A History of Ixnay (OOC): Difference between revisions

Those were dark months, and I remained absent for many of them. We managed to stop the bleeding and began to pick up the pieces, ensuring no members left and that Ixnay would continue to exist. Some former members attempted to poach people, but most remained strong. The absolute worst of Black Thursday had ended by the end of March, but to this day it remains probably the worst day in Ixnay's history. From a personal point of view, I was now fairly isolated within Ixnay. This was the era of randoms becoming regulars for a brief time - "Tits", Akai, and Santh. Slak came around this time and was on-and-off for about four years. Heku and I have our historic differences, and to be frank I never liked Kron. For the time being, I was lacking in any sort of RP/lore partner. This era was functionally an in-between time. On the bright side, Black Thursday arguably gave IxReboot the space to breathe. The community was coming to a shift from "geopolitical roleplay with decent factbooks" to something ''else'' - but it took time to discover what that was.

===The Burg Renaissance and Silver Age===

Ixnay puttered along after Black Thursday for several months until The New True Cross, a user I had met years earlier on LineartInc, approached me with interest in joining Ixnay. He came over and we discussed a Venice type idea for him; an insular metropole in northern Levantia with periphery feudal-like holdings on the mainland separate from his primary dominion. After working through some names, he picked Burgundie, and a legend was born.

===The Spelf Renaissance and Canadian Drama===

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. In May 2019, 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.  

===The Pandemic and Wipe===

===The Second Golden Age===

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