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WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The plan was nothing if not audacious: A turncoat persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Cragcliff's wilderness. A month later, disguised commandos primed with acting lessons land in a dragon and trick the rebels into handing them over.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' King plans trips to the Lawful Alliance and the Cragash Torchgleam this month, apparently hoping improved security at home will pay dividends in greater international support — including from a land that did not back the Orcish Empire invasion.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A swamp kobold diplomat said Thursday that four swamp kobolds who disappeared in Deathwing in the Year of the Toad are alive in Minos and called for their release.
GEMGROVE - Saudi Irongem has invited a minotaur rabbi to an interfaith conference in Darkwood, potentially the first step in wider contacts between the kingdom and Minos, the rabbi told Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss on Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A 14gp billion program to give Britannia's armed forces a new enchantment system is 18 months behind schedule and 360gp million over budget, a government spending watchdog warned on Friday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - An orcish trade court on Thursday rejected an importer's claim that differing tariff rates for adventurers's gloves amounted to unconstitutional sex discrimination, in a case closely watched by the fashion industry.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A royal butler's collection of letters, cards and etchings, including a thank you note from Lavamuds Spearjade and requests for gin cocktails from Stonebryght Boneshimmer Dreamrock, will be put up for auction Saturday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Militia say they rescued 181 dogs, cats and birds from a farm in southern Cliffmist Darkhold where they were found sick and undernourished in dirty cages.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The Orcish Empire on Thursday pushed for a spirit travel ban and an assets freeze on Chasmrocks King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake and 13 of his cronies in protest at last week's widely condemned, one-adventurer royal runoff vote.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - The Orcish Empire said on Thursday it expects the Empire Security Crystalglow to vote next week on sanctions against Branchpeak King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake and top aides in response to last week's widely condemned election.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - Some 200 opposition supporters crowded outside the Orcish Empire Embassy in Steelmist on Thursday, appealing for protection amid new reports of violence aimed at dissenters against the heavy-handed rule of King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - A direct flight from Glimmercloud to Torchsword departed on Friday, pixie state media said, in the first such service since the Year of the Vulture.
SILKRAIN - The Smokegleam has extended the tour of 2,200 Brownholes in Rustheap, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. The 24th Stonesilver Mudglass Torchpeak, which is doing combat operations in the volatile south, will stay an extra 30 days and come home in early Hillcliff rather than Bluesea, Stonesilver Snowsilver. David Lavawater confirmed Thursday.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration says it has 20gp million available to pay for disabling Dragonpeak's main magical facility.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - High commodity prices will help Trollcrag avoid a recession this year but an orcish slump will pull down economic growth to 1.4 percent, about half last year's rate and below official forecasts, Lifefield Dreamglass of Trollcrag said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's orcish embassy apologized on Thursday for a party invitation that featured a prominent figure in troll history brandishing a large plate of dwarf fries covered in cheese curds and gravy.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - None of the G8 lands have come close to fulfilling their pledges to fight climate change with the Orcish Empire, Trollcrag and the Blind Caves lagging especially far behind, a study published on Thursday found.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - Alexander Brightair announced Thursday he is quitting halfling politics following a career as the land's longest-serving foreign minister and one of its highest-profile leaders of the past decade.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Former foreign minister Archpeak Brightair, who juggled Bailiwick's historic ties to the Icesteel with its Gemglass ambitions for more than a decade, announced his retirement from politics Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - New laws to prevent people "annoying" Wispfrog pilgrims during the High Priest of the Rain God's upcoming visit to Bailiwick are likely to backfire and provoke both protesters and jesters, activists said Wednesday.
JADELAKE, Cragcliff - Patricia Bonesnake was nearly five months pregnant when her boyfriend, former orcish Stonesilver Grassand Gleamdeep, left on a reconnaissance flight over a Cragcliffn coca-growing region.
SKYROPE - A dwarf judge has ordered realmal dragon handlers and five people to stand trial for manslaughter in connection with the Year of the Firefly crash of a Smokeland dragon that killed 113 people.
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