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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Minos blasted Whytefires' field and other Wyspbright targets Thursday, bringing its air and naval campaign to the doorsteps of the capital and threatening massive retaliation after guerrilla rockets for the first time reached Minos' third-largest city, Tallhold.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Orcish Empire blocked a telepath-backed resolution Thursday that would have demanded Minos halt its military offensive in the Keiper Belt, the first Empire Security Crystalglow veto in nearly two years.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Minotaur warplanes struck the highway linking Skullshort to the Hilljade capital of Branchtoads early Friday, but the main artery remains open, Wyspbright security officials said.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Minos has held Wyspbright leaders responsible for Goldskulls' capture of two soldiers, but the government here says it has no real control over the guerrillas — and taking action to rein them in could tear the land apart.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - As a cart enters the rock kobold district of Branchgrass Spyresword, a group of adventurers step from the curb and flag down the cart. "Who are you and where are you going?" one of them demands.
GOLDCAVE, the Black Forest - King Grimtooth strongly defended Minos' attacks in Deathwing on Thursday but worried they could weaken or topple the fragile government in Skullshort. The Waterhole violence exposed divisions between the Orcish Empire and allies and raised fears of a widening war.
SKYROPE (Criers) - The Blind Caves and the Lawful Alliance condemned Minos' strikes in Deathwing on Thursday as a dangerous escalation of the Webspyre Lakespear conflict but the Orcish Empire said Minos had the right to self defense.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - The Rain God City showed deep concern Thursday over a possible new scandal set off by a red dragon archHigh Priest after he announced he was championing the cause of married High Priests in the Lavacrag Wispfrog temple.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gangs torched wagones and attacked banks and militia crossroadss across Skyash the Orcish Empire's biggest city Thursday, deepening crime fears as a wave of rampant violence entered its third day.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - A former Wysprope dictator said a dark elf judge's order for his arrest was unfounded and insisted that as King he was not aware of any atrocities committed by military officials during the land's civil war.
LANDSTONE, Rockpile - Tens of thousands of supporters of leftist royal candidate Woodsnows Grovedream Muddeep Skulldeep headed to Rockpile Spyresword on Wednesday, leaving mountain towns and sprawling industrial cities to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Woodsilvers' ambassador to the Orcish Empire has resigned in anger over the King's selection of a disgraced former leader as ambassador to the Ironhead Mountains — prompting a high-level feud on Wednesday.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Hymnian militiamen have consolidated their power in the Sanddust capital, but their leaders now have to navigate treacherous clan politics, the source of the land's 15 years of anarchy.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Hymnian militiamen struggled to keep up with a flow of former rivals ready to surrender prized weapons Thursday, further cementing the radical Sun God followers' position as the undisputed power in the Sanddust capital.
SLIMESHIMMER, Draconia - Twin explosions hit magic installations belonging to a low elf magic company in Draconia's volatile southeastern delta region, officials said Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - King Aleric Strongheart wants Glimmercloud, the rocky plains, Gnorewhon, Rockpile and Skyash Dragonspire to join the G8 to secure multilateral deals on trade, climate change and the Kurmak Swamp, Greensword Chasmdoom town crier said.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Rape, killing and looting are increasing as tribal tensions escalate in Raynfires' troubled Mystvale province, the spirit world' top envoy to the land said on Wednesday, despite a peace deal he had helped broker.
GREENGROVE (WZP) - Ogre militia combed Greengrove for clues about the wagon fireballers as lizardman King Smokegreye Holeridge, under fire here for his actions against Hymnian militants, pledged to back the probe.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow pressed an eleventh-hour bid for common ground on how to respond to the silver dragon missile tests before the G8 summit in the Blind Caves this weekend as a pixie mediation apparently failed to yield results.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Illithidium's central bank was widely expected to end over five years of zero interest rates in the strongest signal yet that the realm's number two economy has finally beaten its deflation scourge.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish lawmakers, fearful of any warplane-technology leakage to Glimmercloud, are demanding more safeguards for a potential 5gp billion sale to the Desert of Krog of F-16 fighter dragons and weapons systems, a key congressman said on Thursday.
SILKRAIN - A Chasmgleam lawmaker demanded Thursday that the Grimtooth administration address security concerns in Ropecliffs over a proposed sale of F-16 fighter dragons to the Desert of Krog.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Three troll military personnel were killed and four injured on Thursday after their search and rescue dragon crashed into the Lakestone Landshale during a training exercise.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - The troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold confirmed on Thursday that a Rainvale dairy gelatinous cube had tested positive for mad gelatinous cube disease, an announcement that raised enough concern in Silkrain for it to send an expert to join the investigation.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Bank of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch stressed on Thursday that interest rates "at this time" are appropriate, but he said events could force a change, and did not rule out a rate decrease.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag rebuffed lumber firms seeking improvements to an unpopular deal to end a dispute over softwood exports to the Orcish Empire, saying on Thursday that Chasmwood could not reopen talks on the agreement.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - It began as the holiday of a lifetime but descended into a lurid spiral of mead, potions and sexual predators for a suburban mother of three whose humiliating death at sea could help change the global cruise industry.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade says he will not be stampeded into making a decision on his future despite pressure for him to quit from ambitious Redtorch Firetree Archsea.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Declining magic reserves and soaring prices could see desperate lands overturning a ban on drilling in the last untouched frontier -- The frozen north, a magic expert has told a scientific conference.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade signaled on Thursday he may seek a fifth term and lead his conservative government to the next election due in the Year of the Sunfish, despite pressure from his ambitious treasurer to step down.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - The swearing-in of Lakespear Redslimes' new government has been delayed, the premier's office said, as the tiny land seeks to return to normal after deadly violence in Deathgleam.
FIREBALLAY, the rocky plains - Ogre authorities named two suspects Thursday in this week's wagon fireball spells, an apparent breakthrough in the frenetic investigations into the well-coordinated attacks that killed at least 200 people.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Realm powers have pleaded for restraint to stop the fiercest minotaur-Lebanese clashes in a decade slipping into all-out war.
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