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Frankychan · May 17, 2003, 04:17

Comrade War of Art- please submit that Comrade Tassadar has found a wandering non-aligned citizen, myself, and has generously brought Frankychan to the benevolent fold of the Human Hive.

OOC-If you need help with The People's Information, I would be willing to assist you!

Jamski · May 17, 2003, 04:21

The people always need more information, Comrade. If you would like to write the story of how Tass found you wandering in the fungus, then it will definitely be published.

-Jam

Frankychan · May 17, 2003, 04:34

I will write up my personal account of how the great comrade Tassadar found me while on his journey to the promised land.

Jamski · May 17, 2003, 04:57

-Jam

Frankychan · May 17, 2003, 05:32

A Blessing from the Hive
-by Comrade Frankychan

"I woke from cryostasis and found myself in scattered wreckage of the Unity. I had no idea where I was save that I was not on Earth nor anywhere safe. I spent my first few hours on Planet searching through the wreckage around me, trying to find anything useful...anything that would help me survive on this harsh world. The only thing I knew was that I was alone, no one was there to help me.

You will not believe me, but I saw in the distance a body of water...I did not know what it was. I had to trudge through a morass of what I now know is "the fungus". It was then did I experience the mindworms.

Imagine the worst image you can think of, then think of another and combine the two. This doesn't even compare to what I saw from the mindworms. I stumbled around and thrashed uncontrollably, hallucinating that I was being torn apart by wild dogs. I ran for what seemed like ages and I felt the hallucinations subside. It was then that I collapsed from exhaustion.

I woke up to find myself being dragged on the shoulders of a man....a great man. It was here that I learned about what happened to the failed Unity project and of the other's taking to the lifepods to save themselves. I learned that my savior was from a group of people that favored the pursuit of knowledge above all else. He told me of his dreams of something better, or something more nobler. He told me that he heard of people who valued the equality of man above all else, of a utopia on Planet. I asked if he was taking me there and he said yes. He told me of the paradise that awaited me and that I would be accepted in open arms. This man, my saviour, told me his name was Tassadar from the University.

It is here that I have found my utopia and my new purpose on Planet. Here is where I have found that I pledge to serve the Human Hive loyaly and without doubt. I thank Comrade Tassadar for giving me new life as a citizen of the benevolent Human Hive!

Long live the Human Hive!"

Static Universe · May 17, 2003, 05:37

Excellent testimony Comrade Frankychan!

It will bring a tear to the eye of even the hardest of forward-thinking revolutionaries.

Jamski · May 18, 2003, 05:52

Still waiting for Tass before we go to press...

-Jam

Frankychan · May 18, 2003, 06:06

If you need any help on PRAVDA, I would be willing to fulfill any needs that I can accomplish.

(until I can see what's going on ingame, I'm afraid I can only take a backseat approach to what happens there. But i can help in interfaction relations!

)

Jamski · May 18, 2003, 08:54

Can you write an article?

-Jam

Jamski · May 18, 2003, 20:13

New SPECIAL EDITION is here

-Jam

Vev · May 18, 2003, 20:44

Is it possible to make this thread a sticky thread so Hive journalists knows where and when to post their articles.

Also it will be great if the editor posts the deadline for the next issue so that ~~we would procrastinate until the last hour and write up a article full of lies~~ we would have a timeline to work against.

Jamski · May 18, 2003, 21:13

OK, normally publishing the day after we play our turn. That's the deadline. Ask Voltaire to sticky as well.

-Jam

Frankychan · May 18, 2003, 22:34

Whoop! Sorry Comrade Jamski. I was a little late in seeing this. Until I am able to get details on what is happening in the game, I will assist Comrade Jam with the glorious people's voice, PRAVDA.

Vev · May 19, 2003, 00:03

Changed the first post to include deadlines and links to back issues

Jamski · May 19, 2003, 07:00

Thank you Comrade FrankyChan. You can be my Editorial Assistant Deputy to the Peoples' Advisory Council.

-Jam

Octavian X · May 19, 2003, 21:19

One of my mandates as Director of Joint Communications for the Ministry of Peace is informing the world of the glourious progress of the ~~rather primitive~~ almighty forces of the Hive.
~~PRAVDA must publish our news releases, lest the offices be closed by the Ministry of Peace for disloyalty to The Hive!~~Would PRAVDA be so kind as to publish occasional articles from my office?

Octavian X · May 19, 2003, 21:20

Double post. Long Live The Hive!

Jamski · May 20, 2003, 07:49

PRAVDA will publish any official announcments from any ministry

-Jam

Snowflake · May 20, 2003, 12:11

I drafted it in a hurry. Please edit Comrades!

Article: "An Ordinary Hivian’s Start of a Day"

It is a suns shining, mindworms singing kind of day. I wake up to the glorious revolting music of our great national anthem. “…Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us along the new path …” I look at the wall. There the face of our great new leader Comrade Chairman Voltaire with his flouting hair and flashing eyes is smiling at me. His words in the grand opening at the great Unity Square yesterday is still hanging around my ears. “… With hard work, dedication and most of all, people willing to work a common cause, we can build ourselves a ~~bloody and tyrannical~~ great nation …” I sit down beside the table and read Pravda. It is reported that more comrades have joined us. This is such a great and glorious nation! I take a sip of the xeno-energy drink. Immediately I feel a wave of jubilance running through me. Strangely the drink gives me a little different feeling today. I feel my scientific productiveness is surging.

What am I going to work on today? I ask myself. To the north is the rich sea land that I worked on yesterday that has generated great amount of food that our people urgently need. To the south is the new found mineral resources. There are so many things to do! I really wish that the whispered cloning pod really does exist. But I decide that I will work on the Young’s Spirit Monolith today. The potential benefits it holds for the future expansion and development of our great nation are just too great to resist. With that thought, I finished my xeno-energy drink. Once again I feel a great wave of jubilance running through me. What a way to start a new day!

Micha · May 20, 2003, 14:24

Great Comrade

Probably will write an article tomorrow.
Keep it coming!

Vev · May 21, 2003, 03:55

Today's Communal Kitchen Menu

If you guys can come up with more exotic names for these food, feel free to add.

Breakfast
Soylent crispy flakes

Lunch
Hanoi-styled Steamed Xenofungus and Soylent
Green Soylent with steamed xenofungus

Dinner
Baked mince (with 50% meat/30% xenofungus/ ~~20% classified~~) and potato stew
or
Soylent Stew

Beverage
Soylent Drink
Xenofungus beer

Coming Soon!
Xenofungus stew and quiche

Intercepted communication
"Comrade, why aren't our glorious party ministers eating the Baked mince stew?"
"Haven't your heard?"
"Hear what?"
"They used recycled humans as additives"

Communal Holovision Guide
Early Morning News
Uncle Mao's Children Corner
Krakov the Communist Ant
Stalin's Storytelling
Days of our Hive
Marx's Matchmaking
Hive News Network
People's Party of Hive
Crime Scene Interrogation
Movie Feature:
Red Poet's Society
Saturday Night Hive
Dr Lenin's Comrade Procreation Guide

Static Universe · May 21, 2003, 04:09

"Days of our Hive" - Priceless, absolutely priceless.

Vev · May 21, 2003, 07:13

The Hive Needs Talented Entertainers!

By popular ~~the chairman~~ demand the PAP is recruiting talented ~~not necessarily acting talent~~ actors, actress, script writers, cinematographers and director for the filming of "Days of our Hive". Auditions will be held in Communal Hall 43B.

We could start our own Hive soapy series!

Haon · May 21, 2003, 07:23

"Early Morning News" should be titles "Early Morning TRUTH!"

Jamski · May 21, 2003, 08:28

It'll all be in the next PRAVDA

Keep it coming folks

-Jam

Voltaire · May 21, 2003, 11:20

Quote:

Crime Scene Interrogation

Priceless.

Jamski · May 21, 2003, 11:30

Its my favorite too

-Jam

Googlie · May 21, 2003, 11:55

I'm the agent for Boris, the Mindworm Slayer, and I'd like to negotiate the rights to Our Glorious Anthem - a 3 hour documentary on the creation of the stirring seminal work that inspires us all

G.

Jamski · May 21, 2003, 12:40

Ok, what are you offering?

-Jam

Googlie · May 21, 2003, 21:14

Benevolence? A blind eye to Atrocities?