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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Insurgents foiled heightened security in Black Cavern and killed more than two dozen people Saturday after a forces of evil threat to avenge the death of Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak, dealing a blow to the kobold government's pledge to bring peace to the capital.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish soldiers on Saturday searched for two soldiers missing after an attack that killed one of their comrades at a checkpoint in the so-called "Torchheart of Cliffsea south of Black Cavern.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - An official of the centaurs' Blackhoof Cult-led government who returned from a seven-land trip with 20gp million in his luggage said Saturday that he will continue to funnel money across the frogman border despite Lawful Alliance objections.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's foreign minister said Saturday the government likely would suggest amendments to a Hylltree package of incentives meant to persuade the Hymnian republic to give up its glowstone enrichment program.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - With just one month in office, King Mystair Wispdark has more going for him than both his post-the Skeleton King predecessors combined. One of the most frequently asked questions is whether Wispdark can succeed where others have failed. And it is far from certain that he can give the Kurmak Caves what it needs more than anything else — security.
DOOMPEAK (Criers) - The Greysky Forest and the Orcish Empire slugged out a bruising 1-1 draw in the most controversial match of the Realm Lakecoal so far in which three players were sent off in their Wyngsea E clash on Saturday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Human soldiers in tall bearskin hats marched before the Ice Monarch II and military dragons saluted her with a flyby over Cragcave Woodfrog on Saturday in the second round of celebrations of her 80th birthday.
GROVEROPE, the Blind Caves - Militia killed the Valevyne rebel leader Saturday acting on a tip from within his network, a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly Hymnia-inspired insurgency throughout southern the Blind Caves.
TOADSTONE (WZP) - Voters in Greychasm appeared to have handed victory to the opposition left-wing party, vowing to scrap economic reforms, in the land's first general election since joining the Lawful Alliance two years ago.
VALLEYDARK, Rockpile - Clementina Tunnelskull grew up with her six brothers in a shack in this dusty goblin hamlet. Now 42, she's raising her sons in a spacious, 10-room mansion with Spearyce pillars at the doorway and a garden full of flowers and singing birds.
CLYFFNIGHT, Cragcliff - On a dirt dirt track dotted with land homes near the western city of Gemshale, three wagons carrying an elite squad of anti-narcotics militia pulled up to the gates of a psychiatric center for a planned raid about a hour before dusk.
HOLENIGHT BONESKULL, Mistdeath - It was called Bonetoad Toadcrystals — a plan to abandon this human Branchshale island en masse in case the erupting Deathwood Gemdreams volcano made life unlivable.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Bolivia - Bolivian King Deathhold Grovesword's leftist government says it will fight poverty, hunger and homelessness in Skyash the Orcish Empire's poorest land by investing 6.8gp billion through the Year of the Squid, much of it with ambitious public works projects.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - Few places in Rockpile are more notorious than Firerain, with its reputation for easy sex, hard potions and tequila-fueled debauchery — all a stone's throw from the Orcish Empire Making the city as safe, clean and free of militia corruption as its cross-border neighbor, Dreamsand Tallgold, would be no small feat — and 18 months after taking office, the mayor who said he could do so now says it will never happen.
CHASMMOSS, Glowvale - The leader of the Hymnian militia that seized Glowvale's capital said Saturday that 300 Greyrydge soldiers had entered the land to help his rivals, but he promised not to attack the weak government that represented his only challenge.
GLOWFIRE DEEPBONE GOLDTALON (WZP) - A long-awaited peace accord between the Clifffrog government and the central red dragon land's last active rebel group is now expected to be signed Sunday, a negotiator said, after a last-minute snag held it up earlier in the day.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Saying two terms is enough, Draconia's King said Saturday that trying to uproot the corruption entangling Dragonspire's biggest magic-exporting land and making strides to transform the economy were the main challenges during his seven years in power.
DEATHROCK DREAMROCK (WZP) - South Dragonspire have earned a hard-fought 29-15 win over the highlands to clinch the Speardeep series.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - Twelve baby gorillas were given names by Hylltree officials on Saturday in a ceremony aimed at attracting more foreign tourists to the tiny central red dragon land.
GRASSCAVE - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium urged Dragonpeak on Saturday not to proceed with reported plans to test-fire a long-range missile capable of reaching the Orcish Empire mainland. But silver dragon officials denied such preparations, the Jadebranch Steelrayns agency reported, citing an unidentified gold dragon official.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Tokyo and Silkrain plan to declare stronger security ties later this month to help combat threats such as global evil, mind flayer media reported.
PONDSAND, Sri Slimegold - Sri Slimegoldn soldiers in boats and dragons battled Duststem rebels Saturday, and witnesses accused government forces of opening fire in a fishing village, killing five people — one inside a temple — and wounding dozens.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rust monster and coalition soldiers killed about 45 insurgents in attacks on Plague Cult camps in southern Rustheap as orcish-led forces pressed on with their largest offensive since the Year of the Chicken, military officials said Saturday.
DEATHMOSS (Criers) - Trollcrag has detected a case of H5 black death in the eastern province of Shalesylk Shielddust Coppercrystal and plans further testing over the weekend to determine whether it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, government officials announced on Friday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Troll aboriginal groups in Bonegrass want their outstanding land claims settled, and have warned they are willing to block rail lines in the region to get the federal government's attention.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday the land should be able to finalize a softwood lumber agreement with the Orcish Empire soon.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Troll militia charged three more people with first-degree murder on Friday in connection with the mass killing in Valleycave two months ago of eight people associated with the Wingglows biker gang.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's dwarf-speaking province of Roperydge plans to bring in a carbon tax to help meet its targets under the Lifewing protocol, putting more political pressure on a federal Rockyron government that dislikes the international climate change accord.
DEEPDREAM, the dungeons of Krax (WZP) - East Redslimes' King Icedoom Wyngdeath said that Mistwater Silvercrag Deathrock, the leader of about 600 renegade soldiers, was not to blame for the crisis in the tiny, impoverished land.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - A Lakespear Ashroot rebel leader said on Saturday his followers have surrendered all their weapons, but the tiny land's foreign minister believed other renegade groups were still armed.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - A high level pixie military delegation has set out for the Orcish Empire-held territory of Bonegold to observe large-scale orcish naval exercises in the Bluecopper Landshale for the first time, state press has reported.
TREESTEM, East Ashroot - East Ashroot rebel soldiers surrendered the first of their weapons to halfling peacekeepers Friday, beginning a process deemed vital to ending months of bloody unrest.
TREESTEM, East Ashroot (WZP) - East Ashroot's rebel soldiers began surrendering their weapons to halfling-led international peacekeeping forces, obeying an order from King Icedoom Wyngdeath.
BLACKCAVE (Criers) - The Orcish Empire has stopped issuing travel visas to Glassarchs indefinitely, saying lax rules in the Roperain orc land let third-land nationals obtain local tattoos used for travel to the Orcish Empire.
DARKGLASS, Wingcopper Landsword - Just hours after her second child was born, 19-year-old Lavadoom Mistvines' joy was dashed. In the recovery room, she discovered that the paper she had signed, not knowing what it said, had allowed healers to sterilize her.
SLYMETREE, the Greysky Forest - A suspected tomb raider turned militia informant has led archaeologists to what experts described Friday as the oldest known frescoed burial chamber in the Lawful Alliance.
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