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Could you guys keep for posterity the proposed state anthem and constitution (full version) Zane read out of the last day

Proposed Anthem for the State of Western

(to the tune of clementine)

  Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling State of Western

We will love you now and always, oh my darling State of Western

  By the mountain, by the mountain, Thunder Mountain shinning bright

With its crazy locomotives, and goat eating dynamite

  Over river, over river, over a river sickly green

Steams the great ship named the Mark Twain, our State’s great lady queen

  Golden Horseshoe, Golden Horseshoe, Golden Horseshoe saloon

Where we love to eat outlaw style, while we sit back and hear a tune

  River water, river water, and elixirs we love to drink

 We also love to play high card, and throw people in the clink

  With Frontierland, Rainbow Ridge, and the Native American village too

Sleepy hamlets, quaint and charming, except on weekends, when it’s a zoo

Wacky townsfolk, beloved by everyone, except that sneaky Zane

 His crafty scheming, and business ventures, are driving us insane

  How we’ll miss you, how we’ll miss you, how we’ll miss you State of Western

You will never be forgotten, oh our darling State of Western

  Proposals for the Constitution of the State of Western:

  The governor and assembly of the State of Western to be selected by all citizens of sound mind (folks having played LoF more than 2 weeks are deemed to not be of sound mind).

In honor of Pineapple Pete, the eating of pineapples is banned in the State of Western.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed, for both the Frontierland Times and Frontierland Gazette, except when that press claims its 1814

Citizens are restricted to 1 personality per citizen.

Law enforcement is required to kick its cowbell habit.

Free ice cream for Priscilla.

Having broken it once, Billy is not allowed anywhere near the Mark Twain.

Zane is not allowed to create any new business ventures or possess TNT.

Willum’s School of Lurnin is the official university of the State of Western.  In honor of Willum,  1+1 officially equals squirrel.

Fake western accents are prohibited after 6pm.

No daily weddings.

To conduct government business, you must have a cup of LB’s elixir.

No dishonoring the reputation of the honorable judges.

   Proposed flag of the State of Western: An orange rectangle emblazoned with a yellow W and a white horseshoe, both over a picture of Billy the goat eating dynamite.

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The Legend of “The Doc” by Faithful Companion

A mysterious character known as the Doctor (or as folks around here call him “Doc”) rolled into town piloting the Mark Twain.  No one knew much about him or where he came from.  There were rumors about a weird contraption he kept hidden on the Twain, but Doc didn’t like to talk about that.

He settled into town and started a doctoring office and got to know the town’s people.  Doc found a local side kick named Faithful Companion, who tried to assist him in his adventures and was active in campaigning for statehood for the Western Territories.  Doc didn’t get along with Willum at first (Doc was always chasing him with some do dad of his), but they eventually became good friends.   Doc admired Mac’s toughness, Red’s leadership and Chance’s dedication.  He enjoyed playing cards with Lucky Jim, drinking LB’s elixirs, and dancing to ho-downs played by Billy or Ollie.  But he had a special interest in Molly and Chance.

Doc saw some strange goings on in the town and tried to help, firstly by organizing a defense force, but it wasn’t very successful.  He investigated some trains running around without engineers.  He helped out when a strange illness broke out at the Native American Village.  And with the help of the Native Americans, he fought Railroad Tycoon to stop a railroad tearing down the Horseshoe.  Turns out the Railroad Tycoon was Faithful’s evil twin.

Then one day he met the Marshall and Tanto.  And he was very impressed with them because they were working for Unity.  He decided to join their efforts to bring peace to the town.  The Marshall even helped Doc out when he had a weird incident with his personality going all crazy, and becoming an outlaw.  Somehow the Marshall managed to fix him by fixing his watch.  Doc was impressed by the efforts of the Legends—whether Giggles’ friendliness, the judges’ fairness, Big Bad John’s flair, the strength of Bart and Pete, Dave’s inquisitiveness or the inventiveness of the newspaper men.  With Legends such as these, he felt comfortable leaving town now and then. 

Well the Doc was there while Chance was courting Molly.  And he was there on the day of the big wedding.  Doc was always protective of Molly, but Doc approved whence Chance finally convinced her to marry him, with Doc standing proudly behind Miss Molly during the ceremony. Doc even brought the Ring Bear to the wedding (he doesn’t know our ways and is a bit rubbish at weddings). The Ring Bear was pretty cuddly but ate all the wedding cake, and Doc felt sorry about that.

   Red gave some dynamite to the Doc.  Doc was going to use it to clear out some old mines that were polluting the watertable but the TNT went missing.  Turns out that Zane, in addition to his other crimes, had stolen the TNT to try to feed it to Billy the Goat.  But not all of it had been recovered.  Zane tried to bribe Doc claiming it was a new business, but Doc had none of it.

Well RR Tycoon had gotten together with a bunch of other villains to try and blow up the town.  They had taken the dynamite to use as a trigger for their bomb.

They kidnapped a guy by the name of Captain Jack who turned out to be the great great great great etc. grandchild of Molly and Chance.  Doc is really good friends with this Captain and he got together a bunch of his other incarnations, revealing himself to be a famous time lord in the process, to rescue Captain Jack and diffuse the bomb they were using with the TNT as a trigger.  If not for Docs efforts the town would have blown up, along with Molly and Chance, and Captain Jack would never have been born.  See what Zane’s shenanigans could have done: altered reality itself!   Doc thinks it would be fitting punishment to drop off Zane somewhere on a planet alone with Doris Day, but Willum would miss him too much.  Well the Doc kept investigating to see who could have organized all this, and with the help of his other incarnations, he found out his old nemesis the Master was behind things.  He challenged his foe to one final duel in front of the jail. 

But deputy Ace, exercising his right to put peace to the town, locked them all up instead.  Doc’s nemesis escaped to fight another day, but at least the town was safe.

Doc Loves everyone in Frontierland.  He wishes everyone all the best, and will sincerely miss all of you.  His Final words to the Town: “Perhaps one day I shall come back.  Perhaps one day.  Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties.  Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.  Goodbye my friends and until next time.”

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The Terrific Tales of Turn Up

So in town I’m known as Turn Up. I was there on the first day, and boy do I have some stories to tell.

- I actually played LOF on the very first day. They were having the very first land auction, and things were going crazy. RR pulled all their bits together and won. We took the deed back to the telegraph station only to discover that we had bought a mine. The 5 of us who contributed bits got like 60 bits back from the mine. 

- Pineapple Pete and One Eyed Bart were strong players at the beginning of LOF, so I should have known better than to run against them for President of Rainbow Ridge, but I did anyway. About an hour before the election I realized that I was going to loose, so I took drastic measures. I went to Fantasyland and bought a pineapple spear, and took a big bite of it during the election. Needless to say I lost, but at least I lost in style. 

- One day someone made a wanted poster with my face on it. I won the Rock, Paper, Scissors challenge multiple times, and at the end of the day I had almost 500 bits.

 - Now Squeaky Jean’s dad may be the real Sheriff, but while he’s away his daughter fills in. This particular day I had brought some “Deputy Sheriff” pins to the park and was giving them out. Not too long after I received a telegram from the Sheriff, addressed to me, asking me to watch after Squeaky Jean that day. So I became Sub-ti-tute Sheriff, and took the rap for Squeaky Jean.

- The same day Miss Priscilla told me that Willum needed to get a job already. So I got him one of my extra Deputy Sheriff badges. I helped him with a few arrests, and for once he spent a full day outside of the bars.

-Bonds became a thing so I turned in all the extra bonds I had, and wouldn’t you know it I had 1,000 bits, so I made the biggest bond I have ever heard of.

- With my large amount of bits I went to town one day only to discover that the price of buildings in town had reset, and most of the buildings were about 250 bits each. I decided to do something about that and turned all the building in town to Rainbow Ridge yellow.

- Unity has been a word thrown around town a lot lately, and one day there was a strong movement behind it. So when standing around I suggested a unity handshake for everyone to be part of. After a few moments of brainstorming we had 12 people in a circle doing the new unity handshake

- Thinking that the game was going to end September 1st I made some thank you gifts for the cast members who had made the game fun for me. I painted the blank bits blue, and put a big H in the middle of them, and handed them out as Hero coins. I even made a couple Legend coins for Squeaky Jean and Miss Priscilla.

- Some days the town is busier than others, and I like to do my part as good citizen. I ran the jail when I was Sheriff, I ran the trading post when land sales were neck and neck. And at the time of posting this I have now worked every location, to the point that I have gained access to the bits. Not that I would ever embezzle… - I would like to list this as my crowning achievement, throwing a wedding for 2 new players with only 3 hours notice. Town Riviera proposed to his girlfriend Jackrabbit (in real life) early in the day. Because it had happened in Frontierland, I decided they needed a wedding, so I called in some favors. We had Hon. Wanderin’ Wheely officiate, Lentil wrote a beautiful poem, Wiley performed a song, Banjo Murphy and Pineapple Pete were best men, The Fancy-full Mr. James made exceptional paper flowers, and I had custom name tags made my Opal, Dragon Lee, and Crazy Bill. Needless to say it was one of the biggest events to ever happen in that small town, and I got to take the credit as wedding planner.

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The Legend of Pineapple Pete and One-Eyed Bart

This is the tell of One-Eyed Bart and Pineapple Pete. This tale starts with Bart and his search on trying to become a outlaw of Rainbow Ridge and Frontierland. On one of his attempts of robbing a stage coach Bart tragically lost his left eye and had to start wearing a yellow bandanna over his left eye. Then out of nowhere he ran into a unique fellow named Pineapple Pete which is actually a Pineapple. Bart being the friendly outlaw helped Pete from being stuck in the desert and they became best friends and inseparable. Both Bart and Pete soon had luck and started to make a name for themselves by performing shenanigans of all sorts. From getting new folks arrested for screaming Ruckus in front of the sheriff and jail to both successfully hijacking the Mark Twain with a mob of Rainbow Ridgers. After some time both Bart and Pete climbed the Ranks of common Outlaws, to Hero Outlaws, and finally to Legendary Outlaws. Bart and Pete are both grateful and honored to have the chance to experience this great event and both do hope that this will return in time. Love One-Eyed Bart and Pineapple Pete

Forever Rainbow Ridge!!!

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Howdy y’all!! my name is Corrupted Kassie. I’m a Rebellious performer from my home town, Rainbow Ridge, just trying to make a living and become a Golden Horseshoe performer! I specialize in singing, acting, and song writing. I used to do some dancing at the golden nugget dance hall but once i heard the wonderful quartet in the big thunder saloon i knew that singing is what i wanted to do! I started performing in there on most weekdays but soon i was out of a job when the owner only wanted the quartet to sing. So now i have come over to Frontierland to try and gain a spot performing in the golden horseshoe. Hopefully soon i’ll be as good as Miss Lilly, Miss Rose, and Miss Violet! But for now this rainbow ridgier will work on getting the community to come together and help bring joy through songs based on peace and unity of our towns. 

My goal is to become a legend of songs. I want to bring our communities together through the joy of songs and performing. I have already won second place in a town talent show. First place went to a cute little tap dancer. she deserved to win though. I sang zip-a-dee-doo-dah and had a fun time seeing the two sides come together. I also performed a duet with the wonderful Molly Moonstone. We performed our singing spectacular in front of the golden horseshoe to show Miss Lilly that Molly didn’t need to perform in the golden horseshoe to become a great performer. The community was better because we appreciated her more. lastly i created a song that represented both towns about becoming a legend. long-shot Leann and i created a sing along so the people of the town could sing along. we had many people come and sing along. after we all chanted western territories to celebrate both sides without to much ruckus. we all peacefully celebrated together as two towns. singing can bring the towns together. P.S. im also a match maker. Having trouble with finding the one or even someone you already have? have no fear! Corrupted Kassie will help solve your love dilemmas. i have helped Chance and Mac also Willum and Molly. i have created love notes for Coyote. love songs/poems. Also have brought some sibling and family feuds to end from my advice.

Lastly i would like to talk about my name. Now, when i lived in Rainbow Ridge my name was Kassie the kind. I was the little miss sunshine. spreading smiles and joy. Then when i came into Frontierland i met a very mean  Frontierlanders. He made fun of me being a Rainbow Ridger and was always rude when i needed help at the telegraph station. So i changed to corrupted Kassie because he corrupted me with is meanness. Many Frontierlanders have proved to me that they can be very nice people. I do not hold what that  Frontierlanders did to me against any other member. I have stayed sweet as i can be. My name does not imply that i am mean. I am not a corrupted person. Don’t judge a book by its cover.

Hope y’all have a great time learning about our towns history. Now, lets take a shot of river water for the future of our two towns!! Go Rainbow Ridge!! also Frontierland! (but mainly Rainbow Ridge)

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Meet some of the folks of Frontierland and Rainbow Ridge

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The Beginning

Well, I s'pose the best place to start would be the beginning.

Y'see, sometime back 'round the start of July, Rainbow Ridge started dryin' up, forcing the folks who lived there to go somewhere else. Rather than movin' further out West, they decided to mosey on over into Frontierland.

You can probably imagine the Frontierlanders weren't too happy 'bout that, havin' to share everything now with all these Rainbow Ridgers. The past few weeks since then there's been a feud goin' on, with each side trying to buy up all the land every day.

But somethin' good has come of all this. Brave and noble citizens have stepped up from both sides, bringin' people together to have fun and gainin' notoriety throughout the town. Why, you might almost say they're Legends of Frontierland!