The Slums
The Slums were the first communal settlement in PrikPack v14. It was built at the bottom of a mountain, next to a river which flowed from the mountain. The west side of The Slums was considered more middle-class whereas the east side was considered more lower-class.
History
Early Settlement
The settlement started out as jusipat's house, following then into a collection of small houses, but as more people joined it quickly urbanized. Originally, bcfoss and jusipat built small huts, while flufyking began to work on a palace atop the mountain. Kjolt947 dug out the side of a mound and opted to live amongst the worms, dirt and rocks. His mound was later turned into the community mine. Cflip_ soon moved in and began to build a house above Kjolt947's dirt hill. After jusipat burned down his shack, Cflip_ immediately rebuilt it and destroyed the house above Kjolt's hill. tundra_lord began laying a cobblestone foundation for his considerably large house, measuring about 8x10 meters. Each building either moved, or transformed into it's final state later.
In need of more space, jusipat began constructing apartment towers with assistance from Cflip_. bcfoss also built multiple new structures within the town.
Internal Battles
The Slums were a naturally violent and lawless place, gunfire was frequently heard and some buildings ended up looking rather dilapidated.
Civil Strife
Player jusipat, after being named mayor of the city by flufyking, appointed bcfoss as constable, directed to maintain law and order in the Slums. There were no preconditions to this assignment, and bcfoss quickly overrided the little authority held by jusipat. jusipat's situation was not availed by the fact that bcfoss had the ear of Wikaros, a prominent noble who had the ear of the God-King himself. jusipat did not take kindly to the power-play underway, and took steps to decrease the rate at which his authority was eroding. There were numerous shootouts in this period caused by jusipat's seizure of all the Slum's muskets in the constable building, citing that since he provided them, he would take them back.
"The Military Exercise"
After jusipat's refusal to return the seized armaments, coupled with him taunting the noble Wikaros as he entered the town, conflict began to brew. Jusipat maintained the western portion of the river with Cflip_, held up in the large apartment complexes. The following skirmish would end up being the largest shootout of them all, where bcfoss and Wikaros both fought against jusipat. From the center of the town, bcfoss and Wikaros advanced towards formidable defenses at the graveyard and main road, with this; jusipat fled across the river and took up position in the windows of one of the apartment buildings, overlooking the town. The exchange in gunfire was fierce, as jusipat had multiple rifles he could shoot at a rate to rival his two adversaries. Eventually with the realization that his ammunition was fleeting he moved across the river, first into his old home to frantically search for more gunpowder, then towards the graveyard to attempt to overwhelm the enemy. He managed to kill one of his opponents and take the graveyard before making a fatal blunder in jumping down into the incomplete Temple down upon bcfoss. bcfoss fired upon jusipat, this coupled with fall damage and a swift melee on the ground ended jusipat's struggle against the superior forces. After this event, the conflict was passed off as a "military exercise" by flufyking, used to gain military XP.
Cran-Arvid Feud
Tensions soon began to rise between tundra_lord and Kjolt947. Small fights between the two players would eventually escalate and bring in the town's military. The ongoing battles known as the Cran-Arvid Feud within the town drove jusipat out of his home, giving ownership of the building to Cflip_. The climax of the battles was reached when tundra_lord brought TNT into Kjolt947's fort and blew it up from the inside. Wikaros and flufyking would make many attempt to find tundra_lord's base of operations to prevent further attacks, but no such base was found.
Airship Scuffle
During a break in the Cran-Arvid Feud, Cflip_ decided to build an airship and started construction right in front of Kjolt947's fort. The airship was successfully built and tested, but Cflip_ planned to rebuild a new one at a later point. While Cflip_ was offline, tundra_lord planted a bunch of trees in the same area as the airship. Cflip_ logged on the next day to find that Kjolt947 had burned down the airship while making a half-hearted effort to remove all of the trees. This infuriated Cflip_ as the air balloon blocks were expensive with the circumstances of the slums. In an act of revenge, Cflip_ mined all of the stone brick blocks from the walls of Kjolt947's fort, which caused Kjolt947 to quit the game in a fit of rage. Soon afterwards the stone blocks were returned and all was forgiven.
flufyking's response
flufyking's response to the feuds between jusipat and bcfoss was muted, as he did not want to anger either side and knew if treated less seriously it would become defused. Compared to the violent and vitrolic conflict known as the Cran-Arvid Feud, the conflict between jusipat and bcfoss looks to be just what it was passed off as; a "military exercise".
Landmarks
- The Graveyard
- A graveyard was the first landmark. It was created atop the community mine by bcfoss (formerly Kjolt947's original dirt mound house). Each player who had a notable death was buried there, it also featured the death of some of the members of players families.
- The Temple
- The temple was erected next to the graveyard, inside it was filled with radioactive ores. It is thought to be for worshiping of the dangerous radioactive properties of those ores, and praising death by irradiation.
- Constable Building
- When ordained mayor by his majesty/holiness God-King flufyking, jusipat paid bcfoss to construct a mayoral/constable building on an elevated portion of the town in which to hold the towns stockpile of military equipment.
- The Castle
- The castle was constructed atop the mountain of which The Slums were built at the bottom of. The castle was off limits to the lower-class and middle-class.
Gallery
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Cflip_'s buildings and airfield -
Kjolt947's fort after tundra_lord's bombing -
View of The Slums after the Cran-Arvid Feud
