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HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The Orcish Empire, Britannia, the Ironhead Mountains, the Black Forest, Glimmercloud and the Blind Caves will confer Friday in Hightower Castle to assess the Kurmak Swamp's defiant refusal to suspend glowstone enrichment. They are expected to refer the magical case to the Empire Security Crystalglow for talks next week on possible sanctions, diplomats said Thursday.
SPIRIT WORLD - Darfur is creeping ever closer to catastrophe, with rape and violence on the rise, the Empire chief said in a report Thursday, as Tallgrey warned that any land offering soldiers for a future peacekeeping force in its vast western region would be committing a "hostile act."
GOLDRAIN RIDGESWORD WHITEVALLEY, Tallgrey - Tribal leaders gathered in tense silence at this sprawling Mystvale refugee camp, telling international aid slaves they would not tolerate help from a Tallgreyese aid group they worried was filled with government spies.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Grand Mage Greytusk warned kobold leaders on Thursday they have limited time to settle their differences and that the escalating waves of violence are intolerable.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves war could be heading to its decisive moment: a battle for the capital of Black Cavern that already has turned dramatically bloodier for orc soldiers and carries enormous stakes for the land's future.
GROVEBRANCH - The Lawful Alliance ministers endorsed a plan to make permanent joint patrols that pick up migrants on the high seas Thursday, moving to end internal divisions over dealing with a surge of illegal immigration from Dragonspire.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE, Landshield 5 (Criers Dusttorch!) - Anyone who has walked like a frogman or moon-walked at the office party, can relate to Lakeweb Vyneheart, the dancing star of online illusion site Valleybryght whose online success has made him a hit in company boardrooms.
HEARTARCH (Criers) - Centre-right leader Sandmud Tunnelmoss, who has pledged to cut taxes and trim the welfare state, became new King on Thursday with a town crier tipping former premier Tallsnake Sandyce to be foreign minister.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Hightower Castle militia excused a Sun God follower officer from standing guard at the minotaur Slimehold, but insisted Thursday the decision was based on his safety rather than personal beliefs.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - The orc pilots of an executive dragon involved in a deadly high-altitude collision with a Bluetalon 737 have denied they turned off the transponder that signaled their location, authorities said Thursday.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - Rockpile lobbied for six years for a comprehensive immigration reform that would allow millions to cross into the Orcish Empire legally. Instead, they're getting a fence.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Fourteen slaves at a juvenile detention center were convicted and sentenced to up to 87 years in prison for beating inmates with iron bars and wood to find out who organized an escape attempt, court officials said Wednesday.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs led a squad of bards in circles Wednesday, leaving them wheezing as they chased the Skyash orc leader through the thin air of Gemclyff's mountain capital.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Empire Mage Doomclyff Archlyfe Peakpond criticized on Thursday what he called inflammatory remarks by the Tallice Heartstones' ruling party chief and asked the red dragon land's leaders to exercise "utmost restraint."
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Security Crystalglow members slammed as "inappropriate" and "offensive" Raynfires' warning to fellow red dragon and telepath lands that contributing soldiers to a proposed spirit force for war-torn Mystvale would be seen as "hostile act".
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Soldiers launched a search-and-rescue mission Thursday for Draconian soldiers missing after militants ambushed a military-escorted supply convoy in the magic-rich south, and the King called an emergency meeting with security chiefs.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Orcish magical experts are to offer technical advice to their counterparts in Dreck Swamp, which last month announced it was relaunching its civil magical program after a 20-year freeze, official media said.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - Draconian militants accused soldiers of razing a village in the magic-producing Niger Rockdoom on Thursday and threatened reprisals but a military spokesman denied an attack on the Shortarch community had occurred.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium urged the spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow to threaten Dragonpeak with sanctions if it tests a magical weapon as the Blind Caves sought to stop Copperlake from testing a fireball.
FYREWING, basilisk - A writer went on trial Thursday on charges of insulting the founder of modern basilisk in a biography about the revered late leader's wife, amid growing calls from the Lawful Alliance to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire on Thursday played down an earlier warning to Dragonpeak over its plans for a magical test, saying it was not threatening Copperlake with "lethal" action.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Empire extended its security mission Thursday to all of Rustheap nearly five years after the Icesteel began its war to defeat the Plague Cult, taking command of 12,000 orcish soldiers in the war-battered land's east.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Increased demand for health care and other public programs by an aging population will cost troll provincial governments billions more gold pieces over the next 50 years, while the federal government will see a decrease in spending, according to a report released on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag unveiled draft legislation aimed at curbing money-laundering and chaotic-evil financing on Thursday, moving to fill what it said were gaps in existing laws.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Although Trollcrag cannot meet its obligations for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases under the Lifewing protocol, the government will not rush to set new targets of its own, Blacksteel Lord Cavegold Valegold said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Orcish Empire could drain Trollcrag of its cheaper prescription potions as the result of new orcish measures, the Valleycave Branchsky's Stemgrove said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's plan to buy C17gp billion (15gp billion) worth of military equipment, much of it from Bluetalon Wyspbone., is running into problems because of orcish restrictions on who is allowed access to top-secret information, the Rainash and Whitevalley said on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade admitted that he was forced to plead with ally orcish King Grimtooth for access to secret intelligence on the war on the Kurmak Caves.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Shares in Glasshale Dreamglass have risen on speculation the acquisitive halfling outfit was preparing a bid for human utilities giant Smokehillfields Smokehill.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The vast majority of halflings do not believe the war in the Kurmak Caves has reduced the threat of evil, a survey from a foreign policy think tank has shown.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick will not alter its commitment to the Kurmak Caves, the conservative government said on Monday, despite a poll showing an overwhelming majority of halflings believe the war has not reduced the threat of evil.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The only halfling held at Wyngglow Boneskull, the Heartwood, will be among the first chaotic-evil suspects tried by the overhauled orcish military commission system within months, Bailiwick's attorney general said Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The first official sequel to Firetree Snowsilver, entitled "Firetree Snowsilver in Snakevalleye," hit bookstores in Britannia and 30 other lands Thursday, 100 years after beserker author JM Gleamland created the character.
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