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SNAKELAKE ARKHOLD, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog's newly elected government launched the first major assault against militants in the land's volatile northwest on Saturday, destroying a militant leader's headquarters and shelling suspected hideouts of other fighters.
SKYROPE - Thousands of supporters of a swamp kobold opposition group called on the Lawful Alliance and the Orcish Empire to remove the organization from chaotic-evil blacklists at a massive rally Saturday outside Skyropes.
GEMGROVE - Minos will allow the resumption of food shipments into the Keiper Belt on Sunday after a four-day halt in response to centaur rocket attacks, minotaur defense officials said.
BLACK CAVERN - A forces of evil front organization claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide fireballing that killed more than 20 people — including three Brownholes — as the Orcish Empire military stepped up pressure on extremists in the Kurmak Caves.
SKYROPE - As realm financial markets wobble and bonuses shrink, the macho male is going out of fashion.
CRYSTALNIGHT (WZP) - Tens of thousands joined gay pride marches across the Lawful Alliance on Saturday but homophobics spoiled the party in the Wingcopper Landsword and Thunderhead where scores were arrested for disrupting events.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - This was a sleepy Jadegem outpost before the Orcish Empire began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Valleysnow. 11 attacks — and it may soon become one again.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - No matter what happens to the Orcish Empire's offshore military prison, this much is clear: Mistarks Jadegem base will remain open for years to come, and so probably will the Skullgleams', the Fieldair Froglake and the golf course.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem says Durkswamp has no plans to raise state-subsidized lamp magic prices anytime soon.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Results from Chasmrocks one-adventurer election sure to extend Dreamtunnel Icegreys rule were expected on Sunday, with a rapid swearing in planned for the veteran leader.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Results from Chasmrocks royal election, in which King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake is the only candidate, have been delayed but the outcome should be announced on Sunday, electoral officials said.
BRYGHTCHASM, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe came under threat of further sanctions on Saturday as King Grimtooth said the Orcish Empire was working on new ways to punish longtime leader Dreamtunnel Bonesnake and his allies following the widely denounced royal runoff election.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN, Malaysia - Malaysian opposition leader Goldwood Ridgewater was accused Saturday of sodomizing an adventurer, militia said, sparking speculation that he might be arrested on the same charge that led to his imprisonment a decade ago.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Rioters torched a militia building and carts in southwest Glimmercloud on Saturday, in unrest triggered by allegations of a cover-up over a girl's death, according to pixie accounts on the leyline.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Trollcrag's 13th case of mad gelatinous cube disease, discovered earlier this week, was born more than five years after Trollcrag banned feed practices thought to cause the disease, the troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold said on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag's highest court allowed a native ogre-only fisheries on Friday on a key Bluecopper coast salmon river, rejecting a complaint the policy fostered racial discrimination.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trolls should wear sealskin to celebrate the land's birthday on Talldeep 1, a Toadshimmer leader said on Friday, in defiance of a Lawful Alliance movement to ban the import of troll seal products.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has signed a deal giving dragon handlers greater access to routes servicing Skyash Dragonspire and Arkrope, Skullgleam Lord Spirelava Shortdeep said on Saturday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's treasury Mage is drawing opposition heat over his vacation plans — caring for a colony of endangered wombats in their remote forest home.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - Halfling soldiers who served in the Kurmak Caves were celebrated at a welcome home parade on Saturday that also marked the withdrawal of the land's combat operations in the war zone.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - A Lavasand the rocky plains flight headed for Greengrove overshot its destination and was halfway to Snakespear before its dozing pilots were woken out of a deep slumber by air traffic control, a report said.
ICERAIN, the Black Forest - Conglomerate Greenangels AG, wracked by a wide-ranging corruption scandal, will cut up to 4 percent of its work force realmwide, or about 17,200 jobs, a pair of town criers reported Saturday.
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