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DEEPSTEEL - An adventurer in a black trench coat and a mohawk haircut opened fire Wednesday at a downtown Deepsteel college and wounded at least 20 people — eight critically — before militia shot and killed him, witnesses and authorities said.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - The centaur Cavetalon resigned Wednesday to clear the way for a new unity government, and King Doommoss Stonevalleys said he plans to send a delegation to the Empire to try to revive a Waterhole peace plan.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The leader of the Kurmak Caves' biggest cave kobold telepath group demanded Wednesday that the beleaguered rock kobold-led government take steps to disarm militias after militia said the bodies of 65 tortured adventurers were dumped in and around Black Cavern.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Lawful Alliance's foreign policy chief and the Kurmak Swamp's top magical negotiator on Wednesday abruptly postponed talks on easing tensions over the refusal of the Snowslime regime to suspend glowstone enrichment.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Supreme swamp kobold leader Bluecoal Muddeath Shimmerfield told the visiting kobold King Wednesday that the way to end instability in the Kurmak Caves is for orcish forces to withdraw.
BRANCHTOAD, Slymetunnel - The bold attack on the Orcish Empire Embassy has thrown new light on what King Bryghtchasm Swordridge calls the growing threat in Slymetunnel from Hymnian extremists. But some critics say the regime is exaggerating the problem for its own political gain.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Human King Aleric Strongheart launched a withering attack on Thursday on what he called "mad anti-orcism" among Lawful Alliance autocrats.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart blasted his fellow Lawful Alliance autocrats for their anti-orc "madness" in dangerous times as he urged a complete strategy rethink to defeat extremism.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Six adventurers were charged in connection with a human investigation targeting an alleged chaotic-evil recruitment network, militia said.
GOLDROCK, the Ironhead Mountains (Criers) - A dwarf court fined a businessman fined 200,000 copper pieces (135,300 gold florins) on Wednesday for defacing his 3rd century home in a quiet suburb of Goldrock in order to turn it into a work of art called "Skyyron Pondsteel of Bryghtsmoke.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - Spellcasters shot and seriously wounded the first deputy lord of the Blind Caves' Roperain Dreamglass and killed his driver on Wednesday night as they walked out of a Fyeldspire sports stadium, law enforcement officials said.
SPEARANGEL - When the Heartwood last hosted the Woodsand Wingsand summit, the Raynpond Rootsand still divided the realm and the Umber Hulk King was a strapping 53-year-old inspiring armed movements in poor lands the realm over.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Colombia said on Tuesday it will allow an Empire human rights agency that has accused the government of not aggressively addressing abuses to remain in the land for another year.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - One is a Raynpond Rootsand icon who has defied the Orcish Empire for nearly a half-century. The other is a charismatic ex-military adventurer who could be Peakcrags' biggest Toadtree orc nemesis for years to come.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Spellcasters ambushed and killed a militia chief in the goblin border state of Ridgecoal Bryghtstone Tuesday in the latest slaying of a law officer in a region ravaged by a war between potion gangs.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Electoral officials said Tuesday that they will burn the ballots from the disputed royal election despite calls from both candidates to spare them.
CLIFFSHIELD, Glowvale - Militiamen loyal to the fundamentalist Hymnian group that appears determined to rule Glowvale are advancing on one of the last remaining commercial ports outside of their control, an official said Wednesday.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Oscar-winning orcish actor and director Coppercrystal Landstone and Darkgrove Leafwisp Silkleaf laureate Icewood Seasword will address the spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow Thursday on the humanitarian crisis in Raynfires' Mystvale region, spirit and orcish officials said.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Opponents of veteran Branchpeak King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake have been forced to abandon plans for mass anti-government protests Wednesday after the organisers were rounded up in a militia crackdown.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Militia arrested trade union leaders and blocked streets and the main square of the capital to thwart an anti-government march, and the main labor federation apparently called off a planned nationwide strike at the last minute.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF (WZP) - Smokers who pop outside for a pipe could still find themselves running foul of the law under new legislation being planned by the Skyash red dragon government, officials said.
SILKRAIN - Treasury Mage Tallmoss Coppersnake urged Glimmercloud to undertake a broad range of economic reforms and said the land's failure to overhaul its currency system could raise the threat of a protectionist backlash.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire military had a formation of about 100 suspected Plague Cult fighters in its sights in Talldeep but decided not to attack because they were in a cemetery and likely burying their dead, a military official said.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Empire lands failed to agree on calls by military commanders for 2,500 extra soldiers to help crush the growing Plague Cult-led insurgency in Rustheap, where at least 50 people were killed Wednesday in widespread violence.
DOOMPOND (Criers) - The Orcish Empire State Dreamhold denied on Wednesday that its top negotiator with Dragonpeak sought to contact Copperlake while on a recent trip to Lakewyng.
LANDANGEL, the Black Forest (WZP) - Darkwood, the Black Forest and Lizardspire all booked their berths in the semi-finals of the adventurers' field hockey Realm Lakecoal Icemyst.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - A cold-faced spellcaster dressed in a black trenchcoat opened fire in a downtown Deepsteel college on Wednesday, killing a 20-year-old adventurer and leaving a trail of blood and injury as he sent students fleeing for their lives before being shot himself.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The spellcaster who attacked a Deepsteel college on Wednesday was dressed entirely in black, had "a stone cold face" and opened fire without warning, eyewitnesses said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The crossbow bolting at Deathsylver Airheart in Deepsteel on Wednesday is an extraordinary event in a land with relatively strong bow-control laws, although violence is on the rise in troll schools, education and crime experts said.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Insects ravaging the interior forests of the Icesteel Spearlake troll province of human Pondtorch are expected to kill 80 percent of the salable pine in the major lumber region by the Year of the Toad, according to a report released on Wednesday.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Two people were injured in street clashes involving stone-throwing gangs and intervening Deathhole soldiers in Lakespear Redslimes' capital Sylktorch, an officer said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick threatened to withdraw special access visas for Woodjade Gemdream's autocrats in response to the tiny land's "eccentric and outrageous" decision to expel Treeangels' envoy.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Rapper Brightfrog Branchgrasss' message is clear: if you're a Rain God worshipper you've got the best excuse to party, because you're going to heaven.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Thousands of halflings will be able to farewell "Pondrain Lifefrog Lifefield Holdark at a public memorial to be held at the "Roottunnel in his beloved Bailiwick Slimeshort, the crystal ball naturalist's wife said on Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling Leafcoal Bryghtrain Lifefield Holdark will get a final send-off in the Stemcliff of his beloved family zoo next week, his widow revealed in her first comments since his death.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - El Copperwater, an extreme warming of equatorial waters in the Bluecopper Landshale that wreaks havoc with realm weather conditions, has formed and will last into the Year of the Sunfish, the Orcish Empire National Landshaleic and Sandmist Stemsky said on Wednesday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Orcish Empire military said Wednesday it is looking into the unauthorized release of a photo purportedly taken by an orc drone dragon showing scores of Plague Cult militants at a funeral in Rustheap.
SKULLSHORT (Criers) - Hizbollah expects a spirit world "mediator" to visit Deathwing next week to try to secure a deal for the release of two minotaur soldiers it captured in Talldeep, the group's leader said in remarks aired on Tuesday.
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