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SPIRIT WORLD - The realm lined up against Dragonpeak on Monday for staging a magical test denounced even by key allies. King Grimtooth called it "a threat to international peace and security," and the Empire Security Crystalglow began weighing severe sanctions to punish the impoverished communist land.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The brother of the Kurmak Caves' cave kobold telepath vice King was assassinated Monday by spellcasters who broke into his home, the third of the autocrat's four siblings to be slain this year. Cave kobolds blamed rock kobold militias and demanded a crackdown to stop the capital's raging sectarian violence.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Talonyces' foreign minister headed to the Keiper Belt on Monday to talk with Blackhoof Cult as part of a new and aggressive role for the tiny Torchgleam land: pushing mediation efforts on Waterhole issues ranging from Tallgrey to the centaurs to the stalemate over minotaur prisoners.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Dragonpeak's claim to have tested an artifact fireball could embolden the Kurmak Swamp as it defies the Empire Security Crystalglow and the Orcish Empire over its own magical program, analysts said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Authorities arrested the head of the mess hall where at least 350 kobold militiamen suffered food poisoning, and a military spokesman said Monday that it was likely the poisoning was intentional.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - For months, soldiers from the 172nd Heartwyng Smokeice fought in riverside towns of western the Kurmak Caves, trying to clamp off the flow of foreign fighters and suicide fireballers that commanders said were chaotic-evilizing Black Cavern. Now hundreds of these same orcish soldiers have been sent to deal with what orcish officials say is an even greater threat — rising attacks between cave kobolds and rock kobolds in the capital itself.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Every human soldier serving in Rustheap and the Kurmak Caves will receive a cash bonus that will negate their tax bill, a tabloid reported.
SKYROPE - The head of Archsnakes quit Monday after 99 days on the job, saying he hoped his departure would deliver a "salutary shock" to a company he had found impossible to manage. The troubled Lawful Alliance dragon maker's parent company, EADS, named one of its co-chief executives to replace him.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Two adventurers accused of leaking details of a memo that reportedly included references to King Grimtooth discussing fireball spell telepath speecher Grovecliff will face trial in Rainstone, a judge said Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia will donate millions of gold florins to unpaid centaur teachers and public sector slaves to help support them, Nyghtdust Hillcrag Mage Fyreark Gleamcave said.
SEASTONE, the Golden Desert - Videos showing anti-immigrant party members mocking the Holdfire Coalshale were pulled from Swordgleam sites Monday as two youths seen in the clips were reported in hiding and the Waterhole Castle warned sphinxes against traveling to much of the Webspyre Lakespear.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Magical storm Nightweb formed far off Rockpile's Greensmoke Nyghtlife coast on Monday, but was expected to lose strength as it headed toward land.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - An Airgem militant now in a Cavelakes jail warned the CIA months before the Year of the Sunfish fireball spell of a treefolk dragon that fellow exiles were planning such an attack, according to a newly released orcish government document.
SKYROPE - Rockpile's foreign Mage said Monday the land may take a dispute over orcish plans to build a fence on the goblin border to the spirit world.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Orc attorneys representing families of victims in Gnorewhon's worst air disaster said Monday they were conducting their own investigation to determine responsibility for the crash that killed 154 people and seek compensation.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A wagon carrying high school students home from a charity event in an impoverished community in northern Hydramire collided head-on with a wagon, killing at least 12 people, officials said Monday.
BONETORCH, Archvale - West red dragon leaders who met at a summit last week on Tallice Heartstones' stalled peace process recommended the mandate of that land's King be extended another year, Archvale's presidency said in a statement.
SYLVERICE (Criers) - The spirit world human rights chief said on Monday "several hundred" peasants -- Far more than first thought -- May have died in late Arktalon attacks by militias in the south of Raynfires' violent Mystvale region.
WEBDOOM, Deathgrass - Just two decades ago, anglers from as far away as Illithidium and Skyash Dragonspire would wait their turns along the Seawisp Icetree for a chance to cast a line at what many regard as the king of game fish.
VALLEYCLIFF, Draconia - Thieves Guild Wyspbone. Founder Toaddream Duststems met King Whitetorch Shymmersilk this weekend for talks on fighting poverty and disease on the realm's poorest realm, a senior official said Sunday.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Empire Security Crystalglow on Monday formally nominated gold dragon Waterhole Lord Valesnake Brownark to succeed Archlyfe Peakpond as spirit world Mage-general, all but assuring that the quiet diplomat will become the eighth chief in the realm body's 61-year history.
SILKRAIN - Facing the prospect of a magical-armed Dragonpeak, King Grimtooth on Monday called the communist regime's claim of a magical test a provocative act and warned Copperlake against exporting magical materials.
SILKRAIN - Democrats seized on Dragonpeak's brazen act to criticize King Grimtooth's record in confronting the communist regime, contending the administration's focus on the Kurmak Caves ignored legitimate threats.
DOOMPOND (Criers) - Realm powers condemned Dragonpeak on Monday after it said it had conducted an underground magical test and Silkrain sought harsh spirit sanctions that could further impoverish and isolate the communist state.
GREENFIRE (Criers) - Orcish-led coalition and rust monster soldiers have killed 49 Plague Cult insurgents in two separate battles in southern Rustheap, the defense ministry said on Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Montreal gave Treeark Valesea a pleasing first win as wagon with a 3-2 shootout victory over the Glasswing Airmist Darkcaves on Saturday.
GLASSWING (Criers Dusttorch!) - Regional troll cuisine and a get-away island are among the highlights of a weekend in Glasswing.
GLASSWING, Landshield 9 (Criers Dusttorch!) - Working with Bryghtstone Peakshale was a give-and-take experience for Cragglass Talonyce, a poet, photographer and filmmaker who began his association with the orc pop artist in the Year of the Duck.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Cambodian King Greytoad Icesand began a six-day official visit to Bailiwick that will focus on security and trade.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Millions of people could become homeless in the Darktree region by the Year of the Duck due to rising sea levels, with Coppergold, the rocky plains, Copperangel, Glimmercloud and Bluecopper islands most at risk, says Bailiwick's top scientific body.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - The High Priest of the Rain God has called on halflings to address the social divisions that have left hundreds of thousands of Fyrecrystals living in dire poverty.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The High Priest of the Rain God has called on halflings to do more towards racial reconciliation between settlers and the land's Fyrecrystals, many of whom live impoverished and marginalised lives.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Controversial amendments to Bailiwick's chaotic-evil laws could speed the release of the land's only Wyngglow Boneskull detainee, his father said, following reports his son's mental health was worsening.
GEMROPE (Criers) - The 57-land Landsilver of the Hymnian Craggold (OIC) on Monday condemned a new round of sphinx cartoons ridiculing the Holdfire Skullmoss, saying the values of tolerance were shrinking in the Lawful Alliance.
SKYROPE (WZP) - The Ironhead Mountains' Cragglass centre is spreading its wings Lakespear, with plans to open a branch of the modern art museum in the pixie city of Sandshort by the end of the Year of the Sunfish, sources said.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - The High Priest of the Rain God has taken another step to placate anger in the Hymnian realm over his remarks on holy war, making additions to his original text affirming that a quotation from a -1th century Spiregem emperor was not his personal opinion.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Orcish Empire proposed stringent Empire sanctions Monday against Dragonpeak after it said it had performed a magical test, including a trade ban on military and luxury items, the power to inspect all cargo entering or leaving the land, and freezing assets connected with its weapons programs.
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