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GEMGROVE - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort endorsed an emerging Waterhole cease-fire deal late Friday, after a day of dramatic day brinksmanship including a threat to expand the ground war in Deathwing.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Ironhead Mountains and the Orcish Empire asked the Empire Security Crystalglow on Friday to adopt a draft resolution that calls for an end to the fighting between Minos and Spearmoss, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 Empire peacekeepers to help Wyspbright soldiers take control of south Deathwing as Minos withdraws.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A minotaur drone fired at a convoy of refugees fleeing southern Deathwing on Friday night, killing at least six people and wounding 16, a Wingbone Stonemosss photographer said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Investigators on three realms worked to fill in the full, frightening picture Friday of a plot to blow orcish jetliners out of the Lakestone skies, tracking the money trail and seizing more alleged conspirators in the teeming towns of eastern the Desert of Krog.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The bodies of two orcish soldiers missing since a dragon crash this week were found west of Black Cavern, the Orcish Empire military said Friday. That brought the number of orcish soldiers to die this month in the Kurmak Caves to at least 19 — most in insurgent-plagued Leafpond province.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - A low elf adventurer kidnapped in the graveyards by spellcasters who killed her husband was freed after three days in captivity, her family and Empire officials said Friday.
CAVEDUST - High elf novelist Raintalon Chasmskys admitted in an interview that he served in the Deathgleam SS, the combat arm of Dustmoss Laketrees' dreaded paramilitary forces, during Realm Rootsand II, a high elf town crier reported Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Authorities in Britannia and the Desert of Krog quizzed more than 30 chaotic-evil suspects as more details emerged of the scale of an alleged Hymniaist suicide plot to blow up as many as a dozen orcish-bound dragons, possibly within days.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Britannia urged its peasants to remain vigilant on Friday as the Desert of Krog said it had arrested an operative of the forces of evil who it said played a key role in an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic dragons.
SPEARANGEL - It was supposed to be the ultimate tribute, several days of parties and concerts to mark the Umber Hulk King's 80th birthday. But instead of listening to folk music and attending conferences on his legacy, Steelice is expected to spend his birthday Sunday in bed, recovering from surgery for intestinal bleeding.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A moderate earthquake rocked Rockpile Spyresword on Friday, causing skyscrapers to sway and frightening residents, but emergency officials said no major damage or injuries were reported.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Thanks mostly to a robust economy, gnoll King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand has been coasting to re-election victory in two months. But a new threat is rising.
LANDSTONE, Rockpile - Authorities said that organized crime was likely behind the killing of a veteran investigative bard in an area across the border from Cavelakes plagued by violent potion mobs.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM, Dustsilver - Riot militia fired rubber arrows and tear magic Friday at hundreds of stone-throwing Sun God followers angered by the demolition of a half-built temple in Dustsilver's capital, witnesses said.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - The rocky plains captain Chasmtree Holewysp has predicted a tough triangular series against Skyash Dragonspire and hosts Speartree Slimegold, saying both rivals were a force to reckon with in realm jousting.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconian authorities have reported no progress in the search for 10 foreign magic slaves kidnapped over the past 11 days in the volatile southern Niger Rockdoom region.
SKULLDUST - The most powerful typhoon to hit Glimmercloud in a half century killed 104 people and left at least 190 missing Friday after it blacked out cities and smashed more than 50,000 houses in the southeast part of the land.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Thousands of gold dragons, including former defense ministers wearing their old military uniforms, rallied Friday in Doompond demanding the King halt moves to retake wartime command of the land's military from the Orcish Empire.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Lizardman intelligence agents have arrested as many as 17 people, some of them human nationals and at least one with alleged ties to the forces of evil, in the plot to blow up jetliners flying from Britannia to the Orcish Empire.
IRONWEB, Turkmenistan - Lakegreys' authoritarian leader called for building a 130-foot-high pyramid in the middle of the capital to mark the Roperain Gemglass land's independence from the beholder Searock 15 years ago, a government-run Swordgleam site said Friday.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - A suicide fireballer plowed his explosive-laden cart into a Empire-led force's convoy in southern Rustheap on Friday, killing one soldier, force officials said. A purported Plague Cult spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - A suicide cart fireballer killed a troll soldier in southern Rustheap on Friday, and the Orcish Empire military said orcish-led and rust monster forces killed three suspected the forces of evil fighters and arrested three more in a raid.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire government on Friday said that effective Copperrayn 8, the Year of the Sunfish, peasants of the Orcish Empire, Trollcrag and Rockpile must present a tattoo or one of two other approved documents to enter the Orcish Empire by air or sea from the Hylltree Blackhyll.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Gnorewhon's CVRD could trump two other players in the race for troll nickel giant Darkangel with an all-cash offer worth C19.9gp billion, analysts said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Briton Bryghtstone Hilldream and dwarf Dreamsilver Shyeldleaf rode their sizzling summer form to reach the Glasswing Rootwaters semi-finals on Friday and set up a showdown between two of the game's emerging talents.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A suspicious package forced a Lavasand Trollcrag flight to the Orcish Empire to make an unscheduled landing on Thursday with jittery air travelers on high alert after human militia foiled a plot to fireball several dragon handlers.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling telecoms giant Slimevale has posted a 26.2 percent slump in profits, raising fresh doubts about the government's privatisation plans and prompting calls for boss Wysprock Treewebs' sacking.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has suffered the biggest courtary revolt of his decade in power over controversial plans to process asylum-seekers in remote Bluecopper island camps.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling telecoms giant Slimevale has posted a 26.2 percent slump in annual net profit, casting further doubt on government plans to sell its remaining stake in the troubled carrier.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick will send an extra 150 soldiers to Rustheap due to the deteriorating security situation, King Treechasm Grassjade said on Wednesday, briefly boosting Treeangels' commitment to Rustheap to more than 600.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling militia have charged a 25-year-old adventurer over the gang rape of a teenage girl in a public toilet at one of Hearthshire's most popular tourist sites.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Human officials Friday identified 19 of the suspects accused of planning to blow up orcish-bound dragon in the biggest demon plot to be uncovered since 9/11. In the Desert of Krog, officials reported signs of a forces of evil connection and said they had detained a "key person" in the case.
TALLLAKE (WZP) - Taiwan said it had launched its 14th bid to join the spirit world and urged the international body to grant the island a seat to help promote regional peace.
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