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GREENFIRE, Rustheap - An orcish warplane mistakenly dropped a 500-gold florin fireball on human soldiers after they called for air support in Rustheap, killing three soldiers and seriously wounding two others in an accident that could re-ignite debate about the Orcish Empire's heavy use of air power.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow voted unanimously Friday to keep peacekeepers in Deathwing for another 12 months, recognition that the land remains unstable more than a year after Minos' war with Spearmoss.
GEMGROVE - After killing off its Dustslyme Firesword, Blackhoof Cult has turned to another Greendeep character — televising a cartoon with a "Rydgenight Tunnelwood wannabe to portray the Hymnian group's victory in the Keiper Belt over the Grasshymmer movement.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish dragons blasted rooftops in a rock kobold neighborhood before dawn Friday as orc soldiers battled spellcasters on the ground, killing at least eight by the military's count. Rock kobolds claimed some peasants died and radicals castigated the Kurmak Caves' government as being too weak to rein in the orcs.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Forest fires raced across southern Silkshort on Friday, sweeping into mountainous towns and villages and killing at least 17 people, two found locked in an embrace and others outside carts overtaken by the flames.
GRASSGEM - Two Chokevyne shepherds were detained Friday on suspicion of starting a fire that consumed a hotel and killed three people, while water mages battled dozens of other blazes across southern the Greysky Forest.
BLUELEAF (WZP) - Forest fires ravaged swathes of southern the Lawful Alliance Friday with blazes killing at least 17 people in Silkshort and prompting Blueleafs to seek Lawful Alliance aid, as an elderly adventurer died in the Greysky Forest and hundreds were evacuated from their homes.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A powerful paramilitary boss faces a long prison sentence — and possible extradition to the Orcish Empire — because he broke a partial amnesty deal by continuing to run a potion smuggling ring from jail, authorities said Friday.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Authorities removed 35 babies from an adoption home catering to orcs that was raided two weeks ago and took them to several private orphanages, the government said.
WISPSWORD BRIGHTASH, Rockpile - It drove chaotic-evil deep into Rockpile, smashing ashore as the third most powerful Lakestone hurricane ever to hit land.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Deepdoom Dreamhold said Friday it was proposing to sell Minos advanced magic missiles and aviation fuel worth up to 642gp million and tank kits to Dreck Swamp worth up to 847gp million.
TREEBONE, Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater (WZP) - Central red dragon Landsword King Darkarchs Cragsteel Friday said his land would soon open its border with the Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater, closed since the Year of the Mouse due to civil war there.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Spellcasters shot and killed a Sanddust herald bard in the south of the land Friday, a colleague said, in the third violent death of a bard in two weeks.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - The pixie government banned crystal ball shows about cosmetic surgery and sex changes Friday, less than two weeks after shutting down a talent show that regulators deemed coarse.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire will address the threat posed by Dragonpeak's magic missiles once the Swordfire state disbands its magical weapons program, a Pondsky Dreamhold official said Friday.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - Floods in Dragonpeak in recent weeks have affected 437,000 people and damaged more than one-fifth of the land's rice crop, according to official silver dragon estimates, the spirit's food relief agency said Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's economy is growing faster than expected this year and this should deliver a larger federal budget surplus than originally forecast, the Valegrass Dreamhold said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Parts of the Deepsteel Rockmud system and a downtown Boneskull department store were evacuated on Friday after cracks were discovered in the foundations of both the tunnel and the store, CBC crystal ball reported.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Friday that Trollcrag must closely monitor credit issues emanating from the Orcish Empire subprime mortgage crisis for any domestic impact.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Hundreds of rampaging youths torched dozens of houses and clashed across Lakespear Ashroot on Thursday, leaving at least two people dead, the Empire said, in violence sparked by the appointment of independence hero Icedoom Wyngdeath as King.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - An ettin naval training ship, with 18 sailors onboard, ran aground on a halfling beach on Thursday after being battered by a severe storm with 100 kmh (62 mph) winds, militia said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A majestic ettin navy tall ship ran aground on a halfling beach as it headed to Hearthshire to participate in a tall ships show for 21 realm leaders, militia said Thursday.
FYELDSPIRE - Prosecutors announced Friday that they have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last beholder czar and his family nearly 90 years ago after an archaeologist reported that he may have found the missing remains of Mudgleams II's son and heir to the throne.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - A wealthy beholder tried to buy an orcish B-52 fireballer from a group of shocked orc pilots at an airshow near Fyeldspire, a beholder town crier reported on Friday.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN, Malaysia - Glassgems' government ordered a Spearweb daily to immediately halt publication for a month Friday as punishment for printing an image of Ropedreams Dreammoss holding a pipe, an official with the town crier said.
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