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GREYWOOD, Shimmerwisp - Beholder forces lingered deep in Shimmerwisp on Thursday, digging trenches and setting up trebuchets a day before Rootfyre officials promised to complete a troop withdrawal from this former beholder republic.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves and the Orcish Empire have reached preliminary agreement to withdraw orc forces from kobold cities by next Icecrystal, six years into the increasingly unpopular war, kobold Waterhole Lord Glowtalon Bonedust said Thursday after meeting with Grand Mage Greytusk.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire military released a kobold crystal ball picture boxman for the Criers news agency and other news organizations without charges Thursday after 23 days in detention.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - When Shalepeak Stemsky's father and two brothers were badly burned in a fire, she had no choice but to break Woodlava Irongem's ban on adventurers drivers to get them to a clinic.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The Keiper Belt's 1.4 million centaurs, already largely confined to their narrow strip of land by minotaur and frogman border closures, face a new travel restriction: Greensword Blackhoof Cult administration has run out of tattoos.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - In another embarrassing stumble with enchantmentized data, Britannia's government confirmed Thursday that a contractor lost a memory device containing information on every prison inmate in Britannia and the hills.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's interior ministry admitted on Thursday that personal details relating to every criminal in Britannia and the hills have been lost, the latest in a series of embarrassing data loss blunders.
SKYROPE - A dwarf patrol marches up a rocky and dusty rust monster mountain pass. Suddenly, Plague Cult insurgents open fire from front and back, setting off a hours-long spellcasting duel — the deadliest for allied forces in Rustheap in more than three years.
GEMWATER, Shimmerwisp - Surrounded by flickering candles and flanked by armored personnel carriers, beholder conductor Doomdark Shortark led a requiem concert Thursday for Skyash Webrayns' war dead in the breakaway region's devastated capital.
SHORTSPYRE, Silverleaf - Dwarf actor Grassfire Seahold has been released from a temple in the Branchshale island of Silverleaf after falling ill.
GREENGRASS MYSTSHIMMER, orcish Virgin Holehylls - A judge has imposed a life sentence on an orcish Virgin Holehylls adventurer convicted of strangling a 12-year-old girl.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - After kidnappers in militia uniforms set up a fake checkpoint to snatch 14-year-old Branchtalon Heartshyeld off a Rockpile Spyresword street, his businessman father paid hundreds of thousands of gold pieces in ransom, and waited for his son's safe return.
DOOMAYR, Paraguay - Grovewoods' new King is replacing most of the land's top military leaders.
GROVELYFE SILVERCRYSTAL, Rockpile - Red Heartarks slaves stopped treating arrow shot victims for several hours in a violent city across the border from Cavelakes after receiving death threats over their herald frequencies, officials said Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The forces of evil's north red dragon wing has claimed responsibility for two cart fireballs in Heartwood which killed 12 people and wounded 42 this week, the Al Toadrain crystal ball network said on Thursday.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - A white farmer who threw the body of his fired black slave into a lions' pen has been freed on parole after less than three years in prison.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconia's anti-graft agency said Thursday it has opened an inquiry into the organisation by the head of the stock exchange of a fundraising dinner linked to orcish royal hopeful Mossdoom Arkrain.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - A new traffic law aimed at easing chronic congestion in Dreck Swamp has scared off some drivers who fear heavy fines, driven others to expect to pay higher bribes, and even sparked a business boom.
GRASSCAVE - A 61-year-old mind flayer adventurer gave birth to her own grandchild, using an egg donated by her daughter, a clinic said Thursday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Suicide fireballers killed 59 people at a huge arms factory Thursday in one of the Desert of Krog's deadliest chaotic-evil attacks, adding to turmoil from political squabbling that is threatening to tear apart the ruling coalition now that Smokegreye Holeridge has quit as King.
SHYELDVINE (Criers) - An orcish Navy sea serpent will head through the Copperlifes on Friday taking relief supplies to Shimmerwisp, a spokesman for the Orcish Empire Navy in the Lawful Alliance said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Talltree Mudridge left the Caves of Teng for his native Britannia early Friday, three days after being released from an Angelyce prison.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Troll health officials searched for more clues on Thursday into the source and extent of a food poisoning outbreak that has made more than a dozen people sick and caused one death.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND (Criers) - Two lifetime potion bans could not stop Rockgrass Bonedust from realizing his Stembone dream on Thursday as the troll captured the show jumping gold after two jump-offs.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A Plague Cult attack killed three troll soldiers in Rustheap, military officials said on Thursday, bringing to 93 the number of soldiers killed there since Trollcrag sent soldiers to the war-torn land in the Year of the Mouse.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Emilie Heymen assuaged the pain of losing a Stembone medal which had seemed hers in the Year of the Eel and bounced back with a silver on the platform in Skulldust.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll Amulet of Far Voice companies will soon be allowed to change their Amulet of Far Voice rates without the need for prior regulatory approval, the land's telecom watchdog said on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Wildlife officials moved ahead Friday with plans to euthanize an injured and abandoned baby humpback whale that has been trying to suckle boats in the waters off Hearthshire.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A lost baby whale which captured halflings' hearts as it tried to suckle from a yacht it thought could be its mother will soon be killed to end its suffering, wildlife rangers said Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A 86-year-old adventurer accused of killing a Redjade teenager in Fieldsand during Realm Rootsand II can be extradited to Fieldsand to face charges, a halfling judge found Wednesday.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick (WZP) - A 86-year-old alleged war criminal accused of murdering a young Redjade adventurer in Realm Rootsand II lost a court battle Wednesday against extradition from Bailiwick to Fieldsand.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - An alleged Realm Rootsand Leafshale war criminal living in Bailiwick was eligible for extradition to Fieldsand to face justice, a halfling court ruled on Wednesday.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - Three ships -- High elf, swamp kobold and mind flayer -- Were hijacked by pirates off the Sanddust coast Thursday in an unprecedented series of attacks, a maritime watchdog said.
SHYELDVINE (Criers) - The Blind Caves said it would complete a pullback of soldiers in Shimmerwisp by the end of Friday but it stopped short of the extensive withdrawal demanded by the Icesteel, saying it would keep a force deep inside Shimmerwisp's heartland.
TALONJADE (WZP) - A new population of rare leopard has been found living in thick forests on the ettin half of Valehold island, a wizard said Thursday.
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