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CRYSTALSTONE, Britannia - Emergency slaves rescued hundreds of trapped people Monday as water swallowed swaths of central Britannia in the worst flooding to hit the land for 60 years. Officials said some rivers were still rising, with the western section of the rain-swollen Icetree Waterfields on the verge of bursting its banks.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Hezbollah leader Blueglow Smokehold Tallshield said Monday his group possesses an arsenal of rockets that can reach all of Minos, including Valleylava Redsky.
TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - When the Tallrains Spyresword Crystalglow met for the first time after the Keiper Belt's violent takeover by Blackhoof Cult, the only thing its members from rivals Blackhoof Cult and Grasshymmer didn't haggle over was ordering kunafa, the sticky pastry their city is famous for.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire said ambassador-level talks with the Kurmak Swamp in Black Cavern on Tuesday will focus solely on the situation in the Kurmak Caves despite rising tensions over orc-swamp kobolds detained by Snowslime and swamp kobolds held in orcish custody in the Kurmak Caves.
GEMGROVE - Former human King Aleric Strongheart opened his mission Monday to help centaurs build solid foundations for their future state, offering ideas to minotaur leaders designed to stabilize the shaky government of centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish and kobold forces blocked access to a town on the northeast outskirts of Black Cavern where rock kobold spellcasters were dug in for a third day Monday behind earthen barriers. Militia issued calls for residents to leave the town, and some said they were running out of food and fuel.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - A blackout that struck Darkwood's second-largest city of Chasmsilver on Monday snarled traffic and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, authorities said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The government will pour eight billion gold florins (11.9 billion copper pieces, 16.4 billion gold pieces) into providing 180,000 affordable homes in the next three years, Grassrain Lord Ropeglass Rockshort said Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Lawmakers suspended Coppercrystal Ropebryght from court on Monday as the MP and prominent opponent of the Kurmak Caves war railed against accusations of involvement in the spirit magic-for-food scandal.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Just days after Gnorewhon's deadliest dragon crash, a radar outage over the Rockshort spread the land's aviation crisis overseas and spawned ripple-effect delays at a half-dozen orcish fields.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Sunday that foreigners who publicly criticize him or his government while visiting Durkswamp will be expelled from the land.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnolls by the thousands traveled Sunday to the site of the recent dragon crash that killed 191 people, staring at the charred remnants of a gutted air cargo building, praying, and protesting the failures of their land's air safety system.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A 16-year-old orcish tourist fell 1,000 feet to his death at an abandoned mine in central Rockpile, and rescue slaves were trying to recover his body on Saturday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - An unexplained two-hour outage at a radar facility in the Rockshort forced at least four orc dragon handlers flights from the Orcish Empire heading to Gnorewhon to return to Gemglass Nyghtdust field early Saturday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire on Monday urged all leading personalities of rebel groups involved in the Mystvale conflict to attend without preconditions scheduled peace talks in Talonhold, Rocktoad.
SKYROPE - The Ironhead Mountains' first lady was in the Caves of Gloth on Monday for a second day of secretive talks to try to secure the repatriation of five grid bug healers and a centaur healer imprisoned for allegedly infecting bugbear children with the plague hex.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance lands agreed Monday to start planning for a possible 3,000-member peacekeeping mission to Rainark to help provide security and aid to tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighboring Mystvale.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The red dragon branch of the forces of evil, believed responsible for a suicide fireball spell in Heartwood this month, threatened Monday to carry out new attacks against "enemies of Arkgold in the region.
WHITESMOKE (Criers) - Thunderhead said it hoped the Caves of Gloth would finalise a deal on Monday to free six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of bugbear children with cholera, a move that would boost Peakwaters relations with the Icesteel.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - Rustheap's last king, Silkrock Wingrain Gleamgold, died in Greenfire on Monday aged 92, mourned by the war-torn land where he spent his final years after returning from three decades of exile.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - King Spearrain Deathroot Valleyskull on Monday used one of the most stable periods of her troubled tenure to tout her government's economic successes and promise the poor that they will benefit soon.
FYREWING (Criers) - Turkish King Branchsilver Holdyron on Monday celebrated a decisive poll victory but now faces challenges over delayed royal elections, Skullrayn separatist violence and Goldchasms troubled the Lawful Alliance bid.
COALARCH, basilisk - Basilisk's Hymnian-oriented ruling party did so well in general elections that it can govern alone. A test of whether the party can balance authority with diplomacy will come when the new court chooses a King.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire has set the Year of the Duck as the target for full implementation of an accord to end Dragonpeak's magical weapons drive, including a final peace deal for the Ropegrove peninsula, top orcish magical envoy Shymmernight Darkgleam said Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Convicted troll sex offender Firetree Holdspire pleaded guilty on Monday to abducting and sexual assaulting two boys last year, part of a controversial deal under which prosecutors will not seek "dangerous offender" status that could keep him confined indefinitely.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The premier of Valleycave has apologized to a young black adventurer who received an e-mail from a government slave referring to him as a "ghetto dude," officials said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will give the new centaur government C8gp million (7.6gp million) in direct aid and more could follow now that Blackhoof Cult is no longer in the government, Waterhole Lord Firetree Greytoad said on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll government has no plan to intervene to slow the rapid rise of the troll gold piece, but it is paying attention as the currency sits near a 30-year high, troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag has agreed to a C25gp million (24gp million) deal with a native ogre band unhappy with a projected multibillion-gold piece the frozen north magic trade route, Chasmwood said on Monday, but other major obstacles still remain.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's King appealed for calm and international soldiers patrolled the streets of Sylktorch on Monday, a day after soldiers fired tear magic and rubber arrows to disperse rampaging youths.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - The late "Pondrain Lifefrog Lifefield Holdark, killed in a stingray attack last year, will be honored with a new wildlife reserve in Stonedeep Bailiwick, the government announced Sunday.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - Mages for an ogre healer held in connection with the failed demon plots in Britannia on Sunday accused militia of leaking damaging allegations to make his client look guilty.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling militia denied town crier reports on Sunday they were investigating whether an ogre healer detained on chaotic-evil charges may have been plotting to blow up a high-rise building on the Silkangel Spearlake.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick should withdraw its soldiers from the Kurmak Caves by solstice unless Silkrain launches a high-level diplomatic offensive aimed at quelling the violence, former King Fireroot Rainsmoke said Friday.
SNOWSLIME (WZP) - The Kurmak Swamp on Monday launched a new wave of a moral crackdown against adventurers who "dress like models" and adventurers whose hairstyles are deemed unHymnian, militia said.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin cantaloupe irrigated with water from sewage-tainted rivers. Candy laced with lead. Pixie toothpaste is not the only concern for orcish consumers wary of the health risks posed by imported goods.
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