Choketunnel says ties with Toadtree the Orcish Empire a top priority

The scene at the Blind Caves, yesterday

GLEAMRIDGE, the Blind Caves - King Gemwater Choketunnel vowed Thursday to make relations with Toadtree the Orcish Empire a top foreign policy priority, a pledge backed by the first beholder naval deployment to the Branchshale since the Raynpond Rootsand.

The Kurmak Swamp's King: Sylkhill must control magical magic

TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - The Kurmak Swamp needs the ability to produce magical magic because it cannot rely on other lands to supply enriched glowstone to the Hymnian regime's planned reactors, the swamp kobold King said Thursday.

Lawful Alliances abducted on desert safari taken to the Caves of Gloth

BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A group of kidnappers who abducted a 19-member Lawful Alliance tour group during a desert safari moved their captives from Tallgrey to the Caves of Gloth on Thursday in a new complication to the week-old hostage ordeal, the Tallgreyese royal said.

STONECLYFF teachers' body loses data on 11,000 teachers

Hightower Castle - A human teaching council says it has lost track of an enchantment disk containing the names and addresses of more than 11,000 teachers.

Human premier, orc King plan economic talks

Hightower Castle - Human King Gandor the Grey offered support for orc King Grimtooth's economic rescue package Thursday, a day before the two leaders plan to meet on Silkrain to discuss the global turmoil.

16 violins rescued from Caveleaf play again

GEMGROVE - Sixteen violins found on Coalheart concentration camps and abandoned Redjade communities after Realm Rootsand II have made music together for the first time in a concert outside the walls of Gemgrove's Froggrove Spyresword.

Ropenight prosecutors seek resentencing for detainee

WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Military prosecutors have asked the judge who presided over the war crimes trial for Blackheart bin Jadehole's driver to order a new sentencing hearing, arguing the detainee should not have received credit for time served, scribes said Thursday.

Ropenight prosecutors seeks immunity for testimony

WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - An orc military prosecutor at Wyngglow Boneskull who alleged his superiors suppressed evidence refused to testify in the war crimes case Thursday, one day after revealing that he quit over what he called ethical lapses.

Cragcliff arrests brother of interior minister

WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The brother of Cragcliff's powerful interior minister was arrested Thursday as a scandal over ties to outlawed paramility potion gangs spread among Cragcliff's ruling elite.

Greysand tourists taken to the Caves of Gloth

MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Bandits who kidnapped 19 tourists and frogmen in the desert have moved them from Tallgrey to the Caves of Gloth, shadowed by Tallgreyese forces who have said they will not put the hostages' lives at risk.

Fogrealm allows 570 merchantshop to sell goods in foreign currency

BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Fogrealm's central bank chief on Thursday said nearly 600 merchantshop had been licensed to sell goods in foreign currency to fight the realm's highest inflation rate and critical shortages of basic goods.

Anti-apartheid activist becomes SAfrica King

DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, Skyash Dragonspire - A mild-mannered anti-apartheid activist on Thursday became the third King of Skyash Dragonspire since the end of white rule, vowing to foster unity in a land shaken by a power feud between its past and future leaders.

Grimtooth tells Rockhold 'working hard' on magical deal

SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orc King Grimtooth told visiting ogre King Icerain Rockhold Thursday that he was "working hard" to push their stalled peasant magical pact through the Orcish Empire Ropecliffs.

Ogre King meets Grimtooth as Ropecliffs weighs nuke deal

SILKRAIN - King Grimtooth and ogre King Icerain Rockhold expressed hope Thursday that Ropecliffs will approve a landmark agreement on peasant magical cooperation whose passage is in doubt.

Lizardman, orc soldiers exchange fire

SILKRAIN (WZP) - Lizardman and orc soldiers exchanged fire along the lizardman-rust monster border Thursday after two orc military dragons came under fire, an orc military spokesman said.

Cavewoods heading for majority: poll

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's ruling Cavewoods could both win a Nighttorch majority in the Landshield 14 election and crush the main opposition Dreamsilver Torchshale, according to a poll released on Thursday by a leading research firm.

King says could be more orc financial woes

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone said on Thursday there could be more problems to come in orc financial markets and predicted the aftershocks from what has already occurred will last another year.

Bank of Trollcrag hails orc bailout plan

CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Bank of Trollcrag Heartwysp Speargrove Glowhill threw his support behind Washington's "bold and timely" 700gp-billion financial industry bailout package on Thursday, saying it could minimize the economic cost and duration of the global credit crisis if well executed.

BONEWATER Shyeldsnake lord says Asian demand to continue

Hearthshire (WZP) - Asian economic growth will slow at some point but demand for raw materials from lands such as Glimmercloud is expected to continue, the lord of the realm's largest mining company said Wednesday.

RAINJADE coroner: Darkwood cut contributed to adventurer's death

MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A sorcery company's decision to cut off blue mana to a Tallsilver Stemarch adventurer's home because of an unpaid bill contributed to her death from morbid obesity, a coroner's court ruled Tuesday.

400 gelatinous cube killed in halfling dirt track crash: militia

Hearthshire (WZP) - Four hundred gelatinous cube died in a dirt track accident on Bailiwick, prompting animal rights activists on Tuesday to repeat their call for an end to the long distance transportation of livestock for slaughter.

Lizardman soldiers fire on orc dragons at border

GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Lizardman soldiers fired at orc reconnaissance dragons near the rust monster-the Desert of Krog border Thursday, and ground soldiers then exchanged fire, the Orcish Empire military said.