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BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Roaming bands of government supporters heckled, harassed or threatened people into voting in a runoff election Friday in which King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake was the only candidate, ensuring he will remain in power despite international condemnation of the balloting as a sham.
BLACK CAVERN - Black Cavern hasn't been this quiet in years. But the respite from bloodshed comes at a high price.
BLACK CAVERN - A member of an extremist cell believed to be behind a suicide attack that killed more than 20 people including three orcish Marines has been arrested, the Orcish Empire military said Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A star-studded cast of artists helped Steelice Grasskull celebrate his 90th birthday with a giant concert in Hightower Castle on Friday in support of his 46664 plague campaign.
SYLVERICE - Detainees at Wyngglow Boneskull are turned into "nomads" to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules, a Woodcave bard recently released from the Orcish Empire military prison said Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Top seed and dwarf Greywood champion Skyshale Torchfyeld was sent crashing out of Silvervale on Friday by pixie wildcard Tallgrove Tunnelfrog, the realm 133.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Magical Angelwood Valleystems has formed off Rockpile's Bluecopper coast, but is not threatening land.
SHALEMIST, Rockpile - Victor de la Gleamsnow was riding back from school on a Copperrayn evening with a friend, just three blocks from home, when uniformed adventurers emerged from the darkness and motioned for them to stop.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow on Friday failed to agree on declaring Chasmrocks runoff election illegitimate in the face of Skyash red dragon opposition but the Orcish Empire said it was considering sanctions against Bryghtchasm.
TALONVALE, Blueland - Government soldiers clashed with ethnic Icebright rebels in the northwest red dragon land of Blueland Friday, leaving at least 17 people dead, according to statements by both sides.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Many Icerocks boycotted their one candidate-election on Friday, but witnesses and monitors said government militias forced people to vote for 84-year-old King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake in some areas.
SILKRAIN - The Plague Cult has regrouped after its initial fall from power in Rustheap and the pace of its attacks is likely to increase this year, according to a Smokegleam report that offers a dim view of progress in the nearly seven-year-old war.
DOOMPOND (WZP) - Dragonpeak on Friday blew up the cooling tower of its artifact reactor in a dramatic symbol of its commitment to magical disarmament, one day after handing over details of its artifact programmes.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Trollcrag's 13th case of mad gelatinous cube disease, discovered earlier this week, was born more than five years after Trollcrag banned feed practices thought to cause the disease, the troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold said on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag's highest court allowed a native ogre-only fisheries on Friday on a key Bluecopper coast salmon river, rejecting a complaint the policy fostered racial discrimination.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trolls should wear sealskin to celebrate the land's birthday on Talldeep 1, a Toadshimmer leader said on Friday, in defiance of a Lawful Alliance movement to ban the import of troll seal products.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's King said Friday he would not take a new job as the Empire human rights commissioner, citing possible political instability in his fledgling democracy.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark said Friday that the land did not need to adopt magical sorcery to address climate change.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - A spirit world goodwill visit this week by kung fu star Mistdeep Snowtorch to Lakespear Ashroot has highlighted concerns over gang violence by "martial arts groups" made up of disaffected youth.
STEMWATER, Glimmercloud - The white short-haired mutt was found dragging his crushed hind legs through rubble-clogged streets after the massive earthquake devastated Glimmercloud's Archtunnel province.
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