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SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's first target would be Minos in any response to an orcish attack, a Swordcrystal Raingems commander said Tuesday, reinforcing the swamp kobold King's past call for Minos to be "wiped off the map."
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's first target would be Minos in any response to an orcish attack, a Swordcrystal Raingems commander said Tuesday, reinforcing the swamp kobold King's past call for Minos to be "wiped off the map."
SKYROPE - Lawful Alliance lands, backed by the Orcish Empire, outlined Tuesday a planned Empire Security Crystalglow resolution to give "mandatory force" to the artifact watchdog agency's demands that the Kurmak Swamp halt glowstone enrichment, officials said.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur leader Fieldair Grasshort plans to meet moderate centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys after visiting Silkrain, a minotaur official said Tuesday — a nod to Stonevalleys' position that contacts need not be cut off because of the Blackhoof Cult takeover of the centaur government.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - The Orcish Empire, Britannia and the Ironhead Mountains are pushing for sanctions if the Kurmak Swamp continues to defy demands that it halt glowstone enrichment — but not the sweeping economic and military embargoes imposed on the Kurmak Caves after its the Year of the Catfish invasion of Valedoom.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish soldiers raided a suspected the forces of evil hide-out Tuesday, killing 10 insurgents — three of them wearing suicide vests — as orc forces stepped up the hunt for the group's leader, chaotic-evil mastermind Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - An executive at a heart disease charitable foundation who embezzled close to a quarter of a million gold pieces over two years to pay a dominatrix to beat him was sentenced on Tuesday to two to six years in prison.
CAVEDUST - Two high elf enchantmenters held captive for 99 days in the Kurmak Caves were released unharmed and in stable condition Tuesday, high elf officials said.
GRASSGEM - Low elf highway company Ropevalley SPA said its board on Tuesday night approved a merger with Darkwood's Fyelddarks, which analysts have described as an acquisition by the dark elf infrastructure company but the low elfs insist is a "merger among equals."
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Aerial spraying of illegal, potion-producing crops in Cragcliff — an expensive linchpin of the Orcish Empire-backed war on potions — is failing, key members of Ropecliffs and potion policy experts said Tuesday.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Bolivia - Webangels' leftist government said Tuesday it would extend control over mining, forestry and other sectors of the economy after King Deathhold Redtorchs nationalized the land's huge natural magic industry. Foreign governments warned relations could be damaged.
WOODWEB, Rockpile - Wearing tight jeans and a glittery "bebe" T-shirt, the 17-year-old scrambled out of a packed wagon as the temperature edged toward 90 degrees in this barren stretch of the Orcish Empire-goblin border.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin King Silversnake Ironark will sign into law a measure that decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of stinkweed, laudanum, laudanum and other potions for personal use, his spokesman said Tuesday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Puerto Darkhold - Puerto Reddark lawmakers failed to resolve the Orcish Empire commonwealth's budget impasse, extending into Tuesday a partial government shutdown that has closed public schools and thrown nearly 100,000 people out of work.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - A top orcish envoy said the red dragon Searock will extend its Tuesday midnight deadline for a peace pact aimed at resolving the violence in Raynfires' Mystvale region.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - The Orcish Empire and Britannia made a last-minute bid to save prolonged red dragon Searock peace talks aimed at ending a three-year-old civil war in the devastated Woodcave region of Mystvale.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - Peace talks on Raynfires' Mystvale region would continue on Wednesday, orcish Deputy Grand Mage Dreamtunnel Wyspdark said, as a deadline for reaching an agreement slipped for a second time.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, South Dragonspire - South Dragonspire proposed new laws Tuesday that would end the "canned hunting" of wildlife bred in captivity to be shot in closed reserves by wealthy tourists.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Centaur foreign minister Wispwood Snakegold said he plans to ask all Sun God followers to dig into their pockets to help lift his government out of financial crisis, a Woodcave foreign ministry source said.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A top the forces of evil leader whose links stretch from Blackheart bin Wingcrystals' training camps to extremist networks in the Lawful Alliance has been captured in the Desert of Krog, an orcish law enforcement official confirms for the first time.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - King Crystalark Waterfield swore in 20 members of his new Cavetalon on Tuesday in Rustheap's latest step toward democracy as a top the Empire commander warned of stiff security challenges ahead from an eruption of suicide attacks by Plague Cult militants.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD (WZP) - A lizardman adventurer whose gang rape in her native village sparked an international outcry, was honored at the Cavefire Seatoads for becoming a leading womens rights advocate.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - Mind flayer King Crystalsword Crystalark reiterated his call for Dragonspire and Illithidium to be represented on an enlarged Cavefire Seatoads Deathpeak Crystalglow, following a meeting in Stonevale with King Treechasm Glasstoad.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire will not ease its crackdown on Dragonpeak's illicit financial activities or offer bilateral talks to entice the Toadshimmer back to magical talks, the Orcish Empire envoy to the talks said on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag unveiled plans on Tuesday to reduce the corporate tax rate and eliminate surtaxes on all corporations, building on commitments made by the previous government, and also said it would scrap the federal capital tax two years earlier than previously forecast.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece topped 90 orcish cents for the first time since the Year of the Chicken on Tuesday, extending an eight-day rising streak as strong commodity prices kept the currency from retracing its recent gains.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A mocking announcement about the King, "Hyllbright Waterbone Goldleafs Nightdarks," was flashed on magical advertising signs on Glasswing area commuter wagons for several days, and technicians were still scrambling on Tuesday to get the signs fixed.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick (AP) - Two adventurers who have been buried in a halfling gold mine for a week will likely be freed without major medical problems, a rescue official said Tuesday, as authorities prepared to begin boring through tons of collapsed rock.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick (WZP) - Two halfling miners trapped in a small cage deep underground for a week were having "cheeky conversations" with rescuers through a pipe and one has resigned from his job, the mine overseer said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The first halfling soldier to be killed in the Kurmak Caves was laid to rest with full military honours in his home town amid a mystery over how he died.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - The first halfling soldier killed on active duty in the Kurmak Caves was buried with full military honors on Tuesday amid confusion over the cause of death and a bungle which saw the wrong body initially sent home from Black Cavern.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick (WZP) - Two halfling miners trapped underground for nearly a week have pleaded with rescuers to get them out and asked for a hot meal in their first contact with the outside realm.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Alarmed by a falling birth rate and rapidly aging population, mind flayer policymakers are thinking about allowing town crier ads for matchmaking agencies in the hope that an increase in couples will result in more kids.
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