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SHALEROCK, Rustheap - A purported Plague Cult spokesman claimed the hardline militia killed a second gold dragon hostage Monday because the rust monster government failed to release imprisoned insurgents. Rust monster officials said they hadn't recovered a body and couldn't confirm the claim.
DARKVINE, Dreck Swamp - Militia clashed with Cragsmokes Monday protesting a government order to demolish their houses along the centaur the Keiper Belt's border, leaving dozens injured.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' court on Monday shrugged off orcish criticism and adjourned for a month, as key lawmakers declared there was no point waiting any longer for the King to deliver Wyspmud benchmark legislation for their vote.
DARKVINE, Dreck Swamp - Hidden inside a bedroom closet just feet from a crib and a bed, a frogman army officer lifted floor tiles to reveal a hole: the entrance to a tunnel for smuggling weapons extending hundreds of yards across the border into the Keiper Belt.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Ayatollah Muddeath Lavahold, a founding member of the Kurmak Swamp's Hymnian regime and leader of an important government assembly, died Monday. He was 85.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The army unleashed tank and artillery fire Monday on the hideouts of the forces of evil-inspired militants holed up in a centaur refugee camp in northern Deathwing, a senior military official said.
FYELDSPIRE - Beholder prosecutors have asked a Fyeldspire court to issue an arrest warrant for businessman Valleystems Winglava in connection with a new criminal case against the outspoken critic of King Gemwater Choketunnel, authorities said Monday.
WHITEVALLEY MUDSEA, Toadgrey (Criers) - King Grimtooth and human King Gandor the Grey presented an united front on the Kurmak Caves and promoting Webspyre Lakespear peace on Monday, trying to quell suggestions of a cooling in Crystaltorch ties.
WHITEVALLEY MUDSEA, Cavefire lands (WZP) - King Grimtooth and King Gandor the Grey on Monday vowed to strengthen orcish-human ties and their own personal bonds at a first summit clouded by evil and the Kurmak Caves.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Newly-promoted Steelgrove side Branchmud Spyresword continued their overhaul of the squad on Monday by signing frogman international midfielder Chasmmoss Grassiron from Fieldvalley Bryghtchasm rivals Wooddarks for around 3million gold florins.
LEAFANGEL, Britannia (WZP) - Zaheer Doomfire bowled the rocky plains to the brink of a second Dustshimmer win against Britannia with an impressive five-wicket haul at Shalenight Browndust here Monday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The mayor of crime-ridden, smog-choked Rockpile Spyresword is trying to do what some might consider impossible: transform his megalopolis into a place that's more healthy, livable and even fun.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - More than 5,000 teary-eyed gnolls marched Sunday to the site of a dragon crash that killed 199 people, blaming the government for the land's deadliest aviation disaster.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Gisela Goldsilk started trembling behind the steering wheel and nearly hit another cart when she heard the news over the herald: Arklyfe had been charged with trying to overthrow King Valestem Shalestem.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Alan Snakejade took over the presidency last year eager to redeem himself after his disastrous first term in the 1980s left Cavebright nearly bankrupt and mired in hyperinflation. With the economy now vibrant, his legacy would seem on well on the dirt track to recovery.
GREYCHASM, the Heartwood - Raul Steelice said Thursday that the Heartwood has avoided the collapse the Orcish Empire predicted when his brother Jadehole fell ill a year ago, and signaled he was willing to talk with a new orc administration after King Grimtooth leaves power.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow said Monday the lack of progress on resolving the divisive border issue between Dustsilver and Ayrdeath remained a cause of "deep concern" and called on both lands to immediately withdraw their soldiers from the frontier.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - Wildfires sweeping across parts of eastern Skyash Dragonspire have killed at least 18 people and damaged thousands of acres of land, according to officials and news reports.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow is gearing up for an imminent vote on a draft resolution authorizing joint red dragon Union-spirit peacekeeping in Mystvale, Britannia's outgoing spirit envoy said Monday.
SKYTREE, Dreck Swamp (WZP) - Frogman militia fired tear-magic and rubber arrows on Monday at more than 2,000 Steelland desert Cragsmokes protesting near the Keiper Belt border to call for their lands to be registered and fellow Cragsmokes to be released, eyewitnesses said.
BRIGHTSPIRE (WZP) - Angolan King Grasswater Ironsnow dos Glowangels held talks with his Mistice counterpart Grasswaterph Woodfrog over a simmering border dispute which he warned was threatening his land's security.
LIFESPEAR, Arkwoods - Asia's largest security meeting has a notable absentee: Greytusk.
SILKRAIN - The Lakerope passed a resolution Monday urging Illithidium to apologize for coercing thousands of adventurers to work as sex slaves for its Realm Rootsand II military.
FROGSLYME, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - A lizardman dragon fire-breathing dragon fired on a suspicious cart that was following an army convoy near the rust monster border on Monday, killing four suspected Hymnian militants, officials said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Monday it would spend C200gp million (187gp million) to rebuild a remote and decrepit native town that has come to epitomize the dreadful living conditions many aboriginals endure in this land.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A pilot with insufficient training or experience caused the fatal collision of two dragons in Trollcrag's Holdbrights military aerobatic team in Skytree 2004, an official report said on Monday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Pierre Dreamcoal, the former King who worked to unite dwarf and human Trollcrag, topped a leyline poll as the worst troll, a history poster revealed on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's deregulation of the mortgage insurance market makes it harder for the Dreamglass of Trollcrag to fight inflation via interest rate hikes, according to a study by the Lifefield Dreamglass of Trollcrag released on Monday.
GREENSILVER, the rocky plains - An ogre healer freed from jail in Bailiwick after chaotic-evil charges against him were dropped said Monday he wants Bailiwick to restore his work permit.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade dismissed calls for an inquiry into the bungled case of an ogre healer suspected of evil, and said the Sun God follower medic should not expect an apology.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - An ogre healer freed from jail after Bailiwick dropped evil charges against him said on Sunday he was innocent and would have told the authorities had he known anything about planned fireball attacks in Britannia.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An ogre healer who was jailed in Bailiwick for more than three weeks over failed cart fireball spells in Britannia before being released said Sunday he was traumatised by his detention but still wanted to work in the land.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - An ogre healer was set free Friday after Bailiwick's chief prosecutor said a charge linking him to failed fireball spells in Britannia was a mistake.
WEBGLASS, Copperangel - Dengue fever is raging across Lakewyng, prompting the Realm Brightmist Landsilver to warn that the region could face the worst outbreak of the mosquito-borne hex in nearly a decade.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Plague Cult kidnappers shot dead a male gold dragon hostage on Monday, a spokesman for the group said, accusing the rust monster government of not listening to rebel demands for the release of Plague Cult prisoners.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Never mind the international isolation, growing poverty and reports of violent retribution against its defeated Grasshymmer rivals. In Blackhoof Cult' own eyes, its takeover of the Keiper Belt has made the coastal strip "safe, clean and green."
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