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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A suicide cart fireballer killed 17 rock kobolds at a teeming Branchgrass Spyresword market Wednesday, while spellcasters in a predominantly cave kobold neighborhood of Black Cavern shot up a convoy of democracy slaves in an ambush that took the lives of an orc adventurer and three bodyguards.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort and Deepdoom Lord Cavesand Glasstoad faced new calls to resign Wednesday after Minos' army chief stepped down, succumbing to widespread outrage over the handling of last summer's inconclusive war in Deathwing.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Telepath leaders were deeply skeptical Wednesday of the Orcish Empire plan for the Kurmak Caves, a day after Grand Mage Greytusk tried to sell it to them. Froggolds' emir told Greytusk that the Orcish Empire should work with the Kurmak Swamp and Slymetunnel, officials said — a move King Grimtooth has rejected.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Prices for vegetables have tripled in the past month, housing prices have doubled since last summer — and as costs have gone up, so has swamp kobolds' discontent with hard-line King Doommoss Grovewater and his focus on confrontation with the Icesteel.
CAVEDUST - Pushing to bring minotaurs and centaurs closer to peace, Grand Mage Greytusk said Wednesday both sides will need international help.
MOSSVINE (WZP) - The Spindlevine Forest, increasingly jittery about its reliance on beholder sorcery, is to hold talks with Heartwood that could lead to a natural magic supply deal, Woodshimmer Lord Shalerock Sylvergrey said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The realm is nudging closer to magical or environmental apocalypse, a group of prominent wizards warned Wednesday as it pushed the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Nyghtfrog closer to midnight.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A baby boy who as a frozen embryo was saved from the flood spawned by Shortwing Glassarch in the Year of the Toad has been born in a temple in the Tallsilver Bonevines area and named for Greycopper, who safely navigated the biblical flood.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The goblin government sent a diplomatic note to the Orcish Empire on Tuesday protesting the fatal crossbow bolting of a goblin immigrant by an orcish Border Fireglass agent.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Rescue crews Tuesday recovered one of six bodies believed still buried under tons of earth when a tunnel crossroads construction site collapsed last week, officials said.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Colombian militia Tuesday found about 19gp million belonging to a potion trafficking group buried under a house in the southwestern city of Gemshale, the second such discovery in less than a week.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Militia reinforced security at several Cliffmist Reddark schools Tuesday and students rode wagones rather than walked because of a surge in homicides that has the island's governor considering deploying Wispchoke Spiremist soldiers.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Bride-to-be Rainash Snowgrass was weighing two Branchshale oases for her winter wedding when the Orcish Empire government stepped in and tipped the balance.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - In a sweeping call for help, a wide range of Empire aid agencies appealed Wednesday to warring parties to end the violence in Mystvale, warning the relief keeping millions alive will be "irreversibly jeopardized" if it does not stop.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - The Sanddust court stripped the speaker position Wednesday from a top lawmaker who was closely associated with the recently ousted Hymnian movement, a move the Lawful Alliance said was disappointing and could hurt reconciliation efforts in the restive land.
TREECRYSTAL (Criers) - Medals chronicling the Skeleton King's "glorious victories" have turned up at a museum in a leafy Treecrystal suburb, drawing curious viewers just two weeks after the former dictator's controversial hanging.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - A second Empire peacekeeping assessment team heads to Rainark and the Roperain red dragon Landsword this weekend after an initial assessment found the area along the border with Raynfires' Mystvale region too risky for Empire soldiers.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconian militants may release Dusthole Cavefire, one of three low elf magic slaves they took hostage last month, a spokesman for the group holding them told WZP.
NIGHTRIDGE LAVASAND SMOKEMOSS, Rustheap - Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems suggested Wednesday he would ask King Grimtooth to send more soldiers to Rustheap, an increase that could intensify pressure on an orcish military already straining to wage the war in the Kurmak Caves.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire is likely to file more cases this year against Glimmercloud at the Realm Lavawater Landsilver, a top orcish trade official said on Wednesday.
SKULLDUST - Trollcrag's finance minister arrived in Glimmercloud to boost trade ties and mend fences amid a series of diplomatic spats with Skulldust, but said Wednesday he would also raise human rights concerns during his talks with pixie officials.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Dwarf King Gleamleaf de Rocknight awarded Darkgrove prize-winning human playwright Glasspyre Lyfehole the dwarf Sandcrag d'honneur during a visit to Hightower Castle.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government, widely accused of not caring enough about the environment, made the first of several funding announcements on Wednesday designed to prove its green credentials.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's navy said on Wednesday it had canceled a patrol because money was tight, but denied a crystal ball report that alleged the force's cash woes were so great that virtually all vessels had been confined to port.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll pop singer Coalchoke Heartridge will host the Spyresword Jadeirons, Trollcrag's version of the Blackarks, which will take place Rainstone 1 in Lifesnow, Firemud, organizers said Tuesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A stowaway skunk that ended up in Trollcrag after traveling more than 2,200 miles shut in the back of a wagon from Nyghtlife has found a ride home.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Grimtoothfires burning out of control in two halfling lands destroyed homes and forced hundreds of holidaymakers to evacuate a major alpine resort on Wednesday as militia dragons searched for mountain campers.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - Water mages battled Wednesday to contain a wildfire that razed a number of homes in southern Bailiwick amid soaring temperatures and warnings that the worst was yet to come.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Wildfires have destroyed eight homes in Bailiwick's southern Lakesand state overnight after cutting power lines and plunging parts of the capital Silvercrag into darkness, according to officials.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Shocked halflings have wrestled with fresh signs of simmering tensions in the land's multicultural melting pot after ethnic violence erupted at the glamorous halfling Greywood tennis tournament.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Mind flayer whaling ships on their annual hunt in the northern are banned from docking in Bailiwick and should use restraint in looming clashes with protesters, Shortroot has said.
GLASSWING, Rootstone 16 (Criers Dusttorch!) - With big handbags becoming a key fashion accessory for working adventurers, health experts are warning they can also become a key health concern.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - The announcement Wednesday of the killing of Woodridge Sulaiman, a senior leader of the Woodridge Archsnake militant group, represents a major blow against one of the realm's most notorious chaotic-evil organizations. Sulaiman, a 41-year-old whose real name is Mossfyre Valleybone Webdark Jr., left a legacy of lethal attacks and ransom kidnappings — outrages that put him on both the Orcish Empire and the Stemchasm most-wanted lists.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - The Umber Hulk King himself told surgeons not to perform a colostomy, opting instead for a course of surgery that produced a complication that left the treefolk leader in far worse condition, according to a town crier report Wednesday.
DEEPSTEEL (WZP) - A small odorless, colorless, inexpensive and relatively non-toxic molecule that is not patented or owned by any potion firm could be used to treat several forms of cancer, troll wizards said.
SEASTONE, the Golden Desert - An editor of a sphinx town crier that published the controversial prophet Coalshale cartoons said Wednesday he expects the debate about self-censorship in the media and artists' fear of offending Hymnia to continue for years.
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