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==== Joining Ansgar Vikings ====

On 12 May, Tweet did some terraforming for Sir Grettir in Ansgar, a canton north of Kannin where the Vikings lived. '''Shamus''' invited him to become a Viking, an increasingly powerful group within Norlund.

==== Computerovirus ====

Having signed up to be a CivMint vendor for Tritonio in Kannin, Tweet took another shop space in the Carrot Crack. On 30 May, he built a Viking Helmet atop Kannin Castle to celebrate the ascension of Shamus, Jarl of Ansgar, to the throne of all of Norlund. He then completed the outer shell of the "'''Norlund Rocks'''" climbing centre and began building the inside climbing wall, with a view to opening the centre in time for Kannin's upcoming Carrot Festival.

Over the next few days, politics in Norlund became much more complex and Tweet, being a citizen of Kannin as well as a Viking, ended up as a deputation for the Ansgar rebels. Tweet stepped up to the mark in order to ensure that the wording of a referendum form between Ansgar and Norlund as to the ownership of Kannin created "the best deal for Kannin citizens."

* Skinny refused to allow Tweet to go to sleep at 3AM UK time. Instead SirBoss was substituted.<blockquote>Goodness, it's not even 9am and Norlund are already using logical fallacies against us. -SirBoss, during the night shift of the Kannin Referendum Debate

About one day into the referendum, the Vikings tired of arguing with the bureaucracy-loving New Norlund Government. The two parties effectively resolved the situation by the signing of a peace treaty which ceded Kannin land to the new Republic. Tweet was not happy about this.

* Tweetabix was stripped of Norlund citizenship.

* Norlunder bhieex destroyed Norlund Rocks, and it was later replaced by a mansion for Lord Grox.

With the rebrand of Ansgar to [[Yggdrasil]], Tweet began to explore options for a semi-retirement. One option was to transition to a more regular presence at CivCorp, developing a mixed use residential, commercial and leisure facility in plot A3. However this plot, rented from [[TWINKIEminer]], was later lost as Tweet and Joseph focused their efforts back on home turf.

He also competed in the second Altercation at the Altar at Zen, as a representative of the new state.

Joseph constructed a replica Twin Towers in Yggdrasil, and gave Tweet a penthouse in the North Tower for helping with the build and providing some materials (specifically, mooshrooms). Tweet moved what little valuables he had into the penthouse and began construction on a small patch of land he had been granted north of the Towers. He also wrote two books, the [[Viking Modular]] Manifesto and Regulations. Shamus, now in semi retirement himself, urged Tweet to write a new book about Norlund.

=== The Construction of Xanadu ===

At the end of June, Tweet started to tire of the politics he had been a part of for over a month. He decided to leave every one of the CivRealms-related Discord servers he was in in order to focus on the construction of his final project, the town of Xanadu. This town was initially described as "the VM" informally by Yggdrasil members, because it was the first to use the Viking Modular code. However King Gray and others thought that by leaving Discord Tweet wanted to attack Norlund and sent a message to Norlund members saying that Tweet was going to attack them, stripping him of all the NameLayer access in Yggdrasil.

Tweet was distraught and had to beg to be let back into Yggdrasil, explaining it was a misunderstanding. However as part of this process he had to promise to build just a 79x79 area and hand over the groups to Joseph at the end of the month. Joseph also expressed a desire to leave a few weeks later and was not made to agree to similar terms. Tweet once again was able to continue building the VM town which he began to refer to as Xanadu, after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(Citizen_Kane) grand estate of Citizen Kane]. However after his reinstatement as Valkyrie, King Gray created a new rank above that, the High Council, and soon almost everyone in Yggdrasil was on the new Council, but for Tweet and a number of dual citizens. Soon the role of Valkyrie was removed and Tweet lost all political influence within Yggdrasil.

Tweet was left out of the Norlundic Bush War almost entirely. Overnight Joseph, Grettir and Shamus attacked Norlish infrastructure after Blackwater started to get stuck in, but Tweet was asleep. The next day he ventured into Norlish territory and ended up in a fight with Okx (via Okx alt “Awardable”). Tweet was under-prepared and just about managed to reach the border of Yggdrasil alive, where Antea met the pair and scared Okx off.

After this a peace conference was held in Tallum to crown the new Kings of both nations- King Leo in Norlund and King Grettir in Yggdrasil. Also due to the location of Xanadu on the border with Tallum, Tweet started talking to Pope/King Leo and friends in Tallum once again. As peace was achieved he asked to regain his Norlund citizenship, since GetSkinny was no longer a part of the Norlish government and his friend Leo was King, he thought this an improvement.

Tweet hired an apprentice, Plaxcaster, and pledged to give him at least 100 of his remaining stamina if Plax helped Tweet build Xanadu for a week before he retired. He attended confessions with Pope Leo and spoke openly about how he felt his end was coming and wondered would he still be able to get into Heaven after writing such a heretical book in which he dismissed God in favour of Odin.

However a DM with KannonKyle was leaked to Yggdrasil wherein Tweet expressed that he wanted to secede and bring Xanadu over the border to join Norlund again. Yggdrasil once again started complaining about Xanadu and said that because Tweet had expanded the town to include a border wall it was breaching their earlier agreement. In truth, the rest of Yggdrasil had never much liked Viking Modular and always wanted Tweet to destroy it. Tweet insisted that Xanadu would be his legacy.

Tweet refused to cede to the demands on Xanadu and was exiled. He would not cede his NameLayer groups, or destroy any of his constructions. After saying goodbye to his beloved horse, ''A Disturbance In The Horse'', Tweet met with the new King of Yggdrasil, '''Sir Grettir''', to submit to his final execution while Antea looked on.

==== NORLUND ROCKS ====

On 25 April Tweet asked King Terry for planning permission to build a tower in Kannin. On 26 April he pondered if there was a way to “use a chest like a locker room in a gym.” After the death of Terry and subsequent wave of bureaucracy, Tweet claimed to have taken inspiration from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VwlSihAMKs Albert Dryden] and began constructing the tower anyway. In this he was assisted by the Pope’s prayers, Koojkii who donated a good deal of terracotta, and KannonKyle who became a key investor. On 4 May Tweet worried that Crimeo’s piston chunk limit might imperil the infant project, which relies on sticky pistons to work. However, this was resolved and on 9 May Tweet suggested the possible future expansion of the Rocks franchise to other cities, or a dedicated theme park, and a publicity event titled “Rumble at the Rock.” The Rocks centre is not yet open to the public.

Following the Secession of Ansgar the future of the Rocks Centre became uncertain, although it would be legal for Tweet to run it under the terms of the Peace Treaty. However, on 20 June Tweet returned to find that the centre had been completely razed to the ground.

After the presentation of proof, former assistant to the project bhieex3 admitted to having taken the building down without consulting Tweet- technically a violation of the Peace Treaty. However Tweet instead asked bhieex to "pay reps" by helping build the World Trade Centre in Yggdrasil.

==== FOOTGOLEM PITCH ====

In May, Mirakles invited Tweetabix to the Civcraft Museum Server, where he recalled an old project from the Commonwealth on Civcraft 2.0, the [[Footgolem]] Stadium. Mirakles agreed to start a pumpkin farm in order to host footgolem games in modern day Norlund. Mirakles also expressed an interest in building a holiday park and it is possible this and the theme park could become the same project.

==== VIKING MODULAR ====

Also during May, Tweet began to experiment with a new form of building code he named [[Viking Modular]], after Bjarke Ingels’ VM Buildings in Copenhagen. He said that the “idea is to create the most repressive building code in CivRealms, creating perfect modular housing.” Currently two versions of VM are in development, one based around 3x3 units and one based around 5x5 units.

The week of Yggdrasil's inception, Tweet began to scout a location- at last- for the VM building project.

==== KANNIN ESTA EXCHANGE ====

When Tritonio expressed interest in expanding his Onboard exchanges Tweetabix invited him to Kannin to build exchanges with him there. This enables long-distance remote currency exchange between Kannin and CivCorp, backed up by Tweetabix and Tritonio. Tweet charges a fee for his end of the service. To publicise the new exchanges, Tweet ran a raffle in that one random early customer of the Exchange would receive a much higher amount of [[Currencies|ESTA]] than they paid in Stamina.

Tweet closed the Kannin Onboards when Ansgar seceded. The station shop was sold to Antea. He intends to open Onboards elsewhere.

Current:

* The Tweetabarrel, nr. Vlaardingen. A huge wooden barrel on the shoreline for storage. A pipe system is used for access from Norvansgard, Amerssingen, and the Polder of Vlaardingen.

* Kannin House reconstructed in Amerssingen.

*Penthouse in World Trade Centre, Yggdrasil

*'''Xanadu'''

Former:

*Tweetabix rented an apartment from Cirex22 when he arrived in Norlund, but Cirex has never asked for further rent payments.

* Tweet's house in West Kannin is a mixed use three storey development with ocean views and unparalleled transport links. It features a roof garden, a ground floor shop entrance, a horse stable, and a retractable balcony window.

* Norlund Rocks Kannin Tower- unlawfully destroyed by bhieex3 following Peace Treaty.

*SirBoss also gave Tweet the residence of a shop in the Station District of West Kannin in which he runs a small Onboard machine and several shopchests. Now owned by Antea.

*Bhieex gave Tweet shop space at the Carrot Cracke, also in West Kannin, where Tweet runs a larger Onboard machine.

<blockquote>I just went out for a bike ride, had to cross this horrible dual carriageway and there was a box in the middle probably dropped off a lorry or something. i squinted to look at it and tried to press middle mouse to zoom like with optifine

bread and cats, land and freedom, posts and cereal… these are the demands of Tweet Biscuits

[[TWINKIEminer|Twinkie]], what a daft name, literally who would name themselves after a food stuff</blockquote>