Orinnari: Difference between revisions

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 the 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>

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.

[[Fadedsoul]] invited Orinnari to join him is Strassburg, a German themed settlement within a snow biome. ThoughHe heaccepted though did not like the snow biome, nor the build 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 Strassburgin tooStrassburg 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]] tookappeared thein riskStrassburg ofterritory, enteringtaking [[Strassburg]]a territoryhuge risk in doing so, to return Orinnari's items that were taken during the [https://archive.ashelor.cc/commonwealth/miloy-incident/ boundary issue].

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 what is now known as the infrastructure[https://civclassic.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Southshire.png Downtown Area]: the roads, the river, the train station and underground rail tunnel, the bank, the farms, the plots, and the factory building.

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, for some reason, warned that Orinnari might "try stuff" if Durian was captured. [[Zayshi]] soon went rogue and attacked Orinnari and attempted to break into his home.

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.

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:

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 however 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 ([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.

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.

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 2017, 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]] then 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:

Hostilities between Orinnari and [[SamuelV]] (a councillor of [[Southshire]]) 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 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 Shen isolated geographically, socially, and infrastructurally, but the [[Commonwealth]] also refused to recognise it as a borough. This became a very inactive time for Orinnari.

Even with the plot's expansions, it was still dwarfed by [[5point0]]'s mansion, [[Fort Ruina]], and [[SpiderString]]'s brewery, and so he found it perplexing how [[TheOrangeWizard]] would always refer to Orinnari's plot size with an edge. When [[TheOrangeWizard]] was speaking with someone else and their plot within ear shot, he brought up Orinnari's plot and its size while he was present for the conversation. That moment was when Orinnari realised that [[TheOrangeWizard]] was not going to let that go and would continually dangle this issue in front of him and anyone who'd listen. He decided around mid June 2018 that he couldn't live in [[Yoahtl]] anymore if he would continuously face this level of toxicity.

Orinnari found himself in a frank discussion with [[ComradeNick]] on Mumble where he expressed his feelings of aimlessness, that his return to [[Southshire]], or a potential return to the [[Commonwealth]] or back to [[Yoahtl]] felt like a step back rather than moving on. [[ComradeNick]] pointed Orinnari towards [[Bloom]] as it was a new nation and most of its inhabitants were migrants from towny, so Orinnari could delve into integrating and developing them as a civ nation. He became a citizen of [[Bloom]] on the 24th June 2018.

In November 2018, a player named [[ThirdOfFive]] became a citizen of [[Bloom]]. At first they gravitated towards each other as they both had great enthusiasm for law making, however Orinnari quickly found himself jaded by [[ThirdOfFive]]'s inexperience and tendency to insist upon solutions that either wouldn't work or would cause more problems than they solved. After a spat in which [[ThirdOfFive]] created a near perfect replica of Orinnari's build, Orinnari and [[dBeatzx]] left for greener pastures on the 6th January 2019 and found themselves in the +,+. Orinnari successfully negotiated the land from the [[Free Territory of Kropotnia]] on the 8th January 2019 with a treaty called the [https://ashelor.cc/static/KropotniaTreaty.pdf Treaty of Mutual Recognition].

On the 28th January 2019, Orinnari received an invitation from [[bgbba]] to join [[Yoahtl]] on [[CivEx]] which after some exploration he accepted. [[dBeatzx]] had already become somewhat inactive and so when Orinnari and [[Selanid]] moved over to [[CivEx]], Ashelor was effectively put on hold. On the 17th February 2019 in a spurt of activity, [[dBeatzx]] attempted to revive the Ashelor by negotiating to become a state of [[Bloom]], however this is quickly prevented by Orinnari due to fears of interference by [[ThirdOfFive]] and other Members of Parliament, though this sadly made [[dBeatzx]] go inactive again.