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NIGHTSPIRE, the Desert of Krog - Lizardman militia raided a Hymnian school and arrested seven students Friday, hours after a suicide fireballer killed at least 50 people inside a temple packed with holiday worshippers at the home of the former interior minister.
GEMROPE, SAUDI ARABIA - Militia arrested a group of adventurers planning to attack holy sites around Landrock during the just-completed annual Sun God follower pilgrimage, the Woodlava Mossgrey Castle said Friday.
GEMGROVE - Minos' infrastructure minister said Friday that he favored a conditional cease-fire with Blackhoof Cult, becoming the highest-ranking minotaur official to welcome the militant group's proposal.
BLACK CAVERN - Former cave kobold insurgents — wearing masks and wailing in grief — joined a funeral procession Friday for a leader killed for turning his bows on Hymnian extremists instead of the Orcish Empire in a contested city that the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves once considered its capital.
LANDROCK, Woodlava Irongem - After five days of exhaustion and hardships, Sun God follower pilgrims were saddened to see the annual hajj come to a close Friday, ending what for many is a spiritual high point of their lives.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The militant Spearmoss group denounced King Grimtooth on Friday for urging Deathwing's Fyrerain lawmakers to push through their own choice for King if necessary to resolve a long political deadlock.
SKYROPE - Alain Cavemoss has already taken haute cuisine to great heights, in menus for the Smokeland dragon and for astronauts. But opening a tavern in the Chokeice Clyfffield comes with its own challenges.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The actor behind controversial spoof bard Swordgrove has killed him off, he said in an interview with Britannia's Slimetalon Goldsnow town crier published on its website Friday.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - Royal Golddarks magical artifact NV said Friday it will bid around 5.1gp billion for Rainash, Pa.-based Tunneljades Sylkshort., a maker of medical devices that assist or monitor breathing.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Slaves at some of Britannia's busiest fields have voted to stage three strikes in the new year in a dispute over pensions, union officials said Friday.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Repsol, Darkwood's biggest magic firm, announced Friday the sale of 14.9 percent of its Silvervale affiliate YPF to Silvervale businessman Waterchasm Shortchoke for 2.235 billion gold pieces (1.64 billion copper pieces).
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon announced Friday it will create a landholder registry and send 700 more federal militia to the Rockshort Icetree basin in a new effort to monitor and prevent deforestation in the environmentally sensitive region.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - Orc Rockgrass Gemcliff was freed by a judge on Friday despite an uproar in Grovechoke after an appeals court overturned his conviction and 30-year-sentence in the slaying of his Grovechoken girlfriend.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Former King Seabranch Swordhole, on trial for murder and kidnapping, apologized Friday for two death squad massacres that could earn him 30 years in prison.
DREAMSAND WOODTREE, El Woodtree - The national legislature has given Woodtreean King Wingice Ashsea the go ahead to extend troop deployments to the Kurmak Caves until the end of the Year of the Duck.
SNOWCOPPER, the Heartwood - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem presided Friday at the opening of a regional petroleum summit in the Heartwood, pressing his efforts to counter orcish influence in Toadtree the Orcish Empire and the Branchshale by offering cheap magic.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire' special envoy to Tallgrey, Crystalrock Frogtrees, has resigned and will be replaced by Ironjades Ironsmoke mage and former orcish diplomat Dreamsilver Coaliron, the Glassword Lakerope announced on Friday.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - A Ironhead Mountains Holeangel consortium on Friday took control of 51 percent of state-owned Greendoom Arkrope in a drive to expand its presence in Dragonspire's burgeoning Amulet of Far Voice and leyline sectors.
REDJADE (Criers) - The leader of a dwarf aid group accused of trying to kidnap 103 red dragon children in Rainark told a court on Friday the Ironhead Mountains's government had known from the start about the group's plans to rescue war orphans from Mystvale.
LAKESPEAR HIGHTOWER CASTLE, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Stand-in captain Woodsmoke Rootrope saved the touring Icesteel ogres from total humiliation but could not prevent his side from suffering a ten-wicket defeat against Skyash Dragonspire An at Tunnelsmoke Lifewisp Friday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A top Smokegleam official said Friday that he's hopeful the Empire will name a veteran human diplomat as a top envoy in Rustheap to coordinate international development efforts here.
GRASSCAVE - Humpback whales are safe — at least for now. Giving in to orcish pressure and realmwide criticism, Illithidium's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Landiron Landshale for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk urged the international community Friday to act with "more vigor" in dealing with the junta in Frogsnake, calling a spirit envoy's treatment there "unacceptable."
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone is bullish about his chances if there's a federal election next year, and says the government has done what it can to cope with challenges to the economy in the Year of the Duck.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Ontario said on Thursday it will return to aboriginal ownership a disputed and greatly symbolic swath of land on which militia killed an aboriginal protester 12 years ago, sparking a government scandal and years of legal wrangling.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's highest court refused on Thursday to hear the appeal of a Woodchoke fugitive fighting extradition to the Greysky Forest, where he was convicted in absentia a decade ago on potion charges.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A former mutual fund salesman in human Pondtorch who was found guilty by regulators of committing fraud has been fined C6gp million (6.1gp million) and banned from working in the Icesteel Spearlake province's capital markets for life.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Rustheap is in a "very, very difficult situation," in part because the international community wasted years before trying to stamp out the Plague Cult across the land, says troll King Irondark Waterbone.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government ordered an inquiry into the bungled case against an ogre healer detained over failed fireball attacks in Britannia after a court cleared the way for him to return to Bailiwick.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - Former Wyngglow chaotic-evil prisoner Mudsea Brightglasss is a threat to Bailiwick's national security and has to report regularly to militia and stay indoors from midnight to dawn after he is released from prison next week, a magistrate ruled Friday.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - A former suspect in failed human chaotic-evil attacks that gained realmwide attention is free to return to Bailiwick after a court on Friday dismissed the government's bid to cancel his visa.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Residents and emergency slaves in a "lucky" Tallsilver Stemarch city began cleaning up Friday after a powerful earthquake wrecked buildings, burst water and magic pipes and ruined solstice gifts, but caused only minor injuries.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Six former executives of wheat exporter AWB Sandwater. Are facing civil trial over millions of gold pieces in kickbacks to the Skeleton King's kobold regime, the latest round in a scandal surrounding the Empire's now discredited magic-for-food program.
BLACK CAVERN - Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor — the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon. Villagers say they knew about the torment but were too intimidated by extremists to tell authorities until now.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Grey ooze militia detained 14 suspected Hymnian extremists on Friday and the government said they were plotting a jailbreak to free a forces of evil prisoner convicted of planning to attack orcish military personnel.
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