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On Sunday it will be my 1 year anniversery of joining eRepublik, so I am issueing a 3 part serries to show what is behind the Penguin thank you for reading.

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The Fall and Rise of eCanada
Part 1 of 3 http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/where-has-the-time-gone-part-1-1387865/1/20

My life as a Cog
Part 2 of 3

I joined, the CC and joined the forums, it was weird the fist day few days, I took a massive pay cut, but I didn’t mind. I got my first Orders, and I fought where I was told to. I came on the Mibbit chat for the first time, and I met the one the only TemujinBC, my first real eRepublik friend, I had a lot of fun on the mibbit chat, and there was a newer guy than I who had just join, and was assigned to ‘clean the latrines’ we joked around with that and it was all good, fun.

Wearing the Cog wasn’t easy in Canada there was a lot of anti militia publicity in the media, mind you that was not helped by Rylde’s F – YOU policy. But hey what ever, I took my orders and was on mibbit at 10 pm every night. (No seriously EVERY night)

About a week into my stay at CC I got word of the massive banning of multiple banks in eRepublik, one of them being Standard Bank, the bank where I stashed the remainder of my money after I sold both companies long ago, and bought a Q5 house. I lost my life savings, (64 gold) and was left with only my Q5 house, (which I still have today)

SO now I was broke, and didn’t have the wage to gain it back. I remember JRC (or someone of the sorts) saying if I wanted to leave I could, but I said no. I joined so I would stay to keep my word.

I soon realized that being in wasn’t about fighting (ok it was but there was something else) what it was about was to bring people who play this game together and make it fun, without something like the CC, or the CAF or a company, this game can get very boring very quickly.

The first thing I came under fire for want always saying ‘thankies’ whenever someone donated me anything.

During my time in 1st company I remember 2 overseas missions (one of them being USA if you could call that overseas) One we moved down to Florida, to fight for Australia I think it was, I’m not sure, but my favorite one, was when the battle for UK broke out, and we went overseas to Sweden, I spent gold and I did a lot of damage in those battles, it was those battles is what brought me to reach the military rank I am now General.

As time dragged on, and stuff happened in real life, family deaths and what not, I began to resent life, but not eRepublik life, this is where I came to tell life to go F its self. But then there was that day that I will always remember a day where I logged in to see, that the day before I had forgot to work, breaking a 200 day + work streak.

For some reason this affected me more than one would think. I became disillusioned and it was the main driving force from me leaving the CC (now the TCO) I seriously contemplated leaving the game. What was the point I asked myself. Why do I play this game?

I told my friend TemujinBC and he told me to take a break. I’d get moved to reserves and could go make myself some money. But he said and I still remember his words. “Don’t do anything rash or something you’ll latter regret”

So I requested that JRC move me to reserves and I left my friends at Crimson, to figure out whether or not I was leaving this game.

What was ahead of me? I didn’t know, but as I left the Crimson Pub, a somber tone fell to it, (I remember that night on IRC) at least this way they weren’t counting on me to work or come into fight. So I wasn’t letting anyone down. I left 3 months (to the day oddly enough) after I took rank in the CC.

What was in the road ahead for me? I didn’t know. But I always knew that I could go back to the TCO, I knew I was always welcome there.

I was gone; See part 3: The winding road – for the rest of Penguin’s Story

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ALSO: On Monday I will be releasing an article; a very personal one. Titled “How eRepublik literally saved my life” Keep an eye out for that.