December 4th 2015

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Interview with Omuck3, President of the Omerican Federal Republic

Aqua: What is the OFR, and what is your role in it?

Omuck3: The Omerican Federal Republic is just what it says, a republic. I’m the president. We’re located in a fairly central location on the eastern continent.

We are mainly focused on building, trade, and internal improvement.

However, as history shows, we don’t take hostile action lightly.

Aqua: How exactly did you manage to pull off secession from the Rijekan Empire?

Omuck3: Well, with help from our allies(private citizens from Arcation), we were in a good position to declare independence. Everyone in Draycott was pro-OFR.

If someone from Glavingrad were to come, we would have a few minutes. Fortunately Takshi80, Kauai senator, negotiated very well and managed to find a compromise that was peaceful and benefitted everyone.

Aqua: Personally, what are your thoughts on the annexation by Rijeka?

Omuck3: Look, I love expanding my nation. I get it. However, I feel that the way it was done was very unpleasant.

There was no declaration of war. I had two things I should have seen as warnings, but my positive attitude prevented me from assuming the worse: the night before I received a warning saying MasterOfParadox was talking about the OFR, and Viriskali mentioned Rijekan support.

I assumed that Viriskali just wanted to intimidate me. However, after Viriskali had killed me with lava(I was in another window), I heard MasterOfParadox yell CHARGE.

Summary over, I won’t bore you with further details. I will, however, say that this is the wrong way to expand your territory.

Every single province that was in the OFR had joined willingly.

We did not join Rijeka willingly. I’ll stop now, as I want to be nice.

Our rulers weren’t oppressive, and I don’t want to paint them as such.

Aqua: How do you feel the OFR will improve in the future?

Omuck3: I planned it so that independence would coincide with a large population boom. And it did. Using our large population, we will being to develop the province south of Draycott.

By develop I mean build towns, farms, roads, etc. I’m working on all of that. :)

Aqua: Why would you encourage new players to join the OFR?

Omuck3: I’ll be as blunt as possible. We’re all in the same boat. We’re not a nation where everyone else is in diamond armor. In fact, I think only 3 people have full suits. We’re full of lovely people who are active on the server. Plus, we’re always growing! We give the oppurtunities. Every province elects a senator, and anyone in the province can run! There will also soon be towns in need of residents, mayors, architects, farmers, shopowners, miners, etc.

And if you’re desparate for some semblance of power, start a homeowners association and bring the cliche into Minecraft.

Aqua: What plans, if you feel you can disclose them with the public, do you have for the OFR?

Omuck3: As I said earlier, building, population growth, awesomeness. I also want to build a church in Draycott.

Aqua: What does the OFR think of the Church of Lavai?

Omuck3: Personally, everyone who worships Lavai has always been nice to me. It probably helps that Lavaitia is primarily made up of former OFR citizens. From an official government standpoint, I guess we don’t really have a view. We try to be on good terms with everyone.

Aqua: How does the OFR, at the moment, think of other nations in the world?

Omuck3: I am ok with everyone. We really don’t have any obvious enemies, and I don’t think anyone dislikes us enough to do something big. I would say we’re on good terms with everyone(tell me if we’re not!).

Aqua: Personally, what do you think of Rijeka?

Omuck3: Besides invading us, I’ve never seen anything bad from Rijeka. With a new emperor, I hope that trend continues.

Aqua: How do you think the OFR has improved since it’s seceding from Rijeka?

Omuck3: Well, we had the population boom. We’re also more on the world stage, now.

The Circadian Observer would like to thank Omuck3 for allowing us to interview him.

View of Draycott City. To the left is the embassy built for the Traveller’s Association. Image taken by Aqua around 2 weeks ago

The Rise of 0/Zer0

Bonkill, former leader of Six/6ix has announced his new nation, Zer0. “The leaders of 0", he says, “will lead their own separate towns hence my flair [Bonkill’s flair says ‘Leader of Audeamus’]”. He says that 0,0 island, the ruins of the city of Toronto, and former Six lands are now off-limits, because “Gogyst seems hell-bent on pearling all my new members”. He says trespassers will be prosecuted.

Poortea, again

The infamous criminal, poortea, has once again commited a crime, this time in the Republic of Mandis. He placed down a nerd-pole of dirt, as seen below in the image. Additionally, there is now a 20d bounty on him by the Metepec Empire for killing all of Brutalis’s horses, then killing himself to evade pearl.

Image provided by conman577

At this point, however, some leaders of nations have just about given up on poortea. “Well, I told him not to fuck up after freeing him, and the first thing he did was fuck up”, Poulet_Poulet, leader of Picarona, yesterday on Teamspeak, further adding on,

“To be honest, I don’t give a shit about him anymore.” — Poulet_Poulet, the best French Canadian chicken in the world.

Yakyakistan Announced

Yesterday, CCZeroFire announced the nation of Yakyakistan, which neighbors Arcation, the Reach and Picarona. Impressively, before announcing the claim, the borders were clearly marked out, no mean feat.

Well, that’s the majority of it, as far as location goes! Our current capital village is located near the southwest corner of Yakyakistan, though we plan to expand more into the snowy mountains as we get a better foundation for ourselves. In fact, we’ve already started building a few things in those directions! Hopefully more to come soon. As far as our society goes, we are generally a peaceful nation whose focus is the well being of our citizens, as well as making fun thematic buildings and structures. Our nation has no defined religion, citizens free to practice whatever they wish. Our political structure is, I suppose, a rather loose “monarchy” at the moment. I’m the leader, and there is no official second-in-command right now — I generally weigh input based on those who spend the most time on the server, and other such qualities. We’ll probably work on this as well as time goes on. — CCZeroFire, Leader of Yakyakistan

Claim of Yakyakistan

DNR Bounty

The Donetsk National Republic has placed a 20 iron bounty on Bubbafett, for the crime of grief.

Image of snitch log provided by the DNR

The Nation of Niflheim

Recently, HiImPosey bought the island of Niflheim off the Rijekan Empire. Now, the nation has been announced by MrDonutman52, who stated:

Niflheim is a small island nation located off the southern coast of the north-western continent. Was once owned by Rijeka and then sold to HiImPosey, and is now jointly owned by u/Mr_Donutman52 and u/HiImPosey. We now have full control over this island, and if there are any claim issues, please contact either of us through reddit or in-game. We have closed borders, punishable by warning and then pearling, for the safety of our small nation while it is starting up.

Claim of Niflheim, image provided by MrDonutman52

The Story of the First Hunter Death

A story written by Aqua, from his own viewpoint

It was my first day on the server Teamspeak. After a series of drunken stupidity in Braquesburg, I had died, then managed to get back to Braquesburg, just in time to see Poulet_Poulet and Mr_Palmer kill each other. It was funny. Afterwards, I learned the full history of it. Palmer had attempted to kill Poulet before, but got a flesh wound. After Tassadarr, Poulet and I were having a cereal party, he joined us.

Poulet took it pretty calmly, I must say. He was just sitting there, serving Palmer some drinks. Anyways, they killed each other, but Palmer got the pearl. That was that.

So then I went with Palmer and Tass on a little journey into the Reach, where they showed me their cool buildings. It was pretty cool, we managed to get to the Tree of Dave.

The Tree of Dave, with a scared Palmer in the background

So, here we were, at the Tree of Dave. Vacar logged on. Now, Palmer instantly was scared, and Vacar was a little scared of him too. They had a strange chase around the reach. First, it was us following Palmer, when I asked “Why are we following Palmer?”

Then Palmer managed to get out of our sight. I also lost Vacar, who I later learned went back to the Reach’s fallout shelter. I found Palmer again, and we decided to go hide together. We went to the fallout shelter, and it turns Vacar was inside. It was quite scary, actually.

So, Vacar chased Palmer, I ran as far away as possible, and observed as Vacar 360 noscoped (read: shot) Palmer with his bow.

So that’s the story of the First Hunter Death in the assassin game. Pretty cool, huh?