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    The Glory of News
    All the News thats unfit to print

    1380 AD



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    BREAKING NEWS
    Massive GS fleet lost
    Mysterious Abilene Triangle likely culprit



    GIBRALTAR, LEGOLAND - A massive Stormian fleet send to invade Legoland was mysteriously lost without trace off the coast of Legoland leaving citizens and experts alike baffled. News of the occurance was obtained via transmissions to Fleet Headquarters captured by GoW and ND radio stations. "It was horrible" said a former radio operator in Hurricane "there were screams, explosions, and then silence. That's when we lost them, we never received a transmission again". Initial suspicion rested on a series of nuclear tests performed by ND's Strategic Rocket Forces off the coast of Gibraltar but this was quickly denied by the Demogyptican government. "Impossible", claimed ND leader zeri, "our nukes are never that accurate. We had targeted GoW and now Stormia is destroyed, you honestly think we could've hit a ship?"

    A group of experts have laid the blame on the mysterious "Abilene Triangle", a strech of sea which roughly coveres the former Abilene-Quanto Mechanico area, site of many naval battles during the Lego War and which is supposedly haunted by the ghost fleets of Lego sailors. At the helm of this fleet, the Ghost Pirate Le Zargon rumored to be back from the dead and with a score to settle with the Stormians. "Local fisherman are terrified of sailing too far from port at night" explained Governor Abu of Gibraltar, "I have seen pictures of the ships but how they managed to sink an entire GS armada is beyond me. I think they died of fright at such ghostly apparations".


    The flagship of Le Zargon's ghost fleet




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    SCIENCE NEWS
    Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence a failure
    No intelligent life found in space nor in GoW



    TRAFALGAR, GoW - After a 5-year program using the latest in space scanning equipment, the SETI Commission in Trafalgar made public its findings in a news conference at the Museum of Science and Industry. News of no finding of intelligent life came as a complete shock to millions who expected at least some remote evidence of alien life forms existing in our galaxy. "We understand it was a major disappointment" said lead scientist Dr. Drunkenstein "hopefully in the future we may obtain more favorable results". In another surprise news, it was also said that no intelligent life forms were found in The Glory of War. "Interestingly enough, we scanned the world and intelligent life was only found on Legoland, Stormia and southern Bob. I wonder if this has to do with the national IQ level?" The report indicated that Eastern GoW had the IQ level of a guinea pig, Western GoW had the IQ level of a tunafish, and the Imperial Palace had the IQ of a retarded fungus.



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    MILITARY NEWS
    Eye of the Storm captured
    Mishandling of Hoover Dam floods city



    EYE OF THE STORM, GS - Excited by capturing the last bastion of Stormian resistance, GoW troops mishandled the operation of the Hoover Dam resulting in a massive flood which wiped out most of the city. "It was a technical mistake" said Capt. Screwball of the Imperial Corps of Engineers, "our boys, you know, moved the wrong dials and everything went to hell!". When asked if the engineers were trained in the operation of dams of this complexity, the Captain replied "Of course! well, not really, um, ok, perhaps if you put it that way. See, we don't have hydroelectric plants in GoW, all we have are just millions of hamster wheels to generate our electricity, it's rather simpler over there." GoW troops mentioned that not only the complexity but the language was impossible to understand. "If the gauges and switches had been written in Old Stormian, we probably wouldn't have messed up" said one Army Engineer "but they were in 1337-speak, I mean what the bloody hell is 't3h oMfG 1337 pr355ur3 \/41\/3'?"



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    TECHNOLOGY NEWS
    The Internet lost forever
    Last connected server gets browser hijacked



    EYE OF THE STORM, GS - Despite already losing the majority of Tempest servers from the most sophisticated computer network known to man, the last remaining nodes were finally destroyed in another mishandling accident by young GoW soldiers who captured the last working computer connected to the internet. "Yes, it is gone forever" said GoW Army technician Sargeant Gill Bates, "the last computer had its browser hijacked when the soldiers who used it decided to surf the web with Internet Explorer instead of Mozilla or Opera". One of the soldiers commented "we had never used the internet before, we have nothing like this back home in Skulgaria. To be honest we were trying to look for Stormian porn, because you know, GoW porn kinda sucks (Editor's Note: yes, we know, it sucks)". In their haste, the young net surfers accidentally accessed the wrong site which immediately hijacked the browser to malware search engine www.orangesearch.com and generated a flood of pop-up ads ranging from "Hot Spanish Brides" to "Orangehookers Online". As a result, the computer had to be formatted losing in the process the last connection to the internet in existance. Bummer d00d!



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    SPORTS NEWS
    PTWDG final ends in 0-0 draw
    GoW and ND teams declared co-winners



    THE NEW VOICE, VOXTAVIA. The PTWDG final was played yesterday to a full stadium at the neutral Voxtavia Olypmic Colisseum with the result, an ignominious 0-0 draw which resulted in boos and jeers from fans who expected a definitive result. "I saved up for the last 2 years and a half to see this game" said Stormian spectator notyoueither "and what happens? They decide to just draw?". Fights ensued in the stands as supporters of GoW and ND clashed with Lego and GS fans who felt were robbed of victory. GoW hooligan Warm_Enamel (son of the famous GoW senator) proudly shouted "We're proud of our team! Screw the naysayers, we kicked ass!". Immediately afterwards, the Stormian and Lego Olympic Federations issued a formal complaint explaining that such a draw was "rule breaking and illegal", to which International Olympic Chairman Trip replied "sorry, it might be cheesy but it's legit, plus after 400 penalty shootouts you can't really expect them to continue playing if they don't want to". Nevertheless, most team players believed no better finale could lead up to the excitement and controversy of the next cup.

    Team captains zeri and MZ lift the cup together. International rules say that the cup will be sawed in half for each nation to bring back home





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    A message to our faithful readers


    The victory of our empire in this war has prompted the Imperial Government to censor all further news reports and television broadcasts. A new ministry, the Ministry of Truth, has been established to diffuse all officially-sponsored news to the public.

    As such, we regret to inform our dear and faithful readers that this will be the last edition of the Glory of Newsâ„¢. We sincerely hope it was a pleasure for you to read our honest, truthful and unbiased publication, just as it was a pleasure for us to write it.

    Until the next demogame, yours truly

    The Editor
    Last edited by Master Zen; June 6, 2005, 00:22.
    A true ally stabs you in the front.

    Secretary General of the U.N. & IV Emperor of the Glory of War PTWDG | VIII Consul of Apolyton PTW ISDG | GoWman in Stormia CIVDG | Lurker Troll Extraordinaire C3C ISDG Final | V Gran Huevote Team Latin Lover | Webmaster Master Zen Online | CivELO (3°)

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    Nice
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    • #3
      I just want to give thanks to everyone who read all these crappy little stories which I've been writing for almost a year now. Just a single LOL smiley response was sufficient for me to want to keep writing another and another and another. Hopefully despite the frustrations, the controversies, the victories and the defeats, at least All The News thats Unfit to Printâ„¢ managed to make this game a bit more fun.

      -MZ
      A true ally stabs you in the front.

      Secretary General of the U.N. & IV Emperor of the Glory of War PTWDG | VIII Consul of Apolyton PTW ISDG | GoWman in Stormia CIVDG | Lurker Troll Extraordinaire C3C ISDG Final | V Gran Huevote Team Latin Lover | Webmaster Master Zen Online | CivELO (3°)

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      • #4


        Nice, as usual.

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        • #5
          :applause:

          Well done.
          The greatest delight for man is to inflict defeat on his enemies, to drive them before him, to see those dear to them with their faces bathed in tears, to bestride their horses, to crush in his arms their daughters and wives.

          Duas uncias in puncta mortalis est.

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          • #6
            MZ, those are some of the best written articles I have ever had the pleasure to read
            You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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            • #7
              As usual, a . Thanks MZ. The Glory of News has been a great addition to the game.
              Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war .... aw, forget that nonsense. Beer, please.

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              • #8
                Even though I didn't play this demo game I read all issues of The Glory of News. Great work Master Zen!

                I can only hope that you will start something similar in the Conquests demo game in which I'm involved.

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                • #9
                  Well maybe if orzmud finally decides to authorize me I can do something similar

                  Although it would not be called the Glory of News, it would be something like the Ankh News of Morph or something like that

                  (But in any case I'm flattered that even lurkers bothered to read this, thanks a million! )
                  A true ally stabs you in the front.

                  Secretary General of the U.N. & IV Emperor of the Glory of War PTWDG | VIII Consul of Apolyton PTW ISDG | GoWman in Stormia CIVDG | Lurker Troll Extraordinaire C3C ISDG Final | V Gran Huevote Team Latin Lover | Webmaster Master Zen Online | CivELO (3°)

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                  • #10
                    He should get around to authorizing you today.
                    You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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                    • #11
                      very good
                      Gurka 17, People of the Valley
                      I am of the Horde.

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                      • #12
                        Thanks.
                        Playing Civ 4

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                        • #13
                          Thanks for this and all of the Glory of News editions! They really made the game more enjoyable
                          "The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. "
                          --George Bernard Shaw
                          A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said "no".
                          --Woody Allen

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                          • #14
                            Four cheers for MZ, and thanks for all the laughs!

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