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Book discredits Atleus Government

Atleus
12-10-2008, 11:28
Melvin Harwood was one of Avory Irons (The supreme Commander and unquestionable leader of Atleus) closest assistants.

He was only 30 and had served Avory for only 2 years. He was very enthusiastic about Militarianism and believed in its tennents in creating a perfect society. He was plucked from his life and denied all contact with anyone outside of Avory's circle of close military and government leaders. It was seen as a great "Priveledge" to have such an important job and be "Blessed" with the presence of the Supreme Commander and Great Thinker of Atleus

It didnt take him long to become dissillusioned with the system after serving under Avory Irons and having close conversations with him. He began recording and reporting his life and work in a diary something that was VERY dangerious. On september Desperate to escape the horrid nightmare, living in Avory's mad Atleus he brided a spy to take his diary and smuggle it out of the country then he committed suicide.

The Spy took the diary sold it and eventually had it published. The book was immeidatly condemned by the government of Atleus. Melvin Harwoods existence was denied by Avory personally and the book was banned for ever touching Atleus Soil. and that was the end of that issue in Atleus. But now the book was there for the entire world to read about the inner workings of such an insane state and its eccentric leader!

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September 6th 2008

I'm trying to think of some better way to write this. Sooner or later I know for a fact its going to leave the country. I have no idea if I'm going with it or not. Basically I want to let people know of the insanity of this government.

I guess I'll write it in a series of chapters. That would be the best way to write it I spose.

Meeting Avory First Months

It was 2006. I was 28, a Militarianist to the core totally dedicated to the country we were building. Hard work in the university and some informing for the loyal force and I was noticed by some higher-ups. And then a van stopped by at the university. I was escorted away by some soldiers.

At that moment I thought someone had denounced me to save themselves and I was terririfed and totally believed I was going to die. They blindfolded me and told me for national security I could not no where I was going. At that moment I was even more terrified but i didnt argue or talk back instead sat thier with my mouth shut.

One of the soldiers said "Your about to be blessed with the greatest priveledge any Atleus citizen has ever had the honor of recieving"
Within 2 hours the van came to a stop. When I was let out of the van I was stanging in some large driveway, Before me was a grand compound. It was one story high but it was a very tall one story, it was also elevated off the ground a bit.

I was brought into the building. It was extremely lavish. Marble was everywhere. A large fishtank lining one side of the wall which stretched for miles containing dozens of exotic fish. I was shown to one room where the man himself was sitting. Avory Irons. I never though I would ever get to see him the grand unquestioned leader of Atleus.

He walked up to me. He was roughly my hieght at 6ft.

"So your the loyalist of the loyalist" he said. I was still standing thier sunned.

"From now on Melvin Harwood only exists when your around me. No one else is to know you exist. To your family the news is being reported that you are dead. You will serve me from now on" said Avory. At this moment it all felt like such a dream and I was beginning to feel dizy as if I could faint but thankfully I remained standing.

I was given a room in the servents dorm where the house keepers and his dog walkers and dietitions and personal doctors slept. Everything he needed was kept on the compound. The Compound was where he spent most of his time.

Within weeks I had learnt lots of things about Avory Irons.

The Compound was one floor only becuase Avory was deathly afraid of ever being trapped on a second floor in the event of an earthquake or fire.

The Compound was also slightly elevated becuase Atleus Scientists that in the event of extreme global warming where oceans would rise the elevation would guarentee the Compound was still above water.

As his closest personal assistant I was required to write letters for him while he dictated and to read his mail as he could not read. I was astonished to learn this fact as he was always promoted in the media as a genius and great thinker. It never mentioned anything about him not knowing how to read.

We all were told he never attended school but instead he tought him self everything he needed to know, writing, spelling and just this year the media reported that during his time in the military he tought himself to the level of a university graduate yet I had to read for him, infact he could not even spell his own name.

Within Months I was his most trusted employee that after his official taste tester had taken a bite of his food he had me take a bit too.

Dinner With Avory

I was always required to sit at a sperate table from Avory. At his compound he sat at the master table alone. ONLY members of the Military council were permitted to each with him on the Master Table.

Every Night before dinner he had me bring in the reports from the astroligers. He was the most superstitious man I had ever met and made all important descisions by using the stars level of alignment. If the report was not favourable he would order the astroligers to meet him in person so they could counsil him.
One of the biggest superstitions he had was that when eating he would remove his right shoe and place it behind his chair. This was supose to bless the meal and cleanse it of toxins and poisons. It was only reported that ancient emperors practiced this but here was Avory doing it too.

One night I was heading for dinner with the Astroligers reports, When I handed the reports to Avory he took one look at the findings and ordered that I take the meal back to the kitchen and that he would not eat tonight. He then ordered the astroligers to meet him within the hour to discuss the threatening star alignments.

On another occasion one of his "Pleasure Women" were permitted to dine in the same room. She sat on my table and Avory sat at his master table looking at us.... Or her. She was quite an attractive women, He also happened to be drunk on this night too.

"I think I want to have a party tonight" He grunted

"But its 10 pm, who would you invite at such an hour" I said

"Call up the generals and that idiotic minister of the government I like to laugh at so much"

"Very well"

Within 40 minutes the dining room was packed with the 5 top Generals. The "Idiotic" Minister called Devon (Avory always forgot names) and the lone Pleasure women who at this point was looking quite frightened being the only woman there.

Another 2 hours later and Avory had the "Idiotic" minister doing headstands before him which resulted in the poor man losing his balance and falling on a nearby plant box. With that Avory just burst into laughter.

"Damn it! My foot! I think its broken!" yelled Devon

"Harden up you sissy or I'll have you balance on your so called broken foot for the rest of the night!" Avory bellowed

Within 10 minutes the antics had calmed down. Avory offered me a drink but never a big fan of his foul tasting wines I accepted only to please him but spat it out in a nearby plant while none of them were watching.

Later Avory dragged over the pleasure women

"I want every man in this room to have a peace of her! I want her stretched cause she's nothing more then a little slutty tramp! Arnt ya slutty pants!" he said pushing the poor women into the arms of a nearby general

"Hey... Melon want to have her too!?" he said yelling at me

"Nah I'm feeling really sick, that alcohol hit me hard" I said clearly faking.

"Well then fuck off. We'll have our fun splitting the tramp in half!"

I then left the night, feeling very sorry for the poor women. I never saw her again. Infact Avory never had a favourite pleasure women and as time went on I actually observed they seem to have gotten younger. The first one I ever met was 30 who was already 38 years his junior. By the time I 2008 came around there were some as young as 14. later he confessed to me

"I like the young ones. There much tighter. I get the young ones first then the little sluts are passed onto the other generals. General Stolker gets them last cause I dont like him. Having sex with the lose ones is like throwing a hot dog down a hallway haha. I always have to hide my laughter when General Stolker complains about them" he said once

As it turned out Devon the "Idiotic" Minister did break his foot that night

.............................. Meetings of National Importance .............................

Every Tuesday Avory always wanted to meet alone with me from the hours of 2 to 3. Here he would discuss the matters of the nation, economy and international affairs. He always wanted a second opinion on his ideas before he told them to the Generals.

"I never travel overseas!" He complained to me once

"Those idiot leaders in the outside see all those exotic locations and who deserves a break more then any other human!? ME! Get me on a flight to see another land!"

"But... What about the anti-foriegner stance. Its banned for an Atleusion to leave Atleus. How would it look"

"Fuck that! Its going to be a state visit. My villa's around the country are boring i've been to them all. I want to see the lands of..... the Soviet System, Karuchea, Void Templar, Neo Ixania... Thats just to name a few!"

"Well Ok, Supreme Commander. We should get underway"

"Well not yet.... at the moment I want to see what you think about an edict I want to propose. All pets will be banned for citizens"

"Um... Supreme Commander. We already have that rule"

"Hell! Why dont I just let you rule the fucken country then if your such a know it all!"

"I'm sorry sir"

"Can you pass that over" he said pointing to a not from the asroligers

He would scan the page glimpsing over what they had written though it was clear he had no clue what it was. Sometimes the astroliders would just mark the pages with a big red dot if it was bad news

"Read it too me!" he snapped throwing me the papers.

"Sir this was lastnights readings. You were pleased with them before"

"How is the army feeling?"

"Ah... They are happy and content. The entire nation is" I replied

"What about defections? How many people have fled the country?"

"Um.. It says 2 people left in the last month"

"Two! by what means!?"

"They were two conscripts who took an armoured truck and busted through the border"

"I want that border fortified that not even an ant could make it over!"

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Neo-Ixania
13-10-2008, 09:55
"Fuck that! Its going to be a state visit. My villa's around the country are boring i've been to them all. I want to see the lands of..... the Soviet System, Karuchea, Void Templar, Neo Ixania... Thats just to name a few!"

OOC: I'm surprised to see my nation named here; I'm willing to let the leader of Atleus visit Ixania. Shall we arrange a visit?
Atleus
15-10-2008, 00:43
OOC: I'm surprised to see my nation named here; I'm willing to let the leader of Atleus visit Ixania. Shall we arrange a visit?

Hahaha yeah well I just named some countries I've seen on here and also RPed with before.... This is Bulgislavia but Atleus is like another country I have haha but i'd be keen for a state visit

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After the Tuesday afternoon meetings I would meet with Harold a dog trainer who cared for Avory's army of dogs. They werent the guard dogs but Avory's pets. Harold never had much enthusiasm for the system or its leader but he was really forced into this job much like I was. The only thing Harold was interested in was talking about Avory's stupidity which we would always laugh and Harold did very good impressions of the Supreme Commander

"What did the stupid oaf say at this meeting?" said Harrold to me once after I left Avory

"He said all pets should be banned but he seemed to forget we already had such a law"

"Not only is the oaf an idiot but he's also a hypocrit while I'm imprisoned here to look after his yappy chuahua's!" said Harrold in disgust

"Chuahua's arent that bad there quite cute....." I said

"Yeah.... Well he hasnt seen them in a week.. I wonder when he will schedule to visit them"

"He's quite a busy man"

"Yeah with all those pleasure women up his sleve I bet he is" said Harrold

................................... Avory's Suits .......................................

Possably the worst headache for me while working for Avory was keeping track of what was in his huge wardrobe.

He was so superstituious that with all his suits that if he felt one gave his good luck he would keep it and wear it many time. If he felt a suit gave his bad luck he would tear up the suits himself and have it incinerated. But for most of his suits he ordered he was only to keep them for one week. After that they were to be burnt so no one else could ever wear them. He would then have the suit replaced where it would be burnt within a week and replaced again. It was an extremely expensive practice but it kept all his suits looking brand new.

Every Friday he would order me to drag a trunk of his week old costumes and take them down to the crematorium in Militaria. It got even more weird when he ordered the week old cloths to be put in an expensive coffin and cremated where their ash's would be scattered in the back yard of his compound.

The only cloths he owned that were older then a week were the "good luck" ones.

...................................................Avory's Wife..........................................

Avory did get married only once in 1982 to a small women who I never met but she was apparently a bit dopy and stupid. Always sat in the corner of rooms. never socialized and always agreed with her overpowering husband.

All through thier marriage Avory always cheated on her, so I heard. She died in 1998 in a car accident. Avory seemed to get over her death quite easily but 3 years into his rule in 2003 The media began instigating a cult of personality around her. Her portraits would go up around the place and a couple of statues too.

The Media even reported that after Avory's wife's death he declared he would abstain from sex for the rest of his life which only people in the inner circle knew was a down right lie.

While working for Avory I only ever heard him mention his wife once. I was walking in the Hallways of his compound with him and he once said

"I wonder what my dear Andrea would think of this house.... She didnt like big open spaces... She probably would of hated it"

To scared I would touch a nerve I never followed it up and asked anymore and that was the only mention of her I heard.

.................................... Another Tuesday Session with Avory.........................


One Tuesday Avory suddenly came up with the Idea that he wanted to be a great scientist. I was shocked and tried not to have an outbreak of hystirics when he said. "I'll make grand fomula's and cures for cancer and invent great things... You know I am the smartest person in the country. Possably the world my dear friend!? Even our media reports on it so it must be true!"

"So how will you go about this?" I said

"We will create an institue for science and technology and I will become head and my team of scientists will make great feats for the entire world! Chairman of the academy of Sciences will be my title!" he said sweeping himself up into a mood of excitment and hysteria

"Ok have you got any grand formula's and inventions up your sleve? Do you even know the formula for ethanol?" I asked subtly trying to turn him off this insane idea

"Ethanol! hahaha I know you just want to know how to make alcohol, I'm not going to tell you!" he said jokingly

"We have an army of spies. Send them to infiltrate academies and labs around the world and then we steel thier plans and patent them in Atleus.... I think that would work. Also I think I want the bomb"

At that I was in complete shock

"Tha bomb!? The nuclear bomb!?"

"Yeah.. If a basket case like North Korea can have it, We can have it too.... Get all the information you can on it. All our developments in all scientific areas will from now on be credited to me!"

Harrold was going to have a field day when I told him of Avory's plans after this meeting was over. Infact when he did find out Harrold collapsed on the ground with laughter and this newest level of stupidity that he would plagerize scientific work from the west and that aquireing a nuclear bomb would be as easy as the click of the fingers

............................... Nuclear Atleus! and Avory the Great Intellectual ......................................

We had not one single nuclear powerplant or reactor. We would have to completly start from scratch with this new research. What was even more embarrasing was that when the Academy of sciences opened up Avory made me second scientist incharge.
I felt such shame that I secretly apologized to all the main scientists at the academy and explained that it was not my idea or desire to have such a title. I have no experience in any science at all!

The Academy quickly became Avory's favourite playground. Bossing and screaming and yelling at all the scientists to work harder and even lecturing them on the best way to build a nuclear bomb using some diagrams he downloaded from the internet. No one knew whether to laugh or cry


"Scientist Melvin come here!" He ordered trying to sound intelligent and important

"Yes sir what is it?"

"There is a program called the simpsons in the west and I saw one episode and one character invented a chair with 2 emergency back legs so that when the chair swung back the emergency backlegs would save the person from falling over... Can I patent that and invent it here in Atleus"

A huge smile came across my face but I had to compose myself

"Oh... Um... yeah great idea Supreme Commander. Go for it..." He must of already shared this idea with some of the other scientists as they were laughing thier heads off in the corner

"Can you guys shut the fuck up and do some work!" he yelled acorss the room

"The Idiots! sometimes I think Only me and you are the only ones in the room with a brain!" he said

"I have to go to the toilet!" I screamed running to the bathroom to let out my laughter

Other invetions that would soon be credited to his name in Atleus only was the double sided bottle, an unworkable air powered car, a modern take on the old penny farthing and a large boxy machine that toasted bread but mostly burnt it. None of his inventions ever made it to the hands of the people but were showcased in a grand museum to his achievements and the media reported they were each an international success and fake certificates were awarded to Avory
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Neo-Ixania
15-10-2008, 23:51
Hahaha yeah well I just named some countries I've seen on here and also RPed with before.... This is Bulgislavia but Atleus is like another country I have haha but i'd be keen for a state visit

OOC: I would not mind having Avory visit Ixania. Could you create a thread for it? Thank you in advance.
Atleus
11-01-2009, 01:47
............................When my life was in Danger................................

As well as the threat of being purged at a moments notice on one of Avory's paranoid dellusions, Avory even managed to kill people accidently. Most notably when he attempted to drive.

Avory allways relied on a personal driver and never learnt to drive himself but on some occasions he would insist on driving his guests and emloyees into the city or around the countryside.

Some stories I have heard was his collision with a horsedrawn cart carrying a produce from a nearby farm. He killed the horse and the farmer on the cart as well as smashing the cart to peices and damaging his expensive car.

He once flipped a car on a straight only injuring his wrist but also causing severe injury to a Pleasure women, breaking her neck and paralyzing her. Ofcourse when the doctors arrived on the scene the poor pleasure girl recieved treatment AFTER Avory

On one occasion I was sitting in the backseat of the car. Avory was drunk and drinking a bottle of his rancid wine next to me when he bellowed
"STOP THE CAR!"
The personal driver looked a little worried. I was too

"Get the fuck out of the drivers seat and give me a go!" he demanded

"Um are you sure thats a good idea?" I said

"You! Shut the fuck up!" Avory got out of the car and pulled the personal driver out of the drivers seat

"Get in the back you little shit!" the personal driver strapped on his seatbelt terrified

"Give me your little drivers hat!" The personal driver handed Avory his hat

Avory wore the had and reved the car up and sped off.
I clung to the side of the seat for dear life. His body guard in the front passenger seat was also hanging on for dear life and the personal driver was sobbing cowereing back into the seat.

We were in the countryside so luckily there was no civilian around.

the terrifying ordeal lasted 30 minutes until the car came to a stop just short of landing in a ditch

"Where the fuck are we?" He said getting out of the car to vomit up the wine

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