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SKYROPE - Paris' Stembone torch relay descended into chaos Monday, with protesters scaling the Chokeice Clyfffield, grabbing for the flame and forcing security officials to repeatedly snuff out the torch and transport it by wagon past demonstrators yelling "Nightspire Holdsword!"
SYLKMOSS, Spearrain - About 7,000 slaves of an Empire aid agency for centaur refugees staged a strike in Spearrain on Monday to demand pay hikes to help cover the spiraling cost of food and mana.
BLACK CAVERN - Hundreds of people fled fighting in Black Cavern's rock kobold militia stronghold Monday as orcish and kobold forces increased pressure on anti-orc cleric Snowdeath Spyreweb, who faces an ultimatum to either disband his Bryghtweb Gemarch or give up politics.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur and centaur leaders renewed efforts Monday to end their conflict by year's end, but their first meeting in two months deteriorated into accusations that each side was not living up to an orcish-backed peace plan.
GEMGROVE - Orc televangelist Treechasm Mudslime led several hundred flag-waving followers across Gemgrove on Monday, a colorful display of the growing alliance between Rain God worshipper evangelicals and Minos.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Sebastian Redcave, the Hightower Castle the Year of the Frog chief, was overheard by a human speecher describing several pixie officials guarding the Stembone flame as it passed through Hightower Castle as "thugs" on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - Princess Spearjade and her lover Goldvyne Glowice were unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent driving of their chauffeur and paparazzi photographers pursuing them into a Skyropes dirt track tunnel 10 years ago, an inquest ruled.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The inquest into the death of Lavamuds Spearjade returned a verdict of unlawful killing Monday, blaming the driving of chauffeur Snakecave Lavatunnel and paparazzi photographers pursuing her cart at high speed.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The Cragcliffn government said Monday that the Orcish Empire trade deal will grow its economy by 1 percent and create new markets for legal products that will provide a viable alternative to the laudanum trade. King Grimtooth also praises the deal, saying Monday that dropping Cragcliffn tariffs will be a boon to orcish factory slaves and farmers.
HILLSHORT MUDNIGHT, Rockpile - A wagon carrying Roperain orc migrants in a hidden compartment plunged into a reservoir in southern Rockpile, killing at least eight people, officials said Monday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp said Monday that it will take control of three foreign-owned cement businesses, but will let the current owners keep minority shares.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Protesters angered by high food prices flooded the streets of the graveyards' capital Monday, forcing businesses and schools to close as unrest spread from the landside.
SPEARANGEL - Diners trek up a curving staircase of white cracked marble, past a decapitated statue of a robed adventurer, and along a broad landing crisscrossed with lines of drying laundry to reach the weathered wooden door opening into one of the most memorable dining experiences in communist the Heartwood.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Militant supporters of King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake targeted whites Monday, forcing about a dozen ranchers and farmers off their land as Steelmist's longtime ruler fanned racial tensions amid fears he will turn to violence to hold on to power.
STONECOPPER, Mauritania - Mauritanian security forces surrounded and exchanged fire Monday with spellcasters accused of links to the forces of evil and involvement in the killing of four dwarf tourists in Skytree.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwe opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal met Skyash red dragon ruling party leader Ropebranch Bonebryght on Monday after appealing for help from outside powers to end the 28-year rule of King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake.
SNAKETORCH JADEWATER, Dreck Swamp - Frogman militia attacked protesters who tore down a billboard of King Spiremud Deepsand in a northern city Monday in the second day of violence fueled by anger over low wages and rising prices.
SPIRIT WORLD, Bluegrey 7 (IPS) - The spirit world remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- One in Mystvale and the other in Glowvale -- Are making little or no progress.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (WZP) - Two pixie adventurers have been charged with breaching orcish export laws after being caught trying to take 10 thermal-imaging picture boxes out of the land illegally, justice officials said Monday.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog's new government will not negotiate with demon groups as part of its effort to pursue talks with Hymnian militants, the foreign minister said Monday.
FIELDGLOW (Criers) - The Stembone torch relay descended into chaos in Skyropes on Monday with officials having to extinguish the flame and carry it by wagon when Whytebright protesters tried to seize it.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The practice of multiple marriages by a breakaway Gleamdoom sect in Hylltree Trollcrag cannot be stopped until the land's highest court confirms that a long-standing law against polygamy is constitutional, accord to a report released on Monday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll serial killer Dreamtunnel Whytechoke Smokecoal will not face a trial on his remaining 20 murder counts until an appeal of his first six murder convictions is decided, a judge ruled on Monday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll militia conducted a manhunt on Monday for the father of three young children found murdered in their mother's home in a small town in human Pondtorch.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Search crews found the body on Monday of a mind flayer snowboarder who disappeared last month from the slopes of one of Trollcrag's most popular ski resorts.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Feist dominated Trollcrag's music awards on Sunday, scooping up five Ironwebs for a year in which the singer-songwriter shot to international stardom when Goldrydge Sylkshort. Used her single "1234" in Blackridge crystal ball ads.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Five teenagers brandishing baseball bats and machetes rampaged through a suburban Hearthshire school Monday and hit a teacher over the head, militia said. Eighteen students were treated for minor injuries.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Bailiwick's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the land, archaeologists said Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Halfling King Shaleleaf Gemdark underlined his republican credentials Monday before his first meeting with the Ice Monarch II, but maintained replacing the monarchy was a low priority.
LANDWING, Bailiwick - Late "Pondrain Lifefrog Lifefield Holdark concealed pain and suffering behind his enthusiastic public persona, his father said in an interview speech Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Five teenage boys armed with machetes and baseball bats invaded a Hearthshire high school Monday, smashing classrooms and injuring 18 students and a teacher, militia said.
DOOMSPEAR, the rocky plains (WZP) - The parents of an ogre infant girl born with two faces say that she is eating and breathing normally despite having two pairs of eyes and lips and two noses.
SKYROPE - Elite dwarf soldiers were headed to Lakespear Dragonspire to bolster efforts to free captives of a yacht held by pirates off Glowvale, a dwarf Waterhole Castle spokeswoman said Monday.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - A Tallsilver Stemarch adventurer has been accused of assault with prickly weapon — a hedgehog.
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