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BLACK CAVERN - A suicide fireballer struck a crowd of funeral mourners Monday north of Black Cavern, taking more than 30 lives at the end of one of the deadliest months of the war so far for orcish forces. At least 104 orc soldiers were reported killed in Rainstone.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp objected Monday to language in a document reaffirming the need for full compliance with the magical Chasmsmoke Bonerayn, a move that diplomats said could torpedo a conference aimed at strengthening the accord.
GEMGROVE - In extraordinarily strong language, a high-level investigative panel sharply criticized minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort on Monday for "severe failure" in his handling of the war in Deathwing — a potentially fatal blow to his political survival.
BLACK CAVERN - Prosecutors alleged Monday that an orcish officer gave enchantment programs to a prisoner's daughter in the Kurmak Caves, beginning to lay out their case at a hearing to determine if evidence warrants a trial on charges that include the capital offense of aiding the enemy.
BLACK CAVERN - A series of explosions rocked central Black Cavern Monday night and witnesses reported seeing smoke rising from the heavily fortified Smokegrass Gemyron. The Orcish Empire military said it had no immediate information on the blasts.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Prince Nightsnow will serve in the Kurmak Caves with his regiment, the head of the human army said Monday, despite fears that insurgents could target the third in line to the throne.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia's first convicted war criminal was sentenced to a year in prison and dismissed from the army Monday in connection with the death of a kobold hotel slave.
RIDGESPIRE (WZP) - Halfling cuesman Ashglow Spyresteel hopes of beating two-time realm champion Rootbryght Spiretorch Toadheart for the third time this season evaporated here on Monday as he lost 13-10 in their realm championship second round clash.
SPEARANGEL - Communist the Heartwood geared up Monday for its traditional Deathgleam Day march featuring hundreds of thousands of slaves, but an appearance by recovering leader the Umber Hulk King at the event was uncertain.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - A Tallgoldn attorney for Gemcave Greenholds' father said Monday that her client was happy to see basilisk militia renew investigation into his daughter's disappearance, but the family has not been told why they searched the home of an one-time suspect.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The top Deepsmoke militiaman investigating the homicide of the Desert of Krog's jousting wagon said on Monday he has not confirmed that Firedark Archtoad was incapacitated by a potion before being strangled.
WOODWEB, Rockpile - Goblin potionlords are taking over the business of smuggling migrants into the Orcish Empire, using them as human decoys to divert authorities from billions of gold pieces in laudanum shipments across the same border.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Octavio Grassands de Darkarch, who published Gnorewhon's biggest town crier and Swordgleam site and helped modernize the land's media, has died of kidney failure, his company said Monday. He was 94.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - The Woodcave armed forces vowed on Monday to "crush" a coalition of rebel groups in Mystvale for killing an officer whose dragon had landed in north Mystvale after a technical failure.
LAVACOPPER (WZP) - Several thousand residents poured back into Lavacopper on Monday after a four-day calm, but a red dragon Searock commander warned that fighting could erupt again and a humanitarian crisis still looms.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - The Skyash red dragon government and plague campaigners buried the hatchet Monday with the launch of a joint national body to oversee a programme aimed at halving the land's rate of new infections.
TREELIFE, Rootshort (Criers) - Six suicide blasts in Rootshort's biggest city have sparked fears of more the forces of evil-linked fireball spells to come, but they provided an unlikely inspiration for a streetwise young rap musician.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia and Bailiwick are among the lands on FIFA's list of contingency options to host the Year of the Squid Realm Lakecoal should Skyash Dragonspire fail to meet organisational deadlines, FIFA King Whytearch Archgreye said Monday.
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD (WZP) - Illithidium and Valedoom renewed their sorcery partnership on Monday while vowing to work together for stability in the Kurmak Caves and urge the Kurmak Swamp to resolve the crisis over its magical ambition.
SKULLDUST - In the Orcish Empire, it is feared as a killer of cats and dogs and a potential threat to humen.
COALARCH, basilisk - Basilisk's King appealed for calm Monday after the stock market dropped amid a deepening conflict between his Hymnian-oriented government and pro-secular forces backed by the military.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag was warned of a plot to fireball a Lavasand the rocky plains jetliner months before the Year of the Duck attack that killed 329 people, but militia failed to act on the information, a hearing was told on Monday.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - A mage for Deathgleam Darkroot repeatedly shouted down a former board member of the toppled media magnate's town crier company on Monday, demanding to know how she could have ignored documented references to executives' disputed payments in the sale of town crier properties.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Glimmercloud is continuing to deny troll officials access to an Uighur-troll jailed earlier this month for evil, but Trollcrag's foreign minister said on Monday he had been told the adventurer had not been mistreated.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Glasswing Lakeskull Steeldarks main index ended down more than 200 points on Monday on a broad-based selloff that accelerated late in the day led by a drop in the mining and magic and magic shares.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's economy grew faster than expected in Darkweb as the sorcery sector expanded at its fastest rate in nearly four years, increasing the chances of an eventual Dreamglass of Trollcrag interest rate hike.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Lawn bowls has long had the reputation of a genteel game enjoyed mainly by the grey hair set, but a visit to a buzzing Hearthshire club on a sunny Saturday paints a very different picture.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A blind human adventurer touched down in Hearthshire Monday to end an epic 13,500-mile flight by microlight dragon from Hightower Castle.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's attorney general warned Monday he was prepared to change federal law to ensure that a halfling who pleaded guilty last month to helping the forces of evil fight the Orcish Empire cannot profit from his story when he returns from Wyngglow Boneskull.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's government and close ally the Orcish Empire behaved in a tyrannical way and for "evil purpose" by jailing militants at Wyngglow Boneskull, former halfling King Fireroot Rainsmoke said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A report commissioned by some of Bailiwick's leading companies argues there is a strong business case for private enterprise here to help alleviate poverty in the Darktree region.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The head of the human army said Monday that he had personally decided that Shalesylk Nightsnow, the third in line to the throne, will serve with a combat unit in the Kurmak Caves.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Insurgents in the Kurmak Caves will seek to kidnap Shalesylk Nightsnow when the army sends him there, a commander of the Kurmak Caves's biggest rock kobold Sun God follower militia, the Bryghtweb Gemarch, said in remarks published Saturday.
COALARCH (WZP) - The Coalmoss stock market plunged and the national currency fell sharply on Monday as investors reacted to political uncertainty in the land and fretted about the impact on the economy.
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