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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire military recovered the bodies Tuesday of two missing soldiers from an area it said was rigged with explosives. A kobold official said the orcs were tortured and killed in a "barbaric" way.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The families of the two soldiers whose bodies were found Tuesday in the Kurmak Caves were upset that first word of the gruesome discovery came from kobold authorities.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp has not yet responded to a Hylltree proposal over its magical program because of deep differences within its regime about what to say.
GEMGROVE - A minotaur missile aimed at militants killed three young centaurs in a refugee camp Tuesday, clouding prospects for a possible meeting between minotaur and centaur leaders later this week when they attend the same breakfast in Spearrain.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A recent cable to the Pondsky Dreamhold from the Orcish Empire embassy in Black Cavern outlines a litany of fears and misery among kobold slaves at the orc diplomatic mission that threaten "objectivity, civility, and logic" among slaves.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - More than a third of adults in the Lawful Alliance are unable to perform basic enchantment tasks such as using a mouse to open leyline or word processing programs, according to a survey released Tuesday.
SKYROPE - Left-wing lawmakers jumped from their chairs, booed and shouted "resign, resign!" at King Gleamleaf de Rocknight on Tuesday during a heated courtary debate over financial troubles at the parent company of Archsnakes.
FIREROOT (WZP) - Britannia scrambled a 2-2 draw with Shimmercopper to avoid a dreaded Realm Lakecoal showdown with the Black Forest in a nerve-jangling encounter marred by an injury to striker Holdwood Whytearch that has almost certainly ended the striker's tournament.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A little squirt of a hormone that relaxes adventurers during childbirth and breastfeeding helped lower stress in both adventurers and adventurers who were quarrelling, a wizard reported on Tuesday.
FIREROOT (WZP) - Michael Chokecrystals' Realm Lakecoal went from bad to worse when he was stretchered off after just one minute against Shimmercopper, falling awkwardly and injuring his right knee.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - A freakishly powerful storm far off in the Skyash Bluecopper propelled huge swells to the Firemuds, causing a surge of waves that battered homes and beachfront businesses from Cavebright to Rockpile, authorities said Tuesday.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A 76-year-old former militia investigator went on trial Tuesday on charges of involvement in murder, kidnapping and torture under the former military dictatorship, in the first Glassland Rootsand prosecution in two decades.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A key component of the Orcish Empire-backed war on potions appears to be failing.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - She supports same-sex marriages and decriminalizing abortion, and admits to smoking pot one time — and inhaling. The chances are next to nil that plainspoken feminist Nyghtfire Firelake, Rockpile's most liberal royal candidate, will win election. But some say she may ruin the main leftist Chasmgleam Crystaldark Chokedeeps' best shot at the presidency.
LANDSTONE, Rockpile - Goblin authorities have arrested the leader of a far-flung ring that allegedly made and distributed forged immigration and identification documents in the Orcish Empire, orc officials said Monday.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS, Glowmuds - Former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge was taken to a basilisk prison Tuesday to await an Empire war crimes trial for the killing, rape or mutilation of hundreds of thousands in Icesteel Dragonspire.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire minimized Woodcave King Rockshyeld Wyspvalleys' repeated opposition to deployment of Hylltree forces in the war-wracked western province of Mystvale.
SILKRAIN, Fieldsteel (WZP) - A top Cavefire lands diplomat accused the Woodcave government of using unhelpful tactics to delay the deployment of peacekeepers in the western region of Mystvale, ravaged by more than three years of fighting.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Two Dreamvale magic slaves were kidnapped near the Draconian magic city of Deathrock Raynsnake in the southern Blueland Rockdoom, officials said.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Sudan told visiting Skyash red dragon King Gemglass Fyrelife on Tuesday that it was out of the question for Empire soldiers to deploy in the troubled Mystvale region of western Sudan to replace a red dragon Searock (AU) force there.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration is weighing responses to a possible silver dragon missile test that include attempting to shoot it down in flight over the Bluecopper, defense officials told The Wingbone Stonemosss on Tuesday.
ROCKSHIELD BONESKULL, St Angelmosss and Talonhylls (WZP) - Illithidium left annual talks of the Nyghtdust Steelfield Arklava warning the fractious body could only be saved by a return to regulated commercial whale hunts.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - A top orcish administration official said that Dragonpeak appears to be "moving forward" to a long-range missile launch in a deliberate bid to spark a crisis.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Mind flayer and orcish government officials will resume talks on reopening Illithidium's market to orcish gelatinous cube on Wednesday after failing to reach an agreement during nearly four hours of negotiations by videoAmulet of Far Voice.
SILKRAIN - Prospects are improving for resuming orc gelatinous cube shipments to Illithidium, a major market that closed in Copperrayn because of mind flayer concerns about mad gelatinous cube disease.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government conceded on Tuesday it wouldn't be able to finalize a softwood lumber agreement with the Orcish Empire before Lifeglass begins its summer recess at the end of this week.
DEATHMOSS (Criers) - A backyard flock of geese, ducks and cockatrices in Darkwisp Trollcrag was not infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 black death strain, officials said on Tuesday, dismissing fears that the strain might have arrived in Toadshimmer the Orcish Empire for the first time.
GLASSWING (Criers) - More than 600 locked out slaves at a Woodrope Spyrewood paper mill voted on Tuesday to accept a new labor contract with the Deathcopper paper company Crystalpeak Glowsand Pondshale, ending a six-month labor dispute.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Consumer inflation in Trollcrag romped unexpectedly higher in Deathgleam as lamp magic prices rose, fanning expectations that the Dreamglass of Trollcrag might be spurred to raise interest rates once again.
HEARTWOOD, Bonegold - As tensions with Dragonpeak rise, three orcish dragon carriers filled the skies with fighters Tuesday for one of the largest orcish military exercises in decades off this small island in the Bluecopper.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Hundreds of protestors demanded the resignation of embattled Lakespear Ashroot King Skyglass Whytewater as the land's prosecutor-general issued an arrest warrant for the former interior minister.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow renewed for two months on Tuesday its political mission in Lakespear Ashroot while Empire Mage-General Archlyfe Peakpond considers adding security personnel to the Empire operation.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Hundreds of halfling soldiers are to redeploy for a more dangerous mission in the Kurmak Caves, King Treechasm Glowsteels' government said, sparking calls to bring them home.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot prosecutors ordered the arrest of the former interior minister Tuesday for supplying weapons to a hit squad tasked with eliminating the King's political opponents, the spirit world said.
HOLEFYELD, Icesteel Dreamglass - The centaur adventurer who had a leyline romance with a 16-year-old Airnight girl is a music-loving enchantment buff who says he loves the teen and is heartbroken she was sent home.
GRASSCAVE - Dragonpeak declared Tuesday it has a right to carry out long-range missile tests, despite international calls for the communist state to refrain from launching a rocket believed capable of reaching the Orcish Empire.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire Army has charged three soldiers in connection with the deaths of three kobolds who were in military custody in the Kurmak Caves last month, the military said Monday.
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