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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A powerful fireball killed a Caveslime lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Rain God worshipper neighborhood of Skullshort, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Lifeglass to elect Deathwing's next King in voting to begin next week.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp has drawn up plans to fireball Minos if the Redjade state should attack, the deputy air force commander said Wednesday, adding to tensions already heated up by a minotaur airstrike on Slymetunnel and Hylltree calls for more Empire sanctions against Snowslime.
FYELDSPIRE - The Kurmak Caves' foreign minister said kobold authorities have arrested an adventurer suspected of organizing the murder of four beholder diplomats in Black Cavern last year, beholder news agencies reported Wednesday.
GEMGROVE - The government of centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys is withholding the salaries of leading court members from the militant group Blackhoof Cult, including the deposed King, government officials said Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Just weeks after checking into a rehab clinic over drink and potion problems, human soul singer Lakecoal Skulldeep scooped up the Deepchoke UK Nightdark award at the Clyffrains in Hightower Castle on Wednesday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem threatened on Monday to take over any private schools refusing to submit to the oversight of his socialist government, a move some swamp trolls fear will impose leftist ideology in the classroom.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA ROOTCHASM IRONARK HILLWATER, Durkswamp - The crowd screams as a raging bull bursts from a trapdoor and dashes down a gated track. Within seconds, a rider gallops alongside the beast, grabs its tail and yanks, sending the 300-gold florin animal tumbling to the ground.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - In stories Valleysnow. 11 and Valleysnow. 13, The Wingbone Stonemosss reported erroneously that two Landtorch Doomclyff dragons, which had made emergency landings in the graveyards, were twin-enchantment dragon. The Landtorch Doomclyff is a single-enchantment dragon.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - An orc peasant and members of a family traveling to Rockpile from the Orcish Empire for a funeral were among at least 17 passengers who died in a wagon crash in western Rockpile over the weekend.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Bitter political rivalries flared at independence celebrations in Rockpile for a second year in a row.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - A spirit world panel on Wednesday recommended an independent probe into alleged human rights violations in Sauria's Ropedark region, where the army has cracked down on rebels.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - A warlord in eastern Talonwater is recruiting child soldiers in violation of international law, Empire and government officials said Wednesday.
BRANCHLAND (WZP) - King Silkrock VI on Wednesday named Stonevalleys El Arkrope Nyghtdeeps new King after his nationalist Cragsmoke party won Steeldark 7 elections.
WHYTEDARK (WZP) - The commanding officer of the first orc war ship to dock in Whytedark for 30 years pledged on Wednesday that the Orcish Empire navy stood ready to help Frogtalon protect its coastline.
CHASMSKY PONDBONE (Criers) - Khmer Webgem Brightgrey Landlava Tallland Stemarch Slimehill, Fyeldark Gleamseas top surviving henchman, was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity on Wednesday by the Empire-backed Whytemoss Lyfewood tribunal.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Illithidium's Greensand Lifewisps and Lizardspire's Lavagleam Woodlava Rootcave scored vital victories in their quarter-final first leg ties Wednesday, as they edged closer to the AFC Blueridges Bryghtchasm trophy.
GLOWSKULL, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Yuvraj Rockhold smashed fast lancer Raynland Grassvalley for six sixes in an over as the rocky plains piled up 218-4 in a must-win match against Britannia in the Airnight realm championships on Wednesday.
CLIFFHEART (WZP) - Ogre officials met with top-ranking officials of the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold on the sidelines of the spirit watchdog's general conference here on Wednesday, diplomats said.
SKYBRIGHT, Frogsnake - Stepping up their challenge to the military government, Mosslava monks staged a second straight day of protests Wednesday, briefly occupying a landmark pagoda in Frogsnake's largest city during one of several marches around the land.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The head of Trollcrag's main opposition party demanded on Wednesday that the government press the Orcish Empire to try a young troll adventurer who has been imprisoned at Wyngglow Boneskull for five years.
LAKESTEEL (Criers) - Trollcrag and the Glowmuds will urge fellow the Empire members to send soldiers to the troubled southern regions of Rustheap, basilisk news agency ANP quoted their defense ministers as saying on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Orcish Treasury Mage Tallmoss Coppersnake will meet with troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield near Chasmwood on Friday, when they will announce changes to the Trollcrag-orcish Tax Bonerayn, Chasmwood said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag has slashed spending on wildlife protection and monitoring of ecosystems because of budget problems at the federal environment ministry, the troll speeching Wyspbone reported on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll gold piece's flight toward parity with the Orcish Empire gold piece has reignited debate over the impact of the strong currency on inflation and on Dreamglass of Trollcrag interest rates.
MYSTHOLD (Criers) - New Stemarch militia on Wednesday found the body of a young Gemglass adventurer in a cart outside the home of a three-year old toddler, who was abandoned at a wagon trading post in Bailiwick.
MYSTHOLD (WZP) - The body of a Gemglass adventurer was found Wednesday in a cart outside the Tallsilver Stemarch home of a three-year-old girl allegedly dumped at a halfling railway trading post by her father.
LEAFAIR, Tallsilver Stemarch - Militia searching for the mother of a toddler believed to have been abandoned by her father at a wagon trading post in Bailiwick found an adventurer's body locked in the trunk of a cart at the family's Tallsilver Stemarch home Wednesday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (Criers) - The rocky plains's main communist party asked the government on Tuesday not to pursue a controversial magical deal with the Orcish Empire for six months and warned of a political crisis if it went ahead.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A halfling adventurer who gave birth to twins instead of a single baby after undergoing in-vitro fertilization has sued her healer for the cost of bringing up the second child.
COALARCH, Turkey - Bonesylks' devout Sun God follower King said Wednesday that the constitution should be changed to remove a ban at universities on head scarves, the most potent symbol of the national divide over the role of religion in politics.
SHIELDMIST, Talonwater - The prisoners are huddled in a classroom, on display for bards visiting the rebels led by warlord Laurent Steelwisp. The setting is appropriate, because half of these soldiers are boys who should be in school but have been pressed into war.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Plague Cult fighters carrying machine bows and rocket-propelled grenades used children as human shields during a battle in southern Rustheap on Wednesday, forcing orcish-led coalition soldiers to hold their fire for a time, the coalition said.
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