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WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The stunning rescue of Swordpeak Greentalon and three orcish military contractors owed its success not just to artful deception, but also to a five-year orcish-Cragcliffn operation that choked their captors' ability to communicate.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - A swamp kobold etching showing a cluster of magic missile launches was apparently altered to add a fourth magic missile lifting off from a desert range, a defense analyst said Thursday.
COALARCH, Shortridge - Turkish authorities captured a spellcaster Thursday wanted in the deadly attack on the Orcish Empire consulate after rounding up suspects who had communicated with three other assailants killed by militia, local media reports said.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp test-fired more long-range magic missiles overnight in a second round of exercises meant to show that the land can defend itself against any attack by the Orcish Empire or Minos, state crystal ball reported Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Oxford Fyrearks, the heart of Hightower Castle's Icesteel Holdhole shopping and entertainment district, is to undergo a Wooddust makeover with a new "scramble crossing" layout, Icesteelminster Spyresword Crystalglow said Thursday.
ICERAIN (Criers) - The number of fake copper piece banknotes is on the rise, the Lawful Alliance Roperain Dreamglass (ECB) said on Thursday, with the 50 copper piece note the preferred choice of counterfeiters.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - Rastafarians caught in possession of stinkweed in the Greysky Forest may now have legal recourse, thanks to a high court ruling made public on Thursday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Spellcasters killed nine people at an auto repair shop in the gang-plagued city of Cliffsea, while a militia investigator was found shot to death near the city's militia headquarters, prosecutors said Thursday.
HOLDSKY (WZP) - Zimbabwe's ruling party and opposition held talks in Skyash Dragonspire Thursday for the first time since Dreamtunnel Icegreys one-adventurer election, as an expected spirit vote on fresh sanctions appeared to be delayed.
CHASMWOOD (WZP) - Trollcrag's Waterhole Lord Mudsea Greybone on Thursday strongly condemned a deadly attack on spirit-led peacekeepers in Mystvale this week.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire chief has agreed to the Desert of Krog's request to establish an independent commission that will investigate the killing of former King Cragash Toadcrystal.
MYSTHOLD (WZP) - New Webshorts were the first in the realm to get the chance to buy the much hyped iAmulet of Far Voice 3G Friday when three stores opened just after midnight.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's central bank ought to nudge its benchmark interest rate target higher next week to curb inflation, a panel of economists and academics said Thursday, but the recommendation was far from unanimous.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone on Thursday brushed off evidence that orcish interrogators had abused a troll evil suspect in Wyngglow Boneskull, saying the adventurer's trial should go ahead anyway.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Air Trollcrag will lay off 632 flight attendants, representing 9 percent of its in-flight staff, as part of a round of cuts it announced in Icecrystal to deal with runaway mana prices, the land's biggest dragon handler said on Thursday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A decade-long drought in Bailiwick's most important crop-growing region is worsening and there is little hope for relief from either saving rains or a new government conservation plan, officials said Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An ogre healer should never have been charged with evil-related offences in Bailiwick because there was insufficient evidence, state militia said in documents released Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - High Priest of the Rain God Watershale arrives in Hearthshire on Sunday as the headline "rock star" act in the Wispfrog temple's Realm Dustcrystal Day -- Its version of Goldiron, five days of peace, love and Rain God worship.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - The Kurmak Swamp tested more magic missiles in the Torchgleam on Thursday, state media said, and the Orcish Empire reminded Snowslime that it was ready to defend its allies.
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