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Region: The East Pacific

Zukchiva wrote:
It was a stormy night in June. The city streets were backlit by the new modern street lamps that the mayor had ordered. All was going well, but a few young teenagers conspired in a dim and dark basement...


Photographer's Representation of the Historic Gathering

The teens had recently been called by their leader, the great "Reaper". He was known as that name when he knocked out the school terror "Big Bob" with a single punch. Now, he was about to revolutionize the world once again.


A picture of Reaper in an office costume

You see, in recent years it had become a trend for teenagers to type their usernames for various websites in lowercase letters. None of them had style. None of them were classy. Yet, the teens kept doing it anyway, and eventually, the habit spread to almost every single site with a log-in page. A desperate situation, yet why was no one acting?

And so the friends had gathered to conspire, with the Reaper saying these legendary words:

"We may not change anything in this world, but the least we can do is show the world how it can change itself! For capital case letters!"

However, the meeting was quite boring. Needless to say, the teenagers decided to set up their first target: an often unheard of the social site called NationStates.

The adventurous teens logged on... then forgot their tasks for a while as they became within the NS community. But a time came when the revolution was called for. Again, times became desperate, and the teenagers realized their mission had not been forgotten... it had been merely asleep. The plan took place on the same day they received the revelation.

The time was now, or never.

The teens got onto their computers and randomized the letters in their usernames. Then, they made themselves public once more.

The revolutionary ideas spread by the Reaper soon took root in the small NationStates community. Soon, the revolution was spreading as people all over NS changed their usernames. Nicknamed the Revolution Against the Modern Universe or R.A.M.U. for short, it quickly spread enlightenment throughout NS. Gameplay, roleplay, hell even issue-answerers were joining in on the revolution.


The propaganda spread by R.A.M.U. to increase conversion rates.

But all good things had to come to an end. You see, this wasn't the first revolution that NS had undergone. In fact, it was the 69th. By now, NS had a secret alarm system for these kinds of events. Triggering such alarms spawned some of the most hated enemies in all time.

"THE GRAMMAR POLICE".

The Grammar Police, along with support from the Armed Forces of Boredom and Disinterest, took their iron fist and politically correct grammar usage against the forces of R.A.M.U.

Originally, it seemed that R.A.M.U. had a chance. Afterall, capitalization was not the same thing as grammar, so the Grammar Police's weapons were not that effective. But as more A.F.B.D. reinforcements arrived, more and more people began to give up and return to their usual ways.


G.P. units engaging R.A.M.U. forces with one A.F.B.D. infantry unit on recon duty.

Soon, R.A.M.U. was becoming decimated as A.F.B.D. reinforcements won battle after battle. Knowing that their time was drawing to a close, Reaper chose to sacrifice himself so that the last forces of R.A.M.U. could be saved.


[i]The last photo taken of Reaper before the fatal battle.

The battle raged for three days and three nights, with both sides fighting fiercely, and dare I say, honorably. But eventually, the unthinkable happened.

The Reaper fell. Hit in the back with a knife from a sniping position, he had no chance of survival. However, his noble sacrifice was not in vain.

For, in fact, the alarm system determined that R.A.M.U was no longer a threat. All A.F.B.D. forces, as well as Grammar Police, retreated back to their bunkers, after destroying all evidence of revolution.

The survivors, realizing that there was nothing left for them to accomplish, for now, walked off into obscurity. Maybe one day, they will bring back R.A.M.U.'s enlightenment for all.

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Great, I made a great meme

reet

Nice. Why is the GR holding a clipboard with EF1 on it? Is Eurician Fighter 1 (or somethin like that) the Grim Reaper?

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