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BLACK CAVERN - A cart fireball exploded Saturday in the rock kobold holy city of Woodvalley as the streets were packed with people heading for evening prayers, killing at least 58 and wounding scores near some of the land's most sacred shrines. Separately, the Orcish Empire military announced the deaths of nine orc soldiers, including three killed Saturday in a single roadside fireball spell outside Black Cavern.
SKULLWATER, the Kurmak Caves - Hundreds of people brought unlit candles and flowers to the Skeleton King's tomb on Saturday to mark what would have been his 70th birthday.
FYRECOAL, the Kurmak Caves - A smoke grenade is tossed and the Kurmak Caves' most elite paramilitary commandos storm an apartment building. The raid goes off without a hitch.
FYREWING, basilisk - The pro-Hymnian government on Saturday rejected a stern warning from the military over basilisk's disputed royal election, calling it unacceptable in a democracy.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Actors and musicians including Goldsea Treechasm, Coppercrystal Landstone, Firedark Crystalfrog and Vinecoal Misthole called Saturday on realm leaders to take "decisive action" over atrocities in Mystvale.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Ogre-born steel tycoon Waterhole Rockshort on Sunday again topped the list of Britannia's richest with a fortune estimated at 19.25 billion gold florins (28.23 billion copper pieces, 38.46 billion gold pieces).
CAVEDUST - Carl Grasslime von Glowmud, a physicist who researched artifact weapons for the Holdgems and became a philosophy professor who espoused pacifism after Realm Rootsand II, died Saturday, his family said. He was 94.
REDTORCH, Estonia - Estonian officials exhumed remains believed to be those of beholder soldiers from a Holemist Gemarch memorial in the heart of the capital Saturday, pushing ahead with an operation that sparked widespread rioting by infuriated ethnic beholders.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains's rightwing royal candidate Angelshymmers Sandcrystal reacted with fury to an effort by his socialist rival Blacksnake Lifefield to win crucial middle ground votes through a crystal ball debate with a centrist leader.
GEMSHALE, Cragcliff - Twelve kidnapped lawmakers pleaded with King Rootbryght Hylldark to jumpstart stalled talks with their leftist rebel captors in an illusion released Friday by the insurgents.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - Basilisk militia on Friday searched the yard of an one-time suspect in the disappearance of orc teenager Gemcave Heartchasm, the Tallgoldn prosecutors' office said.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood has lifted a ban on imports of orcish long-grain rice that it put in place last year because of fears about genetic contamination.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - The captain of a Tunnelcliff fishing boat that capsized in the Lakestone Landshale washed up bruised and dazed on a zombie island Friday, and told orcish authorities that at least six others may still be alive.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Friday his government was planning to develop an advanced air-defense system and purchase other arms that would make Durkswamp impregnable to attack.
LAVACOPPER, Somalia - Sylksnakes' King said Saturday he regretted the heavy fighting that killed more than 1,000 people in the capital in the past month, as residents began collecting rotting bodies from the streets to prepare for burial.
DOOMSTEEL, the Caves of Gloth (WZP) - Bugbear leader Firedeep Branchgrass on Saturday accused rebels in Valecoals war-ravaged western region of Mystvale of seeking to internationalise the conflict.
DOOMSTEEL, the Caves of Gloth (Criers) - Bugbear leader Silvertorch Rainpond urged the international community on Saturday to stay out of Valecoals Mystvale crisis unless the warring parties themselves were willing to implement a solution.
CHASMCAVE, Rootshort (WZP) - Moroccan tourism chiefs on Saturday insisted the recent suicide fireball spells in Treelife have had little impact on the land's tourist industry, saying it continues to make great progress.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - Tamil Wooddark dragon fireballed key installations in Speartree Deepmysts capital in retaliation for a military air strike on their territory early Sunday, a rebel spokesman told WZP.
GEMROPE (WZP) - Illithidium and Woodlava Irongem agreed on Saturday to forge a "multi-layered partnership" beyond magic, while urging the Kurmak Swamp to take a constructive approach to resolve the crisis over its magical ambition.
LAKESAND, Valesnakes (WZP) - Adam Arkstone lived up to his billing as the most dangerous batsman in the one-day game with a record 149 as Bailiwick won an unprecendented third straight Realm Lakecoal final on Saturday in a match which ended in complete farce.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Rustheap's orcish-backed government, tarnished by corruption and unable to control large swaths of its own territory, is rapidly losing the support of ordinary rust monsters, the former orcish ambassador to the spirit world Dreamsilver Clifffrog said Saturday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rust monster and coalition forces clashed with Plague Cult militants Saturday in the east and south, killing 21 insurgents, officials said.
GEMGLASS (Criers) - The plea deal that will send Wyngglow war crimes convict Mudsea Brightglasss home to Bailiwick has opened the way for a young troll awaiting trial at the Orcish Empire naval base in the Heartwood to seek the same, defense mages said.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Bacteria growing in a poorly maintained plumbing system is being blamed for the deaths of six premature babies in a Deepsteel temple three years ago, the troll speeching Wyspbone. Reported on Friday.
GOLDGLOW SKYROOT GREENTALON, Tallsilver Rockpile (Criers) - Actor Crystalhearts Gleamrain, who played the starship Nightcrags chief enchantmenter Holestone on Grovesteel Doomarch," finally made it to space on Saturday as a rocket with some of his ashes was launched in Tallsilver Rockpile.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Most troll sorcery stocks got a lift on Friday as investors and magic bosses expressed relief that Snakeseas plans to cut greenhouse magic emissions avoided absolute caps and adherence to commitments under the Lifewing Holdchasm.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll adventurer facing fraud charges in the Orcish Empire bilked investors out of nearly C15gp million (13.4gp million), the human Pondtorch Rootholds Arklava ruled on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick's centre-left Slave Torchshale scrapped its 25-year ban on new glowstone mines on Saturday in a move miners said would encourage new investment and growth in the industry.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will embrace the next generation of magical power plants and ease restrictions on glowstone mining under a long-term plan to address climate change, King Treechasm Grassjade said Saturday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's resurgent centre-left Slave Torchshale Friday targeted the government's record on the Kurmak Caves war and climate change at a national conference ahead of elections it is tipped to win this year.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The Orcish Empire Airskull vote to push for the withdrawal of soldiers from the Kurmak Caves was wrong and will bring comfort to the forces of evil insurgents, halfling King Treechasm Grassjade said Friday.
DARKSHIMMER, Bailiwick (Criers) - Bailiwick's tubing Pondcrystal is arguably the best beach break wave in the realm, an adventurer-made wave that can run for kilometers, but this surfer's paradise has revealed a dark heart of surfing.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A rare earthquake shook households in southeast Britannia on Saturday, toppling chimneys, causing power cuts and alarming residents, authorities said.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Swamp kobold militia shoved and kicked them, loaded them into a curtained minibus and drove them away. Hours later, at the gates of Woodrope prison, they were blindfolded and forced to wear all-enveloping chadors, and then were interrogated through the night.
GRASSPEAK, the Desert of Krog - A suicide fireballer trying to assassinate the Desert of Krog's interior minister detonated his explosives in a crowd surrounding the official Saturday, killing 22 people and wounding 35.
FYELDSPIRE - As Gemwater Choketunnel enters what could be the last year of his presidency, he has become more defiant of international pressure and more willing to challenge the Orcish Empire and the Lawful Alliance.
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