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On February 13th, 2019, at 12:17 AM, Corumm sent me a TG with a picture of Ixnay's map which had finally removed me as well as a caption of "sad". This was enough motivation for me to stick my head in and do my usual complaining. I decided to stick around, however, for one reason or another. In the previous several months I felt the need for a creative outlet, working on a complicated future timeline of the collapse of the United States as well as lore for a Minecraft server. In this respect Corumm's message came at the right time. I had thought about returning to Ixnay in previous months but the previous drama and fear of attacks on my person had prevented me; this was a good impetus. Additionally, in real life I had settled down socially (having been going out with my now-wife for almost a year) and we had lost politically in real life, meaning I had less high-pressure work to do. I popped in the IRC much to the chagrin of everyone, and I was soon back on the map and contributing. After conversations about modernization, we moved to Discord from IRC in March 2019. I lived as a private citizen during this time, stepping away from founder pretense and being willingly excluded from staff chat. My reappearance helped rejuvenate Levantine lore and generally had brought some interest and intrigue after what I am told was a sleepy 2018. Heku and others generally kept expecting me to follow my modus operandi of dipping out after a few days/weeks, but by this period I had matured significantly and began to treat their criticisms as motivation to do well and surpass them rather than as occasions for rage. Selfishly diverting from the regional narrative, I ended up winning the 2019 Annual Loreward and have won several since; I actually credit my 2017-19 detractors, but I mention all of this to say that I was back and, in many ways, more productive lorewise than I ever had been previously. | |||
My time as a private citizen would come to an end as I was given a loose staff chat role at the pleasure of Heku and Mont, which means I was also often removed from it when drawing their ire. Mont was the formal and official Delegate, holding executive power and day-to-day maintenance of the community. Heku started the Discord, making him owner and having power and leverage (as he had had with IRC) that he didn't really have in any other "formal" office. I am never one to stay out of power dynamics, as it is a personal fault. As far as I understand, Heku and Mont had been increasingly at eachother's throats during late 2018 and early 2019 over many different issues, such that Heku found it difficult to work with him in any respect. Mont and I had our problems as well. These mutual issues actually formed the basis of something Heku and I had never had before: a positive working relationship. Mont had refused to map several requested entries of mine, I think for islands or colonies or something that I don't remember. In any event, this created animosity between he and I which some of the other staff actually agreed with me on. I was on vacation in Cape Cod in July 2019 when a significant flare up between he and Mont and I and Mont came. We pulled off a major coup. Despite being legitimate Delegate, he was functionally unseated by Heku by merit of his position as Discord owner and myself by merit of my ownership of the NS Region, which still had a little importance at the time. We were both technically private citizens at the time, but this move ended the Canuck Era and put us both back at the top. The new innovation this time was a triumvirate with Burg, who Heku and I both respected. We appointed Insui as nominal delegate and rewrote the Golden Bull to basically eliminate democracy permanently. | |||
Mont accepted this, more or less, because he had always claimed to not want power, a claim which I accept. However, he continued on as cartographer, and wanted staff privileges with that role. This, combined with a later disagreement about the OOC running of the League of Nations, culminated in Mont leaving. In retrospect I can understand how he felt that things were escalating and people he didn't like were in charge. Unlike some of the other departures, I don't really begrudge this one; he can associate with who he likes, whether it be here or elsewhere. He is a somewhat unpopular character among some of the older plebs but I don't really hold any negative feelings. | |||
Helvi was also banned during this period. I don't remember what the specific incident was, but it ended a four year run with Ixnay during which time he was a primary character. | |||
I would add, during this period (2019), there was a "Third Departure" and "Fourth Departure" to follow Black Thursday and whatever the hell 2017 was, except this one was so irrelevant that it doesn't merit its own section. I believe Helvi and a number of people left to form some other community in the face of some real or perceived insult or banning. Later, and I think this was 2020, a large contingent of Canadian players left briefly over a controversy between Azi and Cronzcovina, and/or admin response to that - I don't really remember. Nearly everyone from the Fourth Departure would eventually return. | I would add, during this period (2019), there was a "Third Departure" and "Fourth Departure" to follow Black Thursday and whatever the hell 2017 was, except this one was so irrelevant that it doesn't merit its own section. I believe Helvi and a number of people left to form some other community in the face of some real or perceived insult or banning. Later, and I think this was 2020, a large contingent of Canadian players left briefly over a controversy between Azi and Cronzcovina, and/or admin response to that - I don't really remember. Nearly everyone from the Fourth Departure would eventually return. | ||