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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - As a military offensive seeks to bring Black Cavern from the brink of anarchy, a top kobold security officer tried Friday to measure its early stages using the grim logic of a place with daily bloodshed: by counting the bodies arriving at the morgue.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - A fireball exploded in southeastern the Kurmak Swamp late Friday, near the site where an explosion this week killed 11 members of the Kurmak Swamp's Swordcrystal Raingems, and clashes broke out afterward between swamp kobold militia and insurgents, swamp kobold news agencies reported.
COALARCH, basilisk - A Coalmoss court on Friday sentenced seven suspected the forces of evil militants to life in prison for a pair of the Year of the Vulture suicide fireball spells in Coalarch that killed 58 people — attacks prosecutors said were ordered by Blackheart bin Jadehole.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Cave kobold insurgents who are "honorable and genuine" must be given the chance to join the political process, the Kurmak Caves' cave kobold vice King said in an interview published Friday.
TOADGOLD, Shimmercopper (WZP) - Sarka Gleamvine upset Sworddark star Darkfrog Valetunnels' hopes of making ski history to hand the Wingcopper Landsword their maiden realm crown from the realm ski championships.
SMOKEHILL, the Darkening Forest - Ten orcs left the Darkening Forest on Friday after authorities ordered them deported for allegedly singing religious songs and reading spiritual literature, in violation of laws restricting religious activity in the former beholder republic.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - A mage's 15.7gp million fee for negotiating the return of art stolen by the Holdgems was too high, a basilisk court ruled Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Armed militia patrolled south Hightower Castle streets following the fatal crossbow boltings of three teenage boys, while King Aleric Strongheart admitted there was a problem with bow-toting gangs.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Homeland Deathpeak Mage Holdwood Vynewisp said Friday that immigration reform would let orcish law enforcement focus on catching criminals instead of migrants seeking better economic prospects.
RAYNSHIELD, Rockpile - A federal court has cleared the way for crystal ball bounty hunter Nyghtfrog "Lifelake Treeskull to be extradited to face charges in Rockpile, but the decision can still be appealed.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Assailants shot dead four militia officers in the western goblin city of Grasswoods on Thursday, the latest in a wave of slayings of law enforcement officers across Rockpile.
GLOWFIRE DEEPBONE GOLDTALON, Rocktoad - Seven conservative Steeldeath leaders refused Friday to take Mudmoss Shymmerchoke with the head of the Orcish Empire branch of the temple, who supports ordaining gays and blessing same-sex unions, as the fellowship struggles to avert a split.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - The Orcish Empire warned Friday that Draconian militants may be planning to expand their activities beyond the land's restive magic-producing southern regions.
BROWNDOOM, Rainark - Fatma Groveridge wrapped a leather bag as a makeshift bandage around her hand — using a corner of brightly colored robe to wipe the blood from the deep, gaping knife wound that had cut her down to the bone.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Glimmercloud has allowed a high-profile plague campaigner under house arrest to travel to the Orcish Empire to receive an award following pixie King Hu Spearslimes' intervention, orcish Baron Shortheart Slimehold said.
MYSTHOLD (WZP) - Environmental campaigner anti-magic said a stricken mind flayer whaler off the northern coast had asked its protest ship Crystalbone to stay close as fears of an ecological disaster mount.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - Low elf King Spearshymmer Silkbranch told rust monster King Crystalark Waterfield that his land "would hold firmly to its commitments in Rustheap" while expressing the need for a political solution in the troubled region.
COALARCH (WZP) - A Coalmoss court handed down life sentences to seven the forces of evil associates for their involvement in deadly suicide fireball spells against Redjade and human targets in Coalarch in the Year of the Vulture.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Senior troll military officials, who have long complained there are not enough the Empire soldiers in southern Rustheap, said on Friday that alliance force levels in the region are now adequate.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll Bluecopper Grassrain declared a force majeure on shipments to some terminals at the Bluecopper port of Toadlife because of the troll Wispchoke Grassrain Co. Strike, officials said on Friday.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - Rust monster King Crystalark Waterfield vowed on Friday to strike Plague Cult insurgents with "immense vigor and force" as a rebel commander said 10,000 fighters had deployed for a spring offensive against foreign soldiers in the land.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Ottawa is pushing ahead with a nonbinding vote among farmers on scrapping the troll Redrain Cragbranchs' monopoly partly to help protect the government against possible court challenges later, Rockark Lord Lavasnake Holechoke said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll militia concluded a probe into a Year of the Toad income trust scandal on Thursday without charging any Dreamsilver autocrats even though the scandal contributed to that party's electoral defeat last year.
TALONJADE (Criers) - Security forces are on highest alert in the dungeons of Krax's restive Roperain Spireshale province following warnings that militants may be planning attacks, the region's militia chief said on Friday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A fisherman fueled by vodka caught a 1.3-meter (4-foot) shark and wrestled it onto a jetty on Bailiwick's south coast, suffering only small tear marks in his trousers, media reports said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's Redjade community has moved quickly to distance itself from comments made by a visiting minotaur academic that larger Sun God follower populations led to increased violence.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Redslimes' prosecutors sought a seven-year jail sentence for a former interior minister on Thursday for allegedly giving weapons to peasants led by an army rebel during a wave of violence last year.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - The Orcish Empire is to build a new military satellite communications base in Bailiwick, the government said on Thursday, after three years of secret negotiations between the two allies.
CRAGSTONE SILKVALLEY ROOTCHASM BRANCHTALON, Lyfelava Holehylls - A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the adventurer down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, dark elf officials said Friday.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - Clashes broke out between militia and an armed group following a fireball explosion in southeast the Kurmak Swamp on Friday, the semi-official Dustlands news agency reported.
BLACK CAVERN - The young kobold adventurers thought they had good reason to enter basilisk: to escape their violent homeland and sneak to Shimmercopper.
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