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Interview
Hey Jack,I finished my interview with bonzi,and posted it here. I went under the assumption interviews don't need to be edited,and I think its fine,but just letting you know. We only need an editorial now. -- 03:37, 28 June 2009 (UTC) Hey Jack,I finished my interview with bonzi,and posted it here. I went under the assumption interviews don't need to be edited,and I think its fine,but just letting you know. We only need an editorial now. -- 03:37, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I said I would give you my submissions this month, wouldn't I?
Like I promised, I would give you my submissions unless I either forgot or procrastinated. Well, guess what? Procrastination got boring after a while and it was on my mind, so I got around to sending you this message.

First off is the story I was talking to you about a ways back. The title is "DeR Sagen-Zunkruft: The Future's Holdings" (the capitalized "R" and "S" meant to be symbolic of RuneScape's initials) (I believe "Der" is "the" in German, "Sagen" is "telling", and "Zukunft" is "future", which is intended to translate to something like "The telling of the future".). The passage below is meant to be part one that tells the past of what happened before telling the stories of what happens in what would be the story's present day.

The style of narration I use in DeR Sagen-Zunkruft (would that be abbreviated as "DSZ"?) is similar to and influenced by the opening cutscene in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in that the narrator is talking to the player [(though it would be the reader in this case)], and tells the history of what happened so far. The style of narration used can be confusing at first. It's sort of like a one-way conversation without any quotation marks, since it's the narrator that's talking and explaining things.

Oh, hello traveler. Welcome to our meager village. You don't look like you're from these parts. We've been getting a lot of folk like you for decades. It was really easy to tell that you're not from around here by your face. No scarring, cleanly shaven, and all. Do you have any idea year it is? 169, you say? I'm afraid that you're horribly mistaken. It's Year 230.

Now, now, calm down. This may be a sudden, drastic and permanent change, but I have many stories in this old mind of mine to share...

****

It started probably a month before you last remember. The Misthalin government had a destructively simple theory: if they could create a hybrid of an incantation and a spell of massive destruction, they would have any enemy of their's at their knees in no time.

The paranoid Sir Varze of Asgarnia (have you heard of him?) got wise, and rounded up a group of their own to make their own spell to counter the Avvarrockans'.

It went to Hell from there.

In the early hours of the morning of the ninth of Wintumber, King Roald III received word that Asgarnia had supposedly completed their own version of the spell-incantation hybrid, while Roald's men had not yet completed their's. Before even the sun awoke, the two nations were at war with each other out of fear.

They cast their spells at each other not even half-a-dozen times each and the world as the way it is now.

The first spells engulfed an area half the size of Varrock at once. Each time they were used, the effects of the subsequent casts were even stronger. It ended with the final blasts taking out all of Asgarnia, Misthalin, and most of Kandarin along with them.

Up not to far north, the Wilderness survived. Why? No one has been sure why since.

Al-Kharid and the deserts to the South were left with some sort of aura around it. All life died there within a week. After a month, it was a wasteland--and has been since.

No word was ever received from Karamja, and, figuring how far away it is from here in Canifis, we can't see it even if we tried.

The same goes for the areas far in the West.

Morytanians, as far as we know, were the only ones to start civilation(s) after the event. Though, for us, it wasn't peaceful. For the last two centures and a score and a half, five tribes (some claiming to be "clans" or "empires") have made up the area that used to be Morytania.

We are the Canifites of the Canifis-based tribe: population just over twelve hundred.

To the East are the Plasmites; allies of our's. They are the most industrius people, our main supplier of weapons and armor. Their city is the second best when it comes to fortification. Its walls have never been breached.

Third is the Woryysse Empire. Since the Barrovians destroyed them (I'll get to them in a bit) two years ago, they've been rumored to have found a new home and started over again, but no one has ever found them--and lived to tell of their new loci, that is.

To the South-East is the Mejiertch Empire, possibly ex-allies with the Woryysse Empire depending on their survival. The Mejiers are large and very militant: about four thousand inhabitants total. It is commanded by Emporer Ronpu IV, a wicked man. He has human sacrifices on a weekly basis to appease their make-believe god "Holy Meiyer the Strong", who, according to their adopted mythology, had slain Saradomin, Zamorak, and Guthix all at once before resurrecting Zaros and killing him, too. They're not as bad as the last group, though.

In an area only the brave and stupid dare to go, the South, are the Barrovians of the Barrovian Clan--masters in necromancy, and the only tribe to re-learn Runecrafting and Magicks after the destruction of the Mainland. They have no allies, solely because they aren't willing to make any. They see themselves as the only ones with the right to live, and have a need to kill all others who aren't born of their blood and their land.

It's been a two-on-two-on-one war like this for almost two hundred and thirty years now. And who is winning? If anyone, the Barrovians.

Though, I bet you are just itching to know why the Glardmonger you're here in our Sixth Age. (Oh, did I mention that? It's not the Fifth Age anymore. A short bit after it happened, it was decided that the calendar was to be reset, since nearly nothing was the way it was.)

A small percentage, probably something like point oh-oh-two, of those caught in the blasts were sent through time. Depending on how long you traveled through time, you got sent to a different point in the future. Possibly something as insignificant as a tenth of a second would send a year or two later into the future. People like you have been popping up all over the place since Year 29 when it was first documented.

You were lucky, though. You could have landed in the ocean for all we know; or even into the grips of the Barrovians.

No matter, we should be glad that you are even alive.

...

To be honest, we have are very lacking when it comes educational systems. We could really use you as a teacher, a scientist, or anything so that you will share you knowledge that has been lost over the years. Please, take your time.

Now, here is the article you said that I should do, 'telling my side of the story' of the RuneScape Wiki Civil War match. I wrote it in first-person, since that seemed easier to do on my part. If you'd prefer third-person, feel free to change it to be so. It only covers the first match, since that was the only one I was at, and is the only one I can honestly document.

On the morning of the scheduled matches for the RuneScape Wiki Civil War, I got up noticeably early: six o'clock on the morning. I booted up my computer and logged into RuneScape to wait until the event was going to happen.

I was one of the first to the Clan Wars lobby, so I hang out there as others came one by one.

Once everyone who was coming was there, it didn't turn out to look that good for the Army of the RuneScape Wiki. If I remember right, there was a total of three members on my faction. For The Rebellion? Oh, about seven.

Degenret, the leader of The Rebellion in Caleb's absense, decided to make it more fair, and politely allocated members of his forces over to mine, making it a more enjoyable five-on-five match.

After some more chit-chatting, we got the war underway. The forces under my command used the standard flank,-ambush,-and-relocate strategy. We flanked their forces, and waited until a member of their team was unlucky enough to come into our metaphorical crosshairs. I gave the order to pile, and they went down in two seconds tops. It was pwnage on our part.

Well, I tried to group the others together to find a new location because that person we so peacefully happened to have killed would be alerting the rest of our team to my team's location, but before we could set up a second ambush point the rest of The Rebellion counterattacked against us.

We fell back to single-combat, as per the strategy, but ended up winning in that no members of the opposing team entered the arena in time after being killed.

In the lobby, some flaming ensued. I offered a rematch to Degen since it was hopefully going to at least be a 'best two out of three' event. Degen, instead, took the event into the free-for-all arena. Since I was- and still isn't -the type of person to necessarily enjoy free-for-all Clan Wars combat, I left to resume training Cooking since it seemed that no second war was going to happen.

So, yeah. Do your editing, British spellingification, and whatnot. I'll try my best to have a part two for DeR Sagen-Zunkruft for next month. :) 	+

*almost submits edit, but goes back and continues typing*

Oh, I just remembered something. Back in early 2007, I wrote a one-shot story set in Kandarin about Castle Wars, titled "Kandarin: The Fourth Empire". Could you mind publishing that too? Heh heh heh. Thanks, 06:11, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

RSWP/August
Hey,I've finalised the July articles for release,and I was wondering if I should go ahead and make the August RSWP. The July article looks really good,we have plenty of Fan Fiction,and everything else. see ya round. -- 17:41, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Here's my submission, Stories of Hemenster, Part One. The blurb for it is included in there. Thanks! Ugozima 18:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

The Misthalin Overlord - Chapter 4
Just finished writing chapter 4. Read it here. I hope I did well. :) Fortis3 18:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Violence and fan fiction
I've read some of the fan fiction in Issue #4, and I am surprised as some stories contained ultra-violence. Examples include:
 * beheadings
 * chopping off hands or legs
 * stabbing yourself in the heart
 * etc.

I find some of these stories too gory and violent to my liking. I've toned down some of it, but I think we should not encourage too much violence in the newspaper. 19:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

re: Chia's opposing article
Dear Mr. Editor, Sir,

I'd suggest running Chia's article as a separate article in the July Water Cooler instead of trying to stitch the two articles together. Each is interesting and works as separate article. Maybe title them "Clan War Shenanigans: Caleb's Side" and "RuneScape Wiki Civil War: Chia's Side" and run one under the other. That way, each side has their voice in what happened, and the newspaper can claim each side had a chance to present its view.

Yours in fair and balanced reporting.

The RuneScape Wiki Post: Giving Wikians a voice since April 2009 ™

Comics
Hi there. I got a question - I've seen that you guys have to review several of the things that are going to be published in the newspaper, and I was wondering if that applies to comics too? Antonstaen 10:44, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

RSWNP
You are the main editor for the RSWNP. I've signed up here. Now can I just make a story or classified or do I have to like submit it to an editor? I am confused. 13:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

A couple things...
03:53, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I wanna try a Fan Fiction story. If you object in the next twelve hours, I won't. But if you don't. It'll be on my sandbox.
 * W00t!
 * That was for absolutly no reason.
 * Thanks for the help with whatever you edited on my articles! (I don't have it memorized, so I dunno what you did) I'm american, so (unfortunatly) I can't spell the European way. (ie, color to me, colour to you. But you know that.:P)
 * At least America's not gonna last much longer!

Newspaper ad
Hi, This is Scimitar77, and I would like to put an ad in the wiki newspaper for a new resource shop I am hoping to open to wikians. I do not care if I have to wait awile to get it in the paper, and if you want more info just leave me a message on my talk page, and thank you :)-- 22:13, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Too late for an article for the July paper?
Hi, Jack,

I have an idea for an article. Is it too late for the July paper? Should I just write it up for August? It is kind of timely. 14:06, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey, Jack
Hey, Jack, I'm an old friend you might know. Anyway, I have made 2 editorials on my sandbox. I need YOU to post it on the RSWNP. I have no idea how to post it (And don't make me try!) so I need you to do it. See my sandbox to view it.

Sincerly,

17:45, 22 July 2009 (UTC) 	+

Thanks
Thanks, Jack-Jonny-o!

01:06, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

P.S. Can you post a wiki ad in the RSWNP for my Bank Store? I haven't made it, so can you make it (show it to me, and I'll see it) Take as much time as you need. (Just don't take a year)

P.P.S. You should probably archive your talk page. It's 40 Kilobytes long...

Bank Store
Hey, Jack, have you seen my userpage? Man tag1 has been making (snigger snigger) funny stuff 4 me... I can't stop laughing... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

16:49, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

My story
I worry it is too rushed. then again, the whole purpose of an intro is to get passed all the seamingly needless information then cutting to the chase only to figure out that it was more important than you thought.

Intro Miles away from civilization, food, or water, lies the Duel Arena of Al Kharid. The harsh dessert and cruel winds show little promise for the unseasoned adventurer. The bravest of warriors come for one of the greatest past times of Gielinor, but even those so mighty are still mortal and require the assistance of nurses before they can brave the dessert again. An uncommon event is to take place: a new nurse is going to try out for the job. Mouna Medb, a tall, Arab, girl from Pollnivneach, plans to try out for the job. “And that is how to treat for internal hemorrhaging,” said Surgeon General Tafani. She had saved the most interesting concepts for last, as the training was being wrapped up after several weeks. It was time to fit Mouna with her uniform. Tafani dressed her in a white apron with the red Saradomin symbol (with a matching hat) and was given a small package. “The Standard Prayer book does not include all the prayers needed to heal. This was handcrafted at the monastery with an extra prayer “Persistence of Memory.” Mouna opened up the leather bound case, holding the different prayers. The book itself was more of a case that held the small, pained, wooden prayer-charms. Each charm sat in a cubby-hole with the words of its prayer pained beneath it. “It’s beautiful, but what is the extra prayer for?” replied Mouna. Tafani said back, “you will find out, all in good time.” As the weeks went on, Mouna found that her patience where able to remember how exactly they where injured, and she remembered just how to fix it. This prayer opened many new opportunities, and just in time for her vacation. With a much higher hitpoints and prayer level after the training, a trip to the wilderness seamed in order.

02:09, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikifest
19:00, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

RSWP
Hey Jack,I know I've not been very helpful on to the August RSWP as of late,but I got a new story I want you to look at,it's here. Don't worry,I'll still get the SOB chapter lV up soon,somehow. Anyway,I had an idea to make SOB concurrent with the Story, so I'll have it up soon. -- 01:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jack! I hope to see you at the wikifest.... -- 23:11, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Hiya
Hey Jack,I've archived your talk pagetalk page,as it was about 40kb long....Anyway,I'm still working on the paper,and I think you should tell Chia to get another Chief Editor,because if you're inactive,you are getting a lot of content piling up behind you....-- 18:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

P.S. I hope to see you at the *****est

The Misthalin Overlord - Chapter 5
Just finished writing Chapter 5! Look at it here. Hope you like it! :)

Stone of Bandos - Chapter IV
Heya Jack,I've finished SoB - Chap. 4,I need you to check it for me,you can see it at:User:Sir Scizor1/Sandbox. Check it,edit it,and please approve it. Thanks Jack. -- 15:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

P.S. Don't Worry about posting it,I'll handle that.

Hmm..
Hey, I was wondering if you were the guy who does that lending service? If you are, would you be able to lend me a Godsword in a few weeks (any godsword.), if your not the lending guy, do you know someone who could lend me one? Lol thanks.

Ooo, thanks anyway.

clan stuff
I started the cc, "TheBladesof0" (the blades of zero). if we can talk about the rest in game at some point we can get everything elce together. I will not be in game much today, so we need to find a time to do that. 12:25, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Enigma made us a logo, so I sysoped him. come to the wiki and I will b'crat you. Bonzii was also sysoped so he could help should he ever want to. http://thebladesofoblivion.wikia.com/wiki/The_Blades_of_Oblivion_Clan_Wiki 02:32, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

RSWP Classified
Well, I've got my ad all set up and ready to go, but was wondering-should i send it directly to you (or tienjt0) or someone else?

11:28, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

New editorial
Hey, Jack. I made a new editorial/Water cooler in my sandbox. Can you post in the September issue?

16:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Evil Yanks interview
This was interview was conducted on MSN so may have a few MSN errors, I went through the spelling myself and aligned questions which had multiple answers and/or another question tagged onto it.

Hello, evil yanks thank you for agreeing to take this interview


 * That is ok; it is an honour to be interviewed


 * Was it a surprise?


 * Very. I don't think that I am interesting enough to be interviewed


 * Oh really? Why.


 * I don't feel that I do anything interesting on the wiki. I don't really do anything unique that nobody else can do. I mainly just check spelling and revert vandalism. Boring


 * But evil your edits still make a difference, even if they are small, they still add up. You wouldn't have been given administrator rights if you didn't make a difference.


 * I am not saying that I don't make a difference; I just don't do anything unique. Morian Smith creates amazing history articles; Quarenon does everything HTML, Degenret acts reclusive. I just revert vandalism and act civil.

Is there anything on the wiki that you regret doing in your time?


 * The most obvious one was what happened in the clan chat when I first discovered it. I was brand new in the cc, and the conversation went to swear words that were not censored. For some reason since we were talking about them, I decided it would be a good idea to give an example of how you could say the "f" word uncensored. I am amazed that I was not kicked for it...


 * Lol, how many ranked people were in the clan chat at the time?


 * I would say about half a dozen. I apologised profoundly after it though since I realised what I did.

Ok, now I’m going to ask you a couple of quick-fire questions What would you say your favourite type of food is (Chinese, Italian, ETC.)?


 * Curries, I love them! Or would that be called Indian food??


 * Yep, I think so

What would you say (If you liked them) your favourite car is?


 * I don't have one. I have no interest whatsoever in cars.

How old are you?


 * 16

Do you plan to have a car when you are older?


 * Yep, though it will be something boring like a Toyota...

How did you feel when degenret nominated you for adminship?


 * Honoured and shocked simultaneously. I really wasn't expecting it so it was a nice surprise.

Would you say you've had more attention as an admin?


 * Attention from who??


 * Users in general


 * I don't think so. I have not noticed anything so I don't think so.

Have there been any funny times as an admin?


 * I have only been an admin for a fortnight, so there hasn't really been much of a chance for anything funny to happen. I am still the same as I was pre-admin; I just have a green name now.

Is there anybody who inspires you on the wiki?


 * This is a stranger choice, and he has no idea but I am inspired by Morian Smith the most. I am jealous of his natural talent to put together gripping articles on more obscure topics, and have a few times have tried to write one though can never come close to the quality of his work.


 * I wrote that sentence horribly =P

What would you say your best edit at the moment is?


 * I have never really made any major edits to the wiki that are noteworthy... when I first joined the wiki I added a lot to the Forum page, though that was ages ago. That was just quantity though, not quality.


 * [I struggled with that question]


 * I could tell ^^

I'm just going to depict a scene here

 What if somebody went up to you on Runescape, and said "Do you know any runescape fansites which are good" what would you say?


 * I would either just say "Sorry, no" or "I like the RuneScape equivalent of FunOrb Wiki".

If you can answer this, would you say that you are a good editor?


 * I would say that I am a good editor. There are many, many more editors that are better than me though.

What are your views of vandalism?


 * Based on how other people respond, I get the impression that I am kind to vandals. With the exception of over-the-top racism or language, I will always give a warning. I find that vandalism is due to people thinking that they are anonymous rather than because they want to disrupt the wiki.

Do you tend to use the rollback feature more than the undo, or the other way round?


 * I use rollback much more then undo. Undo is used if the edit can be salvaged into a constructive sentence. Rollback is for a bad edit. IMO, undoing an edit but not leaving a message is the same as rollbacking.

Ok, just a few more questions What pages do you edit the most?


 * Most of my edits will have been on mainspace pages with lots of text. This is because they are the most likely to have spelling mistakes though.

You have become rather a legend at correcting spelling, what made you pick spelling over other subjects?


 * The main reason for spelling is because I have a spell-check automatically on Firefox that only uses British spelling. It isn't a great story.

Finally, what do you aim to do on the wiki in the future?


 * I don't have any big goals. I want to become more involved in YG I guess

Ok then, thank you evil yanks for your time.


 * That is ok. Thanks for the questions.

Never mind, I have sent to tjent 04:44, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Uberbox
I'm sure you know I make userboxes, so I made the one you wanted. (Don't be creeped out if it was fast,I saw the recent changes.) Here it is:

The code is:

There you go. If you want changes,don't hesitate to ask. -- 20:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hehe, nice userbox. I'd use it, but then it'd mess up my organization. I'm sure many others would like to use this userbox though.  12:37, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Kyle Katarn....
Lol....just abit after our Kyle Katarn discussion I found this...soooo funny lol http://boards.theforce.net/literature/b10003/24965494/p1/?125 -- 23:08, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

RSWN
I have interviewed Powers for the Newspaper, but I am not sure if it is a success or not. I didn't want to just ask normal questions about "why you joined the wiki" and such, though I might have made it a horrible interview in the process of doing this. You can reject it if you don't think it is on par with the rest of the paper. It is located in my sandbox. 11:38, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

God damn it
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb228/clv309/c0f74b19.png

You had better fucking stop saying shit about me, especially stuff that is untrue, in the cc when I am not there. I am so sick of EVERYTHING that you have said about me so if my name even crosses your mind, IGNORE IT AND DON'T SAY ANYTHING. This is your FOURTH and FINAL warning. Christine 17:26, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If you don't know what's going on and you want to be left alone then leave ME alone and stop talking about me! It's like you have this desire to spread shit about me that you can't control - well control it! Stop believing stuff that OTHER people said. Read this and leave me the hell alone. Christine 17:54, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

RE:
I like the puzzles as well, and I was also undecided about the reward at first, but I don't see any huge problems it would cause. 14:40, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

The Misthalin Overlord - Chapter 6
You know the drill. :P Here it is. :) 01:12, 31 August 2009 (UTC)