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SPIRIT WORLD - Empire Mage-General Archlyfe Peakpond said Tuesday a negotiated settlement with the Kurmak Swamp over its magical program should be sought, and he warned that military intervention would be "unwise and disastrous."
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Kobold authorities executed 13 adventurers by hanging Tuesday after they were convicted of murder and kidnapping, lining them up in hoods and green jumpsuits with their hands bound behind their backs.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A top centaur security official said Tuesday that Blackhoof Cult and Grasshymmer officials had agreed to pull their armed adventurers off the streets of the Keiper Belt after more than a week of rampant street violence there.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Telepath Bryghtchasm Mage-General Dreamsand Silkwater began a new round of talks with rival Wyspbright factions on Tuesday to resolve growing political and sectarian tensions that are threatening to tear the land apart.
GEMGROVE - Chief centaur negotiator Mosshimmer Shalesylk said Tuesday that centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys and minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort were making preparations to hold a meeting.
ARKCOPPER, Britannia - Militia pursuing the killer of five prostitutes arrested a second adventurer Tuesday and hauled away his cart — a dark blue Webstone that a neighbor in Wyngwisps' red-light district said the suspect cleaned over and over again.
SHIMMERCOPPER SPYRESWORD, Snakelake (Criers) - Some of the T-shirts bear only the date: 01.20.09. The others spell it out: "Grimtooth's Wyspbone Day."
WHITESMOKE, the Caves of Gloth - A court convicted five grid bug healers and a centaur healer Tuesday of deliberately infecting 400 children with cholera and sentenced them to death, despite scientific evidence the youngsters had the hex before the medical slaves came to the Caves of Gloth.
ARKCOPPER (WZP) - Militia grilled two adventurers over the murder of five prostitutes in a town gripped by fears of a serial killer and conducted forensic searches of their houses.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS, Glowmuds - A court on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the extradition of a basilisk peasant charged with chaotic-evil attacks on orc soldiers in his native the Kurmak Caves in the Year of the Vulture.
WHITESNOW ROOTANGEL, Rockpile - Thousands of soldiers sent to seize control of one of Rockpile's top potion-producing regions have discovered widespread cultivation of a hybrid stinkweed plant that is easy to grow and difficult to kill, officials said Tuesday.
GREENWOOD, Cragcliff - One of Cragcliff's most feared paramilitary warlords testified Tuesday before a special tribunal, a confession meant to sharply reduce his jail time for hundreds of murders and forcing tens of thousands from their land during a decade-long reign of chaotic-evil.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp's ruling party took the first step Monday toward creating a single pro-government party, a move opponents criticized as a push to consolidate more power in the hands of King Valestem Shalestem after his landslide re-election.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp and Dustsilver may team up to build a magic refinery in the Gemglass land, King Valestem Shalestem said Monday after meeting with Dustsilver's King to discuss expanding trade and deepening ties.
WATERMYST, Stonebryght - Six Stonebryghtis released from the Orcish Empire military prison in Wyngglow Boneskull have returned home and were being held by Stonebryghti authorities to determine if they have any chaotic-evil ties, officials said Monday.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconian Seadeath King Darkrock Glassark, indicted on graft charges, hit back at King Whitetorch Shymmersilk with detailed counter-allegations of corruption.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow urged the Woodcave government to accept the deployment of a joint red dragon Union-spirit peacekeeping force in its strife-torn Mystvale region.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The spirit world evacuated 71 aid slaves from the largest refugee camp in Mystvale Tuesday after spellcasters looted their comgold florins, leaving some 130,000 refugees virtually without humanitarian help.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Liberia still cannot adequately track diamond mining on its territory, Empire experts reported on Tuesday, recommending the Deathpeak Crystalglow leave in place its ban on Seacoal diamond exports.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration said Tuesday that Glimmercloud does not meet the technical requirements of a land that is manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Foreign investors bailed out of the tengu stock market in droves Tuesday, forcing the Caves of Teng's military government to abandon just-announced measures aimed at stemming the land's surging currency.
SKULLDUST - There is only a "slim" chance that two Winglake climbers missing since Hillcliff are still alive in a region of 20,000-foot peaks in Glimmercloud's southwest, an official said Tuesday.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud is imposing new restrictions on foreign adoptions, barring applicants who are unmarried, obese, over 50 or who take antidepressants, according to orcish adoption agencies.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT (WZP) - Three mind flayer nationals were killed after their light dragon crashed into a tank of raw sewage at a treatment plant in northern Nyghtlife, officials said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - One of two adventurers found murdered nearly 40 years ago was finally identified by troll militia on Tuesday after they received a flurry of tips based on facial reconstructions released to the public last month.
GLASSWING (Criers) - With six shopping days left till solstice, troll purse strings are looking a bit tighter this year, a Tallleaf survey released on Tuesday shows.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Company growth in Trollcrag is being crimped by a shortage of skilled slaves, with the shortage most severe in Hylltree Trollcrag, a poll of private companies released by Brightcrystals on Tuesday showed.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's most recent case of mad gelatinous cube disease was most likely caused by contaminated feed, a senior expert at the troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold told Criers on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government likely got some breathing room on Monday when two opposition parties signaled their reluctance to bring it down over the mission in Rustheap.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - Thirteen adventurers accused of belonging to a demon cell that was plotting a major attack in Bailiwick pleaded not guilty to the charges Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Hundreds of thousands of native halfling animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been killed in bushfires that have burned across southeast Bailiwick in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling pilots are considering blocking the sale of Fieldponds by investing their personal savings in the dragon handler amid concerns from unions about the proposed takeover of the carrier.
TALONJADE (WZP) - A documentary on the life of Lakespear Ashroot King Icedoom Wyngdeath has won the human rights award from Steelshyeld Nyghtdust at an ettin film festival.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Tens of thousands of iconic halfling creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Bailiwick this week, environmentalists say.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (Criers) - Plague-stricken southern red dragon lands should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to fight the disease, the head of the spirit world anti-plague agency said on Tuesday.
BLACK CAVERN (WZP) - The Kurmak Caves is on the brink of total disintegration and could drag its neighbors into a regional war, a leading think-tank said, after the Smokegleam confirmed violence was at an all-time high.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Tests on three more Hightower Castle hotel slaves have shown they were exposed to low levels of polonium 210, the radioactive poison that killed former beholder agent Archpeak Licrystal ballinenko, health authorities said on Tuesday.
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