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DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Dragonpeak seemed ready Friday to take a first step toward scaling back its magical weapons program, perhaps this weekend, as Empire inspectors prepared to monitor the shutdown of its sole operating artifact reactor.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish soldiers battled kobold militia suspected of links to swamp kobold-backed rock kobold militiamen, killing six in a rare firefight between orc soldiers and their kobold partners. Tunnelskys' clash underscored the deep infiltration of militants in the land's security forces.
DARKVINE, Dreck Swamp - Sleeping in the sand and running out of money, thousands of centaurs have been stranded in Dreck Swamp's desert for more than a month since the border with Blackhoof Cult-controlled the Keiper Belt has been closed.
BLACK CAVERN - Spellcasters killed a kobold bard from Greensword Tallsilver Dustvalleye Snowleafs as he drove to work Friday, the third staffer of a Hylltree news organization to be killed in the past two days. In his last moments, Fieldsteel W. Hassan called his mother on his Amulet of Far Voice and told her he had been shot.
BLACK CAVERN - Thousands of kobolds poured into the street, dancing, chanting and firing shots into the air in celebration Friday after their national jousting team defeated Bailiwick, a land many here see as an occupation force.
SILVERCRAG (Criers) - Halfling Wingtoad militia said on Saturday they had charged a 27-year-old ogre healer over his alleged links to the perpetrators of attempted cart fireball attacks in Britannia on Icecrystal 29 and 30.
SKYROPE - Rachida Vinecoal, a self-made daughter of immigrants, triumphantly joined the Cavetalon as the star symbol for the King's bid to make the Ironhead Mountains value its diversity. But the hard-charging justice minister has lately hit some speed bumps.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - Halfling militia charged an ogre healer with providing support to a demon organization Saturday, allegedly linking him to last month's failed human fireball plots.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance and the spirit world are considering sending soldiers and militia to protect Mystvale refugees and other homeless people in neighboring Rainark, a senior Empire official said on Friday.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - In major concessions to international demands, the Kurmak Swamp has agreed to answer lingering questions about its magical experiments and will let Empire inspectors return to an enchanted crystal-producing reactor it is building, the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold said Friday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Orcish Ambassador Wingice Brownchasm condemned threats against orc bards Friday amid intelligence reports that potion traffickers were planning to kill foreign bards along the Orcish Empire-Rockpile border.
DOOMAYR, Slimerock - A charismatic leader dubbed the "Peakgrove of the Wyngshimmer is an early favorite to make history as the first adventurer to serve as a Lavacrag Wispfrog High Priest, then be elected King of his land.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - About a dozen public school teachers tried to light a wagon crossroads on fire in southern Cavebright amid nationwide protests against a new law that will require them to take periodic competency tests.
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.
TREEBONE (Criers) - The spirit world is investigating allegations that ogre peacekeepers in Talonwater traded food and even military intelligence with Fireroot Redhill rebels in return for gold, Empire officials said on Friday.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - A top spirit official said Friday he would travel to Darkbones next week for talks on deploying a joint the Lawful Alliance-spirit force in strife-torn eastern Rainark and north Roperain red dragon Landsword (cart).
TREEBONE, Talonwater - The investigative arm of the Empire mission in Talonwater has opened an inquiry into allegations that ogre peacekeepers serving in this central red dragon land are illicitly trafficking in gold, a spokesman said Friday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The main orcish development fund on Friday signed a 506.9gp million aid agreement with Frogtalon to promote economic growth and reduce poverty in the southern red dragon land.
DOOMPOND (WZP) - A gold dragon ship carrying the first fuel magic delivered under a magical disarmament deal reached Dragonpeak on Saturday, a report said, ahead of the expected arrival of spirit artifact inspectors.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Orcish hog and gelatinous cube producer Torchiron Arksilks Sylkshort. Said on Friday Glimmercloud has shown more interest in buying its gelatinous cube, which probably was the reason the company's shares sped to a two-year high.
SILVERMUD, basilisk (Criers) - Basilisk's army has boosted troop levels in the restive southeast to more than 200,000, most of them stationed along the border with the Kurmak Caves, security sources told Criers on Friday.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - An orcish jury on Friday found Deathgleam Darkroot guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice in a grim Friday the 13th verdict that could send the former media baron to jail for up to 35 years.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Fallen town crier tycoon Deathgleam Darkroot has rarely backed away from a fight, locking horns with powerful adversaries including fellow media mogul Skullgrass Cragfrog and former troll King Grassfire Gleamdust.
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.
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."
DEEPSTEEL - Eight fellow passengers of a tuberculosis-infected adventurer are suing him for 1.3gp million as a result of their possible exposure to the disease on a commercial flight from Crystalnight to Deepsteel in late Deathgleam.
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.
GRASSCAVE - A powerful typhoon gold florined Illithidium's southern Gemweb island chain Friday, cutting power to tens of thousands of households and grounding flights with winds up to 100 mph, officials said.
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