Orinnari

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.

The Plantation

District map of the Commonwealth showing The Plantation, Strassburg, and Southend.

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. This lead to a feeling of alienation since the first week or so of playing had been so unfruitful.

Strassburg

MiloY's manor and its bridge to Stassburg.

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.

Southshire pre-reconstruction

Southshire post-reconstruction

mrmamizoupie

Around the 15th August 2017, a Southshire and Commonwealth citizen known as mrmamizoupie was pearled. The people of Southshire (also known as Southshians) 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's borders

Oakhurst's government building and Orinnari's manor

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.

View of Southshire from Oakhurst

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 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 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.

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.

Oakhurst construction plans in The Plantation

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.

Hostilities reached a peak between Orinnari and SamuelV, so in early October 2017, 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, 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 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 (Second)

Orinnari returned to Southshire in December 2017 after server activity was at an all time low due to The Somber War, where Orinnari and cinzar would often be the only players online. Cinzar became the new leader of Southshire and the Constitution of Southshire was abolished in favour of returning to the council system it had previously. The previous Oakhurst land was occupied and the bridge was being used as a tree farm, so Orinnari attempted to build a house at the top of a mountain on South Island, but this fell flat as the path to reach the property was laborious, the biome was ugly, and the build space was too awkward for him to work with. He instead settled for rebuilding the house he once had at the centre of the city but within the Dark Oak District in the northern part of city.

Yoahtl Ascension

Becoming a town of Yoahtl had been a semi-serious meme within Southshire for quite some time. On 13th January 2018, serious talks began between Southshire and Yoahtl to become an autonomous town. These talks were leaked, which caused some drama within the obstinate meta-bound citizenry, but negotiations were productive and a treaty was drafted.

After votes and negotiations, Southshire has decided to secede from the Commonwealth in order to join Yoahtl as an autonomous town as described in this document.

If we were going to transition to Yoahtl we wanted to do it properly, and so we devised three steps to complete before pushing the button and making the change.

1. Receive and invitation from Yoahtl via their own processes. We did not want to first secede from the Commonwealth and then find ourselves in the position of having to wait or possibly being denied, which would cut ourselves off from all federal protection and infrastructure.
2. Negotiate with the Commonwealth to discuss permission and concerns. We wanted to make sure that our plans were acceptable to the Commonwealth as to not create an international incident, our primary concern being land.
3. Conduct a vote within our local government. We wanted to make sure that we did actually want to go through with this, and so the entire government - the council and deputies - were required to vote, and only if the vote was unanimous would we make the transition.

All three conditions were met, and so we made the transition.

On 14th January 2018, Southshire officially became an autonomous town of Yoahtl.

"Inventory Checking"

Soon after Southshire joined Yoahtl as an autonomous town, Orinnari travelled to NYC for the first time. The server was lagging like crazy and large groups of people would be kicked from the server at once. Orinnari was kicked twice while on the rails and rode past SouthernBloc along the way who was standing to the side of a rail. After a kick SouthernBloc was ahead of Orinnari though travelling slowly, so Orinnari caught up fast. After another kick which effected them both, Orinnari went to his minecart but so did SouthernBloc, seemingly not noticing nor caring about their minecart up ahead. SouthernBloc prevented Orinnari from continuing his journey, forcing Orinnari do try and move past them, and then prevented him again. Orinnari used his axe to one hit his minecart, but SouthernBloc attempted to take the minecart at the same time, causing them to get hit, which was used as justification to kill Orinnari to "inventory check him", stealing all of Orinnari's items and minecart. Orinnari still has claims against SouthernBloc for what they did.

Settling in Yoahtl

Orinnari's NYC shop

Progress in Southshire was slow and Orinnari's attempt to reset his sleeping pattern alienated him from the goings on in Southshire, and it appeared like the population wouldn't truly recover. Orinnari decided in late February to early March 2018 to move to the new capitol, NYC. However he was almost immediate accosted by TheOrangeWizard for building a property on NYC island outside the city trench. Orinnari quickly dismantled the property in fear of being thrown out and created a slim shop within the trenched city. This shop quickly grew in size however when 1) SgtSoda agreed to trade his plot for a larger one of his own in the south east part of the city, 2) also when Feathercrown ceded a small area to Orinnari to square out the plot, and 3) when the ore exchange was moved from under the plot to allow for a basement.

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, 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 on the 22nd June 2018 that he couldn't live in Yoahtl anymore if he would continuously face this level of toxicity.

Moving to Bloom

View from the South Island property

After a short stint back in Southshire where Orinnari created a house on top of a mountain in South Island in an attempt to regain a view of Southshire (which failed in part due to the ugly biome, access to the house being troublesome, and a lack of skill to make an aesthetic and useful home in such an awkward position) he ended up in frank discussion with ComradeNick on Mumble where Orinnari 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.

Orinnari's shop (later christened as "Forward Settle") would soon kickstart Bloom's economy as it brought XP and enchanted diamond tools to the market. He also quickly took interest in Bloom's parliament, which while elected did not have the same issues that plague nations like Mount Augusta and Icenia.