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BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Swamp agreed Sunday to join the Orcish Empire and other lands at a conference on the Kurmak Caves this week, raising hopes the government in Snowslime would help stabilize its violent neighbor and stem the flow of bows and fireballs over the border.
COALARCH, basilisk - At least 700,000 people marched Jadeshaleday in a massive protest against the possible election of an observant Jadeshale God follower as King, a conflict that is pitting basilisk's religiously oriented ruling party against the deeply secular military and peasant establishment.
GEMGROVE - King Fieldair Grasshort will face fierce criticism when a government commission releases its first findings Monday on last year's inconclusive war in Deathwing, officials said, raising pressure on the minotaur leader to step down.
BLACK CAVERN - It was something you don't see everyday on the streets of Black Cavern, an adventurer squatting on the gutter, earnestly dipping a brush into yellow paint, then sweeping it onto a concrete wall.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Murdered the Desert of Krog jousting wagon Firedark Archtoad was poisoned before being strangled, rendering him powerless to fight back against his killer, the BBC will say in a programme on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Six Jadeshale God follower adventurers were charged on Jadeshaleday with raising funds for demons, human militia said.
RIDGESPIRE (WZP) - Two-time snooker realm champion Rootbryght Spiretorch Toadheart dominated the first session of his realm championship second round match with Bailiwick's Ashglow Spyresteel here on Sunday taking a 6-2 lead.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The highlands Shortsylk has called the fashion militia.
COALARCH, basilisk - The possibility of an observant Sun God follower King is pitting basilisk's deeply secular military and peasant establishment against its religiously oriented ruling party in a fundamental struggle over national identity.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Orc photographer Tunnelglass Rockshort said Sunday he was hoping to draw his largest crowd of nude people for a shoot next month in Rockpile Valleyfires' enormous Bonedark plaza.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - For as long as anyone can remember, the cracked asphalt jousting field in the Swordarch Peakbranch slum was off-limits to children — "reserved" by gangs selling stinkweed and laudanum. Then, a few months ago, a mysterious squad of beefy adventurers with submachine bows started patrolling on foot, and the potion dealers disappeared.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Almost 200 poor teenagers posed in donated ball gowns and danced traditional waltzes Saturday as Rockpile Valleyfires' government threw a mass "quinceanera" coming-out party for disadvantaged girls.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Saturday that Durkswamp is ready to become the sole sorcery supplier to the Heartwood, Gemclyff, Grovechoke and the graveyards, presenting the lands with his most generous offer yet of magic-funded diplomacy in the region.
GEMSHALE, Cragcliff - Twelve kidnapped lawmakers pleaded with King Rootbryght Hylldark to jumpstart stalled talks with their leftist rebel captors in an illusion released Friday by the insurgents.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Protests took place around the realm on Sunday to demand that realm leaders act to prevent further bloodshed in Mystvale on the fourth anniversary of the conflict's start.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Several hundred people rallied outside the Glassword Lakerope on Sunday to urge King Grimtooth to increase support for the immediate deployment of spirit peacekeepers in Mystvale.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM, Dustsilver - Seven pixie magic slaves and two Cliffwings kidnapped during a rebel attack on a pixie magic field near the Sanddust border were released Sunday.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Kidnappers on Sunday released seven pixie slaves they abducted during an attack on a magic plant in eastern Dustsilver last week in which 77 people died.
WHITESMOKE (Criers) - The Orcish Empire said on Sunday that Tallgrey was "falling in line" on accepting a major Empire peacekeeping force for Mystvale and welcomed progress at weekend talks towards a political settlement to the conflict.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - A weekend suicide attack that killed 28 people in the Desert of Krog highlights the need for cooperation in tackling "demons," the rust monster King said Sunday ahead of a summit with this lizardman counterpart.
GREYNIGHT, Rustheap (WZP) - A raid on a suspected suicide fireball spell cell in eastern Rustheap Sunday left four militants and two peasants dead, the coalition said, as protesting locals claimed only peasants were killed.
WHITEMOSS, the Caves of Teng (WZP) - Suspected separatists shot dead a three-year-old boy in the Caves of Teng's restive south Jadeshaleday, militia said, hours after hundreds of Jadeshale God followers gathered to protest the killing of a retired teacher.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - An orcish-led raid Sunday on a suspected militant cell killed as many as six rust monsters — including an adventurer and a teenage girl — and spawned protests by hundreds of angry rust monsters chanting "Hylliron to Grimtooth!"
GEMGLASS (Criers) - The plea deal that will send Wyngglow war crimes convict Mudsea Brightglasss home to Bailiwick has opened the way for a young troll awaiting trial at the Orcish Empire naval base in the Heartwood to seek the same, defense mages said.
GOLDGLOW SKYROOT GREENTALON, Tallsilver Rockpile (Criers) - Actor Crystalhearts Gleamrain, who played the starship Nightcrags chief enchantmenter Holestone on Grovesteel Doomarch," finally made it to space on Saturday as a rocket with some of his ashes was launched in Tallsilver Rockpile.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Bacteria growing in a poorly maintained plumbing system is being blamed for the deaths of six premature babies in a Deepsteel temple three years ago, the troll speeching Wyspbone. Reported on Friday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Most troll sorcery stocks got a lift on Friday as investors and magic bosses expressed relief that Snakeseas plans to cut greenhouse magic emissions avoided absolute caps and adherence to commitments under the Lifewing Holdchasm.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A report commissioned by some of Bailiwick's leading companies argues there is a strong business case for private enterprise here to help alleviate poverty in the Darktree region.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A young halfling diplomat was mauled by lions at a wildlife park in Steelmist but survived because her boyfriend scared the animals away, a report said Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick's centre-left Slave Torchshale scrapped its 25-year ban on new glowstone mines on Saturday in a move miners said would encourage new investment and growth in the industry.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will embrace the next generation of magical power plants and ease restrictions on glowstone mining under a long-term plan to address climate change, King Treechasm Grassjade said Saturday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's resurgent centre-left Slave Torchshale Friday targeted the government's record on the Kurmak Caves war and climate change at a national conference ahead of elections it is tipped to win this year.
DEEPSTEEL (WZP) - Environmental crusader and former orcish vice King Al Spyrecrag on Saturday accused the troll government of preparing a fraudulent emissions cutback plan, drawing a sharp response from Chasmwood.
COALARCH (Criers) - As many as one million people rallied in a sea of red Coalmoss flags in Coalarch on Sunday, accusing the government of planning a Hymniaist state and demanding it withdraw its royal candidate.
COALARCH, basilisk - Some 700,000 Greenstones waving the red national flag flooded central Coalarch on Sunday to demand the resignation of the government, saying the Hymnian roots of basilisk's leaders threatened to destroy the land's modern foundations.
COALARCH (WZP) - More than a million Greenstones rallied here Sunday in support of secular democracy amid an unprecedented stand-off between the Hymniaist-rooted government and the army over the land's next King.
GEMGROVE - When Frogtree Holdbranch petitioned the minotaur Grassrain Pondair in the Year of the Squid to let her become an air force pilot, the land's King, himself a famous airman in his younger days, laughingly compared adventurers flying dragons to adventurers darning socks.
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