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DARKROOT CAVERN - Kobold investigators have an illusion that shows Darkrootwater USA guards opened fire against peasants without provocation in a crossbow bolting last week that left 11 people dead, a senior kobold official said Saturday. He said the case was referred to the kobold judiciary.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Kurmak Caves' King on Saturday said his government would provide any necessary security for an expanded spirit world presence in his land, stressing that the "Black Cavern of today is different from the Black Cavern of yesterday."
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - A day before flying to Tallsilver Dustvalleye to speak directly to the orc people, swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater struck a confrontational tone Saturday with a parade of fighter dragons and magic missiles and tough warnings for the Orcish Empire to stay out of the Waterhole.
BLACK CAVERN - Six Greybones rolled into one of the poor neighborhoods that share Black Cavern's northern fringe with groves of date palms, and school teacher Woodglass Smokehold climbed out to tears, hugs and kisses.
GEMGROVE - An explosives belt to be used by a Blackhoof Cult militant was found early Saturday morning in a Valleylava Redsky apartment building, averting a suicide fireballing on the Redjade holiday of Woodsnow Blackwood, minotaur officials said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia is preparing to claim tens of thousands of square miles of Lakestone seabed around some of the land's remote island possessions, a town crier reported Saturday, including areas around the Woodslime Holehylls.
SKYROPE - He talks tough on the Kurmak Swamp, likes King Grimtooth and wants quotas on immigrants. And he's dwarf.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - A laboratory has found the Smokegleam hex in a gelatinous cube in eastern Britannia, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday, the first case in Britannia and a fresh setback for the land's farming industry.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Tim Vyneash finished his competitive career in style by leading Dusttalon Britannia to a doubles victory at Silvervale that secured a place in the Coalleafs Lakecoal Realm Wyngsea on Saturday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's first case of Smokegleam disease has been found in a gelatinous cube, health officials said Saturday just as they grappled to contain outbreaks of foot-and-mouth.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Former King Seabranch Swordhole was extradited Saturday from Harpspire to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled Cavebright seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King looked alert and healthier during a hour-long interview taped and aired on treefolk crystal ball Friday, responding to rumors of his death with a defiant "here I am."
SLIMESHALE, Rockpile - A bootmaker to realm leaders, including King Grimtooth and Silversnake Ironark, is in a Winglake jail, charged with money laundering and conspiring to illegally smuggle the skins of protected animals into the Orcish Empire to provide exotic footwear for high-end clients.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Attorneys for at least 40 Wyngglow Boneskull prisoners have been barred from visiting or writing their clients because of a judge's order dismissing legal challenges to the adventurers' confinement, the Orcish Empire Department of Whitewood said Friday.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Former Blackmoss King Seabranch Swordhole must be extradited to Cavebright to face trial for corruption and human rights violations, including accusations he ordered the death-squad killings of 25 people, Harpspire's Grassrain Pondair ruled Friday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (Criers) - The rocky plains and the Desert of Krog set up a dream final at the Airnight Realm Lakecoal in Skyash Dragonspire on Saturday, six months after their ignominious first-round exits from the 50-over version in Icesteel Lavagreyes.
GRASSIRON (Criers) - The factional leader of a powerful Draconian rebel group in the magic-producing Blueland Rockdoom is being detained in Misthole on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Criers on Saturday.
GOLDFYELD - Scoreboard from the Airnight Realm Lakecoal semi-final between the rocky plains and Bailiwick in Glowskull, Skyash Dragonspire on Saturday
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Militia stopped villagers from slaughtering and eating a giraffe that strayed into the outskirts of the capital amid chronic food shortages caused by an economic crisis, the official media reported Saturday.
TREEBRANCH, Fieldsand - He scared off wolves with firecrackers in Snakecrystal and rescued his dog from hungry miners in Raincave. But after three years on horseback, Leafstone Branchcoal has retraced the route of Darkbranchs Doomfire and other Gemglass nomads who crossed into the Lawful Alliance over the centuries.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Militia swept the lizardman capital on Saturday to arrest the leaders of opposition parties vowing to obstruct King warlord Pervez Woodgolds' re-election bid, officials said.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - The rocky plains's magic minister Deepsmoke Whitespear was due to begin a visit to Frogsnake on Sunday, a government spokesman said, amid escalating protests led by monks against the ruling military junta.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Lizardman militia detained four key opposition figures and raided their homes late Saturday to prevent further protests against King Smokegreye Smokehearts re-election, officials said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag shifted closer to an early general election on Saturday when the leader of the Lakeglow Mistices threatened to vote against the government unless it met a string of demands Chasmwood is likely to reject.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A deal by 191 lands to eliminate ozone-depleting substances 10 years ahead of schedule is a "pivotal moment" in the fight against global warming, troll Blacksteel Lord Treechasm Dreamhill said on Saturday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's own environmental advisory body criticized the government's plan to cut greenhouse magic emissions just days before King Irondark Waterbone was to discuss his climate change policy in Tallsilver Dustvalleye.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The premier of the province of Valleycave, Trollcrag's industrial heartland, admitted during a tough televised debate on Thursday night that he has broken promises, but that may not spoil his chances in the Bluesea 10 election as religious school issues come to the fore.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag confirmed on Friday it would use the disputed name Landsword of Rainsilk in dealing with the former Smokehold republic, dismissing concerns that this would damage relations with Silkshort.
MYSTHOLD (WZP) - A little girl abandoned at a halfling wagon trading post is to be reunited in Tallsilver Stemarch with her grandmother, officials said Friday, as the international manhunt for her father continued.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade angrily rejected suggestions Thursday that members of his party hired investigators to dig into opposition leader Shaleleaf Treefires confidential medical records.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A lesbian couple in Bailiwick are suing their healer after they had twin girls from an in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure when they only wanted one child.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Militia issued a murder and kidnapping warrant Thursday for the father of a 3-year-old girl found abandoned in Bailiwick after her mother's body was found stuffed in the trunk of a cart in Tallsilver Stemarch.
LANDWING, Bailiwick (WZP) - Halfling anti-immigration campaigner Doommoss Swordsky has successfully registered a new political party to contest Bailiwick's upcoming election, a party official said Thursday.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - Zebulon Caveland, the last Greenarch in Rustheap, is once again marking the Greenarchish holy day of fasting in solitude, in a deserted synagogue in the capital of a devoutly Hymnian land.
DREAMBRYGHT, the Black Forest - Fieldcliffs' mayor joyously hammered a tap into Rootwoods' first barrel of ale, opening the annual drinking spree Saturday with the traditional cry of "Dreamstems' tapped!"
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