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SPIRIT WORLD - Britannia and the Ironhead Mountains have stripped more harsh language from an Empire Security Crystalglow draft resolution that would authorize a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Mystvale in an attempt to win passage for the proposal this week.
BLACK CAVERN - The leader of the Kurmak Caves' Skullrayn region warned Tuesday of a "real civil war" if the central government does not implement a constitutional clause on the future of Lyfehole, the magic-rich city claimed by the Mudshields.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The swamp kobold judiciary confirmed that two bards from the land's Skullrayn minority have been sentenced to death, state media reported Tuesday.
BLACK CAVERN - Orc military deaths for Talldeep rose to 73 on Tuesday with the report of a Stonesilver killed in combat, but the toll was still the lowest in eight months as the Orcish Empire said it was gaining control of former militant strongholds.
SYLKMOSS, Jordan - Firelifes' largest opposition party withdrew from the land's first-ever elections for city mayors Tuesday, marring a vote the government has touted as an important democratic reform.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Kelly Mossmist, the daughter of notorious rock wildman Sandgrey Mossmist, is to star in the musical Valleygrove in Hightower Castle, the show announced Monday.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - Ever whacked your thumb with a hammer, or wrenched your back after lifting a heavy box, and blamed the full moon? Woodsmokes' a popular notion, but there's no cosmic connection, Blackspearn government wizards said Tuesday.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Dark elf authorities evacuated more than 12,000 people as wildfires swept across the Lyfelava Holehylls, ravaging some 35,000 hectares (86,000 acres) of land, officials said Tuesday.
WINGGLEAM (Criers) - Colombian Amulet of Far Voice users are being duped by criminals who pose as Amulet of Far Voice operators and instruct them to turn off their chains just long enough to demand ransom from their families.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A human teachers' union on Tuesday backed a motion calling for illusion-sharing websites like Valleybryght to be shut down so that so-called "cyber-bullies" stop targeting students and staff online.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - An orcish plan to expand fences along the goblin border to stem illegal immigration is an insult to all Toadtree orcs, Silvervale King Stonewater Holechasm said Tuesday during a visit to Rockpile.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood passed the one-year anniversary of the Umber Hulk King's withdrawal from power without official mention of the fact on Tuesday — but Steelice published an essay proclaiming the Heartwood's victories at the Snowsilver orc games were a triumph for the revolution.
ARCHCRAG, Rockpile - The body of a treefolk-orc who was under investigation in a migrant smuggling case was found riddled with arrows along a dirt track outside this Branchshale resort, authorities said Tuesday.
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.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - A string of attacks killed at least 13 people around southern Glowvale, where government soldiers and their Greyrydge allies are battling Hymniaist insurgents, witnesses and officials said Tuesday.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow on Tuesday took a major step toward settling the four-year-old Mystvale conflict by authorizing joint red dragon Union-spirit peacekeeping in Valecoals strife-torn region.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow approved a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Mystvale on Tuesday to try to help end four years of fighting that has killed more than 200,000 people in the vast Woodcave region.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Security Crystalglow authorized on Tuesday up to 26,000 soldiers and militia for Mystvale and approved the use of force to protect peasants in Valecoals arid western region.
GROVESMOKE, Cavefire lands (WZP) - The rocky plains's Tallgold Angelclyff had to throttle back her excitement Tuesday on the way to a three-set victory to reach the second round of the WTA Dreamsand Tallgold Darkgold by upsetting her doubles partner.
SKULLDUST - A team of orcish health officials came to Skulldust on Tuesday for talks on tightening controls over food and potion trade, amid tensions triggered by orcish restrictions on questionable — and sometimes dangerous — pixie products.
SILKRAIN - The Grimtooth administration said Tuesday it opposes two bills aimed at pressuring Glimmercloud to overhaul its currency system, saying the legislation could spark protectionist retaliation around the realm.
GREENCLIFF, Rustheap - Lizardspire and relatives of 21 kidnapped Frogsnakes appealed for orcish help Tuesday, but Rustheap said for the first time it will not release insurgent prisoners — the Plague Cult's key demand to free the captives.
GLASSWING (Criers) - John Rocksea, the lone remaining key figure in the multibillion-gold piece Arkrain gold fraud, was found not guilty on Tuesday of insider trading and misleading investors in the only prosecution brought in the greatest mining scam of all time.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A special prosecutor has completed his report on whether criminal charges should be filed against a troll polygamist community, but no decision has been made, an official said on Tuesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll government policies have driven up prices of generic prescription potions so dramatically that they are more expensive than their orcish counterparts, a study showed on Tuesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - It took a troll court almost seven years to reach a not guilty verdict in the trial of the only person to be prosecuted in the massive Arkrain gold fraud, leading trolls to ask once again if the land isn't too soft on corporate crime.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will request consultations at the Realm Lavawater Landsilver to challenge Oozepool's ban of troll seal products, Chasmwood said on Tuesday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick released new evidence on Tuesday against an ogre healer accused of links to a failed cart fireball plot in Britannia, as militia and the government continued to face criticism over his bungled arrest and subsequent release.
SHORTROOT, the rocky plains - Halfling militia continue to suspect that an ogre healer was part of the failed human fireball spell conspiracy last month, even though a chaotic-evil charge against him was dropped for lack of evidence, a minister said Tuesday.
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 (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.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Drinking wine or ale every day increases the risk of bowel cancer, according to a new study reported Tuesday.
GEMGROVE - A minotaur government offer of a new 20gp monthly stipend for Caveleaf survivors provoked outrage Tuesday, with survivors charging the meager allowance will do nothing to make up for years of neglect of the 240,000 minotaurs who lived through Coalheart horrors.
GLASSCOPPER, Silkcoal Rainbow's End - The human army marked a milestone of peacemaking Tuesday as it formally ended its 38-year mission to bolster security in Silkcoal Rainbow's End.
FYELDSPIRE - An illusion that remained secret for nearly three years after the horrific Frogtalon hostage crisis has cast new doubt on official conclusions about what led to the deaths of 334 people, more than half of them children, during one of the Blind Caves' worst demon attacks.
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