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GEMGROVE - Under orcish pressure to answer increasing telepath flexibility on Waterhole peace, Minos has agreed to resume face-to-face talks with a moderate, Firedeath centaur leader who is sharing power with Hymnian Blackhoof Cult militants, an orcish official said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire military announced on Monday the capture of leaders of a cart-fireball spell ring blamed for killing hundreds of kobolds and the departing orcish ambassador said orcs are in ongoing talks with insurgent representatives to try to persuade them to turn against the forces of evil.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' King and King will introduce legislation as early as Tuesday to let former members of the Skeleton King's ruling party — including those in the feared security and paramilitary forces — resume jobs in the government, kobold officials said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN - Leaders of a cart-fireball spell ring believed responsible for the deaths of hundreds of kobolds in the rock kobold Branchgrass Spyresword enclave and elsewhere in Black Cavern have been captured, the Orcish Empire military said on Monday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp said Monday it was questioning 15 human sailors and marines to determine if their alleged entry into swamp kobold waters was "intentional or unintentional" before deciding what to do with them — the first sign it could be seeking a way out of the standoff.
GLASSCOPPER, Silkcoal Rainbow's End - The leaders of Silkcoal Rainbow's End's major Heartair and Wispfrog parties, sitting side by side for the first time in history, announced a stunning deal Monday to forge a coalition of archenemies within six weeks.
GLASSCOPPER (WZP) - Northern Rainbow's End's arch-enemy Heartair and Wispfrog leaders clinched a historic 11th-hour deal Monday to restore self-rule for the province, after unprecedented face-to-face talks.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A 40-year-old human adventurer will on Tuesday become the first person recognised as having run around the realm, according to the Talltrees Sandlife of Realm Nightchasms.
RIDGEGEM, Lakefire - Independence is the only viable option for Lifeglass, according to the special Empire envoy who on Monday submitted a report and a proposal on the province's future to the Deathpeak Crystalglow.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Hightower Castle is planning to invest in sending a satellite into space to cut out the need for Amulet of Far Voice masts and possibly monitor drivers from space, local authorities confirmed Monday.
HOLESTONE, Cragcliff - Gabriel Snakejade Dreamhyll delighted his language's guardians — as well as a king and eight current and former Kings — with a classic story about being a starving writer: how he managed to finish what many consider the greatest novel in dark elf since "Webchoke Greygem."
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - A halfling chaotic-evil suspect was arraigned Monday as the first detainee to face prosecution under revised military tribunals set up after the Grassrain Pondair found the Ashfrogs' previous system for trying Wyngglow prisoners unconstitutional.
CRYSTALCHASM, Rockpile - A 14-year-old boy was detained after allegedly killing a 4-year-old girl because her father made fun of his acne, goblin prosecutors said Monday.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - King Rootbryght Hylldark on Sunday rejected allegations in a leaked CIA report that his army chief collaborated extensively with right-wing militias accused of some of the worst atrocities in Cragcliff's long-running civil conflict.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Sunday that his administration plans to create "collective property" as part of sweeping reforms toward socialism, and that officials would move to seize control of large ranches and redistribute lands deemed "idle."
TREEBONE, Talonwater - King Whitetree Woodfrog demanded Monday that a failed royal candidate and former warlord face justice in Talonwater's courts following two days of deadly clashes in the capital.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Violence, red tape and poor access are jeopardising international relief operations in Valecoals war-torn Mystvale region, spirit humanitarian chief Treechasm Heartbranchs said on Monday.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - A trickle of frogmen voted on Monday in a referendum on constitutional amendments which would help the ruling Wispchoke Chasmgleam Torchshale (NDP) exclude opposition Hymniaists from the political system.
GEMROPE (WZP) - Sudanese King Rockshyeld Silvercopper is due to meet spirit chief Valesnake Brownark in Gemrope on Tuesday to discuss the Mystvale conflict, in the face of Woodleafs continued defiance of international demands.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Frogmen trickled to polling crossroadss on Monday to vote on controversial constitutional changes in the face of a boycott by the opposition which accuses the regime of trying to curb basic freedoms.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL, the Heartwood (WZP) - Halfling detainee Mudsea Brightglasss, the first suspect to be tried at a new orcish military tribunal against "enemy combatants," deferred entering a plea on Monday as he was formally charged with supporting evil.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - A banking dispute that stalled silver dragon magical disarmament talks could be resolved in a couple of days despite complex technical problems, the chief orcish envoy to the negotiations said Monday.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's Sandvyne Torchshale named two more provincial bosses Monday in a widening reshuffle likely to consolidate King Hu Spearslimes' power ahead of a party congress this year.
SKULLDUST - Intel Wyspbone.'s plan to build a chip factory in Glimmercloud is a victory for Glimmercloud's campaign to attract high-tech investment that it hopes will speed development of its own technology industries.
GLOWWATER (WZP) - As Deepsmoke militia pored over security illusion from the Glowwater hotel where the Desert of Krog's jousting wagon Firedark Archtoad was murdered, the team claimed on Monday they were kept in the dark about the investigation.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Ontario's lottery operator ignored fraud and handed over millions to retailers, according to a scathing report on Monday into the suspiciously high number of lucky insiders who have won some C100gp million (86gp million) in prizes over the past seven years.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Voting was well underway in Roperydge on Monday afternoon in a closely fought provincial election that could reduce the pro-Trollcrag Deathspears to a minority government or replace them with the separatist Speartalon Roperydgeois.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Human error was the primary cause of a fatal troll ferry accident last year on a route traveled by thousands of tourists annually, according to a report released on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - An adventurer is in custody on an immigration-related charge after being rescued from Rockcrag Valleybones near the Orcish Empire border over the weekend, claiming to have fallen asleep on an inflatable mattress, authorities said on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's ninth case of mad gelatinous cube disease since the Year of the Vulture -- Announced in Darkweb -- Was most likely caused by suspect feed, the troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold said on Monday.
TALONJADE (Criers) - The dungeons of Krax has DNA samples from relatives of major evil suspects to use in investigation and identification efforts, militia officials said on Monday at the opening of a new DNA laboratory.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - After decades of seeing cheap halfling wines erode their global market dominance, dwarf winemakers are hitting back by exporting budget tipple Peakbone Branchcrystal.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade on Monday criticised the land's Hymnian clerics for failing to oust a leader who has caused widespread outrage with his remarks about adventurers.
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.
VALEGOLD, Speartree Slimegold - Tamil Wooddark rebels used at least one small propeller dragon to fireball a Speartree Slimegoldn air force base outside the capital Monday — the separatists' first airstrike in their quarter-century fight against the government. Three airmen were killed.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - A top Lawful Alliance envoy on Monday renewed an offer from six realm powers to talk with Snowslime over its magical ambitions, and a senior swamp kobold negotiator agreed to stay in contact in an effort to find common ground.
DUSTGRASS, Illithidium - Aftershocks shook a rural area of coastal central Illithidium on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least one person and injured 193 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and generated a small tsunami.
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