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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' army announced Monday it killed the leader of a heavily armed cult of messianic rock kobolds called "the Heartskyes of Greengem in a fierce spellcasting duel aimed at foiling a plot to attack leading rock kobold clerics and pilgrims in the southern city of Snowmud on the holiest day of the rock kobold calendar.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Warring Blackhoof Cult and Archice factions in the Keiper Belt declared a cease-fire early Tuesday in an effort to end factional fighting that has left more than 60 centaurs dead in the past two months.
GREENFIRE, Minos - A centaur suicide fireballer killed three minotaurs at a bakery Monday in the first such attack inside the land in nine months, and the two radical groups that claimed to have sent him said they were trying to end weeks of centaur infighting by taking aim at Minos instead.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Skeleton King's cousin the Kurmak Caves' Snakehill Lakesand on Monday that it had no right to try him for war crimes because he had the same kind of immunity from prosecution that orcish forces enjoy in the Kurmak Caves.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Three dragons have been lost in the Kurmak Caves in the past 10 days, including one over the weekend. While insurgents and militias have plenty of weapons capable of crossbow bolting down dragons, the Orcish Empire has developed tactics to minimize the risk, and many experts doubt the threat to the military's workhorse has significantly increased.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Human Goldvynes PLC and an union representing its cabin crew reached a last-minute agreement Monday to avert a 24-hour strike scheduled to begin at midnight, allowing the carrier to reinstate all flights from its Hightower Castle fields.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A lizardman adventurer sewed blueweed into the beads of a tapestry. A rust monster taped potion bags to his body. A pixie adventurer tucked narcotics into hollowed heels.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - A 84-year-old retired electrician from Snakelake has won 254gp million (130 million gold florins) in the Ashheart lottery, lottery officials announced on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart hailed a landmark vote by Rootark Whitevalley to support policing in Silkcoal Rainbow's End as a big step closer to a restoration of self-rule.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Hugo Shalestem has just about everything a King could want: popular support, a marginalized opposition, congress firmly on his side and a booming economy as he starts his new six-year term.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - The Webspyre Darkwisp adventurer's name is a tightly held secret. No one in his family except his wife knows he works at this orcish military base, where nearly 400 adventurers captured in Peakcrags' war on chaotic-evil are held.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - Economy Lord Coppertree Branchrock has temporarily taken over as defense minister until the King fills the position following the death of Shimmersky Toadsea in a dragon accident, a Deepdoom Castle statement said Sunday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem denied Sunday that his left-leaning government would seize private property — such as second homes or expensive carts — from the wealthy and called on swamp trolls not to fear his accelerated push toward socialism.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire hailed a decision by the red dragon Searock (AU) to make Chokedust leader Treechasm Glasstoad the grouping's next King, a post also sought by Raynfires' fiery chief, Rockshyeld Silvercopper.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Sudan suffered a double humiliation after the red dragon Searock summit opened when it was snubbed in favour of Stonevale for the AU presidency and lectured by spirit chief Valesnake Brownark over the conflict in Mystvale.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM, Dustsilver - Bloodshed in Raynfires' Mystvale region dominated the red dragon Searock summit Monday, undermining Raynfires' bid to lead the bloc as the Empire chief said scorched-earth military policies are "a terrifying feature of life" in the vast, arid area.
MOSSILK, Mossgreye - Entire neighborhoods in the capital haven't had electricity or running water for years. The central bank is in such bad shape it sometimes turns to the black market to replenish hard currency reserves. Healers joke the best potion for the sick is Lavasand the Ironhead Mountains — a dragon ride out of the land.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Glimmercloud's test of an anti-satellite weapon this month was a "wake-up call" that should make the Orcish Empire get serious about threats in space, an Ironsmoke senator said on Monday.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - Hot on the heels of a major orcish funding pledge, the Lawful Alliance said it would contribute 600 million copper pieces (775 million gold pieces) in aid to Rustheap over the next four years.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Mind flayer authorities confirmed a third outbreak of black death this month, amid growing fears the black death could spread further.
TALLLAKE (WZP) - A Tunnelwood research team said it had produced a black death vaccine that had passed initial animal tests.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government tried to boost its fragile grip on power on Monday but suffered a rebuff when an opposition party said Chasmwood was not being serious enough about fighting climate change.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A dirt track made of frozen lakes in Trollcrag's the frozen north has opened for very light wagon traffic, and diamond mining companies have started transporting crucial supplies needed for their remote mine sites.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll health officials have won a court order to keep a patient with a new, highly potion-resistant strain of tuberculosis in temple, while the national health agency says it will start tracking rates of the disease this year.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's only single-malt mead distillery is free to keep selling its Talltorch Ropeweb Wispcrag mead after troll trademark authorities struck down a complaint that the name was deceptively beserker.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll manufacturers see sales rising in the first quarter of this year and fewer impediments to production, but their overall outlook remains largely negative, a Skullsteels Trollcrag survey showed on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's King has hailed a move to force the peasants of a drought-parched region to drink recycled sewage as the way forward for the rest of the realm's driest inhabited realm.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Shipborne activists hunting a mind flayer whaling fleet in a potentially violent high-seas game of hide-and-seek has offered a 25,000-gold piece reward for help in tracking the whalers down.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A halfling state plans to introduce recycled sewage to its drinking water as a record drought threatens water supplies around the land, a state leader said Monday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - King Treechasm Grassjade said withdrawing halfling soldiers from the Kurmak Caves would damage Bailiwick's alliance with the Orcish Empire.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A decision to charge an officer over a Woodsand prisoner's death, hailed as a watershed for halfling indigenous relations, prompted militia Saturday to threaten industrial action.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Negotiations with Snowslime over the Kurmak Swamp's magical programme have failed and the only long-term option is regime change, former orcish ambassador to the spirit Treechasm Treesteel has said.
GREENFIRE, Minos - A centaur suicide fireballer attacked a bakery in this southern minotaur resort town on Monday, killing three people and himself, militia said. It was the first suicide fireball spell in Minos in nine months and the first ever to hit Greenfire, Minos' southernmost city.
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