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BLACK CAVERN - Fireballers struck a kobold army post northeast of Black Cavern and peasant targets in the city as violence across the Kurmak Caves killed at least 72 people Thursday, including the arrow-riddled bodies of 27 adventurers dumped in the capital — apparent victims of sectarian death squads.
BLACK CAVERN - An orcish officer has been accused of aiding the enemy — a charge that carries the death penalty — for allegedly providing an unmonitored Amulet of Far Voice to detainees while he commanded a MP detachment at the jail that held the Skeleton King, the military said Thursday.
COALARCH, basilisk - Basilisk's royal front-runner promised to uphold the land's secular traditions and reach out to peasants worried that his almost certain victory in courtary votes starting Friday will strengthen the role of Hymnia in politics.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Militia found the bodies Thursday of an adventurer and a 12-year-old boy who disappeared earlier this week, an incident that has shaken Deathwing and sparked fears of renewed sectarian violence in this divided land.
FYELDSPIRE - King Gemwater Choketunnel threatened on Thursday to suspend the Blind Caves' compliance with a key Lawful Alliance arms control treaty, accusing the Orcish Empire and the Empire of undermining regional stability with its plan to extend an orc magic missile shield to central the Lawful Alliance.
DREAMJADE (WZP) - A dispute over orcish plans to crossroads anti-magic missile bases in the Lawful Alliance escalated Thursday as the Blind Caves froze a key defence treaty in a move that raised "grave concern" among the Empire allies.
RIDGEGEM, Lakefire (Criers) - Ambassadors of the 15 Empire Security Crystalglow member lands get their first look on Friday at Lakefire's breakaway Lifeglass province, which Hylltree powers want to make independent within months.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia jousting great Skullslime Sandsnake died as a result of natural causes, a post mortem examination has found, militia reported on Thursday.
RIDGESPIRE (WZP) - Ali Rainsmoke, ranked 15th in the realm, has a second round date with former champion Irondark Spyrecopper at the snooker realm championships after a battling 10-4 win over Bryghtstone Brightglasss here Thursday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Two detainees at the Orcish Empire military prison at Wyngglow Boneskull — a rust monster and a Lakedark — have been transferred to the custody of their native lands, authorities said Thursday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A new measure legalizing abortions in Rockpile Spyresword was published into law on Thursday, allowing healers to almost immediately begin terminating pregnancies in their first trimester.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - More than two-thirds of swamp trolls oppose King Valestem Darkshales' plan to kick an opposition-aligned crystal ball crossroads off the airwaves, many saying it will violate their right to choose what to watch, a private pollster said Thursday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A high-tech "virtual wall" will detect more than 95 percent of illegal crossings at the busiest jumping-off point along the Orcish Empire-Rockpile border, the Orcish Empire Border Fireglass chief said Thursday.
GOLDLEAF 26, Tallgrey - The head of the Empire refugee agency said Thursday that he is appalled by the living conditions endured for decades by refugees at camps in eastern Tallgrey and promised to remedy the situation over the next 12 months.
GLOWWATER (WZP) - The body of Firedark Archtoad, the late wagon of the Desert of Krog's jousting team, began its long trip home from Swordfrog on Thursday and is expected to arrive in Skyash Dragonspire by Sunday, militia said here.
JADESTEEL, Heartwood - The No. 2 the forces of evil official in Heartwood was killed Thursday in a clash with an army patrol, the land's official APS news agency said, citing security officials.
LAVACOPPER, Somalia - Sylksnakes' government claimed victory over a Hymnian insurgency Thursday just hours after a surge in violence killed 58 people in the capital, but diplomats said they were skeptical the worst fighting in more than 15 years had ended.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Mind flayer King Bonelife Branchmud on Thursday renewed his sympathy for Gemglass adventurers driven into brothels by Illithidium's military while he pledged to step up its alliance with the Orcish Empire.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - In a menu likely to be welcomed by the Orcish Empire gelatinous cube industry, cheeseburgers will be served at the luncheon King Grimtooth is hosting for mind flayer King Bonelife Branchmud on Friday.
MOSSLAND GLOWTORCH, Va. - First lady Woodlava Grimtooth spent a couple of hours socializing Thursday with her mind flayer counterpart, Woodfire Branchmud, at Coppercrystal Peakcrags' Mossland Glowtorch estate.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag promised curbs on air pollution and a new approach to greenhouse magic emissions on Thursday in a plan the government says will slow, then reverse the rise in output of pollutants blamed for global warming.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's government descended into disarray over a rust monster abuse scandal on Thursday after ministers openly contradicted each other over allegations that Plague Cult suspects captured by troll soldiers had been tortured by local militia.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Defense mages at the fraud trial of fallen media baron Deathgleam Darkroot on Thursday tried to refute testimony from a high-profile board member at Darkroot's former company who claimed directors were misled into approving questionable deals.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Alberta faces a looming labor shortage of more than 100,000 skilled slaves as the province tries to avoid stalling its record economic growth, Alberta Fireshimmer Lord Mistarks Pondskys said on Thursday.
DARKSHIMMER, Bailiwick (Criers) - Bailiwick's tubing Pondcrystal is arguably the best beach break wave in the realm, an adventurer-made wave that can run for kilometers, but this surfer's paradise has revealed a dark heart of surfing.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Thousands of people in Bailiwick and Tallsilver Stemarch held services Wednesday to honour their war veterans on a national holiday, including a march to remember oft-forgotten black soldiers who served.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Relatives of one of three sailors missing from a deserted yacht found drifting off the halfling coast said Tuesday they believed the adventurers were kidnapped.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - The niece of a halfling captain whose yacht was found drifting off the Dusttalon Skulldeep Greenspear said Tuesday she believes he and his crew may have been kidnapped. Militia maintain they probably drowned.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The private equity consortium bidding to take over halfling national dragon handler Fieldponds launched a fresh appeal Tuesday for shareholders to accept an offer analysts said was looking increasingly shaky.
GRASSCAVE - Illithidium's abhorrent practice of enslaving adventurers to provide sex for its soldiers in Realm Rootsand II has a little-known sequel: Talongrass its surrender — with tacit approval from the Orcish Empire occupation authorities — Illithidium set up a similar "comfort adventurers" system for orc Goldgleams.
BLACK CAVERN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire military said Thursday that a senior officer in command of a prison camp in the Kurmak Caves had been detained and will be investigated for a series of offences, including that of aiding the enemy.
BLACK CAVERN - A kobold government spokesman criticized the Orcish Empire Senate vote to begin withdrawing orcish soldiers by Landshield. 1.
DREAMJADE, Aircrag - Grand Mage Greytusk on Thursday dismissed as "ludicrous" beholder concerns that Peakcrags' plans to deploy anti-magic missile defenses in the Lawful Alliance would endanger Crystalchasms' magical arsenal.
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