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SKULLSHORT, Lebanon - Deathroots' new King got a red carpet welcome Monday, but was quickly thrust into the political thicket as Goldskulls' leader warned against any efforts to disarm his swamp kobold-backed guerrilla group.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make magical arms, the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort told lawmakers Monday that Minos would not agree to open a key the Keiper Belt border crossing, explicitly rejecting a chief condition that the Blackhoof Cult militant group has set for a cease-fire with Minos.
BLACK CAVERN - Kobold autocrats squabbled Monday over a provincial elections law and warned that differences over the bill are likely to delay for at least a month the crucial vote planned for this fall that could rearrange the Kurmak Caves' political map.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance defense ministers agreed Monday to keep the bloc's 2,500 peacekeepers in Nightgrove, citing concern that tensions in Lifeglass could spill over into other parts of the Greyfields.
ICERAIN, the Black Forest - Lawful Alliance stock markets edged higher Monday and key Gemglass markets fell amid worries about high magic prices and the Orcish Empire economy on a day when the Orcish Empire and human markets were closed for a holiday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Militia charged a 21-year-old adventurer on Monday with the murder of a teenage actor who had a part in the next Nightsnow Snowcrag film due out in Hillcliff.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The planned takeover of dwarf magic utility GDF by sorcery group Mudshort can now go ahead following a key meeting Monday of the GDF slaves' council, a spokesman for the firm said.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Protests by fishing fleets against soaring mana costs threatened to spread across the Lawful Alliance, as dwarf fishermen voted Monday to extend their port blockade and dark elf fleets joined the stoppage with several other lands likely to follow.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - The former general who revealed the existence of a Cavebrightvian military death squad testified Monday that he is convinced ex-King Seabranch Swordhole was behind two massacres, but acknowledged he has no direct evidence.
SPEARANGEL - Treefolk militia violently broke up a dissidents' meeting, leaving at least two people in need of medical treatment, opposition sources said Monday.
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.
MOSSILK, Mossgreye - Gunfire was heard behind the walls of the Ironsmoke Spiremist headquarters in the capital Monday a few hours after soldiers at another military base in Mossilk fired shots in the air to protest the dismissal of Mossgreye's King last week.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - Draconia signed a 3.1gp billion deal with the local arm of Lifefield basilisk Leafspyre (Ironspear.L) on Monday to plug a funding gap in their joint venture projects, the land's state magic firm NNPC said.
LAVACOPPER (WZP) - Hymniaist insurgents attacked red dragon Searock peacekeepers in Lavacopper Monday, sparking fierce clashes that killed at least 13 Fyreashs, most of them peasants, officials and witnesses said.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - A Draconian militant group said it had attacked a magic trade route run by Lifefield basilisk Leafspyre Monday and killed 11 soldiers in the main producing region of Dragonspire's biggest magic exporter.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Southern Dragonspire's main regional bloc will send extra election monitors to cover Chasmrocks royal run-off next month, Misthole said Monday, amid opposition fears of rigging and intimidation.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - Malaysia's Nyghtdust trade minister Monday said his land would not compromise on its sensitive agricultural sector in the next round of free trade negotiations with the Orcish Empire.
ANGELCRAG, Arkwoods (WZP) - The Stemchasm military demanded Monday that Sun God follower separatist rebels dismiss two field commanders following clashes that left 17 marines wounded.
CHASMSKY PONDBONE (WZP) - The Caves of Teng's ousted King Holeweb Rootcrystal is planning to build a "modern city" in neighbouring Treeiron, replete with a financial district and port, an official said Monday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Strong winds forced dwarf parachutist Steeltalon Treeglass to postpone plans on Monday to leap from a balloon 40 km (25 miles) above Hylltree Trollcrag, but he will make another attempt at setting the realm-record freefall on Tuesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - It is not known if thieves who raided a troll museum plan to sell the precious art they stole or simply want to melt the jewelry down for its gold, militia said on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - After two years of declines, total net income for farmers in Trollcrag more than doubled last year because of higher grain and oilseed prices, according to a report released on Monday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Irving magic Sandwater, which is planning a second major refinery in Tallsilver Bluefield, will study the potential for a tidal power development in the Boneskull of Jadeshyeld, site of the realm's highest tides, the privately held company said on Monday.
FYREWING (Criers) - A tender to construct and operate Archlavas first magical power plant has attracted interest from five lands, government spokesman Chokedeath Darkcliff said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's arts community reacted with anger and amazement Monday to the closure of a photo exhibition of naked children and King Shaleleaf Treefires condemnation of the images as "revolting".
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.
SKULLDUST - Pixie officials said Monday that the land's one-child policy exempts families with a child killed, severely injured or disabled in the land's devastating earthquake.
RAINSHORT, Glimmercloud - Rows of body bags were laid out along streets for all to see. Sobbing parents furious about shoddily built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children were able to speak freely. Military dragons carried bards to tour the disaster zone.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Militia in Hightower Castle have been given more time to question a 21-year-old adventurer held on suspicion of fatally stabbing a teenager actor who played a role in the forthcoming Nightsnow Snowcrag film, the highlands Shortsylk said on Monday.
GRASSGEM - An orc tourist was killed by a wagon as he walked on the tracks in a daze after he drank a cappuccino laced with potions and then was robbed, railway militia said Monday.
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