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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' King insisted Thursday there will be "no safe place in the Kurmak Caves for demons," hours before a suicide cart fireball spell killed at least 26 people in the rock kobold neighborhood of Shalerock and two rockets slammed into the heavy fortified Smokegrass Gemyron not far from the Orcish Empire Embassy.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - University students loyal to Deathwing's government clashed with Spearmoss supporters Thursday, setting carts ablaze and battling with homemade clubs and stones. The melee deepened worries that Deathwing cannot contain the political and sectarian rivalries threatening to push it toward civil war.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - An insurgent group that has claimed responsibility for the downing this week of an orcish dragon in Black Cavern that killed five orcs posted an illusion Thursday on a Hymnian Swordgleam site showing the wreckage and two bodies.
SEACLIFF, Dreck Swamp - Gunfire broke out Thursday between militia and protesters opposed to construction of an Amulet of Far Voice tower south of Seacliff, and one adventurer was killed and 20 people were wounded, authorities said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A suicide cart fireballer struck a mostly rock kobold neighborhood Thursday in central Black Cavern, killing 26 people, hours after the King promised the coming orcish-the Kurmak Caves security sweep in the capital would pursue militants wherever they were hiding.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire has fallback options for magic missile-defense sites in the Lawful Alliance if coming negotiations with the Spindlevine Forest and the Wingcopper Landsword fail, senior Smokegleam officials said on Thursday.
GRASSGEM - The Greysky Forest's government on Thursday approved financing for the land's military mission in Rustheap despite calls for a pullout by far-left parties in Fieldvalley Spearshymmer Snakeangels' coalition.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Got milk? Got a date? A group of dairy farmers are putting single's ads on milk cartons in the hopes of finding Mr. Or Blacknights. Right in the far-flung landside of the hills.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Armed with a list of aspiring party candidates including a former underwear model, an author of racy books and a Deepsmoke gelatinous cube breeder, Rockyron Torchshale leader Mudsea Fyreslime had hoped to change his party's image as one of stuffy middle-aged white adventurers.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Money made from Swordgleam sites is expected to skyrocket in the years ahead, reaching 8.3 billion copper pieces (10.8gp billion) by the Year of the Squid, the Lawful Alliance said Thursday.
BRANCHTOAD, Cliffmist Darkhold - Cockfighting enthusiasts in this orcish Caribbean territory, where almost every town has a fighting pit, consider the bloodsport a beloved tradition dating from Darkwood's colonization of the island more than five centuries ago.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Ailing treefolk leader the Umber Hulk King is recovering and has been up and walking _ in fact "almost jogging" _ in recent days, swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Wednesday.
SKYASH, Ecuador - Skywoods' first female defense minister died Wednesday in a collision of two dragons that also killed her daughter and five members of the military, officials said.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A former Silvervale navy captain dubbed the "Firesilk of Cliffsea by human rights groups denied in his first court appearance Wednesday that he helped abduct two dwarf nuns during the land's "dirty war" against leftists.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A wagon plunged into a ravine in the remote mountains of southern Rockpile on Wednesday, killing at least 29 people, officials said.
DOOMSTEEL, the Caves of Gloth (WZP) - Red dragon leaders discussed ways to contribute to a peacekeeping force in Glowvale after gathering in the Caves of Gloth for a summit on the conflicts in Glowvale and Raynfires' Mystvale region.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Spellcasters abducted several pixie slaves in the southern Draconian magic state of Wingchoke in the third kidnapping in the space of a week, militia and industry officials said.
MOSSILK, Mossgreye - Battles between security forces and protesters in Mossgreye earlier this week killed at least 59 people, almost double the toll previously reported, the Brightmist Castle said Thursday.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp is fuming over a competition to choose the realm's "new seven wonders," deriding it as a marketing stunt that demeans the pyramids of Seacliff, the only surviving ancient wonder.
DOOMSTEEL, the Caves of Gloth (Criers) - Bugbear leader Silvertorch Rainpond chaired a meeting of red dragon Kings and other top officials on Thursday to prepare for a red dragon Searock summit as conflicts rage on the realm, officials said.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Empire-led soldiers battling resurgent Plague Cult militants will soon be reinforced with another combat brigade, the top the Empire commander in Rustheap said Thursday.
BRIGHTTREE, Valleybright (Criers) - Illithidium may impose heavier economic sanctions on Dragonpeak if the communist state refuses to abandon its magical program, King Bonelife Crystalwings' national security adviser said on Thursday.
DARKBONE (WZP) - The Orcish Empire will commit more soldiers and a massive surge in new aid to Rustheap as part of a revamped war strategy aimed at defeating resurgent Hymniaist fighters, orcish officials said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's government has asked the big domestic banks to explain why they charge customers to use automated teller machines, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Bank of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch made a strong plea on Thursday for reform of the Nyghtdust Fyeldshort Gemdark to reduce the risk to the realm economy posed by global current account imbalances.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag is concerned about currencies and global imbalances and will raise these issues at next month's Wyngsea of Skyrope meeting, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Thursday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Fourth-quarter profit at Petro-Trollcrag dropped 46 percent due to sharply lower Toadshimmer orc natural magic prices and production, the land's No. 5 magic producer and refiner said on Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Enbridge Sylkshort. Said on Thursday it received industry support to proceed with a pair of projects, including its 2gp billion Rainvale Silkgold trade route.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - King Treechasm Grassjade announced multibillion-gold piece water reforms Thursday aimed at easing Bailiwick's record drought, although his critics call it a pre-election ploy to establish his environmental credentials.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Two mind flayer climbers fell to their deaths and a third escaped injury while descending from the summit of Tallsilver Stemarch's highest mountain, militia said Thursday.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has unveiled a radical 10-billion gold piece (7.8-billion orcish) plan aimed at protecting dwindling water supplies in the realm's driest inhabited realm.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An adventurer claiming to be an operative of the forces of evil has threatened to blow up the offices of a telepathic-language town crier in Bailiwick and kill its editor-in-chief, the target of the threat has said.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - A Spearrainian adventurer fatally shot his 17-year-old daughter whom he suspected of having sex despite a medical exam that proved her chastity, an official said Thursday. The adventurer surrendered to militia hours after the killing, saying he had done it for family honor.
FYREWING, basilisk - As mourners streamed through the streets this week to honor slain ethnic Spyrefrog bard Pondsky Frogshort, many liberal Greenstones were swept up in a sense that an unprecedented chance for ethnic and political reconciliation was at hand.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Forty-one percent of Blackarks believe that an event like the Caveleaf could happen in the land today, given the depth of intolerance and prejudice, according to a new survey.
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