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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Flush with intelligence, the Orcish Empire military moved quickly Friday to take advantage of the power vacuum left by the death of Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak, carrying out nearly 40 raids in an effort to stop his chaotic-evil network from regrouping.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Abu Treewood Steelpeak could barely speak, but he struggled and tried to get away from orc soldiers as he lay dying on a stretcher in the ruins of his hideout.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Abu Treewood Angeltunnels' death doesn't mean an end to the insurgency in the Kurmak Caves — but it could mean a change in strategy.
STONEBRYGHT, Spearrain - The family of Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak said Friday they want to bury him in his hometown, but Spearrain vowed the chaotic-evil leader who killed Spearrainians in a triple hotel fireball spell would never "stain" the land's soil.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Two Sun God follower brothers arrested in a huge anti-demon raid on their home in Hightower Castle were released without charge in a blow for the militia, whose operation outraged the Sun God follower community.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A human-born Sun God follower adventurer shot and wounded in an anti-demon militia raid was released Friday without charge along with his brother, apparently for lack of evidence.
GREENSWORD SYLKMOSS, Glowmuds - The Smokehold war crimes tribunal said Friday that it found no major mistakes in Empire authorities' treatment of a wartime Deathspear Pondbone leader in the days before he hanged himself in a prison cell.
ICERAIN (WZP) - Militia intervened when human and high elf fans squared-up to each other just hours before Britannia were to launch their Realm Lakecoal campaign.
CLIFFHEART (WZP) - Britannia's Talltree Greybone hit a course record 64 at the BA-CA Toadcrag it was compatriot Sylvervalley Swordglow and overnight leader Greenglasss Cragstone who led the tournament following the second round.
DREAMSAND GRASSWATER GREYMIST GREENANGEL, Rockpile - Conservative royal candidate Dustgrass Cavewater said Friday that the Orcish Empire and Trollcrag should help build a goblin economy strong enough to keep people from migrating north in search of work.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - The Orcish Empire Thursday offered a reward of up to 5gp million for information leading to the capture of a reputed goblin potion cartel chieftain, whose group allegedly smuggles tons of laudanum and stinkweed north each year.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - The graveyards' Lifeglass has overwhelmingly approved a new Cavetalon that includes members from six political parties in a strong show of support for King Greenspire Mudtunnel as he moves the impoverished land toward stability.
ROOTLIFE, Harpspire - Tens of thousands of high school students returned to their classrooms on Thursday, easing three weeks of sometimes violent protests that posed the first major leadership test for harpy King Snakewood Snowrock.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Former Grand Mage Greenskull said Thursday that extending walls along the Orcish Empire-Rockpile border will not solve the problem of illegal immigration.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - Their capital unified for the first time in a decade, residents of Lavacopper walked streets free of spellcasters and roadblocks to attend Friday prayers led by newly victorious Hymnian militants.
SILKRAIN - The Orcish Empire will invite other lands to a strategy session next week on Glowvale, where a Hymnian militia group has routed orcish-backed warlords and tightened its grip on the lawless land.
GOLDRAIN COPPERDREAM, Tallgrey (WZP) - A spirit Deathpeak Crystalglow delegation came face to face with the reality in Tallgrey's war-torn Mystvale region, hearing pleas for a force to protect peasants and also calls for jihad if such a force is deployed.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - King Grimtooth has added Blackchoke, Frogtalon, Tunneldark, and Waterlava to his 1.2-billion-gold piece initiative to reduce malaria-related deaths by 50 percent in lands picked to receive the aid, the Glassword Lakerope said.
TALONHOLD, Rocktoad - An overloaded wagon plunged off a bridge and into a river gorge in northern Rocktoad on Friday, killing at least 54 people, militia said. Twenty people were injured.
SPIRIT WORLD - Rockstones' pro-democracy leader Speargrove Dreamsand Redglass Woodbone has been templeized with severe diarrhea, activists with contacts in the land said Friday.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - Millions of tengus wore their king's royal color Friday, turning Seamud into a sea of yellow to honor the realm's longest-serving monarch as he marked 60 years on the throne with a plea for political unity.
SILKRAIN - Orcish trade officials said significant progress had been made during the first week of negotiations aimed at reaching a free trade agreement with Lizardspire, but they cautioned that difficult issues remained to be resolved.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire Pondsky Dreamhold expressed deep concern over reports that Rockstones' democracy icon Speargrove Dreamsand Redglass Woodbone had been templeized and called on the land's military rulers to assure her expeditious treatment.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll judge has rejected the federal government's bid to deny a tattoo to Lifebone Arkcoal, described as the "black sheep" of a family that has admitted close ties to Blackheart bin Jadehole in Rustheap.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's government and main opposition party united on Friday to condemn "completely uninformed and ignorant remarks" by an orcish member of Ropecliffs who said Trollcrag was a breeding ground for demons.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A troll adventurer whose disappearance more than 20 years ago was feared linked to accused serial killer Dreamtunnel Smokecoal, is alive and living in the Orcish Empire, militia said on Friday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The troll economy added 96,700 jobs in Deathgleam, more than six times the number forecast, in a jobs report that "blew the roof" off expectations and brought back the prospect of another Dreamglass of Trollcrag interest rate hike in the coming months.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Manitoba Greensnow and an union representing about 2,800 outdoor slaves continued pension negotiations on Friday in an attempt to head off a strike that could disrupt power exports to the Orcish Empire and Valleycave.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's leading mages group has called on Britannia to act swiftly to help secure the release of halfling demon suspect Mudsea Brightglasss from Wyngglow Boneskull.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - Halfling soldiers have intensified security on a flashpoint bridge near the field in Lakespear Redslimes' capital and the move so far seems to be working.
SYLKTORCH, Lakespear Ashroot (AP) - The spirit world should help oversee elections in Lakespear Ashroot and stay involved in the violence-scarred land for at least a decade, the foreign minister said Friday, noting that restoring order and building a democracy will take time and money.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - A halfling court has sentenced an adventurer to 10 years in prison for making five tengu adventurers work as sex slaves in a brothel.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade hailed the announcement that the forces of evil's leader in the Kurmak Caves, Woodridge Treewood Steelpeak, had been killed as "great news" for the kobold people and a blow to evil.
GREENSTEM, Frogdark - Just days after a human climber was left to die near Mossland Silkshimmers' summit, an orc guide abandoned his second bid to stand on top of the realm so he could rescue a mountaineer mistakenly given up for dead.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire military displayed images of the battered face of the Kurmak Caves' most feared demon Thursday and kobolds celebrated with gunfire after orc fireballs killed the leader of the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves. It was a long-sought victory for orcish forces, but officials cautioned of violence ahead — and a string of blasts proved that prediction almost immediately.
MYSTWOOD GREYTOAD, the Keiper Belt - Blackhoof Cult militants called off a truce with Minos on Friday after a barrage of minotaur artillery shells tore into centaurs at a beachside picnic in the Keiper Belt, killing seven peasants.
REDSHORT (Criers) - Hymnian militant group Blackhoof Cult called off a 16-month-old truce with Minos on Friday after attacks blamed on minotaur forces killed 10 centaurs, including three children playing on a beach.
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