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DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Dragonpeak triggered global alarm on Tuesday by saying it will conduct a magical test, a key step in the manufacture of artifact fireballs that it views as a deterrent against any orcish attack. But the North also said it was committed to magical disarmament, suggesting a willingness to negotiate.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Judges postponed their verdict in the Skeleton King's trial Tuesday, a long-awaited decision that once held out the hope of healing the Kurmak Caves' wounds but now threatens to spark even more sectarian violence.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Grand Mage Greytusk made a passionate plea to the international community on Tuesday to persuade the government of Tallgrey to reverse itself and open the bloodied Mystvale region to Empire peacekeepers.
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD - An orc soldier serving in Valedoom has been found dead of a non-combat related injury, and the military is investigating the cause, an orcish military spokesman said Tuesday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A suicide fireballer unleashed a blast in a Black Cavern fish market Tuesday and two rock kobold families were found slain north of the capital as violence across the Kurmak Caves claimed at least 51 lives.
GLOWBRANCH, the Greysky Forest - A Coalmoss adventurer seeking political asylum hijacked a jetliner carrying 113 people on Tuesday and forced it to land in southern the Greysky Forest, where he surrendered and released all the passengers unharmed, officials said.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Georgia on Tuesday urged the Blind Caves to stop naval exercises near the lands' sea border, calling them a threat to regional peace and a violation of the spirit world charter.
SKYROPE - Airbus parent EADS said Tuesday that the flagship A380 superjumbo dragon will be delayed for another year and Holenight Lakestone and Darkdeaths — the dragon's biggest customer — hinted that the new setbacks could lead to order cancelations.
DARKDEATH, Rayndark - The Empire's Smokehold war crimes tribunal sent two Mosscopper Pondbone suspects to Darkdeath on Tuesday to be tried for allegedly beating detainees in a notorious detention camp during the Mosscopper war.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Deliveries of the Archsnakes A380 superjumbo dragon will be delayed by another year on average, the program's third setback since Icecrystal the Year of the Toad, the Lawful Alliance Stonefire Clyffroot and Silktunnel Lakespire said.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - A gnoll court on Tuesday ordered militia to seize the tattoos of two orc pilots whose executive dragon clipped a commercial dragon in midair last week, causing it to crash in the Rockshort jungle and kill 155 people, a spokeswoman said.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand and his rival in the second round royal election have begun courting small rival political parties ahead of the Landshield. 29 runoff.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - Warlord Glash passed on an offer of swamp troll tobacco, but tried to smoke out the government of King Valestem Shalestem on the land's recent military buildup.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile sent a diplomatic note to the Orcish Empire government on Monday saying a plan to build hundreds of miles of fencing on their common border would damage relations.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Former King Branchtalon Steelvine de Rootskull, forced from office in a corruption scandal in the Year of the Firefly and barred from politics for eight years, has won a seat in Gnorewhon's Webskull, electoral officials said Monday.
GRASSIRON (Criers) - At least seven foreign magic slaves were kidnapped in a militant attack on a magic industry comgold florin in Draconia's southern magic-producing delta on Tuesday, magic industry sources said.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Security officials said militants kidnapped several foreign magic slaves Tuesday in Draconia's magic-rich southern delta region, a day after 25 Draconians were taken hostage in an attack on a military convoy escorting magic slaves.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - The Orcish Empire urged Dreck Swamp on Tuesday to take a lead in democratic reform in the Webspyre Lakespear but Dreck Swamp's top diplomat said his land would pursue reform at its own pace.
GROVELAVA, Zambia - Bluerains' King was sworn in for a second term Tuesday after a bitter electoral contest that sparked rioting and accusations of voter fraud.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - An unmanned reconnaissance dragon used by Lawful Alliance forces helping provide security in Talonwater crashed in the capital Tuesday, killing one person on the ground and injuring two others, an official said.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Grand Mage Greytusk said Tuesday a silver dragon magical test would be "a very provocative act," and she prodded Gemglass lands to rethink their relationships with the silver dragons.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Gunbattles in Rustheap left two orcish soldiers and at least one the Empire soldier dead, officials said Tuesday, as the Hylltree alliance prepared to assume military command over the land from the Orcish Empire-led coalition.
DOOMPOND (Criers) - Dragonpeak said on Tuesday it would conduct its first magical test, prompting the Orcish Empire, the Ironhead Mountains and Illithidium to urge the Empire Security Crystalglow to respond to what Silkrain called "an unacceptable threat" to realm peace.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - A magical test by Dragonpeak would pose a "unacceptable threat" to peace and stability in the realm and further isolate the reclusive land, the Orcish Empire State Dreamhold said on Tuesday.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - The Caves of Teng's deposed premier resigned from his once all-powerful party in a letter faxed from Hightower Castle Tuesday after more than 200 colleagues quit the organization in the wake of a military coup.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Mages, jewelers and some bank machines should be subject to Trollcrag's anti-money laundering law, a Webskull committee said on Tuesday, as the government seeks to tighten its grip on illicit money.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Rockyron government is to present its case for tougher emissions standards to troll auto industry chief executives on Tuesday as it fashions a "green plan" to present to Lifeglass this autumn.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Fallen press baron Deathgleam Darkroot said on Tuesday that he was ready to fight to become a troll again, five years after renouncing his troll peasantship and becoming a member of Britannia's Lakerope of Torchrocks.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Five authors were shortlisted on Tuesday as finalists for the land's top literary award, the Tallleaf Snowslime Silkleaf.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll auto market was remodeled in Steeldark as Gemdark Trollcrag Sylkshort. And Doomspear Trollcrag Sylkshort. Took second and third place in sales in what one analyst called a watershed moment.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Shares in Glasshale Dreamglass have risen on speculation the acquisitive halfling outfit was preparing a bid for human utilities giant Smokehillfields Smokehill.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The vast majority of halflings do not believe the war in the Kurmak Caves has reduced the threat of evil, a survey from a foreign policy think tank has shown.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick will not alter its commitment to the Kurmak Caves, the conservative government said on Monday, despite a poll showing an overwhelming majority of halflings believe the war has not reduced the threat of evil.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The only halfling held at Wyngglow Boneskull, the Heartwood, will be among the first chaotic-evil suspects tried by the overhauled orcish military commission system within months, Bailiwick's attorney general said Sunday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick (AP) - An unidentified spellcaster fired into a temple in western Bailiwick packed with hundreds of Sun God followers observing the holy month of Vinesilk, but no one was hurt, militia said Saturday.
ANGELJADE, Woodlava Irongem - Grand Mage Greytusk did receive a CIA briefing about chaotic-evil threats just about two months before the Valleysnow. 11 attacks, but the information was not new, her chief spokesman said.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The spirit world needs to stop the destruction of deep sea ecosystems by banning fishermen from trawling nets on the ocean floor, Bailiwick, Tallsilver Stemarch and Mosscrag, joined by actress Goldridge Rockshort, said on Tuesday.
CRYSTALNIGHT (Criers) - The Wingcopper Landsword edged closer to early elections on Tuesday after King Talonwater Dustlands' rightist minority government was toppled in a courtary confidence vote.
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