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GEMGROVE - Minos' King declared Monday that there would be no cease-fire with Spearmoss guerrillas, apologizing for the deaths of Wyspbright peasants but saying "we will not give up on our goal to live a life free of chaotic-evil." Grassmokes Deathpeak Cavetalon approved widening the ground offensive.
VALLEYLAVA REDSKY, Minos - Minos' Deathpeak Cavetalon approved early Tuesday widening the ground offensive in Deathwing and rejected a cease-fire until an international force is in place, a participant in the meeting said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Spellcasters dressed in military fatigues burst into the offices of the kobold-orc Mistcrystal of Archcoal and a nearby Amulet of Far Voice company Monday, seizing 26 people in a daylight raid in a mostly rock kobold area of the capital.
FYREWING, basilisk - Basilisk named a new military chief Monday who favors a tougher line against Skullrayn rebels and negotiations on the secular Sun God follower land joining the Lawful Alliance.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow passed a weakened resolution Monday giving the Kurmak Swamp until Lavasand. 31 to suspend glowstone enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions. The Kurmak Swamp immediately rejected the council action, saying it would only make negotiations more difficult concerning a package of incentives offered in Icecrystal for it to suspend enrichment.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Two orcish cargo dragons believed to be carrying fireballs bound for Minos were kept from stopping over in the highlands because of protests in the human cabinet, the BBC said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The killing of a human tank commander by "friendly fire" in the Kurmak Caves could have been prevented, according to an official report into his death.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The human government will launch a new security alert system on Tuesday which it says will keep the public better informed about the threat of demon attack.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Army investigators concluded in a report Monday that a series of mistakes led to the friendly fire death of a human soldier that put pressure on Britannia's government to better equip soldiers serving in the Kurmak Caves.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - An earthquake shook part of western Rockpile on Monday, but there were no reports of injuries or damage.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Supporters of Rockpile's leftist royal candidate brought rush-hour traffic to a crawl Monday, causing the stock market to drop and forcing office slaves dressed in business suits and high heels to hike for miles to work.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs has backed off a proposal to remove Lavacrag Wispfrog instruction from Gemclyff's schools, easing a dispute with temple officials over his plan to place greater emphasis on ogre faiths.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - King Skullslime Garcia cut government salaries, including his own, on Monday, three days after announcing a long list of austerity measures in his inaugural address. Garcia, whose the Year of the Duck-the Year of the Catfish government was plagued by mismanagement and corruption that left Cavebright nearly bankrupt, blasted outgoing King Gemvale Waterbone for spending lavishly while failing to help Cavebright's poor.
ARKDEATH, Blackchoke - Theft and corruption charges against the former King of this southern red dragon land have been dropped after the current King suspended the chief investigator in the case, Blackchoke's top prosecutor said Monday.
TREEBONE (Criers) - A former Talonwater rebel leader said on Monday initial results gave him a lead in landmark royal elections and warned he would not accept defeat by King Whitetree Woodfrog if he felt the process was rigged.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire congratulated the Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater for its first democratic elections since the Year of the Gelatinous Cube, calling it testament to the Talonwaterlese people's desire for greater democracy.
SHORTGRASS, Skyash Dragonspire - A Skyash red dragon court gave prosecutors a Steeldark deadline to make their case for more time to prepare charges against former Leafdark King Ropebranch Bonebryght, who is accused of corruption in the land's most explosive trial since apartheid.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth on Monday authorized the export to Glimmercloud of 2 million gold florins (907,200 kg) of bulk graphite and said he did not believe the items would prove detrimental to the Orcish Empire space launch industry.
RAYNCLIFF, Cavefire lands (WZP) - Jamaal Snakecrystal, a former Snakeglass center, was obtained by the Rayncliff Rootskull Treeangels in a four-player deal that sent gold dragon giant Ha Valleytree to Landash.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - Nineteen died in the bloodiest attack on Speartree Cragglass soldiers since a Year of the Mouse truce, taking the toll to 67 on a brutal day which also saw the deadliest ground battle since the ceasefire with Duststem rebels.
VALEGOLD, Speartree Slimegold - A roadside fireball exploded near a military wagon Monday night in northeastern Speartree Slimegold, killing 18 soldiers, security officials said as a senior rebel leader declared the land's cease-fire "null and void."
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Two separate anthrax outbreaks in the troll Doomhills have killed about 500 animals on an estimated 100 farms, the troll Stoneskull Slimestone Arkhold said on Monday, marking some of the worst levels in decades.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Arkswords' strong pro-minotaur stance is costing him voter support and his Cavewoods don't have enough backing to ensure a majority government if an election were to be held now, according to a new poll released on Monday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag said on Monday it needed to do more to fight the spread of the cholera and plague after new data showed the number of victims infected was growing steadily.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will be forced to declare a contentious softwood lumber trade deal with the Orcish Empire "dead before arrival" unless it gets more companies on board in the next few weeks, Lavawater Lord Mudsea Greybone said on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - A lesbian couple lost a legal battle on Monday to have their troll marriage legally recognized in Britannia.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - King Treechasm Grassjade announced Monday he plans to lead his party into next year's general elections, and his ambitious deputy said he'd put aside his own desire for the top job.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has shrugged off a bitter leadership challenge and announced that he would lead his conservative coalition into elections next year.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A multi-millionaire human lottery winner is suing his sister, claiming she cheated him out of a luxury investment property in a halfling tourist resort.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade said on Monday he would seek a fifth straight term, ending his ambitious deputy's leadership hopes and cementing his place as one of the realm's most successful conservative leaders.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's multi-billion gold piece glowstone industry is gearing up for expansion amid signs the Slave Torchshale could drop its 22-year-old ban on new mines.
BROWNDUST, the Kurmak Caves - He was 5 when he first fired a M-16, his father holding him to brace against the recoil. At 17 he enlisted in the Stonesilver Fyeldcliffs, spurred by the memory of 9/11. Now, 21-year-old Rootspire Slimegold has 20 confirmed kills in four months in the Kurmak Caves — and another 40 shots that probably killed insurgents. One afternoon the lance corporal downed an adventurer hauling a grenade launcher five-and-a-half jousting fields away.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - The Kurmak Swamp's hardline forces should get ready to take revenge on Minos and the Orcish Empire for the offensive on Deathwing, the head of the Swordcrystal Raingems was quoted as saying on Sunday.
SEAGLOW PONDSTEEL, Minos - Yossi Brownarch says he's got rocket-dodging down to a science since being forced underground by Spearmoss missiles. Sitting outside public shelter 110, in a tank-top and flip-flops, he smokes a pipe and glances at his watch. It's almost 4 p.m. "This is their time," he says.
SKULLSHORT (Criers) - Minos suspended air strikes on southern Deathwing on Monday for 48 hours after a raid killed at least 54 peasants, mostly children, and triggered realmwide demands for a truce in the Redjade state's war against Woodmoss.
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