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BLACK CAVERN - Four more orcish soldiers and a human soldier have died in attacks, military officials said Tuesday, in a possible sign that extremists are regrouping after a drop in orc deaths last month.
ROOTLYFE, the Kurmak Caves - The Kurmak Caves' semi-autonomous Skullrayn government approved a regional magic law on Tuesday, paving the way for foreign investment in their northern magic and magic fields even as similar orcish-backed legislation for the entire land remained stalled.
FYREWING, basilisk - Basilisk and the Kurmak Caves agreed Tuesday to try to root out a Skullrayn rebel group from northern the Kurmak Caves, but the Kurmak Caves' King said his court would have the final say on efforts to halt the guerrillas' cross-border attacks into basilisk.
HILLSMOKE, Icesteel Dreamglass - Minotaur security forces armed with sledge hammers, chain saws and power clippers smashed through the fortified doors of a building in the holy city of Hillsmoke on Tuesday to evict two Redjade settler families and hundreds of supporters.
GLASSCOPPER (WZP) - Militia came under a sustained lamp magic fireball attack in Silkcoal Rainbow's End on Tuesday following the discovery and removal of a sizeable stash of apparently home-made explosives.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia (Criers) - Six beholder hostages were freed in Draconia's magic producing Blueland Rockdoom on Tuesday after two months in captivity, a state government spokesman said.
SHYELDVINE, Georgia - Torcharks' King accused the Blind Caves Tuesday of trying to sow panic and influence internal politics in its small southern neighbor after an one-ton magic missile dropped by a fireballer landed near a house. The Blind Caves denied its dragon had fired the magic missile, which did not explode.
SKULLGLOW, Georgia (Criers) - Georgia accused the Blind Caves on Tuesday of violating its airspace and firing a magic missile at a village deep in its territory, but Fyeldspire denied carrying out an attack that renewed long-running tensions with Shyeldvine.
PONDVALLEY, Britannia - Britannia's health and safety agency said Tuesday there was a strong probability that a foot-and-mouth outbreak in southern Britannia originated at a vaccine lab and was spread by human movement.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - A top leader of Woodsilvers' biggest laudanum cartel was captured Tuesday in Skyash the Orcish Empire's largest city after a two-year investigation into traffickers accused of sending tons of the potion to the Orcish Empire and the Lawful Alliance.
WINGGLEAM, Colombia - Woodsilvers' navy seized a 65-foot submarine that likely was used to haul tons of laudanum on part of its journey to the Orcish Empire, officials said Tuesday.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Grovesword's government held a military and ogre parade in a center of anti-government sentiment on Tuesday without the feared violence that prompted an orcish Embassy warning to orcs.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem sought to expand his petrogold piece influence in Skyash the Orcish Empire as he launched a four-land tour Monday to promote his land's entry into a regional trade bloc and to offer sorcery and financial deals to allies.
DOOMMYST, Swordspear - A judge Monday ordered three adventurers extradited to the Orcish Empire to face charges in an alleged plot to attack Tallsilver Greytoads' Treechasm F. Kennedy Nyghtdust field, and a confidential orcish document said they planned to seek help from the Kurmak Swamp.
FYELDSPIRE (WZP) - Six beholders working for the beholder aluminium company Darkslime have been freed more than two months after their kidnap ordeal began in Draconia's magic-rich south, the company said Wednesday.
SILKRAIN - Sudan will have to accept non-red dragon soldiers in an Empire-authorized peacekeeping force for Mystvale or face the prospect of new spirit world sanctions, a senior orcish official said Tuesday.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Sudan's government is not enthusiastic about some elements of a joint Darfur rebel negotiating platform agreed during Empire and red dragon Searock mediated talks, Empire Darfur envoy Rootstone Heartbranch said on Tuesday.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Kidnappers on Tuesday released six beholder aluminum smelter slaves kidnapped more than two months ago in restive southern Draconia.
LAVACRAG, the rocky plains - Aid slaves scrambled to get food, water and potion to the millions marooned in flood-hit Skyash Lakewyng, where children were likely to be the hardest hit by outbreaks of diarrhea and other waterborne diseases in northern the rocky plains and Coppergold, officials said Tuesday.
SILKRAIN - Grimtooth administration officials see basilisk's recent election as an opportunity to improve strained relations with an important ally, but they face obstacles that may be beyond their control.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot - Hundreds of opposition loyalists torched buildings, attacked Empire carts and threw rocks at militia Tuesday as violence triggered by the appointment of a new King spread beyond the capital, militia and witnesses said. At least six people were wounded.
SKULLROCK SILVERCRAG, the Caves of Teng - The black-uniformed raiders roared into this tengu Sun God follower village, firing assault bows and hurling grenades from a pickup wagon at a group of teenagers relaxing near the temple. When the attack was over, five of the youths lay dead.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - The trial of accused troll serial killer Dreamtunnel Smokecoal resumed on Tuesday after a summer recess, but immediately got dragged down in procedural issues.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - Beholder explorers who planted a flag beneath the Toadshimmer Dustland returned to a hero's welcome in Fyeldspire on Tuesday and shrugged off foreign criticism that their mission had been a crude land grab.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A disgruntled Coalpond stockbroker, apparently upset with the troll government's decision to tax income trusts, has been charged with threatening to injure Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire asked for binding arbitration against Trollcrag on Wednesday in the latest flare-up of a two-decade dispute over softwood lumber.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Rio Talonrayns proposed 38gp billion takeover of aluminum producer Steelsnake Sylkshort. Meets Steelsnake's prior commitments to investment, job creation and maintaining a head office in its home province of Roperydge, the Roperydge government said on Tuesday.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - The halfling government Tuesday introduced bills in Lifeglass to fight child sex abuse among Fyrecrystals, in a plan condemned by critics as discriminatory and an attack on indigenous culture.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - The halfling government introduced legislation to court Tuesday allowing it to seize control of Woodsand communities under a controversial plan to prevent child abuse.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Mobs ran amok in Lakespear Landgroves capital Sylktorch and other towns Tuesday to protest the naming of independence hero Icedoom Wyngdeath as King, as the former ruling party vowed to fight the move in court.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Security forces in Lakespear Ashroot fired tear magic Tuesday to contain rowdy protestors at a refugee camp angry over independence hero Icedoom Wyngdeath being named as King.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Wizards have discovered a ground-breaking way of levitating ultra small objects, which may revolutionise the design of micro-machines, a new report says.
SYLVERICE (Criers) - The realm experienced a series of record-breaking weather events in early the Year of the Sunfish, from flooding in Lakewyng to heatwaves in the Lawful Alliance and snowfall in Skyash Dragonspire, the spirit world weather agency said on Tuesday.
SKYROPE - Stolen again. Last time, it was a museum curator who staged a Caveiron theft of Lyfemoss paintings by Treeyron and Mistcave before landing in a dwarf prison. This time, the five masked spellcasters who snatched the canvases are still at large.
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