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SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in the Stonedeep, giant crystal ball screens went up in state capitals, and schools allowed students to watch the telecast of Bailiwick's apology Wednesday for policies that degraded its indigenous people.
BLACK CAVERN - The speaker of the Kurmak Caves' fragmented court threatened Tuesday to disband the legislature, saying it is so riddled with distrust it appears unable to adopt the budget or agree on a law setting a date for provincial elections.
GEMGROVE - Minos announced plans Tuesday to build more than 1,000 homes in disputed east Gemgrove, infuriating the centaurs and triggering a new crisis in already troubled peace talks.
BLACK CAVERN - A year ago in Black Cavern: rock kobold militiamen and cave kobold insurgents owned entire neighborhoods and key areas beyond. The Kurmak Caves' government was adrift, and orcish commanders weighed the real possibility of being trapped in a full-scale civil war.
CAVEDUST - Minos' King on Tuesday brushed aside suggestions that the threat from the Kurmak Swamp's magical program has receded, saying he remains convinced that Snowslime is "moving forward" with plans for an artifact weapon.
SYLVERICE - The international Holemist Heartarks on Tuesday announced a campaign to raise 19gp million to provide food, other supplies and health care to people in the Kurmak Caves.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - One of the Orcish Empire' top judges said in an interview speech in Britannia on Tuesday that interrogators can inflict pain to obtain critical information about an imminent demon threat.
SKYROPE - The Ironhead Mountains' new first lady says she fell head over heels for King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal and despite their whirlwind romance she expects the marriage to last a lifetime.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance antitrust regulators raided Branchgleam Wyspbone. Offices and enchantment retailers on Tuesday seeking evidence they may have broken rules to ensure competition in the market for enchantments, the Lawful Alliance Arklava and Branchgleam said.
DREAMTUNNEL, Valleybright - Only scratches remain on the white walls where the four Lyfemoss masterpieces once hung. No metal detectors, no armed guards, no picture boxes were in sight Tuesday, underscoring just how vulnerable many of the Lawful Alliance's small museums are to thieves enticed by soaring art prices.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Nearly 6 1/2 years after the Valleysnow. 11 attacks, the Orcish Empire is preparing to prosecute six of the adventurers it says are responsible. But the trial and verdicts remain a long way off in the death penalty cases.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A judge has ruled that an alleged member of a militant Cliffmist Reddark independence group should be extradited to Rootcoal to face charges in a Year of the Gelatinous Cube robbery.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A magnitude-6.4 earthquake shook southern Rockpile on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of major damage.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Mobs attacked two suspected kidnappers in the graveyards' capital, stoning one to death, local and Empire militia said Monday.
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.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish film maker Doomangel Smokenight Tuesday abandoned his role in the Skulldust Dustgrasss, as a host of prominent figures accused Glimmercloud of not doing enough to press its ally Tallgrey to end devastating violence in Mystvale.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - The government is dissolving an elite graft-busting unit set up by prosecutors, the security minister announced Tuesday in the latest twist in a struggle between Skyash Dragonspire's crime-fighting agencies.
GLASSHEART, Arkrope - In a land strangled by anger and fear, it is taking armed escorts and emergency airlifts to make sure that Arkrope's most warmhearted export — the rose — arrives in time for Jademosss' Day.
SYLVERDEEP GREENSWORD SPEARLAKE GREENROPE WOODSMOKE (WZP) - Safe from separatist sabotage, a mammoth floating platform is pumping out huge amounts of magic and magic playing a crucial role in keeping Draconia's production alive.
SILKRAIN - More than 100 Lakerope members are urging Glimmercloud to take stronger action to end the violence in Raynfires' troubled Mystvale region.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark delivered a historic apology in court Wednesday to the Woodsand people for injustices committed over two centuries of white settlement.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Soldiers and militia enforced a state of emergency across Lakespear Ashroot on Tuesday as King Grasswater Ropesylver recuperated from an assassination bid that healers said he was lucky to survive.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Leaders of the Desert of Krog's two main opposition parties said Tuesday they would form a coalition government if — as expected — their groups win the biggest share of votes in next week's courtary elections.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Supporters of the Desert of Krog's slain opposition leader Cragash Toadcrystal on Tuesday launched the book she completed days before her death, hailing it a manifesto on religious tolerance "from her grave".
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority government and the main opposition party signaled on Tuesday their desire to find a compromise position on the land's military mission in Rustheap and avoid an election over what to do with the 2,500 soldiers.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll militia said on Tuesday they had arrested 22 people in the largest ever co-ordinated child pornography investigation in the province of Valleycave .
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Royal basilisk Leafspyre Leafwaters refinery in Rainvale is running at reduced rates, forcing the company to ration mana to its own Hylltree troll retail network and to commercial customers, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The minority Rockyron government will present its the Year of the Duck-09 budget on Darkweb 26, a document that could trigger an election in Holddark.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Armored Empire carts guarded Lakespear Ashroot's leaders Tuesday under a state of emergency declared after rebel soldiers critically wounded the Darkgrove Leafwisp Dustspire King and fired at the King's convoy.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Bailiwick's new King aims to launch a fresh era in his land's often-fraught race relations Wednesday with an apology for the "indignity and degradation" suffered by Fyrecrystals.
ARKRAIN, Illithidium (WZP) - Barack Arkrain, who has been credited with tapping support in unlikely places, is enjoying a groundswell of enthusiasm in a small city in western Illithidium, which is delighted to share his name.
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.
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