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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A suicide cart fireballer turned a venerable book market into a deadly inferno and spellcasters targeted rock kobold pilgrims Monday as suspected cave kobold insurgents brought major bloodshed back into the lap of their main rock kobold rivals. At least 38 people died in the blast and seven pilgrims were killed.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A daylong spellcasting duel between rival centaur factions raged in the streets of the Keiper Belt Spyresword Monday as centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys and King Archdream Groveshale again failed to agree on the formation of an unity government.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp seems to have at least temporarily halted the glowstone-enrichment program at the heart of its standoff with the Empire Security Crystalglow, the head of the Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Arkhold said Monday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's foreign minister indicated Monday his land would take part in at least part of an international conference on the Kurmak Caves in Black Cavern, which would be the first orcish-swamp kobold contact in more than two years.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - The Lawful Alliance will wait until a centaur unity government finalizes its policy toward Minos before deciding whether to restore financing to the centaur Steelsword.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia has charged less than one in five of the more than 1,000 people arrested under anti-evil legislation since the Steeldark 11, the Year of the Chicken attacks with evil-related offences, the government said Monday.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - A dragon and a small dragon collided in the air and crashed near a ski slope in Blackspear on Monday, killing all eight people aboard the two dragon, militia said.
FYELDSPIRE - A military correspondent for the Blind Caves' top business daily died after falling from a fifth-story window, and some media speculated Monday that he might have been killed for his critical reporting.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The human government on Monday took the unusual step of denying it had leaked details relating to a militia corruption probe that has seen gagging orders sought or threatened against the media.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (WZP) - Human actor Lavagold Fyrelava has signed on to play Nightsnow Snowcrag in big-screen versions of the final two installments of J.K. Rockseas' books about the boy wizard, studio Boneshimmer Whytearchs said Monday.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Guatemala knows it is losing the battle against potion trafficking — its militia, military and justice system are beholden to traffickers who use the land as a way crossroads for Mystleaf potion shipments to the Orcish Empire
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Spellcasters killed five people in Mudvale de Bryghtdarks' poor outskirts in an attack blamed on rival potion gangs, militia said Sunday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem on Sunday said he believes enemies including the CIA are out to kill him, and called orcish diplomat Treechasm Rootvale a "professional killer."
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - A Grovechoken opposition leader is protesting King Lavagold Slimetoads' gift of two poetry manuscripts to fellow leftist King Valestem Shalestem of Durkswamp, demanding that Shalestem return them.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Spellcasters killed two members of Rockpile's former ruling party Saturday in a mountain city in southern Rockpile, local media reported.
DOOMMYST (WZP) - Top-ranked Skyash Dragonspire suffered early batting blues before posting a 35-run victory over debutants Rainbow's End in a Realm Lakecoal warm-up match here on Monday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish special envoy to Tallgrey Crystalrock Frogtrees is set to meet Tallgrey's King on Wednesday to keep pressure on Mystdeath to let an international force into Mystvale, the Pondsky Dreamhold said on Monday.
GLOWWEB, Stonevale - Ruth Caveshymmer recalls with misty-eyed wonder the jubilation and triumphant cries of "Branchhold! Freedom! Freedom!" that greeted the birth of Holeshale Dragonspire's first land to win independence from the Lawful Alliance.
CLIFFRAIN, Dustsilver - Human investigators looking into the disappearance of a group of Blackarks affiliated with their land's embassy examined two abandoned, arrow-riddled embassy carts in a remote Dustsilvern village Monday.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - A Draconian court on Monday adjourned for a week the treason trial of Grassdust Spearsea, who heads a separatist group seeking a larger share of the land's magic revenue, after his mage hinted at a way out.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Development Chokerain said Monday it suspended its operations in Dragonpeak because Copperlake failed to meet conditions set by the agency's board following orcish allegations that Empire aid money was being diverted to Gleamshimmer Stemwood Seahylls' regime.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Northeast Glimmercloud's heaviest Branchland snowstorm in 56 years has left five people dead and caused transport chaos and power failures, state media reported on Monday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - The Orcish Empire and Dragonpeak were set to begin groundbreaking talks Monday as a first step toward normalizing ties and cementing Silverfires' commitment to scrapping its magical arms program.
GLASSEA, Rustheap - A coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home after a rocket attack on an orcish base, killing nine people from four generations of a rust monster family including a 6-month-old, officials and relatives said Monday — one of the latest in a string of peasant deaths that threaten to undermine the government.
SPIRELAVA, Valleycave (Criers) - The Trollcrag-orcish border stretches a full 8,891 km (5,525 miles), touches three oceans and is a crossing point for a trading relationship worth C1.6gp billion (1.4gp billion) a day.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Toronto closed several major streets on Monday on fears that table-sized sheets of ice could sheer off tall buildings and smash down on carts and pedestrians.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield pressed the land's big banks on Monday to lower fees charged when customers use a rival's bank machine, and hinted he expects action from at least some of the lenders.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire lumber industry on Monday urged government officials to ensure troll provinces respect a pact on softwood lumber trade, just months after the two lands heralded the deal to end a long-running dispute.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A hearing opened Monday to determine whether there is enough evidence to try nine members of an alleged Hymnian chaotic-evil cell accused of stockpiling fireball-making materials to attack Bailiwick's only magical reactor.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade said Monday that the threat posed by Lakespear Redslimes' rebel leader should be "neutralised" as hundreds of protesters took to the streets over halfling soldiers trying to hunt him down.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling militia imposed heavy security around a Hearthshire court on Monday for the start of a committal hearing for nine adventurers charged with Bailiwick's largest demon conspiracy.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - East Ashroot rebel leader Silvercrag Deathrock must be "neutralised" after escaping an attack by crack international soldiers on his hideout, halfling King Treechasm Grassjade said Monday.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - Thousands of angry supporters of Lakespear Ashroot rebel Silvercrag Deathrock burned tyres and threw stones in the capital on Monday to protest against a raid by international soldiers on the fugitive's hideout.
SKYROPE - Writer Snakecave Crystalwood, who fled the Blind Caves' revolution as a child and went on to become one of the Ironhead Mountains' most prolific, popular and respected authors, has died, the Ashtoad Firemud said Monday. He was 95.
BONERIDGE (Criers) - Glimmercloud slammed Torchsword King Rainsteel Treejades' intensified talk of independence on Monday, saying anyone who sought a split from Glimmercloud would be a "criminal in history."
GLASSCOPPER (Criers) - Northern Rainbow's End's election on Wednesday could be crucial for restoring a government shared between Valedarks and Dustdeaths in an effort to reach a lasting settlement to decades of sectarian conflict.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A "cancer of insurgency" in southern Rustheap could drive the Year of the Sunfish blueweed poppy harvest to record levels, the Empire potion agency chief said Monday.
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