11/11/19 UK/EU RECRUITING

Hello this is Blazes, we logged onto Marshmallow for a recruitment, us the Romans are going to be holding UK/EU events everyday. To be informed of our events check the discord and site, we maxed and averaged 4, and said our recruitment phrases. These are the pictures!

We are looking for recruits, this is our discord https://discord.gg/knS5fEJ if you missed the event check tomorrow, and let’s grow our EU/UK division.

Defending the Romans, a Disdain for Prior, not RFCP.

Ave Romans,
Prior Bumble, the leader and founder of the Recon Federation of Club Penguin, modeled after the People’s Republic Army, in which he was the Second-in-Command of in 2008 has made a movement towards the ban of Smurf and the Romans army as a whole. Not only is this childish, from BOTH sides, but it is absolutely unnecessary. I urge the CPA Admins, the Romans, RFCP, and Prior to read this post. Please note, this is not against the RFCP or Prior in anyway. I am taking the good road and criticizing Prior, not going against him personally nor going against or criticizing his army.

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Before I defend, we will need some backstory to all of this.

The Backstory

Prior and his newly paired e-Girl have been planning marriage for a while now. Just a couple days ago was the Bachelor’s Party. I was invited to be the stripper, but could not attend. Yesterday, the wedding was officially held between Prior and his wife Eva. Keep in mind this is a CP Wedding, which is very very important. More important than the starving Asians or the kids in the sex slave trade, this is some big deal shit, and basically disrupting a CP Wedding is causing 9/11 all over again. But wait… it happened. On the Romans chat some people who were Romans and non-Romans were talking about a raid. The raid was held by a non-Roman, who’s name will remain secret because I’m not a rat. Keep in mind the Romans army itself did not hold this raid, more on that later. So the raid occurred with some names such as “Nigger Destroyer 3000”, “Kentucky Fat Cunt”, and tons of Ku Klux Klan references, basically me in early 2018. While yes, childish, both sides were childish and sad because one was raiding and one was holding a wedding on Club Penguin. But again, disrupting one is worse than 9/11. Smurf, claimed that he joined this raid from some peer pressure. But in the end he said he had fun, more on this later. So yes, a raid occurred and it was successful at first with some minor disruption and hilarious reactions from RFCP (if I get criticized for saying that there is some issues here). In the end, this was RFCP’s 9/11, or more better to say Priors. Prior told me he is aiming to ban Smurf. I tried my best to defend him, but he wouldn’t budge. More on this in the defense. Here is some parts of the chat we had (note I did edit the grammar and removed minor parts from the log, if you wish for the entire log, just DM me):

Prior Bumble: Smurf was involved, I’m getting him banned. Do you represent Romans.

Cobra: Please do not do that.

Prior Bumble: Too bad.
Cobra: Smurf didn’t mean any actual harm.
Prior Bumble: He should have thought twice, I’m getting everyone banned.
Cobra: It’s a Club Penguin wedding, not 9/11. I heard that [some] Templars were involved, and if I recall correctly they aren’t even in CPA.
Prior Bumble: [Image of Raid] Is this okay to you?
Cobra: I don’t think it’s okay, I never said it was. But I don’t think you should ban Smurf.
Prior Bumble: They will be punished.

Cobra: Let him [and Romans] off the hook.

Prior Bumble: Nope.
Cobra: Prior, I’ve known Smurf for two years, he was not trying to fuck it up in any bad way.
Prior Bumble: Good for you, he did fuck it up and will be banned for it. Stop representing toxic people and armies.

Cobra: I think this is being blown out of margin. I don’t want to disrespect either side [Smurf and RFCP].

Prior Bumble: LOL, you don’t want to disrespect those people, okay.

Cobra: Let me word it better, I don’t want to disrespect Smurf nor RFCP.
Prior Bumble: You’ve disrespected me.
Cobra: If I did disrespect you, I apologize, I’m not intending on it.
Prior Bumble: You succeeded. There is nothing more to say here. I have the proof, I have the screenshots. RIP Romans.
Cobra: I see then, is it alright if you send a representative to speak to Smurf?

Cobra: I urge you to take back your report on Romans and Smurf. At best take it back on the Romans, as the army as a whole was not involved.

Prior Bumble: Hmmm. Nah. They shouldn’t have pretended to be the KKK.
Cobra: Did the Romans as an army do it? No, they didn’t. If the Romans are banned, I will have to challenge that [ruling] with the admins. I will seek a negotiation and agreement.

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There is terrible attitude coming for Prior. He is also being stubborn and overly cocky about his ban going through. For a man that is known for his politeness and maturity, he’s acting like a child over this mess. It is deeply concerning for his actions after this event, I get it, it was partially raided. This is Club Penguin, not the Rape of Nanking.

The Defense

Now I am here to do the overall defense of this matter. From what I’ve seen, Romans army is innocent. As a representative of Romans, and one of the three owners, I can confirm that the Romans did not hold this as a particular event. This was by a group of mostly non-Romans and a few Romans with the goal of raiding the wedding. They had a disdain for him, however I don’t have a disdain personally but this is not referring to me. The next part is the innocence of Smurf. Smurf has claimed that he was pressured into doing this, as at first he didn’t want to. However, he was glad he did it because he had fun. You can clearly tell his goal was not to fuck up RFCP or Prior in anyway, just to raid an event. Keep in mind, this is Club Penguin and the internet. While things are not good, and in no way am I using this as an excuse for a defense but this is to be expected. He also claimed he did not do anything racist. He said that he believes the KKK is “retarded” and that he has friends and family of color, and does not condone racism. For my own personal experience, Smurf wouldn’t lie about this, especially to me. I am personally annoyed by the stubbornness and actions of Prior. He didn’t even reach out to Smurf in the first place, knowing he was a Romans leader. I am also mad that I was banned from RFCP over this, something that I had ZERO involvement in. I was banned for absolutely no reason and it was fueled over salt, however I do not care about that. I care about one thing, defending the innocent, the Romans.

The Conclusion

I believe this is blown out of margin, and I’m annoyed by Prior’s actions. I definitely urge people all over the community to read this post, to get some insight over this incident. I urge Prior to read this and same for RFCP. I definitely urge the Romans and the admins to read this. Please, admins, reach out to me and/or Smurf about this. We can work out a deal, because at best I want to keep Romans alive. If Romans is let off the hook, but Smurf is banned, he told me he will be willing to step down. For the Romans, if Smurf steps down, I will find a suitable replacement for leader, as I’ve been speaking to a veteran for a little while now and have told him about Romans. Romans will not go leaderless.
Cobra,
Roman Co-Owner and Overseer.

Recruiting Event Results [11/8/19]

Ave Roma,

Today we logged on Marshmallow for a recruiting event.  The event was not only a success, but we now have a new member of the Romans, Blazes.  He wants to help this army become the very best, so please respect him like anyone else in the Romans!  Hope you all had fun, please remember to recruit new members and have a great weekend.  The following consists of pictures taken from the event today.

Rough count: 16-17 in the town, 22-24 in the mine, 15-16 in the dojo.

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Seize The Night!

~ Smurf ~

~ Roman Legate ~

Romans Uniform Guide 2019

Good day, Roman Soldier! As we enter a new age due to us re-opening our doors, we have a new uniform as over time items go unavailable from the catalogs around the Island.

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Recruiting Event Results [11/07/19]

Ave Roma,

Today we logged into Sleet on CPR, where we had a really fun recruiting session dressed up as Team Red.  Tactics were lacking and formations were also lacking, but we got a few new recruits out of it so it was all worth it.

Max: 19

Average: 15

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Seize The Night!

~ Smurf ~

~ Roman Legate ~

Active Count|11/6/19

Ave Roma,

We have a lot of members in our discord server, but some people just ignore our announcements and overall never participate; because of this, we’re going to have an active count to see who gets to stay.  To keep your rank, you must comment on this post your Discord and CPPS username…  Consistent failure to attend and/or recruit will definitely chip away at your rank…

Seize The Night!

~ Smurf ~

~ Roman Legate ~

The Resurgence of an Empire, The Restoration of a Legacy

The candle burns anew.

I figured it was about time someone said something.  The last generation of the Romans being introduced to the post shut-down era, under the consent and approval of Twitchy543, Djgtjvgyhxgy, and Antonio960 manifested overwhelming potential.  The army took the community by storm, and Romans even won DSMAN Most Influential Army of 2018, inspiring many others in the small medium army community.  Sadly, that is where we got stuck.

Explorer7777’s Romans back in 2006 inspired Oagalthorp to make the first “army” of Club Penguin.  After Explorer was forced to resign and Romans separated into various clans, Dj came along and reformed them to continue the Roman legacy.  Romans have such a rich and badass history, and with that comes a lot of responsibility reviving it, especially in these conditions.  With that said, now is the best time for Romans to make a return back into the community.  Not only is the Roman helmet is back, but armies are having practice battles weekly, and CPPS moderators have become a lot more relaxed with armies lately…

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Why I Joined the Romans

Nardo: You are a retardo, you lose a month with us,the last month! Oof, how could I get mad at you? Thank you for letting me be part of the team.

I remember the day.

Dj approached me, asking about my Army experience. I tell him, and then he offers me a leadership position in Romans. When I asked him why, he said something along the lines of me having a good head on my shoulders and the conviction to get things done. I wonder what would have happened if I had said no. It could’ve went down that path, for just recently I had gotten quite busy and had become inactive in RPF. But I was starting to bounce back, so I decided to give it a shot. Why, you ask? 

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The Terminus of a Saga, The Encapsulation of a Legacy

I’ve been watching this candle flicker for far too long.

When I first allowed the regeneration of this army, I was hoping that the flame would burn as bright as Explorer7777’s flame did in 2006, when the army was first made. It pained me to see so many failed generations of this army. It pained me to be searching the history of this army and knowing that generations of this army existed, but being unable to find them, them having been lost in time for one reason or another, their flame never having burned bright enough to even be recognized. 

But this generation was different. This generation’s flame did burn bright—far brighter than I ever expected it to, and my pride in the leaders, the officers, and the army as a whole cannot be understated—but it flickered. And that flickering of the flame is why I am calling this generation of Romans, and the Roman Army as an entirety, to an end.

This generation of Romans was different. The generation began doing just like all other generations of this army have done. The flame would burn at a medium pace; the wax near the center of the candle would begin to melt, but the candle would never reach an ember of great enough magnitude to melt all of the wax nearby. When we look at Explorer’s Romans in 2006, we see just that: Oagalthorp was so impressed with the Romans of Explorer’s generation that he created ACP. We see the same thing today with the Rebel Penguin Federation. Their candle is burning so bright that all the wax is in liquid form, every Club Penguin army in existence looks at them as an example of how an army should function, give or take a few exceptions.

That was what I wanted Romans to be. But that was not what Romans ended up being. To go back to the medium-sized flame, and the wax at the center of the candle being melted, Romans did an excellent job at inspiring the small/medium-sized armies in the community, so much so to the degree that Romans won DSMAN Most Influential Army of 2018. But unfortunately, that’s where they got stuck.

They began to flicker. They’d reach moments where their ember would appear as though it was beginning to diminish, and it would take some blowing on the coals to get their flame back to where it should be. Sometimes, if it was shielded from the wind blowing against it, the ember would rise to great heights. But once the hand protecting it from the wind was removed, it went back to a flicker.

The issue here is that no matter how many times the candle is shielded, eventually the shield will have to be removed, and the flame will then go out on its own. It is better to blow the candle out while the flame burns strong than for the candle to burn out as it flickers.

There were many factors that led to the decision to shut this army down. This army has been alive for a long time, ever since 2006. The problem is that this army is named “Romans”, and is thereby dependent on the existence of the Roman Helmet in the game in order to functionally survive. This item was removed from Club Penguin Rewritten, which had been the primary CPPS by which most armies operated.

Then, this CPPS announced that it would be shutting down. This leaves everyone, including Romans, in havoc. It leaves us all wondering where we have to go, without enough time or information to make the decision. It exhausts the community.

On top of that, the leadership of the army began to destabilize. Now, don’t get me wrong, it was never really as stable as I’d hoped it would be. That’s why when the army was recreated, Dj and I agreed to appoint ourselves as Emperor and Consul, respectively, to prevent the leaders from making any decisions that could have been detrimental to the health of the army without them having the experience to recognize this. But it began to get worse. Since the Dark Knight Empire merged into the Roman Empire, the leadership has been all out of whack. Ulysses Nardo has been nowhere to be found, and due to the lack of meme resource as a result of his disappearance, the army’s economy has begun to crash. Smurf has decided recently to leave the Roman army for an army called the “Kings”, clearly a monarchial ripoff of the imperial nature of the Romans. Ray has decided recently to retire, I’ll refrain from roasting him because he was A1. That leaves Cobra serving as the only leader of the army, and Cobra joined Romans through a merge—he wasn’t even native to the army.

Don’t get me wrong, as I said before, I’m proud of all the leaders and everything they accomplished. The same goes for everyone in the army. I’m not going to throw out and special memories or names, because in reality, all of those were objectively special. Subjectively, those events should remain special to those who hold them in their memory. If anyone found anything truly noteworthy in this army, it shouldn’t be something that they should need to be reminded of. True memories last in the heart, not in the mind.

Darkness really can seem terrifying at times, can’t it? I think one of the major contributing factors behind this fear is that we don’t know what’s in the dark. We are afraid, not of the dark, but of what we do not know. Let me tell you, Romans, that it is not always bad to not know. Not knowing is a part of life, and in order for us to ever enjoy it to its greatest extent, we must learn to find calmness in the unknown. We must learn that it is okay to wander, for as J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, “Not all those who wander are lost”. I know some of you may feel like you don’t know what to do, and some of you may feel panicked that this is the end. Some of you will have no problem moving on from Romans, but for those of you who are encountering the ending of a saga of your life in the terminus of this army: do not panic.

At some points the night feels as though it’s encapsulating us, as though we’re surrounded in darkness. I want to inform all of you, this is not the case. Darkness is not something that we should feel claustrophobic by. Darkness is not our enemy. It may surround us, but is not squeezing us. We are not trapped; do not let darkness claw at you. Let it in. For it is better for the flickering candle to burn out than for the candle to stay lit until there is no more wax for it to burn.

Let the darkness in. Absorb it, the darkness is not your enemy. Find peace in the darkness, beauty in its silence. That is why we rest in the dark.

That is why I ask you, to forever and always…

Seize the night.

– Twitchy543 –

– Roman Emperor –

Bye Romans

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BTW

Rishron solo multilogged in 2015 in Romans

Trader and Badboy multilogged in 2016 in Romans.

All while I was presumed dead for inactivity.

Romans was yellow two generations

We basically copied Golds once for a bit

I used this as a server bonus for the return of the CPA servers map by Commando while gambling with Twitchy.

Twitchy is actually Dj, Dj left Romans and decided to use only his second account. That’s also why he has so much power in Romans yet he was only officially leader once.