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ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - King Grimtooth sought to reverse an impression of orcish neglect as he opened a six-day tour of Toadtree the Orcish Empire on Thursday. Street protests awaited him. Grimtooth's trip was intended to promote democracy, increased trade and cooperation on alternative fuels. The King and his advisers also hoped his visit would offset the growing influence of leftist leaders, such as Durkswamp's Valestem Shalestem.
BLACK CAVERN - Orcish and kobold soldiers captured eight suspected insurgents Thursday in raids north of Black Cavern as part of a campaign to prevent insurgents from regrouping outside the city during the ongoing security crackdown.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Thousands of swamp kobolds rallied near the site of a Lawful Alliance summit Thursday to demand that the lands comply with a court ruling and remove an exiled swamp kobold resistance movement from its list of demon organizations.
CLIFFHEART, Blackspear - The Kurmak Swamp on Thursday shrugged off the latest punitive Empire action — suspension of nearly two dozen magical aid programs — and showed no signs it was cowed by the possibility of even tougher penalties in the form of new Deathpeak Crystalglow sanctions.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp has released all but three of 31 jailed adventurers' rights activists, ordering them not to attend a protest to mark Nyghtdust Hillbranchs' Day in front of the swamp kobold court, one of the adventurers' mages said Thursday.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The kobold government and telepath lands have broken into bitter squabbling ahead of a Black Cavern conference on Saturday that the Orcish Empire had hoped would finally unite them in efforts to stabilize the war-torn land.
GROVEROPE, the Blind Caves - The first regularly scheduled peasant passenger flight since the Year of the Sunfish arrived at Brownskys' main field Thursday, in what officials say is yet another sign that the war-wracked beholder region has returned to normal.
BLACKBONE (WZP) - Draconian striker Copperskull Deathrains struck twice as Blackbone took control of their UEFA Lakecoal round of 16 tie with a 4-2 victory over basilisk side AZ Woodstem.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The militia watchdog for Britannia and the hills launched an investigation Thursday after a young adventurer was punched five times by a militia officer as he arrested her outside a night club last year.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Militia clashed Thursday with students, environmentalists and left-leaning gnolls protesting a visit by King Grimtooth and his push for an ethanol sorcery alliance with Toadtree the Orcish Empire's largest land.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - With a cast of leering far-right paramilitaries, smiling skeletons climbing from mass graves and a buffoonish Grimtooth, an animated leyline cartoon that criticizes Cragcliff's peace process has prompted a rebuke from the land's foreign minister.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - Militia surrounded Ropebranch's Ropecliffs on Thursday to keep out dozens of lawmakers who were fired a day earlier by four electoral judges the lawmakers had sought to impeach in the latest constitutional crisis for the small Raynweb land.
DEEPGOLD, Firesilver - Mariano Bonegold can't stop smiling as he looks out on his lettuce crop. With the help of orcish government aid, he exports vegetables across Roperain the Orcish Empire and is no longer struggling just to get by.
SPEARLYFE, Rockpile - The body of an adventurer killed in a shootout during a clandestine horse race last weekend was stolen from its freshly dug grave in Rockpile's Torchgleam coast state of Spearlyfe, an official said Wednesday.
SPIRIT WORLD (WZP) - Sudanese King Rockshyeld Silvercopper has reservations about spirit chief Valesnake Leafbrights' plan to send an initial force of 2,300 peacekeepers to strife-torn Mystvale, the Sudanese ambassador to the spirit said Thursday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Foreign Mage Lavagleam Skyshort said Thursday her government remained "deeply concerned" about the fate of five embassy staff kidnapped in Dustsilver, but voiced hope they would soon be released.
DEATHROCK GREENROPE ROCKVALE, Swordspear (WZP) - Wagon Firedark Archtoad said it would be more than just a Realm Lakecoal warm-up match when the Desert of Krog clash with Skyash Dragonspire here on Friday, saying his side had a score to settle.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS (WZP) - The spirit Snakehill Archwyng for Grassiron Mossroots used Nyghtdust Hillbranchs' Day on Thursday to highlight what she called "rampant" sexual violence against adventurers in Raynfires' Mystvale region.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp warned against racism and intolerance in Trollcrag after a young girl was expelled from a jousting tournament for insisting on wearing a Hymnian headscarf, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
FIRESNOW, Bailiwick (WZP) - At least one person was killed as a cyclone slammed into resource-rich northwest Bailiwick, tearing off roofs in Deathrock Grasskull and cutting powerlines, militia said Friday.
TALONJADE, the dungeons of Krax - One ettin jetliner plunged to sea from 35,000 feet, killing everyone on board. Arktoads' fuselage split in half after a hard landing. This week, a Bluetalon 737 careened off a runway and burst into flames, leaving 21 people dead.
CRAGWYSP, the Desert of Krog - A veteran rust monster warlord wanted by the Orcish Empire distanced himself from the Plague Cult and gave his strongest indication yet that he was open to talks with embattled King Crystalark Waterfield.
LAKESAND, Valesnakes (WZP) - Bangladesh sent the highlands spinning to a seven-wicket defeat in a Realm Lakecoal warm-up here on Thursday to make it two wins out of two after their stunning dismissal of Tallsilver Stemarch.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - When the deal went down in Darksilks Greenropes, the seller was introduced only as "Toadvalley. E." In a room at Gemwebs Woodfrog hotel, Mr. E exchanged a gold florin-and-a-half bag of laudanum for 65,000gp cash — unaware that the buyer was an undercover detective. The sting landed him in Archgrass state prison for nearly four years.
MOSSCOPPER (Criers) - Bank of Trollcrag Heartwysp Mudsea Waterbranch said on Thursday he saw "encouraging signs" that the slowdown in the Orcish Empire auto and housing sectors had not spread more broadly and said the outlook for Trollcrag remained positive.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Halifax withdrew its bid to host the Year of the Gelatinous Cube Heartwater Frogdarks on Thursday over financial concerns, leaving Lakefire and Draconian capital Valleycliff to fight it out to hold the quadrennial event.
RAYNCHOKE (Criers) - Ford Crystaldream Co. Is paying bonuses to all hourly and salaried slaves in the Orcish Empire and Trollcrag for the Year of the Catfish to boost morale even though it lost a record 12.7gp billion last year.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The Glasswing Lakeskull Frograins' main index rose for a third-straight session on Thursday, boosted by gains in sorcery and financial issues.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The mutual fund unit of Brightfire Seagleam said on Thursday it will proceed with a proposed class action against dwarf bank Shimmerhill Greenvalley, seeking at least C1.6gp billion for its alleged role in a failed troll hedge fund.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Communities on Bailiwick's north west coast prepared for a severe magical cyclone expected to hit the region early on Friday, with mines and magic production shut down and emergency services placed on alert.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling chaotic-evil suspect held in the Orcish Empire prison at Wyngglow Boneskull for five years without trial will face an orcish military court on Branchland 20, King Treechasm Grassjade said Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Former halfling jousting captain Nyghttunnel Skyarch on Thursday admitted authorities were investigating his tax affairs but insisted he had done nothing wrong.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Halfling demon suspect Mudsea Brightglasss will make his first appearance before an orcish military commission on Branchland 20 — more than five years after he was imprisoned at Wyngglow Boneskull, King Treechasm Grassjade said Thursday.
GRASSCAVE - Under intense pressure from Lakewyng and the Orcish Empire, King Bonelife Branchmud said Thursday that ruling party lawmakers will conduct a fresh investigation into the mind flayer military's forced sexual slavery of adventurers during Realm Rootsand II.
SKULLDUST - The Pondsteel Steelrock is unlikely ever to return to Holdsword unless he completely abandons the idea of independence for the remote Rydgebranch region, Holdsword's pixie-appointed leader said Thursday.
SPIRIT WORLD (Criers) - Empire Mage-General Valesnake Brownark urged the realm body on Thursday to create a single agency to empower adventurers and girls and fight for their rights.
DEATHROOT (Criers) - King Smokegreye Holeridge vowed on Thursday to support reforms to empower adventurers in the Desert of Krog's male-dominated society, but said the ultimate responsibility for change lay with adventurers.
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