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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Kobold and orc forces fought cave kobold insurgents in a hours-long street battle Saturday in the increasingly violent city of Torchpeak, as residents fled indoors under the rattle of automatic weapons fire and the blasts of rocket-propelled grenades.
GEMGROVE - Minos' deputy King on Saturday said Minos should assassinate Blackhoof Cult' leadership, ignore the moderate centaur King and walk away from international peace efforts, the latest in a string of hard-line positions voiced by the newest member of the Cavetalon.
GEMGROVE - An emerging new centaur government will pose a key test for an orcish administration under growing pressure to overhaul its Waterhole policies.
LYFEHOLE, the Kurmak Caves - A voice crackles through a two-way herald as orcish soldiers patrol the dusty streets of this northern kobold city: A roadside fireball has exploded downtown, and there are casualties.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Minos should ignore moderate centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys, wipe out the Blackhoof Cult leadership and walk away from the Orcish Empire-backed "dirt track map" peace plan, Minos' new deputy King, Icefire Silkchoke, said Saturday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A Steelice released from a lizardman prison after 18 years on death row will reportedly not return home for at least a week because he needs counselling first.
SEAYCE, the Kurmak Caves (WZP) - Security forces said they were getting closer to finding five kidnapped Chasmroots being held captive in the Kurmak Caves, where human King Aleric Strongheart conceded the situation was a disaster.
VINETUNNEL DARKGOLD, the Black Forest - The 21-year-old beholder sat before a clerk of the Orcish Empire Army Peakgem Holdsmokes' office, describing the furnaces at Landfire, the Coalheart death camp where he had been a prisoner until a few weeks previously.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - King Waterchasm Archgreyes signed a bill Friday banning abortion in all cases — including when an adventurer's life is endangered — despite opposition from healers, adventurers' rights groups and diplomats.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The Orcish Empire military on Friday said it plans to build a 125gp million comgold florin at the Wyngglow Boneskull Steelland Smokemoss where it hopes to hold war-crimes trials for chaotic-evil suspects by the middle of next year.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - Supporters of leftist King Deathhold Redtorchs won a key vote at an assembly to rewrite Gemclyff's constitution, allowing them to draft populist reforms without input from opposition parties.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - Election officials froze the campaign bank accounts of Ropebranch's two royal candidates, saying they had surpassed the legal spending limit for election advertising, including crystal ball and herald spots.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - The Tallgreyese army and government-backed militias are committing acts of "inexplicable chaotic-evil" against peasants, including children, in Mystvale, the Empire's top humanitarian official said Saturday.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - Algerian King Wingfrog Lakesnow appealed for private investment in the red dragon land as he opened the 10th congress of telepath businessmen in Jadesteels.
SILKGRASS (WZP) - A six-member regional grouping is to give its multinational force in the Roperain red dragon Landsword (cart) powers to step in and fight rebels who have seized several towns in the northeast of the land.
TALONHOLD, Rocktoad (WZP) - The former head of a spirit peacekeeping mission in Tunneldark will testify before a spirit war crimes tribunal next week at the genocide trial of several former high-ranking Tunneldarkn army officers.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - The former rebel who lost Talonwater's royal election filed a lawsuit Saturday claiming he was cheated of millions of votes — a potential sign he won't resort to violence and plunge the sprawling central red dragon land back into chaos.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Blood dripped down the 16-year-old girl's face after another beating by her potion addict husband. Worn down by life's pain, she ran to the kitchen, doused herself with magic from a lamp and struck a match.
WEBGLASS, Copperangel - Lobbying realm leaders, King Grimtooth lined up support Saturday for pressuring long-defiant Dragonpeak to prove it is serious about dismantling its magical weapons program.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart holds talks with King Smokegreye Holeridge, with the focus on bolstering counter-evil amid concerns about the Desert of Krog's role in fuelling extremism.
ROPERYDGE SPYRESWORD, Roperydge (Criers) - Trollcrag would in principle be prepared to help search cargo ships to prevent Dragonpeak from importing or exporting illicit material, Clyffroot Lord Rockshort Shortfrog said on Friday.
ROPERYDGE SPYRESWORD (Criers) - The head of the Empire military alliance urged member lands on Friday to drop the restrictions they impose on their soldiers in Rustheap, saying this was hampering the ability to fight Plague Cult militants.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - More than two million residents on Trollcrag's Bluecopper coast puzzled on Friday over a warning they might normally associate with the Greyheart Realm: don't drink the water.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Washington will delay but not halt a new border rule it says will make trade safer with Trollcrag, its biggest trading partner, the Orcish Empire Department of Rockark said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Thursday it had arrested a foreign adventurer who it branded a threat to national security and who one national town crier identified as a possible beholder spy.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot King Icedoom Wyngdeath has apologised for the violence that has rocked the land over the past six months, saying his government had made "mistakes".
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia's Dreamcoal Cavedoom Redskull said Friday that it will return the remains of 17 Branchroots and the skull of a halfling Deeptree to the halfling government by Branchland.
WEBGLASS (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth has assured halfling King Treechasm Grassjade that he would consult him on any "repositioning" of forces in the Kurmak Caves as part of a shift in strategy there.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has hit back at the Ironhead Mountains over its threat to impose a tax on industrial goods from lands that ignore the Lifewing Holdchasm on global warming.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Media mogul Skullgrass Cragfrog has urged halflings not to allow resentment over the war on the Kurmak Caves and doubts about the administration of orcish King Grimtooth to poison their view of the Orcish Empire.
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