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[[File:TolstoyRide.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Riding through the Commune of Tolstoy with the founder Zazorg]]
[[File:ACAupdatedLOGO.png|left|thumb|500x500px|the [[Anarchist Communist Association]], a large Discord community that Rain runs and used as the original Discord for the IWW. 1,000 members as of November 2021]]
{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
|image=RainOfPain125.png
|image=RainOfPain125.png
|caption=Rain's Skin (c. July 2021)
|caption=Rain's Skin (c. July 2021)
|known_for=IWW Founder, Union Leader
|known_for=Union Leader of the [[IWW]]<br/>Founder of (in order)<br/>[[IWW]]<br/>[[Rojava]]<br/>[[Paris Commune]]<br/>[[Black Internationale]]<br/>[[Guthrie Commune]]</br>[[the no state commune|TNSC]]
|main_residence=[[Jevoghnya]] (CivClassics)
|reddit=[https://www.reddit.com/user/RainOfPain125 RainOfPain125]
|reddit=[https://www.reddit.com/user/RainOfPain125 RainOfPain125]
|known_iterations=[[CivRealms_2.0]], [[CivUniverse]] and [[CivClassic]]
|known_iterations=
* [[CivRealms 2.0]]
|citizenships={{flag|Industrial Workers of the World}} (Union Leader)<br/>{{flag|Acadia}} (National martyr)<br/>{{flag|Jevoghnya}} (Honorary)
* [[CivUniverse]]
|first_civ_server=[[CivRealms_2.0]]|discord=Rainie#2672|languages=* American English
* [[CivClassic]]
|custom_personal_info_label1=Ideology|custom_personal_info_data1=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism Anarcho-Communism]<br/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism Anarcho-Syndicalism]<br/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platformism Platformism]<br/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_anarchism SynthesisAnarchism]|custom_personal_info_label2=Known Alts|custom_personal_info_data2=None}}
* [[CivVie]]
[[File:IWWTNOadvert.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Advertising propaganda made by Rain in the style of [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438003901 The New Order: Last Days of Europe]]][[File:ProIWWmeme.jpg|500px|thumb|left|A meme created by Rain and [[UnknownKarnij]] to criticize the nations that came out of the [[Duckapore]]-IWW schism.]]
|custom_personal_info_label2=Citizenships Past & Present
[[File:NEWO.png|500x500px|thumb|North-East Waterways Organization, which Rain participated in]][[File:ITS REALLLLLY REAL.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Rain's propaganda criticism against the Neo-IWW or "Insurrectionary IWW" using the IWW logo and the three arrows symbol, representing anti-fascism.]]
|custom_personal_info_data2={{flag|Industrial Workers of the World}} (Founder)<br/>
[[File:DescentOfTheWobblies.png|thumb|500x500px|Rain's propaganda criticism against the Neo-IWW or "Insurrectionary IWW". Original piece is named [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Descent_of_the_Modernists,_E._J._Pace,_Christian_Cartoons,_1922.jpg Descent of the Modernists.]]][[File:AntiNorlundMeme.jpg|500px|thumb|Meme meant to mock the Norlund regime. |left]]
{{flag|The No State Commune}} (Founder)<br/>
[[File:RevengeOfParis2.png|thumb|The aftermath of the Paris Uprising.|left|500x500px]][[File:IWWstylizedFLAG.png|thumb|500x500px|A stylized version of the [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] flag. Top is an assembly of [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] fighters [[EmDubleYou]], [[Heyduckhi]], [[OrcishTimmy]], and [[ExcaliburSword]]. Middle is a field of carrots in [[Tolstoy]].
{{flag|Paris Commune}} (Founder)<br/>
{{flag|Jevoghnya}} (Honorary)<br/>
[[Guthrie Commune]]<br/>
[[Wyvern]]
|first_civ_server=[[CivRealms 2.0]]
|discord=Rainie#2672
|languages=English
|custom_personal_info_label1=Ideology
|custom_personal_info_data1=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism Anarchist Communism]<br/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism Anarchist Syndicalism]<br/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platformism Platformism]<br/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_anarchism SynthesisAnarchism]<br/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_anarchism Queer Anarchism]}}


{{Neutrality warning}}
Bottom is a mysterious clearing involving a tower in [[Anvard|Free Republic of Anvard]].]][[File:CommonRainPropaganda.jpeg|thumb|773x773px|Typical Anarchist propaganda that Rain would spread across nation Discords.]][[File:RevengeOfParis1.png|thumb|left|A screenshot taken from an anonymous user who participated in the Paris uprising. |500x500px]][[File:Fuck you piece of shit.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Anarchist propaganda that Rain recycled. The original image says "good" cops and bad cops. However, it was not well received in its original format and thus changed. Rain pushed hard for international solidarity and the struggle against toxic shitter nations, pleading for neutral nations to give up their neutrality and help end the systemic injustice.]]
[[File:Makhnovia.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Flag of [[Makhnovia]], a commune that Rain visited often and thought fondly of.]]
[[File:RainPropaganda2.png|thumb|500x500px|Unfinished propaganda made by Rain that was intended to be in the IWW 1.12.2 client modpack as one of the title screen backgrounds.]]
[[File:IWWpropaganda.gif|left|thumb|500x500px|Advertisement or the IWW on CivUniverse by Rain. Originally the IWW on Universe was going to be portrayed as some sort of hyper-authoritarian totalitarian Orwellian nightmare, while actually being super chill on the inside.]]{{Neutrality warning}}
'''RainOfPain125''', also known as '''Rain''' or '''Rainie''', is the original founder of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]]. Check the infobox on the right for other founded projects.
==CivRealms==
Rain began CivRealms as a brand new, skeptical yet adventurous player. Wanting to build, make friends, organize, and unite the leftist community. His goal on the server was try to ideologically "win" CivRealms by convincing the general player-base that Anarchism as an economic and social ideology not only works, but that it is the most successful or preferable system of organizing and having fun.


'''RainOfPain125''', also known as '''Rain''' or '''Rainie''', is the founder of the {{flag|Industrial Workers of the World}} on [[CivRealms]] and the {{flag|The No State Commune}} on [[CivClassics]]. Rain is a controversial player due to various events and political stances.
Rain knew he would need a lot of help to organize. The conclusion was to build an international unifying organization that gathered enough members and resources to defend themselves if presented with a threat by any of the reactionary users or groups on the server.


=CivRealms=
Rain had already recruited some players together to join the server and begin setting up communes. Rain instructed new members to settle in [[Napistan]], understanding that trying to contest existing claims would probably get the organization killed, and the large northern island of Napistan was largely uninhabited compared to the rest of the world. Thus the Commune of [[Tolstoy]] was founded by [[Zazorg]] on January 7th 2020<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/WZ0bzuA.png Founding of the Commune of Tolstoy]</ref>. Another commune [[Exarchos|Vescau]] (Later re-branded [[Exarchos]]) was founded around the same time. When these communes were founded, Rain did not possess a computer and thus could not play CivRealms, merely helping to organize the group and encouraging players to move up to the northern isolated continent to begin their journeys there.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/NsOz1e0.png Rain no have PC :(]</ref>
[[File:First Sign.png|500x500px|thumb|left|Rain's first sign on CivRealms]]
Rain began CivRealms wanting to build, make friends, organize, and in his words ''“unite the server’s leftists”.'' His goal on the server was try to “ideologically win”,{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}} and decided to build a nation to present as a threat on the server.
=== Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) ===
{{Main|Industrial Workers of the World}}


In doing so, on the 23rd of January 2020 Rain declared<ref name=":0">[https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/et45rk/hereby_declaring_the_industrial_workers_of_the/ Declaration of the Industrial Workers of the World]</ref> the [[Industrial Workers of the World]], an organization of anarchist, socialist, and communist nations/collectives/communes. All existing groups were welcome to join.
On the January 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2020 Rain established the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW), an organization of anarchist, socialist, and communist countries on the northern continent of Napistan, though the anarchist part is disputed due to later events. Rain chose this area as the northern continent of Napistan was largely unclaimed compared to the rest of the world.


When the IWW was declared on the 23rd of January, Rain recruited players to join the server and began to set up communes in the region. The Commune of [[Tolstoy]], and Commune of [[Vescau]] (which was later renamed as [[Exarchos]]) were established. At the time, Rain didn’t possess a PC and could only encourage players to move up to the northern continent.
===The Industrial Workers of the World!===
When Rain was again able to play, he moved to [[Tolstoy]], contributing to mining, and the excavation of a new river that would span the continent and provide easy travel under the newly founded North-East Waterways Organization, or NEWO, a construction group ran by [[Zazorg]]. [[Tolstoy]] started to become the heart of the IWW, the main town that members would stay around and contribute to. Around this time is when a lot of recognizable faces of the IWW appeared such as [[EmDubleYou]], [[EnderWorldDragon]], [[ExcaliburSword]], [[Narhwal_19]], [[fantasyworm]], [[Lowtuff]], [[Lannister]], and [[buystamps]].


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After much of the basic organizing had been finished Rain had retrieved his gaming computer. He committed to a recruitment campaign, utilizing his already existing community the [[Anarchist Communist Association]] along with Reddit posts across many large and small anarchist/socialist subreddits that quickly attracted new members to the IWW.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/anarchocommunism/comments/eji8xd/wanna_help_setup_a_dank_anarchist_commune_in/ Example of one IWW recruitment post]</ref> Due to the massively successful recruitment drive, the IWW rapidly grew, which presented a major problem to Rain, as many new players would leave early, not understanding Civ and finding it confusing or frustrating. Rain would later make a large Google doc containing all the information about mechanics and plugins, updating and changing it around as he switched from Realms to Universe to Classics.


[[File:NEWO.png|400x400px|thumb|right|North-East Waterways Organization, which Rain participated in]]
====The Tolstoy Bombing====
The IWW was overall, a very loose and disorganized group. Not because members did not agree ideologically, but because many did not fully understand the mechanics present on CivRealms which later lead to the easy bombing of Tolstoy by [[Vanax|PartyAnimal]] (later revealed to be [[Vanax]]). Rain and [[EmDubleYou]] were pearled in the bombing incident, as Vanax wanted to "purge the commies". However a large coalition of fighters from [[Alexandria]] led by [[TTastic]] and other forces arrived to investigate and help. PartyAnimal logged before coalition forces got to the bunker, and the two were freed from their pearls.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/i57IlCG.png Same day recounting of the Tolstoy Bombing]</ref>


When Rain was able to play, he moved to Tolstoy. He would gather resources and participated in the excavation of a canal to provide easy travel under the North-East Waterways Organization (NEWO).
====RainOfPain125-MCSPenguin Incidient====
{{Main|Industrial Workers of the World#NEWO}}
Rain continued to grind and build until he fully understood the RealisticBiomes plugin, now understanding that most of the continent could not grow any crops, he sought to expand the IWW's claims across Napistan to more land that was arable enough to grow carrots.


[[File:AnarchistCommunistAssociation.png|thumb|left|The ACA, an anarcho-communist discord server run by Rain]]
Conveniently, a nation named "Greenland" threatened the IWW, claiming they shouldn't touch their area in the center-south of Napistan along the coast. 1-2 days later, the two people who ran Greenland quit the server, though not before giving up their group to a member of the IWW.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/51imxK9.png Nation of Greenland hostility]</ref>


Later, Rain begun a recruitment campaign utilizing the [[Anarchist Communist Association]] discord that he ran. Along with Reddit posts, the IWW grew incredibly quickly, with his advertising becoming some of the highest upvoted content on r/CivRealms<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/eji6oo/fair_warning_for_the_chuds_organize_today_join/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 RainOfPain125's IWW advertisement hitting the top 20 posts of all time on r/CivRealms]</ref>
Thus IWW inherited a large carrot farm. Happy with the details, Rain decided he wanted to build a coastal town near the farm to increase trade and access to arable land. He picked a spot that he thought was only a couple hundred or so blocks from the farm. Rain mined his way underground in an effort to build a railroad towards the new planned location, but realized the area was bastioned. A mix of things culminated in Rain breaking MCSPenguin's bastions.


The IWW was a very loose and disorganized group as many did not fully understand the mechanics present on CivRealms. This later lead to the easy bombing of Tolstoy by PartyAnimal with Rain and [[EmDubleYou]] being pearled during the bombing. IWW allies from [[Alexandria]] came, removed the obsidian, and freed both of their pearls, but the city would go into a period of decline.
=====Rain's side=====


Greenland was a new nation which threatened the IWW, demanding that they leave its surrounding land in the center-south of Napistan on the coast. However, players who ran Greenland quit{{citation needed}} and the IWW extended its claims farther south gaining a carrot farm in the south as a result. This would later lead to a small conflict between [[MCSpenguin]] and Rain that lead to Rain being pearled for two weeks.
# Rain assumed it was leftover bastions from the long-dead Maelstrom nation, the only nation to have lived on Napistan before the IWW. It was already previously agreed among members of the IWW to clear any remaining Maelstrom bastions on the continent, and thus he started breaking.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/6cO844U.png Proof 1 of Maelstrom's existence]</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/IUZzGCt.png Proof 2 of Maelstrom's existence]</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/eXshp1u.png Proof 3 of Maelstrom's existence]</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/RH92zYd.png Proof 4 of Maelstrom's existence]</ref>
{{Main|RainOfPain125#MSCpenguin-RainOfPain125 Conflict}}
#MCSPenguin did not announce or mark their claims on the worldmap, which otherwise would have prevented this.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/MgopOGm.jpg Proof of MCSPenguin's non-existent claims on Napistan]</ref>
#Rain also announced in world chat that he found a bastion in Napistan. Only one person asked where the coords were, so Rain provided coords. Rain assumed the coords were alright, because the person who asked proceeded to log off, indicating there was no trouble. The person who asked for coords happened to be MCSPenguin's alt. The proof of this has been lost, but MCSPenguin does not deny that this occurred.
#Rain was provided incorrect coordinates.


With Rain temporarily pearled the IWW used the free time to introduce a position that would conduct diplomacy, trade, and facilitate organization in the IWW named the "Union Organizer" or UO, a democratically elected position.
=====MCSPenguin's side=====
{{Main|Industrial Workers of the World#Creation of the Union Organizer role}}


Rain was unpearled after his two weeks was up and proceeded to contribute to the IWW. Sometime later some members of the IWW would make calls to have a vote on a new leader. In doing so, the role of complete ownership came to be titled "Server Organizer" or SO. Folks including Rain, Freezor, Ian, Pierre, and Hiduck ran for the new Server Organizer position. Initially, the opposition against Rain was divided. However, a series of events and manipulation lead to an outcome that elected [[HeyDuckHi]].
#Rain had no business breaking random bastions, and it was his responsibility to ensure that they were unowned bastions.
{{Main|Industrial Workers of the World#Vote Rigging Controversy "Hostile Takeover of the IWW"}}
#Rain was at the wrong coordinates, and should have checked them first.


At the end of the day Rain honored the vote and transferred ownership of the IWW. Ownership was successfully transferred, but Rain was quickly Ducky's biggest critic, highlighting abusive actions she was committing from day one. This ended up with him getting banned from the IWW discord. After which he’d end up making a critique of the "Insurrectionary IWW" as he called it,<ref>[[https://archive.vn/5RMvx RainOfPain125 writing "The Revolution Betrayed", a critique of the hostile takeover of the IWW and its future consequences and implications]</ref> which was received negatively by the IWW and the server as a whole.[[File:ProIWWmeme.jpg|500px|thumb|right|A meme created by RainOfPain125 to criticize the nations that came out of the Duckapore-IWW schism several months after his removal.]]
==== IWW Rigged vote regarding ownership====
While Rain was away pearled, he discussed and came up with the idea to create a new position named "Union Organizer". Union Organizers were to do exactly that - help organize and facilitate things between communes. Rain ran the election, and it ended with [[Coolking1500|Adam]] and [[VolutionFS]] working together with Rain to organize and run the IWW.

At some point members of the IWW, being anarchists opposed to authority, joked that "nobody elected Rain". Jokes soon turned into a serious discussion on whether or not the ownership over the entire IWW discord and in-game group should be democratically elected. Despite Rain being fiercely against the concept of transferring complete ownership to someone who could ruin the project, it was decided that the position of owner should be democratically elected, which prompted a vote to elect a new Server Organizer.

Many folks including Rain, [[Feezor]], [[ian]], [[Pierre]] and [[Hiduckhi]] ran for the new position.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/Y7U9dUf.png What the IWW vote to change ownership looked like]</ref> Initially, the opposition to Rain was divided between Ian, Feezor and Hiduckhi, which would have made Rain the clear winner with the most votes.

However, suspiciously the results

# Changed dramatically two days after the vote was announced
#Within just an hour
#AND they all declined to choose a 4th or 5th rank for their vote.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/kigQXxX.png Evidence of IWW Server Organizer election fraud 1]</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/CE7v1IF.png Evidence of IWW Server Organizer election fraud 2]</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/Ov7azF3.png Evidence of IWW Server Organizer election fraud 3]</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/55MitZ6.png Evidence of IWW Server Organizer election fraud 4]</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/PuOaXNS.png Evidence of IWW Server Organizer election fraud 5]</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/Y7U9dUf.png Evidence of IWW Server Organizer election fraud 6]</ref>

Due to certain circumstances, a user named EnderWorldDragon was the creator of the actual google form where the vote was held. Because of this, EnderWorldDragon was able to collaborate with the opposition to manipulate the vote results, by deleting the existing votes and having people re-cast a new vote. This way the opposition against Rain could concentrate all of their votes into one candidate. However, nowhere did it say users were allowed to re-cast their votes. And there was no prior precedent that this was allowed, as no vote before this allowed re-submitting your answers.

In response to being exposed for their obvious rigging of the vote, they said it was excusable because Rain personally DM'd people asking them to go and vote in the democratic process. It is known that they sought to rig the election by deleting and recasting votes, because the person who created the vote, EnderWorldDragon, admitted it<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/YqIyPIr.png EnderWorldDragon admitting to rigging votes]</ref>

[[Heyduckhi]] won the election by a single vote. Rain ultimately honored the vote and transferred ownership of the IWW, regardless of the rigging.

====Criticism of the Insurrectionary IWW ====
The Crab Coup (Led by Ian/5492 and Heyduckhi) transferred snitches and bastions from the IWW group to a different private group. Supposedly for "in the event that Rain refuse to abdicate."

After being democratically defeated, Rain was ousted and banned from the IWW after criticizing the new leadership, arguing they were doing similar actions akin to the NSDAP, going after political opponents and silencing or banning them.
Rain left [[Napistan]] with two of his supporters. Rain went on to write a long Reddit post, essentially detailing If anyone had the most vested interest in the operation running smoothly as intended, it would be the one who founded it. Giving up ownership and hoping that the new ownership will be trustworthy or be a good-actor is a game of complete chance, and the chance of getting a bad-actor as owner is inevitable provided you vote to change owners enough. The post was however received negatively by the IWW and the server as a whole.
===Citizen of Norlund===
After being ousted from the IWW, Rain retreated to the mainland continent, wandering, following the advice of [[1234fireball]] who suggested that he could move into [[Norlund]] territory, start a new town, and then could petition to join the [[Norlund]] government as a new autonomy (or "municipality"). Rain went ahead and followed this advice, establishing a new life in the far north-west, which was almost the same in climate to [[Napistan]], featuring the similar snow and hills. Rain chose the most useless and isolated region of [[Norlund]], believing nobody would care about the land and leave him alone, and began the [[Paris Commune]], being approved by the Norlund government shortly thereafter.

Soon Rain founded the [[Black Internationale]], an organization with a heavier emphasis on anarchism and resisting authority. Although he was beginning to get tired of CivRealms, and chose not to mass-advertise the BI as heavily as he did with the IWW. Despite not going as hard on advertising as the IWW, the BI happened to get even more popular traction on Reddit than the IWW did, garnering much more upvotes. The [[Paris Commune]] started to accumulate members, with 10 active members at its peak. It was a mostly underground commune, with a tunnel dug at Y=0 to the factory capital of [[Norlund]], [[Kannin]]. From there, Rain and the members of the [[Paris Commune]] could start to efficiently progress.

====Norlund Controversy====
Rain was almost instantly faced with opposition when the [[Paris Commune]] was accepted into the government. The king at the time did not know who Rain was, and accepted him. Some groups protested this as they were already familiar with Rain due to his prior actions. Rain subsequently posted Anarchist propaganda within the [[Norlund]] community, in an attempt to convince Norlunders of Anarchist ideology and its legitimacy. The opposition in Norlund called it spam and pushed for Rain to be warned or punished, ultimately Rain's position in the Norlish community worsened.[[File:TNAA.png|thumb|500x500px|Original borders of The No State Commune]]
Things escalated for Rain when a member of Norlund posted a bounty against him, which was unheard of in Norlund at the time. Rain along with several citizens of Norlund protested this, insisting it was out of order to put a bounty on other Norlund citizens. The person was convinced to remove the bounty, but the damage had been done as the situation was escalating setting the stage for the climax of the escalation to come.

Eventually King Terry of Norlund could no longer play CivRealms, an event dubbed the "[https://civwiki.org/wiki/Norlund#The_Death_of_King_Terry_and_Constitutional_Crisis Death of King Terry and Constitutional Crisis]". In his absence, a referendum was announced on choosing a new king of Norlund. After the results were tallied, [[ShamelessShamus]] was elected as the new king of [[Norlund]]. In a few days, a minister of Norlund suddenly and randomly declared in the Discord that the Paris Commune was to be Norlund national territory, because of "prolonged inactivity". By the time Rain got online to protest this decision, the minister was offline.

In reaction to Rain's protesting, the new king Shamus argued that he had no authority over the matter, and that we would all have to wait for the minister to come back online. But only minutes later did the king take it back, claiming something along the lines of "if you give me coords and let me check out the Paris Commune, then I'll personally reinstate your status as a municipality". Rain knew this was extremely suspicious behavior, believing the king was probably going to try and pearl him, he decided to put all of his armor and belongings away into chests, to look as defenseless as possible -

Rain was both terrible at PvP and lacked any serious armor or weapons to fight back anyways. When Shamus arrived, he pretended to be casual and friendly and was led down into the commune bunker by Rain. As soon as Rain opened a chest to get carrots for feeding pigs in his underground farm, Shamus killed and pearled him.

This was an extremely controversial event for Norlund and ShamelessShamus due to Rain being a Norlish citizen and the pearling being an extrajudicial killing. This event was dubbed "[https://civwiki.org/wiki/Norlund#The_King's_Crime The King's Crime]" and caused major unrest in Norlund. The pearl was handed over to a third party and the bounty collected.

Rain fervently opposed this action in the Norlund Discord, arguing it was extremely out of line for a citizen of Norlund to pearl another citizen, especially with Shamus holding the title of king. Shamus's defense was that Rain was a threat to Norlund but couldn't provide any evidence to substantiate this claim. Later on CivUniverse he still holds that it was a good decision.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/pkLmDGo.jpg ShamelessShamus insisting pearling Rain was a good idea]</ref>

Fast forward to the 25th of September, 2020, and the infamous Obsidian Bombing of [[CivCorp]] takes place. In the process, somebody releases Rain from his pearl.


Rain would leave Napistan as an exile of his own nation. He left, but was supported by his former IWW comrades [[ADAM]] and [[VeryStrange]], of which Strange would note their disapproval of Ducky's attitude and leadership style as hostile.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/9ptL1OM.png ExcaliburSword (VeryStrange) expressing their concerns with post-Rain IWW leadership]</ref> Rain was also soon given support by his associate [[1234fireball]]
===Norlund Controversy===
[[File:AntiNorlundMeme.jpg|500px|thumb|A meme created by RainOfPain125 to criticize the Norlund government at the time.]]
Rain would end up settling in [[Norlund]]. This was suggested by Rain's associate [[1234fireball]] who suggested to him that he should create a town and petition to become a municipality within Norlund. He would end up founding the [[Paris Commune]] and the [[Black Internationale]] while in Norlund, of which his advertising campaign for the Internationale was wildly successful, and would become the top upvoted post of all time on r/CivRealms<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/ga9kly/what_we_proclaim_is_the_right_to_wellbeing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 RainOfPain125 publicly declaring the the Black Internationale on r/CivRealms]</ref>
{{Main|Paris Commune}}
When the Paris Commune was accepted into the government on April 29th, 2020, Rain would immediately face opposition from the majority of Norlund. While this caused widespread public outcry, King Terry of Norlund at the time reacted with indifference. When King Terry of Norlund could no longer play CivRealms, a referendum was held in which Shameless_Shamus became the King of Norlund. Shamus would later "visit" the Paris Commune pretending to be friendly, only to unexpectedly pearl an undefended Rain.
{{Main|Paris Commune-Norlund Conflict}}
This lead to a massive conflict in the Norlund political system, and resulted in the Norlund civil war.
{{Main|Norlund#The Secession of Ansgar and the Double Claim of Kannin}}
====Involvement in the Paris Uprising====
====Involvement in the Paris Uprising====
{{Main|Paris Commune#The Paris Uprising}}
After Rain was pearled, a new settlement, Kärme, was built on top of the Paris Commune by a few norlish newfriends, angering Rain severely. Days later, members of the Paris Commune came together in an effort to get revenge on Norlund. Rain unknowingly obtained the supplies necessary for the uprising, as the former members of Paris asked Rain to gather a shipment of cargo from the Napistan territories. Rain took an anonymous alt on a trip to Napistan. This user met up with a high rank of the IWW named ADAM, who escorted them through long corridors and rings of vaults until they arrived at a package, which was transferred to Rain - containing supplies for Rain's strike.
[[File:RevengeOfParis1.png|thumb|left|A screenshot taken from an unknown user, showcasing two signs with defiant statements.]]

[[File:RevengeOfParis2.png|thumb|The aftermath of the Paris Uprising.]]
Two users logged on, still inside of the Paris Commune since their last time being online. A third arrived to distribute supplies, and they began their work. It turned out that the area was not bastioned, so the uprising was conducted with ease. Huge casts of lava were made, on-top of stacks of cobblestone, which would have made removing all of the uprising's success incredibly difficult with the falling-cobblestone feature on CivRealms. Plenty of other parts of the area were destroyed, looted, and disrespected - devastating Kärme. Over the course of two days the three destroyed the area.

In Norlund this action was generally regarded as terrorism and as the affected were newfriends, a complaint was filed to the staff team. Due to the established rules on CivRealms, their actions were in fact bannable. Thus the staff banned all players involved in the uprising, and even Rain who claims he did not participate directly. Everyone involved including Rain was tired of CivRealms at this point and gave up - it was their final act on Realms.


==CivUniverse==
=CivUniverse=
===Wyvern===
===Wyvern===
Rain saw CivUniverse as an opportunity to begin again. He would end up joining the small building nation of Wyvern with his friend [[UnknownKarnij]]. This stint wouldn’t last for long as a user named Prebanned along with a friend decided to travel to Wyvern and kill Rain.
Although Universe did not last long, Rain saw it as a new opportunity to create an anarchist group with former members of the IWW, notably [[ZombieStriker]], choosing to base in the middle of a dense jungle hoping nobody would find them. Although at first, Rain tried to join an existing nation to get a foothold into Universe, joining a small buildfriend nation named [[Wyvern]] with his friend [[UnknownKarnij]] from CivRealms.


This did not last long however, as a shitter named prebanned along with another friend stormed into Wyvern, killing Rain with no reason provided besides "because its rain lol" and left, leaving Rain pearled in a random chest in the middle of nowhere, letting the pearl break after a day of not being fueled. Despite doing nothing wrong, the council of Wyvern decided to remove Rain from the town "to stay neutral" and gave him ample time to move his belongings and demolish his house.
Of course this isn’t the end. He left Rain’s pearl in a random chest in the middle of nowhere and the pearl would proceed to expire the next day. After this to make sure this didn’t happen again the council of Wyvern evicted Rain but gave him time to gather his belongings and demolish his house.
===Camertem===
===Guthrie Commune===
So then Rain moved to the jungle, beginning an underground commune that was never declared, named Guthrie Commune (named after Woody Guthrie). Rain at the time also joined another existing nation named [[Camertem]] in order to have access to factories and potentially to build some cool houses in their nation. However, while swamped with college study and work, he decided to spend his little time visiting a well-established communist nation named [[Fempire Union]], discussing with the owner and members in their public voice chat.
After this he’d move to a jungle with [[Zombie_Striker]] where they would both proceed to secretly build an underground commune named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie Woody Guthrie]. At the same time Rain would join Camertem. Though Rain was very busy with college which prevented him from playing often. He decided to spend some of his precious time to visit the [[Fempire Union]].


He’d join the voice chat of the Fempire Union and hang out while touring the nation, until members of Camertem raided the voice chat and verbally berated Rain for minutes, making tens of accusations and interrogating him randomly in the Fempire voice chat, which made Rain and everyone else there very uncomfortable, with members of Fempire asking them multiple times to leave and take it somewhere else. After a few minutes of screaming and accusing, they ended with saying that Rain and his friends were kicked out of Camertem and not allowed back for no reason provided, with no evidence provided.
Suddenly three members of [[Camertem]] joined the voice chat, yelling, berating and harassing him verbally. The members of Camertem were asked to leave the voice chat by everyone but they refused. They concluded with removing Rain and UnknownKarnij from [[Camertem]] discord and groups. Rain blocked all of them and made sure to steer clear of the hostile folks in Camertem from there on out.
===Exodus===
Rain recognized that the server was full of the worst shitters Civ had to offer, and there was a large controversy surrounding the owner [[Ian_X12]]. Rain was only shown a small snippet of the evidence against Ian when he first started playing Universe, and decided to give him a fair shot as the server owner. However, the [[CivUniverse]] staff team frequently allowed nazis, race-realists, and other alt-right reactionary bullshit to exist nearly unfiltered in the Discord.


Rain got on the nerves of the CivUniverse staff which led to him being frequently muted on both Discord and the CivUniverse global chat. Rain frequently argued with notable player [[Vespasian]] who was posting content about race theory among other racist things, resulting him being muted and the eventual removal of the #shitflinging channel on the CivUniverse Discord. Rain also regularly posted and advertised the IWW Discord, however after an investigation by CivUniverse staff in January 2021 they forbade Rain from advertising the IWW, believing that the Discord was not centered around CivUniverse.
After enough backlash, Ian stepped in and removed the blatantly racist content, but in return, took an "all sides are bad" approach, abusing to mute Rain for posting Anarchist/Communist propaganda. All of this culminated in Rain giving up on Universe, which luckily for him was a great move considering how Universe turned out. Only later did Rain learn about all the controversies and fucked up things [[Ian_X12]] had said or done, including allowing doxxers or even well-known pedophiles like [[TWINKIEminer|TWinkieMiner]] to play on his server.
=CivClassics=
{{Main|The No State Commune}}
Rain joined CivClassics in late June of 2021. He spent all of his time in [[The No State Commune]]. Mainly building and having fun with friends. He never joined other nations or did much else.
=Controversies=
Rain has been a subject of several controversies in the Civ community and is generally perceived in negative regards at the very least, and at the most majoritarian disdain by the Civ community at large. The first being the events surrounding the IWW election and how he was hesitant to accept the outcome of a vote he claims was rigged.
==="RainofPain" and "RainOfPain126"===
Sometime on [[CivRealms]], an unknown player would join on an alt named RainofPain pretending to be him except espousing love for capitalism and the free market.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/V0E2Pjm.png "RainofPain" on CivRealms supporting capitalism's superiority]</ref>


Another incident involved an account named RainOfPain126 joining CivRealms pretending to be Rain again, this time posting racial slurs in the chat. This got the real Rain in some trouble with the CivRealms staff whom thought he was the one on the alt, and for some time people mistakenly thought of Rain as a racist until it was widely understood what happened. Many less observant players were probably fooled because of how similar the usernames were.
====After-the-fact====
=== MCSpenguin-RainOfPain125 Conflict ===
[[Ian_X12]] came back many months later to announce that Rain was banned from Universe for "doxxing" despite Universe not existing anymore nor Rain being involved anymore. Though this was most likely an effort for Ian to try and save some face after the long strew of controversies surrounding him and his server.
The Industrial Workers of the World had recently gained a new territory named "Greenland" in the south of the Napistan continent which hosted a huge carrot farm, after the previous owners gave up on CivRealms and transferred ownership to the IWW. Rain thought it was time to create a new town named [[Rojava]] that would unite the IWW together militarily, economically, and politically, with all railways connecting to it. The idea for the town was received well by most members of the IWW, thus Rain went down south to begin. He wanted to create the town next to the new carrot farm for easy access to food, on his way down he found what he thought was the farm and tried to start building but a bastion prevented him from doing so.


Rain would start to break the bastion thinking nothing of it, because the land was unclaimed on the CivRealms claims map and he IWW was well aware that previous nations tried to survive on the continent yet withered away. Members of the IWW would periodically find abandoned bastions, so Rain thought no different in this situation. It turned out that the bastion belonged to [[MCSpenguin]] and the farm he was trying to build next to, which he thought was the recently acquired one, was also Penguins farm.
==CivClassics==


MCSpenguin would go on to say he caught Rain "with smoking gun in hand" when he found him AFK breaking the bastion, pearling him on the spot. The dispute raged with the main points on Rain's side being that the land was not marked on the claims map, that he was never provided actual coordinates of Greenland's farm, and that he asked chat if anyone lived at the coordinates he was breaking the bastion at. MCSpenguin's side was that Rain should not be breaking random bastions, that Penguin should not have to put his claims on the claims map, and that he replied to Rain's question in chat on his alt.
===The No State Commune===
[[ZombieStriker]], having been the leader of the successor to the IWW on CivRealms (the [[Borealian Socialist Republic|BSR]]) became friends with Rain playing CivUniverse. CivUniverse died and Rain took a hiatus, while Zombie went on to play CivClassics joining Acadia. After some time Rain decided to join Classics. Zombie is a very respectable, friendly, and nice person, and offered to help setup TNSC and provide some materials. Zombie seemed well-trusted in Acadia, gaining the position of Minister of the Interior. Despite her powers in Acadia, Rain nor the TNSC ever had Zombie vandalize or inside the nation, as that did not align with who they were or how they act.


Consequently Rain was pearled for two weeks and then released unconditionally. Rain was offered an early conditional release if the IWW decided to give up trying to rename the continent to Anarquistica, but that was not Rain's call to make since it was a democratic vote by all members of the IWW, showcasing Penguin's lack of care for the circumstances and situation.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/IcohWhj.jpg IWW vote to rename Napistan to Anarquistica]</ref>
===Tensions from Acadia===
Acadia as owned and ran by Cortwade, who as apart of the Norlund government on CivRealms. This as a very awkward situation because Rain chose to border Acadia when picking a place to settle and form TNSC. Cortwade and his peer JuniorTide were hardline anti-communists who already seemed to hate Rain. On his first week, Rain was already accused of sign-bombing JuniorTide's house ith communist propaganda. However, JuniorTide has little to no knowledge of leftist ideology, as the signs were clearly State Socialist leaning, with messages like "NORTH KOREA BEST KOREA" and so forth - something an Anarchist would not write.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/kdym634.png Signs on JuniorTide's home]</ref>


===RainOfPain125-Norlund Conflict===
===Rumors of Rain asking players to raid Acadia===
{{Main|Paris Commune-Norlund Conflict}}
As Rain began recruiting for TNSC, most if not all of the recruits were new to Civ and had no idea how it worked. Many of them thought of raiding buildings they found along the way to the commune. However, there was a hardline effort to discourage raiding. It was said multiple times and emphasized to not raid other nations, or to interact with Acadia. One of the members had destroyed an Acadian chest to loot it and was caught later on. Rain demanded that the user turn themselves in and return the items they stole. Another user named Pentigrass, who is from the Anarchist Communist Association, is an extreme drama queen who went out of their way to try and fabricate things. Most notably, after trying to raid Icenia after being told not to, Pentigrass lied and claimed that Rain commanded him to do it. He thought that lying and saying Rain told him to would get him a lesser or removed sentence. When Rain confronted Pentigrass, he admitted to it in DMs to which Rain showed Icenian officials, leading to Pentigrass staying pearled.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/Z6g2i2B.png Pentigrass admits to lying about Rain commanding him to raid Icenia]</ref>
===RainOfPain125-Acadia Conflict===
{{Main||TNSC-Acadia Conflict}}
===Alleged Doxing Incident===
Shortly after [[The No State Commune]] was raided by Acadia and others, Rain had quit playing [[CivClassics]]. Though he remained on the r/CivClassics subreddit making comments. One day Rain noticed on his phone that he received two different notifications to a post he made, both posts containing the same content, but both posts written by different authors. From his perspective he thought it was funny that he caught someone using their alt reddit account, and let the user know that he saw it by replying to the content with a link to an image of the two notifications side by side together.


Rain argues that he never looked at the account before posting the image, nor did he intend to dox the user. However, his action was seen as an attempt to dox the user, who was from Acadia. As a result of this, people called for Rain to be banned from CivClassics.
===Acadia & others raid against TNSC===
On the 28th of July 2021 [[Egi]], [[JuniorTide]], and another unfamiliar used named [[Polygondwana]] broke into the TNSC bunker and raided all the chests they came into contact with, effectively stealing all of the newfriend towns array of tools, 250+ diamonds, 50+ debris, among other things.<ref>[https://youtu.be/HswgrhV0CoE Before Acadia Raid]</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/hELUBpgKkQo After Acadia raid]</ref> They published their excuse to the subreddit, after TNSC plead to the international stage asking for help.


Rain counter-argued that he didn't mean to harm, and pointed out that if someone in his situation truly wanted to cause harm that they could. He argued that if his intent actually was to dox this user, then he would have looked through the alt accounts' posts and comments gathering as much details and personal information, compile it together, then publish it publicly - which he did not do.
In the same day Okx, TTastic, and MrJeremyFarmer launched an attack against the already well-raided TNSC. They attacked multiple members of the commune, chasing and being fixated on the members until they all logged off to save themselves.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ZuNTUehJLuc Okx raiding newfriend nation TNSC]</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/kVsp5NoE0JI TTastic raiding newfriend nation TNSC]</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/cPizRvkrOQg MrJeremyFarmer raiding newfriend nation TNSC]</ref>


The CivClassics staff team would temporarily ban Rain for one month. This struck less observant users as weird, because doxers are almost always permanently banned. However, the CivClassics staff team believed that doxing the user was accidental, and no personal details were gathered. To calm the community and at the request of Rain, the CivClassics staff team intervened and made a post on their Subreddit explaining the circumstances and situation surrounding their decision<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/pv6iji/rainie_ban_details/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 CivClassics staff team makes public statement regarding "Rain Ban Detials]"</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/AUhGJoU.png RainOfPain125 modmail to r/CivClassics staff team, requesting them to intervene and make a "formal statement" regarding his ban to clear things up in the community]</ref><ref>[https://i.imgur.com/kSbicOl.png RainOfPain125 modmail to r/CivClassics staff team Part 2]</ref>
===The supposed Worker's of Acadia Party scandal===
A user named [[FE Flags|FE_FLAGS]] ran a leftist party in Acadia, a fairly small one named Worker's of Acadia Party. Apparently Flags tried to make a deal with ZombieStriker, offering to give her resources and items if in return Rain helped recruit members for Acadia who would join their party. There is no evidence to suggest Rain knew of, or approved of this deal. There is no evidence to suggest Zombie ever agreed to the deal, or evidence of Zombie ever receiving any resources, or evidence of Rain recruiting anyone into Acadia for the party. Overall, it is merely a rumor.

Despite a total lack of evidence, the Acadian government decided to remove the friendly ZombieStriker and considered her problematic.

===The "doxxing" of Owain===
Owain accidently replied to one of Rain's comments on Reddit with his alt account. He deleted the comment and then made another comment with the same text, except on his main account. Rain noticed the two accounts sending the same message, because it was saved in his phone notifications despite Owain deleting the alt comment. Rain thought it was funny that he caught someone slipping up, and showed Owain that he knew about the slip up. Owain did not find this funny at all and quickly deleted his alt account. Rain did not investigate or check the account, but supposedly it was more personal to his real world life. Rain apologized, never having meant any harm. Acadia and others took this small incident and blew it out of proportion, slandering Rain as a doxxer that should get banned.

Rain was banned from CivClassics, although unlike "real" doxxers he was not perm-banned but instead banned for three months. The Classics staff team knew Rain had no malicious intent and didn't mean to cause harm onto Owain. Rain never talked to Owain or knew him at all before this incident, there was no feud or beef.

Rain had nothing against Owain and had no reason to be out to get him. If Rain had the intention to doxx and hurt Owain, he would have told nobody about the account, looked through all of the account history, and compiled all of Owain's personal details or other doxxing material to publish publicly.

Rain's enemies tried to use this to defame him as a doxxer, but these accusations were beaten back by an official statement by the CivClassics staff team, made at the request of Rain.

===Transfer of ownership of TNSC===
After getting all of our belongings stolen and destroyed, Rain had given up on CivClassics. He stopped playing for about two months, but decided to transfer ownership of the group to the most active member, Samsung Fridge, after realizing he was still active on the server. In order to do so, Rain had to log on for a brief few minutes to dump everything out of his inventory and transfer the ownership of the in-game group. At the same time, Rain asked his friend Karnij to get on and store his stuff as well, before enemies could get on and hunt them down. Both vowed to never log in again.

Despite not associating with TNSC for over two months, three members of Acadia decided storm into TNSC territory. They were told over and over to leave the area and refused. The raiders tried to break into some buildings, placed some blocks, and did minor griefing. In the end, they suddenly decided to pearl all of the online TNSC members for no reason, then released them some time later. They argued that because Rain had supposedly doxxed Owain, that they were assisting in keeping him safe by not killing him or telling them where he logged off at. Samsung tried to use Rain's logoff location as a betting chip, but got nothing out of it. In the end, Samsung had no clue where Rain logged and was merely bluffing to try and get Acadia to stop riding their ass.

==Skin==
Rain's skin is custom-made by himself, and is a character of himself wearing the highest ranked uniform of his former group, the RoyalArms, hence the letters "RA" on the back of the chest. The lines on the sides of the arm are supposed to represent his rank as HHR-5, or HierHighRank-5 of the RA. There are also golden epaulets that adorn his shoulders, signifying him as a high rank and/or a military official. Although the RoyalArms is now defunct, he enjoys the skin enough to keep it around.

==Bans==


The user would later go on to say that they would not pre-ban Rain from his server, because "The dox was real but I do not believe it was intended as one."<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/I77uegc.jpg Clearing up rumors of Doxxing]</ref> The alt username and time that the incident occurred will not be added for privacy and safety.
=Server Bans=
===CivRealms===
===CivRealms===
Rain is officially permanently banned for "Lava bombing" although there is no proof to suggest this claim is true.
It is rumored that Rain is banned on CivRealms, however no evidence was ever provided to support this claim.

===CivUniverse===
===CivUniverse===
Rainie is officially permanently banned from CivUniverse for [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/415706745566920716/884248652598624256/unknown.png "doxing"] on July 20th, 2021.
After [[CivUniverse]] closed, owner [[Ian_X12]] banned Rain, after the server had already closed, for doxing on July 20th, 2021.<ref>[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/415706745566920716/884248652598624256/unknown.png CivUniverse Ian_X12 banning RainOfPain125]</ref>
{{Main|Ian_X12#Controversies}}

===CivClassics===
Rain was temporarily banned from CivClassics for accidental doxing.
{{Main|RainOfPain125#"Doxxing" a member of Acadia}}
===Devoted===
===Devoted===
Rain is assumed to be permanently banned from Devoted after being banned from the Official Discord for no reason provided. (potential admin abuse?)
Rain was banned from Devoted for no reason provided.
===CivRev===
Rain was permanently banned from CivRev for "Have a good day."<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/4P5ES39.png CivRev staff banning Rain for "Have a good day."]</ref>
===CivMC===
Rain is permanently banned from CivMC for "past activities", most likely because of the Owain incident.
=Beliefs=
Rain himself claims to be an Anarcho-Communist & Anarcho-Syndicalist, both of which are slightly different in their management of economic affairs. He supports whichever one seems the most fitting for the situation at hand.


Rain claims to be a Platformist & Synthesis Anarchist, despite many of the contradictions between ideologies. Platformism argues that Anarchists should be grouped together based on a common set of ideas and strategy, while Synthesis Anarchism argues all Anarchists should unite despite their ideological differences. He supports Platformism when possible, and Synthesis Anarchism as a backup to achieve economic, military, and political goals.
===CivReign===
Rain is assumed to be permanently banned from CivReign after being banned from the Official Subreddit for "Have a good day." on November 19th, 2021. (potential admin abuse?)


Rain also supports Queer Anarchism, aka Anarchism as a means of queer liberation and success. Himself and many of his comrade peers are LGBTQIA+.
===CivClassics===
Rain was temporarily banned from CivClassics for three months following the accidental and unintentional doxxing of Owain.


Critics are quick to point out many of his actions differ from the principles of anarchism. Rain’s anarchist leanings have been questioned by many, including many leftists. Many of his actions have been criticized as contradictory to the principles of anarchist ideology. One such action includes users such as Hiduckhi who have criticized Rain as being an "Anarcho-Monarchist”. Some would argue that his ideas and beliefs at times are contradictory in nature and/or claim that he is out right lying about his true beliefs in order to gain power, using ideology as a velvet glove.
==Self-made Artwork==
=Quotes=
{{Quote frame |quote=The values and beliefs that the IWW proclaims are as follows -<br/>
* Liberty & Freedom (Autonomy)
* Equality
* Fraternity & Solidarity
* Direct Action
* Free Association
* Anti-Imperialism
* Anti-Capitalism
* Direct Democracy (Collective Autonomy)
* Federation (Local Sovereignty, Bottom-Up Initiative)
* Open Borders
* Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
* Anti-Toxicity & Anti-Bigotry
* Anti-Fascism & Anti-Fascist Action
* Pro-LGBT+
|author=Rain during the declaration of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]]<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/et45rk/hereby_declaring_the_industrial_workers_of_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 RainOfPain125 publicly declaring the Industrial Workers of the World]</ref>}}
{{Quote frame |quote=From [[Yoahtl]] to [[Acadia]], in every mine and mill, where working men defend their rights, it's there you'll<br/>find [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_(activist) Joe Hill], it's there you'll find Joe Hill<br/>"The Copper Bosses killed you Joe, they shot you Joe” says I. “Takes more than guns to kill a man”<br/>Says Joe “I didn’t die” Says Joe “I didn’t die”<br/>And standing there as big as life and smiling with his eyes. Says Joe “What they can never kill went on<br/>to organize, went on to organize!"</br>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_Forever For the Union makes us strong!]|author=Rain's Final Speech on CivClassics}}
=Real Life=
Rain outside of the Civ genre is a freelance Media & Graphic Designer, he enjoys making Civ propaganda as a way to practice his skills and improve. He also likes to manage and organize communities, almost all of which are political in nature such as the [https://discord.gg/ctkH6qe Anarchist Communist Association].
=Self-made Artwork=
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:IWW FLAG.png|IWW flag
File:IWW FLAG.png|IWW flag
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File:NEWO.png|Not by Rain but worth documenting (Made by [[Vajra]])
File:NEWO.png|Not by Rain but worth documenting (Made by [[Vajra]])
</gallery>
</gallery>

==Commonly posted political propaganda==
<gallery>
File:CommonRainPropaganda.jpeg|This is an example. More will be added in the future.
</gallery>

==Screenshots==
<gallery>
File:PlaceholderBee.png|This is an example. More will be added in the future.
</gallery>

==See Also==
==See Also==
{{IWW}}

{{CivVie}}
==References==
==References==
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RainOfPain125
Rain's Skin (c. July 2021)
Personal Info
Known ForIWW Founder, Union Leader
Known Spoken LanguagesEnglish
IdeologyAnarchist Communism
Anarchist Syndicalism
Platformism
SynthesisAnarchism
Queer Anarchism
Citizenships Past & Present Industrial Workers of the World (Founder)

 The No State Commune (Founder)
 Paris Commune (Founder)
 Jevoghnya (Honorary)
Guthrie Commune

Wyvern
Civ Servers
First Civ ServerCivRealms 2.0
Iterations played on
Contacts
RedditRainOfPain125
DiscordRainie#2672

RainOfPain125, also known as Rain or Rainie, is the founder of the  Industrial Workers of the World on CivRealms and the  The No State Commune on CivClassics. Rain is a controversial player due to various events and political stances.

CivRealms

Rain's first sign on CivRealms

Rain began CivRealms wanting to build, make friends, organize, and in his words “unite the server’s leftists”. His goal on the server was try to “ideologically win”,[citation needed] and decided to build a nation to present as a threat on the server.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Main article: Industrial Workers of the World

On the January 23rd, 2020 Rain established the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an organization of anarchist, socialist, and communist countries on the northern continent of Napistan, though the anarchist part is disputed due to later events. Rain chose this area as the northern continent of Napistan was largely unclaimed compared to the rest of the world.

When the IWW was declared on the 23rd of January, Rain recruited players to join the server and began to set up communes in the region. The Commune of Tolstoy, and Commune of Vescau (which was later renamed as Exarchos) were established. At the time, Rain didn’t possess a PC and could only encourage players to move up to the northern continent.


North-East Waterways Organization, which Rain participated in

When Rain was able to play, he moved to Tolstoy. He would gather resources and participated in the excavation of a canal to provide easy travel under the North-East Waterways Organization (NEWO).

Main article: Industrial Workers of the World § NEWO
The ACA, an anarcho-communist discord server run by Rain

Later, Rain begun a recruitment campaign utilizing the Anarchist Communist Association discord that he ran. Along with Reddit posts, the IWW grew incredibly quickly, with his advertising becoming some of the highest upvoted content on r/CivRealms[1]

The IWW was a very loose and disorganized group as many did not fully understand the mechanics present on CivRealms. This later lead to the easy bombing of Tolstoy by PartyAnimal with Rain and EmDubleYou being pearled during the bombing. IWW allies from Alexandria came, removed the obsidian, and freed both of their pearls, but the city would go into a period of decline.

Greenland was a new nation which threatened the IWW, demanding that they leave its surrounding land in the center-south of Napistan on the coast. However, players who ran Greenland quit[citation needed] and the IWW extended its claims farther south gaining a carrot farm in the south as a result. This would later lead to a small conflict between MCSpenguin and Rain that lead to Rain being pearled for two weeks.

Main article: RainOfPain125 § MSCpenguin-RainOfPain125 Conflict

With Rain temporarily pearled the IWW used the free time to introduce a position that would conduct diplomacy, trade, and facilitate organization in the IWW named the "Union Organizer" or UO, a democratically elected position.

Main article: Industrial Workers of the World § Creation of the Union Organizer role

Rain was unpearled after his two weeks was up and proceeded to contribute to the IWW. Sometime later some members of the IWW would make calls to have a vote on a new leader. In doing so, the role of complete ownership came to be titled "Server Organizer" or SO. Folks including Rain, Freezor, Ian, Pierre, and Hiduck ran for the new Server Organizer position. Initially, the opposition against Rain was divided. However, a series of events and manipulation lead to an outcome that elected HeyDuckHi.

Main article: Industrial Workers of the World § Vote Rigging Controversy "Hostile Takeover of the IWW"

At the end of the day Rain honored the vote and transferred ownership of the IWW. Ownership was successfully transferred, but Rain was quickly Ducky's biggest critic, highlighting abusive actions she was committing from day one. This ended up with him getting banned from the IWW discord. After which he’d end up making a critique of the "Insurrectionary IWW" as he called it,[2] which was received negatively by the IWW and the server as a whole.

A meme created by RainOfPain125 to criticize the nations that came out of the Duckapore-IWW schism several months after his removal.

Rain would leave Napistan as an exile of his own nation. He left, but was supported by his former IWW comrades ADAM and VeryStrange, of which Strange would note their disapproval of Ducky's attitude and leadership style as hostile.[3] Rain was also soon given support by his associate 1234fireball

Norlund Controversy

A meme created by RainOfPain125 to criticize the Norlund government at the time.

Rain would end up settling in Norlund. This was suggested by Rain's associate 1234fireball who suggested to him that he should create a town and petition to become a municipality within Norlund. He would end up founding the Paris Commune and the Black Internationale while in Norlund, of which his advertising campaign for the Internationale was wildly successful, and would become the top upvoted post of all time on r/CivRealms[4]

Main article: Paris Commune

When the Paris Commune was accepted into the government on April 29th, 2020, Rain would immediately face opposition from the majority of Norlund. While this caused widespread public outcry, King Terry of Norlund at the time reacted with indifference. When King Terry of Norlund could no longer play CivRealms, a referendum was held in which Shameless_Shamus became the King of Norlund. Shamus would later "visit" the Paris Commune pretending to be friendly, only to unexpectedly pearl an undefended Rain.

Main article: Paris Commune-Norlund Conflict

This lead to a massive conflict in the Norlund political system, and resulted in the Norlund civil war.

Main article: Norlund § The Secession of Ansgar and the Double Claim of Kannin

Involvement in the Paris Uprising

Main article: Paris Commune § The Paris Uprising
A screenshot taken from an unknown user, showcasing two signs with defiant statements.
The aftermath of the Paris Uprising.

CivUniverse

Wyvern

Rain saw CivUniverse as an opportunity to begin again. He would end up joining the small building nation of Wyvern with his friend UnknownKarnij. This stint wouldn’t last for long as a user named Prebanned along with a friend decided to travel to Wyvern and kill Rain.

Of course this isn’t the end. He left Rain’s pearl in a random chest in the middle of nowhere and the pearl would proceed to expire the next day. After this to make sure this didn’t happen again the council of Wyvern evicted Rain but gave him time to gather his belongings and demolish his house.

Guthrie Commune

After this he’d move to a jungle with Zombie_Striker where they would both proceed to secretly build an underground commune named after Woody Guthrie. At the same time Rain would join Camertem. Though Rain was very busy with college which prevented him from playing often. He decided to spend some of his precious time to visit the Fempire Union.

He’d join the voice chat of the Fempire Union and hang out while touring the nation, until members of Camertem raided the voice chat and verbally berated Rain for minutes, making tens of accusations and interrogating him randomly in the Fempire voice chat, which made Rain and everyone else there very uncomfortable, with members of Fempire asking them multiple times to leave and take it somewhere else. After a few minutes of screaming and accusing, they ended with saying that Rain and his friends were kicked out of Camertem and not allowed back for no reason provided, with no evidence provided.

Rain got on the nerves of the CivUniverse staff which led to him being frequently muted on both Discord and the CivUniverse global chat. Rain frequently argued with notable player Vespasian who was posting content about race theory among other racist things, resulting him being muted and the eventual removal of the #shitflinging channel on the CivUniverse Discord. Rain also regularly posted and advertised the IWW Discord, however after an investigation by CivUniverse staff in January 2021 they forbade Rain from advertising the IWW, believing that the Discord was not centered around CivUniverse.

CivClassics

Main article: The No State Commune

Rain joined CivClassics in late June of 2021. He spent all of his time in The No State Commune. Mainly building and having fun with friends. He never joined other nations or did much else.

Controversies

Rain has been a subject of several controversies in the Civ community and is generally perceived in negative regards at the very least, and at the most majoritarian disdain by the Civ community at large. The first being the events surrounding the IWW election and how he was hesitant to accept the outcome of a vote he claims was rigged.

"RainofPain" and "RainOfPain126"

Sometime on CivRealms, an unknown player would join on an alt named RainofPain pretending to be him except espousing love for capitalism and the free market.[5]

Another incident involved an account named RainOfPain126 joining CivRealms pretending to be Rain again, this time posting racial slurs in the chat. This got the real Rain in some trouble with the CivRealms staff whom thought he was the one on the alt, and for some time people mistakenly thought of Rain as a racist until it was widely understood what happened. Many less observant players were probably fooled because of how similar the usernames were.

MCSpenguin-RainOfPain125 Conflict

The Industrial Workers of the World had recently gained a new territory named "Greenland" in the south of the Napistan continent which hosted a huge carrot farm, after the previous owners gave up on CivRealms and transferred ownership to the IWW. Rain thought it was time to create a new town named Rojava that would unite the IWW together militarily, economically, and politically, with all railways connecting to it. The idea for the town was received well by most members of the IWW, thus Rain went down south to begin. He wanted to create the town next to the new carrot farm for easy access to food, on his way down he found what he thought was the farm and tried to start building but a bastion prevented him from doing so.

Rain would start to break the bastion thinking nothing of it, because the land was unclaimed on the CivRealms claims map and he IWW was well aware that previous nations tried to survive on the continent yet withered away. Members of the IWW would periodically find abandoned bastions, so Rain thought no different in this situation. It turned out that the bastion belonged to MCSpenguin and the farm he was trying to build next to, which he thought was the recently acquired one, was also Penguins farm.

MCSpenguin would go on to say he caught Rain "with smoking gun in hand" when he found him AFK breaking the bastion, pearling him on the spot. The dispute raged with the main points on Rain's side being that the land was not marked on the claims map, that he was never provided actual coordinates of Greenland's farm, and that he asked chat if anyone lived at the coordinates he was breaking the bastion at. MCSpenguin's side was that Rain should not be breaking random bastions, that Penguin should not have to put his claims on the claims map, and that he replied to Rain's question in chat on his alt.

Consequently Rain was pearled for two weeks and then released unconditionally. Rain was offered an early conditional release if the IWW decided to give up trying to rename the continent to Anarquistica, but that was not Rain's call to make since it was a democratic vote by all members of the IWW, showcasing Penguin's lack of care for the circumstances and situation.[6]

RainOfPain125-Norlund Conflict

Main article: Paris Commune-Norlund Conflict

RainOfPain125-Acadia Conflict

Main article: TNSC-Acadia Conflict

Alleged Doxing Incident

Shortly after The No State Commune was raided by Acadia and others, Rain had quit playing CivClassics. Though he remained on the r/CivClassics subreddit making comments. One day Rain noticed on his phone that he received two different notifications to a post he made, both posts containing the same content, but both posts written by different authors. From his perspective he thought it was funny that he caught someone using their alt reddit account, and let the user know that he saw it by replying to the content with a link to an image of the two notifications side by side together.

Rain argues that he never looked at the account before posting the image, nor did he intend to dox the user. However, his action was seen as an attempt to dox the user, who was from Acadia. As a result of this, people called for Rain to be banned from CivClassics.

Rain counter-argued that he didn't mean to harm, and pointed out that if someone in his situation truly wanted to cause harm that they could. He argued that if his intent actually was to dox this user, then he would have looked through the alt accounts' posts and comments gathering as much details and personal information, compile it together, then publish it publicly - which he did not do.

The CivClassics staff team would temporarily ban Rain for one month. This struck less observant users as weird, because doxers are almost always permanently banned. However, the CivClassics staff team believed that doxing the user was accidental, and no personal details were gathered. To calm the community and at the request of Rain, the CivClassics staff team intervened and made a post on their Subreddit explaining the circumstances and situation surrounding their decision[7][8][9]

The user would later go on to say that they would not pre-ban Rain from his server, because "The dox was real but I do not believe it was intended as one."[10] The alt username and time that the incident occurred will not be added for privacy and safety.

Server Bans

CivRealms

It is rumored that Rain is banned on CivRealms, however no evidence was ever provided to support this claim.

CivUniverse

After CivUniverse closed, owner Ian_X12 banned Rain, after the server had already closed, for doxing on July 20th, 2021.[11]

Main article: Ian_X12 § Controversies

CivClassics

Rain was temporarily banned from CivClassics for accidental doxing.

Main article: RainOfPain125 § "Doxxing" a member of Acadia

Devoted

Rain was banned from Devoted for no reason provided.

CivRev

Rain was permanently banned from CivRev for "Have a good day."[12]

CivMC

Rain is permanently banned from CivMC for "past activities", most likely because of the Owain incident.

Beliefs

Rain himself claims to be an Anarcho-Communist & Anarcho-Syndicalist, both of which are slightly different in their management of economic affairs. He supports whichever one seems the most fitting for the situation at hand.

Rain claims to be a Platformist & Synthesis Anarchist, despite many of the contradictions between ideologies. Platformism argues that Anarchists should be grouped together based on a common set of ideas and strategy, while Synthesis Anarchism argues all Anarchists should unite despite their ideological differences. He supports Platformism when possible, and Synthesis Anarchism as a backup to achieve economic, military, and political goals.

Rain also supports Queer Anarchism, aka Anarchism as a means of queer liberation and success. Himself and many of his comrade peers are LGBTQIA+.

Critics are quick to point out many of his actions differ from the principles of anarchism. Rain’s anarchist leanings have been questioned by many, including many leftists. Many of his actions have been criticized as contradictory to the principles of anarchist ideology. One such action includes users such as Hiduckhi who have criticized Rain as being an "Anarcho-Monarchist”. Some would argue that his ideas and beliefs at times are contradictory in nature and/or claim that he is out right lying about his true beliefs in order to gain power, using ideology as a velvet glove.

Quotes

The values and beliefs that the IWW proclaims are as follows -
  • Liberty & Freedom (Autonomy)
  • Equality
  • Fraternity & Solidarity
  • Direct Action
  • Free Association
  • Anti-Imperialism
  • Anti-Capitalism
  • Direct Democracy (Collective Autonomy)
  • Federation (Local Sovereignty, Bottom-Up Initiative)
  • Open Borders
  • Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
  • Anti-Toxicity & Anti-Bigotry
  • Anti-Fascism & Anti-Fascist Action
  • Pro-LGBT+
— Rain during the declaration of the Industrial Workers of the World[13]
From Yoahtl to Acadia, in every mine and mill, where working men defend their rights, it's there you'll
find Joe Hill, it's there you'll find Joe Hill
"The Copper Bosses killed you Joe, they shot you Joe” says I. “Takes more than guns to kill a man”
Says Joe “I didn’t die” Says Joe “I didn’t die”
And standing there as big as life and smiling with his eyes. Says Joe “What they can never kill went on
to organize, went on to organize!"
For the Union makes us strong! — Rain's Final Speech on CivClassics

Real Life

Rain outside of the Civ genre is a freelance Media & Graphic Designer, he enjoys making Civ propaganda as a way to practice his skills and improve. He also likes to manage and organize communities, almost all of which are political in nature such as the Anarchist Communist Association.

Self-made Artwork

  • IWW flag

    IWW flag

  • Stylized version of the IWW flag.

    Stylized version of the IWW flag.

  • Top image of the Stylized flag. IWW fighters EmDubleYou, Heyduckhi, OrcishTimmy, and ExcaliburSword.

    Top image of the Stylized flag. IWW fighters EmDubleYou, Heyduckhi, OrcishTimmy, and ExcaliburSword.

  • Middle image of Stylized flag. A field of carrots in the heartland of the IWW, Tolstoy.

    Middle image of Stylized flag. A field of carrots in the heartland of the IWW, Tolstoy.

  • Bottom image of Stylized flag. A mysterious clearing involving a tower in the Free Republic of Anvard.

    Bottom image of Stylized flag. A mysterious clearing involving a tower in the Free Republic of Anvard.

  • First logo for the ACA Discord

    First logo for the ACA Discord

  • Second logo for the ACA Discord

    Second logo for the ACA Discord

  • Modern logo for the ACA Discord

    Modern logo for the ACA Discord

  • Advert for CivUniverse IWW

    Advert for CivUniverse IWW

  • Shitpost advert for the IWW

    Shitpost advert for the IWW

  • Advert for the Black Internationale

    Advert for the Black Internationale

  • Mock-up of the Black Internationale advert in Gmod, by Rain's friend FieryBattleHawk

    Mock-up of the Black Internationale advert in Gmod, by Rain's friend FieryBattleHawk

  • Advertising propaganda in the style of The New Order: Last Days of Europe

    Advertising propaganda in the style of The New Order: Last Days of Europe

  • Advertising propaganda in the style of The New Order: Last Days of Europe

    Advertising propaganda in the style of The New Order: Last Days of Europe

  • Alternate version of TNO propaganda

    Alternate version of TNO propaganda

  • Meme meant to mock the IWW traitors

    Meme meant to mock the IWW traitors

  • Meme meant to mock the incompetent Norlund regime

    Meme meant to mock the incompetent Norlund regime

  • Propaganda criticism against the Insurrectionary IWW

    Propaganda criticism against the Insurrectionary IWW

  • Propaganda criticism against the Insurrectionary IWW

    Propaganda criticism against the Insurrectionary IWW

  • Shitpost against the Insurrectionary IWW

    Shitpost against the Insurrectionary IWW

  • Shitpost 2

    Shitpost 2

  • Shitpost 3

    Shitpost 3

  • Shitpost 4

    Shitpost 4

  • Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack

    Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack

  • Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack

    Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack

  • Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack

    Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack

  • Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack

    Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack

  • Not by Rain but worth documenting (Made by Vajra)

    Not by Rain but worth documenting (Made by Vajra)

See Also


References

  1. ↑ RainOfPain125's IWW advertisement hitting the top 20 posts of all time on r/CivRealms
  2. ↑ [RainOfPain125 writing "The Revolution Betrayed", a critique of the hostile takeover of the IWW and its future consequences and implications
  3. ↑ ExcaliburSword (VeryStrange) expressing their concerns with post-Rain IWW leadership
  4. ↑ RainOfPain125 publicly declaring the the Black Internationale on r/CivRealms
  5. ↑ "RainofPain" on CivRealms supporting capitalism's superiority
  6. ↑ IWW vote to rename Napistan to Anarquistica
  7. ↑ CivClassics staff team makes public statement regarding "Rain Ban Detials"
  8. ↑ RainOfPain125 modmail to r/CivClassics staff team, requesting them to intervene and make a "formal statement" regarding his ban to clear things up in the community
  9. ↑ RainOfPain125 modmail to r/CivClassics staff team Part 2
  10. ↑ Clearing up rumors of Doxxing
  11. ↑ CivUniverse Ian_X12 banning RainOfPain125
  12. ↑ CivRev staff banning Rain for "Have a good day."
  13. ↑ RainOfPain125 publicly declaring the Industrial Workers of the World
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