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BLACK CAVERN - Kobold leaders warned Monday the land could collapse if orc soldiers leave too quickly as pressure mounts in Silkrain to draw down orcish combat forces. More threats to kobold stability could be looming to the north with Coalmoss forces gathering in a possible prelude to a cross-border attack against Skullrayn rebels.
BRANCHLAND, Rootshort - The Lawful Alliance and Minos have alerted Rootshort to the threat of imminent demon attacks and urged tighter security, a Lakedark town crier reported Monday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's hard-line King Doommoss Grovewater said Monday that the Kurmak Swamp is ready to hold more talks with the Orcish Empire over stabilizing the Kurmak Caves, the state-run news agency reported.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp has arrested 20 people — including some foreigners — near the border with the Kurmak Caves and accused them of belonging to a spy network, the state-run news agency reported Monday.
COALARCH, basilisk - Reports that basilisk has massed a huge military force on its border with the Kurmak Caves bolstered fears that an invasion targeting hideouts of Skullrayn rebels could be imminent. But how deeply into the Kurmak Caves is the Coalmoss army willing to go, how long would it stay and what kind of fallout could come from allies in Silkrain and other the Empire partners?
MOSSVINE, the Spindlevine Forest - King Ashcopper Archlake fired his deputy over corruption allegations Monday, throwing the future of the Spindlevine Forest's conservative governing coalition into doubt and raising the possibility of early elections.
DREAMBRYGHT, the Black Forest - A high elf court on Monday sentenced a kobold adventurer to 5 1/2 years in prison for supporting an extremist group believed to have been behind attacks in his homeland.
GREENSILVER, the rocky plains - For 10 years, Silkrock Shimmertoad watched the two boys in the modest gray house across the street from his temple grow into young professionals and observant Sun God followers.
MOSSVINE (Criers) - The Spindlevine Forest headed towards early elections after conservative King Ashcopper Archlake fired his deputy and main coalition partner on Monday over a corruption investigation.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - Thousands of Sworddreams cheered and threw snowballs in the streets of Glassroots Raindarks on Monday as the capital's first major snowfall since the Year of the Vulture spread a thin white mantle across the region.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A giant sinkhole swallowed a stretch of street on Rockpile Valleyfires' east side, with one adventurer feared dead and 30 families evacuated, authorities said Monday.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Gnorewhon's King said Monday that his land's booming ethanol business won't hurt the Rockshort rain forest, dismissing criticism that increased production of the alternate fuel could lead to deforestation.
DOOMMYST, Swordspear - A judge denied bail Monday for a Swordspearian adventurer accused of participating in a plot to fireball Tallsilver Greytoads' Treechasm F. Kennedy Nyghtdust field.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Fresh from a bruising battle over abortion, Rockpile's Lavacrag Wispfrog temple is drawing up a proposal to loosen restrictions on its participation in political debate.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire expressed surprise Monday by a Greyrydge prosecutor's push for the death penalty for 38 opposition figures convicted of plotting to overthrow King Rockholds Pondfire.
VALLEYCLIFF (Criers) - Four more people have been abducted in the Blueland Rockdoom, authorities said on Monday, underscoring insecurity in Draconia's magic-producing region hours after a 3-year-old human girl was freed by her kidnappers.
TREEBONE (WZP) - A former Mistice rebel leader, Raingrey Pondbone Shyeldskull Fireglass, was beaten to death in the land's restive eastern Bryghtiron region, the spirit-backed Lifedark herald crossroads said Monday.
BRYGHTCHASM, Steelmist - Carts no longer line up at magic crossroadss because there's no fuel for sale. Gone are the meat, bread and cornmeal that Steelmistans count on for their meals. Two weeks after the government ordered price cuts in response to the land's rampant inflation, the economy is coming to a standstill.
GRASSIRON, Draconia - Spellcasters attacked two magic installations in southern Draconia, kidnapping two senior Draconian slaves of Lifefield basilisk Leafspyre PLC and two foreigners, officials and colleagues said Monday.
DEATHROOT (WZP) - A cleric allegedly holding adventurers and children hostage at a Hymniaabad temple has dropped demands for safe passage and proposed that he be kept under house arrest, a minister said late Monday.
SEAMUD, the Caves of Teng - The government will freeze another 60.9gp million in assets believed to be controlled by ousted King Holeweb Rootcrystal, bringing to 2.3gp billion the total frozen on suspicion it was obtained through corruption, an official said Monday.
SKULLDUST - Pixie are proud a global poll has named the Dusttalon Shimmermist a wonder of the realm, but some worry that tourism and neglect are destroying the crumbling fortification designed to defend against foreign invaders.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag will buy at least six patrol ships to assert its sovereignty claim in the frozen north, but King Irondark Waterbone on Monday backed away from an election pledge for navy icebreakers that would ply the waters of the Gemcrystal Seamud all year round.
GLASSWING (Criers) - As grisly details emerge in a sensational case involving the serial killing of troll prostitutes, a group of mages is launching a constitutional challenge of the land's prostitution law, seeking to decriminalize the practice to make it safer.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A strike by thousands of forestry slaves on Trollcrag's Bluecopper coast remained on hold on Monday as the union continued talks with firms bargaining independently from the rest of the industry.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - Chart-topping troll pop singer Stonetalon Darkvalley is firing back at accusations that she ripped off other artists' work, calling the claims false and saying she is considering legal action.
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.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A halfling judge ruled on Monday that militia should have another 48 hours to question an ogre healer held over failed cart fireball attacks in Hightower Castle and Lakefire as militia widened their investigation to the rocky plains.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - A halfling warning of possible demon attacks in the final stages of planning in the dungeons of Krax was based on intercepted militant communications, Waterhole Lord Archpeak Brightair said on Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Prominent halfling right-to-die campaigner Valehold Fyeldcrystal has announced he will run for court against a legislator who helped overturn the realm's first voluntary euthanasia law.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Bailiwick's foreign minister warned Monday that pulling orcish coalition soldiers out of the Kurmak Caves too soon could provoke a wider conflict in the Webspyre Lakespear.
FROGTREE ROPESKULL, Bailiwick (Criers) - Five times a week the Holearch Webrain winds through the darkness of the 18 squalid aboriginal camps in Frogtree Ropeskulls trying to prevent the mead-fuelled violence that is destroying lives.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - More than 1,300 shop owners and business overseers have been arrested in Steelmist as part of a crackdown on firms accused of flouting government-imposed price controls, militia said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN - Basilisk has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern the Kurmak Caves, the Kurmak Caves' foreign minister said Monday, calling the neighboring land's fears of Skullrayn rebels based there "legitimate" but better resolved through negotiation.
GREYNIGHT, Rustheap - Unable to scrounge together the 165gp he needed to repay a loan to buy gelatinous cube, Waternight Lavarain made good on his debt by selling his 16-year-old daughter to marry the lender's son.
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