Ping Pirates!

By Chloe Chue (Ping Pirates)
With Dimitri Skandalis and Nicky Meyer (Pirates Covent)

*Authors Note : As we want to put up this publication fast, I did not have time to consult Dimitri and Nicky more, appologies for that. However they gave me alot of material on their side of the war which I expanded upon, hence PC sections of the war is more brief.

Around 25th January 1600GMT, while the rest of Sios was making merry over the weekend event announcement, 2 groups of players were busy sharpening knifes, preparing gunpowder, and shouting their warcries. This is the clash of the pirates.

But let’s rewind for a moment to how the clash started. We got the Singapore clan (Temasek Hegemon), The Sword clan (Kusanagi), The revenge clan (Vengeance), The School clans (HCZD, ACS), the Seaman clans (SS Union, Seaman). And then you have Ping Pirates and Pirates Covent, the Pirates clan, or as some would put it, the real pirates and the pirates wannabes.

Every Singaporean student knows about ACS, HC, Raffles schools rivality. What nobody knows is the Pirates rivality. But unlike schools, pirates don’t try to “score more As than each other” or “Beat the other team in cross-country races” or “get more value-added awards” or “get a better cut-off point”. Instead we try to outsmart, out-joke, and of course out-drink each other.
When Pirates Covent took over Corxas Port (http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=18063885304&topic=6053) Ping Pirates took over Ping Port (http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=18063885304&topic=6553).

Finally enough is enough with all these lame contest, this calls for war. Hence Adrian Zhou (Ping Pirates leader) and Gordon Owens (Pirates Covent leader) declared war on each other.

As it was announced on BS forums, non-Pingsters and NPCs started getting excited. As Koh Wee Kiat said “Cool... Who will be the better pirate?”

People started rooting for favourites and taking bets.
Jeremy Hing : I am rooting for Ping
Gail Amilson Uy : Yeah go Ping
Zell Lin : I support Ping but if Ping loses please take off =X
Jeremy Gagne : Good luck to Ping they will need alot of it

Somebody even cheered my ship LOL...

Jing Yean : Fatty ftw!

With everybody excited, what happened after this? Stay tuned for Part 2, The Conflict.