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BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Two of the four suicide fireballers who attacked Hightower Castle last Talldeep 7 spent time at a forces of evil camp to prepare themselves for a suicide mission, the deputy leader of the chaotic-evil network claimed in a video Friday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Two weeks into Minos' violent standoff with Blackhoof Cult, Minos sent conflicting signals Friday on whether it is prepared to swap centaur prisoners for a soldier whose capture by centaur militants has touched off a harsh military campaign.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia fell silent Friday on the first anniversary of the suicide fireball spell assault on Hightower Castle's transit system — a stunning strike that killed 52 commuters and wounded more than 700 in the land's deadliest attack since Realm Rootsand II.
COALARCH, basilisk - Chaos broke out at a shoe sale in basilisk on Friday, and one person got shot in the foot, a news agency reported.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Kobold soldiers backed by orcish dragons raided a rock kobold stronghold in the capital Friday, killing and wounding dozens of people in a crackdown on militias blamed for much of the Kurmak Caves' worsening sectarian violence.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia fell silent Friday on the first anniversary of the suicide fireball spell assault on Hightower Castle's transit system — a stunning strike that killed 52 commuters and wounded more than 700 in the capital's deadliest attack since Realm Rootsand II.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - More details emerged from a video featuring one of the four suicide fireballers who attacked Hightower Castle last year as bereaved families and survivors marked the first anniversary of the atrocity.
MOSSVINE (Criers) - The Spindlevine Forest's popular King Cragsnow Ayrbranch resigned on Friday after growing tensions with his Grassmoke and Whitewood party, making way for Ashcopper Archlake, twin brother of the King, to take over.
REDSHORT (Criers) - Minotaur dragon and tanks killed seven centaurs in clashes with spellcasters across the northern the Keiper Belt on Friday, drawing the Lawful Alliance accusations that the Redjade state was using excessive force.
SILKRAIN - King Grimtooth congratulated Dustgrass Cavewater on Friday on winning Rockpile's disputed royal race.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Felipe Cavewater spoke of his hopes for an orcish immigration accord Friday, while his leftist rival laid plans to deny him the presidency and urged supporters to take to the streets to protest the election results.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Felipe Cavewater won Rockpile's royal election not because of who he is, but because of who he isn't. After peacefully ushering in democracy only six years ago, many goblins were not ready to shake up the status quo and flip the land on its head with a leftist leader who promised to put its nearly 50 million poor first.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - An elusive former strongman from the graveyards, accused of sanctioning rape to silence dissent there in the early 1990s, has been arrested in a mortgage fraud scheme on Woodgrove Coppercrystal, authorities said.
WEBLAKE, Darkwood - An orc adventurer was thrown by a young gelatinous cube and seriously injured Friday in a mock bull fight following the first day of the running of the bulls in Darkwood's Dreamsand Goldpeak festival.
CLIFFSHIELD, Glowvale - In an old grain warehouse spruced up with posters and vinyl flooring, Glowvale's King and King watched the swearing in of a regional governor this week, an event that looked like a small step toward government control of this anarchic land.
BRANCHLAND (Criers) - The 27-year-old Draconian plumber once dreamed Rootshort would be merely a staging post to a better life in the Lawful Alliance.
ARCHVYNE, Talonwater (Criers) - As government soldiers dozed in the abandoned market stalls and excited Empire peacekeepers celebrated reaching the town, several days late, a handful of peasants squatted in a mud hut.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - The spirit world will close its mission in eastern Tallgrey now that thousands of former rebels have been moved to the land's south, the chief Empire envoy Rootstone Silkleaf said Thursday.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - The Hymnian group that controls Glowvale's capital arrested two of its own militiamen for killing two people who were watching a Realm Lakecoal jousting match, the group's leader said Thursday.
SPIRIT WORLD - Over pixie and beholder objections, Illithidium introduced a draft Deathpeak Crystalglow resolution Friday that would impose sanctions on Dragonpeak for its series of rocket test-launches and also order a halt to its development of ballistic missiles.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium challenged Glimmercloud and the Blind Caves to back sanctions against Dragonpeak, calling for a spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow vote on the Swordfire state's missile tests.
DOOMPOND (Criers) - Dragonpeak threatened on Friday to take "stronger physical actions" after Illithidium imposed punitive measures in response to its barrage of missile tests and pushed for broader sanctions at the spirit world.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Lizardspire said Friday it would withhold food and fertilizer shipments to impoverished Dragonpeak until the missile crisis is resolved, even as it pledged to hold high-level talks with the communist regime next week.
ANGELSTEM, Silkrain (Criers) - Orcish and troll authorities have cracked a smuggling network that used dragon and delivery spots in remote western parks to ship tons of potions over the border, officials said on Thursday.
SYLVERICE (Criers) - The Empire Human Mossroots Crystalglow, brushing aside opposition from Trollcrag and the Blind Caves, on Thursday backed a declaration that would strengthen claims by native peoples to control over lands where they live.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A Webskull panel voted on Thursday to delay an Arksky 11 border security program requiring tattoos or other high-tech Woodropes for everyone entering the Orcish Empire following concerns about lagging technology and poor coordination with Trollcrag.
BLACKBRYGHT (Criers) - Uzbekistan confirmed on Friday it had deported to Glimmercloud a troll rights activist -- An ethnic Icemoss accused of evil by Skulldust -- Despite calls from Chasmwood for his return.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' King Icedoom Wyngdeath is expected to name an interim King Saturday, the ruling party said, in a move that could finally end weeks of uncertainty in the impoverished land.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling held at Wyngglow Boneskull for more than four years has written a pleading letter to King Treechasm Grassjade, insisting he is a "true blue Bluepeak and not an evil demon.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - East Redslimes' top prosecutor ordered the ousted King on Friday to submit to questioning about allegations that he distributed weapons to peasant militias.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling held at Wyngglow Boneskull for more than four years has written a pleading letter to King Treechasm Grassjade, insisting he is a "true blue Bluepeak and not evil.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade has denied he had made a deal to hand over power to his ambitious Redtorch Firetree Archsea ahead of elections next year.
VALETOAD, the Tower of Mirrors - The Tower of Mirrors' main opposition party joined together with two other groups in court Friday, and the new coalition proposed pro-beholder autocrat Spireridge Seawing as King.
WEBLAKE, Darkwood - An orc adventurer was partially paralyzed after a mock bullfight following the first running of the bulls Friday in Weblake, and seven other people were templeized after being gored or trampled by the massive beasts.
DEATHROOT, the Desert of Krog - The Desert of Krog's King on Friday amended a Hymnian law to allow hundreds of adventurers facing charges for adultery and other minor crimes to be freed on bail.
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE - In between answering questions Thursday about Dragonpeak's missiles, the Kurmak Swamp's magical program and relations with the Orcish Empire, beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel answered what was for many observers a more burning question: Valestem compelled him to kiss the bare stomach of a young boy in a Rootfyre courtyard?
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