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By: @quekery & @mary-me
EDITORIAL
BOOM! That's not the sound from the sequel to CraftInk Lore, but the sound of the publish button. Because a new HiQ issue is here! Only real if it has the longest one.
Finally, a regular issue again. It seems like it's been ages since the last one. In such fast-moving times, it's not easy to keep up and last but not least, we also suffer from a lack of workpower. (Editor's note: Apart from procrastination and RL Shit still exists, LOOL.) But that hasn't stopped us in the past and won't in the future.
Who also couldn't stop us is Justin Sun. We recently celebrated our 3rd birthday. (Editor's note: Celebrated is a bit of a mouthful. But one can also toast oneself.) And Hive also celebrated its 3rd birthday. What a coincidence. Even though we've actually been around much longer and if @smooms is to be believed, there's not a lot of footage between Big Bang and us, all these birthdays are reason enough for @smooms to cover the column in this issue.
And since the cover is also by @smooms, we can certainly use it as a cheat sheet for the rest of these lines. Besides an MVP, which was long overdue, there is also something to win in this issue. All you have to do is be creative (Editor's note: Maybe someone is more creative than us!?) and of course read the WOO cover story.
What we also cover, of course, in a cover story that is second to none, is the 2nd chapter of CraftInk - The Beninging. The 3rd chapter would somehow be more appropriate. After all, we have become 3. But we can just pretend that there is still a 0th chapter somewhere in the basement of HiQ. Which would also fit quite well, since Chapter 1 had a cliffhanger in a still unexplored corner of the HiQ Basement.
And speaking of unexplored worlds where you can fight tirelessly, resulting in the ending of friendships and flagwars (Editor's note: like Mario Kart), we put a little hands on the new game on Hive "Terracore".
Speaking of friendships: How do you keep in touch with Hive friends? For us, it's clearly Discord. But will it be that in the future as well? We are testing the new PeakD Chat, which already looks a lot like Discord.
And since we want our supporters to have some Hive friends, we forced our noobpert to take a look at Hive from a completely different angle. (Editor's note: And we needed another hands-on so that we could make stylish transitions in the editorial.) She had to get her hands on the Ecency mobile app. It's just a shame that logging in didn't work on the very day we wanted to ~~persuade~~ encourage her to do a Hands On. But we're already giving away too much here.
What can never be too much, by the way, is another token that you can probably earn with in 2 years. It bears the smart name XV. (Note from @quekery: I treated myself to XVπ right away.) But since we don't want to spoil too much again, it's best if you read the article yourself and scrolling until then is certainly a good workout.
This issue goes out as usual with Gossip, Hivestyle for Hivians and the Readers' Letters. Have fun reading!
And you know what else could brighten your day? The Commentary Discount Sale 1/4 HIQS with a discount of 40% on the current HIVE price of HIQS (Editor's note: 0.583 SWAP.HIVE). That means you can buy up to 270 HIQS for the price of 0.35 per HIQS. Write the following
!HIQS HereYourDesiredAmount
in the comments. After 2 days, we will publish a post at @hiq.shares handling the sale. By the way, if the demand is high enough, we will increase the amount of HIQS to 540 HIQS, so that English-speaking and German-speaking readers can get their HIQS. We've done that before from time to time, but hardly anyone noticed. LOOL
PS: Vote HiQs Witness. Now. LOOL!
Peace out and have fun. ★
TABLE OF CONTENTS
➀ HiQs MVP - @balte ➁ The Column - Hive turns 3
Cover Story ➂ CraftInk Lore - "The Beninging - Chapter 2" ➃ WOOnderful WOO Giveaway
Gaming ➄ Terracore - Next Space Wars
Apps & Tools ➅ Discord Killer? - PeakD Chat ➆ XV Token - A different token pot
Community ➇ Noobpert tests Ecency Mobile
Hivestyle ➈ Gossip ➉ Hivestyle for Hivians ➀➀ Readers' letters ★
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By: @smooms & @mary-me
➀ HiQs MVP
He will surely look at us with discreet disgust when he reads what we have done. But he still deserves to be MVP in his favorite Hive Magazine. Take that, Balte. :P
For a long time we respected his wish not to be explicitly mentioned in HiQ. But now, after years of holding back, the time has come. We say: Thank you, @balte!!!
It's probably the case that everyone knows him. @balte is a fan of HiQ of the first millisecond and has also been in the groupie ranks at STEEMillu. Don't get us wrong, we don't like him for his massive Hive stake, we've played CraftInk with him with real cards. At his place. We're telling you, he's going to be a serious contender. He's got the hang of it.
Apart from the upvotes and support we and others get from him, which we of course think is great, (Editor's note: And we don't feel a bit bribed either, LOOL.) Balte has always been there for us with advice and support and can diagnose and sort out pretty much any ailment. We're glad we're all pals, Balte. We hope we'll have something from you for a long time to come. Thanks for your support! ★
By: @smooms
➁ THE COLUMN
Happy Birthday to Hive. Or should we say: Happy Forkday? Three years ago we rose from the ashes as the Hive Community and a new phoenix was born.
Here it becomes particularly clear how well we can work together as a community, even if we are all scattered across the globe. (Editor's note: Or the record, depending on which perspective you look at it from, LOOL.) In the course of the hostile takeover of the Chinese oligarch Justin Sun (Editor's note: A.k.a. Custom Justin - The Valentronslord of Darkness.), it became clear that there are, after all, a great many individuals in Cryptospace for whom decentralisation is important. They have set themselves apart and created something great and unique in our eyes.
Many users were faced with the question of whether they wanted to continue using Steem or switch to the newer, hornier and more stylish blockchain. Yes, we were also in this predicament. However, since a large part of the German community migrated to Hive, we also decided to follow. But since we were STEEMillu back then, which is obviously not such the best brand name on Hive, we had to completely rebrand ourselves. Fresher, hornier, sassier" became "smart, stylish, sexy" and HiQ was born.
Now 3 years have already passed through the chain. From the developer's point of view, a lot has happened. Hive has been provided with new functions, there is a steadily growing community and the prices of the main currency and its trading volume are developing well - this did not only please us. We are now 3 years old, too. (Editor's note: Together with STEEMillu, we are even older. Real old hands.) We have expanded and are now also bilingual. We have our own tokens and many projects we are involved in. Not to forget our newest treasure @craftink. Things are going well for us, you could say.
Just as successful as we are now (Editor's note: or at least feel LOOL), we naturally wish that you would be too. The chain is not standing still, the prices will soon rise again and we will all ride off into the sunset with our Lambos. Until then, keep your spoons stiff and Hive On. ★
By: @smooms
➂ COVER STORY
In the last issue, the beginning of the story about CraftInk's Beninging came to us. You can read about what has happened so far and what will happen next here. We are also curious.
What happened so far:
Mary, Queker and smooms moved into the new HiQuarters headquarters. What they found in the basement was to change their lives. The stone chest with the three stone slabs was more than just that. When they touched the tablets, something happened. But more about that in...
Chapter 2:
Queker, smooms and Mary opened their eyes after a bright light blinded them as they touched the stone slabs. It was hot all around them. When their vision cleared, they could make out the flames. However, they were no longer in the basement. Moreover, everything also looked fully antique. The room they were in looked like a temple. smooms stood up, but as he leaned on his hand to push himself up, he noticed that it was not he who was controlling his movement, but he seemed to be running on autopilot. While on autopilot he turned back to Queker and Mary. They were dressed in robes that looked Indian and wore heaps of gold jewellery and a crown decorated with feathers on their heads. These were not Queker and Mary. The skin colour didn't match either. They looked like Mayan priests.
The priest, with smooms inside, spoke to the other two in a foreign language, but curiously the three understood every word. "The Yucatán have come with their ships. The entire city is in flames. Not long now and Tayasal will have fallen too." The Mayan priest with Queker inside also stood up. "We have to finish the ritual." - "Dude, what's happening?" Queker thought. "Queker?" Even though the three of them couldn't speak through each other's mouths, they still seemed to be able to hear each other. So they could communicate with each other through their minds. "Dude, how rad. I can hear what you're thinking, Queker. Mary? Are you there?" smooms said. "For sure. What's going on?" Mary's priest was a strongly muscled dark-skinned man with a massive gold chain around his neck, each finger adorned by at least one gold ring. In his nose the priest wore a gold nose ring the size of those hoop earrings some women wear these days. "This city here seems to be tearing up", Queker replied to her. "Yeah, I can see that, genius. But where, when and who are we?" Mary was getting freaky. Was it the red moon seen in the sky above the city that made her mind boil? Anyone would probably be off their rocker if they travelled back in time. "Part of the ritual seems to have worked already. They are here", spoke the priest Mary was inside. "There are six of us now." - "Dude, do they know we're here?" asked smooms. Queker was the calmest and suggested: "Let's shut our mouths for a minute and see what happens."*
The three priests picked themselves up and made their way through the temple complex in the middle of the island on which the city of Tayasal had been built. In some parts of the walls one could see outside. One could see how the entire island was brightly lit by the fire of the Spanish armies. They were coming to conquer the city. "We still have time. They have not yet reached the temple", spoke the priest who seemed to be smooms' avatar. "The ritual will continue and we will also manage to finish it. We must." "What is this ritual?", Queker, smooms and Mary asked each other virtually at the same time? "Jinxed.", said smooms. He had apparently not forgotten how to joke around.
The three priests arrived in an altar room with a stone table in the middle. An altar, virtually. That's what an altar room has, after all. Otherwise it would just be a room. When the three priests entered the room, they sealed the entrance with a large wooden bolt and went to the altar in the middle of the room. In the middle of the altar, through the priests' eyes, the three saw again the inkblot symbol that was already engraved on the door frame in the basement. On it lay 3 stone slabs, completely empty, between vessels that seemed to contain various liquids and herbs. The smells of the liquids mixed into a scent that could be perceived as musty. Even though Queker, smooms and Mary could not control the bodies of the priests themselves, they got the full smell.
"Let me speak to our visitors." The priest Mary was in stepped forward. "The troops attacking us are human. That is clear. But they are not acting of their own volition. They are all possessed." The priest opened a drawer, in which was a wooden box. On it, too, one saw the inkblot logo engraved. "In this box is the secret to further banish the INKubus. However, since our people have been completely wiped out and only we are still guarding this secret, the spell has become too weak and the INKubus was able to break free. Now he is trying everything to destroy the rest of us as well. He has taken the Spanish armies under his spell and is using them as his pawns in this battle. We have..."
BOOM
The priest was interrupted by a loud bang coming from the heavy door of the room. He took the wooden casket and stowed it back in the drawer of the altar, which, after closing, disappeared again completely invisible into the altar.
BOOM
"That's way too early," the priest Queker was in remarked.
BOOM
The door cracked and the bolt burst into a thousand pieces. The troops who had attacked the city filled the room. In the midst of them, a man dressed in a black robe, whose face could not be seen, strutted into the room. "Do you think you can stop me with your stupid rituals?" a deep voice breathed from under the hood. "We won't be the ones to stop you. That's in the future. There will be a team of journalists who will destroy you," the priest Queker was in retorted. "What's a journalist supposed to be? HAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAA. I'm going to burst you now. And it will hurt all the while you are dying." INKubus raised his hand and a blue-black glow grew on his hand. The priest, Mary was dwelling in, took a ceremonial knife from the altar, with which he cut his palm, murmured the words HUN NAB KU. Wáaj u le k'aas, struck the ground with the bloody palm and a kind of protective shield was created against which the blue beam of energy from the INKubus' hand bounced off.
Do you think this little barricade will hold me up for long?" The INKubus let volley after volley of blue fireballs hit the shield. The 3 priests walked towards the altar, from which one of the priests took the wooden box again. "In this box are playing cards." He opened the box and inside were various playing cards which were made of wood with pictures of people carved into them. "With these cards we played a game. CraftInk. When our people died out, the spell that banished the INKubus from our world also disappeared. Now he is back, and will not stop until he has usurped everything." "CraftInk. A bunch of cards is supposed to bind a demon?" Queker thought. "I hear you too," noted the priest Mary was inside. "You must continue to play the game for us. Go back to your time - to the year 2023 and play CraftInk. We will sacrifice the souls of our people and won't be able to banish INKubus until you play our game." - "What happens now?" asked smooms. "You are the reincarnation of the three of us. That is the only way you could come into our time when you touched the slabs. Just long enough for us to instruct you."
On the other side of the shield, the INKubus was still raging. The shield was slowly becoming brittle in some places. Time was running out. "Play our game. This is all that matters now. You must find a way to destroy the INKubus." Each of the three priests now held a ritual knife. The remaining two cut their hands with the ritual knife. Together they spoke, as if in canon:
Venimos ofrecer teech le restantes yo'olal u pixan k kaajal. Ba'ax le INKubus bixake' desterrado tak ka k almas ku reencarnen.
As the last word faded out, each placed his bloody hand on one of the stone slabs. Just in time, because the shield shattered and nothing separated the three priests from the INKubus. But neither the priests nor the stone slabs nor the wooden box with the wooden playingcards were still there. Just like the priests, the whole city was swept clean of inhabitants. The INKubus crumbled to dust, leaving only the Spanish troops there. Queker, smooms and Mary went black again.
End Chapter 2 ★
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By: @quekery
➃ COVER STORY
There are stylish prizes to be won in this issue too: WOO and WOO Land Plots. WOOHOO! Even though these are sponsored by WOO, we are of course unbiased - logical.
HiQ has just turned 3. But other projects are also getting on in years, such as WOO. WOO has been roaming our beloved Chain for over a year now and is unstoppable.
We didn't celebrate WOO's anniversary, but we have a stylish competition up our sleeves for you. In addition to WOO Land Plots, there is also a lot of WOO, the future ingame token, to be won.
But before we get to the giveaway, let's talk about WOO itself. (Editor's note: The onigreedies among you will have to wait a little longer.) WOO is not only a token, no, the smartly chosen token symbol also stands for the name of the game - Wrestling Organization Online.
And the name will also be the programme. In the White Paper you can find out what to expect at @wrestorgonline. We can already tell you this much: It's going to be a dCity-like game (Editor's note: With completely different mechanics, of course.) that made us want to jump into a few packs and play the cool mini-game when we first discovered it.
But we digress. In the game you will take on the role of a travelling wrestling organisation and manage it. The lore and management is based on the actual wrestling world. So it's more like dCibona after all? Also, an essential part of the concept of WOO is to support real wrestlers with a part of the revenue.
Land was already teased in the white paper, but a lot has happened since then. (Editor's note: There is no business like WOO-business.) And as we write these lines and read the white paper over a cup of coffee, WOO Land Sale is already in its second phase.
WhOO the heck is WOO Land?
If you want to really get started with your business at WOO, then you also need land or cities. The sale of WOO Land started with a presale, where only licensed users could buy land. In the meantime, however, you can buy WOO Land for free and even get a discount of 5 $ if you burn 500 WOO at the time of purchase. This discount ends on 31st May. And also in this sale, a part of the proceeds (Editor's note: 10%) goes to real wrestling partners.
There will be 20 territories in the finished game. The first territory contains 10 000 land plots aka cities. This means that no more than 10 000 plots will be brought to the people during the sale. Currently there are 6 401