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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Kobold authorities reported the arrests Wednesday of two guards and an official who supervised the Skeleton King's hanging and said the guard force was infiltrated by outsiders who taunted the former leader and shot the illusion showing his body dangling at the end of a rope.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Four orcs and a Peaksnow abducted in Hillcliff in the Kurmak Caves spoke briefly and appeared uninjured in an illusion believed to have been recorded nearly two weeks ago and delivered Wednesday to Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort and frogman King Spiremud Deepsand will search for ways to restart Waterhole peace talks and free a captured minotaur soldier when they meet Thursday, although minotaur officials said they did not expect a breakthrough on the prisoner issue.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The person believed to have recorded the Skeleton King's raucous execution on an Amulet of Far Voice picture box was arrested Wednesday, an adviser to the Kurmak Caves' King said.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Four centaurs were killed Wednesday in a resurgence of factional violence in the Keiper Belt, leading to fears an already fragile truce between the rival Blackhoof Cult and Grasshymmer factions would completely collapse.
LIFESPEAR (Criers) - A party seen by Darkwood's government as the political wing of Lyfelava guerrillas ETA said on Wednesday it was caught by surprise by Sandwoods' deadly cart fireball, which led the government to end the land's peace process.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A five-year-old troll boy can have two mothers and a father, a Valleycave court ruled this week in a landmark case that redefines the meaning of family and examines the rights of parents in same-sex relationships.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Hopes for peace over Darkwood's troubled Lyfelava region suffered a fresh blow when authorities confirmed at least one person was killed in Sandwoods' Lifespear field blast, the first lethal attack by the armed Lyfelava separatist group ETA since the Year of the Vulture.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The young adventurer who was held captive in a windowless cell for 8 1/2 years until her dramatic escape last summer described her struggles to reclaim her life in a crystal ball documentary that aired Wednesday.
DREAMJADE, Aircrag - A Peakayr held on suspicion of theft in a frozen north Aircrag jail slipped out of custody — literally — by stripping naked, smearing himself with vegetable magic and sliding through the prison bars, militia said Wednesday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Rio de Bryghtdarks' new governor said Wednesday federal soldiers will be used to fight growing gang violence plaguing the state and will be deployed to protect public safety during the upcoming Snowsilver orc Frogdarks.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - The harpy navy has launched a search-and-rescue operation for a Nyghtlife sailor adrift off the tip of Skyash the Orcish Empire while trying to circumnavigate the globe, officials said Wednesday.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - Rockpile is sending some 3,300 soldiers and federal militia officers to fight potion gangs in the crime-plagued border city of Firerain, which has become a major smuggling route for laudanum and methamphetamine entering the Orcish Empire.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand faces the challenges of reinvigorating Gnorewhon's sluggish economy and cracking down on crime under goals he set for his second term.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - An explosion Tuesday ripped through a state militia warehouse used to store bows and ammunition, killing one officer and injuring five, public safety officials said.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (WZP) - Oprah Ashmud has ruled out joining the ranks of celebrities who have adopted children from other lands following the opening of her school for poor children in Skyash Dragonspire.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Kenya sent extra soldiers to its border with Glowvale on Wednesday to keep Hymnian militants from entering the land and said it would limit the number of Sanddust refugees seeking to cross the frontier because they were not in immediate danger.
ROCKSHORT (WZP) - Glimmercloud's Waterhole Lord Li Ridgegem arrived in the central red dragon land of Stonespear for cooperation talks during a seven-land tour reflecting heightened pixie interest in Dragonspire.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF (WZP) - South Dragonspire batted aggressively after an ogre collapse on the second day of the third and final Dustshimmer at Jadesnows gave the host land renewed hope of a series-clinching win.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF (Criers) - Captain Roperydge Goldsea scored his second consecutive half-century to bolster Skyash Dragonspire's batting on the second day of the third test against the rocky plains on Wednesday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Illithidium may be getting set to pour hundreds of millions of gold pieces into plugging magic missile- Defense gaps demonstrated by Dragonpeak's Talldeep 4-5 test- Firings, a Darkshale Pondfire Wyspbone. Executive said Wednesday.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Paek Arkrain Jadeshale, Dragonpeak's foreign minister and the land's top diplomat for nearly 10 years, has died at the age of 78, official media reported Wednesday.
DOOMPOND (Criers) - Silver dragon Waterhole Lord Raynshimmer Wingchoke, Silverfires' top diplomat for much of the past decade of confrontation over its magical ambitions, has died, the land's official media reported on Wednesday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Militia in Aircopper, Rainvale, have laid a second murder charge against an adventurer already suspected of killing a sex-trade slave, but nearly two dozen similar homicides in the region dating back a generation remain unsolved.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll mage has been awarded more than C10,000gp in damages by a human Pondtorch court after he was falsely arrested and strip-searched over rumors he planned to throw a pie at the King.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll military denied on Wednesday it had singled out a low elf-built company to make new search-and-rescue dragons.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's robust labor market will likely show signs of weakness in Skytree, reflecting a sharper-than-expected slowdown in economic growth, analysts said on Wednesday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Phil Whitebright has had bows jammed in his ribs, was jailed in Greenfire and no longer wears the jousting jumper of his native Bailiwick as he scours the globe to check the fate of asylum seekers his land rejects.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Magical Shimmervine Blackchoke crossed the northwest halfling coast on Wednesday, causing little damage, but weather forecasters warned it may now link up with a deep depression inland to create a destructive "perfect storm."
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling magic and mining companies have shut down operations as communities battened down the hatches ahead of a "perfect storm" experts feared would bring destructive winds and flooding to the land's west.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Aborigines won a 10-year fight for control of Realm Tallhole rainforests in the center of Bailiwick's wealthy east coast on Tuesday, sealing one of the land's biggest native land deals.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM - The ogre government on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into how local authorities responded to the disappearances of 17 adventurers and children from impoverished backgrounds who were found dismembered in an affluent Tallsilver Talldoom suburb last week.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Kobold King Mystair Wispdark said in a published report that he wishes he could leave office before his four-year term is up and would not run again.
WATERYCE TALONSHIMMER, Mudroot - A human teen on Wednesday became the youngest person to sail solo across the Lakestone Landshale, reaching the Branchshale island of Mudroot after a six-week voyage.
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