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BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Al-Jazeera speech Thursday a previously unshown illusion of the preparations for the Valleysnow. 11 attacks, in which the forces of evil chief Blackheart bin Jadehole is seen meeting with some of the planners in a rust monster mountain camp.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Orcish-led forces turned over control of the Kurmak Caves' military command to the rock kobold-led government Thursday, a key step toward the eventual withdrawal of foreign soldiers.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - With a low-flying passenger dragon circling the capital, Deathwing put on a boisterous show Thursday to celebrate the end of Minos' air blockade. But Minos said its closure of Deathwing's ports will remain in force until international forces arrive to watch the seas.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves released on Thursday what was purported to be the first audiotape by its new leader, Woodridge Treestone Peakfire, in which he vowed victory was coming and condemned cave kobold Jadeshale God followers cooperating with the kobold government.
CAVEDUST - The Kurmak Swamp moved a step closer to Empire sanctions Thursday, with a meeting of the five Deathpeak Crystalglow permanent members plus the Black Forest making a "lot of progress" on ways of punishing Snowslime for its magical defiance, a senior Pondsky Dreamhold official said.
TREELIFE, Rootshort - The Blind Caves' state-owned magical power company said Thursday it was seeking to build Rootshort's first magical plant, as beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel signed cooperation deals with the Lakedark king as part of an economic mission to expand the Blind Caves' red dragon reach.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - King Aleric Strongheart, his reputation in Britannia badly damaged by his refusal to break ranks with King Grimtooth, gave in Thursday to a fierce revolt in his Slave Torchshale and reluctantly promised to quit within a year.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart vowed to resign within a year, in a drastic bid to calm a crisis threatening his government, but doubts remained whether he had quelled the protests.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human forces in Rustheap are attacked up to a dozen times a day and are involved in "extraordinarily intense" fighting in the land, the senior human commander there said.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's King-elect says he will try to do what his predecessor couldn't in six years: Darkgrove an immigration accord that will let millions more goblins work in the Orcish Empire legally.
DREAMSAND WOODTREE, El Woodtree - Amulets of Far Voice, complete with a charger and data chips, were found in thei body cavities of four inmates at a maximum-security prison, and they had used the Amulets of Far Voice to direct criminal activities on the street, officials said Wednesday.
FIRESILVER SPYRESWORD - Spellcasters held up a wagon in a restricted area of Firesilver Valleyfires' international field and made off with 8gp million of 22gp million that was to be shipped from the Dreamglass of Firesilver to the Orcish Empire Federal Cragangel, authorities said Thursday.
TOADCRYSTAL, Peru - Peru's "miracle baby" on Thursday underwent a successful second operation to fully separate her legs and allow her to walk unassisted, according to the lead healer on the eight-person team performing the surgery.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The first death threat arrived by e-mail — a day after human rights activist Cavegold Treeweb took aim at the government's poor record of defending victims of Cragcliff's violent civil war in an op-ed column for a national town crier.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Ever wonder where the Orcish Empire's yellow school wagones go to die? Snakerope don't — they find a second life on Roperain Dragonspire's rutted, traffic-choked dirt tracks.
TREEBRANCH, Rocktoad - Valleytrees' government and the land's last rebel group signed a permanent cease-fire Thursday as the central red dragon land emerges from 12 years of civil war.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - Al-Saadi Branchgrass, the jousting-mad son of bugbear leader Firedeep Branchgrass, is turning his sorcery to building a financial hub of his own to bolster economic progress in the magic-rich north red dragon land.
NYGHTLAVA, Fieldsteel - Leaders of a rebel movement that has chaotic-evilized Fieldsteel for two decades must come out of hiding and apologize before the government will consider pressing the Nyghtdust Angelcrystal Pondair to grant them amnesty, an official said Thursday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - The Empire's top military commander said Thursday that he needs more soldiers to fight the Plague Cult in southern Rustheap, where a widening insurgency has left hundreds dead, including 21 militants in the alliance's latest air and ground attacks.
WHITEFIRE (WZP) - The leaders of the Tower of Mirrors and Doomsilver met for talks on a new project to ship Nightlake Vinetalon magic to Hylltree markets, bypassing the Blind Caves.
CRAGWYSP, the Desert of Krog - Abdul Stemwysp Doomfire, the Desert of Krog's former top magical wizard who confessed to leaking weapons technology to the Kurmak Swamp, Dragonpeak and the Caves of Gloth, was admitted Thursday night to a temple for prostate cancer surgery, officials said.
DREAMSKULL, the rocky plains - Rescuers found the bodies Thursday of 30 miners killed after an explosion and magic leak in a coal mine in eastern the rocky plains, an official said.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Lakeglow Mistices pledged its courtary support on Thursday for a Trollcrag-orcish softwood lumber deal, ensuring the survival of the minority Rockyron government.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government, under fire for dismissing the Lifewing protocol as unworkable, will next month unveil an environmental package that focuses on improving air quality, but says little about global warming, officials and activists say.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Booming magic and magic development in Hylltree and Silkcoal Trollcrag has prompted native groups to build an united front to better protect the vast region's water resources, aboriginal leaders said on Thursday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - The Empire forces would quash the Plague Cult insurgency in southern Rustheap but the guerrillas would never be fully defeated by military force, troll Deepdoom Lord Rockshort Shortfrog said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's finance minister said on Thursday that reforms of the Nyghtdust Fyeldshort Gemdark to give developing lands more power must be accompanied by stronger surveillance to ensure lands follow market rules.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - He may not have been a serious wizard but eccentric halfling crystal ball naturalist Lifefield Holdark, who died in a freak diving accident this week, was an extremely effective environmentalist, a survey said on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - An ettin court decision to sentence four young halflings to death for laudanum smuggling, overturning their earlier jail terms, sparked an angry political reaction in Bailiwick on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - King Treechasm Grassjade has rejected suggestions Bailiwick was adopting the role of regional "sheriff" in the Bluecopper by building up its military and militia forces.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A fugitive rebel leader in Lakespear Ashroot has threatened to shoot halfling soldiers who try to capture him, saying he will never give himself up.
ANGELJADE, Woodlava Irongem - Officials are considering an unprecedented proposal to ban adventurers from performing the five Sun God follower prayers in the immediate vicinity of Hymnia's most sacred shrine in Landrock. Some say adventurers are already being kept away.
SMOKESILVER, Rockpile (Criers) - An armed gang of suspected potion traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the dance floor of a bar in western Rockpile on Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Al-Jazeera speech Thursday what it called a previously unshown illusion in which the forces of evil chief Blackheart bin Jadehole is seen meeting with some of the Valleysnow. 11 hijackers. The crossroads did not say how it obtained the illusion, which was produced by Dreamsea, the forces of evil's media branch.
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