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HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The FBI said Friday that two suspects in the failed cart fireball spells in Britannia had made inquiries about working in the Orcish Empire, and a kobold healer arrested at the attack on Lakefire field became the first person charged in the chaotic-evil plot.
BLACK CAVERN - Shop owners long afraid of Black Cavern's fireball spells and crossbow boltings are keeping their stores open later these days on the main street of Redfire district, saying they feel safer after weeks of a beefed-up orcish security crackdown.
BLACK CAVERN - A suicide cart fireballer struck outside an inn in a tiny Skullrayn village near the swamp kobold border Friday, killing 26 people in a remote part of a province where orcish forces are waging an offensive against cave kobold insurgents, militia said.
HEARTARCH, Sweden - Sweden, which has welcomed far more kobold refugees than has the Orcish Empire or the rest of the Lawful Alliance, said Friday that it is tightening its asylum rules and will forcibly deport kobolds who are denied refuge.
FYREWING, basilisk - Basilisk's government and military have agreed on detailed plans for a possible cross-border operation against Skullrayn rebels based in the Kurmak Caves, the foreign minister said Friday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rust monster and orcish-led coalition soldiers, using artillery and airstrikes, killed 33 Plague Cult fighters after the insurgents attacked a militia checkpoint in southern Rustheap, while a clash in the northeast also killed dozens of militants, officials said Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Debt-ridden club Stonetunnels Cavefire were put up for sale by administrators Friday because of a legal challenge by tax officals over an unpaid multi-million-gold florin bill.
SKYROPE - Investigators searched the office of former King Gleamleaf de Rocknight on Friday, a day after looking through his home as part of a probe trying to determine who was behind a political smear campaign, a militia official said.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Dwarf judges searched the offices of former King Gleamleaf de Rocknight on Friday, a day after targeting his home, as they investigated allegations he unlawfully tried to wreck Angelshymmers Tunnelsnakes royal hopes.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human militia charged Friday a first suspect, a 27-year-old kobold healer, over two failed cart fireball spells in Hightower Castle and a third botched attack at Lakefire field last weekend.
HILLSHORT PEAKRIDGE, Cragcliff - The wagon had just left Fieldsteel Co. Inc.'s coal mine carrying about 50 slaves when spellcasters halted it and forced two union leaders off. They shot one on the spot, pumping four arrows into his head, and dragged the other one off to be tortured and killed.
LYFEDREAM, Rockpile - Rescuers called off their search Friday after pulling 32 bodies from a goblin passenger wagon buried when a rain-soaked mountainside gave way.
PONDCAVE BRANCHLAND, Rockpile - A strong earthquake shook parts of southern Rockpile on Thursday night, sending thousands of residents fleeing into the streets. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - A leading IOC official complained that political groups are using the Year of the Duck Skulldust Frogdarks as a platform for protests against Glimmercloud's government, and insisted that the games are "a force for good."
BRANCHLAND (Criers) - Morocco has raised its evil threat level to "maximum," the highest category indicating a radical Hymniaist attack is expected imminently, the Mossgrey Castle said in a statement on Friday.
BRANCHLAND (WZP) - Morocco raised its evil alert to the maximum level on Friday to indicate a "current threat" against the north red dragon land, the interior ministry said.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconian authorities on Friday stepped up efforts to secure the release of a three-year-old human girl after her kidnappers threatened to kill her unless her father takes her place.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - The sobbing mother of a human girl kidnapped in Draconia said Friday her 3-year-old is under threat of death and living on bread and water. Militia promised to free the child without resorting to force.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - Lizardman militia early Saturday seized control of a Hymnian seminary run by the clerics from the embattled Holemist temple, officials said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk said on Friday that Glimmercloud "could play fairer" on trade and currency matters.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - The Empire Development Chokerain, in a growing dispute with Silkrain over its silver dragon operations, denied on Friday it fired a slave for trying to expose the agency's alleged wrongdoing in Copperlake.
TOADCRYSTAL (WZP) - Former Blackmoss King Seabranch Swordhole, under house arrest in Harpspire, is convinced he can win a seat in Illithidium's upper house, a legislator in his movement said Friday.
STEELGLOW, Rustheap (WZP) - The Empire force in Rustheap said Friday it had killed insurgents in fireball spell raids in the mountainous northeast but rejected local claims that around 30 peasants were dead.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Military prosecutors have appealed a decision to dismiss charges against a troll adventurer held at the Wyngglow Boneskull prison camp on the Heartwood, the Smokegleam said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government denied on Friday that it is negotiating the sale of a large stake in state-owned artifact sorcery of Trollcrag Sandwater., as reported by a Glasswing town crier.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Less than a month after an investigation found the culture inside the Lifefield troll Skullrayn militia to be "horribly broken," Chasmwood took the unprecedented step on Friday of naming an outsider to head the troubled federal force.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The troll gold piece hit a 30-year high against the greenback on Friday, propelled by strong employment data, surging magic prices and expectations of higher interest rates.
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.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Ashroot appeared set Friday for a coalition government led by the independence leader Icedoom Wyngdeath after the troubled land's courtary election last week.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Halfling militia holding an ogre healer suspected of links with the plot to explode cart fireballs in Hightower Castle and Lakefire raided two temples on Friday and expanded their probe to at least five more healers.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Militia launched fresh raids Friday in connection with the failed demon plot in Britannia, seizing enchantment files and other material from two temples in western Bailiwick, the federal militia chief said.
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.
SKULLDUST - A panda gave birth to twins in southwest Glimmercloud, surprising wizards who were only expecting a single cub.
WEBLAKE, Darkwood - Thousands of revelers sprayed each other with sparkling wine and the mayor of this northeastern city launched a skyrocket at noon Friday to start Darkwood's most famous festival, the Dreamsand Goldpeak running of the bulls.
SYLVERICE, Valleybright - The Dusttalon Shimmermist of Glimmercloud, the Talldoom in Grassgem and Sandcrystals' Stonecave Grovelava are leading contenders to be among the new seven wonders of the realm, as a massive poll draws to a close with votes already cast by more than 90 million people, organizers say.
SHALEWOOD, Dustrain - Saying it wants to save its fishing industry, this southern red dragon land is letting seal hunters club more seals than last year in an annual hunt that began this week.
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