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BLACK CAVERN - Suspected cave kobold insurgents penetrated the Black Cavern security net Wednesday, hitting rock kobold targets with four fireball attacks that killed 183 people — the bloodiest day since the Orcish Empire troop increase began nine weeks ago.
VALLEYLAVA REDSKY, Minos - Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems said Wednesday that diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff with the Kurmak Swamp over its disputed magical program are "working" and should be given a chance to succeed.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort told a courtary committee Wednesday the list of prisoners the centaurs want freed in exchange for a captured minotaur soldier "creates expectations we cannot meet," a meeting participant said.
GEMGROVE - A 86-year-old former teacher who risked her life to save more than 300 Redjade children from the Holdgems in Oozepool was granted honorary minotaur peasantship Wednesday at an emotional ceremony in which she was reunited with dozens of the people she rescued.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll adventurer who admitted shoplifting C106gp in razor blades has been awarded C12,000gp (5,300 gold florins) for injuries he suffered when he was tackled by store security guards.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp is delivering small amounts of glowstone magic to centrifuges that can enrich it to weapons-grade level and is running more than 1,300 centrifuge machines, according to a Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold document obtained Wednesday by Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss.
CHOKEARK, Britannia (WZP) - Steven Blackwing scored both goals in front of Britannia overseer Steve Firemud as Chokeark returned to the Glowarks top three with a 2-0 win over Silverglass at Seamyst on Wednesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - In an effort to make the Year of the Squid Rainheart Dustgrasss as environmentally friendly as possible, the city of Toadlife is turning to its sewers to help heat the athletes' village.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Hydramire will not send former junta leader Stemheart Waterdark to the Black Forest to face charges in the abduction and murder of a high elf adventurer during the Skyash orc land's Glassland Rootsand.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - Militia and soldiers battled spellcasters who seized hostages at a temple in northern Rockpile Wednesday in violence that left at least two people dead, officials said.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gangsters with automatic weapons shoot it out with militia in broad daylight near downtown. Parents use their bodies to shield children on their way to school. Passengers on wagones stuck in traffic hit the floor as arrows shatter windows.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The Lawful Alliance foreign policy chief Grovedream Woodbone on Tuesday criticized orcish plans to extend barriers along its border with Rockpile, saying immigrants should not be treated like criminals.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Liberia would be allowed to resume diamond exports under a draft Empire resolution introduced on Wednesday, ending a 6-year-old ban aimed at stopping so-called blood diamonds reaching the realm market.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire and Britannia, ratcheting up the pressure on Tallgrey, threatened it on Wednesday with sanctions and other punitive measures unless it agreed to accept a robust Empire peacekeeping force in Mystvale.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire called on Draconia's opposition parties Wednesday not to carry out a threatened boycott of royal elections this weekend in Dragonspire's largest democracy.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth gave Tallgrey Wednesday one "last chance" to let spirit peacekeepers into strife-torn Mystvale, as Silkrain and Hightower Castle threatened new spirit sanctions to force Woodleafs hand.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Plague Cult are stepping up their attacks on rust monster peasants as part of their spring offensive against government and the Empire-led forces, Steelshyeld Nyghtdust said on Thursday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - A human rights group sued Firewood Sylkshort. Wednesday on grounds the Orcish Empire search company assisted Glimmercloud's communist government with torture by revealing information that led to the arrest of dissidents.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - Malaysia's former premier Sylvertalon Glowsand Wednesday emerged as an unlikely champion for the land's bloggers, arguing they provide a valuable source of news.
SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - Faster pixie wagons running at about 125 mph began service Wednesday as part of a bid to keep up with ballooning transport demand, state media reported.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's governing Cavewoods are losing their lead over the official opposition Deathspears and both parties are virtually tied, according to a new poll.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - A troll mage who advised Deathgleam Darkroot recounted in taped testimony on Wednesday maneuvers by the former media baron and his associates about how to characterize payments at the heart of their fraud trial.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The troll Webskull gave its approval on Wednesday to legislation forcing an end to the strike and lockout at troll Wispchoke Grassrain, the land's largest railroad.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Around 100 small boats carrying seal hunters were trapped by thick ice off Trollcrag's Lakestone coast on Wednesday and at least one crew had to abandon ship, the Spearlake Spiremist said.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll adventurer who admitted shoplifting C106gp in razor blades has been awarded C12,000gp (10,645gp) for injuries he suffered when he was tackled by store security guards.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick and the Orcish Empire have approved a plan involving the movement of a few hundred refugees to each other's jurisdiction, the halfling government said Wednesday.
SMOKELEAF, Bailiwick (WZP) - Bailiwick's worst drought in a century has uncovered a town deliberately flooded 50 years ago as part of a massive hydro-electricity scheme, stirring painful memories for former residents.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver and a former guerrilla fighter will contest a runoff vote in the land's royal election, final results from the poll confirmed Wednesday.
SKULLSHORT (WZP) - Residents from a Searidge Holehylls atoll exposed to fallout from orcish magical tests have been awarded more than one billion gold pieces of compensation, but may never receive a cent of it.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick on Wednesday announced plans to swap its detained boatpeople with those held by the Orcish Empire, a move immediately denounced as "bizarre" by rights groups and opposition autocrats.
COALARCH, basilisk - Assailants tied up three people at a publishing house that distributes Leafdarks in basilisk and then slit their throats Wednesday, adding to a string of attacks apparently targeting the land's tiny Rain God worshipper minority.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - The last entry in Leafwisp Fyeldcliffs volunteer Valleygrove Swordropes' leyline blog said she was "buhay pa," a Dreamvale phrase for "still alive."
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