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The Official Fairy Tail Wiki Magazine, Issue 2, 29 February 2012
(Jellal Fernandes to Erza Scarlet)"It's your words that gave me courage. They became my light that would guide me towards the right path again"
In episode 116, The Power That Becomes Life, Ultear Milkovich and Gray Fullbuster continue their battle where Gray eventually emerges as the victor due to the memories of Ur.
Well, lets get to the most important part of the episode that everyone was waiting to see it being animated, the red ice. Even though, as everyone knows, the anime does not portray blood, it sort of did in this episode for the first time. The blood gushing out was made purple for some reason but the ice being filled with blood did not change. I'm just glad they didn't take the scene away or made Gray freeze another body fluid... One of the best moments was when Ultear summoned a Magic Sword and Gray jumped at her and the screen went dark several times; so epic. The music playing during her defeat and while she is just hanging in the ice is awesome, check it out in high volume if you can. Anyway, I hope one day the anime shows blood completely uncensored and I also can't wait to see Ultear stab herself.
In episode 117, Thunder Crashes, Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Erza and Wendy square off against Hades, where they are easily struck down. However, Laxus storms in to save the day.
Well, it has been quite some time since the anime last showed 3 chapters in one episode, but it makes sense because the middle part/chapter was fairly quick as it just contained the beginning of the boss fight. Anyway, I'm just glad that Zancrow is now dead in both the anime and the manga and I also liked Juvia in super creepy mode. The middle part of the episode, in which Chapter 243 was animated, only took 5 minutes! But those five minutes were amazing. I loved how Ice-Make: Cold Excalibur, Moon Glimpse and Unison Raid were animated. OMG! OMG! Bullet Magic finally was animated! It was so funny how he kept shooting everyone like a maniac. Also, go to 18:10 and hear Lily's voice, the big guy sounds like he is really scared of lightning. And finally, Laxus arrived and directly went to attacking Hades like bad ass he is, which made his biggest fanboy jump on one leg.
In episode 118, The Man Without the Mark, Laxus fights Hades managing to overpower him for sometime until he is defeated and gives his power to Natsu.DaRinor). Anyway, this episode was super funny simply because of one picture. Yes, if you've seen the episode you know what I'm talking about. I also liked that Yomazu and Kawazu said that they were just under the Seven Kin of Purgatory and that they were next in line to be part of the team because that means that Gajeel defeated two Mages whose combined powers could have surpassed one of the Kins. That's also awesome because Bicsklow was attacked directly by an attack that broke Gajeel's Iron Dragon's Scales but he just stood up without any injuries. Go Bickslow! Unison Raid can be done easily (Btw, I know it was named Triple Unison Explosion). It makes Lucy strength not seem as high as in the manga, but then again, there was this. Now to the non-filler stuff. Well, it was nicely animated and I liked seeing Laxus beating Hades around. I laughed at Lucy almost getting hit by the giant sphere. But it ended in something that's been repeated several times before, Natsu getting another power up and now is going to go after the boss.
Natsu, entrusted by Laxus, seems to be able to hold his ground against Hades, but Hades still has something hidden
I wanted to do a "What the Fuck?" sections this issue too but the animators didn't really do many mistakes, so I just did a normal review. Ok, the fillers were TERRIBLE, in a terrible way. Freed and Bickslow having trouble with Yomazu and Kawazu? Hell no! And Elfman eating the Egg Wall made me barf. Bickslow having his dolls envelope themselves in Dark Ecriture: Pain kinda made me angry because of the whole "Anime keep combining Magics" I mentioned before, but it was done by Bickslow so I wasn't too angry, but angry nonetheless. Freed losing to Yomazu! What?! And leaving it to Elfman?! And beating him by screaming?! WTF?!?!?!?! Sometimes the anime makes me want to kill someone... Now to the non-filler stuff. At 5:50, there was this little dragon-like growl made by Natsu that sounded awesome. Natsu's powers while in Lightning Flame Mode were kinda nicely animated, but the fact that it was him having the power up... again... kinda ruined it for me. Happy getting angry at Pantherlily for bumping into Charle's but was hilarious and Charle's face (12:10) was priceless. Well, it seems that Hades can use Requip too and his heart looked really awesome. Did anyone else notice that Pantherlily had his armor back when he did his Battle Mode Shift? And with his new Musica Sword he made a lot of destruction with each swing. And lastly, enven though I hated it in the manga, having Natsu's friends push him towards Hades was amazing in the anime.
We might as well start off! But first… Yeah, guys, there's no escaping it…
I - Chapter 269: Vanish into the Stillness
And here we go with a 27-pages chapter sporting three awesome coloured pages… Which we'll describe later!
Starting this long chapter, after a brief appearance of Ultear and Meredy… Is a 2-pages long summary of the Games' rules at Mavis' hands… Completely useless for anyone who's read the previous chapter… Seriously, you winged-headed brat, can't you just f…ry some chips for us watching the tournament?
Uff… Close shave… Insults to children (or children-looking undeads, that is) might be terrible for an editors' career.
Following such disappointing beginning, the chosen participants gather around
Most of the competitors walk around aimlessly as the public enjoys their suffering on gigantic screens… Much like in a reality show, that is. Juvia is fast to lose a point by hugging a Gray clone, much to the dismay and anger of her teammates. Seriously, girl, can't you just go for a sex doll of him? With all the fangirls he has, finding one shouldn't be a problem. Meanwhile, someone confronts Gray… Or rather Gray's crotch, since Nulpting of Raven Tail hardly reaches up to the Ice-Make Mage's hips in height. As Gray, thinking he's found an easy prey, attacks him with a gigantic, cold flail, he loses a point… The cunning opponent, manoeuvring behind a copy of himself, prompted Gray to strike it. Clever. As Gray, having eluded the foe, tries merging in the crowd to go unnoticed, Nulpting goes for him again, sneak-attacking him from behind after enlarging his arm and covering himself in spikes like an angry, purple-colored hedgehog. Wonder wheter he made his way into our beloved famous series through recommendations…
The chapter ends with a result of – 1 for Juvia, - 2 for Gray, and + 1 for Nulpting. Still many minutes left before the end… Who will emerge victorious?
The chapter comes with a 2-pages shot of the magically-created town, and, most importantly, with three coloured pages, one portraying Ultear and Meredy showing off their new outfits, and the other two… A series of awesome panels with all of the Games' participants! Those are priceless for our Appearance sections! Yay! =D
II – Chapter 270: A Night of Falling Stars
The chapter starts with Nulpting having the edge over his adversaries due to the point gained at Gray's expenses. The spectators discuss on the various ways which could allow competitors to discover one another's position, and Lucy takes a second to glance at Raven Tail… Just to be spotted by its female member, a psycho busty (!!!) woman who stares back in a creepy way. Whatever. Meanwhile, in the magically-generated town, a… Confrontation… Starts between Gray's eyes. Why am I hesitating? Simple… Calling confrontation a clash between carrots, flytraps, ice and panties is quite e feat, I think. But, that's how things are, and those are the abilities displayed by, in order, Beth, Yaeger, Lyon and Juvia… The results? All of the "fighters" are reduced to exactly 0 points, due to striking and subsequently being struck. Juvia goes on to say that she'll defeat Gray. What's the deal with this weird declaration? Again, simple… Makarov promised that the winning Fairy Tail team will have complete control over the losing one for a day, something which prompted Laxus and Mira to imagine themselves ordering their supposed "rivals" around, and Juvia and Gajeel to fantasize about being kissed by Gray and having a bunny suit-clad Lucy dance at his guitar's sound, respectively. No, yaoi fangirls, you can't switch the order. As everyone's lost in the deranged twists and turns of their mind, Nulpting, now more reminiscent of a pufferfish than of a hedgehog (is he going to lose Sonic's support?) strikes again, hitting Gray and Juvia. Seconds later, snow starts falling from the sky over the town… What's up? Easy, that's the doing of Eve, that useless guy from Blue Pegasus, who this time goes on the offense, revealing his foes through their shivers and breath and then striking several of them with blizzards. Nice going, Eve! Can't believe you were an useless character in the past! No, wait, you still are… An useless character gifted with an awesome Magic. Just as the battle continues, we realize a certain someone hasn't done anything yet… 'Till now. Standing on top of a tower is
Still... There's a saying in my country, derived from a song written by a famous musician (R.I.P.) which goes: "Dwarfs are always bastards, because their heart's too near to their asshole". Think it's an appropriate saying for such case.
As Gray's fans mourn and tear their hair off and the few guys capable of appreciating hand-to-hand combat cheer, the Hidden event ends… Ranking on top is Sabertooth, followed by Raven Tail, and the last places, seventh and eight, go to, respectively, Fairy Tail's Teams B and A… Poor fellows. The public grabs the chance to make fun of their guild, much to Natus's anger, and Gray, having left the field, swears revenge against Nulpting and Rufus… Kind of strange for him, but still…
So, here we are at the end of the chapter! Hereby is announced the first battle of the Grand Magic Games… Fairy Tail's Lucy Heartfilia vs Raven Tail's Flare Corona, the psycho busty (!!!!!! Is it me or they just got bigger?) girl from before… Confrontation awaits, keep following us!
What to say which could make a difference? The art's good, and we get a 2-pages shot of Rufus sending beams all over the place, employing the Spell which is the chapter's namesake. On the Cover we have the fattened-up Nab's Guild Card. Mmmm, fat.
III – Chapter 271: Lucy vs Flare
So, here we go with the Battle of the Babes you boys have been waiting for! After Mavis goes on to again sum up the previous event's results in the Cover (seriously, is that the only thing you can do? Ah, no, wait… How could I forget… Poor Plot Armor as well!), the final picture from last chapter is reused (is Mashima short on pencils and inks or just lazy???) and Fairy Tail chitchats a bit, the awaited confrontation starts… Lucy goes on to the offensive and summons Taurus, who assaults the teasing Flare with his axe. Flare dodges by jumping (how are you supposed to jump with high heels? And, most importantly, where do those heels come from? They were nowhere to be seen before…) and, as Scorpio uses his signature Sand Buster against her, she releases her hair from her braids and shields herself from the attack! Looks like the second member of Raven Tail uses Hair Magic, uh. She's not given enough time to play the peacock, as Taurus and Scorpio combine their assault to generate an awesome combo, which ends with Taurus' axe and Scorpio's sandstorms raining down on Flare. What to say… THAT WAS FRICKIN' AWESOME! Nice going, Lucy! Flare feels the blow but doesn't waver, instead shaping her hair into a large wolf which goes on to assault Lucy! This mighty attack is stopped by Cancer's scissors, with the furry beast being turned into small tufts of hair. Flare doesn't like the matter. She sends her hair underground and then uses it to grab Lucy's ankles from below, subsequently smashing her around. Lucy, for her part, pulls out her Fleuve d'étoiles whip (how long has it been since she's last used it? The Edolas arc?) and grabs one of Flare's wrist, pulling her in midair as well. The two end up crashing on the sandy ground. The crowd cheers up the two female fighters
As Lucy's left to fight a losing battle, someone is shown staring at the scene from the shadowy stands… As the chapter ends, we're introduced to the Chief of the Cherry Blossom Holy Night Squadron, Arcadias,
Alright, my two-men hybrid knight… Feel free to call forth every legendary Dark Mage you feel like, but only ONCE the Games are over! Don't you try to spoil such tournament to us, or we'll kick your ass so hard your nose will become rounded!
Is that supposed to work? No idea.
IV – Chapter 272:The Noble Loser
Alright, here we go with the last chapter in our monthly review! Spare the tears for later, as the fight rages on! Lucy is ordered not to react by Flare, who then starts beating the girl up with her hair, much to the crowd's dismay. Thinking of all the hopes that she had built on the Games, Lucy readies to surrender… Only to be gagged and restrained by Flare, who, apparently, has no intention of letting her new toy get away unharmed. The whacky woman ponders some ways to make her captive suffer, initially thinking about stripping Lucy naked in front of the huge audience occupying the stands, but then instead resolving to brand her with a burning Raven Tail mark, much to Lucy and our horror (ours is due to her retaining her clothes, obviously!). Flare must really use some weird shampoo to generate burning brands out of her hair… You know, the Italian way of saying "to be like a bear with a sore head" would fit such situation nicely… Whatever.
As Flare readies to cover a terrified Lucy's Fairy Tail mark with the copied silhouette from her guild, Lucy's nakama… Stand still, noting that she is behaving strangely. HELLO??? Anybody there??? Your partner's going to be horribly burnt, her honor as a Fairy Tail Mage obscured by a mark! None feels like, don't know… Intervening? Someone does, as Natsu rushes to the stands, tearing the strand of hair which was threatening Asuka. As he states that he could hear "Asuka-chan" being pronounced in the two girls' conversation, he goes on to comment that he's got good hearing… What? An after effect of his fight with Cobra? No way to tell for sure, but pink hair's intervention allows Lucy to summon forth Gemini to attack her opponent, freeing herself of Flare's grip! The Celestial Spirit Mage then orders the twins to turn into herself… A towel-clad version of herself… And the "two" of them join hands, in order to enhance their Magic Power for the casting of… Yes, that's what you were waiting for… As Rauleli comes and faints at the same time, Lucy uses it…
The shining light of the stars invades the arena and nears the trembling, cowering Flare… Just to disappear into nothingness. Lucy shakes in surprise as her opponent looks up to the stands… Spotting her teammate Obra (the long-nosed fellow with the top hat), who nullified Lucy's spell through unknown means. Lucy collapses to the ground, exhausted, as Flare is declared the winner. The crowd cheers for the redhead and some people wonder what happened, while others, namely Yajima, Makarov and Mavis, seem to have realized Raven Tail's intervention… The still shocked Flare goes on to mock Lucy (you know, the one who caused her to shake and cower in fear just seconds before) and the crowd makes fun of Fairy Tail (damn turncoats). Natsu enters the arena, calmly encouraging the desperate Lucy and helping her on her feet as the chapter ends… And so does our review!
Well, what to say… Mashima's good art likely went "overboard" with fanservice (after all, why choosing a girl-on-girl battle right at the beginning otherwise?), but I think almost everyone was at least slightly touched by Lucy's Urano Metria, which received a 2-pages panel… Well, "slightly" for anyone who didn't collapse, that is. All in all, a great chapter to end our review! See you in the next review, keep following the Sorcerer Magazine, bad boys!
1. Grimoire Heart
Welcome to Fiore's Got Fanon, a place where the best fanons are featured. Each month there will be a different category of fan fiction article that will be featured. There will be 1-2 (maybe 3 depending on the quality of entries) featured articles each month which will be chosen by Rauleli.
This month's fanon contest was a:
Caster Magic
Go to the Fanon Contest's submission page to see all other entries and their reviews.
Next months fanon contest will feature a:
Dark Mage
The members of Fairy Tail have been fascinated with the technologies and products of foreign lands, and so they have taken the liberty of reviewing them and picking out the best ones to recommend to our dear readers so that you may experience the same splendor they did...
For this month, Lucy and Levy recommend Shatter Me, penned by author Tahereh Mafi. It is the first book of the Shatter Me trilogy, a dystopian thriller. The story of The Killing Mage has been lost for centuries in the records of Fiore. It is a story of a terrifying man with incredible powers that he used for the most dishonorable deeds. Shatter Me contains something similar. There is a girl with an incredible power, unique in the human race, the girl with the fatal touch... incarcerated for murder. She is feared yet she is also wanted for the most nefarious reasons. What could be the fate of this unfortunately extraordinary girl?
So it turns out Evergreen tweaked last month's playlist so it would look like Laxus is an Adele fan to which Laxus raised an eyebrow and so, he decided to personally hand over this month's playlist! Does that mean Laxus is not actually an Adele fan? Well, who knows? But really, who wouldn't be a fan of the six-Grammys-in-one-night winner of 2012?
Perhaps you have heard of the statement, "And may the odds be ever in your favor!". Now let me ask you, where did that come from?
From the best-selling epic novels, The Hunger Games, comes its film adaptation, starred in by Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen ("That's one badass girl!" says Loke), Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark and Liam Hemsworth as (*author temporarily faints*) Gale Hawthorne. The movie will hit the screens on the 23rd of March, though some lucky bastards might be able to watch early screenings on the 21st. Loke hints, "Save up, man. Chicks love action movies as much as you do."
Loke's shoutout to girls: Hey ladies! Some
Let the 74th annual Hunger Games begin!
January's Man of the Month, according to Elfman, is the game Battle City, which is basically a pretty old but still awesomely addicting game. It was first released back in 1985 for the Nintendo Family Computer (if you had one of these, you're a man!) and in it, you are, in simple terms, a tank protecting your base (and yourself!) from enemy tanks. While it's true that Grand Theft Auto tanks are 3D and make vehicles explode on impact, these Battle City tanks are still manly in their own way and have that retro feel to it. No, that does not mean you are old. IT MEANS THAT YOU'RE A MAN!
Manly Challenge of the Month: Beat Elfman's score!
Fairy Tail Wiki: Tell us a little about yourself.
Hi. This is the second and the last of the monthly shots of nostalgia I can provide for you Fairy Tail fans and wiki readers out there. With the quick progress of the series, we've been slowly forgetting the awesome moments of Fairy Tail's past, and so Nostalgic Magic aims to prevent memory loss by reminding you of the Fairies' history
No one can forget the face of the man that sent a guild of a hundred into a civil war. What was the purpose of this man? Wasn't it because he was power-hungry and wanted to control Fairy Tail so he can mold it into the guild he wants: feared, dominating and the single best? His defeat resulted into his excommunication for threatening the lives of his guildmates. Perhaps he would have been doomed to a life of shame... or would he?
On the contrary, this man eventually made amends and was welcomed back in the guild with open arms. This month's feature is Laxus Dreyar, the mighty thunder.
The Fighting Festival arc was famous for the civil war within Fairy Tail, initiated by Laxus Dreyar and newly-debuted Thunder God Tribe. For the arcs before this, Laxus seemed like a thunderous asshole. Arrogant. Selfish. Rude. Proud. And of course, kind of scary. Though he has a huge fanbase now, filled with enough fangirls and fanboys, he wasn't exactly the most loved character before.
In the Galuna Island arc, Laxus paid Natsu, Happy and Lucy no mind when the guild found out that they stole an S-Class request that was potentially dangerous. In the Phantom Lord arc, he made Mirajane cry (someone's going to get him for that!), blamed Lucy for the trouble caused upon the guild and criticized the members for being weak when he did not actually lend a hand in the war.
The events in the Fighting Festival arc were the peak of his madness. Let us witness this comic strip!
To step out of his grandfather's shadow and to be recognized as a man of his own, he attempted to surpass him, he attempted to do the things Makarov couldn't through radical methods. Laxus lost himself in his desire to pursue power and strength. This could have led him to his continuous downfall unless he worked for reform.
True enough, Laxus crashes through Tenrou Island in the last arc and gets back in Fairy Tail thanks to Gildarts and his clever use of his Master rank. I guess that with time, we learn to like our characters, don't we? I mean, you know, as long as that character's name is not Natsu Dragneel.
Fairy Advice
This month's questions are:
Welcome to the The Last Pollbender! The page where we hold all kinds of polls each month to find out what Fairy Tail fans' opinions are on any and every subject!


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The headlines around the world about Sean Smith last year were mostly about how he left this Earth. But this is a story about what he did while he was here. This is a story about Sean Smith's life—about what he did in the so-called "real" world and what he did in a virtual galaxy where he was a Machiavellian legend.
For about a decade, in cities around the world, people knew Sean as a guy in the U.S. State Department. He made sure computers and networks worked.
In the wild world of the massively-multiplayer online game Eve Online, which Sean logged into from those various points on the globe, he was known as Vile Rat.
For the State Department, he was an Information Management Officer. He was an expert IT guy who signed up for postings in places both safe and dangerous. He was in Pretoria and Baghdad, Montreal and The Hague and then—for what was only supposed to be a few weeks—Benghazi, Libya. It is in that last place where he and three other Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to that country, were killed on September 11, 2012, by anti-American militants. It's there that his story was cut too short.
In Eve, Sean briefly was in the top echelon of the game's player-run government. His influence in the game actually grew for more than half a decade. He rose from ordinary player to master spy to diplomat for the mighty GoonSwarm alliance. He toppled rivals with the soft nudge of verbal persuasion. He helped his alliance win a war among player alliances that raged for three years. He even made peace with the Russians.
"Sean was a quiet and intense guy," Alex Gianturco, the long-time Eve player and leader of GoonSwarm recently told me. Gianturco is known in-game as The Mittani and wrote a moving tribute to his friend last fall. He met Vile Rat in 2006 in the game and in person, since then, when Sean was between State Department postings or at Eve meet-ups. "He was sort of coiled like a whip, very very smart. Hated the limelight, hated attention."
"He was so humble about his gaming," Heather Smith, Sean's widow, told me over the phone from the Netherlands earlier this week. "He would get rather embarrassed when he was elevated to anything other than just a guy who plays Eve."
But Sean wasn't an ordinary Eve player, a fact Heather encountered time and again. She recalled meeting another Eve player in person. "A guy came up to me and, I said, 'I'm Mrs. Vile Rat'—I didn't play Eve, so I was always Mrs. Vile Rat—and the guy was like, 'No way! He's a legend!'
"And I, like, died laughing. I thought it was the funniest thing I ever heard...I'm pretty sure I brought that up at least once every six months."
Sean Smith was an ex-Air Force guy, born in 1978 and raised in San Diego. By the turn of the century he was stationed in Okinawa, suffering the plight of any Air Force man who loves burgers but lives on an island that's all about seafood. He didn't fly jets. He worked on radios. And he played online games, which he loved.
Sean and Heather met in a MUD, one of the oldest of old-school multiplayer online games. It was an all-text game, but all Sean needed to make an impression was a few choice words. "The first thing he typed to me was 'You need to leave your guild or else I will kill you,' Heather recalled. "Classically diplomatic, even then."
Heather was a newbie player, just level five or so. Sean was angry at the guy who ran her guild. "So he was either killing all the people in the guy's guild or intimidating them," Heather said. "I was like, 'What do I care, it's not my fight?'" So she bailed on that guild. That was a classic Sean Smith victory.
"He was always trying to move the pieces and see how things went," Heather said. "He was really good at reading people to get them to either see his way or he could mediate in a way that he could get what he needed out of it—in a nice way, most of the time, I'm sure."
Heather and Sean got past the threats. They started talking outside of the game and became friends. He was in Japan; she was in Atlanta. He moved to New Jersey. She moved to Washington, D.C. They fell in love, they moved in together and Sean joined the Foreign Service. He'd be working for the State Department and, along with Heather, would be moving all around the world.
First, they went to South Africa. He was stationed in Pretoria. Everyone barbecued there. That was good. Better than having to always suffer through seafood.
Most gamers who rise to fame among their peers do so because they're proficient at a given game. That proficiency is usually displayed through aggression or speed or both. Many games are competitive, simulate violence or run on a timer. Mastering these games—the Street Fighters, the StarCrafts, the CounterStrikes—means being able to smash, shoot, grapple or maim another player before they do that to you. Or, for some gamers, glory comes in simply sprinting through a single-player game faster than anyone else. You train on Super Mario Bros. and try to race through the whole game in five minutes.
More rare are gamers like Sean Smith who earned their rep without getting much virtual blood on their hands or performing any feats of in-game dexterity. Sean gained his rep from the way he interacted with other gamers, from his machinations and political maneuvering. He wasn't a leader but a master of the shadows. He preferred to stay out of the spotlight and to lend support.
Sean was, to Alex, the eventual head of GoonSwarm, a great right hand, a great consigliere. Think of the best movers and shakers in the Game of Thrones, perhaps—not the ones who used the sword but who favored the cunning deal. "He was thankfully a lot less honorable than Ned Stark," Alex remarked to me, remembering one of the failed right-hand-men of the Thrones saga, "otherwise we would have been all screwed."
He was a good liar?
"Oh, he was the best."
To express just how well Sean played Eve, Alex told me about one of Sean's first great in-game acts. Sean was in the GoonSwarm Intelligence Agency, a group within the game started by Alex.
Eve is technically a game about warring spaceships and mineral-mining but it's really about the politics of its massive player groups, tens of thousands of gamers around the world aligned in various "corporations", who all vie for existence in a single shared galaxy. In late 2006 and early 2007 GoonSwarm were the newcomers to Eve, which had been running since 2003.
GoonSwarm were upstarts. The group consisted of members of the forums for the rambunctious humor website Something Awful. Goons regularly decided to descend on online games to exert their mischievous, grief-inducing influence. These were the kind of people who would infiltrate Eve and start up some crafty spygames. Cue Sean's first big moment:
"We wanted to get him placed highly in an enemy organization, which was trying to kill us," Alex recalled. "The enemy alliance was called Lotka Volterra, and they had been attacking Goonfleet and messing around. Vile Rat came up with this—in hindsight—sort of a cack-handed scheme where we would fake that Vile Rat had gone 'Fuck Goons.' 'Fuck Goons' is what we call someone who is a traitor.
"So what we did was we had one of our other directors, a guy named Sorenson, fill up a hauler, which is an industrial ship in Eve—a defenseless space truck, basically—filled it full of valuable minerals, and we had Vile Rat in an Interceptor, which is a small, fast fighter-type ship, blow it up in public.
"The thing about Eve is that, whenever anybody blows anything up, it produces a hard record called a killmail—you kill a ship in Eve and it's not like in Call of Duty where it's like, 'I killed somebody,' it leaves a record: what was on their ship, how you killed them and a lot of crunchy details. So there's a record of death. This is important, because, when Vile Rat blew up this hauler full of valuable minerals and what-have-you, it proved his treason to everyone. Viler Rat has gone 'Fuck Goons' and is joining Lotka Volterra.
"He was able to say, 'I can't stand the CEO, look I've got Goonblood all over my hands, take me.' And they did. And he was our agent within the Shinra corporation in Lotka Volterra for many months. Eventually, he came in from the cold, when the intelligence value we had from that was less than the value of having Vile Rat on our side. But we torched the ground that Lotka Volterra had. We took all their space. They disbanded the alliance they had...Vile Rat was a major part of that."
Sean played Eve to unwind, Heather remembers. He enjoyed being online. He enjoyed acting out there. He was younger than many of the people in the embassies where he was stationed and didn't talk about gaming. They didn't know about Vile Rat. He and Heather often stuck to themselves.
Eve was one place online where Sean could find more people like him, people who got into the drama of safe but wild adventure. He also enjoyed the energy of the Something Awful forums, where he became a moderator on the debate and discussion forums. He talked politics. A lot. Alex recalls that he, Sean and many other people on SA were libertarians but that, over time, they shifted to being "a flaming leftist."
For all of his skullduggery in Eve, Sean's friends at Something Awful were impressed with how unusually reasonable he was.
"You know, it's hard to respect people with an opposing viewpoint on the Internet," Something Awful editor Zack Parsons told me. "There is no incentive, but he did, and I think he tried to change minds instead of just shout out his opinion and leave it at that."
But that was in the forums. In Eve, if someone needed to pay, Sean would make them pay. "He was so mean sometimes," Heather says now, with a chuckle, "He would tell me stories and I would be like, 'How could you do that to another person?'
"He would laugh and say, of course, they were being idiots."
And in real life? "He was always known as a very helpful customer-service IT guy," she said. "When a woman would cry about not getting something to work at 5:05, he would stop what he was doing and, instead of putting a ticket in, he would calmly help and do that kind of thing. He was very on the up-and-up." He was also a father of two and talked proudly about his kids to anyone who would listen.
This cocktail of personality—the cool-headed, open-minded occasional griefer, as it were—produced the great Eve diplomat that Alex revered and others in Eve feared. In embassies around the world, Sean may have been doing IT for other diplomats, but in Eve, he became one. More specifically, he became a diplomat who wins.
"Sean would always present a friendly face except when he was rattling his saber," Alex told me. "Unless you had really pissed him off he wouldn't come down on you. Even if you were an enemy he would be willing to talk to you and would be very friendly."
That's what made him a great diplomat, and that's what helped GoonSwarm turn the tide and eventually win one of Eve's two Great Wars.
Alex tells the tale, one that begins with GoonSwarm at odds with the mightier Band of Brothers, which was allied with a group called Mercenary Coalition. The Coalition was an ostensibly independent group of players for hire. You know, mercenaries. "The problem was that dissonance between what they thought they were and how the leader of Band of Brothers treated them grew very harsh," Alex said. "Mercenary Coalition... were able to win a string of successes and then the leader of Band of Brothers wrote this big public post taking credit for it. Which pissed off a lot of people in Mercenary Coalition.
"During this time, under the table, Vile Rat had quietly developed a relationships with Seleene, who was the leader of Mercenary Coalition...Now Vile Rat had a silver tongue and was very sympathetic. Even though he was the enemy, he established this relationship and he had worked on this relationship. Over a period of months he essentially helped Seleene see that Mercenary Coalition was being trivialized and treated like pets, basically, by Band of Brothers."
In a tribute after Sean's death last fall, Mark "Seleene" Heard, then a member of Eve's player-run government recalled this moment. "VR never offered me any deals, threatened, or presented some grand scheme. Because the anti-BoB train was already in motion within MC, like any good diplomat Vile Rat just made it clear that the people he represented were not necessarily the 'bad guys'."
Back to Alex: "And almost entirely due to Vile Rat's persuasion, I don't want to say he Wormtongued… he swayed them and eventually Mercenary Coalition broke away from Band of Brothers and tried to form its own block on the border of Band of Brothers space, which was very foolish. This was the pirate alliance. It only lasted a few months, because, as soon as they broke away from Band of Brothers, half of the people considered them to be traitors—and also half the people in Mercenary Coalition considered them to be traitors.
"A huge gigantic drama [ensued], which ultimately ended in two of GoonSwarm's greatest enemies basically killing each other for us because of what Sean had pulled off. That was a huge coup.
"If I were to point at two moments in the Great War that completely changed things—the biggest holy crap moments of the Great War—one was disbanding Band of Brothers, which was my spy thing, and the other one was Sean taking out Mercenary Coalition just using persuasion. Because even after they disbanded Band of Brothers, which happened a year later, if Mercenary Coalition had still been around and allied with them, we might not have had the force to torch them."
Vile Rat's diplomacy was so successful, he started a diplomacy wing in GoonSwarm. He called it the Corps Diplomatique. "Sean realized that the coalition we were in was getting so big that we needed an entire diplomatic section," Alex said. Sean ran it and put applicants through a wringer. He'd give them hypothetical situations and require them to write essays about how to solve crises. He built a corps of 10 diplomats, all of whom would meet with friends and rivals to build relationships. In other words, the real-life State Department employee started a State Department in Eve.
Sean played Eve from computers around the world. Much of the playing he did was in a Jabber client—in chat. He didn't need to fly the game's space ships. He needed to talk to people. He did this from the Middle East, from Europe, North America, wherever.
When he was playing in Baghdad he was far from his family. Baghdad was too dangerous in 2007, so Heather stayed in Atlanta.
"The problem wasn't so much the shitty internet," Alex said of the Baghdad posting, "but was more that they were fucking shelling him with missiles from Sadr City."
"I'd be on the phone with him or he'd call me during it," Heather remembered. "I was a part of several of those rocket attacks."
She said Sean would do his best to joke it off, to bond with his friends online or band together with his colleagues in Baghdad. "He was not a commando guy," she said. He wasn't macho. He didn't try to play the hero. He just tried to keep the computers running even if some of the locals were quite violently showing that they wanted the Americans out. "He was just there for the mission," she said. "If no one else would volunteer and he knew he could do it. He would do it."
So rockets would be fired at Saddam Hussein's old palace and Sean would have to jump off of Jabber and take cover. Alex and Vile Rat's other Eve friends got used to it. Sean always logged back on.
But Iraq was rough, and Alex recalled that Sean came back a different kind of person. "He changed in that, like many veterans, he came back a little more paranoid and jumpy for a while. It took him awhile to calm down and reintegrate. He would occasionally have hot-flashes of anger." He normalized. He got posted to Montreal.
He became himself again. Except for one thing. Sean got to Montreal and excitedly told Alex all about a restaurant that just served foie gras. Sean Smith was officially no longer just a burger guy.
Montreal was followed by The Hague. Sean was also able to take time off to go to Iceland for Eve's Fanfest. A year ago, he was there as a member of the player government. Fanfest is happening this week. He'd have gone. Instead, late last summer, he agreed to go to Benghazi. The mission there and what followed is detailed in an unclassified State Department report.
In Jabber, Sean's last words were:
[vile_rat 9/11/12 2:40 PM]: FUCK
[vile_rat 9/11/12 2:40 PM]: gunfire
The State Department report tells the awful story of what occurred next. The compound filled with armed terrorists hunting for Americans. American security agents trying to whisk Sean and Ambassador Christopher Stevens to safety. Taking shelter. The building they were in set on fire set by the attackers. And then the resulting smoke that filled the room Sean and the Ambassador were in. They couldn't breathe. They didn't survive.
Four Americans, Sean Smith included, were killed that day, September 11, 2012.
"I was in shock when it happened, initially," Alex told me. Heather, understandably, didn't want to talk about it.
Friends and families mourned. Eve players posted tributes and, in an extraordinary display, renamed hundreds of outposts to memorialize Vile Rat. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emotionally eulogized all four men and credited the support of Sean's online friends. The events in Benghazi became a political football in last fall's Presidential election, as debates raged about embassy security and the administration's account of events.
"I think pretty often about what he would make of the stupid crap that followed in the wake of his death," Something Awful's Zack Parsons told me. "So many people in politics said and did so many stupid things. I hope he would have laughed. Or posted the thread about it."
What Parsons did was help start a fundraiser. "The Something Awful community and the Eve community, State Department friends, well-wishers and even people who might have heard about him on the news all contributed to the fund that raised $127,001 for Sean's family," Zack told me.
"Hundreds of them left messages of condolences. The money went directly to Sean's wife and kids. Money will never take the place of the love of a human being, but I hope it helped to bring his family peace and stability in the midst of uncertainty."
Heather and Sean's anniversary was this week. They should have been going to Iceland. He should have been engaging in some interstellar diplomacy.
Instead, on May 3, Heather will be in Washington, D.C. There, Sean Smith will be awarded the Thomas Jefferson Star, in recognition of his service to his country. His name will be inscribed on a memorial wall by the American Foreign Service Association to honor those who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
The name on the wall will probably be Sean Smith. But everyone should also remember that master of spycraft and diplomacy, that forum moderator and expert gamer. He wasn't an ordinary Eve player. He was the exceptional Vile Rat.
Top image for this story from an Eve tribute to Sean Smith and features Sean and his Vile Rat avatar; other photos of Sean in this article were provided by Heather Smith. The desert one shows Smith in Oman while he was in the Air Force in 2002. The other is from New York City, 2003.

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Does "Final Salvation" Serve as a Cover for Works-Salvation?
Dear Guests of IDOTG:
In the scores of articles at this blog each is accompanied by a discussion thread. Some articles generate no comments, some a few comments others can exceed 100 comments. Unfortunately every thread comment is lost over time as new articles push the preceding article and its thread further down into the archives. Among these hundreds of thread comments occasionally a comment is posted that in my opinion merits repeating as a main page article. Just such a comment was posted in the thread under the previous article, Is the Term "Final Salvation" Necessarily Wrong?
Pastor Tom Stegall is the author of The Gospel of the Christ: A Biblical Response to the Crossless Gospel… .
This year I ran an extended series of excerpts from The Gospel of the Christ beginning with Stegall's introduction to the series, then ironically closed with the Foreword to his book. The "Lordship Salvation" Label was one of my personal favorites and it has some bearing on our current discussion.
Pastor Stegall has been reading the articles in which I've been discussing Dr. Dave Doran's The Gospel and Separation series from his personal blog. In the "Final Salvation" article/thread he posted an extended comment with a Q&A exercise that I believe was a helpful contribution to our previous discussion of the close proximity of Lordship Salvation and Roman Catholicism. The most disconcerting statement and arguably closest to Romanism among many coming from advocates of Lordship Salvation is the following by John Piper.
"There is no doubt that Jesus saw a measure of real, lived-out obedience to the will of God as necessary for final salvation." (What Jesus Demands From the World, p. 160).For the record on this matter I am repeating here a comment I made in the previous thread.
"It is statements like these…where some men find MacArthur and Piper in their LS message treading dangerously close to a Roman Catholicism like message. I don't believe they have gone there, but these statements are very alarming and by and large given a complete pass by Reformed men in IFB circles. Not one of these extreme statements have ever been explained, edited or eliminated. They have in fact been reiterated and reinforced by the men who make them such as MacArthur, Piper, et. al., for two decades."With that I offer for your consideration Ps. Tom Stegall's thread comment turned article.
Does "Final Salvation" Serve as a Cover for Works-Salvation?
I am so grateful that this topic of "final salvation" is being addressed here. This is a critical subject. So often this phrase serves as a cover for Works-salvation. Bible-believing Christians need to be far more discerning these days than we have been. It is truly disturbing to read the statements of so-called "evangelical, fundamental" or "Protestant" leaders these days that sound perilously close to Romanism.
Kev raises a great question, "Isn't this usage of 'final salvation' by Lordship Salvationists just the 'escape clause for closet Catholicism'?!" I would say, technically "No," but practically "Yes!"
As one who was saved out of Catholicism and who was definitely trusting in his own works and righteousness before being born again by God's grace, I will tell you it sure hits me as diluted Catholicism when I read the Lordship Salvation statements of leaders like John Piper, John MacArthur... .
Here is an interesting spiritual exercise. Try to guess whether the following quotes come from a Calvinist author, Arminian, or Roman Catholic (the answers are found at the bottom):
1) "Endurance in faith is a condition for future salvation. Only those who endure in faith will be saved for eternity."
Arminian, Calvinist or Roman Catholic?
2) "The Scriptures repeatedly exhort us to persevere, to 'hang in there.' It is only the one who endures to the end who will be saved."
Arminian, Calvinist or Roman Catholic?
3) "There is no cleansing from sin, and no salvation, without a continual walking in God's light."
Arminian, Calvinist or Roman Catholic?
4) "We cannot 'earn' our salvation though good works, but our faith in Christ puts us in a special grace-filled relationship with God so that our obedience and love, combined with our faith, will be rewarded with eternal life."
Arminian, Calvinist or Roman Catholic?
5) "The kingdom is not for people who want Jesus without any change in their living. It is only for those who seek it with all their hearts, those who agonize to enter. Many who approach the gate turn away upon finding out the cost. Lest someone object that this is a salvation of human effort, remember it is only the enablement of divine grace that empowers a person to pass through the gate." . . . "While justification and sanctification are distinct theological concepts, both are essential elements of salvation. God will not declare a person righteous without also making him righteous."
Arminian, Calvinist or Roman Catholic?
And Now for the Answers:
1) [Calvinist] R.C. Sproul, Grace Unknown, 198.
2) [Roman Catholic] Joseph Kindel, What Must I Do to be Saved?, 79.
3) [Arminian] Guy Duty, If Ye Continue, 141.
4) [Roman Catholic] Tract, Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth, p.23
5) [Calvinist] John MacArthur, The Gospel According to Jesus (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988), 183, 187.
By showing this, I don't mean to deny that legitimate differences exist between Protestants (Arminian or Calvinist) and Roman Catholics, especially over the role of the sacraments in salvation, but I think any honest reading of these quotes also shows that their respective doctrines of salvation ultimately end up in the same place: you better have works that go with your enduring faith if you want to arrive at "final salvation."
The modern state of affairs among Evangelicals (such as Piper & MacArthur), Reformed Fundamentalists..., and Roman Catholics is so abysmal and confusing these days regarding salvation, perhaps a new theological term ought to be coined to lump them all together:
Roman Calminians!
Please continue to, "Final Salvation" is Dependent on Christ's Life
Editor's Note:
In the original thread comment there was a reference to Dr. Dave Doran. In a follow-up conversation with Ps. Stegall prior to posting this article we agreed that the references to Dr. Doran from the original thread comment should be dropped for this article. Dave Doran leaves no blatant statements like the examples above. There are none of the extreme statements from Brother Doran, which can be easily demonstrated from MacArthur, Piper, Washer, Chantry, Lawson, et. al.


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Soybeans closed higher on Thursday after the weekly sales report showed more old-crop soybeans sold than expected. A total of 577,000 MTs of 2013-2014 soybeans were sold between Jan 24th – 30th. China was the biggest buyer adding 256,400 MTs in new purchases after switching 180,000 out of unknown. The market has been waiting for Chinese cancellations, not a large order of additional purchases. This helps explain the strong rally in spreads over the past few days.
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