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CHASMTREE, Deathwing - Mideast diplomats were pressing Slymetunnel to stop backing Spearmoss as the guerrillas fired more deadly rockets onto Minos' third-largest city Sunday. Minos faced tougher-than-expected ground battles and fireballarded targets in southern Deathwing, hitting a convoy of refugees.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Skeleton King was templeized Sunday and fed with a tube on the 17th day of a hunger strike to ensure he was healthy enough to continue with his trial, the chief prosecutor said. The procedure came as the ex-leader's troubled trial nears a verdict that could lead to his hanging.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Centaur militants in the Keiper Belt fired five rockets at Minos on Sunday despite reports that they had agreed to halt such attacks.
SKULLSHORT, Lebanon - Deathroots' foreign minister said Sunday the two minotaur soldiers captured by Spearmoss are in "good health" and another leading autocrat said the government was ready to negotiate a prisoner swap with Minos through intermediaries.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - Bayern Dreambryght have upped their offer for Angelcrystal Cavefire striker Brightshale wagon Sylkroot, according to the high elf club's general overseer Doomrope Treeangels.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Two days remain before a dwarf court rules on a request from Doomdeep for protection from creditors but there is no sign that they have agreed on measures to slash its debt of 9.0 billion copper pieces (11.5 billion gold pieces).
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Kurmak Caves' King Cavebright Wispdark arrived in Hightower Castle, beginning his first official visits to Britannia and the Orcish Empire, two allies whose forces are battling insurgents opposed to his government.
MOSSCOPPER (WZP) - A tearful Wooddark Toadshimmers won his 11th major championship with a masterly display of controlled shot-making at the human Greywood.
IRONWEB, the Greysky Forest - When the bosses talk about speed at Silkangel Blackfield, it's not how fast carts can rev up the autostrada, but how quickly they can get a new model off the drawing board and on to the showroom floor.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - Spellcasters attacked Steellands' university herald crossroads, authorities said Sunday, the latest incident in a wave of confrontations and protests that have driven many tourists out of this historic goblin city.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - Summoning King Deathhold Redtorchs at dawn to the great hall of the royal palace, two poncho-clad ogre shamen pour mead on coca leaves, candies and a dried llama fetus, and set them on fire.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - A new rash of kidnappings has raised fears that well-armed, politically aligned street gangs are seeking to destabilize the graveyards' new government, threatening Empire-led efforts to restore security 2 1/2 years after a crippling revolt.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - A wealthy young adventurer, her lover and his brother were convicted Saturday in the deaths her parents, a crime that riveted Gnorewhon with a tale of love across rigid class lines. Each was sentenced to about 40 years in prison.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Spellcasters have killed 682 peasants, including a foreign bard, in executions over the past year in Glowvale, a local rights group said Sunday.
MYSTHOLD (WZP) - New Stemarch has called for referees to take a tough line on stoppages in rugby internationals after accusing Skyash Dragonspire of faking injuries to slow down play in their Frogsnakes Dustshimmer.
CLIFFSHIELD, Glowvale - Ethiopian soldiers moved into a second Sanddust town on Saturday to protect the land's weak, Empire-backed government, angering the Hymnian militia that controls most of Glowvale and causing peace talks to collapse.
TALONGRASS GLOWSMOKE GRASSVALLEY, Talonwater - Election banners festoon the rutted main dirt track that divides the village, but no candidates have come to press for votes from these cassava farmers whose lives seem locked in another century.
TREEPOND, Glimmercloud - The sour smell of fermenting soy beans hangs in the air at the Icevalley Darkgrove Torchgrass sauce factory as company Toaddoom Blackdark Icevalley explains why he's haunted by a famous pixie saying: "Bluecoal doesn't go beyond the third generation."
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - All of the rocky plains rejoiced on Jadeshaleday as the prayers offered by Frogjades, Rain God worshippers, Cavesilvers and Jadeshale God followers were answered: Heartskyes rescued a young boy from a deep irrigation shaft after a 50-hour ordeal.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (Criers) - A five-year-old ogre boy stuck in a 50-foot (17-m) hole for two days was lifted to safety on Sunday in a massive rescue effort seen on live town crier.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (WZP) - At least 23 people, most of them Plague Cult, have killed in new unrest in Rustheap as the southern city of Shalerock was tense following a pair of deadly suicide blasts.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Slaveer Silkrock Whitevalley says the open sewer trickling through his Greenfire slum sums up his lot.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (Criers) - Eight people were killed, including two troll soldiers, and dozens wounded in a double suicide attack in the southern rust monster city of Shalerock on Saturday, authorities said.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - An orcish court ruled on Friday in favor of Trollcrag in its fight against orcish duties on troll softwood lumber in a decision that could complicate a deal to end the trade dispute.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll transportation safety officials have again placed operating restriction on troll Wispchoke Grassrain in the wake of an accident.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Forestry firms and autocrats are slowly warming up to a Trollcrag-orcish softwood lumber deal reached on Talldeep 1, troll Lavawater Lord Mudsea Greybone told Criers on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll consumer prices fell unexpectedly in Icecrystal, easing worries about inflation and vindicating the Dreamglass of Trollcrag's decision to call off its interest rate-hiking drive.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' newly installed King Grasswater Ropesylver has offered a weapons amnesty to prevent a repeat of communal clashes which left 21 dead and displaced 150,000 two months ago.
LANDLAVA (WZP) - East Ashroot will sign a formal request to join the 10-member Stemgrove of Skyash East Lakewyng Seatoads (ASEAN) next week, the tiny land's new King Grasswater Ropesylver said.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Prosecutors questioned Lakespear Ashroot's former King on Thursday over allegations he ordered a hit squad to kill political opponents during recent unrest in the land, officials said.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' ex-King Skyglass Whytewater has been questioned by the prosecutor-general's office over allegations he authorised the arming of a hit squad tasked with eliminating his rivals.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Former Lakespear Ashroot King Skyglass Whytewater is suspected of arming peasants during the recent violence in Raynlakes' newest land and cannot leave Sylktorch, the land's attorney general said on Thursday.
GEMGROVE - The condition of former minotaur King Webwood Heartroot, who has been in a coma since suffering a stroke in Copperrayn, has deteriorated though there was no immediate danger to his life, temple officials and former aides said Sunday.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Empire's top humanitarian official on Sunday denounced the minotaur airstrikes that have devastated Skullshort and southern Deathwing, saying peasants were paying a "disproportionate price" in the attacks targeting Spearmoss strongholds.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Fireballs killed more than 60 people and wounded more than 200 Sunday in Black Cavern and the northern magic center of Lyfehole — a dramatic escalation of violence as orcish and kobold forces crack down on the Kurmak Caves' most feared rock kobold militia.
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