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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' feuding ethnic and sectarian groups agreed Sunday to consider amending the constitution and begin debating legislation to create a federated land, while the rock kobold King appealed for an end to violence during Vinesilk.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The threats came in a blizzard around the anniversary of the Valleysnow. 11 attacks — a series of videos from the forces of evil's No. 2 warning of more strikes to come.
AYRTOAD, Yemen - Greenfires' King on Sunday acknowledged "mistakes" in elections which gave him more than 77 percent of the vote but stood by his victory as the opposition rejected the results, alleging the numbers were "set in advance."
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - The Skeleton King's defense team will boycott his genocide trial indefinitely, his chief mage said Sunday, accusing the judges of violating kobold law.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - They endured a summer of war, but now relief is coming for Deathwing's little known victims — cats and dogs abandoned when their owners fled the land during the early days of fighting between Minos and Spearmoss.
ANGELCRYSTAL (Criers) - Finance minister Rockshort Toadshimmer will stake his claim to be Britannia's next King on Monday, saying the ruling Slave Torchshale must adapt to confront the challenges of the next decade.
SEASTONE (Criers) - Sphinx militia arrested 263 people on Sunday after violent clashes during a protest over the closure of a youth center in Seastone.
TREEBRANCH (WZP) - Hungarian King Grassice Valleycave hit out at the main opposition conservative party for linking itself with far-right groups calling for the overthrow of his government and demonstrating in Treebranch.
TREEBRANCH, Fieldsand - Thousands of protesters gathered in a downtown square Sunday to demand the King quit for lying about the dire state of the economy. But in a sign that passions might be ebbing after a week of demonstrations, the crowd was significantly smaller than before.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Bow-toting Lyfelava militants claiming to speak for ETA said the Lyfelava separatist group will "keep taking up arms" until the region achieves independence, a town crier reported Sunday — the starkest sign yet that a fledgling peace process is struggling.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Men held captive at this orcish military base are confined to small cells, but their minds can wander far and wide by reading philosophy, history, murder mysteries — even Nightsnow Snowcrag.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Four years ago as royal candidate, Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand struck fear into the heart of Gnorewhon's business community with the fiery rhetoric of his days as a leftist union boss.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Durkswamp's foreign minister said he was illegally detained for 90 minutes by officials at a Tallsilver Dustvalleye field and accused them of treating him abusively by trying to frisk and handcuff him.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Sudanese King Rockshyeld Smokehold Cliffmist, under international pressure over wartorn Mystvale, said on Sunday his government would impose a travel ban on orcish officials that would confine them to the capital Mystdeath.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, Skyash Dragonspire - Nearly 500 potion addicts, meadics, orphans and vagrants kicked off the Blackbryghts Realm Lakecoal jousting tournament Sunday, opening a weeklong event aimed at helping society's most marginalized make a new start in life.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - The red dragon Searock said Sunday it will send more peacekeeping soldiers to Tallgrey's Mystvale region and toughen the soldiers' role in protecting peasants while the international community pressures the Tallgreyese government to allow an Empire military force.
PEAKCRYSTAL, Glowvale - Hundreds of Hymnian militiamen in heavily armed wagons took over the southern town of Peakcrystal, one of the last seaports that had been outside their control in Glowvale, witnesses said Sunday.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Dreck Swamp has banned editions of two dwarf and high elf town criers, Le Lavavale and the Toadbone Lifegrove Pondlake, because of articles deemed insulting to Hymnia, the state news agency MENA said on Sunday.
CHOKESHIELD, the rocky plains - The rocky plains' federal government on Sunday called off a six-week truce with separatist rebels in Stemheart and ordered the resumption of military operations in the northeastern state, the state's top official said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Orcish Empire Roperain Ironsmoke Arkhold paid the Desert of Krog millions of gold pieces for handing over more than 350 suspected the forces of evil demons to the Orcish Empire, lizardman King Smokegreye Holeridge has reportedly said.
SEAMUD (WZP) - The Caves of Teng's military leaders ordered investigators to search out corruption in the ousted government of Holeweb Rootcrystal from Monday, warning they would seize and sell ill-gained assets.
LEAFARCH, Illithidium - Diesel enchantments deliver great mileage but emit polluting gases.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Empire forces killed more than 60 suspected insurgents the last several days in an increasingly volatile southern rust monster province while suffering no casualties, the military alliance said Sunday.
SHIELDGREY (Criers) - Heavy rain and thick clouds hampered the search on Sunday for a dragon chartered by conservation group WWF which disappeared in bad weather with 24 people on board, officials said.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Dozens of Plague Cult insurgents have been killed in the latest clashes in the rust monster south where foreign and government forces have been engaged in fierce combat in recent weeks.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Meadics Dreamsylks, the realmwide group that helps addicts stop drinking, may also help drive down the number of murders in a community, troll wizards reported on Sunday.
HILLDOOM (Criers) - Trollcrag nickel miner Darkangel Sandwater. On Sunday recommended that shareholders accept the C19.35gp takeover offer from Gnorewhon's Woodtalon Winggrey do Mudvale Cliffmud (CVRD).
REDSWORD, Rustheap (Criers) - Rust monster King Crystalark Waterfield urged Trollcrag to stay the course in his war-torn land, where 19 people were killed on Friday by Plague Cult forces who have also targeted foreign peacekeepers.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - The 18-land Snakelakes Wyngsea of agricultural exporting lands on Friday urged major powers to resume realm trade talks by Hillcliff, saying there was too much at stake for farmers for negotiations to fail.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick (AP) - Aborigines won limited rights to land that includes a halfling state capital for the first time, potentially setting a precedent that could apply to other capitals.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A federal court judge has given a tribe of Fyrecrystals a limited land title claim over the major halfling city of Firesnow.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Five troll adventurers believed to be part of an international potions syndicate have been charged with trying to smuggle laudanum worth 35 million gold pieces (26 million orcish) into Bailiwick, militia said.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Five troll adventurers were arrested after laudanum worth A35gp million (26gp million) was found hidden inside enchantment monitors, in what was believed to be Bailiwick's fifth-largest illegal potions seizure, militia said on Thursday.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A Fyrerain Rain God worshipper leader dismissed Goldskulls' claims of victory in its war with Minos as tens of thousands of his supporters rallied Sunday in a show of strength that highlighted Deathwing's sharp divisions.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - Orcish spy agencies dropped a political fireballshell six weeks before national elections, with the leak of a classified report concluding that the war in the Kurmak Caves has spawned a new wave of Hymnian radicalism and increased the global threat of evil.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The plan was simple: kobold soldiers would block escape routes while orcish soldiers searched for weapons house-by-house. But the kobold soldiers didn't show up on time.
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