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Chief Editor Nazdreg Staff TFN Engineer Private Mendoza Newscaster Bob Boberton Writers Lucy Daniels Tiago Ferreira Zombiedodger puppiemaster Roy Orbson Mindlessidiots Guest Writers Hawke2019 Horgant Morrowind Mission:We focus mainly on the different news of the #1 survivor group, The Fortress, which contains news events from different areas visited by our teams. However we will usually also have important general news as well Top News Nazdreg is appointed new TFN Chief Editor. All hail the chief! Big changes and revamps are expected around TFN! Tiago Ferreira is elected (in a very close election!) to the Fortress Council, replacing Zuton. Malton's West End, the public area of the Writer's Guild, opens to introduce more member-generated RP content and allow voting and feedback. The Fortress Defence Awards are announced, rewarding valor and service in any of the four Fortress Defence Teams. Following the retirement of Templarivs, Kathryn Nozed is appointed Commander of Team Battlehawk, and she appoints Steve the Decimator as her lieutenant. Fortress 3, The Society, is discovered somewhere in Malton. Party favors and liquor are freely distributed in celebration, and Miss Elainious is appointed F3 Colonel. Warlord is also named F1 Colonel. Cold Cell achieves a record-breaking score in their Valentine's Day Massacre - 58.5 hours, 16 team members, and 63 kills brings them to the top of the Chain Kill scoreboard with 36.88 points. Fortress Combat Units have started 2009 in good spirits. The Malton survivor population is strong, and this is in no small part down to the Fortress' hard work, and the work of their vigilant allies. After the DEM posts landmark deficits, Current Stock Market estimations reveal that the value of 100g of Cheese is now .9567 Brains, documenting a huge decrease in value. A Special Thanks to Our Sponsors File:Kilt.jpg File:FunnyAd.JPG Funny Pictures File:Donuts.jpg	Official Fortress News Notes from the Editor Written by Nazdreg, April 30 2009: Wow, where should I start? First of all, despite beign Chief Editor of The Fortress News, this is the first article I have actually written. Anyway, it can't be all the bad. In a few days, it will make a year since I joined the Fortress. Talk about a rollercoaster ride. I have served four different commanders, and came quite close to beign one myself. But thats another story. Whats funny is that the first big thing I am in charge turns out to be something I never even considered doing. But you know what? I FREAKIN LIKE IT! Its fun, but its alot of work. First day was nothing but cleanup. Im a bit of tidy freak. I had to archive many old topic, some daitng back to early 2008. It was worth the effort, yet my workis far from over. The Fortress News is undergoing many changes. Some will take time. The updates have only just begun. Stay tuned for more! In the Line of Duty Caution: Construction Zone; Beware of falling undergarments Team Anaconda Operation: Leisure Rules! Date: FEB 01 2009 - FEB 19 2009: Written by guest Anaconda TFN reporter: ieatflesh01 on March 6th 2009 As Anaconda were recovering from all the effort that we put forth in Operation: Red Mist, other events were taking place that would change the face of the Anaconda leadership. Sadly, Commander Charlie Mon stepped down. Acting CO Lucy Daniels decided that the team needed a vacation. She told us to wrap up what we were doing, stock up and be prepared to move out. Lucy mapped out a nice little trip around Southeast Malton. This was supposed to be a leisurely vacation, one that would let us get a little R and R. But the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. We headed to Osmondville first, to “Revive, repair, cade, kill, heal, and restock as appropriate”. We were given free rein to use our AP as we saw fit. It was invigorating not to have to watch what we did, but still as our training was deeply engrained, few of us, if any, allowed ourselves to go crazy. As always, we secured our safehouse and got straight to work. As we were fighting for our lives with the zeds (what a vacation), another battle was raging in RL. The Steelers VS the Cardinals for the title of SuperBowl Champion. Much to the sorrow of the Cardinals fans, the Steelers took the Championship . Sometimes when on vacation, we forget ourselves. Such was the case with poor Mr. Tiago Ferriera. He went to a rave party at a cemetery (not inviting any of his team mates either), and ended up sticking his needle into some random zed that he thought was a girl, but ended up being “a dude named Mike”. That’ll teach you to go to parties without backup Tiago. After finishing up in Osmondville, we headed to Pennville to pick up some booze with the aim to possibly drink it in Fort Perryn. We started out securing the Druce Row School, and then began to spread out to the surrounding buildings and rebuild. We once again had our work cut out for us as there ended up being 17 zeds inside Voizey Police Department. During the op, once again Coup fell to a zombie (this was turning into a habit). We once again revived him and he went back to work, a little worse for wear, but determined. The Condas became bogged down in an ever-changing battle with the zeds of Pennville. They were a very determined lot, killing people, ruining buildings, but never had they met a more determined bunch of survivors than Anaconda. We were reviving, repairing, and recading as fast as we possibly could. The work was hard, the hours long, but we were making progress. As we were out and about fixing and cading, our safehouse fell. Among the dead were D3c0y, Doctorgun, Aeris Windwalker, and Corpus Currit. The rest of the Anacondas rallied to their aid, and they were all alive and well within a few hours. If the zeds had thought they would break our resolve with that action, they had totally miscalculated. We once again busted butt, got the safe house and surrounding areas back up and functional. It was at this point that Lucy directed us to head to church, St. Columbanus’s Church to be exact. This was to act as a rest stop on our way over to visit F2 and play some poker with Fortress 2 CO Jason Valer, Jensonson, and Shrimper. It was a trip that all were looking forward to. We all sat down to eat a wonderful mean in F2. Nazdreg had cooked zombie steaks, brain soup, and fried rat for dinner. As Malton fare goes, it wasn’t half bad. We then got down to the real business at hand. Strip poker. It was not a very good night for the following people, though a lot of people were saying that it was soooooo amazing how Corpus kept “finding” aces. Lucy lost her bandana, jacket, both trainers, and one sock, Fleshy was getting fleshier by the minute and even though he was “finding” those aces, Corpus was lucky to still have his pants left. All-in-all, a good time was had by everyone. After our fun at F2, we took a walk up to Joachim Mall. It seemed like every time you turned around, there was a break-in there. We continued to fight against the zeds. Killing, cading, healing, reviving, everything that we could do to put the odds in the survivors’ corner. Day after day, we kept the zed hoard of 17+ at bay. By Valentine’s Day, there were 24 zeds outside the NW corner of the mall, and we were put to the test to keep it caded. Suddenly there was another break-in at the mall. Who would show up to help, but the Head himself. Jensonson showed everyone that he still maintains his skills and can do even the lowliest of chores, barricading a mall. It was a very motivating sight to see. On the 15th of February, Council elected Lucy to become Anaconda’s next Commander. She then passed the word that we needed to start gearing up for the next operation. As the anticipation built for the next operation, we all began to stock up on our favorite implements of destruction/protection. Finally, CO Lucy announced the completion of our “vacation” and told us the name of our new operation. It was to be called, “Operation: Snakes in a Fort”. We couldn’t wait. Operation: Red Mist Date: JAN, 01 2009 - FEB 01 2009: Written by guest Anaconda TFN reporter: ieatflesh01 on March 6th 2009 After the holiday festivities, Anaconda needed a challenge. And a challenge they got! Commander Charlie Mon decided that we would leave Scarletwood and head up to zed-infested Barrville. We were to make our safehouse just south of Floyde Stadium, and rebuild from there. We fought a constant battle to keep the stadium zed free, and we were winning!! On the 5th of January, poor Couponballer was killed, along with his chance at winning the Extreme Vigilance Challenge. We mourned his loss, revived him, and got back to work. During our challenging operation, Tiago Ferreira requested permission to attempt the Heavens Touch ABA. We all wished him well. Alas, he was unable to complete his quest. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Lucy and Spacepirat92 recovered a very “Strange Bank”, bringing it from ruined to extremely heavily barricaded. As time progressed, the strange little bank would become our new safehouse. After returning the western portion of Barrville to a liveable state, the Anacondas received a distress call from survivors in Gulsonside. They were in danger of attack from the dreaded RRF, continuing on their Mall Tour ’09. We stocked up on ammunition, FAKS, syringes, generators and fuel, and headed down to help our fellow survivors. We arrived at Blesley Mall to find that it had been breached. Everyone got to work and soon enough, the Mall was up and operational. On the 18th of January at 6:15PM, the mall was breached again. Terketz1 watched in horror as Lord Moloch and the RRF broke the barricades and began to kill survivors. As of 10:29PM, Anaconda had the ‘cades back to EHB on all 4 corners and had recovered the mall. Unfortunately by 11:03PM, once again the mall had fallen and we retreated back to our safehouse to regroup. For the next week, we fought the zeds hard, losing and retaking the mall with the help of all of the survivors that we had revived. On another note, Tiago Ferreira completed his “Heavens Touch” ABA. Nicely done Tiago!!! After cleaning up more of Gulsonside, we headed back south into Scarletwood to aid our newest allies, the Garniss Border Patrol. As we arrived in the vicinity of the Garniss building, we began to repair, cade, and revive. Hospitals, NTs and PDs were up and functional in short order. Efficiency was the order of the day. It wasn’t too long before the Garniss Building had been recovered, the GBP was up and among the living, and we had succeeded in our mission. It was at that point that LT Lucy made the following statement, “Okey dokey guys. Operation Red Mist is at a close, so start reporting in the Operation: Leisure Rules! thread.” Operation: Red Mist had been accomplished with both ups and downs, but Anaconda came through with flying colors, as always! For more Anaconda news, check out the Anaconda News Archive. Team Battlehawk Operation Spearhead Written by Templarivs The RRF control almost all of the Ridleybank suburb, their “homeland”, and because of this the ruined buildings become more difficult to repair every day. In a couple of months those ruins would become almost impossible to repair, so I decided to bring the team on a repair mission. After talking with Commander Clintstone about this idea he gave permission for me to command the Operation Before attacking the RRF we recovered Tynte Mall, in order to have a restocking point where we could reload our guns, regroup and start our incursion on enemy territory from the north. While we were fighting a loosely organized horde at Tynte, good news arrived. Combat Team Cold Cell and some of our allies were active inside Ridleybank. On receiving the news we moved early to the Operation zone, but we had different missions and the operation wasn’t a joint one. Yet it was a great relief not be alone over there! A small junkyard to the west of Tynte Mall, to the East border of Ridleybank, provided a perfect cover. Cold, dirty and wet Maltonian weather welcomed up to our resting point, but it was still a perfect place to hide, surrounded by tall wire mesh fences and lots of scrap metal. The first targets for repair were the resource buildings, police departments and hospitals, to ensurethe zeds remained interested on those locations and away from our safehouse. The repairs were proving very difficult, several teammates collapsed, exhausted from repairing destroyed buildings. It was a tiresome and difficult job, several Hawks had to rest almost unconscious for more than a day. Clint, Kathryn, Steve, Dodger … almost everyone on the team were volunteering for those missions, even with the small chance of survival. These Hawks were defenseless in the middle of the Ridleybank zombie nest! Team Battlehawk proved once more it was moulded from the bravest survivors of Malton. Their sacrifice was the backbone of the Operation and it was a complete success. For a month we ran a shadow operation inside Ridleybank, hidden in the darkness, killing and disappearing onto the empty streets. The zombies in the area were moving frantically from place to place trying to find us, destroying our work, breaching empty buildings, but finding nothing inside. We could then easily repair and barricade those breached buildings a couple of hours after their attacks; just close the doors, gather some furniture and leave from the rooftops. We recovered all the resource buildings in Ridleybank using this tactic. But we had no idea of the real success of our mission until we found a cheap paper, barely a flyer, with this cryptic message. QUOTE (RRF Newspaper) "Lost. Brains, quantity unknown, suspected 25+. Last seen entering mouths of zambahz. Decorational only, but much sentimental value. Contact Fortress if found." This paper was a “newspaper” printed by a delusional group of human 'Zombie sympathisers' inside Ridleybank. Yes, we also had psychotic killers and undead enemies trying to locate us! Combat Team Cold Cell moved to another operation 2 weeks after our arrival, and since then we were acting alone. Unfortunately several other crises kept our allies away from our location. The Battlehawks, a group of 11 survivors, defeated one of the biggest and most dangerous hordes of Malton. We kept the suburb for a month, and with only a minimal casualty count, we accomplished our mission. We were almost out of supplies, and so we had to regroup at Tynte Mall again, but before that we were met with a very pleasant surprise. A beautiful and elegant brunette found our safehouse. In a ruined city where almost all of the survivors were covered head-to-toe with blood and wearing nothing but torn-up rags, a woman wearing expensive designer clothes is indeed an unusual encounter. But not only that, this woman was no ordinary woman, she was a Fortress legend, and more importantly to us, a Hawk legend. Zuton, had returned to team Battlehawk………. [end of Operation Spearhead, the first of the 3 Ridleybank Operations] For more Battlehawk news, check out the Battlehawk News Archive.