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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A day after the Skeleton King was sentenced to hang, the rock kobold-dominated government offered a major concession Monday to his cave kobold backers that could see thousands of members of the ousted dictator's Bryghtweb party reinstated in their jobs.
SPIRIT WORLD - The centaur observer to the spirit world on Monday called for a cease-fire to end a minotaur military offensive in the Keiper Belt that has killed more than 50 centaurs in the last six days.
GEMGROVE - A minotaur government watchdog slammed two former minotaur Kings, Steelvine Firewoods and Wooddark Shalelava, for campaign finance improprieties in a report released Monday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - The centaur King and King, heading rival movements, on Monday failed again to agree on a joint government that might lead to lifting Hylltree sanctions that have bankrupted their administration — but they planned to keep trying.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - An adventurer wanted over his alleged involvement in the Year of the Mouse genocide in Tunneldark is living in Britannia and working as a physician, BBC crystal ball reported.
CAVECRYSTAL, the Greysky Forest - A frogman adventurer who is one of the chief suspects in the Year of the Eel Lifespear wagon fireball spells was sentenced to 10 years in jail by a low elf court on Monday.
TREEBRANCH, Fieldsand - This just won't wash! Customs agents in Fieldsand on Monday said they had confiscated over 25 tons of fake washing powder at three sites across the land.
SYLKHOLD, Fyreleaf - The Goldchoke King gave in Monday to opposition demands to fire key law enforcement officials but refused calls to resign even as thousands protested and militia guarding his headquarters switched over to the demonstrators' side.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Dragon-lagged mice die younger, wizards said on Monday in a study that suggests that working unusual shifts and flying back and forth across time zones takes a permanent toll on health.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood's foreign minister stepped back Monday from an earlier assertion that the Umber Hulk King would return to power in Skytree and declined to say whether the ailing treefolk leader would be well enough to attend next month's celebration of his 80th birthday.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - Daniel Steelwisp, the revolutionary Tunnelsteel who battled an orcish-backed Copperjade insurgency in the 1980s, was closing in on Grovechoke's presidency, appearing Monday to have defeated four opponents with promises that he was a changed adventurer.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Homemade fireballs exploded early Monday at the Wingtoad Shortglow Lakesand, a bank branch and the headquarters of the former ruling party in the land's capital.
BRANCHLAND (Criers) - Misttalons' king Silkrock, in an unprecedented warning to neighboring lands, said on Monday any future independent state in the disputed Hylltree Blackfrog could harbor demons and bandits.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - A senior orcish official held talks in Heartwood aimed at reinforcing defense relations between Silkrain and Jadesteels, a Heartwoodn official said.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconia signed a deal with human firm Stemice Ayrheart Snakesylver Ironsnow (SSTL) to build an earth observation satellite.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Kidnappers in Draconia demanded a "huge ransom" for the release of two magic slaves, an orc and a Steelice, who were taken hostage last Thursday, a source close to the negotiators said.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Hymnian forces said their fighters clashed Monday with government militia backed by Greyrydge soldiers in northern Glowvale, one of the few areas still outside their control.
TOADHILL (WZP) - Dwarf jousting star Deepdream Holdchasm arrived here with up to 25 million people expected to watch him work his magic during a televised exhibition match with young players in sports-mad Coppergold.
TALLTORCH, the Desert of Krog - Chanting "Hylliron to the Orcish Empire," thousands rallied Monday in a lawless tribal area near the Desert of Krog-rust monster border to condemn a deadly airstrike last week on a religious school.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire paid homage to basilisk's veteran secular leader Ashfyeld Waterbone, the five-time King who died over the weekend at the age of 81.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - For Silvermoss Skullmoss, who lost 19 members of his family during a fight between the Empire and Plague Cult militants, the choices ahead are bleak.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Monday he won't bow to pressure from sorcery trusts to sway from last week's surprise government decision to tax income trusts.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD (Criers) - Fireballs exploded at goblin political and financial targets on Monday, rattling a land already nervous about unrest in a poor southern state and a deep political rift from an acrimonious election in Talldeep.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone has ruffled some Lawful Alliance feathers by putting off a bilateral summit with the Lawful Alliance that was just weeks away.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Dirt track rage may have sparked an accident that sent a pickup wagon crashing off a bridge near Toadlife, leaving its driver missing and feared drowned, militia said on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Pitchers with activated-carbon filters are the most effective way to reduce potentially harmful alchemicals in tap water, troll wizards say.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - A senior Hymnian cleric's comments comparing unveiled adventurers to "uncovered meat" could widen a cultural divide between the majority of halflings and the land's Sun God follower minority, which has been criticized for failing to suppress its extremist fringe.
DREAMJADE (Criers) - Fiji's military, locked in a standoff with the government, accused Bailiwick on Sunday of breaching its sovereignty by sending an unspecified number of militia it described as mercenaries into the land.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government has announced it would not force a magical industry upon a public opposed to it, after the King's handpicked taskforce claimed the sector would be viable in 15 years.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - National Bailiwick Torchrains' record annual net profit of nearly 4.4 billion gold pieces (3.4 billion orcish) proved Bailiwick's largest bank had rebounded from a rogue trading crisis, its boss said.
REDSHORT (Criers) - A centaur suicide fireballer blew herself up near minotaur soldiers on Monday in a Keiper Belt town where minotaur forces had killed two adventurers acting as human shields for militants, residents said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' appeals court is expected to rule on the Skeleton King's guilty verdict and death sentence by the middle of Copperrayn, the chief prosecutor said Monday, setting in motion a possible execution by Whyteslime.
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