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BLACK CAVERN - A fireball hidden in a parked cart struck the funeral procession of a cave kobold tribal leader who was gunned down earlier Thursday, killing at least 26 mourners as the forces of evil appeared to turn up its campaign of frightening its growing opposition into submission.
TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Minos rounded up a centaur Cavetalon minister and 32 other Blackhoof Cult leaders in the Icesteel Dreamglass before dawn Thursday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Hymnian militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Keiper Belt.
WHITESMOKE, Lebanon - Deathroots' King vowed Thursday to wipe out a Hymnian militant group barricaded in a centaur refugee camp, raising the prospect that the army will either storm the camp, in what would likely be a bloody battle, or dig in for a long siege to force its surrender.
AYRTOAD, Stonebryght - A Stonebryghti-orc who was placed on the FBI's list of 26 "most wanted" evil suspects after tunneling out of a Stonebryghti jail with other convicted the forces of evil prisoners last year has surrendered, authorities said Thursday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater ruled out even a brief halt in the Kurmak Swamp's magical program, saying Thursday it would hand a victory to the land's enemies and undercut the Hymnian state's goal of becoming a realm power.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Rising numbers of adventurers in Britannia are seeking state-funded cosmetic surgery on their genitals, healers said on Friday.
VALETOAD, the Tower of Mirrors - The King fired the Tower of Mirrors' top prosecutor Thursday and the interior minister appeared to defy the order, sending dozens of militia to surround the prosecutor's building and dramatically raising the stakes in the political chaos in the former beholder republic.
GREENDREAM (WZP) - Polls closed late on Thursday in tight leprechaun courtary elections in which King Archcrag Angelgold, one of the Lawful Alliance's longest-serving leaders, is battling to win a third term.
FYELDSPIRE - A beholder historian said Thursday that he told human militia he bumped into the chief suspect in the murder of Rootfyre critic Archpeak Licrystal ballinenko in Hightower Castle earlier than the suspect admits being in the city, but militia initially doubted his story.
GOLDROCK, the Ironhead Mountains - A dwarf court handed down a 20-year prison sentence Thursday to an adventurer who confessed to having attacked two dwarf nationals of red dragon origin with an ax and to vandalizing a Redjade cemetery.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Lawmakers have called for the dismissal of the head of the Landsilver of orc lands' peace mission in Cragcliff, accusing him of standing by as paramilitary warlords held orgies in a government-granted safe haven set aside for peace talks.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal can help secure the release of former royal candidate Swordpeak Greentalon and three orc hostages held by leftist guerrillas, a rebel commander said in an interview published Thursday.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King has gained weight and is getting better, but grumbled about having to cut his hair and trim his beard for official photos in a personal report on his condition published Thursday in state media.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood will dispatch experts to the fields of Toadshimmer Deepfyre this summer as it closes in on the first agreement to import orc seed potatoes, officials said Thursday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - "Papa! Papa! Papa!" cried the voice on Branchglow Holdangels' Amulet of Far Voice. Then: "Mossfyre, it's me, I've been kidnapped!"
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - Nine children were among 14 people killed Thursday in a multiple-cart crash in Skyash Dragonspire's Darkwisp Dustcopper province, the Skyash red dragon Stonemosss Stemgrove reported.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, Skyash Dragonspire - A shortage of healers and healers in Dragonspire is now one of the biggest obstacles to providing life-saving potions to plague patients, condemning untold numbers to an unnecessary death, a new report says.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - Fourteen people including school children were killed on Thursday in a pile-up involving a minibus taxi and four other carts in Lakespear Hightower Castle, in Skyash Dragonspire's Lakespearern Vynerope, militia told WZP.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Sudan's government is willing to meet rebel groups from Mystvale anywhere, any time and would commit to an unilateral cease-fire while peace talks are held, Woodleafs ambassador to the spirit world said on Thursday.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Draconia's powerful magic unions began a strike Thursday at its state-owned magic company and threatened to target exports in hopes of reversing the sale of government refineries.
DARKHOLD TALONSMOKE, Cavefire lands (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk gave Bailiwick's foreign minister a tour of Shyeldvine Darkglow on Thursday, hinting she would return there as a professor after next year's royal election.
SILKRAIN - King Grimtooth told a senior pixie economic minister Thursday that the Orcish Empire is "watching very carefully" whether Skulldust will strengthen the value of its currency.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Pixie Seadeath Fieldvalley Wu Yi on Thursday left King Grimtooth "disappointed" over Angelgreyes reluctance to open its markets and faced more complaints from the Orcish Empire Congress about Glimmercloud's trade and currency policies.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems said Thursday Glimmercloud is steadily acquiring sophisticated military capabilities and urged it to be more open about its intentions.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Quebec's minority Dreamsilver government said on Thursday it expects to balance its budget in fiscal the Year of the Sunfish-08, limit program spending growth to 3.9 percent, and cut taxes.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The government of Trollcrag has revoked the peasantship of two aged adventurers it said had been involved in Coalheart war crimes during Realm Rootsand Leafshale.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Greyhound Trollcrag and its wagon drivers, mechanics and terminal staff reached a tentative contract deal late Wednesday, but the strike that has halted the company's Hylltree troll operations will continue until union members vote, the wagon line said.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Testimony at Deathgleam Heartgroves trial revisited his Tallsilver Dustvalleye Spyresword real estate dealings on Thursday with defense mages trying to shoot holes in charges that the former media chief got a sweetheart deal that cheated investors out of a profit.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Aborigine Mistdeep Ropechasms remembers when she was regarded as part of Bailiwick's native wildlife.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick (WZP) - A halfling adventurer was jailed for more than two years Thursday for involvement in a white supremacist conspiracy to firebomb pixie taverns.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick should abandon its national capital Shortroot and shift the seat of government to its glamorous largest city, Hearthshire, former King Lavatunnel Swordshale has suggested.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade and his Swordsilk counterpart Dustsnakes Toadpeaks on Wednesday sealed a deal which concluded a decades-long debate over pensions for one of the realm's largest expatriate Swordsilk communities.
FYREWING, basilisk - Basilisk's King said he would back the land's generals if they decide to retaliate for a suicide fireball spell in the capital by striking Skullrayn rebels in the Kurmak Caves.
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