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Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread
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#250
by Citizen Gengsta - 7/17/2003 11:21:30 AM
Out of Place
In Meta, one of the most absurd empires would have to be the Mid-West Confederation Empire. It was not Mid-West. The empire was situated in the northwest corner. Maybe they should have called it Northwestern empire. The "Confederation Empire" bit manages to confound everyone who sees it. In fact the two words by definition are mutually exclusive. Confederation suggests a loose decentralized government. Empire, on the other hand, means centralized government. However, Gengsta did not want to bicker with their simple scholars about the problems with their simple name. He was here on a tour de force to show off the new power that had come to join the Fellowship.
Gengsta walked up to the sea-faring ship located at a dry-dock thousands of miles from any ocean. The Mid-Western empire had called their ship The Manifest Destiny. It didn't make any sense. The ship certainly wasn't going to manifest its destiny by parking itself in a dry dock. And what were these land-lubbers doing with a ship in their possession anyways?
Gengsta walked up and met all the big names at the MWC: Plephart, Zoshan, Idleprocess, Kryofx, Surther. The only thing that seemed more glaring than their non-sequitirs was their hatred of the band of GROSS pirates. Their entire band shook their fist viciously as Surther gave a speech to rouse the farmers into action against the 'scourge' that was GROSS.
If Gengsta remembered Meta history correctly, at one point, these two Empires had very good relations with each other. The relations were so good that the two leaders were considering a merger. What happened to that friendly atmosphere? Only a careful examination of history would reveal that the two empire had more than their share of imprudent hotheads that escalated simple disagreements into inter-empire shouting matches.
And there was that bit when the pirates sold the Manifest Destiny to the MWC for a hefty hefty price. So far the only application that the MWC has found for its huge expenditure is to serve as the immovable headquarters - a very cramped one at best.
Gengsta was done with the Mid-West Confederation. Aside from the occassional outburst against GROSS, the MWC was powerful but quiet and uninteresting. They conducted their business primarily on private channels and in their little northwest corner of the Meta. It was time for Gengsta to return to Fellowship Halls anyways. He needed to give Ray an excellent report of his observations and probably leave on another mission.
Enjoy!!
       
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Welcome back my captain my captain!!!
     
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#253
by Citizen CypherPax - 7/17/2003 11:57:38 AM
The MWC Town Hall was crowded this evening. The hall was packed with angry people and Senator IdleProcess had to bang the gavel THREE times before people settled down.
IdleProcess looked at the angry crowd apprehensively. He did not know quite how to start.
‘This is an outrage’ yelled an angry man in the bag. ‘Look at what Peggy-Sue brought home,’ shouted a women clutching a red bandana with a Jolly Roger on it. The crowd looked in horror as she pulled out a plastic rapier and an felt eyepatch from a small, pink Stawberry Shortcake backpack. ‘Peggy Sue says that every kid in the school got these souvenirs as a gift.’
Another mother project holovid pictures onto the ceiling. ‘Look at these digusting pictures, what are these unholy animals?’ Pictures of kids petting wombats, emus, bats, and drop bears appeared on the screen. Gerakken smiled to himself. Implicated the Freedom Force in this incident had been a brillant move on the part of CypherPax that he would have to congratulate him on. The crowd got even angrier when they saw a kid petting a sheep rigged with explosives.
That did not compare to their reaction at seeing their children in the GROSS taproom hoisting tankards (they could not tell from the picture that is was only grape juice.)
‘How did this happen?’ someone shouted. A teacher meekly took the stage. “Well, Principle Black Smoke announced the trip this morning and said that their wasn’t time to send out permission slips. We thought it was strange, but we had a substitute teacher, Mrs. Pax who said the kids would be perfectly safe since her husband would be giving the tour. Mrs. Pax is one of us – she spent three years in Oklahoma growing up. We should of suspected she was actually an Eastern at heart. But we’re Mid-Westerners, we’re not used to not trusting our own.” explained the teacher.
IdleProcess was sick to his stomach. Principle Black Smoke? Black Smoke is a GROSS senator! He knew he couldn’t afford to show his discomfort. Plephart was clearly thinking the same thing and jumped in with a question, ‘Where is this principle, Black Smoke?’
Black Smoke’s secretary was an kindly, elderly woman. ‘Principle Smoke, went home sick just after the kids left for the field trip. He isn’t well frequently… has to go home to his clan, strange he doesn’t call them a family, so they can take care of him. His fits must be bad, because when he comes back he often has a pounding headache, is sick to his stomach, and his eyes look strange. He’s a brave man who doesn’t let his ailment get to him. I try to respect his privacy, but I hard him refer to his ailment on the phone as being ‘one heck of a bender.’ Anyway, he went home.’
Plephart had a sinking feeling that he won’t find Principal Black Smoke on the planet. He asked the secretary, ‘When did Principal Black Smoke become principal? I thought Bob Smith was the principal.’
‘Oh, Principal Smith had to go out of town to take care of his sick nephew, EBZeroMatrix’ so Principal Black Smoke was just the acting principal’ replied the Secretary. ‘I did think it was strange that EBZero came to the office to pick his uncle up when he was so sick and all. He didn’t look that sick, he was quite a handsome, strapping young man.’ She said and blushed. ‘But you can never tell with illnesses these days. Principal Smith didn’t look happy to go, but family is family.’
IdleProcess had regained his composure. ‘People, you need to stay calm. We understand this has caused concern and the MWC response will be to catch these Evil-doerers wherever they hide.’
IdleProcess and Plephart closely the concern and wondered how they were going to explain this G.R.O.S.S. incursion to these innocent farmers.
    
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A few hours before the townhall meeting
“I call this meeting to order!” Idle hammered the gavel twice before sitting down. “Before we have our town hall meeting, I wanted us to get together to talk about the GROSS propaganda infiltrating our homes and to talk about our successful dupe of the Fellowships ambassador, Gengsta.”
“First, the GROSS propaganda. This rubbish has become more pervasive than MTV’s Real World and Jackass, combined! It’s ruining our children! Now I hold myself partly responsible for this invasion. I did after all sign little Julia’s permission slip. Next time I will READ the permission slip and deny it when a GROSS survey ship tour is the theme!” Idle slapped his forehead and sat back in his chair.
Idle began to speak and was silenced as Surther opened the door and walked into position and the head of the table.
“Welcome back emperor!” Yelled Plephart and Zoshan. “Glad to see you again my captain!” Idle said as he saluted and extended his hand to Surther.
“Glad to be back Gents!” Surther looked at JordanVMP and bowed, “And Lady.” He smiled.
Idle pulled out the head chair and pushed it in for Surther then sat down beside him.
Surther pulled himself up to the table and began to speak, “So where are we?”
Idle responded, “talking about GROSS propaganda and our dupe of Gengsta of the Fellowship.”
“Ahhh, the dupe was indeed a huge success!” Exclaimed Surther as he sat back in his chair. “I knew it would be hard to pull of but our crew did splendidly. I know how much effort it took to build that prop ship in dry dock and especially make it convincing.”
At that moment Idle’s cell phone rang, “Idle here…” Idle’s face grew pale, “I understand… Yes… Very well then.” Idle pressed end. “Seems as though another empire has formed. That was Kryofx, he just intercepted a transmission from a group called the Jedi Republic while passing through the Dagoba system. Although not quite a threat to our empire, a ‘force’ to be reckoned with nonetheless.”
The group fell silent, “He is our only hope… No… There is another.” They all recited in unison.
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Congrats to MWC for reaching #1 again.
It is tight race at the top.
 
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Being an empire sort of guy, TJL1, I make mental notes of active players/forumers that are without affiliation. I would certainly have tried to recruit you had I had a chance to talk to you on the forum. 
When I saw the MWC flag on you, I sorta guessed that MWC would now be first. In this Metaverse, movements are frequently determined by new recruits so it can be very volatile. And fun!
Do go tell the folks over the MWC website where they hang out about your contribution. The Fellowship is a mere 2-3k below MWC so the #1 spot may not last.
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#262
by Citizen plephart - 7/18/2003 1:03:54 PM
Log Entry Metadate 7182180 Senator plephart onboard the MWS Liberator
Its been a strange past couple of days as the balance of power in the metaverse has shifted dramatically. First the empire of the Fellowship had acquired some powerful new previously neutral members and surged in the metaverse rankings to rival both ourselves and GROSS. Then in a shocking development, a full fledged senator of the GROSS empire, a pirate, jumped ship and joined up with the Fellowship, momentarily securing their hold as the most powerful empire in the metaverse.
With all of this chaos unfolding around the Fellowship and GROSS a previously quiet member of the metaverse called TJL1 heard the call of the people from the MWC and decided to join their ranks in the name of Liberty. The systems owned by TJl1 were happily added to the ranks of the MWC and a new chapter of galactic domination in the name of freedom had begun.
But the chaos was far from over as I cruised towards the GROSS border through what I thought to be neutral space. Systems that had previously been uninhabited or simply uninhabitable were teeming with life….but it was a strange type of life. Sensor readings were off the scope, and then the message.
Welcome to the Freedom Force empire. Some of us were from southern lands (ANZAC empire); until great forces of nature forced our evolution and development into something....beyond human.
We call for superheroes from all corners of the galaxy - gather to us, Wonder Women and Mystery Men, to fight in the cause of justice and freedom!
Develop your inner X-man, awaken your dormant superpowers and rally to the cause!
Freedom Force: saving humanity from the scum of the universe! |
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They were certainly a power to be reckoned with, though not strong enough to vie for domination of the metaverse yet, they could pose as a threat to the sanctity of the borders of the MWC. Mutants and superpowers, it just wasn’t right, it just wasn’t natural. The poor people of those planets, where there were mutants with superpowers there were bound to be mutant mistakes, freaks of nature, oversized drop bears and wild space wombats.
End Log
So plephart raced back to MWC space to warn his people of this new threat and to encourage his fighters to push on and to secure to MWC atop the pirates, wizards, undead, jedi, and mutants of the metaverse.
Senator plephart
Come realize your 'Manifest Destiny' in The People's Empire
Join the Mid-Western Confederation at  Link
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Ahh you farmers....I turn away for a minute and you're back at No.1 - congrats MWC
 
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Look to your backs simple farmers. Pride goeth before a fall. 
 
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plephart, surther, kryofx, idleprocess, Zoshan, and all MWCers regardless of geographic location:
As a fellow (former?) Midwesterner, congrats on #1. I thought I'd get this in fast, as you're currently in front by about 700 points and I might not get another chance for awhile.
And a further congrats to you, Zoshan, for figuring out what that little "Shift" thingy does on your keyboard when typing in your nickname. If you guys do decide to jump on the theme empire bandwagon, how about the e e cummings empire? 
Now, fellas, put down those pitchforks...'twas just a little JOKE.
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The ring lovers WERE in 1st. But thankfully I had 2 games stored up awaiting submittal. I've pushed us ever so slightly ahead of the fellowship. I hope my fellow MWC crew can widen this gap.
PS. The MWC website and email system was down due to a DSL outage in my area. There were reports of a very short, old, gren man in the vicinity of the SAC box and, again, more drop bear fur was around the scene. 
idle
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Oh yeah!!!
I broke back into the top 25 too!! #17 at the moment.
I count 5 MWC members in the top 25. Way to go people!!!
idle
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 Way to go team!
600k, broken! plus 6 of our members are in the top 25! You guys are smokin'!!
idle
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Congrats, MWC!
We're all happy for you and your first place finish, even if you took it off of us!
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You guys should hang out at the forum more often.
And don't stop with the role-playing.
Are there any other orators in MWC (other than Zoshan)?
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