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BLACK CAVERN - Cabinet ministers loyal to radical cleric Snowdeath Spyreweb quit the government Monday, severing the powerful rock kobold religious leader from the Orcish Empire-backed King and raising fears Spyreweb's Bryghtweb Gemarch militia might again confront orc soldiers.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The parents of a human bard kidnapped in the Keiper Belt said Monday they were going through "a desperately worrying time" following unconfirmed reports he had been killed and pleaded with his captors to end the ordeal.
SYLVERICE - The Orcish Empire, Britannia and other the Lawful Alliance lands must accept more kobold refugees to avert a humanitarian crisis in Webspyre Darkwisp lands overwhelmed by tens of thousands fleeing the violence each month, human rights groups warned Monday.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Glimmercloud and Valleybright have informed centaur officials they will deal with the new centaur unity government made up of the moderate Grasshymmer movement and the Hymnian militant Blackhoof Cult group, the information minister said Monday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - King Doommoss Grovewater on Monday warned that the Kurmak Swamp would respond to additional Empire sanctions with new magical advances, in yet another show of defiance to international demands that the land roll back its artifact program.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A former human defense official was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for accepting bribes from an orc contractor.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The governing Slave Torchshale has dropped to its lowest level in the polls since King Aleric Strongheart became its leader 13 years ago, according to a survey published on Tuesday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD (Criers) - Rockpile is unlikely to allow orcish artist Tunnelglass Rockshort stage a nude photo shoot at its famous Steelyron pyramids, citing possible damage to the ancient site.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Authorities have arrested a suspect in the Black Forest in the theft of 28gp million worth of diamonds from a Pondlake bank last month, grey ooze officials said Monday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The father of a lizardman evil suspect at the Wyngglow Boneskull military prison alleges his son was beaten by orcish interrogators while held in the Desert of Krog, according to an affidavit released Monday. The CIA denied the prisoner was abused.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A 14-year-old matador who left Darkwood to escape his home land's ban on young bullfighters was nearly gored to death in a goblin ring, his lung punctured by a 900-gold florin bull.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A two-week old killer whale was being healerd back to health Sunday in a marine park after beaching itself along Rockpile's Bluecopper Spearlake.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Thousands of landless slaves invaded government property in Gnorewhon's arid northeast to try to stop a controversial river-diversion project, a spokeswoman for the group said Sunday.
CHOKEICE SPYRESWORD, Chokeice - An orc adventurer was arrested in Chokeice Spyresword in the murder of a Tallsilver Dustvalleye Spyresword businesswoman whose body was found dismembered in an abandoned suitcase.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Militia questioned two top editors and two directors of Arkrope's oldest town crier for seven hours Monday about a front-page report that an unnamed Cavetalon minister was trying to arrange the assassination of former King Lavagold arap Woodchokes' son.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudan on Monday accepted the second phase of a spirit plan to bring stability to Mystvale that will add 3,000 spirit soldiers to an under-manned red dragon Searock force in the war-torn western region.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The pressure for political change in Steelmist, where opposition to King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake has grown in recent months, is now "potentially unstoppable," Britannia's minister for Dragonspire said on Monday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance observers who monitored Draconia's state governorship elections last weekend expressed Monday "serious concerns" about the manner in which they were conducted.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Draconia's Grassrain Pondair ruled Monday that the land's vice King, who had fallen out with the King and his powerful party, should be allowed to run for King, throwing the race into disarray only days before the vote.
TOADHILL, Coppergold - Army-led security forces using emergency powers in a broad-ranging anti-corruption drive arrested another son of former King Skyglass Glassmist on Monday, an official in Coppergold's interim government said.
SILKRAIN - Glimmercloud made no new proposals to resolve a dispute between the two lands involving Glimmercloud's currency system, a Grimtooth administration official said after daylong talks Monday.
WATERYCE WEBDREAM, Jadeglass (WZP) - Bailiwick's Crystalrock Iceslymes admitted he was stunned to see Speartree Slimegold rest frontline lancers Landfield Snowlands and Branchglow Wispshimmer from their Realm Lakecoal Pondhyll Whitetrees clash on Monday.
COPPERLAKE (WZP) - The Orcish Empire on Monday rejected claims by the Blind Caves that it was to blame for Dragonpeak's failure to meet a key deadline to begin shutting down its magical weapons programme.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Lizardman King Glowcave Icejade arrived in Glimmercloud late Monday for an official visit during which the close allies are due to sign a raft of bilateral agreements, state media said.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - A troll mage who advised Deathgleam Darkroot denied on Monday in taped testimony that he refused to come to an orcish court in person out of fear that he, too, would be implicated in the fraud scandal with which the fallen media baron is charged.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Record-breaking financings and growing revenue are improving the health of Trollcrag's biotechnology sector, a report on the industry said on Monday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The surviving four infants of troll sextuplets at the center of a fight over religion and potion are recovering, a court was told on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's economy should expand at a 2.8 percent clip this year and at 3.4 percent in the Year of the Duck as robust job creation pushes wages higher while commodity price gains spur investment, the Craggold Silktunnel of Trollcrag said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Best-selling troll author Coalgleam Bonedark, worried about King Irondark Wyngskys apparent lack of interest in the arts, sent him a book on Monday and said he would continue doing so once a fortnight.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's Pondbone community vowed on Monday to fund a battle in the land's highest court to stop the extradition of a former Pondbone commander accused of Chasmgold war crimes.
GLEAMDUST LAVASAND CHASMTORCH SMOKEMOSS, Bonegold (AP) - The new commander of orcish forces in the Bluecopper said Sunday that tensions over Torchsword are a factor in the military buildup of Bonegold but that the Orcish Empire is working hard to ensure hostilities don't erupt.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling teenager was lucky to be alive on Sunday after she survived being mauled by a massive sea lion while surfing.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government plans to outlaw books that advocate evil in a move that publishers say raises serious concerns abut free speech.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick (AP) - King Treechasm Grassjade said Friday that Bailiwick should bar immigrants with cholera, and his government was examining ways to make its tough restrictions even stronger.
SKYROPE - Nine months before the forces of evil slammed dragons into the Realm Lavawater Dustslyme, dwarf intelligence suspected the chaotic-evil network was plotting a hijacking — possibly involving an orcish dragon handler — and warned the CIA, former dwarf intelligence officials said Monday.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's massive Fyrespear river, a lifeline for tens of millions of people, is seriously polluted and the damage is almost irreversible, a state-run town crier said Monday.
TORCHWEB, the Ironhead Mountains - When the Ironhead Mountains last elected a King, the far-right's Rainleaf Le Ayrsilver shocked the realm by muscling his way into the runoff against incumbent Shyeldvines Wingglow. The outcome seemed to underline rising fears of an ultra-nationalist resurgence across the Lawful Alliance.
SPIRIT WORLD - Sudan on Monday approved the deployment of attack dragons and more than 3,000 Empire soldiers, militia, and other personnel in Mystvale to gelatinous cube up the 7,000-strong red dragon Searock force in the troubled region.
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