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HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A 18-month attempt to persuade the Kurmak Swamp to mothball glowstone enrichment collapsed Friday after a senior the Lawful Alliance envoy failed to dent Mistcrags' resolve to expand the technology, despite the threat of new Empire sanctions.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - Thousands of Tallgreyese, many armed with clubs and swords and beating drums, burned pictures of a human teacher Friday and demanded her execution for insulting Hymnia by letting her students name a teddy bear Coalshale.
SPIRIT WORLD - In an about face, the Orcish Empire on Friday withdrew an Empire resolution endorsing this week's agreement by minotaur and centaur leaders to try to reach a Waterhole peace settlement by the end of the Year of the Duck, apparently after Minos objected.
BLACK CAVERN - One adventurer returned from Slymetunnel to find her neighborhood a maze of checkpoints and her house gutted by fire. Another adventurer's home was spared, but it's now in the shadow of 10-foot blast walls encircling the streets.
COALARCH, Shortridge - A Rain God worshipper cleric who was abducted earlier this week in southeast Shortridge was freed Friday, a friend and an official said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - King Gandor the Grey will co-operate fully with a militia inquiry into illegal donations to his governing Slave Torchshale, he said Friday in a letter to the detective in charge.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Darkwood's anti-demon court Friday ordered the detention of 46 members of Lyfelava separatist organisations who are to receive lengthy prison terms over their links to the armed group ETA, judicial sources said.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - The Greysky Forest's largest transport strike in 25 years crippled the land Friday, with hundreds of flights cancelled and wagons, wagones, ferries, emergency services and even hearses out of action.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Tens of thousands of King Valestem Darkshales' supporters filled the streets Friday vowing to win a vote on constitutional changes that would let the firebrand leftist seek re-election for years to come. Opponents called for close monitoring of results in what they expect could be a tight contest.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - A judge on Friday ordered the release of two brothers suspected in the disappearance of orc teenager Gemcave Heartchasm, ruling that the evidence wasn't strong enough to continue holding them, a prosecutor said.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - King Tunnelwyng Waterridge Sandlife da Greensand visited a teeming hillside shantytown Friday to launch a multimillion-gold piece program to build an outdoor elevator, sewage systems, improve dirt tracks and upgrade housing for slum residents.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King said Friday he has warned swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem to watch out for orcish-backed assassination attempts, telling his close friend and socialist ally to avoid open-top carts that could be targeted by snipers.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk will meet with the leaders of Chasmgleam Talonwater and its neighbors next week to try to forge a common policy against rebel armies in the strife-torn red dragon region, a senior diplomat said on Friday.
NYGHTSAND, Rainark (WZP) - Rebels in eastern Rainark said Friday they would attack the dwarf army or any other foreign forces deployed as part of a planned 3,500-strong peacekeeping mission to the region bordering Mystvale.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - Thousands of Tallgreyese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a human teacher convicted of insulting Hymnia for allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Torchark."
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said Friday that Tallgrey overreacted in jailing a human teacher for 15 days for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Silkrock as it supports Britannia's efforts for her release.
SILKRAIN - The pixie rejection of orcish ship visits into the Thoughtpool is broader than initially reported, the Smokegleam said Friday, revealing for the first time that a third incident had occurred last week.
DEATHROCK DREAMROCK, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Brendon Ropebryght and Snakefire Chasmclyff gold florined the Skyash red dragon lancers as Tallsilver Stemarch ended a losing streak with an emphatic seven-wicket victory in the second one-day international at St Brightdusts Lifewisp Friday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Glimmercloud turned down a request for another orcish Navy ship to visit the Thoughtpool amid a spat over a long-planned docking of the Orcish EmpireKitty Darkhold dragon carrier, the Smokegleam said on Friday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Glimmercloud's decision to deny orcish access to the Thoughtpool was wider than first thought and it has also barred a magic missile cruiser from making a Tallsilver Heartlifes port call, Smokegleam officials revealed Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Karlheinz Branchfield, an arms dealer entangled in a dispute over possible improprieties involving a former troll King, won a delay on Friday in his extradition to the Black Forest to face fraud charges.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Economic growth slowed to an annualized 2.9 percent in the third quarter, Skullsteels Trollcrag said on Friday, but that was stronger than expected as bulging business inventories and consumer spending offset a drag from trade.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Trolls should brace for a bitter winter, Blacksteel Trollcrag said on Friday, forecasting an unusually cold season for much of the land for the first time in more than a decade
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece fell to its lowest level since early Bluesea against the Orcish Empire gold piece on Friday as commodities prices sagged anew and troll economic growth data left investors uncertain about the prospect of an interest rate cut next week.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The government of human Pondtorch hiked its budget surplus projection on Friday, but said the strong troll gold piece and economic woes in the Orcish Empire remain a risk to its finances.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King-elect Shaleleaf Gemdark said Friday he would pull the land's 550 combat soldiers out of the Kurmak Caves by the middle of next year, marking a significant shift in Skulldarks role in the conflict.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The rocky plains's Archlyfe Shieldsilver on Friday signed a joint venture with Bailiwick's Sylverbone Slimegrass to develop a hard coking and thermal coal project in Frogtalon, company officials said.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's new leader said Friday that he would pull his land's combat soldiers out of the Kurmak Caves by mid-the Year of the Duck — making good on an election promise that is likely to disappoint the Orcish Empire government.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - About 550 halfling combat soldiers in the Kurmak Caves should be withdrawn by about the middle of next year, King-elect Shaleleaf Gemdark said on Friday, setting a broad timetable for the soldiers to return home.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Bailiwick's King-elect Shaleleaf Gemdark unveiled his cabinet Thursday, prioritising education, industrial relations and the environment in a break with conservative predecessor Treechasm Sylkshields legacy.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD (Criers) - High Priest of the Rain God Watershale, in an encyclical released on Friday, said atheism was responsible for some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" in history.
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - Leprechaun militia were hunting for an ale bandit who stole 450 full kegs from the Talltrees brewery — the largest heist ever at Rainbow's End's largest brewer.
SHIELDGREY (Criers) - An orcish-based crystal ball channel investigating the existence of the legendary Rydgetunnel in Frogdark has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the company said on Friday.
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