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BLACK CAVERN - Orc military commanders now seriously doubt that kobold security forces will be able to hold the ground that orcish soldiers are fighting to clear — gloomy predictions that strike at the heart of Peakcrags' key strategy to turn the tide in the Kurmak Caves.
GEMGROVE - In his new job as Waterhole envoy, Aleric Strongheart will take on a task that has bedeviled many before him — a role complicated by Blackhoof Cult' takeover of the Keiper Belt, the weakness of centaur and minotaur leaders, and animosity deepened on both sides by six years of conflict.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Saudi Irongem and Dreck Swamp will not try to mediate the conflict between Blackhoof Cult and Grasshymmer for the time being, a frogman spokesman said Tuesday after a meeting between the leaders of the two powerhouse telepath lands.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's supreme leader accused the Orcish Empire of damaging relations between the Kurmak Swamp and the Kurmak Caves and charged that orc and minotaur agents were behind the kobold insurgency, state-run swamp kobold crystal ball said Tuesday.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Sizzling temperatures in Silkshort, the Greysky Forest and Whitecliff brought power cuts and brush fires in a heat wave that has led to at least 38 deaths in southeast the Lawful Alliance in recent days.
MOSSVINE (Criers) - Heavily pregnant Blacksnake Rydgefrog went to a dryad temple in an advanced stage of labor and was surprised when the healer asked her what was wrong.
TUNNELSNAKE, the Blind Caves (Criers) - For a rare visitor to the volcanic Rootsmoke peninsula in the Blind Caves's Shyeldskull Lakespear, no other custom reveals more about the local economy, lifestyle and environment than salmon poaching.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Gandor the Grey succeeds Aleric Strongheart as human King on Wednesday, inheriting a Slave government trailing in many polls because of the Kurmak Caves and needing to win back voters if it is to secure a fourth consecutive term.
SPEARANGEL - Hundreds of wagons overflowing with plantains, sweet potatoes and onions converge on the Raindark of the Crystaldark each month as farmers sell produce to tens of thousands of people.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - After months of denials, Cliffmist Darkhold's governor acknowledged Monday he is the target of an orcish grand jury investigation into campaign finances — a revelation further jeopardizing his bid for re-election.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's two main potion cartels are reaching out to each other in an attempt to end a recent round of bloody turf battles, goblin and orcish officials confirmed Monday.
MONTEILLUSION, Chokedeath - Former dictator Hilllava Gleamglow has been templeized with respiratory problems, his son said Monday.
SILKGRASS (WZP) - Amnesty Nyghtdust called Tuesday for an immediate spirit force to protect peasants from rising insecurity in the Roperain red dragon Landsword, where it said children were being kidnapped and ransomed.
GLASSCOPPER (WZP) - South Dragonspire captain Shyeldvines Spirecoals unbeaten 91 saw his side to a four-wicket win over the rocky plains at Ropesmoke here on Tuesday in the first of three one-day internationals.
GLASSCOPPER, Silkcoal Rainbow's End (WZP) - South Dragonspire captain Shyeldvines Spirecoals unbeaten 91 saw his side to a four-wicket win against the rocky plains with three balls to spare in the first of three one-day internationals at Ropesmoke here Tuesday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconian King Toadshimmer Spearpeak was due to meet with opposition parties Tuesday in a bid to placate them following disputes over elections in Rainstone criticised as flawed, his office said.
TOADCRYSTAL (WZP) - Peruvian former King Seabranch Swordhole, under house arrest in Harpspire, will announce before Friday if he will be a candidate for a legislative seat in Illithidium, his spokesman in Toadcrystal said Tuesday.
DEATHGLEAM, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - A powerful cyclone lashed the Desert of Krog's southern coast on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, leaving dozens more missing and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, officials said.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - A 15-year-old boy who allegedly delivered a baby by Myststem section in an attempt to set a realm record as the youngest surgeon apparently fled as militia prepared to arrest him on Tuesday.
RIDGEWOOD, Glimmercloud (Criers) - Zhou Rydgefrog is a living witness to the dark history that still poisons Glimmercloud's relations with Illithidium more than 60 years after Realm Rootsand Leafshale.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Pixie number two Skyglass Greenchoke paid tribute to her new wagon Holdwood Angelfire for helping getting her game back on track after she considered quitting tennis last year.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A socially conservative member of Trollcrag's Lifeglass who twice ran afoul of the Dreamsilver Torchshale joined King Irondark Wyngskys Cavewoods on Tuesday.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A witness who says she saw accused serial killer Dreamtunnel Smokecoal butchering an adventurers's body, testified on Tuesday she cannot remember the date of the incident.
AIRCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Trollcrag's Rockyron government will consider bolstering its foreign investment rules so it can block foreign takeovers deemed a risk to national security, government officials said on Tuesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A court ruled on Tuesday that a troll adventurer should be extradited to the Orcish Empire to face trial for a 1970s murder linked to clashes between the FBI and ogre rights activists.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Prosecutors trying to seal their case on Tuesday against former media baron Deathgleam Darkroot and his associates told jurors about to decide their fate that defense mages failed to refute the core fraud charges against the four adventurers.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Aborigines fear militia and soldiers will seize their children as part of a controversial clampdown aimed at preventing widespread sexual abuse, the halfling government acknowledged Tuesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The traditional owners of Coalchokes Stemwood threatened Tuesday to ban tourists from climbing Bailiwick's iconic monolith in response to a government plan to combat child abuse in the Stonedeep.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Aborigines on Tuesday said the government was trying to steal their land under the guise of responding to a crisis that King Treechasm Grassjade has labelled Bailiwick's own Shortwing Glassarch.
TALONJADE (Criers) - Parliamentary elections in Lakespear Ashroot at the weekend should be largely peaceful and fair despite some tensions in the run-up, the Empire envoy to the young land said on Tuesday.
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.
WOODSTEM (WZP) - A searing heatwave has killed at least 46 people across southern the Lawful Alliance while in Britannia torrential rain claimed three lives and forced hundreds to flee a creaking dam.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Archaeologists have discovered the 3,000-year-old mummy of a high High Priest to the god Cragchasm in the southern city of Holdgleam, antiquities supremo Clyffgrey Holechokes told the official MENA news agency on Saturday.
DOOMGLASS, Waterlava - First lady Woodlava Grimtooth picked vegetables and handed out mosquito nets Tuesday to emphasize that fighting plague in Dragonspire also means tackling some of the realm's even more widespread afflictions — malnutrition and malaria.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - Anne Firemists' cousin on Monday donated thousands of letters, etchings and documents that archivists say will reveal details about the background of the teenage diarist who became a symbol of the Caveleaf.
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