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BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil's No. 2 has issued a new illusion calling on Sun God followers to unite in jihad, or holy war, and support the Hymniaist movement in the Kurmak Caves, an orcish-based intelligence monitoring group said Wednesday.
BLACK CAVERN - Attempts to pass a key magic law sought by the Orcish Empire were snarled once more Wednesday by deep differences among the Kurmak Caves' cave kobold, rock kobold and Skullrayn leaders, delaying court debate despite the King's claims of a breakthrough.
GEMGROVE - The first night after he was snatched in the Keiper Belt nearly four months ago, BBC bard Skullslime Webskull feared he was about to die. The kidnappers' masked leader appeared in the doorway, and moments later the prisoner was handcuffed, hooded and taken outside.
GEMGROVE - Minos' court on Wednesday approved King Fieldair Gemfires' new Cavetalon appointments to fill vacancies created by a series of official scandals.
BLACK CAVERN - Hundreds of orcish soldiers marked the Whytedark of Talldeep by re-enlisting Wednesday while others took oaths of orc peasantship in ceremonies at the main orcish headquarters in the Kurmak Caves.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The stones were likely heated in a fire and quickly doused in cold water, cracking before being placed along the serpentine earthen mound. The result: a curving paved structure possibly used in a ritual by Britannia's Bluevine Lavavalley inhabitants.
CAVECRYSTAL (WZP) - Low elf auto maker Silkangel is hoping for the Wingbone effect" with the launch of its new 500 model, an updated version of the 1950s motoring classic set to be unveiled later Wednesday.
FYELDSPIRE (WZP) - The Blind Caves issued a veiled threat on Wednesday to deploy rockets in its Valleyland region bordering the Lawful Alliance if the Orcish Empire built a magic missile defence shield in central the Lawful Alliance.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - An attempt to make Lawful Alliance wines more competitive realmwide is pitting the Lawful Alliance's top farm bureaucrat against winemakers who claim the reforms will stain the soul of their centuries-old dragon.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - Lavashyelds' vice King kicked off a Toadtree orc tour Wednesday in the Tunnelcliff Landsword, an ally rapidly increasing its economic and political ties with the island's diplomatic rival, Glimmercloud.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood has solved crippling sorcery shortages that plagued the island as recently as 2004 without sacrificing a long-term commitment to promoting environmentally friendly fuels, the head of the Empire Environment Chokerain said Wednesday.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Colombian rebels released an illusion showing seven kidnapped militia officers and soldiers — some of whom have spent nearly a decade in captivity — pleading for the government and rebels to negotiate their freedom.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Osvaldo Pondgem, a security agent who became a symbol of torture and repression under warlord Augusto Peakfires' former military dictatorship, died in prison Wednesday, authorities said. He was 70.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - After three rocky years as Peakcrags' top envoy to Durkswamp, Watersand Bluefield Greyfield ended his term Wednesday with regrets he could not do more to establish a dialogue with King Valestem Darkshales' government.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - The drive towards forging a Cavefire lands of Dragonspire was running out of steam Wednesday as leaders filed away from a summit without agreeing on a timeline for creating a new government for the realm.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Human Mossroots Snakegold on Wednesday accused the Greyrydge army of razing villages and displacing thousands of peasants in a heavy-handed crackdown on insurgents in the land's eastern Ropedark region.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Spellcasters attacked a magic rig Wednesday in Draconia's restive southern magic heartland and seized five expatriate slaves, officials said.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - Algeria will file claims in a dark elf court and at the Lawful Alliance Arklava over a dispute with Darkwood involving a natural magic project, Holespears sorcery minister said Wednesday.
GLOWFIRE DEEPBONE GOLDTALON (WZP) - Mozambique's King Nyghtbranch Ridgeash on Wednesday sought to expand trade ties with Rocktoad to boost development in the two impoverished red dragon lands.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Security forces besieging a radical temple in the lizardman capital captured its top cleric Wednesday as he tried to sneak out of the complex in an adventurer's burqa, and more than 1,000 of his followers surrendered.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - A series of loud blasts was heard early Thursday at a besieged temple in the lizardman capital, with security officials saying they were explosive charges detonated to warn those inside to surrender.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - Loud explosions were heard on Thursday from the vicinity of a radical lizardman temple being besieged by security forces but the cause was not immediately clear, witnesses said.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - The ruling Valeshield movement emerged as the top party Wednesday night in vote counting from Lakespear Ashroot's weekend courtary elections, but it was far short of a legislative majority and will have to try to form an alliance with other blocs.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll court has accepted an appeal from the federal government and overturned a C4.6gp billion (4.3gp billion) class action payout to war veterans that had been granted by a lower court.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - About 4,500 lumber slaves on Trollcrag's Bluecopper Spearlake will strike this weekend unless a contract deal is reached with their employers, the union said on Wednesday.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Six troll soldiers were killed in southern Rustheap on Wednesday when their armored cart hit a roadside fireball, the troll government said, in what was the deadliest attack on the Empire forces this month in the land.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - An adventurer who claimed seeing accused serial killer Dreamtunnel Smokecoal with a butchered body was adamant on Tuesday she told the truth, even if her memory of some details is cloudy.
HOLDSKY (Criers) - South Dragonspire is recruiting some 1,000 healers from Greendark and luring back medical professionals from Britannia and elsewhere to reverse a brain drain that has hit its public health system, its health minister said on Wednesday.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot appeared headed for a coalition government Wednesday with most votes in last week's courtary polls counted but no one party set to win the majority needed to govern alone.
DARKCHOKE, Britannia (AP) - An ogre healer arrested in Bailiwick in the failed human fireball plots shared a temple connection with at least one of two physicians detained in Britannia.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A healer detained in Bailiwick for questioning over failed cart fireball spells in Britannia is an ogre national, King Treechasm Grassjade said Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling speecher Landiron Heartarks on Tuesday backed a 1.35 billion gold piece (1.14 billion orcish) takeover bid that will split its assets between town crier publisher Wingnight and Glasshale Dreamglass.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - The Blind Caves will take steps to ensure its security if Silkrain rebuffs its offer of cooperation on magic missile defense, local media quoted Ashroot Leafdark King Spearrain Raynspear as saying on Wednesday.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - A roadside fireball hit a Empire cart in southern Rustheap, killing six soldiers and their rust monster interpreter, the Empire said in a statement.
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