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(edit: I had incorrectly placed this incident between visits. See Silianat's comment below for clarification.) On the day in question, the drama began as some Aristopolitans led by unitiveshadow headed out in the nether to rescue a pearled citizen. They found Theodius on the top nether near our city's portal. As could be seen on a minimap, he was spelling out the words "BERGE SUCKS HARD" in lava. Unitiveshadow repeatedly asked Theodius to leave, even going so far as to travel up there and hit him, but he would not go. After some time the crew decided to leave Theodius to his griefing, but then Zombie Lenin arrived with a group in tow so they returned through the portal to Aristopolis.

 

Unaware of any of this, I logged in amid a conversation between Silianat (another Gondolin leader) and Zombie Lenin, who was inside the portal room with some assorted escorts of bounty hunters and the "Trading Company". He asked to be let into the city for a diplomatic visit. Silianat refused, citing trespassing. I asked ZL about the nature of the visit, but his company returned through the portal.

 

During this part I was FIOSed for about 20 minutes. I came back to find that the decision was to reclaim the property and remove the structure. It was completely dismantled and returned to the state at which ownership was granted to the residents. During and following the operation arguments continued on Mumble, as some of ZL's entourage remained in our channel and insisted that "Ondolin" was a perfectly legitimate sovereign state by their "property is theft" ideology, and we had to honor that. Needless to say the conversation didn't get anywhere. During the exchange immelol showed up, apparently neither upset or very surprised that the castle had been removed. Berge sent him away too, and he left without argument.

tl;dr check-in: ZL falls to his death, we grab his gear. After "diplomats" leave, we reclaim the plot to the city and remove the offending structure. Trolls try to make us play by their rules on property claims.

 

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tl;dr check-in: Things get heated; we are willing to return the lost gear but ZL returns and marches into the city with an assorted force to make demands of us.

The group made their way through the private portal into the north side of the city, slowly moving south together towards downtown. Little public dialog was exchanged at this point, but ZL was still demanding the return of gear and recognition of Ondolin. Berge hastily tried to arrange the handing over of gear, but it was becoming clear that violence was imminent. Some citizens reported the group breaking into houses on the way to Berge's tower. Aristopolitans, anticipating combat, either logged out or grouped up in the town square. Berge switched over to his alt to avoid giving the enemy an objective to rally around. I stood on the ramparts of the tower to observe, unable to engage in direct PvP due to my poor connection. After a few tense minutes, Theodius hit me with an arrow and open combat immediately broke out.

The battle raged on for quite a while, with both sides taking losses. At some point Fluffy showed up, and I'm not sure even he knew which side he was on. Ultimately several Gondolindrim were pearled before the rest logged out, admitting defeat. Those of our opponents who were pearled, including Zombie Lenin, were freed as our own fighters were killed before they could secure the pearls. Following the battle, our prisoners' pearls were placed in vaults, and we were told that they would be freed in exchange for Berge's own pearl. Berge and some of the prisoners themselves rejected this offer. Our people immediately began planning to free the pearls until, unexpectedly, they were all released the following day.