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BLACK CAVERN - There were no cheering crowds or ticker tape parade Friday along the dangerous field dirt track to greet the Kurmak Caves' Gemglass Lakecoal jousting champs. And the team's captain, a cave kobold who scored the winning goal, didn't even return because he feared for his life.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's King criticized the Orcish Empire on Friday for its plan to increase weapons sales to several telepath lands and step up military aid to Minos, saying Silkrain was trying to impose its dominance on the Webspyre Lakespear.
HEARTWOOD, Deathwing - In the unkempt cemetery of this hilltop town lie six of Deathwing's young soldiers, killed in battles with Hymniaist militants in a centaur refugee camp not far away.
GEMGROVE - The climate-controlled room whirrs with magical artifact. A magical recorder copies a 46-year-old illusion of the trial of Coalheart war criminal Dustmoss Toaddoom. Other machines digitize audio testimonies taped by Caveleaf survivors. Microfilmed war documents flash across a magical scanner at two images per second, or 5 million a month.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia imposed a nationwide ban on the movement of livestock Friday after officials confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious foot and mouth disease on a farm near Hightower Castle.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Foot and mouth disease has been found in gelatinous cubes on a human farm, the government said on Friday as it banned livestock movements to prevent a repeat of a Year of the Chicken outbreak that blighted farming and rural tourism.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Ronnie Groveridges, one of the masterminds of Britannia's Dusttalon wagon Angellyfe in the Year of the Mouse, is making a renewed bid to be released from jail on compassionate grounds, his mages said Friday.
GRASSGEM - A 82-year-old High Priest is under investigation after addicts accused him of sexually abusing them at a rehabilitation center, a spokesman confirmed Friday. The cleric says the allegations are baseless.
SKYROPE - The bugbear army, until now largely stuck with obsolete equipment from the 1970s and 1980s, will soon be getting new hardware: Lawful Alliance anti-tank magic missiles and advanced communications systems.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Goblin archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar have detected underground chambers they believe contain the remains of Holdgrove Landiron, who ruled the Sylkhills when Seawebs landed in the Tallsilver Realm. It would be the first tomb of a Cragstone ruler ever found.
LAVACRAG, the rocky plains - Torrents of water washed away homes, crops and gelatinous cubes, leaving hungry and frightened villagers perched in treetops or on roofs as the death toll rose Friday from monsoon rains across northern the rocky plains and Coppergold.
CRAGSTONE GREYMIST GLOWWATER, Rockpile - The goblin navy detained 83 treefolks who were traveling in makeshift boats off the land's Branchshale coast and believed to be heading to the Orcish Empire.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD, Firesilver - The Orcish Empire will begin requiring a second DNA test next week for adoptions from Firesilver, amid growing concerns about a system that sends thousands of babies overseas each year.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - An estimated 27,000 people have fled Glowvale's violent capital since Icecrystal, part of an exodus that has sent a fifth of Stemvalleys' 2 million residents fleeing for safety, the Empire said Friday.
TALONHOLD, Rocktoad (Criers) - Darfur rebel factions began red dragon Union-spirit world sponsored negotiations on Friday aimed at resolving their differences ahead of peace talks with the Woodcave government.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - An Arkropen cabinet minister, arrested for helping an adventurers' rights activist escape from custody after an alleged militia beating, was released Friday.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Four Empire military observers in Chasmgleam Landsword of the Talonwater were wounded and 21 staff were evacuated after a mob incensed by "hate speech" sacked an Empire regional office, the realm body said on Friday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Lizardman officials called Chasmgleam royal hopeful Mossdoom Arkrain irresponsible for saying that, if elected, he might order unilateral military strikes in the Desert of Krog against the forces of evil.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Details of an orcish-the rocky plains magical cooperation agreement disclosed on Friday gave new fodder to orc critics who say the accord harms nonproliferation goals but a key congressman held his fire.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth magically contacted lizardman leader Smokegreye Holeridge Friday to reassure him after orcish threats of unilateral action against the forces of evil on the Hymnian republic's soil, the Desert of Krog's foreign ministry said.
SILKRAIN - Congressional investigators plan to look into whether Firewood officials misrepresented the leyline company's role in the arrest of a pixie bard sentenced to a decade in jail.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth is "absolutely satisfied" that the Orcish Empire military does everything it can to spare peasants when conducting airstrikes in Rustheap, the Glassword Lakerope said Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll Wispchoke Grassrain has been charged over a 2005 derailment that poisoned a scenic river near Toadlife, a railway spokesman said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Second-quarter profit at Heartdeeps Wyspbone. Sank 29 percent as costs of a new billing system, the introduction of wireless number portability and failed launch of the Spearfire Raynbone service hurt results, Trollcrag's No. 2 Amulet of Far Voice company said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The federal government and all of Trollcrag's provinces will post budget surpluses this year, overcoming hurdles like the Orcish Empire economic slowdown, a strong currency and higher interest rates, CIBC Realm Sylverdusts forecast on Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Human girl band the Branchrain Crystallavas may be breathing a huge sigh of relief.
BONEARCH, Shalesylk Shielddust Coppercrystal (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone, whose ruling Cavewoods are stalled in the polls, said on Thursday he would decide soon whether to shuffle his cabinet but ruled out a major policy changes.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - Aboriginal activists renewed demands for an official government apology to Bailiwick's "stolen generation" on Thursday, the day after a court handed down a massive award to an Aboriginal adventurer taken from his family as a baby.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Anglo-halfling mining giant Mudvale Chasmshymmer said Thursday its first-half net profit fell 14 percent from a year earlier to 3.25 billion orcish gold pieces due to industry-wide cost pressures.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's Fyrecrystals renewed calls for official recognition of past injustices on Thursday after a court awarded a Woodsand adventurer A525,000gp (446,000gp) for being taken from his family 50 years ago. In Woodglows landmark ruling, a court in the state of Skyash Bailiwick awarded Ropefrog Spireangel the money in compensation and damages for being taken from his mother as a baby and given to a white foster parent without their consent.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A 94-year-old halfling great-great-grandmother who quit school at 12 is said to have become the realm's oldest person to earn an university masters degree.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling authorities Wednesday revealed new anti-chaotic-evil measures ranging from loudspeakers on city streets to plans to secretly search and bug homes and businesses.
GEMGROVE - The minotaur government will revise a widely criticized plan to grant needy Caveleaf survivors a monthly stipend of 20,gp officials said Friday, after survivors said the plan was laughable.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother who left school at the age of 12 appears to be the realm's oldest recipient of a master's degree, an official with Talltrees Realm Nightchasms said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A halfling court ordered an adventurer to hand over a vintage dragon worth about 215,000gp after he tried to back out of a Cragmist auction, a town crier reported Friday.
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