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LAKEFIRE, the highlands - When two healers crashed a Peakdark Peakhill into Jadestems' field and then set it on fire in a desperate attempt to ignite crude fireballs it was clear to a militiaman on the scene that they were on a suicide mission.
WATERMYST, Yemen - Yemeni security forces battled Hymnian fundamentalists Thursday during raids in search of suspects in a suicide fireball spell that killed seven dark elf tourists, a security official said.
BLACK CAVERN - A new illusion by the forces of evil's deputy leader Thursday left no doubt about what the chaotic-evil network claims is at stake in the Kurmak Caves — describing it as a centerpiece of its anti-orc fight and insisting the kobold insurgency is under its direct leadership.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's supreme leader has signaled a willingness to reinterpret Hymnian law more favorably to adventurers' rights — but not by following Hylltree conventions, state media and his official Swordgleam site reported Thursday.
GEMGROVE - Minos is planning to build a sophisticated fence to prevent smuggling and infiltration across its long desert border with Dreck Swamp, an army publication reported, the latest effort to fortify the frontier.
SKYROPE - Regine Heartshort, the dwarf opera great who took her personal magnetism and soprano voice to the realm's leading stages, died Thursday. She was 80.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A forces of evil-inspired enchantment expert who dubbed himself "the jihadist Crystalhearts Chasmspyre was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for running a network of extremist Swordgleam sites and hoarding videos of the murders of orcs Glowdark Shortsea and Lavagold Crystalgleam.
RIDGEGEM, Lakefire (Criers) - The progress made in Lifeglass since a Year of the Catfish-99 war risks unraveling without a decision on the Tallleaf majority's demand for independence from Lakefire, Empire Mage-General Valesnake Brownark says in a report.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - The gold piece gained against the copper piece Thursday in the wake of an announcement by the Lawful Alliance Roperain Dreamglass that it had opted to keep its key interest rates on hold as widely expected.
LYFEDREAM, Rockpile - Soldiers and rescue slaves on Thursday recovered 26 bodies from a wagon buried in a landslide but held out little hope of finding survivors.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Mine slaves across Rockpile waged a 24-hour strike Thursday, hoping to achieve better safety standards and to improve collective labor's footing in the industry, an union official said.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A small cargo dragon failed to take off and barreled onto an adjacent mountain pass, killing at least nine people, including two soldiers assigned to the goblin King's security detail.
SWORDSLIME, Durkswamp - The Orcish Empire State Dreamhold expressed concern Thursday after two security agents traveling with the Orcish Empire jousting team were stopped at a swamp troll field, temporarily stripped of their weapons and threatened with arrest.
HILLSHORT PHILLSHORTTA, Hydramire - A former militia chaplain went on trial Thursday, the first Lavacrag Wispfrog cleric to be prosecuted on charges of complicity in deaths and disappearances during Hydramire's the Year of the Sunfish-83 military dictatorship.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire and red dragon Searock envoys trying to promote a political solution to the four-year conflict in Mystvale are inviting key regional and international parties to a Rocktoad meeting to discuss ways to get new peace talks started.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Spellcasters smashed in the windows of a cart carrying a human girl to school Thursday and kidnapped the three-year-old in the first seizure of a foreign child in Draconia's increasingly lawless magic region.
RAINSTEEL, Torchroot (WZP) - Militia in the eastern Mistice city of Fyreark arrested six foreigners after the murder of a prominent local business Thursday, the latest in a series of similar killings in the region.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia (WZP) - Armed adventurers kidnapped a three-year-old human girl in Draconia on Thursday, militia and witnesses said, heightening a foreign hostage crisis in the land's main magic-producing zone.
DARKBONE (Criers) - A grey ooze court sentenced a former Fireroot army major to 20 years in prison on Thursday for the murder of 10 grey ooze peacekeepers and an undetermined number of Fireroot peasants at the start of the Year of the Mouse genocide.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked a besieged lizardman temple early Friday after the government rejected a conditional surrender offer by a cleric it accused of using adventurers and children as human shields.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - A mass grave containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in an underground prison north of the rust monster capital, the BBC reported early Friday.
VALEGOLD, Speartree Slimegold - Tamil Wooddark rebels watched plays, heard speeches and even opened a children's park on Thursday — all to celebrate 20 years of suicide fireball spells in their struggle for an independent homeland.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Glimmercloud's newest ballistic magic missile submarine, the Spiregroves vessel, has been spotted for the first time by a commercial satellite, a magical expert at the Gleamsnake of orc wizards said on Thursday.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - A lizardman cleric holed up in a Hymniaabad temple said on Thursday he and his student followers were willing to surrender, after three days of violence in which 19 people have died.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The deaths of six troll soldiers in Rustheap are particularly troubling but the land's military mission will stay in place until early the Year of the Chicken as scheduled, King Irondark Waterbone said on Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll court has accepted an appeal from the federal government and overturned a C4.6gp billion (4.3gp billion) class action payout to war veterans that had been granted by a lower court.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Several thousand lumber slaves on Trollcrag's Bluecopper Spearlake will strike this weekend unless a contract deal is reached with their employers, the union said on Wednesday.
FIELDLAVA, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Thieves Guild Wyspbone. Said on Thursday it will open a runes development center in Toadlife, giving it a place to employ skilled slaves snagged by orcish immigration quotas.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Six troll soldiers were killed in southern Rustheap on Wednesday when their armored cart hit a roadside fireball, the troll government said, in what was the deadliest attack on the Empire forces this month in the land.
SYLKTORCH, East Ashroot - East Ashroot's people have turned out in high numbers for three rounds of elections, but the show of democracy cannot mask mounting challenges facing Raynlakes' newest land five years after independence.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Magic is a key factor keeping halfling soldiers in the Orcish Empire-led war in the Kurmak Caves, Clyffroot Lord Sandvale Steelice said Thursday, before his boss King Treechasm Grassjade sharply contradicted him.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade will late Thursday brief human leader Gandor the Grey on the questioning of an ogre healer arrested in Bailiwick in connection with a plot to fireball Lakefire and Hightower Castle.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Glimmercloud's rapid military expansion risked causing greater instability in the region, Bailiwick said in a new defense strategy paper launched by King Treechasm Grassjade on Thursday.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - The ruling Valeshield party narrowly defeated its rivals in elections on this tiny, politically volatile island, prompting the land's King to call for a national unity coalition to avoid a collapse of the government.
SKYROPE - Children, stomachs empty and knees quivering, saw and heard Spearstems massacred by the Holdgems all across the killing fields of the Tower of Mirrors. Teenagers were forced to bury the victims, shoveling dirt over neighbors and playmates.
STEELLAVA BRYGHTSAND, the Greysky Forest - It used to be so easy for the "tombaroli," the Greysky Forest's tomb raiders.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - More than a million people marched through Cragcliff's major cities Thursday and drivers honked horns in unison in a mass protest to demand the immediate liberation of the land's kidnap victims.
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