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 **Brazil Cooperation**\\
-(bc) As of last week, a big group of Brazilian immigrants lighted upon Alpha Realm. They chose to explore the largely untouched northeastern corner of the continent Ur, and decided upon a thickly forested valley between two medium mountain ranges to settle down.\\
+(bc) As of last week, a big group of Brazilian immigrants lighted upon Alpha's Realm. They chose to explore the largely untouched northeastern corner of the continent Ur, and decided upon a thickly forested valley between two medium mountain ranges to settle down.\\
 The various new residents each started in their own small spot of the area, sporting different styles and preferences and a great deal of creativity that does not in all cases allow for logical interpretations.\\
 Whether or not the big group will start a nation remains as yet undecided, as does a name for the settlement (or individual settlements). Keeping with the character of the fast developing area, permission was given to the MARNIE editors to temporarily refer to it as 'Brazil Cooperation'.\\
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 **Carpeted Hotel Rooms**\\
 (mm) Going with a suggestion of Kaiser P_P_A of the Holy Danikan Commonwealth, who recently visited Midgard Municipality, the owner of Seainn Hotel decided to afford all rooms with carpets, providing guests with a warmer sensation and a quieter surrounding as of last Sunday.\\
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+===== MARNIE 16.11.15 =====
+**Midgard's Alpha Realm News**\\
+//International Edition//\\
+November 16th, 2015\\
+\\
+//Editor's Note://\\
+As of this issue, pictures related to articles will be printed on the Autism Almanac's photo pages. Exceptions may be made for material provided by outside sources.\\
+\\
+//In Worldwide News://\\
+**From Free to Duchy**, page 20\\
+\\
+//In Regional News://\\
+**Aesthetic Infighting**, page 27\\
+\\
+//In Local News://\\
+**Station Repainted**, page 35\\
+\\
+**__Worldwide News__**\\
+\\
+**Aresea Disbanded**\\
+(at) On November 9th, Cleric Tomo of the Aresean Technocratic Republic disclosed and officially published the dissolution of the Areasean nation, not quite three months after being founded. Its territories are left with settlement status to those building within them, who are free to join nations of their own choosing. Any contracts with the former Republic have thus been voided, although this has yet to be noted on said treaties' pages.\\
+\\
+**Dead Breshik?**
+(ab) The repair work of Nova Bydlograd unfortunately restored the city right to the half hour between Resident Dork69 disabling its nether portal with TNT and Kaiser P_P_A of the Holy Danikan Commonwealth rebuilding it.\\
+Although it has been inoperative ever since, and at least two visitors teleported in by creating a new portal in a private residence, the leaders responsible for the capital of the Apostolic Kingdom of Breshik have taken no notice of the damage.\\
+\\
+**Move Two**\\
+(ar) November 12th saw another move operation by God AlphaBernd, this time concerning mostly historical, geographical and some people's pages. Links were adapted but should be checked anyway, particularly media ones.\\
+\\
+**No Neuschwanstein**\\
+(ar) The proudly advertised project of an island castle in the style of Neuschwanstein which Resident Harcourtien started a month ago, will never be finished. On November 13th, he disclosed that the as yet unnamed island with the unfinished structure was sold to Resident Tomokuroki who had been expressing an interest in it for almost just as long. Resident Tomokuroki did not tell what he plans to do with it, but according to Resident Harcourtien's speculation it might be "a game of thrones thing". It might just as well be speculated that it will remain as is until somebody else buys it off the current owner.\\
+\\
+**Battle Memorial**\\
+(ab) On November 1st, High Commissioner Austrobernd of the Mandatory of New Badfacia created a small battle memorial on the site of the Enderian UFO being conquered by Commonwealth forces and allies. While it is unclear whether it was an oversight or intention (this memorial too lacks any sort of historical description), the area remains dotted with various remnants of nether portals even after the restoration process.\\
+\\
+**Culture on Hold**\\
+(wl) The Winterlynian project regarding a literature/culture program, for which an ad had been requested in the MARNIE issue of October 12th, has been put on hold due to King Niller being otherwise engaged.\\
+Considering his reaction when asked about progress, it seems unlikely at this point that this project will ever amount to more than the Pride Event.\\
+\\
+**Search for Mates**\\
+(sv) Resident Zoythrus is 'looking for mates', as signs in front of his shop at New Spawn state. The area he currently lives in is called //Snow Veil Retreat// and its borders and progress can be found on the page [[https://dev-urandom.eu/settlements:snow_veil_retreat]] in the Autism Almanac. Interested parties should leave a sign at his shop, since Resident Zoythrus has not yet placed a mailbox in the post office.\\
+\\
+**Take Three**\\
+(up) Moving on from his last abandoned project, new Stadtholder Harcourtien decided to settle in a small flower plain on new land close to the western border of Alpha's Realm. There, he founded the //Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands// with its capital //'s-Gravenfage (Den Faag)//, officially on November 15th. Listed as a government functionary is Grand Pensionary Tomokuroki, whom the Stadtholder considers "my friend".\\
+\\
+**From Free to Duchy**\\
+(fa/sd) The former Free City of Aresia no longer exists as such. On November 9th, its status and name were lifted by newly promoted Duke Tomoko Kuroki, who only that same day joined the Kingdom of Winterlyn with permission of King Niller. The area is now known as the Duchy of Sidonia and reintegrated to Winterlyn of which is was part long ago.\\
+According to the 'Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Commerce between The Duchy of Sidonia and The Mandate of New Badfacia' signed on November 10th by High Commissioner Austrobernd of the Mandatory of New Badfacia and Duke Tomoko Kuroki, the latter currently rents the western part of Grundenburg Abbey "for building and administration rights". The details can be read on the page [[https://dev-urandom.eu/treaties:treaty_of_badforest]].\\
+\\
+**__Regional News__**\\
+\\
+**New NEAR Line**\\
+(bc) Brave members of the Brazil Cooperation ventured into the Nether on November 8th and built a small station around their portal. With the assistance of Residents Hailmarx and Danico, the station could be connected to the NEAR Netherhub three days later, granting the ever increasing Brazil population easier access to their new home upon their first entrance into Alpha's Realm.\\
+\\
+**Camelot Redesigned**\\
+(fc) Resident Hostes, who had started building the Fortress Camelot on a northern peninsula in the Norteastern Sea back in July, returned on November 9th to his previous territory. In an interview he explained that he was the one who demolished the church built by Swamp Paladin Massolit, and that rather than sticking with the fortress idea, "I think it's time to build a city." He has since started with the outline of a road and the first building in simple design.\\
+\\
+**Aesthetic Infighting**\\
+(bc) On October 13th, Resident Pixel of the Brazil Cooperation reported a successful raid of his property by his own landsmen. "They say we need to do ugly stuff first," explained the single builder among them who showed a sense of aesthetics and style in his creations, "and farm items." The damage was repaired by a moderator and the culprits received a two day prison sentence. Resident Pixel maintains his position of, "I'm just playing for fun, don't wanna rush like them." In patriotic spirit, he did not release to the press the names of the landsmen responsible for the attack.\\
+\\
+**Halfway House**\\
+(pg/bc) Halfway between Phiagrica and what constitutes the center of Brazil Cooperation, Resident Nanico started building a home on November 7th. While it was left unfinished since then, it is located in a splendid position to warrant a continuation of the swamp highway in that direction, should the Brazilians wish to connect their budding nation to the wide trade route Resident Santikaye established last month.\\
+\\
+**__Local News__**\\
+\\
+**Midgard Store Closed**\\
+(mm/ns) Since last week's issue, with the permission of God AlphaBernd the newspaper MARNIE is now sold on the balcony of the Admin Office on New Spawn. Having lost its primary purpose, the Midgard Store which housed the stall before was deemed unprofitable and has thus been closed.\\
+Books other than the newspaper, that might be released by AMUN Publishing in the future, will remain available at the UBS in the Marketplace. Any other materials Midgard merchants wish to sale will be offered in stores on our own island.\\
+\\
+**Station Repainted**\\
+(mm) Midgard travelers recently noted upon returning that the submarine station level was not designed very welcoming to arrivals. They suggested repainting the walls, at least to the extent of the above-surface levels. Since the instigators quickly gathered support among the populace, Midgard Administration redistributed materials mined during the pillar excavation and had the station walls painted in granite, and polished to match the rest of the station mall.\\
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-===== Newer =====
+===== MARNIE 30.11.15 =====
-**Newer issues are not yet archived but can still be bought at the New Spawn Book Store.**
+**Midgard's Alpha Realm News**\\
+//International Edition//\\
+November 30th, 2015\\
+\\
+//Editor's Note://\\
+Pictures can be viewed at [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:???.png]] when exchanging '???' with the photo number given in the articles.\\
+\\
+//In Worldwide News://\\
+**Spawn Ventures of the First Week**, page 21\\
+\\
+**Penalty for BearMonger**, page 34\\
+\\
+//In Local News://\\
+**Midgard Bookstore**, page 47\\
+\\
+**__Worldwide News__**\\
+\\
+**Chicken Grief**\\
+(nb/sg) In the night of November 23rd, Resident GnFur of Sacred Solntze-Grad was accused of destroying a glass cage and kill all fowl in Resident Hailmarx's territory.\\
+Although the defendant gaily denied at first, he offered sand and chicken meat as compensation when confronted with evidence. The plaintiff insisted on justice for the chickens, and Moderator Niller1703 punished Resident GnFur with a prison sentence of four and a half hours.\\
+\\
+**New Spawn's One Man Defense Unit**\\
+(ns) On Sunday evening, Master Paladin Massolit of Solntze-Grad protected New Spawn from an intended wither bomber named Zirael. In an interview, he described the situation as follows.\\
+"I was wandering at spawn and saw soul sand blocks at the very spawn point. There were also wither skulls appearing out of nowhere. I realized there is an invisible player doing that. I killed him and took his skulls. After he revived, I became his target. He chased me, so I went into Niller's crypt asking him to save me. After some minutes running around the crypt, I finally could ///home// [after the combat cooldown]."\\
+According to Master Paladin Massolit, King Niller of Winterlyn tried to help him but with little effect because the assailant was invisible again. He called upon Moderator GlitchyBat for assistance, who was able to ban the griefer while King Niller fought him.\\
+The skulls used in the attack attempt were stolen from Resident Mimokrokodil, as Master Paladin Massolit recounted the robbed party's claim. Until the theft victim returns, the Master Paladin will hold on to the wither skulls.\\
+\\
+**Geometry of Samarkand**\\
+(sa) After about a year of absence Flakese, Trader of the Merchant Guild of Samerkand, returned to resume his enormous glass project north of Old Spawn. For the longest time, travelers along the Kurwa Highway have known the structure only as 'Major Autism Ahead', as described by a sign on the street. Now, the area was given the proper name Samarkand, a map and some views of which can be seen on [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:006.png|photo 006]].\\
+Trader Flakese explained that he had started the project when the map was first launched, and been working on it in three great spurts. He 'carpeted' big parts of the desert with sugarcane for a nicer look and built several viewing platforms on jungle trees to appreciate the same more effectively; they are affectionately known as "feel stations".\\
+"A good settlement like this build in all three spaces," Trader Flakese explains from fond memory, "air, land and underground. It's the Badface way." (He does not yet seem to have noticed that this year's Badface has long since lost that way.)\\
+As to further plans he mused, "I will probably wind up making more wings along the axis of the highway, and a tower at the end of the cross." Trader Flakese showed the MARNIE journalist around the mines, glass cooking machinery and farms; however the most impressive remains the geometrically pleasing glass edifice which can be viewed in more detail on [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:007.png|photo 007]]. It "serves no other purpose than to create feels and hopefully a little awe."\\
+\\
+**Color Coded Spawn**\\
+(ns) Last Monday morning, Representative GlitchyBat of the Republic of Ender was given the go-ahead from God AlphaBernd to spread out the central beacons on the spawn point to the corners of the spawn terrace. He color coded the four directions and named them accordingly, thus establishing a primitive yet effective address system. Respectively, the flooring was adapted to suitably be called the Ruja (red), Verda (green), Blua (blue) and Oranji (orange) Region.\\
+\\
+**The Return of King Shakomatic**\\
+(ab) During the past week, King Shakomatic of the Apostolic Kingdom of Breshik returned to Alpha's Realm after several months of absence and promptly ventured out to snare in new dig slaves. He managed to get ahold of Resident Bazooka_Joe who also recently returned after a hiatus. In exchange for "a house in town" and "supplies", Resident Bazooka_Joe agreed to help build the cathedral in Nova Bydlograd.\\
+\\
+**Spawn Ventures of the First Week**\\
+(ns) From the moment it went into business, New Spawn has been brimming with activity. After only a week, almost all available plots (to date) are claimed, and on most of them construction started at once. As can be seen on [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:008.png|photo 008]], the first finished structures, while certainly rather individual in style, still present a somewhat unifying theme with dark wooden roofs and log supports in the walls.\\
+The biggest building is the new emporium of the //WitherWood Trade Guild//. Right across from its main entrance, God AlphaBernd erected his Admin Office on November 22nd. For a while, Trader Flakese of Samarkand arranged for an Icelandic ambassador to live in the second story suite. However, the ambassador was assassinated by Duke Tomoko Kuroki of the Duchy of Sidonia on Wednesday. Due to investigations into the incident, the front desk remains unmanned for the time being.\\
+Neighboring the Admin Office is the Public Library established by Duke Tomoko, which is furnished with an enchantment table, anvil and free stuff chests. Right next to it, Representative GlitchyBat of the Republic of Ender opened another Starbats as the very first house built on New Spawn.\\
+Across the street, Resident TheNerd96 raised a small home, where he lives while managing the Russian hotel a little farther west, also established by himself. Presenting an iconic vehicle, Moderator Koduck's Burger & Fries Truck was also given permission to remain in place, the officious warning sign humorously included. [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:009.png|Photos 009]], [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:010.png|010]] and [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:011.png|011]] depict various sites of New Spawn.\\
+South of the WitherWood emporium, smaller shops are located, surrounding the public post office provided by Duke June of the United Duchy of the Two Sorras on Wednesday. This New Spawn Post will take over the functions of the Second Spawn Post Box, so residents are encouraged to move their mailbox here or rent a new one.\\
+\\
+**Iron Fix**\\
+(if) November 24th had the Iron Farm reported broken again. This time, Chief Tsaryu of the Commons of Valensiya volunteered to have a look at the situation and managed to repair the mechanism. He was unable to determine the culprit.\\
+\\
+**Birthday Cakes**\\
+(ns) Last Thursday, Duke Tomoko of the Duchy of Sidonia presented Resident Yeti30 of Yetitown with a full panoply of birthday cakes right on the spawn plaza. [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:012.png|Photo 012]] are snapshots of that event. Although all players were invited to eat up and tried their best too, the leftovers had to be cleaned up on Sunday when the cakes started to go bad out in the open.\\
+\\
+**Duchy of WitherWood**\\
+(ww) For the past months, more and more business was moved from former WitherWood to Snow Veil Retreat, until during November it became obvious that the original settlement remained pretty much abandoned. On November 28th, Resident Zoythrus decided to take the name with him as well, and founded the //Duchy of WitherWood// with himself leading it as newly inaugurated Duke Zoythrus.\\
+\\
+**Penalty for BearMonger**\\
+(ns/mm) As was reported last week, Speaker BearMonger of the Republic of Ender started acquainting himself with New Spawn by blowing up the spawn plaza (see [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:005.png|photo 005]] for proof), which was restored by attending moderators without rebuke. Two days later, he constructed the atrocity captured on [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:013.png|photo 013]], barely half an hour after placing lava on the plaza. The result obstructed the actual spawn point to such an extent that it could be considered griefing. According to the builder, it was intended solely to anger Duke Tomoko of the Duchy of Sidonia; however the structure was removed by Duke Zoythrus of the Duchy of WitherWood and King Shakomatic of the Apostolic Kingdom of Breshik before achieving its purpose. In part due to the intervention, Speaker BearMonger's actions again went unpunished. Similar but less severe deeds in Nova Bydlograd were followed that same evening with him attacking King Shakomatic, who wisely retreated from the deranged brute who slugged him to death with a cooked beef.\\
+Saturday's early afternoon was greeted with the Republic of Ender's President Hinoarashi asking, "Hey, anyone wanna see something cool?" Thus invited residents were then showered with potion bottles on New Spawn by the President and Speaker BearMonger, among cries of "Gas the kikes! Burn the Jews!" and "Race war now!", anyone not Enderian apparently being deemed a different race.\\
+When summoned by Speaker BearMonger, a MARNIE journalist went to the scene expecting to have been called in order to report properly. Belatedly finding that for some reason (in self-defense, as later learned), Speaker BearMonger had been killed four times by three people already, the reporter was unprepared to be attacked by the assumed victim. Not only did Speaker BearMonger poison the reporter, when the latter tried to run away, the aggressor also followed and kept punching so that the journalist could not escape to safety and an antidote. Growing progressively weaker and being unable to move properly, he was soon slugged to death by the Enderian Speaker of Congress.\\
+In outrage, Midgard Municipality's Administration decided that the madman had gone too far, and being directly involved this time, Administrator Jinxauthor_Mel informed the Enderians that he was going to press charges.\\
+The claims and the evidence (like in [[https://dev-urandom.eu/_media/books:newspaper_pictures:014.png|photo 014]]) were taken to Moderators Niller1703 and Koduck two hours later, demanding Speaker BearMonger to be given a penalty for 'Illegal PvP on Spawn'. Moderator Koduck acted swiftly on it, punishing the Enderian madman with incarceration for three and a half days.\\
+According to expectations, the ban was lifted early the next day - unexpectedly, by Moderator Koduck himself. According to Speaker BearMonger, the judge had deemed his sentence excessive and thus reduced it.\\
+However, considering all the mayhem the Enderian had caused over the week without being restrained, the fact he received any sentence at all at least for this incident, was gratefully recognized by Midgard Administration as justice served.\\
+\\
+**__Local News__**\\
+\\
+**Midgard Bookstore**\\
+(mm/ns) At the beginning of last week, Midgard Administration greenlighted the establishment of a bookstore at New Spawn. After various complains by the Distribution office that the travel to Second Spawn's newspaper stall was too cumbersome, and similar considerations from Marketing that customers would not necessarily undertake that same journey each week, the minimal amount of financing was granted to build and furnish the new store.\\
+All other book vendors are also now employed exclusively in the Midgard Municipality New Spawn Book Store, right on the Orenji Region's corner plot.\\
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+**This issue ends the November 2015 page of the MARNIE Archives. The next issue will be posted on the [[books:ma_15_12 | December 2015]] page.**