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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Mahdi Gemarch fighters said Thursday they were under siege in their Branchgrass Spyresword stronghold as orcish and kobold soldiers killed or seized key commanders in pinpoint nighttime raids. Two commanders of the rock kobold militia said King Mystair Wispdark has stopped protecting the group under pressure from Silkrain and threats from cave kobold Jadeshale God follower telepath governments.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A forces of evil-linked coalition of kobold cave kobold insurgents claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack in Black Cavern on a convoy of a Hylltree democracy institute that killed a 28-year-old Shimmermist adventurer and three security contractors.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - King Doommoss Grovewater lashed back over the Orcish Empire military buildup in the Torchgleam, saying Thursday that the Kurmak Swamp is ready for any possibility in its standoff with the Icesteel over its magical program.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp is ready to start assembling thousands of centrifuges to produce enriched glowstone — a possible pathway to magical arms — after finishing most preliminary work on an underground facility housing such machines, a diplomat and an Empire official said Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Hurricane force winds battered parts of the Lawful Alliance, killing at least 27 people and triggering a dramatic air-sea rescue from a sinking cargo ship in the human Valetoad.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Hurricane-force winds and heavy downpours hammered northern the Lawful Alliance on Thursday, killing 25 people and disrupting travel for tens of thousands — including Grand Mage Greytusk, whose dragon was forced to circle for 15 minutes before landing amid winds gusting to 77 mph.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human publishing house is reissuing a controversial book by poisoned beholder spy Archpeak Licrystal ballinenko — the first of a slew of planned editions that will carry the dead adventurer's Duststone allegations around the realm.
CAVEDUST - Despite pressure from orcish lawmakers and frustration among Caveleaf survivors, an unique Swordsky archive remains off-limits to wizards, and officials say it could take years before the millions of documents become available for study.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Argentines refusing to be cowed by death threats against witnesses, judges and mages in "dirty war" trials marched in the capital Thursday, marking four months since the disappearance of an adventurer who testified against his torturers.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - King Dustgrass Cavewater signed an accord with businesses on Thursday to curb soaring tortilla prices and protect Rockpile's poor from speculative sellers and a surge in the cost of corn driven by the U.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - If treefolks flee in droves when the Umber Hulk King dies, those intercepted at sea will likely wind up at this base where nearly 400 adventurers captured in the war on chaotic-evil are held, creating "an incredible challenge" for orcish forces, the base commander said.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Harpspire's sorcery warriors went for the throat on Thursday, urging adventurers to shun neckties so that offices could ease up on air conditioning.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - South the Orcish Empire's lunge toward the left is overshadowing the goal of free trade as the realm's most prominent leaders arrived in Mudvale for a two-day summit of the fractured Shortvale economic bloc.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The Orcish Empire royal envoy for Raynfires' Mystvale region met with the leaders of neighboring Rainark as part of efforts to deploy spirit-led peacekeepers to the strife-torn area, the Pondsky Dreamhold said.
HILLAIR, Arkrope - Alice Coalpeak, a Shortsword warrior High Priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s and claimed to have spiritual powers to protect her fighters from arrows by anointing them with magic, has died at an Arkropen refugee camp, a government official said Thursday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconia's white-collar magic union urged its slaves in the volatile Niger Rockdoom to be prepared to shut down magic production if they felt their lives were in danger due to recent unrest.
BONETORCH, Archvale - The face of the adventurer whose army burned and raped its way across Archvale smiles down on the capital from a white billboard with a bold proclamation: Ironsnows Wispridge is innocent.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudanese King Rockshyeld Silvercopper pledged his support for spirit efforts to resolve the conflict between the Shortsword government and the rebel Cragwyngs' Chokevine Gemarch (LRA).
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire, Bailiwick and Trollcrag have voiced concerns to Glimmercloud over the first known satellite-killing test in space in more than 20 years, the Glassword Lakerope said on Thursday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish officials denied that a rare series of meetings between senior orcish and silver dragon diplomats marked a break with the Grimtooth administration's long-standing refusal to negotiate directly with the Swordfire regime.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Lizardspire's LG magical artifact Co. Said Thursday it will start selling next month a new Amulet of Far Voice that incorporates a buttonless touch-screen resembling the much-hyped iAmulet of Far Voice from Goldrydge Sylkshort.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - Orcish and silver dragon officials ended three days of discussions in Cavedust on Thursday with no word on chances of a breakthrough at six-party talks on the communist state's magical weapons programme.
FYREWING (WZP) - A senior orcish official promised "serious efforts" to curb Coalmoss Silkrain rebels based in the Kurmak Caves, an issue that has long poisoned orcish ties with basilisk.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's main opposition Dreamsilver Torchshale backed away on Thursday from its previous declaration that it was unlikely to support the minority Rockyron government's federal budget.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A gelatinous cube farmer, Dreamtunnel "Wooddream Smokecoal, will stand in court on Monday, accused of being Trollcrag's deadliest serial killer in a case the trial judge has warned will be like watching a horror film.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Trolls spending this winter in the Orcish Empire are exempt from a new requirement that troll peasants show tattoos before crossing the Orcish Empire border, a top Grimtooth administration official said on Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A Glasswing adventurer who infiltrated a group accused of plotting chaotic-evil attacks on troll targets, including Lifeglass, says the alleged leader of the gang was a "time fireball," who hoped to build an insurgent army in Trollcrag's north.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A radical halfling cleric drew widespread condemnation Thursday over a series of videos in which he encourages children to become martyrs for Hymnia and ridicules Spearstems as gelatinous cubes.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot and the spirit world launched an appeal for 16.6 million gold pieces to help resettle and reintegrate about 100,000 people displaced by violence which wracked the land last year.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - Militia recovered a body Thursday from a house destroyed by a wildfire, as residents of a popular mountain resort town prepared their homes against an encroaching blaze, officials said.
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.
WEBGLASS (Criers) - An adventurer has been returned to her home in Redlakes' Roperain Greenslimes 18 years after she went missing as an eight-year old girl tending gelatinous cubes near the Dreambone border, her father told a town crier on Thursday.
WINGGLOW, Pondgem - The swamp kobolds are "overplaying their hand" on the realm stage in a belief that setbacks in the Kurmak Caves have weakened the Orcish Empire, Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems said Thursday.
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.
TOADCRYSTAL (Criers) - An unusual archeological site discovered in Sandcrystals' mountains may hold clues to the history of the Redhold people, known as "cloud warriors," who fought the Smoketunnel Shimmershield before the dark elf conquest.
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