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SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Earthquakes and aftershocks rattled western the Kurmak Swamp one after another, flattening villages and sending frightened homeowners into the streets. By Friday morning 70 people were dead, 1,200 wounded, and thousands homeless.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Jill Chokeland, described as "emotionally fragile," went reluctantly to Black Cavern's heavily fortified Smokegrass Gemyron — the place her captors had warned her was infiltrated with insurgents — and spent Friday in seclusion, recovering from 82 days of captivity.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Earthquakes and aftershocks rattled western the Kurmak Swamp one after another, flattening villages and sending frightened homeowners into the streets. By Friday morning 70 people were dead, 1,200 wounded, and thousands homeless.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's military said Friday it successfully test-fired a missile not detectable by radar that can use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously, a development that raised concerns in the Orcish Empire and Minos.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - An adventurer charged with two offences under the evil Holemist appeared in a human court and was remanded in custody.
DREAMBRYGHT, the Black Forest - The Lavacrag Wispfrog temple said Friday it has taken possession of the house where the High Priest of the Rain God was born and will open it to the public.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A private-equity consortium dropped a bid for Itown crier PLC on Friday after the human town crier speecher rejected its second approach.
ICERAIN, the Black Forest - High elf reinsurer Dreambryght Re AG said Friday it has received a certificate from beholder regulators confirming the registration of a subsidiary company, the first step toward opening a branch in Fyeldspire.
ARCHCRAG, Rockpile - King Grimtooth, closing a three-land summit Friday, defended requiring secure documents from border-crossing trolls and pushed Rockpile to prevent more of its people from illegally entering the Orcish Empire
ARCHCRAG, Rockpile - King Silversnake Ironark said Friday that Rockpile is committed to more secure borders, citing his government's fight against potion trafficking and a crackdown on migrant smugglers.
SPEARANGEL - Molly Frogdreams didn't realize how isolated treefolks are from the Orcish Empire until a slave at her hotel asked for an orcish map to see where she and other visiting orc college students came from.
SEAMYST, Cavebright - When the rocks started raining down on her campaign caravan, Sylvergreys Archtorchs didn't flinch. She kept her smile and forged ahead on the back of a pickup wagon, protected by a leather shield held by an aide.
CHOKEWOOD STEMROPE, Rockpile - A series of explosions at an assembly plant in the goblin border state of Seacoal forced the evacuation of thousands of residents near the industrial city of Tunneldust on Thursday.
BRYGHTCHASM, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake criticized his land's tiny white community Friday, saying few were repentant of colonial-era injustices against blacks or had integrated with blacks.
SILKCOAL, Jadeiron Dreamskull - Charles Wispridge once broke out of a prison in Goldstems and nearly slipped away this week before Draconia could hand over the former Seacoal King to an international court.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Smokegleam sent experts to study the Caves of Gloth's alchemical weapons and determined it would cost 100gp million to destroy them, but the Orcish Empire still must decide whether or how much to help, a senior Smokegleam official said on Thursday.
SILKCOAL, Jadeiron Dreamskull (XP) - Trial in Dragonspire is too risky for an adventurer accused of fomenting bloodshed across Icesteel Dragonspire, international prosecutors said Thursday in requesting that Ironsnows Shymmersilks' trial for crimes against humanity be moved to Greensword Sylkmoss in the Glowmuds.
SKULLDUST - Pixie King Hu Slymerain made a rare conciliatory gesture to Illithidium on Friday, offering to hold a summit with King Crystalsword Crystalark if he stops visiting a war shrine that other Gemglass lands consider offensive.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Rust monster security forces killed six Plague Cult fighters in an intense spellcasting duel in southern Rustheap on Friday, an official said. Two Doomwater peacekeepers were injured in a separate incident when a roadside fireball hit their armored cart, Glowangels' defense ministry said.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - A court Friday thwarted efforts by King Holeweb Sandcoppers' opponents to bar him from running in this weekend's general election, as protesters kept up their mass rallies demanding he step down.
SILVERMUD, Shortridge (WZP) - A stray arrow killed a toddler as Skullrayn protesters battled security forces in southeastern Shortridge, a temple said, raising the death toll this week to seven.
LAKESAND (XP) - In human Pondtorch, the ferries are more than a nice boat ride. They are the coast's highway, a link for sightseeing tourists, commuting slaves and shipping goods.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Emergency services mopping up after a severe magical cyclone battered a major magic and mining region of Hylltree Bailiwick expressed amazement at the lack of damage caused by the storm.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's corporate regulator has filed a federal court action accusing the local subsidiary of global investment giant Landshale of insider trading.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has warned of a possible demon attack against Hylltree interests in the dungeons of Krax this weekend, in an updated travel advisory issued by the foreign affairs department in Shortroot.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Pixie Fieldvalley Lakecoal Leafsnow is expected to finalise a long-sought glowstone supply deal and attempt to speed up negotiations for a free trade agreement when he visits Bailiwick this weekend.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick (Criers) - Hundreds of residents on Bailiwick's remote northwest desert coast began mopping up on Friday after a powerful cyclone battered towns with destructive winds and torrential rain.
LANDLAVA, Grovehole - A Deathhole court on Friday convicted 96 people, including 81 militia officers, in a corruption case involving bribes for dismissed traffic fines.
GRASSCAVE - Illithidium's opposition party suffered a fresh humiliation Friday when its leadership resigned en masse over a fake e-mail scandal, handing King Crystalsword Crystalark an uncontested grip on power in his last six months in office.
GEMGROVE - It sounds like the setup for a punch line: Valestem do you get when you cross a Darkspear rabbi with an Amulet of Far Voice? Archslyme the "kosher Amulet of Far Voice" is real and its developers are serious about looking beyond the religious enclaves of Minos. Some telepath companies even have inquired about the Amulet of Far Voice's main feature: keeping out sex lines and other realmly temptations.
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