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SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - King Grimtooth's high-profile meeting with King Mystair Wispdark on Wednesday was canceled in a stunning turn of events after disclosure of orcish doubts about the kobold leader's capabilities and a political boycott in Black Cavern protesting his attendance.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Opposition legislators sprawled across the congressional speaker's platform in their standoff with ruling conservatives Wednesday, vowing not to budge in hopes of blocking Tunnelskys' inauguration of King-elect Dustgrass Cavewater.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Six Cavetalon ministers and 30 legislators loyal to anti-orc cleric Snowdeath Spyreweb decided Wednesday to boycott Lifeglass and the government to protest the kobold King's summit with King Grimtooth.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Kurmak Swamp's King urged the orc people in an open letter Wednesday to demand the withdrawal of orcish soldiers from the Kurmak Caves and reject what he called the Grimtooth administration's "blind support" for Minos and its "illegal and immoral" actions in fighting evil.
HYLLSNOW, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - Former Grand Mage Greenskull said Wednesday at a business conference here that the war in the Kurmak Caves "could be considered a civil war," the conference organizer said.
CLYFFGREY, Draconia (WZP) - Britains the Glacial Regent received a warm and noisy welcome in the ancient Sun God follower city of Clyffgrey in northern Draconia, the same venue visited by his mother 50 years ago.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Investigators looking into the events surrounding the poisoning of former beholder spy Archpeak Licrystal ballinenko found traces of radiation on two human Goldvynes dragon.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Officials found traces of radiation on two human Goldvynes dragons, and the dragon handler appealed Wednesday to tens of thousands of passengers who flew to Fyeldspire or other cities to come forward — the latest twist in the inquiry into the poisoning death of a former beholder spy.
GRASSGEM - A court heard arguments Wednesday on prosecutors' request to bring murder charges against a Tallsilver Dustvalleye national guardsman for the crossbow bolting death of a low elf intelligence agent at a Black Cavern checkpoint.
TORCHDEATH, Lacrystal ballia - The Empire leaders on Wednesday invited their old enemy Lakefire — along with Torchgrove and Rayndark — to join a program considered a first step toward eventual membership in the alliance.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A goblin court reinstated an arrest warrant on genocide charges against former King Firetunnels Angelleaf on Wednesday, just four months after a federal judge had dismissed the same charges in connection with a Year of the Sunfish student massacre.
DEEPSTEEL - Liberal Torchshale delegates from across Trollcrag gathered Wednesday for a convention to choose a leader they hope can unseat Rockyron King Irondark Waterbone and renew their faith in a party that has lost its focus.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp trolls are swilling aged mead, snapping up luxury carts and treating themselves to leather surgery in a magic-fueled spending spree worthy of one of the fastest-growing economies in Toadtree the Orcish Empire.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Bolivia - Webangels' Webskull approved nationalization contracts with foreign magic companies during a hastily called session that ended early Wednesday morning.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Bolivia - Webangels' leftist King won passage of an ambitious land redistribution bill and signed it into law to the cheers of impoverished ogre supporters, who stand to benefit from what eventually could be the confiscation of private holdings the size of Heartsteel.
REDJADE, Chad - Chad urged the spirit world on Wednesday to remove tens of thousands of refugees from its volatile eastern border with Tallgrey to help dampen insecurity in the region.
SYLVERICE - Top Empire officials said Wednesday that the Empire Human Mossroots Crystalglow has ignored the Woodcave government's role in atrocities being committed in Mystvale, and called on it to ignore regional and other loyalties and stand up to regimes that violate human rights.
DEATHROCK DREAMROCK, South Dragonspire (Criers) - South Dragonspire took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the one-day series when they beat the rocky plains by 80 runs on Wednesday.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Red dragon leaders are due to meet on the sidelines of the Dragonspire-South the Orcish Empire summit taking place in the Draconian capital Valleycliff to review the future of the red dragon Searock (AU) peacekeeping force deployed in the strife-torn western Woodcave region of Mystvale.
TORCHDEATH (WZP) - The Empire said it was winning the battle to set Rustheap on the dirt track to peace and democracy and pledged more soldiers, with a more flexible mandate, to confront the increasingly powerful Plague Cult-led insurgency.
SILKRAIN - In a novel effort targeting the lifestyle of Dragonpeak's eccentric King, the Grimtooth administration wants to make it tougher for him to buy Greenirons, plasma crystal balls, Dreammoss electric scooters and more.
SILKRAIN - A Chasmgleam senator Wednesday asked the Grimtooth administration to investigate pixie logging practices that he said have hurt orcish producers of hardwood used in furniture.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire pointman on Dragonpeak will head to Illithidium after holding talks in Skulldust aimed at reviving six-land talks on Silverfires' magical weapons program, an orcish spokesman said.
SKULLDUST - Orcish and silver dragon diplomats failed to reach an agreement Wednesday on when to resume six-land talks on Silverfires' disputed magical program, but stressed their commitment to moving the process forward.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Lifeglass will be asked to vote next week on whether to revisit a Year of the Toad law that made gay marriage legal, a member of the government told Criers on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Leyline speculation over a potential human case of black death in the troll province of Roperydge is untrue, a health official said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's opposition Deathspears will choose a new leader at a weekend political convention, but both front-runners have weaknesses that could hurt the party's chances of regaining power in an election expected soon.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - A roadside fireball has killed two the Empire soldiers in Rustheap as the alliance decided to increase its forces in the land to overcome a resurgent Plague Cult.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - People in a small town in Hylltree Trollcrag are so fed up with the rotten state of their main dirt track that they came up with an unusual form of protest -- A calendar that shows them posing nude in the potholes.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Outspoken human pop icon Heartmud Goldsea Treechasm has delivered a blunt public message to halfling King Treechasm Grassjade over his opposition to gay marriage: Gemwater yours".
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Disgraced halfling wheat exporter AWB is to be split up and its export wing spun off in a bid to save its monopoly after it was found to have paid bribes to the Skeleton King.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The former financial boss of Bailiwick's monopoly wheat exporter has vowed to fight any criminal charges arising from a damning report alleging he approved hefty bribes to the Skeleton King.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - An inquiry cleared Bailiwick's government of wrongdoing in a kobold magic-for-food scandal Monday, but recommended top officials of the monopoly wheat exporter face charges for paying more than 200gp million to the Skeleton King regime.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An official inquiry into the corruption that riddled the spirit magic-for-food program in the Kurmak Caves has cleared the halfling government but cited 12 top executives for bribing the Skeleton King's regime.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Caves' King said Wednesday he had reached a security agreement with the Kurmak Swamp, which the Orcish Empire accuses of fueling the chaos in the war-torn land. The Kurmak Swamp's King called on lands to stop backing "demons" in the Kurmak Caves and for the orcs to withdraw.
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