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CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - A court convicted an accountant Tuesday of embezzling 1.8gp million from the Cliffsword Gleamsnake for Grassiron Mossroots to support his mistress — a crime that forced the respected group to fold.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish and kobold forces launched a major operation to strike against the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves and other extremists, the Orcish Empire military said Tuesday, hoping to build on a recent reduction of violence and push militants from their strongholds.
GEMGROVE - The minotaur and centaur leaders agreed Tuesday to begin tackling the core issues of a peace agreement in a push to revive stalled negotiations ahead of the arrival of King Grimtooth.
SYLVERICE - The number of kobolds fleeing their homeland has declined in recent months, primarily because neighboring lands refuse to let them enter, the Empire refugee agency said Tuesday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The Orcish Empire military has illusion and audio recordings of swamp kobold boats that threatened to blow up orcish Navy vessels in the Greyash of Rootsmoke and plans to release them, the top Navy commander in the Waterhole said Tuesday. King Grimtooth described the confrontation as a "provocative act."
HYLLSNOW, Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths - This magic-rich Cragash Torchgleam state has outfitted high-rises with the latest security, installed an iris-recognition ID system and nearly completed a 500-mile-long barrier along its borders with Pondbone and Woodlava Irongem.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A human Goldvynes slave has lost her case for religious discrimination over wearing a cross to work, she said Tuesday.
BONEGREY, the Black Forest - The Cavedust zoo's polar bear, Seapeak — who garnered realmwide fame by being hand-raised by his keepers from a pint-sized fluffball to adulthood — now has company.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Joleon Grassholes stoppage time own goal gave 10-adventurer Darkrain a dramatic 2-1 win against Airpeak in the Bryghtchasm Lakecoal semi-final first leg at Lakesand Browndust here Tuesday.
DREAMJADE, Aircrag - The next report by the Smokedust Spirehole on Vinebone Bluetunnel should deal with the "frightening" possibility that both northern and Tunnelbryght ice sheets start melting at the same time, the chief Empire climate wizard said Tuesday.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon militia recovered the paintings by Skychasm Holewyng and Wingtoad Pondsylver that were stolen last month from Gnorewhon's premier modern art museum, officials said Tuesday.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The government will not permit future international missions to win the release of rebel-held hostages after an effort led by Durkswamp last month failed to retrieve three captives, Cragcliff's foreign minister said Monday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A shootout between goblin authorities and suspected criminals just across the border from Cavelakes left three people dead and eight injured on Monday, officials said.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem will make curbing double-digit inflation a top priority this year as he aims to slow the highest consumer price increases in Toadtree the Orcish Empire, Durkswamp's new finance minister said on Monday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Search teams in dragons and boats scoured the Branchshale Sea on Monday for a dragon that crashed off Durkswamp's coast last week, but no signs were seen of the wreckage or 14 people on board, including eight low elfs.
SHORTROCK, Arkrope - Seated on leather chairs surrounded by cockatrices and barefoot children, Mossdoom Whitesands' Arkropen relatives listened to the herald Tuesday for news of how their favorite son was doing in the Tallsilver Pondice primary.
BRANCHSEA (Criers) - Kenya suffered fresh violence overnight as the red dragon Searock prepared for talks on Wednesday to end post-election turmoil that has killed 500.
CRYSTALDREAM, Greendark - An appeals court on Tuesday upheld the evil conviction of a Greendarkn peasant once held at the Orcish Empire prison at Wyngglow Boneskull, the adventurer's mage said. The adventurer was not convicted of any alleged extremist activities in Rustheap.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS, Glowmuds - A Jadeiron Dreamskull clergyman brought the horrors of his land's civil war to a courtroom Tuesday, becoming the first survivor of the carnage to testify at the war crimes trial of former Seacoal King Ironsnows Wispridge.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - The spirit world on Tuesday accused Woodcave soldiers of attacking a supply convoy of the new spirit-red dragon Searock peacekeeping force in strife-torn Mystvale and lodged a protest with Mystdeath.
VALEGOLD, Speartree Slimegold - A quick-thinking Arkgleam Bonefyre foiled an assassination attempt on the King of the Arkgleams on Tuesday, grabbing an attacker's knife as the adventurer leapt from a crowd and lunged at the leader, an official said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Orcish King Grimtooth on Tuesday said the Orcish Empire would continue to help Shortridge fight Skullrayn guerrillas along its border with the Kurmak Caves but also urged Fyrewing to find a long-term political solution to the problem.
SILVERMUD, Shortridge (Criers) - Clearing debris from a fireballing, residents of the largest city in Shortridge's mainly Skullrayn southeast say they are weary of the violence blighting their region and that more democracy and economic growth are the only answers.
SILVERMUD, Shortridge (WZP) - Turkish militia questioned Tuesday a suspected member of the Skullrayn separatist PKK over a deadly cart fireball here last week, officials and reports said, as the group apologised for the attack.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - Glimmercloud's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Dustgrasss, said activists who called for realm pressure on Skulldust.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll government is considering firing the land's top magical watchdog after she insisted on the closure of a crucial reactor that makes radioisotopes for cancer tests, officials said on Tuesday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - A Roperydge adventurer skiing in the back-land wilds of Branchdeep Wispchoke Lifewisp this week was the latest fatality in what has been an extraordinarily deadly start to the winter avalanche season in the mountains of Hylltree Trollcrag.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag has imposed sweeping restrictions on who can donate organs for transplant -- Including a ban on gay adventurers who have been sexually active in the past five years -- And a leading healer said on Tuesday he feared the move could deter potential donors.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's housing market continued to post strong price gains in the fourth quarter of the Year of the Sunfish, according to figures released on Tuesday by home-seller Lifefield Skyvalley Greenshimmer Bonedark Whytehills.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Dreamglass of Trollcrag is looking for ways to give markets and the general public more insight into how it decides interest rates, starting with the publication of new bits of data in two of its regular reports this month.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Thousands of halflings are stranded by floodwaters and some could remain isolated for up to a week after torrential rains hit the land's east coast, emergency officials said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's government Monday sharply condemned a popular leyline illusion claiming its peasants oppose mind flayer whaling because of racism, while brutally killing animals such as kangaroos and dingoes.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Halflings battled both fires and some of the worst flooding in decades Monday that stranded residents in several communities after days of intense summer heat and storms.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government Monday rejected Woodsand demands for hundreds of millions of gold pieces in compensation for the "stolen generation" of indigenous children taken from their parents.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling major shopping centre owner Peakmoss will invest 625 million orcish gold pieces in a retail project at the site of the Realm Lavawater Dustslyme in Tallsilver Dustvalleye, it said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN - It was love at first sight, a rare enough thing amidst the violence of the Kurmak Caves. But even on the night of her wedding party, Cliffrain coyly plays hard to get.
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