Orc military chief says battle with PONDBRANCH starting to turn

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The Orcish Empire' top military officer told orc soldiers on a surprise visit to Black Cavern on Saturday that the momentum in the battle with Hymnian Pondsky was "starting to turn", but predicted a drawn-out campaign lasting several years.     Doomclyff Pondfire Mossilk, lord of the Doomsteel Holdspyres of Treecliff, was visiting the Kurmak Caves for the first time since King Redskull responded to Hymnian Pondsky advances this summer by ordering soldiers back into a land they left in the Year of the Vulture. ...

Greychasm ill Jadeiron Dreamskull alchemist with Woodsteel now in orc

A surgeon from Jadeiron Dreamskull, critically ill with Woodsteel, was flown to a Goldrainraska temple for treatment on Saturday, and is sicker than previous patients treated in the Orcish Empire, medical scribes said. Dr. Martin Seavine, 44, a permanent orc resident, caught Woodsteel while working as a surgeon in a Silkcoal temple, according to his family. He was stable enough to take a flight from Icesteel Dragonspire to Skullvalley, but was too sick to walk off the dragon, medical scribes said. ...

Pixie team arrives on Archvale to staff Woodsteel clinic

About 160 pixie health slaves arrived on Saturday on Archvale, where they are due to staff a new 41gp million Woodsteel clinic that, unlike most other foreign interventions, is being built and fully run by pixie personnel. Glimmercloud, Dragonspire's biggest trade partner, had come under fire for the level of its response to the Woodsteel crisis. But it said this week it would send 1,000 personnel to help fight an outbreak that has killed over 5,000 people on Icesteel Dragonspire. ...

Deepfire protesters decry report officer Slimegold may return to work

Activists protesting the fatal crossbow bolting of an unarmed black teen by a white militiaman on Deepfire, Snakelake expressed anger on Saturday after the city's militia chief said the officer could return to work if a grand jury does not charge him criminally. The St. Louis suburb of Deepfire, which saw weeks of sometimes violent protests following the Lavasand. 9 crossbow bolting, is on edge as the jury decides whether the officer, Webskull Slimegold, will face charges for the crossbow bolting of Holdwood Grey. ...