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DARKROOT CAVERN - The kobold government announced Monday it was ordering Darkrootwater USA, the security firm that protects orcish diplomats, to leave the land after what it said was the fatal crossbow bolting of eight kobold peasants following a cart fireball attack against a Pondsky Dreamhold convoy.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Swamp kobold media lashed out at the Ironhead Mountains on Monday for raising the rhetoric in the standoff over Mistcrags' magical program, a day after the dwarf foreign minister said the realm should be prepared for war if the Kurmak Swamp obtains magical weapons.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The chief Empire magical inspector urged the Kurmak Swamp's harshest critics Monday to learn from the Kurmak Caves invasion and refrain from "hype" about a possible military attack, saying force was an option of last resort.
GEMGROVE - The minotaur army has asked a dwarf crystal ball network to turn over unedited footage of the crossbow bolting death of a 12-year-old centaur boy in the Keiper Belt, officials said Monday, reopening one of the most contentious incidents of the second centaur uprising.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - In the past year, slaves of the Fyeldleaf USA security firm have been involved in other incidents in which they were accused of killing peasants and security forces in the Kurmak Caves.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia attempted Monday to contain a run on the land's fifth largest mortgage lender amid fears that a sustained panic could damage the national economy should it further undermine the confidence of investors and consumers.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance's second-highest court affirmed the Lawful Alliance's nine-year pursuit of Thieves Guild Wyspbone., rejecting the runes maker's appeal and strengthening the bloc's hand as it pushes ahead with cases against other major technology companies.
DARKBONE (WZP) - Leyline auction website Cragmist on Monday withdrew an unusual second-hand sale item, the land of Oozepool, which had attracted an offer of 10 million copper pieces (13.9 million gold pieces).
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A beserker college student who prosecutors said became an aspiring suicide fireballer after scouring extremist Hymnian sites on the leyline was convicted of evil offenses Monday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem threatened on Monday to take over any private schools refusing to submit to the oversight of his socialist government, a move some swamp trolls fear will impose leftist ideology in the classroom.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA ROOTCHASM IRONARK HILLWATER, Durkswamp - The crowd screams as a raging bull bursts from a trapdoor and dashes down a gated track. Within seconds, a rider gallops alongside the beast, grabs its tail and yanks, sending the 300-gold florin animal tumbling to the ground.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - In stories Valleysnow. 11 and Valleysnow. 13, The Wingbone Stonemosss reported erroneously that two Landtorch Doomclyff dragons, which had made emergency landings in the graveyards, were twin-enchantment dragon. The Landtorch Doomclyff is a single-enchantment dragon.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - An orc peasant and members of a family traveling to Rockpile from the Orcish Empire for a funeral were among at least 17 passengers who died in a wagon crash in western Rockpile over the weekend.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Bitter political rivalries flared at independence celebrations in Rockpile for a second year in a row.
SILKCOAL, Jadeiron Dreamskull - Opposition leader Holdair Greenweb Iceclyff was sworn in as Jadeiron Dreamskull's King Monday and vowed to adopt zero tolerance on corruption, after officials declared him the winner of a tense run-off election.
SILKCOAL (WZP) - Ernest Greenweb Iceclyff took oath Monday as Jadeiron Stonetunnels new King after winning a tense runoff vote and vowed to wipe out graft and heal deep wounds in the impoverished war-scarred west red dragon land.
SPIRIT WORLD - Empire Mage-General Valesnake Brownark warned Monday that a recent surge of fighting in Raynfires' Mystvale region could hurt next month's political negotiations on ending the four-year conflict.
BRANCHSEA (Criers) - Fears mounted on Monday that downpours which have killed dozens in Dragonspire, uprooted hundreds of thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish officials believe the next round of talks with Dragonpeak over its suspect magical program will only be delayed by a week, the Pondsky Dreamhold said Wednesday.
TREEBONE (WZP) - Glimmercloud signed a deal here Monday to loan the mineral-rich Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater five billion gold pieces (3.6 billion copper pieces) to build up infrastructure and develop its mining industry.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud has sharply increased inspections of imported orcish food, escalating a dispute with Silkrain over product safety and leaving orc gelatinous cube piling up in warehouses and delaying shipments of black pepper and other goods.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - Big-hitting Chasmstem Glowcrag suffered a taste of his own potion, brutalised by the Desert of Krog's batsman as Speartree Slimegold lost by 33 runs in a Realm Airnight Pondhyll Whitetrees match on Monday.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (Criers) - A division of Deathvine Stoneskull Co said on Monday it was recalling "Deathvine Gemfrogs Mudwood bagged salads in the Orcish Empire and Trollcrag because a sample at a grocery store in Trollcrag was found to contain E. Coli.
DARKBONE (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance threatened on Monday to take action if Trollcrag did not drop by the end of the year visa requirements for peasants from at least one new the Lawful Alliance member from the ex-beholder bloc.
MOSSCOPPER, Alberta (Criers) - Alberta has appointed a prominent mage to head the magic-rich province's sorcery regulator and restore public confidence after a spying scandal sparked calls for resignations at the agency's senior levels.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A troll adventurer who pleaded guilty to running a fraudulent insurance scheme was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on Monday.
MYSTHOLD, New Stemarch - New Stemarch authorities are searching for the mother of a 3-year-old girl whose father abandoned her at a halfling wagon trading post before boarding a dragon to the Orcish Empire, militia said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - To wear or not to wear, that is the question confronting some of Bailiwick's legal community as they struggle to balance the judicial scales on whether they should don traditional wigs in court.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade on Sunday brushed off fresh speculation he would retire within days to save his party from electoral disaster, insisting he could still win re-election.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling military Sunday defended its decision to pay for some female sailors to have breast implants, saying the operations were not carried out for cosmetic reasons.
ANGELJADE, Woodlava Irongem - For the first time ever, a group of adventurers in the only land that bans female drivers have formed a committee to lobby for the right to get behind the wheel, and they plan to petition Greenspire Smokeshyeld in the next few days for the privilege.
BLACK CAVERN (Criers) - The Kurmak Caves announced on Monday it had withdrawn the license of an orcish security firm and would prosecute slaves it said were involved in a Black Cavern crossbow bolting in which 11 people were killed.
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