MARNIE Archives October 2015

This page holds archived editions of the MARNIE newspaper which is published every Monday. The Archive contains at least four-week-old issues, and links are clickable despite what the Editor's Notes of the paper editions say. In order to keep the reading content manageable, each month will have its own page.

Midgard's Alpha Realm News
International Edition
October 5th, 2015

Editor's Note:
Links can NOT be clicked. All images are in the same Imgur album, and other links lead only to this server's wiki.

In Worldwide News:
New Kaiser Emerged, page 24

In Regional News:
Beginners Cape, page 45

In Local News:
NEAR Transports Network Extended, page 48

Worldwide News

Shako Statue 2.0
(ns) During the night to October 4th, Duke June of the United Duchy of the Two Sorras finished the creation of a second statue on New Spawn. He chose recently cleared space directly opposite the still prevailing 'Cirnoko' and erected as base a building somewhat resembling the predominant style of Breshikan structures. Above the main entrance, a sign labels this understructure as 'Breshik Shitbuild Maximum'.
On top of it the flag of the Holy Danikan Commonwealth humbly opposes the oversized American flag dominating the Marketplace roof, while next to it the image of Shakomatic in proper Kaiser uniform proudly flips his finger at his counterpart, nicely captured at https://imgur.com/a/NKMgW#57.
Upon being questioned by Supreme Technocrat Tomoko of the Aresean Technocratic Republic, “Why did you build a Shako statue?” Duke June declared, “To annoy you of course,” and proceeded to taunt S.T. Tomoko in true spirit of his creation. S.T. Tomoko responded calmly that, “It wouldn't annoy me if it were built on your own lot,” taking the wind out of 'retaliations'.
Original statue builder H.C. Austrobernd just briefly commented that this second version lacked a shovel.

Complains About Nether Chaos
(ne) Since September 24th, Moderator Koduck has been lamenting the state of the rail network in the Nether; particularly many unneeded curves and the unsafety of many of them. He has offered various suggestions such as building a clear network on some particular level, and stridently demanded that “somebody please reset the nether!” he even created a poll for it, but resetting the nether was downvoted quickly. On October 4th, Moderator Koduck started on digging tunnels on a set upper level and announced that it was going rather well so far. How his project will be received by the populace remains to be seen.

New Spawn Nether Hub Remodeled
(ns) Last week, the New Spawn Nether Hub has been cleaned up and expanded by Duke June of the United Duchy of the Two Sorras. Previously cramped accesses and curved rails were properly placed next to each other and straightened out, leaving two docking stations open for future additions. For now, lines connecting to higher and lower levels were allowed to remain in place, as well as one starting north from a main level side corridor. The south wall is reserved for future extensions of the building, with direct lines from that direction as well as stair building expressly forbidden. An extension to allow tracks docking from three directions is being considered.

Calisia Repopulated
(cl/er) Some of the Chilean visitors from September 18th took heed of the warning about settling on claimed territory and traveled east from New Spawn until they alighted on the shores of Snowbelt Continent. Discovering a forested area apparently unclaimed, they started their a small settlement. Notably Resident Sweetwind and Resident Panaberto decided to stick around, but it was later discovered that the area actually is part of Calisia which is in turn a member state of the Republic of Ender. President Hinoarashi was notified about the development and offered several options to the newcomers.
On September 23rd, after hearing a summarized explanation about the Ender Republic and its politics, Resident Sweetwind agreed to join the Republic of Ender with his group. President Hinoarashi acknowledged the decision immediately, added resident Sweetwind to his clan and granted them free reign over the territory of Calisia.
A little later, Supreme Technocrat Tomoko of the Aresean Technocratic Republic, who was the former leader of Calisia, offered to show Ender's new members the nether rail leading from New Spawn to Calisia. However, since the end point of that line was too far south, S.T. Tomoko got right on creating a nether portal with direct access to the nether rail, and set up a new station for it. Leader Sweetwind of Calisia also agreed to have the NEAR Transports network connect to the same station later on.

'Moon' Claims
(ns) Early on September 28th, Grand-Duke Carluga of the Grand Duchy of Orcaella created a red woolen circle platform above New Spawn. Located at level Y168, it has been declared 'The Moon' by its creator via sign, its disc-like dimension notwithstanding.
Various ambitious explorers have already laid claims on small moon areas, like Resident TheNerd96 demanding it for Russia with a sign and three banners and Resident Semyon and Duke June adding three and one more, respectively. Resident Berezov donated some moon dust and declared the place the 'Lenin Mausoleum', completing the Russian appropriation of the British platform.

New Kaiser Emerged
(cw) As of October 1st, Secretary General P_P_A of Royaume du Kriegstein was additionally inaugurated as Kaiser of the Holy Danikan Commonwealth. As the Steward of Breshik, P_P_A was nominated by King Shakomatic of the Apostolic Kingdom of Breshik. The election by the citizens of the Commonwealth resulted in equal votes for Steward P_P_A and King Niller of Winterlyn. The position was therefore to be decided by a duel over three rounds in the arena of Breshik.
As companions for the duel acted Kaiser Austrobernd of the Mandatory of New Badfacia and Duke June of the United Duchy of the Two Sorras, the latter standing in for King Niller's first choice Grand-Duke Carluga of the Grand Duchy of Orcaella who could not be contacted at the time. Moderator Koduck acted as umpire to ensure fair play.
Both armor and swords were decreed to be made of unenchanted iron, granting equal strength among the duelists. The first and third round were won by Candidate P_P_A and Kaiser Austrobernd, thus deciding the new leader of the Commonwealth. To commemorate the event, Moderator Koduck provided some air-to-ground fireworks. Duke June offered photos of just before and after the battles which can be viewed at https://imgur.com/a/NKMgW#58.
Following tradition, Moderator Rosenmann was called upon to carry out the inauguration and graciously visited Nova Bydlograd for the occasion. Witnesses arriving in time for coronation included Grand- Duke Carluga, Veteran Resident Minoriko and Duke Nekronys of the Duchy of Dobrograd. https://imgur.com/a/NKMgW#59 shows photos with closed caption, again provided by Duke June.
After New Kaiser P_P_A spoke his vows and received the crown, some bold visitors engaged in combat amongst themselves; whether they had too much to drink during the celebration is up to speculation. In the struggle, Moderator Koduck and later Duke Nekronys were slain. Kaiser P_P_A commented on the incident optimistically with, “Well, I got coronated and nobody blew up, and only the intruders were killed.”
Kaiser P_P_A's first official act, according to himself, “was to unilaterally annex Klamdorf to the Commonwealth, as Shako had long desired.”

Spawn Spamming
(ns) After the extreme chicken spam around New Spawn during the week before, last week awoke to the more familiar snow spammers. Interior floors were not spared from being visited by troops of snow golems spreading their uneven white covers over the area. The two most obstinate golem spawners were Resident Kokogumi and High Commissioner Austrobernd of the Mandatory of New Badfacia, according to themselves acting once again on their perceived 'shittiness' of New Spawn.

Annexed Aestland
(cw/ae) On October 4th, Kaiser P_P_A of the Holy Danikan Commonwealth decided to annex the former Federation of Aestland, long abandoned, into the Commonwealth. he was accompanied on his quest by High Commissioner Austrobernd of the Mandatory of New Badfacia and Duke June of the Duchy of the Two Sorras. On the page https://dev-urandom.eu/battles:aestland_invasion in the Autism Almanac, H.C. Austrobernd later disclosed the invasion route. The three conquerors “inspected the land, replaced a heathen monument with a cross, and put up Commonwealth flags,” as is being described on the territory's page. It has been integrated as a duchy, later to be bestowed upon loyal subjects to redevelop the area.

Spamming Nerd
(ar) After being repeatedly admonished and banned for spamming chicken around New Spawn, Resident TheNerd96 took to constrain his chicken spamming to his own territory. However, since said territory is not enclosed, several hundred chickens wandered off into neighboring areas, inconveniencing the residents there and causing extensive lag due to their ever increasing number.
Moderator P_P_A destroyed the machine and later, upon its owner complaining, offered to restore it if Resident TheNerd96 agreed to limit its productivity and/or contain the animals somehow. When the agreement was reluctantly given, the machine was restored. However, for the time being, it did not yet work properly.

Redstone Request
(wl) King Niller of Winterlyn asked our newspaper to put out a request for someone knowledgeable in redstone technology to have a look at his shooting range in Wyventon. The machine consists of two parts, a counting mechanism and a deployment mechanism. The first one could be repaired by Duke June of the Two Sorras on October 4th; however the machine is not yet completely functional. The King offered up to half a stack of diamonds for people who can make it work.

Regional News

Sluggish Sorra
(ds) Despite Duke June having enthusiastically taken over leading the Duchy of the Two Sorras, not much progress has been accomplished during the past two weeks. The area of the desert village has been freed of sand and the bases for several residences were laid, but overall the village has not grown in either housing or business as much as projected. As such, the area keeps failing to attract both tourism and trade.

Beginners Cape
(sk) To the east of Kaiser P_P_A's vacation island Sikiliya, two settlers have taken residence on the rocky cape of the Snowbelt Continent. Both Resident Sperger and Resident Blahblahson have revealed themselves to be rather young and inexperienced via their actions and conversations, but they are avid explorers and ambitious builders. They like connecting places and were already sternly criticized by several parties for putting floating rails low above the ocean surface. Their connection to Sikiliya was refused and demolished immediately upon discovering by the island's owner, but the duo decided to just move into another direction and visited the mostly abandoned village south of them.
Their own village has not yet been named.

Local News

NEAR Transports Network Extended
(ug) During the past week, North-East Alpha Realm Transports extended their network south, connecting Midgard to Skellie Farm's capital Skellsborough and Calisia's capital Snow Pines. The Snow Pines station was built in cooperation with Calisias' leader Resident Sweetwind, and two switch stations were added along the way for future connections. One of those is located directly next to the portal to Skellsborough, around which a proper station will be built by Skellie Farm's leaders. Midgard Administration has received permission to connect east toward the Beginners Cape also, and is considering adding a station for East Sorra once the villages gets more fleshed out.

Newer issues are not yet archived but can still be bought at the New Spawn Newspaper Stall.