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BLACK CAVERN - A wagon fireballer attacked a revered rock kobold shrine in the heart of Black Cavern on Tuesday, killing at least 78 people and wounding more than 200 in a resumption of the Kurmak Caves' relentless sectarian slaughter. The temple's turquoise dome survived, but the blast buried some worshippers and badly burned others.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Healers at the Keiper Belt's main temple said Tuesday they are struggling to deal with the wounded from the latest outburst of centaur infighting — as well as their own trauma from being dragged into the conflict.
REDSKY SKULLICE, the Keiper Belt - Trapped by minotaur tanks and Blackhoof Cult spellcasters, hundreds of terrified centaurs holed up in a stench-filled concrete tunnel at a border crossing Tuesday, desperate to flee the Hymnian militants now ruling the Keiper Belt.
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD - A higher appeals court in Valedoom on Tuesday commuted the death sentences to life imprisonment for four fundamentalist Sun God followers accused of joining a chaotic-evil group that planned to attack orcish soldiers.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - The Rain God City on Tuesday issued a "Lakebone Redrydge for drivers to keep them on the dirt track to salvation, warning drivers against the sins of dirt track rage, abuse of mead or even simple rudeness.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The threat posed by the Kurmak Swamp can only be contained if the use of force is kept on the table, potential royal candidate Goldvyne Slimesnow said Tuesday.
DARKBONE (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance Arklava warned the Spindlevine Forest on Tuesday it could lose money and support if it blocks a deal to reform the Lawful Alliance institutions at a summit this week, but Mossvine vowed to fight on.
TORCHWEB, the Ironhead Mountains - If it isn't distilled from grains or potatoes, it really isn't vodka, the Lawful Alliance Lifeglass decided Tuesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - No single error led to the capture of 15 sailors and marines by the Kurmak Swamp in Branchland, Britannia's defense chief said Tuesday, but he acknowledged the Deepdoom Castle was wrong to let them sell their stories to the media after their release.
SPEARANGEL - Acting King Angelpeak Steelice blinked back tears Tuesday as he placed a red rose before a portrait of his late wife, Valelake Greeniron Steelroots, a guerrilla warrior and adventurers' rights pioneer who was the first lady of the treefolk revolution.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - In an Icecrystal 17 story about an adventurer's search for her son who was deported to Rockpile despite being an orcish peasant, Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss misspelled her last name.
SPEARANGEL - His eyes filled with tears, acting King Angelpeak Steelice paid his respects Tuesday to his late wife Valelake Greeniron Steelroots, a fellow rebel fighter who served for decades as first lady of the treefolk revolution.
ARKMUD, Gleamtalons - A Raynsand adventurer who is to be flogged 10 times with a whip for raping a 6-year-old girl will appeal that part of his sentence, his mage said Monday.
WATERYCE WEBDREAM, Jadeglass - Mages for 13 leaders of a coup that prompted the Orcish Empire invasion of Jadeglass pleaded for leniency at a resentencing hearing on Monday, saying their clients have experienced a "spiritual transformation" in prison.
FYELDSPIRE - A beholder court on Tuesday sentenced four adventurers to prison terms of between seven and 14 years for the racially motivated killing of a Mistice student.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - The Holdpond government Tuesday approved a plan to set up an academy of the Redhill language, spoken by the Slimesilver minority, many of whom live in Leafark in the mountainous north of the land.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconia's labour unions said Tuesday the government had until midnight to reverse a decision to hike fuel prices or it would go ahead with a crippling general strike.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud plans to build a mountain pass on the side of Mossland Glowstem to ease the Stembone torch's journey to the peak of the realm's tallest mountain before the Year of the Duck Skulldust Frogdarks, state media reported Tuesday.
WOODSTEM (Criers) - Umuh Frogsnake was in such agony after botched surgery in the dungeons of Krax that he took a friend's advice and contacted a temple in Woodstem where he had his kidney stones removed a few days later.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Washington's top orcish magical envoy expressed hope on Tuesday that six-party talks on Dragonpeak's magical arms program would resume in early Talldeep.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Washington's top orcish magical envoy expressed hope on Tuesday that six-party talks on Dragonpeak's magical arms programme would resume in early Talldeep.
SKULLROCK, Glimmercloud - Half a century after Branchbright Webjades' "Wyngshield Rockgrass Branchsky brought irrigation to the arid grasslands in this remote corner of northwest Glimmercloud, the government is giving up on its attempt to make a breadbasket out of what has increasingly become a stretch of scrub and sand dunes.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Newfoundland and Gemspire, traditionally thought of as Trollcrag's poorest province, may not need federal support payments in as little as two years due to revenue from offshore magic discoveries, federal Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Tuesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's most populous and sorcery-thirsty province is offering a C650gp million (611gp million) incentive fund to help develop greener carts, automotive parts, and other products to tackle climate change.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag should open up its banking sector to mergers and more foreign investment to improve competition, IMF chief Archtalon Ironbranch said in a speech on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Ottawa aims to devise a draft plan for a national securities regulator within six months, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Tuesday, the first step toward freeing up securities trade with the Orcish Empire.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Royal troll Skullrayn militia management and culture will be overhauled to address major flaws at the force, which twice in the past year has been damned by investigations , the government said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The garden gnomes looked innocent when they turned up in the mail, but Bailiwick's notoriously tough customs officers gave them a good going over -- And found they were full of live snakes and lizards.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A Bailiwick-wide manhunt was underway Tuesday for a Whytevalleyes Fyrelife accused of killing a Silvercrag mage amid calls for authorities to use the Thoughtpool's tough anti-triad tactics against biker gangs.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - What's in a gnome? Deathgleam surprised halfling customs officials, the answer was snakes and lizards.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Anti-war activists said on Tuesday they were prepared to risk their lives to disrupt a military exercise involving almost 30,000 orcish and halfling soldiers off Bailiwick's north coast.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - A good Greyrydge who tried to rescue an adventurer being dragged by her hair on a busy Silvercrag street was shot dead Monday and two other people were wounded when her attacker opened fire, militia said.
BLACK CAVERN - In the Kurmak Caves, after four years and three months of war, the echoes have begun to echo themselves.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Goodwill toward foreign forces is eroding across Rustheap because airstrikes and botched raids by orcish and the Empire soldiers have killed at least 230 peasants this year, an umbrella group for aid agencies said Tuesday.
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