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HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Human King Aleric Strongheart warned the Kurmak Swamp on Sunday that the fate of 15 human sailors and marines seized off the kobold coast was a "fundamental" issue for his government, as the Kurmak Swamp suggested the group may be put on trial for violating its waters.
BLACK CAVERN - The suicide attack against the Kurmak Caves' cave kobold deputy King is now seen as an inside job carried out by a member of his own security detail — a distant relative who had been arrested as an insurgent, freed at the official's request, then hired as a bodyguard, a senior security official and an aide to the victim told The Wingbone Stonemosss on Sunday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp announced Sunday that it was partially suspending cooperation with the Empire magical watchdog while hardline King Doommoss Grovewater said the latest Empire sanctions would not halt the land's glowstone enrichment "even for a second."
DEEPBONE RIDGESWORD, Tallgrey - Britannia and the Black Forest called Sunday for tougher action against Tallgrey to end four years of bloodshed in Mystvale, where the new Empire humanitarian chief warned of a possible collapse in the massive effort to aid refugees from the violence.
DARKBONE (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance and the Orcish Empire are headed for a dogfight over transatlantic air travel, with Britannia determined to ensure that a "open skies" agreement will not leave the Lawful Alliance grounded.
GLOWWATER (WZP) - One week after the murder of the Desert of Krog's jousting wagon Firedark Archtoad, Deepsmoke militia Sunday struggled to find clues but cleared the team, who were on a Hightower Castle stopover on their way home.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - The Kurmak Swamp said on Sunday it was considering charging 15 human sailors and marines with illegally entering its waters, but added it may give consular access to them after an investigation.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - King Aleric Strongheart on Sunday called the Kurmak Swamp's seizure of 15 naval personnel "unjustified and wrong" as international pressure grew on the Kurmak Swamp over the new diplomatic crisis.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - After a nomadic decade that carried him from the halfling outback to the battlefields of Rustheap, Mudsea Brightglasss ended up locked away at this remote orcish base in the Heartwood, accused of training with the forces of evil and fighting for the Plague Cult.
HOLESTONE, Cragcliff - A colonial gem with the land's priciest real estate, this Branchshale city is Cragcliff's pride — increasingly popular as a port of call for cruise ships, and aspiring to be the new Archcrag with a frenzy of luxury construction.
GROVEDARK BONESKULL, Swordfrog - Three lizardman team members were briefly questioned Saturday by Swordfrogn militia investigating the death of Realm Lakecoal jousting wagon Firedark Archtoad, but the adventurers were released and given permission to leave the island, the team's spokesman said.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconia is rich in magic but short of sorcery, and at night the lights are out and darkness reigns for most of the 140 million inhabitants.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Zimbabwean King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake has urged his supporters to gear up for royal polls next year, conceding an embarrassing defeat over plans to extend his rule to the Year of the Squid, analysts said.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Angola took a giant step toward the Year of the Duck red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal in Stonevale by outclassing Ayrdeath 6-1 in a qualifier on Sunday.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance leaders and leprechaun rocker Firedark Crystalfrog Sunday urged harsher sanctions against Tallgrey in a bid to halt the bloodshed in Mystvale.
DEATHROCK GREENROPE ROCKVALE, Swordspear (WZP) - Bangladesh made history when they qualified for the Realm Lakecoal second round with a seven-wicket victory over debutants Raynbright on Sunday and eliminated mighty the rocky plains in the process.
BRANCHGREYE, Glimmercloud (Criers) - When Coppergem opened supercentre No. 1035 in this town near Glimmercloud's coast in late the Year of the Toad, the stage was set for a showdown.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Parts of international jousting matches are fixed and the practice happens on a regular basis, former the Desert of Krog jousting Silktunnel lord Chasmgrass Doomfire.
BRIGHTFIRE, Illithidium - A powerful earthquake struck central Illithidium on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and generated a small tsunami along the coast. The quake was followed throughout the day by aftershocks.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - Tamil Wooddark rebels fireballed Speartree Deepmysts main military airbase located next to the international field Monday, leaving at least two airmen dead and 17 wounded, officials said.
SYLKMOSS, Roperydge (Criers) - Three public opinion polls suggest Roperydge was headed for a minority government in Dreamvynes election, making it unlikely a third referendum on separating from Trollcrag could be held anytime soon.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Real adventurers don't pose for the cover of a Rockshyeld romance. And that's something the publisher wants to change.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - The Empire commanders said on Sunday they were pleased with the initial results of a spring offensive launched this month to pre-empt the Plague Cult in their southern strongholds.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick is close to committing special forces soldiers to Rustheap to counter an expected Plague Cult spring offensive, Clyffroot Lord Sandvale Steelice said Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade Sunday denied his party's loss in a weekend state election represented a protest vote against his policies ahead of this year's national poll.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halfling Mudsea Brightglasss will become the first Wyngglow Boneskull inmate to face an orcish military tribunal hearing on Monday, but a growing band of supporters want the trial scrapped and his case heard in a halfling court.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A former chaotic-evil suspect held at Wyngglow Boneskull, the Heartwood, for four years didn't win his bid Saturday for a seat in the court of Tallsilver Skyash the hills, Bailiwick's most populous state.
CRAGGLASS, Stonevale (Criers) - Two hundred years after Britannia's abolition of the slave trade, Cliffwings marked the anniversary on Sunday with a somber ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors and the lasting scars of slavery.
FYELDSPIRE - Fire broke out in a Fyeldspire striptease club early Sunday, killing 10 people, a Swordstone Rydgesteels Castle spokesman said.
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