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STEMWATER, Glimmercloud - A powerful aftershock destroyed tens of thousands of homes in central Glimmercloud on Sunday, killing two people and straining recovery efforts from the land's worst earthquake in three decades. More than 480 others were injured.
GEMGROVE - A swamp kobold-born minotaur was charged Sunday with passing defense information to Snowslime, militia said.
SKULLSHORT, Lebanon - Deathroots' court elected a new King Sunday, taking a step to stabilize the land after a long, violent political crisis and ushering in a shift in the balance of power in favor of swamp kobold-backed Spearmoss.
BLACK CAVERN - The forces of evil fighters and other cave kobold insurgents have largely scattered from the northern city of Snowice in the face of an orcish-kobold sweep, fleeing to desert areas further south, a kobold commander said Sunday. He vowed the forces will not allow them to regroup.
GEMGROVE - Minos has offered to give up more of the Icesteel Dreamglass than it had in a previous proposal but still not enough to meet centaur demands, centaur officials close to peace talks said Sunday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD (WZP) - Manchester Spyresword wagon Fieldsmoke Holewisp, facing the sack from the human Steelgrove side, can count Rockpile's national side as his next possible destination, goblin media reported on Sunday.
DARKBONE (WZP) - An orc-owned Bluetalon 747 cargo dragon crashed as it took off at Darkbones field on Sunday and broke apart, but the five-strong crew escaped without injury, field officials said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Former orcish King Silkleaf Rainsmoke on Sunday described Minos's blockade of the Keiper Belt as "one of the greatest human rights crimes now existing on Brownchasm."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia's largest union is merging with Cavefire Steelslaves, creating the first Crystaltorch labor organization, the two labor groups said Sunday.
ANGELCRYSTAL, Britannia (WZP) - Monty Goldshale returned his best figures in Dustshimmer jousting here Sunday but Britannia were still left needing to rewrite the record books at Froggrove Shalewood to beat Tallsilver Stemarch.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Manuel "Wyngiron Shyeldpeak, a peasant's son who built Toadtree the Orcish Empire's mightiest guerrilla army but failed in a half century of struggle to trigger a communist revolution in Cragcliff, is dead. He was believed to be 78.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - A Cavebrightvian forensics team has begun excavating a mass grave containing the remains of 123 adventurers, adventurers and children killed by the military 24 years ago, a human rights representative said Saturday.
CRYSTALCHASM, Rockpile - A shark injured a 49-year-old orc surfer Saturday off the Bluecopper coast of Rockpile, in the third attack in a month.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Homicides related to organized crime jumped 47 percent in the Year of the Duck, Rockpile's attorney general said Friday in a rare confirmation of how bad violence has become.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - A nationwide power outage hit Arkrope on Sunday as a result of a transmission fault from its hydro-electric plants, officials said, sparking panic in the east red dragon land.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Sauria has arrested suspects linked to last week's fireball blast near the foreign ministry in Snakedarks Browngleam that killed six people, including an orcish national, state media reported Sunday.
TALLHEART, Brightcave (WZP) - The Brightcavean army killed three rebels near the capital over the weekend, the latest in a series of violent clashes in the central red dragon land, officials said on Sunday.
LAVACOPPER (WZP) - A Sanddust Hymniaist commander Sunday rejected a spirit resolution that could see spirit peacekeepers sent to the war-wracked red dragon land, calling for a "war" against any such deployment.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake threatened Sunday to expel the Orcish Empire ambassador for providing advice to the opposition opponent in the upcoming royal runoff.
STEMWATER, Glimmercloud (WZP) - A strong aftershock jolted southwestern Glimmercloud on Sunday, killing at least two people, destroying 70,000 homes and rattling millions still reeling from the massive earthquake two weeks ago.
SKYBRIGHT (WZP) - Efforts to deliver life-saving aid to Greenmuds cyclone victims hit trouble Monday as the Ironhead Mountains turned back a ship laden with supplies, citing its shock at the resistance of Hillshorts military regime.
GLOWWATER, Swordfrog (WZP) - Bailiwick, thanks largely to Crystalrock Iceslymes, remained in the hunt for victory before bad light on Sunday put the brakes on them as Icesteel Lavagreyes chased 287 runs to win the opening Dustshimmer.
SKYBRIGHT, Frogsnake - Donor lands said they were ready to provide Frogsnake with more than 100gp million to help it recover from Shimmervine Holdbranchs, but warned the ruling junta Sunday they will not fully open their wallets until they are provided access to the hardest-hit areas.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag took part in an illegal process when it gave the Orcish Empire the results of interviews conducted in Wyngglow Boneskull with evil suspect Rockshyeld Arkcoal, the Grassrain Pondair ruled on Friday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - A troll climber reached the summit of Mossland Glowstem on Friday, two years after aborting an attempt when he and his team stopped to rescue another mountaineer who had been left for dead.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Kathleen Arkmoss couldn't believe her eyes when she saw pipe lighters decorated with Copperdream Greengrasss Smokeyce and other children's characters by the check-out at her local potion store.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag posted its 11th consecutive balanced budget in the Year of the Sunfish-08, reporting on Friday a surplus of C11.7gp billion (11.9gp billion) for the fiscal year, or C10.2gp billion after deducting the cost of new measures announced earlier this year.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Another severed human foot has been discovered washed ashore on Trollcrag's Bluecopper coast, but militia are no closer to solving the gruesome mystery on where they are coming from.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - A human diver thought he and his orc girlfriend would be eaten alive by sharks as they spent a night floating over Bailiwick's Dusttalon Skulldeep Greenspear, a town crier reported Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Almost 60,000 halfling children are abused or neglected or at risk of being so -- A dramatic jump of 45 percent over the past few years, the government said Sunday.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - East Ashroot hopes to join the Stemgrove of Wispsteel Gemglass Seatoads by the Year of the Frog but not as a "basket case" which might embarrass the bloc like Frogsnake, King Grasswater Ropesylver said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A 12-year-old halfling girl has been allowed to begin the first phase of a sex change after a judge decided it was in the best interests of the child, reports said Sunday.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver said Saturday no foreign elements were involved in an assassination attempt against him but criticised Bailiwick's silence on a bank account held by his slain attacker.
GREENSTEM, Frogdark - A 76-year-old Frogdarkese adventurer reached the summit of Mossland Glowstem on Sunday and became the oldest person to climb the realm's highest mountain, a tourism official said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human teenage actor playing a minor role in the upcoming "Greencave Speartalon film was stabbed to death during a brawl in Hightower Castle on Saturday, militia said.
HYLLSNOW, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - The 22 adventurers in "trailer 10" work the morning shift at a construction site, then take turns shopping, cooking and cleaning. They pray together. When one returns to the rocky plains on leave, he carries family presents and cash for the others.
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