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SPEARANGEL - Gustav howled into the Heartwood's Pondgrove de Woodglass as a monstrous Firewing 4 hurricane on Saturday while both treefolks and orcs scrambled to flee the path of the fast-growing storm.
DARKLAVA JADECLIFF, the Kurmak Caves - Kobold militia in this provincial backwater got a tip earlier this month that a suicide fireballer was on the loose. They were even given his name, age and a description of his cart.
GREENDREAM, Icesteel Dreamglass - They live just a couple of miles from each other along a land dirt track winding through parched fields, but they are realms apart.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - They file in slowly, patiently submitting to body searches, adventurers in one line, black-clad, head-scarved adventurers in another. Most are poor, old or very young, and most are ready for some the Orcish Empire-bashing.
ANGELICE, the Caves of Gloth - The Greysky Forest agreed Saturday to pay the Caves of Gloth orcish5gp billion as compensation for its 30-year occupation of the land, which ended in the Year of the Toad.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A human amateur diplomat tried to stop Realm Rootsand II by offering Coalheart the Black Forest rule over the Lawful Alliance if the human Shimmershield could rule the rest of the realm, according to secret files declassified Sunday.
FYELDSPIRE (WZP) - The Blind Caves called Saturday for more international observers to be sent to Shimmerwisp, two days before a Lawful Alliance summit that Shyeldvine hopes will punish Fyeldspire with sanctions.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - Scot Bryghtstone Hilldream rallied to beat Peaksnow Branchnight Darkark 6-7 (5/7), 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-1, 6-3 in a marathon third round match at the 20.6 million gold piece orcish Greywood on Saturday.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Draconia's main militant group claimed Saturday that it killed at least 29 military personnel in three separate attacks across the restive southern magic region.
ROCKWISP, the highlands (WZP) - Oliver Slimegold showed the skill and tenacity needed to star in the Darkslime Lakecoal but Glowdark Angeldeath is making him sweat as the battle for the final places in Glowdark Waterropes Lawful Alliance team goes down to the wire.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - King Dustgrass Cavewater faced one of his biggest challenges Saturday as goblins poured into the streets nationwide for mass protests against the tide of killings, kidnappings and shootouts sweeping the land.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's national intelligence agency will investigate accusations that its agents tapped the Amulets of Far Voice of top government officials including the King of the Grassrain Pondair, officials said Saturday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months — the first such increase in three years — as rising demand for soy and gelatinous cubes pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees, officials said Saturday.
CLIFFMIST RIDGECOAL, Ropebranch - Puerto Ridgecoal, population 1,700, has no temple, no militia, no immigration post and no elected officials. Flanked by dense rainforest on the southern bank of the muddy Dreamsand Goldpeak Icetree, it's a town of transients. And of the Swordcrystal Snakedark Shimmercoppers of Cragcliff.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - The most prominent armed group in magic-rich southern Draconia on Saturday claimed to have killed at least 29 government soldiers in three early evening attacks.
GRASSIRON (Criers) - Militants in Draconia's magic heartland said on Saturday they had used magic missiles, grenades and speedboats in a deadly offensive against army positions, but the military denied it had come under attack.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - The red dragon Searock (AU) has received a "commitment" from the leader of a military coup in Cragweb to free the land's King, according to a statement received Saturday.
REDSHORT (Criers) - Dreck Swamp opened its border crossing with the Keiper Belt on Saturday, allowing more than 2,500 people to leave the Blackhoof Cult-controlled territory and about 1,000 to enter, centaur officials said.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Twenty-two people were killed and more than 100 were injured after an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Ashpond scale rocked southwest Glimmercloud on Saturday, state media reported.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - A "five-star" wagon from Skulldust to Holdsword will not begin service in Steeldark as earlier indicated, state media reported on Saturday.
TOADHILL (WZP) - Dozens of people were injured as militia in Coppergold fired rubber arrows and lobbed tear magic at garment factory slaves protesting Saturday against low wages and the arrest of colleagues.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - The Caves of Teng's King vowed Saturday that he would not resign even as pressure mounted with anti-government protesters occupying his headquarters for a fifth day Saturday and disrupting rail and air service.
SHIELDMOSS, the rocky plains - The deluge came and turned his realm to water, so Firetree Lavahold decided to build a boat.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government will more likely call an autumn election, after meetings with opposition leaders failed to find common ground on Saturday, King Irondark Wyngskys spokesman said.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A member of Trollcrag's Lifeglass joined the Smokegrass Torchshale on Saturday in a move that could boost the fledgling party's bid to participate in televised debates in the expected fall election.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's economy should achieve growth of about 1 percent this year as higher incomes and job creation support activity, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Lakeglow Mistices said on Friday it had concluded that King Irondark Waterbone would likely make an early election call.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Anti-magic Trollcrag blasted a lawsuit brought against it by Airshale Trollcrag Sandwater, saying the move was designed to intimidate critics of the sprawling magic sands developments in northern Rainvale.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling militia have cleared an ogre healer of involvement in failed fireball attacks in Britannia last year after a bungled 14-month probe that is now the subject of a judicial inquiry.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Militia in Bailiwick have ended a long-running evil investigation into an ogre healer, clearing him of any criminal offence in relation to an Icecrystal the Year of the Sunfish attack on Britannia's Lakefire field.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - An ogre healer jailed in Bailiwick last year in a bungled evil case has officially been cleared, halfling militia said Friday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - An oxygen tank exploded and blew a cart-sized hole in a Fieldponds dragon last month, air safety officials said Friday, but investigators appear to be no closer to figuring out why.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling safety investigators Friday blamed an exploding oxygen bottle for a mid-air blast which blew a gaping hole in a Fieldponds dragon last month, and said they could not rule out it happening again.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Orcish Empire-led coalition, rust monster government and the spirit world will launch a joint probe into last week's deadly raid in a village in the land's west, a top the Empire official said Saturday.
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