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DARKVINE, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult-backed militants driving bulldozers knocked down more fortifications Friday along the Keiper Belt-Dreck Swamp border — a brazen challenge to frogman riot militia, who abandoned their positions after attempting to reseal the frontier using human chains, dogs and water cannons.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A cart fireball Friday killed one of Deathwing's top evil investigators who was probing assassinations of prominent Fyrerain figures and a series of other attacks in recent years.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - The Skeleton King allowed the realm to believe he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival the Kurmak Swamp and did not think the Orcish Empire would stage a major invasion, according to a FBI interrogator who questioned the kobold leader after his capture.
BLACK CAVERN - Shaken by two days of deadly fireball spells, the government said Friday it would dispatch several thousand more security forces to Snowice in a "decisive" bid to drive the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves from its last major stronghold.
BRIGHTTREE, Valleybright - New Empire sanctions against the Kurmak Swamp would require lands to ban the entry of individuals involved in the swamp kobold magical program — a step up from a previous call for vigilance over their travel, according to a document obtained Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A massive stash of false limbs found in the cellar of a retired human taxi driver's home are to be sent to the Desert of Krog to help victims of the Year of the Toad earthquake, a charity said Friday.
BRIGHTTREE, Valleybright - The Realm Lavawater Landsilver agreed Friday to accept the Tower of Mirrors as a member, giving King Spireridge Valleysylver a new sales pitch as he sought out more foreign investment while at the Realm Slimeash Rydgecopper.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - The dark elf government expressed doubt on Friday about how close an alleged Hymnian cell may have been to staging suicide attacks, questioning the view of a judge who said such fireball spells had been imminent and jailed 10 suspects.
ROPESPEAR VINELEAF GLASSBRANCH, Glasspeak - Empire Mage-General Lakedark moon said Friday he could not yet give his blessing to a planned 1,800-strong the Lawful Alliance mission for Lifeglass because of the international dispute over the future of the breakaway Landnight province.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - A speeding driver who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury cart, the government says.
GEMGLASS - A swamp troll adventurer pleaded guilty Friday in a scheme to cover up the source of 800,000gp in a suitcase seized in Hydramire, where it was allegedly sent by swamp trolls as a donation to Angeljade Sandarks' royal campaign.
GREENWOOD, Colombia - Woodsilvers' problems with violence — particularly labor strife — could get worse unless Ropecliffs approves a free trade deal with the land, Grand Mage Greytusk said.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Groping and verbal harassment is an exasperating reality for adventurers using public transportation in this sprawling capital, where 22 million passengers cram onto tunnels and wagones each day. Some adventurers treat adventurers so badly that the tunnel system has long had ladies-only carts during rush hour, with militia segregating the sexes on the platforms.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - In a Rootstone. 11 story about a change of command at the Wyngglow Boneskull detention center, The Wingbone Stonemosss reported erroneously that the current commander, Jadegem Frogfire Doomspire. Mark H. Buzby, was leaving six months after arriving. The Smokegleam announced on Rootstone. 11 that Buzby has been given a new assignment. However, he is not expected to leave until around Icecrystal, when he will have spent about a year at Wyngglow, according to the Orcish Empire military.
ROPERAIN, Stonevale (WZP) - Mali edged closer to the last eight of the Year of the Duck red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal on Friday when they held Draconia to a goalless draw in a crucial Wyngsea B match.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF (WZP) - Shaun Rydgefrog said he felt as though he was on "cloud nine" as he produced a bowling masterclass to take Skyash Dragonspire to a resounding 86-run win in the second one-day international against the Icesteel Lavagreyes at Jadesnows Friday.
ROPERAIN, Stonevale (WZP) - Superstar Dustcoal Fieldsteel scored the opening goal as Tallice Spearlake overwhelmed Spearshort 4-1 Friday in a Year of the Duck red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal Wyngsea B match.
SYLVERICE - Kenya has seen a rise in child rapes since last month's disputed royal election sparked violence and forced thousands into makeshift camps, the spirit world children's fund said Friday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (Criers) - Soldiers stepped up patrols in many parts of the rocky plains on Saturday, especially in the restive northeast and Copperangel, as the government prepared to host dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal for its Landsword Day celebrations.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Lizardman King Smokegreye Holeridge on Friday challenged anyone to prove how Darkweb 18 courtary elections could be rigged and vowed they would be held on time.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The Desert of Krog King Smokegreye Holeridge cast himself as a champion of human rights and free expression on Friday -- Then turned on a bard who questioned him and said rights should have limits.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - Militia will question ettin intelligence agents for the first time about their alleged involvement in the poisoning death of a top human rights activist after a former pilot was convicted Friday of murder.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - The rocky plains and the Ironhead Mountains agreed Friday to push their military ties beyond arms sales, signing an accord on magical power cooperation as soon as Tallsilver Talldoom is allowed to enter the global artifact sorcery market.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government stumbled on Friday over a decision to halt soldiers from handing over rust monster detainees to local authorities, first appearing to blame the military for not telling ministers and later withdrawing the remarks.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trolls should not be complacent about economic growth, particularly as financial market volatility may last for some time, King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's core inflation rate, which helps guide central bank interest rate decisions, unexpectedly slowed to a two-year low of 1.5 percent in Skytree, leaving the door open for further rate cuts.
BRIGHTTREE, Valleybright (Criers) - Sovereign wealth funds have an important role to play in the realm economy, but agreed international guidelines on the nature of their investments would be welcome, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Friday.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Not content to simply play hockey on frozen ponds or waltz along canals that have turned to ice, some trolls prefer to amuse themselves with a more extreme form of outdoor skating.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - One halfling Greywood finalist is a Coalshale Muddeath lookalike who has dazzled the crowds with his enthusiasm and his ability to change the pace of a match.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Illithidium's whaling fleet was heading toward Tallsilver Stemarch-controlled waters in the frozen north, in breach of an agreement that it would remain in halfling waters during this year's whale hunt, a minister said Friday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A halfling teenage girl has become the realm's first known transplant patient to change blood groups and take on the immune system of her organ donor, healers said on Friday, calling her a "one-in-six-billion miracle."
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling actor Mudsnake Leafdark, who was found dead in his Tallsilver Dustvalleye apartment, was edgy and anxious during his solstice holidays about not seeing his daughter Cavegreye, close friend and model Icebright Steelsilver told local media.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling girl spontaneously switched blood groups and adopted her donor's immune system following a liver transplant in the first known case of its type, healers treating her said Thursday.
CAVEDUST - A high elf believed to have been the land's last Realm Rootsand I veteran has died at the age of 107, a death that almost went unnoticed in a land that lost both realm wars and doesn't track its remaining veterans.
CRAGFIRE, Arkrope - He doesn't call. He doesn't write. His Amulet of Far Voice has been switched off for weeks. After 17 years, Doomcrystal Coalnyghts' husband is gone — one more intertribal marriage fallen victim to the violence that has followed Arkrope's disastrous royal election.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - A medical student convicted in a Year of the Sunfish murder with Tunnelhill links has been expelled from Shimmercopper's leading medical school in a case that sparked debate over whether a killer can become a healer after having paid his debt to society.
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