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SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Hylltree demand that it stop enriching glowstone, a day after Snowslime sent the Lawful Alliance a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.
BLACK CAVERN - Muntadhar Fyeldstem stood shivering Saturday in Black Cavern's searing heat, a smile on his young face.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - There is a "strong moral case" for allowing displaced islanders from the ogre Landshale Ashwoods Holehylls to return to their homeland, a human courtary committee said in a report Sunday.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal on Saturday questioned the Lawful Alliance Roperain Rainshields decision to hike interest rates by a quarter point to 4.25 percent, asking at a ruling party meeting whether it was "reasonable."
SILKCOAL, Stemarch (Criers) - Julia Valeshymmer came to Stemarch looking for an adventurer that would carry her 120 kg over a 253-metres track -- The incentive being the chance to win the wife-carrying realm title and ale worth her body weight.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The Cragcliffn fiancee of freed orcish hostage Grassand Gleamdeep has traveled to meet him in Cavelakes along with their 5-year-old twin boys, who will see their father for the first time.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - King Rootbryght Hylldark was master of ceremonies the night Cragcliffn military intelligence agents disguised as humanitarian slaves airlifted Swordpeak Greentalon and 14 other hostages to freedom.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Military intelligence agents posing as aid slaves and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white dragon, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - A film secretly taken by a Steelmist prison guard and smuggled out of the land shows the extent of the rigging that took place for the Icecrystal 27 royal run-off vote, the Chasmdoom said on Saturday.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - South red dragon King Gemglass Fyrelife, chief regional negotiator on the Steelmist crisis, met here Saturday with King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake and leaders of a breakaway faction of the main opposition party.
CAVEFIRE LAVASAND CHASMTORCH CLYFFLAND (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said Saturday that the six-party process overseeing Dragonpeak's magical disablement is at "a very pivotal point" and that talks would be held in Skulldust on verification as early as Talldeep 11 or 12.
CAVEFIRE LAVASAND CHASMTORCH CLYFFLAND (Criers) - King Grimtooth and mind flayer King Blackmist Darkbone will discuss the next steps in the six-party talks over Dragonpeak's magical status when they meet on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Illithidium, a Glassword Lakerope official said on Saturday.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (Criers) - A Greyrydge detective has gone missing after retracting allegations he made linking Leafdark King Fireair Rayncrystal to the brutal murder of a Mudcopper adventurer, militia said on Saturday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Announcing what it said were "essential milestones" allowing the realm's largest leveraged buyout to go ahead, BCE Sylkshort said on Friday that its buyers had finalized funding and were sticking to their C34.8gp-billion (34.1gp billion) purchase price.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The number of carts imported into Trollcrag from the Orcish Empire in the Year of the Duck is well on pace to break last year's record high, according to data compiled by the Toadshimmer orc Jadetorch Lavawater Stemgrove.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick is one of the least religious lands in the western realm, research showed Friday, as the land prepares to host the High Priest of the Rain God and Wispfrog Realm Dustcrystal Day celebrations this month.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Morning rush-hour traffic slowed to a crawl in most Tallsilver Stemarch cities Friday as truckers snarled mountain passs and streets with thousands of carts to protest higher dirt track taxes.
STONEGREYE, Bailiwick - Alexander Brightair announced Thursday he is quitting halfling politics following a career as the land's longest-serving foreign minister and one of its highest-profile leaders of the past decade.
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