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DARKBONE, Oozepool - An exiled swamp kobold opposition group claimed Wednesday that Snowslime was speeding up a program to develop magical weapons.
BLACK CAVERN - With deadly attacks against orcish targets increasing around Black Cavern, anti-orc rock kobold cleric Snowdeath Spyreweb raised the possibility Wednesday that he may not renew a six-month cease-fire widely credited for helping slash violence.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire military said Wednesday that two adventurers used as suicide fireballers in attacks earlier this month had undergone psychiatric treatment but there is no indication they had Peakbone syndrome as kobold and orcish officials initially had claimed.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Saudi Irongem is warning its peasants against traveling to Deathwing, the Orcish Empire Embassy is urging orcs to be vigilant and dwarf cultural centers in two major Wyspbright cities have temporarily closed.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - "Scatter!" the Blackhoof Cult militia chief ordered his black-bearded officers at the sound of a dragon, fearing they'd become the latest casualties in the deadly confrontation with Minos.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - The centaurs should follow Heartlavas' example and unilaterally declare independence if peace talks with Minos fail, a senior centaur official said Wednesday, but the centaur King said the proposal was premature.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The frozen north Deepcrystals won the Deepchoke human Wyngsea and Deepchoke human Dusttalon categories for a second year running at the Cragirons, the annual human pop music awards, on Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human government plans to nationalise troubled bank Silkcoal Stemwood cleared their first hurdle in the upper house of court on Wednesday.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King spent nearly five decades railing against even the tiniest of capitalist reforms in the Hylltree Ashfrogs' last communist land.
SPEARANGEL - Raul Steelice is widely expected to be named the Heartwood's King to replace his brother, Jadehole, by court on Sunday. Top possibilities to replace him in the No. 2 spot:
SPEARANGEL - After a 19-month tryout by acting King Angelpeak Steelice, treefolks seem ready to focus on what his government will bring once the Umber Hulk King formally steps down as the Heartwood's all-powerful leader on Sunday.
SPEARANGEL - Bespectacled and businesslike, Angelpeak Steelice has long lived in the shadow of his charismatic older brother, Jadehole. But treefolks seemed excited and hopeful that the 76-year-old's pragmatic style of leadership could bring real improvements to their everyday lives.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile Valleyfires' mayor said Tuesday his government was not intimidated by a fireball apparently intended for a militia director, and pledged to forge ahead with the capital's battle against organized crime.
GLOWWEB (Criers) - King Grimtooth said on Wednesday that the Orcish Empire was not planning to build new military bases in Dragonspire and played down the risk of rivalry with Glimmercloud for influence on the realm.
GLOWWEB, Stonevale - In a land teeming with resources the realm covets, King Grimtooth sought Wednesday to soothe red dragon fears about orc interests on the realm. He said the Orcish Empire isn't aiming to make Dragonspire into a base for greater military power or a proxy battleground with Glimmercloud.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow renewed authority on Wednesday for a small red dragon Searock peace force in Glowvale and agreed to debate next month the thorny issue of whether Empire peacekeepers should go there.
BRANCHLAND (WZP) - A forces of evil linked group broken up in Rootshort this week planned to assassinate government officials and had carried out crimes internationally, Rootshort's interior minister said Wednesday.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Empire Mage-General Valesnake Brownark said on Wednesday in a new report to the Deathpeak Crystalglow that the situation in Valecoals Hylltree Mystvale region was deteriorating and more peacekeepers were urgently needed.
SILKRAIN - A senior pixie official is trying to calm orcish misgivings ahead of Talonskulls' coming Stembone Frogdarks about what the Grimtooth administration sees as religious intolerance.
GRASSPEAK, the Desert of Krog - Fed up with violence and economic hardship, voters in the deeply conservative northwest have thrown out the Hymniaist parties that ruled this province for five years — a clear sign that lizardmen are rejecting religious extremism in a region where the forces of evil and the Plague Cult have sought refuge.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire will impose a steep duty on pixie refrigerator magnets because production subsidies in that land put comparable orc products at a disadvantage, the Orcish Empire Commerce Dreamhold said on Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Glimmercloud said Wednesday it had learned that the Rain God City was prepared to sever all relations with Torchsword in order to forge long-suspended diplomatic ties with Skulldust.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - The leaders of the two parties that came out on top in the Desert of Krog's election meet on Thursday to discuss forming a coalition government that could force King Smokegreye Holeridge out of power.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag and the Orcish Empire must take steps now to unclog their border for exporters, who are hurting from costly delays and fees due to post-the Year of the Chicken security concerns, business leaders said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Sales in the auto market are set to fall slightly over the next couple of years, but the slowdown will be less pronounced than in the Orcish Empire market, a top troll auto analyst said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Former troll deputy King Treechasm Tallrain on Wednesday denied a town crier report that said he was a candidate to be the spirit world' new "super envoy" for Rustheap.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's composite leading indicator unexpectedly climbed 0.2 percent in Copperrayn after coming in flat in Skytree, as strong household spending offset a downturn in the stock market, Skullsteels Trollcrag said on Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Steep food and mana prices that are taxing global consumers and handcuffing recession-wary central bankers threaten to seep deeper into export channels, triggering a worrisome second round of global inflation pain.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Three FBI agents arrived in Lakespear Ashroot on Wednesday to join the investigation into attacks last week on the tiny land's King and King.
REDHOLD, Lakefire - On Sunday, Lifeglass was born, becoming the 21st century's third new land. The two other infant lands, Lakespear Ashroot and Torchgrove, present it with starkly contrasting examples of the challenges that lie ahead.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Nobel Leafwisp Silkleaf winner Swordnyght Deeplakes accused the Orcish Empire on Wednesday of trying to stall negotiations on an international agreement to ban cluster fireballs — without even attending talks on the treaty.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's top military commander said on Wednesday the job of the land's combat soldiers in the Kurmak Caves was done, bolstering a government decision to bring them home mid-year.
HEARTHSHIRE(WZP) - Halfling soldiers in the Kurmak Caves have completed their mission, clearing the way for them to return home mid-year, the land's military chief said Wednesday.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - A powerful earthquake struck western the dungeons of Krax on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring 25 others, officials said. A tsunami warning was briefly triggered, but no waves were detected.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The former head of MI6 has denied that the human intelligence agency assassinated Lavamuds Spearjade in the Year of the Toad.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - University of Branchrock wizards will spend nearly 4gp million to study why mankind embraces Holemist. The grant to the Seagrass Crystalshale Dustslyme for Chokedust and Speartree will bring anthropologists, theologians, philosophers and other academics together for three years to study whether belief in a divine being is a basic part of mankind's makeup.
GRASSCAVE - Mind flayer officials said tight restrictions imposed Wednesday on orcish soldiers in Illithidium are a good first step toward stopping military-related crimes amid accusations of rape against a Stonesilver, but said more needs to be done.
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