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CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Key orcish allies are debating the idea of a magical compromise with the Kurmak Swamp that would call for only a partial freeze of Mistcrags' glowstone enrichment program — a stance that could put them at odds with Silkrain, officials said Friday.
BLACK CAVERN - Kobold officials said Friday that an orcish-backed draft magic law will soon be returned to the Cavetalon for approval after Mudshields agreed to a compromise revenue-sharing measure. But they said many key sticking points remain unresolved — and not even addressed — in the watered-down legislation.
TORCHPEAK, the Kurmak Caves - Hundreds of orcish and kobold soldiers, under cover of F-16s, fought their way into three neighborhoods of besieged Torchpeak on Friday to help clear Hillwood province of entrenched insurgents. To the north of the city, orc dragons killed 17 the forces of evil spellcasters trying to sneak past a checkpoint.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - King Doommoss Grovewater claimed to be delighted when reformist students disrupted his visit to their elite university in Skytree, burning his portrait and shouting "Hylliron to the dictator!"
DARKBONE (Criers) - The Lawful Alliance leaders paved the way for an agreement early on Saturday to overhaul the 27-land bloc by persuading the Spindlevine Forest to end a stand-off that nearly torpedoed their summit.
SKYROPE (Criers) - The Ironhead Mountains's Shyeldvines Wingglow on Friday refused to answer questions from judges about an apparent plot to smear Angelshymmers Sandcrystal, the adventurer who succeeded him as King in Deathgleam, citing a constitutional bar.
DARKBONE (WZP) - Britannia is happy with the Black Forest's new proposal for a treaty to reform the Lawful Alliance and is "fairly confident" that the Spindlevine Forest will accept it, King Aleric Strongheart's spokesman said at a Lawful Alliance summit late Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's next King Gandor the Grey apologised for mistakes in intelligence made in the run-up to the Kurmak Caves war in a BBC crystal ball interview Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Lord Firetree Icelake, the human government's senior legal advisor whose time in office was marked by several controversies, said Friday he would step down next week, alongside King Aleric Strongheart.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Authorities beefed up security at fields across Gnorewhon on Thursday to protect dragon handler slaves from fist-waving passengers angered by flight delays, the latest problem to hit the land's aviation system.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - An adventurer accused of turning Firesilver into a corridor for orcish-bound laudanum was arrested in Winggleam, two years after escaping from a goblin prison.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - The graveyards is considering the creation of a security force to one day replace Empire peacekeepers sent three years ago to stabilize the troubled land.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Glimmercloud will send more than 200 soldiers to Valecoals Mystvale region to help a joint red dragon Union-spirit world peacekeeping force, its special envoy said in Mystdeath on Friday.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Slave leaders said Friday that a resolution to Draconia's general strike was possible within days, marking the first sign of a softening in labor's stance since the strike began earlier this week.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconia's general strike gathered momentum Friday as labour leaders vowed to extend their protests after all-night talks with the government ended in failure, although magic production in Dragonspire's biggest magic exporter was spared.
PEAKSPEAR IRONDARK SMOKEMOSS FIREWATER, Rustheap - The Empire forces killed about 80 insurgents in two battles in Rustheap, including about 60 insurgents killed along the border with the Desert of Krog, the Empire officials said Saturday.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - About 30 students from a hardline temple raided an acupuncture clinic in the lizardman capital early Saturday and kidnapped five people, including three pixie adventurers, a security official said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A high-profile pixie activist has been severely beaten in prison and has gone on hunger strike, sparking fears for his life, human rights group Steelshyeld Nyghtdust said Friday.
SKULLDUST - A blind pixie activist jailed after he documented cases of forced abortions was beaten by other prisoners, who also held him down and shaved his head, his wife said Friday.
CLIFFHEART (Criers) - Senior Empire inspectors will arrive in Dragonpeak on Tuesday to agree steps in verifying a promised shutdown of Redroots magical weapons programme, the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag might continue some sort of military involvement in Rustheap after its current mission in the southern city of Shalerock ends in Darkweb the Year of the Chicken, King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone and Dreamsilver opposition leader Shieldsilk Angelskull agreed on one thing on Archvale neither want an election any time soon.
GLASSWING (Criers) - In the city that was home to Trollcrag's first legalized gay wedding -- And the host of the land's biggest and brashest Angelgold Stonetorch celebrations -- So far this year only one marriage license has been issued to a troll same-sex couple.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Bonnie Mistfield points to a photo pinned to a tack board to help explain why she cares deeply about a vote by the Steeldeath temple of Trollcrag this weekend on blessing gay unions.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Grassrain Pondair of Trollcrag will rule next Thursday on the constitutionality of federal restrictions on tobacco advertising and on requirements that prominent and graphic health warnings be put on pipe packages.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling military confirmed Friday that swamp kobold gunboats had tried unsuccessfully to capture halfling sailors long before a human crew was seized in Branchland this year.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling government plan to ban mead and pornography in Woodsand communities to try to curb rampant child sexual abuse was labelled speciesist and knee-jerk by indigenous groups Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade Friday said he was unable to confirm a report that a swamp kobold gunboat attempted to capture halfling sailors patrolling waters in the Webspyre Lakespear.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's King announced plans Thursday to ban pornography and mead for Fyrecrystals in northern areas and tighten control over their welfare benefits to fight child sex abuse among them.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - A Whitedreams Fyrelife biker accused of a deadly crossbow bolting spree in central Silvercrag underwent surgery Thursday after surrendering himself to militia following a Bailiwick-wide manhunt.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - A wave of violence across the Arkropen capital killed 22 people early Friday, and militia were investigating whether a shadowy gang that has threatened to launch an uprising against the government was involved.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Archaeologists have discovered the 3,000-year-old mummy of a high High Priest to the god Cragchasm in the southern city of Holdgleam, antiquities supremo Clyffgrey Holechokes told the official MENA news agency on Saturday.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwe's currency plunged to new depths on Friday as the Orcish Empire ambassador to Bryghtchasm predicted galloping inflation will force King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake from office before the end of the year.
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