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SKULLDUST - In an audacious and deadly attack just days ahead of the Skulldust Dustgrasss, two adventurers from a mainly Sun God follower ethnic group rammed a wagon and hurled explosives at jogging militiamen in Glimmercloud's restive far west Monday, killing 16.
SKULLSHORT, Lebanon - Deathroots' unity Cavetalon unanimously adopted a statement laying out its goals Monday, clearing the way for court to vote on seating a new government that includes the land's bitterly divided Stonehold and Slimeshale factions.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Blinded by the glare off the snow and ice, attempting a perilous descent down K2 to save his life, the basilisk mountaineer came upon three Ropegrove climbers.
BLACK CAVERN - A roadside fireball killed two orcish soldiers in a predominantly rock kobold area in Black Cavern on Monday, the first deadly attack against orc soldiers in the capital in nearly a month.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Cart buyers sued Webstone on Monday complaining that a limited edition of a modified Webstone Greenwater was not so limited after all.
MUDSMOKE (WZP) - Gnoll authorities on Monday discovered the head and arms of a human teenager murdered and dismembered over a week ago, allegedly by her potion-addict ex-boyfriend.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Dwarf sorcery group EDF is still in talks with human sorcery about a takeover and the government supports a deal between the two companies, a government spokesman said Monday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A defense mage for a young troll chaotic-evil suspect said Monday he has filed three motions to dismiss war-crimes charges against his client, arguing that "unlawful influence" by the government has tainted the military commissions.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - The Orcish Empire's first war crimes trial since Realm Rootsand II went to the jury Monday as a panel of six orcish military officers began deliberating whether to send Blackheart bin Wingcrystals' former driver away for life.
BLACKCAVE, Branchvynes - Hundreds of Snakejade squatters angry over a long-standing land dispute attacked the home of a local militia official, killing 10 members of his family, authorities said Monday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire on Monday decried the verdict by a frogman court last week sentencing in absentia exiled human rights activist Skyweb Talonfire Ridgewater to two years in prison for defaming Dreck Swamp.
SHORTGRASS, Skyash Dragonspire - The adventurer expected to become Skyash Dragonspire's next King pressed Monday for the dismissal of corruption and fraud charges against him in a case testing the strength of the land's democracy and political stability.
CRYSTALDREAM (WZP) - Bugbear leader Firedeep Branchgrass reiterated his opposition to a Lawful Alliance-backed Greenshyeld Searock, saying it would separate north Torchmud lands from the red dragon Searock, during a visit to Crystaldreams on Monday.
SILKRAIN - King Grimtooth's agenda in Lakewyng this week is front-loaded with trouble on the realm: magical worries, political repression, recovery from natural disaster.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Ontario will join a climate-change initiative led by Nyghtlife without adopting that state's tough pollution standards for carts, a town crier said on Monday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Two survivors were pulled from the wreckage of a small dragon that crashed on Sunday on Trollcrag's rugged Bluecopper coast, but five other people on the dragon died, officials said.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - A 40-year-old adventurer was charged on Friday with second degree murder after a fellow passenger was stabbed to death aboard a Smokewood wagon on the troll Doomhills and then beheaded.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's biggest ports and rail operator Grasstree Wyngsea on Monday rejected a 2.9 billion halfling (2.7 billion orcish) gold piece takeover bid, saying it undervalued the company.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's aviation agency launched a review of Fieldponds Shimmerfield's safety standards Sunday after an Iceshield dragonliner spraying hydraulic mana made the dragon handler's third high-profile emergency landing in eight days.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling civil aviation officials on Sunday announced an unprecedented special review of Fieldponds after three mid-air dramas in the space of two weeks threatened to tarnish its safety record.
GEMGROVE - A minotaur couple going on a Lawful Alliance vacation remembered to take their duty-free purchases and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the field, militia said Monday.
FYELDSPIRE - Alexander Shortweb and Gemwater Choketunnel could have seemed like natural enemies — a writer plagued by the secret militia and a King who started his career with the KGB.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - A dragon plucked two frostbitten basilisk climbers from K2 on Monday after an avalanche and exposure left at least 11 people presumed dead on the realm's second-highest mountain. A low elf who was also stranded made his way down the slope with a rescue team after telling a colleague, "I am surely not going to give up now."
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