Thanks for the update.
My pleasure!
The famous quotes is a nice touch. I’m impressed by the voter turnout.
Who wouldn’t be, but I’m sure Update X will be even more impressive.
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, Joshua IX
Chief Knight: Sir Erebos Janmaren
Arch-Mage: His Highly Learned Magnificence, Sir Seven Deaths
Knight of War and Lord High Constable: The Warbringer, Dame MagentaFairy
Knight Foreign: His Scheming Excellency, Lord Cassius Cerebella
Knight Interior: Aynia de Antovign
Knight Cultural: Fleur de Mal
Chief Bard: Seth Redfield
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“Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?”
- Robert Downey, Jr.
Sir Erebos Janmaren accepts the position of Chief Knight.
It was time once again for elections for the position of Chief Knight, the head of Albion’s civilian government. With four candidates standing, the election was to prove quite competitive, with citizens old and new stepping up to serve the region. In a very close race, Sir Erebos Janmaren successfully won the position with 11 votes, barely ahead his closest competitor, Otto av Riket on 10 votes. The elections saw a total of 26 valid votes, an impressive turn out considering the amount of citizens on leave at the time. Both Sir Erebos and Riket are excellent contributors to the community, and either would have made a good Chief Knight, as was made clear by worrying close the final result was. Nonetheless, congratulations to Sir Erebos, and we wish him all the luck for his coming term of service. Sir Erebos stood on a campaign with celebrated the already impressive growth of the region, and promised to work on programs to better integrate new citizens into the community. He also plans to encourage increased academic activity in the regional university, among other cultural initiatives.
In a somewhat less dramatic election, candidates also stood for the positions on our Lower Council, Albion’s lower legislative house. With less citizens choosing to stand than in previous terms, this council was limited to five available seats. After an election commented on for its distinct lack of campaign threads, Aaron Cerebella Frost, Ankruna, Cassius Cerebella, de Lorean and Detritus Saxton were elected to the council. Albion then celebrated the conclusion of this election in a traditional manner, by threadjacking the voting thread and taking it to a place that no self respecting thread should ever reach. In an interesting turn, the new council defied the lack of enthusiasm with which it was elected by suddenly diving into activity, approving a number of minor legal amendments to existing laws. The council then engaged in a long and somewhat heated vote concerning the exact role of the council itself, arguments centering around a clause which gave the council a right to impeach the Chief Knight. Reaching an impasse of sorts, this matter has yet to be settled.
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“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
- Will Durant
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Dem elephants. The sunset is also impressive I guess.
In some glorious diplomatic news, Albion is pleased to announce that the The Mediterranean Accord has been ratified by both Albion and Osiris. This treaty is a historic arrangement that existed back in the days of the Kemetic Republic, but due to various events was delayed and eventually a new treaty was required to reflect the new Osiris. Albion was proud to stand by Osiris all throughout its period of unrest, and it was our honour to help their region become the stable community that it is today. We also look forward to future relations, both cultural and military, in the coming days and future.
Albion also remains active on the battlefield, engaging in numerous training exercises, ranging from various maneuvering exercises to tags on founderless regions. We were also pleased to have participated in recent operations to remove invading forces from the roleplayer region of Anzia, as part of our efforts to preserve the Green-Black Concordat. At present time, the Royal Albion Legion is deployed in the region Scotland, as part of our commitment to the United Imperial Armed Forces, who are running a joint operation with The North Pacific. The operation was planned out by cooperative effort between Albion’s officers, and officials from The North Pacific, and we are very pleased to see this come to fruition. Hopefully this is a demonstration of future cooperation between these two fine regions.
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“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”
- Jim Morrison
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Arch-Mage Sir Seven Deaths gets his serious posting mode on.
Day after day, month after month, Albion continues to shatter records leaving other UCRs in the dust. The speed with which weve attained our forum post count and activity has left many others feeling a strange mixture of envy, hatred and pride. So when we entered March with many of our top posters detained on things such as University, vacation in other countries, etc our post count wasnt looking so hot. When the Arch-Mage returned from his jaunt on the other side of the world, he set out to change that. Challenging the forum to surpass certain post count levels with the incentive to be able to change his avatar and name…for an entire month. As of the 29th of March, the challenge was shattered with Albion surpassing over 10,800 posts and continuing to rise. Submissions so far have been hideous with avatar suggestions such as Miley Cyrus and Matt Smith and names such as I <3 Miley and I am Matt Smith. Only time will tell if Arch-Mage Seven Deaths intends to hide himself in shame for the next month.
The Albion Winter Olympics have been another successful event, running for the last month or so, and have seen consistent activity. The olympics have featured hockey, bobsledding, figure skating, as well as a host of other activities to celebrate the winter spirit. The event was started by late Chief Knight, Sir Feniris, who has indicated a wish to see his competition through even after his term, to the delight of those involved.
It was early on the first of April, when the government of Albion devised a truly diabolical plan to bring a touch of exciting chaos to the citizenry. People all across Albion awoke to find their once benevolent King, Charles Cerebella, had been replaced by the Queen of Hearts! In a completely unsurprising move, she ordered the execution of vast amounts of the populace! Some sought out the Arch-Mage for protection, only to find that in his place stood instead the Mad Hatter himself, who was obviously far too busy doing things to help, because reasons. Hilarity ensued as the admin team descended upon the administrative controls of the forum, altering the masking of many citizens to reflect the wonderful world of Alice. Some were less amused than others, some were outright confused, but all are now thankful that everything is back as it should be.
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“Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips?”
- Ethan Gilsdorf
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Albion: Bringing you dramatic fantasy landscape pictures since not all that long ago.
Time once more for our expected update on our numerous roleplays. A few new ones have popped up since our last update and of course, theres always something of interest in Albion for everyone. In Olympus Resort, things have stayed par for the course. The fifth Quest in this roleplay is nearing its completion, with a mission given by Ares himself, the God of War, to stop a villain from capturing Pandora’s box, and unleashing a new evil upon the world. Behind the scenes, much more sinister things are in the works. What could they be? Join and find out.
Chaos Knights is currently in the second round of our Guild Tournament. In this system, the two combatants make as many posts as they can in five days and then a poll is posted. Voters are encouraged to vote based on how well each player role played the fight. The tournament is setting some of the best warriors of the guild against each other, to determine who is truly our strongest hero. At the same time, a number of guild members are quickly proving themselves by completely quests and earning greater fame across the lands of Noviom.
One of our three new roleplays is called Daubney Company Contracting. A space based RP centered around a private contracting firm where players can create characters using one of several races all original content created by the main GM, Sir Erebos. At present, our rag tag team of mercenaries are aboard a large transport ship, providing security in the expectation that the ship will be attacked. Things very rarely go to plan however, and we can expect a few wrenches thrown before the end of this mission.
Another new one is called A Place in the Sun and is one of the more successful Nation RPs Albion has had. A early 20th century themed RP built around diplomacy and expansion. Some factions have secured territory on trading routes with an eye to becoming an economic power, while others focus on building up their military strength. Lastly, a Galactic Republic stands as the absolute newest RP. Its another nation RP set in the vastness of space. Not much is known about exactly how this RP will play out, though it has been designed with the scope of a hybrid, allowing both nations and individual characters to be created in the expansive universe. Why dont you come join and find out?
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Albion News Network
The following may or may not be true, which is true is for you to decide
-Siblings in Skulduggery
The men and women of the City-States of Brightwall and Silverpine took to the streets as pandemonium ensued, brought on by the antics of Silverpine. The citizens of the supposedly learned Silverpine snuck into Brightwall and commenced with pranking the unprepared citizens. It was not long, however before Brightwall retaliated with antics of their own. When will the madness end? Some hope never. Others wished for an immediate stop, but we ignored them because we like the pranking better.
-The Chief Knight’s New Armor
Sir Erebos Janmaren, after taking his position as Chief Knight, commissioned a local blacksmith for armor befitting his station. Several days later, the smith arrives with what appears to be empty hands. But he quickly explains to the Chief Knight that the armor was invisible and lighter than a feather. Sir Erebos was astounded by this, and demanded to try it on immediately. The Chief Knight then disrobed, causing nothing short of chortles from his Round Table, and even one or two from the king himself. Sir Erebos was beside himself when he found what the blacksmith said to be true: the armor was entirely see-through, and was so light that he could not even feel its weight. The Chief Knight was seen later that same day showing off his new armor to the citizens of the kingdom. Is the Chief Knight really wearing armor, or has he been swindled out of his gold? Doesn’t seem to really matter; he looks quite pleased with it, so why don’t we just let him enjoy it while it lasts.
-Tragedy At The Circus
The Great Flydini, the human cannonball for the Shrekman Family Circus, is known for being rather eccentric. He owns a mule, which he brings with him to every show. But tragedy struck today when the donkey climbed into the cannon right as Flydini took off. No one was seriously injured but the mule. However, it did take doctors three hours to remove Flydini’s head from his ass. The Great Flydini announced his retirement following the recent accident. When the circus owner was asked if he is going to replace the Great Flydini, he replied, “No: it’s hard to find a man of that caliber.” This story had absolutely nothing to do with Albion.
-A Reign of Terror
With Erebos, Cit Reaper as Chief Knight, it was only a matter of time before his Cabinet followed in his bloody footsteps. A recent bout of forum cleansing has left many inactive stalls and roleplays in ruin. How long will this horror continue? We can only hope that eventually these Knights of Doom will run out of things to destroy. The only advice we can give is this: Stay Active, Albion.
-The RMB is a strange place
Something weird also happened on the Albion Regional Message Board, though for the life of me I can’t seem to remember what it was. I suspect it had something to do with someone stealing the pants of Markus Angelus, also known as Vandelstein. Yep.
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Thanks for reading!
Always yours,
Albion.
Thanks for the update.
Gratz to Sir Erebos Janmaren.
I really like the Jim Morrison quote.
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 caek 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.
[spoiler]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!
Id 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 havent 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![/spoiler]
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Democracy, Democracy Everywhere!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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In Summary, Albion is just fine at the moment.[/spoiler]
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May the Anvil be with you
Always yours,
Albion.
Thanks for the update.
I like that tl:dr.
I enjoyed the bird attacking the doll.
Good to hear Albion is just fine at the moment. 
My pleasure Bach.
The bird ably demonstrates the might of our military and their mad skillz xD
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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: 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 Aynia de Antovign
Knight Cultural: Seth Saxton
Chief Bard: Aedan O’Feargail
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Round Table Gets Foxy
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The Fox guilt trips people into voting for him
The hustings, our local vote casting and political blathering arena, saw a burst of activity as it was once again election season in Albion. For Chief Knight, the head of Albion’s domestic government, there was actually only one candidate who stepped forward! The Fox, formerly known as Mister Riket, self nominated himself early on, and subsequently received so much support from all across Albion that nobody dared stand against him. This writer suspects the lack of competition was not due to a lack of interest in the role, as it is usually hotly contested, but rather that everyone knew standing against the might of the Panzer Fox would only result in a crushing defeat! At the conclusion of the oddly long nomination period, Sir Fox was admitted to the office of Chief Knight without contest or protest. We look forward to seeing what brilliant feats of stuff and things he will accomplish in the term that awaits him.
The Lower Council also endured a barrage of recent electoral activity. In a vicious battle for votes, where the aspiring candidates sought to rally voters to their cause with largely uninspired campaigns, we saw a new council of five which included a surprising amount of completely new legislators. These victors were Nakon Ank Arnulf, Seth Redfield, Killian Saxton, Sir Odin Pendragon, and Zack Shepard. We are looking forward to seeing what this council can accomplish with their term. Considering almost every single reform proposal their recent predecessors had made was rejected by the Grand Council, they certainly have their work cut out for them. At the moment, discussion revolves around the idea of allowing the King to grant honorary citizenship to members, a proposal suggested by former Chief Knight Pandora.
We’re also pleased to announce that we have a new World Assembly Delegate. Nakon Ank Arnulf has replaced the long standing Markus Angelus, better known as Vandelstein, after the latter announced he no longer had enough time to continue in the position.
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Not One Step Back!
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The walls of Nazi Europe fall
The Royal Albion Military remains ever active across the wet and wild battlefields of NationStates, pillaging helpless regions of their muffins and gallantly rushing to the aid of our noble allies when we have nothing better to do. Recent times have seen deployments in a number of regions, but most notably in the notorious stronghold of hate known as Nazi Europe. As a part of the United Imperial Armed Forces, Albion soldiers participated in both the initial raid and recapture of the region from RWU forces, fighting alongside a number of other militaries to ensure that this long standing target was finally vanquished. The refound of the region ensured a lasting permanent victory over the forces of fascism, and represents a major victory in the ongoing war against ideologies of hate in NationStates. It also marks a continuation of our cooperation with The North Pacific, and we hope our regions will continue to grow closer together in both military affairs and otherwise. A massive shout out to Evil Wolf for making this happen, after he suddenly realised that he had the password to the region, and actually had possessed it for a significant amount of time! Following this fantastic event, our forces subsequently deployed into the long time role playing region Ixnay, in support of the rampant marauders from The Black Riders. Nothing like a good side of pillaging and looting to finish off the week!
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Would You Like Fries With That?
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Some of the food served in the Shalefields Lunch Cantina
This month saw a rather odd burst of activity in the city states of Albion, as certain individuals who shall remain nameless descended upon one of the official information threads for Shalefields. Curiously, their only demand was that they be provided with lunch as they proceeded to occupy the thread. Eventually, the Archduchess gave in to the insidious plot, and the thread was renamed the Shalefields Lunch Cantina. Of course, it then became apparent that we also required a place for Breakfast and Dinner. Brightwall and Silverpine thus suffered similar fates, as the diabolical diners mauled threads across the cities in search of other venues for munching on food.
Albion’s crazy yet brilliant minecraft world has undergone something of an upgrade, as we realised that Lord Seven Death’s computer was dying a slow and painful death from struggling to host all our nonsense. As such, we’ve shifted to a more proper server actually capable of providing a stable connection without risk of spontaneous periodic internal explosions. The move also allowed us to activate a number of world mods to allow better management of our ever growing world, including a handy map feature so that we can all see exactly just how far Dame Aynia traveled across the world in her long and arguous journey to the North, where she now lives in total isolation. Viewing the entire world in 3D via the map feature certainly makes it all look rather impressive!
Currently the highlight event in Albion is the Wolfwood tournament. This is essentially a variant of the famous last nation standing competition, where a new region is created, nations moved in, and the lowest ranked by the survey each day is sent packing to TRR. Our unusual twist is that each of these nations represents a character, a champion who is fighting to the death for the honour of their fiefdom in the Albion of Today role play. Which means that when your nation is rejected, your hero dies. The winner each day gets to watch their character brutally slaughter the losers character, in combat posts that will be gloriously composed by our resident Arch-Mage. There can only be one winner, and certain Lords and Knights of the Realm have already started a betting pool. Imagine that, betting money on peoples lives! How very barbaric. I mean, who even uses money, other than peasants? Lords should be betting entire castles. They have enough of them.
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Albion News Network
The following may or may not be true, which is true is for you to decide
We now have a Cthulhu emote. That’s right. Cthulhu. He’s in ur posts now. Fear him, etc.
The point is that by now we think we have amassed one of the best emote collections of any NS forum.
Anyway, Sir Detritus Saxton recently declared himself Lord of Limes, based on some convoluted theory that if his brother is the Lord of Time then he should rule over something that rhymes with that. For some reason. Yeah.
Silverpine very nearly declared war on Shalefields after a citizen of the latter city did something mildly insulting somewhere. Sir Fox claimed total credit for almost destroying the fragile unity of the Realm.
Speaking of Sir Fox, shortly after his election he promptly fled the country and celebrated his victory in China. Fortunately he was GPS implanted, and so through a series of smoke signals, telepathic devices, and cell phones, he was able to return to us.
The region is rather excited at the prospect of BACON, the movie. Let’s be honest, who wouldn’t be? Well, actually, it wouldn’t be all that great really, because it would just be one big teaser. You can’t exactly eat a movie.
A lot more has happened since the last update, but recording everything that happens in Albion would be a full time job in itself. So here you get but a taster. A delicious appetizer.
The main course is steak. And bacon. Lots of bacon.
#AlbionForever #SevenDeaths #ErebosInfinity #LizLovesLimes
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Such activity. Much content. Very update.
Always yours,
Albion.
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Seems you have your resident animals in Albion, too. 
Thanks for the update.
“The point is that by now we think we have amassed one of the best emote collections of any NS forum.”
Careful Cere, you speak of blasphemy. Everyone knows that TEPemotes are the best 
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Seems you have your resident animals in Albion, too.
Thanks for the update.
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Many. Can be quite troublesome at times!
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“The point is that by now we think we have amassed one of the best emote collections of any NS forum.”
Careful Cere, you speak of blasphemy. Everyone knows that TEPemotes are the best
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Default zeta ones though ;-;
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Seems you have your resident animals in Albion, too. 
Thanks for the update.
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Many. Can be quite troublesome at times!
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“The point is that by now we think we have amassed one of the best emote collections of any NS forum.”
Careful Cere, you speak of blasphemy. Everyone knows that TEPemotes are the best 
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Default zeta ones though ;-;
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And I haven’t even gotten the mods to add mine!
They are awesome but default zeta ;-; The default ones are so ugly!