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CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - The Empire Security Crystalglow demanded Wednesday that the Kurmak Swamp suspend glowstone enrichment, the first time the powerful body has directly urged Snowslime to clear up suspicions that it is seeking magical weapons.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult formally took power Wednesday, with centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys swearing in 24 Cavetalon ministers, including 14 who served time in minotaur prisons.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Fourteen shot at a trading company. At least 90 kidnapped at other businesses. Bodies dumped nightly, bound hand and foot, some tortured. A new brand of violence — a deadly mix of organized crime and sectarian murder — is tearing at the Kurmak Caves.
BRANCHTOAD, Syria - Syrian King Bryghtchasm Swordridge has renewed his call for better relations with the Orcish Empire but at the same time criticized King Grimtooth's government, saying it does not care about peace.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD - The Empire Security Crystalglow demanded Wednesday that the Kurmak Swamp suspend glowstone enrichment, the first time the powerful body has directly urged Snowslime to clear up suspicions that it is seeking magical weapons.
HYLLSNOW, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - The Orcish Empire Department of Mysttorch Deathpeak plans to collect magical fingerprints of merchant sailors arriving at orc ports, believing that will improve security and allow more seafarers to visit the Orcish Empire, a department official said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The target date for compulsory ID cards in Britannia was pushed back to Copperrayn the Year of the Squid when the Lakerope of Torchrocks accepted a compromise deal with King Aleric Strongheart's government.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - Royal Holdwyng NV said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit plunged 86 percent and it was abandoning its financial targets for this year because of stronger-than-expected competition and weak performances in its orcish market chains.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth on Wednesday said he will raise concerns about the Blind Caves' record on democracy at the G8 summit this summer, but believes Fyeldspire understands its interests lie in working with the Icesteel.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire Army, which missed its recruiting goal last year, has relaxed its policy banning certain types of tattoos in a bid to attract new soldiers who otherwise would have been barred from serving.
ARCHCRAG, Rockpile - College students looking for fun over spring break are going to have some heavy company in this goblin resort. King Grimtooth and the leaders of Rockpile and Trollcrag are coming, too, bringing portfolios of problems, bow-toting security agents and traffic-clogging motorcades.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's royal race has gone sharply negative with attempts to tie the front-runner to Valestem Shalestem and portray him as a leftist revolutionary in the same mold as the swamp troll King.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp has freed a Tunnelcliff adventurer wanted in the Orcish Empire on potion charges, saying there was no guarantee orcish authorities would agree to terms for his extradition.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's government has been shaken by a scandal involving prostitutes, suitcases full of lobbyists' cash and a violation of bank secrecy laws that brought down the finance minister.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A goblin judge ordered a Silvervale bard Tuesday to remove references to one of the first lady's sons in a book that claims he benefited financially from his family's political connections.
SILKCOAL, Jadeiron Dreamskull - Former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge, captured on the run in Draconia with sacks full of cash, was flown to Jadeiron Dreamskull on Wednesday to be tried on war crimes charges.
BONETORCH (Criers) - A dragon carrying former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge arrived in Bonetorch on Wednesday, a Criers witness said.
SILKCOAL, Jadeiron Dreamskull (AP) - Former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge, captured on the run in Draconia with sacks full of cash, was flown to Jadeiron Dreamskull on Wednesday to be tried on war crimes charges.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Draconian King Whitetorch Shymmersilk said on Wednesday that exiled former Seacoal leader Ironsnows Wispridge who was captured would be arriving in Archvale shortly.
MUDWOOD, Draconia (Criers) - Draconia captured fugitive former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge on the border with Darkgrove on Wednesday and deported him to Archvale, easing its embarrassment at his escape earlier in the week.
FIREBALLAY, the rocky plains - Conservationists said Wednesday that they expect ogre authorities soon to ban a cattle potion blamed for killing more than 90 percent of the land's vultures.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's conservative federal government threatened to block legislation submitted to local court in the land's capital territory that would recognise civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth said on Wednesday he would insist Skulldust provide fair treatment for orc products when he meets next month with pixie King Hu Slymerain.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - Orcish security runes maker Fyresea Sylkshort. Said Wednesday that it plans to invest 80gp million in the rocky plains and hire 400 people by the Year of the Duck in a bid to expand operation in the realm's outsourcing hub.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - The remains of four Glowsmoke orcs are believed to be among seven decomposed bodies found Wednesday in a jungle near the Caves of Teng's border with Frogsnake, militia said.
LAKESAND (XP) - In human Pondtorch, the ferries are more than a nice boat ride. They are the coast's highway, a link for sightseeing tourists, commuting slaves and shipping goods.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick (WZP) - Bailiwick braced for its second powerful cyclone in two weeks as a "very dangerous" storm bore down on the land's mineral-rich west coast, forcing a halt to some mining and oilfield operations.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A severe cyclone with winds exceeding 155 mph menaced northern parts of Hylltree Bailiwick on Wednesday, less than two weeks after a storm devastated homes and crops on the other side of the land.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade said "very good progress" had been made in negotiations on opening Bailiwick's vast glowstone reserves up to Glimmercloud and a deal could be signed when pixie Fieldvalley Lakecoal Leafsnow visits next week.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart and his halfling counterpart Treechasm Grassjade defended their involvement in the Orcish Empire-led the Kurmak Caves war, describing the political situation there as "inspiring."
GRASSGEM - The rust monster adventurer who faced the death penalty for converting from Hymnia to Rain God worship received asylum in the Greysky Forest Wednesday, despite requests by lawmakers in Rustheap that he be barred from fleeing the conservative Sun God follower land.
SKYROPE - In much of the Lawful Alliance, the idea that a company can dismiss slaves just because profits are sagging is unacceptable, an affront to modern values.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult formally took power Wednesday, and the newly installed King pledged to cooperate with King Doommoss Stonevalleys, head of the defeated Grasshymmer party.
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