Fool'd And Coob'd
Entry posted by Nuhrii the Metruan
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April Fool's Day is over and it ended for The Chronicler with a great comic by Chosen One of Bionicle (Coob).
To help you understand: The Chronicler announced yesterday that LEGO chose to end BIONICLE because they disapproved of all the canonization that has been going on here on BZP. As a consequence, The Chronicler would be converted to the "Hero Magazine" (see the great banner by Neramo here).
To make this rather simple joke more believable, I wrote something called "BIONICLE: Coda", a short text that wraps up all loose ends in the story in a more or less believable manner, and claimed this text was by Greg (how could I! xDDD). As an inside joke, I killed off the favourite characters of some of my staff, including Hewkii (Bioniclemaster724), Vezon (Vezon23) and Mazeka (my fav), plus all villains that survived Journey's End.
I never thought anyone would fall for this. Still, people were complaining and crying, some even edited German Wiki sites according to the misinformation in the Coda text. Meanwhile, my staff and I had a MSN chat and laughed at all the chaos we caused. Later in the evening, though, when the fun had reached its climax and was about to turn into something beyond chaos, we revealed the prank, and that is where Coob's comic comes in, starring our magazine's mascot as representative for all those who were fooled.
Here the translation:
"The Five Stages of an April Fool's Prank, based on Nuhrii the Metruan's 'jest'"
Panel 1: REFUSAL TO ACCEPT: "This cannot be true, this HAS to be a prank. I can't wait until this one gets revealed."
Panel 2: ANGER: "HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO US? After all we did! Don't they understand how important that is?"
Panel 3: BEGGING: "Dear LEGO Company, please don't end BIONICLE. I hope I can change your mind. Please!"
Panel 4: DEPRESSION: "What shall I do? Without BIONICLE and The Chronicler I am unemployed. I am nothing!"
Panel 5: ACCEPTANCE: "Well? Maybe it isn't even that bad? Maybe everything will become better now? Who knows?"
Panel 6: APRIL FOOL!: The text in the comic is pretty much self-explanatory.
Thanks to all who helped me and thanks to all who were fooled - I will never forget yesterday. 
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