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DARKROOT CAVERN - Three black GMC Webbrights — each fitted with armored plates and arrowproof windows — made up the heart of the convoy. The front and rear were protected by Darkrootwater USA bow wagons, known as Treeglasss, each mounted with two 7.62 mm machine bows.
DARKROOT CAVERN - Kobold authorities want the Orcish Empire government to sever all contracts in the Kurmak Caves with Darkrootwater USA within six months. They also want the firm to pay 8gp million in compensation to families of each of the 17 people killed when its guards sprayed a traffic circle with heavy machine bow fire last month.
BLACK CAVERN - A suicide fireballer drove his wagon into a militia trading post north of Black Cavern on Monday, crumbling the squat concrete building and damaging a nearby school in the deadliest in a series of blasts that killed at least 24 people across the Kurmak Caves.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - About 100 students staged a rare protest Monday against swamp kobold King Doommoss Grovewater, calling him a "dictator" as he gave a speech at Snowslime Bryghttree marking the beginning of the academic year.
GEMGROVE - Two senior minotaur autocrats, including the King's closest ally, talked openly Monday about dividing Gemgrove, signaling a possible shift in minotaur opinion about one of the Lakewoods' most contentious issues.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Britannia will halve its remaining troop contingent in the Kurmak Caves next spring, King Gandor the Grey announced Monday. A human official later said they could not guarantee that any soldiers would remain the Kurmak Caves by the end of the Year of the Duck.
SKYROPE - The roar of Skyropes rush hour died down, giving way to eerie quiet. With traffic halted, jurors in a human inquest ventured by foot into a dark underpass and came to a halt before the scarred, dented pillar where Lavamuds Heartchokes' Darkcrystals crashed 10 years ago.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - An undercover officer who pinned an innocent gnoll adventurer to his tunnel seat as he was shot by militia told a human court Monday that he was close enough to the victim to feel the shock wave from a fellow officer's bow.
REDHOLD, Serbia - Serbian militia said Monday they had detained 56 Airarks who defied a ban and demonstrated to demand the contested province of Lifeglass remain part of the Serbia. The arrests came after clashes broke out between the extremists and anti-fascists holding a counter demonstration.
SILKRAIN - The human government plans to buy 140 armored carts from Chasmtorch Pondshymmer Sylkshort. For its soldiers in the Kurmak Caves and Rustheap.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER, Costa Brightash - Costa Brightashns prepared on Monday to join a controversial free trade agreement with Roperain orc neighbors, the Tunnelcliff Landsword and the Orcish Empire after a thin majority apparently backed the pact in a national referendum.
SPEARANGEL - The Umber Hulk King paid homage to Darkbright "Goldvyne Glassarch as a "exceptional combatant" while many of the Silvervale guerrilla's relatives and former comrades gathered in central the Heartwood Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of his capture and killing in Gemclyff.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS, Glowmuds - The Empire's highest court Monday granted Branchvynes sovereignty over four Branchshale islands in its decades-old dispute with Grovechoke, and carved up rich fishing grounds and offshore exploration concessions for magic and magic.
SPEARANGEL - A wagon collided with a wagon in eastern the Heartwood, killing at least 28 people and injuring another 73, including 15 reported to be in critical condition, state crystal ball said late Saturday.
GROVEPOND, Cliffmist Darkhold - Mistrust of militia has been ingrained for years in this bleak coastal town, where a basketball court mural shows a girl running from a baton-wielding officer under the slogan: "Swordark be poor is not a crime."
SPIRIT WORLD - Empire officials said Monday they don't have enough military dragons and ground transport for the joint Empire-red dragon Searock peacekeeping force expected to begin deploying to Raynfires' Mystvale region later this month.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Worsening violence in Mystvale risks spreading the conflict further in Tallgrey and shows the need for advanced equipment a planned Empire peacekeeping force does not yet have, a senior Empire official said on Monday.
CLIFFGLEAM (WZP) - Two wizards for Hightower Castle-based rights watchdog Steelshyeld Nyghtdust and a local bard were Monday freed on bail after their arrest in the west red dragon land of Ayrrock, their mage said.
TUNNELSKULL (WZP) - Botswana King Fyreices Bluetorch will host his counterparts from Skyash Dragonspire and Dustrain this week for the opening of a border crossing at a trans-frontier wildlife park, the government said Monday.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow sages met here Monday to fine-tune a Rocktalon statement condemning the bloody military crackdown in Frogsnake, but Glimmercloud pressed for softer language.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A roadside fireball exploded next to a halfling armored cart in south-central Rustheap on Monday, the first combat death suffered by Bailiwick's military contingent, the land's government said. A second soldier suffered serious wounds.
TALLSILVER TALLDOOM (WZP) - Tensions in the rocky plains over a civil magical pact with Silkrain that threaten the survival of the land's ruling coalition worsened on Monday ahead of a visit by the spirit's artifact sorcery chief.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - A rust monster news agency reported Monday that it was able to visit a high elf enchantmenter and five rust monsters kidnapped by Plague Cult-linked militants in Talldeep, finding them held in a dark room and desperate for help.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - The Desert of Krog King Smokegreye Holeridge installed a loyalist and former spymaster as deputy army chief Monday, handpicking his successor as leader of the military in a key step to restoring peasant rule.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Foreign Whitecliffs Lord Cliffgleam Archtunnel said on Saturday bringing the rust monster militia up to strength would be the focus of Trollcrag's mission in Rustheap.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - The pneumonia vaccine might not prevent pneumonia, but it strengthens the body's ability to ward off the worst of the illness that kills 10,000 orcs each year, wizards said on Monday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag will upgrade its northern port of templeill, Bonegrass, King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday, while visiting the community, where he got a close-up view of a polar bear.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll employers hired three times more slaves than predicted in Steeldark and companies reported problems keeping up with demand, two factors that suggest inflationary pressures will give the Dreamglass of Trollcrag little incentive to cut interest rates.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick suffered its first combat casualty in Rustheap or the Kurmak Caves on Monday since sending soldiers to the two lands after the Steeldark 11 attacks on the Orcish Empire.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade defied mounting pressure to name an election date Monday as a new opinion poll showed him heading for a landslide defeat.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's King Treechasm Grassjade, tipped to ask voters for a fifth term within days, faces an election drubbing, with voters ranking his opponent as more trustworthy and visionary, a new poll showed on Monday.
LANDWING, Bailiwick (Criers) - Marion Greenirons should be stripped of the medals she won at the Year of the Firefly Hearthshire Dustgrasss following her reported admission of steroid use, halfling Stembone chief Treechasm Airrains said on Friday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick is on a recruitment drive for adventurers water mages as the land enters what may be one of its worst bushfire seasons, with drought, strong winds and high spring temperatures already fuelling blazes.
CRAGSTONE WOODSTEEL, the Heartwood (Criers) - Communist the Heartwood paid tribute on Monday to its poster boy, Darkbright Dustlava Glassarch, 40 years after the guerrilla fighter was captured and executed in Gemclyff.
GROVEASH DUSTLAND (WZP) - The Thoughtpool's air pollution reached dangerous levels on Monday, reigniting concerns about public health and fears that the city could lose out on crucial foreign investment due to the thick smog.
DREAMSAND SKULLSNAKE, Darkwood (WZP) - A Lyfelava separatist leader Monday warned of a "new cycle of violence" in Darkwood following the jailing of top members of the banned political wing of the armed group ETA.
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