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: Sir Fox
Arch-Mage: His Highly Learned Magnificence, Lord Seven Deaths
Knight of War and Lady High Constable: The Warbringer, Dame MagentaFairy
Knight Foreign: His Scheming Excellency, Lord Cassius Cerebella
Knight Interior: Dame Fleur de Mal
Knight Cultural: Lord Feniris
Chief Bard: Sir Aedan Mac Riket
Chief Recruiter: Olivia Calidan
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The Foxy Conqueror
Om nom nom noms
In politics, we have yet another new World Assembly Delegate, after the last somewhat abruptly resigned his office. Our new and improved delegate, Freddie, has already taken to his job with remarkable diligence. And all at the minor cost of slightly dubious sanity. The Lower Council has also seen elections, as happen quite often really in Albion. The currently sitting members are Sir Seth Redfield, Olivia, Maxim Cerebella, Quickzand and Tano Holland. Recent discussions by the Council include the prospect of requiring Knights of the Round Table, our executive cabinet, to report directly to the Council on their activities, which has seen arguments both for and against from members of the public with an interest in the outcome. There was also recently something of a mess, when we discovered a large number of amendments had actually not been added into subsequent laws, meaning the Council had effectively accidentally counter amended a large amount of their own changes without noticing. The problem is currently being fixed in the form of one big mega amendment of doom.
In the elections for Chief Knight, incumbent candidate Fox stood for reelection, and seized the position unopposed. Naturally, the usual suspicions and accusations were thrown around about bribery, but these were promptly dismissed by most citizens as completely unfounded while they carefully tucked bundles of cash into their pockets. For this term, Fox has swapped out a few members of his cabinet, bringing in former Chief Knight Lord Feniris to the culture position, and Dame Fleur de Mal to interior. Both have a wealth of experience already in government. Lord Feniris has already unveiled his intention to try some things that are perhaps a little bit different this term, to try and develop the culture of the region even further. Dame Fleur on the other hand is focusing her efforts on rebuilding the Trusty Messenger, the old regional newspaper. The entirely new position of Chief Recruiter has also been implemented, with Olivia Calidan taking on the task of spear heading our recruitment efforts.
And My Axe!
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Albion has of course maintained its consistent activity in the field, deploying its military forces to multiple battlefields across NationStates. The highlight of activity since our last such update has been the invasion of Canada, a historic and sizeable UCR which, despite its claimed neutrality, sported numerous links to long established defender regions. This was the culmination of long term planning, organised with our fantastic friends and allies from The West Pacific and The Black Hawks. The operation was of course a huge success, and the capture and subsequent occupation of the region represented a considerable accomplishment. Canada was also a great host, as one would expect from the always lovely Canadian people, and we all had a jolly good time before moving on. Sorry for eating all the jelly doughnuts though, eh?
Other deployments included assisting our most noble allies Europeia in Eastern Europe, where we worked alongside Europeian marines to help procure Mila Kunis and deliver her to President Kraketopia's private chambers. Mind you, I hear he's a married man now, so maybe we shouldn't talk too much about what happened next. This charming operation saw the region of Albion deploy over twenty active WA's just by ourselves, which bodes quite well for our growth moving forwards. After Ms Kunis was secured for extraction, we packed up and shipped out to our next destination, The Proletariat Coalition. Here we were joined by forces from across the board, and worked in a joint invasion to capture the region at update, led by everybody's favorite mallmod. TPC is a longstanding defender region, and has been infamous in the past for links to targeted forum destruction. Though they were quite influence entrenched, that certainly didn't stop us from setting up the tents and camping all over their WFE for a few days. Finally, and most recently, we have deployed to The Imperial Legion to assist our friends from the LKE in protecting a former colony from irritation at the hands of crazy vandals.
We're also quite pleased to have ratified the Treaty of the Sabre, a formal military alliance with our long standing military partners, The Black Riders. We look forward to future cooperation with them on the field of battle.
Cultural Things and Stuff
This brings back memories.
Albion plunged once again into crazy festival mode, this time with an event specially dedicated to honour the regional military and its success. Spam was had, the usual array of crazy stalls were enjoyed, and Fuzzy continued to amaze all with his unusual talent for acquiring obscure cake requests that taste oddly like vomit. We also stopped and managed to be serious, if only for a moment, to listen to some speeches that addressed how our military worked, and thanked all those who helped make it so great.
We've also recently rebooted our Minecraft server, after it was decided by the community that the old one had gotten too large, and quite frankly far too ridiculous. Whereas the old server was in a completely illogical and unplanned mix of creative and survival, the new one is a bit different. Everyone is permanently in survival, without exception, and we are working together now to create the city of Bowerstone as a group, rather than everybody spreading to all four corners of the world and building crazy temples to anvils. We've already built many cities and established something of a stable economy, while the walls have been started, with varying degrees of quality. Recent highlights include diving into the nether to steal glowstone, screaming when ghasts appear, manipulating creepers into blowing up Bishop's lawn, and laughing as MagentaFairy repeatedly dies to zombies.
While we were apparently distracted by Minecraft, Cupid went on something of a rampage around the region, maliciously impaling people with violent shards of love and causing a chaotic burst of marriages, adoptions, and other weird love triangle things. Events have including weddings for Aynia and Shepard, Kraken and Haley, Fox and Arreis, and a number of impromptu events in the Skype chat, which we're not sure if they actually count or not. There have also been too many adoptions to bother listing, but suffice to say many a joke has been cracked about the Saxton family being now both incredibly large and appropriately incestuous. Congratulations to all the happy couples and other people who had stuff happen! We're offering a ten coin reward for whoever tracks that Cupid down and drags his sorry ass to the dungeon.
You may or may not have noticed that we're actually now broken 200,000 posts on our forums. The majority of it isn't even spam too, instead we're seeing lovely activity across the board, from government to role play to random RL discussions in the Town Square. That's not to say spam is lacking mind you; our Cow & Corset remains just as notorious for completely perverted banter as always. On top of this, we're becoming one of the largest UCR's in Nationstates, not including all the annoying puppet dumps that sit awkwardly in between. If someone could destroy those, that'd be great, thanks.
In fact, there's a way you can participate in our culture right now, assuming that you've bothered to read this far down into the update. Recently Cassius has gone through an odd sort of a phase where he has changed his username on the forums to a series of rather odd things. If you have an idea for a weird username, just post it in response to this update! We'll pick the most creative one, and force Cassius to change his name to it for a week for our own amusement. And yours too, I suppose. Seven Deaths and mcmasterdonia are preemptively banned from participating in this.
Roleplay News
Somewhere in Albion probably looks something like this.
Our largest and most successful role play underwent a bit of a metamorphosis, changing names from the old Olympus Resort to the new Gods Among Men. Why? Because we like changing things. Also, the old name kinda sucked, no offence to Elizabeth. The change in name was complete with a change in setting, and delicious new information threads that better reflect how the world we've created has changed over the past year or so. All this came shortly after an important quest, where the old home of our characters was destroyed by a rather evil organisation, intent upon creating horribly powerful abominations with the blood of gods. Naturally, they'd very much like to rule the world, and the heroes, anti heroes, and other assorted odd people have to stop them.
A Galactic Republic is also heating up, with a summit held by Trillium about to take an unexpected turn. An old enemy is returning from the fringes of known space, bent on vengeance. The GR role play is actually a few years old now, and many of its current members have been participants for that long as well, but this would be the first major conflict to occur since it was relocated to the Albion forums, and we look forward to seeing how it plays out.
The city states have also recently started their own small role plays, as a way of integrating and teaching new citizens in a smaller and more friendly environment. In Silverpine, a duel between magisters erupted in the Town Square, with citizens gathering around to watch the Chief Magistrate destroy one of his rivals. The Royal College of Magic has similarly burst into life, throwing off its many many many layers of dust and preparing to open up to citizens of all cities. And in Brightwall, a City Council RP has been born, creating a way for the Citizens to give back to the City State they love through excessive shouting and drinking in a forum setting about the issues we face everyday. Currently on the docket is whether or not the Chief Knight hunts and kills cats inside the walls, leaving to an increase in rats and diseases by association.
Albion News Network
The following may or may not be true, which is true is for you to decide
- The titles may have gotten more boring towards the end of this update. What can I say, I'm tired.
- As part of our long standing plan to cause mild annoyance for President Kraken of Europeia, we are secretly deploying Seven Deaths undercover to irritate Europeians with his presence in their region. A truly dastardly plan indeed.
- The above statement is of course a joke. We <3 Europeia. Feel free to keep SD though.
- Apparently there was some sort of war on our RMB recently. Over what, I have absolutely no idea.
- I really hate those obnoxious people who play music on the bus. Like, they're using headphones I think, but it's so loud that we can all hear it anyway. Seriously. It's not even good music. I'm literally getting a headache listening to it.
Always yours,
Albion.
