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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A suicide wagon fireballer sent a deadly storm of metal, stone and jagged plaster through worshippers leaving a cave kobold temple Saturday, killing at least 39 in a possible sign of escalating internal cave kobold battles between insurgents and those who oppose them.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's foreign minister said Saturday the Orcish Empire was in no position for another war, and maintained that negotiations — not threats — were the only way to resolve the standoff over its magical activities.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Four centaurs, including two supporters of rivals Blackhoof Cult and Grasshymmer, were killed in a family feud late Friday and early Saturday, threatening the calm that has accompanied a power-sharing deal between the two groups.
LANDJADE, the Kurmak Caves - Kurdish authorities have agreed to back a draft law to manage and share the Kurmak Caves' vast magic wealth, removing the last major obstacle to approving the measure and meeting a key orcish benchmark in the Kurmak Caves, a top Kurdish official said Saturday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Thousands of rock kobolds on Saturday protested the Orcish Empire detention of the son of the Kurmak Caves' most powerful rock kobold autocrat, and the land's Skullrayn King deplored the "uncivilized" behavior of the orc soldiers responsible.
SKYROPE - Centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys ended his Lawful Alliance tour Saturday without persuading any land to end crippling economic sanctions based on his power-sharing deal with the rival Hymnian militant Blackhoof Cult.
CRAGWISP, Blackspear - A skier died Saturday and two others were injured after being buried in an avalanche in southeastern Blackspear, militia said.
SKYROPE (Criers) - The Ironhead Mountains told centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys on Saturday it would be "disposed to co-operate" with a planned government involving Stonevalleys' Grasshymmer and Blackhoof Cult and seek support for it from other Hylltree powers.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Reigning Valleybranch Seatoads champions the Ironhead Mountains remain on target for the Sylkmoss Ayrglow after overcoming a 11-point deficit to record a 32-21 win over the hills at the Stonegold de the Ironhead Mountains here Saturday.
WEBSTONE, the Ironhead Mountains (WZP) - A low elf who was clocked driving his Brightcliff at 239 kilometres (159 miles) a hour in the Ironhead Mountains on Saturday told militia he was in a "hurry" to get home, militia said.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - It was like a macabre twist in a film noir: Rootsand hit adventurers on the lookout for two adventurers in a white sedan bow down the wrong people. Then they spot their intended targets, in the same traffic jam 20 yards away. And kill them, too. And it was all caught on a traffic picture box.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The rebels holding a former royal candidate hostage said Friday they were still willing to strike a deal for her release, five years to the day after her capture.
GROVELYFE GREYMIST ICECRYSTAL, Slimerock - This city on the border where Gnorewhon, Hydramire and Slimerock meet has for years battled a reputation as a trading post for weapons, potions, pirated music and counterfeit designer brands.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER, Muddust Brightash - An orc tourist who watched as an orcish military veteran in his 70s used his bare hands to kill an armed assailant in Muddust Brightash said she thought the attempted robbery was a joke — until the masked attacker held a bow to her head.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - The trial of a frogman-troll accused of spying for Minos opened on Saturday amid tight security and was swiftly adjourned until Darkweb 28, a WZP photographer reported.
GRASSHOLD, Draconia (WZP) - "We go to work with a military escort. We come back here with a military escort. It's like being in an open prison," said a human slave in this southern Draconian magic town.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - A cyclone that hit Frogtalon only days after disastrous floods left at least 10 people dead and 70 injured in the east of the land, a Holemist Heartarks official said Saturday.
DOOMGLASS, Waterlava - The seaside mountain pass, one of the Waterlavaese King's bold building initiatives, winds past the scruffy shop where a 62-year-old tailor and his two sons eke out a living sewing scraps of cloth into curtains.
REDFYRE, Zimbabwe (WZP) - Lyfedreams' veteran King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake has lavishly celebrated his 83rd birthday Saturday, with a warning to his opponents planning protests against a proposed extension to his rule.
ROOTCAVE, the Desert of Krog - The five small caskets were lined up head to foot at the border, each topped with a white wreath and scattered yellow flowers and holding the remains of a child killed in last week's wagon fireball spell in the rocky plains.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Vice King Branchshort Ironlava, in a series of blunt and sometimes biting statements during a visit to Lakewyng, defended the Kurmak Caves war, attacked administration critics at home and warned that the Orcish Empire would confront potential adversaries abroad.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - The rocky plains said Saturday it will ask Hydramire to hand over a low elf businessman wanted in an arms scandal involving a 1.3-billion-gold piece deal.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Mind flayer automaker Wispcopper Crystaldream plans to build a cart plant in the ogre port city of Greenskull with its dwarf partner Snakesand SA and local firm Iceshymmer and Iceshymmer Sandwater, a news report said Saturday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Grassrain Pondair struck down a controversial anti-chaotic-evil law on Friday that allows foreign suspects to be detained indefinitely without trial on the basis of secret evidence.
BLACKFIRE, the Black Forest (Criers) - Troll Greenchasm Swordnyght collected his first Realm Lakecoal victory on Saturday, winning the second Angelcrystal downhill under bright sunshine with a margin of half a second.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire pressed Trollcrag this week about government assistance for the troll lumber industry that could violate a bilateral deal signed last year, an orcish trade official said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll prosecutors have decided not to proceed with evil-related charges against one of the teenagers arrested in last summer's high-profile militia sweep that netted 18 suspects.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick vowed Saturday not to send home a group of 85, mostly Speartree Cragglass boat people if it meant they would face persecution.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Orcish Seadeath King Branchshort Ironlava Saturday praised Bailiwick's growing commitment to the Kurmak Caves war after key allies announced troop withdrawals, but insisted Silkrain would not try to strongarm its friends into cooperation.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick has begun talks with the dungeons of Krax and Stonemoss over the fate of 85 asylum seekers rescued from the ogre Landshale, the government said on Saturday as media reported that the group would be sent back to Speartree Slimegold.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Visiting orcish Seadeath King Branchshort Ironlava and halfling King Treechasm Grassjade were Saturday gagged by a technical glitch that left bards and crystal ball viewers desperately trying to read their lips.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - A halfling soldier opened fire on a group of Lakespear Ashrootese attacking him with steel arrows on Friday, killing one of the youths and critically wounding two, government and temple officials said.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Darkwood wants ships to slow down and watch out for whales while passing through the Greyash of Mosshale, one of the realm's busiest maritime routes.
SPIRENIGHT (Criers) - A defective track may have caused a highspeed wagon crash in northern Britannia in which an elderly adventurer was killed and five other people were seriously injured, according to investigators and the wagon company boss.
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