The Vertibirdman

[Mito]

Salutations, fellow Europan internauts!

The Neo-Enclave was a nation which, for the short time they spent in Europa, surely made their mark. It is why I thought of making this thread to provide the full story outside Europa proper. This Vertibird-exporting monarchy became infamous in a surprisingly short amount of time. Due to the astounding speed at which his entrance and subsequent parting unravelled in, it was easy to miss out on everything that had happened. I found myself wondering where the Vertibird's-the-word man had gone and thus I entered into the rabbit's hole. This thread is to shed light on the situation that unravelled here in Europa by telling the story of the main character himself. All information was taken from public forums and RMBs. Much like the slogan of the Pirate Party: Knowledge is Power and Power belongs to the people (Kunskap är makt och makten tillhör folket). 

What is the past of the Neo-Enclave? Was he a villain who attempted to take over a region or a victim of circumstance? Let's start digging and see what lies behind the Vertibird exterior.

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The Europan section of the story is pretty self-explanatory and well-known. It doesn't play a large role in the story except for the fact that it's his third known expulsion. The story begins where it ends: in The Republic of Northern Powers, the last-known place of residence of the Neo-Enclave. The latest activity in the region, as of posting this, was seven days ago. What's important is that the RNP has a forum called Northernfree where this all truly begins. The forum consists mostly of topics and posts made by the Neo-Enclave for worldbuilding.

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However, one thread in particular sticks out, for it is a collaborative work of two people, not one. In fact, reading it wasn't completely my own pleasure, rather I read through the 404-page thread with my associate Meeda through discord. Together we embarked upon the journey through time and space with Captain Bellinger and Queen Donalia.  

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We followed our heroes as they discovered that they had travelled through time:

From there, an epic adventure ensued. Mostly set in the star wars universe but with adaptations from series such as Fallout, Terminator, Doctor Who and Predator among others. The story itself is worth a read if you can make it through all 404 posts.

Reading it one is encapsulated by:

strong action one-liners such as George’s battle cry:

Convoluted romantic relationships:

and our favourite character: Cuddles the first:

You can even end up learning some interesting facts about the man, the myth, the Vertibird legend:

 

 

But enough with the story. After having read the story, we decided to search for more information. First, we attempted to rummage through the discord of the RNP to no avail.

Only later we decided to seek info about this Odinburgh as he seems to be the only RP:er, I’ve seen that can create a story with Neo-Enclave. We didn’t have to look far for Odinburgh as he had put up a message in the RMB of the RNP.

From here we were lead to Novus Lucidum where we began to snoop around. And where there is smoke…

We looked into Odinburgh and other nations such as the Greater New Jes Islands with their cockroach people but ultimately came up with nothing of interest.

Yet once we entered the forum, smoke arose:

The thread in question was put on holding due to a then-going trial. By the fact that he doesn’t have much activity in the forum, it can be wagered that he was ejected. But why? What is this trial held in this regions own subforum? To find out I had to go undercover and infiltrate their forum. In other words, I had to register as a member.

 

After my registration, it was time for a quick trip to the ministry of justice to see their only case:

The trial was straight-forward. First Neo-Enclave presented their case (Names of IRL people and places were redacted):

What was “the incident” and which region is he talking about? We get an answer to one of those questions from Castonisia who replies to Neo-Enclave’s defence.

Not everyone, however, was against him:

Later on in the discussion:

Does that sound familiar? But more importantly, we got two keywords: The Radiant and the Incident. Before I went forward I decided to look into the RMB and search Neo-Enclave’s messages to see if there were any mentions to the trial or Europa:

Although getting only one half of the conversation paints a one-sided picture, I saw it as nothing special and concluded that he had been banned from the region. It was time to look into “the incident” and The Radiant.

 

Upon first inspection, it quickly noticed that Castonisia and Odinburgh were featured on The Radiant Chronicle - Vol. 2.2 - July 7, 2018. This meant that they knew Neo-Enclave before the Novus Lucidum.

Thus we enter the forums of The Radiant. It was a pretty normal forum. Nothing out of the ordinary really. And then I find Enclave.

It is clear that here as well Enclave is struggling to cooperate. A look into the RMB’s history shows the mark he left in The Radiant.

His actions inevitably led to his first known ejection in May 2018.

Is this the full story of the Neo-Enclave? In the three regions we’ve seen him in he’s been ejected each time for seemingly the reasons of breaking RP rules and having multiple WA nations. This was confirmed by a source from the Novus Lucidum discord server. It is noted in his ejection decree that his second nation was called Straona. It is also note-worthy that Enclave pleaded innocent in his trial in Novus Ludicum of having multiple nations. Instead claiming that the two used similar software in their high school.

 

Finally, I would like to set things straight somewhere on the sexuality spectrum. My initial hypothesis was that the Neo-Enclave was also a nation called Ronter who had been found out to have multiple WA nations (two others: Darklarit and Gueyever) in the Radiant. This fitted the description of the incident in his trial in Novus Ludicum. However, after looking through their respective RP’s, I cannot claim them being the same. Ronter’s legacy in The Radiant seems far more salient. On top of that, Ronter was excommunicated and not simply banned. Ronter’s excommunication happened two years before anything with Enclave ever popped up which disproves the connection between the two even more.

This is the story of the story behind the Vetirbirdman. A story of being ejected thrice from different regions each time for similar reasons. But is there hope? Today he resides in the RNP where he wrote a collaborative semi-coherent Star Wars-themed RP with another person. I for one choose see this as the beginning of improvement, as the start of a better RP career. Only time knows where our Vertibird will fly, but I and Meeda will be rooting for him all the way from The Radiant to the Republic of Northern Powers.

Ti Yi Yayyyy

Edited February 25, 2019 by Shffahkia (see edit history)

[Mito]

Salutations again fellow Europan internauts! or Eurthlings!

Since our last dive to the past and present of the Vertibird, the myth, the legend, the Neo-Enclave, much has happened in our own community. With our involuntary move to a new NS region, I thought it'd be a good time to switch the ol' detective hat to a lab coat and introduce Vertiorthinology, the study of the elusive Vertibird or Vertineonithe. As it stands Eurth has two Vertiorthinologists: I and @Orioni who've done some research on this truly interesting, for the lack of a better word, specimen. 

Last time I and Meeda (Bri) took a deep dive into the past and present of the Neo-Enclave but what we left out was the story of what happened in Europa. The reason why I left it out is that there were some posts we couldn't find as well as we didn't have much insight into the administrative process behind the ban. Surprisingly enough the two regions, Lovus Lodicum and The Radiant, were more transparent in their banning process, whilst much of the banning process and communication with the Neo-Enclave in Europa happened in Discord and off the forums. With all this said, simply know that the admins and mods are the ones privy to the full story whilst I collected this information by going through each of his posts I could find. Every, single, one 

This time, to bring the knowledge and wisdom of old Europa to new Eurth, your resident vertiornithologist scoured the forums and discords to get the full story of the Neo-Enclave's time in Europa. But nothing is complete which is why I ask for other Vertiorthinologists for aid on this quest to compile all available data on this truly interesting individual; I managed to collect a total of 110 forum posts from his total of 148 posts. There are still posts at large! If you find them, please let me know. 

At the end of some days, I've added some moments of glamour form discord as segments. These segments are called Meanwhile, in the Discord chats  

For older community members, enjoy this trip down memory lane

For newer members, enjoy this case study on what not to do

Get comfy because, without further delay, here are the Vertibirdman's Misadventures in Europa

And they are long

22nd of October 2018 - Vertibird Begins

A seemingly normal day, nothing out of the ordinary until a nuclear test is announced... TWICE! 

An explosive introduction to the community to be sure. During the same day, the Neo-enclave attempts to make contact with @Orioni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: Suits, Ships and Vertibirds

23rd of October 2018 - The Bombardment

Europa is treated to its first true taste of nuclear Enclavite fallout:

The history of the Neo-Enclave is revealed in the Academy. 

The First batch of Enclave "news" pours out:

A 1000m Golden-lipped statue is announced

First ever crown commentary from the Neo-Enclave is given

News reporter John Harvey makes his debut

 

As a result of the wild and rebellious reporting of John Harvey, @Orioni replies to him in his newsroom bringing the hammer of justice down on him 🔨 

Bargaining is the 3rd stage of grief

The day isn't over, yet as the vertibird-loving nation faces its first internal crisis

However, It wasn't only Enclavite news that was affected as @PyeMcGowan's Newsroom received one of Neo-Enclaves one-sentence zingers.

The 23rd of October was a busy day but it was not yet over as a major diplomatic scuffle began when @Orioni responded to the Enclavites leading to outrage from the queen herself

Conlangs 101

Thus ends October 23rd the first surge of activity on the forums 

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: T I L T R O T O R S and The Surveillance state

The Enclave also seems to have been confused as to which stats we use in Europa

24th of October 2018 - The Dark Vertibird

On October the 24th, Europa is once more under heavy bombardment starting from Enclavite news

Donalia gives a speech 

Red Alert

 Enter the Oil Rig 

In between the news, Enclave announces his ambitions to join Derthalen's Feats of Strength and to host it the next year with the queen herself in attendance 

No exosuits are allowed though

The cheers and aws of exosuit-wearing sportsmen are interrupted by the ongoing civil war as reported by John Hervey

Well, that was some fast and effective artillery

Linguists are trying to figure out what exactly that last post was trying to say. Enclavite English is known for being the most incoherent Europan language 

A deal is struck between the Neo-Enclave and @PyeMcGowan for uranium. Almas, take notes! Let's hope none were bitten by a radioactive Vertibird. 

 

Lastly, we are treated to a more in-depth look at the Neo-Enclave as he provides his first factbook to the dismay of others

Here we learn that the enclave gets its name from the Latin word for crow and that he traces his routs all the way to Ahrome

According to Eurth's resident Latin expert, @Mauridiviah, Corvus means raven and not crow

Yet another look at the Enclavite language: Veni Vedi Veci which is most likely related to the Latin Veni Vidi Vici 

Conlangs 101

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: Who is thy Enemy, O Vertibrd?

25th of October 2018 - The Vertibird Rises

Never a dull moment in the Enclavite newsroom especially with a civil war, Fascism and assassination attempts

The civil war is ended lasting a total of 2 days, record speed

Details on how the war was ended you ask? Fear not!

Having saved the victims of the Exclave, the Neo-Enclave sets out to save the souls of his nation at the Council of Deopolis

Will Enclavite souls be saved from eternal fallout damnation? Only the pope knows for sure. Thoughts and prayers though

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: Scott Enclave vs. The Weurld

@Prymont summarizes the situation thus far very well

26th of October 2018 - The Bombardment Dies Down

The 26th of October was a day of last strikes. The 4-day forum post bombardment Europa was subjected to dies down with only a single post about the civil war. Given it had several sentences within it. Perhaps the Neo-Enclave used up his sentence limit on this one post instead of rationing them out for several

Good thing the monarchy wasn't overed. Julius had a tough child being one of many man children of his father Bob Vladimir

What would we do without ol' Harvey bringing us the true stories of people being forced into loyalty?

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: The Amazing Taxitilesisisies

27th of October 2018 - The Silence

The humming of Vertibirds was nowhere to be heard, no Exclave atrocities were reported

The first true wave of the Neo-Enclave was over

The only piece of Enclavite info came from @Alenveil's Factbook

The RCS pact was an economic alliance between the Neo-Enclave, @Alenveil and @PyeMcGowan but turns out that the Enclave had tricked the two revealing it to also be a military alliance. The two subsequently left leaving only the Neo-Enclave who refused to leave. 

Thanks to @PyeMcGowan for providing the IIwiki page

Yet in the discord chats, it was a different story

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: A Pry of Many Names

28th of Spooktober 2018 - The Walking Enclave

In the last days of Spooktober, the Enclave is shocked as a zombie apocalypse pops up and the Neo-Enclave attempts to call for a coalition to fight the Necroa virus!

Thank God for Vertibirds! At first, people laughed but now with vertibirds above the Enclavite sky, while the Enclavites below turn to zombies, people are still laughing 

29th of Spooktober 2018 - Of Vertibirds and Zombies

The Neo-Enclave, facing the zombie menace, puts his money where his Vertibirds are 

The Enclave and his vertibirds also make an appearance in @Alenveil's newsroom

30th of Spooktober 2018 - The New wurld Blues

First, the Neo-Enclave responds to @Alenveil sending in flamethrower mounted Vertibirds, nothing could go wrong

Most importantly, this is the day the Neo-Enclave makes the request to officially join Europa on the map

The request really isn't anything we haven't seen before. It just quite clearly shows the extent to which his nation is based on Fallout. 

31st of Spooktober 2018 - The Ban

According to @Orioni, Enclave received his first forum ban on this day. There's a significant period of inactivity on the forums so it is most likely true. 

5th of November 2018 - Enclave: Resurrection

The question on everyone's minds: What is Enclave going to do as his first actions returning from exile? 

The answer: prosecute a llama for aiding in a terrorist attack

Alongside that, The Neo-Enclave introduced the "E-1 Pheonix" 

Nothing noteworthy except that a part of the oil comes from PyeMacGowan

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: One Flew Over The Vertibird's Nest

6th of November 2018 - The Calm Before The Vertistorm

The 6th of November was a calm day; the Neo-Enclave posted only once on the forums as a continuation of his previous "E-1 Pheonix" 

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: Shame

7th of November 2018 - The First Gusts

The day was seemingly a part of the calm before the storm

The only updates we received from our friend, Enclave, was him making civilian and luxury Vertibirds

What else could have been expecting?

 

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: Taste of Fame 

8th of November 2018 - Leave of Absence

The Neo-Enclave leaves the discord if only he had stayed away Europa would've been spared its second Vertibird storm

40th of Spooktober 2018 - The Storm Begins

This far we hadn't seen that much activity from the Enclave since his debut bombardments

Only if we had known that he was preparing to light the forums on fire 

Enter the Autumn Terror

For those uninitiated, the Myster in the Dolch See was a Halloween special

Enclave wasn't allowed to participate and thus he made his own 

The community lit ablaze

The reaction to best summarize the situation came from @North Dniester

Instead of picking a fight and angering a single person, the Neo-Enclave picked a fight with the entire community

What makes the situation even more entertaining is the fact that he brings up non-solutions to solve the problems brought up by others such as the skeletons. 

Perhaps the closest thing the Neo-Enclave comes to that resembles a proper defence is this

The inexperience of the Neo-Enclave is on full showcase here 

And just as the storm seemed to only worsen, @PyeMcGowan swoops in and saves the day 

What about the actual Autumn Terror itself? Surprisingly enough it is one of the few glimpses we see the Neo-Enclave RP:ing with someone. It's good to note that the RP (as short as it is) is some 71% Enclave. More on that later. More salient is his writing style. He writes little but erratically giving his stories a fast pace for all the wrong reasons

The 40th of Spooktober ends as he uploads the Enclavite national anthem to the forums 

Thus winds down the Spooktober special, yet the discord chats were privy to its own shenanigans 

Meanwhile, in the discord chats: I Got 99 Pryblems but a Lack of Hospital Ships Ain't One

The Neo-Enclcave completed @Seylos' army survey

 

10th of November 2018 - The Godmod Incident 

There was a general sense of malaise in the air. People were wary of what might come next after having seen Enclave's Autumn Terror 

Who was going to be hit next?

The answer was @North Dniester who was having a civil war at the time until the Vertibird nation attacked

A quick thanks to @Tagmatium Rules for unintentionally conserving this piece of Enclavite RP for the future generations

Tag also replied explaining that he was godmoding and then pointing him to the right alleys 

11th of November 2018 - Formula V

 A silent day in the forums, yet in the discord, Europa's resident mathematician, @Sunset Sea Islands, cracked the formula of the Neo-Enclave

Alongside this major mathematical achievement, Europa's two musical talents, @Orioni and @North Dniester showed their contributions 

The Ster-Spanked Vertibird was named by @Mauridiviah

12th of November 2018 - Open Borders, Open Crime 

The Neo-Enclave tried to participate once more in the RP prompting @North Dniester to give my favourite response to him thus far

And he was being nice! Just think what this lad could've done if he wasn't 

It was only a matter of time before I was to have my first experience with the Neo-Enclave. In this case, it was an OOC thread about the old Shffahkian royal family

It began innocent enough with him offering the most elite one could get

However, as @Mauridiviah made their suggestion, the Vertibird tried to strike but @Mauridiviah was no prey 

Enter the open borders argument with @Mauridiviah and @North Dniester representing common sense

Professor @North Dniester gives a small lesson on English spelling

What had begun as a post about a royal family had turned into a debate, if you can even call it that, about open borders and border security in the 1840s

Later on, the Neo-Enclave had an epiphany  

The whole debacle ended with @Prymont 

This is when I had my encounter with the dangerous Vertibird, but I lived to tell the tale

14th of November 2018 - Go Beat Enclave 

The Neo-Enclave applies for the Eurth Rally Event

 

After applying to the Rally event, Queen Donalia is off to @Queno-Kona for diplomatic talks

Also worth mentioning is the tags the Neo-Enclave wrote

What might the Queen have in store for this meeting? 

Besides the normal Vertibird stuff, we also get to see the flawless polite diplomatic skills of Donalia

15th of November 2018 - The Last Harley 

A busy day in Europa and the second bombardment

The 15th of November is the last we ever hear of John Harley

I'm sure his disappearance was felt throughout the region that day as Enclavite news would see its last ever post

Journalism would never be the same in Europa

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But don't be sad, for this post is partly about how a former terrorist who turned their life around and now lives in the palace itself

A true from-rags-to-riches tale

Yes, I am, of course, talking about the llama

 

Back in the talks with @Queno-Konawe see that the queen is as inquisitive as ever

We are introduced to a new character in the Neo-Enclave roster: Jerome

Besides this, the rest of the thread is your everyday diplomatic talks where Enclave wants to have @Queno-Kona produce tanks and artillery with Enclavite materials. 

Next, the Neo-Enclave has a quick visit in the Designing National History thread by @Tikva but ultimately doesn't affect the discussion. 

Finally, the Neo-Enclave and @Morheim have diplomatic talks

This thread is a good example of good RP and "bad" RP colliding

16th of November - Jorge and The Two Georges 

The day's activity happened as a continuation of the diplomatic talks

We are introduced to the Enclavite faith

21th of November - The Last Diplomat

The Neo-Enclave's last IC diplomatic interaction 

26th of November - Total Enarchy

We are introduced to Enclavite political parties

And boy does the Neo-Enclave ever have quite the divided political scene

 

A deeper look into what makes the Neo-Enclave tick  but perhaps more salient is the flag of the Enclave People's Party with not one, not two but three star elements

Everyone's favourite llama-drafting Enclavite terrorist, Gaius Cornelius, makes an appearance in Most Wanted Fugitives

27th of November - The Last Day and O's New Boots 

The last day the Neo-Enclave uploaded anything to the forums had come

One of the last acts of the Neo-Enclave was  to suggest an international... except for monarchs

 Ironically enough the last post the Neo-Enclave would ever make in Europa would be a request for help

By then, it was too little too late and the Neo-Enclave would no longer post on the forums

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Meanwhile in the discord chats: It's Booting Time 

The Neo-Enclave had run out of time

There was no more prolonging or escaping it; @Orioni had brought the boot

Thus the Misadventures of the Vertibirdman in Europa has come to an end. For a month Europa had been the scene of the Neo-Enclave's RP but not anymore

Instead of being banned in dishonour, the Neo-Enclave took his own way out

Yet as much as he had been a thorn in the side of all Europans, he had also become something greater, an endearing idea and the case study for what not to do

Today The Neo-Enclave is immortalized in the IIwiki alongside his favourite form of transport, The Vertibird

A quick trip to the Meme Museum reveals that his memory is forever edged in the memes of the community  

All returned to normal 

And when the League of Conservative Nations approached Europa with the interregional football cup, what name did the Europans pick to represent excitement, spirit, sisu and determination? To whom did Europa turn to represent all these admirable aspects?

I present to you The Valiant Vertibirds

Eurth's Champions

The End

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Edited October 19, 2022 by Mito (see edit history)