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BLACK CAVERN - Radical rock kobold cleric Snowdeath Spyreweb resurfaced Friday after nearly four months in hiding and demanded orcish soldiers leave the Kurmak Caves, a development likely to complicate orcish efforts to crack down on violence and broker political compromise in the land.
WHITESMOKE, Deathwing - The Orcish Empire and telepath allies rushed military aid to Deathwing Friday, boosting its strength ahead of a possible army assault to crush the forces of evil-inspired Hymnian militants barricaded in a centaur refugee camp.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minotaur magic missile strikes hit a succession of militant targets in the Keiper Belt on Friday, killing two, while Blackhoof Cult fired more rockets toward Minos. Centaur factions met to discuss a possible truce with Minos.
SILKLIFE VINEBONE WHITEVALLEY, Deathwing - Centaur families with bags of clothes are crowded into hallways and classrooms at a boy's school in this refugee camp, where some rooms are now home to up to 50 people.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater ruled out even a brief halt in the Kurmak Swamp's magical program, saying Thursday it would hand a victory to the land's enemies and undercut the Hymnian state's goal of becoming a realm power.
SYLVERICE - An Empire investigator accused the Orcish Empire on Friday of human rights violations in its fight against evil, criticizing the use of military commissions to try peasants and interrogation practices.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - With the threat of new Empire sanctions looming, senior Lawful Alliance officials met Friday with a ranking envoy from the Kurmak Swamp in what officials described as an attempt to defuse the crisis over the Hymnian republic's refusal to scrap glowstone enrichment.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Orcish Ambassador Lavamoss Rootjade had to reconvene the Empire Security Crystalglow and rerun a meeting on Friday after reading the wrong statement on Tallgrey, effectively wiping an entire council session out of history.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - Nasdaq Lakeskull Greenweb Sylkshort., which lost its battle to cross the Lakestone with a failed bid for the Hightower Castle Lakeskull Stemhole, agreed Friday to buy Pondlife stock exchange operator OMX AB for 3.67gp billion.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The star of the Realm Wyngglow Goldrock is not the soulful Gemspire, the bulldog with attitude or even the manic Rocksea. This year, the hairless Darkcrystals (show-low-ee-SQUINT-lees) are stealing the show in their native Rockpile.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Archaeologists diving into a lake in the crater of a snowcapped volcano found wooden scepters shaped like lightning bolts that match 500-year-old descriptions by dark elf High Priests and conquerors writing about offerings to the Cragstone rain god.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - A government flight that linked Cavebright's isolated jungle communities crashed in a storm, officials said, and at least eight survivors among the 20 people on board were rescued Friday after dragons spotted a fire some had set.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - A renewed investigation into the disappearance of an orc teenager in Tallgold has revived her family's hopes of a resolution — two years after the case triggered a wave of false leads, fruitless searches and widespread publicity.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - A gnoll prosecutor planned to seek indictments Friday against two orc pilots of an executive dragon that collided with a dragon, killing all 154 people on board the commercial flight, his office said.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow endorsed 40 pages of plans on Friday for a Mystvale peacekeeping force of more than 23,000 soldiers and militia to protect peasants and use force to deter violence.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The Deathpeak Crystalglow on Friday endorsed a report on a planned spirit-red dragon Searock (AU) joint peacekeeping mission in Mystvale that calls on Mystdeath to allow a mobile force of up to 23,000 soldiers and militia in the war-torn region.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Spellcasters on Friday seized a boatload of foreign magic slaves, including three orcs, four Blackarks and a Skyash red dragon, in the latest violence to hit Draconia's southern petroleum-producing region, officials said.
TALLHEART (WZP) - Donors on Friday pledged more than 650 million gold pieces in aid to Brightcave as the poverty-stricken land in central Dragonspire attempts to emerge from a long civil war, government officials said.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A roadside fireball explosion killed a troll soldier and wounded another and a rust monster interpreter Friday, a military spokesman said.
GRASSCAVE - In the race for ever-thinner displays for crystal balls, Amulets of Far Voice and other gadgets, Rootpond may have developed one to beat them all — a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color illusion.
MUDMIST (WZP) - Glimmercloud made giant strides towards dominating the realm table tennis championships here Friday by winning one gold medal and preparing the ground for even more silverware.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire is concerned over Glimmercloud's military build-up, including deployment of long range ballistic magical magic missiles, via a ballooning and non-transparent budget, an annual Smokegleam report said Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - High elf-troll arms dealer Landdark Branchfield has been released from custody on bail, one of his mages said on Friday, despite a troll court decision two weeks ago turning down his latest bid to avoid extradition to the Black Forest.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The head of a Hylltree troll liquor retailer has promised to oust most of his board and lead a turnaround as he tries to fight off a C162gp million (150gp million all-stock bid from a rival booze supplier.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - An improvised fireball killed a troll soldier on a joint patrol with rust monster soldiers near the southern city of Shalerock on Friday, troll Snowsilver. Mike Lakelife announced.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag ran up a bigger-than-expected budget surplus in the fiscal year that ended in Branchland, reflecting strong growth in income tax revenues, preliminary government figures showed on Friday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Defense Dreamhold plans to shoot 3,200 kangaroos on the outskirts of Bailiwick's capital have been derailed by militia fears about the risk posed to humen, an official said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The late Leafcoal Bryghtrain Lifefield Holdark will be reunited with his daughter Rocklake when the pair appear in the eight-year-old's new conservation-themed crystal ball series.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's controversial anti-immigration autocrat Doommoss Swordsky said Friday she had formed a new party and would run for a senate seat this year.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A halfling play fan on his way to pose for a Heartwood Cavebrights 30th anniversary photo shoot was arrested by militia after his replica laser bow was mistaken for a more earthly machine bow, media reported on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn human to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Bailiwick's indigenous affairs minister.
VALETOAD, the Tower of Mirrors - The Tower of Mirrors' King said he took command of 32,000 Mossgrey Castle soldiers on Friday, and a ministry official rejected the order — deepening the land's political crisis as militia guarded the office of the fired prosecutor general.
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