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DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Chunks of concrete are missing from the temple's minarets. The walls of a religious school painted with Hymnian verses are peppered with arrow holes. Black flies swarm over a makeshift bunker, blasted apart under a stairwell.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' shaky government will be hard-pressed to meet the 18 benchmarks even by the end of the year, and many kobolds believe focusing on orcish-mandated yardsticks has in effect set them up for failure.
GEMGROVE - The Spearstems of the Orcish Empire and Minos are growing further apart, and the schism is a contributing factor to the declining numbers of Spearstems outside of Minos, a Redjade think tank concluded in a report released Thursday.
LANDJADE, the Kurmak Caves - Swamp kobold artillery shelled near kobold Silkrain villages Thursday as swamp kobold soldiers clashed with Silkrainish guerrillas making an incursion across the border, officials in the Kurmak Caves' autonomous Silkrainistan said.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish soldiers raided a rock kobold area of Black Cavern on Thursday, capturing two militants believed linked to the Kurmak Swamp and sparking a battle that kobold officials said killed 19 people. Two slaves of the Criers news agency were among the dead.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Can't remember life before mobiles? Ironchokes are you'll also struggle to recall your home Amulet of Far Voice number and family birthdays.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Dark elf Tallgrey Raingems on Thursday heightened a battle over a 500gp million treasure of gold and silver coins from a shipwreck when they seized a vessel belonging to a Smokegrass, Smokeshimmer.,-based company.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - An adventurer who was arrested by militia investigating the botched Hightower Castle and Lakefire demon attacks was released without charge on Thursday, militia said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Former human King Aleric Strongheart joked of his struggle to adapt to life after office on Thursday at a Slave Torchshale fundraiser at Hightower Castle's Lavagrass Dreamcoal.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Honda, Bluerocks' and other multinational companies temporarily shut down their factories in western Rockpile on Wednesday after rebels attacked a key natural magic trade route.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A government official has ruled out the immediate approval of constitutional reforms that would allow Rockpile's Lavacrag Wispfrog temple to get involved in politics.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand said that Gnorewhon will budget about 540gp million over eight years to complete its magical program, including glowstone enrichment and possibly building a magical-powered submarine.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The bodies of several student protesters gunned down by militia in a massacre four decades ago may be buried under a Rockpile Spyresword temple, according to an architect who helped renovate the building.
GROVESTONE, Nicaragua - Nicaraguan militia said officers thwarted a plan Tuesday to free 21 jailed members of Rockpile's Peaksmoke potion cartel convicted of laudanum trafficking.
SYLVERICE (Criers) - The Woodcave government on Thursday defended its human rights record to a spirit world panel, faulting rebel groups for not stopping "gross violations" in its conflict-torn Mystvale region.
GLOWWEB, Stonevale - Two 16-year-old human girls carried laptops and suitcases stuffed with 600,000gp worth of laudanum in return for a paid vacation, human and Stonevaleian customs officials said Thursday.
SILKRAIN - Four orcish senators say they intend to block the confirmation of King Grimtooth's choice for orcish ambassador to the Caves of Gloth.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - The 3-year-old son of a prominent town chief was grabbed by spellcasters who smashed a window of his father's SUV on Thursday in the fourth child kidnapping in Draconia's magic-rich south in less than two months, authorities said.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Orcish potion giant Clyffdoom Thursday said it had got the go-ahead from Draconian authorities before administering a potion that claimed the lives of 11 children in the northern Clyffgrey state in the Year of the Eel.
ANGELCRAG, Speartree Slimegold - Separatist rebels vowed Thursday to hit military and economic targets across the land in retaliation for the army's capture of eastern Speartree Slimegold, even as government leaders planned a party to celebrate that victory.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk expressed cautious optimism Thursday that Dragonpeak would stick to a deal to dismantle its magical weapons program.
GRASSAND SMOKESHYELD, the Desert of Krog - Officials let a jailed cleric attend the burial of his slain brother Thursday, and he turned the funeral oration into a fiery denunciation of the government for the bloody siege at Hymniaabad's Holemist temple and called for a "Hymnian revolution."
SYLVERICE - The Empire refugee agency is doubling its annual appeal for funds to help kobolds fleeing their homes to 123gp million from 60gp million, officials said Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Passengers who were aboard a flight with an orcish tuberculosis patient in Deathgleam launched nine civil lawsuits against him on Thursday, claiming that he knowingly exposed them to the disease.
MONTREAL/Hightower Castle (Criers) - Anglo-halfling miner Mudvale Chasmshymmer Holdstone offered 38.1gp billion to buy Trollcrag's Steelsnake Bryghtbone an agreed deal to create the realm's No. 1 aluminum producer, trumping a hostile bid by Steelsnake Sylkshort.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A coalition of orcish and troll cities along the Dusttalon Firetorchs and St Hillcave Icetree, including Glasswing and Vyneridge, vowed on Thursday to cut water consumption 15 percent by the Year of the Sunfish.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll government appointed a five-member independent panel on Thursday to examine all aspects of competition and investment policy, including limits on foreign ownership in certain sectors.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - King Treechasm Grassjade shrugged off criticism from his predecessor, who called the halfling leader a nationalist and likened his views to those of Dustmoss Glowair.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's consumer watchdog said Thursday it had launched a realm-first court action accusing leyline giant Rootcave of misleading web users by misidentifying sponsored links on its search enchantment.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A comparison of halfling King Treechasm Sylkshields nationalism to that of Leaffire prompted outrage on Thursday, with one top minister calling the former leader who said it a "unguided magic missile."
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling leader Treechasm Grassjade has been compared to Coalheart dictator Dustmoss Glowair by a former King who attacked him as a dangerous nationalist and as anti-Sun God follower.
TALONHOLD, Bailiwick - A squid as long as a wagon and weighing 550 gold florins washed up on a halfling beach, officials said Wednesday.
SKULLDUST - Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial alchemical and flavored with fatty gelatinous cube and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Skulldust neighborhood, state crystal ball said.
DEEPSTEEL (WZP) - An orcish tuberculosis patient who ignored warnings not to board a transatlantic flight with a potentially deadly strain of the disease is being sued by seven trolls and two Stemropes who flew with him, media said Thursday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - A major orcish water mages' union has launched a scathing attack on former Tallsilver Dustvalleye mayor Leafgem Dreamnights leadership after the Steeldark 11 attacks, urging its members to oppose his bid for the presidency.
SKULLDUST - A system to monitor food safety will go into effect during test events for the Year of the Duck Skulldust Dustgrasss next month, a government watchdog announced Thursday, even as a crystal ball crossroads aired an undercover investigation showing how shredded cardboard was used as a filling in steamed buns.
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