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PATRICK MAJERUS (2020-2022) (not counting gta rp)
the entirety of the aurora saga and the citizen corps was perhaps one of the most important and defining moments for me in neb. it was huge for me, since I've previously mainly just played on Stasiland and have even gone inactive for months on HL2RP after WW3RP ended. stasiland itself was huge for me and made the name "Patrick Majerus" recognizable, but most of the people who knew me moved on and as such, my character was just a funny little cwu guy who ran a firefighting group. this already was fun but the roleplay wasn't succesful, i had trouble getting people motivated and took the wrong approach to the project to gain interest.
during 2021, we switched to C8 which gave a massive boost to the player population. with things like kobayashi, people were ecstatic to hop on and play around C8. things were loosened up and for a few weeks, it became one of the most interesting parts of server history to me. i still remember getting up early in the morning when homeschooling began to run a food stall on my korean character lol
anyway, server eventually dwindled in activity. for this, a new main server event was announced: AURORA. however, aurora didn't turn out to be as much of a success - there were balancing issues and a question by many what to actually do. the fighting was insanely well handled (all S2RP, still confused how the fuck that was pulled off) but that's it. i was playing as a CWU character as part of Tyrone's Citizen Corps idea. however, he died on his character and I was the only second in command left.
before moving on: for context, i have not fucked with conscripts or w/e in any iteration. i wanted to join a similar thing for conflict: white forest, but couldn't be active for the training so couldn't join. not even during heavy snow, which apparently made them extremely infamous. but fully IC, I was like "shit we need to fight back and reinforce the civil protection guys" and so me and @Amiro basically recruited every willing man and woman into our group, which we still called the Citizen Corps. this was a monumental moment for me because it was fully IC, we did do a steam group chat but tbh that wouldn't even have been necessary.
the citizen corps was the greatest ragtag group of people i had the pleasure of working with. we had people with questionable loyalties to the union, loyalists, average joes, civil workers and so forth. but we were united by the struggle to survive. we didn't even have that many guns, most of the citizen corps were literally unarmed or had melee shit. we still managed to pull through somehow and actually had a working structure, albeit loose as fuck but i think that's what made this perfect - the lack of ANY red tape or OOC bullshit made this fun as fuck. i still remember being confused reading rants from rebels / combine mains while me and my people were just vibing.
we actually pushed the rebels back a little, but still took casualties nonetheless. it was an insane moment when us, a bunch of randoms somehow gained a victory. admittedly, it was probably mainly due to the combine synth but i like to believe we still were important, at least for morale :) anyway, we got one final objective: do a suicidal defense of some underground bunker. combine would cover one side, we the other. it was fucking insane because NONE of us expected to come out of there alive, literally. majerus was willing to fight to the death because he feared he'd be prosecuted as a sympathizer. with him, everyone else was willing to fight but it all came to an end.
but when all hope was lost, snowl told us it's time to surrender. he was a conscript and led a small "specops squad" but in reality he was cooperating with the rebels. keep in mind that i was legit surprised knowing this, no ooc / ic indication which was beautiful. he however managed to strike a deal with the rebels to give us free passage and escape unharmed. we decided to surrender and finally left the bunker, with most of us either being dead, missing or joining the rebels. those who survived feared death, but somehow we escaped again, even though the reactor exploded and fallout was everywhere. when we got back to the city, i expected to be killed for failing to defend the facility, but instead we were rewarded, all given a new loyalist status and basically being told "good job" and that was it.
i still remember the time after aurora. all of us roleplayed getting severe PTSD from this, and i'm surprised how well everyone played it out. i'm not aware of any rebel PTSD, but the combine side had it the worst. we formed a veteran's association of sorts. but not long after aurora, amiro's character decided suicide was the only way out. with that, almost all veterans did the same. it was heartbreaking, since even some cops took part in this.
and after all that, majerus' time still wasn't over - @Appetite Ruining Kebab approached him on Hoffman, a CAB character of his and an offer: if he offered his support, he would be able to make a new group to take revenge on the rebels. bitter and traumatized by the death of his friends, patrick took the offer and so the Volunteer Corps was born. this caused a major wave of loyalist rp i've never seen before and it was great. i still remember a thread being made to use the VC in the outlands and people said it was a cool idea but only if i did it, which really made me honoured
i'll not squabble too long about it because it again is such a huge story. but patrick became a plaything to Hoffman, because he was quickly replaced by the more brutal and drastic Bruce Sargent who, with Hoffman, was willing to truly fuck rebels up. during this time, the VC even led combat patrols into the outlands, bringing the rebels to an edge. but before he could witness any of that, patrick was wounded in an attack and lost a leg. his only recompensation was the fact that he could keep his Platinum Loyalist tier somehow and got a leg replacement. but now, his anger at the rebels turned. he didn't become a sympathizer with them, he still hated the rebels, but he understood their cause better. over time, he did CWU shit again and even led the ENGCORE prototype, Majerus' Contractors which was very fun and succesful.
his final act was in Finis Coronat Opus (sorry if I botched the name it was the final event to the original helix timeline), where he formed the Pioneer Corps. by that time though, i was completely burnt out and didn't finish the event, especially since my time was up.
it was great. i still think about it a lot. one moment i still remember so well is the last time I met @Mute 's character Ari Laskaris. god it was such good roleplay and to this day, i miss it and have never even come close to anything like it. thanks to majerus, i got enough recognition to become staff and a trusted member of the community, and come even closer to neb. NOTHING will ever come close to what I did during that time but tbh, I'm happy with what i've accomplished.
the entirety of the aurora saga and the citizen corps was perhaps one of the most important and defining moments for me in neb. it was huge for me, since I've previously mainly just played on Stasiland and have even gone inactive for months on HL2RP after WW3RP ended. stasiland itself was huge for me and made the name "Patrick Majerus" recognizable, but most of the people who knew me moved on and as such, my character was just a funny little cwu guy who ran a firefighting group. this already was fun but the roleplay wasn't succesful, i had trouble getting people motivated and took the wrong approach to the project to gain interest.
during 2021, we switched to C8 which gave a massive boost to the player population. with things like kobayashi, people were ecstatic to hop on and play around C8. things were loosened up and for a few weeks, it became one of the most interesting parts of server history to me. i still remember getting up early in the morning when homeschooling began to run a food stall on my korean character lol
anyway, server eventually dwindled in activity. for this, a new main server event was announced: AURORA. however, aurora didn't turn out to be as much of a success - there were balancing issues and a question by many what to actually do. the fighting was insanely well handled (all S2RP, still confused how the fuck that was pulled off) but that's it. i was playing as a CWU character as part of Tyrone's Citizen Corps idea. however, he died on his character and I was the only second in command left.
before moving on: for context, i have not fucked with conscripts or w/e in any iteration. i wanted to join a similar thing for conflict: white forest, but couldn't be active for the training so couldn't join. not even during heavy snow, which apparently made them extremely infamous. but fully IC, I was like "shit we need to fight back and reinforce the civil protection guys" and so me and @Amiro basically recruited every willing man and woman into our group, which we still called the Citizen Corps. this was a monumental moment for me because it was fully IC, we did do a steam group chat but tbh that wouldn't even have been necessary.
the citizen corps was the greatest ragtag group of people i had the pleasure of working with. we had people with questionable loyalties to the union, loyalists, average joes, civil workers and so forth. but we were united by the struggle to survive. we didn't even have that many guns, most of the citizen corps were literally unarmed or had melee shit. we still managed to pull through somehow and actually had a working structure, albeit loose as fuck but i think that's what made this perfect - the lack of ANY red tape or OOC bullshit made this fun as fuck. i still remember being confused reading rants from rebels / combine mains while me and my people were just vibing.
we actually pushed the rebels back a little, but still took casualties nonetheless. it was an insane moment when us, a bunch of randoms somehow gained a victory. admittedly, it was probably mainly due to the combine synth but i like to believe we still were important, at least for morale :) anyway, we got one final objective: do a suicidal defense of some underground bunker. combine would cover one side, we the other. it was fucking insane because NONE of us expected to come out of there alive, literally. majerus was willing to fight to the death because he feared he'd be prosecuted as a sympathizer. with him, everyone else was willing to fight but it all came to an end.
but when all hope was lost, snowl told us it's time to surrender. he was a conscript and led a small "specops squad" but in reality he was cooperating with the rebels. keep in mind that i was legit surprised knowing this, no ooc / ic indication which was beautiful. he however managed to strike a deal with the rebels to give us free passage and escape unharmed. we decided to surrender and finally left the bunker, with most of us either being dead, missing or joining the rebels. those who survived feared death, but somehow we escaped again, even though the reactor exploded and fallout was everywhere. when we got back to the city, i expected to be killed for failing to defend the facility, but instead we were rewarded, all given a new loyalist status and basically being told "good job" and that was it.
i still remember the time after aurora. all of us roleplayed getting severe PTSD from this, and i'm surprised how well everyone played it out. i'm not aware of any rebel PTSD, but the combine side had it the worst. we formed a veteran's association of sorts. but not long after aurora, amiro's character decided suicide was the only way out. with that, almost all veterans did the same. it was heartbreaking, since even some cops took part in this.
and after all that, majerus' time still wasn't over - @Appetite Ruining Kebab approached him on Hoffman, a CAB character of his and an offer: if he offered his support, he would be able to make a new group to take revenge on the rebels. bitter and traumatized by the death of his friends, patrick took the offer and so the Volunteer Corps was born. this caused a major wave of loyalist rp i've never seen before and it was great. i still remember a thread being made to use the VC in the outlands and people said it was a cool idea but only if i did it, which really made me honoured
i'll not squabble too long about it because it again is such a huge story. but patrick became a plaything to Hoffman, because he was quickly replaced by the more brutal and drastic Bruce Sargent who, with Hoffman, was willing to truly fuck rebels up. during this time, the VC even led combat patrols into the outlands, bringing the rebels to an edge. but before he could witness any of that, patrick was wounded in an attack and lost a leg. his only recompensation was the fact that he could keep his Platinum Loyalist tier somehow and got a leg replacement. but now, his anger at the rebels turned. he didn't become a sympathizer with them, he still hated the rebels, but he understood their cause better. over time, he did CWU shit again and even led the ENGCORE prototype, Majerus' Contractors which was very fun and succesful.
his final act was in Finis Coronat Opus (sorry if I botched the name it was the final event to the original helix timeline), where he formed the Pioneer Corps. by that time though, i was completely burnt out and didn't finish the event, especially since my time was up.
it was great. i still think about it a lot. one moment i still remember so well is the last time I met @Mute 's character Ari Laskaris. god it was such good roleplay and to this day, i miss it and have never even come close to anything like it. thanks to majerus, i got enough recognition to become staff and a trusted member of the community, and come even closer to neb. NOTHING will ever come close to what I did during that time but tbh, I'm happy with what i've accomplished.
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