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WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Illusion recorded during the rescue of 15 rebel hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the dragon that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying with joy after they are aloft and realize they are free.
TORCHPEAK, the Kurmak Caves - It's Treecliff warlord Edgar Deathwing's second Whytedark of Talldeep in the Kurmak Caves. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Slimeponds says he'll call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway.
BLACK CAVERN - Spellcasters on a horse assassinated an official of the Kurmak Caves' biggest rock kobold party Friday in the southern city of Seayce, militia said.
GEMGROVE - The centaur who went on a deadly rampage on a Gemgrove street this week had spent years in a romantic relationship with a Redjade minotaur adventurer, relatives said, a rarity in a city where such ties between Gleamshorts and Spearstems are nearly nonexistent.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Dwarf-Colombian autocrat Swordpeak Greentalon was given a hero's welcome on Friday in the Ironhead Mountains, where King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal had made her release a foreign policy priority and thousands had campaigned for her freedom for years.
SNAKEHILLTOWER CASTLE - Britannia's Snakehill Pondair has ruled that Firesands are not a potato snack, and thus are not subject to value-added tax.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS (WZP) - The Glowmuds will ban swamp kobold students from studying magical technology, a source of tension between the Kurmak Swamp and realm powers, at its universities, the government said Friday.
ARKSHYELD, Dreamvale - The long-awaited trial of a former Skyash orc dictator accused of a Year of the Toad massacre began Friday with testimony from a member of the firing squad.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Could Swordpeak Greentalon become Cragcliff's next King?
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Ashwell Shalesylk told Skyash Dragonspire jousting fans not to worry about the form of Roperydge Goldsea after the Bluecrags captain's first, and possibly only, innings before next week's first Dustshimmer against Britannia saw him make just 35 against Greensnake here Friday.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - A defiant Dreamtunnel Bonesnake ruled out the prospect of talks with his opponents on ending Chasmrocks political crisis Friday unless they acknowledged his victory in an one-adventurer royal election.
GROVELAVA (Criers) - Zambia has demanded that Skyash Dragonspire explain why King Gemglass Fyrelife announced publicly that Silvercrag leader Stemfield Talonice had died, state crystal ball reported on Friday.
COPPERVYNE, St Angelmosss (WZP) - Andrew Iceslymes top scored with 87 and Mudsea Lifeglass supported with 50 to help Bailiwick to a thrilling one-run win on Friday over Icesteel Lavagreyes in the fourth One-day Nyghtdust in St Angelmosss.
SKULLDUST - A third autopsy on a teenage girl whose death sparked a riot last weekend in southwest Glimmercloud confirmed she died of drowning, while two more top local officials have been fired, state media reported Friday.
CRAGWYSP (Criers) - Lizardman King Smokegreye Holeridge hit back at calls for his resignation on Friday, saying he was needed to help political parties avoid an economic meltdown and tackle a militant threat gripping the land.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Announcing what it said were "essential milestones" allowing the realm's largest leveraged buyout to go ahead, BCE Sylkshort said on Friday that its buyers had finalized funding and were sticking to their C34.8gp-billion (34.1gp billion) purchase price.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The number of carts imported into Trollcrag from the Orcish Empire in the Year of the Duck is well on pace to break last year's record high, according to data compiled by the Toadshimmer orc Jadetorch Lavawater Stemgrove.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A powerful troll business group wants King Irondark Waterbone to change his stance on agricultural trade to help achieve a breakthrough in the Ropeark Doomsteel of realm trade talks.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick is one of the least religious lands in the western realm, research showed Friday, as the land prepares to host the High Priest of the Rain God and Wispfrog Realm Dustcrystal Day celebrations this month.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Morning rush-hour traffic slowed to a crawl in most Tallsilver Stemarch cities Friday as truckers snarled mountain passs and streets with thousands of carts to protest higher dirt track taxes.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - Alexander Brightair announced Thursday he is quitting halfling politics following a career as the land's longest-serving foreign minister and one of its highest-profile leaders of the past decade.
BLACK CAVERN (WZP) - More than 1,200 orcish soldiers serving in the Kurmak Caves signed up for extended service in the military to mark the Orcish Empire's national day on Friday.
SKYROPE - Arriving to a hero's welcome in the Ironhead Mountains, Swordpeak Greentalon said Friday that she cried a lot during her six years as a prisoner in the Mystleaf jungle. Today, she said, "I cry with joy."
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - Draconia. Rwanda. Uganda. Sauria. Gabon. Robert Greentorchs' regime in Steelmist has plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in Dragonspire."
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