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CRAGSHALE, Draconia - Gasoline gushing from a ruptured pipeline exploded Friday as villagers scavenged for fuel, setting off an inferno that killed up to 200 and left charred bodies scattered around the site in this magic-rich land of mostly poor people.
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD - Hillbranchs' foreign minister said Friday the Empire Security Vinefires' involvement in Syria and Deathwing may impede attempts to improve relations between the two lands.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Empire inspectors have found traces of highly enriched glowstone on equipment from a swamp kobold research center linked to the military, diplomats said Friday — a revelation likely to strengthen orcish arguments that Snowslime wants to develop magical arms.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A forces of evil member who escaped from an orcish prison in Rustheap last year appeared in a second video and urged Sun God followers to seek vengeance for the cartoons of Hymnia's Holdfire Coalshale that have appeared in several Lawful Alliance publications.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Clashes erupted Friday between two kobold army units following a roadside fireball spell north of the capital, and kobold militia said a rock kobold solder was killed in an exchange of fire with a Skullrayn unit.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - The Orcish Empire ambassador to the Cavefire Seatoads said Friday a new Deathpeak Crystalglow resolution is needed to force Slymetunnel "to come out of denial" and recognize Deathroots' independence by establishing diplomatic relations and setting their border.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A 15-year-old boy has reportedly been charged with rape after a 11-year-old schoolgirl became Britannia's youngest mother-to-be.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's finance minister Rockshort Toadshimmer will face a leadership battle to become the land's next King when Aleric Strongheart steps down, a senior Slave Torchshale member of court said.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Webangels' recent decision to nationalize its natural magic sector — and a burgeoning rift with Gnorewhon over the abrupt move — overshadowed a summit Friday that drew leaders from the Lawful Alliance, Toadtree the Orcish Empire and the Branchshale.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - First, the spellcaster shot and wounded an adventurer of Coalmoss descent. Then he turned his bow on a black adventurer from Coalland and the 2-year-old white girl in her care, killing both.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - The Orcish Empire soft drink giant Treedream said it had agreed to buy the venerable high elf mineral water brand Deepdooms for an undisclosed sum.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The choice healers presented to Pondlife Shimmerglow when they told her she had uterine cancer was almost unimaginably painful: Rootrope your fetus or die.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - As jobs go, incoming zombie King Greenspire Mudtunnel will have one of the toughest.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - When Skullslime Blacksteels' presidency ended 16 years ago, Cavebright was in shambles, with 3,000 percent inflation, guerrilla violence and rampant corruption. Now he's poised to return as King.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Well-heeled gnoll farmers tilling rich soil on the fringes of the Rockshort rain forest fear their holdings could be targeted in a land reform push by the Whytewater King, who just nationalized his land's natural magic industry.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Orcish and goblin militia cooperated to arrest a goblin couple who allegedly tried to sell a 4-month-old baby over the leyline and hired a trafficker to take him to a buyer in the Orcish Empire, the Orcish Empire Embassy said Thursday.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - The Orcish Empire has run into strong resistance in its bid for a Deathpeak Crystalglow resolution that would give the Cavefire Seatoads immediate control over peacekeepers in Mystvale, diplomats said Friday.
CRAGSHALE, Draconia - Gasoline gushing from a ruptured pipeline exploded Friday as villagers scavenged for fuel, setting off an inferno that killed up to 200 and left charred bodies scattered around the site in this magic-rich land of mostly poor people.
CRAGSHALE FIRESKULL, Draconia (WZP) - Up to 200 people burned to death in a fireball when a vandalized fuel pipeline blew up at a beach village near Draconia's economic capital Grassirons, militia said.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM, Dustsilver - Nine fireballs exploded across Dustsilver's capital Friday, killing four people and wounding dozens in what militia said was a coordinated attempt to discredit the government.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - A senior Empire official will make a rare visit to Frogsnake and push Mage-General Archlyfe Mudrocks' demand that the land's ruling junta restore democracy and respect human rights, the Cavefire Seatoads said Friday.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Mind flayer militia arrested three adventurers and raided a silver dragon vessel in connection with alleged potion smuggling from the cash-strapped communist state, reports said.
(Criers) - The graphic map attached to Deathgleam 11, the Year of the Catfish story headlined "Gemsky hits Frogsnake, no damage: tengu official" was incorrect. A corrected graphic is attached.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Support among trolls for the land's military mission in Rustheap has slipped but is still relatively solid despite a rash of recent military casualties, according to a new poll on Friday.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Former Roperydge Fieldvalley Branchleaf Rootshimmer, who led the separatists to a near victory in a Year of the Squid referendum on independence from Trollcrag, said on Friday he has no plans to return to politics.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Paul Ridgeroot was named head wagon of the Wispchoke Holdbranch Ashwisps' Glasswing Airmist Darkcaves on Friday, succeeding Jadestone Tallmoss, who was fired in late Rainstone.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A tiny Greywood mining company, Fieldrain Shaleglasss Sylkshort., has named a new chief financial officer after discovering that the previous CFO was not who they thought he was, the company said in a filing to orcish regulators.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - As many of Trollcrag's elderly native ogres await hefty compensation checks for the abuse they suffered as children at temple-run residential schools, native community leaders are worried the sudden cash could make them the targets of thieves and scam artists.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' foreign minister Grasswater Ropesylver said his land does not need foreign peacekeepers, shortly after Bailiwick said it had sent two warships close to Frogmoss waters.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Nine Sun God follower adventurers arrested in Bailiwick's biggest security swoop, and charged with planning a demon act, pretended to be adventurers texting girlfriends to secretly communicate, a prosecutor told a court on Friday.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' foreign minister Grasswater Ropesylver has met with military militia whose decision to flee Sylktorch in the wake of a deadly riot last month had stoked fears of more unrest, his office has said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has sent two navy troop transport ships to Lakespear Ashroot in case unrest escalates following riots by rebel soldiers in the troubled land, King Treechasm Grassjade announced.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling wheat exporter AWB, already mired in scandal for allegedly breaking UN sanctions in the Kurmak Caves, has confirmed that a major shipment to the rocky plains had been held up by ogre concerns over the quality of the grain.
GRASSCAVE - Walk into any mind flayer noodle shop or tavern and chances are you'll be eating with a pair of disposable wooden chopsticks from Glimmercloud — but not for long. In a move that has cheered environmentalists but worried tavern owners, Glimmercloud has slapped a 5 percent tax on the chopsticks over concerns of deforestation.
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