MARNIE Archives 2016 First Half

This page holds archived editions of the MARNIE newspaper which is published on every first of a month. The Archive contains up to the prior-to-current issue, and links are clickable despite what the Editor's Notes of the paper editions say. In order to keep the reading content manageable, each page will combine half a year's editions.

Midgard's Alpha Realm News
International Edition
February 8th, 2016

Editor's Note:
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In Worldwide News:
Spawn Fishing, page 10

In Regional News:
Valensiyan Whim, page 23

In Local News:
AMUN Paper Press, page 28

Worldwide News

Downgrading of Newspaper
(mm) Due to the receding number of regular residents, language barriers and a general lack of willingness to comment to reporters, after difficult deliberation AMUN Publishing decided to downgrade the Midgard's Alpha Realm Newspaper, English Edition - known as MARNIE for short, to its original format as was once stated in our very first edition on June 1st in 2015.
In line with that verdict, this will be the last weekly issue of MARNIE. The next one will be published on March 1st, and after that on every 1st of a month, covering the events of the previous month. Correspondingly, the archive in the Autism Almanac too will be updated only once a month.
Should particularly interesting events come up, our editors agreed to publish special editions about such occasions promptly.

Tangaloa Takes a Break
(ek) Likely taking the lessened presence of veteran players as a good occasion, Creator Tangaloa of Elkkuton informed last Sunday, “I'm probably going to take a break from MC for a while because of lack of autism spark and IRL things.”
He clearly stated that he did not plan to leave forever and would also still be around in the ether. So far, he is the only veteran who officially confirmed a planned absence and even explained his reasons.

Spawn Fishing
(ns) In the evening of February 1st, a MARNIE reporter was invited to join a small fishermen's group at the southwestern pool on the New Spawn Plaza. Due to a rare stretch of good weather, success mediocre, however due to the company, fun was exceptional.
Participating residents included TheNerd96, Sturmbannfuehrer, Grum, Moderator July, Claireteen, Hostes and Xcont, and snapshots of the spontaneous event have been compiled in photo 027.
While most fishermen peacefully focused on their task, rather unlucky Resident Hostes eventually resorted to trying to steal the catches of others. When that didn't work, he even went so far as to attack fishermen with his fishing rod in a weak attempt to steal their loot.
After being disciplined the same way by some of them and slapped around a bit as a warning by Moderator July, he relented and chose to watch more closely before giving his own fledging efforts another try and finally managing a catch.

Bratka Sign
(ar) Commemorating the recent onslaught of grievances caused by a terrorist widely known as 'Bratka' (although he uses many different disguises), a monument was erected at the northern rim of the world.
As it reminded of statues created by Resident TheNerd96, he was asked whether he built this also, and confirmed with the explanation that it depicted “a recent meme”. In huge Cyrillic letters stamped onto the edge field with brown wool, the three lines read translated, 'Bratka is a good place for your dick.' Photo 028 shows an aerial view of this particular border marker around the coordinates X5900/Z-4050.

West Cross Named
(zk) On the northwest corner of Alpha Realm, Russian immigrants have quickly expanded not only their territories on land, but taken sovereign power over wide stretches of the ocean with several finished, started and planned projects.
When asked about a name for the territory or settlement, Resident Grum answered they had not yet thought about it. It was suggested to him to use the translated and transcribed version of 'West(ern) Cross', which he provided as Zapadnyi Krest.
Resident Grum, who seems to be the de-facto leader of the northwestern group, stated that it was all right to refer to his settlement and its surrounding area by that name for the time being.

Regional News

High-rise Demolition
(fc/mm) On February 1st, Resident Hostes of Fortress Camelot informed that he no longer liked the “skyscraper” he wished to build at his home but also did not plan to leave it standing half-done. “I thought it would be a great building. But it turned out to be just another grey box. I'll get it removed very soon.” He offered to pay in diamonds for someone to take it down and was taken up on it by Midgard Municipality.
A team of demolishers was sent over to take down the frame of the high-rise by hand, a job swiftly finished overnight (see photo 029) while the landowner guarded against hostiles and started a street. The cleanup was compensated with 1 diamond per floor.

Valensiyan Whim
(vy) When told about the non-progress of the New Spawn Mall, a project instigated by Grand Duke Tomoko of the Grand Duchy of Hohenfels and started by Speaker BearMonger of the Republic of Ender last December, on a whim Chief Tsaryu of the Commons of Valensiya mentioned interest in possibly applying to take over the constructions, if only to guarantee the Commons of Valensiya their desired store plot in the building.
He first wished to better inspect the layout and has to date not yet taken the idea to the officials responsible for supplying building materials.

Sorra on Hold
(ds) Duke June of the United Duchy of the Two Sorras informed upon request that the reason for the delay of East Sorra's completion was that he currently is “building my new house on a remote island. My storage is a mess, so I'm building a new one.” After he finishes the new storage building, Duke June plans to continue the restauration of East Sorra.

Local News

AMUN Paper Press
(mm) During the past week, many Midgardian residents offered to help with the research on redstone mechanisms by tirelessly poring over written reports, designs, moving pictures and visiting various sites to inspect such workings in person and document them.
Coordinating and combining these efforts and results was Intern Elth, who also managed - through trial and error - to build the desired machine based on the discovered mechanisms. The first paper press in Alpha Realm was installed in the new AMUN Publishing Company's headquarters' west wing on February 1st, upgraded with a sugar cane production unit on February 3rd and put into operation the next day.
For his efforts, Intern Elth received the promotion to Engineer with duties including the creation, maintenance and gradual upgrading of machines in Midgard Municipality, while also visiting sites all over Alpha Realm in order to learn ever more.



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