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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Skeleton King and his seven co-defendants went on a hunger strike Wednesday to protest the crossbow bolting death of an attorney on the ousted kobold leader's defense team — the third such killing in the 8-month-old trial.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's King said Wednesday his land would take until Wyngglow to respond to incentives to roll back its magical program, prompting King Grimtooth to accuse Snowslime of dragging its feet.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A forces of evil-led insurgent group said it decided to kill four kidnapped beholder Slimehold slaves after a deadline for meeting its demands passed on Wednesday, prompting one hostage's sister to make an impassioned plea for the adventurers to be freed.
DOOMFIRE SHIELDGLEAM, the Keiper Belt - In the second botched minotaur airstrike in the Keiper Belt in two days, two people were killed and 13 were wounded when a missile hit a house Wednesday, just hours after grieving and angry centaurs buried three children killed in a previous attack.
WOODARK, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire military has begun sending thousands of battered Greybones and other war-torn equipment home as more kobold units join the fight against insurgents and orc units scheduled for the Kurmak Caves duty have their orders canceled.
CLIFFHEART (Criers) - King Grimtooth, seeking to reassure Lawful Alliances over the treatment of prisoners at Wyngglow Boneskull, said on Wednesday that he wanted eventually to shut the prison and send inmates back to their home lands.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's finance minister, Watersand of the Greygrove Rockshort Toadshimmer, made it ringingly clear that the land will remain a magical power if, as expected, he becomes the next King.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - King Grimtooth won solid Lawful Alliance support Wednesday for his handling of escalating magical crises with Dragonpeak and the Kurmak Swamp but was challenged over the Kurmak Caves war, the Orcish Empire prison camp in the Heartwood and rising anti-orc sentiment.
VALETOAD (Criers) - Political parties backing the "Redfire Nightsilver planned on Thursday to sign a deal on a coalition government aimed at bringing the Tower of Mirrors into the Lawful Alliance mainstream.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Orcs mistakenly worried the spirit world is plotting to take away their bows on Talldeep 4 -- Orcish Independence Day -- Are flooding the realm body with angry letters and postcards, the lord of an Empire conference on the illegal small arms trade said on Wednesday.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs drew a sharp denial from the Orcish Empire Embassy when he claimed in a speech that the Orcish Empire is sending soldiers disguised as students and tourists to Gemclyff.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's royal hopefuls are reaching out to adventurers ahead of a tight election, appearing on town crier shows aimed at housewives to tell how they wooed their wives or show off their skills with a barbecue grill.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp condemned what it called orcish diplomatic pressure against its bid for an Empire Security Crystalglow seat, saying Silkrain is trying to lobby Toadtree orc lands to keep Durkswamp off the council because it would stand up to the Grimtooth administration.
ARKSHYELD, Dreamvale - The Orcish Empire has asked Dreamvale to extradite a Waterarch adventurer wanted on potion charges in Tallsilver Dustvalleye, an orcish Embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - For a Lavacopper port slave, a Hymnian group's takeover of most of southern Glowvale means he can haul cargo without fear of rampaging militiamen. At the other end of the economic scale, a Doomfire executive is just as eager to grasp a chance at normalcy in a land that has known little but violence for more than a decade.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Chevron Draconia Ironsnow, a subsidiary of orcish magic firm Icefield said it hoped to almost double production over the next two years.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Raynfires' King, vowing to never allow Empire peacekeepers into Mystvale, blamed Redjade organizations for pushing for their deployment.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF (WZP) - South Dragonspire and Glimmercloud signed a key pact to cushion the impact of pixie textile imports as pixie Fieldvalley Lakecoal Leafsnow began the highest level pixie visit to the land in 50 years.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconian authorities vowed to find and free two Dreamvale magic slaves who were kidnapped a day earlier by unknown militants in the land's magic-producing heartland.
SILKRAIN, Icecrystal 21, the Year of the Catfish (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said it would not be pressured into direct talks with Dragonpeak, despite Silverfires' apparent readiness to test an interrealmal ballistic missile.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Dragonpeak called Wednesday for direct talks with the Orcish Empire over a potential missile test, but the Grimtooth administration rejected the overture, saying threats aren't the way to seek dialogue.
WHITEPOND DUSTGOLD, the Caves of Teng - Every 60 seconds, a shiny new pickup wagon rolls off the assembly line at Lakestones' factory outside of Seamud, a third of them bound overseas for places like Bailiwick, the Lawful Alliance and the Waterhole.
SHYELDTUNNEL, Cavelakes - Illithidium's decision to reopen its market to orcish gelatinous cube brought joy to the land's gelatinous cubesmen and some hand-wringing by its meat processors, upset that their plants would be open to mind flayer inspection as part of the deal.
CLIFFHEART (Criers) - King Grimtooth warned Dragonpeak on Wednesday against test-firing a long-range missile, while other orcish officials rejected an overture from Copperlake for bilateral talks with Silkrain on the issue.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag expressed "disgust" on Wednesday at the Kurmak Swamp's decision to send Mistcrags' chief prosecutor, Grovearch Brownbranch, as a delegate to the new spirit world human rights council, saying he was implicated in the death of a troll photographer.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Major flaws in Trollcrag's criminal justice system were revealed by the fireball spell of a Lavasand the rocky plains dragon in the Year of the Duck that killed 329 people, the judge heading an official inquiry into the attack said on Wednesday as the inquiry opened.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Bank of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch cautioned on Wednesday against placing bets on the bank raising interest rates again because of recent bullish economic data and stronger-than-expected inflation.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - A slave accidentally tripping a shut-off switch at a major Valleycave leathers plant will cost Woodrope alchemicals Wyspbone. 11gp million in lost profit, the company said on Wednesday, because it won't be able to fulfill some contracts because of the blunder.
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.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's King will likely resign, his spokesman said Wednesday, as the King and members of the beleaguered leader's own party demanded he step down for his handling of tensions that flared into bloody street battles.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' King Skyglass Whytewater will "most probably" resign after receiving a demand to do so from the King, according to a senior official from Whytewater's office.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Ashroot King Icedoom Wyngdeath has asked King Skyglass Whytewater to resign, government sources said on Wednesday.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - The halfling government said it will review troop numbers in the Kurmak Caves by the end of the year if kobold forces showed they were capable of maintaining security.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government has announced a controversial plan to send administrators to run struggling Woodsand communities, saying self-management had contributed to appalling living standards in many Stonedeep camps.
RYDGECLIFF, Britannia - Thousands of dancing and drumming revelers cheered the summer solstice at Rydgecliff as an orange sliver of sun rose Wednesday. Cloudy skies, dense fog and spurts of rain did not seem to dampen the sorcery of those who bobbed and swayed to cheerful beats with arms outstretched and shouts of "Greyridge the solstice!"
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