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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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| *Nazdreg is appointed new TFN Chief Editor. All hail the chief! Big changes and revamps are expected around TFN!
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| *Tiago Ferreira is elected (in a very close election!) to the Fortress Council, replacing Zuton.
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| *The Fortress Defence Awards are announced, rewarding valor and service in any of the four Fortress Defence Teams.
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| *Following the retirement of Templarivs, Kathryn Nozed is appointed Commander of Team Battlehawk, and she appoints Steve the Decimator as her lieutenant.
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| *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.
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| *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.
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| *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.
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| ===[[The Fortress/News Archive 6|<font color=orange><font size=5>Official Fortress News</font color></font size>]]===
| | <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. |
| '''Written by Nazdreg, April 30 2009:'''
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| 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.
| | “I was delighted to be awarded the editor’s role, as I am passionate about taking Danny Lee’s original dream in to 2012. |
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| 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.
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| The updates have only just begun. Stay tuned for more!
| | “We’ll also be asking our extensive chain of allies what they have been up to, meaning that TFN is the only paper to tell you what’s really been happening throughout Malton.” |
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| | • News from Combat Teams, FEAR and Fortresses |
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| | | 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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| '''Date: FEB 01 2009 - FEB 19 2009: Written by guest Anaconda TFN reporter: ieatflesh01 on March 6th 2009'''
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| '''Date: JAN, 01 2009 - FEB 01 2009: Written by guest Anaconda TFN reporter: ieatflesh01 on March 6th 2009''' | |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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!!!
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| 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.”
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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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| | "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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| | Dark Watch's tale, the search for Morri, continues in the RP playhouse. |
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| 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.
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