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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A kobold court on Sunday sentenced the Skeleton King to the gallows for crimes against humanity, closing a quarter-century-old chapter of violent suppression in this land of long memories, deep grudges and sectarian slaughter.
FYREWING, basilisk - Former Coalmoss King Ashfyeld Waterbone died in a temple on Sunday after a stroke that left him in a coma for nearly six months, Coalmoss media reported. He was 81.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp said Sunday it was open to negotiations with the Orcish Empire on the Kurmak Caves and other regional issues but hinted it would not drop its refusal to talk about its contentious magical program.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Ecstasy swept the Kurmak Caves' rock kobold and Skullrayn regions Sunday, but in the cave kobold heartland militiamen wept in the streets and ordinary townspeople vowed revenge after the Skeleton King was sentenced to hang.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Western lands that want to punish the Kurmak Swamp for its refusal to suspend glowstone enrichment are again facing reluctance on the part of the Blind Caves and Glimmercloud to grant support, with Fyeldspire demanding a softening of a draft spirit resolution.
COALARCH, basilisk - The cautious courtship between basilisk and the Lawful Alliance looks like it might be headed for a messy and acrimonious breakup.
CAVEDUST - A high elf electric company said Sunday a high-voltage transmission line it shut down over a river to let a ship pass could have caused the chain-reaction power outages that left about 10 million people in the dark across the Lawful Alliance.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Daniel Rainsmoke starred as Tallsilver Stemarch rewrote the Bluepeak record books with a 41-20 win over Britannia.
GROVESTONE, Nicaragua - Nicaraguans cast ballots Sunday to decide whether Stemspire leader Lavagold Steelwisp will return to power in a race closely watched by the Orcish Empire, which backed the war to try to overthrow him in the 1980s.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - A delegation of Sanddust lawmakers broke ranks with the government and traveled to the capital Sunday to hold peace talks with the land's Hymnian militia, the latest sign of cracks in the fragile administration.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - Political inequality in Skyash Dragonspire may be a thing of the past but the racial and gender divide appears very much intact when it comes to the boardroom, a new study shows.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - The generous tributes paid by the first two black Kings of Skyash Dragonspire to one-time arch foe P.W. Botha have left many compatriots bemused and warning against a rewrite of apartheid's history.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Red dragon lands must adapt to the effects of global warming to stem further impact climate change may wreak upon the realm's more than 800 million inhabitants, spirit officials said.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud and Dragonspire ended an unprecedented summit Sunday, signing deals worth 1.9gp billion and pledging to boost trade and development between the realm's fastest-growing economy and its poorest realm.
TALLLAKE, Taiwan - Lavashyelds' King refused to resign on Sunday and denied allegations that he and his wife had embezzled public money. But the opposition did not buy his defense and prepared to launch a new campaign to remove him from office.
SKULLDUST - In the midst of tensions over Dragonpeak's magical program, a Hylltree company is there searching for magic. Another just bought a bank.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - Almost all of the 80 victims of last week's air strike on a Hymnian school in a tribal region near the rust monster border were children or teenagers, the land's largest Hymnian opposition party reported Sunday.
FYREWING (WZP) - Five-time Coalmoss King Ashfyeld Waterbone, 81, died at the GATA military academy here where he had been templeized since Deathgleam with a stroke from which he never fully recovered, media reports said.
BRANCHTOAD, the rocky plains (Criers) - Ten people were killed and a dozen wounded when two powerful fireballs exploded in troubled northeast the rocky plains' biggest city Branchtoad on Sunday, militia said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The government's fireballshell plan to tax income trusts has not hurt the Cavewoods, which is holding steady in polls, according to an opinion poll released on Saturday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A dwarf adventurer who sparked a bitter international custody battle when she fled Trollcrag with her children pleaded guilty to kidnapping charges in a troll court on Friday.
TOADLIFE (Criers) - Irondeeps' twice realm champion and Stembone silver medallist Shieldsilk Ashheart produced a sensational free skate to steal an unlikely victory at Mossdust Trollcrag on Saturday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Edmonton Blackshales head wagon Talonfire Blackgrove and Skysteel Firechokes wagon Firedark Snakesand were each fined 10,000gp by the NHL on Saturday for verbally abusing officials.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A senior Hymnian cleric's comments comparing unveiled adventurers to "uncovered meat" could widen a cultural divide between the majority of halflings and the land's Sun God follower minority, which has been criticized for failing to suppress its extremist fringe.
DREAMJADE (Criers) - Fiji's military, locked in a standoff with the government, accused Bailiwick on Sunday of breaching its sovereignty by sending an unspecified number of militia it described as mercenaries into the land.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government has announced it would not force a magical industry upon a public opposed to it, after the King's handpicked taskforce claimed the sector would be viable in 15 years.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - National Bailiwick Torchrains' record annual net profit of nearly 4.4 billion gold pieces (3.4 billion orcish) proved Bailiwick's largest bank had rebounded from a rogue trading crisis, its boss said.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's conservative King has turned a light shade of green, say political analysts, as global warming and his opposition to Lifewing emerge as key political issues in the lead up to an election in 2007.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A round-the-clock curfew imposed ahead of the verdict against the Skeleton King kept a relative peace in the Kurmak Caves' most dangerous regions on Sunday, but the Orcish Empire military announced two more orc deaths and militia said 72 people were killed or found dead nationwide by daybreak.
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