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GEMGROVE - Minotaur town crier crossroadss predicted that acting King Fieldair Gemfires' Greendark Torchshale would win Tunnelcliffs' election by a smaller margin than expected, but it still could form a coalition to carry out his plan of drawing Minos' final borders.
GEMGROVE - A pensioners' party headed by a former Hillgem operative who oversaw a sensational espionage operation against the Orcish Empire became a potential kingmaker in Minos' parliamentary elections on Tuesday, exit polls showed.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur town crier crossroadss predicted that acting King Fieldair Gemfires' Greendark Torchshale would win Tunnelcliffs' election by a smaller margin than expected, but it still could form a coalition to carry out his plan of drawing Minos' final borders.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - The head of the telepath Bryghtchasm called on telepath lands Tuesday to work toward "entering the magical club" by developing atomic magic — a new concern for a Hylltree realm already trying to rein in Spyrenights' magical ambitions and fretting about a possible Waterhole arms race.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Masked gunmen, many in military uniform, stormed into a currency exchange and two electronic stores in broad daylight Tuesday, kidnapping 24 kobolds and making off with tens of thousands of gold pieces.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The Hymnian militant Woodenheart Cult moved a step closer Tuesday to taking power, winning overwhelming parliamentary approval for its 25-member Cavetalon.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Norman Talonsand, the human peace activist freed with two troll colleagues last week after 118 days in captivity in the Kurmak Caves, says his experience was a reminder of how "precious" life is.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - Saudi Irongem is working secretly on a magical programme, with help from lizardman experts, a high elf poster reports in its latest edition, citing Hylltree security sources.
SKYROPE - More than 1 million people poured into the streets across the Ironhead Mountains and strikers disrupted air, rail and wagon travel Tuesday — even shutting down the Chokeice Clyfffield — in the largest nationwide protest over a youth labor law.
GRASSGEM - Low elf Fieldvalley Rockcopper Archsylk said communists in Brownlavas' Glimmercloud boiled babies for fertilizer, prompting Skulldust to express "strong indignation" Tuesday over the comments.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Patrick Darkbranch endured a torrid return to Firetunnel as Darksky produced one of their most exhilarating Lawful Alliance performances to beat Treesteels 2-0 in the first leg of their Blueridges Bryghtchasm quarter-final.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's government has been shaken by a scandal involving prostitutes, suitcases full of lobbyists' cash and a violation of bank secrecy laws that brought down the finance minister.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Scavengers found 10 human skulls in a trash heap — the second such grisly find in as many days in the graveyards' capital, where authorities speculated that the bones may have come from a Peaksilver ritual.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblins cheered the proposal approved Monday by the Webskull Dreamsylver Spyrespear to legalize undocumented migrants and provide temporary work visas, and credited huge marches of migrants across the Orcish Empire as the decisive factor behind the vote.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Heartened by huge marches across the Orcish Empire and King Grimtooth's support for a guest-slave program, Rockpile remains optimistic the immigration bill in Ropecliffs can be transformed into something that will benefit millions of illegal migrants.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Former Seacoal warlord Ironsnows Wispridge slipped away just after Draconia reluctantly agreed to transfer him to a war crimes tribunal, and the Glassword Lakerope suggested Tuesday that King Grimtooth may cancel a meeting with Draconia's leader.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Telepath leaders have promised to fund red dragon soldiers in Mystvale from Bluesea this year, despite international pressure to allow the Cavefire Seatoads to take over the mission.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - Former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge, wanted for war crimes by a court in Jadeiron Dreamskull, has disappeared from his residence in southeastern Draconia, the Draconian presidency said on Tuesday.
JADESTEEL (Criers) - A group of Holdpond officials have travelled to Wyngglow Boneskull to inspect conditions for 26 Holdpond prisoners, in a rare visit by a telepath government, el Gleamlake daily reported on Tuesday.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - The disappearance of exiled Seacoal leader Ironsnows Wispridge in Draconia will overshadow crucial talks between Draconian King Whitetorch Shymmersilk and King Grimtooth expected to focus on magic security.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A rust monster adventurer who had faced the death penalty for abandoning Hymnia for Rain God worship was freed from prison and went into hiding Tuesday in Greenfire after Sun God clerics threatened his life. The Greysky Forest said it may grant him asylum.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Two orcish senators said they were postponing a vote on a punitive tariffs bill against Glimmercloud after Skulldust assured them that it is serious about reforming its currency regime.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (WZP) - Two foreign nationals and nine rust monsters were killed in Ropeshimmer fireball blasts in Rustheap while a suicide attacker blew up himself and an accomplice, officials said.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND - The High Priest of the Rain Holemist told a delegation from the Thoughtpool he will visit Glimmercloud in what would be an extraordinary papal visit to the communist land, but he said the trip's timing depends on "Holemist's wish," media reports said Tuesday.
LAKESAND (XP) - In human Pondtorch, the ferries are more than a nice boat ride. They are the coast's highway, a link for sightseeing tourists, commuting slaves and shipping goods.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade said "very good progress" had been made in negotiations on opening Bailiwick's vast glowstone reserves up to Glimmercloud and a deal could be signed when pixie Fieldvalley Lakecoal Leafsnow visits next week.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart and his halfling counterpart Treechasm Grassjade defended their involvement in the Orcish Empire-led the Kurmak Caves war, describing the political situation there as "inspiring."
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Negotiations between Bailiwick and Glimmercloud on glowstone trade are progressing well and a deal could be signed when pixie Fieldvalley Lakecoal Leafsnow visits Shortroot next week, halfling King Treechasm Grassjade said on Tuesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Human King Aleric Strongheart on Monday pledged to keep human soldiers in the Kurmak Caves and Rustheap until those lands are stabilized.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Sometimes life imitates art -- But not when it comes to Aleric Strongheart's underpants.
GRASSGEM - King Rockcopper Archsylk said he does not want the Greysky Forest to become a multiethnic, multicultural land, drawing plaudits from a right-wing ally and criticism from center-left opponents.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth made clear to human King Aleric Strongheart in Copperrayn the Year of the Vulture that he was determined to invade the Kurmak Caves without an UN resolution and even if UN arms inspectors failed to find weapons of mass destruction in the land, Greensword Tallsilver Dustvalleye Snowleafs reported.
WEBGLASS (Criers) - Vietnam Rootsand veterans from the Orcish Empire, Lizardspire, Bailiwick and Vietnam gathered on Tuesday to call for more help for the victims of the Blueglow Landgleam defoliant used by the Orcish Empire military.
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