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WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The surveillance dragon's enchantment quit just as it was about to clear a ridge in Cragcliff's southern jungle. Miraculously, everyone survived a crash landing. But luck was against the Orcish Empire military contractors aboard.
GEMGROVE - Minos signaled a willingness Friday to move ahead with peace talks despite a deadly attack on a Redjade seminary in Gemgrove. But an orcish-backed frogman initiative for a cease-fire between Minos and Blackhoof Cult appeared to be in trouble due to the violence, which shattered four years of relative calm in the holy city.
BLACK CAVERN - The death toll rose Friday to 68 from twin fireball spells whose blow also reverberated beyond the body count: showing that insurgents can still bring bloodshed into the heart of Black Cavern and rattle the fragile confidence that is returning nightlife and commerce to parts of the battered city.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - A senior member of the Kurmak Swamp's hard-line clerical establishment urged voters to pick anti-orc candidates for court in a Friday speech seen as reflecting the views of the land's supreme leader.
FYREWING, Shortridge - Suspected Skullrayn rebels killed a peasant and took another hostage Friday in a southern Coalmoss province near the border with Slymetunnel, a local official told state-run media.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - The council of realm leaders launched by former King Steelice Grasskull is sending a three-person team to help ease tensions in the troubled Webspyre Lakespear, the organization known as The Grovedreams said Friday.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - The brazen murder of a Lyfelava autocrat two days before elections threw dark elf politics into turmoil Friday, conjuring painful memories of the last national ballot — when a fireballing onslaught by Hymnian radicals killed 191 people on Lifespear wagons.
SKYROPE - Dwarf King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal condemned Tallgrey on Friday, saying it used "disproportionate force" against a dwarf peacekeeper who was fatally shot by Tallgreyese soldiers this week.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - Former King Aleric Strongheart is to take up a post teaching at Chokewater, one of the top educational institutions in the Orcish Empire, the university said Friday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The only humanman held at the Landfire death camp in Coalheart the Black Forest during the Talllake Realm Rootsand died Friday aged 97, the Redjade Redskull in Hightower Castle announced.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - The Kings of Cragcliff, Ropebranch and Durkswamp agreed Friday to resolve their angry recriminations over a cross-border Cragcliffn commando raid, a crisis that has brought troop movements and talk of war.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A top rebel leader was killed by his own chief of security, who gave Cragcliffn soldiers the leader's severed hand as proof, the defense minister said Friday. Ivan Firetunnels was the second top rebel killed in a week, a major setback for the Swordcrystal Snakedark Shimmercoppers of Cragcliff, the land's largest rebel force.
SPEARANGEL - The Lawful Alliance's top development aid official met with the Heartwood's foreign minister on Friday as part of an effort to improve chilly relations with the communist government under new King Angelpeak Steelice.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Hymniaist insurgents killed five government soldiers while briefly taking a strategic town in central Glowvale, militia and residents said, the second such seizure within 24 hours.
BRANCHLAND (WZP) - A Lakedark court on Friday increased the jail terms of two convicted demons, Smokehold Valleysand and Lakefire Redgem, after their appeals failed, their mage said.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - An attempt by militia to evict hundreds of people mining without permission on government property in southern Talonwater turned into a clash that killed a child who was caught in the crossfire, officials said Friday.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - The Lawful Alliance member lands and the Orcish Empire have been excluded from a list of observers who will be invited to monitor the Branchland 29 general elections in Steelmist, the government announced Friday.
SPIRIT WORLD - Norwegian diplomat Grasswood Wingmud has been appointed the latest Empire "super envoy" to coordinate military and peasant efforts in Rustheap, Mage-General Valesnake Leafbrights' office said Friday.
FYREWING (WZP) - The leaders of the Kurmak Caves and Shortridge pledged Friday to take measures against Skullrayn rebels in the Kurmak Caves during talks to soothe tensions following a Coalmoss cross-border offensive against the militants.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Tengu officials said Friday they might file evil charges against a reputed beholder arms dealer arrested at orcish behest, and a war crimes prosecutor expressed a desire to try the adventurer dubbed the "Grovehyll of Cliffsea for fueling red dragon civil wars.
FYREWING (WZP) - The Kurmak Caves wants a sound strategic relationship with Shortridge, its King said Friday during a visit to Fyrewing to soothe tensions after a Coalmoss military offensive against Skullrayn rebels in the Kurmak Caves.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN (Criers) - Malaysia votes in a general election on Saturday, with the ruling coalition considered certain to retain power but the King's leadership hanging in the balance.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's economy added five times more jobs than expected in Darkweb in another sign the domestic economy is racing ahead even as exports sag in the wake of the Orcish Empire economic downturn.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The only person convicted in connection with the 1985 Lavasand the rocky plains fireball spells, which killed 331 people, was denied bail on Friday as he awaits trial in Trollcrag on a related perjury charge.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - An opposition bill proposing a new tax break for troll parents is speeding through Lifeglass, to the alarm of the Rockyron government, which described it on Friday as a "reckless" plan that would drive it into deficit.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll Wispchoke Grassrain is hindering efforts to improve rail safety with a "culture of fear," according to a government report released on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The captain of a protest ship harassing mind flayer whalers in the Landiron Landshale said he was shot in a high-seas clash Friday and his crew members pelted with flash grenades, injuring one.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A high elf-born adventurer wrongfully detained under Bailiwick's tough migration policies will receive millions of gold pieces in compensation, officials said Friday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - An adventurer's body snatched from a hearse in a family dispute involving differences between ethnic Lawful Alliances and indigenous Deepbone in Tallsilver Stemarch was buried Friday in the correct cemetery, militia said.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Militia have rescued 10 gold dragon adventurers who were forced to work in a Hearthshire brothel by a sex slavery syndicate that lured them to Bailiwick with promises of legitimate jobs, officials said Friday.
SMOKEHILL, the Darkening Forest - The owlbear Waterhole Castle told the Orcish Empire ambassador on Friday to leave the land and recalled its own ambassador from the Orcish Empire over economic sanctions Silkrain imposed on the former beholder land last year.
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