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"You can laugh about everything but not with everyone," - Pierre Desproges

 

 

 

Note for paranoids, very serious peoples and YouTuber's fans: This is a work of F.I.C.T.I.O.N. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents either are the products of the authors' noob and overdrived imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This is not a witch-hunt neither a personal Vendetta.

 

 

 

Manifesto
 

Once upon a time, two tankers, @Illuminati and @Merovingian met in a trendy private club in Tanki Online. Straight away their deep passion for writing, coupled with a love of the beautiful English grammar and combined with the search for The Truth (with two capital T) steered them to form a writing project together that would publish accurate and true information. What was at first just a small idea shaped itself into an independent Newspaper named The Leaky Mult.

 

The aim of this journal is to resolve mysteries, comment on new updates, test new features, unearth conspiracies and report without bias the information its dear readers so desperately want. We will not publish on a regular basis, more likely when articles are ready to be shared. There will be no limitations to our investigations, we will not take No for an answer, we will expose the wrongdoing and we will fight the injustice (named and shamed). And most of all we would protect the free player from the nutty developer... and... apparently the (noob) buyer. Yes, they are our friends too. I didn’t want to add them, but my valuable colleague, Illuminati, forced me and I can’t really refuse. This is because he is the noob buyer who supplies the journal’s paper, pens, Oreos and electricity that are vital to our endeavour.

 

When the truth is too hot, the conspiracy too deep, the story too good to be true or the scandal too ineffable, we will publish them under the “The Leaky Mult” (TLM). Why? Simply because TLM is not afraid of Them and it is protected by forces too high to be comprehended: a mega-super server too remote (in Magadan) to be DDOSed, a giant Fluffy guard (our 3-headed pet dog on loan from Hagrid), several amulets from Zelda and a mouse trap (the latter is a bit excessive but just in case, we never know).

 

Oh readers, be ready... and be vigilant, because today it is the very first publication, el numero uno, also make sure you are already seated before you start to read the latest news.

 

One last thing before you cast your eyes over the precious content exposed; our outrageously overpaid lawyers advised us to add the relevant disclaimers that you will find below in the spoiler. You are required to read them very carefully so we have our backs covered. Thanks in advance.

 

Disclaimers (must read!):

 

 

Hush-Hush Tanki (HHT) has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that all information provided through “The Leaky Mult” (TLM) articles is accurate at the time of inclusion. However, there may be inadvertent and occasional errors for which TLM deeply apologises in advance.

 

Hush-Hush Tanki accepts no liability for any inaccuracies or omissions in TLM articles and any decisions based on information contained and are the sole responsibility of the reader. HHT accepts no liability for any direct, special, indirect or consequential damages, or any other damages of whatsoever kind, resulting from whatever cause through the use of any information obtained either directly or indirectly from TLM articles.

 

Any reader and visitor leaving a comment under the articles below or providing information to TLM agrees that TLM has unlimited rights to such information as provided and that TLM may use such information in any way that TLM chooses. Such information as provided by the tanker shall be non-confidential, we do accept juicy, top secret and leaked information regarding Tankiverse though.

 

HHT is compliant with the Tank Welfare Agency Trade policy, which monitor the tank rights and action. HHT confirm to its readers that No Tanks Were Harmed during the production and publication of the TLM.

 

Tankileaks: Overdrivegate
by The Merovingian
 

Several leaked documents obtained by your brave Reporters, moneying a substantial amount of crystals (thank you Illuminati for providing the crystals! (such a noob buyer, but I love you)), revealed that TO’s tank factory had fitted faulty Overdrives to numerous hulls. All the production lines held in its main factory near Molotov have been impacted during the last six months. The faults, affecting the tanks, range from the Overdrive simply refusing to operate its magic to the explosion of the device thus pulverising in the process the poor and unaware tankers. One of the key documents leaked, is a report of a meeting of TO high executives, which detailed the extent of the problem. Furthermore, the report discloses that TO’s administration knew about the current issue at hand, for a very long time, nevertheless, TO decided to downgrade the risk during a previous assessment.

 

The Overdrive is believed to be manufactured by an Alternativa’s subsidiary company called Electrolux Inc. The supplier has, after a mutual agreement with its client, sold out of specification devices for a cheaper price. After the apparition of report about self-exploding tanks, TO has secretly started to recall some of the malfunctioning tanks identified and stopped installing faulty Overdrives. Several tankers told TLM that TO’s consumer service contacted them with a back-story about a free check-up offered to their best customer. Once contacted ,TO’s spin doctor has not yet confirm or infirm these allegations. It is our understanding that TO management is currently holding an emergency meeting with its top executives. Not much luck either with Ajnin Dommurof, the CEO of Electrolux INC, has not yet responded to the TLM’s request for comment on the explosive matter.

 

Via mobile phone, we managed to contact Tiklee You, the president of the Happy Tankers Club (HTC), for comment. Here below the answers provided.

“We cannot comment right now as we do not hold the full picture of the affair. However, we can say that we have already assigned our most competent lawyers on the case. If this ‘fake news’ turned out to be true, we will swiftly act on and fill a class action against TO, pursuing them to court for malpractice, incompetence and monkeyshine.” he said with a touch of irritation.

 

“To our HTC members, our prime recommendation is to play in deactivated Overdrive battle or to avoid its activation until more evidences are gathered on the root cause!” he added with the utmost gravity.

The tanker community needs to know that they are in danger and we decided to publish the story to expose this scandal, now known as the Overdrivegate. This is a Breaking news first reported by your brave and loyal TLM Reporters, reporting from a secured location. So long mult...

 

 
EX-CM Encountered in Siberia
by Illuminati 

 
As you all know, our former Community Manager @Cedric Debono suddenly announced that he would be leaving the game a few months ago, with absolutely no warning or given reasons. Though the replacement drafted in by Tanki HQ is a worthy replacement (the honourable ), many tankers were unnerved by Cedric's sudden disappearance. There has been plenty of speculation regarding this and many rumours have been circulating around the International Community. Some wisely pointed out that all good things come to an end, whereas others argued that this was "karma" for the way that Cedric had so abruptly replaced his predecessor, @semyonkirov. Other less well-informed individuals desperately tried to make people understand that Cedric was in fact a hacker, because he changed ranks whenever he apparently felt like it. They reasoned that he was being brought to justice for these crimes. Even with all these speculations, nothing that would point truth-seekers in the right direction has ever surfaced.

Until now.

Part of Russia is known as Siberia, which is a cold and vast wilderness stretching for many thousands of miles. In the southern section of this area lives the Snow Leopard, also known as the Irbis. Tanki HQ send out specially-trained hunters to provide materials for garage paints (they aren't sourced from Google Images, contrary to popular belief).

It was on one such mission that a hunter accidentally stumbled across a battered complex while seeking shelter during a fierce storm. While carefully making his way around, he eventually pushed against a worn door on which a faded message could be read.

 

"ПСИХИАТРИЧЕСКУЮ БОЛЬНИЦУ"
(Mental Asylum)

 
He decided to continue inside anyway. Perhaps he had a curious nature? Or maybe it was an overdose of HQ's famous own brand of distilled potato juice? No one will ever know the truth.

The video recording beamed out to us by his helmet camera showed him moving through the seemingly abandoned rooms. He eventually came across a passage lined with rows of cell-like compartments on either side. Words were visible above the doors. Words such as "Reaper", "Singing Crocodile", "Archangel", "Too Slow" or even "Not Khalifa" could be seen. All the doors were closed and locked.

Except one.

At the far end of the corridor, one of the doors was twisted and wrecked as if something had torn it apart in a wild rage. The video camera revealed ominous words written over the door frame.
 

"The De-boner"

 
As the hunter stopped before the open door, a low wail began to develop, like the gold box siren. The hunter started in surprise, turned towards the noise and appeared to shine his flashlight down the passage.

Thankfully for us, his video camera stopped recording at this point.

 

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Thanks to the sacrifice of the poor hunter, we can now theorise that @Cedric Debono was removed from power due to a common mental disorder among Tanki Helpers (an overdose of gold boxes is often the cause) and drastic actions were taken to make sure he was kept securely.

Unfortunately, due to the evidence we now have, it is believed that our EX-CM is now at large. Please do come forward if you have any information regarding his whereabouts.

 
 
Angry Tankers are Building Walls on Maps!
 by The Merovingian
 

A peculiar tanker activity on TO has been reported to us in the shape of walls being built on maps. Hearsay or true story? Your awesome and dedicated Reporters decided to pack up and investigate in situ. We set off promptly to a designated map after gathering the essentials in a backpack: toothbrush, Oreos, distilled potato juice x2, maps, GPS and a pair of binoculars.

 

Upon the careful and attentive observation of an active CTF battle, we can confirm that the rumour is true. It seems that only the Tankers from the Blue Team are responsible for this strange behaviour.

 

 

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With our Press badge accreditation, a white flag, and hands up high in the air, we headed on to the battlefield to speak first with the Blue team leader. We stepped in self-assured, nevertheless with a sentiment of uneasiness stuck in our mind until we met him in his HQ. His testimony was eloquent:

We are fed up with the mults, the sabotage and all the bad Reds that come to our base and try to steal our Flag. They already have one, why do they need another one? They come in our neighbourhood and generate an atmosphere of insecurity, as they bring druggers with them! These red marauders break in our home to bag our crystals and poach our Gold Boxes.

To give our reader a sense of his distress and motivation he added: “Enough is enough! We had to take matters into our own hands as the Security Council President of the United Tanki Community (UTC), Mr Forks, was not doing his job in time.

 

We returned safely to our camp before deciding to interview the chief of the Red team on the opposite side of the wall to learn more about the other side of the story.

His testimony was equally silver-tongued: “This is ridiculous and unfair to us; the map belongs to everybody and we should be allowed to circulate freely in any part of it. The Blues are just a bunch of racist hillbillies. They are the one that bring druggers here, not us, we do not have any of this scum among our ranks. Building walls is illegal and what Mr Forks is doing to solve this issue? At the moment, nothing!

He concluded with a menacing tone: “If the status quo remains, something really bad is going to happen!

 

We left the combat zone with a better understanding of the conflict and headed to Perm to pursue our investigation further and how it was possible to modify the map layout and construct walls. Our local (and highly secret) source, very (very) close to the TO’s developer group, has mentioned that the Map Making Guide (written by @Adriel.RB and published in the NP Issue 69) was being used by the angry tankers to raise new walls. When the Blue team sense that they are losing the battle, they play this ultimate trump card by activating the hacking programme called “The Wall”, then they use it following the instruction from the Map Making Guide and start building the protective rampart in the effort to lock down their base.

 

It is not yet confirmed who created the rogue program and how it was installed on the Tanki servers in the first place. However, an anonymous tip hushed that a careless developer opened a phishing email containing a malware, which once activated allowed the hacker to access the servers. The phishing message claimed that the recipient has won his weight in fresh Siberian potatoes, and need to claim its price quickly by clicking on the link provided: “Lucky winner, quick, claim your weight in fresh Siberian potatoes here!”. The clues discovered in the program core hinted to a Russian hacker gang self-named: Pозовый Oшибочный (Pink Flawed).

 

"We wish to clarify to TO users that the hack program will be removed during the next planned update and that we will continue to work to ensure such a scenario is not repeated. A patch will fix and stop any further hacking attempt." a TO official told the TLM. Furthermore, Mr Forks has agreed to fund the deployment of additional battle moderators to monitor any suspicious activity from the Blue team. Eventually, tankers would be able to play normally after the server update. Keep your fingers crossed so as to not jinx the process with a new Tankipocalypse.

 

 


Bermuda Triangle Blamed for Disappearing Tankers
by Illuminati
 
Three illustrious tankers mysteriously disappeared after today's server restart while attempting to prove their claims that they'd watched a Russian Battle Moderator fly hacking in a Silence CTF game. Yesterday evening, one of our agents had managed to pull one of the three aside to acquire some detailed information on what they had supposedly been witness to. In a state of great excitement, one of the tankers spoke at length about how they had watched awe-struck as a mod had lazily jumped vertically to catch a Black Gold Box before performing several barrel rolls in mid-air before flying around the map showing off his new "Helper of the Month" paint. "It was both amazing and horrifying at the same time!" exclaimed one tanker. "I mean, he had clearly practiced those flying techniques before".

This witness, striving for justice (and spurred on by the fact that this Battle Mod had banned his alternate account forever for being "multing" in a Parkour game), apparently found two other likeminded individuals and swore to bring the Mod down. They apparently decided to bait a trap, each purchasing several Gold Boxes to drop when they saw the Mod in-battle. One had readied his recording system as they watched and waited.

According to reports, they waited for several hours in the same battle. Then, they just randomly disappeared. One minute all three could be seen, perched high on one of the buildings where they had parkoured up to. The next moment, none of them could be found. They had simply vanished.

We managed to collect several interesting, if conflicting, eyewitness reports. A player known as @I3est insisted that he had seen lightning come down from above, striking the trio of tankers and reducing their hulls to ashes. He was adamant that it was judgement from the Tanki gods and that Armageddon was fast approaching. Unfortunately, @CooperO rushed over before we could get anything more, explaining that she was @I3est's companion and that he was suffering from a mental disorder.

Another witness claimed that a fiery chariot had rushed down and taken them to Tanki Heaven because of their honourable effort to seek justice. Tanki Heaven (the witness said) is where gold boxes fall all the time, drugs are unlimited and everyone is a Helper.

One logical report simply said that the three tankers had simply tired of their vigil and eventually fallen asleep, toppling over the edge to their deaths.

We also decided to interview the Russian Battle Moderation section to find out their thoughts on the incident. However, after waiting outside their HQ for over an hour without any luck whatsoever (and with the sounds of revelry from within showing no signs of ceasing), I contacted the team via email instead. This was the response to the first email I sent.

 

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However, I persevered and emailed back several different times. Finally, I was rewarded with this.
 

 

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According to these professionals the cause of the tankers' disappearance is now known. After contacting them further, I received the devastating news that there is no hope for recovering the lost players. Unfortunately (according to the RU Team), they do not know enough about the Bermuda Triangle to be able to tackle the problems that it is causing.
 
Please do come forward if you have any information regarding this incident. Remember to watch your step in-game as well - you may be the next person to be claimed by the mysterious Bermuda Triangle!
 
 


Parkourist Sues Map Maker
 by The Merovingian

Each year, since 2013, the whole community waits with impatience for the return of the Masters of Parkour (MOP). And this year (2017) is certainly not different from any others. Teams prep’ed their tanks, polished clean their precious MOP paint and planned carefully the series of tricks that they will record in the hope of securing one of the 10 Golden tickets to the Finals. Ten teams managed to do so. On the final day, at the apex of this audacious and daring event celebrating the teamwork and craftsmanship of the prominent Parkourists of the nation, a dramatic incident occurred.

 

About the middle of the live stream, when the suspense was rising its crescendo, the jumper, @Hate from the 63FlyingParkourists team, got a serious injury resulting from the free-fall: watch here.

 

At first it looked like the jumper was going to succeed and land safely on the roof of the building. But against all anticipation, the tank melted through the edges of the building as if it was being sucked up by some mysterious force, and then spitted straight out like a shell from a magnum. The jumper was taken by surprise and, not anticipating the fall, crashed flat on the ground. After a moment of stupor, which lasted only a couple of seconds but felt as lengthy as reading a full @GoldRock’s text wall, the audience stood up in anguish.

 

 

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Later when we asked some of the member of the audience to comment on the incident, a chocked tanker declared to TLM: “At that moment, my heart skipped a beat, and I asked myself if the Parkourist was not dead! We thought it was the case, as the tank didn’t budge for a while. But when it started to move again, then we knew he would make it. What a relief!

 

Another aficionado of the discipline watching the live stream commented on the incident: “This was an accident waiting to happen, the maps are so poorly designed that the hitbox of some building do not match its visible wall. I have forbidden my son to take part in such activity just because of that (and he is under 13 years old).”

 

Because of the injury resulting from the misconception of the building hitbox, the team 63FlyingParkourists was not able to complete the second round, hence losing crucial points required to reach the top 3. This snag caused them to finish on the lower end of the scoreboard. The team decided to launch a lawsuit against the map maker on the grounds of blatant negligence and disrespect of buildings regulation for the practice of Parkour activity. They are asking for 10,000,000 crystals as for punitive measures, and another extra 5,000,000 for actual damages.

 

A deeper investigation undertaken by our dedicated and picky Reporters, unearthed a bundle of dusty files buried under a huge pile of rotten potatoes, amid the TO archives room. Those reports, issued by the Building Regulation Organisation (BRO) and written by the head of the Building Safety (BS) department, Mr @DageLV, list scrupulously and in abundant details the misconception of numerous roof hitbox across many Tanki’s map. We don’t want to eat the potato before it is fried, but with all the evidence available against the map maker, it looks like it is a done deal for the plaintiff.

 

We wish @Hate a prompt recovery and hope to see him back on the saddle soon.

 


If you have any question regarding TLM, please leave a post below.
If this article reaches 30 likes we will reveal, in the next edition, the “Camper Conspiracy” that operates within the very core of TO. Who are they! What is their Ultimate goal! And how they have already brainwashed you!

Remember 30 likes to find out about the hidden truth!

 

 


 
 
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The Leaky Mult #5 - December 2019 by Given, Viking4s The Merovingian
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Approved.

 

-No edits

 

I will dare to say that this is the best humor piece I have ever read in the Amateur Writing Section. Although the idea has been inspired by The Dictator, it is, in its own way, a work of art. Good on ya. Looking forward to seeing more of these.

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I will dare to say that this is the best humor piece I have ever read in the Amateur Writing Section. Although the idea has been inspired by The Dictator, it is, in its own way, a work of art. Good on ya. Looking forward to seeing more of these.

Thank you!

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-No edits

I will dare to say that this is the best humor piece I have ever read in the Amateur Writing Section. Although the idea has been inspired by The Dictator, it is, in its own way, a work of art. Good on ya. Looking forward to seeing more of these.

Thanks.

I would like to particularly thank our top-notch proofreaders for their big help on my articles. Thank you guys.

  

Remember that copyright for the original Dictator idea lasts at least 50 years. How much did you pay Hog to write this article?

+Wonderfully written

5 Oreos, with tax.

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Thanks.

I would like to particularly thank our top-notch proofreaders for their big help on my articles. Thank you guys.

Oh, so that's what you were doing with the piece you sent me haha

 

No problem. It looks amazing, keep up the good work!

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We will overthrow the Tanki government and establish a democracy. The candidates will be me, adriel, personia, tsy, bluedragon_tamki and tofu.

 

This is what anonymous does in real-life. Expose the truth. The actual truth

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It's a shame that this was quite close to the structure of The Dictator, as this was some pretty fine work you've produced! Illustrations are spot on but the title is really misleading and not overly enticing, "The Leaky Mult."

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Mind sharing some of those oreos to a hardworking fella like myself? :ph34r: Well done both of you. Pro humor skills confirmed.

TY

Blasphemy.

Love the article, well done :P

Long live the Potato.

TY

I proofread the last one B)

hehe

Oh, so that's what you were doing with the piece you sent me haha

No problem. It looks amazing, keep up the good work!

hehe

thank you

We will overthrow the Tanki government and establish a democracy. The candidates will be me, adriel, personia, tsy, bluedragon_tamki and tofu.

This is what anonymous does in real-life. Expose the truth. The actual truth

Good luck in your future endeavors. Keep an eye on Tofu, this one looks cheesy.

We vowed to expose the actual truth, no matter what, no chickens will stop us.

 

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It's a shame that this was quite close to the structure of The Dictator, as this was some pretty fine work you've produced! Illustrations are spot on but the title is really misleading and not overly enticing, "The Leaky Mult."

Chill out mate, it's all for fun.

 

Beside, "The Leaky Mult" is far better than "The dictator".

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Chill out mate, it's all for fun.

 

Beside, "The Leaky Mult" is far better than "The dictator".

Don’t take the criticism too hard, bud. Was just a bit of constructive feedback.

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Don’t take the criticism too hard, bud. Was just a bit of constructive feedback.

Thanks for your feedback. However we already know all of it.

 

Yes, we used "the dictator" for inspiration to build the TLM and in fact there is no other type of humor magazine that we could actually be more inspired from. So No, we are not ashamed. "Viva el dictator"

We already know that we had good humor :P and also I'm the king of illustration (bow).

The title is misleading, but it has a purpose and a story behind it, and certainly it was intriguing (click-bait 101). Initially I was looking for something more in the line of "Tanki bar talks", "hear-says" with a relation to WikiLeaks (TankiLeaks). Somehow I like magical stories that starts in bars and pubs like "The Leaky Cauldron" and looked for a mucky touch so we choose "The Leacky Mult". In the end what counts is people will learn and know what to expect when they see the magic words with a new edition. It's like "The Dictator", it was a misleading title in the first place too, but it build its reputation overtime along side its followers.

 

Or, maybe we really, really wanted to write for the dictator and maybe we can't because we are mults, so we created our own, however with a twist to it. Maybe if you read more carefully you will see that certain article go further than what the story tell ... :rolleyes:

 

Like my Grandmother used to say: You don't need a silver fork to eat good potatoes.

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"Tanki Heaven (the witness said) is where gold boxes fall all the time, drugs are unlimited and everyone is a Helper."  :blink: 
WOW, I want to go there!

Excellent

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"Tanki Heaven (the witness said) is where gold boxes fall all the time, drugs are unlimited and everyone is a Helper." :blink:

WOW, I want to go there!

Excellent

They lied to you. It's actually the helper world, where all the mods, admins, and staff go for a vacation... They get really tired from dealing with us. Edited by r_trooll15

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Wow, great article!

It seems players now care about mapmaking... :ph34r:

Thanks.

Yes they do care when it is about giving an edge to their game.

Plz stay on topic.

 

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Plz stay on topic.

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[quote name="Merovingian" post="6379222" timestamp="1513690343

 

auto(politically)correcter :D

Ok

[quote name="Merovingian" post="6379222" timestamp="1513690343

 

auto(politically)correcter :D

Ok

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On 12/20/2017 at 12:31 PM, r_trooll15 said:

[quote name="Merovingian" post="6379222" timestamp="1513690343

 

auto(politically)correcter ?

Ok

[quote name="Merovingian" post="6379222" timestamp="1513690343

 

auto(politically)correcter ?

Ok

:c

wat?

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