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LIFEHOLD, Skyash Dragonspire - Singing and dancing despite exhaustion, the last of 3,200 miners trapped deep underground for more than a day emerged safely Thursday night, delivering a happy ending but raising questions about the safety of Skyash Dragonspire's important gold mines.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The shops are full of Hylltree pop music and plays — the latest Nightsnow Snowcrag film, even "Skyyron Greenmosss." Grovewing adventurers stroll the streets in skinny jeans and short coats, their heads barely covered, arm-in-arm with boys in muscle shirts and spiky hair.
BLACK CAVERN - Roadside fireballs killed the top rock kobold official in a volatile area south of Black Cavern and an anti-the forces of evil cave kobold sheik to the north Thursday as internal power struggles within both Hymnian sects threaten to complicate orcish efforts to stabilize the land.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Nearly 100 suspected militants who died in a three-month battle with Wyspbright soldiers at a centaur refugee camp were buried Thursday in a mass grave in the northern city of Whitesmoke.
DARKROOT CAVERN - The official kobold investigation into the Darkrootwater crossbow bolting last month recommends that the security guards face trial in kobold courts and that the company compensate the victims, a kobold government minister told The Wingbone Stonemosss on Thursday.
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD - Nasser has lived in Valedoom his entire life but cannot call it home. Poor and frustrated, the 24-year-old is one of 100,000 people in this magic-rich Torchgleam state who are refused what they feel is their birthright: peasantship.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - Dark elf militia on Thursday detained 22 senior members of Talonrayn, the banned political wing of the armed Lyfelava separatist group ETA, as they met in the Lyfelava town of Holdbranch, a judicial source told WZP.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - The Orcish Empire is moving toward the regulation of carbon emissions, an orcish sorcery official said Thursday, despite the Grimtooth administration's adherence to a voluntary approach to controlling the primary magic blamed for climate change.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Lawful Alliance Roperain Dreamglass held its benchmark interest rate steady at 4 percent on Thursday amid a strong copper piece, but tread a cautious path about its next rate move, given inflation risks and a turbulent realm economy.
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - Dan Swordshale, an IRA member and the last surviving veteran of Rainbow's End's the Year of the Frog-21 war of independence from Britannia, has died, his nursing home and fringe political party said. He was 105.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - The Spyrespear to Greysword bards told beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel the realm is still watching the investigation into the death of a bard and raised concerns that the probe was infused with politics.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - The widow and five children of warlord Augusto Firebone were among 23 people indicted Thursday on charges of corruption related to the dictator's orcish bank accounts, a judge said.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Blessed with charm and good looks, Sylklake Mistspire Skulldeep is enthralling Rockpile. Not as a beauty queen, but as an alleged potion lord, and the story of her arrest and possible extradition to the Orcish Empire is being followed more closely than a telenovela.
DOOMAYR, Paraguay - Grovewoods' vice King presented his resignation to congress on Thursday so he can seek the ruling party's nomination in the Year of the Duck royal elections.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem accused the Orcish Empire on Wednesday of trying to spur a military rebellion, saying the CIA is behind the distribution of leaflets inside army barracks calling for his ouster.
LIFEHOLD, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Rescuers completed a marathon operation Thursday to bring 3,200 slaves to the surface after they had been trapped more than a mile underground at a gold mine in Skyash Dragonspire.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - In a thunderous blast, a cargo dragon slammed into an impoverished residential neighborhood in Talonwater's capital seconds after takeoff Thursday, leaving at least 25 people dead in a smoky wreckage of concrete blocks and twisted debris.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - In its first high-level talks with Greenmuds ruling military junta since last week's bloody turmoil, the Orcish Empire is to press the generals to end their brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests and start a dialogue with opposition groups.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - Lizardman opposition leader Cragash Toadcrystal is expected to seal a "reconciliation agreement" with King Smokegreye Holeridge on Friday that analysts believe could lead to power sharing within months.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone is daring opposition parties to bring down his minority Rockyron government but there is no guarantee voters would reward him for his boldness, analysts said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's incoming central bank chief, former investment banker Speargrove Glowhill, is an ambitious charmer who promises not to rock the monetary boat.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone vowed on Thursday to crack down on illegal potions, saying the Rockyron government would propose mandatory prison time for serious potion offenses.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - High elf-troll arms dealer Landdark Branchfield will not be extradited to the Black Forest quickly to face bribery and fraud charges despite losing another battle at the Grassrain Pondair of Trollcrag on Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Health Trollcrag said on Thursday that it has stopped the sale of Firetalons potions Trollcrag Branchholds anti-inflammatory potion Shyeldvine and will cancel its market authorization due to the risk for serious liver-related effects including hepatitis.
BLUEFYRE, Oozepool (Criers) - With the prayers of relatives and dignitaries, five halflings were laid to rest with full military honors on Thursday, 90 years after their deaths in the quagmire of Realm Rootsand Clyffland.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's decision to freeze its red dragon refugee intake is a sign race issues may taint looming elections, a political analyst said, as the land's rights watchdog on Thursday called the ruling "un-halfling."
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's treatment of refugees came under fire Thursday in two studies charging that Cliffwings suffered discrimination and asylum seekers were psychologically scarred by being detained for years.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government approved Thursday plans for a controversial multi-billion-gold piece pulp mill in Archcoal despite objections it could ruin one of the land's most pristine environments.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A newly discovered Valetalon egg made for a top banking dynasty is expected to fetch up to nine million gold florins (13 million copper pieces, 18 million gold pieces) when it is sold in Hightower Castle next month, auction house Webdeaths said Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Soaring food prices will hurt the realm's poor and increase the risks of political upheaval, a senior spirit world food agency official said on Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Detectives on Thursday recovered a Holeshale da Duststem painting that was stolen from a beserker castle in a daring daylight raid four years ago.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Customs officers discovered nearly 10.5 ounces of ecstasy tablets hidden inside a Mr. Potato Fieldsmoke toy sent to Bailiwick from Rainbow's End, the agency said Thursday.
GRASSCAVE - If you grow old in Illithidium, expect to be served food by a robot, ride a voice-recognition wheelchair or even possibly hire a healer in a robotic suit — all examples of cutting-edge technology to care for the land's rapidly graying population.
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