King Durk the Awesome
TNPer
I've been meaning to complete these for ages - years even. I will be doing this in chronological order starting from my time in the People's Republic of the Pacific in 2005 and extending through the present day over the course of several installments. Many players have asked me to write these so here they are.
I burst onto the inter-regional gameplay scene as a new player in the People's Republic of the Pacific in January 2005, over seven and a half years ago. Prior to this I did some stuff with a region I founded with some RL classmates, and I was briefly in DEN as well; but none of that is of interest. The Pacific is really where my career began in earnest anyhow.
You might recall Francos Spain and the New Pacific Order. Franco took the delegacy from Thedoc in August 2003 in what would become termed the 'August Revolution'. Thedoc saw him coming, and he banned him. But Thedoc being the genius he was mistakenly took Franco off the banlist an hour or less before update. Franco moved in, endorsements intact, and the rest is history. There were purges - I've heard 900 bans but I'm not sure. Of them, Crazygirl is perhaps the most notable. Crazygirl would be banned to the Rejected Realms where she would remain even up to the present day. Regardless, the mods enacted a rule change because of Franco - they implemented the 200 nation ban limit. That limit was done away with when influence was rolled out in April 2006, but the fact that Franco forced a rule change was scene as extraordinary. There were several attempts to liberate the Pacific from Franco's government - the New Pacific Order. Some attempts were close but all failed ultimately. Franco wound up faking his own death in the summer of 2004 (I hesitate to mention this but it's been brought up publicly by others on several occasions recently). I believe his last action was to invade the North Pacific when Great Bight went inactive; his nation would cease to exist in the Rejected Realms. His successor, Unlimited, dissolved the NPO and formed the People's Republic of the Pacific (PRP).
Several months later, in the PRP's infancy, I would read about Franco's August Revolution on NSwiki (which did in fact exist back then) - and was inspired to join the Pacific. I joined the Pacific during a great time of flux - the PRP was making some headway establishing itself as the legitimate government of the Pacific during this period. Furthermore, the week I joined the PRP Ivan Moldavi was to receive control of the North Pacific's delegate, Pixiedance, and establish the North Pacific Directorate. Quite the time to begin a career in NS I know. There was much to take in. I discovered IRC by following Cathyy's instructions on the NPD forum, and at first I found her to be a cordial player. IRC then was just as it is today - several main channels with the same players in all of them. Cathyy, IP, Unlimited, Mussolandia, Karpathos, Dilber, Biyah, Neenee, flemingovia, and others were among the IRC regulars back then.
But anyway, I began in the Pacific and not the North Pacific even though the NPD intruiged me. I began in the PRP province Honorem et Libertas, where Mussolandia was Governor and Great Bights Mum was Lt governor (under an alias, Letenbaum or something like that?). My very first position in NS was Secretary of Defense of Honorem et Libertas. Mussolandia granted it to me my second day of playing; in fact the very first thing I ever did in the Pacific was to contact him asking if I could have it. The PRP divided its region into provinces you see, and Honorem et Libertas was the province containing all nations with names starting with H through L in the alphabet. As secretary of defense my job was to raise the militia by contacting all the nations H-L and asking them to sign up. A fancy title for a tedious job more or less, but I was grateful.
I was immensely active and hardworking and impressed my superiors I guess. After two months in the H-L province I was promoted to High Judge. The Pacific had a legal code that extended beyond the traditional code - it was illegal to have offensive flags, mottos, and so forth within the region. The PRP's judicial system had a variety of prosecutors who would report these violators to me and I would decide whether or not to ban the offenders. Well being the tyrant jackass I am I generally opted to ban them all. I filled up Unlimited's banlist rather quickly... anyway! I also established a Bureau of Anti-Pacifican Affairs where patriots would report suspected ADN puppets to me so I could then request that Unlimited ban them as well. Many were banned under my reign of terror by proxy. Good times were had by all. Well, just me mainly - I think I did damage to the PRP's prior mentioned public relations campaign, but oh well, I could care less.
There was one trial that proved to be the end of me. The trial of Zelera. Zelera was a longtime suspected ADN puppet who posed as a Pacific resident generally offering counterarguments to the traditional PRP line. I cannot remember why, but another PRP Governor, Sedarva, pressed charges against Zelera. As High Judge I basically admitted I'd find him guilty no matter what in #the_pacific, a public IRC channel. A stupid move for sure, but I was a newbie of just a few months experience at the time. The Senate, which was the governing body of the Pacific, got wind of this thanks to a tipoff by Neenee, and it appeared that I would be stripped of my post as High Judge. I left the region and joined the PRP's most bitter enemy Nasicournia before anything could be done to me. I would later find out Zelera was in fact an ADN puppet - he was better known as Grenval, founder of the Grenvali United (an ADN member region).
I then found myself in the thick of the Alliance Defense Network, having switched sides and establishing myself among the game's foremost traitors. The next entry will speak of my time there. For the most part I didn't begin rising through the major power structures until 2007 or so; hence the most interesting stuff is still a few entries away.
I burst onto the inter-regional gameplay scene as a new player in the People's Republic of the Pacific in January 2005, over seven and a half years ago. Prior to this I did some stuff with a region I founded with some RL classmates, and I was briefly in DEN as well; but none of that is of interest. The Pacific is really where my career began in earnest anyhow.
You might recall Francos Spain and the New Pacific Order. Franco took the delegacy from Thedoc in August 2003 in what would become termed the 'August Revolution'. Thedoc saw him coming, and he banned him. But Thedoc being the genius he was mistakenly took Franco off the banlist an hour or less before update. Franco moved in, endorsements intact, and the rest is history. There were purges - I've heard 900 bans but I'm not sure. Of them, Crazygirl is perhaps the most notable. Crazygirl would be banned to the Rejected Realms where she would remain even up to the present day. Regardless, the mods enacted a rule change because of Franco - they implemented the 200 nation ban limit. That limit was done away with when influence was rolled out in April 2006, but the fact that Franco forced a rule change was scene as extraordinary. There were several attempts to liberate the Pacific from Franco's government - the New Pacific Order. Some attempts were close but all failed ultimately. Franco wound up faking his own death in the summer of 2004 (I hesitate to mention this but it's been brought up publicly by others on several occasions recently). I believe his last action was to invade the North Pacific when Great Bight went inactive; his nation would cease to exist in the Rejected Realms. His successor, Unlimited, dissolved the NPO and formed the People's Republic of the Pacific (PRP).
Several months later, in the PRP's infancy, I would read about Franco's August Revolution on NSwiki (which did in fact exist back then) - and was inspired to join the Pacific. I joined the Pacific during a great time of flux - the PRP was making some headway establishing itself as the legitimate government of the Pacific during this period. Furthermore, the week I joined the PRP Ivan Moldavi was to receive control of the North Pacific's delegate, Pixiedance, and establish the North Pacific Directorate. Quite the time to begin a career in NS I know. There was much to take in. I discovered IRC by following Cathyy's instructions on the NPD forum, and at first I found her to be a cordial player. IRC then was just as it is today - several main channels with the same players in all of them. Cathyy, IP, Unlimited, Mussolandia, Karpathos, Dilber, Biyah, Neenee, flemingovia, and others were among the IRC regulars back then.
But anyway, I began in the Pacific and not the North Pacific even though the NPD intruiged me. I began in the PRP province Honorem et Libertas, where Mussolandia was Governor and Great Bights Mum was Lt governor (under an alias, Letenbaum or something like that?). My very first position in NS was Secretary of Defense of Honorem et Libertas. Mussolandia granted it to me my second day of playing; in fact the very first thing I ever did in the Pacific was to contact him asking if I could have it. The PRP divided its region into provinces you see, and Honorem et Libertas was the province containing all nations with names starting with H through L in the alphabet. As secretary of defense my job was to raise the militia by contacting all the nations H-L and asking them to sign up. A fancy title for a tedious job more or less, but I was grateful.
I was immensely active and hardworking and impressed my superiors I guess. After two months in the H-L province I was promoted to High Judge. The Pacific had a legal code that extended beyond the traditional code - it was illegal to have offensive flags, mottos, and so forth within the region. The PRP's judicial system had a variety of prosecutors who would report these violators to me and I would decide whether or not to ban the offenders. Well being the tyrant jackass I am I generally opted to ban them all. I filled up Unlimited's banlist rather quickly... anyway! I also established a Bureau of Anti-Pacifican Affairs where patriots would report suspected ADN puppets to me so I could then request that Unlimited ban them as well. Many were banned under my reign of terror by proxy. Good times were had by all. Well, just me mainly - I think I did damage to the PRP's prior mentioned public relations campaign, but oh well, I could care less.
There was one trial that proved to be the end of me. The trial of Zelera. Zelera was a longtime suspected ADN puppet who posed as a Pacific resident generally offering counterarguments to the traditional PRP line. I cannot remember why, but another PRP Governor, Sedarva, pressed charges against Zelera. As High Judge I basically admitted I'd find him guilty no matter what in #the_pacific, a public IRC channel. A stupid move for sure, but I was a newbie of just a few months experience at the time. The Senate, which was the governing body of the Pacific, got wind of this thanks to a tipoff by Neenee, and it appeared that I would be stripped of my post as High Judge. I left the region and joined the PRP's most bitter enemy Nasicournia before anything could be done to me. I would later find out Zelera was in fact an ADN puppet - he was better known as Grenval, founder of the Grenvali United (an ADN member region).
I then found myself in the thick of the Alliance Defense Network, having switched sides and establishing myself among the game's foremost traitors. The next entry will speak of my time there. For the most part I didn't begin rising through the major power structures until 2007 or so; hence the most interesting stuff is still a few entries away.
sadfaces.