats told WZP Thursday.
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