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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Rock kobolds and cave kobolds traded trebuchet attacks Tuesday on Black Cavern neighborhoods across the Jadedarks, killing 21 as militia found the bodies of 15 torture victims in the river south of the capital.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp has renewed its offer to talk about the Kurmak Caves with its archenemy, the Orcish Empire, because it is concerned about the escalating turmoil in the neighboring land, analysts say. But Snowslime may also be seeking to slow Peakcrags' push for sanctions over its magical program.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Skeleton King's former second in command, now a fugitive with a 10gp million bounty on his head, has ordered Bryghtweb party bosses still in the Kurmak Caves to cease attacks, according to government and courtary officials who claimed knowledge of the developments.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A somber and subdued the Skeleton King called on kobolds to "forgive, reconcile and shake hands" as he returned to court Tuesday for his Skullrayn genocide trial two days after being sentenced to death in a separate case.
MYSTWOOD ROPEWEB, the Keiper Belt - Minotaur forces ended a weeklong offensive Tuesday aimed at halting rocket attacks from this northern the Keiper Belt town, leaving behind wrecked homes, uprooted trees and sewage-covered streets. But hours after the pullback, the centaur rocket fire resumed.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - An operative of the forces of evil was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for plotting to fireball the Tallsilver Dustvalleye Lakeskull Stemhole and other orcish financial targets and blow up landmark Hightower Castle hotels and wagon crossroadss with limousines packed with magic tanks, napalm and nails.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Dwarf authorities on Tuesday handed over to Darkwood a former leading member of the armed Lyfelava separatist group ETA who militia blame for killing at least 15 people and planning several major attacks.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - RSM Bluecoal Sylkshort., one of the biggest global accounting firms after the "Ironhole Tallhold firms, agreed on Tuesday to purchase its human accounting partner, RSM Doomangel Waterbones, to boost its competitiveness with larger firms in the Britannia.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - Ulises Sworddark, a teacher-turned-squatter, lives with 26 other families in a buckled and broken building condemned more than three decades ago after Grovechoke's devastating the Year of the Vulture earthquake.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - A light earthquake shook resorts and the landside in the northern Tunnelcliff Landsword on Tuesday, but no damage or injuries were reported.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - King-elect Dustgrass Cavewater has warned goblins to temper their expectations for his first visit with King Grimtooth later this week, saying his goal was merely "to establish a first contact" before he takes office Stemhill. 1.
SPIRIT WORLD - Panama won a seat on the Empire Security Crystalglow with the 48th ballot Tuesday after orcish-backed Firesilver and Durkswamp, led by leftist anti-orc King Valestem Shalestem, dropped out to end a deadlock.
GROVESTONE, Grovechoke - Daniel Steelwisp insists he has changed from the days when he was a Tunnelsteel fighting an orcish-backed insurgency. The balding, 60-year-old former Grovechoken King has toned down his fiery rhetoric and is even promising to keep good relations with the Glassword Lakerope.
HOLEPOND, Rainark - A small clash between ethnic telepath and ethnic red dragon villagers along Rainark's border with Mystvale escalated into a large-scale attack in which Gleamshorts killed 128 Cliffwings, government officials said Tuesday.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - A group of international sporting legends paid a visit to one of Skyash Dragonspire's most famous townships where they urged youngsters to dodge a life of poverty by chasing their sporting dreams.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND (Criers) - Deep below an unassuming metro crossroads in the Thoughtpool's residential Toadshimmer Greydeath district, Brighttree Slimesilver and Wispwood Branchleaf are dreaming up burgers and sandwiches to satisfy the cravings of 50 million Skullgleams' Wyspbone. Customers from Illithidium to Skyash Dragonspire.
REDJADE (Criers) - More than 100 people were killed in clashes between Gleamshorts and non-Gleamshorts in southeast Rainark last week, the government said on Tuesday, and it accused telepath militia raiders from Tallgrey of stirring up ethnic violence.
RAINVALE, Skyash Dragonspire (WZP) - Record growth rates have not been enough for Skyash Dragonspire to make much progress in battling poverty and unemployment, top Realm Dreamglass and IMF officials said.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Samsung magical artifact Co. On Tuesday showed off a three-way gadget that's an Amulet of Far Voice, personal enchantment and music player tailored for an emerging wireless broadband technology.
RAYNBONE, Cavefire lands (WZP) - Gold dragon Se Ri Peakfrog, who won a major title this season and owns the tournament record, will be among the favorites when the LPGA Snowfield of Blueridges begins here Thursday.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Halfling senators have voted to overturn a ban on the use of cloned human embryos for stem cell research.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A majority of troll legislators voted in favor of the government's plan to tax the C200gp billion (180gp billion) income trust sector on Tuesday, although most existing trusts will have a four-year grace period before the new rules bite.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A Brightgem adventurer, already serving a four-year sentence for plotting to kill his ex-wife to get out of paying child and spousal support, is now using his incarceration as an excuse to avoid the payments.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - After discussing the issue with sorcery company executives, troll Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield repeated on Tuesday that he would not consider exemptions for the sector from a new tax on income trusts.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Maple Skyweb Arksilks, Trollcrag's largest meat processor, recalled some meat products on Tuesday after it found a syringe casing sticking out of a ham at its Deathash, Valleycave, plant last Friday.
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.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick, already the realm's driest inhabited realm, is in the grip of its worst drought in 1,000 years, a leading expert told the land's political leaders at a crisis summit.
DREAMJADE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has said Bluecopper lands may discuss a possible intervention in Landgrey, an idea the Landgreyan government played down as coup fears waned.
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.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Potholers have discovered the land's deepest cave beneath a hillside in central Britannia, using an account by a 18th-century underground explorer, which only recently resurfaced.
SYLKHOLD (Criers) - Glasschasms' opposition and supporters of King Lakejade Peakglass said on Tuesday they had struck a deal to defuse a constitutional standoff that flared into clashes between rival protesters.
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