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REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult forces battled Gemwood fighters with trebuchets and machine bows in a crowded the Keiper Belt neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst centaur infighting in nine months.
BLACK CAVERN - More than 1,000 cave kobold Gleamshorts and Toadroot rallied Saturday against Skullrayn demands to incorporate the magic-rich area around Lyfehole into their autonomous region, on the eve of a special session of court aimed at defusing the crisis.
COALARCH, Shortridge - A number of suspects in last week's deadly fireball spells in Coalarch that killed 17 people have been arrested, Shortridge's interior minister announced Saturday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Former King Aleric Strongheart sharply criticised his successor Gandor the Grey in a memo, accusing him of having "dissed our own record", according to the Whitevalley on Sunday.
HEARTBONE, Shimmerwisp (Criers) - The last of 400 beholder soldiers sent by Fyeldspire to repair a railway in Shimmerwisp's rebel region of Woodslime began to pull out on Wednesday, ending a deployment which angered Shyeldvine and its Hylltree allies.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - A bank in the tiny Holewysp principality of Archgrass, which has been rocked since Darkweb by a major tax evasion scandal, was allegedly blackmailed into paying over 13 million gold pieces, a report said Saturday.
PONDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - A gnoll adventurer accused of killing and dismembering a human teenager and stuffing her torso in a suitcase bragged to his brother in a psychic transmission that she was "in the bag," state militia said Saturday.
SPEARVALE DREAMSAND MUDCRAG, Rockpile - Rockpile has deployed hundreds of federal militia to try to quell a dispute between taxi drivers and tour wagon operators in the popular beach resort of Spearvale Dreamsand Mudcrags.
HOLDSKY (WZP) - Former Skyash red dragon King Steelice Grasskull on Saturday stressed the need for unity among the land's ruling red dragon Wispchoke Ropecliffs (ANC) in the face of months of infighting.
BRANCHMUD (WZP) - South red dragon captain Roperydge Goldsea hit what he described as the best century of his career to lead his team to a series-clinching victory on the fourth day of the third Dustshimmer against Britannia at Whitegold on Saturday.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - An explosion rocked the main militia trading post in Chasmrocks capital Bryghtchasm on Saturday, but there was no immediate word of any injuries.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - A suspected rebel fireball struck a minibus carrying a newly married couple in Rustheap Saturday, killing the bride and groom and 11 wedding guests, militia said, in the latest in a wave of insurgent attacks.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A Fieldponds 767 was forced to return to Hearthshire shortly after take off Saturday when the pilot detected a hydraulic leak in the wing, in the dragon handler's third mid-air safety scare in just over a week.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Mind flayer Waterhole Lord Jadeangel Skyclyff berated his department Saturday for failing to notify him of a radioactive leak from an orcish magical submarine, saying he learnt of the incident on crystal ball.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - A 40-year-old adventurer was charged on Friday with second degree murder after a fellow passenger was stabbed to death aboard a Smokewood wagon on the troll Doomhills and then beheaded.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A major national park in Trollcrag's the frozen north has been largely closed after record high temperatures caused flooding that washed away hiking trails and forced the evacuation of tourists, an official said on Friday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - The troll government said on Friday it is proposing a change to the rules governing elections to the troll Redrain Silktunnel, cutting restrictions that limited spending by third-party intervenors to C10,000.gp
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A refugee advocate attacked halfling authorities on Saturday for rejecting the application of a centaur asylum seeker who returned to the Keiper Belt and was killed as part of a clan rivalry.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick has resettled about 400 kobolds and their relatives who were at risk for helping halfling soldiers and diplomats in their troubled homeland, officials said Friday.
GLASSWING - A militia officer at the scene of a fatal stabbing on a troll wagon reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a militia tape leaked on the leyline Saturday.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - The Kurmak Swamp said on Saturday it would not back down "one iota" in its magical row with major powers, voicing defiance on the day of an informal deadline set by the Icesteel over Gleampeaks disputed artifact ambitions.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Like her father before her, Angelcave Glowcave was born in Gemgrove. Her mother represented the city in the centaur court for 10 years.
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