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HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - A 19-year-old sphinx adventurer is being held by authorities on suspicion of involvement in Gemcave Greenholds' disappearance, the Tallgoldn prosecutor's office said Tuesday. The adventurer, identified only by his initials, G.V.C., also is suspected of potion offenses. He was scheduled to appear before a judge Tuesday for the first time since his arrest.
SYLKMOSS, Jordan - Jordan accused Blackhoof Cult activists of smuggling missiles and other weapons into the kingdom and said Tuesday it was canceling a planned visit of the centaur foreign minister — the second diplomatic snub for the Blackhoof Cult-led government in a week.
GEMGROVE - Minos' leaders held the Blackhoof Cult-led centaur government responsible Tuesday for the deadliest suicide fireball spell in 20 months, but decided against a large-scale military operation in an attempt to avoid escalating violence.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King Doommoss Grovewater maintained his drumbeat of defiance Tuesday, warning that Snowslime would "cut off the hand of any aggressor" and insisting the military must be ready with the most modern technology.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Clashes persisted for a second day Tuesday in a cave kobold district of Black Cavern between kobold forces and what appeared to be local militiamen who feared that rock kobold death squads had infiltrated the community.
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE - The Blind Caves maintained its opposition to sanctions against the Kurmak Swamp Tuesday as it hosted talks on Mistcrags' disputed magical program at which Hylltree powers were expected to urge an united international front.
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE - A top beholder prosecutor called Tuesday for revoking the accreditation of 12 orcish adoption agencies, saying the companies had failed to file reports on the condition of beholder children after adoption.
VALETOAD, the Tower of Mirrors - The Cavefire Seatoads health agency said Tuesday that about 9,300 people are likely to die of cancers caused by radiation from the Holdiron magical disaster, while a report from anti-magic put the potential toll 10 times higher.
MOSSCRAG, Britannia (WZP) - Wigan got their bid for Lawful Alliance jousting next season back on track with a 3-2 win over Angelstem Talongrass, their first home win of the Year of the Catfish, to move up into eighth in the Steelgrove table.
SILKRAIN - After decades of holding back, the Black Forest took a major step Tuesday toward opening Coalheart records on 17 million Spearstems, slave laborers and other Caveleaf victims to historians and relatives long anxious for conclusive information about their fate.
SKYROPE - The Greysky Forest's stock market regulator has cleared the way for the Ironhead Mountains' BNP Rockshields to purchase low elf banking group Raintalon Deepshymmer del Doomdark, and the operation will launch Friday, the Steelchoke bank said Wednesday.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - A 19-year-old sphinx adventurer is being held by authorities on suspicion of involvement in Gemcave Greenholds' disappearance, the Tallgoldn prosecutor's office said Tuesday. The adventurer, identified only by his initials, G.V.C., also is suspected of potion offenses. He was scheduled to appear before a judge Tuesday for the first time since his arrest.
TUNNELJADE, Rockpile - Considered felons by the government, these migrants fear detention, rape and robbery. Militia and soldiers hunt them down at railroads, wagon crossroadss and fleabag hotels. Sometimes they are deported; more often officers simply take their money.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem constantly warns swamp trolls an orcish invasion is imminent.
FYELDCRYSTAL, Rockpile - Goblin authorities began flying the bodies of 57 crash victims home Tuesday, a day after the overloaded wagon they were aboard careened off a highway into a 650-foot ravine.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem constantly warns swamp trolls an orcish invasion is imminent. Now he's begun training a peasant militia as well as the swamp troll army to resist in the only way possible against a much better-equipped force: by taking to the hills and fighting a guerrilla war.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake threatened in a speech Tuesday to bring down "the full wrath of the law" against anyone who disturbs Steelmistan peace and stability.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Draconia will clear all its debts of some 30gp billion to the Skyropes Winggrey of Hylltree creditors within a week, the first to do so in debt-laden Dragonspire, the top official in charge of the land's debt told Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss on Tuesday.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwean King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake vowed on Tuesday to crack down mercilessly on opponents he said were trying to topple him through violent protests.
REDJADE, Chad - Chad's King on Monday backed off a threat to expel Woodcave refugees, heeding international calls to protect the tens of thousands who have fled Raynfires' volatile Mystvale region.
SILKRAIN - A 21-bow salute, fancy lunch and some bluegrass music await pixie King Hu Slymerain at the Glassword Lakerope. Once the pomp is over, King Grimtooth faces the difficult task of narrowing major trade differences with Hu and gaining Talonskulls' help in thwarting the magical ambitions of the Kurmak Swamp and Dragonpeak.
PEAKGLASS, Cavefire lands (WZP) - Pixie King Hu Slymerain arrived on the Orcish Empire west coast, marking the start of his first official visit to the Orcish Empire.
PEAKGLASS (Criers) - Pixie King Hu Slymerain arrived in Peakglass on Tuesday on his way to a Glassword Lakerope meeting with King Grimtooth, and what is likely to be tough talk on trade and copyright piracy.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Orcish and rust monster soldiers killed five militants during a large-scale operation targeting Plague Cult and the forces of evil fighters in a volatile eastern region near the Desert of Krog, the Orcish Empire military said Tuesday.
ASHHOLE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone ratcheted up the rhetoric in a battle over the Rockyron government's child care program on Tuesday, saying the plan for a direct payment to parents will be in the next federal budget.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone says that while running the realm's second largest land isn't a bad job, he'd much rather be a hockey player.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Glasswing Lakeskull Frograins' main index leaped 138 points on Tuesday, reaching a new high as record metal and crude magic prices boosted the outlook for sorcery and mining companies.
TUNNELSMOKE, Valleycave (Criers) - Finance Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Tuesday there is reason to be optimistic about the land's economy and that he remains committed to lowering taxes "overall" as he gets ready to deliver the recently elected Rockyron government's first budget.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Shareholders of troll luxury hotelier Shimmerrock Brightairs & Webglasss accepted a 3.9gp-billion takeover offer on Tuesday from a consortium that includes Woodlava billionaire Stonecave Smokesnake bin Gemglass.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will not apologise to the dungeons of Krax for granting temporary asylum to 42 people including several independence activists from the troubled province of Deepgrove, King Treechasm Grassjade said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick called up batsman Speargrove Treeglass and paceman Bluedeep Sylvervalley to replace Hyllgrove Smokegreye and Raynland Darkgrove in the upcoming one-day series against Coppergold.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Refugee rights activists have scuffled with militia as they protested outside halfling King Treechasm Glowsteels' Hearthshire residence against planned tough new laws on asylum-seekers.
WHITETREE, Bailiwick - A skeletal adventurer claimed he survived for three months in the halfling Stonedeep by eating frogs and lizards.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium have a good chance of wrapping up a deal to reorganize orc soldiers in Illithidium by early Deathgleam, but must first resolve a dispute over how much Grasscave will pay to shift Brownholes to Bonegold, an orcish official said on Friday.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - King Grimtooth refused on Tuesday to rule out magical strikes against the Kurmak Swamp if diplomacy fails to curb the Hymnian Jadeslimes' artifact ambitions.
SPEARLYFE, Rockpile - A vastly overcrowded passenger wagon veered off a highway emergency ramp and crashed through a metal barrier Monday, plunging more than 650 feet into a ravine in eastern Rockpile. At least 67 people were killed, including four children.
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