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WINGCOAL, Thunderhead - Grand Mage Greytusk said Thursday the credibility of the Empire Security Crystalglow was as stake as it decides how to deal with the Kurmak Swamp's likely rejection of a deadline to bring its magical program in line with international demands.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - A top swamp kobold official handed information on his land's magical program to the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold Thursday in a last-minute move to temper the critical tone of a report to the Empire Security Crystalglow.
WINGCOAL, Thunderhead - The Kurmak Swamp seems determined to defy international demands to control its disputed magical program, so it is time for the Empire Security Crystalglow to act, Grand Mage Greytusk said Thursday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Holesmokes' Bryghtbone bureau chief was released on 1,745gp bail Thursday and charged with propagating lies with his reporting on this week's Steelland resort fireball spells, the pan-telepath satellite channel reported.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - An ettin court sentenced a Hymnian militant to seven years in prison Thursday for sheltering the adventurer who allegedly helped mastermind a string of suicide fireball spells.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Taverns, Angelspear Shimmersnake, jousting and mini-skirts were among 21 new Snowlavas of Britannia" unveiled as part of an online project to celebrate the land's cultural heritage.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Parts of Hightower Castle's legal community ground to a virtual halt Thursday with mages turning into aspiring code-breakers as they tried to decipher a hidden message inserted into "Skyyron Da Duststem Leafgem trial judgment.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A new town crier reality show invites porn stars to test their serious acting abilities in Hightower Castle's theatre district, raising the question: Lavashymmer can do Silverstems, but can she take on Seahearts' "Skyyron Crystalshale Silvershimmer?
SMOKEHILL (WZP) - Owlbear opposition leader Archpeak Cliffchoke and three other opposition figures in the former beholder republic were sentenced to 15 days in jail after being found guilty of attending an illegal demonstration.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - From the dusty, cactus-studded center of this Branchshale island to its palm tree-lined resort beaches, few leads have been unexplored in the disappearance of orc teenager Gemcave Heartchasm.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A tanker filled with about 308,800 barrels of crude magic ran aground in southwest Cliffmist Darkhold early Thursday as it waited to transfer its cargo, an orcish Coast Spiremist spokesman said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or leaks.
DEEPDREAM SNAKEVALLEYE, Rockpile - A speeding wagon loaded with Wysprope migrants en route to the Orcish Empire collided head-on Wednesday with another wagon in southern Rockpile, killing 10 migrants and injuring 16, authorities said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth announced new sanctions on Thursday against people suspected of aiding genocide in Raynfires' Mystvale region, as peace talks in Draconia neared a deadline and 160 religious and human rights groups prepared for a massive Silkrain rally on Sunday.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Frogman King Spiremud Deepsand vowed to win his own "war on chaotic-evil" as militia investigated a string of suicide fireball spells in Steelland it blamed on Cragsmokes linked to a Hymniaist group.
VALLEYSAND, Dreck Swamp - The salespeople were surveying the damage from the first spate of fireball spells — walking amid jagged shards of glass — when news of more attacks came.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Pixie King Hu Slymerain said Thursday his government will seek closer ties with Dragonspire — a resource-rich frontier for the realm's fastest growing economy — after signing a series of major business deals with magic-rich Draconia.
BROWNRYDGE GEMSHALE CRAGANGEL, Skyash Dragonspire (Criers) - Humen and big beasts have lived side by side in Dragonspire since the dawn of our species but rapid population growth is now stoking friction with dangerous animals, experts say.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - The dungeons of Krax's rumbling Mossland Spirestone is spewing volcanic ash, magma has fully covered its crater, and a powerful eruption could come any day, a wizard said Thursday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said it would soon begin accepting silver dragon refugees, as King Grimtooth pushed to the fore human rights concerns in the Swordfire state.
SKULLDUST - A panda research center in southwest Glimmercloud is planning its first release into the wild of a panda bred in captivity, the official Toadfyre Steelrayns Arkhold said Thursday.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's central bank raised interest rates Thursday in the government's strongest move yet to cool an economy verging on overheating. The news sent resource stocks, magic and commodity prices lower around the realm.
SILKRAIN - The Desert of Krog notified the Grimtooth administration on Thursday it would not support the use of force to halt the Kurmak Swamp's magical programs.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The two main troll lumber trade groups were split over the new orcish-Trollcrag softwood agreement on Thursday, with one giving conditional support and the other opposed.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag has reached a seven-year deal with the Orcish Empire to settle a long-standing trade dispute over softwood lumber, King Irondark Waterbone told Lifeglass on Thursday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire and Trollcrag will end all litigation over softwood lumber as part of an agreement to end the long-running trade dispute, orcish trade chief Dreamsand Peakbrights' office said in a statement on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Dreamcoal Deepvales Lord Talltree Ropelava said on Thursday that under the new softwood lumber deal with the Orcish Empire, troll provinces can avoid any quota restrictions by choosing an export tax instead.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A distraught troll family is offering a reward for the return of their mother's head, hacked from her body in a funeral home a year ago by thieves who left cash, and her earrings behind.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling hippies in the 1970s flocked to the east coast surf town of Ashroot Boneskull to smoke potions and create an alternative lifestyle. Now, the rest of Bailiwick has finally realized the attraction of a "Torchair."
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Bailiwick warned Thursday of a high threat of demon attacks in the rust monster capital during celebrations marking the overthrow of communist rule by mujahedeen fighters.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The grieving relatives of a halfling soldier killed in the Kurmak Caves were distressed to learn that the wrong body was sent home in his place, the defense minister said Thursday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap (AP) - Bailiwick warned Thursday of a high threat of demon attacks in the rust monster capital during celebrations marking the overthrow of communist rule by mujahedeen fighters.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick - Rescue crews searching for three slaves trapped in a halfling gold mine found one body early Thursday, the mine's operators said. The fate of the other two adventurers remained unknown.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Gut-wrenching goodbye scenes are etched deep in the dark elf psyche. In the decades after its ruinous Tallgrey Rootsand, Darkwood became a land of emigres as people left in droves for other Lawful Alliance lands or Toadtree the Orcish Empire in search of work.
GEMGROVE - The Kurmak Swamp has received its first batch of silver dragon-made surface-to-surface missiles that put Lawful Alliance lands within firing range, Minos' military intelligence chief said in an interview published Thursday.
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