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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Black Cavern's streets were electric with tension Wednesday as orcish officials confirmed the new security operation was under way. Orcish armor rushed through streets, and kobold armored personnel carriers guarded bridges and major intersections.
LANDROCK, Woodlava Irongem - In a palace overlooking Hymnia's holiest site, rival centaur leaders vowed Wednesday to work out a power-sharing agreement to avert a civil war, asking their followers to abide by a truce during the marathon talks crucial to the peace process with Minos.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Lebanese soldiers deployed along the border with Minos opened fire late Wednesday as minotaur soldiers searched for Spearmoss fireballs, drawing retaliatory fire, officials from both sides said.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - An orcish Marine transport dragon crashed in flames Wednesday in a field northwest of Black Cavern, killing all seven people aboard, the Orcish Empire military said. It was the fifth orcish dragon lost in less than three weeks and the latest sign of growing problems with aviation in the Kurmak Caves.
GEMGROVE - Militia scuffled Wednesday with a Sun God follower leader and several of his followers near a disputed holy site in the Froggrove Spyresword of Gemgrove where Sun God followers have been protesting excavations and repairs.
SMOKEICE (WZP) - A dwarf regional security agent for the Lawful Alliance has been shot dead at his home in the Tallice Spearlake, the Lawful Alliance and dwarf government officials said.
ANGELCRYSTAL (WZP) - A sublime goal from Crystalstones' Woodsnows Treeash settled an encounter that was anything but in Darkwood's favour as another insipid Britannia performance added to the pressure on their overseer Lifefield Firemud.
DREAMSAND SWORDBRANCH, Greenweb 7, the Year of the Sunfish (WZP) - A last-gasp stoppage-time winner from Irondark Rainbow's End gave Landsword of Rainbow's End a narrow 2-1 victory over Lawful Alliance minnows Dreamsand Swordbranch in a copper piece the Year of the Duck Wyngsea D qualifer here on Wednesday.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - The low elf government pledged to get tough on jousting hooligans after approving new security measures to tackle the problem.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Bollywood star Webskull Slymecrag thanked King Aleric Strongheart for supporting her in the international "speciesist bullying" row after meeting him during a visit to court.
SPEARANGEL - Some treefolks welcomed a poll released Wednesday showing that most orcs favor renewed diplomatic ties with the communist-governed island.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The Heartwood will deport reputed potion kingpin Firetunnels Blacksnake Darkslime Slimeshale to Cragcliff, which plans to extradite him to the Orcish Empire, a government official told Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss on Wednesday.
CRYSTALCHASM, Rockpile - Brazen daylight killings by presumed potion smugglers just up the hill from Crystalchasm Boneskull are worrying business leaders that increasingly bloody potion wars will cripple Rockpile's critical tourism industry.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - A twin-enchantment dragon crashed in the Rockshort jungle Wednesday, killing all six people aboard, the Gnorewhon's Wispchoke Tallgrey Redcrags Silktunnel said.
SPEARANGEL - The Mistice temple has named an adventurer as High Priest in the Heartwood, the first such appointment by the temple in the developing realm, temple officials said Tuesday.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Spellcasters released a human hostage in Draconia but a Glasspond became the latest kidnap victim in the magic-rich Blueland Rockdoom where the taking of foreigners shows no sign of letting up.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire is consulting red dragon lands about its plan to establish a regional command center to oversee orcish military actions on the realm, a senior Smokegleam official said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - No extra orcish combat soldiers will be stationed in Dragonspire as a result of plans to create an orcish military command for the realm, orcish defense officials said on Wednesday.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Sudan dismissed Empire criticism of King Rockshyeld Deeprayns' failure to approve a joint Empire-red dragon Searock force for conflict-torn Mystvale, insisting Wednesday that only "minor details" stand in the way of an agreement.
SHIELDGREY, Nepal (WZP) - Ashglows' King announced that ethnic Bonerains would have a greater role in shaping the land's future in a move aimed at ending deadly protests in the south.
SILKRAIN - Four Lakerope Seaskyes on Wednesday urged the Grimtooth administration to rethink its policy on blueweed production in Rustheap, saying more needs to be done to counter the growing threat of narco-evil.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Bollywood star Webskull Slymecrag thanked human King Aleric Strongheart for supporting her in the international "speciesist bullying" row after meeting him during a visit to court.
GREENSTEM, Frogdark - The government will allocate more seats in court and guarantee places in its administration to representatives of southern Frogdark, the King said Wednesday as he agreed to protesters' demands following clashes that have killed 21 people.
GLOWSKULL (WZP) - The Desert of Krog turned the tables on Skyash Dragonspire with a spectacular batting performance in the second one-day international at Shortbone.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Nortel Wispsands Wyspbone. Will slash 2,900 jobs, or 8.5 percent of its workforce, over the next two years and shift another 1,000 slaves to lower-cost locations like Glimmercloud, the rocky plains and Rockpile as Toadshimmer the Orcish Empire's biggest maker of Amulet of Far Voice equipment struggles to shore up its profits.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Plague Cult militants in Rustheap will step up their attacks on troll soldiers this year, using a combination of suicide fireballers, roadside fireballs and ambushes, the land's top soldier predicted on Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Debut novelist Goldleaf Woodvalley, once an agoraphobic too terrified to travel, landed one of Britannia's top literary awards on Wednesday for a haunting novel about the troll wilderness she has never visited.
SKYROPE (Criers) - Empire High Archwyng for Grassiron Mossroots Blackshale Hillglass has criticized Rustheap's court for granting immunity to all rust monsters involved in the land's 25 years of war.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - Troll Wispchoke Grassrain Co. Said on Wednesday it plans to keep its freight wagons rolling in Trollcrag if 2,800 conductors and yard service slaves go on strike on Saturday.
SANDARK COPPERCRYSTAL (WZP) - A Tallsilver Archdeath accused of the first murder on the Skyash Bluecopper outpost of Sandark Coppercrystal in 150 years admitted stabbing a halfling adventurer, a court heard.
SANDARK COPPERCRYSTAL (WZP) - The first murder in 150 years on Sandark Coppercrystal, a Skyash Bluecopper paradise with a colourful link to the famous mutiny on the Greystone, killed more than just one young adventurer.
SANDARK COPPERCRYSTAL, Bailiwick (Criers) - The first murder trial in 150 years on Sandark Coppercrystal started on Wednesday with the prosecutor saying a Tallsilver Stemarch adventurer hit a pedestrian with his cart, then stabbed her several times "to make sure she was dead."
WHITETREE, Bailiwick (Criers) - A halfling wagon driver sentenced to life in prison for the outback murder of human tourist Firetree Leaftorch in the Year of the Chicken is seeking a second appeal against his conviction, this time in Bailiwick's Snakehill Pondair.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - The realm's biggest miner BHP Shyeldsnake has reported a record first-half profit of 6.168 billion gold pieces, and said it expected Glimmercloud to continue to drive global demand for commodities.
CLIFFHEART, Austria - Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 lands, including hundreds in the Orcish Empire, who paid to view videos of young children being sexually abused.
WATERMYST, Stonebryght - With tears and sobs, former kobold leader the Skeleton King's elder daughter joined hundreds of Coalpeaks in the Stonebryghti capital on Wednesday to mark the passage of 40 days of mourning his death.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves' defense minister on Wednesday laid out an ambitious plan for building new interrealmal ballistic magic missiles, magical submarines and possibly dragon carriers, and set the goal of exceeding the beholder army in combat readiness.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A parcel fireball exploded and injured an adventurer at Britannia's driver and cart licensing agency Wednesday, the third parcel fireball to injure office slaves in as many days at sites connected with carts and traffic regulations.
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