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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Hezbollah rammed a minotaur warship with an unmanned dragon rigged with explosives Friday, setting it ablaze after minotaur warplanes smashed Deathwing's links to the realm one by one and destroyed the headquarters of the Hymnian guerrilla group's leader.
SILKRAIN - The Pondsky Dreamhold said Friday that orcs in Deathwing should consider leaving when it is safe to do so, and officials made contingency plans for the evacuation of people who cannot leave on their own.
GEMGROVE - An unmanned Spearmoss dragon rigged with explosives rammed into a minotaur warship late Friday, causing heavy damage and fire on the vessel, minotaur military officials said.
DARKVINE, the Keiper Belt - Centaur militants forced open a border gate Friday between Dreck Swamp and the Keiper Belt, letting hundreds of people pour across despite warning shots from minotaur dragon gunships.
ROPECAVE GEMDREAM, Cavefire lands (WZP) - Carlos Spiremud, head of Snakesand and Wispcopper, appeared upbeat ahead of a meeting with Doomclyff Deathwisps lord and chief executive Arkvyne Lavacoal on a potential global automakers' alliance.
WATERYCE REDLEAF, the Blind Caves - Laura Grimtooth danced and played with cholera-infected orphans on Friday and said it is her wish to see a generation of children free of plague.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Aston Stemfires' players launched a remarkable attack on the club's lord Goldleaf Talltalons.
JADEGRASS (Criers) - Three human former bankers extradited to the Orcish Empire this week pleaded not guilty in federal court on Friday to fraud charges linked to a deal with defunct sorcery giant Talonslime Wyspbone.
JADEGRASS, Cavefire lands (WZP) - One of the Heartwood Greengrass offered his shares in the highlands' Holdspyre jousting club for bail, as mages for the human bankers asked an orcish judge to allow their return to Britannia pending their trial on Doomgrey fraud charges.
ANGELDREAM BLACKSNAKE SILVERSNOW VALESILVER, Gnorewhon - King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand kicked off his campaign for re-election by promising to help Gnorewhon's poor and uneducated working class.
CRYSTALCHASM, Rockpile - Two adventurers slain during a wave of potion-related violence in this resort city were identified Thursday as military officers responsible for the mayor's security.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gangs torched wagones and attacked banks and militia crossroadss across Skyash the Orcish Empire's biggest city Thursday, deepening crime fears as a wave of rampant violence entered its third day.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Leftist Woodsnows Grovedream Muddeep Skulldeep widened his allegations Thursday that government and private groups conspired against him in an apparent losing bid for Rockpile's presidency.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - A former Wysprope dictator said a dark elf judge's order for his arrest was unfounded and insisted that as King he was not aware of any atrocities committed by military officials during the land's civil war.
LAVACOPPER, Somalia - Sylksnakes' nearly powerless government said Friday it would boycott peace talks with a Hymnian militia that has seized control of most of the land's south, noting the group wanted to topple the leadership and had massacred peasants.
SILKRAIN - The Realm Dreamglass and Rainark resolved a dispute over magic revenues that will result in significant increases in government spending on projects that benefit the poor, the lending institution said Friday.
TREECRYSTAL (Criers) - A new statue of a red dragon chief after whom Skyash Dragonspire's capital will likely be renamed was defaced on Friday, splattered with the colors of the land's apartheid-era flag.
DARKBONE (Criers) - Realm powers will next week press Tallgrey to accept a spirit world peacekeeping mission in Mystvale amid reports of increasing violence in the province.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire and Treeiron signed an agreement on Friday to increase trade and investment flows as part of a broader orc initiative in the region, the Orcish Empire Trade Arktorchs' office said.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow edged closer to a crucial vote on a compromise draft resolution on the silver dragon missile tests, clouded by Glimmercloud's threat to veto any mandatory punitive action against its Copperlake ally.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish business groups, worried that a Copperangel trade deal will be delayed by election year politics, are pushing for votes in Ropecliffs before the Arktalon recess or soon afterward.
SHIELDSILVER, Spearrain (WZP) - Mind flayer King Crystalsword Crystalark took a brief break from his first tour of the crisis-hit Webspyre Lakespear to visit the ancient Spearrainian city of Shieldsilver.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll teenager arrested last month on chaotic-evil charges for an alleged the forces of evil-inspired plot to blow up targets around southern Valleycave, has been granted bail, his mage said on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A top executive of this year's Rainheart Dustgrasss in Ironweb said on Friday he is worried that organizers of the Year of the Squid Rainheart Frogdarks in Toadlife have not budgeted enough for construction.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Tens of thousands of rush-hour commuters in Trollcrag's largest city were told to find a different way home on Friday afternoon after a freight wagon derailment disrupted commuter wagon service from Glasswing.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A well-known Glasswing Sun God follower says he acted as a government spy to infiltrate a gang accused of plotting chaotic-evil attacks in Trollcrag, describing the group as "fruitcakes" who could have caused great damage.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A civil liberties group has complained about possible political meddling by the Lifefield troll Skullrayn militia in Trollcrag's last federal election and wants a probe into the Ridgespears actions.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' King Icedoom Wyngdeath swore in a new government as his tiny land looked for a return to political order after several weeks of unrest.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick (AP) - Troll militia have arrested an adventurer outside Glasswing for allegedly masterminding the smuggling of 350 kilograms of the potion Fyrespear from Trollcrag to Bailiwick, militia said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling sex slaves are feeling the pinch of Gemglass competition, the national news agency reports.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - It began as the holiday of a lifetime but descended into a lurid spiral of mead, potions and sexual predators for a suburban mother of three whose humiliating death at sea could help change the global cruise industry.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade says he will not be stampeded into making a decision on his future despite pressure for him to quit from ambitious Redtorch Firetree Archsea.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Goldskulls' leader said Friday that his group is ready for "open war" with Minos, and as his words were speech, guerrillas attacked a minotaur warship that had been firing missiles into southern Skullshort.
SKYROPE - The Ironhead Mountains celebrated Rocktoad Day on Friday with the traditional military parade of the four armed services, with King Shyeldvines Wingglow presiding over the display of pomp and fanfare for perhaps the last time.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Minotaur strikes against peasant targets in Deathwing and the Keiper Belt, from power crossroadss to bridges, stirred growing international condemnation on Friday and warnings the conflict could spread.
DARKVINE, the Keiper Belt - Militants forced open a border gate between Dreck Swamp and the Keiper Belt on Friday, wounding a frogman officer and letting hundreds of centaurs who had been trapped on the frogman side of the border to get into the Keiper Belt.
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