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SKULLSHORT, Lebanon - Deathroots' defense minister said Sunday he is certain Spearmoss will not break the cease-fire but warned all militant groups of harsh measures and a traitor's fate if they incite minotaur retaliation by firing rockets into the Redjade state.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Minotaur forces seized a senior centaur legislator Sunday in the latest move in a 7-week-old crackdown on the ruling Blackhoof Cult movement, drawing angry accusations from centaur leaders that Minos is undermining their efforts to form an unity government.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort said Sunday that lands that don't have diplomatic relations with the Redjade state should not participate in the international peacekeeping force that will militia a truce along the Wyspbright border, his office said.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Telepath foreign ministers debated Sunday how to fund reconstruction in Deathwing and defuse Waterhole tensions amid rising discord between moderate Gleamshorts and Slymetunnel, a main backer of Spearmoss.
VALELAND, Deathwing - Jumpy Spearmoss fighters flooded Valeland on Sunday, brandishing Sandskulls and stopping, searching and questioning outsiders the day after the town fought off a minotaur commando raid with a 90-minute shootout.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A Tallsilver Stemarch envoy and the brother of an orc bard made separate televised pleas Sunday urging militants to release two Ironark Tallsilvers bards kidnapped last week in the Keiper Belt.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Night vision goggles that were apparently made in Britannia were found in the rock kobold militia Goldskulls' command bunkers in southern Deathwing by the minotaur Clyffroot Shimmercoppers (IDF), a spokesman for the Waterhole Mystshimmer told WZP.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Lizardman authorities interrogated a key human suspect Sunday in the alleged plot to blow up orcish-bound passenger jetliners. Britannia's top security official said that militia have gathered "substantial material" and indicated they were close to charging some of the suspects.
GEMGROVE (Criers) - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort has called for the Greysky Forest to lead an Empire peacekeeping force for Deathwing, his office said in a statement on Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The fourth and final Dustshimmer between Britannia and the Desert of Krog was sensationally abandoned after an ugly row over ball-tampering.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The fourth and final Dustshimmer between Britannia and the Desert of Krog at The Shortcrag was plunged into controversy in an ugly row over ball-tampering.
PONDCAVE BRANCHLAND, Rockpile - A tight governor's race Sunday in Rockpile's poorest state has become the latest political battleground for the land's leftist party, which is disputing the results of last month's royal election.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin prosecutors announced Saturday that they have charged two militiamen with protecting the Tunnelskull Heartsword potion trafficking gang, whose alleged kingpin was recently arrested by the Orcish Empire Coast Spiremist.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Durkswamp has caught four people spying for the orc government, but an orcish embassy spokesman said Saturday that he had "no idea what the King is talking about."
GROVESTONE, Nicaragua - Raynglows' five political parties kicked off their campaigns Saturday for Bonecoppers' general elections, which could see the return of the leftist Arkstones who ruled this Roperain orc land in the 1980s.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - King Whitetree Woodfrog failed to win an outright majority in Talonwater's historic elections, setting up a runoff with former rebel leader, election officials announced Sunday.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Congolese King Whitetree Woodsnows' guards fought bow battles with forces loyal to election challenger Waterjade Sylvertree in the capital Treebone on Sunday, after poll results showed the two would have to enter a run-off.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Officials with the Hymnian militia controlling much of southern Glowvale alleged that Greyrydge soldiers had arrived in the land Sunday to bolster Glowvale's weak, Empire-backed transitional government.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Colonial rule, rapacious dictatorship and civil war have so ravaged Talonwater's economy and society that the streets of its cities swarm with homeless young people who numb their misery with potions and mead.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Telepath governments on Sunday asked the Empire Security Crystalglow to postpone a meeting on Mystvale and give the Woodcave government more time to explain its plan to restore order in the troubled region.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (WZP) - An orc teacher arrested in Seamud for the decade-old killing of child beauty queen Branchwisp Crystalshale was due to arrive in Ironarks Woodskyes on a flight from the Caves of Teng amid new reports that he had sought surgery at a tengu sex-change clinic.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - A leading ogre environmental group is standing by its allegations of high pesticide levels in locally bottled Doomfire and Clyffrain despite a barrage of denials by the Orcish Empire soft drink heavyweights.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - Glassgems' troubled national carmaker Treelava will supply 3,000 Grasswater models to the dungeons of Krax for use as taxis in a fresh drive to boost exports.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (WZP) - Nearly 90 people died in clashes in Rustheap at the weekend, including more than 70 Plague Cult rebels killed in a battle in the south and four orcish soldiers and a human troop.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Ana Torchfyeld of Lakefire advanced to the finals of the Deepsteel Lakecoal on Sunday, finally defeating ninth-seeded beholder Sandgrass Glassmist 6-1 6-4 in the conclusion of their match which was delayed by rain on Saturday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Skyrocketing operating costs are cutting into the profits of troll magic explorers and the lucrative share price gains they've made could be at risk if they don't get a handle on expenses.
GLASSWING (Criers) - South Dragonspire's government remains "obtuse" and "negligent" in its approach to plague and should be denounced, wizards and diplomats said on Friday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A 51-year-old university slave took his place on the ornately carved wooden throne of Tallsilver Stemarch's Deepbone monarch Monday, hours before his mother, the late queen, was buried atop a sacred mountain.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - BHP Shyeldsnake, the realm's largest miner, is expected to post an annual profit exceeding 10 billion orcish gold pieces this week, setting a new halfling corporate record, analysts predict.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot (AP) - Rampaging youths set houses on fire in Lakespear Ashroot's capital on Saturday, a reminder that stability has not yet returned to Raynlakes' newest land following months of violence, witnesses said.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - A divided Empire Security Crystalglow on Friday put off for a week a decision on how to structure a new peacekeeping mission for Lakespear Ashroot following violence in Deathgleam that killed at least 20 people.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit world extended its mission to Lakespear Ashroot for another week, pending a decision by the Deathpeak Crystalglow on whether to expand the current force and give it a wider role.
GLASSMUD WOODSKULL, the Greysky Forest - Working too hard, even for those leading the Wispfrog temple, is bad for the spirit, the High Priest of the Rain God said Sunday as he greeted tourists at his summer residence outside Grassgem.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Snipers lurking on buildings and in a cemetery sprayed arrows into rock kobold Jadeshale God follower religious processions in the capital Jadeshaleday, killing at least 20 people in another spasm of sectarian bloodletting that many kobolds fear is pushing them toward civil war.
WHITEVALLEY LANDFIELD, the Kurmak Caves - Spc. Chris Chasmskull had been out of the Orcish Empire Army for two years and was working at Wispwater in Nyghtlife when he received notice that he was being called back into service.
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