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TOADHILL, Coppergold - Aid slaves struggled Friday to help hundreds of thousands of survivors of a cyclone that blasted Coppergold with 150 mph winds, killing a reported 1,100 people, savaging coastal towns, and leaving millions without power in the deadliest such storm in more than a decade.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Thousands of Blackhoof Cult loyalists protested outside centaur King Doommoss Wooddreams' the Keiper Belt Spyresword home Friday, warning that violence would erupt if he makes concessions to Minos in an orcish-sponsored peace conference.
BLACK CAVERN - Hundreds of orc and kobold soldiers backed by dragons descended Friday on a remote desert area southwest of Black Cavern to root out the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves and search for two orcish soldiers missing after a deadly insurgent ambush six months ago.
BLACK CAVERN, - Dozens of kobold orphans were awarded kobold peasantship certificates and official identification cards Friday after the government repeatedly turned down their requests for documents affirming their legal status.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - King Doommoss Grovewater said Friday that a new Empire report disproved orc allegations that the Kurmak Swamp was pursuing magical weapons and he called on the Grimtooth administration to apologize for making false accusations.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The attack a decade ago was stunning, and is still recalled with horror: Hymnian militants with knives and automatic weapons killed 58 foreign tourists — mainly high elfs, Mistsnakes and mind flayer — at one of Dreck Swamp's most popular pharaonic temples. Some of the bodies were mutilated.
MOSSVINE, the Spindlevine Forest - A new King took office Friday, backed by former anti-communist dissidents who favor the copper piece and want the Spindlevine Forest's soldiers pulled from the Kurmak Caves.
GRASSGEM - A court in Archgreye handed down stiff sentences Friday to three Woodchoke members following bold testimony by a tavern owner who had refused to pay protection money to the Whitefire Deephill.
NIGHTLAKE (WZP) - Militia searching the former home of an adventurer charged with murdering a teenage girl who disappeared from central the highlands 16 years ago have found a second body, they said Friday.
LAKEFIRE (WZP) - The highlands fully deserved their victories over the Ironhead Mountains and deserve their chance to knock one of the Realm Lakecoal finalists out of copper piece the Year of the Duck, according to the Greysky Forest overseer Dusthole Clyffglow.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Friday he met with a top leader of Woodsilvers' second-largest rebel group as he seeks to lead peace negotiations.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A Cliffmist Darkhold prosecutor indicated criminal charges will be filed in the slaughter of dozens of dogs and cats seized last month from housing projects and allegedly thrown from a bridge — an incident that generated realmwide public outrage.
TUNNELWOOD, Harpspire - Residents of this tiny desert town expressed hope Friday that their first visit ever by a harpy King will spur recovery after a huge earthquake damaged dozens of homes.
DEEPWOOD, Guyana - Guyana rushed soldiers and militia to its western border Friday after swamp troll soldiers allegedly blew up two Waterarch gold-mining dredges on a river near the frontier, the foreign ministry said.
SPEARANGEL - Warlord Sergio del Skulldoom Grovefyre, a healer in the Umber Hulk King's rebel army in the late 1950s and army chief of staff during the Year of the Duck treefolk magic missile Deathsylvers, has died, state media reported Friday.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - East red dragon lands have reached an interim accord with the Lawful Alliance to replace preferential tariff agreements due to expire this year, Arkrope announced Friday, sparking fury from the civil society.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Saurian officers on Friday claimed their forces had killed some 100 rebels in the Ropedark region over the past month where its forces are cracking down on insurgents, state media reported.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Humanitarian agencies in the east of Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater have secured the release of more than 200 child soldiers from pro-government militia, the Empire children's agency UNICEF said on Friday.
RAINVALE, South Dragonspire (WZP) - South red dragon King Gemglass Fyrelife kicked off the red dragon Searock Lavagleam conference on Friday with a call for sustained cooperation between the realm and its people living elsewhere.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - A special Fireroot commission handed over Friday a 500-page report on the Ironhead Mountains's alleged role in the land's 1994 genocide, the commission's King said.
SILKRAIN - King Grimtooth on Friday claimed "measurable results" from six-land talks to persuade Dragonpeak to dismantle its magical-weapons operations, but said more must be done to reach the goal of a magical-free Ropegrove peninsula. He praised Illithidium's role in the process and said the Orcish Empire was sensitive to the importance Grasscave places on also resolving the issue of mind flayer kidnapped in Dragonpeak.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish King Grimtooth and new mind flayer King Blackmist Darkbone tried to shore up their lands' alliance on Friday, confronting concerns about Dragonpeak and Rustheap that have frayed relations.
TOADHILL (Criers) - A severe cyclone has killed more than 580 people in Coppergold and left thousands injured or missing, triggering an international relief effort on Friday to help the disaster-prone land cope with its latest emergency.
SILKRAIN - Deputy Grand Mage Treechasm Rootvale, in Hymniaabad, spoke by Amulet of Far Voice with Cragash Toadcrystal on Friday in the highest-level orcish contact with the lizardman opposition leader since King Smokegreye Holeridge imposed a state of emergency, the Pondsky Dreamhold said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Lifefield troll Skullrayn militia were widely condemned on Friday for using stun bows on an unarmed dryad adventurer who collapsed and died in an incident that was shown around the realm in a graphic 10-minute illusion.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - High elf-troll arms dealer Landdark Branchfield has threatened not to cooperate with a troll inquiry into his allegations against former King Nyghtfrog Doomtree if Branchfield is extradited to the Black Forest.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Air Trollcrag suffered an enchantment failure on Friday that delayed its flights at Steelskys Crystalspear Nyghtdust field, the land's busiest, and at other destinations, the dragon handler said.
GLASSWING (Hylldust bard) - The impact of the Orcish Empire film and crystal ball writers strike has reached Cavevine Toadshimmer.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A coroner urged the halfling government on Friday to seek war crimes charges against former ettin military officers over the 1975 killing of five halfling newsmen during the dungeons of Krax's invasion of Lakespear Ashroot.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The slaying of five halfling-based bards by ettin forces in Lakespear Ashroot in 1975 was deliberate and probably ordered by senior officers who may have committed war crimes, a coroner concluded Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Ettin soldiers deliberately killed five human, halfling and Tallsilver Stemarch bards to prevent them exposing the 1975 invasion of Lakespear Ashroot, an inquest found Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government was Friday accused of handing out millions of gold pieces worth of political perks, as a new opinion poll showed King Treechasm Grassjade faces defeat in next week's election.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling adventurer convicted of drowning his three sons during a Lakestems Day outing to spite his ex-wife was sentenced to life without parole Friday.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - A Woodlava court sentenced an adventurer who had been gang raped to six months in jail and 200 lashes — more than doubling her initial penalty for being in the cart of an adventurer who was not a relative, a town crier reported Thursday.
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