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| ''' <font color=#ff0099>Jay Gorman'''<br/></font>
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| ''TFN Engineer'' | | <font color=red> <i> '''DO YOU DARE ENTER?'''</i></font color>]]The Fortress yesterday (Wednesday 26th October 2011) announced that Banokles had been hired to be the new Chief-Editor of their own ‘online newspaper’ the Fortress News (TFN). |
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| | There’s been a four month gap since the last edition, and Banokles is already busy in the newsroom, sorting out piles of paperwork, (Ed: that means drinking coffee), and employing a dedicated news team, including the two new assistant editors, piccon003 (former Chief Editor) and Sac001 (Director of Communications). He plans on releasing the next issue in time for New Year 2011/2012. |
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| | “With reporters on each of our four active combat teams, teams who are frequently at the forefront of any action against the zombie hordes, as well as our ally response team FEAR, TFN will bring you news from the front line.” |
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| '''<font color=red>-Tiago Ferreira'''<br/></font>
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| <font size=1>''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</font>
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| *The Fortress 3rd Year Anniversary Party is a great success. Much beer, wine and cheese was consumed. Stay tuned shortly for the full report!!
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| | • News from Combat Teams, FEAR and Fortresses |
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| | • A history of The Fortress article |
| | • Interview with a senior Fortress member, |
| | • All eyes on our allies |
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| *Clint Clintstone resigns as Commander of Team Battlehawk. His replacement is Templarivs, a long time member and fitting leadership choice.
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| Team Excalibur has been disbanded as a combat team. [[The_Fortress/Excalibur|Team Excalibur]] is where they will continue to work together as a writing team.
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| <font color=purple>Templarivs is made Commander of [[The Fortress/Battlehawk|Team Battlehawk]]</font>
| | Schoony was today (Thursday 27th October) unveiled as the new Battlehawk Commander, returning to the role he had left in August. A delighted Schoony broke in to song, parodying A-ha's The Living Daylights. <i> "Combat standard set so high! Battlehawk, it’s time to fly!" </i>, before expressing his sorrow that real life had reared its ugly head for his predecessor Charanya. "She did an excellent job putting the pink back into Battlehawk. I was totally letting it slip into fuchsia. I am really excited about our new class of boot graduates!" |
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| | Lucy Daniels has published a new exciting serialised story, with part two coming out tomorrow (Friday 28th October). Read it in Malton's West End forum. |
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| The Fortress News sure is growing! We had to make a [[The Fortress/News/Page_2|second page]] just to hold everything!
| | "They were there, the four of them, asleep in front of him. <font-color=FF4500> ''Yeah, they’re asleep and alive, asleep and alive… not dead at all… I can see them breathe… '' </font-color> He slowly approached the first one, a girl wearing a dark purple ballgown. Oh hell I can’t see her breathe at all… He reached for her neck and checked her pulse." |
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| The Fortress-wide Chain kill is finished.
| | In an alternate reality, you didn't get quarantined in Malton and you never became part of the cursed City. |
| *139 kills (New Record).
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| *Loyal Combat Veterans Avatorious and Rob Kirkman have announced their retirement from the Fortress. We are hopeful, however, that the sheep will not stray too far from the flock.
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| *On behalf of the TFN team, I would like to thank Clint Clintstone for his recent involvement in TFN co-editing. It was an honour to have a Fortress legend involved with our broadcasts.
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| '''Date: May 8-June 8, 2008. Written by Miss Elainious on June 17, 2008'''
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| 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.
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| 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).
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| '''Operation Date: April 16 – May 6, 2008. Written by Miss Elainious on June 17, 2008'''
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| Northern Malton had been flattened by the hordes, specifically The Dead whose soul objective was to destroy all life in Malton. The northern half of Malton had become one giant red zone and The Dead had turned their hungry eyes to the south. Their southern hordes have not been as successful and they have begun to move some of their numbers south to reinforce the southern hordes. As they sent numbers south and the RRF returned to their home in Ridleybank, Anaconda bypassed them and moved northward and into the northeast to restore life and light.
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| It was a long trip, requiring that the team stop at a couple of locations along the journey, the first stop was Roachtown. Anaconda had intended only to stay the night, but we found unexpected hospitality in the form of a very friendly survivor group, the Roach Klips. To repay their kind hospitality Anaconda stayed a few days, repairing local resource buildings, establishing a free-running lane to Stickling Mall, and recovering the mall. Unfortunately the Eastonwood Ferals began a siege in the mall just as Anaconda was preparing to move on, but repairing and lighting the mall even for a short time gave some opportunity for locals to restock on supplies and a new alliance was forged for The Fortress.
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| In the final leg of our journey we reached our last destination, Dulston. Here we met the Dultson Alliance, a multi group alliance who’s member’s have a vested interest in the far northeast of Malton. We worked with the alliance to repair buildings and revive fallen survivors in Dulston and surrounding area. Dark Watch joined Anaconda to assist in retaking the mall and surrounding resource buildings. A highlight of this was a 15 person RT with members of both teams and led by Officer Duncan in Anaconda’s new program encouraging all team members to develop and run mini-ops. This OP was a huge success with a whopping 8 buildings cleared repaired and/or barricaded.
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| Several zombie hordes, highly organized to almost human levels of coordination took the northwest of the city for them, many survivor lives were lost. Now we're moving into their nest. The Fortress Brigadier, Tommy Crowbar gave us our next orders. We had to regroup and restock in Bale Mall, and join the Combat Team Anaconda before moving to the dangerous Northwest.
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| The prospect of getting one over on the pure evil that is Lord Pitman made the Hawks salivate. as he had it coming to him for so long. We used Coate Boulevard School as the safehouse, as per Cuthberts scout report, and aimed at securing the perimeter. Commander Crowbar brought it to our attentino that the mob we were up against were no other than EXtinction, who were renowned for their superb use of tactical information for RL strikes. So what was our plan of defense?
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| CO Miss E. of the condas devised a plan to partner up two members of the CTs to spread out across the area and adopt a heavy barricading policy for the relative buildings. We arrived at our respective locations and proceeded to scout and cade the buildings. We retook the central location for restocking, Calvert Mall, and put it back in survivor hands. Both CTs were vigilantly keeping a close eye on the cading situation in each respective enclosure.
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| With the teams spread out in their own areas real progress was felt across the suburb. Calvert Mall settled into survivor hands and the hospitals were also held. As Jay and Zeffrin set off on their medical rounds, Mendoza was being viciously attacked by an undead whilst trying to restore an old auto repair shop. Ready for it though, he quickly despatched the zed and secured the building without even breaking a sweat.
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| For the brilliant scheme to work, a route, or pathway, if you prefer, was needed. Azula Invidia and Private Mendoza vigilantly set off to create a suitable free-running pathway towards the Pitman Mansion, affectionately tagged with further directions on the "Pitman Pathway". Just in time it seemed too, as soon after dozens of break ins started to occur at the mall everyone else was in. With some help from Zombiedodger, the trio was able to reclaim the NT along the path, and later received some reinforcements in the form of Jay Gorman who joined Private Mendoza in holding the barricades up.
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| That night the teams swept into the Pitman Mansion to find it relatively empty. Led into battle by their CO's the last few zeds inside were quickly despatched and all four corners of the mansion secured and barricaded. It was kind of spooky being camped out in a place with so much history, you could almost hear the echos of Lord Pitman and his terrible experiments.
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| Warmed though by the company of their team mates and the few bottles of whisky they'd found in the study, The Hawks and Condas put their feet up for a well earned rest. It had been a battle to get here, but a good one, and the suburb was once again safe...well as safe as a Malton suburb can be these days. Some say the Hawk's sleep with one eye open, always on the look-out for the zombie menace, but after a good night's sleep the teams awoke (with slight hangovers) to find new orders had arrived. With great glee they discovered that Battlehawk and Ananconda would be working side by side again and they set off together for their next adventure.
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| == Operation Summer Lovin' ==
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| With the sweet smell of summer in the air the Hawks felt the need to spread some Fortress love. Where better to do that they mused, than the embattled suburb of Roftwood where many of the local residents were starting to give up hope and certainly hadn't felt any love for an age. Operation Summer Lovin was born.
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| First into the burb were Zombiedodger and Mendoza who found Hildebrand Mall and Nichols Mall (in nearby Pimbank), in tatters and surrounded by shuffling zeds. They were quickly joined by the rest of team and acting CO Tommy Crowbar but no sooner had everyone arrived than the safehouse was under attack.
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| The first few days and nights were a battle for dominance with a break in at the safehouse and the fall of several Hawks. Steve (DoC) was PK'd by a Gore Corps almost as soon as he'd arrived and even Jensonson who was sleeping in the area was dragged outside by hungry brain eaters.
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| With most of the buildings in ruins and a rising number of zeds The Hawks re-grouped a little further south and bumped into their old friends from Anaconda. Whilst Steve was organising help from our allies, Tommy and Nazdreg decided to play poker with the Gore Corps and after winning the pants of their opponents (we don't know quite why they wanted their pants?) made a hasty exit when the party was crashed by The Dead.
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| With the strength of both Battlehawk and Anaconda combined (bolstered by the arrival of new Hawk JohnC8X) and help on it's way from their allies, the CO's called for an RTS on Hildebrand Mall.
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| Upon arriving at Hildebrand though, they found their heroic allies had already taken it so they moved out to re-take Nichols, and once that was done and just for good measure, they took Milner NT as well. Not bad for a night's work!
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| Unfortunately the hordes were quick to sense 'breathers' in their midst and both malls fell again a few days later. For several days and nights the battle continued to rage with ground repeatedly being lost and then re-taken. The medics worked furiously and the groups' vigilance was tested but their courage never failed. With a good number of survivors in the area and the zeds confined to one or two places the burb began to stabilise and the operation was coming to an end.
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| Suddenly Tommy and Miss Elainious struck up into song...
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| "Summer lovin' had me a blast
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| Summer lovin', happened so fast
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| I met a girl crazy for me
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| I met a boy, cute as can be"
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| Love really was being spread around by The Fortress and the operation was topped off by an invitation from Terk, for a Fortress Wedding - that of Tommy and Miss E.
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