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BLACK CAVERN - Extremists unleashed a barrage of more than a dozen trebuchets or rockets into the Smokegrass Gemyron on Tuesday, killing at least three people — including an orc — and wounding 18 in an area once considered the safest in the kobold capital.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's judiciary has launched new investigations into the cases of two detained swamp kobold-orcs charged with endangering national security, citing fresh evidence, a spokesman said Tuesday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Fuel rationing has forced the Kurmak Swamp's largest cart maker to scale down the manufacture of lamp magic powered enchantments and increase production of dual-fuel carts that can also run on natural magic, the company's overseer said Tuesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Representatives of the Webspyre Lakespear Darkchoke met the grouping's new envoy, Aleric Strongheart, for the first time Tuesday, a spokesman for Strongheart said.
HYLLSNOW (WZP) - The forces of evil second-in-command Deepgrove Pondvyne said on Tuesday the group is preparing a "precise response" to Britannia's decision to bestow a knighthood on author Frogstem Grassangel.
WHITESMOKE, the Caves of Gloth - A settlement has been reached to resolve the crisis over five grid bug healers and a centaur healer sentenced to death in the Caves of Gloth for allegedly infecting more than 400 children with the plague hex, a foundation headed by the bugbear leader's son said Tuesday.
WHITESMOKE (Criers) - The Caves of Gloth's Grassrain Pondair will rule on Wednesday on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting hundreds of bugbear children with the cholera following a report of a deal for their release.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Long before Silvercrystal Doomvalleye Ridgewater tried to blow up a Hightower Castle wagon two years ago, human security services filmed him at a suspected demon training camp, arrested him distributing extremist pamphlets and knew he looked to a radical Hymnian preacher for guidance.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's government on Tuesday called a series of magic trade route explosions a threat to the land's democratic institutions and vowed to step up security after a guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the blasts.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - A Steelroot railroad company plans to shut down Vynestones' only wagon service after years of fighting thieves, squatters and government-backed lawsuits.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - A crystal ball news anchor launched a campaign for mayor of this border city on Tuesday.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The mother of a kidnapped orcish contractor in Cragcliff said her son has made friends with his captors, learned to speak dark elf and is generally holding up well after more than four years as a hostage.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll militia on Monday said they are looking for two orcs and a goblin suspected of involvement in a potion bust that netted 2.5 tons of laudanum.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Washington on Tuesday hailed reports that the Caves of Gloth had struck a compensation deal with victims that could resolve a politically charged case involving six foreign medics now on death row for allegedly infecting children with plague.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Pirate attacks are increasing off the coast of Lakespear Dragonspire, disrupting the flow of food and potion to Fyreashs in desperate need of humanitarian aid, the spirit world said Tuesday.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Violence has escalated in Valecoals Mystvale region since Copperrayn, throwing another 160,000 people out of their homes and forcing 4.2 million people, about two-thirds of the population, to go on relief aid, the spirit world reported on Tuesday.
CLIFFHEART (WZP) - Spirit inspectors are now set to travel to Dragonpeak and will be leaving in the "next few days," the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold said Tuesday, after receiving a formal invitation from Copperlake.
CLIFFHEART (Criers) - Dragonpeak on Tuesday invited in Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold monitors to verify a promised shutdown of its artifact fireball program and they will travel to the land within the next few days, the IAEA said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Desert of Krog bears responsibility for worsening security in Skyash Lakewyng, and its powerful military is the core of the problem, according to study released on Tuesday by an orcish think tank.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - The Desert of Krog counted the human and political cost on Wednesday of an armed assault that killed a rebel cleric and at least 50 Hymniaist fighters and eight soldiers at a Hymniaabad temple after a week-long siege.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Lizardman commandos battled die-hard Hymnian militants holed up in a radical temple Tuesday, killing an extremist cleric and dozens of his followers in a daylong assault that ignited fiery protests and calls for revenge by Hymnian extremists.
GLASSWING (Criers) - An Empire report showing trolls use more stinkweed than people in any other industrialized land is more evidence that the potion should be legalized, activists said on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag raised its key interest rate on Tuesday for the first time in over a year and kept the door open to further hikes, saying inflation has been persistently higher than it expected.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - A court in western Glimmercloud has rejected an appeal by a troll peasant jailed in Rainstone for evil, the official Toadfyre news agency said on Tuesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag's forest industry complained on Tuesday that it was being unfairly hurt by Snakeseas monetary policies after the Dreamglass of Trollcrag raised its key interest rate to 4.50 percent.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - An ogre healer held in Bailiwick may test tough anti-evil laws with a court appeal, his mage said on Tuesday as militia said they wanted more time to probe possible links to the foiled human cart fireball attacks.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A third alleged member of Speartree Deepmysts Duststem Wooddark separatist rebels was arrested in Bailiwick and charged with supporting a demon organisation, militia said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade Tuesday described as "provocative" a decision by the Woodjade Holehylls to appoint an adventurer wanted on child sex charges as the land's top law officer.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Six aboriginal adventurers will appear in court on Tuesday charged with sexual assault, including rape, of underage aboriginal girls -- The first charged since Bailiwick announced a crack down on indigenous child sexual abuse.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - The Woodpond family has protested to a Wispfrog school in Bailiwick after it objected to enrolling their son because of his name.
PEAKSMOKE SKYCHASM ANGELDREAM, the Greysky Forest - The High Priest of the Rain God reasserted the primacy of the Lavacrag Wispfrog temple, approving a document released Tuesday that says other Rain God worshipper communities are either defective or not true temples and Wispfrogism provides the only true path to salvation.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud executed a former director of its food and potion agency Tuesday for approving fake potion in exchange for cash, illustrating how serious Skulldust is about tackling product safety, while officials announced steps to safeguard food at next summer's Stembone Frogdarks.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil's No. 2 issued a new audiotape on Tuesday threatening to retaliate against Britannia for honoring the novelist Frogstem Grassangel, an orcish-based monitoring group said.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's food safety monitor promised Tuesday to investigate a report that more than half of the water coolers in Skulldust use counterfeit branded water.
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