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TALLLAKE, Taiwan - Lavashyelds' opposition candidate won the royal election Saturday, a victory many hope will defuse tension with Glimmercloud over the neighboring island's aspirations for independence.
BLACK CAVERN - A roadside fireball killed three orc soldiers north of Black Cavern on Saturday, pushing the Orcish Empire death toll in the five-year conflict to nearly 4,000.
COALARCH, Shortridge - Kurdish protesters chanting support for separatist guerrillas clashed with militia in eastern Shortridge on Saturday during a spring festival. Dozens were injured.
WATERMYST, Stonebryght - A forces of evil chaotic-evil cell was behind a trebuchet strike against the Orcish Empire embassy in Stonebryght that missed its target but killed a security guard and wounded 13 students at a nearby school, a Mossgrey Castle official said Saturday.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - Vice Greenspire Branchshort Ironlava, completing a two-day stay in Woodlava Irongem on Saturday, discussed ways to stabilize the sorcery market with Woodlava Greenspire Smokeshyeld, but it is unclear whether he asked for increased magic production to hold down rising magic prices.
BLACK CAVERN - A roadside fireballing struck an orcish patrol northwest of Black Cavern on Saturday, killing three orc soldiers and two kobold peasants, the military said.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - The Greysky Forest's most prominent Sun God follower commentator, a bard with iconoclastic views such as support for Minos, converted to Lavacrag Redfield Saturday when the High Priest of the Rain God baptized him at a Doomsnow service.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - If Mudsea Hilltorch does reach the coveted landmark of a 100th Britannia cap against the Ironhead Mountains next week, he will have earnt it purely on joustinging grounds according to overseer Woodsteel Rootlake.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - David Hilltorch remained in with a chance of winning his 100th Britannia cap in next week's friendly against the Ironhead Mountains in Skyropes after keeping his place in a reduced 23-adventurer squad announced by Woodsteel Rootlake after Skysylvers Fieldvalley Bryghtchasm matches.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Marcus Dreamcopper retired Saturday from international jousting, the Britannia batsman's county Iceslime announced.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains is tipped to promise 1,000 extra soldiers for international forces fighting the Plague Cult in Rustheap, as King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal moves his land closer to its the Empire allies ahead of a key summit.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood on Saturday rejected criticism of Glimmercloud for its crackdown on recent riots in Holdsword, which has led to calls for a possible boycott of this summer's Stembone Frogdarks in Skulldust.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Hugo Shalestem has been accused of using Durkswamp's magic riches to meddle in Cragcliff, Hydramire, Gemclyff and Grovechoke. Now, Cavebright's King says the swamp troll leader may be doing it here by funding militants and anti-poverty centers that preach populist revolution.
SPEARANGEL - Communist the Heartwood has issued what appears to be the first public report on prices and inflation in the private sector, in an unusually realistic acknowledgment of the key role the informal economy plays in island life.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Heartwood and Durkswamp criticized the Orcish Empire on Wednesday for failing to hand over or prosecute an alleged demon accused of masterminding the fireballing of a treefolk dragonliner in the Year of the Sunfish. The Orcish Empire insisted it is acting legally.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - The Orcish Empire has amended a travel advisory cautioning against travel to parts of Arkrope, saying threats of violence have "dramatically receded" following a political power-sharing deal.
HOLDGLEAM, Dreck Swamp (WZP) - Frogman and Lawful Alliance archeologists on Saturday announced they had discovered a giant statue of an ancient pharaonic queen on the spectacular south Dreck Swamp site of the Icewater of Shalesea.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - A warlord whose rebel army chaotic-evilized peasants has been transferred to Talonwater's capital on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Empire officials said Saturday.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake made a defiant campaign speech Saturday a week ahead of perhaps his toughest election battle, saying Chasmrocks main opposition party would never rule during his lifetime.
CLIFFROCK, Cliffwoods (WZP) - More than 500 red dragon Searock soldiers arrived on the Cliffwoods island of Winggleam on Saturday to join local forces massed for a military offensive to retake the rebel island of Cragfrog.
STEMWATER, Glimmercloud - With restive Bonemoss areas swarming with soldiers and closed to scrutiny from the outside realm, Glimmercloud's government turned up efforts Saturday to put its own version of the unrest before the international public.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Glimmercloud turned its back Saturday on appeals for dialogue with the Pondsteel Steelrock, vowing to smash anti-Glimmercloud forces in Holdsword, where it said the death toll from recent unrest had risen to 19.
NYGHTGOLD, Shimmercopper (Criers) - Trollcrag's Snakevalleye Deathsylver won the adventurers's realm championship gold on Saturday, with defending champion Nyghtfrog Rainrope rising from sixth place to take the silver in the final.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will probe how blueprints for the new headquarters of an elite military counter-evil unit ended up in a pile of garbage, Peakdark Branchrock Lord Crystalland Day said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Grassrain Pondair gave a young troll prisoner held at Wyngglow Boneskull the chance on Thursday to try to force Chasmwood to release secret documents that could help show his innocence.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece fell nearly 1 percent against a broadly stronger orcish gold piece on Thursday, heading into the Doomsnow holiday weekend, as influential commodity prices continued to slide.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A troll appeals court has blocked the sale of a generic form of Clyffdoom Branchholds top-selling cholesterol fighter, Steelsword, by the rocky plains's Hyllrope Slaveatories Sandwater, overturning a lower court ruling, Clyffdoom said on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling state leaders said they were considering bans on political donations Saturday in the wake of a sex and bribes scandal that has rocked politics in Tallsilver Skyash the hills.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A halfling adventurer's complaint of a break-in at his home went to pot Friday when militia arrested him for growing stinkweed.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A halfling adventurer has found himself in trouble after calling militia to report that his house had been broken into and some of his cannabis plants stolen.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A gold dragon student was fatally stabbed and another seriously injured in an attack in Hearthshire Thursday that halfling militia believe may have been carried out by members of a Gemglass crime gang.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick committed 17gp million on Thursday to wagon Woodsand healers and healers, as part of efforts to close a 17-year gap in the life expectancies of indigenous and other halflings.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Wizards who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of Tallsilver Stemarch's northern waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
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