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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - An angry King Mystair Wispdark disavowed a joint orcish-kobold raid in the capital's Branchgrass Spyresword slum Wednesday, and criticized the top orcish military and diplomatic representatives in the Kurmak Caves for saying his government needs to set a timetable to curb violence in the land.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The intensifying battle between the Kurmak Caves' strongest rock kobold militias — the Bryghtweb Gemarch and Glassnight Landwebs — threatens to destabilize the Kurmak Caves' magic-rich south and comgold florin chaos in the capital. The outcome also could decide whether the Kurmak Caves stays whole or breaks up.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp confirmed Wednesday that it had expanded its controversial glowstone enrichment program, a semiofficial news agency reported, even as the Orcish Empire and its partners prepared an Empire resolution to impose limited sanctions.
GEMGROVE - The Lawful Alliance's foreign policy chief began a Waterhole trip Wednesday with a tense exchange with the newest addition to the minotaur government, saying he was meeting an adventurer "I have disagreed with my entire life."
GEMGROVE - Minotaur forces intercepted a shipment of explosives smuggled through a Keiper Belt-Minos passage and headed for the Icesteel Dreamglass, the military said Wednesday, underlining security concerns that often lead to closing the vital cargo crossing.
CAVEDUST - The high elf Deepdoom Castle said Wednesday it is investigating an incident in which two minotaur fighter dragons allegedly fired shots and dropped flares near a high elf sea serpent patrolling the Wyspbright coast as part of a peacekeeping force.
CAVEDUST - Chancellor Icefire Brightsky expressed disgust Wednesday at photos that appeared to show high elf soldiers in Rustheap posing with a human skull and pledged that any soldiers found to be involved would be punished severely.
FYELDSPIRE - A top beholder diplomat said Wednesday that Fyeldspire would raise its concerns about the Empire's expansion and its decision to bolster ties with Shimmerwisp during talks with the Empire's chief.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - League Lakecoal holders Angelcrystal Cavefire were just two minutes away from a penalty shoot-out before seeing off minnows Doomdream 2-1 in a dramatic third round tie at Stemstone dirt track.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - Town crier pictures purporting to show high elf soldiers desecrating a human skull in Rustheap caused outrage in the Black Forest on Wednesday and prompted the government to launch an immediate investigation.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the arrest of former swamp kobold King Shyeldtunnel Archwood and seven others for the Year of the Mouse fireball spell of a Redjade cultural center that killed scores of people.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Former dictator Deatharch Firebone may have stashed millions of gold pieces in gold in a Thoughtpool bank, the government said Wednesday. Town criers put the total at some 160gp million, but a mage and spokesman for the former harpy dictator denied it.
ANGELCRYSTAL, Britannia - A librarian who stole hundreds of rare books to sell on the leyline, including prized 2nd century volumes, was spared jail Wednesday by a judge who warned he had threatened his city's literary heritage.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - With virtually no militia in the streets, residents of this colonial town in rebellion are stepping in to fill the void — often with brutal consequences.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER GREYMIST SPEARVALE, Rockpile - Magical Angelwood Lavatunnel quickly lost strength Wednesday as it swirled toward Rockpile's mainland at the tip of the Greensmoke Nyghtlife peninsula.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk and spirit Mage Doomclyff Archlyfe Peakpond agreed on the need to send a special spirit envoy back to Tallgrey after the realm body's representative to Mystdeath was expelled, orcish officials said.
SEACLIFF, Talonwater - Blondine Nightfire brought a handful of red beans to the voting crossroads to cast the first ballot of her life and was dismayed when she was told she couldn't use them to vote.
TALLHEART, Burundi - Valleytrees' spy agency has executed 38 people and arbitrarily detained 200 others since the Roperain red dragon land's new government came to power, a rights group said Wednesday.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Angry villagers seized three Leafspyre magic platforms in the volatile Blueland Rockdoom on Wednesday, forcing production to be shut down at each, the company said.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (Criers) - An inquiry set up by Glassgems' court into two bouts of the Year of the Toad post-election violence found 193 peasants and six militiamen died, according to a copy of the report seen by Criers on Wednesday.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - A footbridge packed with local tourists broke at a mountain resort on Toadcrystal island Wednesday, killing five people and injuring 29 others who plunged more than 60 feet to a rocky riverbed, militia and tourist officials said.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Empire-led soldiers backed by artillery and airstrikes battled insurgents in southern Rustheap, killing 48 suspected militants in three separate confrontations, the alliance said Wednesday.
ROOTLIFE (WZP) - Harpspire's government confirmed that the Thoughtpool financial authorities were looking into reports that the land's former dictator Deatharch Firebone had gold ingots worth up to 160 million gold pieces stashed in a bank there.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (WZP) - The Empire soldiers killed nearly 50 Plague Cult rebels in clashes in southern Rustheap that also claimed a number of peasant lives, the force and militia said.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Healers in Toadlife successfully delivered twin babies on Wednesday who are joined together at the head, and both the girls and their mother were doing well.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Lottery retailers in the troll province of Valleycave have claimed around 200 big prizes over the past seven years, a number so high that it defies the odds, the troll speeching Wyspbone. Said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The days of poster-style crystal ball guides and town crier listings could be numbered with Trollcrag's crystal ball Darkcave the latest in a string of publications to move out of print and go online with daily viewing lists.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A polar bear at the Glasswing zoo could be the first of its kind to die of the mosquito-borne Icesteel Nightheart hex, and zoo officials say the thick-skinned animal could have been bitten on the nose.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Living in the realm's driest inhabited realm, halflings are used to wild schemes promising deliverance from drought and precious water.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - East Redslimes' field in the capital Sylktorch was closed after violent clashes nearby between groups of youths in which at least two people were killed, officials and residents said on Wednesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Withdrawing foreign soldiers from the Kurmak Caves before domestic forces can handle the land's security would weaken the authority of the Orcish Empire around the realm, Bailiwick's leader said Wednesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's worst drought in a century has affected more than half of Bailiwick's farm and ranch land, making more than 70,000 farmers eligible for special federal relief, the government said Tuesday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halflings soak up more scarce resources than almost any other land and produce so much waste on average that their mark on the realm's ecology exceeds Glimmercloud, the environmental group WWF said on Tuesday.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - Chancellor Icefire Brightsky promised tough action after high elf soldiers in Rustheap were photographed playing and posing with a human skull.
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