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Oakhurst was an area within [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/southshire/land-claims/ Southend] that Orinnari had been building in for about a week or so since his house at the time was dead centre of [[Southshire]] and didn't like the sheer amount of snitch pings. After the [[mrmamizoupie]] pearl situation was resolved, Orinnari annexed the land, thereby creating Oakhurst, and then stepped down from the council in an attempt to get out of the spotlight. Oakhurst was intended to behave like the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc City of London] and even created the title of Lord Mayor to cement that connection. Oakhurst's creation didn't receive any resistance from the council at the time since Orinnari co-founded [[Southshire]] and they felt he had the right to claim some land for himself.<blockquote>As other things are happening right now, I will keep this short and to the point. The peninsular that I have claimed has now split, legally speaking, from Southshire. It will not become another borough, nor is it claiming independence from the Commonwealth. It is becoming something akin to The City of London, not to be confused with London. And as such, I hereby formally rescind my council member status, and any roles that included or implied. I will transfer ownership of the Citadel groups of Southshire, as well as the website's GitHub repository. I am formally dissociating myself with Southshire in order to live and build on my own, to be left alone.</blockquote>[[File:Oakhurst-southshire-view.png|thumb|View of Southshire from Oakhurst]]

The complete and total loss of the election lead Orinnari to believe he wasn't welcome and that if he ever wanted to legislate again, he'd need to do so elsewhere, and so when the Oakhurst Agreement became null and void, Orinnari decided to focus on but also 'boroughify' Oakhurst, to put it on the same level as [[Southshire]]. He figured that if he could build and rebuild [[Southshire]], he could build Oakhurst just fine. However, opinions of Oakhurst and Orinnari immediately began to sour; the boroughification was considered another tantrum, a power grab, an attempt to screw [[Southshire]] over. It drew the ire of [[Dr_Oracle]], the then owner of [[Southshire]]'s branch of [[Empty Promises]], though this was resolved when Orinnari sent him [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/oakhurst/oracle-essay/ an essay] detailing Oakhurst's history.

An example of hostilities between Oakhurst and [[Southshire]] was when Orinnari lobbied for a rail connection between the two boroughs and was met with scorn because to them it seemed ridiculous to have a rail that short, though it turned out to be roughly the same length as the rail from [[Mount Augusta]] to the Jewish Quarter of [[Mount Augusta]].

Hostilities between Orinnari and [[SamuelV]] reached a peak, so in early October 2017, Orinnari decided to dismantle Oakhurst and cede the land back to [[Southshire]] in order to move elsewhere. At first Orinnari returned to The Plantation, even going so far as to reconstruct the government building, but this was later abandoned as large swaths of the land was reinforced to [[DarkyDu]]'s groups. Oakhurst was then relocated to an island just north of The Plantation, now known as Shen. The island however was small and Teal-cliff'd, thus requiring it to be lowered down to sea level to make it usable. But the move itself from [[Southshire]] turned out to be a mistake as not only was Shen isolated geographically, socially, and infrastructurally, but also because the [[Commonwealth]] refused to recognise it as a borough. This became a very inactive time for him.

[[File:Southshire-view-from-south-island.png|thumb|View from the South Island property]]Orinnari returned to Southshire for a short stint of a few days. The previous Oakhurst land was already occupied and even then the bridge was being used as a free farm and so blocked the original sought after view. He instead attempted to build a house at the top of a mountain on South Island, but this fell flat as the path to reach the house was laborious, the biome was ugly, and the build space too awkward for him to work with.

Soon after Orinnari stepped down from the council in [[Yoahtl]], he sought out an external project to focus on and remembered Shen, the island that was used for Oakhurst. He asked the [[Ashelor]] people to join him however they didn't seem interested since they sensed that it was Orinnari's project rather than a group project. He wanted to expand the size of the island, transforming it from a small sliver into something more respectable and workable. However the sheer scale of the project worked to demotivate Orinnari, especially since he was determined to fill in the expansion rather than leave it as a shell or hollow island. The expansion plan was soon abandoned, but managed to commission [[alzdadog|Aleh]] to design a bridge to connect the island to the mainland for rail purposes.

Returning perhaps isn't the right word since Orinnari hadn't left [[Yoahtl]], but was just focusing something outside of [[Yoahtl]]. Nonetheless, Shen seemed more and more like a secondary project, a place to build farms or some sort of weird attraction rather than it be a new home or town, especially since [[specificlanguage]] had made Orinnari promise it wouldn't become like another [[Southshire]] or Oakhurst. His focus naturally fell back towards [[Yoahtl]] since [[Tigen]] had disappeared again so there was no longer a source of drama in that respect.