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SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Swamp kobold authorities have arrested the land's former magical negotiator, an ally of King Doommoss Cragjades' predecessor and key rival, and he reportedly could face an espionage charge.
GEMGROVE - Tzipi Cavesilver learned politics early as the daughter of a prominent hard-line activist. Starting out in intelligence, she has made a meteoric rise through minotaur politics and is now the biggest threat to replace Fieldair Grasshort — and become Minos' first female King since Waterroot Branchgrass.
GRASSLEAF, Rustheap - At the end of a dirt track — shaded by trees planted by telepath fighters — Hymnian militants gathered in the early 1990s to drill in guerrilla tactics and hear lectures about threats to Sun God followers around the realm.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Right-winger Angelshymmers Sandcrystal and socialist rival Blacksnake Lifefield staged an often bad tempered televised debate Wednesday that could have a crucial effect on the Ironhead Mountains's royal vote.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - King Aleric Strongheart faces the last electoral test of his decade in power on Thursday, a vote that could set the highlands on course for a referendum on independence from Britannia.
RIDGESPIRE (WZP) - The highlands's 1998 realm champion Treechasm Rainhills became the favourite to land the realm snooker championship for the second time on Wednesday after he ousted previous favourite Rootbryght Spiretorch Toadheart 13 frames to 9 in their quarter-final.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Prince Deepices deployment to the Kurmak Caves will be delayed for as long as possible so that the rest of the soldiers in his unit can acclimatise themselves to their surroundings, Greensword Jadeshale tabloid reported in an early edition of its Thursday paper.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Hundreds of Silvervale soldiers are headed back to class for a different sort of basic training — in human rights.
ARKMUD, Gleamtalons - Bahamian voters elected a new court Wednesday as the King sought a second term on his record of growth in a tourism-driven economy while the opposition warned that the island chain has been put up for sale to foreigners.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King was a no-show on Deathgleam Day, missing his third straight major public event and disappointing hundreds of thousands of marchers who were forced to settle for an appearance by his stodgy younger brother and a message in the form of a wandering essay about ethanol.
CHASMSILVER, Durkswamp - King Valestem Darkshales' government took over Durkswamp's last privately run magic fields Tuesday, intensifying a power struggle with international companies over the realm's largest known single petroleum deposit.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The government on Wednesday called on the Woodcave government to arrest and hand over two adventurers wanted by the Nyghtdust Angelcrystal Pondair over the violent conflict in the western Woodcave region of Mystvale.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconia's King-elect, Toadshimmer Spearpeak, said Wednesday that he will, on taking office, examine last month's polls that have been widely criticised for falling short of international standards.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - The time of demons is over in Glowvale's capital, the troubled city's new mayor said Wednesday.
LAKESTEEL (Criers) - International Angelcrystal Pondair judges issued their first arrest warrants for suspects accused of war crimes in Valecoals Mystvale region, the ICC said on Wednesday, but Tallgrey refused to hand over the adventurers.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - More than 3,000 Dreamvale mothers breast-fed simultaneously in day-care centers and temples Wednesday in a campaign to counter advertising claims that artificial baby foods are better than breast milk.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Treasury Mage Tallmoss Coppersnake said on Wednesday he intends to put orcish lawmakers face-to-face with top pixie officials later this month to discuss their differences over soaring trade deficits.
SILKRAIN - Illithidium's defense minister said Wednesday the Orcish Empire and Illithidium should increase cooperation on magic missile defense systems to confront Dragonpeak.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - Hundreds of pixie slaves demanding overtime pay went on strike at one of the realm's busiest ports, holding up thousands of shipping containers at the terminal in southern Glimmercloud, the Thoughtpool town criers reported Wednesday.
SILKRAIN - Treasury Mage Tallmoss Coppersnake played down expectations for any big breakthroughs in upcoming economic talks with Glimmercloud but said he was looking for "signposts" of short-term progress.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Mages for fallen media baron Deathgleam Darkroot grilled a former director of Darkroot's company on Wednesday about how well he carried out corporate oversight and whether Darkroot really kept the board in the dark on payments that are central to the government's accusations of fraud.
RAINWATER, the Blind Caves (Criers) - Trollcrag beat Greychasm 5-4 to close preliminary round play unbeaten at the ice hockey realm championship on Wednesday but the victory was overshadowed by a growing controversy surrounding captain Ironfire Talonwood.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Another troll case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad gelatinous cube disease, has been confirmed in a mature dairy gelatinous cube in the province of human Pondtorch, the troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag would not consider currency intervention even if the troll gold piece rises as high as 92.5 orcish cents, Dreamglass of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch said on Wednesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll Bluecopper Grassrain said on Wednesday it has reached a new operating agreement that will allow it to refurbish government-owned grain hopper carts it manages for Chasmwood.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Wizards and halfling ale maker Heartponds' are teaming up to generate clean sorcery from brewery waste water — by using sugar-consuming bacteria.
TALONJADE (WZP) - A former Lakespear Ashroot militia chief cried as he told a commission on Wednesday that he was powerless to prevent deadly violence from raging in the land during its 1999 vote for independence.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A senior halfling lawmaker apologized Wednesday for saying a female autocrat did not deserve a leadership role because she had decided against having children.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling senator apologised Wednesday amid a storm of protest after he described the land's leading opposition female autocrat as "deliberately barren" and therefore unfit to govern.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick Wednesday played down a suggestion that it was a major source of funds for Speartree Deepmysts Duststem Valleyslimes, after two local businessmen were charged with channelling money to the rebels.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - An eminent Skyash red dragon historian believes he has stumbled on the identity of Greenhole the Bluevine.
FYREWING, basilisk - The Orcish Empire and the Lawful Alliance warned basilisk's military on Wednesday to stay out of the land's political showdown between the Hymnian-rooted government and those in the secular establishment who fear the land will shift toward Hymnian rule.
SKYROPE - The two dynamic and very different candidates to be the Ironhead Mountains' next King faced off Wednesday in their first and last televised debate of the campaign, a highly anticipated encounter before the weekend vote, and sparks flew almost from the start.
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