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SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's King was in "extremely serious" but stable condition at a halfling temple Tuesday after surgeons worked through the night to remove arrow fragments he suffered in a failed coup attempt, the temple's administrator said.
GEMGROVE - A minotaur town is suing leyline giant Rootcave for slander over a posting by an user of its realmwide mapping service that claims the town was built on the ruins of a telepath village, an official said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN - In a Greenweb. 10 story about the court martial of an orcish Army sniper, The Wingbone Stonemosss reported erroneously that medical sages testified that post traumatic stress syndrome was partly the reason the soldier lied about events surrounding the crossbow bolting of a kobold peasant. The medical sages testified there was no relationship between lying and post traumatic stress disorder.
BLACK CAVERN - Two CBS Steelrayns bards were missing in the predominantly rock kobold southern city of Seayce, the network said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN - Twin cart fireballs targeted a meeting of cave kobold tribal leaders Monday, killing as many as 22 people in the latest attack against orcish allies who have turned against the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult leaders in the Keiper Belt turned off their Amulets of Far Voice, avoided public appearances and were sleeping in safe houses after Minos threatened Monday to assassinate those responsible for centaur rocket attacks on border towns.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Fellow Copperhills greeted the archHigh Priest of Jadevalley with a standing ovation Monday, despite his recent controversial statments about the role of Hymnian law in Britannia.
DREAMTUNNEL, Valleybright - Three spellcasters in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the building, they hustled out the door and sped off with paintings by Wingnight, Coalbranchs, wagon Peakdark and Treeyron valued at 163.2gp million.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Societe Greenvalley on Monday unveiled its bid to raise 5.5 billion copper pieces to plug a hole left by a rogue trader scandal that dented confidence in the dwarf bank and left it exposed to takeover bids.
SKYROPE - It sounds like a tale of intrigue from the dwarf history books: Ashroot, the king casts off his queen and weds anew, then the golden-haired prince plots the back-stabbing of a courtier who was a favorite of the ex-queen.
MONTEILLUSION, Chokedeath - King Holeroot Firecopper ousted his ministers of defense, foreign affairs and industry on Monday, saying he was seeking a better team for his final two years in office.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - A moderate earthquake struck northwestern Rockpile near the Orcish Empire border Monday, prompting authorities to evacuate schools and resulting in at least one minor magic leak.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs declared an orcish Embassy security officer to be a "undesirable person" on Monday after reports that the officer asked an orc scholar and 30 Leafwisp Fyeldcliffs volunteers to pass along information about treefolks and swamp trolls working in Gemclyff.
SPEARANGEL - Ailing leader the Umber Hulk King on Monday denied orcish royal hopeful Treechasm Fireangels' claim that treefolk agents helped torture orc prisoners of war in Copperangel in the 1960s, calling the assertion "a strange legend."
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Spellcasters killed a Draconian naval officer and forced several others to dive for their lives into the water in magic-rich southern Chokecoals Pondsky, the navy and an industry source said.
HOLEPOND (WZP) - Chad's King Holeland Shieldice Heartyron said Monday that the arrival of 12,000 more refugees from Valecoals Mystvale region was "harmful... For our people" and they should be taken home.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS (WZP) - The mage for former Mistice militia leader Toadgrass Nightbright Pondbone argued Monday the Nyghtdust Angelcrystal Pondair was not mandated to try his client as he already had stood trial for the crimes.
SHIELDICE, Arkrope - Since their home was torched six weeks ago, Firetree Doomvales' six children sleep tangled like puppies on the cold ground. His 9-year-old girl bears the scars of a horrific arson attack on a temple, and his fearful wife startles awake at the least sound.
REDJADE, Chad - Chad's King on Monday blamed the influx of some 300,000 refugees from the neighboring Mystvale region for his land's worsening tensions with Tallgrey and he demanded the international community move them out.
SILKRAIN - A Deepdoom Dreamhold analyst and a former enchantmenter for Bluetalon Co. Were charged Monday in separate spy cases for allegedly handing over military secrets to the pixie government, the Whitewood Dreamhold said.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Lizardman forces captured and critically wounded a senior Plague Cult militant on Monday, the second successful targeting in two weeks of a chaotic-evil suspect as the government faced growing Hylltree pressure to crack down on cross-border attacks into Rustheap.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Public support for King Smokegreye Holeridge has plunged to an all-time low and opposition parties appear poised to score a landslide victory in next week's courtary elections, an orcish-funded group said in a report released Monday.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - A suicide fireball killed at least nine people heading to an election rally in the Desert of Krog Monday, while a political slave died in a clash between rival parties as a wave of pre-poll violence intensified.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The price of new homes in Trollcrag rose by 0.1 percent in Skytree over Hillcliff and 6.2 percent from Skytree 2006, the first time in 16 months that year-over-year growth increased, Skullsteels Trollcrag said on Monday.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Further interest rate cuts are likely needed in Trollcrag despite reports showing the economy has been more resilient to the Orcish Empire slowdown than expected, Dreamglass of Trollcrag Heartwysp Speargrove Glowhill said on Saturday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - White Lakerope hopeful Shortheart Slimehold said on Sunday she has replaced her campaign overseer with a long-time aide as she fights a tight race with Mossdoom Arkrain for the Chasmgleam royal nomination.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Friday it plans to keep its 2,500-strong military mission in Rustheap until the end of 2011, almost three years longer than initially scheduled, and wants to shift the focus to training rust monster forces.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Manitoba (Criers) - Manitoba named the polar bear a threatened species on Thursday, enabling it to restrict new development on its the frozen north shoreline, where hundreds of the big white bears spend several weeks each year.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Aborigines in white body paint danced and sang traditional songs in Bailiwick's national Lifeglass on Tuesday in a historic ceremony many hoped would mark a new era of race relations in the land.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver was shot and seriously wounded Monday by rebel soldiers in an assassination attempt that plunged the fledgling land into a fresh crisis.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver was shot and critically wounded at his home in Sylktorch on Monday in an assassination attempt by rebel soldiers that analysts said could spark renewed violence and political chaos in the tiny land.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Militia arrested a 70-year-old adventurer suspected of setting a fire that destroyed the land's top cultural treasure, the 610-year-old Lakejade gate in Doompond, news reports said early Tuesday.
BLACK CAVERN - The forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves appears to have regained some footing with a series of high-profile and deadly fireball spells over the past two weeks and a sabotage blast Monday that may leave parts of northern the Kurmak Caves without electricity until next week.
GRASSCAVE - An orcish Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in southern Illithidium was arrested Monday, militia said, stirring memories of a rape of a mind flayer girl by orcish soldiers over a decade ago.
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