Mount September Ice Road Conflict: Difference between revisions

== Dispute ==

On August 14th 2021, [[minemaster933]] requested an "injunction to pearl [[SirTwiggles]]" from [[Mount September]]'s court; he cited as reasoning that [[SirTwiggles]] "has continued to ping <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[NebulaSSR]]'s bunker's @everyone] snitches, entering an area he know ''[sic]'' is private" and argued that "such a number of pings clearly indicates intent to harass". [[SirTwiggles]] responded that "You can't pearl me", and the trial began. Presenting a 1200-word case, [[minemaster933]] argued that [[SirTwiggles]] had violated Section 3 of the [[Mount September]] Wrongs Act, which states that "it is illegal, and a wrong, to repeatedly engage in conduct reasonably likely to harass, intimidate or torment a person, or to attempt, help or threaten the same, even where the conduct is otherwise specifically permitted by law"; [[minemaster933]] presented snitch evidence, testimony on the sequence of events, and logical arguments in an attempt to prove [[SirTwiggles]]'s violation of the aforementioned law. [[SirTwiggles]] did not initially engage seriously with the court case (stating that "I cant ''[sic]'' be sentenced without my consent"), but eventually presented an argument which dragged in the Boomer Iceroad: that he and it were supposed to be there, and [[NebulaSSR]]'s bunker was not; [[SirTwiggles]] cited the fact that before the trial, [[UDF]] members had also found holes in the ice road near [[NebulaSSR]]'s bunker that had been unauthorized. This argument did not initially catch on, but it began to change the focus of the dispute - towards the iceroad.<br>

On August 25th, Judge [[AllenY]] sided with [[minemaster933]], ordering [[SirTwiggles]] to pay 16 diamonds' reparations to [[minemaster933]]. [[SirTwiggles]] refused to comply - when [[minemaster933]] said that "you better pay", [[SirTwiggles]] replied, "make me". The resulting Septembrian pearl threat to [[SirTwiggles]] was then interpreted as "members of the UDF...being prevented from using [their] own ice road essentially", dragging the [[UDF]] into the dispute. <br>

On August 26th, [[bgbba]] posted [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/pccma8/get_off_my_lawn_zoomer_an_explanation_of/ an essay titled "Get Off My Lawn Zoomer: An Explanation of Yesterday's Incident by the Owner of the Iceroad in Question"] to [https://reddit.com/r/civclassics%7Cr/civclassics r/civclassics]. In this 1700-word treatise, [[bgbba]] thoroughly condemned "ungrateful vermin willing to engage in that most degenerate of behaviors: escalationism" ([[NebulaSSR]]/[[minemaster933]]/[[KingOfTheMochas]]), presenting an extensive "Sequence of Events" focusing mainly on the Boomer Iceroad rather than [[NebulaSSR]]'s bunker. Expressing dismay over "illegal iceroad entrances and snitches...made on our iceroad" (an issue mentioned (as [[NebulaSSR]]'s bunker was connected to the iceroad illegally), but not focused on, in [[SirTwiggles]]'s trial) and alarm over a shovel attack on [[Icyski]] by [[NebulaSSR]] on the iceroad adjacent to the bunker (which postdated the inciting trial), and stating that the @everyone snitches in question had fields overlapping the iceroad (making their violators innocent of deliberate harassment), [[bgbba]] leveraged the Boomer Iceroad predating [[Mount September]] to argue that the latter had no business enforcing itself over the former (which, as [[bgbba]] was quick to point out, it already successfully had once before for its vault); [[bgbba]] compared [[KingOfTheMochas]]'s argument that the age of [[Mount September]] was "irrelevant" to the [[Holy Jaded Empire]]'s casus belli against [[SPQR]] (use of a rail which predated the former's claims), generalizing that "[[KingOfTheMochas]] and his supporters are now directly saying that [[NATO]] was right", and used this to justify the conclusion of his treatise: the declaration that "Nebula/Nebulandd/ShockandAwe, KingoftheMochas, and Minemaster are banned from entering the Boomer iceroad indefinitely". <br>