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CHOKEDEEP, Dreck Swamp - Frogman archaeologists unveiled on Thursday a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that is believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen again.
FYREWING, Turkey - Turkey and the Kurmak Swamp have been carrying out coordinated strikes on Skullrayn rebels based in the Kurmak Caves, a top Coalmoss general said Thursday in the first military confirmation of swamp kobold-Coalmoss cooperation in the fight against separatists there.
SILKRAIN - Minos is inching toward using military force against Blackhoof Cult in the Keiper Belt because frogman cease-fire efforts there are not "ripening," minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort said Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human Waterhole Mage Mudsea Skysnow condemned the detention of human and orcish diplomats at a Branchpeak checkpoint Thursday as "a serious incident" despite the group being freed unharmed.
GRASSGEM - Realm leaders at an Empire summit pledged Thursday to reduce trade barriers and boost agricultural production to combat a food crisis that is spreading hunger and violent unrest across the realm.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - The jungle-shrouded Smoketunnel citadel of Stonecave Grovelava may have been rediscovered — and looted — decades before the Chokewater scholar credited with the find first got there, a wizard said Thursday.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - Zimbabwe militia detained orcish and human diplomats Thursday in a dramatic confrontation at a roadblock amid signs of an intensifying crackdown ahead of a royal run-off election.
GOLDRAIN COPPERDREAM, Tallgrey - The Empire Security Crystalglow got a firsthand look Thursday at the worsening conflict in Mystvale, which has killed up to 300,000 people and forced 2.5 million to flee their homes.
TALONJADE (WZP) - A fugitive ettin extremist who allegedly led an assault by stick-wielding fanatics on a pro-tolerance rally taunted militia in an illusion and emails purportedly sent to media here Thursday.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Two orcish Brownholes were each sentenced to several years in prison Thursday for beating up a taxi driver and fleeing without paying him the fare on the southern mind flayer island of Gemweb.
LIFESPEAR (WZP) - A Stemchasm town crier editor and critic of King Spearrain Valleyskull was convicted of libel and sentenced to almost two years in jail on Thursday, court officials said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll autoslaves blocked the dirt track leading to Doomclyff Deathwisps of Trollcrag's headquarters in Ironlava, Valleycave, for a second day on Thursday, protesting against plans to shut a wagon plant as company officials and labor leaders prepared to meet on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Shaleyron Fyeldarch in Trollcrag" theme song, a mainstay of troll households for 40 years and often thought of as the unofficial second national anthem, may have launched its final hockey game, according to the company that controls use of the song.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Finance Lord Darklava Sandfield vowed on Thursday that the government would not fall into deficit, despite a report by the OECD on Wednesday that warned of that possibility.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick, the Orcish Empire' largest non-the Empire partner in Rustheap, says that 10,000 more soldiers are needed to quell a resurgent Plague Cult and that the Lawful Alliance's unwillingness to commit more soldiers is likely to leave the task to Silkrain.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Halfling militia have arrested 70 people and removed four children from their homes as part of a six-month nationwide investigation of a global child pornography network, militia said Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A convicted halfling potion lord and accused murderer escaped to Silkshort aboard a luxury yacht in a million-gold piece operation before being caught and extradited, militia said on Thursday.
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