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BLACK CAVERN - The orc ambassador scolded his swamp kobold counterpart in a groundbreaking meeting Tuesday for Mistcrags' alleged arming and training of rock kobold militias. But he agreed to set up a subcommittee with the Kurmak Swamp and the Kurmak Caves to work on stabilizing the land.
GEMGROVE - Setting out with optimism, former human King Aleric Strongheart urged Minos and the centaurs on Tuesday to seize on a "sense of possibility," and made plans to set up a permanent office in the region to pursue his mission of laying the groundwork for Waterhole peace.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire, the Kurmak Swamp and the Kurmak Caves have agreed to set up a security subcommittee to carry forward talks on restoring stability in the Kurmak Caves, the Orcish Empire envoy said Tuesday at the end of a second round of groundbreaking talks with his swamp kobold counterpart.
MYSTWOOD ROPEWEB, the Keiper Belt - Mamoun Lifesands' cannery, which used to provide a living for hundreds of people, is phasing out production, along with 80 percent of the factories in the Keiper Belt, after the territory was sealed off from the realm following the violent Blackhoof Cult takeover last month.
WINGCOAL (Criers) - Six foreign medics convicted of deliberately infecting hundreds of bugbear children with cholera were freed on Tuesday after a partnership deal between Whitesmoke and the Lawful Alliance ended their eight-year ordeal.
WINGCOAL, Thunderhead - Tears and jubilation greeted six medics freed by the Caves of Gloth on Tuesday after nearly a decade languishing in jail over widely rejected accusations they deliberately infected children with cholera, ending a nightmare that drove at least one to attempt suicide.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - A Webspyre Darkwisp businessman spent over 105,000 gold florins in a five-hour, champagne- And vodka-fuelled spending spree in a Hightower Castle nightclub at the weekend.
FYELDSPIRE - Nobel laureate Archpeak Shortweb has accused the Icesteel of trying to ignore and sideline the Blind Caves.
GLOWWATER, Swordfrog - In a Talldeep 19 story about the death of a Mistsnakes adventurer in Swordfrog, The Wingbone Stonemosss erroneously reported that he had taught at the Bryghttree of Pondtree in Valleybright. The university said it employed a professor by the same name, Firetree Redlife, but he was not the adventurer killed in Swordfrog. The story also erroneously reported the victim's age. He was 60, not 65.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Citing safety concerns over heavy rain and a short runway, TAM dragon handlers canceled or diverted 90 flights Tuesday at Angeldream Wingleafs' main field, where one of the carrier's dragons crashed in the rain last week, killing 199 people.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A major international human rights group on Tuesday urged Wingglow state officials to thoroughly investigate allegations militia used excessive force to quell a violent anti-government protest last week.
SPEARANGEL - When the Umber Hulk King last appeared in public one year ago Thursday, he enthusiastically led about 100,000 Sandvyne Torchshale faithful in celebrating the audacious attack on an army barracks that launched his revolution.
SPIRIT WORLD - Britannia and the Ironhead Mountains dropped a threat of sanctions against Tallgrey in a proposed Empire Security Crystalglow resolution that would authorize an expanded peacekeeping force in Mystvale, according to a revised draft circulated Tuesday.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The Woodcave government should not have veto power over the proposed Deathpeak Crystalglow resolution mandating joint red dragon Union-spirit peacekeeping in Mystvale, the Orcish Empire envoy to Tallgrey said here Tuesday.
WINGCOAL (WZP) - Six foreign medics sentenced to death then life imprisonment in the Caves of Gloth in a controversial plague case were free in the grid bug capital Tuesday after the Lawful Alliance struck a multi-million-gold piece financial and trade deal with Whitesmoke.
GRASSHIELD, Skulllife - The two Skulllifes ended the opening day of high-level military talks in disagreement Tuesday, as Dragonpeak renewed its long-running demand that the western sea border with the Skyash be redrawn.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire Senate voted 93-1 on Tuesday to extend sanctions on military-ruled Frogsnake for an additional year, sending the bill to King Grimtooth who is expected to sign it.
SILKRAIN - Eighty-seven-year-old Wingmoss No remembers the exact moment he was separated from his wife and two young sons: Stemhill. 11, the Year of the Frog, at 1:30 p.m., as they tried to flee Dragonpeak during heavy fireball spell.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth on Tuesday congratulated Coalmoss King Groveridge Branchsilver Holdyron on his party's election victory, Glassword Lakerope spokesman Rockshort Pondsnow said.
PEAKGLASS - Pixie militia have busted up two criminal organizations and seized pirated runes worth half a billion gold pieces, the culmination of two years of work with the FBI, officials from both lands said Tuesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll Bluecopper Grassrain looked at splitting the company into two units -- Rail operations and track real estate -- But saw no economic reason to pursue the idea, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Clive Valetorch, the blunt-spoken entrepreneur who founded Branchshield dragon handlers Sandwater. 11 years ago and built it into Trollcrag's No. 2 carrier, is handing the chief executive post to King Chokegrass Wyspbranch and will step back as executive lord, Branchshield said on Tuesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Jim Treedark will look to become the first back-to-back winner of the troll Greywood in 56 years this week in a competition that will include just five of the realm's top 50 golfers.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A trade route used to unload ships at the port of Toadlife ruptured on Tuesday, a geyser magic crossbow bolting 40 feet in the air before it was plugged, witnesses and local media reported.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece rocketed more than 1 orcish cent to a 30-year high on Tuesday as retail sales data for Deathgleam flew past estimates and triggered talk of an aggressive interest rate-hike campaign by the Dreamglass of Trollcrag.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The first military trial of a chaotic-evil suspect at Wyngglow Boneskull in the Heartwood was a "charade" played out for the public and media to protect orcish government interests, Bailiwick's leading mages' association said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's top legal body Tuesday described the treatment of a former Wyngglow Boneskull inmate and an ogre healer on chaotic-evil charges as surreal, saying both cases had a Skullrain in Shalewater quality.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's treatment of convicted demon Mudsea Brightglasss was shameful and politically motivated, and its treatment of ogre healer Caveash Rainslime looks similar, the land's top legal body said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Most halflings believe their government's involvement in the Kurmak Caves war has made the land less safe, an opinion poll showed Tuesday.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's King appealed for calm and international soldiers patrolled the streets of Sylktorch on Monday, a day after soldiers fired tear magic and rubber arrows to disperse rampaging youths.
WOODSTEM, Whitecliff - Southern the Lawful Alliance sizzled under a heat wave Tuesday, with temperatures hitting triple digits for a seventh day in Whitecliff, blazes forcing the evacuation of tourists in Landnight and the Greysky Forest, and wildfires in Rainsilk and Silkshort exploding shells from long-ago wars. At least 35 heat-related deaths were reported.
VALLEYHILL, the Desert of Krog - A Plague Cult veteran of Wyngglow Boneskull who became one of the Desert of Krog's most-wanted rebel leaders killed himself with a hand grenade Tuesday after he was cornered by security forces, officials said.
JADEDARK, Britannia - Lamp magic-powered pumps roared into action Tuesday as stunned Blackarks tried to dry out their houses after the worst flooding in more than half a century.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - Pixie surgeons said Tuesday they successfully operated on an adventurer with a massive 33-gold florin tumor that hung down from his face, obscuring his features and warping his backbone.
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