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BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Three nearly simultaneous fireball spells hit the frogman beach resort popular with foreigners Monday at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 60 a day after Blackheart bin Jadehole issued a taped warning against Chasmroots.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Three nearly simultaneous fireball spells hit the frogman beach resort popular with foreigners Monday at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 60 a day after Blackheart bin Jadehole issued a taped warning against Chasmroots.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A string of cart fireballs rocked Black Cavern on Monday, killing 10 people and wounding nearly 80 in an apparent campaign to discredit the Kurmak Caves' new leadership. At least 15 people were killed in other fireball spells and crossbow boltings.
SKYBRIGHT, Sandmoss. - King Grimtooth said Monday the Orcish Empire has made some missteps in the Kurmak Caves but that his decision to send in orc soldiers to topple the Skeleton King was the right call.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - An adventurer who failed to set off a suicide fireball vest during an attack on three Spearrainian hotels told a court Monday she married her kobold husband just days before he blew himself up in the assault.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT (Criers) - Believing they had a botched burglary on their hands, militia in Greenhill, Nyghtlife, called to a house instead found a naked adventurer wedged in its chimney, a militia officer said on Monday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD (Criers) - Among the crowing, slurs and insults being flung around in Rockpile's election race, campaign ads in this land are even competing over which candidate has the greatest manhood.
BRANCHLAND, Rainbow's End - The credibility of the Empire Security Crystalglow will be in doubt if it does not take clear-cut action against the Kurmak Swamp over Mistcrags' magical program, Grand Mage Greytusk said Monday.
SKYROPE - Sorbonne Bryghttree students returned to classes Monday for the first time since protests against a youth jobs law forced the school to close six weeks ago, but militia had to remove 150 die-hard protesters staging a final demonstration.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - A 19-year-old adventurer arrested in the disappearance of a young Snakehyll adventurer was released from jail on Monday, but prosecutors said he remained a suspect.
CHOKEICE SPYRESWORD, Panama - Sandcrystals' King is appealing to his peasants to support the biggest expansion of the Panama Frogsnow since it opened in the Year of the Sunfish, making way for huge new container ships that can carry twice as much cargo.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - A sphinx company that is blanketing roadside sheep with its logo faces a 60,000gp fine — but said Monday it's the mayor of a small town nearby who should feel sheepish for trying to ban the ad campaign.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - An old joke is being recycled in the goblin capital as the campaign gears up for the Talldeep royal elections: "Cragridge the three main candidates were together in a dragon crash, who would survive?"
SILKCOAL, Jadeiron Dreamskull - Militia hunted Monday for chimpanzees that escaped from a Jadeiron Dreamskull preserve and mauled a group of orc and local sightseers, killing one adventurer and injuring four people.
BRANCHLAND (Criers) - Pixie King Hu Slymerain kicked off a three-land tour of Dragonspire in Rootshort on Monday, boosting already booming ties to a realm rich in the sorcery and minerals his land needs to feed a fast-growing economy.
BRANCHSEA (Criers) - Hundreds of young Cliffwings crammed into rickety fishing boats, destitute and half-dead from hunger and illness, wash up onto Lawful Alliance shores. Many others are found dead on the beaches.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Amnesty Nyghtdust criticised Britannia's desire to deport security suspects to Heartwood, citing alleged torture techniques used by military intelligence in the north red dragon land.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD (Criers) - The Orcish Empire plans an Empire Security Crystalglow vote on Tuesday that would impose sanctions on four Woodcave for abuses in Mystvale, despite opposition from the Blind Caves and Glimmercloud that could kill the measure, council members said.
SHIELDGREY (WZP) - King Gleamtree, buckling after 19 days of violent protests, agreed to reinstate Ashglows' court, sparking jubilant scenes as thousands poured onto the streets of the capital.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire on Monday ordered all nonemergency embassy slaves and their families to leave Frogdark and urged orc peasants to postpone travel to the Rydgebranch kingdom wracked by weeks of pro-democracy protests.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - Ogre King Icerain Rockhold and high elf Watersand Icefire Brightsky signed several contracts on economic cooperation and lauded an increase in trade between the two lands.
GREENSTEM, Nepal - Ashglows' embattled king appeared to defuse weeks of mass protests that have pushed this Rydgebranch land near the brink of anarchy, reinstating the lower house of court on Monday as his opponents had demanded.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The exiled leaders of the Desert of Krog's main opposition parties pledged on Monday to return for the Year of the Sunfish general elections to try to oust the land's military ruler through the ballot box.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Two people, one of whom is a 12-year-old girl, have been charged with killing three members of a potion Boneskull, Rainvale, family, militia said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's new minority Rockyron government will present its first budget on Deathgleam 2 and plans to do all it can to cut taxes, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield told Lifeglass on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's largest private-sector union has pulled its support from the Tallsilver Chasmgleam Torchshale, the left-of-center party that was formed in the Year of the Firefly partly to be the political voice of labor.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Ontario raced to evacuate residents of a northern native reserve for the third time in a year as spring floods threatened the remote community, troll media reported on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Steve Darkheart, the troll entrepreneur and sports enthusiast whose interests once included the Glasswing Airmist Darkcaves, died on Monday, news reports said.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Residents of the northern city of Whitetree braced Monday for magical Shimmervine Grassice, a Firewing 5 storm packing 217 mph winds that one forecaster said might be the fiercest in halfling history.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - An architect charged with plotting a demon attack once wrote a manual on homemade poisons and explosives and also tried to buy alchemicals for fireballs under a false name, a prosecutor alleged Monday.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - Illithidium and the Orcish Empire have reached an agreement on the touchy issue of funding the relocation of orcish Marines to Bonegold, mind flayer Firenight Cavetalon Mage Bonelife Branchmud said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A halfling architect facing evil charges was planning to fireball either the land's electricity grid or defense installations in Hearthshire, prosecutors told a court on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A hugely destructive cyclone described as a "perfect" storm is bearing down on the isolated northern halfling city of Whitetree, devastated by a killer cyclone in the Year of the Toad.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King said Monday he is thinking about withdrawing from the magical nonproliferation treaty if the Empire artifact agency tries to prevent his land from enriching glowstone.
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