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 **Northern Sitzfleisch**\\
-(fl) Long lost survivors from Newfoundland found their way to Alpha Realm after five years of searching. Residents Wolleman and FeuerFischer (a.k.a. chucky280) hail from Me Gustown and have decided to "just take it slow this time."\\
+(fl) Long lost survivors from Newfoundland found their way to Alpha's Realm after five years of searching. Residents Wolleman and FeuerFischer (a.k.a. chucky280) hail from Me Gustown and have decided to "just take it slow this time."\\
 They made their way to the quiet northern rim of our world and started a cozy settlement there. One of the first structures they completed, though, was actually a fifth XP-farm in the End which they finished around Christmas time last year. It is a far walk to go but open to the public, located to the southwest of the End Island.\\
 Their overworld settlement was suitably named //Sitzfleisch//, "the greatest German noun we could come up with."\\
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 **Deco Clock**\\
-(ar) At the coordinates [[https://map.dev-urandom.eu/#/-2940/64/5500/-1/0/0]] of Alpha Realm, Resident Wolleman of Sitzfleisch built the template for a clock that is free to use for other residents. It covers a quarter clock face and requires four maps to be rendered after placing the hands. Those maps can be placed in frames and rotated as to display various times as demonstrated on [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:025.png|photo 025]]. The static map clock serves decorative purposes only.\\
+(ar) At the coordinates [[https://map.dev-urandom.eu/#/-2940/64/5500/-1/0/0]] of Alpha's Realm, Resident Wolleman of Sitzfleisch built the template for a clock that is free to use for other residents. It covers a quarter clock face and requires four maps to be rendered after placing the hands. Those maps can be placed in frames and rotated as to display various times as demonstrated on [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:025.png|photo 025]]. The static map clock serves decorative purposes only.\\
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 **__Regional News__**\\
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-**Newer issues are not yet archived but can still be bought at the New Spawn Book Store.**
+===== MARNIE 18.01.16 =====
+**Midgard's Alpha Realm News**\\
+//International Edition//\\
+January 18th, 2016\\
+\\
+//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.\\
+\\
+//In Worldwide News://\\
+**Russian Noob Greetings**, page 11\\
+\\
+//In Regional News://\\
+**Nautica Joins Mercymnius**, page 30\\
+\\
+//In Local News://\\
+**AMUN Construction**, page 34\\
+\\
+**__Worldwide News__**\\
+\\
+**Trash Bin Alterations**\\
+(te) For the second time this year, the trash bin at Anon1234's Endermen Farm was found defunct last Wednesday. While the first time Moderator Niller1703 had discovered that Resident Mimokrokodil had apparently tried to apply a noise fix and later repaired the damaged part himself.\\
+This time, Moderator P_P_A found a dropper placed facing the wrong way, again by the same handyman, causing a loop in the bin that prevented it from emptying the trash.\\
+Resident Mimokrokodil did not react when asked about the first incident and was not yet encountered again since the second; it is therefore unclear what purpose his interference with a working system had.\\
+\\
+**Ghosted Bear**\\
+(er) In the earliest hours of January 14th, Speaker BearMonger of the Republic of Ender complained about being punched by an moderator "being invisible and hovering next to me. [...] I'm idling in a safe area with no mobs around and no source of damage. Suddenly a ghost punches me. Either it's a ghost or it's an invisible mod," he concluded. Since the summoned Moderator Koduck deigned to answer the call from the ether, he was the first to be blamed by Speaker BearMonger because he was the only moderator "currently active". Actually, at the time no moderator was //active// in Alpha's Realm, to which Speaker BearMonger claimed, "Mods can log in without their activity showing up." At that point, Moderator P_P_A reacted to a summons as well, and the debate quickly escalated from mechanics to logic to mental issues to politics. In the end, the accusation was dropped without anyone finding out what, if anything, really happened aside from a sudden bout of paranoia.\\
+\\
+**Russian Noob Greetings**\\
+(ns) Last Wednesday's early afternoon witnessed Resident Nick4629 greeting several immigrants with a barrage of unwarranted attacks.\\
+According to the assailant, he hit Immigrant Bratka "with an Enderpearl once. He killed me. Now we can't stop this." He later claimed the first hit happened "on accident".\\
+However, the retaliation was entirely one-sided as after this, Resident Nick4629 repeatedly killed Immigrant Bratka upon spawning and extended his attacks on entirely unrelated residents as well as other immigrants that happened to spawn at that time.\\
+Visitor LoveAndCaring, for example, had barely opened his eyes to our realm when he was attacked not only by Resident Nick4629, but also repeatedly shot down by the latter's comrade Resident Xpeh_wam. Having been killed eight times without any explanation or chance to even look into his (as yet empty) knapsack, LoveAndCaring was chased away likely to never return.\\
+Relatively new resident PolyMoose was also attacked just because in basic iron armor and thus thought to be "one of them", but in his own words "managed to abscond thanks to potions."
+Another immigrant, Fedora, was murdered the very second he lit upon New Spawn. Upon his bewildered reaction of, "That's not good," Resident Nick4629 answered, "You see, there's no concept of good. And you're Russian." With that, he consecutively slaughtered the immigrant eight more times right at the spawn plaza.\\
+When questioned by the press about his reasons, Resident Nick4629 claimed, "They're all one person, one of those who did Russian invasion once." (He was referring to the Byntari invasion of June 16th last year.)\\
+Since there had been no proof pointing to such a connection, Resident Nick4629 was asked how he had reached that conclusion, to which he jovially admitted, "I just need a reason to kill them." While he chatted, Immigrant Bratka used his distraction to kill the multi-murderer who then retreated, leaving Immigrant Bratka to seize his possessions.\\
+Around half an hour after the kill spree had started, Moderator Rosenmann grew aware of the commotion. As soon as he asked about "some killings" from the ether, Resident Nick4629 requested, "Yes, ban both of us," which Moderator Rosenmann was unable to comply with at that time. When the staring circumstances were explained to him, the moderator suggested, "Just give back your stuff and don't bother each other."\\
+Resident Nick4629 revealed that Immigrant Bratka had killed him using a hack while he was placing a chest to return what few items he had taken off his victim. As there was no usual PvP death message, this suspicion has a high probability of being accurate, and Immigrant Bratka did not deny the charge.\\
+However, the matter of innocent bystanders having gotten brutally involved in the feud weighed more heavily, as Moderator P_P_A confirmed when he arrived at the scene to conduct an investigation and view recorded evidence. He also proved that the three attacked people really were //not// just one person, and "LoveAndCaring and Fedora don't even have any block changes," meaning they never got a chance to touch anything.\\
+Moderator P_P_A ruled that, "This is not like it's the first time you've gone and killed people near spawn for no reason. Also whatever they did, this kind of slaughter here is excessive." Resident Nick4629 received a prison sentence of slightly over one day for 'Illegal PvP', and minutes later, Resident Xpeh_wam who did not react to the interrogation received the same punishment.\\
+Immigrant Bratka was told to return the items looted from Resident Nick4629 and reluctantly gave in.\\
+\\
+**Frame Petition**\\
+(ns) After many rumors without actual implementation, Resident TheNerd96 started an official petition on the New Spawn plaza last Thursday, 'to install an entity protection plugin like FrameProtect to prevent the griefing of item frames, paintings and armor stands.'\\
+Currently, there are three votes for it, two against and a neutral one, likely demonstrating the reason why it had not been implemented right when first considered.\\
+\\
+**Lanno-Condeuran Community Work**\\
+(lc) On Sunday, King Darynu of the Kingdom of Lanno-Condeura absolved Prime Minister Salah of Umm Al Asufli of past crimes after the latter submitted to reciting a contrition pledge and accepting community service as reparations. P.M. Salah was given the task of levelling a small island to water level and commenced immediately.\\
+The island in question is close to Lanno-Condeura's new capital Daoine City and blocking proper access to the harbor bay.\\
+\\
+**__Regional News__**\\
+\\
+**Nautica Joins Mercymnius**\\
+(na/mc) Last Saturday, the Nautic Syndicate decided to join the recently revived nation Mercymnius as a province. In a treaty that can be found on the page [[https://dev-urandom.eu/treaties:treaty_mercymnius_nautic_syndicate]] in the Autism Almanac, all property is to be shared equally among residents of all three of Mercymnius's territories.\\
+To flesh out the new connection, Emissario Paper of Mercymnius started the project of a small nether hub, with a first straight and secure line already finished to the New Spawn Netherhub. A second line to the Nautican island is in the works, and the Mercymnius station itself shows strong influence of designs first used in the HDC Hub, showing respect for Grand Admiral Austrobernd's origins and aesthetic prudence.\\
+G.A. Austrobernd of the Nautic Syndicate also gave permission to extend a NEAR Transports line to his nether portal.\\
+\\
+**__Local News__**\\
+\\
+**First Level**\\
+(mm) During the past week, Midgard Administration stepped up their game. Following tenuous obsidian mining, the huge amounts of nether brick continuously smelted after the railway construction was used for the pillar's outer wall. While this disagreed with the designer's intentions, it allowed the building to process rapidly. Inside, the first level with a height of seven blocks is being used as a permanently manned wheat farm following examples seen in other nations. Administration has given the go-ahead to implement more such fields on higher levels, which are given priority to the pillar's outside design until Architect Mel gets a change to adapt its look according to the materials Midgard Administration is willing to provide.\\
+\\
+**AMUN Construction**\\
+(mm) At the beginning of the new year, Architect Mel submitted a blueprint for the AMUN Publishing building that had been decided to preside over the western sub-island. With its design based on our settlement's flag, thus requiring sturdy colored materials, the plans initially found vivid opposition, particularly on the side of the miners who calculated and demonstrated that the necessary resources could not be quarried within Midgard Municipality's territory.\\
+Gradually though, the design itself was praised as faithfully respecting Midgard's distinctive qualities which deserve to be honored.\\
+After extended debates, Administration resolved to secure the required substances from unclaimed areas outside our own territory in order to build the publishing company according to the original blueprint. To this effect, a mining team was created under the leadership of newly promoted Geologist Aume and set out to a promising northern swamp.\\
+Within days, the efforts of both the mining team and the constructors bore fruit, and the structure's frame is to two thirds finished.\\
+\\
+\\
+\\
+===== MARNIE 25.01.16 =====
+**Midgard's Alpha Realm News**\\
+//International Edition//\\
+January 25th, 2016\\
+\\
+//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.\\
+\\
+//In Worldwide News://\\
+**Plaza Bombed**, page 31\\
+\\
+//In Regional News://\\
+**Speermen Moves**, page 46\\
+\\
+//In Local News://\\
+**Northern Access**, page 49\\
+\\
+**__Worldwide News__**\\
+\\
+**Nations' Clans**\\
+(ar) At the beginning of last week, Grand Admiral Austrobernd of the Nautic Syndicate made a curious inquiry regarding clans which led to the discovery that clan management were intransparent and outdated and barely connected to nations as listed in the Autism Almanac. "Clans are inconsequential," Moderator P_P_A summarized, and after some research suggested, "Maybe we should make it mandatory for nations to have a clan, and tie nation validity to clan activity; i.e. if the clan expires from no activity, the nation is kill. Since you can only be member of one clan, that would also prevent the problem we had on Oceania of a few people being members of each other's nations to keep them 'alive', but at the same time we could still allow dual citizenship on the wiki."\\
+In consultation with God AlphaBernd, he received permission to implement the idea, and the nation rules pages was updated with the paragraph, 'If a nation's Clan becomes inactive, or if its member numbers drops below the threshold for maintaining nationhood, the nation is considered dissolved.' The time limit until inactivity is decided was raised from seven to thirty days. Although a page in the Autism Almanac is also a requirement for a nation to be valid, some clans have been approved in advance and their failure to list and present themselves is being overlooked.\\
+\\
+**Settlers Venturing to Northeast Edge**\\
+(ew) Last week, a colorful troop set out on a journey to the most northeastern spot in Alpha's Realm. With the intention of creating a wonderful settlement right "on top of the map", they traveled through wild and hostile terrain with inexperienced but enthusiastic children in tow.\\
+The day before, new Resident Vladislav had hired Slavking who had first awakened in our world, for coal mining, nearly squashing whatever interest might have caused him to visit. "I want to build stuff," the newcomer had complained, "like autistic castles," while being unable to craft sticks.\\
+Witnessing the reaction to those disastrous first steps, Moderator P_P_A had offered to take both immigrants on a tour to prominent places in Alpha's Realm in order to reanimate the dying spark and inspire some ideas. However, they soon were interrupted and the tour aborted, nevertheless with the goal achieved.\\
+On their way to the edge, Travelers Vladislav, Slavking and OrthodoxCrusader stopped by in various places, commencing their own tour. "We crossed the ocean. I've seen the whole country," Resident Slavking mistakenly enthused, "Danish castle, Viking house, commieblock in the north." His companion Vladislav added the "capital of Belarus" while OrthodoxCrusader best remembered the "pirate boat".\\
+After one last stop in Dorville, they reached their new home, already with many ideas in mind, and aptly named the place //End of the World//.\\
+Within two days, a netherrail connection was established to a nearby portal, but since the small group values their isolation, they decided to establish an overworld track there rather than a portal access in their own town. The overworld rail was built by Resident Vladislav, while Resident OrthodoxCrusader greatly assisted NEAR Transports' engineers in constructing the netherrail tube leading to the portal named Edge Stretch.\\
+\\
+**Shopkeepers Strike**\\
+(ar) The world hiccup on Friday noon caused all shopkeepers of our realm to collectively go on strike. They left their posts without note and vanished into some unknown hideout, derailing half the economy of Alpha's Realm and leaving some places as ghost towns.\\
+After they could not be found and therefore negotiated with, the next day the matter was brought to God AlphaBernd's attention, who discovered upon some background checks that enormous secret corruption had taken place in the shopkeepers' circles. He also discovered that Jinxauthor_Mel's own hasty investigation had caused the strikers to move and erase all traces of their activities from the records as a warning.\\
+It was only thanks to God AlphaBernd's perfect memory that those records could be restored, his wisdom that the corruption could be countered and his charm that the shopkeepers were swayed to come back to work.\\
+\\
+**Swamp Settled**\\
+(ss) Arriving too late for the trek northeast but unwilling to wait for guidance, an immigrant named Dandoro who has a passing acquaintance with one of the settlers from End of the World decided to found his own nation with other friends in the swamp strip between Second Spawn and the Slavia Confederation.\\
+Despite boisterous ambitions, he started with a most humble basic shelter and did not yet manage to introduce the many friends he claimed would join him. The new resident took interest in the laws of our world and strove to abide by them even when they were just haphazardly explained, and took responsibility when a mistake was made. His tentative settlement has not yet been named.\\
+\\
+**Targeted Resident**\\
+(ar) Last Tuesday, Resident Xcont was witnessed killing a person named Anusai and, when questioned, explained that this person was both a known griefer from a different realm and currently griefing his home base. When Moderator P_P_A arrived at the scene and saw the attacker kill Resident Xcont right in front of him before he could even finish stating that two people were fighting, he immediately condemned Anusai to a lifelong prison sentence and restored damage from as far as two days back. Unfortunately, the slayed villagers could not be revived.\\
+Moderator P_P_A noted that the unconnected base in the northwestern corner of our realm had been targeted repeatedly by various infiltrators during the week before. Two of them named themselves 'xcunt', clearly impersonating a known resident, and attacked uninvolved people.\\
+Resident Xcont could not or would not tell how the assailant had found his out-of-the-way home in the first place upon inquiry by both the investigator and the press. "This is envy," he offered with pride and irony, "These schoolkids are jealous that I can create big pits."\\
+While the investigation continued, 'Anusai' tried to return under different guises, but suspicions ran high and immediate background checks allowed his repeated removal from our realm. Moderator P_P_A concluded that they are skilled jail breakers as not even IP-bans detained them for long.\\
+\\
+**Plaza Bombed**\\
+(ns) A chain of explosions obliterated New Spawn's spawn plaza Tuesday evening, catching unaware Immigrant Vladislaw in the blow. The damage was immediately discovered by Residents Wolleman and FeuerFischer of Sitzfleisch, and captured on [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:026.png|photo 026]].\\
+While investigating the scene, an invisible Resident Mimokrokodil attacked Moderators P_P_A and GlitchyBat as well as both spectators and stole possessions of the dead.\\
+Moderator GlitchyBat soon restored the spawn plaza and Resident Mimokrokodil received a one-week prison sentence by Moderator P_P_A. Within minutes, the imprisoned convict complained through the bars in broken English and gave as only explanation for his actions the answer, "JFL [...] well it was too funny!!!"\\
+President Hinoarashi of the Republic of Ender offered Resident Mimokrokodil to become "a state-funded terrorist", but the latter eventually revealed, "but I don't want come back."\\
+\\
+**Wood Factory**\\
+(ch) Last Thursday, Resident Toyvo of northern Chernolesovsk invited Immigrant Dandoro to his wood factory. He did not stick around to explain the mechanics of the machine, and Immigrant Dandoro seemed lost among the mostly Russian and few bad English signs in town. When he found the factory, he discovered it not working and requested advice or assistance from anyone around.\\
+Moderator June took a look at the map and offered advice based on his impressions but could not go to the scene to check the machine.\\
+When Resident Toyvo returned the next day, he claimed several pistons missing and blamed Immigrant Dandoro for not following the "literally hundreds of signs", but did not actually submit a grief report. Together with a reporter, the latter visited the factory again and explained what he had found and done. A melon investigation did not uncover //any// changes on pistons, and all Resident Toyvo had to say was, "We fixed it."\\
+The newest additions were proper English signs leading visitors not only to the public wood factory - thanks to Resident Vasyan who had placed most of them earlier that day - but also through the entire process of using it, newly described by Resident Toyvo.\\
+\\
+**BlackB Back**\\
+(ts) After half a year of disabled communication, Resident BlackB of Taushahar returned to Alpha's Realm last Wednesday. He discovered that his shop had gone strong even without his presence, earning him "6,5 stacks of emerald blocks. Outjewed the server, even when I weren't here," he summarized proudly.\\
+In his home town, he discovered some minor griefing and unfinished houses as well as the spectacular elevator - created by Speaker BearMonger of the Republic of Ender - "broken, one half stopped somewhere in the middle." The engineer has been notified and will look at the problem later, so Resident BlackB won't fall to his death too often when using his "emergency ladder".\\
+\\
+**Western Colonists**\\
+(ar) To the west of Resident Xcont's troubled base, Immigrant Grum requested permission to settle a three-biome area with three more people. Although they have neither named the area nor founded a city-state, the group is working very fast in removing the forest and creating great structures, as can be seen around [[https://map.dev-urandom.eu/#/-3944/64/-2471/-3/0/0]] on our realm's map. His right to use that much space with four people, especially at the edge of the world, was confirmed, and Immigrant Grum stated that he would write an Almanac page for their group and territory at a later point.\\
+\\
+**__Regional News__**\\
+\\
+**Speermen Moves**\\
+(sf/ds) Duke Speermen of Skellie Farm returned on Saturday to "clean up" his capital Skellsborough. He explained that he had received permission to settle in the Duchy of the two Sorras, and did not wish to leave unfinished projects at home. In this case, the clean-up entails "tearing down to try over. I have new concepts for walls and station." For the duration of the de- and re-construction process, access to both overworld and nether station were temporarily restricted. The work itself seems to be slow-going while at the same time new buildings are being erected in South Sorra.\\
+\\
+**__Local News__**\\
+\\
+**Northern Access**\\
+(mm) Since Midgard Administration hastened the establishment of a netherrail connection to the far north, Midgardian tourists are now able to visit the map arts and small blaze farm directly from Utgard station. As a byproduct, more explorers' gates were set up on the way, and the NEAR line up north now connects to the Old Spawn Network, allowing for a round trip through three quarters of our realm.\\
+\\
+\\
+\\
+**This page concludes the Archive section of the **__weekly__** MARNIE editions. As of February, the newspaper will be released monthly, and the Archive will combine the editions of half a year on each [[books:ma_16_h1 | page]].**