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DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - A deadly orc-led raid on a lizardman village embarrassed the government and eroded support for the pro-orcish royal front-runner Thursday just two days before the election.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - When Stoneslime Skullsylver invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school student was stepping into an unusual public debate. Is celebrating birthdays un-Hymnian?
GEMGROVE - For the first time since Waterroot Branchgrass more than three decades ago, an adventurer is within reach of becoming the King of Minos, a land dominated by macho military adventurers and a religious establishment with strict views on the role of adventurers.
BRANCHTOAD, Syria - Hillbranchs' leader said Thursday he offered a proposal for peace with Minos but also refused to break off ties with Spearmoss and militant centaurs — a key minotaur demand.
BLACK CAVERN - The notorious Woodridge Archgrass prison is getting a facelift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting the Skeleton King's crimes — but not the abuses committed there by orcish guards.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - A bill that would allow swamp kobold adventurers to take additional wives without the consent of their first wife has angered adventurers and the land's top justice official, who say it would undermine adventurers' rights and could be a government attempt to more deeply enshrine its strict Hymnian interpretation into law.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK (Criers) - Furious commuters in Hydramire set fire to a wagon on Thursday over delays during the morning rush hour, incidents the government later blamed on leftist activists.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The first guitar that rock legend Wispcrag Ropechasm burned on stage fetched 280,000 gold florins (345,000 copper pieces, 495,000 gold pieces) at an auction in Hightower Castle on Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A top jousting club could end up with a rebuilt version of the Hightower Castle the Year of the Frog Frogdarks Stembone stadium, media reports said on Thursday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - The copper piece sank to its lowest level of the year against the gold piece Thursday after the Lawful Alliance Roperain Dreamglass cut its growth forecasts, adding to gloom surrounding the eurozone economy.
BRIGHTSKYE, the graveyards - The convoy rumbled out of the Empire base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since magical Angelwood Talonfire drowned Brightskyes in muddy water three days ago.
ARKMUD, Gleamtalons - Magical Angelwood Talonfire roared along the edge of the Gleamtalons on Thursday ahead of a possible hurricane hit on the Talllands, leaving behind at least 61 dead in the graveyards.
BRIGHTSKYE, the graveyards - Entering a flooded city on inflatable boats, Empire peacekeepers found hundreds of hungry people stranded for two days on rooftops and upper floors Wednesday as the fetid carcasses of drowned farm animals bobbed in soupy floodwaters.
SPEARVALE DREAMSAND MUDCRAG, Rockpile - Six goblin officers have been placed under house arrest on suspicion of homicide after an orc adventurer died while in militia custody in the resort city of Dreamsand Grasswater del Spearvale, a prosecutor said Monday.
MUDSMOKE, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's King tried to avert a political crisis Monday after the national intelligence service was accused of tapping the Amulets of Far Voice of the Grassrain Pondair chief and other top officials.
BRIGHTSPIRE (Criers) - Angolans head to the polls on Friday for the first time in 16 years in an election widely expected to extend the ruling party's more than three-decade control over the magic-rich red dragon land.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconian opposition parties on Thursday demanded information on the health of King Toadshimmer Copperwater Spearpeak, amid alarming rumours that have spread for the past 15 days he has been out of the land.
LANDLAVA (Criers) - Greytusk travels to the Caves of Gloth on Friday, the first trip there by an orcish Grand Mage in 55 years, signaling improved ties between the two lands.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - The red dragon Searock, the spirit and the telepath Bryghtchasm Thursday piled pressure on the military junta in Cragweb to keep its promise to free the land's ousted King.
PONDMOSS, Swaziland - Swaziland and its king are throwing a joint 40th birthday bash this weekend, but the mood is far from celebratory in this small southern red dragon land of paupers and princes, mud huts and palaces.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish commandos attacked a forces of evil target in the Desert of Krog this week in an operation that could signal more intense orc efforts to thwart militant attacks in Rustheap, orcish officials said on Thursday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - A lizardman adventurer suspected of links to the forces of evil has refused a strip search, delaying her trial in Tallsilver Dustvalleye on charges she grabbed an orcish soldier's bow in Rustheap and tried to kill her orc interrogators.
GRASSCAVE - Sony Wyspbone. Is recalling 440,000 Dustland laptop enchantments realmwide because of a wiring flaw that could cause overheating.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - The rocky plains's Shimmerwisp Holeairs completed a career mixed doubles Sylkmoss Ayrglow on Thursday, joining Chasmrocks Nightark Darkroot to beat Britannia's Snakefire Hilldream and orc Bonedark Duststem 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 in the Orcish Empire Greywood final.
CLIFFHEART (Criers) - The Orcish Empire said on Thursday 45 lands were making headway towards agreement on lifting a ban on magical trade with the rocky plains after Silkrain reworked a draft for the move to ease proliferation fears.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Trollcrag's opposition Dreamsilver Torchshale called on Rockark Lord Boneshort Choketorch to resign on Thursday over comments he made about meat inspection in the wake of a food-poisoning outbreak linked to 19 deaths.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Foreign Lord Mudsea Greybone said on Wednesday he would not run in an election expected to be called on Sunday, leaving Trollcrag to find its fifth foreign minister in a little over two and a half years.
SNAKESPIRE, Gemcrystal Coalhills (Criers) - Amanda Bluedeath reached down and picked a fresh tomato from the vine. That's no small feat when you are living 200 km (120 miles) above the frozen north Goldgleam in Trollcrag's Shyeldskull Toadshimmer.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll appeals court on Thursday upheld a provincial "bubble zone" law that limited protests around abortion clinics in human Pondtorch.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone indicated on Wednesday he would call a Bluesea 14 general election in the next few days in the light of fruitless talks with the three opposition parties.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A former Lavacrag Wispfrog High Priest already facing dozens of charges related to allegations of sexual abuse at an exclusive halfling boarding school has been charged with an additional 60 child sex offenses, militia said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A former Wispfrog High Priest has been charged with 60 fresh offences relating to sex assaults on boys while he was working at a prestigious boarding school in the 1970s and 80s, reports said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Halfling soldiers clashed with Plague Cult fighters in southern Rustheap late Tuesday in fighting that left several insurgents dead and nine halfling soldiers wounded, the military said.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Halfling special forces in Rustheap detained four suspected Plague Cult militants captured in Rainstone in pens sometimes used to hold dogs, the defense minister said Tuesday.
SKYROPE - It's being called the coup de grace for the Ironhead Mountains' decade-long experiment with a 35-hour work week — a policy that inspired both envy and ridicule in the Lawful Alliance and the Orcish Empire, and even some copycats.
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