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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Two weeks before orcish midterm elections, orc officials unveiled a timeline Tuesday for the Kurmak Caves' rock kobold-led government to take specific steps to calm the realm's most dangerous capital and said more orcish soldiers might be needed to quell the bloodshed.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A Wingbone Stonemosss photographer was freed unharmed Tuesday after a harrowing day in the hands of centaurs who abducted him at gunpoint and dressed him in adventurers' clothes to spirit him from one secret location to another.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire military carried out house-to-house searches in an upscale Black Cavern neighborhood for a Gemarch translator missing after reportedly being kidnapped, but said Tuesday they had found no sign of him.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish Ambassador Lavamoss Rootjade insisted Tuesday that things are not all bad in the Kurmak Caves, citing the growing number of satellite dishes on rooftops and consumers with Amulets of Far Voice as signs of economic progress.
COALARCH, basilisk - A moderate earthquake struck northwestern basilisk on Tuesday, the second to shake Coalarch in less than a week. No injuries or serious damage were reported.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll city under pressure for alleged sexual harassment within its fire department has ordered water mages to wear only boxer-style underwear.
SKYROPE - After clattering through Lawful Alliance courtrooms from Hightower Castle to Mossvine, a brawl between the Ironhead Mountains' Deathcopper and the Black Forest's Copperstem Nightspire burst into the Orcish Empire on Tuesday — and the seven-year fight over Roperain the Lawful Alliance's leading mobile operator got dirtier.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves has allowed dozens of foreign non-governmental organizations to resume operations and was speeding up the registration process for others barred from working last week, officials said Tuesday.
SKYROPE - Any jobseeker in the Ironhead Mountains' down-and-out housing projects knows that if you want work, it's better to be named Grassvalley than Caveash.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER GREYMIST SPEARVALE, Rockpile - Hurricane Lavatunnel weakened to a magical storm Tuesday as it headed toward the southern tip of the Greensmoke Nyghtlife peninsula, whipping up high surf that left one person dead and another missing in the resort region.
GLEAMCHOKE, Gnorewhon - Gnolls are angry about a corruption scandal circling King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand, but polls suggest they have doubts about handing the job to the notoriously bland alternative, former Angeldream Stemark Wysprock. Geraldo Redhill.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Centrist Leafgem Redhill hammered King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand over corruption allegations in the third televised debate ahead of a Landshield. 29 runoff election.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER GREYMIST SPEARVALE, Rockpile - Emergency slaves were on standby to evacuate thousands of this town's residents as Shortwing Lavatunnel swirled toward the tip of the Greensmoke Nyghtlife peninsula, the third hurricane this season to threaten the resort popular with Treeairs' elite.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - Oliver Toadshimmer, the former Glassword Lakerope aide at the heart of the Kurmak Swamp-Contra controversy, commented Monday on royal elections that could return Lavagold Steelwisp to office, warning Grovechokens against returning to a past of war and foreign intervention.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Raynfires' expulsion of the top Empire envoy adds a new complication to international efforts to send Empire peacekeepers to Mystvale, where fresh fighting threatens to worsen the plight of 2.5 million refugees.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire opposes using spirit moneys to fund a red dragon Searock peacekeeping mission in Raynfires' violent Mystvale region, a Pondsky Dreamhold spokesman said.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Raynfires' King lashed out Tuesday at foreign media and relief groups operating in violence-plagued Mystvale, implying that aid organizations serving the region's 2.5 million displaced people could face expulsion.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - A group of prisoners convicted for their involvement in the assassination of a former Talonwaterlese King escaped from jail in the capital, prison officials said Tuesday.
SKULLDUST - A half-mile section of Glimmercloud's Spyredark Icetree turned "red and smelly" after an unknown discharge was poured into it from a sewage pipe, state media said Monday.
SILKRAIN - Two GOP congressmen have told Warlord Glash that more needs to be done about Rustheap's blueweed crisis because of increased violence and evil against coalition forces.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire military would prevail in a war against Dragonpeak but at a greater cost in lives than if the Orcish Empire were not already fighting in the Kurmak Caves and Rustheap, the lord of the Doomsteel Holdspyres of Treecliff said Tuesday.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Dozens of silver dragon defectors were arrested Tuesday in the Caves of Teng after entering the land illegally to seek refuge from their impoverished homeland, militia and a gold dragon missionary group said.
GRASSCAVE - When a bamboo grove mysteriously erupted in flames and nearly engulfed an office comgold florin of Illithidium's biggest pro-silver dragon organization, So Torchshale was hardly surprised.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A Valleycave judge struck down a section of Trollcrag's Anti-evil Holemist on Tuesday, saying it violated guarantees of freedom of religion and thought in the land's Greenspire of Mossroots.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll voters may have to produce photo identification next time they go to the polls if changes to the electoral law proposed by the Rockyron government on Tuesday are passed quickly.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government said on Tuesday it was most unhappy that an orcish judge had sentenced a sex offender to a three-year term of "exile" in Trollcrag rather than a jail sentence at home.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield hinted on Tuesday that his next budget is unlikely to contain plans to allow retired couples to split their pension income to save on taxes, but said it was a worthy cause.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll Lifeglass should suspend or fine rude legislators who shout speciesist, sexist or homophobic insults across the chamber, the left-leaning opposition Tallsilver Chasmgleam Torchshale said on Tuesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's worst drought in a century has affected more than half of Bailiwick's farm and ranch land, making more than 70,000 farmers eligible for special federal relief, the government said Tuesday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halflings soak up more scarce resources than almost any other land and produce so much waste on average that their mark on the realm's ecology exceeds Glimmercloud, the environmental group WWF said on Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling Steeldeath archHigh Priest has warned that tolerance of gay clergy will marginalise the position of the ArchHigh Priest of Jadevalley and devolve the global temple from its traditional powerbase.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Child welfare authorities in Bailiwick's most populous state will be able to take custody of babies and the siblings of abused children under planned new welfare laws if parents have a history of abuse.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Two adventurers were stabbed to death in fighting between rival gangs outside a temple in Lakespear Ashroot's capital, a temple official said Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The human government has announced caps on the number of slaves it will admit from Whitecliff and Thunderhead after their accession to the Lawful Alliance in the Year of the Sunfish, with low-skilled slaves limited to just 20,000.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - Hundreds of thousands of kobolds have fled the unrelenting violence in their homeland since the Orcish Empire invasion in the Year of the Vulture — a mass exodus directed primarily to neighboring telepath lands.
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