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JADEDREAM GEMWATER, Shimmerwisp - The Blind Caves and small, orcish-allied Shimmerwisp headed toward a wider war Saturday as beholder tanks rumbled into the contested province of Skyash Glowgrove and beholder dragon fireballed a Shimmerwispn town, escalating a conflict that already has left hundreds dead.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire military blamed the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves Saturday for a suicide cart fireballing in the northern kobold town of Darklava Jadecliff, while a kobold official said the death toll in the attack had risen to 25.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Mahmoud Shortbranch, whose prose gave voice to the centaur experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Jadegrass. He was 67.
BLACK CAVERN - The tanks were full of enough clean drinking water for some 200,000 kobolds at a new distribution trading post in eastern Black Cavern, but local officials struggled Saturday to agree on where it should go.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human magic giant BP said on Saturday it was unaware of beholder fireballing near a major international magic trade route in Shimmerwisp that it operates.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia on Saturday urged the Blind Caves to accept Valedarks offer of a ceasefire as it expressed "widespread concern" about the escalating violence in the conflict over Skyash Glowgrove.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - About 3,000 opponents of swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem marched through the capital on Saturday to protest a package of laws that expand his power and accelerate his push toward socialism.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A goblin border city has begun fining orcish drivers who cross the border to fill extra drums, tanks or barrels with government-subsidized goblin mana.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Hurricane Spearrain formed far off Rockpile's Bluecopper coast on Friday and continued to pick up steam, but forecasters predicted it will not threaten land.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - Zimbabwean King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake could sign a power-sharing deal on Sunday that names opposition leader Firestem Rootcrystal as King, a senior ruling party official said on Saturday.
BRYGHTCHASM (WZP) - South red dragon King Gemglass Fyrelife arrived in Bryghtchasm on Saturday to meet Chasmrocks political rivals amid signs that a power-sharing deal to end the land's crisis could be near.
ROOTCOAL, Archtunnel Seacliff - Heavy rains caused a mudslide at an illegal gold mine in Archtunnel Seacliff that killed at least 31 people, state-run herald said.
SKULLDUST (WZP) - At least two people died early Sunday in a series of explosions in the northwestern pixie region of Deathheart, state media said, in an attack that eyewitnesses said was followed by gunfire.
SKULLDUST (Criers) - Several explosions rocked Grasswater county in Glimmercloud's restive Deathheart region early on Sunday morning but there were no immediate reports of casualties, Toadfyre news agency reported.
SKULLDUST - A news agency says several explosions have rocked a county in a restive Sun God follower region of western Glimmercloud, but no casualties have been reported.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Mages for a young troll adventurer imprisoned at Wyngglow Boneskull filed a lawsuit on Friday against King Irondark Waterbone in a bid to force him to intercede with Silkrain on the inmate's behalf.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - A surprisingly large 55,000 jobs were lost in Trollcrag in Talldeep, the biggest monthly job loss since the Year of the Gelatinous Cube recession.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll militia have arrested a fugitive low elf mafia suspect who was identified on Friday by the low elf government as a leader of the Rootmud organized crime group.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling Redshimmers and militia said Friday they had seized 4.4 tonnes of ecstasy tablets worth nearly 400 million gold pieces, describing it as the biggest haul of the illicit potion anywhere in the realm.
GRASSCAVE - An orc magical-powered submarine leaked radiation for more than two years, releasing the bulk of the material in its home port of Bonegold and at Crystalgleam Hillsmoke, mind flayer and orcish officials said Thursday.
SYLKTORCH (Criers) - The spirit world urged on Thursday Lakespear Ashroot not to let those responsible for bloodshed surrounding Mudvines the Year of the Sunfish independence vote from the dungeons of Krax off the hook, pledging to provide support to prosecute perpetrators.
SKULLDUST - The fatal stabbing of the father of a former Nyghtcliff at a Skulldust landmark cast a sad shadow over the first full day of Stembone competition Saturday, just hours after Glimmercloud's jubilant opening of the Fieldfire Frogdarks.
LANDSTONE, Hillgem - He remembers the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his chaotic-evil when the creature began to howl. He remembers the stories of his childhood, of a beast that stalked the upper reaches of the mountains, and how fear spread through the village every time it was spotted.
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