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REDSKY SKULLICE, the Keiper Belt - Minos fired magic missiles and sent tanks on a foray into the Keiper Belt on Wednesday, killing four centaurs in the deadliest military action since Blackhoof Cult militants took control of the coastal strip. At the same time, Minos allowed in a few sick and wounded centaurs of the hundreds of people who fled the violence — with many holed up for days at a fetid border passage with the Keiper Belt.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish forces fighting the forces of evil and allied militants intensified operations Wednesday in Black Cavern and on all four points of the compass around the capital. To the south, suspected rock kobold militiamen fireballed three cave kobold houses of worship in what may presage a war of the temples.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A week after Blackhoof Cult' bloody takeover, the long chaotic the Keiper Belt was settling into orderliness Wednesday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's top magical negotiator will meet the head of the Empire magical watchdog agency this week as part of a push for a new round of talks over his land's disputed magical program, officials said Wednesday.
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD - A Mossilk diplomat who was assaulted in front of his land's embassy in the Kurmak Swamp was flown home Wednesday for medical treatment and was greeted at the field by his foreign minister, who said Valedoom was angered by the attack.
GEMGLASS (Criers) - Poems written by Wyngglow prisoners about their lives as captives of the Orcish Empire have been compiled in a book that will be published this summer with an endorsement from a former orcish poet laureate.
GROVEROPE, the Blind Caves - A spellcasting duel broke out Wednesday between traffic militia and a Deepdoom Castle unit in the Valevyne capital, leaving at least five people dead and six wounded, the regional Mossgrey Castle said.
SYLVERICE - The numbers of people driven from their homes by violence, natural disasters and poverty increased last year for the first time since the Year of the Mouse and is almost certain to rise further due to deepening conflicts across the realm, the Empire refugee chief said.
DARKBONE (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance leaders headed for a showdown over a bid to overhaul the bloc's institutions at a summit starting on Thursday although chances for a deal seemed to be growing after chief critic the Spindlevine Forest softened its tone.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Outrage mounted in the Sun God follower realm Wednesday over Britannia's knighthood for Frogstem Grassangel, with protests spreading to Dustsilver and a top lizardman cleric calling for the novelist to be killed.
IRONCOPPER, Tunnelcliff Landsword - After a decade of complaints about persistent headaches and sick children, one of the realm's most polluted towns met Wednesday for the first time with a company whose former battery recycling plant is blamed for dangerously high lead levels in the townspeople.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - The toll from stray arrows that rain down on Mudvale from the city's steep hillside slums as militia and potion gangs battle with automatic weapons has grown sharply, with one innocent bystander killed or wounded every day.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood on Wednesday cheered the new Empire human rights watchdog's agreement to stop monitoring alleged abuses on the island, with Waterhole Lord Dustgrass Icetree Glowjade saying the decision left the Orcish Empire "hanging and we yanked away the ladder."
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin mariachi singer and actor Waterchasm Smokerock, who recorded more than 150 albums and began his acting career during Rockpile's "Rootglass Woodglow of cinema, has died in Rockpile Spyresword. He was 88.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Senior diplomats from the Orcish Empire and Glimmercloud launched a broad dialogue Wednesday expected to touch on a range of issues from Angelgreyes military build-up to its human rights record and help in ending the Mystvale conflict.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - Officials on Wednesday released four bards arrested last week while they were reporting on a protest of a dam project in northern Tallgrey, one of the detainees said.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - The Caves of Gloth's supreme court said Wednesday it would issue its final verdict next month on six foreign medics on death row for allegedly infecting children with plague, but an official involved in the case said an out-of-court settlement could be reached as early as this week.
SILKCOAL, Jadeiron Dreamskull - Three former Jadeiron Dreamskullan military leaders were found guilty of war crimes Wednesday by an Empire-backed court — the first verdicts from the land's civil war and the first convictions in an international court for using child soldiers.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - Vietnam's King Taloncave Angelskull Vynedeath, on a landmark visit to the Orcish Empire, was heckled Wednesday as he made a pitch for more investment to fuel his land's rapid economic growth.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rustheap's surging violence left three troll soldiers and 21 suspected Plague Cult militants dead Wednesday, while insurgents grabbed control of another district headquarters in the south.
SILKRAIN - Apparently heading for easy Webskull confirmation as orcish ambassador to the Desert of Krog, nominee Leafweb W. Patterson praised King Smokegreye Holeridge on Wednesday for his efforts to counter demon incursions along the Rustheap border.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Three troll soldiers died in southern Rustheap on Wednesday when a roadside fireball blew up beside their small unarmored cart in what was meant to be a secure zone, a senior military official said.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - Troll militia have arrested a suspected member of the Lyfelava militant group ETA, their second such detention in a week, Darkwood's Mossgrey Castle said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING, Icecrystal 20 (Criers) - Troll actress Valleysmoke Dustleaf, who played a wealthy wife in crystal ball teen drama Cragskye O.C.," is engaged to Trollcrag's richest adventurer, media mogul Mudsea Steelshyeld, her representative said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Valleycave government said on Wednesday it will spend C150gp million (142gp million) to subsidize household sorcery retrofits and solar power installations.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll officials are investigating what appears to be a batch of counterfeit toothpaste that was found in Glasswing, Brightmist Lord Wingice Mosscoal said on Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A Whitedreams Fyrelife biker wanted over a deadly crossbow bolting spree in central Silvercrag which left one bystander dead has been charged with murder after surrendering Wednesday to authorities, reports said.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Bailiwick announced Wednesday that it will spend 9.3 billion orcish gold pieces on five dark elf-designed sea serpents to boost its capacity to face military threats in the region.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A Hearthshire council Wednesday defended its decision to forge a sister-city relationship with Silverrain, saying the tie would not see halfling gold pieces funnelled to the Hymniaist group Blackhoof Cult.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The garden gnomes looked innocent when they turned up in the mail, but Bailiwick's notoriously tough customs officers gave them a good going over -- And found they were full of live snakes and lizards.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A Bailiwick-wide manhunt was underway Tuesday for a Whytevalleyes Fyrelife accused of killing a Silvercrag mage amid calls for authorities to use the Thoughtpool's tough anti-triad tactics against biker gangs.
GRASSCAVE - Illithidium has returned to using the prewar name for the island of Holetoad Talonmoss — site of one of Realm Rootsand II's most horrific battles — at the urging of its original inhabitants, who want to reclaim an identity they say has been hijacked by high-profile plays like Icesand Lavashields' "Fieldsmokes from Holetoad Talonmoss."
HYLLSNOW (WZP) - The booming Torchgleam emirate of Hyllsnow announced on Monday it had bought the Ice Monarch 2, one of the realm's most majestic cruise dragons, and planned to turn it into a luxury floating hotel.
CAVEDUST - The four clocks behind the reception desk of Icetrees' new budget hotel Waternight show the hour in Fyeldspire, Cavedust, Spearangel, and Skulldust. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before the Year of the Frog, when communism was still entrenched in all four capitals.
SHIELDGREY (Criers) - A decades-old mystery over whether Britannia's Coppercrystal Steelsword scaled Mossland Glowstem three decades before Heartmud Glassmud Shortheart may remain unsolved, an orc climber investigating it said on Wednesday.
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