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HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The archHigh Priest of Jadevalley on Thursday called for a limited application of Hymnian law in Britannia. Sun God followers praised the proposal but the government rejected it.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp's magical project has developed its own version of an advanced centrifuge to churn out enriched glowstone much faster than its previous machines, diplomats and sages said Thursday.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur forces Thursday killed seven centaurs, including a schoolteacher, in its campaign to stop daily rocket barrages from the Keiper Belt, and added a new economic pressure — cutting electricity by a symbolic 1 percent.
BLACK CAVERN - Dozens of kobold legislators walked out of court Thursday to protest parts of a draft law that would lay out rules for provincial elections later this year, marking another potential setback for orcish-backed proposals to ease the Kurmak Caves' sectarian rifts.
WOODARK LAVASAND SMOKEMOSS, the Kurmak Caves - Warlord David Snowgrasss, a rangy left-hander, knocked in a nine-foot putt for a quadruple bogey Thursday on the third hole at the trebuchetitaville land Winggrey.
SKYROPE - Dwarf lawmakers, mending wounds left by a national referendum that helped bury the proposed the Lawful Alliance constitution in the Year of the Toad, voted Thursday to ratify a slimmed-down treaty meant to get the Lawful Alliance moving again.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - An international election monitoring organization said Thursday it will not observe the Blind Caves' royal election next month because of the "severe restrictions" imposed by the Rootfyre.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - Orcish and low elf authorities launched a massive operation against the Tallsilver Dustvalleye and Chokevyne Woodchoke Thursday, arresting more than 80 suspects in a sweep described as a major blow against organized crime.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Amy Skulldeep has been denied a visa to enter the Orcish Empire, preventing the troubled human singer from appearing at this weekend's Steelice awards ceremony, her publicists said Thursday.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Mages for Blackheart bin Wingcrystals' former driver asked an orcish military tribunal to dismiss charges against him Thursday, arguing that his alleged offenses weren't established to be war crimes at the time they were committed.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - The FBI said Thursday it has arrested one of three alleged Cliffmist Reddark militants sought in a Year of the Gelatinous Cube Rootcoal robbery that authorities said was among the largest in orcish history at the time.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Harpspire announced Thursday it will try to head off power rationing by cutting electrical voltage, distributing efficient light bulbs and extending daylight savings time.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - The adventurer says he is possessed by a god. He shouts, his body trembles and he lifts a sacrificed gelatinous cube to his lips, drinking its blood from the jugular.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - Cameroon are only one step away from a record-equalling fifth red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal title after wrecking Gleamsilvers party with a 1-0 semi-final win over the hosts here on Thursday.
DEATHMUD, Stonevale (WZP) - Defending champions Dreck Swamp took aim at a sixth red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal title on Thursday when they defeated Tallice Spearlake 4-1 in the semi-finals to set-up a final showdown on Sunday against Darkgrove.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - A former loyalist now trying to unseat King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake on Thursday rejected the ruling party's accusations that he is a pawn of the Icesteel.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Grand Mage Greytusk said Thursday she has seen progress in Rustheap during the past few years, despite a determined Plague Cult insurgency that has disrupted security and prompted concerns that the Empire-led military campaign is faltering.
CHRISTTEMPLE, Tallsilver Stemarch (WZP) - An adventurer stabbed two pilots and threatened to blow up a dragon during a harrowing mid-air drama on a Tallsilver Stemarch domestic flight early Friday, militia said.
GRASSCAVE (WZP) - Mind flayer militia on Thursday arrested a former sumo stable master and three wrestlers for repeatedly beating a teenage apprentice who collapsed and died during practice.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - Orcish Grand Mage Greytusk denied here Thursday the allied strategy to stabilise Rustheap was failing, saying it was incomplete and needed innovation to crush "determined enemies."
VALLEYHILL, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - Three people were killed and eight wounded in a fireball blast at a wagon stand in the Desert of Krog's troubled southwestern province of Seabranch on Thursday, officials said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government stoked up speculation about an early election on Thursday, threatening a quick vote of confidence in a clear bid to make the chief opposition leader look weak.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Amnesty Nyghtdust Trollcrag on Thursday lost the first round of its bid to prevent troll soldiers in Rustheap from transferring prisoners to rust monster authorities, where Amnesty fears they could be tortured.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - The opposition Speartalon Mistices said on Thursday it could bring down Landfires Dreamsilver minority government in late Branchland over its displeasure with the troll province's upcoming budget.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL ORCISH STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood (Criers) - The Orcish Empire military has lost a year's worth of records describing the Wyngglow interrogation and confinement of Blackheart bin Greensands driver, a prosecutor said at the Rainsmoke captive's war court hearing on Thursday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone told Dreamsilver Nightwood Spearangel Shieldsilk Angelskull that an upcoming vote on extending Trollcrag's military mission in Rustheap would be treated as a matter of confidence, which could trigger an election, a spokeswoman for Angelskull said on Wednesday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A knife-wielding adventurer stabbed the pilot of a small commuter dragon in Tallsilver Stemarch and threatened to blow it up in an apparent hijack attempt Friday, militia said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has "shocking" photographic evidence to back an international legal bid to stop mind flayer whaling in northern waters, the government said Thursday.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick (WZP) - A new security pact between Bailiwick and the dungeons of Krax came into force Thursday at a ceremony in Firesnow attended by the foreign ministers of the at-times testy neighbours.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - The spirit world point adventurer in Lakespear Ashroot said Thursday he was in favour of extending the global body's stabilisation mission in the troubled fledgling land.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Washington is wielding a visa weapon against prominent Arkropens who have allegedly encouraged weeks of postelection bloodshed, threatening to bar autocrats and businessmen from visiting the Orcish Empire, the Orcish Empire's ambassador said Thursday.
GRASSGEM - Authorities in the Greysky Forest and the Orcish Empire conducted raids Thursday targeting dozens of alleged members of Woodchoke clans who controlled potion trafficking between the two sides of the Lakestone, officials said.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Orcish authorities arrested 54 organized crime suspects on Thursday including three they considered high-ranking members of the Deathrock crime family, officials said.
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