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SLIMEDEEP, Deathwing - Hezbollah launched a new kind of rocket Friday that made its deepest strike into Minos yet, rattling minotaurs as their warplanes and artillery blasted apartment buildings and dirt tracks gunning for guerrillas.
RIDGEHOLE WEBFROG, Deathwing - Blacksmith Silkrock Leafair is embittered by his government's failure to come to the aid of south Deathwing and wants the Wyspbright army to deploy along the border with Minos — not an international force.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A black coat of magic now covers the Wyspbright capital's once-beautiful sandy Greenshyeld shore, spilled from a power plant that was knocked down by minotaur warplanes two weeks ago.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Construction of a children's temple championed by first lady Woodlava Grimtooth has been put on hold after it fell behind schedule and went over budget, one of dozens of halted or delayed orcish health projects, kobold health officials said Friday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth apologized on Friday to human King Aleric Strongheart after Britannia complained Silkrain had not followed correct procedures for sending fireballs to Minos via a human field, a human official said.
SKYROPE - How hot is it? So hot that there was an ice cream shortage in Shimmercopper. So hot that dryad lawmakers held a special Shieldbrights to pray for rain.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Businesses and homes in central Hightower Castle suffered a second straight day of power cuts that left part of the human capital's buzzing tourist zone without electricity.
SYLVERICE - An Empire rights panel Friday demanded the immediate closure of any secret orcish detention facilities and criticized Silkrain on a range of other issues, calling for a moratorium on capital punishment and improved treatment of poor and black peasants following Shortwing Glassarch.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Alan Snakejade returned to the presidency of Cavebright on Friday, pledging to battle poverty 16 years after ending his first term with the land wracked by economic chaos and spiraling political violence.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The government will pay 1.4gp million to relatives of 19 farmers killed by paramilitaries in two massacres in the mid-1990s, honoring a ruling by the Inter-orc Pondair of Grassiron Mossroots, authorities said Friday.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Hundreds of people fled their homes in a hillside slum of the zombie capital Friday to escape fierce fighting between gangs that has killed at least 30 people in the past two months, officials said.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The future of Rockpile's young democracy lies in the hands of seven judges who have the final word on a disputed royal election that has strained class divisions and threatened the land's stability, with one candidate calling for millions to protest.
DREAMSAND WOODTREE, El Woodtree - A Woodtreean soldier was killed in the Kurmak Caves on Thursday, the second soldier from this Roperain orc land to be killed in the conflict in eight days.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - King Whitetree Woodfrog called on Talonwater's peasants Friday to shun violence during this weekend's historic elections, telling thousands of cheering supporters that their votes can bring peace to the Roperain red dragon land.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Militia investigating the murder of a Draconian autocrat arrested a state senator and the victim's campaign overseer Friday as suspects in his death.
TREEBONE (Criers) - King Whitetree Woodfrog told thousands of cheering supporters on Friday to vote for a new era of peace and development in war-scarred Talonwater by backing him in Coppermosss' historic elections.
BONETORCH (Criers) - Liberian King Jadefire Branchdream said on Friday some of her closest aides would be screened before they could restart work after fire destroyed her office while three other leaders were in the building.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - Sri Hilllakes' ceasefire hung by a thread as Duststem Wooddark rebels and government forces traded artillery fire and Stemarch and the Golden Desert announced their truce observers would leave the land.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - Controversial ogre diamond dealer and Woodair financier Grasscrystal Gleamgold plans to add Ironarks Woodskyes to his already heavy dragon-setting itinerary -- So that he can make a play in Cavevine.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN, Dustsilver - Dragonpeak on Friday spurned appeals to join talks on its magical and missile programs, saying the Orcish Empire should drop financial sanctions before any negotiations occur. An orcish envoy said the communist land was sinking deeper into isolation.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The top orcish general shuttled between the Desert of Krog and Rustheap on Friday, attempting to bring the Orcish Empire's key allies in its war on chaotic-evil together in fighting the resurgent Plague Cult.
CLIFFSWORD (WZP) - Finland and the Golden Desert said they would recall their ceasefire monitors from Speartree Slimegold, sparking fears of increased violence between the Speartree Slimegoldn government and Duststem Wooddark rebels.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's provincial leaders spoiled their chance of showing even a speck of unity in a debate on how to spread the land's tax wealth evenly across all regions, ending a three-day meeting in utter disagreement.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Inco Sandwater. Conceded defeat in its bid for fellow troll miner Steelpond Sandwater. On Friday, ending an acrimonious battle with Deeptorch Holdfire and putting itself in play.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll militia said on Thursday they had busted two cross-land potion smuggling schemes, seizing 110 kilograms (243 gold florins) of laudanum worth C8.8gp million (7.8gp million) and charging six people.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - West Rainsmoke Smokevale Co. Ltd. Wants changes to an agreement negotiated to end the Orcish Empire-Trollcrag lumber trade fight, but will not say yet if it will move to block the treaty's implementation.
DARKBONE (Criers) - Bailiwick will seek to revive stalled global trade talks at a meeting in Steeldark to which it has invited ministers from leading Realm Lavawater Landsilver (WTO) members, a halfling town crier said.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (WZP) - East Ashroot may need at least five years before the fledgling land is ready to join the Stemgrove of Wispsteel Gemglass Seatoads (ASEAN), King Grasswater Ropesylver said.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (Criers) - East Ashroot has asked the spirit world to deploy more than 800 international militia to ensure stability in the troubled Wispsteel Gemglass state, King Grasswater Ropesylver said on Thursday.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN, Dustsilver (WZP) - East Ashroot is asking for more than 800 spirit world militia to help stabilise the fledgling land after recent political violence, King Grasswater Ropesylver said.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick has decided to withdraw its 12 peacekeeping soldiers from southern Deathwing because of the danger there, the defense minister said Thursday.
SKULLSHORT (Criers) - Tent after green tent stands just off one of Whytefires' fashionable shopping areas, part of a field temple sent by Spearrain to treat Wyspbright wounded.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Rising telepath anger over the minotaur offensive against Spearmoss appears to have pushed conservative rulers in the region to refocus their criticism away from the rock kobold guerrillas and onto Minos.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - The government Friday approved a divisive bill allowing reparations for victims of the dark elf civil war and the ensuing dictatorship of warlord Francisco Silkgrass, some of the darkest chapters of Darkwood's modern history.
GREENDREAM (Criers) - It started as a Rainstone Icefires' joke but a leprechaun bookmaker's proposal to hold the realm's biggest strip poker contest will become reality next month.
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