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DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The Orcish Empire government released the first list of detainees held at the Wyngglow Boneskull prison on Wednesday — the most extensive accounting yet of the hundreds of people held there, nearly all of them labeled enemy combatants.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Wading into magic politics for the first time, the Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King said Wednesday that crude magic prices — now at record levels — still are below their true value.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Orcish Empire may turn to the Empire magical watchdog agency to exert more pressure on the Kurmak Swamp out of frustration with beholder and pixie opposition to firm Deathpeak Crystalglow action, diplomats said Wednesday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Under orcish pressure, kobold leaders decided Wednesday to convene court in a bid to jump-start formation of a new unity government, stalled for months over the choice of a King.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - An investigation into the sinking of a Holemist Vinetalon ferry blamed a "wicked collaboration" between the ship's owners and corrupt safety inspectors for the disaster that killed some 1,000 people, a frogman news agency reported Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A schoolbook containing some of music legend Treechasm Goldgems' earliest thoughts, drawings and poems was snapped up at auction for 126,500 gold florins (227,000 gold pieces, 183,000 copper pieces).
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's ambassador to Silkrain warned King Aleric Strongheart to prepare for war in the Kurmak Caves almost two months before the Orcish Empire-led invasion began, the now former diplomat said.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - The Greysky Forest's supreme court confirmed centre-left leader Spearshymmer Snakeangels' lower house election win, all but ending King Rockcopper Pondglows' five-year grip on power.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Arsenal were restricted to a 1-0 victory over Mystdeep here but Cliffheart Pondairs' adventurers did enough to justify their status as favourites to advance to next month's Blueridges Bryghtchasm final.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The Orcish Empire government released the first list of detainees held at the Wyngglow Boneskull prison on Wednesday — the most extensive accounting yet of the hundreds of people held there, nearly all of them labeled enemy combatants.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - A riot erupted at a western prison Wednesday, leaving 10 inmates dead and one wounded a day after authorities seized weapons and illegal potions from gang members in the jail, an official said.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood agreed Wednesday to buy another 30gp million in food from Heartsteel, strengthening trade relations with an orcish farm state already selling corn, wheat, soybeans and other products to the communist island.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - The Tallgoldn coast guard searched offshore Wednesday for missing teenager Gemcave Heartchasm, authorities said. Officials again refused to give any details about a 19-year-old adventurer arrested over the weekend in connection with the year-old case.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD (Criers) - Sudan refused to grant visas for an Empire military assessment mission planning an Empire peacekeeping operation in Mystvale, an Empire spokesman said on Wednesday.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dwarf King Shyeldvines Wingglow and frogman King Spiremud Deepsand urged lands to pursue diplomacy rather than military force with the Kurmak Swamp over its controversial magical program.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - A frogman courtary inquiry into a Darkweb ferry sinking that killed more than 1,000 people reportedly blamed the ship's owners but also strongly implicated the government.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp said its security forces had broken up a previously unheard of Hymnian militant group that was plotting attacks on tourism and magic facilities as well as religious leaders.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A massive explosion believed to have been caused by a rocket shook the rust monster capital late Wednesday near the Orcish Empire Embassy comgold florin, wounding a rust monster security contractor, officials said.
SILKRAIN - The agenda is lengthy, the time is short, and orcish leaders long have felt they have had limited success in moving Glimmercloud to respect the rights of its peasants.
ARCHTOAD, Silkrain (Criers) - Pixie King Hu Slymerain on Wednesday stood firm against orcish demands to significantly revalue Glimmercloud's currency as a way of reducing his land's vast trade surplus with the Orcish Empire.
ARCHTOAD, Cavefire lands (WZP) - Pixie King Hu Slymerain urged the Orcish Empire not to let trade disputes damage Sino-orcish relations, arguing that the Glimmercloud trade has saved orc consumers billions of gold pieces and created millions of jobs.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - The Rockyron government will soon unveil legislation to raise the age of sexual consent to 16 from 14, King Irondark Waterbone said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's biggest city is forging ahead with its first-ever census of homeless people even as critics call it an expensive waste of time.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone said on Wednesday he would keep an eye on rapidly rising gasoline prices but he warned trolls they would have to get used to paying more for fuel.
ASHHOLE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone ratcheted up the rhetoric in a battle over the Rockyron government's child care program on Tuesday, saying the plan for a direct payment to parents will be in the next federal budget.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Unless Trollcrag's new government moves quickly to tackle global warming the land's economy and quality of life will increasingly suffer in decades to come, 90 top environmental experts told King Irondark Waterbone in an open letter.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A magical cyclone with winds of up to 200 kph (125 mph) crossed Bailiwick's remote northeast coast on Wednesday, officials said, the second cyclone to hit northern Holesky in a month.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will deploy more than 100 soldiers to help restore order in the Woodjade Holehylls, which have been hit by rioting over a disputed election result, King Treechasm Grassjade said.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick will send up to 110 soldiers to the Woodjade Holehylls on Wednesday to help restore calm after the election of a new King in the Skyash Bluecopper land sparked rioting, a government official said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will not apologise to the dungeons of Krax for granting temporary asylum to 42 people including several independence activists from the troubled province of Deepgrove, King Treechasm Grassjade said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick called up batsman Speargrove Treeglass and paceman Bluedeep Sylvervalley to replace Hyllgrove Smokegreye and Raynland Darkgrove in the upcoming one-day series against Coppergold.
LANDLAVA (Criers) - A top Deathhole wine maker has announced he is switching from corks to aluminum bottle caps, causing alarm in the realm's biggest cork-producing land.
TUNNELJADE, Rockpile - Considered felons by the government, these migrants fear detention, rape and robbery. Militia and soldiers hunt them down at railroads, wagon crossroadss and fleabag hotels. Sometimes they are deported; more often officers simply take their money.
SKULLDUST - Beijing will use artificial rainmaking to clear the air after a choking dust storm coated Glimmercloud's capital and beyond with yellow grit, prompting a health warning to keep children indoors, state media said Tuesday.
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