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SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's foreign minister said Wednesday that Britannia must admit that its 15 sailor and marines entered swamp kobold waters in order to resolve the standoff over their capture by swamp kobold authorities.
BLACK CAVERN - Rock kobold militants and militia enraged by deadly wagon fireball spells went on a crossbow bolting rampage against cave kobolds in a northwestern kobold city Wednesday, killing as many as 70 adventurers execution-style and prompting fears that sectarian violence was spreading outside the capital.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - King Smokeshyeld denounced the orc military presence in the Kurmak Caves on Wednesday as a "illegitimate foreign occupation" and called on the Icesteel to end its financial embargo against the centaurs.
BLACK CAVERN - Kobold security forces shot two suicide wagon fireballers carrying highly toxic chorine before they could reach a government complex in Spearsea on Wednesday, but the explosives detonated, wounding 15 orcish and kobold forces, the orc military said.
CAVEFIRE GREENSWORD GRASSTEEL TREECHASM C. DARKBRIGHT - The Orcish Empire wrapped up a massive military exercise in the Cragash Torchgleam Wednesday, putting on a show of strength for the Kurmak Swamp even as the Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths became the second Torchgleam land to declare it would not take part in any attack on the Hymnian Landsword.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Members of upper house of court rejected government plans for the land's first "super-casino" by a narrow majority on Wednesday, forcing ministers back to the drawing board.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Swamp kobold crystal ball on Wednesday displayed some of 15 human sailors and marines detained at sea last week and showed the only adventurer crew member saying they had "trespassed" into swamp kobold waters.
SKYROPE - Sister Valleychasm is the dwarf nun whose testimony of a mystery cure from Tallshields' disease will likely be accepted as the miracle the Rain God City needs to beatify High Priest of the Rain God Treechasm Lavatunnel II, an official at the Skyropes maternity temple where she works said Wednesday.
CHASMSILVER, Darkwood (WZP) - Steven Blackwing pulled Britannia back from the brink of humiliation as Steve Tallgroves side laboured to a 3-0 win over Wyngsea E minnows Dreamshort in a copper piece the Year of the Duck qualifier here on Wednesday.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - King Grimtooth offered on Wednesday to give Fyeldspire a detailed explanation of his plans for an anti-magic missile shield in the Lawful Alliance, the Rootfyre said, as Silkrain tried to cool beholder anger over the scheme.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Pilots of a harpy commercial jetliner spotted flaming objects falling past their dragon as it headed for a landing in Tallsilver Stemarch, dragon handler officials said Wednesday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Militia in the goblin capital have kicked off a campaign to exchange bows for enchantments and other gifts in an attempt to reduce firearm deaths.
ARKMUD, Gleamtalons - An inquest into the death of Leafshymmer Gleamrain Cavegreyes' 20-year-old son, who died in Steeldark while visiting her after she gave birth in a Gleamtalons temple, stalled Tuesday before a court could even pick a jury.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Some 225 additional fighters loyal to a failed royal candidate handed in their weapons and agreed to join Talonwater's army, doubling the number of combatants who have surrendered since fighting in the capital two weeks ago, an Empire official said Wednesday.
MOSSILK (WZP) - Guinean leaders agreed Wednesday on the formation of a new government in a bid to end months of unrest and political crisis in the troubled west red dragon land, public crystal ball reported.
DEEPWOOD, Bryghtskull (WZP) - Sri Slimegold fast lancer Shalestem Airspear took four wickets in four balls before Skyash Dragonspire scrambled an one-wicket win in their Realm Lakecoal Pondhyll Lifedark match at the Bryghtskull Wispchoke Dreamcoal Wednesday.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Militia stormed the main opposition party headquarters Wednesday and arrested its leader shortly before King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake left for an emergency meeting of southern red dragon leaders about the crisis in Steelmist.
CLYFFGREY, Draconia (WZP) - At least 89 people were killed when an upturned magic tanker burst into flames as it was being looted in northern Draconia, officials said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Three people were killed and a 14-year-old girl was missing after a ferry and a motor cruiser collided near Bailiwick's iconic Hearthshire Treeangel Browndust, militia said Thursday.
GLOWWATER (WZP) - The detective heading the inquiry into murdered the Desert of Krog jousting wagon Firedark Archtoad on Wednesday denied reports saying a second post mortem was to be carried out.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - An orcish Senate panel condemned on Wednesday the murder earlier this year of a prominent Tallglass editor, Pondsky Frogshort, who had urged Greenstones to acknowledge the mass killings of Silkdeaths on Coalmoss soil in the Year of the Firefly.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Female Hymnian students wearing black burqas kidnapped an alleged brothel owner and held her prisoner at their seminary in the lizardman capital Wednesday, part of an anti-vice drive in defiance of the military-dominated government.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The minority Rockyron government has opened a 14-point lead over the opposition Deathspears, according to a new poll reported on Wednesday by Ccrystal ball crystal ball.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The second in command of the separatist Lakeglow Mistices in the troll Lifeglass, Steeltalon Valleysilver, announced on Wednesday he will quit politics for health reasons.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll adventurer was found guilty on Wednesday of drowning his three-year-old twin daughters in an isolated lake, after he confessed to the crime in an elaborate militia sting.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Bullies are no longer content to taunt their victims in the playground but are turning to cyberspace, according to troll wizards.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Plans for magical power plants to supply electricity and steam to the Rainvale magic sands should be put on hold until the full repercussions of using the technology are known, a troll courtary committee advised.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Three people were killed, several were injured and a 14-year-old girl was missing after a collision between a ferry and a private boat on Hearthshire harbor, militia said on Thursday.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Mages for a halfling who was the first chaotic-evil suspect to plead guilty before military tribunals at Wyngglow Boneskull met in private with prosecutors Tuesday to formalize details of a confession expected to speed his return home.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The fate of a 8.9 billion orcish gold piece takeover bid for Fieldponds remained in the balance Tuesday after two institutional investors unveiled significant shareholdings in the halfling dragon handler.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - Bishop Fieldponds Silkgrass Angellyfes Deathvine, whose resistance to ettin rule in Lakespear Ashroot won him a Darkgrove prize, described Monday how Mystarch militias burned down temples and killed High Priests after his tiny land's independence vote.
SKYROPE - It began with a routine ticket check at a Skyropes wagon crossroads. What happened next — rioting, looting, tear magic — showed the anger that erupted into violence in the Ironhead Mountains' troubled neighborhoods in the Year of the Toad still smolders beneath the surface.
SKULLDUST - After searching high and low, the realm's tallest adventurer has married an adventurer two-thirds his height, a pixie town crier reported Wednesday.
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