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EditorialWritten 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! Official Fortress NewsIn the Line of Duty
Caution: Construction Zone; Beware of falling undergarments If I only had a Brain?Written by Perrin the Wolf, September 2, 2008 Wolf Morrison reporting once more for the TFN. After a long awaited return and a far too long leave from the TFN I came to understand what it truly meant to be called a "friendly passerby". As I relaxed in Nichols mall gawking at the beautiful Goolina and sipping at my very stale coffee I noticed something that most would forget, something that only happened a few days before when Nichols was in a shambles once more thanks to the RRF. Walking in during a recent operation with The Fortress's Team Anaconda I noticed only one zombie in a corner of the room. I shrugged and looked at my needle I had labeled 'the hand of god' for obvious reasons. Slamming it into the lifeless corpse I did something that most newbie killers do, combat revived. Days later I revisited the site when a member of the RRF spoke to me. "Honestly, Perrin the Wolf, don't combat revive. Look at my group tag. Do i seriously look survivor friendly?" His name was Earl Boris. Of course I didn't have his ID on record, one of the very few RRF recruits I have ever missed. After he continued to rant as well as destroy the generator and kill himself, the friendly new kilt store worker Goolina started to revisit her former days as an RRF member. She gestured to the now zombified Earl Bori and had some odd conversation about reviving him. "Hi there Earl Boris. You know, if you wanted a kilt, you just had to ask. I speak fluent rattle, and could have assisted you without your resorting to parachuting. Once you're undead and all bitey, it's difficult to get a proper fit." Of course, as any man who is fascinated with the undead life knows, Goolina is a sweet person as a human and can never pass up a sale. They conducted business and when all was said and done he started to take his leave without harming anyone in the mall...but of course, due to profiling, some random passerby ended up killing the human version of this RRF member by the name of Wasabeee. His only words were, "The purple rabbit has been taken care of." It was some day I had but after a hard days work in this hellish world not even a passerby is safe nowadays. With Wasabeee hopefully being placed in the Rogue gallery all I can say is Earl wherever you are I hope that you enjoy your new kilt regardless of your blood stains on it. From your friendly reporter for the TFN take care, and until the next great catch is found..... 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 MistDate: JAN, 01 2009 - FEB 01 2009: Written by guest Anaconda TFN reporter: ieatflesh01 on March 6th 2009
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! Operation: Fort PerilDate: May 8-June 8, 2008. Written by Miss Elainious on June 17, 2008 The Fortress received a distress call from our allies, BMC (British Military Corps) that Whtteniside and Fort Perryn were in imminent danger from an advancing combined horde of the RRF and DvEM. Further intelligence revealed that MoA and FU were also closing in on the fort. Anaconda restocked and set out from their recent mission in the NE to defend Fortress one and hopefully get some delicious BMC pies, alas before the team could get into place after its long journey, the Fort had fallen. Undaunted, Anaconda instead decided to swing in behind the path of the horde and repair the considerable damage left in the wake of its south easterly advance with plans to retake Fort Perryn as a grand finale. The team worked through the suburbs of Scarletwood and Danversbank with allies such as Garnis Border Patrol. Buildings were cleared, repaired and caded, locals were healed and revived and our progress marked by steady status changes on the map. In the interim Anaconda kept a close eye on F1, waiting for the right time to liberating from the undead masses still occupying it. We moved forward into Whitteniside and with local allies such as BMC, soon had the suburb in good order except for the jewel in the crown, Fort Perryn. With Whittenside rapidly coming back to life thanks to repair and revival efforts by Anaconda and our allies, we turned our attention to F1. Short forays into the Fort showed that although zed numbers had dropped there was still considerable resistance present. Anaconda called for reinforcements and Teams Cold Cell and Dark Watch rapidly responded, both eager to do battle and reclaim Fortress 1. The three teams gathered supplies in preparation for a long siege and planned their attack carefully with allies The Cannonball Crew (CBC), Fort Perryn Defence Force (FPDF), BMC and Creedy Defence Force(CDF). June 1 proved to be an amazing day as all the hard work and planning came together for a successful joint RT strike with The Fortress (Teams Anaconda / Cold Cell / Dark Watch) and our respected allies CC , FPDF & CDF. The end result of the initial strike was 24 zeds killed with these bodies plus several others unceremoniously dumped outside the gates of the fort. Every building was repaired within the fort, 3 essential buildings powered and barricade levels for each building, as well as the gatehouse, at barricade plan levels. Over 30 people took part in the phenomenal RT strike, coordinating via chat room, others coming in later for backup assistance, evicting zeds, healing, maintaining cades. When the gates went to EHB at midnight GMT, 33 people were in the gatehouse holding the fort while other occupied various internal buildings and over 27 zeds had been evicted. This was an unprecedented event and the level of cooperation and goodwill shown during this strike should be an example to all survivor groups in Malton. Anaconda and the other Fortress teams remained at Fort Perryn for another week, wanting to see the fort and our allies through the first VSB day following Perryn’s rebuilding and into the next. The week was a test of vigilance for all, with frequent break-ins and barricade attacks the norm. Wednesday proved to be a challenge as the horde numbers outside the gates swelled before the barricades were lowered to VSB. However this was no match for vigilant Fortress members and allies, all attempts by the zeds to reclaim Perryn were effectively repelled. When the gates were locked at EHB that night we all breathed a sigh of relief, we had withstood the first test and now even more survivors had swelled the ranks of fort defenders. Unfortunately the barricade lowering had also added griefers, breathing zeds and Pkers to the occupants within the walls of F1. Despite these minor annoyances and the occasional pathetic and uncoordinated zed attempt to infiltrate Perryn, Anaconda held strong with team-mates, friends and allies for the week, leaving as planned when the cades returned to VSB on June 8 to prepare for the 2008 mass chainkill event. Special thanks and congratulations to our friends in Cold Cell, Dark Watch and allies CBC, FPDF, BMC & CDF. A final thank you to Mad Dog Murro, an officer and a gentleman, it was a pleasure working with you. Team Battlehawk
Operation Spearhead
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."
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]
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