Well, I will break my story into parts, and following Ryan's amazing story. Shoutout to my amazing Co, you are the bestest <3. Also shoutout to everyone who believed in me, Mortadella/Mathias told me Day 1 that I would be an amazing leader they needed, I hope I can prove him right still
Now, I realize I should probably do mine as well... I do not have the best recollection as far as chronologically, so I may have things out of order. Sorrrrryyyy!
IT IS A LONG READ. SORRY, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT IGNORE IT, IF YOU'RE BORED ENJOY IT.
My Story Part 1 - The Beginning of an Era
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I will begin with my start of the world. I joined with a squad, CocoMajestic, PeachesMajestic, and MelonMajestic. We all are a group of Real Life High School friends that keep in touch but were getting busy in our lives. Tribalwars was a way we could coordinate, work together, and come together again. We have played in the past, and we were a package deal wherever we went. We quickly dispatched all threats in our area, and dominated our vicinity.
We joined Twistd, a tribe that basically begins and dies on every world. They were near us and took us in immediately cause they need players in general. Funny enough, the Duchess was... a very angry person and got in an argument with Melon, because the duchess believed Melon should gift a village they cleared to a tribemate. In these early stages, with a tribe we just joined, that is not gonna happen.
We left Twistd, because we stick together, and joined VIRUS. This was my first encounter with LOOK, Lair of the Grinch, and Youwkan which will come of great importance later. Virus was alright for a bit but LOOK and company folded and merged into MvDC. They took the top players, and I personally messaged Bane, leader of MvDC, to attempt to get my squad an invite.
Control was being led my Emelie and Ori at the time, with Ori actively leading and playing, and Ems was the spiritual leader/adviser, busy with another world. We joined Control and continued to dominate our area in an AMAZING tribe. Great personalities, great people, great cohesion.
As an active member with experience, I was eventually asked to join the council (as other council members left due to RL and etc.) And this is where it clicked that I will take the spotlight in this world and play it until the end. I normally play the background of accs or tribes, the silent coplayer that just has fun farming and timing things. This world was going to be different, and I knew it.
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Part 2 - Ori Controlling Fate
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Ori had the final say on things as the duke
It is kind of fuzzy the rest of events, MvDC failed an op on Regime's Zordos, got embarrassed and demoralized, and crumbled. At this point, the tribe divided, killed Bane (thank goodness) and split into Lust and Sabre. I THINK. Not my tribe, not my situation, not sure how it happened, I just know Lust was south and a similar size as us.
Now, needing to expand, we began to war LUST. Sabre was too far, and Lust was in our way. I forgot how the war started, I don't recall drama, just skirmishes into a declaration no big deal.
Then... things got fuzzy.
I do not recall why, but Lust approached us with Merge talks, so that we can kill Sabre and go after Gents. That was at least what I remember it was for. Sadly, Lust had to play some shady stuff and say "we never said a ceasefire we just approached you of merge talks" which will come in handy for them later, but they misused it.
Ori was still Duke at this time, and his weaknesses began to show. I love him to death, but his judgment at this time (due to RL business and opinions) made things very difficult. He did not assess some obvious lies and deception that was played on us, but I recognized it.
He approached Balian Ryan (I’ll call him BaiRyan because he should never be mistaken for my co Ryan), the duke, about Lust's plan. Ryan 100% Lied and said that the top Lust players were joining Sabre, so it'd basically be a 3-way merge. Since it was seen Lust is moving into Sabre, there would be no point in merging with Lust since we would end in Sabre anyways. Ori did not believe in many player's in Lusts abilities, so bought into the lies and convinced himself Sabre was the route to go.
So we approached Lust with an awkward 3 way merge, which was declined because it was never true. LOOK accidentally jumped from Lust to Sabre then back to Lust, because he thought the plan (also lied to by BaiRyan) was to move to Sabre with some Lust players.
Now, I understand BaiRyan was doing the best for his tribe, and I don't blame him for lieing as it set off the events that have brought us where we are today.
BaiRyan rushed and pressured Ori into joining Sabre, like a "we need it done by this Server Time, please send CM and lets go." Since Ori was under the illusion this was the only choice, he immediately made me send the CM and we merged in. Immediately we transferred over to the council of Sabre, and under the impression Lust would die out and join also.
Well, Lust made a grave mistake. They attempted to say that I was a refugee because they green lighted an Op on my account during the merge talks they initiated. They claimed I was a refugee. Me. LOL
A couple things about this refugee status
1. The Control-Lust war was essentially Control eating Lust, and Lust nobling barbs in our territory and doing nothing.
2. Eledwhen had deathstars near me that they thought they could noble me from.
3. My squad and I already stacked all villages up to 3 hours away from EVERY deathstar, and had snipes ready for anything further out.
Now, for some people being declared a refugee, Sabre could have kicked me to attempt to make a Lust relationship. But again, Lust made the mistake of choosing me. I was not going ANYWHERE. However, I was pro lust, and this situation made me neutral in the situation, which is unfortunate for them.
Lust and Ruffs (Sabre-Control Merge) set up an NAP, and Eledwhen sent me all the nukes out to my villages and his attack plans. (They were to all stacked villages and the plans didn't have enough nukes to break the stacks) so I dodged and removed stacks where able, missed some if i recall cause it didn't matter.
So now in Ruffs, it was time for me to find the right time to take Control. At the time I felt Ryan lied to save his tribe who was getting attacked ALOT by Gents, and I did not feel it helped my tribe to go along with his lies. That is why I did not want the merge, but I buy into anything that happens, and the I was wrong about the merge, it was the best option.
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Part 3 - Sara Taking Control
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Now to give insights on Ruffs. We joined and essentially merged councils. Ryan was Duke and Ori was Duke. But honestly, it always felt like a Control side and a Sabre side or Ruffs, it never felt like a full merge.
It is worth mentioning both Sabre and Control had relations with Regime, which moved over to Ruffs.
It was a stressful time, with Lust relations being eggshells that we figured would declare eventually, and Gents bashing the Sabre side. There was just both sides not coming together and internal arguments. Overall it was never a full transition and was frantic and not very organized. Ori was slowly dissapearing, and then the Balian account.
Around this time I took on Duchess, because I saw that the tribe needed to be united, and I worked with Emelie when she had time to do it. Balian account's main player was the only one playing the account after duke BalRyan quit. I heard word that he wanted to defect to Gents, because he didn't get all the support he was begging for, since we had a questionable Lust front we needed to keep supp around too. Unable to grasp this, I had a chat with him. I told him these simple words. "I know times are hard right now, but I need you to trust me and stick with me that I will personally see us through all the hardships and get us through everything." He essentially said OK at the time.
Now there were a couple things that I put into motion here.
As I said, Ruffs was still split so I will go through each side/area and what happened.
First, on the Control end I reconnected with Grinch, LOOK, and Youwkan, (mainly LOOK) and their insights on Lust. They were not happy with Lust being so cushy with Gents, and would rather be with us than a Gents ally. I put it in my pocket and told them when the time is right I will contact them again.
Lust declared on us. I tried to hold relations together but before Ryan and Ori left, they ruined the chance at that. I took full duchess ship at this point, because it was Ori was going inactive, BalRyan quit, and it was time for me to do something about it and make the decisions for this tribe.
At this point Lust made a cute declaration on us permanently saying they are Gents allies and "thunderbuddies for life". Thank goodness because that was able to set my previous plan in motion.
Lust thought declaring being allied to Gents would scare me and others off the front, kneeling to the holy power of the “World Winners”. Nah, it forced 3 of their largest accounts to hate their own tribe, to the point that they appreciated my perseverance and what I was doing, so they would rather go with me as their duchess, LOOK said he would follow me until the end.
We could not adequately defend this now 2 front war. Balian cried and cried for stacks, and I was trying to organize him, when he decided to make a decision that’d change A LOT
He moved to Gents. He abandoned us, he did not put his trust in me. And now he is gone. There was a small mail about “I won’t hit my friends unless they hit me” but obviously he knew he would get hit and massacred his once tribemates. That started to go south, and Balian became one of the most hated players in the world. (In my eyes he is redeemed but in others… he is not)
So we have our largest player join the enemy, and a massive 2 front war, losing on 1 front, and beginning the fight on another front. Seemed hopeless, but luckily I had an out. LOOK hated Gents, him and his friends did not support any of Gents strategies and would never join them (thank goodness, proud of you guys for sticking to that).
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Part 4 – Finding Destiny
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Well, it was time to win 1 war at a time, and move towards our Destiny to where we are today. It began with Lust. Plain and simple, I planned for weeks for the perfect moment for LOOK and crew to move over. I waited until it began to get tense (because many didn’t like Gents). Simply, I destroyed my front with U my XP and Dinosaur Killers and began getting closer and closer to their core. It was a wondrous war, rimming multiple accounts made me happy, but the south had too much pressure on them from Gents. So I moved LOOK and crew to Ruffs, and Lust caved. They lost their biggest war contributors and their biggest accounts, and they couldn’t get them back, so they ended up merging important players into Gents, whilst the Control front continued to eat the bad players. Grinch joined and immediately left to make Virus again, over a small claim dispute. Unfortunately Grinch became the downfall later.
Now Gents wise, Brad had already ruined morale in the tribe and did so many disagreeable things with many people. Gents was not a happy tribe because of all the merging. Too much merging. It was inevitable it would hit a breaking point, so I knew I just had to wait it out, and endure. However, to endure we needed to trim the fat and get a more streamlined front and tribe.
Emelie and I, with council help, developed a list that we would bring to our restarted fresh start Dest. Ruffs was two split tribes, getting hit by Gents for a long time, and Control joining the fray. We needed to reboot as one tribe. So, we made Dest and brought along those we could adequately defend and those who were active.
Gents began to get cocky and lose momentum and interest. I mean, declaring yourself world winners doesn’t really influence people to work. So, Ogandam, Asura(Vlad the Impaler), Frozen Beauty were all connected with me and we hashed out a time to break Gents since they were the only ones participating in the war. Many people claimed to have done the most Damage to Gents to defeat them, but I orchestrated this plan with these accounts far before any of them began to quit.
I told Regime about the move, I was not as in contact with SIN as I was working the situation quickly and notified them at a time that it was irreversible. Since it was the world vs the poison of Gents at the time. Unfortunately there was a mix up and the Dr Pickles account was recruited as well, which created some tensions with the Good Regime. (Good will be Hybrid and Foc leadership, Bad will be Googly and after). Aldegrion also jumped on the boat to Destiny in the last day.
I moved over these unhappy accounts to their Destiny, and they believed in me enough to join me and fight the BS of Gents. Immediately their players began to drop like flies. A couple days or maybe a week later, they disbanded. That was the end of that Era. 2 fronts of war to 0 fronts. However, I had to deal with the aftermath of the Dr Pickles account, which led to some tensions with Regime. A lot of people did not want to gift over villages to Regime, but we ended up deciding it was in our best interest. 125 free villages given to Regime, because of the mistake of recruiting over our border. My mistake (someone invited pickles when I was offline because they thought pickles was joining too), and that is fine. We paid for our mistake with those villages, and then began to clean up the scraps. Dest had relations with SIN and Regime, and everyone was at a stalemate during the cleanup.
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Part 5 – A Quick Eradication
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LOOK defected to Virus to be with Grinch. Long story short, I gave him chances to rejoin and he never did. SIN and Dest worked together and the Dest v Virus war lasted 3 days, they are now gone. RIP
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Part 6 – Continuing our Destiny
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How did we get to where we are? Once a great relationship with both Regime and SIN, to an amazing relationship with SIN and warring Regime. Well it is quite simple. Respect. The gifting of pickles villages created tensions on both sides, but I understood it must be done, however when Regime was approaching a K that MORE pickles villages were in, they were expecting more Gifts. Furthermore, they could not uphold a border. Everything with Foc and Hybrid would be worked out, but Hybrid eventually had to take leave from the game. Still, I made sure everything was brought to Foc and everything was worked out border wise. I have no idea when Foc took leave, as I dealt with him and Googly all the way up until the war, I believe I even PMd Foc and Hybrid around the declaration with nothing but words of respect.
So, tensions. Regime kept nobling over the border over and over again, justifying it over and over again. Even worse, when we would point out they nobled over the border we would be met with a “oh you want these villages to hit us huh?” and it was solved with a simple… no we want them because it’s the borders YOU established. Eventually Regime wanted to rid of the border, and things just got progressively worse with Council outbursts and wanting more gifts from their Duke and more and more fights and arguments because of one player. I had so many friends in Regime, it was sad that 1 Duke’s choices led them to where they are.
But, I am loyal to my diplomacy. So I had a proposal for Foc and Hybrid. I told them we should upgrade to an alliance. With a long list of reasons why it would work, and how it would fix many things. Well, a specific member was 100% against it, and somehow managed to convince the rest of Regime against it. (As far as I know from Personal Talks with other Council Members.) Well… Regime rejected our alliance. They wanted to stay “friends with benefits”, labeled as “NAP” but getting all the benefits of an alliance. Meanwhile, our relationship with SIN after Virus was getting closer as we worked together on it, and SIN was actually willing to(and wanted to) be allies with us, and see us as equals. Well, this means that we get to make a choice. NAP with a tribe who doesn’t want to be allies and war our other friends that are nothing but nice. Or ally a tribe with our friends who are willing to work with us, and war the one who doesn’t see us as equals.
(I want to make a quick aside here. I would not be here if it was not for the friends I made in Regime who kept me interested in the game and supported me mentally throughout the crushing wars we had. Foc and Hybrid did amazing things and are the greatest leaders I have ever been in contact with. I understand that Regime had a huge hand in keeping me here and keeping Dest here, but they did not create Dest, and they did not create the community I built here. I appreciate what they did, but we owed them nothing and they owed us nothing.)
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Part 7 – We all SIN
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Now, enter Jovis. One of the most pathetic attempts at framing and going crazy and making excuses, and overall trolling I have ever seen. The information I have on it all, is that Regime attempted to remove the original player from the account and steal it from them, so they came back and went ham. No idea if I was misinformed or anything, I do not care at all, not even slightly. It happened and its done. Essentially (and apparently) SIN acquired the sit and then passed it to some Dest players when they got offline. SIN was complaining about how we did nothing on it, because we were torn on whether to use it or report it to Regime. Well, we decided, the Regime relationship is dead with their current duke anyways. Apparently Jovis came back, logged in, sent the logs to Regime and etc. He tried to post it on public forums, and said “mission accomplished”.
I had a conversation with the Regime Duke and they were willing to forgive, and move against SIN. Unfortunately, Jovis got his “mission accomplished” and his situation made us realize our relationship with SIN is more important and better than with Regime, and that we will just have to fight Regime. Thank you Jovis, we probably would not have made a decision on what to do with Regime without you. You forced us to reflect and realize this is the war we wanted.
We gave a grace period, in which AGAIN more nobling over the border in obvious war prep ignoring our current relationship and what we had established as rules, so 2 days early or so, We declared. Regime pissed a lot of people off at the time in Dest, so the front was blasted, and basically unstacked. So it began to crumble, all Regime council left (or at least majority) after we made more and more progress. They did their best to try to say SIN would turn on us and declare on us instead of Regime, they lied through their teeth about tons of crap trying to scare us off. Nah. Not even slightly correct. SIN declared on Regime shortly after defending 2 major Regime ops on ETN and Smokn. Now Regime today is bleeding villages, and nobling barbs to make it a nice long war for us to enjoy. There has been plenty of drama throughout the war of some questionable recruiting tactics used by them, and pathetic attempts to try to make SIN and Dest turn on eachother. Sorry Regime, I just love to SIN sometimes :X
So now, we noble 1 village at a time until Regime is gone. I appreciate everyone’s support this world, I have made countless friends and this is by far the world I will never forget. So many people have my back and have supported me as I have been leadership in this world for 90% of my time here. People ask me how I do it, and I don’t even know how I manage but 1 thing is true. I believe a leader serves the people, so I will continue to press forward and do everything I can to continue to serve each and every one of my amazing members, and my beautiful alliance with SIN. Because at the end of the day, it may be a game and not reality, but all the people I have met and developed friendships in the entirety of 80, that’s something that will never be taken from me.
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The end. If you actually read it all, thank you LOL
~Sara