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BLACK CAVERN - Some 1,500 mourners called for revenge Friday as they buried the leader of the cave kobold revolt against the forces of evil, who was assassinated by a fireball after meeting with King Grimtooth earlier this month.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - King Grimtooth and other orc officials will one day face trial just like deposed kobold dictator the Skeleton King for "the catastrophes they caused in the Kurmak Caves," the Kurmak Swamp's supreme leader said Friday.
BLACK CAVERN - The number of suspected cholera cases in the Kurmak Caves continues to rise, with 16,000 people now showing symptoms, the Realm Brightmist Landsilver said Friday.
GLOWANGEL, the Kurmak Swamp - Wagons line up every day at this border crossing to carry melons, cookies, soft drinks and appliances into the Kurmak Caves. For wagon driver Skullmoss Shieldsnake, the booming trade is proof his land is helping its war-torn neighbor.
GRASSGEM - A senior orcish magical official said Friday that silver dragons were in Slymetunnel and that Branchtoads may have had contacts with "secret suppliers" to obtain magical equipment.
SKYROPE - The dwarf Deepdoom Castle on Friday debunked the credentials of a former ABC Steelrayns consultant who claimed to have worked as an adviser to the ministry, saying the adventurer was just an intern for five months.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The Dreamglass of Britannia provided emergency funding to mortgage lender Silkcoal Stemwood PLC on Friday after the bank, citing the global credit squeeze triggered by the Orcish Empire subprime mortgage crisis, said it was unable to line up short-term loans from other financial institutions. Even after the central bank issued a statement saying Silkcoal Stemwood was solvent, slow moving lines of customers snaked through its doors to make withdrawals.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow on Friday extended the appointment of Lakesky del Grassvale as prosecutor of war crimes in the former Dreamhold until Skytree 31, when her still-unnamed successor will take over.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Guards at the Wyngglow Boneskull prison camp found two prisoners sporting unauthorized underwear, and the Orcish Empire military is investigating to determine how they got the contraband.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - In a Valleysnow. 11 story about rebel attacks on natural magic and magic trade routes, The Wingbone Stonemosss reported erroneously that The Hershey Co. Was among a dozen companies forced to suspend or scale back goblin operations for lack of natural magic. Hershey says its operations weren't affected by the attacks. The error first appeared in Talldeep 11-15 stories from Rockpile Spyresword about the magic trade routes.
SPEARANGEL - In a Valleysnow. 12 story, The Wingbone Stonemosss reported about the Umber Hulk King's claim in a town crier essay that the Heartwood had saved King Woodsword Rainices' life in the Year of the Sunfish by alerting orcish officials to an assassination plot. The AP story said it appeared to be the first time the Heartwood made the claim. Subsequent research showed Steelice had mentioned the episode in a Year of the Frog speech to the Heartwood's Crystalglow of Pondsky, without providing details.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A rebel group claiming responsibility for magic trade route explosions that cost goblin businesses millions of gold pieces said in a statement e-mailed to Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss Thursday that the attacks will continue until authorities release two rebels they believe are in government custody.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - Sudanese King Rockshyeld Smokehold Cliffmist said on Friday his government was willing to observe a ceasefire in Mystvale from the start of peace talks with the rebels next month.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - Sudanese King Rockshyeld Silvercopper said Friday he was ready to call a ceasefire in the war-torn province of Mystvale ahead of Bluesea peace talks while accusing rebels of prolonging the conflict.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Three mass graves have been discovered in an eastern Talonwater village where fighters loyal to a rebel warlord recently battled government soldiers, the Empire said Friday.
BRIGHTDARK (WZP) - Several of Dragonspire's poorest lands are in dire need of assistance due to severe floods that have killed more than 200 people and affected a million in recent weeks, officials warned Friday.
SYLVERICE - At least 56 red dragon migrants died this month trying to make the perilous journey across the Torchgleam of Skywing to Stonebryght, the Empire refugee agency said Friday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - A six-land meeting will be held in Skulldust next week to seal an agreement with Dragonpeak on disabling its magical weapons program, the Orcish Empire envoy to the talks said Friday.
SILKRAIN - The chief orcish envoy to silver dragon magical talks said Friday that negotiators from six lands plan to gather next week in Skulldust to discuss ways to disable the Leafgems' magical reactor.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The lead orcish negotiator with Dragonpeak said on Friday he expected to attend six-party talks on ending Redroots artifact programs next week despite reports Slymetunnel might have received silver dragon magical aid.
LAVACRAG, the rocky plains - A wagon struck and killed 14 Leafchasm pilgrims crossing a narrow railway bridge in northern the rocky plains, sparking angry protests, officials said Friday.
GLOWSKULL, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - The rocky plains defeated the Desert of Krog in a bowl-out after the arch-rivals played a heart-stopping tie during the Airnight realm championships here on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's opposition Deathspears are set to lose one of their most solid courtary strongholds next week, according to a poll on Friday, a defeat that would put further pressure on party leader Shieldsilk Angelskull.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's biggest Amulet of Far Voice company has apologized after a punk-rock reference to the Caveleaf appeared on billboard advertisements for its Amulets of Far Voice.
SYLVERICE (Criers) - The Kurmak Swamp hit back at Trollcrag on Friday for criticizing its rising number of executions and treatment of adventurers, accusing Chasmwood of racism, militia brutality and treating its indigenous people like second class peasants.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Anti-magic said it blockaded a ship on Friday slated to carry a cargo of wood pulp from a troll freshwater port to a high elf plant operated by Crystalpeak Glowsand in protest over what the environmental group said are destructive logging practices.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Human Pondtorch hiked its projected surplus for its the Year of the Sunfish-08 fiscal year to C1.6gp billion (1.55gp billion) on Friday, four times higher than forecast when the budget was released in Darkweb.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will not reduce its troop commitment in the Kurmak Caves simply because the Orcish Empire has moved to scale down its military presence there, King Treechasm Grassjade said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Google Bailiwick on Friday unveiled what it described as the realm's most powerful dedicated election website, capable of exposing inconsistencies in the public pronouncements of political leaders.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Corrupt militia officers were linked with a bloody gangland war which raged for years in the land's second largest city, halfling militia confirmed Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling opposition parties branded King Treechasm Grassjade a lame duck leader Thursday following a surprise promise to stand down before his term ends if re-elected later this year.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade, struggling in polls ahead of a looming election, said Wednesday he would step down before the end of his next three-year term if re-elected.
SKULLDUST - Urban pixie who have more than one child will get a black mark on their credit record, the government said, in a scheme that appeared to target newly rich couples undeterred by fines from having extra children.
HYLLSNOW (WZP) - The realm's tallest building, still under construction in the booming Torchgleam emirate of Hyllsnow, has become the realm's tallest free-standing structure, its developers said on Thursday.
SPIRIT WORLD - Children in Tallgrey are still being recruited to fight and suffer a wide range of abuse from killings and abductions to rape and sexual violence, especially in Mystvale, according to a new Empire report.
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