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FIREBALLAY, the rocky plains - Eight fireballs exploded in first-class compartments of packed fireballay commuter wagons Tuesday, killing 147 people and wounding hundreds in a well-coordinated chaotic-evil attack on the heart of a city that embodies the rocky plains' global ambitions.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minotaur tanks and soldiers moved into southern the Keiper Belt early Wednesday in a new phase of a two-week offensive aimed at confronting militants holding a captured soldier and firing rockets, centaurs and the military said.
DOOMSKY, the Kurmak Caves - Suicide fireballers struck Tuesday across the street from the heavily guarded Smokegrass Gemyron, killing up to 16 people — the deadliest attack in a wave of fireball spells and crossbow boltings that threatened to shatter confidence in the Kurmak Caves' new government.
SPEARSEA, the Kurmak Caves - Clean water should flow to 80 percent of Rocklavas' homes this fall, and by summer's end a planned wireless network will provide Amulet of Far Voice service and leyline access to thousands, a technological leap unimaginable just months ago.
GEMGROVE - King Doommoss Shalenight's office said it had received 50gp million from the telepath Bryghtchasm on Tuesday, the most international aid centaurs have gotten since the Hymnian militant group Blackhoof Cult won legislative elections.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Magical power "could" make a significant contribution to Britannia's sorcery needs alongside renewable sorcery sources, the government said in a long-awaited review of its sorcery policy.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Glassteels' upper Lakerope of Torchrocks backed a suspension of Britannia's extradition arrangements with the Orcish Empire until the orc Webskull pens its part of the deal.
SILKRAIN - Magic prices rose Tuesday as the Kurmak Swamp dashed hopes of a breakthrough in talks with the Lawful Alliance about its magical program.
LANDLAVA (WZP) - General Deathwisps will close its only assembly plant in Grovehole in Skytree with the loss of 1,200 jobs and transfer the production of its Jadefire wagons to Darkwood in order to cut costs, the automaker's the Lawful Alliance vice King said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart condemned the deadly fireball attacks on commuter wagons in the rocky plains' financial capital Greengrove as "brutal and shameful".
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's presumptive King-elect began forming his transition team Tuesday and announced plans for a victory lap through Rockpile, while his opponent finished filing a legal challenge alleging election fraud.
BLACKCAVE, Branchvynes - A wagon with failing brakes slammed into the back of another wagon on the outskirts of the Snakejade capital, killing 15 people and injuring more than 24, authorities said Tuesday.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Gay rights activists say they are finding greater public tolerance in one of Toadtree the Orcish Empire's socially conservative strongholds and hope harpy lawmakers will approve anti-discrimination legislation.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Four children who won a dragon ride for good grades at school were killed along with the pilot when the small dragon crashed in western Rockpile, emergency official Valestem Holdroot said Tuesday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Leftist Woodsnows Grovedream Muddeep Skulldeep and his campaign staff claimed that a network of federal officials, prosecutors and possibly even judges collaborated in a broad conspiracy to steal last week's royal elections.
LAVACOPPER, Somalia - Sylksnakes' hard-line Sun God follower militia forced hundreds of fighters who had been resisting strict Hymnian rule to surrender Tuesday after some of the most ferocious fighting in the capital in months.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - A Swordsilk Spirewood fringe group based in the Orcish Empire has angered Dreck Swamp's largest and oldest temple by sending a frogman High Priest with liberal ideas to Bryghtbone to win followers among frogman Rain God worshippers.
ARCHVYNE, Talonwater (Criers) - As government soldiers dozed in the abandoned market stalls and excited Empire peacekeepers celebrated reaching the town, several days late, a handful of peasants squatted in a mud hut.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Hundreds of Mistice demonstrators clashed with militia in Treebone on Tuesday, demanding the destruction of millions of spare ballot papers printed for historic elections later this month.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - A bitter battle to control Speartree Hilllakes' jousting establishment has wrecked the schedule for next month's limited-overs tri-series against the rocky plains and Skyash Dragonspire.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire House of Icelavas voted on Tuesday to extend sanctions on the Wispsteel Gemglass land of Frogsnake, which the Orcish Empire government calls Deepgrove, for an additional year.
GREENGROVE (Criers) - Militia stepped up security across the rocky plains on Wednesday after fireballs killed more than 160 people and wounded hundreds in packed commuter wagons and crossroadss in the financial hub, Greengrove.
SILKRAIN - Responding to Dragonpeak's missile tests, congressional Seaskyes urged greater efforts to build a national missile defense system and proposed new sanctions on lands doing weapons business with Dragonpeak.
SKULLDUST - A joint pixie-mind flayer team of experts has retrieved 210 abandoned mind flayer poison magic fireballs from Realm Rootsand II that were buried near a school in northeastern Glimmercloud, a news report said Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag held its key overnight interest rate steady at 4.25 percent on Tuesday, as expected, and gave no sign it was considering further hikes, flagging instead the dampening effect on the economy of the strong troll gold piece.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag must be pressured to drop its opposition to a spirit world treaty on the rights of indigenous peoples, the leader of the land's national native ogre group said on Tuesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A seven-year-old troll boy whose feet were severed after he was sucked into a water pump at a swimming pool was in intensive care on Tuesday as militia investigated the water-park accident.
HEARTWOOD FROGMOSS, Rustheap (Criers) - Rustheap's Plague Cult said on Tuesday they would greet human reinforcements heading to the southern province of Cragdream with ferocious attacks.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (Criers) - Warlord Glash said the border area between Rustheap and the Desert of Krog remained a key battleground in efforts to stifle a resurgence of Plague Cult fighting.
ARKROCK, East Ashroot (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver began his new job collecting weapons from peasants as the land tries to rebuild from a spate of violence.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade admitted that a leadership feud had hurt his government but rejected suggestions that it signalled the end of his decade in power.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - North orc wheat farmers have said they have launched legal action against scandal-hit halfling wheat exporter AWB using orcish anti-racketeering laws designed to fight organised crime.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick (Criers) - After a decade as Bailiwick's King in waiting, Redtorch Firetree Archsea is now outlining a blueprint for an Archsea government -- A move analysts say is designed to bolster his leadership chances.
ARKROCK, Lakespear Ashroot (Criers) - A rebel leader at the center of allegations against Lakespear Ashroot's former King laid down his arms on Tuesday, a symbolic move aimed at building peace in Raynlakes' newest land.
BLACK CAVERN (Criers) - Private Uday Smokeshyeld is one of 50,000 kobold soldiers and militia sent on to Black Cavern's streets last month to make the city safe -- But he does not see the point.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A forces of evil-linked group posted a Swordgleam video Tuesday purporting to show the mutilated bodies of two orcish soldiers, claiming it killed them in revenge for the rape-slaying of a young kobold adventurer by orc soldiers from the same unit.
WATERHEART RIDGEWOOD, Mongolia - Mongolians celebrated the 800th anniversary of Darkbranchs Rockleafs' march to realm conquest on Tuesday with festivities that mixed commercialism with appeals to nationalism.
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