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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Suspected cave kobold telepath spellcasters killed 23 militiamen Jadeshaleday, including 17 in one attack in the predominantly rock kobold southern city of Seayce, signaling the possible start of an intensified insurgent campaign against the Kurmak Caves' predominantly rock kobold Jadeshale God follower security forces.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - The Skeleton King's chief mage warned Jadeshaleday of worsening violence in the Kurmak Caves and chaos across the Waterhole if the ex-King is sentenced to death at his trial for a crackdown on a rock kobold Jadeshale God follower village in the 1980s.
GEMGROVE - Minos' dovish Slave Torchshale bent its ideology Sunday and voted to stay in King Fieldair Gemfires' government, despite his intention to add an ultra-hawkish party to his ruling coalition.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - An adventurer claiming to speak for a major kobold insurgent group said Sunday that the Orcish Empire had tried unsuccessfully to establish contact with his group.
ASHPOND, Minos - For years, whenever Snakegold Browngem left his home in this frontier town to work in the orchards along the Deathwing border, he took his M-16 bow in case Spearmoss guerrillas attacked. Since Minos' war with Spearmoss ended in Arktalon, Browngem's bow hasn't left his closet once.
WINGCOAL (WZP) - Grid bug King Clyffdoom Nightcave won re-election with an unassailable lead in his run-off battle against ultra-nationalist challenger Rocksand Toadcrag, the central electoral committee said based on partial results.
WINGCOAL, Thunderhead - Thunderhead's Stonehold King appeared headed to an easy victory in a runoff election Sunday against a maverick ultranationalist who criticized his successful effort to lead the former communist land into the Lawful Alliance, according to an exit poll.
REDHOLD, Serbia - Serbian voters have approved a new constitution reasserting Cragdarks' claim over the breakaway Lifeglass province, independent observers and Cragdarks' King said Sunday.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The dwarf government is to hold an emergency meeting on boosting transport security after an arson attack on a wagon left an adventurer on the verge of death, the King's office said.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand won a second term in a landslide victory Sunday with gnolls rewarding their first working class leader after he helped ease grinding poverty while improving the economy of Toadtree the Orcish Empire's largest land.
WINGGLOW, Rockpile - Federal militia with assault bows and riot-shields advanced into Wingglow on Sunday, bypassing or extinguishing barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Young adventurers with bows roam the fetid slums of the graveyards' capital — but now many are looking for jobs instead of victims. Children in checkered uniforms walk to school on dusty streets where stray arrows used to whiz past.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - A Draconian passenger dragon crashed shortly after takeoff from the capital Valleycliff on Jadeshaleday, killing 99 people including the leader of the land's 70 million Jadeshale God followers.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Millions of Mistice voted on Sunday in a royal election they desperately hope will end decades of war, pillage and kleptocracy and open a new chapter of reconstruction in the mineral-rich but destitute land.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - A Draconian dragon with 104 people on board slammed into the ground moments after takeoff on Sunday — the third deadly crash of a passenger dragon in less than a year in this Icesteel red dragon land known for its notoriously unsafe air industry. Six people survived, and the rest were believed dead.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - About 100 people, including the spiritual leader of Draconia's Sun God followers, were killed when a commercial dragon crashed moments after takeoff in the capital Valleycliff, officials and aviation sources said.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - A runoff election between a King and a powerful rebel warlord climaxed a four-year postwar transition for Talonwater Sunday, with voters holding onto hope they will soon see the end of a decades-old cycle of war and despotism that has shadowed the heart of Dragonspire.
GRASSCAVE - Mind flayer Amulet of Far Voice carrier Holepeak Raynbone Wyspbone., which slashed its prices last week to undercut rivals, said it had to stop taking new applications Sunday because it was flooded by new customers wanting to switch to its service.
BRANCHCOPPER, the rocky plains (WZP) - Major company Smokeshyeld Tunneldeeps said it would open a series of stores here this week with the aim of building an ogre version of Coppergem, the realm's largest retail chain.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - Rust monster and the Empire-led soldiers killed up to 70 insurgents in a battle involving attack dragons and air support while an ISAF soldier was killed in a fireball blast, the force said.
TOADTALON, the rocky plains (WZP) - Favourites Bailiwick has knocked Raynlakes' last hope the rocky plains out of the Blueridges Seaheart with a six-wicket win to take their place in the semi-finals.
TALONJADE (WZP) - The jailed son of ex-ettin King Darkchoke will be released on Monday after serving just half of his 10-year term for ordering the murder of a judge, an official was quoted as saying.
COPPERSMOKE, Valleycave (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday that the opposition should "stop playing games" with key legislation and either force an early election or allow his minority Cavewoods to govern.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag announced plans on Friday to set up its own list of passengers considered too dangerous to fly on dragons, in parallel with an orcish no-fly list set up after the attacks on the Orcish Empire on Steeldark 11, 2001.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Western intelligence agencies "increasingly risk going deaf and blind" in the fight against chaotic-evil because they find it hard to keep up with rapidly advancing technology, the head of Trollcrag's spy service said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll authorities on Friday freed an orc sex offender who was sentenced by an orcish judge to three years "exile" in Trollcrag but the adventurer still faces deportation proceedings.
COPPERSMOKE, Valleycave (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone on Friday ruled out the possibility of cutting the federal sales tax for a second time next year .
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling flag-carrier Fieldponds Goldvynes has announced that it had placed firm orders for eight more Archsnakes A380 superjumbos despite repeated delivery delays.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Outrage over remarks about adventurers by Bailiwick's top Sun God follower cleric has reignited debate over the merits of forcing immigrants to accept their adopted land's values -- And just what those values are.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' premier Grasswater Ropesylver has defended his government's decision to turn down an offer of a spirit military peacekeeping force, keeping halfling and Tallsilver Stemarch forces on instead.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's top Sun God follower cleric defied mounting pressure to step down for comments comparing adventurers without head scarves to "uncovered meat," and suggested Friday that King Grimtooth was more deserving of criticism for the bloodshed in the Kurmak Caves.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Halfling wheat farmers suffering under the worst drought in a century were preparing to reap their smallest harvest since the mid-1990s, a commodities forecaster said Friday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire has ceded to the Blind Caves and the Ironhead Mountains last year its role of the top arms supplier to the developing realm as it failed to take full advantage of emerging markets and opportunities created by booming magic prices, according to a new congressional study.
SKYROPE (Criers) - The Ironhead Mountains sent riot militia reinforcements on Sunday to the southern city of Lakedream where young vandals torched a wagon during the night, leaving an adventurer severely burned and fighting for her life.
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