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[The Sniper story is one of the preludes]

“….today the government has dismissed Case 450- the investigation of alleged magic and noob markets in the Northern territories. The judge who terminated the investigation during the court review decided that the evidence is insufficient…
the evidence is mostly just old video clips recorded by people spying about in markets where activists claim magicians, noobs and civilians are bring slaughtered for their meat and magic or sold off as slaves…
…prior to the judge’s decision, the Maple Bureau of Investigation presented the details of their investigation; details which point fingers at the Justice Arrow, claiming they are at least partly responsible for the kidnappings of magicians throughout Victoria. The judge dismissed the MBI’s claims without so much as a question….

…the dismissal of Case 450, leaves the magicians in Ellinia extremely outraged….claim that they worked hard to bring their investigations and suspicions to the MBI and MIS, and that the many magicians who were killed or jailed for illegally entering the SEA Lands sacrificed everything to bring these cruel markets to the attention of authorities…
…bureaucrats in Orbis claim that the magicians continue to slag the Justice Arrow by accusing them of kidnappings, etc.

…a MapleSAP reporter and his team, all whose names not released, were finally arrested on charges of misrepresentation and defamation among other felonies. The reporter, who contributed to the media company’s report on the Justice Arrow, claimed that the JA was kidnapping magicians and transported them to a base in the mountains north of Perion, and sold them to SEA Landers who illegally crossed the border from the SEA Lands via Cold Death Pass. GMs investigated the JA base and only found a vigilante team that patrols the mountains for hackers….
…MapleSAP’s lawyers testified in court that the reporter and his team have video evidence, but the footage was
seized by police at the request of the JA’s legal team; who say that all of the footage was faked by hired actors in stolen bowmen’s gear. MapleSAP’s TV presentation and articles on the Justice Arrow were pulled off the newsstands, and the company’s license has been suspended…”
== Orbis Post, Monday January 7

“Mounting tensions between right-wing religious groups and the SEA Lander communities did not subside over the Year’s End holidays, but actually escalated during the last few weeks that were supposed to be a time for peace and celebration. Year’s End is supposed to be a time where people set aside their differences, talk peace, kiss and make up. Every year, Kerning City is supposed to enjoy these few weeks of peace and joy. Everyone celebrates the various festivals and celebrations with each other and cultures mix without the slightest hostility. Every year on New Year’s Eve, the people celebrate the past year’s accomplishments, events and re-spark the inspiration to strive and be the best and do the best things that humans are supposed to do and work on progress of social evolution towards a better society.
“This year, the clashes and violence between religious groups and the SEA Landers did not stop or reduce as the holidays began. The NVAL’s attempt to destroy the West Spark power plant (that supplies much of Yazhou County)
was foiled by local gangs and a vicious shootout left more than 25 people dead. Local gangs sought revenge by teaming up and raided the Amish town of Corpus; setting fires that burned down several barns and storage facilities, severely damaging the town’s food supply. Arrested gang members said the hit on Corpus was not only a return favor for the NVAL’s strike on the power plant, but payback for the enemy’s attack on Yazhou Co.’s farmlands.

“That assault- a joint strike lead by the NVAL, PBEU and the Spirit Warriors gang, that was carried out in the summer, left two full fields of crops burning or tainted, five barns blazing, and 28 million mesos of food and property destruction.

“Christmas Day and Boxing Day and New Year’s saw more violence and high profile attacks than ever before. On Christmas, the religious warmongers attacked a magicians’ party several places across the city; and did drive-by shootings leaving more than 15 people dead and 30 more injured. The biggest hit was the bombardment of the Magician temple on the Azn side of the Janszoon River, killing over 45 people.
Nonviolent assaults included protests and harassment of people on the streets, and in their homes; mainly in the lower class areas of the city.

One resident, Harry Cook, 45, father of two, is shocked and outraged. He expected to
spend Christmas Day at home in the Apple Park apartment building with his two kids. At six in the morning, religious fanatics threw Molotov cocktails, bottle rockets, pipe bombs, firecrackers and other incendiary items through the windows of houses and buildings throughout Apple Park.

“I woke up to the sound of shattering glass, thinking it was some robber, then I heard the screeching and series of explosions. I got out my baseball bat and entered my living room- and everything was on fire- the tree, the presents, the furniture- even the walls were on fire. I saw people chanting and screaming at me waving signs at me, saying I was going to hell or something like that. I wanted to rush out there and start beatin’ them in, but it was a huge freakin’ mob out there! My kids ran screaming from their rooms which were on fire. We had to get out,”

As people were forced out of their homes by the fires, they were confronted by the mobs of screaming protesters. some residents were attacked, and fights broke out. “We got out and went to the parking lot, its an emergency assembly area, and the mob was waiting there. They blocked off the the lot so I couldn’t get my kids to the truck and drive off.”

across town in Fraser Crescent, security guards and private police companies were forced to attack the maniacs to ward them off. Christmas trauma continued on during the day as religious activists stormed neighborhoods, setting fire to houses, apartment buildings, company offices, and even non Xtian churches.
In the Edmonds lower-class area, power lines were downed, causing a local blackout.
KCP local sheriff Dan Warren toured the area after the mobs moved on. Apartment buildings with windows blown out,
burning houses, collapsed power lines and cable poles, smashed cars, make the area look like a tornado swept through.
“As you can see, these guys aren’t just tossing petty incendiaries anymore; they moved up. Now they’re throwing actual bombs. They start out with things like screeching fireworks, bare-scares- a bare scare makes a loud bang; from four blocks away, the blast sound is still over 80 decibels. They use these things to rouse everybody from their sleep. Next they move on to flaming projectiles. From bottle rockets to things packed with explosive substances. Those are used on windows, sliding glass doors; stuff like that. It’s designed to scare the living crap out of everybody. This is when we start to get emergency calls from people. Next, these maniacs move on to flammable things- molotovs, anything that is coated in flammable liquid and burns. Then they go back to bare-scares and fireworks. They shoot them directly through the broken windows into the apartments.

“People start coming out, and the maniacs will grab them, throw them down, rough them up a bit, that sort of thing. and for the guy who’s looking to fight is confronted by Spirit Warriors, and they are trained street fighters.
They’ll hold you down and people will scream at you, saying you are going to hell or quoting crap from the bible or stuff like that. some places, they just kicked down the door and rushed in; breaking into people’s homes to tell them that God is angry and if they don’t repent and submit there right on the spot, they’re going to hell.”

The stores were also attacked. Religious gangs broke into Target and Best-Buy, and destroyed millions of mesos worth of goods. The fanatics rampaged through the stores, then after they were done, they destroyed the buildings’ power supply control panels and other systems. Security companies stationed at shopping malls and stores put up one hell of a fight to ward off the attackers. Al Dae, a vack hacker working for SecuriTeam that patrols the Best-Buy store, had his hands full pushing back the psychotic protestors. “Christmas day, 10 PM, and our shift just started when out of nowhere these people come. We grab our paintball guns, pellet guns, staves, claws, whatever. Every year we’ll get some f###ed up Boxing Day shoppers who literally want to break in and swipe something. They think leaving 100 mesos on the floor or shelf will justify the act, but these religious people are news to us. After what happened at Target, our boss called us and said it was going to be a long night.”
After a two hour long battle against Spirit Fighters and protesters, the security team and neighborhood volunteers successfully fought off the mob. Best-Buy opened its doors at 4am and launched its Boxing Day sale without disturbance.

Boxing Day saw more retaliation attacks. Mobs of people, mostly out for revenge, or to launch a their own crusade against the religious organizations set out for battle; armed with anything they could get their hands on.
The tour of revenge began in Michigan City where the gangs attacked the PLEU’s Michigan Evangelical Church, smashing windows, doors and destroying property inside. The attackers were met by enraged defenders of the church and vicious fights followed.

Mobs clashed on the street as attacks continued on throughout the day. Next came the burning of the NVAL’s buildings, followed by assaults against religious offices and churches in town. Unfortunately churches not involved int the holy evangelical crusade also suffered;
The Anglo Church on Naora and 41st was destroyed in a blaze. Pastor Richards, one of the leaders, was the first to find his church in flames. “We were never apart of that insane war that those guys are waging on the city. We wanted nothing at all do with the Evangelical Union or the Amish Legion. At my church, I preached nothing about hate or intolerance of other people or cultures. My group is brought together by positive values, and teachings. There were SEA Landers in my group as well as Victorian people..”
Richards is among many groups opposed to this holy war, ever since the first small profile events began. They do not agree with the policies the other groups are preaching.
“Personally, I think it’s the influence of the church in Henesys. They are so brainwashed and charged with the twisted policies, that they are no longer capable of negotiating or even limiting themselves, and they want to spread this, this…social and mental disease to everyone.”

============== Kerning City Times December 27

“It is not a maybe. It is not a rumor. It is definitely a FACT the Justice Arrow is running a smuggling business! They are smuggling magicians and noobs, and even children, and selling them off to other traffiking rings in the SEA Lands.
“If you don’t believe the footage you saw–that was pure, raw, and unedited footage of the JA guys holding magicians dead or alive and selling them to guys who can’t speak English, then don’t. Believe it or not, that is the truth being revealed to you on TV. Maybe THAT is why the TV stations took the special off the air before it even finished. Maybe that is why MapleSAP Magazine is not on the magazine rack anymore. Maybe that is why J&M Ham Associates is saying on TV that KLON is going to sue the crap out of MapleSAP for uprooting the lies that they paved over about the JA.

“If you still don’t believe me, then you don’t have to. Go buy yourself a one day pass to the FM- its about 1000,
and go to the FM gate up at Perion. Back in October, the Free Market was closed down for a week. The portals were reconnected to the Free Market grounds the Northerners use and the old grounds are just extra space now.
You’ll find plenty more than before this change. So anyways, go there, and if you stay long enough and you walk around long enough, you will see JA men at work, either signing orders, contracts with people, you even see them slip a wad of cash into a GM’s ass pocket. The GM will pretend not to notice, then check the newly acquire contents of his pocket. That guy will not do his duty and raise the alarm. GM’s wages are pitiful, and they will look the other way provided they can get a cash bonus.
GM’s will not even flinch if they see the JA dragging in trucking in a chain gang of prisoners and slaves. The JA will show the guard some papers, and underneath those papers is a couple million meso bills. The bonus money is then given out to all the GMs on duty in that spot and upon receiving that money, your GM knows to keep quiet.
Follow the JA from a distance, and you will see them selling off their human merchandise.

“You ask, ‘why doesn’t somebody so something?’ Well the answer is this: If a GM refuses money and tells the boss, he will be dead before he tells the boss. The GMs are getting too much free money from the JA. They also get protection and assistance when it comes to hackers. Spies have concluded that when it comes to hackers, the JA and their GM b####es are selective. If a hacker buys a slave from them, they leave him alone. If hackers attack or hack or whatever, the GMs can be assured the JA’s bow masters will be there in seconds to help them. Hackers are dangerous, and we have lost many good GMs to them. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if the JA will hire a hacker to kill off a GM rat.

“They are gaining power and momentum folks. The Justice Arrow is well rooted in the FM, and can you imagine their cash flow now? There’s no accurate numbers to describe how much they’re making, but it’s gotta be a colossal amount, and their net profits are tax free. Orbis doesn’t know about this, that’s why. Every year, Henesys pays out 500 million in tax, much of that is returned because Henny is one of Victoria’s major food producers. We’d have a food shortage and economic crisis without them. You can be assured that 65% of the food on your plate at every meal comes from Henesys. Makes them pretty powerful doesn’t it? And they also have the legal authorization to place sanctions against any town that they don’t like. Legal procedures keep the food coming, that’s all. Hardly anyone knows these facts.*
Most of the food that Henny produces comes to Kerning. The Justice Arrow is spoon-feeding us while they are gaining power and momentum, rallying up all the religious whackoes in town in hopes that some day they will overrun us all!

“Back to the magician and noob smuggling business. The Justice Arrow took control of Cold Death Pass, and they are fortifying themselves up there just in case the bridge’s old owners or anyone else who comes and tries to take it back.
The whole thing about them blowing up a Permanoob settlement in town and shooting up all of the survivors by the time they get to the pass probably wasn’t part of the plan, but hey, it all worked out in the end for the JA didn’t it?
They got the bridge and killed most of the innocent civilians who they like to call vile vermin devil worshippers.

“Think about this, folks, just think, Back in November, the Maple Peace Corps used two of it’s spare armies and sent them to Perion after people reported seeing flocks of illegal airships flying north. There are close up pics taken through cameras and telescopes from Sleepywood to Perion of those ships carrying armed bowmen. They were after all the Permanoobs and magicians who were fleeing to the SEA Lands after the JA blew up the pipeline and destroyed their town. That’s not relevant, but what is, is that when the MPC was up there, they did find that base, and they did find several trucks carrying people. Those trucks were stationed 5 miles west of Cold Death Pass after the JA blew up the bridge. But you wonder: If the JA wants to have humans trafficked across the canyon, they need a bridge, Well, they destroyed that bridge to mask their trafficking operation. They don’t care about the clients who bought those people and are trucking them north.

“While you think about that, folks, get this: After the MPC left the mountains, the JA trucked some guys back there and they re-built the bridge. They made their slaves do it. All the Azn guys who used to work the bridge were all killed. Their village was obliterated, and now the JA has a base on the southern side of the bridge.
They are saying on the news that all the dead bowmen were sent to the Canyon to ‘assist’ the refugees across. Mr. Jalonska lied on TV and said the fight broke out when hackers attacked the refugees, and it was the hackers who vacked their arrow bombs to the bridge and blew it up! Folks, it sums up: whether the attack on the Permanoob town was related or not, the Justice Arrow wanted and gained control of the bridge.

“This information is not from Maple Island; those guys working the spy observatory will not tell us. There are plenty of hired spies working in this city and you can hire one for about 50K a day. Hired or not, these companies sent their boys out into the Corazon all the way up to the canyon. They got pictures, and videos of the JA working the bridge. Explosive and combat experts who went up there looked at all the frozen stiffs and all the damage from the battle and they did not find the residual hackium that would be left after a hack attack. The JA’s guys killed off all those people, took the bridge; it is a FACT.

“And what does the JA need an illegal border crossing for? Their human smuggling business! Obviously the guys who ran the bridge before were pissing them off and screwing around, so the JA did what they had to do and take them out!”

“And don’t expect any intervention from Orbis, because the politicians brown-nosed themselves kissing the JA’s asses. The Bow Masters are actually fighting the hackers in that big war over at El Nath…”

== rant from DJ GatorNutz, SWAMP Radio (91.5 fm)
January 12, 2008
[DJ GatorNutz’s rants don’t reflect the opinions and beliefs of
the SWAMP 91.5]

Now for some heavy metal music

-Q

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facts* LOL this is all fiction XD
uhh this is a prelude to Northern Markets season 2.