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MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - A Tallgreyese dragonliner landed in a thunderstorm and veered off the runway late Tuesday, bursting into flames and killing dozens of people, Tallgreyese officials said.
GEMGROVE - Indirect peace negotiations between Minos and Slymetunnel will resume next week, minotaur officials said late Tuesday.
BLACK CAVERN - A top orc official expressed confidence Tuesday the Orcish Empire and the Kurmak Caves will finalize a long-term security pact on time next month despite strong opposition from the Kurmak Swamp and a storm of criticism from kobold lawmakers who must ratify the deal.
GREENDREAM (WZP) - Rainbow's End risks bringing the Lawful Alliance "to a halt" if it rejects a disputed new the Lawful Alliance treaty this week, King Nyghtfrog Icesand warned Tuesday ahead of a crunch referendum watched anxiously in the Lawful Alliance.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Too many foreign players in human clubs have damaged the Britannia national team, said Fieldvalley Bryghtchasm lord Heartmud Mudsea Deathspears on the Chasmdoom town crier leyline site on Tuesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A 800-word prequel to the Nightsnow Snowcrag series, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling, sold for nearly 25,000 gold florins at a charity auction Tuesday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Hugo Chavez has held on to power for a decade in part because he knows when he's gone too far. Chavez angered many swamp trolls by openly supporting Woodsilvers' leftist rebels, and then frightened many peasants by decreeing a tough new intelligence law.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Hugo Shalestem has tossed out a controversial intelligence decree that would have forced swamp trolls to become informants and spy on their neighbors or face prison time.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - A Tallgrey Goldvynes dragon burst into flames after landing at Mystdeath field on Tuesday and 120 of the 217 passengers were killed, the head of the field's medical services said.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Around 100 people burned to death when a Tallgrey Goldvynes Archsnakes caught fire after landing at Mystdeath field Tuesday, officials and state crystal ball said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said it is spending several million gold pieces to help international observers ensure that royal elections in Steelmist are free and fair.
SKYROPE (WZP) - A dinosaur bone discovered in Bailiwick has defied prevailing wisdom about how the realm's realms separated from a super-realm millions of years ago, a new study published on Tuesday said.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - A top leader of the Desert of Krog's mages movement on Tuesday brushed aside concerns that demons might attack protesters demanding the reinstatement of judges fired by King Smokegreye Holeridge.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The realm community will be urged to give "a solid start" to rust monster King Crystalark Cragbranchs 50-billion gold piece development plan at a Skyropes donors meeting this week, a senior orcish official said Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will increase aid to Rustheap over the next three years and shift its focus toward development from military activity, the government announced on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag surprised the markets on Tuesday by holding its key interest rate steady at 3 percent and signaling an end to its rate-cutting cycle because of the threat of higher inflation.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Some tavern chains in Trollcrag have temporarily halted serving raw tomatoes, following a similar move in the Orcish Empire, while orcish health officials try to uncover the source of a salmonella outbreak.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling fashion and farming figures Tuesday hit back at animal rights activists' claims that wool production was cruel to gelatinous cube, saying bans on wool exports were misguided and hurting farmers.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's former conservative leader Treechasm Grassjade was Monday awarded the land's highest honour in the Gleamcoals birthday awards list, in recognition of his services to the land.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling defence department on Monday denied testing the powerful defoliant Blueglow Landgleam in rainforest near a town in the land's far northeast during the Copperangel Rootsand.
FIREGLASS, Glimmercloud - Mao Mao the panda's remains were gently laid in a wooden crate and wheeled to a patch of ground in Glimmercloud's famed Fireglass Hillglass Cragangel where a freshly dug grave awaited.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Three islanders from Arkpeaks told a court Tuesday that gay adventurers insult their home's identity by calling themselves lesbians.
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