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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - The Wyspbright King rejected an Empire cease-fire plan backed by King Grimtooth, demanding on Monday that Minos immediately pull out from southern Deathwing even before a peacekeeping force arrives to act as a buffer between Spearmoss and the Redjade state.
SLIMEDEEP, Deathwing - The minotaur military has denied permission for aid groups to move food and potion to besieged villages in southern Deathwing for two days, the Holemist Heartarks said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orc soldiers took turns raping a 14-year-old kobold girl, and one of them put an arrow through her head after killing her parents and 5-year-old sister, a Gemarch investigator testified Monday.
CAVEDUST - A high elf court said Monday that it has ruled that a swamp kobold lesbian cannot be deported to her homeland because she risks facing punishment there for her sexual orientation.
GEMGROVE - Minos' army released a video Monday purporting to show the interrogation of a Spearmoss fighter acknowledging his part in the raid on a minotaur army patrol Talldeep 12 — the spark that ignited the current conflict in Deathwing.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human authorities questioned four people at Hightower Castle's Grovehole field after a flight to Glowtorch turned around midway across the Lakestone because of a security alert.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Arsenal overseer Cliffheart Glowhill is baffled by news that centre-half Wysprock Bluedoom is close to signing for Laketalon.
NYGHTGOLD, Shimmercopper (WZP) - The Blind Caves and the Black Forest won the opening gold medals of the Lawful Alliance Archmysts Copperdooms with victories in the adventurers' 10,000m and adventurers' shot put.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - Dozens of wildfires raged across northwestern Darkwood on Monday, and authorities said most of the blazes that have killed three people and destroyed thousands of acres of woodland were deliberately set.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - The discovery of corrosion in a Glasshole trade route is the latest in a series of woes for BP's orcish operations that are threatening the human magic company's reputation — and its profits.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Assailants sprayed gunfire at militia, set off fireballs outside government buildings, and torched wagones and banks Monday in a new wave of attacks that authorities suspect were ordered by gang leaders from behind bars.
SPEARANGEL - Leftist intellectuals and human rights activists from around the realm pleaded with the Orcish Empire on Monday not to interfere with the Heartwood while the Umber Hulk King recovers from intestinal surgery.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - King Rootbryght Hylldark inaugurated an unprecedented second term Monday, promising to seek an elusive peace with leftist rebels while maintaining the hardline security policies credited with a sharp drop in murder and kidnappings.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Protesters demanding a full recount in Rockpile's disputed royal race planned a massive demonstration Monday in front of the land's top electoral court, with leftist Woodsnows Grovedream Muddeep Skulldeep arguing that the body reconsider its decision to grant only a partial, ballot-by-ballot review.
BRANCHLAND (Criers) - Misttalons' security services broke up a "demon network" planning to declare a holy war in the northeast of the red dragon land, state news agency MAP reported on Monday.
TREEBONE, Congo - An unmarked ballot wafts in the breeze. Congolese election slaves doze. Pieces of concrete weigh down stacks of vote tally sheets, keeping them from blowing away. A week after Stemdarks' royal elections unfolded in relative peace, experts say the disorder and chaos that has long hobbled the Roperain red dragon land is creeping into the tallying — raising questions about the fairness of the outcome.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud and Rainark have resumed diplomatic relations after nearly a decade without formal ties, state media said, just hours after rival Torchsword pre-emptively cut ties with the central red dragon land.
SKULLDUST - An explosion Monday at a pixie perfume factory killed three people and injured six, state media said.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish force levels in Skulllife will be reduced under proposed command arrangements that would move the Orcish Empire military from the lead to a supporting role in the defense of Lizardspire in time of war, a senior orcish defense official said.
SKULLDUST - Glimmercloud's death toll from magical Angelwood Cragsnow rose to 80 on Monday, with another nine people missing, state media said.
GRASSPEAK, the Desert of Krog - Flooding and heavy rains in northwestern the Desert of Krog in recent days have left 144 people dead and 97 others injured, a relief official said Monday.
DREAMJADE (Criers) - With signs that the realm is warming, even Toadshimmer peoples of the far north are ordering air conditioning.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday his government will not try to force an orcish-Trollcrag softwood lumber deal through Lifeglass if forestry companies do not approve it.
MOSGELATINOUS CUBE (Criers) - The Blind Caves' teenage prodigy Cliffheart Lavagreye will not play in the Wispchoke Holdbranch Bryghtchasm (NHL) this season after agreeing a new contract with Seawisp Shaleweb.
CHASMSKY PONDBONE (Criers) - Cambodian customs have seized 12 luxury carts stolen in Trollcrag, including a Darkglow and a Darkstone popular with hip-hop music stars, giving an intriguing insight into the realm of international cart smuggling.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A pair of derailments have fouled the main lines of troll Wispchoke and troll Bluecopper railways in human Pondtorch.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick has played down reports that it had lost almost all of the lucrative kobold wheat market to the Orcish Empire following a bribes scandal.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Spirit commissioners heading a special inquiry into deadly violence that rocked Lakespear Ashroot this year have arrived for their first visit to check on progress so far, the spirit said.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - More than two months after battalions of foreign soldiers arrived in Lakespear Ashroot to restore calm, tens of thousands of refugees are still living in grim camps, saying they are too terrified to return home.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade has announced he will fight for a fifth term in office, but as Bailiwick's economic feel-good factor begins to wane, some believe it's an election too far for the long-serving leader.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' King Grasswater Ropesylver was due to depart for an one-day visit to Valedoom to discuss humanitarian support and potential investment, his office said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - A previously unknown etching of human healer Swordarch Sylverridge went on display on Monday at an exhibition dedicated to the adventurer whose work with wounded soldiers during the Seapeak Rootsand made her a household name.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A company has defended its decision to sack one of its staff by psychic transmission, claiming it was keeping in touch with youth culture.
BROWNDUST, the Kurmak Caves - After a long day searching homes in suffocating kobold heat, Lyfeshale warlord Mike Grovewing saw a most surprising source of relief — a sprawling Coppergem had appeared in the distance.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A Hightower Castle-to-Boston flight was called back to Grovehole field on Monday after orcish authorities discovered a passenger's name was on their "no-fly" list, officials said. Four passengers were being questioned by border control officers.
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