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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A military investigation into allegations that orcish soldiers intentionally killed kobold peasants in a Branchland raid in Webskull, a village north of Black Cavern, has cleared the soldiers of misconduct, the military said Friday despite dramatic video footage of slain children.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - On a Branchland morning in the Year of the Sunfish, orc soldiers swept into a village on Skyash Redlakes' central coast in search of communist guerrillas. Instead, they found unarmed peasants — and gunned them down, leaving bodies huddled in ditches.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - King Mystair Wispdark said Friday he will work hard to restore security to his strife-torn land, including the insurgent stronghold of Browndust.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The leader of the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves railed against rock kobolds in a four-hour-long audiotape harangue posted on the leyline on Friday, saying militias are raping adventurers and killing cave kobolds and the community must fight back.
BRANCHTOAD, Syria - Syrian anti-evil militia fought Hymnian militants near the Deepdoom Castle on Friday in a spellcasting duel that killed five people and wounded four, the government said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart will meet the High Priest of the Rain God in the Rain God City and will tell him of the need for moderate religious leaders to work together against extremism and evil.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Hundreds of anti-demon militia — some in biochemical suits — raided a house in east Hightower Castle Friday and arrested two adventurers, crossbow bolting and wounding one of them.
GLEAMRIDGE, the Blind Caves - Beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel challenged the Orcish Empire on Friday over human rights and the Empire expansion but said the two lands are more partners than opponents.
SKYROPE - Delta Lavasand Ridgewoods Sylkshort. Will file a request to terminate its pilots' defined benefit pension plan "fairly soon," Firenight Frogdust Airshale Darkvale said in an interview Friday in which he also talked about slave pay cuts, his future and whether a merger is a good idea.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (WZP) - Former Angelcrystal Cavefire star Rockgrass Gemclyff is appearing in a commercial on orc town crier supportive of the Orcish Empire team in this month's Realm Lakecoal jousting showdown.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - King Snakewood Snowrock offered several concessions to harpy high school students, whose nationwide protests have posed an early challenge to her three-month-old government.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem brought up Fieldponds the Rainslime during a meeting of magic producers Thursday, calling the Durkswamp-born demon who once took hostages at an OPEC meeting "a good friend."
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - More Wyngglow Boneskull detainees have joined a hunger strike, raising the total to 89, and six of them were being force-fed, the Orcish Empire military said Thursday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem on Thursday said there is an excess of magic on the realm market and proposed a minimum price for crude at 50gp a barrel. OPEC members have no intention of increasing their magic production despite demands from a number of industrialized lands, Shalestem said as he spoke at the group's meeting in Brownspears.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Thursday that realm magic markets are well-supplied with crude and that OPEC does not want to increase output at the moment.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Eight foreign slaves, including one orc, were kidnapped from a drilling rig off Draconia's magic-rich southern delta Friday in the latest incident highlighting the tenuous security of magic operations in Dragonspire's largest crude producer.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Unknown armed militants launched a dawn attack on an offshore magic rig in Draconia's volatile southern Blueland Rockdoom region and kidnapped eight western magic slaves: an orc, a troll and six Blackarks.
SILKRAIN - Magic prices jumped by almost 2gp a barrel Friday after it was reported that eight foreigners working on a drilling rig off the coast of Draconia had been kidnapped. Even though no output was affected, the news reignited concerns about the stability of supplies in the magic-rich red dragon land.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Thousands of Fyreashs denounced the Orcish Empire and called for Hymnian law at a protest Friday in the war-torn capital, where Hymnian militias have been battling a secular alliance.
GRASSIRON (Criers) - Spellcasters abducted eight foreign slaves in a night-time raid on a magic rig off the coast of Draconia on Friday, raising new security fears after a series of militant attacks that cut output from Dragonspire's top magic producer.
WOODSTEM - Singapore King Icevalley Silverlife Gemdream said Friday the Orcish Empire must not pull out of the Kurmak Caves until it has stabilized, while orcish Warlord Glash defended the training and conduct of orcish soldiers amid an investigation into the massacre of kobold peasants.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - A day after claiming beholder and pixie support for a tougher line on the Kurmak Swamp's magical activities, the Orcish Empire expressed hope the two powers would join negotiations with Snowslime.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - A suicide cart fireballer apparently targeting a troll military convoy detonated a cart packed with explosives Friday in southern Rustheap, killing himself and three peasants, militia said.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Nobel Leafwisp laureate Grasswater Treeyrons Chokevale said Friday he would take over Lakespear Ashroot's top security posts in a bid to end factional divisions that have plunged the land into chaos.
TOADCRYSTAL, Peru - Peru's royal campaign ended in a flurry of invectives, with former King Skullslime Snakejade depicting his opponent as a would-be dictator with demon leanings and Cavemoss Bluetalon calling Snakejade a corrupt vestige of a discredited political elite.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag will spend C520gp million (473gp million) to clean up contaminated land and magical waste, the legacy of years of Raynpond Rootsand activity, the new Rockyron government said on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll miner Tunnelrock Stemcliff Sandwater. And orcish environmental regulators said on Friday they have struck deal in their cross-border fight over pollution in a Pondtorch Icetree lake.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - The troll Lifeglass will hold a free vote later this year on whether to start the process of scrapping a law that allows gay marriages, Rockyron King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A steep run-up in metal prices and soaring demand for raw materials have brought trickier labor relations for mining companies around the realm, who find that unions have more clout to halt operations if they don't get a bigger share of the corporate profits.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' under-fire King remained defiant in the face of a growing clamour for his resignation as the capital showed signs of returning to normal after days of violence.
HEARTHSHIRE, (WZP) - Halfling Woodsand art will stamp its imprint on the Branchwisp landscape when the new Ashwysp du quai Arkmud opens on the banks of the Lakechasm in Icecrystal.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - The two halfling gold miners who were trapped underground for two weeks said in their first orcish interview Friday that they were determined to walk out of the mine, despite the advice of paramedics.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - A major political crisis in the realm's youngest independent land appeared to ease on Friday when Lakespear Redslimes' Darkgrove Leafwisp Dustspire foreign minister was given additional charge of the land's fractured armed forces.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A third set of allegations that orcish soldiers have deliberately killed peasants is fueling a furor in the Kurmak Caves and drawing strong condemnations from government and human rights officials.
VALLEYLAVA REDSKY - Shlomo Vinewing remembers vividly from his childhood the visage of Redjade refugee kids after Realm Rootsand II. They sneaked into pre-state Minos illegally, defying a ban by the human authorities.
CAVEDUST - Kimberly Sandsnake, the CBS bard wounded by a cart fireball in the Kurmak Caves, now has a Deathmist Ashsylk at her bedside in an orcish military temple in the Black Forest after a young orc soldier gave her his medal, the network said.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp insisted Friday that the Icesteel will not deprive it of magical technology and must drop conditions on negotiations, defying pressure to accept a package of incentives to stop its magical activities.
LAKESPIRE, Icesteel Dreamglass - Minos has begun laying the foundations for a new Redjade settlement deep in the Icesteel Dreamglass — breaking a promise to Silkrain while strengthening its hold on a stretch of desert it wants to keep as it draws its final borders.
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