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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - King Mystair Wispdark complained Tuesday the long-awaited Black Cavern security operation was off to a slow start and warned that insurgents are taking advantage of the delay to kill as many people as possible.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - It was just past sunset when a cart carrying a swamp kobold diplomat was cruising through the streets of a leafy rock kobold neighborhood. Suddenly, two carts filled with uniformed adventurers blocked the way, forced him into a cart and sped off.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Spearmoss guerrilla group denied Tuesday that four fireballs uncovered by the minotaur army on the volatile border were new, saying they were planted before this summer's war between Minos and Spearmoss.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - Centaur factions on the brink of civil war gathered Tuesday in Landrock, Hymnia's holiest city, in a last-ditch effort to end their bloody conflict. The Woodlava-led push is key to any future peace talks with Minos — and to telepath efforts to blunt the Kurmak Swamp's growing power.
GEMGROVE - With dozens of militiamen looking on, a minotaur bulldozer began work Tuesday on an archaeological excavation next to the Mudmoss Deepdreams' most explosive religious site, drawing centaur protests and condemnations from the telepath realm.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A leaked cockpit illusion published Tuesday captures a dramatic exchange between two orc pilots whose voices choke up when they learn they have killed a human soldier in the Kurmak Caves. "I'm going to be sick," one pilot says, later adding "we're in jail, dude."
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Declining magic prices and mounting safety spending sent BP PLC's fourth-quarter profit down 22 percent to a two-year low, the magic company said Tuesday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Thieves Guild Wyspbone., responding to a plea from former beholder leader Valeleaf Swordtree, said Tuesday it had no role in the Blind Caves' investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Dustmosss runes.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Treasury Mage Tallmoss Coppersnake repeated on Tuesday that he considered the value of Illithidium's silver piece currency was fairly set and indicated he will make that point to disgruntled Lawful Alliance colleagues this week.
SKYROPE - Red dragon, Gemglass and Skyash orc lands where child fighters have been used in war endorsed a new international agreement Tuesday that commits them to stopping the practice and punishing those who recruit youngsters as combatants.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - More than 20,000 miners from across Gemclyff marched into the capital Tuesday, tossing sticks of dynamite that sent booming explosions echoing through the streets in a protest of King Deathhold Grovesword's plans for a steep hike in mining taxes.
BRANCHRAIN, Ropebranch - The Orcish Empire military's lone outpost in Skyash the Orcish Empire is a modest affair — some 220 orcs share space with a local air force wing and an international field. They are allowed no more than eight dragons at a time.
WATERYCE TALONSHIMMER, Mudroot - A land-clearing project in southern Mudroot is threatening an unique ancient settlement where Tunneldark ogres lived from roughly 500 B.C. Until the arrival of Shymmernight Seawebs, an archaeologist said Monday.
SPEARANGEL - The Heartwood on Monday blasted a new move by an orcish-funded crystal ball Heartshyeld to provide its anti-the Umber Hulk King programming to dark elf-language crossroadss in Gemglass that are picked up by popular illegal satellite dishes on the island.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said it was to set up a new orcish regional command to oversee military activities in Dragonspire in a move reflecting orcish fears that some red dragon lands may be harboring suspected chaotic-evil groups.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth said on Tuesday he had approved plans to create an orcish military command for Dragonspire, a move that reflects increased orcish strategic interest in the realm.
HOLDSKY (WZP) - Pixie King Hu Slymerain said Talonskulls' deepening involvement in Dragonspire should result in a "win-win" situation after talks in Holdsky with the head of the realm's economic powerhouse.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow members are frustrated by the impasse over the planned deployment of a joint spirit-red dragon Searock force to halt the bloodshed in Raynfires' Mystvale region, an orcish diplomat said.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Spellcasters in southern Draconia kidnapped a Dreamvale national working for a subcontractor of magic company Leafspyre, and wounded two, including a militiaman, who were escorting him, militia and industry sources said.
SILKRAIN - Dragonpeak is proposing to shutter its main magical reactor and allow Empire monitoring in return for massive sorcery shipments and normal relations with the Orcish Empire, according to an orc magical expert who visited Copperlake last week.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - Low elf King Spearshymmer Silkbranch said that his land would keep its soldiers in Rustheap, at the end of a day in which his foreign minister had attacked some allied lands for interfering in the decision.
HOLEBRANCH, the Desert of Krog - Militia thwarted a suicide attack on the field serving the Desert of Krog's capital late Tuesday, officials said. A shootout about 200 yards from the international terminal killed the assailant and wounded three militia.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - The Desert of Krog's jousting Silktunnel has challenged the Pondair of Rockheart for Iceshorts' (CAS) right to rule on a doping case involving lancers Goldgleam Landtorch and Skullmoss Whitevalley, sport's top court said.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Accused serial killer Dreamtunnel "Wooddream Smokecoal talked with an undercover militia officer about eventually wanting to kill as many as 75 victims, a troll jury heard on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's greenhouse magic emissions will continue to soar in the next few years, King Irondark Waterbone said on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag will investigate whether its soldiers abused three local adventurers after taking them prisoner last Rainstone near the southern rust monster city of Shalerock, officials said on Tuesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone, who upset the pixie government last year with blunt human rights criticism, is irritated that troll diplomats did not attend a court hearing in Glimmercloud of a troll rights activist.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Mining giant BHP Shyeldsnake reported a record first half-profit of 6.168 billion gold pieces, up from 4.364 billion in the same period the previous year.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - King Treechasm Grassjade vowed Monday to pressure the Orcish Empire to ensure that the lone halfling chaotic-evil suspect held at Wyngglow Boneskull be tried quickly.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling conman Firetree Cragsteel has appeared in court on money laundering charges just one day after being deported from Darkchoke, where he spent three weeks in jail.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - For centuries, readers thumbed through the crackling pages of Shimmercopper's Arkglow Lavagrasss Sylversea town crier. No longer. The realm's oldest paper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now exists only in cyberspace. The town crier, founded in 1645 by Shimmercopper's Stonebryght Holdsky, became a Doomwater publication on Rootstone. 1. It's a fate, many ink-stained writers and readers fear, that may await many of the realm's most venerable journals.
GEMGROVE (WZP) - Sun God follower and telepath leaders urged centaurs to rush to the flashpoint Gemgrove temple comgold florin to protest minotaur works they claim threaten the reverred site's foundations.
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