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The Beginning: Part Two


Salmia

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So where was I? Yeah this is nostalgia mostly. WET formed and then became SNOW eventually. We had what was considered a wonder internal team at that time. In May, my first Council term, I was posting mainly from my cell but I was highly active on my laptop so I didn't miss anything. I became successful as a diplomat fast because my approach to foreign affairs has always been this: I honestly want to get to know every person I talk to. I am curious and want to learn about the alliance. Why waste my time there by being fake if I really want to get to know the place? That is the key to success, being genuine. I've always been who I am and I am not about to change that.

Trades shifted to SNOW as well as tech deals. I was pleasantly surprised at how fast my nation was growing though I did make mistakes as I was a newbie. A fast growing newbie but still a noob. I actually miss those days of improvement swapping that was more complex than these days. I got a wonder at 2 and 1/2 months old and grew quickly, I remember staying in one regiment and then updating the next day to go to the next one. Tech deals I did numerously as I got to know TOOL for the place it was.

One thing looking back that makes me wonder is at TOOL I've learned a lot about myself. I know it is strange to say that about an online game but I've formed friendships here that will be everlasting, one of them being with grahamkeatley who brought me here in the first place. Genuine friendships that stand the test of time as shown by those who I still see in TOOL and talk to daily. I'm grateful to those who I can trust and who I met in the beginning. I remember Commie debates in #tool, god, that was so annoying after a while. Eventually it drifted apart. I remember alliances disbanding who I grew so fond of. Some of them from my curse and some of them I never had an affect on. It was actually my explorations on IRC that had people encouraging me to become a diplomat that made my final decision and I don't regret joining FA since.

Because I don't view it as a job and I never will. It is part of my doing whatever I can to help TOOL in any capacity. Government is not power to me but simply a tool to help out TOOL (yes I know, bad pun). That has always been my platform and always will be. I hold myself in check because sometimes when you're in government, you can grow distanced from the membership, forgetting what it is like when you've been in there a while. One of the things I helped set up in TOOL was a RP community based on that place that shall not be named. It has fostered a small community and I participated in it until I grew too busy to bother. I regret that I don't have time for it but it is a place that still flourishes to this day with people from back in May. It is also the first thing I accomplished as myself.

I never felt like I was doing enough in those days. Mentoring and diplomating was okay but I felt I needed to help more and I was always looking for opportunities and volunteering. I helped out new people on IRC and chatted as much as I could. My energy was relentless in those days. I made many friends on those days and IRC was frolicking, I learned so much and I still am learning. There is so much one person can do and it never ends for there are so many people to meet and I enjoy it. It was a new world to me with possibilities everywhere.

In June of that year, I gained access to a permanent Internet source and I grew glad as I served out my second term as I had more options available and began to hit activitiy full blast with nothing to hold me back. Eventually I began to help out on SNOW with tech deals even though that is not my area that I particularly love. I'm good at it but I don't have a particular fondness of it as I do interacting with people such as mentoring and diplomating are my roots and home. That is my love lies. Eventually, I began to learn my abilities as a leader as I grew more confident as other people displayed THEIR confidence in me.

That is one thing I've taken from CN: my ability to lead that I knew that I had a potential to do but I've started to realize the full capacity of it. CN has taught me a lot about myself and mostly that I am stubborn, loyal to the bone, patient, have a sarcastic wit, pessmistic but somehow a fondness of leading and that I am not really a follower. I do things on my own terms whether that is a bad thing or not shall be told in time. I enjoy learning about CN and the complex community, I enjoy meeting people and that is why I am still here because of the community within TOOL and outside of TOOL that makes up this tapestry of diversity that still appeals to me today.

In mid summer when the world war occured, that was my first war that I saw that was global. It was interesting for me to see everything that I had read between the lines on OWF before so prominently displayed, to see an actual war. I experienced my first global war from the sidelines as TOOL did not enter the fray but I learned and watched and enjoyed the interaction and the threads. It was exploding to read every single thread but I did and my experiences increased hundredfold. The honesty displayed and banter was amusing. MK's sigs were definitely :awesome: . It is not something I'll forget and though yes the CB left something to be desired, the political interplay left me interested as someone who hadn't seen a global war but had seen the tensions leading up to it. It taught me many things and I've learned ever since and still am.

Political and CN community is not a place I'll forget and I haven't with my slow over a year events. Mid summer was busy for me with RL and entering a new stage but as well as learning and building my nation. I started to understand things and got a handle as I stopped making noobish mistakes. It even got to the point people stopped calling me a noob. I eventually became Deputy Hand of Foreign Affairs to help Bama out internal wise and help organize things. I was happy to be able to help in any way I could.

Unfortunately, Arentak, the other dHoFA at the time soon left for TOP 2 months later. But he and I worked diligently. I've started to hate the assignment list with a vegenance. All those alliances to be updated. I'm good at organizing but that list always needs updating with coming and goings of diplomats but it became something I knew like the back of my hand and I was starting to feel satisfied because I could help out with something.

I also began to help out with TOOL Times and writing because in school I write for my newspaper as well as copy edit so I knew something about that. I began to help form it when the main person writing it had to take a RL break. When he came back, we both began to work together. :)

That is it for now.

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