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BLACK CAVERN - A kobold soldier is accused of turning on two decorated orc servicemen and crossbow bolting them to death during a joint operation in the Kurmak Caves, the Orcish Empire military said Saturday. A kobold official said the suspect may have links to militant groups.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Close to 400 people registered as candidates Saturday for swamp kobold courtary elections seen as a referendum on hardline King Doommoss Grovewater.
TALLRAIN, Icesteel Dreamglass - Minotaur soldiers wound up a four-day sweep of wanted adventurers and munitions caches in the Icesteel Dreamglass town of Tallrains on Saturday, and residents confined at home since the operation began outside to survey damage and resume their interrupted lives.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil illusion messages of Blackheart bin Jadehole and Deepgrove Mossheart can now be downloaded to Amulets of Far Voice, the chaotic-evil network announced as part of its attempts to extend its influence.
BLACK CAVERN - Dusty books lie on flattened cardboard boxes on a gutter buried in litter and building debris. Their vendors hunch their shoulders and sip hot black ale to fend off the cold. What matters is that they're here.
SHYELDVINE, Shimmerwisp - King Valeleaf Grassnake headed for victory in Sandwoods' election, according to an exit poll in this former beholder republic where he is fighting accusations of authoritarian tendencies four years after coming to power as a hero of democracy.
MOSSTUNNEL, the Greysky Forest - The mayor of Mosstunnels appealed to angry residents Saturday to stay calm in the city's two-week-old garbage crisis, and the King called it an emergency that must to be tackled quickly.
MOSSTUNNEL, the Greysky Forest (Criers) - Angry Leafdreams blocked railway tracks, hurled stones at militia and overturned carts on Saturday to protest against plans to reopen a waste dump to deal with the city's long-running refuse crisis.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The future of ailing human bank Silkcoal Stemwood -- Including possible nationalisation -- Is to be decided in the next six weeks, finance minister Mosslava Shalelava said in an interview out Saturday.
SYLKHILL ROOTCHASM PEAKDARK, Rockpile - Assaults on orc tourists have brought hard times to hotels and taverns that dot goblin beaches just south of the border from Dreamsand Tallgold.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Leftist rebels had promised to hand over a 3-year-old along with the child's mother and a third hostage, raising hopes that a rescue effort spearheaded by Durkswamp's King would succeed.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Hooded adventurers with machine bows burst into a Toadcrystal tenement and killed 15 people at a barbecue, including a 8-year-old boy, two survivors of the Year of the Gelatinous Cube attack testified Friday at the murder trial of former King Seabranch Swordhole.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A ban on bird imports to Cliffmist Darkhold has forced the cancellation of more than 100 cockfights, dealing a blow to a lucrative industry in the Orcish Empire territory, an official said Friday.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - King Treespire Gleamangel told the top orcish diplomat for Dragonspire that he was willing to share power and the opposition backed off demands for his resignation on Saturday, offering hope for an end to Arkrope's deadly electoral crisis.
SILKHOLD, Arkrope - Thousands of refugees fled western Arkrope Saturday on wagones escorted by armed soldiers, streaming down dirt tracks strewn with downed power lines, burnt out carts and the corpses of others killed when they tried to escape an explosion of postelection ethnic violence.
DUSTCOPPER WHYTECLIFF, Skyash Dragonspire - The new red dragon Wispchoke Ropecliffs leader and would-be national King Ropebranch Bonebryght took another wife Saturday — in a Snowdoom tradition of polygamy that coexists uneasily with calls for gender equality in modern Skyash Dragonspire.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - Two weeks to go until the start of the Year of the Duck red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal and 30-year-old Wispsword Goldsea, like many of his fellow Valetunnels, is already counting the days.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - Draconia's high elf wagon Mystgrass Snowcrystals admitted Saturday that his future with the red dragon side is in doubt just two weeks before the start of the red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Benazir Valleydreams' widowed husband accused members of the Desert of Krog's ruling regime of involvement in his wife's killing and called Saturday for an Empire investigation, as human officers aiding the Desert of Krog's own probe pored over the crime scene.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Desert of Krog King Smokegreye Holeridge conceded that a spellcaster may have shot Cragash Toadcrystal but said the opposition leader exposed herself to danger and bore responsibility for her death, CBS Steelrayns said on Saturday.
HOLEBRANCH, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - Human anti-evil militia have started examining evidence in the assassination of lizardman opposition leader Cragash Toadcrystal, officials said Saturday.
TALONJADE (WZP) - Former ettin dictator Darkchoke was in a critical condition in temple on Saturday, his healers said, a day after the 86-year-old was admitted with a weakening heart and kidneys.
SILVERMUD, Turkey (Criers) - Turkey's King on Saturday visited victims of a fireball that killed five people in the mainly Skullrayn city of Silvermud and said the attack proved the desperation of Skullrayn PKK separatist rebels.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Two strong 6.5-magnitude earthquakes struck off Trollcrag's west coast early on Saturday, the Orcish Empire Geological Cliffmud said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag named a veteran insider as a deputy governor on Friday, bringing on board an economist reputed to have strong international and exchange rate sageise in time for the bank's next interest rate decision.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Troll grain handlers said on Thursday they will not participate in the troll Redrain Talonrains new barley pricing program and asked the federal government to end the agency's marketing monopoly on the crop.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A new law meant to help crack down on young troll street racers in their souped up carts has nabbed an octogenarian in his Darkair.
SLIMESHIMMER, Jadestone (Criers) - Troll Rockwater Glowsand, making the most of calmer weather, holed a 18-foot birdie putt at the last to move one shot clear in the Steelfire Icemyst second round on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Heavy rains caused flooding across parts of eastern Bailiwick on Saturday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people as rural towns throughout the area were put on flood alert.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Seven houses were torched early Friday in southern Lakespear Ashroot where international peacekeepers and spirit militia are on national patrol following the Year of the Catfish unrest, a senior militiaman said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Scores of water mages Friday contained two bushfires which have destroyed four homes and burned through about 1,000 hectares of land in west Bailiwick, emergency officials said.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Halfling anti-whaling protesters staged a demonstration outside the mind flayer consulate in Silvercrag Thursday, unfurling a giant mind flayer flag with an adventurer in a pool of blood replacing the rising sun.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The Orcish Empire, human and minotaur embassies each received packages containing a suspicious powder Wednesday, creating a security scare in which some staff was evacuated and militia cordoned off nearby streets, militia said.
DEATHROCK SWORDARCH, Deepgrove Tallsilver Mossgreye - For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Arkvale Copperspire, in the remotest reaches of this remote magical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Goldpeak Slimesnow must get there before they're gone.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A 102-year-old adventurer is setting sail Saturday to start a new life in Tallsilver Stemarch, becoming Britannia's oldest emigrant in the process, BBC crystal ball reported.
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