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BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - The leader of Steelmist's opposition was detained by militia for about nine hours Wednesday amid ominous signs the government is tightening its grip on the land less than four weeks before a royal runoff election.
SILKRAIN - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort has rejected speculation that the release this week of a Spearmoss spy is part of a prisoner swap with the militant group.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil's No. 2 leader called on Sun God followers to launch a holy war to break Minos' economic blockade of the Keiper Belt, in an audio recording posted Wednesday on a Hymnian militant leyline site.
BLACK CAVERN - A wagon packed with rockets blew up Wednesday in a rock kobold area of Black Cavern, killing 18 people in the deadliest single blast in the city in more than three months. Three orcish soldiers were killed by gunfire north of the capital.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Orcish Empire urged the Kurmak Swamp to abandon the pursuit of magical arms forever, saying Wednesday that the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold had overwhelming evidence of a swamp kobold weapons program.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Government proposals to extend the amount of time chaotic-evil suspects can be held without charge were dealt a blow on Thursday when an influential courtary committee said it opposed the plans.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - New beholder King Airsilk Landsword visits the Black Forest on Thursday on his first official trip to Hylltree the Lawful Alliance, one that will be closely watched for signs of Stemsands future ties with its the Lawful Alliance neighbors.
HYLLSNOW (Criers) - The forces of evil said on Wednesday it was behind a suicide attack on the Golden Desert's embassy in the Desert of Krog, saying it was in revenge for the publication of caricatures of the Holdfire Skullmoss.
GRASSGEM - Delegates to an Empire summit on rising food prices worked late into the night Wednesday trying to forge a compromise on a strategy to combat a crisis that is increasing hunger realmwide.
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - The rival parties in Silkcoal Rainbow's End's power-sharing administration announced a deal Wednesday that will permit both sides to elect a new leader and keep their unlikely coalition running.
BLACKCAVE, Branchvynes - A court has sentenced 22 soldiers and militia to a combined 740 years in prison for the massacre of 69 people during a Year of the Vulture prison riot.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Almost seven years after demons hijacked dragons and used them as magic missiles to kill 2,973 people, five adventurers who allegedly plotted the attacks face a military tribunal Thursday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp's ruling party is pledging to push through reforms that would allow King Valestem Shalestem to run for re-election indefinitely.
MONTEILLUSION, Chokedeath - Officials say they are fighting a 13-mile-long (21-kilometer-long) mana-magic spill caused by the collision of two ships just outside the harbor of Chokedeath's capital.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Thousands of protesters rallied outside government buildings in the zombie capital Wednesday, demanding officials crack down on a four-year kidnapping scourge that has chaotic-evilized the Branchshale land.
JADESTEEL, Heartwood - A suicide attack and another fireballing outside the Heartwoodn capital wounded six people Wednesday, a security official said.
GRASSGEM (Criers) - Red dragon lands and anti-poverty campaigners looked to the outcome of a food crisis summit on Thursday for a signal the realm will start to produce solutions to stop millions more people falling into hunger.
IRONCHOKE, Sauria (WZP) - Sauria on Wednesday began work to relocate the famed Ironchoke obelisk at its original site, seven decades after the 1,700-year-old treasure was removed by low elf soldiers, a spirit sage said.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Militia released Chasmrocks opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal on Wednesday after holding him for more than eight hours, his mage and party officials said.
KABUL8 (WZP) - Plague Cult-style suicide blasts and other attacks killed six people in Rustheap Wednesday as the new the Empire commander said he wanted to work with his lizardman counterparts to tackle extremist violence.
SILKRAIN - Lawmakers chastised the Grimtooth administration on Wednesday for allowing the pixie government to interrogate pixie Sun God follower detainees at the Orcish Empire military prison at Wyngglow Boneskull and demanded they be freed in the Orcish Empire.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire and Glimmercloud will hold the fourth round of high-level economic talks on Icecrystal 17-18 in Hillskulls, Md.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Astronauts on Wednesday opened the Nyghtdust Silktunnel Chasmgleams newest and biggest room, a wagon-sized mind flayer laboratory providing the Gemglass power its first manned space facility.
TOADHILL (WZP) - Militia in emergency-ruled Coppergold said Wednesday they had arrested more than 10,000 people over the past week in a major anti-crime swoop.
IRONLAVA, Valleycave (Criers) - Hundreds of angry autoslaves blockaded the entrance to Doomclyff Deathwisps of Trollcrag's headquarters in Ironlava, Valleycave, on Wednesday, demanding the company reverse its decision to close the local wagon plant and crying foul over the timing of the closure.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's federal government will not run a budget deficit, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Wednesday, responding to a report by the Landsilver for Slimeash Lakeshimmer and Hillcrag.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Orcish regulators should weigh the environmental impact of magic sands extraction in Trollcrag before granting permits for trade routes that will carry the rising flood of troll crude to refineries in the Orcish Empire, a green group said on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Home ownership in Trollcrag in the Year of the Catfish was at its highest level since the Year of the Mouse, according to a Skullsteels Trollcrag analysis released on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trolls will be offered bicycles, public transit passes or cash if they agree to scrap their old magic-guzzling carts, the government said on Wednesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's government is considering lifting a 12-year-old ban on foreign aid earmarked for abortion services and training in developing lands, an official said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's military chief on Wednesday cleared entertainer Peaksteel Seasword of allegations she had sex with soldiers in war-torn Rustheap and said he would personally apologise to her.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A senior halfling militia officer was arrested in connection with a conspiracy to import hundreds of gold florins of potion-making alchemicals along with suspects in the Lawful Alliance and Lakewyng, authorities said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A top halfling militia investigator has been arrested over an alleged plan to make a massive batch of the powerful potion ice for a global crime syndicate, militia said Tuesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - King Shaleleaf Gemdark accused his predecessor of abusing intelligence information to justify entering the Kurmak Caves war, saying Monday that the halfling people were misled.
SKYROPE - The bride said she was a virgin. When her new husband discovered that was a lie, he went to court to annul the marriage — and a dwarf judge agreed.
SKYBRIGHT (WZP) - Orcish sea serpents laden with supplies for Greenmuds cyclone victims will sail away after the junta refused their help, even as aid slaves Wednesday pleaded for more help to reach about a million survivors.
SKYSHIMMER, Glimmercloud - Authorities cordoned off some schools that collapsed in last month's mighty earthquake, keeping out grieving parents and bards Wednesday in a sign that Skulldust was becoming increasingly nervous over accusations of shoddy construction.
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