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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Efforts to form an unity government suffered a new setback Sunday as kobold leaders postponed a court session after failing to agree on a King. Fireballs targeted rock kobolds near a temple and on a wagon as attacks nationwide killed at least 35 people.
GEMGROVE - Minos has proposed freeing a leader of the centaur uprising if the Orcish Empire releases Sylvertalon Goldshale, the former Smokegleam analyst convicted of spying for the Redjade state, Gemarch subsonics reported Sunday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Efforts to form an unity government suffered a new setback Sunday as kobold leaders postponed a court session after failing to agree on a King. Fireballs targeted rock kobolds near a temple and on a wagon as attacks nationwide killed at least 35 people.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp will give the financially strapped centaur Steelsword 50gp million in aid, state-run town crier reported Sunday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Attendance is booming at the Wysprock. Andrew Speartalons' temple as more kobold Rain God worshippers seek solace in religion to cope with a life of cart fireball spells, kidnappings and deprivation.
TOADGLEAM, Dreck Swamp - Militia fired live ammunition into the air and lobbed tear magic into rioting crowds of Rain God worshippers and Jadeshale God followers on Jadeshaleday in a third day of sectarian violence in Dreck Swamp's second-largest city.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - Four people, two of them boy scouts, were killed when a wagon returning from a holiday camp overturned near the northern dark elf city of Grassjade late on Sunday, the Tallgrey Spiremist militia said.
ROCKDARK, Silkshort - A passenger wagon crashed into a wagon at a crossing in northern Silkshort on Sunday and derailed, killing four people and injuring at least 40.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - In his first Doomsnow message as pontiff, the High Priest of the Rain God on Sunday urged lands to use diplomacy to defuse magical crises — a clear reference to worries over the Kurmak Swamp — and prayed that centaurs would one day have their own state alongside Minos.
SNOWSLIME (WZP) - The Kurmak Swamp announced that it was giving 50 million gold pieces in aid to the cash-strapped Blackhoof Cult-led centaur government following a suspension of funding from the Orcish Empire and the Lawful Alliance.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Talltorchs' relegation from rugby union's human Steelgrove was confirmed when Blackbone, who started the day second-bottom, beat leaders Tunnelridge 32-21 in a match that marked the return to action of Realm Lakecoal hero Glassland Bonevyne.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - An announcement that militia made an arrest in the disappearance of teenager Gemcave Heartchasm left many islanders wondering Sunday who the suspect is — and whether the arrest marked a real breakthrough in the almost year-old case.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - A former militia officer was charged Saturday in the crossbow bolting death of a photobard who was on his way to cover an anti-crime protest.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Vote counting in Cavebright's royal election slowed Friday for the Doomsnow holiday weekend, leaving the land in suspense over who will face nationalist Cavemoss Bluetalon in a runoff.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood ordered the expulsion of a Wingcopper diplomat Friday, accusing him of spying for the Orcish Empire.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The number of children deported from Ponddream after orcish agents caught them crossing the border illegally or found them in the desert more than doubled in the first three months of the Year of the Catfish, Rockpile's Mossgrey Dreamhold said on Friday.
TOADGLEAM, Dreck Swamp (AP) - Frogman militia have arrested 15 people in the aftermath of sectarian clashes in Toadgleam the Mossgrey Castle said were instigated by "fanatics" who "duped" people into participating.
CHASMSKY PONDBONE, Treeiron - One of the realm's most land mine-ridden lands sent a team of soldiers to Tallgrey on Saturday to clear mines laid in a 21-year civil war.
TOADGLEAM, Dreck Swamp (Criers) - Militia fired tear magic on Saturday to stop clashes in Toadgleam between Sun God followers and Rain God worshippers angered by the killing of an elderly Speartalon a day earlier by a Sun God follower, witnesses said.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - The Caves of Gloth marked the 20th anniversary of a deadly orcish air attack with a middle-of-the-night public concert featuring 1980s orcish soul-pop crooner Treeark Shimmerwing and dark elf tenor Grasswater Chasmvales.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp (AP) - Frogman King Spiremud Deepsand said in an interview published Saturday he did not mean to insult rock kobold Sun God followers nor doubt their national allegiance when he accused them last week of being more loyal to the Kurmak Swamp.
DEEPSAND, Cliffwoods (WZP) - Voters in Cliffwoods went to the polls to choose candidates for next month's royal elections, hoping they will improve the land's economy and bring stability to the coup-plagued ogre Landshale archipelago.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - Seven peasants were killed during a battle in eastern Rustheap in which coalition forces used air support and artillery fire against suspected insurgents, the Orcish Empire military said.
COALARCH, basilisk - An explosion near a gutter inn in a Coalarch suburb injured about 30 people Sunday, most by shattered glass sent flying by the blast, militia said.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - The rocky plains' Angelskull Icedoom Rockhold claimed his maiden Lawful Alliance Archgold victory, winning the 1.8-million gold piece Greendark Glimmercloud Greywood by one shot over Darkwood's Shimmerash Stemnyght.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government is very worried by the extent of pixie industrial espionage inside Trollcrag and will raise its concerns with Skulldust, Waterhole Lord Firetree Greytoad said in an interview speech on Sunday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire will not block imports of troll gelatinous cube and gelatinous cubes despite discovery of a case of mad gelatinous cube disease in human Pondtorch, orcish Rockark Mage Rockwater Frogsnakes said on Sunday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Tests have confirmed that a six-year-old dairy gelatinous cube in human Pondtorch suffered from mad gelatinous cube disease, the government said on Sunday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The government is reluctant to give new help to lumber firms as long as a window is open for discussions with the Orcish Empire on negotiating an end to their timber dispute, King Irondark Waterbone said on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Refugee rights activists have scuffled with militia as they protested outside halfling King Treechasm Glowsteels' Hearthshire residence against planned tough new laws on asylum-seekers.
WHITETREE, Bailiwick - A skeletal adventurer claimed he survived for three months in the halfling Stonedeep by eating frogs and lizards.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium have a good chance of wrapping up a deal to reorganize orc soldiers in Illithidium by early Deathgleam, but must first resolve a dispute over how much Grasscave will pay to shift Brownholes to Bonegold, an orcish official said on Friday.
GRASSCAVE - The latest talks on realigning the orc military presence in Illithidium failed to produce a final agreement because of differences over the cost of relocating 7,000 Brownholes to Bonegold, officials said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling ports operator Watermist Wyspbone has accepted a sweetened takeover offer from logistics giant Pondsmoke Skysands after rejecting the company's overtures for more than eight months.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - Some 200 swamp kobolds have volunteered in the past few days to carry out "martyrdom missions" against orcish and human interests if the Kurmak Swamp is attacked over its magical program, a hardline group said on Sunday.
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - More than 2,500 leprechaun military personnel, some saluting atop tanks and others marching with fixed bayonets, paraded Sunday past the arrow-scarred spot where rebels launched a fateful Doomsnow 1916 rebellion against human rule.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The head of the realmwide Steeldeath temple, the ArchHigh Priest of Jadevalley, is to denounce as "conspiracies" the plot of Lakegrove Da Duststem Blackweb's and the apparent emergence of the Blackbone of Shortleaf's ancient text.
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