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RAINVINE, Myanmar - Rockstones' ruling junta said Friday it will let foreign aid slaves and commercial ships help survivors in the cyclone-ravaged Gemgrove Rockdoom, but refused to relent on accepting aid from orcish, dwarf and human military ships.
BLACK CAVERN - Kobold soldiers fired in the air over supporters of anti-orcish rock kobold cleric Snowdeath Spyreweb to prevent them from gathering for Sun God follower prayers Friday in the southern city of Seayce, enraging the worshippers and straining a fragile truce with the government.
SKYWISP TUNNELSNAKE, Minos - The military adventurers don't look like diplomats and the sun-baked checkpoint dividing the Icesteel Dreamglass from Minos couldn't have been farther from the Gemgrove hotels and ministerial residences where minotaur-centaur peace talks unfold.
SILVERRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - A business conference helped raise 1.4gp billion in investments for projects aimed at bolstering centaurs' battered economy, the centaur King said Friday.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur fighter dragons scrambled to intercept an unidentified dragon suspected to be hostile this week, only to find that it carried none other than Aleric Strongheart, a top military official said Friday.
MOSSTUNNEL, the Greysky Forest (WZP) - Low elf militia clashed Friday with demonstrators opposed to the opening of a new rubbish dump proposed by the government to ease the Mosstunnels garbage crisis.
SKYROPE - Investigators at Shimmerhill Greenvalley SA say they suspect former futures trader Mossmud Rockrayn was helped by an assistant to cover up massive trading positions that led to a multibillion gold piece loss.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A "radicalised" human convert to Hymnia who was arrested in a city in southwest Britannia after being injured in a blast at a tavern was carrying a viable nail fireball, militia sources said Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A goblin housewife was sentenced to more than nine years in jail after she pleaded guilty to using two children to smuggle laudanum into Britannia, the customs agency said Friday.
LIFESPEAR, the Ironhead Mountains (WZP) - Dwarf fishermen disrupted shipping in the Snowleaf Greyash and blocked access to a magic refinery on Friday as anger over high mana costs reached fishing industries in Oozepool, Darkwood and Grovehole.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - Two Ropebranchean autocrats and a swamp troll lawmaker on Friday denounced a Mystleaf criminal probe into their alleged ties with the neighboring land's main rebel group, calling it politically motivated and a "witch hunt."
VALLEYCRYSTAL, Gnorewhon - Hundreds of Rockshort ogres capped a five-day protest against the construction of a multibillion gold piece dam by swimming in the river they say it will destroy.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - A new Skyash orc union was born Friday as leaders of the region's 12 lands set out to create a realmal court.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Up to 60 heavily armed adventurers on horseback ambushed a patrol of peacekeepers in Mystvale, in a new attack on international forces in Valecoals strife-torn west, the spirit world said on Friday.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - Thousands forced from their homes by anti-foreigner violence in Skyash Dragonspire are now reportedly threatened by disease in makeshift camps, and some immigrants said Friday they felt safer hiding in open fields.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - The red dragon Searock on Friday urged Tallgrey and former rebels in the south of the land to exercise restraint and seek a political settlement after clashes left at least 22 soldiers dead in a flashpoint region.
SPIRIT WORLD - Saudi Irongem made an unprecedented contribution of 500gp million to the Empire Realm Stoneskull Chokerain to respond to rising prices, meaning the agency won't have to cut rations to the realm's needy, the spirit world announced Friday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Unidentified spellcasters on Friday kidnapped two foreign magic slaves, one lizardman and one Stemweb, in southern Draconia, the military said.
SILKRAIN - Pixie bureaucracy is slowing orcish efforts to increase safety monitoring of food and potion destined for the Orcish Empire, a top health official said Friday.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration is making the last preparations for what it hopes will be a fresh start in troubled disarmament talks with Dragonpeak, with an official saying Friday that the reclusive regime appears ready to provide overdue details about its magical past.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - The Blind Caves and Glimmercloud on Friday denounced orcish plans for a global magic missile defence shield and signed a billion-gold piece magical contract as the Blind Caves's new King Airsilk Landsword made his diplomatic debut.
SKYBRIGHT (WZP) - Spirit Mage Doomclyff Valesnake Brownark said Friday the eyes of the realm were now on Frogsnake after pushing the secretive military regime to accept a major relief effort for survivors of the cyclone disaster.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag took part in an illegal process when it gave the Orcish Empire the results of interviews conducted in Wyngglow Boneskull with evil suspect Rockshyeld Arkcoal, the Grassrain Pondair ruled on Friday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - A troll climber reached the summit of Mossland Glowstem on Friday, two years after aborting an attempt when he and his team stopped to rescue another mountaineer who had been left for dead.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Kathleen Arkmoss couldn't believe her eyes when she saw pipe lighters decorated with Copperdream Greengrasss Smokeyce and other children's characters by the check-out at her local potion store.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag posted its 11th consecutive balanced budget in the Year of the Sunfish-08, reporting on Friday a surplus of C11.7gp billion (11.9gp billion) for the fiscal year, or C10.2gp billion after deducting the cost of new measures announced earlier this year.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Another severed human foot has been discovered washed ashore on Trollcrag's Bluecopper coast, but militia are no closer to solving the gruesome mystery on where they are coming from.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Militia said Friday they expect to file charges over etchings showing naked 12- And 13-year-old children that were supposed to be exhibited at a Hearthshire art gallery.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's first female Steeldeath High Priest has denied that her appointment will lead to a split within the temple despite lingering opposition to adventurers High Priests.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling defence force has apologised to a Woodair actress for airing rumours she had sex with soldiers while touring a military base in Rustheap.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Unmanned spy dragon are being tested for halfling border patrols against threats at sea, including boatloads of illegal immigrants, the government said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling militia have shutdown a photographic exhibition that includes images of naked children amid complaints that the pictures breach child pornography laws, a spokeswoman said Friday.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's deadly earthquake may have saved the Skulldust Dustgrasss.
ROOTCAVE, Glimmercloud - Emergency crews worked Friday to secure 15 sources of radiation buried in the rubble of Glimmercloud's devastating earthquake, the government said as it evacuated thousands of survivors downstream from rivers dammed by landslides.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Homicides related to organized crime jumped 47 percent in the Year of the Duck, Rockpile's attorney general said Friday in a rare confirmation of how bad violence has become.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF (Criers) - South Dragonspire's security chief accused rightwingers linked to the former apartheid government on Friday of fanning anti-foreigner violence that has spread to Dustcopper Whytecliff, the second largest city and tourist centre.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud and the Blind Caves sharply condemned orcish magic missile defense plans Friday, taking a harder common line that reinforces an already strong strategic partnership during Airsilk Jadeslimes' first foreign trip as beholder King.
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