Everclearboy
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Everclearboy is a pirate on the Sage Ocean. He is a fleet officer and navigator of the crew Cave and member of the flag Good Grief.
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Biographical Information
Everclearboy began his career on Sage in December of 2005. Taking an interest mainly in sailing at first, he quickly came to enjoy carpentry as well. As a greenie he spent his first weeks of play without a crew until meeting Ceraphim of Ocean Admirals. The pink dressed blonde pirate with bare feet was friendly and taught him how to upgrade his sword, recommending a dirk at first. They quickly became hearties and Everclearboy could be found jobbing for them and the navy often. An invitation to join Ocean Admirals was sent and he decided to join making it his first crew.
Spending a good deal of time as a pirate, Everclearboy worked on raising his standings, learning each puzzle to the best of his abilities. Though it became clear to him Distilling and Bilging were not his best. Alchemistry and Shipwrightery did catch his interest and to this day Alchemistry remains by far one of his favorites.
He continued to perform Sailing and Carpentry for Ocean Admirals, saving up enough PoE for his goal, a ship. Taking careful note of the type of pillages being run and having a keen interest to explore the entire Sage Ocean, his mind was set on getting a vessel capable of traveling long distances with the hopes of bringing back special commodities. Instead of purchasing a sloop he saved up to buy a merchant brig, the Complicated Marlin. This also became the first large vessel in the Ocean Admirals' fleet and gained him the rank of officer.
It was during voyages on the Complicated Marlin that Everclearboy hired and met Mcnabulous, Satay, Pinball, Mrwest, Inuupim, Littlewiz, Piapia, Loudlexi and many other fellow crew members. Based on Greenwich Island, they traveled often times down to Kakraphoon Island trying to find sassafras in the archipelago still unaware of how commodities spawned. These exploration pillages were tough, unaware of the route difficulty some battles would be won, the experience however was invaluable. The merchant brig taught Everclearboy how to manage damage and a large group of jobbers. Its single-shot cannons taught him how to reserve shots without having to spray n' pray. This would have a heavy influence on his future pillages.
Often times still freelance jobbing for other crews he met some other friends along the way. Ceraphim introduced him to a strange panda-like creature by the name of Yoyomaster. Needing a translator at first he quickly became fluent in Pandanese. Other friends met along the way included Andisandi and Gracemalley. Gracemalley helped teach him about the basics of trade runs and how stalls and commodities worked. During his time freelancing though he began to notice a trend in how the payment of jobbers worked that disturbed him. Especially toward those who often times worked the hardest not disturbing the pillage at all. This trend he vowed would not be the case on his voyages.
Troubles came to Ocean Admirals with the Captain Arian and the crew split with senior officers Cambar, Ceraphim, Tronicmaster, Unikat, and Alfwyn. A new crew was formed and Fair Winds was born with Cambar as captain and Ceraphim as first mate. Everclearboy and other crewmates from Admirals followed and he was given the rank of fleet officer serving alongside other fleet officers like Mcnabulous, Satay and Yoyomaster. However after only a short time Cambar disappeared and the Fair Winds was left without a captain. Ceraphim stepped up to the role of captain with widespread support from many crewmates. Her guidance and leadership helped the crew grow at a steady pace. With near 70 members the pillages aboard the Complicated Marlin and the Touchy Roach, Ceraphim's sloop, helped raise more money for his next goal, a merchant galleon.
Everclearboy chose a merchant galleon after Ceraphim had received a war brig, having a keen interest in the possible life of a merchant/explorer. It was for this interest he was given his first title as explorer of Fair Winds. Ironically his galleon would be named the Happy Carp, a name which he still torments Ceraphim with as she has a loathsome hatred for all things carp. The Happy Carp would also receive his first paint job as well and began his color trend of white railing for each of his vessels. With sideboards painted yellow, his favorite color, and white railing the Happy Carp helped teach him the same lessons he learned on the Marlin and expanded his knowledge of Battle Navigation against the largest vessels in the game. He also preferred running pillages on the galleon due to its abundance of stations that didn't allow for anyone to laze, as opposed to the war brig which when filled did have lazers, both vessels holding the same amount of pirates. It was the profits from these voyages and the skellies that provided the income for his secret surprise for Ceraphim and the crew, their first war frigate.
Sierra Sunrise
Taking a few weeks to save up for, this first war frigate was given a crew color paint job in honor of Ceraphim and the crew. Having gotten permission from Ceraphim to use Shanghais, Everclearboy met Hypnos for the first time asking for a rename suitable to compliment the beauty he saw in his captain. Thus the Sierra Sunrise was born and unveiled to the crew. With navy sideboards and white railing, the Sunrise would become the flagship of Fair Winds.
The Sierra Sunrise would also be where many of the current members and officers of Fair Winds would find their first pillage together, Aarcher, Netshadow, Lexi, Willie, Herro, Jesserempel, Mautsch, Brazyn, Sxxy, Spatulamom, Okto, Aragon, Yamamma and many others. Every officer of Fair Winds having to work very hard to receive their position, it has been due to the hard work of them and many other jobbers that have made the pillages aboard the Sunrise as successful as they have come to be. It is this gratitude for jobbers and the time they spend helping that has been the inspiration for hefty rewards and bonus battles sharing much of the profits at the end of pillages with the hardest workers.
It was many pillages later that Everclearboy's next goal would come into sight, the purchase of a grand frigate. Disappointed with the attitude surrounding the opinion of grand frigates, Everclearboy set out to redeem their reputation feeling more and more comfortable with his Battle Navigation and the ability to handle a larger group of jobbers with the help of his excellent executive officers. But rather then just purchase a grand frigate, he decided to save for a paint job of such splendor and grandeur it would befit the name he had in mind next. Gathering gold ore and processing it at his newly opened apothecary stall on Greenwich Island, Everclearboy secretly began mixing paint and seeking out a shipyard to commission the building of the ship at.
Sierra Sunset
Fair Winds had left its former flag, Blaze of Glory, and found a place within League of Light. It was at the flag's shipyard on Caravanserai Island that the grand frigate's keel was laid down. Within weeks Everclearboy had managed enough gold paint and with the help of Pirata, the two nervously sailed a sloop full of gold and white paint from Greenwich to Caravanserai safely, surprised it only took 3 rum to travel the distance. It was in secret once more that Everclearboy met with Hypnos and chose the rename for the new grand frigate. Wanting a name that followed with the same theme honoring the beauty he saw in his captain it was an easy choice. Since the day was to begin with the sunrise, one could only hope to finish it each day with the sunset. Thus the Sierra Sunset was born, with sideboards painted gold, railing in white the ship catches the eye of all who board her.
It would be that weekend the Sierra Sunset would sail towards a grand goal of 1 million PoE. Setting sail from Caravanserai towards Greenwich the voyage started off well enough experiencing an early loss but quickly recovering, eventually reaching its goal and beyond. A special treat of the voyage was the surprise appearance of Oceanus aboard on the last battle. The final total set a crew record of 1,130,230 PoE. The profits of the voyage went to pay for special tournament prizes which were held the next day as a thank you to all who participated. The following weekend and the events that would take place would bring a different outcome.
The Sinking
Eight days after the launching of the Sunset, another million pillage was planned for, this time with a goal of 2 million on a yellow route. These routes are harder since a crew is outnumbered in a battle to a large extent but the payout potential is also higher, which was hoped to help get to the 2 million goal faster. At this time it was the practice of League of Light to declare war on obscure flags for various reasons, leaving several of these war declarations open though never returned for weeks even months. Plans for the blockade of Scrimshaw Island were underway and so many war frigates were being floated from Caravensari to Scrimshaw.
As the Sunset sailed, filled with over 100+ jobbers between Descartes Isle and Kashgar Island a dark conspiracy was being planned. Using one of the crews with an open war declare on League of Light several members of other flags led by an alt by the name of Eyesinkjoo began to hunt down some of the floating ships. A sloop at first sinking a war frigate would be the beginning. Unaware of both the war declaration being returned and events taking place, Everclearboy continued on with the voyage. The chatter on such ships along with pillage breaks allowed not only the navigator a chance to step away but others as well, would cause the main source of trouble.
Little did Everclearboy and the crew know however they were being spied on. Using alts to board the Sierra Sunset to locate its exact position, Eyesinkjoo assembled a hunter crew made up of alts and players from Les Aristocrates, Hardcore Explorers, Candy Coated Chaos, and Armed Cocktail Party to name a few. Loading up a war brig, they headed toward the location they knew the Sunset was at. Fair Winds had never been selective with its jobbers to this point. Preferring not to take the elitest attitude and offer the chance for anyone of any level a chance to make good money as long as they worked hard and weren't obnoxious to fellow players. During a particularly long battle with a brigand that began to run around the entire sea battle board, jobbers began to leave and the numbers aboard dwindled, but the spy remained, as troubles with sails became apparent with chasing the brigand. The lack of moves got the Sunset hit more then a few times towards the end. With this knowledge the hunter war brig waited for the end of the Swordfight to engage, knowing with the damage and dropping number of jobbers that the ship was in trouble.
Only moments before the battle began Everclearboy caught the word over flag officer chat that League of Light floater ships were being attacked and sunk. With a decent amount of damage remaining from the brigand battle, the war brig and Sunset exchanged volleys but it was damage that a grand frigate loaded with average to green players could just not repair quickly enough, while the group of ultimate standing players and such on the war brig had no troubles handling the hits. As the same troubles getting sail power before became an issue, the Sunset wasn't able to handle trading any further shots or maneuver to avoid and the ship was sunk. All of its jobbers were sent dockside with fishes but no pay. For hours they and others had worked towards the goal of 2 million only to be lost with no way to tell who should and shouldn't be paid, let alone for how much compared to others.
Following a long inquiry into the fairness of Eyesinkjoo's actions the matter was resolved by the Ocean Masters. Funds were raised to buy a new grand frigate and more gold paint was collected thanks to the help of Lipsy and Sashamorning. Within a few weeks the Sierra Sunset was reborn and would come to be used in other attempts to hit over a million PoE. However the attitude toward jobber hirings for such trips would never be the same and a friendly innocence was lost. Vengeance would come the following day as Fair Winds planned a war frigate pillage on the Sierra Sunrise. Many of the same people from the original hunter ship gathered to bring about the same fate to the Sunrise as befell the Sunset. However being far more alert to such actions several flag members and hearties boarded the Sunrise ready to defend. The subsequent sea battle and Swordfight between the war frigate and war brig crushed their plans as the Sunrise was victorious.
Xensity
It was early February of 2007 that Everclearboy while running his long pillages came to meet a young lady by the name of Katana. During a rough period of strain with League of Light and it's involvement with Passive Aggresion, Everclearboy left Fair Winds to join Xensity. Finding Xensity to be a breath of fresh air at first things quickly changed from fun to frustrating. His captain, Katana began to steal stock from fellow crewbies ships and from his own to play poker. As it became clear Everclearboy was only being used for his status and pillages he took upon himself a quiet retirement moving onto BK hunts finding them more fun. With Everclearboy's help Xensity achieved fame of illustrious and helped the crew get to #2 ranked crew in all of Sage as he had done with Fair Winds. As the problems of dishonesty with Katana grew and Grudz began to get involved with allying League of Light and Passive Aggresion it was time once more for Everclearboy to leave.
On the 2nd of august 2007 Everclearboy left Xensity and joined 'Cave'this message was left in Xensity's news and issue's
"The time has come for me to go. I'm not goin to creata a big scene though it is warranted with a few words. Unlike many when i came to this crew I made my reasons clear as to why I would join xensity. None of those are true to this day. The promise I was given then was broken and this is no longer Xensity. I am tired of being used and kept around merely for the power I hold in my position. many of you I consider great friends and crewmates and I wish you all the best, but to those who consider this just a game and have nowhere near experienced the nasty side of this game to the level I have and can make such an easy judgement because they are in essence a nobody in the pp world, I can only hope you get the same pleasure I have gotten then maybe you will understand better. Karma though has a way of setting things right tho. I leave with some fond memories of the early days and of the many BK hunts I got to take some of you on, I'm glad many of you came away with trinkets you may not ever got the chance to get. I am still on vacation and dont know where I will go from here if I do so at all... but this is no longer home for me. goodbye." We at Xensity have lost A pillar of strength
Cave
Having left Xensity during his vacation, Everclearboy retired to the Cave. A crew setup by his good friend Rumsundae as a place for those to escape the pressures and stress the game can create. Staying independent and following his own rules he continues to run BK hunts regularly with his new goal the completion of the BK Trinket set.
Epilogue
Everclearboy has since lead many other successful pillages still welcoming those who work hard setting new goals for himself with the introduction of trophies. He was first to achieve both #1 in Battle Navigation and Duty Navigation at the same time. He has also sought out ultimate trophies in Carpentry, Alchemistry, Blacksmithing, Treasure Hauling, Sailing, Battle Navigation, Navigation and Gunnery. He can often times be found as a regular in skellie fights as well.
Though Everclearboy runs fewer large pillages currently, he can be found hunting Brigand Kings often for Cave. Continuing a policy of inclusion rather then exclusion, any pirate as long as they work hard is welcome on these hunts no matter their standing.
Achievements
- 1st pirate to hold #1 standing in both Battle Navigation and Duty Navigation at the same time on Sage Ocean
- Memorized the Sage Ocean on December 10th, 2006
- Held #1 Dnav for a Month (32 day period)
- First pirate to achieve #1 Treasure Hauler on Sage Ocean
- Ran a 24-hour WB pillage aboard the Utter Pandemonium and broke the shares limit of 32 with 55 total battles, having to track down many jobbers after to pay them personally for the time worked. During the 24-hour period he was the only Bnaver with no subsitutions.
- With the help of Wootwoot one of the first pirates on Sage Ocean to win a Brynhild Skullsplitter Trinket, a green Solar Compass.
- Defeated Luckysun in a Swordfight December 16th during the Lucky Dip challenge winning a Fruitcake.
- Won a Blue/Grey Karkinos Crab Pet in Atlantis March 24, 2008
- Won a Nordenx's prize winning egg in Easter Egg Nog April 6th, 2008
- Won a Potted Plant in a Drinking challenge with Gaea April 11th, 2008
- Won a White/White Handkerchief from More the Merrier June 29, 2008 (First Tourney Win)
- Current BK Collection stands at 111 out of 182 Possible BK trinkets variations. (330 overall)
Stalls and shoppes
Owns
- Apothecary Stall on Greenwich Island
Manages
- Capes of Good Hope on Scrimshaw Island
- Sacrifice's Tailor Stall on Greenwich
- Sacrifice's Weavery Stall on Greenwich
