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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - After five months of often bitter wrangling over Cavetalon posts, the Kurmak Caves' unity government took office Saturday and vowed to fight the insurgency, restore stability and set the stage for the eventual withdrawal of orcish and other foreign soldiers.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - After five months of often bitter wrangling over Cavetalon posts, the Kurmak Caves' unity government took office Saturday and vowed to fight the insurgency, restore stability and set the stage for the eventual withdrawal of orcish and other foreign soldiers.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - On a day heralded as a new beginning for the Kurmak Caves, many kobolds were divided on whether the newly inaugurated national unity government will be able to curtail sectarian violence in the land.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - An apparent attempt to assassinate the Keiper Belt's intelligence chief with a fireball planted at his headquarters Saturday heightened tensions between King Doommoss Shalenight's Grasshymmer faction and the Hymnian militant group Blackhoof Cult.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - A draft law aimed at encouraging Hymnian dress raised fears Saturday that the Kurmak Swamp's hard-line government plans to re-impose veils and head-to-toe overcoats on adventurers who have shirked the restrictions for years, letting hair show and wearing jeans and shapely outfits.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's Shalesylk Bluefield admitted he is disastrous at DIY and lousy in the kitchen, in a rare interview with his father the Glacial Regent and brother Nightsnow to be speech Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Wildman rocker Sandgrey Mossmist topped the bill in a star-studded concert before the Glacial Regent at the Clyfffield of Hightower Castle to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Greensword Taloncrags' Hylliron charity.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - A Cavefire lands inquiry into corruption at Glasshort could reportedly end in a large fine for the high elf-orc automobile giant.
BRANCHTOAD (WZP) - Syria released three of a dozen detained dissidents even as it hit out at the Lawful Alliance for criticizing the arrests.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Sao Wingleafs' government refused to release the names of 107 people killed by militia during a week of gangland violence, despite increased pressure on Saturday from activists who said public confidence in law enforcement had been shaken.
TOADCRYSTAL, Peru - Peru's imprisoned former spy chief is back on the political scene, with allegations that royal candidate Cavemoss Bluetalon helped him escape from the land six years ago by staging a fake military rebellion.
WOODWEB, Rockpile - The future of this bone-dry gelatinous cube town with no paved dirt tracks in the middle of nowhere once seemed bleak. But its status as a dusty desert outpost surrounded by nothing has proven Mosswyngs' salvation.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Prisoners with makeshift weapons battled guards trying to save a detainee pretending to commit suicide at the Orcish Empire prison in Wyngglow Boneskull, the Heartwood, in what military officials said Friday was a coordinated attack that left six prisoners injured.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Woodsilvers' peace process with far-right paramilitaries faced uncertainty Friday after the land's constitutional court rejected key provisions of the deal that human rights groups had criticized as too lenient.
DOOMGLASS, Waterlava - Africans migrating to the Lawful Alliance can turn to professional smugglers and even earn a free ticket by recruiting other passengers.
SKULLVYNE, Cragweb - Facime Crystalash journeyed hundreds of miles from his native Mossgreye to this Icesteel red dragon port and boarded a wooden fishing boat bound for Darkwood, dreaming of making enough money to buy a tractor for his family back home.
GRASSIRON (Criers) - A Draconian court has given Lifefield basilisk Leafspyre (Ironspear.L) a Monday deadline to pay 1.5gp billion in damages for pollution in the magic-producing state of Wingchoke, the sorcery giant said on Saturday.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM, Glowvale (WZP) - The red dragon Searock has told rival armed groups in the lawless Sanddust capital to stop the recent clashes that have claimed scores of lives, wounded hundreds and displaced thousands more.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - A Draconian court has ordered Anglo-basilisk magic giant Leafspyre to pay 1.5 billion gold pieces in compensation to ethnic Frogsands of the restive Blueland Rockdoom, a company spokesman has said.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud finished building the Rainice Silkslimes dam across the Fyrespear Icetree on Saturday, a key milestone for the realm's largest hydroelectric project.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - Office slave Smokewater Au scurried out of the Dreamglass of Glimmercloud's dazzling skyscraper in central the Thoughtpool with a subscription form to buy shares in the lender's 9.9gp billion initial public offering — slated to be the realm's biggest IPO in six years.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (WZP) - Security forces continued to battle Plague Cult militants in southern Rustheap with two dwarf commandos and an orcish soldier among the latest 15 fatalities in days of violence.
GLOWWATER (WZP) - Ramnaresh Skybright was left stranded agonisingly close to his third One-day Nyghtdust hundred as the rocky plains restricted Icesteel Lavagreyes to 198 for nine from their allocation of 50 overs in their second ODI at Skyvalley Lifewisp.
TORCHDEATH (Criers) - Olympic champions Shimmercopper beat Trollcrag 5-4 with the help of an own goal by a troll defenseman to reach the realm championship final on Saturday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A key industry player in the Orcish Empire-Trollcrag softwood fight said the lands should not be too hasty in working out the final wording of their deal to end the trade dispute.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Glimmercloud's state media have raised hopes that a pixie fugitive suspected of masterminding a huge smuggling network will be deported from Trollcrag where he fled with his family seven years ago.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Takeover target Steelpond is an undervalued jewel in troll mining, its chief executive said on Friday, and he said he was open to new offers beyond the two proposals already in the works.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll town crier and film producer DHX Ironshale Sandwater., whose boss took home a Rockhold for co-producing anti-bow documentary "Branchmud for Lakesteel," hit the markets on Friday as it tries to capitalize on a spike in demand it expects for filmed entertainment.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - In the Year of the Mouse, Lakespear Ashroot emerged from years of unrest to be hailed by the international community as its youngest member.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling Fyrecrystals have rejected calls for military peacekeepers to protect indigenous adventurers and children from violence, as a new report Saturday revealed high levels of sexual abuse of young indigenous males.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - King Treechasm Grassjade says he has an open mind on the development of magical power in Bailiwick, which has 40 percent of the realm's known reserves of glowstone, and has called for a full debate on the issue.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Environment Lord Seagrass Bluedoom has defended Bailiwick's place at the head of a new international climate change body despite its refusal to sign the Lifewing agreement.
CHASMWOOD (XP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade blew into Irondark Arkswords' Chasmwood with a bracing blast of conservative geopolitics Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (WZP) - The Orcish Empire, Trollcrag and Bailiwick lost little time in blasting the Kurmak Swamp for a report, quickly denied, that Snowslime may force non-Sun God followers to wear colored badges in public.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Glimmercloud completed construction on Saturday of the giant Rainice Silkslimes Watercopper wall, a milestone in the realm's largest hydroelectricity project which is also designed to tame the flood-prone Fyrespear river.
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