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 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:19 pm
2005
These are the events that took place on 2005:
Second Gaian Anniversary Ball
Third Gaia Annual Ball
The Tower of Gambino
Easter 2k5
April’s Fools 2k5 (Tower Day)
Gino’s Return
Halloween 2k5
Jack vs. Santa
S Corp
Jack Vs. Santa (Part Two)
Christmas 2k5
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:23 pm
Second Gaian Anniversary Ball 2004 finished with a broke Jonnhy, an amnesiac Gino and a destroyed mansion. Gaians wondered, what was going to happen now? The Anniversary of Gaia was getting nearer and nearer, and no one knew where it was going to be held.
And that's where they came out; Anna Corine and Marie Von Helson, Jonnhy's new rivals.
As it turns out, their father had died and left them a large sum of money, making them the new richest women on Gaia, title which used to belong to Gambino. With a big mansion on Durem, the Twins hosted the Second Gaian Anniversary Ball.
One curious fact to be pointed out is that the Twins' father used to be in good terms with Gambino.
Gambino also went to the party - in fact, he arrived before the Sisters. A lot of NPCs were there, including Cindy Donovinh, Liam, who ran a store in the new town, Aekea, LabTech123 and LabTechX.
The Twins began to give out items, such as both sides of V Pins, Second Anniversary Ballons and Hats. In response, Jonnhy started distributing G Pins, which led to the creation of two sides: those who were with Gambino, and those who were with the Von Helsons.
Suddenly, the Twins kidnapped Gino and gave Jonnhy an ultimatum: he could either get his son back and inmediatly leave the mansion and Durem, or abandon Gino and continue what he was doing.
As it was to be expected, Gambino chose to get his son back and leave Durem.
With this, the ball was finished and everyone had to leave.
As for things that remain without an answer, they had a room upstairs in their mansion which was torn to shreds mysteriously. Perhaps most suspiciously, they were seen dealing with LabTechX at the Anniversary Ball, exchanging a hefty sum of money for a box of ambiguous purpose.
Resources: Gaiapedia.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:29 pm
Third Gaian Annual Ball This year the ball was hosted by a team of gaians lead by Razumi Yazura. They were given a forum, and sadly, there was no NPC-User interaction.
The theme for this Ball were planets - each planet had it's own room.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:51 pm
The Tower of Gambino
This would be the first time something plot-related happened and had nothing to do with a known holiday.
Around the time of March, whenever Gaians logged in Jonnhy would greet them and ask for donations to rebuild his empire - remember, he had lost his whole fortune after his mansion was destroyed to stop the zombie outbreak. During the first part of this 'Donation Drive', whenever you clicked on him there would appear a bar with an image of a mansion at the end. Once this bar was filled, a second bar appeared with an interrogation sign at the end.
That's when the construction of the infamous Tower began. Every 12 hours or so, the World Map would be updated with a new stage of the Tower finished. If you're interested in seeing how it all happened, please pass by here. At the end, the Tower by itself occupied four areas.
The Von Helson Twins' response didn't take long, and soon the girls were selling Anti-Gambino Signs. Jonnhy, who locked himself inside his mansion and wasn't looking quiet sane , gave to all of those who had donated to him freeAnti-Von Helson Signs (those who hadn't, could still buy them), and once again the rivalry between the supporters of the Twins and Gambino fired up.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:02 pm
Easter 2k5 On this event we met a new NPC, the Easter Bunny, a robotic and not very friendly-looking fellow.
Like in previous events, there was an Egg Hunt around the site - once you collected enough eggs, you had to find the Easter Bunny to give them to him, and then he would hide the baskets somewhere on the World Map.
This time, the items you could get were either a Bunny or a Chicky Mask. Images found at The Gaian Encyclopedia.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:34 pm
April's Fools 2k5
Tower's Day
After the previous year, Gaians logged in with caution, just in case the Admins decided to pull their legs again. However, they certainly did not expect what happened then, something so epic that changed the name of this holiday, for no gaian who witnessed it would ever called it April's Fools again.
This is the first time Gaia's storyline had a comic update to narrate the incidents.
The entrace of The Sniper, one of the most mysterious figures of Gaia's history, couldn't have been bigger - the cloacked individual shot the crazed self of Gambino, as he ran to hug Gino who had just recovered his memory. Jonnhy staggered backwards and fell towards the ground. And, just like a posessed beast, the Tower fell right after him.
That Tower was so big, that it's fall left a path of destruction across the World's Map. What's even more, it even crushed the Von Helson's mansion, destroying it and killing everyone inside it. Cindy soon appeared and made a report about it.
Images found at GAIA Plot.
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:09 pm
Gino's Return
Between April's Fools and Halloween 2k5 there were to plot updates.
The first one began with Sasha and Ian on Island de Gambino. As we find out from reading the Manga Update, they were on the beach looking for shells when they suddenly find an older, unconcious Gino. Sasha hurries to 'revive' him (much to the shock of Ian), and proceeds to take him home until he recovers.
We learn more about Liam, and then the update ends with a terrible cliffhanger.
The second part of this story proved that Gaians had an active imagination - Ian was simply cutting a piece of bread. Gino seemed to be getting better and better thanks to Sasha, and we meet once again with LabTech123 who, much to our surprise, didn't die during last Halloween's Bash.
Gino returned to the his mansion, and just when it looked like everything was alright, Ian found some mysterious pills on Gino's old bedroom.
Image found at The Gaian Encyclopedia.
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:37 pm
Halloween 2k5 One year has passed since the event that started it all: the zombie attack, and the destruction of Gambino's Mansion. There was expectation in the air, and this event certainly lived up to it.
The Head of Security, Bucho, informed us that Gino invited us to a party in the new mansion. Before the Bash started, however, a manga update informed us of what had been going on.
Gino had decided to rebuild G CORP, only this time there would be nothing shady about it. He then invites Sasha to dinner, and even though Ian doesn't trust him she decides to go.
Meanwhile, LabTech123, possibly forgetting the destiny of his companions, recreates the G Virus. It was all thanks to that little green bunny, who we think may have been one of the first victims of the mutated serum from last year.
Whatever LabTech123 planned to do with those bunnies we'll never know, because LabTechX appeared out of nowhere and released chaos inside Gambino's Mansion once again.
The zombies this time were called Grombies. Every Grombie had 3 stages of transformations, depending on how many grunnies the user had.
At 15 grunnies, you got a Grunny Shirt; at 35, Grunny Slippers. When you reached 176 grunnies, you became a First Stage Grombie; at 350 you were a Second Stage, and finally the Third Stage was achieved with 500 grunnies. Sadly, the level of difficulty and the lack of cooperation between users made reaching the final stage very hard.
A couple of hours before the Event was supposed to end, the Mansion caught on fire. A second manga update appeared, in which we can see how Gino sacrificed himself to save Sasha's life.
The Gambino's Mansion has been burned down for the second time. Only time can tell what will happen with the Gambino's legacy, now that both Father and Son are no longer here.
And who is that mysterious figure, dissappearing in the horizon...?
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:52 pm
Trick or Treating 2k5
ToT had to be held on a different day because the servers went down.
This time Jack was both in the World Map and in every Towns' fountain. In Towns, you had to get 100 candles and then find him - he would give you one of the Jack Bags, with parts of his uniform inside.
For some reason, the bag he gave out most was the one containing his pants.
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:59 pm
Jack Vs. Santa On the first week of November, we got a manga update. A very angry Santa appeared in Barton's square. He complaned about the users' misbehaviour during Halloween and the problems with the bags on Trick and Treating, and blamed Jack for all of this.
Of course, while he yelled to an invisible Jack, the real Jack appeared behing him - and he wasn't very happy. He then punched Santra and sent him flying into the air until he crashed over the Link List building, destroying it.
Much to our surprise, the real Santa (quite a smaller version) crawled out of the Mech Suit seriously injured. As he loses consciousness, he starts to remember the days of his childhood, when he was bullied by all the other Holiday NPCs, until Jack appeared and stood for him.
How come those two, who used to be such good friends, became such terrible enemies?
At the end, Santa is pronounced dead.
Who will take care of Christmas now?
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:46 pm
S CORP Three days later, a guild called S CORP was created. The similarities with G CORP were astounding - not only the logo, but it's members: little scientists called ElfTechs.
They had been recently recluted by Santa to make all the gifts for Christmas. They were worried about Santa's health, but his wife, Mrs. Clause assured them that he was alright.
Every ElfTech had a journal, which haven been recopilated here for all of your reading pleasures.
However, it doesn't take long for us to see that something darker is swimming in the depths of this facility. Mrs. Clause, far from being a jolly woman like her husband, was the one in charge of the guild. Santa did not appear until later, and only to give his 'employees' motivational talks and urge them to work nonstop to get the presents ready for Christmas.
During the last days of November, something goes wrong. It is believed a yeti outbreak happened, leading to several explosions, the possible destruction of S CORP and the death of most, if not all, the ElfTechs.
~Notes~ It seems they had used the G Virus, or at least a serum, left from G CORP to make the Mech Suit. It is still unknown if they used that same serum to revive heal Santa.
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:28 am
Jack Vs. Santa
(Part Two) Soon before Christmas, there was a manga update. Page 8 was cut in the current viewer, so you can see it here.
After a miraculous recovery, there's only one thought on Santa's mind: getting revenge. The serum S Corp had used somehow fused him into his Mech Suit. He went to Barton Town, where Jack was talking about his future plans for Halloween, and attacked him.
The fight between both Holiday Spirits promised to destroy everything around them. The G Team appeared (a trio of 'superheroes' conformed by Edmund, Old Man Logan and Leon), but they were no match to Santa's and Jack's rage.
Just then, someone got caught in the middle of the fight: Sasha, scared out of her witts, stood there in between. The Spirits hadn't noticed her, and ran towards each other, focusing all their strenght on one fist...
Out of no where he appeared. A cloacked figure stopped them, and with an amazing strenght sent the two Spirits flying into air. The hit somehow de-fused Santa, who fell to the floor next to Jack. In that moment, both of them started to remember their childhood, and became friends once again.
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:34 am
Christmas 2k5 Christmas was a heartwarming event. You could go carolling either in Towns or in the stores, from Christmas Day to New Years' Eve. Instead of getting the items from the store owners, though, it was Santa who gave out the gifts.
Besides that, there was a short manga update in which Cindy interviewed the new hero of Gaia, the Masque, who revealed to everyone that he planned on kissing Sasha on New Year.
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