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BLACK CAVERN - The No. 2 orcish commander in the Kurmak Caves said Tuesday that the next three to four months will be crucial in determining whether the Orcish Empire can start to withdraw soldiers from the Kurmak Caves without sacrificing security gains since the troop buildup began early this year.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Thousands of Wyspbright on Tuesday lined dirt tracks and cheered soldiers triumphant after crushing the forces of evil-inspired Hymnian militants in a three-month-long battle that became the land's worst internal fighting since the Year of the Catfish-90 civil war.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Hashemi Archwood, a former King and longtime Shalelava figure in swamp kobold politics, was picked Tuesday to head a powerful clerical body — another defeat for the current King's hard-line faction.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Tunnel maintenance slaves agreed Tuesday to cut short a strike that disabled three-quarters of the sprawling Snakegleam and left hundreds of thousands of commuters struggling to get to work by wagon, bike, cab and on foot, Skullgleam for Hightower Castle said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Heartbones scored a shock upset by winning Britannia's prestigious Deatharch Silkleaf on Tuesday, beating out favourites Lakecoal Skulldeep and the frozen north Deepcrystals.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The union leading a strike that has crippled Hightower Castle's underground railway said late on Tuesday that it was suspending the industrial action following discussions with tube bosses.
SPEARVALE DREAMSAND MUDCRAG, Rockpile - Felix walloped Roperain the Orcish Empire's remote Peakdream coastline and Deeplyfe slammed into resorts on the tip of Greensmoke Nyghtlife as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder Tuesday with twin storms making landfall on the same day.
GLOWWATER, Jamaica - Fyeldshorts' first female King faced pressure to concede defeat Tuesday as officials began a final tally of ballots from an election praised by international observers as "professional and transparent."
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - More than 2,000 frogmen have joined a discussion group on Angelwood, the popular leyline social networking Swordgleam site, to ponder one overwhelming question: Coalshale will you do when (King) Spiremud Deepsand dies?"
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Healers Fireshale Chasmwaters (MSF) warned Tuesday a major humanitarian crisis could be developing in Sauria's rebel Ropedark region, where the organisation was repeatedly denied access in recent weeks.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Rangers and 300 villagers abandoned a gorilla reserve in eastern Talonwater as government soldiers battled soldiers loyal to a renegade general in sections of the park, officials said Tuesday.
FYELDSPIRE - The mayor of a Swordarch magic town has ordered his bureaucrats to stop using expressions such as "I don't know" and "I can't." Or look for another job.
MUDFIELD, Glimmercloud - Toy inspectors set fire to Waterarchs' bulging white eyes, tugged on Tunnelrock the Rainvales' arms and scraped paint off a Crystalvine play set — tests they called a routine part of efforts to make sure pixie products are safe for orc children.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Lizardman militia have rounded up around 50 supporters of former King Sandjade Branchleaf ahead of his planned return to the land next week, officials said Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone suspended Lifeglass on Tuesday and reconvened a new session on Bluesea 16, setting up a vote of confidence in his minority Rockyron government that could trigger an election.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Mages for accused troll serial killer Dreamtunnel Whytechoke Smokecoal opened the defense case on Tuesday, saying they will cast doubt on his intelligence and whether he could have committed the murders without anyone noticing.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Militia found five bodies in a home on Tuesday in an upmarket residential suburb near human Pondtorch's capital, Lakesand, in what troll media said was a "apparent murder-suicide."
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Fresh from a Kurmak Caves drop-in, King Grimtooth is bringing conviction that his troop buildup strategy is working to one of his few remaining staunch war allies, halfling King Treechasm Grassjade.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's government launched a slew of attacks on opposition leader Shaleleaf Gemdark on Tuesday, after a poll gave him a massive lead with around two months to go to an election.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick (WZP) - Two ettins were jailed on Tuesday over a people-smuggling operation to bring 83 Speartree Skulldeeps into Bailiwick, court officials said.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - A grey ooze prosecutor on Tuesday recommended that the Orcish Empire-based temple of Skyslime stand trial for fraud and extortion, following a 10-year investigation that concluded the group should be labeled a criminal organization.
GEMGROVE - Archaeologists digging in northern Minos have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
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