AHOC Book 2

~~~~~~ §l AHOC§r §l Book 2§r ~~~~~~ §o by§r Ritzycat

As Akellian took to his Gramcsi's Lake outpost, myself, ihaveaboat, Caintap_Juan led the project to help repair the losses done. After telling the world of the Great Fire on reddit, It was suggested by Dill_weasel that we move the ULSR closer to

0,0. I originally heeded that idea, however I soon turned back to Lisgrad. After a few days the damage was repaired. Since the Bashnya Lisgrada was made out of completely stone, it suffered no losses. The large reinforced walls also suffered no

losses. Despite Lisgrad's quick recovery, it was an omen for what was to come. The sphere of action began to slowly move from 0,0 to Lisgrad(c). Several weeks later, the Black Knights reappeared on server and begun to wreak havok on the 0,0

continent. Redemptia suffered very harsh damage and Luxemburg was also griefed, although not as extensively. Dill_weasel slowly began to take his new role of "Server Police". In a proclaimed message to "protect" the servers' people, he not only

contributed to the coming apocalypse but was also banned himself later on. During "The Red Moon" as I like to call it, Black Knights conducted a large terrorist attack on most of the server's cities. Lisgrad was spared in this BK attack, however the

mercy ends there. Akellian's outpost at Gramsci's Lake was terribly griefed by BK. Redemptia, Dakun, and Luxemburg suffered further damage. Many innocent people were pearled on the mainland continent. The residents of Lisgrad waited for

their turn - but it never came. The Black Knights were too numerous and too well armed. They were fighting against many weak city-states who did not really have the manpower. Only Luxemberg remained recognizable on the mainland continent.

This was the first step in the coming "Apocalypse". Dill Weasel acted from his incredibly fortified vault at 0,0. He "volunteered" himself to aid Akellian at Gramsci's Lake, further causing harm in an attempt to "subdue the criminals". In doing

so he violated the sovereignty of the ULSR. Unfortunately, Lisgrad was in no shape to react to his imperialistic desires. He stole several resources from the outpost that he said he needed in order to fight the Black Knights. The weary, tired

people of CivRealms had no choice but to submit to the yoke of Dill Weasel. For the next few days while the mainland 0,0 people were trying to recuperate, Lisgrad remained unharmed. However it was one day several BK members began to appear on

snitches scattered throughout the Lisgrad continent. The attack was imminent. In the meantime, I utilized the new "policeman" at spawn to help me bring justice to those who had betrayed Lisgrad before - the Republic of Amicitia. They were never

found by the Black Knights however the ULSR was thirsty for revenge. Rugdoc95, their leader, and Ty0619 were pearled. Days later, Lisgrad was attacked overnight. There was not extensive damage done to the city itself, however the Black Knights

destroyed most of our reinforced chests and took the resources. The Ministerial storage: which contained 50% of the ULSR's valuables at any given time, was running low. We had no way to make diamond armor for all of the citizens. Regardless, most

of Lisgrad's citizens had gone inactive by this time and there was few people left to defend the city. The Bashnya Lisgrada, once the symbol of solidarity among all socialists, was the only thing left truly intact after all the damage was done to the

city. The University of Lisgrad was empty, completely devoid of all students and professors. It was unfit to hold meetings in the Ministerial Parliament. The city was beyond complete repair. There were too few citizens left to fix the damage,

especially since the Black Knights had taken all of the city's resources. Thus, this was the final blow to Lisgrad. As the cities at 0,0 fell to the Black Knights, the railway from 0,0 to Lisgrad became a route for thiefs and bandits. In the coming days

the city was further griefed by random new players who found their way out to Lisgrad. Gramsci's Lake Outpost remained in shambles. The ULSR was on the verge of collapse. Despite my policy of isolation during these harsh times, we were not spared from

the advance of the Black Knights. After a month of unrest, fires, and war, I declared that the ULSR had disbanded. The oldest city on CivRealms had come to an end. No further attempts were made to reconstruct the city and repopulate it. I, along several

of my comrades, decided to start something new. I recreated my old group "Halcyon", essentially a Minecraft clan. I invited my friends with me to recreate what we had done on ROM's old server - the Nexus. We ventured out to the edges of the world

and begun building what could have been Halcyon's most ambitious project, The Nexus IV. Three Nexi had been built previously, each increasing in size. It was essentially a monolithic tower that was utterly impossible to enter. Never before had the

Nexus been successfully raided. However, the project never got underway. After we had dug out a roughly 50x50 hole down to bedrock, we got bored. I went on vacation and the remaining members lost interest in the project. When I returned, Halcyon's

short run had come to an end. After this point, I quit the server. I did not have the time to sacrifice to my Minecraft endeavours anymore. So, I cannot speak of the history in the next month or two. However, upon my return, I was able to find out

a few things. The rest of the world never really recovered from the Red Moon. The Black Knights had dealt the final blow to civilization on CivRealms. The 0,0 continent remained uninhabited and Dill_weasel was soon banned for hacking. Only minor

settlements remained, scattered throughout the world. The Bashnya Lisgrada, the tallest tower on the server (besides the admin-build Monolith at 0,0), stood over a barren ghost town. However, upon my revisit in December 2013, some attempts were

made by some strangers to rebuild the city. I do not remember their names. I don't know who they were. Whoever it was, I thank you for attempting to rebuild the glorious city of Lisgrad. Nonetheless, the rest of the server remained fairly dead.

It remained this way until the server reset and a new map was created. CivRealms v2 was underway. A new chapter in the lifetime of CivRealms takes way. - - - - - - - - - - - - Chapter 4: New Beginnings - - - - - - - - - - - - I can't say much of

what happened in the very beginnings of the new server. I was absent from the server in its first 2 weeks of existence. However, when I first arrived 2 weeks later I quickly got back into the hang of things. Several major settlements had already

sprouted up: Vroengard and Lichfield. I journeyed to visit the two cities. When I first visited Vroengard, I found a rectangular wall being built around some sort of courtyard. Upon being seen by one of its residents I was told to go away or I would

be killed. Thus, I obeyed and left. I then visited Lichfield, then a fairly modest settlement. The people of Blackstone Keep remained hidden in the darkness. I doubt myself or anyone else has seen what the glorious Blackstone Keep could have ever looked

like. Thus, I contemplated my options. In Lisgrad, I was often disconnected from server events. However I was prepared for more action. I planned to take more initiative in the roles of the server. I no longer wished to be a

spectator. So, I founded the Roman Orthodox Muslim Church. We declared the area around 0,0, to be Holy Land and demanded it not be tarnished. We wanted to preserve 0,0 as a sanctious and undisturbed place, contrary to what it ended up being on the

previous map. Thus, I commenced building a massive wall to encircle the area around spawn; It had roughly a diameter of 800 blocks. These walls remain standing today. I built a small mosque on a mountain near the edge of the Holy Land. For the

most part, the Holy Land remained undisturbed. I recruited a few other saintly people into my Church. No other major builds were attempted during this period. I dug out a large hole in the ground at 0,0 to create a Nexus for the railways that

were to be built by nations. I intended on serving as a neutral party to bring diplomacy to all of the world's people in a Holy, neutral land. Thus, the ROM church began to send out missionaries to foreign cities. The missionary to Lichfield was met

with gifts and hospitality. While nobody was really converted to the True Faith, it established positive relations between the Roman Orthodox Muslim Church and the city of Lichfield. A missionary was also sent to Vroengard. By this time,

Vroengard had become the leading power on the server. A very large proportion of the server's active players were in Vroengard or one of its colonies. They were essentially the sole superpower on the server. The missionary sent was turned away.

Days later, a military convoy came to me while I was digging in the hole at 0,0. Consisting of several Vroengard members, I was attacked and jailed by a member of Vroengard's "tetrarchy". I was told they pearled me because they believed my missionary

to have been a spy or soldier who was creating a "forward base" to attack Vroengard. It was also demanded I convert from my religion to the Admin Cult, the religion followed by the majority of Vroengard's residents. I rejected the demand and

instead opted to escape from the jail. This was my first altercation with the increasingly fascist threat of Vroengard. Upon my return to the Holy Land I had to play extra safe. Vroengard's actions had gained it some dissent across the server.

Redstone blocks (bulwarks) began to be placed by Vroengard in the Holy land underground. They continued their imperialistic expansion into the helpless residents of the Roman Orthodox Muslim Church. My requests for them to stop were joked upon.

Nothing could stop them now. There was nobody of any threat to oppose them on the server. Or was there? Perhaps when the spotlight is shined upon these events, one ignores what happens in the background. Like an agent skillfully manuevering a field of

mines, the denizens of CivRealm's furthest reaches look down at the server from the top of their Ivory Tower. However it is not their necessity to take part in this. Fed up with Vroegard's imperialism, I left the Holy Land. The walls encircled a newly

empty, snowy, mountanous, barren land. Again I had been driven out by a force that nobody could stand up against. - - - - - - - - - - - - Chapter 4: A Cold Time - - - - - - - - - - - - I call this a "cold time" because it is characterized by minor

tension and little real action. An exception was the looting of Lichfield by Vroengard. The aggressors had believed the city to be abandoned so they did theirselves the favors of consolidating the city's demise. The city's old owner posted on the

reddit pictures of the ruins and expressed discontent with Vroengard's actions. Vroengard responded saying that they should have fortified their town. I felt this to be yet another truly fascist act on behalf of the imperialistic demon that monopolized

the power on this map since its origin. It led to further dissaproval of Vroengard's actions by more members of the CivRealms community. However, at this point they were a single superpower among a collection of poorly developed city states.

--==O==-- §oThis historic account§r §ois from the l a n d s of CivRealms. As such, it is p a r t o f t h e §r§o§8Otherworldly Series§r §o§0of b o o k s that have been acquired f r o m other worlds by t h e Maester Alliance.§r --==O==--

§o Transcribed by§r §l Maester Flaminius§r §o of the§r §l Tenpo Assembly§r §o on§r April 12th 2015

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