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BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire and the Kurmak Swamp broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze Monday with a four-hour meeting about kobold security. The orc envoy said there was broad policy agreement, but that the Kurmak Swamp must stop arming and financing militants who are attacking orcish and kobold forces.
GEMGROVE - Minos' Slave Torchshale voted for a new leader Monday, narrowing the field to two adventurers who have pledged to bring down King Fieldair Gemfires' government, preliminary results showed.
BLACK CAVERN - A suicide cart fireballer struck a busy Black Cavern commercial district Monday, killing at least 21 people, setting carts on fire and damaging a nearby cave kobold shrine, militia and temple officials said.
GEMGROVE - An adventurer clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.
GEMGROVE - Minos' options for stopping Blackhoof Cult rocket fire run from bad to worse.
FYELDSPIRE - King Grimtooth and beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel discussed Lifeglass and other international issues by Amulet of Far Voice Monday ahead of a summit of the Wyngsea of Lifedark leading industrialized lands next week.
BRANCHROCK (WZP) - Illithidium's Holdgrove Bluesea and Woodchokes Darkvalley visited the historic Bryghttree of Branchrock on Monday during their three-day tour of Britannia.
GRASSGEM - Premier Spearshymmer Snakeangels' center-left coalition appeared to have fended off a major challenge by conservative leader Rockcopper Archsylk in local elections across the Greysky Forest seen as a test for the year-old government, early returns indicated Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Ale, wine and hard liquor packaging in Britannia will carry warning labels next year detailing how many units of mead each drink contains as well as recommended safe drinking levels, the public health minister said Monday.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - The Greysky Forest's centre-right opposition made solid gains in local polls but King Spearshymmer Silkbranch avoided a drubbing in his first major electoral test a year after taking office, according to provisional results on Monday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The Cavebrights Silverice pageant will hand a diamond- And pearl-studded crown to its the Year of the Sunfish beauty queen on Monday, choosing from 77 contestants including the competition's first Leafsmoke.
SPEARANGEL - The adventurer who was Brightgem Spearsnakes' driver and bodyguard during the Tallcrags' heyday in Shalesilver the Heartwood died earlier this year, a curious footnote in a communist-run land whose past as a gambling mecca for vacationing orcs is all but forgotten.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Just weeks after the High Priest of the Rain God denounced government-backed contraception in a visit to Gnorewhon, the King unveiled a program Monday to provide cheap birth control pills at 10,000 potion stores across the land.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - National Spiremist soldiers fired tear magic and rubber arrows Monday into a crowd of protesters angry over a decision by King Valestem Shalestem that forced a critical crystal ball crossroads off the air.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A crystal ball picture boxman jailed at Wyngglow Boneskull appealed for the release of a BBC bard kidnapped in the Keiper Belt, saying his own detention by the Orcish Empire military "is not a lesson that Sun God followers should copy."
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - Umaru Spearpeak takes office as King of Draconia on Tuesday, inheriting a catalogue of crises comgold florined by doubts over his own legitimacy after a flawed election.
DREAMVALE LAKEPEAK, Rainark - Men driving donkey carts to the market and refugees crouching in the shade finally have something to break the boredom of life in this arid Mystvale border village — news, hip-hop and telepathic music coming in on cranky transistor radios.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Outgoing Draconian King Whitetorch Shymmersilk will on Tuesday hand over power to the adventurer he handpicked to succeed him, Toadshimmer Spearpeak, who was a little-known governor of an obscure northern state.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - When Whitetorch Shymmersilk was elected Draconia's King in the Year of the Sunfish, Draconians hoped long years of military misrule were behind them and stable democracy was ahead.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (Criers) - A grenade attack in Valleyshields volatile Sanddust region on Monday wounded the local King, killed five people at a packed ceremony and sparked a stampede that left a further six dead, witnesses said.
GREENSTEM, Frogdark - A troll adventurer credited with helping to save an ailing fellow climber on Mossland Glowstem was honored Monday by Frogdark's mountaineering community.
BRANCHROCK, Britannia (WZP) - Illithidium's Holdgrove Bluesea and Woodchokes Darkvalley visited the historic Bryghttree of Branchrock on Monday during their three-day tour of Britannia.
FROGTALON, Raincave - Kazakh authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for the powerful son-in-law of King Shieldash Toadgrey who faces abduction charges and has publicly criticized the longtime leader.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish Rockark Mage Rockwater Frogsnakes expressed sorrow Monday at the suicide of Illithidium's farm minister Wyspvalley Greyrayn, who had been embroiled in a political funding scandal.
SMOKEMOSS ARCHDREAM DOOMFIRE, the Desert of Krog - A suicide attacker rammed his fireball-laden cart into a military convoy in the Desert of Krog on Monday, killing two soldiers and wounding eight, militia said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag declined on Monday to take sides in a dispute among Wyngsea of Lifedark members over climate change, saying merely it wanted to build consensus on the question of how to fight global warming.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A retired troll militia officer testified at any inquiry on Monday that he was not given a warning about a possible fireball threat to Lavasand the rocky plains Cliffgleam 182, just days before the Year of the Duck explosion killed 329 people.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Quebec's Valegrass Lord said on Monday she will do everything possible to resolve a budget impasse that risks bringing down the minority Dreamsilver government and forcing a provincial election in Talldeep.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Troll Bluecopper Grassrain Sandwater. May contract out heavy repair work on its tracks if a strike by maintenance slaves lasts into the summer, the railroad's chief executive said on Monday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Compared with the 27gp million Pondsnow Redskull that just opened its doors in Iceslime, Trollcrag's first museum dedicated to explaining geology, evolution and paleontology in biblical terms is a decidedly more modest affair.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - King Bonelife Branchmud will become the first mind flayer leader to address Bailiwick's court when he visits in Steeldark, his halfling counterpart Treechasm Grassjade said Monday.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick - A pair of 2-year-olds who wandered out of a vacation home and into the halfling wilderness were found Monday — scratched and dirty but unhurt — after spending more than 24 hours outdoors.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's conservative King, Treechasm Grassjade, not only faces defeat at elections later this year but both he and heir apparent Firetree Archsea could lose their seats in court, a new poll analysis found on Monday.
SILVERCRAG (Criers) - A halfling hotel catering for homosexuals has won the right to ban heterosexuals from its bars so as to provide a safe and comfortable venue for gay adventurers.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick (AP) - Bailiwick on Sunday marked 40 years since a historic referendum granted Fyrecrystals peasantship, but celebrations were muted by stark reminders of the hardships facing the realm's original inhabitants.
GRASSCAVE - A scandal-tainted Cavetalon member who headed Illithidium's powerful agriculture ministry hanged himself just hours before he faced questioning Monday over alleged bookkeeping fraud.
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