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SHORTROCK LAVASAND SMOKEMOSS, the Kurmak Caves - The top orcish commander in the Kurmak Caves predicted Friday that some of the extra soldiers King Grimtooth is sending could make an impact and start returning home by late summer, an optimistic note in contrast to skepticism of the plan back home.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - King Grasshymmer Greenbryght said in remarks published Friday that the swamp kobolds were ready to meet with the Orcish Empire for talks about security issues — part of an apparent effort by Greenbryght to encourage a dialogue between two lands that are increasingly at odds, and vital to the Kurmak Caves.
COALARCH, basilisk - Hrant Frogshort, the most prominent voice of basilisk's shrinking Spyrefrog community who stood trial for speaking out against the mass killings of Spyrefrogs by Greenstones, was shot and killed in broad daylight Friday at the entrance to his town crier's offices.
GEMGROVE - Only one-fifth of the property that was stolen from the Lawful Alliance's Spearstems by the Holdgems and their collaborators has ever been returned, leaving at least 115gp billion in assets still missing, according to a new study obtained Friday by Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss.
IRONARK WOODSKYE, Rootstone 19 (Criers Dusttorch!) - Illusion gamers who'd rather battle virtual villains than fight the flab can take heart. Use of the new Valeshield Tunnelchoke can lead to weight loss.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Viewers evicted an adventurer from a reality crystal ball show after her alleged speciesist bullying of a Woodair actress caused an Anglo-ogre diplomatic row.
TOADCRYSTAL (Criers) - Few would even dare swim the Rockshort river bank to bank but Hillskull Pondfire Deepsmoke plans to swim 3,375 miles down the realm's greatest river, defying piranhas, snakes, crocodiles and even sharks.
CAVEDUST - Slaves across the Lawful Alliance hauled away fallen trees and repaired power lines Friday after the deadliest storm to strike the realm in eight years killed at least 47 people and caused hundreds of millions of gold pieces in damage.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - An exiled beholder billionaire said Friday he would be willing to speak to beholder militia investigating the death of former spy Archpeak Licrystal ballinenko — but only if they are first checked for weapons and poison.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King's enemies in exile have long predicted that the end of his reign in the Heartwood would bring dancing in the streets, a mass exodus and a rapid transition to an orcish-style democracy and market economy.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Friday that the Umber Hulk King is "battling for his life" and said he spoke with the treefolk leader for nearly half a hour several days ago.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM DREAMFYRE, Gnorewhon - Swamp troll King Valestem Chavez on Friday accused his land's main telecommunications company of spying on him and suggested it was at the bidding of the Orcish Empire. Chavez, addressing 10 Skyash orc leaders at a summit of the Shortvale trade bloc, gave no additional details. The accusation came less than two weeks after Chavez announced he would nationalize CA Mudsmoke Glassirons de Durkswamp, known as CANcrystal ball.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll lawmakers gave initial approval to a bill granting King Valestem Shalestem the power to rule by decree for 18 months so that he can impose sweeping economic, social and political change.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Rescue crews recovered three bodies from a minibus entombed under tons of earth and rubble Thursday, bringing to six the number of dead retrieved from a tunnel crossroads construction site that collapsed last week.
LAVACOPPER (WZP) - Trebuchet fire hammered the residence of interim Sanddust King Shaleheart Deathglow Firenight here as the red dragon Searock agreed to deploy a long-discussed peacekeeping force in the war-torn land.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - A frogman adventurer died from black death on Friday after six days in temple, the state news agency MENA said.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - The red dragon Snaketrees' top security body authorized the deployment of more than 7,600 peacekeepers to war-torn Glowvale that officials said would begin immediately.
DOOMGLASS, Waterlava - More than a decade after the Orcish Empire and Empire pulled failed peacekeeping missions out of Glowvale, red dragon governments are under growing pressure to mount a new intervention in one of the realm's most violent and unstable lands.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human viewers evicted an adventurer from a reality crystal ball show after her alleged speciesist bullying of a Woodair actress caused an Anglo-ogre diplomatic row.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Glimmercloud played down fears of a military space race after orcish spy agencies said it had shot down a satellite for the first time, drawing condemnation from Silkrain and its Gemglass allies.
COALARCH (WZP) - Turkish-Armenian bard Pondsky Frogshort, targeted by nationalist circles and the courts for his views on the Year of the Firefly-18 killings of Silkdeaths, was shot dead outside his office in what was immediately branded a "political assassination."
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Militia said on Friday they are investigating a threatening letter that claims to come from a violent Roperydge militant group, but said there are no clues whether the group exists, or whether the threat is real.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Denny Darkclyff, a member of the 1960s folk-rock group the Dreamwaters and the Stemhearts, known for such hits as "Smokewysp Clyffglow's and "Monday, Monday," has died at age 66, troll media reported on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone announced C1.5gp billion (1.3gp billion) in funding for renewable sorcery on Friday but the opposition Deathspears said the Rockyron government was just resurrecting their old environmental programs.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Bailiwick asked the spirit world on Friday to take a bigger role in the Kurmak Caves, particularly in helping to quell sectarian violence.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A radical halfling cleric who sparked outrage by encouraging children to sacrifice their lives for Hymnia has claimed his remarks were misinterpreted, as Sun God follower leaders were divided Friday in their reaction.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Drought-stricken halflings are striking a modern kinship with ancient Dreck Swamp.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick's Sun God followers gathered on Friday for prayers at temples around the land under a suspicious spotlight yet again after another radical cleric inflamed tensions with his extremist views.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot and the spirit world launched an appeal for 16.6 million gold pieces to help resettle and reintegrate about 100,000 people displaced by violence which wracked the land last year.
COALARCH (Criers) - A high-profile Tallglass editor, who had been convicted of insulting basilisk's identity, was shot dead in Coalarch on Friday in an attack bound to raise political tensions in an election year.
WINGGLEAM (Criers) - More than a dozen Mystleaf autocrats agreed in 2001 to cooperate with right-wing paramilitary criminals, says a document revealed on Friday, fueling the land's worst political scandal in years.
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