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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=== Following in Anne Tardew's footsteps, ziptrickhead is selected to be the next commander of team Dark Watch. Congratulations! September 2009 After some delay, Chuck Strahovski is chosen to become the new Fortress Four Colonel! A spectacular feat, seeing as how he is already a drill sergeant - though the jobs often go hand in hand. Congratulations, commander! August 2009 The Fortress begins yet another recruitment program - Special Operation: Recruiting Battalion! Members are encouraged to spread the word of the Fortress far and wide, with a side contest to see who can recruit the most new members! August 2009 ORakoon and Warlord are selected to become new PK Archivers, filling Puppiemaster's now-vacant seat and bringing the PK Archiving team to four members. Congratulations! August 2009 Roy Orbson is elected to the vital Councillor spot in a very close vote, and Puppiemaster is chosen to become the next Moderator - both positions left vacant by Steve the Decimator. Congratulations! July 2009 Warlord wins the 2009 Vigilance Challenge by a margin of a few days, outliving even the esteemed Jensonson. Congrats, Warlord! July 2009 More new staff members have been selected! Puppiemaster has recently been elected as Barkeeper of Trong Tran's Tavern, and Chuck Strahovski and Hawke2019 are the new Boot Camp Drill Sergeants. Congrats! June/July 2009 Cold Cell's rising star, Horgant Morrowind, is elected to Council following in the footsteps of Lucy Daniels. Congrats, Horgant! June 2009 Following the release of Amano Jaku, theYeas is selected to be the new commander of team Cold Cell. He, in turn, chooses Horgant Morrowind to be his Lieutenant. June 2009 New forum staffers have been selected! Bob Boberton was recently promoted to Moderator, and both puppiemaster and Maynard Knight become PK archivers. May/June 2009 Teams Battlehawk and Anaconda complete their chain kill for 33.33 points! 18 members invited a total of 60 zombies to have dirt naps in nearly 60 hours of solid murderin' outside Caiger Mall, falling into second place. Congrats Hawks and Condas! May 2009 Morrigana is elected to the Fortress Council with 15 votes, filling the seat recently vacated by Miss Elainious. Congratulations, Councilor Morrigana! May 2009 Nazdreg is appointed new TFN Chief Editor. All hail the chief! Big changes and revamps are expected around TFN! April 2009 Tiago Ferreira is elected (in a very close election!) to the Fortress Council, replacing Zuton. April 2009 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. April 2009 The Fortress Defence Awards are announced, rewarding valor and service in any of the four Fortress Defence Teams. April 2009 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. For older Top News, check out the Archive. 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, September 20 2009: The Fortress' 4th Anniversary Party was a blast. Im drunk. :P Team Anaconda Operation: Snakes In A Fort Date: FEB 19 2009 – MAR 08 2009: Written by guest Anaconda TFN reporter: ieatflesh01 After our little vacation, it was time that Anaconda got back to work! We received word that our allies in the southeast were working hard to try to retake Fort Perryn, and requested our help. With little to no fanfare, we all headed down to help out. Upon arrival, our first priority was to establish a safehouse. This was done by RTS. Involved in the establishment were: Samuel L Jackson, Coup, Fleshy, Paul, Tiago, and Lucy. Jason Valer stopped by, but it was just to get an autograph from the famous Anacondas. With our safehouse established, it was time for the real work to begin. Our established goal was to revive 100 people during this op. Corpus started us out with the 1st revive on Feb 20 2009. This was shaping up to be a very productive operation. After we had taken the safehouse, the zed presence there noticed. From that point on, it was a battle to keep our cades at EHB. But, the Condas are ever vigilant and our cades remained in place. As the operation wore on, it was plain to see that the zeds were not going to go quietly into the night. They were going to fight us with everything they had. This in turn made the whole thing that much more fun. We conducted another RTS. We took 2 buildings, killed 2 zeds, and caded both buildings to VSB. A successful RT to be sure. Involved were the following: Lucy, Corpus, Paul, Coup, and Fleshy (in spirit). During the op, Fleshy and Lucy decided to try and get the Twin Dragon ABA. This was accomplished in short order. It wasn’t 10 minutes before the ABA was completed. Congratulations to both! More good news came to the Anacondas in the form of a new recruit. We found out that Beatlepuss was to be in the newest member of the team. We all welcomed him appropriately and eagerly awaited his arrival. After all of the work that we had done to keep the zeds outside of the fort busy, it had paid off. News came that the Malton Rangers had assisted MUM in the successful reclamation of the fort. MUM asked the Anacondas to help in the retaking of the buildings to the south of the Fort. With that in mind, CO Lucy decided it was time for another RTS. We eagerly awaited the chance to kill more zeds and take more buildings from them. The RT was as always very successful. Banton Cinema was retaken. Corpus dropped the genny, Lucy fueled and repaired the building (50AP to repair), Corpus caded to VHB and killed the genny. Beats, eager to join in the fun, killed 2 zeds inside Anne General Hospital, but was unable to finish the 3rd. A most excellent RTS. After the RTS was over, Spacepirat92 and Fleshy went to Anne General. They finished the zed, dumped the body, and caded the hospital to EHB. With all of the work that the Anacondas did, in the end it was to no avail. The fort, though retaken, once again fell to the zombie hoards. However, by March 6th, we had updated Pennville from RED to GREEN. Though we did not make our 100 revive goal, we did revive 44 people. That equals 440APs worth of revives. Enough to keep a single survivor asleep for nearly 9 days straight. Once again, the Anacondas had made a difference in the burb. CO Lucy teased us with the name of our next op. Operation: Friday The 13th. With the operation winding down, we all took turns heading to Blesley Mall to restock, and returning back to the safehouse. CO Lucy teased us even more with further information on the next op. It seemed that Operation: Friday The 13th was to be a competitive op. We could not wait for the next operation to begin. We received our marching orders from the CO on March 29. We were to head up to Shackleville and restock for the next operation. The excitement was almost tangible, with Doctorgun making this statement, “Oh I love being a Conda. Restocking and moving to safehouse”. 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. For more Anaconda news, check out the Anaconda News Archive. Team Battlehawk Operation: Wasp The Battlehawks finished restocking in Tynte Mall in Pimbank and headed towards the ominous Ridleybank. The Battlehawks, in an attempt to distract the Ridley Resistance Front Horde began running repairs and barricading in Ridleybank while also maintaining part of Western Pimbank. The team repaired and barricaded as many buildings as possible, luring the horde to attack the central and east Ridleybank areas. The Battlehawks showed their true colors as they distracted the RRF horde, while surviving in the middle of a massive war outbreak. The Battlehawks also helped out allies while keeping up their hard work, and they even had some singing! On Sept 16th the first Singing Real Time Strike Adalbert Hospital and Blomfield PD. Zuton Templarvis, and Zombiedodger went in and recovered the buildings while singing songs to the zombies! Zuton went up first with her song, ” I killed a zed and I liked it The waste of the barhah slap, kick, I killed a zed just to try it I hope Lord Moloch don’t mind it, It felt so strong, it felt so right Don’t mean I will survive the night I killed a zed and I liked it, I liked it.” (Katie Perry, I kissed a girl) Next came Templarvis with his song, “When they kick at your front door, how are you gonna come Screaming for help or on the trigger of your gun When the zeds break in, how are you gonna go Dragged out the street or waiting with your gun, You can crush us, you can bite us But you'll have to answer to, oh, the guns of Malton!” (Guns of Brixton) Zombiedodger went on next, ” Take me down to Malton city, where the zeds are rotten and the smell is whiffy, Oh won't you please take me home, yeah yeah” (Guns N Roses) Finished off by Templravis delivering the killing blow to a zombie with a headshot from a flare gun! On Sept 18th, before they had to leave, Team Battlehawk made one last Singing Real Time Strike. Kathryn Nozed and Azula Invidia broke into Blackmore NT, singing a duet. Azula began the song, “We are the fortress - my friends - and we'll keep on fighting till the end We are the fortress” Then Kathryn came up to finish it, “We are the fortress No time for zombies 'Cause we are the fortress of Malton” (We are the Champions, Queen) They took down as many zombies as they could then finished of by leaving a fresh spray on the wall, "XOXO Fortress Girls" They moved down to Stanbury Village and Nichols Mall, escaping the first of War just as it began to crush them. They finished their mission in just in time for The Fortress 2008 Party. A number of other things happened during this entire operation. Kathryn Nozed and Zombiedodger earned their promotions to Conflict Trooper! Derivator, a Battlehawk Legend returned near the end of the operation, and upon the operations end, Arnie Small earned his Promotion to Freedom Fighter, JohnC8X earned his promotion to Deployment Soldier, and Azula Invidia earned her Promotion to Battalion Ranger! Private Mendoza was also recognized for his work on ensuring communications were strong with the Battlehawks and their Allies! The Battlehawks proved once again that they were a force to be reckoned with and an important part of The Fortress Team! For more Battlehawk news, check out the Battlehawk News Archive.