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Ban Keylek for banning Pushkatu. Ban Pushkatu for banning Dezi. And ban Dezi for being so friendly. lolz! :wink: Ban Dark0ne six times: one for every year this cool site has been in operation. :cool:

It began by a shallow ocean blue pond among a few old pines and oaks. Sitting watching the water flow, listening to the birds singing, frogs chirping, and several bees buzzing was a woman lying on a blue and yellow blanket. A picnic basket filled now with only empty bags and wrappers lied beside her. She was a short woman with long curly black hair, wooden brown eyes, and wore a dress the same color as the water that reached down to her black shoes. She was very young looking for being a person of thirty one years. She gazed out upon the sun setting off to the west surrounded by a sky filled with countless shades of brilliant pinks, reds, oranges, and indigos. Her name was Lina Mercedes, a native to Quito, married for seven years to Francisco Mercedes, also a native to Quito. Her husband was currently working as an executive over at a public local bank that had been rebuilt two years earlier after the previous building had been destroyed when a public bus crashed into the building and caused it to collapse several years earlier. She, Lina, worked over at a nearby hospital as a nurse, an occupation that she as a young child always wanted to have. With the possible and fortunate exception of mass-plastic recycling, the world had made almost no visible technological advances since the early 21st century. This was due to many problems, including things like wars, gas prices, natural disasters, and so forth that occurred at the turn of the 20th century. Developing countries saw this time as an opportunity to catch up, provided they weren’t facing such common issues as well, rarely being the case. “Why can’t we humans ever get along for once?” she had often asked Ana and Mary, her two closest friends. The only answer that left their mouths was always, “Don’t ask me!” While lying down on the blanket, her head was filling up with thoughts. She was remembering many things she heard and read about the abnormal phenomena occurring currently in the United States. The world was changing there, though many did not blame it on global warming. Las Vegas, for example, was no longer surrounded by desert, but by coniferous forests. Anchorage was now known well for the cacti that grew throughout the city. While pines were flourishing in Nevada, They were dying out in and around Seattle and throughout the northwest being replaced by bayou trees. The state of Washington, once called the “Evergreen State” was now called the “Bayou Northwest”. But the most abnormal of occurrences happened in and around the city of Nashville, Tennessee. With a population of over four-and-a-half million people in both town and in the suburbs, it, along with Atlanta, Memphis, and Miami, was among the most important trading cities of the south and grew into a prize port along the Cumberland river, dangerously close to one enemy of the United States and growing world-power, Olvusulthia. Among such occurrences in Nashville was the fact that though once being in a temperate zone area, it was now warming up to that of a tropical-like zone. Light would randomly flash through the ground on any day, sometimes frightening people who believed that the local foliage was radioactive, even though it wasn’t. Upon leaving the city however, the temperature at a certain point, would adjust itself to the normal temperature of the time of year often making ones body adjust to the sudden change in temperature. People called Nashville, “Nashiami”, a cross between Nashville and Miami. The city’s weather was also very unpredictable, having completely clear weather one day but then receiving a torrential downpour the next. Many people also thought that they could on occasion see wormholes open above the city skyline during the night hours, particularly over the tallest building in the city more than eighty stories tall that stuck out the city’s core like a tree in a desert. Many blamed the city’s unnatural phenomena to be caused by Olvusulthia, also the Earth’s youngest, only underground nation, home to the world’s most advanced technology, military forces, education, healthcare, resource production, and manufacturing. It was a highly experimental country directly beneath Nashville. Ten years earlier, the Olvusulthian leader, Jreksiveri’i had transformed Olvusulthia into a separate country from the U.S. Before then, Olvusulthia was the first and so far, only successful underground settlement. On December 9, 2034, Olvusulthia declared their independence from the United States to form their own country. Olvusulthia is the name they gave, derived from their language. Olvusulthian, the language, was a major combination of many of the world’s major languages. They fought a five year war against the U.S was highly similar to the Revolutionary War of 1775. In the end, the U.S spent trillions of dollars on a lost war shifting the country into a worse state of bankruptcy than what Iraq had made it into. The victorious Olvusulthians had since been conducting thousands of successful experiments and made countless of technological achievements, including military achievements, educational achievements, and medical achievements. With a money-free, pollution-free environment complemented with a wide variety of vegetation, perfect temperatures year-round, the world’s best trained army, best scientists, best teachers, and most medical workers, Olvusulthia was easily more than five hundred years ahead of its time in every field imaginable. Something which David A. Nale, President of the United States, was most envious of. Olvusulthia was actually a huge underground city that could simulate day and night, besides its great climate, typically between 75-85 degrees Fahrenheit in the summertime, 65-75 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and 70-80 degrees Fahrenheit in the spring and autumn. It was a utopia that one couldn’t just enter with a passport because there were no passports to Olvusulthia. To enter, one must have permission directly received from and signed by Pordenta Jreksiveri’i himself, as he was known to the whole world as. Olvusulthia was crowded with buildings, many of which towered even more than one hundred stories over the cave floor. The bustling city’s population had recently peaked over five hundred million of the Earth’s ten billion people, and the number of invited people was increasing rapidly.

Ban everyone who has posted on this topic for being good sports. :biggrin:

Ban Wasder for having only waited 3 hours to return to Nexus. I had to wait 24! :rolleyes:

I agree with Pushkatu. I like it when the Neus runs properly. Unlike today, for whatever reason. :rolleyes:

Ban Pushkatu for being the top poster today :P

Ban everyone who has pictures in their sig. :P

I ban Pushkatu for banning everyone in the site. I also ban smilies! :verymad: :ohmy: >:(

Ban Josh and his awesome signature. ;) Ban Dezi for banning me because I banned myself after saying ban too many ban times, lol!

Ban Dezi and Pushkatu for being the top banners in a banning site where banners ban banners using bans! Ban me for saying ban so many times! Ban the School District for closing school Friday :D !

Ban wasder for banning philo for not banning anyone in a while.

Ban Pushkatu for his cool new LotR signature and avatar. Ban Dezi for banning me because I didn't share my subway that I paid for with her. Ban Keylek for puttin my star rating up. Ban myself for giving Keylek a kudo. :biggrin:

I ban Keylek because of his avatar and for banning me because I ate Subway. ;D And because you left out the 's' at the end of my name.

I ban you again Pushkatu for banning me and your dog for barking too much. :P And I ban myself for eating at Subway again. :rolleyes:

And for not still having built a title.

16 and still getting up there.

Ban everyone who doesn't have an avatar.

So it seems the majority of people yet like Reilly's Raiders. I like it too, but I just felt like it was a little too long. I had to leave the hotel building over three times to keep emptying myself of the loot I carried. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion however, and I will respect that. Keep voting!

Personally, my favorite quest is "You Gotta Shoot 'em in the Head", because you can go around and kill the three guys for their keys, or use special interations to scare them to hand over there keys. Plus, it was fun to hand the keys over Mr. Crowley (you can also kill him first and keep the keys), then kill him for the keys to Fort Constantine. Or even better, pickpocket him for the keys and go over to Fort Constantine, kill all the robots there and for the best part. Looting Fort Constantine, with the special T-51b Power Armor (arguably the best in the game), a Fat Man, some mini-nukes, and two whole storage rooms filled with ammo and weapons. At that point, it was even funnier to return to Underworld and return to Mr. Crowley wearing the T-51b armor, pretty muching throwing it all in his face. Finally, I just took out my combat shotgun and blew his head across North America to finish it off. Pwned! :biggrin: Loot in that quest was awesome; completely worth the trouble, I say.