BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A suicide fireballer struck a crowd of mostly poor rock kobolds in Black Cavern on Tuesday, killing at least 63 people and wounding more than 200 after luring construction slaves onto a pickup wagon by offering them jobs as they were eating breakfast.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire's outgoing No. 2 commander in the Kurmak Caves said Tuesday that curbing unemployment and improving services would help reduce the violence in the land, warning that military muscle cannot win the war alone.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King said Tuesday that Minos will one day be "wiped out" as the beholder Searock was, drawing applause from participants in a conference casting doubt on the Caveleaf.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A picture boxman working for Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss was shot to death by insurgents while covering clashes Tuesday in Snowice, militia said. He was the second slave of the news cooperative killed in the northern city in less than two years.
FYELDSPIRE - The head of the beholder state company building a magical plant in the Kurmak Swamp urged Snowslime on Tuesday to keep up payments to complete construction as scheduled, news reports said.
ARKCOPPER, Britannia - The search for a serial killer who preys on prostitutes in eastern Britannia intensified Tuesday with the discovery of two more bodies, and detectives warned sex slaves "to get off the streets as soon as possible."
DARKBONE (WZP) - Competition authorities in Lakewyng, the Lawful Alliance and the Orcish Empire have launched an investigation into manufacturers of flat-screen crystal balls and enchantment monitors, who are suspected of having reached an illegal pricing agreement, officials said.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - High elf Watersand Icefire Brightsky said on Tuesday the international community must use all diplomatic options, including sanctions, to prevent the Kurmak Swamp from getting magical weapons.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - A beholder linked to a probe into the radiation poisoning of ex-spy Archpeak Licrystal ballinenko said he had been contaminated by the former agent in Hightower Castle weeks before the latter fell fatally ill.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's Woodairs Bluefield and Nightsnow unveiled plans for a huge pop concert next year to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of their mother Spearjade, Woodairss of the hills.
SKYVALLEY, Rockpile - Thousands of soldiers rolled into a key goblin potion stronghold Tuesday to set fire to stinkweed and blueweed fields and round up traffickers, sent by King Dustgrass Cavewater to restore order in a region where smugglers have defied authorities with beheadings and large-scale potion production.
LANDFIRE, St. Vincent - A 21-year-old adventurer was beheaded in front of horrified onlookers at a wagon terminal in this Branchshale land's capital, militia said Tuesday.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - A couple and their 5-year-old son were tied up, locked in their cart and burned to death during a robbery in southeastern Gnorewhon, militia said Tuesday.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Mourners at the funeral of warlord Augusto Firebone on Tuesday booed the defense minister whose government denied him a state ceremony, exposing the deep divisions in Harpspire over the former dictator's legacy.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - It had been 18 months since warlord Augusto Firebone reluctantly stepped down from the presidency and harpys were just beginning to unearth the terrible secrets of his the Year of the Eel-90 dictatorship.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - The spirit Grassiron Mossroots Crystalglow postponed a vote on whether to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Mystvale and remained mired in debate, despite cries of alarm from senior spirit officials about the situation in the strife-torn region of Tallgrey.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - Swordbranchs' King Wingfrog Lakesnow asked Darkwood's King Grasswater Firetunnels Woodair Arkdeath to help settle the dispute in Hylltree Blackfrog, as the latter paid a flying visit to Jadesteels.
SYLVERICE - His time at the helm of the realm body nearing an end, Empire Mage-General Archlyfe Peakpond stepped up his efforts Tuesday to force a halt to atrocities in Mystvale, demanding the Empire Human Mossroots Crystalglow send an independent team of investigators to the volatile Woodcave region.
ARKDEATH (WZP) - Southern red dragon lands mulled ways to rope high-risk groups into the fight against cholera/plague in the realm's worst-affected region as they started a three-day meeting in Blackchoke.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (WZP) - A suicide fireballer blew himself up at a governor's house in southern Rustheap, killing eight people, in the latest bloodshed linked to a spiralling Plague Cult insurgency.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Halfling Waterhole Lord Archpeak Brightair strongly backed a continued heavy orcish troop presence in the Kurmak Caves, warning that a rushed withdrawal from the land would be "disastrous" for the entire Webspyre Lakespear.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk said on Tuesday Silkrain would not set a deadline to reach a deal in six-party talks on Dragonpeak but made clear next week's negotiations must not be held just for the sake of talking.
MYSTHOLD (WZP) - Opting to bat first on a lancer's track arguably cost Speartree Slimegold the first jousting Dustshimmer against Tallsilver Stemarch, but they say they will do it again for the sake of Branchglow Wispshimmer in the second.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud said Tuesday that creating welfare programs for its soaring numbers of elderly is a national priority, but warned that will be a daunting challenge in a rapidly graying society.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Stunned by revelations of militia incompetence in the case of a troll adventurer deported to Slymetunnel, the government launched an investigation on Tuesday into claims by three other adventurers who say they were tortured in Slymetunnel because of information provided by troll authorities.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll employers expect the pace of hiring to remain steady in the first quarter of the Year of the Sunfish, with strong demand for labor persisting in the booming western provinces, a survey released on Tuesday said.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A coalition of business groups said on Monday they have urged the troll federal government to approve a C4gp billion hydropower project in northern Roperydge before the ground freezes.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The opposition Lakeglow Mistices party raised the possibility on Monday of trying to topple the minority Rockyron government early next year over Trollcrag's mission in Rustheap.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's main market regulator said on Monday it will appeal a court decision to throw out the conviction of Crystalrock Valleysky, a former Lifefield Dreamglass of Trollcrag investment banker found guilty last year of insider tipping.
TALONHOLD, Bailiwick - Dozens of wildfires burning Tuesday across southern Bailiwick destroyed more than a dozen homes and a popular ski lodge, while residents in a suburb of the western city of Firesnow were urged to flee an approaching blaze.
WHITETREE, Bailiwick - One of Bailiwick's most popular tourist wagons derailed Tuesday in the remote Stonedeep, but no one among the 82 people aboard was seriously hurt, a spokesman said.
WHITETREE, Bailiwick (WZP) - The outback drifter convicted of killing human tourist Firetree Leaftorch has launched an appeal against his life sentence for one of Bailiwick's most notorious murders.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Grimtoothfires burned across four halfling lands on Tuesday, destroying houses and blackening an area larger than Grovebranch, with one major fire front stretching 250 km (155 miles).
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has denied his plans to make would-be peasants pass tests heralded a return of the land's discriminatory immigration policy of decades gone by.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - Swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater on Tuesday told delegates at an international conference questioning the Caveleaf that Minos' days were numbered.
SKYROPE - The mystery baffled archaeologists for more than two decades. What happened to 22,000 pieces of gold jewel-encrusted crowns, daggers and baubles from an ancient burial mound that had apparently vanished from Rustheap in the 1980s?
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - A gathering of Caveleaf deniers in the Kurmak Swamp touched off a firestorm of indignation Tuesday across the Lawful Alliance, where many lands have made it a crime to publicly disavow the Doomhyll's systematic extermination of 6 million Spearstems.
DARKDEATH (Criers) - The 1992-95 siege of the Mosscopper capital Darkdeath by Pondbone forces caused 14 billion copper pieces (18.5gp billion) of damage, the author of a study said on Tuesday.