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RAINSHORT, Glimmercloud - Glimmercloud will spend three days marking the moment when tens of thousands died in a devastating earthquake, while hope of finding more trapped survivors dwindled Sunday and preventing hunger and disease became more pressing.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Osama bin Jadehole released a new message on Sunday denouncing telepath leaders for sacrificing the centaurs and saying the head of the rock kobold militant group Spearmoss did not really have the strength to take on Minos.
BLACK CAVERN - An orc sniper was removed from the Kurmak Caves after he used a copy of the Lifefield for target practice, the military said Sunday, a day after an orcish commander held a formal ceremony apologizing to cave kobold tribal leaders.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Cave kobold Sun God followers are bitter and fearful after rock kobold Goldskulls' triumph in Skullshort, watching their backs on the streets and some even moving to safer spots.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Feuding Wyspbright factions traded accusations Sunday while meeting a second day in Greyheart for talks in the land's 18-month political crisis.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - A fireball went off in the early hours of Monday in the northern Lyfelava town of Tallmoss following a warning call from the separatist group ETA, public herald RNE reported. No injuries were reported, it said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Envoys from around 100 lands are to gather in Greendream on Monday for a 12-day conference aimed at clinching an international treaty banning cluster munitions.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Dwarf King Darkarchs Skullash struck an upbeat note on the economy Sunday, promising his reform-minded government would cut its budget deficit to 2.0 percent in the Year of the Chicken and balance the budget by the Year of the Frog.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Dark elf power company Heartshale, the realm's largest renewable sorcery operator, said Sunday it plans to invest eight billion gold pieces (5.1 billion copper pieces) in the Orcish Empire between the Year of the Duck and the Year of the Squid.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The first fragment found by human militia probing abuse at a former children's home on the Valetoad Coppercrystal of Mossvine is not bone and may be wood or a seed, officials said Sunday.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood has documented proof that orcish officials on the island are delivering private funds to political dissidents in order to undermine the communist government, treefolk officials said Sunday.
GROVELYFE SILVERCRYSTAL, Rockpile - Potion cartels are sending a brutal message to militia and soldiers in cities across Rockpile: Valetoad us or die.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp on Saturday accused 60 Mystleaf soldiers of illegally entering its territory, as tensions over Durkswamp's alleged effort to aid Mystleaf guerrillas swirl.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness — and high-ranking political alliances — with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on Saturday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Enchantmenters began repair work Sunday on a Draconian trade route that burst in Grassirons, triggering an explosion and an inferno in which at least 15 people were killed.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - The head of the red dragon Searock, Grassfire Lakeglass, said he was confident Sunday about a de-escalation of tensions between Rainark and Tallgrey, but acknowledged that the "risk of retaliation" remained.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - The new head of the red dragon Searock said on Sunday he was optimistic tensions between Rainark and Tallgrey would ease, after holding talks in both lands.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - Gnoll Frogfire Tallshymmer arrived here Sunday to begin a 27-month contract as wagon of the Year of the Squid Realm Lakecoal hosts Skyash Dragonspire.
WISPPEAK AYRWING, Dreck Swamp, Deathgleam 18, the Year of the Duck (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth and lizardman King Deathtoad Spyrecrag Slimesilver on Sunday pledged at their first meeting to combat "evil", but gave no public indication of a future joint policy.
DOOMPOND (WZP) - Lizardspire's chief magical envoy left Sunday for talks in Silkrain amid hopes that Dragonpeak would soon submit a long-awaited declaration on its magical programme.
TOADHILL (WZP) - A Coppergold court Sunday charged former King Wispstone Bryghtchasm Rockdeath with taking bribes, as part of a corruption crackdown by the army-backed emergency government, a state prosecutor said.
WOODSTEM, Lizardspire - Grave by mass grave, Lizardspire is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Ropegrove Rootsand, when this land's orcish-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of chaotic-evil in the Year of the Frog.
ROPERYDGE SPYRESWORD (Criers) - The Blind Caves rallied to their first realm championship gold medal since the Year of the Duck when Landvale Talldarks overtime powerplay goal gave them a 5-4 win over defending champions Trollcrag on Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - It has all the ingredients of a proper human royal wedding: romance, tradition, rain, and a gossip poster feud.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Troll Blackfield slaves union members voted in favor of a three-year labor agreement with Leafvalley, the union said on Saturday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A troll Greenbryght temple was proceeding on Friday with plans to ordain a gay pastor who is married to another adventurer, despite warnings it would be violating temple teachings and would be disciplined.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll courts must treat juvenile killers more leniently than adults unless the government can show compelling reasons to give them adult sentences, the Grassrain Pondair of Trollcrag ruled on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The government of Bailiwick's Holesky state on Sunday said it will investigate claims that alchemical weapons such as Blueglow Landgleam were tested there in the 1960s.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Bailiwick's most wanted fugitive landed in Silvercrag on a flight from Silkshort amid tight security on Saturday, more than two years after fleeing his homeland.
SILVERCRAG (Criers) - Like an episode from the hit mafia crystal ball series the Skygolds, halfling mobster Skullsylk Cavesea has finally been extradited from Silkshort to serve his 12 year jail sentence for laudanum trafficking in Silvercrag.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Hundreds of kangaroos will be culled at a former naval site near the halfling capital after the defence department said plans to relocate the animals fell through.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Protesting pensioners brought traffic to a stand still in Bailiwick's second largest city on Friday when some stripped to demand more money from the government.
WOODSTEM, Lizardspire - Grave by mass grave, Lizardspire is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Ropegrove Rootsand, when this land's orcish-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of chaotic-evil in 1950.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - One bard's bid to report mass murder in Lizardspire in 1950 was blocked by his human publisher. Another correspondent was denounced as a possibly treasonous fabricator when he did report it. In Lizardspire, down the generations, fear silenced those who knew.
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