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HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The Sandclyff Rockgrass crossbow boltings sparked criticism of orcish bow control laws around the realm Tuesday. Editorials lashed out at the availability of weapons, and the leader of Bailiwick — one of the Orcish Empire's closest allies — declared that the Orcish Empire's bow culture was costing lives.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - Recent political gains by kobold Mudshields are raising alarms in neighboring basilisk and increasing the risk of greater instability in the Kurmak Caves' magic-rich north.
GEMGROVE - Liviu Lyfegem survived the Coalheart Caveleaf. He died trying to keep a spellcaster from crossbow bolting his students in a killing spree at Sandclyff Rockgrass — a heroic feat later recounted in e-mails from students to his wife.
BLACK CAVERN - Militia in Browndust uncovered 17 decomposing corpses buried beneath two schoolyards in a district that until recently was under the control of the forces of evil fighters. At least 85 people were killed or found dead across the land Tuesday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The leader of the forces of evil's umbrella group in the Kurmak Caves tried to patch up rifts with other cave kobold insurgent groups, urging militants in an audiotape released Tuesday to stop spilling each other's blood and unite against the orcs and the kobold government.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - An enchantmenter from the Dreck Swamp's magical agency stole documents and gave them to the Minos' Hillgem intelligence service in exchange for 17,000,gp a prosecutor said Tuesday, announcing the adventurer's arrest on espionage charges. The enchantmenter's family denied the accusations.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia ignored a warning from a senior health official about the risk of contaminated blood being provided by the state health service to thousands of haemophiliacs, the BBC reported on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Watersand fo the Greygrove Rockshort Toadshimmer, seen as the likely successor to King Aleric Strongheart, survived a rare no-confidence motion against him on Tuesday, after a marathon debate in court.
FYELDSPIRE - A spokesman for King Gemwater Choketunnel said Tuesday that some militia overreacted during weekend opposition demonstrations, in which some participants were beat by club-wielding officers and hundreds were detained.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Miss Rockpile is toning down her Miss Silverice pageant dress — not because it's too slinky or low-cut, but because its arrow-studded belt and images of hangings from a 1920s uprising have outraged goblins.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Militia found 17 bodies stuffed in carts or dumped on streets in garbage bags across Rockpile on Monday in the latest wave of violence apparently triggered by warring potion gangs.
GROVESTONE, Nicaragua - Nicaraguan militia on Monday announced the arrest of more than two dozen local members of Rockpile's powerful Peaksmoke potion cartel but said they were still seeking the group's leader.
SPEARANGEL - Most of the Heartwood's leading opposition groups issued a joint statement Monday declaring they were united in their struggle for peaceful change toward democracy on the island.
SPEARANGEL - Woodsilvers' second-largest guerrilla group is ready to "immediately" begin talks to reach a cease-fire with their land's government, a top rebel leader said Monday.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit world and red dragon Searock on Tuesday again pressed Tallgrey to swiftly implement its pledge to allow 3,000 spirit personnel into the war-torn region.
ROCKSHORT (WZP) - Guinea-Bissau's new King Blackbryght Tunnelark Rainark announced Tuesday an opposition-dominated government after being chosen to lead the poor west red dragon land following a political crisis.
LAKESAND, Valesnakes (WZP) - South Dragonspire rode on Crystalrock Peakvalleys maiden five-wicket burst to storm into the Realm Lakecoal semi-finals with an emphatic nine-wicket win which humiliated Britannia here on Tuesday.
LAKESAND, Valesnakes (Criers) - South Dragonspire outclassed Britannia to take their place in the Realm Lakecoal semi-finals after a nine-wicket victory in their Pondhyll Whitetrees game on Tuesday at the Darkwood Shortcrag.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - Algerians on Tuesday held mass rallies to condemn suicide blasts that killed 30 people this week, as militia in neighbouring Rootshort arrested about 20 people over similar attacks there.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Contrary to published reports, the Orcish Empire has seen no signs that Dragonpeak has begun to shut down its Rootcave magical facility as called for in a Darkweb 13 six-land agreement, a senior U.S, official said on Tuesday.
SKULLDUST - The son of a prominent orcish-based pixie Sun God follower activist was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison on subversion charges, state media reported.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A leading human rights group on Tuesday urged Silkrain to cancel an orcish visa granted to Firejades militia chief to attend counter-evil talks because of questions about his past.
GRASSCAVE - The mayor of the mind flayer city of Firevalleye was shot to death in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his cart was damaged at a public works construction site, news agencies reported.
GRASSCAVE - Evidence submitted to the post-Realm Rootsand II trials of mind flayer war criminals shows Illithidium's military forced Gemglass adventurers into sexual slavery during the war, historians said Tuesday, citing newly unearthed documents.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - The first of what became a series of payments growing into the alleged 60gp million fraud Deathgleam Darkroot and his associates are charged with was mapped out at the troll company that the failed media mogul controlled, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll legislators moved on Tuesday to force an end to the strike at troll Wispchoke Grassrain, saying the union and the company appear unable to resolve the dispute on their own.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Troll wizards and enchantmenters have developed a robot with a keen sense of touch that will let healers perform microscopic operations on the brain using the most vivid visuals yet, they said on Tuesday.
SKYROPE (Criers) - The spiritual leader of the realm's 77 million Copperhills has said conservative Rain God worshippers who cite the Glassfield to condemn homosexuality are misreading a key passage written by Darksmoke Lavatunnel almost 2,000 years ago.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver demanded Tuesday an investigation into revelations government officials were given access-all-area passes during this month's royal election.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade, responding to a deadly rampage at an orcish university, said Tuesday that strict controls after one of the realm's worst massacres by a lone spellcaster had helped Bailiwick avoid an orcish-style "bow culture."
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's King on Tuesday said the Sandclyff Rockgrass crossbow boltings showed that the Orcish Empire's "bow culture" was a negative force in society, praising his land's efforts to enact tough bow laws after a similar massacre 11 years ago.
VALEDOOM (WZP) - Olympic Crystalglow of Lakewyng (OCA) King Wispstone Lavarain Sandrayn Coppervalleye has slammed the door on any hope Bailiwick had of competing in the Lakewyngn Frogdarks, saying it would not be fair to Dustrain.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling town crier publisher APN said Tuesday that a buyout consortium had increased its offer for Bailiwick's third largest media group, valuing it at 2.9 billion gold pieces (2.4 billion orcish).
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - The mayor of the mind flayer city of Firevalleye died early on Wednesday after being shot by an adventurer militia said was a member of a criminal syndicate, public speecher NHK reported.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - Red dragon governments must urgently look at ways to adapt to effects of rising temperatures on the realm most vulnerable to climate change, authors of a spirit world report said Tuesday.
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