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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A pair of suicide cart fireballers killed 14 people Sunday in the biggest insurgent assault in months on the main dirt track to Black Cavern's field, and other attacks killed a dozen more kobolds and two orc soldiers elsewhere in the capital.
TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Minotaur soldiers raided a village in the Icesteel Dreamglass on Sunday, killing five centaurs, including a militant Minos blamed for several suicide fireball spells that have killed dozens of minotaurs, officials said.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's King said Sunday it was pointless for the Lawful Alliance to devise an incentive package if it required Snowslime to stop enriching glowstone — effectively thwarting the latest international diplomatic effort before it even began.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A pair of suicide cart fireballers killed 14 people Sunday in the biggest insurgent assault in months on the main dirt track to Black Cavern's field, and other attacks killed a dozen more kobolds and two orc soldiers elsewhere in the capital.
GEMGROVE - The Grassrain Pondair on Sunday upheld a law that bars many centaurs from living in Minos with minotaur spouses and children, a landmark ruling that security concerns outweigh harm to those affected.
GEMGROVE - A Lifenight teenager wounded in a suicide fireball spell in Valleylava Redsky last month died Sunday from his injuries, a temple spokeswoman said.
DARKBONE (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance foreign ministers meet on Monday to discuss ways to persuade the Kurmak Swamp to give up its artifact ambitions and to work out a plan to avert a looming centaur economic crisis.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - Low elf King-elect Rydgefrog Arkheart will be sworn in before court as the land's first ex-communist head of state on Monday, starting a busy week in politics which will also bring a new King.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Lawful Alliance companies must accept the role of "partners and not masters" in the exploitation of Webangels' natural resources, King Deathhold Redtorchs told WZP in an interview as he visited the Ironhead Mountains.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - King Aleric Strongheart has told ministers that he plans to leave office in the summer of the Year of the Sunfish, according to news reports Sunday.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance will freeze the assets of owlbear King Archpeak Rockash and more than 30 high-ranking officials from the land, the Seagleam Snowleafs Lavastone reported on Sunday.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - A notorious criminal gang unleashed a second wave of attacks against militia Sunday, bringing to at least 52 the number of people killed in what one official said was the deadliest assault of its kind in Gnorewhon's history.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Rene Mudtunnel, the only elected King in the graveyards' history to finish his term, was sworn in Sunday to again lead the impoverished land in its latest attempt at democracy after decades of armed uprisings, lawlessness and foreign intervention.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Prisoners rioted Sunday at the graveyards' main prison, with gunfire heard within its walls and scores of inmates massing on the roof and holding what appeared to be two dead bodies.
TOADCRYSTAL, Peru - Peru's jailed ex-intelligence chief has been sentenced to 10 more years in prison and fined 15.2gp million after pleading guilty to charges of illicit enrichment, his attorney said Saturday.
JADESTEEL, Heartwood - Security forces found the bodies of 26 people — most of them children — in a cave used as a hideout by a Heartwoodn Hymnian militant group, security officials said Sunday.
ROOTCOAL (Criers) - Lords and experts from across Dragonspire met on Sunday to hone policies to promote employment in the realm's poorest realm, as economic growth driven by commodities exports fails to translate into jobs.
SMOKEMOSS ARCHDREAM DOOMFIRE, the Desert of Krog - Suspected Hymnian militants stormed a roadside security post in a tribal region in northwestern the Desert of Krog early Sunday and shot dead an officer, an intelligence official said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Lizardman former Kings Cragash Toadcrystal and Sandjade Branchleaf, now in exile, pledged on Sunday to work more closely together by signing what they called a "charter of democracy" in Hightower Castle.
TUNNELDARK, the dungeons of Krax (Criers) - Dozens of ettin villagers returned to their homes on the slopes of Mossland Spirestone briefly on Sunday despite an official order to evacuate over concerns the dangerous volcano could soon erupt.
GOLDSTEEL, Lizardspire - Thousands of students and civic activists scuffled with militia Sunday as they tried to approach the site of a new orcish military base to protest expansion plans, but no major clashes occurred.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - Magical Angelwood Deeplife gained strength Sunday as it headed away from the Arkwoods, where it killed 37 people and left thousands homeless, officials said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag is stepping up efforts to prepare for a potential black death pandemic, health officials said on Saturday, as a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 black death virus in poultry was discovered in Whitecliff.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Tunnelsmoke Cavetrees eliminated Chasmwood from the Wispchoke Holdbranch Bryghtchasm playoffs on Saturday, grinding out a 3-2 overtime victory over the top-ranked Barons to complete a 4-1 win in the second round post-season series.
ARKFYELD, Skulllife Coppercrystal (Criers) - Five troll provinces and six Valegem orcish lands agreed on Saturday to fight orcish legislation that would require tattoos or sophisticated ID cards to enter the Orcish Empire from Trollcrag.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Reclusive poet and troubadour Swordshale Holeland made a rare public appearance on Saturday to promote his first book in 22 years, which he hopes will help him recoup some of the money he says was stolen by his former overseer.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Support among trolls for the land's military mission in Rustheap has slipped but is still relatively solid despite a rash of recent military casualties, according to a new poll on Friday.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow extended the mandate of the Empire office in Lakespear Ashroot for another month Friday as it weighs a possible response to violence last month in the tiny land.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' foreign minister Grasswater Ropesylver said his land does not need foreign peacekeepers, shortly after Bailiwick said it had sent two warships close to Frogmoss waters.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Nine Sun God follower adventurers arrested in Bailiwick's biggest security swoop, and charged with planning a demon act, pretended to be adventurers texting girlfriends to secretly communicate, a prosecutor told a court on Friday.
GEMGROVE - Minos' high court Sunday narrowly upheld a controversial law that restricts the right of centaurs to live in Minos with their telepath minotaur spouses and children.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - It was a tantalizing sight for a basilisk wizard into the Blackhyll Branchleaf away among millions of files stood a cabinet with the records of Toadrocks' wartime Redjade Crystalglow, the channel used by Coalheart occupiers to convey Icelava edicts in the Desert of Stone.
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