So, this today is the end of my summer holidays; I start 11th grade tomorrow. Personally, it has been a pretty awesome vacation, overall, the most obvious (and perhaps only) flaw being the Fall of Empire War. In the spirit of that, I will now succumb to peer pressure and share with you fine people my story of this amazing server. My apologies in advance if it results rather lengthy, I like writing when I have a good story to tell.
I was introduced to Minecraft in 2012 by friends in Junior High School, and began to like it so much that by summer of 2013 I had purchased an account under the name of agencolar. My brother gradually became interested enough that he made the account as much his as it was mine. For a long while, I was a complete noob, and I hardly remember anything from that distant and yet relatively recent past. Sometime (my timeline is a bit blurry) between the start of 2014 and its summer I got a second account, ogeid60, to be able to join my brother in Hunger Games matches on a small server we used to play. Eventually, we got bored of said server, and me, being such a huge LotR fan, Googled "minecraft lotr server". It was an eventful search.
Now, I am sorry about not remembering much about the earliest days. It may have well been Agen who first played the server (Morgul, perhaps?)... But oh, looking back, how glorious were those days! I wish I had known they were the good old days when I had lived them... Yet I'm glad I did. I vaguely remember Agen and I joining the forums during the final days of the Akam-Lazee flamewar, with me being the rather more vocal voice in the account, if I may say... A bit later, during the foresty-hub phase, we decided to donate for Lord, since it seemed the most profitable rank, with relatively low cost and good perks. I remember all too fondly playing Armored Troll, using /unite... Good times.
Months passed. Things happened on other servers that led to my renaming of the ogeid60 account (by then pretty much abandoned since agencolar had a donor rank) to Cluckman, the "TheDerp" bit a welcome suggestion by my brother. I began to gain recognition as a separate individual from agencolar, who had gotten Veteran rank. The Point Class update occurred, which for me was the greatest point in my EW history; that short period during which Easterling Lord existed alongside Bonebreaker. Erebor came out. Then the first EULA happened.
It all went downhill from there, though early 2016 saw a glimpse of past glory. And now, I bid farewell to you, O Empire War, greatest of all servers, boaster of the richest and most interesting community. I thank you for all the fun I had with you, at the expense of many many hours of my life. I don't regret any of it.
