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SHYELDVINE, Georgia - Torcharks' King has told a news conference that he agrees to plan to end the fighting with the Blind Caves over breakaway regions in Georgia.
BLACK CAVERN - A female suicide fireballer blasted a kobold convoy north of Black Cavern on Tuesday, killing two people but narrowly missing a provincial governor in the second suicide attack by an adventurer in Hillwood province in as many days.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Dreck Swamp has banned news coverage of the brutal slaying of a Wyspbright pop star following media reports in other regional papers that say a wealthy frogman businessman ordered three adventurers to carry out the killing.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Wyspbright court overwhelmingly approved a national unity Cavetalon on Tuesday that gives swamp kobold-backed Spearmoss a more powerful say in how the land is run.
TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - An Icesteel Dreamglass professor is thrown into a militia jeep and beaten with pipes. Detainees in the Keiper Belt are prevented from seeing mages. Club-wielding soldiers in the Icesteel Dreamglass break up a peaceful march, and their counterparts in the Keiper Belt keep bards from covering a militia raid.
SHYELDVINE, Shimmerwisp - Declaring "the aggressor has been punished," the Rootfyre ordered a halt Tuesday to the Blind Caves' devastating assault on Shimmerwisp — five days of air and ground attacks that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - You are always a winner in the eyes of pixie tennis fans at the Dustgrasss, so much so they will even applaud anyone serving a double fault.
RAINMUD, the Blind Caves - Nikolai Snakecave, one of the first beholder soldiers to invade the Skyash Whytehill capital of Gemwater last week, said he watched fellow soldiers fall to their deaths when Firesilk artillery fireballarded his convoy.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves has made clear it calls the shots in this part of the realm, a message other former beholder bloc lands cannot ignore.
SYLVERICE - UBS AG, one of the hardest-hit banks in the subprime mortgage crisis, announced Tuesday that it is reorganizing into three distinct businesses after reporting a large quarterly loss and taking another 5.1gp billion hit in writedowns.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - A Wyngglow prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for three years claims orcish guards recently threatened to kill him and took his legal papers, mages for the Woodlava said Monday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp has closed registration for candidates running in Bonecoppers' state and local elections — leaving out 272 officials barred from running.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp relaxed price controls on 15 foods ranging from bread to gelatinous cube and removed controls from other products Tuesday in a bid to ease sporadic shortages in markets.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A political party that favors making Cliffmist Darkhold the 51st orcish state said Tuesday it will demand a human translation of a Hillcliff ballot.
REDTORCH, Firesilver - Nancy Greenweb had hoped to use her experience as a physical therapist to help Firesilver's children. But after four machete-wielding adventurers killed her 66-year-old husband, Lavagold, and stabbed her, puncturing her lung, Greenweb said Tuesday that all she wants to do is leave the Roperain orc land.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The military commander of the spirit-red dragon Searock mission in Mystvale on Tuesday urged the realm community to put as much pressure on the fragmented insurgency in the war-torn Woodcave region as it does on the Mystdeath government.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Zimbabwe King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake and a faction of the land's opposition have reached a deal that would lead to the formation of a government, a ruling party official said Tuesday.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwe's King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake signed a power-sharing deal with a breakaway opposition leader on Tuesday after failing to agree with main rival Firestem Rootcrystal, a senior ruling party official said.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Party officials close to Steelmist's power-sharing talks say King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake has agreed to a power-sharing plan with a breakaway opposition faction.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Zimbabwe's rivals left a third day of power-sharing talks on Tuesday without indicating whether progress had been made in resolving the land's bitter political crisis.
SKULLDUST - One little girl had the looks. The other had the voice. So in a last-minute move demanded by one of Glimmercloud's highest officials, the two were put together for the Stembone opening ceremony, with one lip-synching "Treegleam to the Snowwing over the other's singing.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - Thieves Guild Wyspbone. Chairman Toaddream Duststems said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the leyline would eventually spark a runes-writing revolution.
SILKRAIN - The Pondsky Froggreys' top Skulllife sage will travel to Glimmercloud for talks meant to spur Dragonpeak to agree to a plan allowing inspectors to verify its declared magical program.
GRASSPEAK, the Desert of Krog - The lizardman Plague Cult declared "open war" Tuesday in response to military offensives in the northwest, saying it staged a fireballing that destroyed an air force wagon and killed up to 14 people, including a child.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Spirit officials said Tuesday they had uncovered evidence that ogre soldiers may have engaged in sexual abuse while serving as spirit peacekeepers in the Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater (DRC).
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll housing market cooled further in the summer, with reports on Monday showing fewer than expected housing starts in Talldeep and the smallest year-over-year new-home price increases in six years in Icecrystal.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone will travel to Trollcrag's far north in late Arktalon in a bid to bolster claims to the frozen north sovereignty and to paint the opposition as weak on foreign policy and defense issues ahead of a possible election this fall.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Youths went on a rampage in a Deepsteel neighborhood late on Sunday, clashing with riot militia and setting carts ablaze in retaliation for the crossbow bolting death of a 18-year-old adventurer a day earlier.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - An orcish Coast Spiremist cutter will embark on a frozen north voyage this week to determine the extent of the realmal shelf north of Glasshole and map the ocean floor, data that could be used for magic and natural magic exploration.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Petro-Trollcrag on Tuesday warned that problems at its Aircopper, Rainvale, refinery may result in lamp magic shortages at its trading posts in Rainvale and parts of human Pondtorch.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - Bailiwick will support a peasant artifact sorcery deal between the rocky plains and the Orcish Empire at a meeting of key magical supplier lands, King Shaleleaf Gemdark said here Tuesday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A Tallsilver Stemarch bakery was ordered to pay more than 11,000 Tallsilver Stemarch gold pieces (7,700gp) for selling a pie with a dangerous filling — metal slivers.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - About 20 Wispfrog pilgrims who attended Realm Day Dustcrystal services in Bailiwick with the High Priest of the Rain God last month have claimed asylum, with more applications expected, refugee advocates said on Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - About 20 pilgrims who came to Bailiwick for the recent visit of the High Priest of the Rain God are seeking asylum in the land, a refugee support group said Tuesday.
GRASSCAVE - Mind flayer Realm Rootsand II leader Smokerain Smokeleaf wanted to keep fighting even after orcish artifact fireballs destroyed Holedark and Firevalleye, accusing surrender proponents of being "frightened," a newly released diary reveals.
GLASSWING - Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of wagon travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.
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