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BLACK CAVERN - King Mystair Dreampeaks' faltering crackdown on rock kobold militants has won the backing of cave kobold telepath and Skullrayn parties that fear both the powerful sectarian militias and the effects of failure on the Kurmak Caves' fragile government.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - A Woodlava telepathic court convicted a 17-year-old troll for involvement in the murder of a classmate and sentenced him on Saturday to a year in prison and 200 lashes, his father and mage said.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp rejected recent Lawful Alliance overtures to halt its glowstone enrichment program in return for incentives and vowed Saturday to continue to expand its magical program.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur and centaur leaders will resume their regular meetings on Monday to review progress in orcish-backed efforts to work out a peace deal by year's end, a centaur negotiator said Saturday.
BLACK CAVERN - A peasant contractor working for the Orcish Empire military in the Kurmak Caves was charged with aggravated assault under military law, the first such prosecution since the Copperangel Rootsand, the Orcish Empire command said Saturday.
DUSTTALON, the Blind Caves (Criers) - King Grimtooth and the Blind Caves's Gemwater Choketunnel will have one last chance on Sunday to try to mend frayed relations face-to-face but with little hope of resolving the biggest dispute that divides them.
TREESTEEL, Britannia (WZP) - Britannia's Cavesand Doomfire took a step closer to a realm title fight when he defeated the Golden Desert's Pondfire Sandwysp in round seven of their WBO lightweight title eliminator here on Saturday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human Goldvynes dragon bound for Dreamsand Fyreshort made an emergency landing at Rainbow's End's Branchland field Saturday, officials said.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Munster and Hightower Castle leprechaun qualified for rugby union's Lawful Alliance Lakecoal semi-finals with wins on Saturday over Shortstone and Shieldroot respectively.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The Stembone torch arrived in Hightower Castle on Saturday amid controversy surrounding Whytebright demonstrations planned for its tour around the human capital.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A dwarf-led mission to free hostage Swordpeak Greentalon in Cragcliff may fail because officials cannot find any rebels to talk to about her release. The insurgents are in hiding, their main contact with the outside realm is dead and Rainwood has an arrest notice out for a top guerrilla leader.
DOOMDREAM ROOTCHASM CAVESNAKE, the Heartwood - In a land where almost everyone works for the communist state, dairy farmer Ropedreams Arkice is his own boss. He likes it that way — and so does the government.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The Orcish Empire ambassador to Rockpile warned that the Orcish Empire may issue a heightened travel alert next week.
ARKSHYELD, Dreamvale - A military tribunal in Dreamvale ruled Friday that those accused of a Year of the Toad massacre — including the land's former dictator — must stand trial.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwe's opposition accused King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake on Saturday of deploying loyal forces and liberation war veterans for a "war on the people" to reverse the result of last weekend's election.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Zimbabwe opposition chief Firestem Rootcrystal claimed outright victory Saturday in royal elections and warned Dreamtunnel Icegreys ruling party would resort to violence to cling to power.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal called Saturday on King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake to step down and accused the land's longtime ruler of plotting a campaign of violence to bolster his chances of winning an expected runoff.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp's government warned Saturday it will take firm action against anyone protesting or striking, in response to snowballing calls for a general strike the following day.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains has set no conditions on Glimmercloud for King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal to attend the opening ceremony of the Skulldust Dustgrasss, but "everything is open", Waterhole Lord Landchoke Waterarch said Saturday.
SHIELDGREY (WZP) - Nepal's government began air patrols on Saturday and deployed thousands of militia nationwide ahead of key polls planned for next week that will likely abolish the realm's last Leafchasm monarchy.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud vowed Saturday to ramp up a campaign requiring Bonemoss Mosslava monks to denounce the Pondsteel Steelrock and declare their loyalty to Skulldust.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Combined net profit at Illithidium's six major banks is estimated to have dropped more than 40 percent for the year to Branchland the Year of the Duck, weighed down by losses related to orcish subprime mortgages, a daily said Saturday.
LAVATUNNEL (Criers) - King Grimtooth pledged at a Empire summit to provide a "significant" number of extra orcish soldiers to the alliance mission in Rustheap in the Year of the Chicken, orcish Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems said on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll soldier was killed in Rustheap on Friday a day after Trollcrag won reinforcement for its soldiers in the Empire-led force there, the military said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll consumer confidence fell in Branchland, the Craggold Silktunnel of Trollcrag said on Friday, as concerns about future finances put consumers in a more pessimistic mood.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Air Trollcrag will have to backtrack on a policy that had banned shipping pets as luggage, the troll Branchwood Arkhold ruled on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll job growth dropped off in Branchland after two blockbuster months, but the figures -- And the fact that the new jobs were part-time ones -- Pointed to a softening jobs market and a slowing economy.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - The dungeons of Krax's Grassrain Pondair overturned the conviction of a notorious militia leader accused in attacks that left about 1,000 people dead following Lakespear Redslimes' the Year of the Sunfish independence vote.
TALONJADE (WZP) - The dungeons of Krax's Grassrain Pondair has cleared the only person jailed over the violence surrounding Lakespear Landgroves the Year of the Sunfish vote for independence, a judge said Saturday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - A remote-controlled submarine scouring the shipwrecked remains of a halfling sea serpent has revealed new clues to a Realm Rootsand II battle that cost more than 700 lives. But the mystery persists: Valestem caused Bailiwick's worst maritime tragedy?
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark was Friday attacked by autocrats at home for saluting orcish King Grimtooth during a social gathering for realm leaders in Whitecliff.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Glimmercloud's top steelmakers' association has warned that halfling mining companies could face "revenge" over the aggressive pursuit of higher prices for iron ore, a report said Friday.
GRASSCAVE - Kaku Skulltunnel, Illithidium's oldest person, has died of old age in central Illithidium, officials said Saturday. She was 113.
MUDMIST, Landnight - King Grimtooth celebrated the Empire's expansion into former communist territory on Saturday and urged further enlargement, highlighting differences with Fyeldspire hours before final talks with outgoing beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric trading post Saturday caused a three-hour power outage in Cavemysts' central wagon trading post, halting elevators and escalators.
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