Archive for 'Mafias, Gangs and Virtual Governments'
Ruby Wilde vs. Land Baron One Song
Life on the Jessie/Stanford Border gets curiouser and curiouser. As reported earlier, One Song and The Associates have bought up most of the sim of Stanford, but remaining small patches were still owned by me and Ruby Wilde. I traded the Associates for another piece of land, but negotiations with Ruby broke down in a [...]
Full StorySkirmishes Break Out on Jessie/Stanford Border
The tensions along the Jessie/Stanford Border boiled over last night and Jeff Linden was called in to mediate a charge by James Few that One Song had hit him with a spamming script that followed him back into his home territory. Following is an edited transcript of key elements of the exchange. As noted earlier, [...]
Full StoryStuttgarter Zeitung examines Alphaville mafias
S? Iwersen, of the Stuttgarter Zeitung has just published part one of a two part article on Alphaville — this part dedicated to the golden age of Alphaville when JC Soprano of the Sim Mafia squared off agains the SSG. Lots of discussion of Piers and Jen and JC. I only have the article in [...]
Full StoryTensions rise on the Jessie/Stanford border.
One Song and Tank Levy of the Associates recently purchased nearly the entire sim of Stanford, putting them in a direct path between the teleport hub and the most popular location on Second Life, Club Elite. It also puts them smack on the border of Jessie. No one knows for sure what kind of project [...]
Full StoryChad Thomas found innocent.
A lot happened in the week I was offline, so again apologies for being slow to report all this. One of the bigger stories of the past week has to be the trial of Chad Thomas in the AVG election-fixing saga. Chad was found innocent, which is just as well IMHO — he was just [...]
Full StoryWWIIOLFalconBK Hanks banned!
Seems like just the other day that we reported on the dispute between Pancake Stryker and WWIIOLFalconBK Hanks. Falcon owned huge regions of Jessie, and was a major player in that sim, but his account was terminated a couple days ago. We are looking to interview Falcon and get clear on the details of this [...]
Full StoryFormer AVP Veep Marcus Forlourne Speaks Out: Mr-President Should Resign!
In this interview, former AVG member and subsequent President of the Calvin?s Creek Government Seth Galloway, talks to Marcus Forlourne, formerly the Attorney General and then the Vice President of the Alphaville Government. Although very close to Mr-President, Mr. Forlourne is concerned that the election supervisor was ?coerced? into resigning, and Forlourne now believes that [...]
Full StoryRumors of our Death are Greatly Exaggerated. Interview with Acting SSG Overlord Greg-
When the history of Alphaville is written, the Simulated Shadow Government (SSG) will figure prominently. In recent months, most of the original officers of the SSG (Mia Wallace, Snow White, etc) have moved on to other MMORPGs (SWG, City of Heroes, etc.) and the SSG has become a kind of ?Uberguild? that operates across games [...]
Full StoryMr-President misses state of union address. Is the end near?
In two important recent stories, the Alphaville Gazette reports that Mr-President missed his scheduled state of the union address. No explanation was given by his office. Meanwhile, in an interview with Marcus Forlourne, conducted by Ian, we learn that Mr-President was in fact present when discussion of the election rigging took place. Was he AFK? [...]
Full StoryInterview with Opfor founder Jack Orlowski (aka bicycle maker William Bukowski)
Jack Orlowski (Jacko) is kind of legend around Jessie, both for founding Opfor, and also for the exquisite detail on his guns. He?s been away for a bit, and is now trying to scrape together some cash to reactivate his Jacko account (too much land can put you in hock to the Lindens, it seems), [...]
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