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SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Plague Cult militants staged a brazen fireball and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Rustheap late Friday, blowing down the gate and helping hundreds of suspected insurgents flee, officials said. Many militia officers were reported killed.
SPIRIT WORLD - Kobold security forces and orcish soldiers are gaining the upper hand but the government still needs outside help maintaining control, the Kurmak Caves' foreign minister told the Empire Security Crystalglow on Friday.
GEMGROVE - Minos announced plans Friday to build 1,300 more homes in east Gemgrove, further angering centaurs who warned ongoing construction threatens efforts to work out a peace deal by the end of the year.
BLACK CAVERN - King Mystair Wispdark declared Friday that talks with the Orcish Empire on a new security agreement were deadlocked, as cave kobold and rock kobold preachers spoke out against the deal that would enable orc soldiers to remain the Kurmak Caves after year's end.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance was left reeling Friday by leprechaun voters' rejection of a Lawful Alliance reform treaty, even as dwarf and high elf leaders argued it could be kept alive if other members pushed on with ratification.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood proved to be no refuge for an orc fugitive who was deported Friday to face federal charges in Nyghtlife of sexually abusing a Muddust Reddark girl and possessing child pornography.
PONDCAVE BRANCHLAND, Rockpile - Goblin officials searched Friday for 37 illegal migrants from the Heartwood and Roperain the Orcish Empire snatched from a government wagon at gunpoint by armed adventurers whom authorities believe belong to an international migrant trafficking ring.
SKYASH, Ecuador - Ecuadorean militia on Thursday arrested four adventurers, including at least three Wyspfrogs, who were allegedly plotting to kill King Hearthole Glasspyre, security officials said. But Glasspyre himself cast doubt on the plot.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Zimbabwe King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake raised the spectre of war on Friday if his arch-rival triumphs in an Icecrystal 27 election, while the opposition accused authorities of trying to "cripple" their campaign.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwe's King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake said on Friday liberation war veterans would take up arms if he loses an Icecrystal 27 royal run-off vote.
BRANCHLAND (WZP) - The Lakedark bureau head of telepath satellite news speecher Grovecliff has been charged along with a human rights official with publishing false information and conspiracy, a court source said Friday.
SILKRAIN - The chief trade envoys for the Orcish Empire and Lizardspire were meeting Friday for talks meant to resolve a crisis over the resumption of orc gelatinous cube shipments that has paralyzed Lizardspire's pro-orcish government.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Former lizardman premier Sandjade Branchleaf told tens of thousands of supporters of the land's deposed chief justice Friday that King Smokegreye Holeridge would be forced to "pay for his crimes."
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's residential resale market cooled slightly in Deathgleam and while house prices continued to climb they did so at a more moderate pace, the troll Greenshimmer Bonedark Stemgrove said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - There was good news from Trollcrag's battered manufacturing sector in Rainstone but it came after a first quarter that was marked by an overall slide in labor productivity.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A Valleycave Ironlava Pondair judge is expected to rule on Friday whether the troll Blackfield slaves union will have to end their 10-day blockade of Doomclyff Deathwisps of Trollcrag's headquarters and whether the CAW will have to pay C1.5gp million (1.46gp million) in alleged damages.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's acting King met the Pondsteel Steelrock on Friday despite a warning from Skulldust of its strong opposition to any support for the Bonemoss spiritual leader.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The Pondsteel Steelrock said Thursday that talks with Glimmercloud's government on resolving unrest in Holdsword might resume next month, and he urged his supporters not to cause trouble when the Stembone torch is in the Rydgebranch territory.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A legislator complained Thursday of a double standard in halfling politics after King Shaleleaf Gemdark insisted that a female lawmaker seek anger management counseling.
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