hmmmm i guess i might aswell chime in as one of the dukes of spit (doing majority of the admin work, diplomacy, ops, etc...) before the 2 leadership changes (at the request of the members)
and clarify a few things since it seems theres alot of half truths by people that werent leadership at the time and is mainly speculation based on their location and access
to start of with spit was a core pre-made (under a different name) that moved to the south rim after pre-reg
our first war was against cicada and we they won that one resulting in us moving to the NE rim (seemed like a good spot)
for a good month or two we grew without much standing in our way, diplomacy was looking good for the most part with our first diplomacy starting with jheez family, which we honored as they did (except one or two creepers with border breachers)
during this time bloodhood came to us about switching tribes due to, lets say personal feelings in a hope to backstab jheez with a few others, we requested they contact their leadership and things seemed to be getting stalled so we informed jheez and bloodhood was internalled before we invited them to the tribe with the intention of them moving to the north area to help organize ops with munch since they would be in that area for a more hands on approach
now with our south secured we started looking at mergers mainly for access to territory and easier growth (we had a few) along with more diplomacy moving northwards along the rim and things continued running smoothly at the start then slowly drama started
our first major drama occured after a player was dismissed to be internalled (troop counts were the lowest in the family) due to not posting the reasons why they were dismissed they ended up getting support from a fellow member which led to our first fracture as a tribe with a group leaving the tribe
an op was planned on the group that left since the bridge couldnt be mended, the op went smoothly until pepe the frog (pain member) timed a noble or two behind some of our members pinching a few villages it wasnt the first time, we contacted pain each time but talks always ended after a few messages with silence which in turn pushed us more towards diplomacy with munch
soon afterwards munch and spit family had diplomacy - there was also mentions of a coalition by munch around this time, which did sound appealing due to the common enemy now being pain, a few days pass then out of nowhere we picked up a few members of the tribe world in a new k, due to not liking living people behind we contacted world and organised for it to become a merger instead, this did not sit well with munch along with our request to merge in the tribe bark which would of secured the area well for us, it was frowned upon by munch so we didnt follow through with it, a day later evil operations (pain member) moved to that area
munch diplomacy became a source of drama with them launching at a few of our new members from world, even conquering one, straight out calling me a snake for leaking information i didnt have (got an apology so all good), then came the pressure to hit pain together, it took far longer then expected due to drama between member the day before op day but it eventually happened apparently around the same time munch leadership decided to stack their frontlines against our members (informed by their leadership themselves) due to it taking so long - nothing came of it though and all was well for a little while
around the same time we tried to re-organize leadership and start allocating roles to streamline certain processes including the consolidation of our family down to 2 and ultimately 1 tribe as RL issue started to increase and players became co-players if needed which didnt go as smoothly as expected due to how instructions were interpreted
think it was requested that i stand down shortly after that due to the delay with ops on pain - so a circular was sent to leadership and the crown changed hands for the first time
AuroraMoon Apr 11, 06:07
due to the recent drama and the opinions of fellow leadership that we need a more aggressive mentality moving forward
the [ally]spit[/ally]/[ally]gulp[/ally] crown is now [player]Maddrick[/player]s
this decision has not been made lightly
but is in the best interest of the family as a whole
so in agreeance with fellow leadership
i hereby step down from duke and will help out as a baron
i also get more time for cartoons which is always a plus so dont be disheartened.
stay strong, stay safe, work together and happy hunting
moon
now with the fight with pain underway alot of pointless drama began
*black flame was accused of being a spy for pain - the evidence provided by survivants was lacking context in my mind, so personally i was skeptical (which caused others to question my character) since the person providing the info was approached the same way by pain and for some reason didnt trust spit leadership, the plan was to confront both black flame and survivants in the same chat with the evidence provided - unfortunately after informing a few members that we were going to confront black flame and get their side of the story, we started to get outside pressure from munch to just internal black flame and basically why bother confronting him, we kept to the plan to confront them but found out later people outside council were already asking him about it and even launched on them before council confronted black flame forcing the result of a messy op and black flame joining pain
during that same time due to survivants providing the evidence of an op being prepared on that area, members prepared and for the first time members jumped into munch for some extra def, the op went splat and the players came back when it was done (to my knowledge that is the only actually op pain launched on our members during our war, and since then have remained focused on munch and that north area that joined munch during their first op)
with some messy ops being organised against black flame our war stagnated since we were no longer hitting previous cleared targets on pain front lines
which honestly did annoy me since it allowed pain to internal/merge pepe into other accounts. some where during all this more drama broke out this time over barbs being conquered next to a fellow player (think it was goddess bestia) which resulted in them leaving the tribe along with bloodhood. maddrick decided to bring them back into the fold rather then attacking old tribe members, which i believe took less then a day to do and with the result of banning barb conquers (at the time every tribe and their cat was conquering 50-60barbs a day), this lasted for a little while before the rule was reversed and barb conquers were again available
then lastly came maddrick being stepped down or stepping down around the 4th of may (details are a little foggy on this one)
either for being to aggressive with decisions or for sorting out constant petty drama (practically by the same people each time)
and from there the new bloodhood leadership that they have today was put in place (despite implying they were quitting multiple times if they found another coplayer to continue the account so they didnt need to play).
upon waking up to find that had taken place and diplomacy was going to change (but it hasnt due to the outcome it would of forced at the time and everything already tied in a nice little bow for them), members were starting to be internalled, not based on activity/participation but instead based of points with the conqueror being the first player to claim (which aint right)
so i decided to walk away from the tribe, the tribe chats and essentially the world due to everything being turned on its head
a few days passed then a spit member (now renamed as run) launched an attack on my villages, now heres the funny part depending on who was talking to me i got a different reason for the attack, from a mistake to someone misreading op information and landing at a launch time to not knowing anything about it to something organized since i might join pain or ruin relations with jheez.
so i had a little fun getting rid of troops before catching an early night (lost alot of villages overnight but picked up 80k troops killed doing nothing so i was happy i guess)
now i still get a message every now and again from people still playing the world (including recently by survivants trying to shit stir)
Also regardless of the diplomatic relations between run/munch, the moment Pain decided to OP us, you guys antagonized yourself. Can't expect us to do nothing.
