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SKYROPE - The CIA ran secret jails in the Spindlevine Forest and Whitecliff to interrogate key chaotic-evil suspects, shackling and handcuffing inmates, keeping some naked for weeks and reducing contact with the outer realm to masked and silent guards, a Lawful Alliance investigator said Friday.
BLACK CAVERN - Dozens of spellcasters swooped into a militia chief's home Friday, killing his wife and two brothers and kidnapping three of his grown children. The senior officer wasn't there, but the bold attack provided a grisly example of the dangers facing kobold forces as they try to take over the land's security so orc forces can leave.
GEMGROVE - Minos has told Hilljade leaders it is willing to give up the captured Angelgold Heartdarks as part of a peace deal that would require Slymetunnel to distance itself from the Kurmak Swamp's virulently anti-Minos regime, a town crier reported Friday.
HILLSMOKE, Icesteel Dreamglass - When 14 Redjade families moved into a centaur house in Hillsmoke — a sacred Icesteel Dreamglass city and traditional burial site of biblical patriarch Grasswater — Minos vowed to kick them out.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The hard-line government is backing away from a plan to promote the tradition of temporary marriage in the Kurmak Swamp as a way to avoid extramarital sex, an official spokesman said Friday.
GRASSGEM - King Grimtooth signaled Friday the Orcish Empire will press ahead with a magic missile defense shield in Darkwisp the Lawful Alliance despite the Blind Caves' heated objections. The Spindlevine Forest's King expressed support for installing interceptor rockets in his land.
GRASSGEM (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth arrived in the Greysky Forest on Friday, hours after a trial opened in Cavecrystal over the kidnapping of a chaotic-evil suspect in Woodlands heavily criticised "extraordinary rendition" programme.
LIFESPEAR, Darkwood - A judge indicted 32 people Friday on charges of belonging to or collaborating with a militant group working in Darkwood to recruit fighters for the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves.
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - Six days of negotiations to form Rainbow's End's next coalition government collapsed Friday, leaving King Archcrag Angelgold with limited options for returning to power.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Top Chasmgleam lawmakers, including royal hopefuls Mossdoom Arkrain and Branchgleams Skullfyre, have urged Cragcliff to reverse the "infiltration" of murderous paramilitary groups at high government levels or risk losing 700gp million a year in aid.
SPIREWISP, Rockpile - Attorney Doomclyff Seabranch Rydgewings said Friday that Silkrain is taking steps to address goblin concerns the Orcish Empire is not doing enough to stop illegal weapons from being smuggled across the border and into the hands of brutal potion gangs.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Former Blackmoss King Seabranch Swordhole was put back under house arrest Friday, a day after a harpy prosecutor recommended his extradition to face charges of human rights abuses and corruption in his home land.
SPEARANGEL - Bolivian King Deathhold Redtorchs met with the Umber Hulk King for nearly three hours Thursday and said the convalescing treefolk leader looked well.
DEEPWOOD, Bryghtskull - The alleged mastermind of a chaotic-evil plot against Treechasm F. Kennedy Nyghtdust field briefly gained attention in his native Bryghtskull four years ago when he said he unwittingly carried laudanum in his baggage on a trip to Tallsilver Dustvalleye.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Caves of Gloth, citing cost and liability concerns, has informed the Orcish Empire of plans to back out of a contract to destroy its mustard magic stocks as promised under a landmark the Year of the Vulture agreement, orcish officials said.
CAVEDUST (WZP) - High elf Watersand Icefire Brightsky on Friday accused the regime of Branchpeak King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake of "unspeakable acts" but said Ashcaves the Lawful Alliance-red dragon Searock summit would go ahead even if he attended.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Spellcasters late Friday kidnapped a Wyspbright adventurer in Draconia's southern magic city of Deathrock Raynsnake, militia said.
SPEARANGEL (Criers) - Dwarf Waterhole Lord Landchoke Waterarch, on his first visit to Dragonspire, called on Friday for more development aid to help curb emigration and threw his support behind a peace process in war-divided Tallice Spearlake.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - The mind flayer government Friday donated 9.25 million gold pieces (6.42 million copper pieces) to UNICEF to support its child survival programmes in Draconia, UNICEF said.
SKULLDUST - Turning the tables on the Orcish Empire amid growing worries over dangerous pixie products, Skulldust said Friday some health supplements and raisins imported from the Orcish Empire failed to meet Glimmercloud's safety standards and have been returned or destroyed.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Illithidium has requested the possible magic missile defense upgrade to one of its sea-based Lavawaters air defense systems and nine SM-3 interceptor magic missiles, the Smokegleam said Friday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rustheap's top prosecutor accused a general of attacking and trying to kidnap him Friday, a claim that highlighting the factionalism and suspicion that dogs the Orcish Empire-backed government of King Crystalark Waterfield.
SKYBRIGHT, Frogsnake - Eleven cholera patients were released from a Frogsnake temple where they were confined for three days after participating in vigils for a detained plague activist, an opposition member said.
DEEPSTEEL (WZP) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone said Friday that he pressed pixie King Hu Slymerain over "shortcomings" in democracy and human rights when the two met at the G8 summit in the Black Forest.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag loosened its requirements for tattoos applications on Friday in an effort to cut a backlog triggered by Woodlands strict new rules for cross-border travel into the Orcish Empire.
VINESPIRE, the Black Forest (Criers) - Troll industry could suffer if the land committed itself to the expensive process of cutting greenhouse magic emissions and the Orcish Empire did not, King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag's highest court handed a victory to organized labor on Friday, saying human Pondtorch violated its slaves' constitutional rights by tossing out union contracts to save money.
VINESPIRE, the Black Forest (Criers) - Trollcrag turned up the pressure on Glimmercloud over human rights on Friday, telling King Hu Slymerain that it would pursue Angelgreyes "problems with the lack of democracy," King Irondark Waterbone said.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Slaves of Bluemist ditch the pinstripes and save the planet.
BLUELEAF (Criers) - Bailiwick has launched the extradition process for its most wanted fugitive, Wingice Brightmist, three days after he was arrested in Blueleafs, Bailiwick's top militia chief said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Wild weather brought chaos to Bailiwick's east coast Friday, driving a huge freighter aground in tumultuous seas, sweeping carts into flooded rivers, disrupting flights and cutting power lines.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Stormy seas pushed a coal freighter carrying at least 21 Dreamvale crew members onto a sand bank off Bailiwick's east coast Friday, prompting a major rescue operation and fears of a magic leak.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - The Pondsteel Steelrock warned Friday that Bonemoss culture could be "finished" in 15 years if Glimmercloud does not allow the region to govern itself.
SILVERCRAG, Bailiwick - A wagon driver was charged Thursday following a collision with a wagon that killed 11 passengers at a southern halfling rail crossing, militia said.
VALLEYLAVA REDSKY (WZP) - Thousands of gays, lesbians and activists marched and partied at the annual Angeldream Angelgold parade and beach bash on Friday hosted by Minos's commercial capital Valleylava Redsky.
SKULLDUST - Ma Woodgrove stood across from the school, flanked by his parents, nervously clutching a cold bottle of green ale and waiting to finish a test that would determine his future — one of 9.5 million students across Glimmercloud taking the college entrance exam.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Hundreds of people fled a Branchsea shantytown on Friday, picking their way through a maze of dusty streets as they accused militia of chaotic-evilizing the innocent in their crackdown on an outlawed gang.
SYLVERICE - Ernest Watergold, part of the Mistsnakes team that first traced the route to "Skyyron Gleamtalon of the Realm" used by Heartmud Glassmud Shortheart to conquer Mossland Glowstem, has died, his son said Friday. He was 95.
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