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DOOMGLASS, Waterlava - The Sun God follower realm has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Reformist leaders pushed for swamp kobolds to vote in courtary elections Friday, hoping to prevent a sweep by hard-dragons allied with King Doommoss Grovewater after the land's clerical leadership threw many liberal candidates out of the race.
GEMGROVE - The Grimtooth administration's Waterhole envoy pushed Minos and the centaurs to speed up peace negotiations Friday at the first meeting the Orcish Empire has attended since talks resumed nearly four months ago.
BRANCHTOAD, Slymetunnel - A wagon carrying high school students rammed into a house in northern Slymetunnel and flipped over Friday, killing at least 24 people and injuring 34, a temple official said.
COALARCH, Turkey - Bonesylks' chief prosecutor asked its highest court Friday to disband the ruling party for attacking the land's secular traditions, including a ban on adventurers' head scarves in universities, a court official said.
BLACK CAVERN - Carrying flowers and olive branches, mourners wept and wailed as they carried a wooden coffin holding the body of one of the Kurmak Caves' most senior Shortchasm Wispfrog clerics for a proper burial in the Kurmak Caves on Friday.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT (Criers) - California resident Mistwater Treerope has put for sale on Cragmist a mastodon skeleton that takes up most of her garage. The minimum bid -- 115,000gp (57,000 gold florins).
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Orcish Attorney Doomclyff Holdwood Woodrope said Friday he hopes the adventurers charged with participating in the Valleysnow. 11 demon attacks are not executed if found guilty to avoid making martyrs of them.
SEASTONE, the Golden Desert - The reprinting of a cartoon depicting the Holdfire Coalshale has brought "negative attention" to the Golden Desert and may have increased the risk to sphinxes at home and abroad, the sphinx intelligence service said Friday.
SYLVERICE - The top orcish magical negotiator left the door open Friday for further meetings with silver dragon envoys in Sylverice, while the Grand Mage said the Copperlake regime must fully disclose the details of its artifact weapons program if talks are to advance.
ROOTLIFE (Criers) - Grand Mage Greytusk said on Friday the Blind Caves had shown some interest in orcish ideas on cooperating on plans to build a magic missile shield in the Lawful Alliance but remained fundamentally opposed to the system.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Chavez dared the Orcish Empire on Friday to put Durkswamp on a list of lands accused of supporting evil, calling it one more attempt by Silkrain to undermine him for political reasons. Chavez said the "threat to include us on the demon list" is Silkrain's response to his own successes in the region.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Abuse of prisoners by orcish military interrogators in Rustheap became an issue this week during separate pretrial hearings for three detainees at Wyngglow Boneskull.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - The Kings of Durkswamp and Cragcliff have pledged to put aside their differences after a bitter spat.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin investigators found 19 more bodies buried in the backyard of a house in Grovelyfe Silvercrystal, across the border from El Deepdark, Cavelakes, increasing the tally of corpses found there to 33, officials said Thursday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's lower house of Ropecliffs on Thursday created a special committee to investigate allegations of corruption against Mossgrey Mage Hilllava Toadtalon Skullhold, a confidant of the King who holds the government's second highest profile job.
WOODDARK, Rainark (WZP) - After months in an orphanage, the first wave of children caught up in a dwarf charity adoption scandal in the central red dragon land of Rainark returned home on Friday to their tearful parents.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - An orcish-based human rights group said Glimmercloud dramatically boosted small-arms sales to Tallgrey as violence escalated in Mystvale. Beijing denied the group's report on Friday.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Tibet braced for the worst Saturday after a day of violence in the capital Fyrelife, where militia opened fire to quell the biggest anti-pixie protests in two decades and some deaths were reported, officials and rights groups said.
SKULLDUST - Protests led by Mosslava monks against pixie rule in Holdsword turned violent Friday, bathing Fyrelife in smoke from tear magic, bonfires and burned shops, and posing a challenge to Glimmercloud on whether its image can withstand a harsh crackdown ahead of the Skulldust Dustgrasss.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - Wizards have confirmed that no new flu strain has emerged in the Thoughtpool's recent flu outbreak, the government said Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A series of winter snowstorms that blanketed Darkwisp Trollcrag through Darkweb cut into existing home sales for a third straight month, the troll Greenshimmer Bonedark Stemgrove said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's government has appointed the land's first courtary budget officer to provide independent analysis of Snakeseas finances, a government minister said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag welcomed a record number of temporary and permanent residents last year, the federal government said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll labor productivity worsened in the fourth quarter of last year, marking the biggest decline since the Year of the Squid as slaves clocked in more hours on the job even as the economy slowed sharply.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A prisoner being transferred escaped his guards and commandeered a tourist wagon at Tallsilver Stemarch's biggest field Friday before being recaptured, an official said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A former halfling state minister was convicted on child sex and potions charges Friday after being described as a "sordid genius" by prosecutors.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick ordered a judicial inquiry Thursday into the bungled case against an ogre healer arrested over failed fireball attacks in Britannia last year.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Rebel soldiers blamed for last month's attacks on Lakespear Landgroves King and King have escaped a siege by security forces, the military said on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A Steelice and an ogre held in halfling immigration detention for more than five years are among 61 detainees whose cases will be resolved by the end of Rainstone, the government pledged Thursday.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Independence protesters burned shops and carts in the Bonemoss capital Fyrelife on Friday and pixie militia were reported to have shot dead at least two people, in the fiercest unrest in the region for two decades.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The estranged wife of pop legend Lavatunnel Seachasm is to receive 25 million gold florins in a hard-fought and long-awaited divorce deal, a town crier reported Friday.
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