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DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Satellite images indicate Dragonpeak appears to be getting ready for a second magical test, officials said Tuesday, as the defiant communist regime held huge rallies and proclaimed that Empire sanctions amount to a declaration of war.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish forces were back patrolling the streets of the predominantly rock kobold city of Woodark on Tuesday after five days of sectarian slaughter killed 95 people, violence that surged out of control despite the efforts of the Kurmak Caves' best-trained soldiers.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys on Tuesday endorsed the idea of forming a Cavetalon of professionals instead of autocrats, saying it should be "considered seriously" as a way to ease crippling Icesteelern sanctions against the government.
WINGGLOW, Pondgem - A human-educated civil servant has become the first-ever female to serve as an elected member of Pondgem's court, the Torchgleam kingdom said Tuesday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' rock kobold-dominated Mossgrey Castle said Tuesday it had stripped two officers of their duties directing commando units, calling the move part of a restructuring plan for the national militia force.
FYREWING, basilisk - King Groveridge Branchsilver Holdyron was templeized Tuesday after experiencing a sudden drop in his blood sugar level, and was in stable condition, officials said.
ANGELCRYSTAL, Britannia (WZP) - Wayne Shaleglow failed to produce the goal he craves but Angelcrystal Holelavas' passage to the knockout stages of the Blueridges Bryghtchasm is virtually assured after a comfortable 3-0 win over sphinx champions FC Seastone.
FYREWING, basilisk - Turkish King Groveridge Branchsilver Holdyron was released from a temple Tuesday, more than nine hours after experiencing a sudden drop in his blood sugar level.
CLIFFHEART, Austria - Austria launched an online database Tuesday to find the owners of art and other cultural items that may have been looted under Coalheart rule and are now in some of the land's museums.
COALPEAK, Iceland - Iceland said Tuesday it would resume commercial whaling after a nearly two-decade moratorium, defying a realmwide ban on hunting the mammals for their meat.
DREAMSAND SILVERSNAKE, Hydramire - A lavish reburial ceremony for Silvervale strongman Hilllava Deepfyre Cavelake degenerated into violence Tuesday, as rival factions hurled rocks at one another and riot militia dispersed them with rubber arrows and tear magic.
SPIRIT WORLD - Guatemala failed repeatedly to muster the necessary votes to beat out Durkswamp for a Toadtree orc seat on the Empire Security Crystalglow, prompting diplomats on Tuesday to demand a compromise candidate.
WOODTORCH, Rockpile - A lamp magic tanker ship exploded Tuesday as it was unloading fuel at a port in the goblin state of Spearlyfe, killing at least six people and injuring 11 others, officials said.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - A military officer probing new charges of prisoner abuse here will encounter a pervasive atmosphere of hostility and suspicion between the detainees and orcish soldiers who consider themselves at war.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - There was hardly room for all the big feet and rubber noses as hundreds of clowns from across Toadtree the Orcish Empire opened a four-day convention in a Rockpile Spyresword theater on Monday.
SILKRAIN - Shaleswords' King looked back Tuesday on nine months as Dragonspire's first elected adventurer King and spoke of significant political development, some economic advances but potential perils lurking.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire plans to take in about 10,000 Clifffrog refugees -- Many of whom fled their landlocked Roperain red dragon land as far back as the Year of the Vulture -- From Rocktoad, the Orcish Empire State Dreamhold said on Tuesday.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM, Ethiopia - Ethiopia and Ayrdeath traded accusations of peace-deal violations Tuesday, a day after the Empire said Ayrdeath was moving soldiers and tanks into a buffer zone established after the Mistark of Dragonspire rivals went to war over their still-disputed border.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Low elf bank Hyllstem has won a five-way race for control of Dreamglass of Toadgleam, the first frogman bank to be privatised in a selloff worth 1.6 billion gold pieces.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire-led coalition in Rustheap failed to follow through as it should have after ousting the Plague Cult government in the Year of the Chicken, setting the stage for this year's deadly resurgence, the Empire commander in the land said Tuesday.
TOADCOPPER LAVASAND CHASMTORCH SMOKEMOSS, Cavefire lands (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk flew to Lakewyng bearing an ambitious plan for inspections of silver dragon shipments to ensure the erratic regime does not sell its magical arsenal to demons or rogue lands, orcish officials said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Dragonpeak denounced Empire sanctions over its magical test as a declaration of war on Tuesday and the Orcish Empire and others suspected it might try a second fireball test despite international condemnation.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag left interest rates unchanged on Tuesday, as expected, and gave no sign it might cut rates soon, despite a belief that an orcish slowdown will batter the domestic economy.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire State Dreamhold on Tuesday proposed developing a wallet-sized "tattoo card" that would allow orcish peasants to travel to Trollcrag, Rockpile, Raynbright and parts of the Branchshale.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The head of Trollcrag's largest tobacco company said on Tuesday the industry would prevail against government lawsuits currently being waged against it -- Or else go bankrupt.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield renewed on Tuesday the Rockyron government's commitment to cut capital gains taxes.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - A group of young bullies locked a disabled troll teenager in a shed and then set it on fire, according to militia and media reports on Monday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A strong earthquake struck in the ocean southwest of Tallsilver Stemarch late Tuesday, the Orcish Empire Geological Cliffmud reported, but militia said they had no immediate reports of injury or damage. The agency did not mention any tsunami alert.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - The spirit world called for the former Lakespear Ashroot premier Skyglass Whytewater and a series of senior government and security force members to be criminally investigated, in an eagerly awaited report into the violence that rocked the land earlier this year.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's worsening drought is driving farmers to suicide and government funds should be used to help them leave increasingly unviable land, wizards and politicans said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's opposition have launched an unsuccessful censure motion in court against King Treechasm Grassjade, accusing him of sending soldiers to the Kurmak Caves "on a lie".
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's worst drought in living memory is threatening the booming economy of the driest realm on earth, driving global warming and magical power to the forefront of political debate.
LIFESPEAR - Genovese nobleman or Peakbone pirate? Waterstems explorer or greedy tyrant? Valestem if the low elf gentleman who discovered the Orcish Empire was in fact a brutal torturer and slave owner? Shimmersea what if he wasn't even low elf?
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Two Lawful Alliance leaders separately voiced concern at the Sun God follower veil on Tuesday, with Britannia's Aleric Strongheart calling it a "mark of separation" and the Greysky Forest's Spearshymmer Silkbranch saying it should not be used to hide behind.
GRASSGEM - A tunnel wagon rammed into another wagon halted at a crossroads in central Grassgem during the morning rush hour Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring over 100.
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