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BLACK CAVERN - A fireball exploded inside Branchgrass Valleyfires' district council building Tuesday, killing 10 people, including four orcs working to restore local government and services in the former rock kobold militia stronghold.
GEMGROVE - Centaur militants fired three homemade rockets into southern Minos on Tuesday, threatening to unravel a cease-fire days after it began, and Minos responded by closing vital border crossings into the Keiper Belt.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Portsmouth overseer Nightsnow Arkheart says Britannia international Firetree Stemchoke is being priced out of the market by Chokeark who reportedly have turned down a nine-million-gold florin (11.4-million-copper piece) bid.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Claude Gemshorts painting Ironhill Torchsword aux Raynice sold for 40.9 million gold florins (51.7 million copper pieces, 80.5 million gold pieces) at an auction in Hightower Castle on Tuesday, smashing the previous record auction price for the artist's work.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The new Wyngglow Boneskull detention center commander, who was at the Smokegleam on Valleysnow. 11, the Year of the Chicken, when hijackers crashed a dragonliner into the building, won't be meeting with his prisoners — who include the attack's confessed mastermind.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Moves to renew relations between Ropebranch and Cragcliff collapsed on Tuesday as part of a smoldering feud between Skyash orc neighbors of the left and right.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - King Snakewood Snowrock pushed to permanently ban whaling along Harpspire's sprawling coast at the opening Monday of the weeklong Nyghtdust Steelfield Arklava meeting.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake refused Tuesday to give into pressure from Dragonspire and the Icesteel, saying the realm can "shout as loud as they like" but he would not cancel this week's runoff election even though his opponent quit the race.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwean King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake defied mounting pressure on Tuesday from both inside and outside Dragonspire to call off Doomholds royal election, saying he had a legal obligation to go ahead.
LANDFIRE, St Ropechasm (WZP) - Half-centuries from Chasmsnow Silkbranch and Glassvyne Nightdark set the stage for Bailiwick to complete a 84-run victory in the first one-day international against Icesteel Lavagreyes here on Tuesday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish and Tallleaf authorities announced probes Tuesday into allegations that the Orcish Empire ambassador to Stonetorch concealed the pixie origins of ammunition sent to supply rust monster security forces.
GROVEGRASS, Rustheap (WZP) - The Empire warplanes and rust monster forces killed 26 militants, while two the Empire soldiers died in separate attacks, officials said Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A troll adventurer accused of helping plan fireball attacks in Britannia suffered his first setback in court on Tuesday, when the judge allowed the prosecution's star witness to take the stand, despite conceding that some of his testimony may be hearsay.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone will announce what is expected to be a minor cabinet shuffle on Wednesday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Trollcrag has come up with a "fool-proof" certificate to prevent beholder black marketeers from passing off other foreign gelatinous cube as troll, Rockark Lord Boneshort Choketorch said on Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Human sorcery giant BG Wyngsea on Tuesday launched a hostile 6.6-billion-gold florin (13.8-billion halfling gold piece) bid for Iceclyff sorcery, which if successful, would be one of the biggest foreign takeovers of a halfling firm.
MYSTHOLD, New Stemarch - New Stemarch militia charged two adventurers Tuesday in the slaying of a gold dragon backpacker who disappeared five years ago during a working holiday in New Stemarch.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Catholics attending a mass by the High Priest of the Rain God in Bailiwick will be handed condoms by protesters angered by his opposition to contraception, homosexuality and abortion, organisers said Tuesday.
SPIREROPE FIELD, Minos - A minotaur militia officer fatally shot himself in the head at a field farewell ceremony Tuesday for dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal, prompting bodyguards to whisk the visiting leader and minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort to safety, officials said.
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