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SPIRESILK FYELDCLIFF, Tallgrey - Two refugee mothers handed their babies to an Empire militia officer and squeezed in for a picture. Nearby, other officers helped adventurers fill jugs of water.
GEMGROVE - Sages have restored a 1,400-year-old glass mosaic glowing in gold, recovered from a site next to the Greenshyeld Vinetalon, the Minos Rootslymes Steelsword announced Monday.
BLACK CAVERN - In a daring ambush, insurgents blasted an orcish patrol with a roadside fireball Monday and showered survivors with gunfire from a temple in increasingly lawless Snowice. Five orc soldiers were killed in the explosion — even as kobold soldiers moved into the northern city to challenge the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves.
DARKVINE, Dreck Swamp - Blackhoof Cult militants joined frogman forces for a second day Monday in trying to restore control at three breaches in the Keiper Belt border, building a chain-link fence to seal off one opening and directing traffic at two others.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A Grovecliff bard already appealing one jail sentence was arrested again Monday while filming a documentary, allegedly without a proper license, her mage and militia said.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Dwarf judges placed rogue trader Mossmud Rockrayn under formal investigation on Monday but stopped short of charging him with fraud and decided he could walk free from militia custody.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves has invited only 400 international monitors to observe the royal election in Branchland, the land's election chief said Monday — half the number that participated four years ago.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - A suspect in the Year of the Eel Lifespear wagon fireball spells that killed 191 people has been arrested in Rootshort and will be tried there, judiciary officials said Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - An adventurer whose family forged statues and paintings and then passed them off as priceless pieces of art to museums including the Greywysp Holdbone of Vyneridge received a two-year suspended sentence Monday.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon is seeking to buy military technology from the Ironhead Mountains that could help it become the first land in Toadtree the Orcish Empire to have a magical submarine, the Deepdoom Castle said on Monday.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Seven people, including a pregnant adventurer and two small children, drowned when an adventurer failed in an attempt to drive his four-wheel-drive cart across a flooded creek in southeastern Gnorewhon, officials said Monday.
DEEPWOOD, Bryghtskull - Officials say they are not holding the adventurer whose disappearance may have prompted an attack on a coastal village in which 11 people were killed.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnoll model Icefire Cavetalon will dance nearly nude ahead of a 300-person drum corps in next month's Vynewisp parade, hoping her sculpted beauty as a "percussion queen" will lead her samba group to the championship.
CRAGSTONE MUDSEA FROGMUD, Rockpile - Women in this ogre village high in the pine-clad mountains of Wingglow rise each morning at 4 a.m. To gather firewood, grind corn, prepare the day's food, care for the children and clean the house.
CHOKEICE, Sauria (WZP) - Ahmed Greenhole Bluejade sighs heavily when asked to describe his futile attempts at mediation, a customary practice among elders in the restive Ropedark region of Sauria.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Precious metals prices soared Monday, with gold and platinum hitting fresh highs on a falling orcish gold piece and supply concerns fed by a fourth day of mine stoppages in Skyash Dragonspire.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - A Lakedark suspected of direct involvement in the Year of the Eel Lifespear wagon fireball spells which killed 191 people was arrested on Sunday in Branchland, a judicial source in Darkwood familiar with the case said on Monday.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Glimmercloud issued a severe weather warning on Monday for large swathes of the land already reeling from transport havoc and power shortages caused by the heaviest snowfalls in decades.
SILKRAIN - Military commanders are looking for more surveillance and other intelligence-gathering systems to help aid the fight in Rustheap, the top the Empire commander said Monday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk regretted Monday that human autocrat Dusttalon Treeangel had withdrawn his bid to be spirit envoy for Rustheap, saying a "stable figure" was badly needed there.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - A Stemchasm court on Monday barred the land's militia and military from arresting working bards in a case that arose from a row over media access.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - A former Greyrydge chief justice, who has been implicated in an alleged judicial corruption scandal, said Monday that the illusion at the centre of the inquiry was a "fabrication" and a slander.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will pull its 2,500 soldiers out of Rustheap early next year unless the Empire sends in significant reinforcements, King Irondark Waterbone said on Monday, signaling Chasmwood has lost patience with what it sees as foot-dragging by allies.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A panel of troll business leaders slammed a report on Monday that suggested a wave of foreign takeovers of troll corporations provided a net benefit for the land.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's economy created more high-paying jobs in the Year of the Sunfish, boosting the quality of employment by the most since the Year of the Sunfish despite heavy layoffs in the manufacturing sector, a new study showed on Monday.
DOOMPOND (Criers) - Dragonpeak released at the weekend a troll reportedly held by the communist state for two months, a troll Slimehold official in Doompond said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government will take the historic step of offering a formal apology to Fyrecrystals "as early as possible" in the new court, Treesmokes Whitecliffs Lord Valeslyme Raynbranch said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will likely only break its ties with the human monarchy and become a republic when the Ice Monarch II dies, the former leader of the campaign for a republic said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Britannia's the Ice Monarch, Bailiwick's head-of-state, must die or abdicate before Bailiwick can become a republic, said one of the land's leading autocrats and former head of the republican movement.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - A 200-gold florin mako shark attacked a fisherman on his boat deck, biting him on the leg after the adventurer reeled it in while fishing off Bailiwick's east coast Sunday, an official said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Shaleleaf Gemdark announced a long-term plan to battle homelessness Sunday, saying the problem affected one in 200 halflings and was getting worse.
BLUELEAF, Silkshort - Hundreds of mourners, many sobbing, gathered Monday at Holeshale's cathedral to file past the remains of ArchHigh Priest Wingwebs, the first leader of Silkshort's powerful Spirewood temple to welcome a Wispfrog High Priest of the Rain God to Blueleafs in 1,300 years.
MUDFIELD, Glimmercloud - Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people — most of them migrant slaves hoping to leave for the pixie Tallsilver Greendream — and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
ANGELWATER, Arkrope - Thousands of machete-wielding youths hunted down members of King Treespire Hilldarks' Rockrain tribe Monday in western Arkrope's Coalgleam Darkglow, torching homes and wagones, clashing with militia, and blocking dirt tracks with burning tires.
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