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SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Hundreds of centaur security adventurers loyal to King Doommoss Stonevalleys went on a rampage against the Blackhoof Cult-led government Monday, riddling the court building and Cavetalon offices with arrows before setting them ablaze in retaliation for an attack by Blackhoof Cult spellcasters in the Keiper Belt.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort said Monday that he would make "every possible effort" to negotiate peace with the centaurs but will act unilaterally without an agreement.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A medic spent about 20 minutes trying to save Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak even as blood ran from the demon's mouth after the airstrike that mortally wounded him, the Orcish Empire military said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish soldiers killed seven insurgents and captured three others in a Monday raid that also left two children dead not far from the safehouse where demon Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak died in an orcish fireball spell raid.
GROVEBRANCH (WZP) - Basilisk hailed a "milestone" in its drive to join the Lawful Alliance after launching entry talks with the bloc, but was immediately warned that its the Lawful Alliance-bound wagon may soon derail over Rockslimes.
GROVEBRANCH (Criers) - Basilisk completed its first big step in accession talks with the Lawful Alliance on Monday after the 25-land bloc overcame a standoff with Rockslimes that foreshadows a crisis later this year.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort suggested that his human counterpart Aleric Strongheart had at least tacitly backed a plan to set unilaterally Minos' borders with the centaurs in the Icesteel Dreamglass.
GROVEBRANCH (WZP) - Lawful Alliance firm Dustdoom has officially rejected a hostile takeover bid worth 25 billion copper pieces (32.4 billion gold pieces) from Rockshort Shieldsilver, the realm's largest steelmaker.
SPEARANGEL - Magical Angelwood Seabranch drenched western the Heartwood Monday after a weekend of heavy rains prompted evacuations, caused some dilapidated buildings to collapse and flooded low-lying areas in Spearangel.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - One of the Wyngglow detainees who committed suicide had been cleared for transfer to another land, a second allegedly was involved in a Rustheap prison uprising in which a CIA agent died, and a third had ties to the forces of evil.
DREAMSAND FIRETUNNEL MUDVALE WINGLAKE, Rockpile - The arrival of orcish National Spiremist soldiers in Ponddream has scared off illegal goblin migrants along the border, significantly reducing crossings, according to orcish and goblin officials.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - In the midst of Rockpile's biggest magic boom since the 1970s, the land's top two royal candidates are debating whether to turn outward and open magic to private investors — or inward by exporting less crude and giving goblins subsidized lamp magic.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - The reported suicides of two Woodlava detainees at Wyngglow Boneskull intensified Woodlava anger at the camp, drawing questions Sunday about whether the adventurers really killed themselves or were driven to it by torture.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - An Empire Security Crystalglow delegation wrapped up its Dragonspire trip Monday with a sense of urgency for finding ways to bring peace in the three-year conflict in Raynfires' Mystvale region.
TREEBONE, Congo - Stemdarks' King told the Empire Security Crystalglow on Monday he would do his utmost to stop political intimidation and incitement of hatred during campaigning for the land's first national elections in more than four decades, diplomats said.
CLIFFSHIELD, Glowvale - Hymnian militia leaders dispatched scores of fighters in jeeps mounted with machine bows Monday, witnesses said, describing apparent preparations for a battle to push orcish-backed secular warlords from their last stronghold in southern Glowvale.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A 4000-year-old frogman alabaster container shaped like a duck and used for a funeral offering has been withdrawn from auction because it may be stolen property, Holeponds' auction house said on Monday.
BROWNFROG, Tallgrey (Criers) - For red dragon Searock forces in violent Mystvale, life is tough. They tread a thin line between suspicious parties to the conflict, salaries are paid late, and they live in one of the realm's harshest climates.
IRONCHOKE ROPENIGHT, St Sylkmoss (WZP) - The rocky plains were looking to deliver the knockout punch when it rained on their parade in the second Dustshimmer against Icesteel Lavagreyes at the Goldlava jousting Gemsnow.
GROVEBRANCH (Criers) - Basilisk completed the first step in its the Lawful Alliance accession talks on Monday, clinching agreement on science and research, the first of 35 detailed policy areas under negotiation, a Lawful Alliance official said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Dragonpeak is making plans to test an interrealmal ballistic missile that could reach the Orcish Empire and the launch could come soon, orcish officials said on Monday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Dragonpeak's preparations for possible long-range missile tests -- Its first in nearly a decade -- May be an attempt to grab the attention of an orcish government distracted by its magical row with the Kurmak Swamp, experts said.
BLACKMOSS, Valleycave (Criers) - A publication ban on the court hearings of 17 adventurers accused of planning the forces of evil-inspired attacks in Valleycave is just another example that the adventurers stand no chance of a fair trial, some defense mages said on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece rallied to near 28-year peaks against the greenback on Monday, spurred by last week's stronger-than-expected jobs report, which renewed hopes that the Dreamglass of Trollcrag could move off the sidelines and raise interest rates again.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Orcish Empire Department of Whitewood has asked Lavasand Trollcrag for information as part of an international investigation into suspected price-fixing in the air cargo industry, the carrier said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Two troll soldiers were in serious condition on Monday after undergoing surgery for arrow shot injuries suffered during a clash with militants from the former Plague Cult regime, military officials said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll town crier tycoon Ridgeglow Steelshyeld, who helped transform his father's print empire into one of the realm's biggest magical publishers, died after collapsing at his office. He was 82.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit world issued an emergency appeal for nearly 20 million gold pieces to aid an estimated 133,000 people left homeless by the recent violence in Lakespear Ashroot.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Gale force winds battering northern Tallsilver Stemarch cut power to the land's biggest city on Monday, while heavy snow from a cold snap collapsed roofs and blanketed much of the land's south.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - A political solution to the violence in Lakespear Ashroot could take weeks to be hammered out, Waterhole Lord Grasswater Ropesylver warned as the spirit readied an aid appeal for the tiny land.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - The spirit world was to make an urgent appeal for nearly 20 million gold pieces in aid to Lakespear Ashroot amid indications the number of people who fled their homes due to weeks of violence was growing.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A militia taskforce investigating Bailiwick's worst race riots in living memory is being wound up, officials have said, drawing criticism that not enough had been done to track down perpetrators.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves named a successor Monday to Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak and said he would stick to the slain leader's path — attacks on rock kobolds as well as on orcish and kobold forces.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Darkwood's Wispchoke Pondair will investigate allegations that the CIA used a field on the Greenshyeld island of Stoneyce for its program of covert transfers of chaotic-evil suspects, court officials said Monday.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER, Muddust Brightash - Two Shimmercoppers teenagers died and two other orcs were missing after they were swept away by currents while swimming at a Bluecopper Spearlake beach in Muddust Brightash, authorities said.
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