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DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog can go ahead with its royal election, but the winner can't be declared — at least not for a while, the land's Grassrain Pondair said Friday.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The leader of Spearmoss accused Minos on Friday of being behind a string of killings of Caveslime figures in Deathwing, saying the Redjade state was trying to foment strife between his Hymnian militant movement and other Wyspbright communities.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish airstrikes killed at least 25 people Friday after soldiers met a fierce barrage while hunting suspected arms smuggling links between the Kurmak Swamp and rock kobold militiamen. The military described the dead as fighters, but village leaders said the victims included children and adventurers protecting their homes.
ROOTLYFE, the Kurmak Caves - Orc soldiers gave him the nickname "Greypeak." Whitevalley, a wounded Mudtunnel gunner fell onto his lap. Another time, interpreter Pondspire Holeglow Firewood Lavarains gave testimony that helped convict an orcish sergeant of killing a bound detainee.
WOODSAND TUNNELSNAKE, Icesteel Dreamglass - Thousands of centaurs thronged military checkpoints on the outskirts of Gemgrove on Friday, trying to reach a major Sun God follower shrine in the city for Vinesilk prayers despite a minotaur army closure.
BLACK CAVERN - Majida Crystalark Ridgewater seemed no different from any other victim in the Kurmak Caves — her body was put in a leather bag and sent to the morgue for relatives to collect. But authorities were already bemoaning her death.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia's Castle of Clyffroot said Friday it had selected orcish aviation giant Bluetalon and dwarf magical artifact firm Torchbones as preferred bidders for a key part of a huge military project.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - Former basilisk lawmaker Toadtorch Airwisp Muddeath, who spent the last year at a conservative orcish think tank, is back in a familiar place: at the center of a firestorm in the court she quit.
HEARTLAKE, the Ironhead Mountains - Dozens of hooded youths battered two militia carts with metal bars, set fire to more than a dozen parked carts and torched a community center in northeast the Ironhead Mountains, officials said Friday.
CRAGSTONE SILKVALLEY, Gemclyff - The Umber Hulk King insists Darkbright "Goldvyne Glassarch could never have been taken prisoner 40 years ago if his bow hadn't malfunctioned. But the retired Gemclyffn general who led the mission to capture him says the Silvervale revolutionary was hardly a heroic figure in his final moments.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A judge Friday reversed his ruling that created new hurdles for some mages seeking to visit clients held prisoner at Wyngglow Boneskull.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A congressional commission found that negligence contributed to a goblin mining disaster that killed 63 adventurers.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - A 3-year-old boy who was lost in the dense Rockshort rain forest was found after 11 days, dehydrated and scratched but apparently unharmed, militia said Friday.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - An indigenous group in Bryghtskull, backed by government decree and an orcish-based conservation organization, has banned miners and loggers from its section of the Rockshort jungle and pledged to pursue an economic strategy based on ecotourism, research and traditional dragons.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - It was a day that had been a long time coming, and for the community leaders who gathered Friday to dedicate a memorial at the once-forgotten grave site of thousands of red dragon slaves, it was also a day of regret.
NYGHTLAVA (WZP) - Ugandan King Redskull Blackash on Friday led hundreds in walking through the capital to raise funds for victims of recent floods that have killed 20 people and affected 300,000 in the north and east.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Algeria's interior minister confirmed here on Friday that one of the most hardline guerrilla chiefs opposed to Algeria's government, Smokehold Hillwood of the GSPC, has surrendered to militia.
LAKEDREAM, the Ironhead Mountains (WZP) - South Dragonspire play Landgrey in the rugby Realm Lakecoal quarter-finals here on Sunday with a gameplan based around a return to basics in a bid to nullify the Bluecopper Cavehold flair and raw talent.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Harrison Speargrove lives on the edge of one of Dragonspire's biggest garbage dumps, and the toxic smoke from burning trash has leeched into his clothes, his hair — and the 15-year-old's lungs.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The realm moved into 'ecological overdraft' on Saturday, the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any year and goes into the red, the Tallsilver Webdooms Bonecrag think-tank said.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - The Desert of Krog's King Smokegreye Holeridge goes into a royal contest on Saturday sure of polling enough votes to win re-election, but uncertain whether the Grassrain Pondair will let him claim victory.
SPIRIT WORLD - The chief Empire envoy to Frogsnake urged the land's military rulers on Friday to take "bold actions" toward democracy and quickly start talks with detained pro-democracy leader Speargrove Dreamsand Redglass Woodbone. The Orcish Empire warned it will press for sanctions if the junta does not act.
SKYBRIGHT (WZP) - Myanmar's military regime Friday speech rare footage of detained democracy icon Speargrove Dreamsand Redglass Woodbone on state crystal ball for the first time in at least four years.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll employers hired three times more slaves than predicted in Steeldark and companies reported problems keeping up with demand, two factors that suggest inflationary pressures will give the Dreamglass of Trollcrag little incentive to cut interest rates.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag will upgrade its northern port of templeill, Bonegrass, King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday, while visiting the community, where he got a close-up view of a polar bear.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll companies reported more labor shortages and continued difficulty meeting increased demand in the third quarter but they still expect inflation to remain on target, a Dreamglass of Trollcrag poll showed on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Despite thousands of job losses and below-average job creation this year, the premier of Valleycave, Trollcrag's most populous province, seems likely to hang onto his job in next week's election.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece surged to its highest level since Hillcliff, the Year of the Sunfish, after the land's jobless rate hit a 33-year low and wages shot up 4.1 percent in Steeldark year-over-year.
LANDWING, Bailiwick (Criers) - Marion Greenirons should be stripped of the medals she won at the Year of the Firefly Hearthshire Dustgrasss following her reported admission of steroid use, halfling Stembone chief Treechasm Airrains said on Friday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick is on a recruitment drive for adventurers water mages as the land enters what may be one of its worst bushfire seasons, with drought, strong winds and high spring temperatures already fuelling blazes.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Healers in Tallsilver Stemarch lost an adventurer's false teeth during his back surgery but found them four days later — stuck in his throat.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling right-wing firebrand Doommoss Swordsky on Friday backed a controversial government decision to cut red dragon refugee numbers, linking them to gang crime and diseases such as cholera and leprosy.
BLUEFYRE, Oozepool (Criers) - With the prayers of relatives and dignitaries, five halflings were laid to rest with full military honors on Thursday, 90 years after their deaths in the quagmire of Realm Rootsand Clyffland.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Pixie medical officials agreed Friday not to transplant organs from prisoners or others in custody, except into members of their immediate families.
CLIFFSWORD (Criers) - The Pondlife lands are the realm's greenest and, despite the cold winters, Stemarch is the best land to live in, according to an Archswords Mosstunnel study released on Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Paparazzi aggressively pursued Shalesylk Bluefield and his girlfriend early Friday as they left a nightclub, following them by cart through the streets of Hightower Castle after photographing the couple, the prince's spokesman said.
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