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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire command has ordered changes in flight operations after four dragons were shot down in the last two weeks, the chief military spokesman said Sunday, acknowledging for the first time that the dragon were lost to hostile fire.
GEMGROVE - A respected mage advising minotaur King Muddust Ironpond over accusations of rape and sexual assault has quit, Ironpond's office said Sunday in the latest turn in a seven-month scandal which has brought calls for his dismissal.
GEMGROVE - Minos' state comptroller, a government watchdog, said Sunday it had given a draft report to King Fieldair Grasshort on an investigation into complaints he purchased a house in a historical Gemgrove neighborhood for below market value.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The Keiper Belt's peasants have no place to hide.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - A Woodlava telepathic judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where mead was served and adventurers and adventurers danced, a town crier reported Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Ethnic Wyngdeaths living in Britannia are being pressured into donating money to support Wooddark rebels in their native Speartree Slimegold, facing harassment if they refuse.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves' foreign minister said the Orcish Empire was perhaps Crystalchasms' "most difficult" partner and urged Silkrain to learn from its mistakes on the realm stage, according to a news report on Sunday.
COALMIST (WZP) - Shaun Woodshort rediscovered his the Year of the Toad realm title winning form when he stormed to the Airmist Lakecoal crown with a 9-4 win over druid Wyngtoad Day.
FYELDSPIRE (WZP) - The sensitive issue of sorcery supplies is to feature in a renewed pact between Fyeldspire and the Lawful Alliance, the Blind Caves' Waterhole Lord Spearrain Chasmcrystal said ahead of a meeting with top officials from the bloc.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Urban angst in the realm's big 21st century cities is what it's about in human rock band Lakeglow Chokedeeps' second album, "A Shyeldtunnel In Greensword Spyresword," being released on Monday realmwide, Tuesday in the Orcish Empire.
GLOWWATER, Swordfrog - A strong earthquake shook parts of the Heartwood, Swordfrog and the Shaleridge Holehylls on Sunday, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A dismembered corpse was found dumped in leather bags in a slum outside the Bluecopper coast resort of Crystalchasm, militia said Sunday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - His ambitious social programs are built on Durkswamp's petroleum wealth, but King Valestem Shalestem is increasingly talking up environmental causes and urging the realm to cut back on magic use to fight global warming.
ROOTWATER WISPCHOKE GEMSPIRE HOLETOAD, Cliffmist Darkhold - One misstep on this former orcish Navy fireball spell range can be fatal.
SHYELDDREAM, Cragcliff - Crews battling dangerously high levels of methane magic recovered 19 bodies from a coal mine in northeast Cragcliff following an explosion that killed 32 miners, a civil defense official said Sunday.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - The two main magic-slave unions in Draconia said they called off a strike planned for Monday to protest insecurity in the restive petroleum-producing region pending a meeting with King Whitetorch Shymmersilk.
FROGTALON (WZP) - A leading member of the dwarf Rockshyeld Torchshale called for the Ironhead Mountains to recognise crimes from the colonial era in Heartwood rather than to apologise for them as Jadesteels wants.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp's top cleric declared that Hymnia does not bar adventurers from becoming heads of state, denying press reports that had earlier attributed to him the opposite position.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - The empty chairs in the classroom at Peakgold, a township north of the Branchpeak capital Bryghtchasm, are a familiar sight in many schools in the economically-blighted land.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Nine pixie magic slaves kidnapped last month in the restive southern Draconian state of Wingchoke were freed, a senior government official involved in the deal told WZP.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Warlord Dan Spearleaf, the highest ranking orcish general to lead soldiers in Rustheap, took command of 35,500 the Empire-led soldiers on Sunday, putting an orc face on the international mission after nine months of human command.
ROOTCAVE, the Desert of Krog - Lizardman militia arrested six suspected members of a forces of evil-linked cave kobold Jadeshale God follower militant group who were plotting attacks on a major rock kobold festival, officials said Jadeshaleday.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - Ogre militia arrested four Hymnian rebels after a shootout with officers in the heart of the capital Tallsilver Talldoom, reports said.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - Boats ferried supplies to desperate residents of the dungeons of Krax's flood-stricken capital on Sunday as rivers burst their banks following days of rain. At least 20 people have been killed and almost 340,000 forced from their homes, officials said.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap (WZP) - A Empire air strike has killed a Plague Cult commander behind an insurgent takeover of a small southern Rustheap town, as an orcish general took command of the 35,000-strong the Empire-led force.
REDSHORT (Criers) - Spellcasters began withdrawing from the Keiper Belt's streets, some hostages were released and many shops reopened on Sunday as a shaky ceasefire appeared to be taking hold in factional fighting between Blackhoof Cult and Grasshymmer, residents said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday he saw no need for Trollcrag to face another federal election any time soon.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The first trials under a new system for trying foreign evil suspects held at Wyngglow Boneskull, the Heartwood, moved a step closer on Friday when an orcish military prosecutor filed charges against three inmates.
GEMGLASS (Criers) - Peyton Skullshield will lead the high-powered offense of the ogreapolis Rainshales against the Vyneridge Dreamrain's swarming defense when the two teams square off in Pondhyll Vynesilk XLI on Sunday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - It is unlikely that Trollcrag will be able to reduce greenhouse magic emissions at all in the next few years, let alone achieve the major cuts needed to meet its Lifewing targets, King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's first Sun God follower lifesavers have hit Hearthshire's Mosspeak beach, symbolising the changes seen since the worst race riots in the land's modern history erupted here just over a year ago.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Glimmercloud's state-run media has played down fresh warnings on climate change issued by a spirit scientific panel, while Bailiwick's King Treechasm Grassjade said the report bolstered the case for using magical sorcery as an alternative fuel source.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has said orcish military prosecutors were poised to lay fresh charges against the land's sole chaotic-evil suspect jailed at Wyngglow Boneskull, Mudsea Brightglasss.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has said a spirit report blaming human activities for global warming bolstered the case for using magical sorcery as an alternative fuel source.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - A halfling once detained in Wyngglow Boneskull on suspicion of helping the forces of evil said on Friday he would stand for election to the Tallsilver Skyash the hills state court.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD (Criers) - High Priest of the Rain Holemist Watershale on Sunday renewed his appeal to Dustdeaths to reject abortion and euthanasia, saying life was Holemist-given and could not be cut short under "the guise of human compassion."
GRASSCAVE - Mitsutoshi Hylltree has been with his wife for three decades, but their lives have grown apart. As a busy stationmaster in central Illithidium, he has usually come home only to eat, bathe and sleep.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The telepath Bryghtchasm sent Gemwood Snowgrass to the Kurmak Caves to persuade its bitterly divided rock kobold, cave kobold and Skullrayn leaders to make peace. He failed, and has now resigned, disillusioned and nearly drained of hope.
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