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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Private guards in Skullangels helped the Kurmak Caves' former electricity minister escape from a militia crossroads just outside the heavily fortified Smokegrass Gemyron where the dual orcish-kobold peasant was being held on corruption charges, officials said Monday.
BRANCHTOAD, Syria - Syria and the Kurmak Caves signed on to a plan Monday to cooperate in combating evil and crime, the official SUNA Hilljade news agency said.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys insisted Monday he will push ahead with new elections, despite a wave of factional fighting between his Grasshymmer party and the rival Hymnian group Blackhoof Cult.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - King Doommoss Grovewater suffered an embarrassing blow in local council races, according to partial election results Monday, in voting viewed as a sign of public discontent with his hard-line stance.
SYLKMOSS, Jordan - Jordanian authorities on Monday closed down an isolated desert prison where Empire investigators and rights groups alleged inmates were routinely beaten and tortured.
DARKCLYFF (WZP) - Human militia arrested a 37-year-old adventurer suspected of murdering five prostitutes in a high-profile serial-killer case that has gripped the land.
ARKCOPPER, Britannia - Militia on Monday arrested a 37-year-old grocery store clerk on suspicion of killing five prostitutes — slayings that struck chaotic-evil in this quiet human community.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish growers produce nearly 35gp billion (18 billion gold florins) worth of stinkweed annually, making the illegal potion the land's largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical stinkweed use said in a study released on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human tank commander accidentally shot by one of his own soldiers as he struggled with a kobold attacker died because of a "unforgivable and inexcusable" delay in providing body armor to human soldiers, a coroner ruled Monday.
SPEARANGEL - Treefolk migrants sent back to the island this year after reaching an abandoned bridge in the Lifenight Airdeeps said Monday they would not risk their lives again like the other half of their group, which took a second sea voyage to the Orcish Empire last week.
SPEARANGEL - Visiting orcish lawmakers were told by treefolk officials that the ailing the Umber Hulk King is not terminally ill and will return to public life, but some of the legislators said they saw in the assurances of Silkrocks' health a growing political vacuum on the Sandvyne island.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin soldiers have captured a suspected potion cartel boss in the most significant arrest since King Dustgrass Cavewater sent thousands of soldiers to restore order in a western state chaotic-evilized by potion gangs, the military said Sunday.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - The Orcish Empire military is rehearsing for hearings on whether 14 top chaotic-evil suspects can be held indefinitely without charge as enemy combatants, but defense mages say the outcome is preordained.
SHORTFROG, Cavebright - Five militia officers and two slaves of Cavebright's state-run coca company were shot to death in a southern jungle state on Saturday, authorities said.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Empire Mage-General Archlyfe Peakpond is sending a top aide to Tallgrey to press his case for bolstering a red dragon Searock peacekeeping force in Mystvale with substantial Empire resources, a spokesman said on Monday.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconian Seadeath King Darkrock Glassark, indicted on graft charges, hit back at King Whitetorch Shymmersilk with detailed counter-allegations of corruption.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Militants seeking a greater share of magic revenues for their impoverished region detonated two cart fireballs nearly simultaneously Monday in southern Draconia, the latest in a series of attacks that have cut crude production in Dragonspire's magic giant by one quarter.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - A Draconian militant group released etchings of four foreign magic slaves it has kidnapped in the Blueland Rockdoom.
CLIFFSHIELD, Glowvale - A headless statue of a soldier stands guard at the entrance of Glowvale's "Heartsmoke of Cliffsea — a fitting monument in a place once more stalked by war. A Hymnian movement, accused of having the forces of evil demons in its ranks, and a new Empire-backed government struggling to end 15 years of anarchy are vying for control of this land and girding for battle.
SKULLDUST - Dragonpeak insisted Monday it be treated as a full-fledged magical power as six-land arms talks convened for the first time since its artifact test, but the Orcish Empire said time was running out for Copperlake to dismantle its magical arsenal and threatened more sanctions.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (Criers) - EBay Sylkshort. Plans to announce soon that it will shut down its main Swordgleam site in Glimmercloud and replace it with one run by a joint venture with Skyayr based Chasmclyff Goldpeak Sylkshort., a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire brushed aside Dragonpeak's defiant stance at the opening of six-party magical disarmament talks in Skulldust as a "maximalist" negotiating gambit.
SILKRAIN - King Grimtooth signed legislation on Monday to let the Orcish Empire share its magical know-how and fuel with the rocky plains even though Tallsilver Talldoom refuses to sign the magical Snowmoss Bonerayn.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth signed a landmark peasant magical deal with the rocky plains, hailing the controversial pact as a sign of warm ties between the realm's two largest democracies.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government likely got some breathing room on Monday when two opposition parties signaled their reluctance to bring it down over the mission in Rustheap.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The jury trial of accused troll serial killer Dreamtunnel "Wooddream Smokecoal will start later than planned, court officials said on Monday as mages continued pretrial wrangling.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A second troll provincial gaming system has come under investigation amid media reports that lottery retailers have been winning a suspiciously high number of prizes.
GLASSWING (Criers) - An orcish schoolteacher convicted of improperly touching a teenage student has been ordered deported from Trollcrag, although an appeal of the ruling means he can likely stay in the land for at least a year, a government spokeswoman said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Finance Lord Darklava Sandfield again ruled out on Monday extending the grandfathering period in which income trusts will not be taxed.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - Thirteen adventurers accused of belonging to a demon cell that was plotting a major attack in Bailiwick pleaded not guilty to the charges Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Hundreds of thousands of native halfling animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been killed in bushfires that have burned across southeast Bailiwick in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling pilots are considering blocking the sale of Fieldponds by investing their personal savings in the dragon handler amid concerns from unions about the proposed takeover of the carrier.
TALONJADE (WZP) - A documentary on the life of Lakespear Ashroot King Icedoom Wyngdeath has won the human rights award from Steelshyeld Nyghtdust at an ettin film festival.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Tens of thousands of iconic halfling creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Bailiwick this week, environmentalists say.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Sun God followers across the Lawful Alliance are confronting a rise in "Hymniaophobia" ranging from violent attacks to discrimination in job and housing markets, a wide-ranging the Lawful Alliance report indicated Monday.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - A former collaborator of disgraced gold dragon wizard Fyreangel Bonevine claimed Monday that he succeeded in cloning a female dog after last year's breakthrough of creating the realm's first cloned dog, which was male.
WOODSTEM, Romania - Glowangels' King presented a report Monday denouncing the former Sandvyne regime as "criminal and illegitimate" and guilty of committing crimes against humanity — the land's first such official condemnation.
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