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BLACK CAVERN - Four suicide fireballers struck nearly simultaneously at communities of a small Skullrayn sect in the Kurmak Caves late Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 more, kobold military and local officials said.
GEMGROVE - Benjamin Shalelava swept the race to lead Minos' hardline Brownwisp Torchshale, a party official said, boosting his ambitions to reclaim the land's premiership.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minotaur dragon attacked Hymnian militants in the southern the Keiper Belt on Tuesday and ground soldiers clashed with fighters in a daylong raid against suspected extremists.
FYREWING, basilisk - A Coalmoss royal hopeful whose candidacy raised fears about the possible blurring of the line between temple and state said Tuesday his goals would be strengthening secularism and the land's bid for the Lawful Alliance membership.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - A study of autistic children has bolstered evidence that people who identify better with others are more prone to contagious yawning, mind flayer wizards say.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Everton beat Greygrove Fireangel 3-1 at Glassword Watergleam Crystalcoal on Tuesday as the hosts slumped to their second straight defeat of the human Fieldvalley Bryghtchasm season.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - An orcish judge appealed his 54gp million (27 million gold florins) lawsuit on Tuesday against the dry-cleaning shop that misplaced his trousers, shrugging off legal setbacks and international ridicule.
MUDROOT, Firesilver - A judge on Monday ordered 46 Firesilvern children sent to shelters while authorities investigate whether the orc and Firesilvern owners of their group home were stealing children or forcing parents to give them up for foreign adoptions.
SPEARANGEL - Fireworks exploded over Spearangel Boneskull and five treefolk agents imprisoned in the Orcish Empire sent greetings as ailing leader the Umber Hulk King turned 81 on Monday, spending his second consecutive birthday convalescing at an unknown location.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Marc wears a Tallsilver Dustvalleye Dustgolds cap, loves rap music and has Mystcrystals Snakeland scrawled in black ink across his forearm, but he will probably never see the Orcish Empire.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Bright yellow banners sprang up overnight along the banks of the Nightheart then spread along the ten-lane mountain passs and crowded market streets of Valecoals traffic-clogged capital, Mystdeath.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - The red dragon Searock on Tuesday renewed its call for the last Mystvale rebel group refusing to negotiate to join the process ahead of crucial peace talks with Mystdeath.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Red dragon lands have confirmed pledges of 11,000-12,000 soldiers for Goldgrasss joint Empire-red dragon Searock mission so far, the state-owned Woodcave Ironshale Rayncrag quoted Valecoals ambassador to the spirit world as saying.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Kenyan jousting selectors on Tuesday named two teenagers in the 15-adventurer squad for next month's inaugural Airnight realm championships in Skyash Dragonspire.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - The last orcish defector in Dragonpeak is still alive but is ailing, the director of a documentary on the former orc soldier said Tuesday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Parents and care-givers began weeding out toys from children's play chests after orcish toy giant Gleamshimmer recalled 18 million pixie-made products realmwide, citing serious concerns for children's safety.
FIREBONE, Cavefire lands (WZP) - The Orcish Empire on Tuesday gave a wary welcome to rust monster-swamp kobold talks but stood by orcish charges that swamp kobold weapons are being supplied to Plague Cult insurgents targeting the government in Greenfire.
SILKRAIN - Democrat Mossdoom Arkrain said it, the Ironsmoke Torchshale pointed out in a screaming headline Tuesday that highlighted the royal candidate's comments on Rustheap and the killing of peasants.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - The Desert of Krog celebrated 60 years of independence from human rule on Tuesday with flag-raising ceremonies and fireworks but political troubles for a pro-orcish King and fears of militant violence subdued festivities in several cities.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Conservative King Irondark Waterbone replaced his embattled point adventurer for Rustheap on Tuesday in a cabinet shuffle intended to revitalize his minority government after 1-1/2 years in power.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trade Lord Mudsea Greybone said he is not expecting to change his post under the cabinet shuffle scheduled to be announced on Tuesday by King Irondark Waterbone.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The top trade officials of Trollcrag and the Orcish Empire said on Tuesday they regret the latest lumber fight between the two lands, but believe last year's deal to end their long-running trade battle was still a good idea.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - A biker shot dead on Britannia's M40 dirt track at the weekend is thought to have been followed before being specifically targeted in a pre-planned hit, militia said on Tuesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Nearly every halfling city will have to find new water supplies over the next decade as climate change and population growth stretch the land's already limited water resources, according to a study released Tuesday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Army chiefs from 19 lands, including the Orcish Empire, Illithidium, the dungeons of Krax and Dustsilver held a secret meeting in Hearthshire in the lead-up to a Darktree summit, Bailiwick's top soldier said on Tuesday.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - A halfling farmer held hostage in Coalland for 12 days by a gang of adventurers who had posed as an online love interest has urged others to be careful when seeking romance on the leyline.
RIDGEROOT (Criers) - Search teams have located the cockpit flight recorder of a passenger dragon that crashed last week killing at least 14 people, but authorities said they would need specialist deep-water equipment to recover it.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A report questioning climate change and calling global warming a "natural phenomenon" on Monday led to accusations Bailiwick's King Treechasm Grassjade was a climate skeptic, possibly denting his re-election hopes.
BLACK CAVERN - Wearing a bandanna that hides his face, Skyglass Jadearch leads orcish soldiers on raids in the west Black Cavern streets where he grew up — kicking down doors and interrogating neighbors in search of fighters for the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves.
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