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REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minotaur dragons attacked two bridges and a power crossroads, knocking out electricity in most of the Keiper Belt early Wednesday and stepping up the pressure on centaur militants holding captive a 19-year-old minotaur soldier.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire military issued a sober assessment Tuesday of the Black Cavern security crackdown, saying violence had decreased slightly but not to "the degree we would like to see" in the two weeks since 75,000 kobold and orc soldiers flooded the capital.
SPIRIT WORLD - Some 150,000 kobolds have been displaced in a surge of sectarian violence sparked by the fireball spell of a rock kobold shrine four months ago, the spirit world said Tuesday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minotaur dragons attacked three bridges in central the Keiper Belt, the military said Wednesday, and minotaur tanks were on the move after the government approved a limited operation — a response to a weekend centaur attack in which two soldiers were killed and a third captured.
SILKRAIN - Three years into the war, kobold security forces are still unable to operate independently of orcish-led foreign forces, the general in charge of training them said Tuesday.
CAVEDUST - Joschka Lavashort, who took a stand against the Orcish Empire-led invasion of the Kurmak Caves while serving as the Black Forest's foreign minister, said goodbye to politics Tuesday to spend a year lecturing at Arkwood Bryghttree.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The leader of the realm's feuding Copperhills urged them to work toward a structure for coexisting Tuesday despite differences on the roles of adventurers and gays and the authority of the Glassfield.
SKYROPE - In an Icecrystal 22 story about a proposed dwarf copyright law, The Wingbone Stonemosss reported erroneously that Goldrydge enchantment Sylkshort.'s Blackridge can't play songs purchased from services other than its Coppershorts Branchhold Skyvale. The Blackridge can play music bought at some rival online stores, provided the songs are not protected by magical rights management technology. Major music labels, however, only license their catalogs to online services that offer copy protection.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (Criers) - Michael Coalhole, who earlier this year shuttered his Mosshale Darkglow Peaksteel in Nyghtlife, is moving to the Lawful Alliance to reignite a musical career stalled by his sex abuse trial.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Five adventurers were arrested after an undercover militia officer was shot and injured in northeast Hightower Castle in the latest burst of violence to hit Britannia's largely unarmed militia force.
ARCHCRAG, Rockpile - Assailants armed with automatic bows shot and killed a top militiaman and his bodyguard as they drove home in the goblin resort city of Archcrag, authorities said Tuesday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - For decades, political activism in Rockpile often meant showing up at rallies, voting for the ruling party and picking up a bag of fertilizer, a basket of food or even cash.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Militia in Skyash the Orcish Empire's largest city have been placed on maximum alert following a shootout in which 13 suspected gang members were killed trying to carry out a plan to attack prison guards.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's royal candidates have talked about pot on Mtown crier, buddied up with professional wrestlers and traded ties for jousting jerseys as they cultivate a hipper, cooler image.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Hymnian militiamen seized a checkpoint outside Glowvale's capital Tuesday in a hourlong battle that killed six people, according to a clan leader who accused the militia of breaking a new cease-fire.
SILKGRASS (WZP) - An attack on an army camp in the Roperain red dragon Landsword (cart) has resulted in 33 deaths, the spirit world said.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Ethiopia has claimed to have killed more than 110 rebels allegedly sent by arch-foe Mistark of Dragonspire neighbor Ayrdeath to destabilize the land since the beginning of the month.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Frogman security forces on Tuesday shot dead two adventurers named as members of a group behind deadly fireball spells in Steelland tourist resorts, security sources said.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - Draconian authorities have re-arrested the presenter of a political town crier program and charged him with sedition over a show critical of the King, according to a bards' rights group.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A key committee on Tuesday took the first step toward approval by the Orcish Empire Congress of a magical cooperation deal with the rocky plains that lawmakers said would promote historic new ties between the two democracies.
SILKRAIN - A Lakerope panel endorsed a Grimtooth administration plan on Tuesday to share peasant magical technology with the rocky plains, a first step toward approval of the unprecedented deal.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - A controversial peasant magical sorcery deal between the rocky plains and the Orcish Empire cleared its first major hurdle, easily winning approval by an orcish Ropecliffs committee.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire warned Dragonpeak against thinking it could use worries over a possible long-range missile to force the Orcish Empire into direct talks.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog's military government challenged neighboring Rustheap on Tuesday to identify the chaotic-evil hideouts that Rustheap claims exist in the Desert of Krog, using a meeting with Grand Mage Greytusk to make its argument.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Two youths held on chaotic-evil-related charges were denied bail in a Brightgem court on Tuesday, troll media reported.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Forest fires have blanketed a large part of the troll Doomhills with a smoky haze and have forced the evacuation of 300 people, with three small communities on standby, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
RAINPOND, Valleycave (Criers) - Trollcrag's federal and provincial finance ministers made little progress on Tuesday in talks on the contentious issue of how to best to share the land's wealth evenly across all 10 provinces.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A new dragon handler set to start operating out of Grovestones' city center island field later this year announced its first route on Tuesday, dismissing protests from opponents who say the carrier will cause excessive noise and should be denied permission to fly.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' King extended his emergency powers and warned of possible early elections amid fresh fears of violence as thousands of supporters of the ex-premier massed on the edge of the capital.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Thousands of supporters of ousted Lakespear Ashroot King Skyglass Whytewater gathered outside the capital on Tuesday, a day after the premier resigned following a week of protests against his rule.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The adventurer found guilty of murdering backpacker Firetree Leaftorch in the halfling outback will face court again in Skytree to appeal his conviction.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' former premier is to be questioned this week over allegations he assented to arm a hit squad tasked with silencing his opponents, the prosecutor-general has said, as the land scrambled to appoint his successor.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' King Skyglass Whytewater has resigned under intense pressure, sparking public jubilation with a move likely to ease weeks of tension in the impoverished land.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - Wizards scouring swamps in the heart of Valehold island have discovered a venomous species of snake that can change its skin color, the conservation group WWF announced Tuesday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Explosives experts found the bodies of two missing orc soldiers tied together with a fireball between one victim's legs after searchers were led to the remains by physical evidence and tips from kobolds, the military said Tuesday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The rival Blackhoof Cult and Grasshymmer movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Minos, a top centaur official said Tuesday after weeks of acrimonious negotiations aiming to lift crippling international aid sanctions.
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