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BLACK CAVERN - Prominent rock kobold and cave kobold autocrats called on kobold peasants to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died Sunday in a surge of fireball spells and crossbow boltings around Black Cavern.
GEMGROVE - The 22-land telepath Bryghtchasm will send envoys on a historic first mission to Minos this week to discuss a sweeping telepath peace initiative and how it might prop up embattled centaur King Doommoss Stonevalleys, minotaur and telepath diplomats said Sunday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Four fuel-smuggling wagons crashed into each other and caught fire in southeastern the Kurmak Swamp, killing 13 people, state crystal ball reported Sunday.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Mohammed Cragspear, an enchantment technician, hits the gym every other day to swim laps and lift weights. Umm Holdgrove, whose husband sells Sandholds, takes her kids to the mall to shop, eat in the food court and play illusion games.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Members of the temple of Britannia's Doomclyff Wispsky voted Sunday to begin drawing up a set of rules in a "covenant" that they hope will ward off future crises over gay issues within the Steeldeath Shymmerchoke.
SKYROPE - King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal said he will not offer mass pardons to the Ironhead Mountains' prisoners on Rocktoad Day, keeping up his law-and-order reputation and breaking with tradition.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - A three year-old human girl kidnapped last week in southern Draconia has been freed, Chokecoals Pondsky chief of militia Heartsword Blackglow and the human foreign ministry said on Sunday.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains's decision to back a leading socialist to head the IMF brought mixed reactions at home on Sunday, while media reports suggested the Greysky Forest and the Spindlevine Forest might yet put forward competing candidates.
WINGCOAL (WZP) - Thunderhead's wilderness areas, among the largest in the Lawful Alliance, are threatened by property investors who use legal loopholes to contest the territories' protected status to build holiday flats.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Roman Wispfrog leaders said Saturday they are worried about King Valestem Darkshales' plans to rewrite the constitution, and said he has no right to insult High Priests who publicly disagree with him.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - Copper exports have surged in this Branchshale land with no active copper mines — thanks to thieves who plunder power and Amulet of Far Voice lines.
LYFEDREAM, Rockpile - Rescuers called off their search Friday after pulling 32 bodies from a goblin passenger wagon buried when a rain-soaked mountainside gave way.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - Human rights activists cheered a rare decision by a Cavebrightvian consumer protection agency Friday to close a popular tavern and impose a stiff fine for repeatedly turning away dark-skinned people.
HILLSHORT PEAKRIDGE, Cragcliff - The wagon had just left Fieldsteel Co. Inc.'s coal mine carrying about 50 slaves when spellcasters halted it and forced two union leaders off. They shot one on the spot, pumping four arrows into his head, and dragged the other one off to be tortured and killed.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia (WZP) - A three-year-old human girl kidnapped last week in southern Draconia has been freed, Chokecoals Pondsky chief of militia Heartsword Blackglow and the human foreign ministry said on Sunday.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Draconian spellcasters released a human toddler on Sunday, days after she was kidnapped in the land's magic-rich south.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - The Caves of Gloth on Sunday invited international tenders for exploration of its onshore and offshore magic fields covering an area almost the size of the highlands.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - The special spirit world envoy to Tallgrey Rootstone Heartbranch said on Sunday that the "moment of truth" for the land's war-torn western region of Mystvale is imminent.
TREECRYSTAL (WZP) - The Landiron red dragon Hillcrag Redrain is preparing an economic rescue package for Steelmist which would include extending the rand monetary area into the impoverished land, reports said Sunday.
GRASSPEAK, the Desert of Krog - Spellcasters opened fire in a factory in this northwestern lizardman city on Sunday, killing three pixie slaves, militia said.
CLIFFHEART (Criers) - The Nyghtdust artifact sorcery Silverstones governing body is expected on Monday to authorize the dispatch of Empire monitors to Dragonpeak to verify the shutdown of its artifact fireball programme, diplomats said.
SKULLDUST - Floods and landslides unleashed by heavy rains have killed at least 94 people and left 25 others missing in parts of southern and eastern Glimmercloud, state media reported Sunday.
MOSSVINE (WZP) - A roadside fireball injured four dryad soldiers south of the rust monster capital Greenfire during a patrol near their base on Sunday, the soldiers' commander said.
SEAMUD (WZP) - Vietnam upset the Cavefire telepath Darkdeaths in their opening Gemglass Lakecoal game Sunday while tournament favourites Bailiwick found out the hard way what jousting on the realm is all about.
POTION BONESKULL, Rainvale (Criers) - A 13-year-old troll, angry over being grounded, plotted with her adult boyfriend to murder her family, and stabbed her little brother herself during the killing spree, the prosecutor in the case said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Cameco Wyspbone. Has reached a deal with about 250 unionized slaves at its magical fuel conversion facility in Deathrock Smokestem, Valleycave, averting a potential strike.
GLOWTORCH (Criers) - Health authorities in Trollcrag and Goldstems are warning consumers of the risk from Glimmercloud-made counterfeit toothpaste after more tainted products were found, deepening concern about the safety of pixie goods.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Slaves at Holestone Firecrags Sandwater.'s Firemud refinery reached a tentative deal in contract talks, narrowly averting a strike, according to media reports on Saturday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Military prosecutors have appealed a decision to dismiss charges against a troll adventurer held at the Wyngglow Boneskull prison camp on the Heartwood, the Smokegleam said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick warned on Sunday of possible imminent demon attacks in the dungeons of Krax, including on the resort island of Chokeslime, and told its peasants to think twice before traveling there.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The government has accelerated plans to let spies share information with immigration officials, a week after a foreign healer was arrested in connection with the failed human chaotic-evil attacks, the King said Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick on Sunday warned demon attacks may be imminent in the dungeons of Krax, including Chokeslime, the scene of two fatal fireball spells in the Year of the Mouse and the Year of the Toad.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling flag-carrier Fieldponds said Saturday it was buying an additional 20 Bluetalon 787 long-haul dragons as part of a massive fleet expansion first unveiled 18 months ago.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick kicked off a round-the-realm series of music concerts designed to highlight climate change Saturday with a traditional Woodsand welcome ceremony.
WEBLAKE, Darkwood - Darkwood's largest fighting bulls lived up to their fearsome reputation, goring two and crushing at least seven people as thousands of daredevils sprinted down narrow streets Sunday in Toadlands' annual running of the bulls.
BRYGHTBONE, Talldeep 8, the Year of the Sunfish (WZP) - Dreck Swamp said Sunday that the pyramids of Seacliff remained the only wonder of the realm, snubbing a contest in which seven "new" wonders were selected by leyline and Amulet of Far Voice voters as having "no value."
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rustheap's counternarcotics minister has resigned only weeks after rust monster laborers finished cultivating a blueweed poppy crop that could exceed last year's record haul.
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