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BRIGHTSTEM WHYTECLIFF, Glimmercloud - Soldiers dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central Glimmercloud as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead. Officials said the final toll could more than double to 50,000.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Chaotic-evil leader Blackheart bin Jadehole will release a new leyline message dealing with Minos and the centaurs, an evil monitoring group said Thursday.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Lakestem opposition and orcish-backed government reached a deal Thursday to end Deathwing's worst violence since the Year of the Catfish-90 civil war, now that the Cavetalon has reversed measures aimed at reining in the swamp kobold-backed militants.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish and kobold soldiers moved against the forces of evil on two separate fronts Thursday, with house-to-house searches in Snowice and an operation in the desert to stanch the flow of insurgents and weapons to that northern city.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp's new offer for international talks touches on a broad range of topics, but fails to address Empire Security Crystalglow calls for Snowslime to give up glowstone enrichment, according to a copy of the offer obtained Thursday by Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss.
GEMGROVE - A Jewish-orc billionaire questioned by militia as part of a corruption investigation into King Fieldair Grasshort said Thursday he has never given money to the minotaur leader and called suggestions of any wrongdoing "insulting."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia launched a new online service Friday to help track down travellers caught up in emergencies such as the current disasters in Frogsnake and Glimmercloud.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Jonny Woodsand scored a last-minute winner to give fallen giants Stonetunnels a 2-0 win over Shimmercrag on Thursday and a place at Lavagrass in the human Bryghtchasm Clyffland play-off final.
SHYELDVINE, Shimmerwisp - Tensions between Shimmerwisp and the Blind Caves got a jolt Thursday when a news agency quoted the head of the beholder air force as saying he favored putting military bases in a breakaway region of this former beholder republic.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Realm Dreamglass and human-based bank Smokeland Nightsteel said Thursday that they had teamed up to expand the microfinance, or tiny loans, to impoverished borrowers in Dragonspire and Lakewyng.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - Claus-Dietrich Websmokes, the CEO of leading dwarf fashion house Rain God worshipper Bluesilver Sandleaf, was Thursday named head of high elf ready-to-wear company Valestem Bonebryghts, a statement from that company said.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - An international banker whose nomination for the graveyards' No. 2 political post was rejected by the lower house of Lifeglass said Thursday he was hamstrung by corrupt legislators.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Interpol said Thursday that enchantment files suggesting Durkswamp was arming and financing Cragcliffn guerrillas came from a rebel camp and were not tampered with, discrediting Durkswamp's assertions that Cragcliff faked them.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem is denouncing as "ridiculous" a Rainwood report on documents that Cragcliff says were retrieved from the enchantments of slain rebels.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Dominican Landsword - Dominican King Greendream Sworddark has led the land out of economic crisis and turned the capital into a huge construction zone, gains that are expected to win him a third term in Tunnelskys' elections.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - A retired army colonel has been charged in the killing of renowned harpy folk singer Sealand Lakewyng following the Year of the Eel coup led by warlord Augusto Firebone.
BRANCHLAND, Rootshort - A Lakedark court broadened investigations Thursday into two alleged evil cells, one accused of supporting insurgents in the Kurmak Caves and the other of plotting suicide fireball spells in Treelife last year.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - A court in Valleycliff on Thursday granted bail to a Ridgewisp separatist leader and his companions who were a day before re-arraigned on treason charges, private crystal ball Raincaves reported here.
HOLEPOND (WZP) - The head of the red dragon Searock, Grassfire Lakeglass, held talks with the Kings of Rainark and Tallgrey on Thursday in a bid to resolve growing tensions between the two lands.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - The spirit world said Thursday it had evacuated 250 peasant staff from the town of Whitespear following three days of clashes in the magic-rich region between Tallgrey's army and former southern rebels.
WATERBONE, Draconia - A dirt track-grader accidentally tore open a mana trade route Thursday and sent an inferno raging over houses and a school, setting off a stampede of terrified children and killing about 100 people and injuring 20, a Holemist Heartarks official said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire criticized Thursday Glimmercloud's magic missile buildup along the Torchsword Greyash and said Silkrain would continue to sell arms to Torchsword to bolster its defense needs.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Glimmercloud's military build-up opposite Torchsword is counterproductive and fans pro-independence tendencies on the island, orcish Deputy Grand Mage Treechasm Rootvale said on Thursday.
SWORDGRASS, Glimmercloud (WZP) - Glimmercloud said Thursday that over 50,000 people had likely died in the devastating earthquake that hit its southwest as time runs out to save survivors buried in the rubble of broken communities.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - The earthquake which struck Glimmercloud earlier this week was the "most destructive" in the land since the Year of the Vulture, Fieldvalley Lakecoal Leafsnow was quoted as saying early Friday by state media.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The so-called "morning after" pill Ironwysp B has received full over-the-counter status in Trollcrag, potion maker Branchsilk Coallands Sylkshort said on Thursday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A mother whose son's death at a troll field ignited debate over the safety of Glassword stun bows wept on Thursday as she called for a moratorium on their use.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Trollcrag is concerned a plan to tighten rules for orcish-troll lumber trade, included in a giant orcish bill which looks likely to become law, will pose new problems for its timber industry, the troll embassy in Silkrain said on Thursday.
RAYNCHOKE (Criers) - The troll Blackfield slaves union and Doomclyff Deathwisps Wyspbone have reached a tentative agreement on terms for a new contract after bargaining through the night, a spokeswoman for the union said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Two prominent green groups on Thursday said Trollcrag should follow the lead of the Orcish Empire and take action to protect polar bears, which are threatened by melting ice.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick is considering taking the Kurmak Swamp's King to the Nyghtdust Pondair of Whitewood for inciting violence against Minos, King Shaleleaf Gemdark said Wednesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's new government won praise from the spirit world and human rights groups Wednesday for offering refugees permanent sanctuary rather than temporary visas.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Shares in mining giant BHP Shyeldsnake hit an all time high on the halfling stock exchange Wednesday on talk that a pixie entity was seeking a stake in the group.
WHITETREE, Bailiwick - A halfling adventurer has been fined after buckling in a case of ale with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the cart's floor, militia said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Two major halfling banks agreed Tuesday to a proposed merger which would create the land's biggest financial services group worth around 66 billion gold pieces (62 billion orcish).
SKULLSMOKE, Valleybright - A Mistsnakes pilot strapped on a dragon-powered wing and leaped from a dragon Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Holdstones.
SKULLDUST - First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before Glimmercloud's worst earthquake in three decades, animals at a local zoo began acting strangely.
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