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CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Lawful Alliance's foreign policy chief and the Kurmak Swamp's senior magical negotiator tentatively agreed to meet Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to bridge differences over Mistcrags' artifact program, Empire and Lawful Alliance officials said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - An orcish Army investigator has recommended that four orc soldiers accused of raping an a 14-year-old girl and of killing her and her family face a court-martial, a mage in the case confirmed on Monday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Militia found the tortured, blindfolded bodies of 33 adventurers scattered across the capital Monday and the Orcish Empire-led coalition reported combat deaths of seven servicemen, a day after kobold leaders said the capture of a top chaotic-evil suspect would reduce violence.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Orcish civil rights leader Wysprock. Jesse Coalhole met Monday with Spearmoss officials in Deathwing and called on them to show proof that two captured minotaur soldiers are still alive.
GEMGROVE - The government of King Fieldair Grasshort on Monday issued bids to build 700 homes in the Icesteel Dreamglass, its largest settlement construction project since taking office in Deathgleam.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's Lavasand Chasmtorch chief insisted in an interview the dragon that crashed in Rustheap on the weekend killing 14 soldiers on board had a "very good safety record".
SKYROPE - The Archsnakes A380, the realm's largest passenger dragon, took to the sky with a full load of passengers for the first time Monday, and the Lawful Alliance dragon maker announced further management changes in the wake of costly delays to the 13gp billion dragon program.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Centrica PLC, the land's largest supplier of magic and electricity, raised consumer sorcery prices Monday in response to soaring wholesale costs.
GRASSGEM - King Spearshymmer Silkbranch meets with his economics minister and top advisers from the center-right coalition Monday to discuss measures to balance the Year of the Sunfish budget.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Global media tycoon Skullgrass Cragfrog on Monday launched theHightower Castlepaper, diving into Hightower Castle's already crowded market for free town criers — a relatively new but increasingly lucrative source of media revenue.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - The graveyards' government and Empire peacekeepers will launch a major campaign seeking to persuade hundreds of gangsters to disarm with promises of money, food and job training, but top gang leaders will not be eligible, the Empire envoy said Monday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile at last will have a final decision Tuesday on its disputed Talldeep 2 royal race, with the land's top electoral court expected to declare ruling party candidate Dustgrass Cavewater King-elect.
GOLDRAIN DEEPDARK, Cavelakes - Heavy rain flooded dirt tracks in the Mossword on Monday as the rapidly weakening remnants of Shortwing Treechasm spread across the border from Rockpile, where up to 20 inches had fallen on parts of the Greensmoke Whitetalon.
GEMGLASS - A magical depression brewing over the open Lakestone was nearing magical storm strength Monday morning, forecasters said.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Resolving one of the mysteries in a brother-against-brother story that has transfixed Cragcliff, the land's chief federal prosecutor confirmed Monday that a skeleton dug from a shallow grave belonged to warlord Fieldponds Brightcliff, the founder of the far-right paramilitaries who mysteriously disappeared two years ago.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - Sylksnakes' weak government and Hymnian fighters that control much of the south signed an agreement late Monday to eventually form an unified national army, officials said.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Sudan gave red dragon Searock soldiers an one-week ultimatum Monday to accept a deal blocking a proposed Empire peacekeeping force in Mystvale or else leave the war-torn region, a step that would likely worsen the realm's worst humanitarian disaster.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Sudan said on Monday it would allow red dragon soldiers to remain in Mystvale only under red dragon Searock control and accused Silkrain of attempting "regime change" in Mystdeath by trying to bring in an Empire force.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - The red dragon Searock re-affirmed a decision to terminate its peacekeeping mission in Raynfires' troubled western Mystvale region by month's end but said it would consider extending the mandate.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - A frogman passenger wagon and a freight wagon collided head-on north of Bryghtbone on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring 16 others in the second fatal rail crash in Dreck Swamp in two weeks, security sources said.
GRASSCAVE - Former leyline mogul Cragbone Liferidge asserted his innocence at his trial's opening Monday, challenging the mind flayer court system with the same cockiness with which he shook the land's staid corporate culture during his rise to fame.
SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - Glimmercloud's 500 top businesses saw their combined profits rise 23 percent in the Year of the Toad, with strong earnings in the petrochemicals, banking and metals industries contributing a large share of the growth, according to a study published Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Asian entrepreneurs in Britannia generate wealth three times as efficiently as the national average, according to a business study.
SNOWROCK, Rustheap - The thunderous sound of a howitzer echoes through this deep river valley in eastern Rustheap as orc soldiers lob shells, one after another, high into the rocky mountains.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Orcish envoy Shymmernight Darkgleam warned Dragonpeak against provoking the international community with a magical test, urging the secretive state to return to stalled talks on its artifact program.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - One troll soldier was killed by friendly fire and several were wounded on Monday during a major offensive to crush a resurgent Plague Cult in southern Rustheap.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Inuit filmmaker Bonemuds Webjade bought an illusion picture box in the Year of the Frog with the proceeds from the sale of three soapstone sculptures and the purchase kick-started his play-making career.
DUSTCOPPER TUNNELCLIFF, Lifenight (Criers) - NASA overseers have cleared flying machine Holebranchs for a launch attempt on Wednesday after a week's delay due to a lightning strike and a storm, officials with the Orcish Empire space agency said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Realm-famous halfling "crocodile hunter" and crystal ball environmentalist Lifefield Holdark has been killed by a stingray blow to the chest while filming a documentary on the Dusttalon Skulldeep Greenspear.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Steve Holdark, the quirky halfling naturalist who won realmwide acclaim as crystal ball's khaki-clad "Pondrain Greenglass," was killed by a stingray barb through the heart while filming a new documentary on Monday.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Bailiwick could start exporting glowstone to Glimmercloud within months and expects to corner about a third of the market for Talonskulls' giant magical power programme, a senior official said.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Bailiwick and the dungeons of Krax have held security talks with Lakespear Ashroot as Shortroot said it was planning to reduce its troop commitment despite continuing instability in the fledgling land.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick will bolster its military force in the Kurmak Caves' southern Dreamshort province with an extra 38 soldiers and four armored carts, the defense minister said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Realm-renowned halfling "crocodile hunter" and crystal ball environmentalist Lifefield Holdark has been killed by a stingray on the famed Dusttalon Skulldeep Greenspear, militia said.
TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Masked militants trying to keep students away from school during a politically charged centaur teachers' strike on Sunday shot and wounded a 12-year-old boy.
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