[ENG] HiQ №30 | Smart, Stylish & Sexy | CraftInk Giveaway, CraftInk Lore Chapter 3, Liotes, Golem Overlord a.m.m.m.

Info für deutsche Leser: Die deutsche Ausgabe wurde unter @hiq veröffentlicht. (Anm. d. R.: Ihr findet sie hier.)

^{By: @smooms}

Once again, an unbeatable issue is ready. As always, we've dug up the hottest shit for you. You'd think we were only thinking about one thing. (Editor's note: @craftink of course! What do you think? tsss)

We start this issue again with a category that has been in every issue since the beginning of HiQ. Do you know what it is? If you guessed the MVP, you're right. It's here again this time. But you'll have to read for yourself who we've chosen this time.

THE column in this issue comes from our talented editor from a faraway land, @mary-me, in which she revisits her HiQ journey. Take a journey into her past and read THE column. Worth it.

What comes after THE Column? That's right, the first Cover Story. Some of you will have been eagerly awaiting the third chapter of "CraftInk - The Beninging". You can only read how the story ends with us, in issue №30.

The Beginning to go with the Beninging... Which Beginning? The one of the CraftInk "Editorial Office" Booster Packs in the first CraftInk "Editorial Office" Booster Pack Sale. To sweeten this sale even more (and because we are turning 30), we have unpacked a hypergigantic giveaway for you. To find out what it is, read this issue. (Note from @craftink: And buy Booster Packs!)

Last minute, @quekery threw himself into Golem Overlord for you. Whether he is already an Overlord or what it takes to become one, he has certainly been able to determine for you. But there is only one way you will find out - you have to read the HiQ. So hop hop. (Editor's note: LOOL)

But our Irish Scotsman @tengolotodo has also been busy. He went into the depths of Liotes for the HiQ and became a real Liotian on their behalf. (Editor's note: Real Liotist. An original Liot.) Whether he kept his intestinal gases with him or whether it was just the wind after all, you can read in his article about Liotes.

We round off the main part of the HiQ here with a community. This time @themyscira dives into the world of shadows. Does it outshine all her previous community reviews? Just find a shady spot and read for yourself.

And last but not least, we have the classics: Gossip, Hivestyle for Hivians and the Readers' Letters. There was a lot to answer here. But before we go further into the issue, here's a word on our own behalf...

... because what you should also definitely do is fomo into the Commentary Discount Sale 1/4. With a discount of 40% on the current HIVE price of HIQS (Editor's note: 0.544 SWAP.HIVE). That means you can buy up to 270 HIQS for the price of 0.327 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!

Buy CraftInk Packs and now have fun reading on! ★

TABLE OF CONTENTS

➀ HiQs MVP - @solymi   ➁ The Column - Memoirs of a lector

Cover Story   ➂ CraftInk Lore - "The Beninging - Chapter 3"   ➃ CraftInk Booster Pack Sale + Giveaway

Gaming   ➄ Become a Golem Overlord

Apps & Tools   ➅ Liotians assemble

Community   ➆ They have a bit of a shadow

Hivestyle   ➇ Gossip   ➈ Hivestyle for Hivians   ➉ Readers' letters ★

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^{By: @smooms}

For a long time he deserved to be MVP. But our list is long. But what goes around comes around. Congratulations @solymi on being named MVP! (Editor's note: And being a character in CraftInk. LOOL)

This time, @solymi is appointed MVP by us. With his podcasting skills, he has become an indispensable part of HiQ and has been delighting the Hive Blockchain with the @hiq.smartcast for twenty-two episodes.

We met Solymi in Amsterdam at HiveFest, where his fluffy eyebrows immediately beguiled us. (Editor's note: @mary-me and @smooms wanted to touch them. But that could also have been due to the Dutch herbs. LOOL)

Of course, Solymi isn't all smartcast and eyebrows. He regularly participates in the Leo Power Up Day and thus increases his Leo Stake. In addition, he works with @ravenmus1c and @tibfox on the HIVE Music Video Foundation project. He also writes articles about Splinterlands and is heavily invested in Hive Gaming, which manifests itself in streams on various streaming platforms but is also noticeable in his collaboration with Crypto Company CEO.

Therefore, this month's ~~busybee~~ MVP goes to Solymi. (Editor's note: Well deserved!) ★

^{By: @mary-me}

Who would have thought? 30 HiQs in 3 years! Madame Secretary of HiQ (Editor's note: and CraftInk) tells how she came to Team HiQuarters and what has happened so far.

Sometime during 2020 I met @queker and @smooms. We were hanging out on the same Schwurbler Discord servers. (Editor's note: LOOL) We hit it off right away and at some point they told me about their magazine project on Hive. I already knew Hive and Steem, I made my account in January 2018 but had been inactive since then.

For several years now, I have earned my money by editing magazines, books, blogs, etc. I told them that in passing and I think at that moment they already knew what my future would look like - but I didn't know yet.

And then, it must have been in autumn 2020, they asked me if I would like to help create a HiQ issue. I said yes, but I had no idea what to expect. I corrected the entire issue. I read every article at least twice.

The collaboration with @quekery and @smooms was very pleasant, so that I also corrected the next HiQ and the one after that, the one after that and actually all of them up to the present time. Now we're on issue 30 and I think I've worked on 28 of them.

It became clear relatively quickly that I should become part of the core team of HiQ, because apart from editing and correcting, I am also quite good at organisation. And having a woman in the team never hurts. I think I will remain the eternal quota woman of HiQ, LOOL.

It's just a joke, of course, and I can handle it well. What the guys sometimes spout is probably hard for many to bear, but I've fitted in well and basically they are lovely, straightforward people whose moral and ethical compass points in the right direction.

And now we are in the year 2023, the HiQ appears in its 30th edition and many side projects have been launched in this time. Besides the absolute highlight @craftink, we created a HiQ Witness Node, the HiQ got its own H-E Token called HIQS, Diesel Pools were opened, a voting bot (Editor's note: !hiqvote) was created, a podcast format was established and one of the most important milestones in the history of the HiQ - we decided to publish in English.

This decision was not easy for us and we thought about it for a long time until one day we dared to do it. Since then a lot has happened and for about half a year we have even had a proofreader for the English edition, namely @tengolotodo. The Irish Scotsman is a great help to us in editing the English texts and in the meantime he also writes articles for the HiQ himself.

The English HiQ was important for the growth of HiQ and the connected projects. We are widely known in the German-speaking community, but there is still potential for growth in the English area of the Hive Blockchain. Our unofficial motto or mantra is: Continuity!

And that's why this issue also comes more or less on time at the end of the month and it's already the 30th - unbelievable how fast time flies. Now the baby is definitely grown up, LOOL, and already has children of its own, or so, LOOL. ★

^{By: @smooms}

One last time we dive into the story of CraftInk and its beginnings. This chapter is to close The Beninging. What did the three HiQ editors take away? Read for yourself.

What has happened so far:

Mary, Queker and smooms travelled through time into the bodies of three Mayan priests. The city of Tayasal was under attack by troops under the influence of INKubus and was about to fall. However, the Mayan priests used the time to perform the necessary ritual and to instruct the three HiQ editors on what CraftInk is all about and how it might be possible to stop INKubus in the present as well. But we learn all this in...

Chapter 3:

Queker, smooms and Mary were again standing in front of the new HiQ building. The broker handed Mary the keys and the three entered the offices of the new HiQuarters. "Finally our own office!" said Mary as she inspected the individual workstations, to which Queker replied: "About time. That was really exhausting, managing all the staff via Discord. That was always a rollercoaster of emotions on the last Wednesday to actually bang out an issue." He threw his core team buddies Mary and smooms a satisfied grin. smooms was having déjà vu. "Haven't we done this before?" he asked, to which Mary replied, "Right, it feels like we've been here before." The three of them entered the building and looked around. "The workplace here is made for you, smooms, isn't it?" tested Queker. "Would have really picked it, what a coincidence." The three looked at each other in silence.

The three of them now had the same thought - what happened was not a dream. How strange would it be for three people to dream the same thing. "We have to go to the basement," Mary remarked. She went down the stairs and the other two followed her. As the three advanced further into the basement, they saw it. Made of dark wood, almost like a portal to another world. It seemed almost out of place. The door frame was decorated with blotch patterns that were engraved into the wood. The door behind which the chest with the stone tablets was sealed.

"Duuuuuuude," Queker remarked. "I thought I was dreaming that." Queker was shocked. smooms continued towards the door and kicked it open. Without hesitation, they entered the room in turn, where, as was to be expected, was that very stone chest. The stone chest, which looked like a stone block and seemed to have no indentations other than the decorations on the top. "The ink symbol! We need ink to get this thing open," Mary said. smooms was already on his way upstairs to get an ink cartridge from one of the desks. Arriving with the cartridge, he pricked the bullet and dripped the ink onto the blotch symbol on the top of the stone chest, causing the floor to shake and the chest to open.

The three now stood in front of the wide-open chest. "I was expecting something completely different," said smooms. Inside the large stone chest lay a wooden casket. With the inkblot engraving on the top, it was clearly proven: This was absolutely not a dream! Next to the wooden box lay a parchment. smooms took both out and brought them upstairs.

When they reached the top, the three of them looked at the two objects for about 30 minutes without saying a word. Until Mary broke the silence: "Jo, don't you want to open that thing?" - "Let's see what's written on the scroll first," Queker said. Mary unrolled the scroll. The scroll said in the Mayan language, but the three of them understood every word, roughly translated as follows:

*For the editors: You must keep INKubus weakened. Play our game. We have developed a pack of cards that has enabled us to harness the energy of pure souls and shape it into an essence we call "CraftInk". This is released by playing with the cards and is used to rob INKubus of its full power. How you play the game is up to you. Try to find as many players as possible. Just don't forget to pour the pure souls of your nearest in the cards. Everything else will happen almost by itself. As soon as you read this, INKubus will not be banned much longer, if he still is. You don't have much time left. Play the game and find a way to destroy INKubus once and for all, so that the generations after you won't have to!

"A pack of cards?" asked Queker. He reached into the casket and took out wooden plates on which people were engraved and burned in some places. So they had to develop a card game. On the Hive Blockchain, where the three were already publishing their editorial outpourings, there were already various card games based on the principle of trading card games. "How about a trading card game, based on the principle of already existing games, like Yu-Gi-Oh or Magic - The Gathering? We could make NFTs of ourselves," said smooms. "Why not of all the users on the hive chain?" added Queker. "Bubblegif could draw the pictures for it," was Mary's additional suggestion. While the three of them put their heads together and philosophised about the upcoming game, the room went dark.

A mist rose from the darkness, stretched out before them in space and formed the outline of a figure. The mist became a man dressed in a black robe and wearing a hood through which, instead of a face, one could only see into the darkness. A voice sounded from the hood:

"So here you are! After more than 300 years, we finally meet again. I may be but a shadow, but my power continues to grow. Not long now, I will subjugate and rule over the entire world. You can't stop me. Don't even try. However, I give you a choice: join with me and surrender! Forget what these foolish priests have given you. I will win anyway. If you refuse, that will be your doom."

Mary had had enough of his jabbering: "Get lost, you asshole!" - "What was that?" - "We don't want anything like you here buddy", Mary looked at him with the look of death par excellence. INKubus gave in and disappeared without saying a word.

"We need to put every spare minute into developing the game," smooms said. Nodding their heads, Queker and Mary agreed with him and the three sat down to work on the rules for CraftInk. Legends say that they met with other Hivians to play a prototype of the game with them. But that story is in another book.

End ★

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^{By: @smooms}

CraftInk's Booster Pack Sales launch has begun. On Friday, CraftInk invited people to ask questions and open packs. We were there, too, of course. (Editor's note: Because this is our game, you joker. LOOL)

CraftInk is a Play2Earn2Support trading card game. The characters on the cards are supposed to represent archetypes of Hive and also notable Hivians are depicted on them. In the future, everyone who has the necessary assets will also have the opportunity to become a trading card in the game.

CraftInk distributes its cards via Booster Packs, which have been purchased via the Pack Manager of Tribaldex. These can be bought and opened on the website playcraftink.com. Here you can also view your own collection as well as those of other users. As soon as the programming has been completed, the actual game will be available for play on the website. At the moment, the team is working on the mini-game, which should be playable at the end of the second quarter of this year. Until then, players can already collect cards, trade them and sell them on the market.

You're probably wondering what the Booster Packs cost, aren't you? The Booster Packs cost $3 each, with the chance of a reduced price if you have INK staked or are in at least one of the two diesel pools SWAP.HIVE:INK and HIQS:INK. You can read more about this in the posts by @craftink. In addition, there are bonus packs if you buy larger quantities.

The packs have a print run of 100 000. At launch, 4 000 packs were put on sale and 1 000 more packs are added every Friday.

Key data - $3 per Booster Pack (edition: 100 000 pieces) - Reduced price - INK staked - INK pool liquidity provided - 63 different cards (+ all 63 additionally in holo)

Provisional Roadmap - Minigame: End Q2 2023 - Maingame: End Q3 2023

If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask them in the comments or simply join the Discord. The CraftInk team (Editor's note: that's us. LOOL) will be happy to answer your questions there.

Or would you like to be involved right from the start? Then click this link and take a look at CraftInk's website.

But that's not all. Because we think CraftInk is so cool (Editor's note: It would be strange if it wasn't. LOOL) and because we are celebrating the 30th issue of HiQ, we have prepared a competition for you.

This time there are 30 "CraftInk Editorial Office" Booster Packs to be won!

We will distribute the packs as follows:

Each winner will also get the same number of HIQS as they get Booster Packs! WOHOOO - today we're really letting it rip! LOOL.

What you need to do to be eligible to win:

• Comment below the issue with a short poem containing the words "CraftInk" and "Thirty (30)"
• Tagged 2 friends
• Buy CraftInk Booster Packs (Editor's note: This is optional. LOOL)

The deadline for entries is the end of the countdown.

So what are you waiting for? Take part in the competition, fomo in packs and keep your fingers crossed for the makers of CraftInk (Editor's note: That means us. LOOL). We hope to see you at CraftInk too. ★

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^{By: @quekery}