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 **Aestland's Return**\\
-(ae) Last Tuesday had the founder of Aestland return to his island. He came back to Alpha Realm after half a year of absence and gave the name 'Justasboi' for himself. He remembered his home but not how to get there, and accepted the offer of guidance for himself and a friend he'd brought along.\\
+(ae) Last Tuesday had the founder of Aestland return to his island. He came back to Alpha's Realm after half a year of absence and gave the name 'Justasboi' for himself. He remembered his home but not how to get there, and accepted the offer of guidance for himself and a friend he'd brought along.\\
 After a trek through the nether and some harrowing boating accidents on high seas due to inexperience, the three travelers made their way to the linked island. Only upon seeing it did the guide recognize it as Aestland, as the one trying to get there had not given a name, and remembered that there should be a portal even on the island itself.\\
 The returnee agreed and found it at once, well-hidden as it is, as well as his former residence. Upon scrutinizing the chests in his home, the returnee remembered his real name and explained that he had been suffering from partial amnesia due to a network complication. Now that he was home though, he could fully return to his former self: Baltman, the founder of Aestland.\\
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 **Autism Criteria**\\
 (ar) God AlphaBernd spent last Tuesday on updating both our Realm's autism criteria and its outer presentation on the page https://autism.dev-urandom.eu/. An added criteria is now the 'hours played' list, finally providing a statistic acknowledging all the //hard work// that goes into afk-farming. Since it does not involve the (personal) changing of any blocks, those efforts could heretofore not be properly honored.\\
-According to God AlphaBernd's explanation, the hours displayed are added for the "entire time since the map started" (in contrast to the block changes that only sum up "the last ninety days", which is an extension of the previous two-month period) and count work in Alpha Realm's Nether and End regions as well. Each listed player is linked to a personal page displaying even more detailed information.\\
+According to God AlphaBernd's explanation, the hours displayed are added for the "entire time since the map started" (in contrast to the block changes that only sum up "the last ninety days", which is an extension of the previous two-month period) and count work in Alpha's Realm's Nether and End regions as well. Each listed player is linked to a personal page displaying even more detailed information.\\
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 **Pending Peace**\\
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 **Hollow Bastion at the Northern Edge**\\
-(ur) Recently, a huge cobblestone pillar was discovered at the northern edge of Alpha Realm, piquing the interest of the press and the neighboring town. While Residents Anotsu and RevolverKun from the nearby Squid Village had ventured to the structure they can see from home, they had been unable to find hints as to its creator.\\
+(ur) Recently, a huge cobblestone pillar was discovered at the northern edge of Alpha's Realm, piquing the interest of the press and the neighboring town. While Residents Anotsu and RevolverKun from the nearby Squid Village had ventured to the structure they can see from home, they had been unable to find hints as to its creator.\\
 After receiving some quick investigation training, Resident RevolverKun set out once more and reported that the high outer walls were "created with lava and water" by Resident Acid_Trance since November 28th.\\
-Carefully moving inside, the explorer was able to shoot some rather breathtaking pictures, which are collected in photo 015. Only a little later, Resident Acid_Trance himself awoke but was unable to be contacted, so he could not be asked whether his magnificent structure was named. Even so, considering its size and particularities, the stronghold should be included in the list of Alpha Realm's landmarks.\\
+Carefully moving inside, the explorer was able to shoot some rather breathtaking pictures, which are collected in photo 015. Only a little later, Resident Acid_Trance himself awoke but was unable to be contacted, so he could not be asked whether his magnificent structure was named. Even so, considering its size and particularities, the stronghold should be included in the list of Alpha's Realm's landmarks.\\
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 **Badface Builds Guardian Farm**\\
-(bf) Slightly off the northern shores of the United Duchy of the Two Sorras, High Commissioner Austrobernd of the Mandatory of New Badfacia is currently working on creating a new guardian farm around a previous ocean monument. He did not yet comment to the press on whether or not this is a farm exclusive to the Mandatory of Badfacia, or if he plans to donate a central, public guardian farm to Alpha Realm residents.\\
+(bf) Slightly off the northern shores of the United Duchy of the Two Sorras, High Commissioner Austrobernd of the Mandatory of New Badfacia is currently working on creating a new guardian farm around a previous ocean monument. He did not yet comment to the press on whether or not this is a farm exclusive to the Mandatory of Badfacia, or if he plans to donate a central, public guardian farm to Alpha's Realm residents.\\
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 **Mall Voting**\\
 (ns) On Thursday, Tlatoani Tomoko of Ēxcān Bastet announced plans to build a new mall closer to New Spawn, and was immediately strongly discouraged by various residents. Against opinions that it would be better to "just expand the old mall" which "is still heavily in use", Tlatoani Tomoko countered that the "old mall is too laggy" and he "was thinking of demolishing it actually [...] but if you guys want that ugly thing, I'll leave it." He expressed dissatisfaction with his then-hurried design of the mall and stated that a new one would be "more spacey and modern and hip."\\
 When the discussion continued the next day with even more discouragement from other residents, Tlatoani Tomoko decided to put up a voting board until Tuesday evening. To date, six valid votes for it and eight valid votes against it have been gathered. Invalid signs (without names) may be used for valid votes until Tuesday night, and the vote ends on Wednesday, December 16th.\\
-However, Tlatoani Tomoko cautioned that, "Literally, the vote is only a 'suggestion'; if I want I could still go ahead and build it, but I'm waiting to see what people want. There's no 'democracy' here. But I'll respect the wishes of Alpha Realm and build something else instead. It's me voluntarily listening to you guys."\\
+However, Tlatoani Tomoko cautioned that, "Literally, the vote is only a 'suggestion'; if I want I could still go ahead and build it, but I'm waiting to see what people want. There's no 'democracy' here. But I'll respect the wishes of Alpha's Realm and build something else instead. It's me voluntarily listening to you guys."\\
 For unknown reasons, Resident Zylix seems intent to sabotage the pro-voting, as shown in photo 016.\\
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 **Co-Habitation in Southrim**\\
-(sr) In the 'Southrim Fortifications' area MARNIE reported about in the November 23rd issue, Resident Pwnisrufezeichen finally discovered the previous inhabitant's storage facilities on December 11th. Believing to have intruders on hand, he called out to Moderator Niller1703, who discovered that the chests in question belonged to Resident AdamJensen. Said resident was also in Alpha Realm at the time and called to the scene.\\
+(sr) In the 'Southrim Fortifications' area MARNIE reported about in the November 23rd issue, Resident Pwnisrufezeichen finally discovered the previous inhabitant's storage facilities on December 11th. Believing to have intruders on hand, he called out to Moderator Niller1703, who discovered that the chests in question belonged to Resident AdamJensen. Said resident was also in Alpha's Realm at the time and called to the scene.\\
-Overhearing the inquisition, Administrator Jinxauthor_Mel of Midgard Municipality informed Moderator Niller1703 that, "Adam and Mimo were there first, but they were rather hidden in their mountain base." Administrator Jinxauthor_Mel had visited the area in early October during the compilation of the Netherrail Network and found that even then, their dwellings were older than two months, and the Austrian settlers had not yet arrived. He also informed that neither Resident Mimokrokodil, who was in Alpha Realm several times since the Austrians started on their fortifications, nor either of the latter reacted to any communication attempts from the press, and therefore could be neither informed nor asked about their cohabitants.\\
+Overhearing the inquisition, Administrator Jinxauthor_Mel of Midgard Municipality informed Moderator Niller1703 that, "Adam and Mimo were there first, but they were rather hidden in their mountain base." Administrator Jinxauthor_Mel had visited the area in early October during the compilation of the Netherrail Network and found that even then, their dwellings were older than two months, and the Austrian settlers had not yet arrived. He also informed that neither Resident Mimokrokodil, who was in Alpha's Realm several times since the Austrians started on their fortifications, nor either of the latter reacted to any communication attempts from the press, and therefore could be neither informed nor asked about their cohabitants.\\
 Moderator Niller1703 confirmed that the warehouse was as old as February 2015, and Resident AdamJensen noted that while the warehouse was his, "now Mimokrokodil lives here."
 Resident Pwnisrufezeichen stated, "I respect that you were here first but I don't wanna remove my wall. We didn't know that there were any others, so we started surrounding it with walls. Later we noticed this house in the north and after watching it for a while, we decided that nobody is there anymore." He decided to later talk to Resident Mimokrokodil.\\
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 **Station Stolen**\\
-(ln) During recent weeks, Chief Tsaryu of the Commons of Valensiya has been active in the neighborhood again. Visiting Lauranya on December 7th shortly after midnight, to his shocked bemusement he found the entire train station building vanished. An immediate investigation by Valensiyan officials exposed that it had been cleanly demolished by Resident Demmy, who had visited Alpha Realm for all of forty minutes and left only one and a half hour before the damage was discovered.\\
+(ln) During recent weeks, Chief Tsaryu of the Commons of Valensiya has been active in the neighborhood again. Visiting Lauranya on December 7th shortly after midnight, to his shocked bemusement he found the entire train station building vanished. An immediate investigation by Valensiyan officials exposed that it had been cleanly demolished by Resident Demmy, who had visited Alpha's Realm for all of forty minutes and left only one and a half hour before the damage was discovered.\\
 Moderator Koduck, who was called to the scene, restored the building and issued a lifelong prison sentence for the culprit. Further investigation later on revealed that livestock had also been set free but not slain, and Demolisher Demmy had also broken into the bank's vault but was unable to crack the code protecting the safes.\\
 To Chief Tsaryu's utter disbelief, the demolisher had taken twenty-eight minutes for a task that should have taken no more than seven minutes. After Chief Tsaryu expressed admiration and amusement rather than anger, Moderator Koduck shortened Demolisher Demmy's sentence to one week in prison for 'taking down an entire station'.\\
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 //Editor's Note://\\
-Pictures can be viewed at https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:???.png when exchanging '???' with the photo number given in the articles. Other links lead to this server's wiki.\\
+Pictures can be viewed at [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:???.png]] when exchanging '???' with the photo number given in the articles. Other links lead to this server's wiki.\\
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 //In Worldwide News://\\
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-===== Newer =====
+===== MARNIE 28.12.15 =====
+**Midgard's Alpha Realm News**\\
-**Newer issues are not yet archived but can still be bought at the New Spawn Book Store.**
+//International Edition//\\
+December 28th, 2015\\
+\\
+//Editor's Note://\\
+Pictures can be viewed at Pictures can be viewed at [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:???.png]] when exchanging '???' with the photo number given in the articles. Other links lead to this server's wiki.\\
+\\
+//In Worldwide News://\\
+**Guardian Farm to be Public**, page 18\\
+\\
+//In Regional News://\\
+**Modernized Cooperation**, page 30\\
+\\
+//In Local News://\\
+**Dangerous Mood**, page 36\\
+\\
+**Worldwide News**\\
+\\
+**Correction: Mall by BearMonger**\\
+(ns) In last week's issue we reported that Grand Duke Tomoko of the Grand Duchy of Hohenfels had handed over the building of the mall near New Spawn to Moderator Koduck. The press has since been informed that actually, Moderator Koduck had turned down the project because he is currently too engaged in demanding projects of his own. Instead, Speaker BearMonger of the Republic of Ender was asked to "build it right" and accepted.\\
+At first, he had to mainly rely on contributions of other players, be they sold or donated, in order to gather the materials needed for the 'modern' structure, particularly quartz and black stained glass. It soon became obvious that the meager supplies acquired that way would not even come close to suffice, and various moderators were asked for assistance from the mod supplies for the common project.\\
+Even God AlphaBernd gave his permission, and after the constructor Speaker BearMonger estimated the amount needed, Moderators Koduck and Rosenmann provided great volumes of the most critical materials. To date, the building's frame structure looks about half done to the untrained eye.\\
+"It's 100 blocks long," Speaker BearMonger stated proudly. "There's an entire food court too, not to mention a connected building. I was considering designing an elevator for this mall. Everyone can get their own decent sized shop. I'll sort out the landscaping and stuff after the structure is finished. I'm probably going to expand this area after the mall is done; I want to establish a no-shit-build perimeter."\\
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+**Winterlynian Christmas Mood**\\
+(wl) The prettiest seasonal decoration this year was created by King Niller of Winterlyn, with huge candy canes lining the streets to the great delight of his (mostly younger) subjects. Especially the capital Wyventon organized one of the tallest, most voluminous spruce trees ever seen in Alpha's Realm, and adorned it with valuable baubles in abundance. [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:019.png | Photo 019]] shows some views of the big Christmas Tree and festive smaller firs dotted around the city's streets, as well as their mountain climate granting them a snowy, white Christmas season.\\
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+**Nouvelle Plaza**\\
+(hf) The first project Grand Duke Tomoko of the Grand Duchy of Hohenfels implemented in Nouvelle Reims was a central "park" between the mansion, station and St. Bruce Cathedral. At about sixty by forty blocks with what amounts to a street crossing around an obelisk bordered by four birch tree patches and decorated with two shallow pools, it turned out as more of a plaza.\\
+King Sidmarcus01 of Siverny, the founder of Nouvelle Reims, admitted that, "I'm not a huge fan of how [Grand Duke Tomoko] put birch everywhere randomly. That's not very French. French gardening must be //ordnung//." Indeed, there is neither symmetry nor pattern in the placement of the trees.\\
+Before fleeing to Castile, Grand Duke Tomoko planned to build a monastery between the park and the cathedral. Erected was one freestanding wall that was since left untouched.\\
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+**Guardian Farm to be Public**\\
+(bf) In a recent statement, High Commissioner Austrobernd of the Mandatory of New Badfacia informed that he indeed intends to make the guardian farm he is currently building in the Northeastern Sea a public one. He also mentioned plans to create a pumpkin and melon farm on it in cooperation with King Niller of Winterlyn. To date, construction is still ongoing on the generous project.\\
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+**Killing the Undead**\\
+(ar) On December 21st, King Niller of Winterlyn informed the press about a strange occurrence on the day before.\\
+"Yesterday, [Chief Tsaryu of the Commons of Valensiya] and I were dealing with something," he recounted. "It was laggy as shitballs on here, so we investigated and we figured out that [Resident Nick4629] had afk'ed for a bit too long. His zombie farm had accumulated over 2000 entities, which isn't supposed to happen. - I mean, it //can't//."\\
+The two surveyors decided to kill all the hostiles, however there were too many of the undead gathered in tight quarters to dare go in with conventional weaponry. Reacting appropriately to the situation, King Niller "invented the new war machine of the Commonwealth, the //Winterlynian Hellfire//." Details about the machine remained classified, but it did get the job (of slaying over two thousand zombies) done in good time.\\
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+**Southrim Chestville**\\
+(sr) In the very western corner of Southrim Continent, Resident Gorichka started a peculiar settlement during the past week. It was first discovered by Moderator Niller1701 who then asked why its founder was placing such a great number of chests.\\
+"The Nazi lolis wall," was resident Gorichka's explanation, "a wall in the sky, under the ground, around the earth." Essentially, he seems to be planning to encase his entire settlement in chests and furnaces, and the area concerned is no small speck either. Curious readers may find it around the coordinates X-4000/Z+7000 on our realm's map.\\
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+**Island Named**\\
+(va) On December 25th, Stadtholder Harcourtien of Den Faag spontaneously had a revelation about his island home in the far southeast. In a spur-of-the-moment decision, he dissolved the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, thus giving up his title in order to firmly settle on his newly named island, Vaeroyar. As its nether rail station is the furthest from the New Spawn Netherhub and thus being treated as an end station, all signs along the way as well as the nether rail map were updated the following day.\\
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+**__Regional News__**\\
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+**Modernized Cooperation**\\
+(bc) In the town still referred to as the Brazil Cooperation, the area inhabited by Resident M0n5tr1nh0 experienced its second overhaul during December. Where before, a wooden village bustled on the raised plateau, the stone age seems to have replaced most of the dark oak buildings. On cobble ground, outdoor fields and indoor farms have been erected, and the affinity for fire that once was restricted to lava walls has been reaffirmed with eternal flames placed along the fortifications. The bright red roofs of the watchtowers display the inhabitant's aptitude at mining.\\
+These days, Resident M0n5tr1nh0 appears to be the only citizen still living in the settlement. Although he was asked a few times, he did not yet decide whether he wishes to rename the town to something better reflecting its current character.\\
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+**Spooky Settlement**\\
+(sb) On December 21st, Resident Mad_Hodman described his building plans to one of our reporters, including drawings of the houses he intends to erect. While those are still in the planning stages, he did get a start on the "Spooky Farm", the project which had him hunting for a skeleton spawner for several days. The exact location of either the planned settlement or the underground bone farm could not yet be determined; however markings were discovered where he wanted to go.\\
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+**__Local News__**\\
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+**Dangerous Mood**\\
+(mm) During a tour on December 24th, it was discovered that not two weeks ago, Midgard visitor Resident GnFur had turned off all the wall lamps in the Seainn Hotel's submarine park. This situation allowed hostiles to emerge from the basement, endangering both staff and guests of the hotel. Thankfully, no causalities were reported during the past week.\\
+When interrogated about his motives, Resident GnFur stated that he liked darkness and thus had turned off the lights to enhance the mood beneath. While his inclination toward twilight is something many Midgardians share, completely turned off lamps do not conform to the safety standards set by Constable Nitu and implemented by Midgard Administration.\\
+It was explained to Resident GnFur that in the absence of visitors, darkness endangers residents, and he was asked to not interfere with Midgard's lighting again or at least turn the lamps back on upon leaving, as not all share his preference for gloom.\\
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+**This issue ends the December 2015 page of the MARNIE Archives. The next issue will be posted on the [[books:ma_16_01 | January 2016]] page.**