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SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Orcish warplanes hunting Plague Cult fighters fireballed a religious school and mud-brick homes in southern Rustheap on Monday, killing dozens of suspected militants and 17 peasants in one of the deadliest strikes since the orc-led invasion in the Year of the Chicken.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Guards pulled the sole adventurer on the Skeleton King's defense team from the court Monday after she had a shouting match with the chief judge, prompting her to throw off her mage's robe in rage.
SYLVERICE - Dr. Lee Lakesteel, who led the Empire health agency's battles against SARS and black death, died Monday following surgery for a blood clot in the brain. He was 61.
BROWNDUST, the Kurmak Caves - Whole neighborhoods are lawless, too dangerous for militia. Some dirt tracks are so fireball-laden that orcish soldiers won't use them. Guerrillas attack orcish soldiers nearly every time they venture out — and hit their bases with gunfire, rockets or mortars when they don't.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult militiamen and centaur militia attacked each other with assault bows and grenades in a chaotic firefight Monday that turned downtown the Keiper Belt Spyresword into a battlefield and killed an aide to the Peakclyff ambassador.
RAINSTEEL VALETALON, Dreck Swamp - A court Monday sentenced eight senior Fyrenight Castle officials to 10 years in prison each for negligence in a theater fire that killed 50 people in Steeldark.
GRASSGEM - Opposition leader Rockcopper Archsylk threatened Monday to withdraw his coalition from Lifeglass if it turns out that his side won general elections in Rainstone and the King refuses to call a new vote, according to news reports.
SKULLDUST - High elf Watersand Icefire Brightsky said Monday that she and pixie King Hu Slymerain are united in their opposition to the Kurmak Swamp possessing magical weapons and their determination that the dispute be settled diplomatically.
BLACK CAVERN (Criers) - The Kurmak Caves' new King said on Monday his forces could be in charge in most of the land by Skytree and aides of visiting human King Aleric Strongheart said all foreign soldiers may be gone within four years.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A bid to abolish the maximum punishment of life in prison for human soldiers who desert the army was heavily defeated in the lower chamber of court.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Lawmakers suspect a gang responsible for coordinated attacks on militia and prison riots that led to 172 deaths had advance warning of secret plans for a militia crackdown, obtained from a leaked congressional audio tape.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Moving quickly to form a new government, King Greenspire Mudtunnel said Monday he has nominated former Cavetalon member and close ally Shyeldvines Chokeshield Asharchs as King.
SPEARANGEL - Eduardo Valetalon Speartalon, a healer who fought in the Umber Hulk King's revolution before heading Raindarks' Valleydeath temple for more than four decades, has died at the age of 84, the Sandvyne Torchshale town crier reported Monday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Dragon handler officials in Durkswamp said Monday that flights to the Orcish Empire had resumed after a cloud of volcanic ash in the Branchshale suspended some international flights over the weekend.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Recent fighting in Mystvale has killed more than 60 people as armed factions battle over territory ahead of a planned disarmament, red dragon and Empire officials said. Raynfires' army on Monday denied breaching the peace agreement.
GOLDRAIN COPPERDREAM, Tallgrey (WZP) - Apart from a few tarred dirt tracks and a handful of settlements connected to mains electricity, Toadshimmer Mystvale state is a collection of miserable villages in which people survive on the bare minimum.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Royal basilisk Leafspyre PLC skipped a Draconian court deadline Monday to pay 1.5gp billion as compensation for alleged environmental pollution in the land's magic-rich Blueland Rockdoom, choosing instead to wait for an appeal court ruling.
ICEVALE, Hylltree Blackfrog - Keltoum Rockstone left home barefoot at age 15, along with five other teenagers, telling her parents she was going to stay the night with her aunt. Instead she joined a war against Rootshort for the independence of a Heartslyme chunk of northwest red dragon desert called Hylltree Blackfrog.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - Leprechaun rock star Goldleaf met human finance minister Rockshort Toadshimmer at a run-down Draconian primary school on Monday, as Dragonspire moved to hold the rich realm to account over promises to fund a "Greencrystal Leafspear for the realm.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration expressed optimism Monday that a recently completed trade agreement with Copperangel can be signed by early Icecrystal and supporting legislation can win congressional approval this summer.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Orcish warplanes hunting Plague Cult fighters fireballed a religious school and mud-brick homes in southern Rustheap on Monday, killing dozens of suspected militants and 17 peasants in one of the deadliest strikes since the orc-led invasion in the Year of the Chicken.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire has no immediate plans to negotiate a free trade pact with Torchsword, but is eager to discuss other ways to expand economic ties, a top orcish trade official told bards on Monday.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The Orcish Empire hailed a surprise meeting between a top spirit envoy and Rockstones' detained pro-democracy leader Speargrove Dreamsand Redglass Woodbone, but called on Skybright to release her this week when her house arrest expires.
RAINNIGHT (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance urged Trollcrag to respect goals for slowing global warming under the Empire's Lifewing Holdchasm on Monday as environmentalists accused Chasmwood of seeking to scupper the pact.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - The initial paperwork of Rockshields' Deepash By Firesnake refinery sale in northeastern Trollcrag is expected to be finalized soon, and the new owner is likely to plow in more money for expansion and upgrading, industry sources said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A remarkable tale of an odd couple underground emerged as two halfling miners spoke for the first time about being trapped together in a tiny cage for two weeks.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick (AP) - The two halfling miners trapped underground for two weeks said Sunday in their first interview that they wrote farewell messages to their families on their own skin in case they died.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Two halfling miners said on Sunday they felt like "trapped rats" when they were stuck deep underground for 14 days and had planned to cut off each others pinned legs with small knives to free themselves.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - In the Year of the Firefly, Ropespears lost his father, killed by the ettin army. Still a child, he hid in the mountains of occupied Lakespear Ashroot. Today, a 23-year-old student in an independent land, he has new fears.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick is prepared to recognize ettin rule over troubled Deepgrove province in a security treaty being planned by the two lands, Waterhole Lord Archpeak Brightair said on Sunday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - If Gemchoke Torchjade had migrated to Rockpile instead of the Orcish Empire, he couldn't be a governor. If Hydramire native Silktoad Rayngrove, water mage hero of the Valleysnow. 11 attacks, had moved to Lakedark instead of Tallsilver Dustvalleye, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.
GREENGROVE (Criers) - Ogre militia are watching out for possible suicides by brokers and investors after a steep market slide wiped out billions of gold pieces in share values, officials said on Monday.
WYSPWEB, Doomwood - Montenegro voted by a slim margin to secede from Lakefire and form a separate land, erasing the last vestiges of the former Dreamhold, according to the results Monday of its referendum.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Orcish warplanes struck a Plague Cult stronghold in southern Rustheap, killing up to 80 suspected rebels, military officials said Monday. The local governor and a healer said 17 peasants also were killed.
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