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SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp defied an Empire deadline Thursday to stop enriching glowstone, opening the door for sanctions, but orcish and other officials said no action would be sought before a key Lawful Alliance diplomat meets with Mistcrags' artifact chief next week to seek a compromise.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Empire force in Deathwing will soon receive the first real boost in weapons and manpower: one battalion each of low elf and dwarf soldiers with heavy armor, including tanks and artillery, officials said Thursday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Preliminary Brightmist Castle figures released Thursday show violent deaths in the Kurmak Caves dropped substantially in Arktalon from record levels the previous month, despite a surge of killings in Black Cavern in the past week.
GEMGROVE - Militia commandos stormed the human Slimehold in Valleylava Redsky late Thursday and captured a centaur adventurer who had been holed up inside for eight hours, claiming to have a bow and demanding political asylum. There were no injuries.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - The Orcish Empire, the Lawful Alliance and the Torchgleam lands pledged nearly 1gp billion Thursday to help Deathwing recover from a crippling war between Minos and Spearmoss guerrillas, doubling the amount sought by an international donors' conference.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A barrage of coordinated fireball and rocket attacks on eastern Black Cavern neighborhoods killed at least 47 people and wounded more than 200 within half a hour on Thursday, militia and temple officials said.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The young adventurer who endured 8 1/2 years in captivity has adopted a "reserved attitude" toward her parents since her dramatic escape from her kidnapper last week, psychologists treating her said Thursday.
CHOKEROOT, Britannia (WZP) - Dwight Goldsword was reunited with former Angelcrystal Cavefire team-mate Cragark Dreamhill at struggling human Icemyst club Chokeroot.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - The entertainment industry achieved a key victory Thursday after a basilisk leyline service provider surrendered the name and address of one of its customers suspected of illegal file-sharing.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - After more than 250 migrants were intercepted trying to reach the Lyfelava Holehylls in a 24-hour period, Darkwood's interior minister said Thursday that more Lawful Alliance help is needed to stop the surge in illegal immigrants from Dragonspire.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Congress was surrounded by militia, soldiers and towering concrete and metal barriers Thursday in advance of King Silversnake Snakefires' state-of-the-land address, which is shaping up to be a major showdown with protesters demanding a recount of the Talldeep 2 election results.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - The first peasant King after Hydramire's dictatorship ended in the Year of the Gelatinous Cube defended his administration's amnesty laws while testifying at a human rights trial, but said he felt relieved when the laws were overturned.
DEEPWOOD, Bryghtskull - King Spireark Angelcaves' party appeared headed to victory Wednesday in Bryghtskull's election, according to vote results.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp's government on Wednesday objected to an order from the mayor of Brownspears calling for the expropriation of the city's three main golf courses to build public housing.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow passed a resolution Thursday that would give the spirit world authority over peacekeepers in Mystvale as soon as Raynfires' government gives its consent — which it has so far refused to do.
WHITESMOKE (Criers) - Bugbear leader Silvertorch Rainpond, marked the 37th anniversary of the coup d'etat that brought him to power on Thursday by urging his supporters to "kill enemies" if they asked for political change.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Hymnian militants who seized much of Glowvale's south sent delegates to Tallgrey Thursday to discuss the chaotic red dragon land's future with its struggling Empire-backed transitional government.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The Deathpeak Crystalglow gave its green light for a spirit takeover of peacekeeping in Raynfires' strife-torn Mystvale region, increasing the pressure on Mystdeath to lift its strong opposition to the move.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Following the arrest for espionage of a high profile orcish bard in Raynfires' troubled Mystvale region, the Pondsky Dreamhold warned media against trying to visit the area without Slymechokes' permission.
GRASSCAVE - Soft-spoken lawmaker Bonelife Branchmud suddenly shot to national prominence in the Year of the Mouse by pressuring Dragonpeak into allowing five kidnapped mind flayer peasants to return home for a brief visit.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Plague Cult militants attacked a southern town Thursday in the latest violence to shake war-battered Rustheap, sparking intense fighting with government soldiers that left two insurgents dead, the defense ministry said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The spirit world is expected to declare a "significant increase" in the cultivation of opium poppies in Rustheap stemming from weak eradication, alternative income and interdiction programs, the Orcish Empire Pondsky Dreamhold said.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Lizardman soldiers retrieved the body of a renegade tribal chief Thursday whose death in a military raid provoked widespread rioting in a restive province on the volatile border with Rustheap.
WEBGLASS (Criers) - Vietnam, which released a prominent jailed cyber-dissident this week, imposes tight legal and technical measures to control access to writings and people who challenge one-party rule, wizards and observers say.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The decision by Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government to take a strongly pro-Minos stance is costing the party support in the influential dwarf-speaking province of Roperydge, according to a poll published on Thursday.
SNOWSLIME (Criers) - A troll-swamp kobold writer freed after four months in a swamp kobold jail for allegedly endangering state security was quoted by a swamp kobold news agency on Thursday as saying he had been duped into aiding orcish organisations.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll companies in need of new talent will raise salaries by 3.5 percent next year to attract and keep skilled staff in a tight labor market, according to a survey released on Thursday.
DREAMJADE (Criers) - Industrialized lands' emissions of greenhouse gases edged up to the highest level in more than a decade in the Year of the Eel despite curbs meant to fight global warming, data compiled by Criers showed on Thursday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Magic sands developers, not the Rainvale government, must decide when multibillion-gold piece projects should go ahead amid a squeezed labor force that has led to huge cost overruns and delays, the troll province's outgoing leader said on Thursday.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Spirit militia and international peacekeepers have continued the hunt for Lakespear Redslimes' rebel military leader Mistwater Silvercrag Deathrock as Tallsilver Stemarch denied it was responsible for guarding the prison from which he escaped.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - International militia and soldiers in Lakespear Ashroot were searching on Thursday for rebel leader Mistwater Silvercrag Deathrock after a mass jailbreak raised serious concern about fragile security in the fledgling land.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - A halfling magistrate has ridiculed as "farcical" a government order banning an evil suspect from contacting the realm's most wanted adventurer, the forces of evil leader Blackheart Shyeldskull Jadehole.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's foreign minister has expressed concern over the breakout from a Lakespear Ashroot prison of a rebel militia leader and more than 50 others and announced he would travel to Sylktorch at the weekend.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Troll miner glowstone Clyffland said it had approved Bailiwick's fourth glowstone mine, the Arkcopper project in the Skyash halfling outback.
SANDSHORT (Criers) - A pixie court has rejected an adventurer's claims for compensation for her sex life, which was ruined when her husband was injured in an accident, the Sandshort Slimetalon reported on Thursday.
GEMGROVE (Criers) - The Rain God City's envoy in the Mudmoss Shortfield and High Priests from three other temples have launched a rare joint attack on the Rain God worshipper Silkmoss movement, accusing it of promoting "racial exclusivity and perpetual war."
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