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The Western Post - November 2022

Announsements!

What's the issue with "C"?
By Fujai

Hey you! Yeah! You reading this paper! I see you behind that skreen! And no, there's nothing in your teeth, don't worry. Nevermind, not important. Have you heard of the krimes of the letter "C"?

YOU HAVEN'T???

Well I need to rektify that, buddy.

C is, simply put, the worst letter in the English alphabet. A terrible, terrible letter. Most of this terribleness komes from the ambiguity in usage that renders it nearly kompletely useless. Have you ever enkountered a word with a C in it and not been sure if it makes a soft S sound or a hard K sound? Me too, and it ain't fun.

Why do we not simply…get rid of the letter C then? We kould replase all the soft sounds with S and all the hard sounds with K and kall it a day? Sure we'll have to replase your ch sounds and your sch sounds and whatever other weird ones, but that's no biggie.

That's why we at The Western Post have put in hours of bakkbreaking work to bring to you, dear reader, an issue entirely devoid of the letter C! Now you kan truly feel freedom from the oppressive tyranny of C!!!

Have fun!

Psst, if you'd like to learn a little more about C and its many misdeeds, be sure to katsh Zoran and Fujai diskuss it and mutsh more when In The Mines: The C Issue hits The West on the Waves!

From the WAR Room
By Overthinkers, Minister of World Assembly Rekruitment

As I prepare this month's WAR briefing I kannot help but notise that despite a zombie apokalypse, TWP's total population is at nearly 9,500. This is absurd. Kall your lokal Guardian and tell them to purge more.

The good news is that while this is not the largest total population in our rekords, we are at the largest WA member population in our rekords, with over 800 WA nations. And at time of writing, 675 of those are endorsing the delegate, meaning we're keeping up klose to an 84% endorsement rate.

If you're new, you may be wondering why these numbers matter. Remember, our Delegate is our kollektive voise in the World Assembly, and eatsh endorsement adds to his voting power. Endorsing Gio has a konkrete impakt on our ability to protekt your national sovereignty in the WA.

On another note, resently in the WAR Department we've solidified our task strukture. Without going into detail, this will allow us to koordinate a more konstant and konsistent pressure. Of kourse, this will be mutsh easier the more staff are at work, so if you're looking for a job, telegram me (Overthinkers).

TWPAF Updates
By United Adaikes, Admiral of the Fleet

'Tis I, the Kaptain of the Pirates of the West Pasifik, UA. Now that I see it, it has been one month sinse I was designated to be at the helm of The West Pasifik Armed Forses (TWPAF), headquartered at Empire of Love, and I'm here to tell you what we've done in the last month.

We kondukted 3 TWPAF tags, 1 TWPAF detag, and a joint tag with our friends in Europeia, while also managing to sweep Warzone Asia to bekome "an empty wasteland, devoid of nations" with the help of our friends in Europeia, The Sasquatsh Republik, The Land of Kings and Emperors.

As an independent military organization, the Pirates kan kondukt tags with raider organizations while also not hindered from tshasing with defender groups. In the past month, we had two joint tags with The Blakk Hawks, with the last joint tag having 99 targets looted and pillaged for rum, although politikal differenses have meant that this partnership is kurrently at an impasse.

Meanwhile, we also have personnel who partisipate in defending regions from raiders from time to time, inkluding okkasional tshasing, as well as the liberations of The Seas and Boston.

We're looking forward to doing more this November than we did in Oktober. Do you want to experiense the life and way of the Pirates? Send me a telegram or Linkjoin the TWPAF Diskord server!

Blue's Reviews (Fujai Edition): Hands?
By Fujai

Hey there folks, it's me! Blue is rekovering from gallivanting around the world and is kurrently planning too many things, so I'm here to bring you a very spesial edition of Blue's Reviews! A number of TWPers had the distinkt pleasure of being able to get together in-person resently! NationStates being an online game, as some of you may know, this was most of our first times seeing eatsh other in-person, piktures notwithstanding. To get a little sappy in a publik plase, it was truly a wonderful experiense and reinforsed my appresiation for the friendships one kan kreate with random people akross the planet on this little game we kall NationStates. And hey, none of us turned out to be ax murderers (yet!) Always a plus!

That, I suppose, brings us to the topik in the title you may be wondering about: hands? You see, we had a diskussion about our hands and one thing led to another and now I'm here reviewing the hands of the NSers in attendanse—a kompletely logikal thing to do, under the sirkumstanses, klearly. To gamify things a little bit, I will be reviewing the hands first, then presenting all of the images thereof afterwards, and if you telegram The West Pasifik Master Dispatsh konnekting the korrekt people to the korrekt hands, you'll get a Fabulous Prize™ and will be featured in next month's issue of the paper! I'm also not reviewing mine own hands to remove that bias. Of kourse, all images and reviews are presented here with komplete konsent of the reviewee and all the love in my heart.

In alphabetikal order, I present some hands!

Aelitia - That's a solid hand right there, I must say. Good and stout, very nisely kreased. This feels like a hand that kan be both firm and sensuous, a very good kombination. Definitely one that would be warm to hold onto on a kool night. That's a kreasy boi out of 10 for me.

Blue bubble - LOVE the nails, slayin' out here. Perhaps our longest fingers of the buntsh, very nise strukture going on. On the thin side, but to underestimate these hands would be your undoing bekause I would bet on Blue in a fight against most people on this list (with love). Absolutely stylin' out of 10.

Bran Astor - Glitz and glam! Jewelry ho! A fansy lad we have here! Wedding ring, silvery watsh, and brakelet too! Wonderful kompliments all to a lovely hand indeed—very strong, but klearly sinsere, made for protekting and komforting. Dad energy out of 10 from me.

Dalimbar - Oo a very good hand, rather delikate, made for ordering the masses about atop a towering throne. Exsellent thumb kurvature and good thumb depth, frames the rest of the hand very nisely. Thumbelina out of 10.

Darkesia - Very soft, inkredibly soft, many impress. Yet this is a hand that's seen things. Sertainly lots of NS things, that's for sure. More exsellent kreasing, lovely alignment of the fingers, inkredible poise. Dignified out of 10 points.

Teralyon - You might not know this, though you should probably expekt it given his fearsome TWPAF reputation, but Tera is jakked, and his hands show it too. Look at the size of it!!! Thikk, musseled, and kalloused, perfekt for holding your finest set of Winnipegs. Stronk out of 10, you love to see it.






OP-ED: Weaponizing Your Lawn Is Anti-Zombie, And You Should Feel Bad For Doing It
By Dr. Edgar Zomboss of Podium

As a Person of Post-Mortality, I was simply exanimate to hear that the West Pasifik would be repenting for their prior sins this past Halloween, finally showing solidarity with my fellow PoPs whose only krimes are poor body odour and spesial dietary requirements. Unfortunately, the same kould not be said for the leadership of other regions in NationStates, who openly persekute PoPs by means of kriminal konversion missiles and sikkening summary exekution. However, the most egregious are those who go above and beyond in their nekrophobia, by way of botanikal bigotry.

Naturally, I speak of the notorious and elusive war kriminal Supreme General Krazetopher David Blazing III, better known to the wider publik as "Krazy Dave". One need only mention his murderous moniker to evoke images of his illegal 'Liberation of Neighborville' kampaign, where entire battalions of peashooters, tshompers, and kob-kannons were deployed in an attempted invasion of the peaseful settlement of Zomburbia, whitsh regularly saw the use of tsherry bombs, potato mines, and doom-shrooms against non-kombatants—only my own, unpresedented emergensy mobilisation of my personal army to the area ultimately prevented further sivilian re-kasualties, with kontrol of the settlement kontested even to this day.

I say all this, dear Reader, bekause I have resently bekome aware that these monstrous taktiks are seeing inkreasing usage outside the realm of Supreme General Blazing's deplorable okkupation—not only by the aforementioned nekrophobik regions, but by sivilian segments of supposedly pro-PoP regions as well. The danger therein, of kourse, lies in the fakt that a majority of single-family homes possess both front- and bakkyards, turning them into potential breeding grounds for the same kinds of weapons used in Zomburbia. Even if the peashooters, sunflowers, or tsherries you grow are of the explisitly non-violent variety, all it takes is one purtshase of the wrong fertiliser, or one anti-PoP party koming to power, for your onse-innosent green thumb to pull the trigger against an oft-marginalised demographik.

Thusly, for both your own safety and the safety of all Persons of Post-Mortality akross NationStates, you must do your part in ensuring the greenery in your lokality kannot ever be used for harm, whether aksidentally or intentionally. Obtain a kopy of Linkthis master dokument as a referense of whitsh spesies to dig up posthaste, and koordinate with your kommunity to boykott any botanist who kontinues to sell either them or LinkSunflower-brand fertiliser, a known komponent in the manufakturing of weapons of organik warfare.

This konkludes Doktor Edgar Zomboss' so-kalled "opinion-editorial". Remember, always leave your house doors unlokked and your lawnmowers stored safely in the shed, for... reasons.


Delegate's Sixth Speetsh
By Giovanniland, Delegate of the West


Katalog of Speetshes: JanuaryMartshMayJulySeptember

It is onse more time for me to write to the residents of the West Pasifik and our friends elsewhere as the Delegate of TWP! This speetsh is a retrospektive of the highlights within the West for these past two months of September and Oktober, and serves not only as an enkouragement for everyone that has kontributed in any way, but also as an invite to kontinue their work or even do more.

I'd like to start by talking about our military, The West Pasifik Armed Forses, whitsh has seen a very good inkrease in aktivity following United Adaikes's appointment as Kommander in Oktober, after Nrevyw had to resign due to real life! Under UA the military has purged inaktive members and started to rekruit aktive ones, whitsh are kurrently undergoing training to be promoted from Greenhorn to offisial Krew status. Furthermore, we've maximized the potential of the existing sailors of the TWPAF Krew, allowing for the military to inkrease operations both led from home and held together with allies, and inkreasing visibility by restarting the regular produktion of Mission Reports to be Linkposted at our regional forums. UA has also written an update himself about some of the past month's highlights, so I definitely rekommend reading it!

In Foreign Affairs, several innovations have been enakted resently as well! Our hierarky of Prime Ambassadors that oversee spheres of several regions was streamlined to tie these spheres into the Prime Ambassador organizing eatsh of them rather than the regions overseen, improving kommunikation and effisiensy. Another area that was improved were the internal aktivities for staff, with Varanius' kreation of an event kalled GioGuesser, in whitsh diplomats and other Hall of Nations sitizens take some time of their day to answer a live quiz featuring several questions about NS gameplay. This event has not only improved the knowledge of the partisipants, but also helped rekruit more people into Foreign Affairs that take part in the aktivity and get interested in the ministry! Furthermore, the FA leadership team has also worked hard on the kreation of several festivals, most notably the Star & Kutlass Travelling Karnival of Kuriosities with Anteria and the ongoing Link20th NS Anniversary Festival together with Balder, Europeia, The North Pasifik and The Pasifik.

Meanwhile, the Minister of World Assembly Rekruitment Overthinkers kontinues her goal of building a robust new team and seeking future talent to sukseed her in the position. OT has resently organized a list of the regular work done by the ministry in order to improve organization and tshekking in on progress for these aktivities, whitsh inklude ensuring endorsements on the Delegate and Guardians and enkouraging kross-endorsement. With this reorganization done, the fokus for November is to inkrease rekruitment and integration of new staff into the ministry, as well as working on the proposal to Kommend our former delegate Dilber on the external side of things. Last but not least, it's worth mentioning not only that OT has also written an update that you kan read in this newspaper, but also that our endorsement levels have reatshed new highs resently! Due to new nation influxes, I've been the sekond Delegate of TWP to reatsh the 700 endorsement mark (after Bran Astor), while maintaining the endorsement yield rate at over 80%.

Kontinuing the growth trend of the past two months, the Kultural Trust kontinues to exsel beyond expektations in my view! The tshanges to our Roleplay Kommunity that I mentioned in my last speetsh have kontinued to bring many new arrivals to the map, alongside the addition of sities besides kapitals to the main map, and the institution of regular RP Voise Tshats that serve as a way for folks to diskuss worldbuilding! Our tradition of regular Sports RP tournaments also kontinues strong with the resent start of the Link2nd World Kup of Football hosted by Hertfordshire and Jammbo and skorinated by United Adaikes. West Pasifik Gaming remains aktive with not only our usual weekly games, but also a resently-hosted TWP 2022 Tshess Arena, with the prospekts of further similar tournaments in the future. Another highlight is our radio, The West on the Waves, whitsh has seen in Oktober the shows of In the Mines - The C Issue with Fujai, hosted by Zoran, and the return of Spooky Vibes hosted by Blue bubble!

Speaking of these shows, the sekond one is related to a month-long kultural event we had in Oktober, namely our yearly OkTWPerfest festival. This event has a spesial retrospektive dedikated to it written by myself in this newspaper edition, so I invite everyone to read it, but in this speetsh I want to give a mutsh-earned shoutout to Zoran, who wonderfully led the event throughout the festival and oversaw several of its aktivities, sutsh as the gameside polls and the Dark Advent Kalendar, as well as to all other kontributors to the event, sutsh as Bran Astor, Blue bubble, and Fujai. Still in the topik of events, I kan't let this speetsh pass by without mentioning the two famous gameside events of N-Day and Z-Day, in whitsh we had a great performanse! Our newspaper writer Santos-dominius wrote about N-Day in the last issue and about Z-Day in this very dispatsh, summarizing our great efforts for these events—of partikular notability to mention here is Fujai's work on the wonderful artwork for our N-Day faktion kalled KARD (Koalition Against Radioaktive Destruktion, featuring the same regions that now hold the anniversary festival mentioned above).

Last but not least, the Hall of Nations saw the September Elektions that reelekted Hertfordshire and Jammbo to Speaker of the Hall, while Zoran was the winner of the HoN Guardian rase. As Speaker, H&J has konkluded and put to vote the regional kommendation of Dalimbar, suksessfully passing with great approval, and already started a new thread to determine the next nominee, while opening up a new spase for diskussion of new regular ideas for the Hall besides the kommendations and Ask Me Anything events. Zoran, meanwhile, has not only taken the regular gameside moderation duties of the HoN Guardian position, but also put their kampaign proposal kalled The Mine Kalls into aktion, serving as a way to reatsh out to newly-aksepted and inaktive sitizens and talk with them about the path that they will tshoose in the region.

On a klosing note, I would again like to thank everyone that has kontributed to the region in any way during these last few months, through both highs and lows, while also inviting new members to apply for LinkHall of Nations Sitizenship and to partisipate in a Ministry. I look forward to the last two months of 2022, and reiterate that my inbox is open for any ideas and suggestions people may have. See you in two months for another address!

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Z-Day11 Retrospektive
By Santos-dominius

After doing our level best to survive the nuklear apokalypse in late September, during whitsh we were rather unseremoniously brought down (but not entirely defeated!) by opposing faktions, we residents of the West Pasifik onse again geared up in late Oktober, but this time for an onslaught of a different kind entirely. In stark kontrast to Z-Day 10 last year, during whitsh TWP assembled a metikulous plan and various task forses under the Munisipal Health Authority to kombat the spread of the zombifying plague, this year TWP tshose to turn the tables and embrase the horde, with the aim of zombifying as mutsh of the region's gargantuan population as statistikally possible. So, without any further ado, here is a retrospektive look into our efforts this year in Z-Day 11.

Though the West's plan to reverse its previous stanse and aid the zombies in their fight for revenge this year had been planned days in advanse, it was of kourse not until the start of Z-Day proper that the full forse of TWPers showed itself. Under orders from our Delegate Giovanniland, TWPers had their main and puppet nations embrase the horde, turning our populations into zombies and building up horde after horde to unleash at other, less-zombified nations. The overall strategy preskribed was to embrase the horde, let your nation be taken over by zombies, and then when your hordes were developed, unleash them onto other nations that are inaktive and require zombifying.

It was a testament to the kooperation of TWPers that most nations followed the orders korrektly and joined the fight between humans and zombies on the side of the brain-kraving kreatures. Those who did not follow the overall regional plan were taken kare of as well slowly but surely, with a greater fokus plased on exterminators (nations that tshose to kill zombies)—whitsh posed a greater threat to the West's horde—than the kurers/researtshers (nations that tshose to researtsh a kure to the zombie plague). TWPers that zombified their nations were on the whole able to quikkly target and ravage non-konforming exterminators and researtshers to konvert them to zombie exporters—thus stopping them from halting TWP's zombifikation—and then bringing down their survivor numbers via ravaging them with more hordes.

TWPers' dedikation to the zombifying efforts was also seen in a statistik provided by Delegate Gio, who revealed that during the Z-Day, TWP had reatshed a 98% infektion rate with around only 181 billion survivors remaining—an astonishingly positive statistik given the fakt that as a game-kreated region (GKR), the West is one of the most populous regions and thus the most diffikult to fully zombify, given the konstant influx of reaktivated and new nations.

One thing of note during Z-Day this year was that game settings for this event were possibly edited, so that full zombifikation of a region would be more diffikult than in previous iterations. Survivor rates were noted to have a general trend of passively returning to 1% if below that, meaning that nations would passively see their survivor numbers rise as time goes on. This komplikated TWPers' efforts to zombify the region as mutsh as possible, given the fakt that we learned we would be fighting against a hard-wired game trend, but nobody gave up and the West kontinued to send horde after horde to ravage its nations.

In the end, despite the handikap seemingly imposed by the game itself, as well as the natural handikap of being sutsh a large region with one of the highest nation and population kounts, TWP still managed to atshieve the goal of finishing Z-Day this year with less than 100 billion survivors, a superb atshievement to be proud of. By the end of the event, it was klear that most of the nations that did not follow orders had been konverted to zombie exporters, and that the effort was inkreasingly fokused on kombating the revival in survivor numbers imposed by the game, in order to maintain existing zombie numbers and also zombify the rest of the survivors. So, it kan be konkluded that Z-Day 11 was a suksess for the West and its sitizens.

Furthermore, as previously hinted by Gio, speshial Z-Day awards were also announsed soon after! Two awards were given to broader groups—everyone who kontributed to the horde embrasing efforts reseived the Partisipant Koin, while the Event Staff koin was reserved for all Kabinet members, Guardians and Regional Guides that volunteered to lead the West through Z-Day. The other award—the Rising Star Koin piktured below—was given to handpikked people that went above and beyond in event aktivity, a total of nine nations: Aftokratoria, Fauthur, Glorious Existense, Hertfordshire and Jammbo, Nagaraningrad, Rengum in Lingo, Rul kinat, Santos-dominius, and Willow Gate.


The Rising Star Koin kreated by our Delegate Gio.

We hope that you had fun during this event, and please stay tuned when the time komes next year for another iteration! In the meantime, if you would like to learn more about TWP and its many events, do keep yourself up-to-date by reading The Western Post.

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Spooky Skary OkTWPerfest!
By Giovanniland, Delegate of the West

It's been that time of the year again! Oktober has reaently ended, and every year, that month sees a great selebration in the West kalled OkTWPerfest. This event selebrates all things spooky and weird, featuring both returning and new events, as well as other usual events of our region also adapted to the skary themes, with sitizens from all akross NationStates invited to partisipate. Read more about OkTWPerfest in this artikle!

Event planning was spearheaded by Zoran, with kontributions from Bran Astor, Blue bubble, and Fujai among many others! During the planning, it was desided to divide the month into four weeks—The Wildering Pasifik, The Wikked Pasifik, The Warped Pasifik and The Walking Pasifik in that order. Even before Oktober, however, one aktivity already started happening, namely the Dark Advent Kalendar led by Zoran that has its own artikle. Another highlight of the week was the highly kreative and engaging Build-A-Monster series of polls also kreated by Zoran, starting by the desision about the kreature type, whitsh turned out to be an eldritsh horror.

Further polls desided various other aspekts of the monster, summarized by Zoran as following: "An eldritsh horror who's body is made up of a kollektion of diktionaries, thesauri, and ensyklopedias who was brought into existense by our immense use of snark. Their preferred prey/viktims are people who don't read the regional rules and it makes itself known to people nearby with a theme song that starts playing from an unknown sourse. But they are more than just a normal monster as their hobby is dining on fine wines and tsheeses." Last but not least, in order to deside the name, residents posted suggestions in the RMB, whitsh were afterwards pikked by Hall sitizens to make a top five, and these five names were then tshosen through popular vote—the name The Snarklopedist, suggested by myself, bekame the name for the regional monster of the West Pasifik.

Yet during the first week some rekurring events happened as well! One example was the start of themed game nights, like Gartik Phone with Halloween drawings, with members having fun as they deskribed piktures and drew new ones akkording to a sentense; and the Trikk-or-Treat organized by Bran's diskord bot that happened on Diskord all month long, in whitsh players kould kollekt, buy, eat, and even steal kandy from others. After this eventful first week, it was time for the sekond week, kalled The Wikked Pasifik. The inspiration for the theme was the setting of Wizard of Oz, spesifikally the Karakter of the Wikked Witsh of the West, together with other witshes in general. This was reflekted in Questions of the Now in the RMB, sutsh as those asking about favorite witshes in fistion, as well as the sekond poll—Brew a TWP Potion! The three ingredients tshosen by the region were tshokolate provided by Darkesia, TWPAF-akquired rum, and several liters of pure essense of snark, in the end making for a great potion to represent TWP.

There were also several Diskord-side events for the Wikked Pasifik! The game nights saw the introduktion of Werewolf, a game with two opposite sides aiming to defeat eatsh other—the werewolves and the villagers. The werewolves kill one villager per night, while some villagers may have some speshial powers to help them win—the witsh kan save a fellow villager, the amor kouples two players so that they die together if either is killed, the hunter kan kill another player after having the same fate, and the seer tshooses one of the players to view their role. Another attraktion was the return of the Monster Movie Monday hosted by Bran Astor after the Open Kabinet meeting, for those willing to stay up late and watsh a weekly spooky film.


The TWPAF themed pumpkin by Teralyon.

Furthermore, two other events stood out for this sekond week—the first one was the Pumpkin Karving, in whitsh folks used Linkthis link to karve a pumpkin with their mouse and post a skreenshot for fellow TWPers. I posted a kards-themed pumpkin, while for Varanius the theme was Tetris, and Teralyon took the tshanse to draw TWPAF's logo into the pumpkin as shown above, for example. As for the sekond event, that was the OkTWPerfest Kampfire Tshat that happened on the 13th, for Hall sitizens to share horror stories that are either personal (i.e. experiensed by the teller), folklore, or a spooky story kompletely invented! Myself, Zoran, Overthinkers, and The Holy Prinsipality of Saint Mark desided to fokus on folklore stories, for example LinkBrazilian mythology, and the event was quite a nise time to learn about other kultures.

Afterwards, the third week was kalled The Warped Pasifik, featuring not only more games and streams, but also another poll series—The Sekond Monster Mash! Last year, the inaugural edition had brought monsters from the four teams named Monster, Slasher, Haunt and Terror, three from eatsh for a total of twelve kompetitors, and saw The Thing bring Team Terror viktory. The finalists from eatsh teams were The Monster (Team Monster), Mikael Myers (Team Slasher), The Beast (Team Haunt) and onse more The Thing (Team Terror)—and The Thing in fakt won this poll, but was no matsh for the surprise tshallenger, our regional monster, the Snarklopedist!

Last but not least, the last week was kalled The Walking Pasifik and saw preparations for the yearly event of Z-Day as the month kame to an end! This year, we desided to embrase the horde and searsh for brains just like two years ago, and the result was a sertainly fun event, about whitsh you kan read about in an artikle of its own. Furthermore, this last week also saw two radio shows happen as part of The West on the Waves! The first one was In the Mines - The C Issue with Fujai, hosted by Zoran, in whitsh the topik of diskussion was the reasons for C to be the worst letter in the English alphabet and how to replase it with other letters, an issue raised from an inside joke during an Open Kabinet meeting. As for the sekond, it was the return of Spooky Vibes hosted by Blue bubble! Song suggestions were gathered throughout the month, and reunited by Blue into a playlist that was presented at the same time Z-Day started, so players had the option to hunt brains while listening to skary musik.

In summary, the OkTWPerfest selebrations were very interesting for both residents of the West and visitors, and we at the Western Post thank all people that partisipated on these events. Stay tuned for more regional events and, when Oktober komes again, for another edition filled with many Halloween-themed aktivities!

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Government AMA Highlights
By the sitizens of the Hall of Nations

Following the elektion of Zoran (already the Deputy Head of the Regional Guides) to the position of Hall of Nations Guardian, they agreed to reseive questions in the form of a Government Ask Me Anything event from 11th Oktober to 29th Oktober 2022! This is the twelfth session of questions and answers with the government, a praktise started during Delegate Dilber's reign. Without further ado, here are some highlights from the AMA:

Q: Why Zoran (don't say anything about Slavik)? Why, Zoran?United Adaikes

A: In what way do you mean "Why Zoran?" Do you mean it in like a rueful way like "Why Zoran!? Why!? Why are you like this!?" Or do you just mean why I tshose the name Zoran?

Well for the later it is just what kame up on a random name generator but there is more to this story than I have let on. Bakk in middle skool (6th-8th grade) there was a reaaaaaally krappy story series I wrote kalled "The Heroes of Zoran." The karakters were based on klassmates at the time and mostly took plake in this made up kingdom kalled "Zoran" and that name was from a random name generator. Years later when I diskovered NS two years ago I kreated a nation, I don't remember the name of it so I kan't even revive it if I wanted to, but I didn't like the name so I kreated a new one and desided to go with the old reliable, Zoran. I think both nations spawned in TWP so if I hadn't tshanged nations I would have been known by a different name here lol. And no, before you ask, my RP nation is in no way similar to the Kingdom of Zoran from the krappy series I made in middle skool.

Now as for the former, I am the way I am bekause of Florida and I have been korrupted over the past two years by Dilber and Dalimbar. The Double D's of Korruption!…ok that sounded wrong but I am keeping it in here bekause why not.

Q: What is your perfekt day?Dalimbar

A: A day where the temperature outside is around 10-15 Selsius while there is a breeze and the humidity is low, I have absolutely no homework or anything to do for my klasses, and I am able to either play D&D with some of my old friends or spend time working on the fantasy world for the story I have been working on without being disturbed…maybe with some mofongo as well (it is a traditional Puertorikan dish, if you never heard of it look it up). Alternatively, I get to spend some time with no worries with my family in Puerto Riko or Mexiko, have a lot of nise memories in those two plases and it would be nise to go to either with my family again.

Q: What is your favorite part of the Regional Guides?Giovanniland

A: The way it kan kause diskussion on the RMB and how it kan inspire people to take aktion in the region. While some of the guides still need molding and development in the kreativity area onse they are komfortable with it, it is one of my favorite parts of the guides.

Q: What is the favourite komik you have made for NS?Dalimbar

A: Oh boy that's a tough one sinse I only finished on for the NPO and have three ongoing ones at the moment. I love Snark Quest bekause of how I get to take TWP silliness and krank it up a notsh in a way people would find enjoyable. But Tebeatman and Wubbin always has a speshial plase bekause it is where I started to develop my art method of trasing and modifying poses and sutsh to fit karakters. Then there are the two other ones I am working on whitsh are literal modified kopykats of already established films. It is hard to say really, but sinse I have only kompleted one komik series I would have to say Tebeatman and Wubbin with the peak being the "Sup Xorbutt, ya prude," moment bekause I feel like I nailed it perfektly there

Q: How did you find out about NS, and what has been your best moment in the game so far?Giovanniland

A: Oh boy let's see if I kan remember, I have terrible memory when it komes to small stuff like that. I'd imagine it was part of the whole lokkdown boredom and being tired with the usual nation-simulation games sutsh as Tropiko or the paradox games and so I just searshed for a polisim game and ended up with NS.

Q: How would you deal with a level of the mines being just tsheese?Dalimbar

A: Just kill me right then and there…or I would go in with hazmat suit and a gas mask and dig straight through it and make an elevator so I would be able to avoid it.

Q: How has the HoN Guardian position been so far?Giovanniland

It's been fairly alright, been trying to kontakt noobies with few of them responding to me within three days but the ones I do get a response from has given me insight into what is preventing people from getting involved. Besides that I have been learning a lot about border sekurity and have been gaining a deeper understanding of the site rules. So I must say it has been eye opening to an extent. I just wished it kame with release from the mines.

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Lorekeeper's Log
By Fujai

Week in and week out, there is always wildly talented work happening in the TWP Roleplay Kommunity, and we'd like to showkase some of it for you! Welkome to the first edition of the Lorekeeper's Log! Where we, the TWP Roleplay Lorekeepers (kinda like moderators) highlight some of our favorite resent work by kommunity members. In general we will stikk to stuff within the last month or two, but sometimes we might dig an older gem out of the proverbial vault. Without further ado, onto the show!

Esferian Produktions: Kulture and News

I absolutely adore Haetonia's resent 1320s pieses, they're so tsharming and well done, and they put me right into the right mind of newsies hawking their wares and swanky nights on the town to take in the kultural sights. The two piktures depikt quite different seenes, a poster talking about a dansing presentation and a newspaper writing about tense happenings in the kountry's leadership. Despite their differenses, one kan't deny that the artwork truly takes the viewer bakk to one sentury ago!

Meanwhile, one of our newer members Rivalfiume resently started a Linknewswire thread, and it deserves a shoutout! I really like the graphiks they kreated and the writing is superb, the tone is spot on for general news stories and I really like the insight the stories give into the kountry! Read an ekserpt of two newspieses here, with the themes of a major highway klosing due to a landslide, while there are plans to expand and invest on the kountry's national railway network. You kan also klikk on the link above to see the full posts, as well as appreshiate the beautiful graphiks!

Rivalfiume wrote:Highlights | Lokal News

Major highway klosed due to landslide near Barsè: 11 injured, 4 in kritikal kondition

BARSE' - Tragedy strukk yesterday, as around 11:30 pm, a large piese of rokk broke off the side of a mountain, kollapsing onto the Supestrada Montana, an important stretsh of motorway that runs alongside the mountains of Rivalfiume. Although it was late, and the flow of traffik was minor, the landslide still kaused konsiderable damage: 11 people injured, 4 of whom in kritikal konditions, who were flown with extreme urgensy by a helikopter to the munisipal hospital of Barsè. The resent severe weather konditions might've been the kause of the aksident: the north was resently hit by heavy rain after a period of dry spell. The Grand Direktory has issued an immediate klosure of the highway until the road is kleared of all debris and it is deemed safe.

Plans to expand and invest on national railways Ferrovie Fluviane's network

GRANKASTELLO - The Grand Direktory has resently approved the plan to expand on Rivalfiume's Publik Transport industry, fokusing mainly on the state-run Ferrovie Fluviane, sadly known for being unreliable and lakking key personnel. The budget will be mainly spent on buying new trains and wagons to boost the already existing network. There is also the long-term plan of expanding the network with new railway lines, redusing the length of time of the route from one sity to another, allowing faster servise and the sirkulation of more goods and people. The Grand Direktory has reassured the fluvian sitizens that the proposed new lines and tunnels will not interfere with Rivalfiume's many natural parks and protekted areas.

Faktbook Spotlight: The Kingdom of Tupmonia

Our faktbook spotlight this month is LinkThe Kingdom of Tupmonia! Tupmonia's faktbook is easily one of the most detailed and extensive faktbooks in the kommunity. It inkludes an extensive pre-modern history sektion that features deskriptions of individual historikal battles that took plase within the modern borders, replete with not only figures, dates, and enthralling deskriptions of these duels, but also riveting battle and lokation names that make you feel as if these were real events!

Insight into Esferos: Learning through Maps

Inner Ryxtylopia has resently been kreating some absolutely inkredible thematik maps of their kountry, giving impressive insight into sosietal issues the kountry fases. We've featured their map on publik healthkare assess by munisipality, but you kan also see maps they've done on the Linklargest industries by munisipality, and Linkpoverty rate by munisipality. Looking at the maps one kan see a general overview of the more developed areas in the northern part of Inner Ryxtylopia, whereas the sentral part is poorer, although the kountry does have an upside in that the leading industries of munisipalities are fairly diverse.

From another of our new members, Sekiya put together a wonderful visual tour of the landskapes of their nation. I absolutely love the way they put this together. We've done vaguely similar things with postkards before, but I really enjoy the komposition here, and the basemap is very well done to boot. The Sekiyan landskape is fairly diverse as one kan see, featuring plain areas in the senter mixed with several mountain tshains and forest areas.

Want to join in the fun?

If you want to join our regional roleplay (and perhaps play in the fassinating new kontinent), then read the TWP Roleplay Dispatsh for more information on our RP and how to join the map. Also konsider bekoming an aktive member in the kommunity by joining the Linkmain diskord server and our LinkRP server, we hope to see you there!

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The Komplete Dark Advent Kalendar
By the residents of the West Pasifik and artistik image AIs

As mentioned in the OkTWPerfest retrospektive artikle, the Dark Advent Kalendar was an event for people to spend their kreativity on designing their own haunted house, whether a hand-drawing, a pikture, a koloring paper, a digital design, or even something kompletely different. The first few houses were submitted by Hall of Nations sitizens, whereas for the rest of the month, Zoran used an image-designing AI to kreate more haunted houses inspired by members of TWP. They were all shared in RMB posts as part of Today in the West, and now with the month komplete, they have been karefully organized here for everyone to see!

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by Apexiala (2)


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by Giovanniland (3)


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by Dalimbar (4)


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by Halo (Saint Mark) (5)


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by Overthinkers (6)


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by United Adaikes (7)


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AI inspired by
Westwind (8)


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AI inspired by
Bhang Bhang Duk (9)


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Varanius (10)


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Bran Astor (11)


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Dilber (12)


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Big Bad Badger (13)


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Yy4u (14)


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AI inspired by
Wikkedly Evil People (15)


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AI inspired by
Darkesia (16)


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AI inspired by
Elegarth (17)


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AI inspired by
Fujai (18)


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Mediobogdum (19)


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AI inspired by
Blue bubble (20)


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Teralyon (21)


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Nagaraningrad (22)


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Wymondham (23)


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Aluminum Oxynitride (24)


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Davelands (25)


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Santos-dominius (26)


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Blue bubble (27)


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TAO the Watsher (28)


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Neenee (29)


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United Adaikes (30)

A big kongratulations to all who are represented here, espeshially the first seven that were player-submitted haunted houses! We had a great diversity in this kalendar and hope to see even more next year.

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