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===Joining=== |
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Orinnari joined after a [https://old.reddit.com/r/worldpowers/ /r/WorldPowers] community server collapsed. He'd find himself playing the Minecraft server more than meta game, so a friend from the subreddit, DarkyDu, suggested [[Civclassic]]. He joined the server and after some local chat exchanges, settled [https:// |
Orinnari joined after a [https://old.reddit.com/r/worldpowers/ /r/WorldPowers] community server collapsed. He'd find himself playing the Minecraft server more than meta game, so a friend from the subreddit, DarkyDu, suggested [[Civclassic]]. He joined the server and after some local chat exchanges, settled [https://archive.ashelor.cc/westeros/orin-settlement/ here] just above, ''and fifteen blocks below'', modern day [[Anburon]]. He planned on creating a small house with a large basement, but quickly lost interest in the server and covered the basement hole.<ref>https://archive.ashelor.cc/westeros/orin-settlement/</ref> |
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===The Plantation=== |
===The Plantation=== |
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Not long after, DarkyDu suggested joining him in the [[Commonwealth]]. He owned an area known then as |
Not long after, DarkyDu suggested joining him in the [[Commonwealth]]. He owned an area known then as The Plantation, now modern day Arran. Orinnari accepted and began levelling out an area of roofed forest along the south western coast. This was until [[SirCrowley]] raided the [[Commonwealth]] on 17th June 2017. At the time not much could be done but logout and hope he got bored before doing any significant damage, however everything Orinnari owned was stolen or despawned. |
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[[File:Old-commonwealth-district-map.png|thumb|District map of the Commonwealth showing The Plantation, Strassburg, and Southend.]] |
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===Hidden Base=== |
===Hidden Base=== |
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He attempted to make an [https:// |
He then attempted to make an [https://archive.ashelor.cc/commonwealth/underground-base/ underground base] in the hopes of steering clear of any future raiders while still remaining close to population centres. This however fell flat within a day or two when he discovering how RealisticBiomes was preventing his farms from growing. |
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===Commonwealth Capitol=== |
===Commonwealth Capitol=== |
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He decided to move to the [[Commonwealth]]'s then unnamed capitol for more protection and integration with the community. |
He decided to move to the [[Commonwealth]]'s then unnamed capitol for more protection and integration with the community. But on 20th June 2017 he bore witness to and was the victim of an [https://archive.ashelor.cc/commonwealth/miloy-incident/ episode of MiloY], who had grown angry at his fellow countrymen for surpassing an unclear boundary and so began to destroy any such property beyond that boundary.<ref>https://archive.ashelor.cc/commonwealth/miloy-incident/</ref> This lead to a feeling of alienation since the first week or so of playing had been so unfruitful. |
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===Strassburg=== |
===Strassburg=== |
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Fadedsoul invited Orinnari to join him is |
Fadedsoul invited Orinnari to join him is Strassburg, a German themed settlement within a snow biome. Though he did not like the snow biome, nor the style restrictions of [[Strassburg]], so he built a [https://archive.ashelor.cc/commonwealth/strassburg-house/ cliffside house] and a staircase to it, both of which largely still remain intact. Soon after [[StrPlatinum]] joined him Strassburg too after his own experiences with MiloY. Additional drama occurred when fadedsoul decided to remove a bridge between MiloY's manor and Strassburg. That being said, after a frank and earnest discussion of politics, Orinnari and [[MiloY]] came to respect each other even if they didn't agree, and [[MiloY]] took the risk of entering [[Strassburg]] territory to return Orinnari's items that were taken during the [https://archive.ashelor.cc/commonwealth/miloy-incident/ boundary issue]. |
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[[File:Miloy-manor-bridge-strassburg.png|thumb|MiloY's manor and its bridge to Stassburg.]] |
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===Founding Southshire=== |
===Founding Southshire=== |
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Orinnari and [[StrPlatinum]] decided to |
Orinnari and [[StrPlatinum]] decided to search for a new place to settle a new borough on the 25th June 2017, as while they both appreciated [[fadedsoul]]'s hospitality, they didn't agree with [[Strassburg]]'s direction. A few potential areas were explored for settlement, then Orinnari spotted the empty peninsular south west of the Capital District, now known as Southend. They explored and after finding it to be a roofed forest biome, Orinnari practically begged for them to settle there, and they did, and that's how [[Southshire]] was founded. [[StrPlatinum]] suggested calling it "Niro" ("Orin" backwards) however Orinnari suggested "Southshire", a play-on name of [https://www.wowhead.com/zone=6170/northshire Northshire] from [https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/ World of Warcraft]. He then laid out most of the infrastructure: the roads, the river, the train station, the bank, the farms, the plots, the factory building. |
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===Harassment from a Mercenary=== |
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===Surveillance=== |
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On the 2nd July 2017, Tabby, a [[Commonwealth]] citizen, hired a bounty hunter to pursue an alleged griefer named [[DurianSmash]]. Durian had been given a plot within [[Southshire]] after being driven out of the capitol, which mirrored the experiences of Orinnari and [[StrPlatinum]] who had to endure the increasingly fervent oldfriend elitism. [[Zayshi]], the bounty hunter, arrived at [[Southshire]] and started behaving ominously, checking chests, minor griefing, and minor harassing. Tabby warned that Orinnari might "try stuff" if Durian was captured. [[Zayshi]] soon went rogue and attacked Orinnari and attempted to break into his home. |
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===Southshire's Reconstruction=== |
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On the 10th July 2017, after Orinnari had visited the Commonwealth's capitol, he took a liking to the canal design and began a reconstruction of Southshire, replacing the dirt bank river with a network of canals though without the prohibition on bridges. The reconstruction resulted in the bank and factory being being sacrificed and moved respectively. It is also when Orinnari rebuilt his home. |
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Later on, during the first uptick of the citizen boom, a player named mrmamizoupie joined [[Southshire]], which created its own problems. Below is an essay written to [[Dr_Oracle]], but it was also briefly described in [https://old.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/dk5v6m/personal_battles_with_mental_health_on_civ/ this Reddit thread]. |
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[[File:Southshire-pre-rebuild.png|thumb|Southshire pre-reconstruction]] |
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:Okay, so this is the timeline to the best of my memory as of this moment. I may have missed some things out or made mistakes, because I'm going to be talking about events that began over a month ago. |
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[[File:Southshire-post-rebuild.png|thumb|Southshire post-reconstruction]] |
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:Roughly five weeks ago, around the 15th of August, the events surrounding Mami began to heat up. We didn't know much in the beginning, but from the limited communication we could do in game, the basics were there. Mami was pearled by a mercenary hired by ThePayman at the request of a foreign king. Seeming that Mami was a Southshire citizen and in Southshire territory at the time of his pearling, we were understandably outraged. |
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[[File:Southshire-reconstruction-canal-design.png|frameless]] |
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:The real investigation started when we took it out of Minecraft and into Discord, because trying to have any kind of lengthy conversation in game is a ''biiiiitch.'' |
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[[File:Orinnari-southshire-reconstruction-home.png|frameless]] |
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:Anyway, we managed to get hold of the person who had instigated the whole thing, the leader of Alpoko, the person who wanted Mami pearled. He claimed that he approached someone he believed to be a part of the Commonwealth government, warned of Mami, and was told Mami would be considered pearl on sight. But not only did that information not reach us, but I also never found out if that story was true, whether it was ever verified. |
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Around the 15th August 2017, a [[Southshire]] and [[Commonwealth]] citizen known as [[mrmamizoupie]] was pearled. The people of [[Southshire]] (also known as Southshians<ref>https://archive.ashelor.cc/southshire/immigration-reform/</ref>) were naturally outraged that a friend and citizen had been pearled within and removed from [[Southshire]] territory, particularly when there was at the time seemingly no rhyme or reason. Information was slowly released over the next day or two. On the 17th June 2017, Orinnari stated [[Southshire]]'s position: |
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:Anyway, I stepped into high gear because we simply didn't want people to just come and remove our citizens from Southshire on a whim, so we asked around, and found out that the Commonwealth government wouldn't offer protection. But it was explained in such a way to seem like the Commonwealth wouldn't intervene, but not necessary that we couldn't either, and so we offered the protection that the federal government wouldn't. |
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:"Mami commited crimes abroad, but then he became a citizen of [[Southshire]] and therefore the citizen of the [[Commonwealth]]. Now, I have been told that the [[Commonwealth]] does not intervene in cases of extradition in cases where someone has been pearled for crimes abroad, however, [[Southshire]] does intervene, and because he was a [[Southshire]] citizen and pearled in [[Southshire]], we feel we have a right to a say and to block extradition. However, we can be overruled by the [[Commonwealth]].... so we need a ruling over whether Mami can and will be extradited." |
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:However, it was not lost on me the fact that we were part of a federal government, and a borough can't just block a legal extradition just because it wants to. And so I went out of my way to seek Sashimii's opinion on the matter, so he could rule whether or not our protection is legal. But you should note that while this was happening, misinformation on all sides was spreading, and it wasn't helping that a few choice people within Southshire were conspiring to forcibly break Mami free. After a long and tiring night, the Commonwealth had scrambled together everyone even remotely in power to come to a decision on this, had taken Southshire's opinion into account, and ruled that the extradition would be allowed on the condition (but not really, it's weird) that the trial be more fair. iirc there was some condition about how a jury would be selected. There was a vote in the council, and the majority chose not to dissent, as in, not vocally oppose or grumble about the decision. It all seemed like it was done for now and so I went to sleep. |
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[[MiloY]], who then seemed to chair the [[Commonwealth]]'s response to this matter, agreed with Orinnari's interpretation of the law and brought up precedent made in previous iterations of civ, that the [[Commonwealth]] traditionally does not prevent extradition. The conversation was then taken into relevant channels and voice chats where the [[Commonwealth]] gathered its most trusted citizens to rule on the issue and taking [[Southshire]]'s voice into consideration and voted to allow the extradition. |
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:''NOPE!'' The next day I woke up to a new argument. Custody. We had been talking and making agreements under the assumption that Mami's pearl was being held by the Commonwealth government. However, with misinformation ever present, and those choice people being as loud and intimidating as ever, Alpoko and the Commonwealth had assumed that the pearl was being held in Southshire by the council, and that essentially Southshire had gone rogue. ''Yay.'' And that's when Southshire (and me personally) began to receive, in earnest, a flood of insults both from Alpoko and the Commonwealth. All this drama, all this spite, was just because ThePayman stated that the pearl was his private property, and that he wants his own private conditions met (regardless of the deals made by the Commonwealth to Alpoko) otherwise he would not surrender the pearl. And because it's his private property, he couldn't be compelled to hand it over. ''But, you know, all Southshire's fault... am I right guys?'' |
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However a new issue arose: the [[Commonwealth]] had been operating under the assumption that the pearl was held by [[Southshire]], and [[Southshire]] believed the opposite, and so when a vocal minority within [[Southshire]] began to conspire to break [[mrmamizoupie]] free and that the pearl wasn't being handed over, the [[Commonwealth]] assumed that [[Southshire]] had gone rogue. It turned out that the pearl's owner, [[ThePayman]], wanted his own set of demands met before relinquishing the pearl. The [[Commonwealth]] managed to talk [[ThePayman]] down from these demands since an agreement had already been made and would otherwise create an international incident. |
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:And that's when I received a message that stung in particular, and it was the straw that broke the camel's back. I was prepared for the legal difficulties, it's what made it so interesting and why I stepped up to the challenge. But the backlash and general rhetoric? I was woefully unprepared and it blind sighted me. I was cooperative throughout the whole thing, I was pleasant, polite, and serious. Just because I was trying to ensure that Mami received all the legal consideration he's entitled to, doesn't mean I wasn't being cooperative. And so I posted the following within the councillor chat: |
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On the 19th August 2017 when the situation was resolved and [[mrmamizoupie]] was going to be tried ([https://soundcloud.com/user-62544271/justice-discord-8-18-2017-10-24-59-pm-2 listen here]), Orinnari felt extremely exhausted since he had dedicated several days to this issue and the conversation surrounding it was toxic and boiling over. Orinnari himself received accusations and verbal abuse which he was woefully prepared for. |
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::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. |
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:The City of London, incase you are unaware, is a 1km square area within London that acts more like a country within the United Kingdom, than a London borough. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc) Essentially, I wanted to be autonomous, but not have to faff around with being a fully fledged borough. It's similar to creating a borough, instead of having to faff around with being a fully fledged nation. I just wanted it a level deeper. |
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[[File:Oakhurst-borders.png|thumb|Oakhurst's borders]] |
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:Didn't receive any resistance from the council, because after all, I had already built there, I was a co-founder and an ex-councillor, so in their opinion I had every right to claim a little piece of land for my own. And it is little, people have stated that many times. My title even became Lord Mayor of Oakhurst to further solidify the connection to the City of London. |
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[[File:Oakhurst-southend-government-building.jpg|thumb|Oakhurst's government building and Orinnari's manor]] |
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:Anyway, everything was fine for a while until JC, the councillor who was elected to replace me, decided to step down for one reason or another. It should be noted that JC also stepped down with a big statement which created a new department with him as deputy. So it's not like such things are exclusive to me. |
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Oakhurst was an area within [https://archive.ashelor.cc/southshire/land-claims/ Southend]. Orinnari had been building in that area for about a week or so since his house at the time was dead centre of [[Southshire]] and didn't like how much passers by triggered his snitches. After the [[mrmamizoupie]] pearl situation was resolved, Orinnari annexed the land and created 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. |
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:If I was honest with myself, I was over the drama caused by the trial. I had time to cool and gain perspective. And so when I saw his statement, I instantly knew what it meant, and I asked Sam and Eddie whether I should just rejoin the council, and they said yes. ''But'' of course, it's not that simple, as Eddie had already said in chat just moments before that it would be an election. And so even though there was no constitution at the time, so no rules on how to appoint a councillor, I said that if they wanted me, they could have me. But they decided to go with an election, saying that because JC was elected it's only right to do so now too, which I guess is fair enough. And so I had to run, but I knew I wouldn't get in, because I'm not a people person, I'm not a good campaigner. I'm not good at keeping a smile on my face when I'm the only one in the campaign chat taking it seriously, while literally everyone else is spamming memes and tagging them with @everyone. |
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[[File:Oakhurst-southshire-view.png|thumb|View of Southshire from Oakhurst]] |
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:And that's when Charlameme stepped in, because he saw a potential conflict of interest. Although he stated that he know I personally wouldn't abuse my power (I had never done so before, and you know how I take things seriously) he saw the potential there for any future autonomous district of Southshire. He even began to meme, as you are now, that you'll just create your own area. And so after about an hour or so in the voice chat, I made the following agreement: |
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===Returning to Southshire (First)=== |
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Orinnari's proclaimed desire to dissociate from Southshire did not last long. When [[JC]], Orinnari's successor, decided the step down on the 28th August, Orinnari knew this could be an opportunity to rejoin Southshire. He knew that his stepping down was a moment of weakness, that after a week he had rested and moved on from the turmoils of the [[mrmamizoupie]] situation, and that he was willing to rejoin the council if they wanted him back. His problem however was that by the time Orinnari contacted [[StrPlatinum]], he had already announced to the [[Southshire]] discord that the replacement would be decided by election. |
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[[Charlameme]] brought up a potential conflict on interest seeming that I was the leader of an autonomous territory of [[Southshire]] and running to become a council member of [[Southshire]], thus after some hours of negotiation and agreement, the following deal was struck: |
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:Quite an interesting conversation, I do love this law stuff. But anyway, as you can imagine, I got outvoted. ''Heavily'' outvoted. Not even my fellow co-founder voted for me. Can't remember the final results exactly, but I believe it was 9:2. And remember, this wasn't me just being a citizen and running, this was me as a co-founder, and a previous council member. I thought I had done my job well, that people would want me back, but apparently not. I wasn't angry, or frustrated, or filled with spite, more just stunned at what it meant. Taking it all into consideration, I realised it's probably best not to pursue it any longer, to be less of an influence. So then I wrote this statement: |
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::Congratulations Calum on becoming councillor-elect, I wish you well in your duty. I am not wanting to steal your thunder, but in light of my loss, I need to make a few announcements, which require some context. |
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| ⚫ | It should be noted that this statement only becomes binding once the council votes to legitimise it, and then being elected into the council. If only one of the two occur, or happens in the wrong order, the statement becomes null and void. It is also not my intention for my statement to set a precedent, instead I would ask to keep any future agreements on how to resolve conflicts of interest on a case by case basis. |
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::1. When I originally left the council, I stated that I would formally disassociate myself from Southshire in order to be left alone, that is to say, no longer play a role in Southshire's politics. However, I have remained (of my own free will I will admit) a key influencer of and benefactor to Southshire. I have spearheaded the constitution, the website, as well as providing advice and design critique, and general Discord organisation. But these things are most definitely the roles of the council, and as this election has shown, I am not a council member. |
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That kind of negotiating acted to rejuvenate Orinnari's drive to be a legislator, but he also knew he wasn't a people person, which made the inevitable devastating loss of an election even more impactful. He ran not as a John Doe, but as a co-founder, as a previous council member, as the builder of [[Southshire]], as a writer of its laws; he knew he wasn't popular but hoped that people would elect him on his ability rather than on popularity, but he ended up losing (disproportionately) to Callum. This lead Orinnari to believe he wasn't welcome and that if he ever wanted to legislate again, he'd need to do so elsewhere. |
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::2. From its creation, Oakhurst has had a fuzzy existence, at least in terms of its legal standing, especially with the lack of any formal declaration, constitution, or treaty that comprehensively defines its existence, and its relationship with Southshire. My original intention with Oakhurst was to have somewhere close to Southshire, legally and regionally speaking, but operate as a borough without actually being a borough, by being an autonomous district of Southshire instead. I guess my vague statements comparing it to the City of London, or the relationship between the Commonwealth and its boroughs, have not been particularly helpful. All the same, Oakhurst will now be completing its separation from Southshire, transforming it from an autonomous district of Southshire to just another borough within the Commonwealth. |
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===Oakhurst's Boroughification=== |
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::I will close up now, and I am sorry if this seems drastic, but this is something I knew I would have to write as soon as I realised it would be an election and entered my name. The people, as well as my fellow co-founder have declared their preference for someone else, which means that it's probably a good idea to just move on and let Southshire do its thing. It's been fun, guys. |
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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 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 [[Empty Promises]] branch, though this was resolved when Orinnari sent him [https://archive.ashelor.cc/oakhurst-oracle-essay/ an essay] detailing Oakhurst's history. |
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:I wanted to make laws, it's a new found joy that's mentally stimulating and fun. I saw it as if I can't find it in Southshire, the my little district can become a borough and I can do it anyway. And that's exactly what it has been for me, I've been creating a constitution for Oakhurst, I have created a government building, and am actively trying to establish it as a borough, as a place that people might want to live and build, and it's reminding me of Southshire pre-Sam. If you look on ccmap.github.io and focus on Southshire, you'll see it's pretty old. I can highlight two structure that Eddie built, his house and his pagoda. I built literally everything else. And this is pre-remodel, where I did like 95% of that work as well (although Eddie supplied pretty nicely on both accounts.) I am used to creating boroughs from the ground up on my own. |
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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, though it turned out the rail was about the same length as the rail from [[Mount Augusta]] to the Jewish Quarter, [[Mount Augusta]]. |
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:Oakhurst was created out of exasperation and the desire to escape the drama and rhetoric of being a representative. Oakhurst was borough-ified so that I can do what I play Minecraft to do despite the election. There is no spite, or sadness, just a desire to do my own thing. I was pushed to do so by certain events, yes, but I probably would have done so anyway. I used to have a house in the town centre (where the arena is now), but demolished it to create my "soap coloured palace" because even then, before Mami's trial, I had an urge to do more of my own thing. I'm a loner, I'm like that. |
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===Moving Oakhurst=== |
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''([https://soundcloud.com/user-62544271/justice-discord-8-18-2017-10-24-59-pm-2 Here] is the audio for the mami trial, if you're interested.)'' |
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[[File:Oakhurst-plantation-plans.png|thumb|Oakhurst construction plans in The Plantation]] |
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Hostilities reached a peak between Orinnari and [[SamuelV]], so Orinnari decided to dismantle Oakhurst and cede the land back to [[Southshire]] in order to move Oakhurst 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. The island however was small and was Teal-cliff'd, thus required lowering it down to sea level to make it usable. But the move itself from [[Southshire]] turned out to be a mistake as not only was it isolated geographically, socially, and infrastructurally, but the [[Commonwealth]] refused to recognise it as a borough. This became a very inactive time for Orinnari. |
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Revision as of 01:18, 25 July 2020
Orinnari
Orinnari joined Civclassic in July of 2017 having played no prior iteration and currently resides within two nations: Yoahtl and Ashelor.
History
Joining
Orinnari joined after a /r/WorldPowers community server collapsed. He'd find himself playing the Minecraft server more than meta game, so a friend from the subreddit, DarkyDu, suggested Civclassic. He joined the server and after some local chat exchanges, settled here just above, and fifteen blocks below, modern day Anburon. He planned on creating a small house with a large basement, but quickly lost interest in the server and covered the basement hole.[1]
The Plantation
Not long after, DarkyDu suggested joining him in the Commonwealth. He owned an area known then as The Plantation, now modern day Arran. Orinnari accepted and began levelling out an area of roofed forest along the south western coast. This was until SirCrowley raided the Commonwealth on 17th June 2017. At the time not much could be done but logout and hope he got bored before doing any significant damage, however everything Orinnari owned was stolen or despawned.
Hidden Base
He then attempted to make an underground base in the hopes of steering clear of any future raiders while still remaining close to population centres. This however fell flat within a day or two when he discovering how RealisticBiomes was preventing his farms from growing.
Commonwealth Capitol
He decided to move to the Commonwealth's then unnamed capitol for more protection and integration with the community. But on 20th June 2017 he bore witness to and was the victim of an episode of MiloY, who had grown angry at his fellow countrymen for surpassing an unclear boundary and so began to destroy any such property beyond that boundary.[2] This lead to a feeling of alienation since the first week or so of playing had been so unfruitful.
Strassburg
Fadedsoul invited Orinnari to join him is Strassburg, a German themed settlement within a snow biome. Though he did not like the snow biome, nor the style restrictions of Strassburg, so he built a cliffside house and a staircase to it, both of which largely still remain intact. Soon after StrPlatinum joined him Strassburg too after his own experiences with MiloY. Additional drama occurred when fadedsoul decided to remove a bridge between MiloY's manor and Strassburg. That being said, after a frank and earnest discussion of politics, Orinnari and MiloY came to respect each other even if they didn't agree, and MiloY took the risk of entering Strassburg territory to return Orinnari's items that were taken during the boundary issue.
Founding Southshire
Orinnari and StrPlatinum decided to search for a new place to settle a new borough on the 25th June 2017, as while they both appreciated fadedsoul's hospitality, they didn't agree with Strassburg's direction. A few potential areas were explored for settlement, then Orinnari spotted the empty peninsular south west of the Capital District, now known as Southend. They explored and after finding it to be a roofed forest biome, Orinnari practically begged for them to settle there, and they did, and that's how Southshire was founded. StrPlatinum suggested calling it "Niro" ("Orin" backwards) however Orinnari suggested "Southshire", a play-on name of Northshire from World of Warcraft. He then laid out most of the infrastructure: the roads, the river, the train station, the bank, the farms, the plots, the factory building.
Harassment from a Mercenary
On the 2nd July 2017, Tabby, a Commonwealth citizen, hired a bounty hunter to pursue an alleged griefer named DurianSmash. Durian had been given a plot within Southshire after being driven out of the capitol, which mirrored the experiences of Orinnari and StrPlatinum who had to endure the increasingly fervent oldfriend elitism. Zayshi, the bounty hunter, arrived at Southshire and started behaving ominously, checking chests, minor griefing, and minor harassing. Tabby warned that Orinnari might "try stuff" if Durian was captured. Zayshi soon went rogue and attacked Orinnari and attempted to break into his home.
Southshire's Reconstruction
On the 10th July 2017, after Orinnari had visited the Commonwealth's capitol, he took a liking to the canal design and began a reconstruction of Southshire, replacing the dirt bank river with a network of canals though without the prohibition on bridges. The reconstruction resulted in the bank and factory being being sacrificed and moved respectively. It is also when Orinnari rebuilt his home.
mrmamizoupie
Around the 15th August 2017, a Southshire and Commonwealth citizen known as mrmamizoupie was pearled. The people of Southshire (also known as Southshians[3]) were naturally outraged that a friend and citizen had been pearled within and removed from Southshire territory, particularly when there was at the time seemingly no rhyme or reason. Information was slowly released over the next day or two. On the 17th June 2017, Orinnari stated Southshire's position:
- "Mami commited crimes abroad, but then he became a citizen of Southshire and therefore the citizen of the Commonwealth. Now, I have been told that the Commonwealth does not intervene in cases of extradition in cases where someone has been pearled for crimes abroad, however, Southshire does intervene, and because he was a Southshire citizen and pearled in Southshire, we feel we have a right to a say and to block extradition. However, we can be overruled by the Commonwealth.... so we need a ruling over whether Mami can and will be extradited."
MiloY, who then seemed to chair the Commonwealth's response to this matter, agreed with Orinnari's interpretation of the law and brought up precedent made in previous iterations of civ, that the Commonwealth traditionally does not prevent extradition. The conversation was then taken into relevant channels and voice chats where the Commonwealth gathered its most trusted citizens to rule on the issue and taking Southshire's voice into consideration and voted to allow the extradition.
However a new issue arose: the Commonwealth had been operating under the assumption that the pearl was held by Southshire, and Southshire believed the opposite, and so when a vocal minority within Southshire began to conspire to break mrmamizoupie free and that the pearl wasn't being handed over, the Commonwealth assumed that Southshire had gone rogue. It turned out that the pearl's owner, ThePayman, wanted his own set of demands met before relinquishing the pearl. The Commonwealth managed to talk ThePayman down from these demands since an agreement had already been made and would otherwise create an international incident.
On the 19th August 2017 when the situation was resolved and mrmamizoupie was going to be tried (listen here), Orinnari felt extremely exhausted since he had dedicated several days to this issue and the conversation surrounding it was toxic and boiling over. Orinnari himself received accusations and verbal abuse which he was woefully prepared for.
Oakhurst's creation
Oakhurst was an area within Southend. Orinnari had been building in that area for about a week or so since his house at the time was dead centre of Southshire and didn't like how much passers by triggered his snitches. After the mrmamizoupie pearl situation was resolved, Orinnari annexed the land and created Oakhurst and then stepped down from the council in an attempt to get out of the spotlight. Oakhurst was intended to behave like the 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.
Returning to Southshire (First)
Orinnari's proclaimed desire to dissociate from Southshire did not last long. When JC, Orinnari's successor, decided the step down on the 28th August, Orinnari knew this could be an opportunity to rejoin Southshire. He knew that his stepping down was a moment of weakness, that after a week he had rested and moved on from the turmoils of the mrmamizoupie situation, and that he was willing to rejoin the council if they wanted him back. His problem however was that by the time Orinnari contacted StrPlatinum, he had already announced to the Southshire discord that the replacement would be decided by election.
Charlameme brought up a potential conflict on interest seeming that I was the leader of an autonomous territory of Southshire and running to become a council member of Southshire, thus after some hours of negotiation and agreement, the following deal was struck:
As I am unable to simultaneously hold the position of Councillor and Lord Mayor of Oakhurst, this is my statement on how that would be resolved. If elected, the autonomous district of Oakhurst, where I am the sole resident and owner of, will be encapsulated into Southshire proper. All Oakhurst laws, building codes, criminal codes, and other miscellaneous government enactments, will be placed on hold, to no longer be legally binding or enforceable. The land of Oakhurst will become my personal private property within Southend, with all the protections that includes under law. Oakhurst shall remain in this state until such time where I leave, or are otherwise removed from the council, whereby Oakhurst returns to its previous state and I am reinstated as its sole owner and leader.
It should be noted that this statement only becomes binding once the council votes to legitimise it, and then being elected into the council. If only one of the two occur, or happens in the wrong order, the statement becomes null and void. It is also not my intention for my statement to set a precedent, instead I would ask to keep any future agreements on how to resolve conflicts of interest on a case by case basis.
That kind of negotiating acted to rejuvenate Orinnari's drive to be a legislator, but he also knew he wasn't a people person, which made the inevitable devastating loss of an election even more impactful. He ran not as a John Doe, but as a co-founder, as a previous council member, as the builder of Southshire, as a writer of its laws; he knew he wasn't popular but hoped that people would elect him on his ability rather than on popularity, but he ended up losing (disproportionately) to Callum. This lead Orinnari to believe he wasn't welcome and that if he ever wanted to legislate again, he'd need to do so elsewhere.
Oakhurst's Boroughification
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 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 Empty Promises branch, though this was resolved when Orinnari sent him 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, though it turned out the rail was about the same length as the rail from Mount Augusta to the Jewish Quarter, Mount Augusta.
Moving Oakhurst
Hostilities reached a peak between Orinnari and SamuelV, so Orinnari decided to dismantle Oakhurst and cede the land back to Southshire in order to move Oakhurst 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. The island however was small and was Teal-cliff'd, thus required lowering it down to sea level to make it usable. But the move itself from Southshire turned out to be a mistake as not only was it isolated geographically, socially, and infrastructurally, but the Commonwealth refused to recognise it as a borough. This became a very inactive time for Orinnari.
Returning to Southshire
Months later, Orinnari returned to Southshire though the server was enduring the Somber War where Orinnari and cinzar would often be the only players online. They both pseudo-couped Southshire's government and groups to allow them to govern and build.
Yoahtl Ascension
After a unanimous vote of all government officials and the permission of the Commonwealth, Southshire seceded from the Commonwealth and became an autonomous town of Yoahtl. Orinnari travelled to Yoahtl and along the way and was "inventory checked" for allegedly stealing a minecart.[4][5]
Moving to Yoahtl
Orinnari decided to move to Yoahtl after it appeared that Southshire would not recover truly recover population wise. He was almost immediate accosted by TheOrangeWizard for building a property on NYC island outside of the city trench. He dismantled the property and created a shop and home within the trenched city of NYC.
- ↑ https://archive.ashelor.cc/westeros/orin-settlement/
- ↑ https://archive.ashelor.cc/commonwealth/miloy-incident/
- ↑ https://archive.ashelor.cc/southshire/immigration-reform/
- ↑ https://old.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/7sg5sp/my_side/dt56d0h/
- ↑ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1-26-18-we-talk-to-bgbba-about-current-conflicts-dramas/id1294943390?i=1000400764199