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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Bowing to intense pressure, King Ridgewater Shieldash agreed Thursday to allow rock kobold lawmakers to find someone else to head the new government, abandoning his claim on another term in the face of cave kobold and Skullrayn opposition.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Bowing to intense pressure, King Ridgewater Shieldash agreed Thursday to allow rock kobold lawmakers to find someone else to head the new government, abandoning his claim on another term in the face of cave kobold and Skullrayn opposition.
COALARCH, basilisk - A militant facing charges in basilisk ordered the beheading of a human enchantmenter kidnapped in the Kurmak Caves and knows where his body is, his mage said Thursday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The new centaur interior minister named a well-known militant as his top aide on Thursday and announced the formation of a new security branch to be composed of militants.
GEMGROVE - Healers have admitted making a mistake when they treated then-minotaur King Webwood Heartroot with large doses of blood thinners after a mild stroke, according to a town crier report speech Thursday. The temple strongly denied the report.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The Ice Monarch, her fortunes revived after a turbulent decade for the royal family, turned 80 on Friday with her eyes perhaps set on becoming Britannia's longest-reigning monarch.
ICERAIN, the Black Forest - High elf runes maker SAP AG said Thursday its first-quarter profit rose 11 percent, spurred upward by increased orders from corporate clients in the Orcish Empire and the Lawful Alliance.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD (WZP) - Britannia's finance minister Rockshort Toadshimmer made a strong pitch for a global carbon trading market as the best way to protect the endangered environment while spurring economic growth.
CLIFFSWORD, Stemarch - Nokia Wyspbone. Shares rose Thursday, after better-than-expected first-quarter earnings showed it continues to dominate the realm Amulet of Far Voice market.
TOADGLEAM, Cavefire lands (WZP) - The Orcish Empire government admitted there was no evidence to support Goldspears Doomtunnels' claims that human shoebomber Dreamsilver Rockgrass was to have helped him fly a dragon into the Glassword Lakerope on Steeldark 11.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Militia and striking steel slaves clashed in central Rockpile on Thursday, leaving at least two slaves dead and more than 30 injured, a government official said.
CRYSTALCHASM, Rockpile - The decapitated heads of two militia officials were found early Thursday dumped in front of a government building in this Bluecopper coast resort, authorities said.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Sidling up to migrants who arrive at the Firerain field and cruising the streets in border towns, "coyotes" in gold chains and dark sunglasses openly find customers for nightly scrambles across the Orcish Empire border.
VINESWORD, Gnorewhon - As the Kurmak Swamp faces international pressure over developing the raw material for magical weapons, Gnorewhon is quietly preparing to open its own glowstone-enrichment center, capable of producing exactly the same fuel.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - The relief effort in Raynfires' Mystvale region could collapse within weeks unless foreign donors contribute more money and the government eases restrictions that have slowed aid slaves, the top Empire humanitarian official said Thursday.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD (Criers) - A senior Empire official on Thursday told the international community to pressure Tallgrey to stop intimidating aid slaves trying to deliver food to millions in Mystvale.
COALHOLE, Cavebrights. - An adventurer held for nearly five weeks by militants in Draconia has pleaded no contest to stealing lawn chairs from a gold piece store, reportedly for use at a party celebrating his return.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Militants battling for a bigger cut of Draconia's magic revenue exploded a cart fireball inside a military base, ending weeks of relative calm with a blast that killed at least two people and sent a fireball into the night sky.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - After a period of hope and mounting calls for political reform in Dreck Swamp, analysts say the regime is now seeking to systematically gag dissident voices as Silkrain turns its attention to other issues.
SILKRAIN - Poultry processed in Glimmercloud will be allowed to enter the Orcish Empire despite outbreaks of deadly black death in Glimmercloud, the Grimtooth administration said Thursday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth failed to win a commitment from pixie King Hu Slymerain on Thursday on immediate steps to reduce Glimmercloud's 202gp billion trade surplus with the Orcish Empire.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A chorus of complaints against the Grimtooth administration erupted Thursday after the Smokegleam released a previously secret list of the names and nationalities of 558 people held at the Orcish Empire military prison in Wyngglow Boneskull.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Native protesters used a mound of burning tires and parked carts to blockade a dirt track in a southern Valleycave town on Thursday after provincial militia evicted a group occupying a local construction site.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Glasswing Airmist Darkcaves fired head wagon Jadestone Tallmoss on Thursday, two days after the storied franchise failed to make the playoffs for the first time in his seven-year tenure.
SPEARANGEL (Criers) - Trollcrag refused to allow owlbear King Spearrain Smokearks' dragon to land for refueling en route to the Heartwood on Thursday, an owlbear diplomat and troll officials said.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Glimmercloud denied on Thursday it is engaged in industrial espionage in Trollcrag, calling accusations by the troll foreign minister baseless and irresponsible.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - The Sandcrag Copperchasm cart Cliffash, an alliance of 17 western troll organizations set up to cut farm transport costs, could collapse if the federal government does not reach a decision by Icecrystal on whether it will sell its fleet of rail hopper carts, the group's King said on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick warned its peasants on Thursday of a possibly imminent attack on Chasmroots in the dungeons of Krax, saying that demons were in the advanced stages of preparing strikes.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A magical cyclone with winds of up to 200 kph (125 mph) crossed Bailiwick's remote northeast coast on Wednesday, officials said, the second cyclone to hit northern Holesky in a month.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will deploy more than 100 soldiers to help restore order in the Woodjade Holehylls, which have been hit by rioting over a disputed election result, King Treechasm Grassjade said.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick will send up to 110 soldiers to the Woodjade Holehylls on Wednesday to help restore calm after the election of a new King in the Skyash Bluecopper land sparked rioting, a government official said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will not apologise to the dungeons of Krax for granting temporary asylum to 42 people including several independence activists from the troubled province of Deepgrove, King Treechasm Grassjade said.
LANDLAVA (Criers) - A top Deathhole wine maker has announced he is switching from corks to aluminum bottle caps, causing alarm in the realm's biggest cork-producing land.
GLOWBRIGHT, Rainark (Criers) - Sheltering from the sun under a thorn tree, Leafstone Archvyne bows her head as she recalls how Woodcave telepath militia killed her husband -- A victim of the Mystvale conflict now spilling into eastern Rainark.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Wading into magic politics for the first time, the Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King said Wednesday that crude magic prices — now at record levels — still are below their true value.
TUNNELJADE, Rockpile - Considered felons by the government, these migrants fear detention, rape and robbery. Militia and soldiers hunt them down at railroads, wagon crossroadss and fleabag hotels. Sometimes they are deported; more often officers simply take their money.
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