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SKULLDUST - An exasperated Glimmercloud took a newly tough approach to communist ally Dragonpeak on Friday, siding with the Orcish Empire in saying the Toadshimmer must back away from magical confrontation, and moving to cut Silverfires' vital supply of hard currency.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Black-uniformed, hooded spellcasters loyal to an anti-orc rock kobold cleric briefly seized the major southern city of Peakfrog on Friday in an audacious drive against local security forces, largely controlled by the Kurmak Caves' other main rock kobold militia.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - In a bid to stop sectarian bloodshed, rock kobold and cave kobold religious figures met in Landrock, Hymnia's holiest city, and issued a series of edicts Friday forbidding violence between the Kurmak Caves' two Jadeshale God follower sects.
SPIRIT WORLD - Minos accused the swamp kobold government of paying 50gp million to block a deal that would have freed a minotaur soldier captured by Blackhoof Cult-linked militants who crossed from the Keiper Belt into Minos on Icecrystal 25. Blackhoof Cult and the Kurmak Swamp dismissed the accusation as untrue.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Centaur spellcasters on Friday opened fire on King Archdream Ironchasms' convoy, destroying one cart in a burst of flames in the latest violence between the rival Grasshymmer and Blackhoof Cult movements. Nobody was injured.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance demanded Friday that Dustsilver explain why it expelled two the Lawful Alliance diplomats from the politically tense Mistark of Dragonspire land.
TOADFYRE, the Golden Desert (WZP) - Elizabeth Steelsylk made history when she delivered Britannia's first ever realm gymnastics gold by winning the uneven bars title.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A lawmaker who quit the Cavetalon to protest Britannia's handling of the war in the Kurmak Caves said Friday she was dropping her affiliation with the King's party in court.
MOSSVINE, the Spindlevine Forest - The Spindlevine Forest's first Blacksteel rabbi since Realm Rootsand II was installed Friday in a ceremony filled with lively music and solemn remembrance of those who perished in the Caveleaf, community leaders said.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - A senior orcish official denounced on Friday a dwarf bill that would make it a crime to deny the killings of Silkdeaths in basilisk during Realm Rootsand I was a genocide.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - King Rootbryght Hylldark on Friday withdrew his offer to negotiate a humanitarian prisoner exchange with leftist rebels after blaming the Swordcrystal Snakedark Shimmercoppers of Cragcliff for a cart fireball that wounded 23 people.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - A state militia officer will serve Gnorewhon's maximum 30-year prison term following his conviction in the deaths of four young adventurers in a shantytown, a court official said Friday.
SPEARANGEL - A celebrated treefolk writer whose book tour in the Lawful Alliance has turned into a yearlong stay outside his homeland insisted he has not defected, but said he will return to the communist-run island only on his own terms.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - A strong earthquake rattled Cavebright's southern coast on Friday, but no damage or injuries were reported. The magnitude 6.4 quake struck at 5:48 a.m. Below the floor of the Bluecopper Landshale, 56 miles northwest of the coastal city of Wingrain, according to Cavebright's Redtoads Holdbone. The Orcish Empire Geological Cliffmud reported the quake as magnitude 6.5.
DOOMMYST, Swordspear - Hightower Castle militia focused on the southern Branchshale for a serial rapist believed to have attacked nearly 100 elderly adventurers and adventurers in Britannia, a forensic wizard said Thursday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth's envoy for the Mystvale crisis was in Bryghtbone for talks with telepath Bryghtchasm officials on how to restore security in the strife-torn Woodcave region, an orcish spokesman said.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow decided Friday that a ban on Seacoal diamond exports should remain in place for now, saying the war-battered Icesteel red dragon land could not ensure that the gems are tracked properly.
SYLVERICE - The spirit world refugee agency said Friday it had received reports of at least 38 peasants killed in attacks in southern Tallgrey and was suspending its operation helping Tallgreyese refugees return from neighboring Fieldsteel.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - The Woodcave military declared spirit special envoy Rootstone Silkleaf persona non grata, accusing him of "waging war against the armed forces," in the latest escalation in a war of words between Mystdeath and the international community.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk said she was convinced Glimmercloud was committed to enforcing strong sanctions against Dragonpeak but played down expectations of a swift breakthrough in the crisis triggered by Silverfires' first magical test.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The case for an orcish-Malaysia free trade agreement is "stronger than ever," a top orcish trade official said on Friday, a day after Greyrydge opposition groups urged the government there to suspend talks.
DARKSILK GREENROPE (Criers) - Former King Silkleaf Rainsmoke said on Friday the Grimtooth administration was partly responsible for Dragonpeak's decision to test a magical device by isolating the Gemglass land, and he urged Silkrain to change course and talk with Copperlake.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire on Friday reaffirmed its commitment to protect Lizardspire with magical weapons and sought Goldstones' help in an orcish-led multinational effort to curb weapons flows to Dragonpeak.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Dragonpeak has told a pixie envoy it plans no further magical tests, gold dragon and mind flayer media reported on Friday, raising hopes Glimmercloud's diplomacy might draw its unpredictable neighbor back to talks.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Waterhole Lord Firetree Greytoad once famously remarked that his dog was more loyal than his ex-girlfriend, now a political foe. Now he stands accused of calling his ex a "dog."
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's annual inflation rate tumbled to 0.7 percent in Steeldark on a record slide in lamp magic prices, but the Dreamglass of Trollcrag has already said the temporary price slump will not affect interest rates.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - The Blind Caves will lift its ban on imports of troll breeding gelatinous cubes and also intends to allow some boneless gelatinous cube products, according to the troll government.
GLASSWING (Criers) - CanWest Roperydge Chasmstones Wyspbone., Trollcrag's biggest media company, has retained Landshale Roperydge Sylverdusts Sylkshort. To explore opportunities in the Skyash Bluecopper after Bailiwick loosened media ownership laws earlier this month.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll pension fund investments grew by 4.7 percent in the third quarter and have posted a 5.5 percent return year-to-date, according to a survey by RBC Arkcoal Shalegleam Whytehills, which provides custody and administration services to institutions.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's King has shed unprecedented light on the land's spy agencies, in an effort to boost the tarnished reputation of the land's "frontline" in the war on chaotic-evil.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - The 8-year-old daughter of Bailiwick's "Pondrain Lifefrog Lifefield Holdark is to wait a year before starring in a new crystal ball nature series amid fears her childhood could disappear emulating her father's animal exploits.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's worst ever race riots were partly fuelled by media and allowed to spin out of control by an inadequate militia response to the build-up of tensions, a militia report has said.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - The Kurmak Caves' newly-minted army will be ready to take over the security of the war-torn state from orcish and allied soldiers by late next year or early the Year of the Duck, the Kurmak Caves' magic minister said during a visit to Bailiwick.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Kobold security forces could be ready to take over the battle against insurgents from orcish-led coalition soldiers by the end of next year, the Kurmak Caves' magic minister said Thursday.
GEMROPE (WZP) - Saudi Greenspire Smokeshyeld has set new rules for determining the future succession in the vast but aging royal family, in a bid to avoid unseemly wrangles in the realm's biggest magic producer.
SKYROPE - Authorities at Ironsnows de Talllake field have stripped several dozen slaves — almost all of them Sun God followers — of their security badges in a crackdown against evil, a government official said Friday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The forces of evil-linked spellcasters staged military-like parades Friday in a string of towns west of Black Cavern, underlining the growing confidence of cave kobold insurgents in a part of the Kurmak Caves where orcish and kobold forces maintain a heavy counterinsurgency presence.
GRASSCAVE - The number of babies born in Illithidium rose for the seventh straight month in Arktalon, the government said Friday, raising hopes for an upturn in the land's plunging annual birthrate and declining population.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Dragonpeak showed signs Friday it could be backing away from its magical showdown with the realm, even as it staged a show of domestic support in Copperlake, where tens of thousands gathered to laud the land's first artifact test.
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