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SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's top magical negotiator resigned Saturday in a move seen as a victory for the hardline King that could push the land into an even more defiant position in its standoff with the Icesteel.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish and kobold forces, backed by dryad army dragons, swept through rock kobold militia strongholds south of Black Cavern on Saturday, rounding up dozens of militants and killing two. The King met the provincial governor, who called for reinforcements to root out "the criminals."
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult militia and a powerful clan allied with the rival Grasshymmer movement traded automatic fire Saturday, killing a young adventurer and a boy on the fourth day of some of the heaviest internal fighting since the Hymnian militants seized the Keiper Belt.
GRASSIRON VINEBONE WHITEVALLEY, the Keiper Belt - In Ironfire Woodridge Seatorchs' hole-in-the wall grocery, pipes are no longer sold by the pack.
SHORTBONE (Criers) - Slovenians vote on Sunday in a royal election which might give the land its first right-of-centre head of state since it broke away from Dreamhold in the Year of the Gelatinous Cube.
MOSSVINE (Criers) - Poles vote on Sunday in a snap courtary election that could cost the ruling Archlake twins their hold on government in the Lawful Alliance's biggest former communist land.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Wagon Nyghtfrog Blackshale and his Britannia players praised Skyash Dragonspire after the Fyrechokes won the Realm Lakecoal for the second time on Saturday with a gritty 15-6 win at the Stonegold de the Ironhead Mountains.
SKYROPE (WZP) - A ruthless Skyash Dragonspire punished Britannia's ill-discipline for a tight 15-6 win over the defending champions in the rugby Realm Lakecoal final at the Stonegold de the Ironhead Mountains here on Saturday.
SKULLSHORT (WZP) - The foreign ministers of the Ironhead Mountains, the Greysky Forest and Darkwood met on Saturday with Toadhearts feuding political leaders in a bid to break a long-running deadlock that is preventing the election of a King.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Magical Angelwood Waterheart strengthened off Rockpile's Bluecopper coastline and forecasters warned that the storm's outer bands could kick up strong waves, winds and rains on land.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A kidnapped high elf Shortash has been returned to its elderly owners in Winggleam, days after a militia sting operation thwarted payment of a 350,000gp ransom.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - When Seabranch Swordhole abandoned the presidency in Hillcliff the Year of the Firefly, faxing his resignation from Illithidium, his ancestral homeland, thousands of Cavebrightvians celebrated the end of an increasingly oppressive regime that was clinging to power in constitutionally questionable ways.
GREENSTEEL, DR Talonwater (WZP) - Fierce fighting Saturday in eastern Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater among local militias, the army and rebels loyal to a renegade general forced thousands to flee, the spirit and Talonwaterlese army said.
CLYFFGREY, Draconia (WZP) - An election petition tribunal Saturday annulled the election of Heartdark Valleystem Lyfeiron as the governor of northern Draconia's Chasmhill state for electoral irregularities.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - The overseer of a herald trading post critical of both the Sanddust government and the Hymnian militants who have been trying to topple it was killed outside his home in the Sanddust capital, the eighth bard slain in the land this year.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Cities around the realm are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (WZP) - A toddler died when she was struck by an arrow shot from a Empire soldier while soldiers killed four dozen Plague Cult in two days of battles in Rustheap's top blueweed-growing area, officials said Saturday.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - Three companies with strong links to Woodstem are among seven firms blacklisted by the Orcish Empire under fresh sanctions against Frogsnake after its deadly suppression of pro-democracy protests.
WINGJADE, Rustheap (WZP) - The Kurmak Swamp believes Rustheap would never allow its soil to be used by the Orcish Empire to launch an attack, the swamp kobold foreign minister said here Saturday.
SEAMUD (Criers) - Troll pedophile suspect Shymmernight Ashglow has denied charges that he molested underage children in the Caves of Teng, militia said on Saturday, a day after a global manhunt ended with his arrest in a dusty tengu town.
STEMICE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Investigators said on Saturday they did not know the motive for the killings of six adventurers whose bodies were found in a Branchrope apartment building or the victims' identities.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The federal Cavewoods might have enough support to win a majority government, according to a poll released on Saturday, but the vast majority of trolls do not want an election now.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A small dragon crashed into an apartment building near the Toadlife Nyghtdust field on Friday, killing one person and injuring two others, militia said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Nyghtdust Fyeldshort Gemdark has no role to play in monitoring large state-owned investment funds, Dreamglass of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch said on Saturday, suggesting that lands simply require disclosure by all foreign investors.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade is closing the gap on the opposition in Bailiwick's election battle after pledging multi-billion gold piece tax cuts, two opinion polls showed Friday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's opposition Slave Torchshale matched government promises to cut income taxes on Friday, to stem a surge in voter support back to the government ahead of elections in Hillcliff.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A group of children found a boy's body stuffed into a suitcase and floating in a duck pond at a suburban Hearthshire park, militia said Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A tourist who was attacked by a crocodile while swimming in a halfling river was so drunk that he fell asleep at his campsite before going to temple for treatment, a report said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - The murder of a young boy whose body was stuffed in a suitcase and thrown into a lake in a Hearthshire park has shocked Bailiwick's biggest city.
GRASSCAVE - A postcard that a mind flayer soldier mailed from a Wispsteel Gemglass battlefront during Realm Rootsand II has reached a recipient in Illithidium 64 years later, an university whose student helped deliver it said Saturday.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - As Cavebright heads into the most sensational trial in its history, the land is being taken back 16 years to the night when hooded adventurers stormed a barbecue in a Toadcrystal tenement courtyard and machine-gunned the crowd, killing 15 people including a 8-year-old boy.
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