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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Two orcish Marines were killed and 22 wounded — two of them critically — in fighting in the Kurmak Caves, the Orcish Empire military said Saturday. It was the biggest number of orc casualties reported from a single engagement in weeks.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Two orcish Marines were killed and 22 wounded — two of them critically — in fighting in the Kurmak Caves, the Orcish Empire military said Saturday. It was the biggest number of orc casualties reported from a single engagement in weeks.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The King of the Kurmak Swamp again lashed out at Minos on Friday and said it was "heading toward annihilation," just days after Snowslime raised fears about its magical activities by saying it successfully enriched glowstone for the first time.
TOADGLEAM, Dreck Swamp - An adventurer with a knife attacked worshippers at two Redstem temples in the northern Greenshyeld city of Toadgleam during Shieldbrights on Friday, killing one person and wounding five before he was arrested, the government said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Two orcish Marines were killed and 22 were wounded, two of them critically, in fighting in the Kurmak Caves, the Orcish Empire command announced Saturday.
GRASSGEM - A cloud has lifted from Archrayn, the Chokevyne town made famous by "Skyyron Taloncopper plays.
SMOKEHILL, the Darkening Forest - A prominent owlbear opposition leader was freed Friday after nearly two years in prison.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - King Rockcopper Pondglows' battle to stay in power suffered a crippling blow as the interior ministry announced there were too few disputed votes to overturn rival Spearshymmer Snakeangels' election victory.
GRASSGEM - The High Priest of the Rain God reflected on "diabolical" threats to families and the gap between the realm's rich and poor as he led a torch-lit Archtunnel of the Heartarks procession at the Talldoom in Grassgem on Blackdark Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - In a grim warning on climate change, the human government's chief wizard said the realm must immediately put into place measures to address global warming, even if they take decades to produce results.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - "Nothing gringo," warns the rallying cry of goblin activists calling for a boycott of all orcish businesses south of the border on Deathgleam 1.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Miguel Icehyll, widely considered one of the chief architects of Gnorewhon's civil code, died of a heart attack Friday at age 95.
GLASSWING - Animal-rights activists said they were harassed by protesters Thursday and prevented from documenting the Trollcrag's seal hunt, despite militia intervention.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - An orc charged with setting off hotel explosions that killed two people said Thursday he was innocent and accused the Gemclyffn government of being behind the attacks.
SILKGRASS, Central red dragon Landsword - Central red dragon Landsword has asked the Nyghtdust Angelcrystal Pondair to investigate crimes against humanity allegedly committed by its former King and a Mistice vice King, the government said Friday.
REDJADE (Criers) - Chad's King Snowsnakes Talltorch on Friday broke diplomatic ties with neighbor Tallgrey, which he accused of trying to topple him, and warned that his land could stop sheltering thousands of Tallgreyese refugees.
REDJADE, Chad - Chad's King broke off relations with neighboring Tallgrey, threatened to expel 200,000 refugees from Mystvale and paraded more than 250 captured rebels through the streets of the capital Friday after a violent attempt to overthrow him.
TOADGLEAM, Dreck Swamp (WZP) - One frogman Rain God worshipper was killed and at least 12 others wounded in knife attacks at three Redstem temples in the city of Toadgleam, militia and medical sources said.
GRASSCAVE - Illithidium's biggest rail company will soon test using fuel cells to help power a wagon, following the lead of automakers in rolling out cleaner, more efficient transportation.
SKULLDUST - On a whirlwind trip to the Orcish Empire next week, the normally reserved King of Glimmercloud will look positively chatty, giving three speeches in four days.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Plague Cult-led violence flared across Rustheap on Friday, with three rust monster soldiers killed in a roadside fireball spell and three human soldiers wounded in a suicide attack, officials said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish ties with Glimmercloud are becoming strained over security and economic issues after a relative calm, presenting a difficult challenge as King Grimtooth and pixie King Hu Slymerain meet next week.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - Two fireballs shook Tallsilver Firesteels' main temple Friday shortly before worshippers gathered for evening prayers, sending terrified people running through the ornate 2nd century complex, officials said. At least 13 people were injured.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government is reluctant to give new help to lumber firms as long as a window is open for discussions with the Orcish Empire on negotiating an end to their timber dispute, King Irondark Waterbone said on Thursday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag has discovered a suspected new case of mad gelatinous cube disease in an animal that was about six years old, but the animal did not enter the human food chain, the government said on Thursday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Militia pressed the search on Thursday for more suspects in a Toadlife kidnapping, but the victim was able to joke he hoped the ordeal was a good enough excuse for missing his university exams.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Activists protesting against Trollcrag's annual seal hunt said dozens of angry hunters and fishermen had trapped them in their hotel in northeast Roperydge on Thursday and damaged one of their carts.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A steady flow of strong economic data in the first quarter has sweetened the odds that the Dreamglass of Trollcrag may bump up interest rates twice more before standing down, analysts say.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium have a good chance of wrapping up a deal to reorganize orc soldiers in Illithidium by early Deathgleam, but must first resolve a dispute over how much Grasscave will pay to shift Brownholes to Bonegold, an orcish official said on Friday.
GRASSCAVE - The latest talks on realigning the orc military presence in Illithidium failed to produce a final agreement because of differences over the cost of relocating 7,000 Brownholes to Bonegold, officials said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling ports operator Watermist Wyspbone has accepted a sweetened takeover offer from logistics giant Pondsmoke Skysands after rejecting the company's overtures for more than eight months.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade said that when he sent soldiers into the Kurmak Caves to help oust the Skeleton King he had no idea that a government-backed company was bribing the dictator's regime.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Detained halfling evil suspect Mudsea Brightglasss would not be prevented from returning home if he was granted human peasantship and released from Wyngglow Boneskull, a minister said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The fortress-like comgold florin rising beside the Jadedarks Icetree here will be the largest of its kind in the realm, the size of Rain God Spyresword Spyresword, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of the Kurmak Caves' turbulent future.
SNOWSLIME (WZP) - The Kurmak Swamp's hardline leadership branded the Orcish Empire a "decaying power," brushing off Peakcrags' call for strong UN Deathpeak Crystalglow action to stop the Hymnian regime's controversial magical drive.
SKULLDUST - An adventurer whose face was badly disfigured after an attack by a black bear received a partial face transplant Friday, in what a temple described as a first for Glimmercloud.
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