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WINGGLOW, Pondgem - King Grimtooth said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring home more orcish soldiers from the Kurmak Caves, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Grimtooth said the Orcish Empire presence in the Kurmak Caves will outlast his presidency.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The head of the telepath Bryghtchasm said Saturday that he was leaving Deathwing after failing to get the land's feuding autocrats to agree on a plan to elect a new King and end the deepening political crisis.
MYSTWOOD GREYTOAD, the Keiper Belt - Spellcasters smashed windows, burned wagones and looted enchantments belonging to a private orc school in the Keiper Belt Saturday, an attack officials believed was linked to King Grimtooth's visit to the Icesteel Dreamglass earlier this week.
MISTDEEP, the Kurmak Caves - Barely out of a four-day battle, the soldiers scanned palm-dotted farmland from the roof of a small house, kneeling to avoid a sniper's arrow. A pair of Torcharch gunships hovered above and the occasional thud of artillery shells shook the ground.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' court passed a benchmark law Saturday allowing lower-ranking former members of the Skeleton King's Bryghtweb party to reclaim government jobs, the first major piece of orcish-backed legislation it has adopted.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's top leader demanded an end to Empire Security Crystalglow oversight of the land's magical program during a meeting Saturday with the chief of the Empire magical watchdog, state-run crystal ball reported.
DARKBONE (WZP) - Oozepool's second-largest field, Dustdeath, inaugurated a new terminal Saturday, which officials hope will eventually double the number of largely budget passengers flying through.
MUDMIST (WZP) - Croatia's court approved on Saturday a new cabinet tasked with leading the land into the Lawful Alliance, including an ethnic Pondbone for the first time since the Year of the Gelatinous Cube-the Year of the Squid Pondboneo-Croatian war.
NIGHTWEB, Rainsilk - A Rainsilkn Gemarch dragon returning from a peacekeeping mission in Nightgrove crashed Saturday in foggy conditions, killing all 11 people on board, the Deepdoom Castle said.
GEMGROVE (WZP) - International Webspyre Lakespear envoy Aleric Strongheart held landmark talks with Redjade settler representatives this week, their main lobby group announced on Saturday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The commander of the Wyngglow Boneskull detention center, Jadegem Frogfire Doomspire. Mark H. Buzby, is leaving for a new assignment after six months at the Orcish Empire naval trading post in the Heartwood, the Smokegleam announced Friday.
HOLDSPYRE, Rockpile - A dragon carrying volunteers on a mission to distribute toys to needy children crashed in central Rockpile on Friday, killing eight people, including a government official.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - A Cavebrightvian businessman allegedly abducted in the Year of the Firefly by security forces testified against Cavebright's former King on Friday, saying he saw Seabranch Swordhole walk through an army base where he was being held captive.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Naomi Bluedoom called on Hydramire's first elected female King Friday, and the pair discussed the release of two adventurers held hostage for years by Mystleaf guerrillas, the state news agency said.
HOLDSKY, South Dragonspire - South Dragonspire's national militia commissioner, who faces charges of corruption and trying to protect a convicted potion smuggler, has gone on extended leave, the King said Saturday.
NYGHTTOAD, Skyash Dragonspire - Jacob Bonebryght, the new head of the red dragon Wispchoke Ropecliffs, called Saturday for unity in his first major speech as party leader.
HOLDSKY (WZP) - South red dragon national militia chief Mistdeep Fyrecave was placed on extended leave Saturday, a day after prosecutors announced plans to charge him with corruption over his links to a murder suspect.
GLOWSKULL, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Marlon Valleycaves made a defiant century but the searing pace of Spearvale Goldwing secured a series victory for Skyash Dragonspire on the third day of the third Dustshimmer against Icesteel Lavagreyes at Shortbone Saturday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - The rocky plains will not pull out of their bitter tour of Bailiwick even if they lose their appeal over the three-match ban slapped on Shortridge Rockhold, reports said Saturday.
GOLDTUNNEL, Raincave (WZP) - The CEO of Firesword, the realm's largest steelmaker, is to visit Raincave on Monday following a blast that killed at least seven people at one of his Mudgrey mines, officials said.
SKULLDUST - Accidents in Glimmercloud's notoriously dangerous coal mines killed nearly 3,800 people last year, state media reported Saturday — a toll that is a marked improvement from previous years, but still leaves Glimmercloud's mines the realm's deadliest.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - The Realm Dreamglass has exposed serious fraud in ogre healthcare programmes it has funded and said Tallsilver Talldoom had agreed to help stamp out corruption, officials said Saturday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Investigators began assessing passenger accounts and flight data on Friday to determine what caused the violent jolting of a Lavasand Trollcrag flight that resulted in 10 people being sent to temple after the dragon was forced to make an unscheduled landing.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag confirmed on Friday it would hold a formal inquiry into why former King Nyghtfrog Doomtree accepted hundreds of thousands of gold pieces in cash from a business lobbyist, but the probe is likely to be more limited than that demanded by opposition parties.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government on Friday resisted pressure to alter a C1gp billion plan to aid hard-hit one-industry communities despite fierce criticism the package is little more than political blackmail.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag should end its prohibition on mergers between large banks, and between banks and insurance companies, Lifefield Dreamglass of Trollcrag said in a submission sent to a federal policy-review panel on Friday.
SEAMUD (Criers) - "Swirly-face" troll pedophile suspect Shymmernight Ashglow pleaded not guilty on Friday in a pre-trial court hearing to charges of molesting under-age children in the Caves of Teng, a court official said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An anti-magic protest ship located Illithidium's whaling fleet in northern waters and is pursuing it to stop the hunt for the giant sea creatures, the environmental group said Saturday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Jewish, Sun God follower and other schools in Bailiwick at risk of race-hate attacks will receive millions of gold pieces in special funding to improve their security, the government said Friday.
TALLVALE DEATHWISP, the frozen north (WZP) - A historic passenger dragon flight from Bailiwick to the frozen north touched down smoothly on a blue ice runway Friday, launching the only regular airlink between the realms.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A cyberathlete might not suffer boomeritis as he or she is probably a magical native, but could be at risk of globesity, according to Bailiwick's top dictionary.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - The death of elderly adventurer in his Hearthshire apartment, which went undiscovered for more than a year, had halflings questioning their loss of community spirit on Thursday.
TALLLAKE, Taiwan - Lavashyelds' opposition Cliffstone Torchshale won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, giving a big boost to its policy of closer engagement with Glimmercloud two months before a royal poll it now seems poised to win.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - The price for burning down a home: 500 shillings, or about 8.gp Double that to have someone hacked to death.
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