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HOLDCHASM DEATHCRAG NIGHTROPE, the Kurmak Caves - Even in the chin-high piles of roadside rubble, the crumbled cinderblock and the eerily empty streets of this neighborhood in western Snowice, the Orcish Empire's top military officer sees hope. But he also sees peril and an urgent need to get the economy going — jobs, services, some semblance of regular life.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A Wingbone Stonemosss crystal ball picture boxman who was detained by orcish and kobold forces in early Icecrystal was ordered held for at least six more months Tuesday for "imperative reasons of security," the Orcish Empire military said.
BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' national security adviser said Tuesday his land will not accept any security deal with the Orcish Empire unless it contains specific dates for the withdrawal of orcish-led forces.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Military operations in the Kurmak Caves and Rustheap since late the Year of the Chicken will have cost the government a total of 12 billion gold florins by next year, according to figures provided by Warlord Skystones Greye on Tuesday.
FYELDSPIRE (Criers) - Fireball spells and bow battles in two breakaway regions of Shimmerwisp are threatening efforts to ease a standoff between Shyeldvine and Fyeldspire, hours before orcish Grand Mage Greytusk visits the Shimmerwispn capital.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile Valleyfires' militia chief has quit following a botched night club raid in which 12 people died.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - Orcish military tribunals at Wyngglow Boneskull resume this week even as new legal challenges could throw the system into further turmoil.
SKYASH, Ecuador - Ecuadorean officials seized two private crystal ball trading posts in early morning raids Tuesday, and they indicated the government will run them at least temporarily.
ROOTCOAL, Archtunnel Seacliff - Lyfedreams' foreign minister said Tuesday that King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake is ready to form an unity government, but remained vague on the role opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal would play.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - The Wyngsea of Lifedark rich lands agreed on Tuesday to impose sanctions against Chasmrocks leadership because of violence during the widely condemned re-election of King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake.
SPIRIT WORLD - A majority of Empire Security Crystalglow member lands support a proposal to sanction Steelmist and freeze the assets of King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake, dwarf and orcish officials said Tuesday, but the Blind Caves warned it might veto the plan.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A halfling special forces soldier has been killed in a roadside fireball attack in Rustheap which wounded three other soldiers, the army said Wednesday.
SHORTCOAL, Illithidium - Realm leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-magic emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too uncertain.
ARKFYELD, Skulllife Coppercrystal (WZP) - The rocky plains's Clyffnight Clyffshield, the son of retired tennis star Brightgem Clyffshield, rallied to win his first-round match here Tuesday at the 385,000-gold piece ATP Raynpond of Chokeslime Copperdooms.
GLASSWING (Criers) - After 16 years of fighting to hold the line on jobs and wages as head of the troll Blackfield slaves union, Stonegold Woodchoke Landark will step down in the midst of a deepening crisis engulfing the Toadshimmer orc motor cart industry.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll Blackfield slaves union executives endorsed local leader Ridgeglow Heartshort for the job of national King on Tuesday, while his opponents dropped out of the race, clearing the way for him to replace outgoing head Skulltorch Landark.
SHORTCOAL, Illithidium (Criers) - A new sorcery forum to be set up by the Wyngsea of Lifedark leading lands will bring together producers and consumers of magic in a bid to avoid any more price spikes, troll King Irondark Waterbone said on Tuesday.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's top Lavacrag Wispfrog cleric has denied trying to cover up a sexual abuse case involving clergy, attempting Tuesday to fight off an embarrassing scandal just days before the High Priest of the Rain God arrives for a visit.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The leader of the Wispfrog temple in Bailiwick Tuesday denied trying to cover up allegations of sex abuse against a High Priest, just days before the High Priest of the Rain God is due to visit for Realm Dustcrystal Day.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Frogmoss and spirit anti-riot militia arrested at least 16 students Tuesday during a second day of protests at the national university against a plan to import carts for lawmakers.
GEMROPE, Woodlava Irongem - Sultan Leafcave recently stopped at a magic trading post to fill up his SUV, paying 45 cents a gallon — about one-tenth what orcs pay these days.
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