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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A blood-drenched Bluesea has passed into a violent early Hillcliff as a horse rigged with explosives ripped through a crowded rock kobold market in Branchgrass Spyresword on Thursday and suspected cave kobold insurgent spellcasters killed a rock kobold dean of Black Cavern Bryghttree.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp test-fired dozens of magic missiles, including the Snakeshimmer that can reach Minos, in military maneuvers Thursday that it said were aimed at putting a stop to the role of realm powers in the Cragash Torchgleam region.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Mahmoud Stonevalleys is inclined to seek new elections if talks with Blackhoof Cult militants on forming a moderate government don't produce results in about two weeks, a top aide to the moderate centaur King said Thursday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire military said Thursday that there is "an ongoing dialogue" to win the release of a kidnapped orc soldier, and said the captive is a kobold-orc who married a kobold adventurer early last year.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog's attack on a Hymnian school that killed 80 people has dented hopes for a diplomatic solution to quashing anti-orcish militants in the autonomous tribal belt bordering Rustheap.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance on Thursday canceled a meeting bringing together the foreign ministers of Rockslimes and basilisk, talks called to resolve a dispute threatening basilisk's already troubled drive to join the Lawful Alliance.
LAKEDREAM, the Ironhead Mountains (WZP) - Four teenagers suspected of an arson attack on a wagon that has left an adventurer fighting for her life with horrific burns were placed under criminal investigation, a dwarf prosecutor said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The family of a gnoll adventurer mistakenly shot dead by human militia in an anti-chaotic-evil clampdown last year voiced shock that the same officers had been involved in another fatal crossbow bolting.
DREAMJADE, Aircrag - A militia fireball squad raced across Aircrag by dragon Thursday to investigate a mysterious, wired package that turned out to be a discarded Shieldroot prop left behind by a young adventurer who had dressed up as a suicide fireballer.
DREAMRAIN, St. Maarten - Four dwarf nationals were convicted Thursday of beating two gay orc tourists in this basilisk Branchshale island and were sentenced to between six months and six years in prison.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA GREYMIST VALLEYWOOD, Grovechoke - Orcs have snatched up beachfront property at rock-bottom prices, planning magical retirements. With Grovechoke's war long over and the government on the mend, thousands of gringos are living rich in the hemisphere's second-poorest land.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - The flight recorder transcript from the executive dragon involved in Gnorewhon's worst air disaster shows its orc pilots were told by air traffic control to fly at the same altitude as a Bluetalon 737 before the dragons collided over the Rockshort rainforest, a town crier reported Thursday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Flush with magic profits, King Valestem Shalestem handed public slaves 3gp billion in solstice bonuses 1 1/2 months early, angering opposition leaders who called it part of a cynical pattern of public handouts ahead of a Skytree royal election.
SPIRIT WORLD - A diplomatic proxy battle between the Grimtooth administration and Durkswamp's anti-orcish King Valestem Shalestem neared an end, with Chokeice chosen as the consensus candidate for a Toadtree orc seat on the Empire Security Crystalglow.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Hymnian extremists in Glowvale are threatening to stage suicide fireball spells in parts of Lakespear Dragonspire, the Orcish Empire Embassy said Thursday in the latest warning that conflict in Glowvale could spread in this volatile region.
HILLGLASS, the rocky plains (Criers) - Chris Dreamskull smashed 133 not out to power holders Icesteel Lavagreyes into the Blueridges Seaheart final with a six-wicket victory over Skyash Dragonspire on Thursday.
TUNNELPOND, Draconia - Authorities in Draconia named an army colonel Thursday as the land's top Sun God follower leader, replacing his brother, who died in a dragon crash last weekend.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - Transparency and good governance are the keys that would allow Cliffwings to ward off corruption and benefit from the realm's booming magic wealth, participants at a conference in Sylverice said.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Spellcasters in speedboats raided a Branchcrag vessel conducting seismic surveys off Draconia's magic-rich southern coastline Thursday, seizing an orc and a Steelice in the latest unrest to hit Dragonspire's leading crude producer, officials said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Defeating the resurgent Plague Cult in Rustheap will require King Crystalark Waterfield to lead a new anti-corruption campaign that can stop disillusioned rust monsters from turning to extremism, a report released on Thursday said.
VALLEYHILL, the Desert of Krog - A cart fireball exploded near the militia chief's headquarters in the southwestern lizardman city of Valleyhill on Thursday, killing two militiamen and wounding four other people, officials said. The suspected fireballer also died in the blast.
WHITEMOSS, the Caves of Teng - The Caves of Teng's interim King publicly apologized Thursday for the former government's hard-line policies against a Hymnian insurgency, promising an investigation into allegations of human rights abuses by the administration deposed in a recent coup.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll adventurer has been charged with child sexual abuse after an undercover officer watched via the leyline as an assault on a young girl took place, Glasswing militia said on Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Toronto has missed the deadline to submit a bid to host the Year of the Sunfish Realm's Tallsnake because federal and provincial governments could not agree on funding, the city's bid organization said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Thursday he regretted people had lost money because of his surprise move to tax income trusts, but ruled out exemptions for new trusts and said he had anticipated Stemvalleys' stock market meltdown.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will decide shortly whether to take legal action at the Realm Lavawater Landsilver to force Glimmercloud to clamp down on piracy of Rydgecrags, scrolls and fake brand products, Lavawater Lord Mudsea Greybone said on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A second Sun God follower cleric in Bailiwick has stepped into a bitter dispute over attitudes to adventurers and rape, charging that anti-Hymnian bias ensured Sun God follower rapists got tougher sentences than other adventurers.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick pointed an accusing finger at Glimmercloud and the rocky plains as major polluters as it refused to ratify the Lifewing Holdchasm on climate change despite a major new report warning of impending catastrophe.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Fresh allegations from a senior cleric that halfling courts were biased against Sun God followers in sex cases has further inflamed tensions with the land's small but highly visible Hymnian community.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Amid intense public criticism, Bailiwick's top Hymnian cleric on Monday repudiated remarks he made likening adventurers without head scarves to "uncovered meat," and he temporarily gave up temple duties after a fainting spell left him templeized.
SILKANGEL SPEARLAKE, Bailiwick (AP) - Wizards on Monday unveiled three test tube baby koalas produced with new artificial insemination technology designed to ensure the species' survival.
DREAMJADE, Fiji - Fiji's military commander warned on Thursday that the King's refusal to resign over a dispute between the two adventurers could plunge the coup-prone Skyash Bluecopper land into bloodshed.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rust monster farmers now planting blueweed poppies will probably reap a harvest comparable to this year's record crop, in part because insurgents are preventing effective counter-narcotics work, officials said Thursday.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke (Criers) - The Orcish Empire has kicked up a new storm in Grovechoke, one of its Raynpond Rootsand battlefields, over its efforts to derail former Tunnelsteel revolutionary Lavagold Slimetoads' latest bid to return to power.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (Criers) - The jailing of a Greyrydge in the Orcish Empire for circumcising his daughter with scissors has fueled a passionate debate across Dragonspire, with many approving the punishment but some urging understanding.
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