C. I. Cerebella
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King: His Imperial and Royal Majesty, Charles Cerebella
Crown Prince: His Imperial Highness, Sir Christopher Bishop
Princess: Her Royal Highness, Dame MagentaFairy
Prince: His Royal Highness, Sir Joshua IX
Chief Knight: Dame Pandora
Arch-Mage: His Highly Learned Magnificence, Lord Seven Deaths
Knight of War and Lord High Constable: The Warbringer, Dame MagentaFairy
Knight Foreign: His Scheming Excellency, Lord Cassius Cerebella
Knight Interior: Sir Fuzzy Vinage
Knight Cultural: Sir Detritus Saxton
Chief Bard: Sir Diutiskland
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One Year and Still Going Strong
Fireworks over Fairfax
This month Albion celebrated its first anniversary as a region, with a highly successful festival to commend the fact that we've somehow continuously existed for over twelve months! Planned in secret and executed with surprise fireworks by Chief Knight Sir Erebos and his Knights, the festival attracted great activity from the citizens, amassing over 2,500 posts in the couple of weeks it was open. With this the festival contributed significantly to our monthly post count, helping propel the region to its third most active month in our no longer all that short history! Activities included a general melee, where participants could smack each other with large sticks repeatedly for the amusement of the crowd, and a noble joust, which was apparently won by Robin Shepard while I was passed out in the tavern. Also present were the infamous spam threads which reared their ugly head, breaking out of their usual confinements in the Cow & Corset Tavern to cause all sorts of debauchery throughout the festival. For more refined tastes, a Battle of the Bards of was held to test out the poetic mettle of our citizens, which was won by Lord Feniris with his masterpiece, "The Hero of the Boards". Private market stands were opened for the event, and included a satirical story service coined by Lord Seven Deaths, as well the return of the most glorious Cake Stall, giving out Sir Fuzzy's homemade and totally not vomit infested foodstuffs. An "Everyone's-a-mod!" forum caused all sorts of untold mischief, and the event was capped off with a lovely ball hosted in the gardens of FAIRFAX CASTLE, DAME AYNIA. There is no "Bowerstone castle"! *flails*
*Coughs* Ahem. Yes. Anyway, the fun of the festival was accompanied by some intermittent bursts of more serious, and at moments rather emotional, speeches at the podium. There were semi-official speeches, celebrating the successes of the region so far, and reflecting warmly back to its original founding with the month of chaos and excitement that followed. There were also speeches from citizens themselves, both old and new, active and inactive, who wished to share their thoughts on exactly what the region meant to them. Some stories were comedic, others simply interesting, and a few brought a tear even to eyes of the battle hardened soldiers of the Royal Albion Legion. The moment was ripe for a group hug of epic proportions, but in an exceedingly inconvenient moment of reality, we remembered that most of us unfortunately lived on opposite sides of the world. Thanks to everyone who helped make Albion the community it is today, and thank you to everyone who has been there for us over the past year! The rum is on the house, courtesy of the King! And no, he did not agree to that. I accept no responsibilities should readers find themselves disemboweled by a Royal Guard while attempting to access the King's personal liquor supplies.
In the fair realm known as Balder
About one year ago
One Charles Cerebella
Sat thinking in the snow,
He dreamed of three fair cities,
And a land bathed in the sun
So he forged his own region
And he named it Albion!
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend are owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
Our King scoured all nations
In far and distant lands
To find the perfect people
To join his merry band
He recruited owls and grizzlies
And a Gallifreyan
A Fairy and an android?
They all did lend a hand!
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend are owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
Contacting other regions,
Our influence did rise
New members joined the fold
From other regions far and wide
A Wolf, A Fox, and many more
Call Albion their home,
Ironman even joined our ranks
From a distant land Unknown.
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend are owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
I’d like to take a moment,
And I ask for silence please
To tell of those before you
Who shaped all that you see,
The Troll Prince, and a Spam Queen
And Odin brave and wise
Uly, Dappy, and Joshua
Kept us reaching for the skies!
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend are owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
So raise your glass high
To our friends new and old
The ones who help to guide us
The friendly and the bold
The Pixies, and De Lorens
The Robins, Anks and more
And all the friends we haven’t met
Who we will come to love for sure!
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
About one year ago
One Charles Cerebella
Sat thinking in the snow,
He dreamed of three fair cities,
And a land bathed in the sun
So he forged his own region
And he named it Albion!
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend are owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
Our King scoured all nations
In far and distant lands
To find the perfect people
To join his merry band
He recruited owls and grizzlies
And a Gallifreyan
A Fairy and an android?
They all did lend a hand!
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend are owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
Contacting other regions,
Our influence did rise
New members joined the fold
From other regions far and wide
A Wolf, A Fox, and many more
Call Albion their home,
Ironman even joined our ranks
From a distant land Unknown.
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend are owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
I’d like to take a moment,
And I ask for silence please
To tell of those before you
Who shaped all that you see,
The Troll Prince, and a Spam Queen
And Odin brave and wise
Uly, Dappy, and Joshua
Kept us reaching for the skies!
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend are owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
So raise your glass high
To our friends new and old
The ones who help to guide us
The friendly and the bold
The Pixies, and De Lorens
The Robins, Anks and more
And all the friends we haven’t met
Who we will come to love for sure!
Let me sing you a story,
Touch your heart with every chord,
Where you friend owls and foxes,
And King Charles is our lord.
Where your words are your weapons
And your pens are your swords.
So tell us your own story,
Be a hero of the boards!
Democracy, Democracy Everywhere!
Dame Pandora celebrates her most glorious victory
In election news, to the surprise of nobody at all, there have been yet more elections! Yes, Albion is a democratic region, try not to look so surprised. Standing for Chief Knight this term was Dame Pandora, who stood against the incumbent candidate Sir Erebos Janmaren. Also standing was Crown Prince, Sir Christopher Bishop, who surprised all and accepted a nomination to run. His campaign promise was that if elected, he would immediately resign and thus prompt yet another election. To the surprise of Bishop himself, this did not prevent him from accumulating some votes anyway, though the voters were sensible enough to ensure he did not quite win. Whether or not this was a good thing of course depends on how trollish one is feeling. The winner of the race was Dame Pandora, who stood on a comparably more sensible platform. One of the highlights was an intent to increase media in the region by reviving The Trusty Messenger, the regional government issue but sort of independent nonetheless newspaper, which will hopefully result in lots of words and stuff for people to read and/or not read. Dame Pandora managed to convince 51.9% of the voters to lend her their support, probably through some kind of sinister witchcraft that we have yet to identify. A grand total of 28 votes were cast in this action-packed election saga.
Shortly before the Chief Knight elections we also held the routine race for the Lower Council. To the utter shock of some observers, many of the candidates actually created campaign threads this term, which was a significantly more promising start than for the last. Elected this term were Dame Pandora, Captain General Shepard, Nakon Ank Ankrunides, Damien Lancaster, Sebastien Cerebella Minier, Jack, and Robin Shepard. Almost immediately upon election the group unanimously chose Dame Pandora as their Speaker, and got down and dirty with some legislative proposals, of which every single one was rejected by the new Speaker as being totally unnecessary. Not discouraged, this group of largely new Councillors is continuing to work diligently and is hopefully indicative of a bright legal future for the region.
Activity Is What We Do
Urgh... Gotta call the insurance company... AGAIN...
Albion's Town Square, the go to place for more sensible out of character discussions and meaningless banter alike, saw an explosion (metaphorical) of activity this month. A record number of topics were starting, plunging the region into the darkest depths of intelligent discussion of actual news events and stories from around the world. These were brought to life primarily by Dame Liora Schiff-Garion, who has been at the forefront of efforts to provide good topics for people to talk about in the Square. This helped balance out with the flourishing role play activity, and usual shenanigans in the spam taverns. Debates included a discussion surrounding American interventionism, and concerns surrounding the ramifications of the annexation of Crimea. Which was and still is thoroughly illegal! >
The city state of Silverpine experienced something of a dance dance revolution this month, when Lord Cassius suddenly and without warning enacted the reforms that he had promised to allow over a month ago. The shocked and concerned citizens expressed a curious mixture of relief that something was finally happening and dread because they no longer remembered what they had agreed to. Nonetheless the changes to the constitution saw a burst of activity as members joined the new ruling council of the city. In one of the first points of order of this new council, Seth Redfield had the audacity to post a dancing gif in an official thread. Lord Cassius responded in the only way one could; by challenging him to an immediate dance off. What resulted was a series of dance gif wars that plunged the city in the chaos of perfectly looped frames, before Lord Cassius decided to be oddly sensible and remove the nonsense from the official threads to the public area of the forums. Here it has turned into a dance lesson thread of sorts.
Anarchy was also unleashed briefly when a number of Albion members decided to change their names to a series of random letters for no particular reason at all. The nonsense escalated to the point where many members managed to take the names of other members, resulting in an immensely confusing situation. The King, suffice to say, was less than amused. The menace of the naming nonsense struck again less than a week later, when the same group of devious citizens conspired to change their names to a variation of that of the Arch-Mage, Lord Seven Deaths. Variants included names ranging from One Deaths to Ten Deaths, with many citizens being roped into the plot to assimilate Albion to the Deaths cause. Eventually normality (which is a difficult word to quantify in Albion) returned, but many still bear the scars and memories of these days. So many Deaths, so little time.
A new cultural initiative of debatable majesty was also launched this month in the form of the official-ish Albion Minecraft server! Gratiously hosted at the pleasure of Lord Seven Deaths, the server allows all citizens to join and wander around in the world of Albion, creating a home in Bowerstone or getting blown up by a creeper as they scavenge in the wilds. Seven Deaths only demand for the privilege of being dismembered by a zombie was that everyone build ridiculously elaborate temples in his honor. Fortunately, the ever noble and just King of Albion Charles Cerebella stood against the madness of this heresy, and instead drove people like slaves to help him build Bowerstone, while he spent his time attempting to murder Dame MagentaFairy in increasingly creative ways. Highlights so far in our adventures include:
~ Watching with amusement as Robin got killed by a nasty witch when I could have easily saved his life at any point.
~ The great siege of Bowerstone, where an oddly large number of horrid things assaulted the capital and attempted to murder all the almost innocent residents. They were beaten back, but only after an Enderman tore a piece out of the wall of Lord Cassius' tower and attempted to beat him to death with it.
~ Filling Dame MagentaFairy's house with a thoroughly ridiculous amount of anvils, to her great distress.
~ Lord Seven Deaths and Sir Detritus spending two days sailing through the ocean only to realise they had been going in the complete wrong direction the entire time.
External Awesomeness
Royal Albion Legion attack birds decimate the opposition
In external affairs, The North Pacific and Albion Security Treaty has recently been signed into law in Albion. This treaty is the result of negotiations between us and TNP about how we might cement our already warm relationship, and is the culmination of the recent cooperation enjoyed by our regions in both military affairs and otherwise. We have hopes that this not only confirms our past and ongoing friendship, but is indicative of a stronger relationship in the future between two excellent regions.
The University of Albion and The Imperial University of The New Inquisition are hosting a joint essay competition, to honor the close partnership of the two regions, and to celebrate academic achievement in our universities. No doubt this competition will produce many interesting works, and perhaps establish a tradition for such competitions for the future. The topics for discussion are as following:
~ "I think therefore I am". How accurate is this statement?
~ "It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions." Discuss.
~ To what extent can the Golden Rule, "do unto others as you would have done unto yourself", that is found in religious traditions around the world be considered a universal moral principle? Is religion necessary for the formulation of this idea?
~"Growing inequality in the world makes revolution inevitable." Discuss.
In military affairs, the Royal Albion Legion has been as active as ever. Recent we have deployed as part of the United Imperial Armed Forces to liberate the region of Liberal Haven from the Nazi menace that occupied it. This operation was demonstrative of our willingness as a region to oppose the forces of hate on the battlefield, and together with our allies we successfully drove them back into the pit they crawled out of. This was an excellent operation and we are happy we were able to participate.
Most recently we have also deployed into the Alteran Empire, adding to the long list of military accomplishments are soldiers have been able to contribute to.
Albion News Network
The following may or may not be true, which is true is for you to decide
Ever wonder why you never see any of us in the Albion IRC channel? That's because Albion subscribes to the Skype Master Race.
The header on this release was actually designed by Milograd on a whim one day. The more you know.
Cthulhu is now buying souls at half price! Cash in while the deal is hot.
Albion recently hosted two marriages, and remarkably neither ended in bloodshed. Dull affairs, really.
Praise be unto Anvil! God of all creation.
I think we've spent too much time playing minecraft lately...
In Summary, Albion is just fine at the moment.
May the Anvil be with you
Always yours,
Albion.
