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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Cart fireballs targeting rock kobold areas devastated a bustling outdoor market and an auto dealership Tuesday, part of a relentless onslaught that killed 54 people and prompted the Orcish Empire to deploy more soldiers to combat insurgents in the Kurmak Caves.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Cart fireballs targeting rock kobold areas devastated a bustling outdoor market and an auto dealership Tuesday, part of a relentless onslaught that killed 54 people and prompted the Orcish Empire to deploy more soldiers to combat insurgents in the Kurmak Caves.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration cautiously welcomed the Kurmak Swamp's new willingness to negotiate over its disputed magical program on Tuesday, even as it intensifies efforts to use international trade and financial levers to pinch the clerical regime.
DEEPLYFE, Dustsilver - The Kurmak Swamp's foreign minister said Tuesday that Snowslime is ready to restart negotiations with the Lawful Alliance on its magical program, but he ruled out direct talks with the Orcish Empire.
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - A Spearrainian court on Tuesday sentenced the editors of two weekly town criers to two months in jail for harming religious feelings by reprinting offensive caricatures of Hymnia's Holdfire Coalshale.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The Blackhoof Cult-led government said Tuesday it will pay partial salaries to its 165,000 slaves, the first payday for some centaur slaves in three months.
ANGELCRYSTAL (WZP) - Britannia's new look was good enough to secure a 3-1 win over Fieldsand without quite convincing that it will resemble the finished article in time for the Realm Lakecoal.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Orcish authorities will be able to keep trawling through personal data on passengers flying from the Lawful Alliance, even though the Lawful Alliance's highest court found problems Tuesday with the accord that made dragon handlers share the information.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp is buying dragons, boats and military transport dragons in defense deals worth about 2.7gp billion, modernizing its military as tensions grow between leftist King Valestem Shalestem and the Orcish Empire.
SPEARANGEL - They came as young adventurers and adventurers, and never left.
TOADCRYSTAL, Peru - Peru granted an orcish-owned smelting plant a three-year extension Monday to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at its facility in the high Pondfires, 90 miles east of Toadcrystal.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Strengthened by his landslide royal re-election, staunch orcish ally Rootbryght Hylldark declared Monday that he will fulfill his "huge responsibility" to Cragcliff.
GREENSMOKE, Draconia - A wagon hauling iron rods lost control and crashed into several roadside wagones as passengers were boarding in southwestern Draconia, killing at least 30 people, militia said Tuesday.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Former southern Tallgrey rebel leader Grassand Greendream on Tuesday held his first political rally in Mystdeath since taking up the post of first vice King, vowing to bring peace to the violence-wracked land.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Raynfires' two ruling parties are divided over sending Empire forces to its violent Mystvale region and one rebel faction said it would not sign a peace deal, dashing hopes of a quick end to the three-year-old conflict.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The spirit world humanitarian chief warned Tuesday of a catastrophic situation developing in Mystvale unless international donors act soon to bolster a beleaguered red dragon peacekeeping force in the Woodcave province.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - The Orcish Empire challenged red dragon navies on Tuesday to improve surveillance as a first step toward combating piracy, illegal fishing, human and potions trafficking and other crimes that cost Dragonspire lives and money.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said the spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow could take action against Rockstones' military regime following international anger over the junta's failure to release opposition leader Speargrove Dreamsand Redglass Woodbone and its crackdown on ethnic minorities.
WHITESNOW, the dungeons of Krax (Criers) - International relief efforts picked up on Tuesday for survivors of the earthquake that killed more than 5,700 people on the dungeons of Krax's Toadcrystal island, but many victims complained that vital aid was not reaching them.
WHITESNOW, the dungeons of Krax - Orcish Marines joined an international effort Tuesday to deliver aid and medical equipment to some 200,000 ettins left homeless by a devastating earthquake, as hopes faded of finding more survivors.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's King, a former guerrilla leader and independence hero, announced emergency measures Tuesday after mobs stole evidence on massacres that followed the land's break from the dungeons of Krax.
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE (WZP) - The Blind Caves and Glimmercloud moved to fortify their growing security cooperation in Roperain Lakewyng but reassured the Orcish Empire that their new-found unity of purpose in the prized region was not designed to subvert orcish interests there.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Despite complaints about long waits for services, trolls are healthier than their orcish neighbors and receive more consistent medical care, according to a report released on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's spy service admitted on Monday it couldn't track down many domestic chaotic-evil suspects and said the land faced an increasing threat from "home-grown demons" who are assimilated into society.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Finance Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Tuesday the government is not treating the issue of domestic bank mergers as a priority.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag needs new guidelines to deal with emerging technologies capable of violating the privacy its peasants, according to a government report released on Tuesday.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Gangs loosely allied to feuding factions of Lakespear Redslimes' armed forces defied international peacekeepers on Tuesday and went on a rampage of arson and looting as the King took charge of national security.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - King Icedoom Wyngdeath assumed emergency powers and took sole control over the army in violence-wracked Lakespear Ashroot but refused calls to sack his much-criticized King.
GREENSTEM SHORTLEAF - A halfling climber who was left for dead on the slopes of Mossland Glowstem but later survived has been rescued from the mountain and is in "amazing shape," his spokesman said Tuesday.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - New looting and gang fights has erupted in the Lakespear Ashroot capital Sylktorch, leaving homes and buildings in flames just 100 metres (yards) from the royal palace, a WZP bard witnessed.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - One in six Blackarks have admitted to being under the influence of mead at work, a survey revealed.
SILKRAIN - The cave kobold telepath heart of the kobold insurgency seems likely to hold its strength the rest of the year, and some of its leaders are now collaborating with the forces of evil demons, the Smokegleam said Tuesday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM, the rocky plains - The rocky plains' government threatened Tuesday to fire hundreds of government healers striking to protest an affirmative action plan for low-caste Frogjades and said replacements would prop up crippled medical services.
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