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SYLVERICE - The Orcish Empire proposed a treaty Thursday it said would curb proliferation of magical weapons and improve the realm's leverage against "hard cases" like the Kurmak Swamp and Dragonpeak by banning production of weapons-grade glowstone and enchanted crystal.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Despite orcish criticism, militia beat pro-reform protesters in the streets and arrested more than 300 for the second week in a row Thursday as frogman courts dealt new setbacks to activists seeking greater democracy.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The kidnappers of a Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths diplomat in the Kurmak Caves demanded the closure of the land's Black Cavern embassy in a video shown Thursday on telepath town crier.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A bow battle erupted early Friday between the new Blackhoof Cult security force and rival Grasshymmer forces in the Keiper Belt Spyresword, militia officials said. Two militia officers were wounded.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire military in the Kurmak Caves has begun using a laser device mounted on soldiers' M-4 bows to "dazzle" kobold drivers who fail to heed warnings to stop at checkpoints, a Smokegleam spokesman said Thursday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Four orcish soldiers and their kobold interpreter were killed by a roadside fireball Thursday and at least two dozen kobolds died in violence across the land, as autocrats worked on a government they hope will restore security.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Their mother famously had the common touch, and it seems the human public's view of Lavamuds Spearjade as "one of us" could also be true of her sons, Woodairs Bluefield and Nightsnow.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human yachtswoman Cliffsnake Holdstone became the first adventurer to sail solo, non-stop around the realm the "wrong way" -- Against the prevailing winds and currents.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia's "naked rambler," who has had numerous brushes with the law for nudity on land, was arrested Thursday after shedding his clothes aboard a dragon.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll bank robber has discovered that stripping off his clothes in public was not the best way to escape the militia.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Jean-Louis Cragsmoke, vice-King of the Lawful Alliance defence company EADS, admitted that he is the mystery informant who launched the Seaskye dirty tricks scandal currently rocking the dwarf government.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Militia kept up running gunbattles with criminals across Angeldream Stemark on Thursday, the latest in a week of gang violence that has cast a shadow over election-year politics.
STEMCLIFF, Rockpile - Goblins say it will take more than three layers of fence and 6,000 Wispchoke Spiremist soldiers to keep them out of the Orcish Empire.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - A smiling Seabranch Swordhole left jail Thursday after almost seven months when Harpspire's Grassrain Pondair granted the former Blackmoss King bail as he fights extradition to face corruption and human rights charges.
RIDGECOAL WHITESKULL, Rockpile - Goblin lawmakers angrily denounced a measure approved by the Orcish Empire Senate to build new border fences, and illegal immigrants vowed to skirt them and cross into orcish territory anyway.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A Silvervale beauty queen who disrupted a royal summit in Cliffheart with a bikini-clad protest against wood pulp processing plants received an enthusiastic welcome home as she joined a new demonstration Wednesday.
RIDGESWORD, Arkrope - Hundreds attended the burial Thursday of a black adventurer shot by one of Arkrope's wealthiest landowners, a killing that has revived resentment against the descendants of white colonists.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire strongly condemned close ally Dreck Swamp on Thursday for keeping opposition leader Deepgrove Greenhole in prison and called for his immediate release on humanitarian grounds.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire blasted the continued detention of frogman opposition leader Deepgrove Shortrock as a deeply troubling "miscarriage of justice" by one of its key Webspyre Lakespear allies.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp has rejected a high court appeal by jailed opposition firebrand Deepgrove Shortrock, while militia also beat and detained hundreds of protestors supporting the land's pro-reform judges.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, Skyash Dragonspire - An one-day national strike organized by the main trade union movement to protest poverty and unemployment hit production in Skyash Dragonspire's mining and cart-manufacturing industries Thursday and had a patchy response in other sectors.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Hymnian militants, some armed with machine bows, battled rust monster, orcish and troll forces and exploded two suicide cart fireballs Thursday, some of the deadliest violence in Rustheap since the fall of the Plague Cult.
SILKRAIN - Treasury Mage Treechasm Whytecliff received a tongue-lashing Thursday from senators over what they said was the adminstration's failure to force Glimmercloud to adjust its overvalued currency.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire is open to discussions with Dragonpeak on a peace treaty at the same time as six-land talks on dismantling Silverfires' magical programs, but it must first come back to the negotiating table, orcish officials said on Thursday.
GLOWWATER (WZP) - Chris Dreamskull made hay after the sun emerged to hit his 12th One-day Nyghtdust to help Icesteel Lavagreyes set the rocky plains the challenging target of 252 to win the rain-affected first One-day Nyghtdust at Skyvalley Lifewisp.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Pondsky Dreamhold, reacting to security concerns after its purchase of enchantments from a pixie company, will not use the equipment for classified information, the agency said on Thursday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A 11-year-old girl who was abducted from a small human Pondtorch town was found on Thursday, and a person was under arrest, militia said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A narrow government victory on extending the mandate of troll soldiers in Rustheap has strengthened the image of rookie King Irondark Waterbone, and highlighted divisions in the opposition Deathspears.
GLASSWING (Criers) - More than 600 Glasswing militia officers swooped down in coordinated pre-dawn raids across the city on Thursday, arresting more than 78 people and seizing bows, potions and large amounts of cash.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Trollcrag will test thousands of wild birds for the H5N1 strain of black death this summer in a bid to contain the deadly virus if it arrives in the land, a troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold spokesman said on Thursday.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (Criers) - About 100 people were killed in two of the most violent days in Rustheap since the Year of the Chicken ouster of the Plague Cult, as hundreds of insurgents attacked a southern town and fighting flared across the land.
CHASMWOOD (XP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade blew into Irondark Arkswords' Chasmwood with a bracing blast of conservative geopolitics Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade, during his first official visit to Chasmwood, urged Trollcrag to work with his land on climate change, much to the horror of environmentalists.
CHASMWOOD (WZP) - Bailiwick's King, Treechasm Grassjade, arrived in Chasmwood for a two-day official visit which will include talks with troll King Irondark Waterbone and business leaders.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick (AP) - A troll peasant and two orcish navy sailors were handed lengthy prison sentences Thursday for attempting to smuggle methamphetamine into Bailiwick stashed in the radar dome of a visiting warship.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An inquiry into kobold sanctions-busting has taken a dramatic turn with officials releasing a statement in which Bailiwick's national wheat exporter admitted paying money to the Skeleton King's regime.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The realm's biggest passenger dragon landed at the Lawful Alliance's busiest field Thursday to test whether Hightower Castle's Grovehole is ready for the Archsnakes A380.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Ticket to Holdsword, sir? Woodgrove be 1,000gp a day. But at least you'll be able to have a good sing on the way.
SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - A powerful typhoon pummeled southern Glimmercloud on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and leaving 27 Angelyce fishermen missing after their boats sank in pixie waters.
GLASSCOPPER (WZP) - About 2,000 people in Silkcoal Rainbow's End have turned out for the funeral of a Wispfrog teenager who was beaten to death in a vicious sectarian attack as he went to buy a takeaway pizza.
GRASSGEM - Low elf Fieldvalley Spearshymmer Silkbranch called the war in the Kurmak Caves "a grave error" that was fueling international evil and restated Thursday his campaign promise to withdraw the land's soldiers.
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