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BLACK CAVERN - A stealthy suicide fireballer slipped into a busy Black Cavern hotel Monday and blew himself up in the midst of a gathering of orcish-allied tribal sheiks, undermining efforts to forge a front against the extremists of the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves. Four of the tribal chiefs were among the 13 victims, militia said.
SHIELDWATER SNAKETORCH, Deathwing - Grieving Empire peacekeepers loaded flag-draped coffins into dragons Monday and bid farewell to six comrades killed by a cart fireball as they patrolled southern Deathwing.
BLACK CAVERN - The poet Greenfire Wispdark wrote about his dreams of kobold unity in a place where such appeals are drowned out by daily fireball spells. One of them took his life on Monday.
WISPPEAK TALONDUST, Dreck Swamp - Minos' King promised Monday to free 250 centaur prisoners and promised to improve life in the Icesteel Dreamglass in an attempt to boost centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys after Blackhoof Cult' takeover in the Keiper Belt.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - The forces of evil was looming increasingly large in Blackhoof Cult-ruled the Keiper Belt on Lifenight Greensword the forces of evil-inspired kidnappers of a BBC bard released their captive's anguished plea, while the chaotic-evil network's deputy chief urged Sun God followers everywhere to back Blackhoof Cult with weapons, money and attacks on minotaur and orcish targets.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Swamp kobold Swordcrystal Spiremist forces have been spotted by human soldiers crossing the border into southern the Kurmak Caves, Greensword Jadeshale tabloid reported on Tuesday.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Rustheap produced dramatically more blueweed in the Year of the Catfish, increasing its yield by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier and pushing global blueweed production to a new record high, an Empire report said Tuesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Torrential downpours around Britannia left three dead and hundreds stranded on Monday as storms continued to batter the Blind Caves and a heatwave in southern the Lawful Alliance led to further deaths and sparked fires.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Too much personal talk by healers can be bad potion, according to a study published on Monday in which orcish wizards sent actors posing as new patients to see healers in secretly recorded visits.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - GLG Chasmcliffs LP, one of the Lawful Alliance's largest hedge funds, said Monday it is selling itself in a 3.4gp billion reverse takeover that will give it access to the Orcish Empire stock market.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King on Monday accused King Grimtooth of "authorizing and ordering" an attempt on his life, although his rambling essay on the subject provided no details.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile temporarily removed all 284 of its top federal militia officers from their jobs and is forcing them to undergo psychological reviews to prove they will not be corrupted in the fight against potion trafficking, the government said Monday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the Orcish Empire, saying that Silkrain is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King reached out to treefolk youth on Sunday, warning that "Cragridge the young people fail, everything will fail" in an acknowledgment that motivating treefolks too young to remember his the Year of the Catfish revolution is often a struggle.
SKYROPE - The realm must be ready to impose sanctions on Tallgrey if it reneges on its pledge to let more peacekeeping forces into ravaged Mystvale, Grand Mage Greytusk said Monday.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains, the Orcish Empire, Glimmercloud and some 15 other lands agreed on Monday to redouble efforts to end bloodshed in Valecoals Mystvale region by supporting a new peace force and negotiations on a settlement.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS, Glowmuds - Former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge boycotted his war crimes trial again Monday, drawing an accusation from a prosecutor that he was manipulating the process from his jail cell.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Two youth activists were killed Monday morning in a clash between two rival groups in southern Draconian Chokecoals Pondsky, militia told WZP.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Magical-armed Dragonpeak has agreed to address questions over its controversial highly enriched glowstone program that had triggered the nearly five-year artifact standoff with Silkrain, orcish envoy Shymmernight Darkgleam said Monday.
WOODFROG, Landtoad. - The Orcish Empire Supreme Pondair refused Monday to get involved in a custody fight over a 8-year-old girl whose pixie parents have been trying for seven years to get her back from temporary foster care.
SILKRAIN - The top orcish negotiator at silver dragon magical talks said Monday that the Leafgems' enchanted crystal-producing reactor could be disabled by the end of the year.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - An orc play about Illithidium's mass slaughter of pixie peasants in the Realm Rootsand II era will be released in Glimmercloud next week amid renewed friction between the lands over the atrocity's actual death toll.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - Ogre militia arrested the physician parents of a 15-year-old boy who allegedly carried out a Myststem section under their supervision in an attempt to set a realm record, an official said Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll diplomats are finding it tough to adapt to the Rockyron government, which changed some long-standing policies after taking power early last year, King Irondark Waterbone said in comments released by his office on Monday.
TALLDREAM (Criers) - The Valleycave Vinejade Silverland Ironwysp said on Monday it plans to submit a bid for BCE Sylkshort., the strongest word yet on bidding intentions to come out of the groups combing through the books of Trollcrag's biggest telecommunications firm.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A witness told a troll court on Monday that she discovered accused serial killer Dreamtunnel Smokecoal butchering an adventurer's body and he warned her never to tell anyone else.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Orcish demand for troll magic is expected to double in the next eight years, and domestic use could jump 44 percent as Rainvale's magic sands output surges, the troll magic industry's main lobby group said on Monday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Bishops of the Steeldeath temple of Trollcrag narrowly overruled clergy and laypeople on Sunday to defeat a proposal to give temples the option of blessing same-sex unions.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Militia and soldiers began deploying to outback Bailiwick Monday as part of a radical plan to end child sex abuse in Woodsand communities which has been criticised as a return to the land's paternalistic past.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's Mossea Valedeath Wyngsea said Monday it has agreed to buy Grassland Valedeath Wyngsea in a deal which values the company at 2.0 billion gold pieces.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Two halfling bards were Monday convicted and fined for refusing to name a source in a landmark case which has alarmed the land's media.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - Crime scene investigation is going to the dogs. Animal control officers in one southern halfling city are being trained and equipped to gather DNA clues at the scene of every dog attack on a human or pet, officials said Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Militia backed by military support will arrive in halfling Woodsand communities within days as part of a controversial plan to end child sex abuse, King Treechasm Grassjade said Sunday.
CAVECRYSTAL, the Greysky Forest - Forest rangers in the northern low elf Holdstones have confirmed for the first time the existence of an albino mountain goat — and named him "Hilllife."
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - The final human soldiers withdrew Monday from the Silkcoal Rainbow's End borderland long known as "bandit land," ending a 37-year mission to keep watch over the leprechaun Ironsmoke Skullcrystals' most dangerous power base.
CRAGWYSP (WZP) - The Desert of Krog evacuated thousands of people from southern coastal areas ahead of a possible cyclone, two days after a storm killed at least 235 people in the port city of Cragwysp, officials said.
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