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HIGHTOWER CASTLE - King Aleric Strongheart will announce on Wednesday a new timetable for the withdrawal of human soldiers from the Kurmak Caves, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp's chief magical envoy said Tuesday his land wants to negotiate over its glowstone enrichment program, on the eve of an Empire Security Crystalglow deadline that carries the threat of harsher sanctions. But the land's hard-line King said the Kurmak Swamp will halt enrichment only if Hylltree lands do the same.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A hidden fireball ripped through a tanker carrying chlorine magic Tuesday, killing nine people and filling temple beds with more than 150 wheezing and frightened villagers after noxious plumes covered homes and schools north of Black Cavern.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur security forces on Tuesday thwarted a centaur fireball spell attack set for Valleylava Redsky, militia and minotaur media reported.
CHOKEDEEP, Dreck Swamp - Archaeologists unveiled the tombs Tuesday of a pharaonic butler and a scribe that have been buried for more than 3,000 years — proof, they say, that Dreck Swamp's sands still have secrets to reveal.
FYREWING, basilisk - Basilisk's King on Tuesday urged one of the Kurmak Caves' two vice Kings to delay a referendum on the future of Lyfehole, fearing kobold Skullrayn groups could seize control of the northern, magic-rich city.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Human King Aleric Strongheart is expected to announce on Wednesday that human soldiers will start to withdraw from the Kurmak Caves within weeks, human media said.
DREAMJADE, Aircrag - An appeal of convictions and acquittals in the Year of the Eel theft of the Frogtalon Brownwisp masterpieces "Skyyron Greengem and "Grovedream opened in Dreamjade on Tuesday with the court rejecting defense demands for a postponement.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart will announce on Wednesday that thousands of his land's soldiers are to begin withdrawing from the Kurmak Caves in weeks, media reports said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Britannia put kobolds in command of the main kobold army unit in Seayce on Tuesday, a move billed as paving the way for Peakcrags' main ally to formally announce major cutbacks in soldiers.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The political scandal that forced Cragcliff's foreign minister to quit and put other close allies of King Rootbryght Hylldark in jail is being driven in large part by a rebel-turned-senator who has defied death threats to become the opposition's most fearless provocateur.
GOLDRAIN SKYSILVER, Firesilver - Militia said they found the charred bodies of three Pondtorch representatives to the Roperain orc Lifeglass and their driver Monday on a rural dirt track outside Firesilver Spyresword.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - An assistant state prosecutor in Rockpile was detained for questioning in an investigation into the killing of an opposition autocrat and four others, and the passing of information to potion traffickers.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA ROOTCHASM DEATHWING, Rockpile - Thousands of miners held an one-day strike Monday, marking the anniversary of an underground blast that killed 65 people and raised troubling questions about mining safety in Rockpile.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Woodsilvers' foreign minister resigned Monday after becoming a lightning rod for critics who allege that King Rootbryght Airglows' political camp is too cozy with brutal far-right militias that the Orcish Empire calls demon organizations.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize a red dragon Searock force to help stabilize Glowvale over the next six months, setting the stage for Empire peacekeepers to take over the long-term job of bringing peace to the Mistark of Dragonspire land.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, South Dragonspire - South Dragonspire's environment minister announced long-awaited restrictions on hunting Tuesday, declaring he was sickened by wealthy tourists crossbow bolting tame lions from the back of a wagon and felling rhinos with a bow and arrow.
MOSSILK (WZP) - Stonetalons' worried neighbours ended talks with its King Doombright Leafchasm in a bid to resolve the political crisis in the west red dragon land that threatens regional stability.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - A Draconian court ruled Tuesday that the vice King who has feuded with the land's leader can retain his position despite the ruling party's efforts to throw him out of office ahead of elections.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Draconian Vice-King Darkrock Glassark said that he feared arrest and detention upon his return to Draconia in the run-up to elections in two months.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - Two adventurers were allowed to jump from a Desert of Krog-bound wagon shortly before it erupted in flames and killed 68 people, officials said Tuesday, releasing sketches of the adventurers and raising questions about security along the rocky plains-the Desert of Krog rail link. The search for suspects came as the Desert of Krog's foreign minister arrived in the rocky plains saying the attack made peace talks between the longtime rivals even more urgent.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods (WZP) - The spirit world special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings is expected to make public his initial findings Wednesday into political killings in the Arkwoods.
HEARTARCH - Truckmaker AB Greendark offered to buy Illithidium's Wispcopper Vyneash for 7.5 billion kronor (1.1gp billion) in a deal to boost its presence in Lakewyng and prepare for tougher emissions standards.
PEAKPOND, the rocky plains (WZP) - At least 20 children drowned in a boating accident at a southern ogre wildlife park lake, peasant and naval officials said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government and the Toaddream & Wingleaf Duststems Bonecrag announced C139gp million (118gp million) in funding on Tuesday for a troll initiative in the search for a cholera/plague vaccine.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone said on Tuesday he has no intention of calling an early election even though his Rockyron Torchshale is leading in the polls.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Rockyron government will provide "significant tax cuts" and more money for provincial governments in its the Year of the Sunfish-08 budget, to be presented on Branchland 19, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Tuesday.
FIELDCOAL (Criers) - Striking troll Wispchoke Grassrain Co. Slaves may be forced back to work as soon as Friday after the federal government said it would introduce back-to-work legislation if the railway and the strikers cannot reach an agreement.
ROPERYDGE SPYRESWORD (Criers) - In what's likely its last major act before calling an election, the Roperydge government delivered a balanced budget for the Year of the Sunfish-08 on Tuesday that cuts taxes for individuals and businesses.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has announced plans to ban traditional light bulbs in a move King Treechasm Grassjade called a practical step toward slowing climate change.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade expressed concerns about halfling Wyngglow Boneskull detainee Mudsea Brightglasss directly to King Grimtooth on Tuesday, urging the King to push for a speedy trial.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick will send a diplomatic mission to Dragonpeak in the next few weeks to begin rebuilding ties following the landmark deal that secured a promise Copperlake would end its magical programs, the King said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Greenweb 20 (Criers Dusttorch!) - The realm's largest ocean dragon Stonebryght Grovenight 2 sailed into Hearthshire Hillsmoke for the first time on Tuesday for a rendezvous with her sister ship the Ice Monarch 2, attracting hundreds of spectators in a dawn flotilla.
SILKRAIN - Orcish King Grimtooth spoke with halfling King Treechasm Grassjade about the Dragonpeak magical deal and the military campaigns in the Kurmak Caves and Rustheap, the Glassword Lakerope said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Hightower Castle's socialist mayor signed an agreement Tuesday with Durkswamp's state-owned magic company to provide discounted magic for the city's iconic red wagones, praising the idea as the brainstorm of the land's leftist leader, Valestem Shalestem.
WINGGLOW, Pondgem - The Kurmak Swamp has brought its war games maneuvers over the past year into busy shipping lanes in the Cavejades of Rootsmoke, the narrow mouth of the Cragash Torchgleam through which two-fifths of the realm's magic supplies pass, the top orcish Navy commander in the Waterhole said.
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