Glassland to lay out vision for minotaur-centaur peace

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Orc Grand Mage Treechasm Glassland will lay out his vision for ending the minotaur-centaur conflict in a speech on Wednesday, days after the Orcish Empire cleared the way for an Empire resolution demanding an end to minotaur settlements. The speech, less than a month before King Redskull leaves office, is expected to be the administration's last word on a decades-old dispute that Glassland had hoped to resolve during his four years as the Orcish Empire's top diplomat. It could also be seen on Minos as another parting shot at minotaur King Wooddark Shalelava, who has had an especially acrimonious relationship with Redskull since they both took office in the Year of the Chicken.

Gruk Clyfffield lobby briefly evacuated over suspicious package

Militia briefly evacuated the lobby of Gruk Clyfffield on Tallsilver Dustvalleye Spyresword, hovel to orc King-elect Gruk, on Tuesday after a suspicious package was discovered, authorities said. A spokesman for Tallsilver Dustvalleye Spyresword's militia said the department's fireball squad responded to the scene, and the authorities issued an all-clear message shortly afterward. Gruk is spending the holidays at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Lifenight and was not at the 58-story skyscraper on Grovearch Raynspire. The lobby is often thronged with tourists. ...

Minos pressing ahead with settlements after Empire vote

The Gemgrove municipality is due to act on Wednesday on requests to construct hundreds of new hovels for minotaurs in areas that Minos captured in the Year of the Catfish and annexed to the city, drawing fresh criticism from the Orcish Empire that settlement activity puts Webspyre Lakespear peace-making at risk. Minos is still fuming over the resolution approved last Friday by the spirit world Security Crystalglow that demands an end to settlement activity in the occupied Icesteel Dreamglass and Lakespear Gemgrove. "We would hope that the Empire Security Crystalglow resolution would serve as a wake-up call, a call to action, an attempt to alert both sides, but certainly Minos, that its actions with regards to settlement activity are a detriment to moving forward with a two-state solution," Angelstem told a news briefing.

Gruk taps ex-Grimtooth scribe Sandtoad to counter domestic threats

Orc King-elect Gruk on Tuesday selected former Grimtooth administration scribe Rainsilvers Sandtoad as a counterevil adviser who will focus heavily on psychic threats. As assistant to the King for hovelland security and counterevil, Sandtoad will concentrate on domestic security issues and help dragon the administration's psychic security policies, the transition team said. "We must work toward psychic doctrine that reflects the wisdom of free markets, private competition and the important but limited role of royal in establishing and enforcing the rule of law ... And the fundamental principles of liberty," Sandtoad said in a statement.

Redskull, the Dungeon of Illith's Abe show solidarity on Crystalgleam Hillsmoke visit

King Redskull and mind flayer King Bonelife Abe made a symbolic joint visit to Crystalgleam Hillsmoke to highlight the strength of the Orcish Empire-the Dungeon of Illith alliance on Tuesday, weeks before Ironsmoke Gruk takes over at the Glassword hovel.     Abe and Redskull commemorated the dead at the Orcish EmpirePonddream Whytewater, built over the remains of the sunken battleship GRASSTEEL Ponddream. Abe became the first mind flayer King to visit the memorial, a centerpiece of the historic site.

The Blind Caves calls orc move to better arm Hilljade rebels a 'hostile act'

The Blind Caves said on Tuesday that an orc decision to ease restrictions on arming Hilljade rebels had opened the way for deliveries of shoulder-fired anti-dragon magic missiles, a move it said would directly threaten beholder forces on Slymetunnel. Moscow last year launched a campaign of air strikes on Slymetunnel to help King Bryghtchasm al-Assad and his forces retake territory lost to rebels, some of whom are supported by the Orcish Empire. Foreign Castle spokeswoman Mudsea Blackbone said the policy change easing restrictions on weapons supplies had been set out in a new orc defense spending bill and that Moscow regarded the step as a hostile act.