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EARTHDATE: December 20, 2015

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CHRISTMAS IN FED DATASPACE

by Hazed

It wouldn’t be Christmas if we didn’t give you a few things to play with. Santa’s back in his grotto, Diesel’s offering some treats and there’s a new charm on sale in Gallagher’s. We’ve even decorated the Fed2 Star offices on Earth, even though there’s nobody working there.

Here’s all the details of what’s happening.

SANTA’S GROTTO OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Santa’s grotto is open once again on Earth, NW from the LP. You can go and sit on the old man’s lap, get a candy cane if you’ve been nice (and coal if you haven’t) and help yourself to a toy from the lucky dip tub. What will you get – a slinky? A doll? Whatever it is, it’s sure to be fun. Just ‘PUT HAND INTO TUB’, then check your inventory to find out what toy you have ended up with. You can then ‘USE’ the toy to provide fun and games for you and anyone else in the vicinity.

You can talk to Santa, he’s very chatty, but only with people sitting on his lap – ‘SIT ON SANTA’S LAP’. Start with ‘TELL SANTA HELLO’ and see where the conversation takes you.

Outside of the grotto, Santa has parked his sleigh, and you can take a magical sleigh ride around the Solar System if you ‘ENTER SLEIGH’.

If you use FedTerm as your front-end you can download Santa’s picture from the picture gallery. Save it into the pictures sub-folder of your FedTerm folder and then you can see what Santa looks like when you SpyNet Report him.

DIESEL’S SNOWY FUN

Santa isn’t the only one offering Christmas spirit this year. Diesel has redecorated the bar and the roof garden of Chez Diesel on Mars, and is offering free food and drink to her customers.

She’s also giving plum puddings to all her customers – ‘BUY PLUM PUDDING’ to get one (it costs 5 groats). If you’re lucky, you’ll find a silver groat inside.

Diesel has also replaced the hopper that transports her customers between the bar and the spaceport with a toboggan. Wheeeee!

And that’s not all. As part of the decorations on her roof, she’s dumped a whole load of snow up there, which means just one thing...

Snowball fight!

‘GET SNOWBALL’ does what you would expect, although you can only do this if you’re not already carrying one. Then, of course, you can ‘THROW SNOWBALL’ which results in... well, you’ll have to try it and see which of the various possible outcomes you get. (There are 12 in all – keep throwing till you see them all.)

Sounds like fun, if a little cold.

ANTON GALLAGHER STIRS HIMSELF AGAIN WITH A NEW CHRISTMAS CHARM

Anton Gallagher has been persuaded (or maybe bribed) to come out of seclusion and provide a new charm for Christmas. We sent a newsdroid to quiz him about why he had been absent since last year, and discovered that he has been leading a completely new life.

He is now a she – Anton has become Antonia. As well as getting the sex change from the clinic in the Mercy Hospital, she’d clearly taken the opportunity to have some work done. No longer is the owner of the swankiest store on Earth an elderly, distinguish man possessing all the upper class gravitas one would expect from such an emporium. Now, she is a gorgeous young woman with very generous… well, assets. Gravitas has been replaced by a gravity-defying bosom.

With this shock, it was hard to concentrate on the details of the new charm, but here they are.

The charm is a Christmas torch, and it costs one slithy tove. Like all charms, it’s available to anybody who owns the TenBrane keyring from which these charms can be dangled. Buy it with ‘BUY CHRISTMAS TORCH’ and then once you own it, use ‘SHAKE CHRISTMAS TORCH CHARM’ to see what happens.

If you ‘CLIP CHRISTMAS TORCH CHARM’ that attaches it to your keyring, so that anybody who looks at you will be able to see it. Why not show off your bling!

The previous charm, a Scrooge charm, has now officially been taken off the shelves and is no longer available. But unofficially, we know that the venal assistant always keeps a supply hidden under the counter and is always prepared to sell it to those who missed it when it was legally on sale, at double the price. Just ‘BUY SCROOGE’ to get it.

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