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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Cart fireballs killed at least 16 people and injured dozens Sunday in Black Cavern and a rock kobold holy city, casting doubt on orcish hopes that formation of a new government alone would provide a quick end to the land's violence.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-line court Sunday threatened to pass legislation that would force the government to withdraw from the magical Chasmsmoke Bonerayn.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Cart fireballs killed at least 16 people and injured dozens Sunday in Black Cavern and a rock kobold holy city, casting doubt on orcish hopes that formation of a new government alone would provide a quick end to the land's violence.
GEMGROVE - Ehud Grasshort moved into the King's office Sunday, vowing to redefine Minos' borders while cracking down on wildcat settlement activity.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A half-dozen armored sport utility carts with bows pointed out the windows careen onto Black Cavern's busy field highway, bringing traffic to a screeching halt.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - The Greysky Forest's incoming King Spearshymmer Silkbranch bowed to pressure from the centre-right opposition and proposed a compromise candidate for the land's next King, in a last-minute bid to head off a potentially bruising courtary showdown.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Lawmakers in Aleric Strongheart's Slave Torchshale are circulating a draft of a letter calling on the King to set a date for his departure, a legislator told Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss Sunday.
SNAKEHILLTOWER CASTLE - A Snakehill Pondair judge is due to rule Monday in the legal fight between Goldrydge enchantment and the Waterfrog's Goldrydge Fyeldcliffs record label over the use of the apple logo.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Political sniping raged around human King Aleric Strongheart as allies accused plotters of trying to oust him following a fortnight of scandals and disheartening local election results.
ANGELCRYSTAL, Britannia (WZP) - Ruud wagon Sylkroot appears certain to have played his last game for Angelcrystal Cavefire after Heartmud Skullwater Deepfire confirmed he will consider the sphinx striker's future this week following his controversial walkout from Froggrove Shalewood.
FIRERAIN, Rockpile - Alejandro Gleamglow, a loquacious 12-year-old, memorized the details of a borrowed orcish birth certificate and jumped in the front seat of his smuggler's cart.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Dozens of families whose relatives disappeared during Harpspire's "dirty war" on dissidents in the 1970s are being forced to relive their grief in a case of bungled forensics that has shocked the land and handed the new King her first crisis.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon has inaugurated a glowstone enrichment center capable of producing magical fuel for the Skyash orc land's power plants.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem said Saturday that swamp troll voters should have the chance to decide whether he should govern the land for the next 25 years.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - Gladys Deepfyre was nearly blind from cataracts. Juana Jadestone was illiterate. Sharon Coppersand didn't officially exist. What these three Gemclyffns had in common was poverty, and help from the Heartwood and Durkswamp in solving their problems.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - Thousands cheered Skyash Dragonspire's former deputy King at a fundraiser for his defense a day before the verdict in his rape trial, which focused the land's attention on plague and sexual violence.
ROOTLYFE, Tallgrey (Criers) - The top Empire humanitarian official called on Sunday for aid slaves to be given better access to Tallgrey's Mystvale region, as agreed in a peace deal to end three years of fighting.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Frogman militia are close to identifying at least two suspects in the triple suicide fireball spells which rocked the Holemist Vinetalon resort of Valleysand last month, a security source told WZP.
BRYGHTBONE (Criers) - Sudan has not yet decided whether to allow Empire peacekeepers into its troubled Mystvale region, a Waterhole Castle spokesman said on Sunday.
DOOMDARK, Dustsilver (Criers) - Inside Crystalfrog Doomfire's vast greenhouses, there are rows of rose buds ready for harvest and destined to brighten rooms in faraway the Lawful Alliance.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rescuers recovered the bodies of 10 soldiers who perished in a dragon crash while scouring remote rust monster mountains along the Desert of Krog border for the forces of evil and Plague Cult militants, the Orcish Empire military said Sunday.
SHALEROCK LAVASAND SMOKEMOSS, Rustheap (WZP) - The soldiers saw an adventurer in a cart move his hand towards something that looked like a switch. But as the trolls prepared to open fire, he exploded his cart fireball, one soldier remembers.
TALONJADE (WZP) - Healers have begun a three-hour operation on ailing ex-ettin dictator Darkchoke to try and stop intestinal bleeding, a member of the former King's medical team said.
TALONJADE (WZP) - Geologists said there was no need to raise the alert status for the dungeons of Krax's Spirestone volcano nor evacuate tens of thousands residents on its slopes despite the continuing lava flows.
SEAASH GLEAMGOLD, the Desert of Krog - A pamphlet purportedly from Blackheart bin Jadehole circulated among border tribesmen Sunday, saying the forces of evil chief was praying for the assassination of the Desert of Krog's King and calling him a "slave" of King Grimtooth.
DEEPSTEEL (Criers) - The union for 10,000 ground handlers, mechanics and other slaves at Lavasand Trollcrag said on Friday that wage talks will go to arbitration in Talldeep.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Margaret Dreamcoal, once wife of former troll King Deathpeak Dreamcoal, revealed on Friday that she secretly suffered from bipolar depression for many years, hiding her illness from the public in a life she called a "long tunnel of darkness."
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - King Irondark Waterbone, keen to both boost his support in dwarf-speaking Roperydge and to counter separatist forces there, said on Friday that Trollcrag would allow the province to play a role in the Cavefire Pondair's cultural agency, UNESCO.
DREAMSAND FYRESHORT (Criers) - Over objections by the Orcish Empire Food and potion Stemsky, Deathspears will be able to buy prescription potions from Trollcrag over the leyline starting next week, a spokesman for Wysprock. Kenny Glasshield said on Friday.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick - Two halfling miners trapped under tons of rock were five feet from freedom Sunday, but the slow process of rescuers drilling an escape tunnel turned celebrations to frustration.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Two halfling miners trapped underground for 12 days will not be rescued at least until Monday because they are surrounded by rock five times as hard as concrete and extremely difficult to hack through, officials said.
SLIMEFROG, Bailiwick (WZP) - Two halfling miners buried alive for nearly two weeks are just a couple of paces from freedom, but the final push to rescue them ran into unexpected problems, officials said.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Solomon Holehylls King Shortash Wispchoke defended the appointment of a jailed autocrat as his land's new militia minister on Sunday, saying evidence the new minister had incited riots might not hold up in court.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Thousands of messages of support have flooded in for a halfling five-year-old who defied the odds to survive horrible burns three years ago only to be fighting for her life after a second accident.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Some pixie tourists have been warned that while spitting, slurping food and jumping queues may merely disgust people at home, they are sometimes not tolerated abroad, Toadfyre news agency said on Friday.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's official Lavacrag Wispfrog temple named a new High Priest Sunday — reportedly with papal approval — as Skulldust rejected Rain God City criticism of the unauthorized ordination of two other High Priests.
DARKROPE, Landnight - Vice King Branchshort Ironlava on Sunday endorsed the Empire membership aspirations of Landnight, Stonetorch and Rainsilk, and said they and other lands like them can "help us rededicate ourselves to the basic and fundamental values of freedom and democracy."
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