Ajani

Preface
This autobiography is written by me as a account of my history until the creation of The Uprising in Puzzle Pirates. Real life occurances are not mentioned. I'm sure my view of the history and events differ from others involved and may be radically opposite of your own. I ask that you not be offended and to please write your own account of the events.

This is from memory, some parts of this biography are older than others. Actual events may have occured differently than remembered.

Autobiography
July 28th, 2003. A day that will live in piratey infamy, probably, ok probably not, but it’s an interesting start damnit!

Ajani finds himself washed up on the shores of Turtle Island. He is a new and confused pirate unsure of what to do. Doing what every new pirate does, he looks for a way to make money. Jobbing with many crews he finds a friendly informative crew known as Puzzle Pirates Academy. The name led him to believe that this crew would be a great place to learn and find a start. Within days of joining his good captain Faile sees his potential and advances him to Officer in Training. He quickly completes the training program and becomes a core training officer in PPA.

Gaea is bought by Rudder Revolution and Ajani moves with his flag to the new island home. There is much hardship and work to get the island up and running but it is shortly made fully operational.

The rank of Senior Officer becomes available and Ajani is given the rank after playing along with PPA for several months. He is an important part of PPA and is soon given the title First Mate. He is Faile’s right hand man for a long period of time. The switch to Midnight occurs. Ajani is the only extremely active mate in PPA. Within the first day of Midnight Ajani and a crew of four mates buy PPA 4 boats. But alas, there is unrest in the crew. Several of the senior officers are tired of the way the crew is becoming. It’s a lot of work to run a training school for a game that’s just for fun. The crew begins to deteriorate. The captain of the crew decides that she doesn’t want to run a training school anymore and forms the crew Falcon’s O’ the Sea. Ajani seizes this opportunity to do something he had been yearning to do for a long time, he forms his own crew under the name the Rudder Rebels.

The Rudder Rebels were not a popular crew from the start. They were pushed against by many of the captains in the flag, including high ranking officials in the flag council. Within one week, the Rebels become the 3rd biggest crew in the Rudder Revolution flag (knowing the size of RR, that’s an accomplishment). They were a powerful force in the flag, but Ajani was being left out of several important flag decisions and his crew was getting the short end of the stick in flag events. Ajani talks to his monarch Pennsuedo one day about starting his own flag eventually. Pennsuedo, having received much pressure from his peers in the flag council, informs Ajani that the time to do it is now. Ajani believed he was doing the right thing by informing Pennsuedo of this desire. Pennsuedo viewed this as bravado and was offended, he then expels the Rebels from the Rudder Revolution flag.

Not having a chance to inform any of the crew about this, Ajani is dumbfounded. He did not expect this to happen so quickly. Pennseudo viewed the Rebels as a flag stability threat and wanted them out of the flag as soon as possible. Ajani’s First Mates (Daaman and Bunnywonder) log on and see their crew is no longer in the flag. They threaten Ajani with mutiny if he does not get the crew back into the flag. Much of the crew is 100% Rudder Revolution loyal and tells their Captain they will leave. Ajani knows that he is disliked in the flag council and knows that with him at the helm, the crew will not re-enter the flag. Doing the noble thing to make his crew happy, he steps down as captain and hands the hat over to his First Mate Daaman. Daaman brings the crew back into the Rudder Revolution flag and it is taken under control by Pennsuedo. Shortly after this, the crew will be forced to merge into Faile’s crew; Falcon’s O’ The Sea to form the Falcon’s Fury.

Ajani is disgusted with what has happened in his flag. He decides to form a new crew, and to stray far from Rudder Revolution. He creates the crew The Blade’s Edge with every intention of staying independent. On the docks of Guava one day, Ajani runs into a monarch by the name of Parthanos. Parthanos informs Ajani that he quite respected Ajani as a captain and is upset with what happened to the crew. He offers Ajani quite a bit of help with his crew, he gives Ajani a spot on his message board and offers to help with his recruiting.

Ajani soon decides that it would be in his crew’s best interest to join on with Parthanos’ flag, Imperio. A mate from Parthanos’ own crew (La Giustizia Implacible) steps up to offer his blade to Ajani’s cause. Terestardae soon joins Ajani’s crew as an officer. He makes his way up the ranks and soon joins Ajani’s side as his first mate. The crew is small still, there are few active mates and Terestardae’s patience wanes. Without any notice, Terestardae leaves The Blade’s Edge to form his own crew, taking 2 of Ajani’s boats with him. Ajani realizes that the crew is a failure and does not have much of a backing or support anymore. He realizes that he is the only active member of the crew and decides that he will disband the crew. But where to go? Where could Ajani find mates as active as himself?

He remembers his friend Cayte. Who recently left Rudder Revolution to join up with the feared crew Black Death. Ajani figures he will ask Cayte about getting into Black Death. Poor Ajani with his low self-esteem was planning on using Black Death as a “maybe” crew to join up with, he did not think his stats were impressive enough to woo any of the higher up mates in Black Death enough to let him in. During the conversation Cayte tells Ajani that he should speak with the ranking officer online, Faramir. Ajani speaks to Faramir and his run with Black Death begins.

Ajani stays in Black Death for 8 months, making many friends and many enemies. After a long while, he asks the captain, Complicated for a more central role in the crew. When he realizes that in such a big, famous crew, gaining a spot of this power would be near impossible, he starts forming a plan to create his own crew. He makes friends with Yuna, who is in the same flag as himself, as well as Epoxy and Xerox, who were out of flaggers from Marine Knights. Early in the planning stages he runs into a greenie named Caesar, who claims to be an old beta tester. These members join together and on May 9th, 2004 he leaves Black Death and creates the crew No Quarter Given.

No Quarter Given shortly weighs their options and joins the fine flag Looterati. On July 25th 2004, Ajani weds his First Mate Yuna on Midsummer Island. The ceremony is performed by their friend Squid. The crew is happy to stick around in Looterati until two of Ajani’s Senior Officers announce their plans to form a crew. Caesar and Unixmonkey plan to recreate their crew from Azure, The Red Hand. Not wanting to split from his friends, they hatch the plan to create a new flag. They work secretly for a short while, not wanting to upset their friends in Looterati, and find other like minded crews to start it with them, and on August 3rd 2004, The Uprising is born.