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Important Post for all by Bob: http://acparmyofclubpenguin.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/a-day-in-recap/

Klug, sorry to edit, but OMG you almost beat Boomer for number of words in a retirement post! His in June 2009 was 5294, and you have almost that many.

Sorry to edit, Senate meeting is Sunday, 2pm eastern. I need to talk to Bob and select a new Grand Senator. Thanks. Dryvit.

Well, the title says it all. Believe it or not, I’m retiring from ACP.  I have spent almost two years in this virtual army, and that is plenty of time spent, although I question if it was well spent. If you want a couple of reasons as to why I’m retiring, I can give you some, I guess.

• I’ve been around here for almost two years, which is plenty enough. It’s been one hell of a ride, full of fun, bullshit, and more bullshit, and I’m finally done.
• I do not agree with many of the things my fellow leaders (and retired leaders) are doing. Basically, I don’t like how the army is run. You guys can do whatever you want, but I don’t think I can be a part of a government that I do not agree with.
• I am not helpful to this army in any way whatsoever. Yeah, I admit it. I’m not the most active person (and I do have some good freaking reasons, but nobody ever spared the time to listen to them) and I pretty much just drag the army down.
• Few of you seem to care of my opinions, in anything.
• I have a freaking life, and the social part of my life has really taken off in the past few months.

So, uh…what to write about myself… here we go.

This post will contain the whole and true, unedited story of my time and the time leading up to me being involved with Club Penguin Armies. If I say something in this post that may hurt your feelings, do not take it personally. I refuse to leave anything I think out of this post to spare the feelings of people.

I originally joined Club Penguin in Spring 2007, months and months before Disney bought Club Penguin. For a while, I was your average Club Penguin psycho from 2007. I loved to annoy people and be weird. I did that for some months, but then…then I discovered YouTube. I originally found YouTube after my friends had told me about this hilarious Harry Potter spoof known as the Potter Puppet Pals. Basically, I started to hang around on YouTube alot. I started to wonder if people made Club Penguin videos on Youtube. Without doubt, my suspicions were correct, as there were thousands of Club Penguin videos on youtube. Intrigued by them, I started to watch most of them. Eventually, I came upon a video depicting the war known to some as Fever’s War, which was, as far as I know, a war between Fever’s original Watex Warriors against ACP and some other armies. Fascinated by the immense size that these groups could produce, I began to find more videos of armies. Especially one in general. The ACP. I watched countless videos about how they were arguably the largest and strongest army in Club Penguin. I could have joined them, way back in 2007. But… I didn’t. I thought something along the lines of this. “Why join this army when you can construct your own army to destroy them?” Over the next few months, I started countless rougue armies on my home server of Parka, with the help of my friends. After months of work, I eventually succeeded in accomplishing my goal. All of the penguins that could be reguarly found on Parka knew me as a dangerous penguin. One of the brightest moments of my rougue armies was war against some PSA agents who thought that I needed to be brought to justice. Eventually, me and my rougue army bested them in a battle for the Parka Pizza Parlor, and the PSA agents pretty much disbanded. Another small bright spot was a war between me and about 7 of my friends against some guy and his friends. That one was fun.

As 2007 became 2008 (and I go over 500 words), I slowly gave up on armies again and went back to being a CP noob. This lasted for some months, until I once again went back to YouTube’s Club Penguin community. This time, however, I became fascinated with the Club Penguin Music Video (CPMV) community. I actually made a few of them that were pretty good as well. These people I hung around with were some relatively famous Club Penguin people known on YouTube now.  These people were penguins by the name of Arceus121 and Portionator, who to this day (I believe), still make videos. While I am not sure if they remember me now, they were worth hanging out with for a little while. The CPMV community basically was what I did on Club Penguin for most of the summer of 2008 and into the fall. It all changed in November 2008.

I, again, became fascinated with Club Penguin Armies. This time, I was reintroduced through the Shadow Troops, a small/medium army that had taken refuge on my home server of Parka. I first discovered them training at the Snow Forts. Once I figured out they were an army, I began to remember the millitia that I had lead a year previously that I once dubbed “The protectors of Parka”. Astonished to discover that an army dared to be on my server, I quickly began an effort to fight these Shadow Troops. After almost 2 weeks of attempted attacks on the Shadow Troops, I gave up, knowing that my ignorance had lead to the fall of my server once protected by my proud millitia. I surrendered on Club Penguin to then leader of the Shadow Troops Commando993, and then I unofficially joined them on CP. I started to tail and train with them when I saw them on CP, and even fought against the Club Penguin Warriors in a practice battle with them. It wasn’t to last. The Shadow Troops I had known disappeared from sight on Parka, for reasons I still do not know.  I then went back to YouTube and discovered an army known as the NBP. I found their site relatively easily and was eager to join, but I found that they had died out a long time ago. Sadly, I began to give up on armies, but as I was prowling the NBP site, I came upon a familiar name. The Army of Club Penguin. Surely these couldn’t be the same people I had come across on YouTube almost a year ago? They were. I followed their movements and their leader, Boomer 20, for some three weeks. Once again, the noobish hatred I felt for ACP coursed through my body. I wanted to start an army to fight and destroy the ACP once again, but I could tell by now that that would be next to impossible. Then, a thought struck me. If I could join the ACP, and get high enough, eventually I would have the power to take it down from within. So, I joined the ACP. Not for the purpose of being in ACP because I liked them. I joined the ACP in December 2008, not to help them, but to take them down from the inside out.

After a few weeks of fighting after an ACP soldier, I (just hit 1000 words) had already got my first ban from chat-courtesy of Shaboomboom, I believe-and fought in a few battles. I rose through the ranks reasonably fast, I suppose, and worked very hard to prove to the leaders that I was capable of being a moderator on the chat. I never hesitated to PC Boomer with what I thought was highly useful information (I thank you for being kind to me when I did do that, because it probably annoyed the hell out of you) and be on CP fighting for ACP unofficially any time I could. As I became closer to moderator rank and was a Major, I made my first few friends. I met Chapa23 pretty early in my career, and he was pretty helpful to me in my first few months. Ctar was also the first person to ever give me advice on chat (thank you for telling me that prancing around on servers we don’t own with the ACP uniform on was not the best idea). I made friends with people like Zdoger and Foxtails, originally talking about how great Boston is and whatnot.

Err….the next few months is a blur. I continued to rise up through the ranks, Boomer came up with the idea of the Brigades (Echo Brigade all the way!) and then Boomer retired for the first time. It was a big deal to me, as he was the first leader I served under andI considered him a friend. Saint119 became the new leader. On her first promotion day, I can happily say I was promoted from Colonel or whatever to Major General, skipping the new Sergeant Major General rank that Saint had made. I was finally a mod, and I didn’t look back.

Saint was leader for June and parts of July, unless I’m mistaken. I went on vacation for a week in June or something while Saint was leader, and I distincly remember telling Packer shortly before I left, “Don’t let the ACP explode while I’m gone.”. That nearly happened. I came back to find ACP, along with other armies, in a major crisis. #iamthewalrus (notorious “hacking” group and Club Penguin haters) had decided to full out attack all Club Penguin Armies, in the operation now known as “Club Penguin Shitstorm”. They seem to be fueled by Person (then leader of the Nachos)’ letter to them, which called them out and greatly enraged them. While this was extremely chaotic, it was the first (and only, perhaps) time I’ve seen the Nachos and ACP fight together against a single cause. This fight eventually died out as ACP let Joe (#iamthewalrus creator and err, whatever they call their leader thing) on their chat, and Meat told me to be nice to him, much to my displeasure (thanks a lot, Meat.).

Anyway, Saint retired shortly after the beginning of July, stressing that she could not handle being ACP leader. Dryvit was the new leader. Dry. Jumped straight from Lt. General to 2nd in Command, and then to leader. He was one of the lucky ones. He lead with a loyalty to the ACP so extreme, I had never seen anything quite like it before. After a few weeks of him being leader, NGA (Next Generation ACP) appeared, a “revolution” party that wanted to make Commando1717, creator and former leader of RPF, leader of ACP. This group became relatively popular, and was soon filled up with known ACP haters, even though they stressed that they wanted to “help” ACP. Dryvit opposed this group very much, and being a loyal ACP soldier, I did everything in my power to oppose them too. Eventually, this group died out.

As July became August or whatever, I was promoted to Lt. General. Yay. Whatever. ACP had some wars withthe Nachos, RFW (now a dead army), and blah blah blah. I’m getting really bored of writing about my history. I’ve still got almost a year to cover. Great. Uhh, let’s just skip through August.

September. Dryvit retired and made Meat ACP Leader. Meat was known for his almost extreme love of rules, video games, and…I’m not even going to put Fox in this part. I’ve been bored with the Meat/Fox jokes for ages. Anyway, I had a good feeling going into Meat’s leadership. He was a capable leader, after all. One of the first things Meat did was make a new chat for the ACP. I forget the link, but whatever. The second thing that happened while he was leader is that the Nachos made a huge alliance and tried to take Mammoth from the ACP. Didn’t work out so well. I will admit, the Ice Warriors saved our butts’ in that war. Well, we won the war, much due to the Ice Warriors doing a lot of the work. After that, things changed. Meat started to go a bit psycho, banning and kicking people if they disagreed with him on video games. Nobody really knows if he was joking or being entirely serious, as he rarely joked anyway. He had made some of his good friends in ACP leaders and seemed only willing to take advice from them. Dryvit saw this. I don’t know whether he really just didn’t want Meat to be leader or had a bit of regret of retiring, but he started a coup (I will note that coups in ACP are all extremely frowned upon, unless they are lead by Dry, Boomer, or Shab) and quickly gained Boomer and Shab’s help. They quickly took ACP out of Meat’s apparent-insane power and made Boomer leader once again.

With Boomer as the new leader, and I just hit 2000 words, the ACP flourished. We reached sizes we had not seen in a long time. While everything seemed to be working for us, I was a little uneasy as we headed into December. Boomer recalled lots of past ACP leaders to co lead with him (Dryvit, Shab, Saint). I didn’t really agree. How could people learn to be leader if they never got the chance? Anyway, while I questioned how good an idea it would be to make former ACP leaders co leaders again, the ACP entered the Decades’ End tournament, hosted by none other than CPA Central. ACP won, blah blah blah, army of the decade and year honors, blah blah blah.

On to January. Boomer retired again, and who did he make leader? Saint. Saint lead for a month, and then gave up once again and made Dryvit leader. Much to other armies displeasure (Dry has never been a popular figure among other armies) ACP ran right back into where we had been the July before it. I didn’t like it. I spoke out against how the ACP was just recycling the past leaders. I joked how if we kept going like this, Meat would end up leader again.

Fortunately, that did not happen. Dryvit eventually retired (after a series of devastating arguments involving Motor and lasgae) and gave way for Dr Nono Jr and Capncook to lead the ACP. Nono had been leader before, but only for one day, and had since then wanted to be leader once again to prove his doubters wrong. Unfortunately, leading the ACP wasn’t Nono’s destiny. Shab, seeing a weakness in the ACP’s leadership, quickly made a coup and took control of ACP, declaring himself leader. Somewhere in this bit, I was made Division General, after being stuck at General for what seemed like ages. Shab lead for a few months (every day the armies’ collective dislike for him grew) and I admit, I was strongly opposed against him. Our 2ic’s were basically running the show. I was so outright in my comments that Shab even PC’d me once and asked me why I hated his leadership so much. I told him I just did not agree with his ideas. You would think that Shab would never even think of making me a 3ic after that. But that is exactly what he did.

I became a 3ic shortly before Shab’s retirement. Shab retired, yadda yadda yadda, iasgae became ACP leader, he did a pretty good job, lead for a few months, retired, someone gave him the Medal of Honor, even though he admits he has no idea what he did to deserve it. Matre became leader, I was promoted to 2ic, blah.

This history crap is seriously starting to annoy me. GAHH. Anyway, as the spring became the summer, I continued to be a 2ic and stuff. I started to become less active (meaning that I actually had stuff to do other than sit on the computer all day long), much to the displeasure of many people in ACP. As the summer progressed, I learned that many people did not want me to be a 2ic anymore. This greatly saddened me. I thought I should retire. I almost retired in the start of August, but ias saved me and told me not to. I regained my will to help ACP for most of August, and I helped. I guess. I don’t know.

Anyway, now it’s September, and I pretty much zoomed through most of 2010 because alot of it involved me questioning everything. It’s time for me to retire. That’s my history. On to the good stuff, the thank you’s, the goodbyes, and the eventual grand finale.

Thank You’s- This is going to be thank you’s to all of my friends (well, not all, since most of them might never read this and it would be a waste of time to include them) and advice to pretty much everyone that I can give advice to. In no particular order, here we go.

Boomer- You were the first leader I ever served under in ACP, and you were one of the best damn leaders I’ve ever met, in any army. You have a thing about you that just makes people want to listen to you, something I’ve only seen in two other people in ACP, both who will be named later in this post. You are a great guy, a great friend, and you get more hilarious every time I see you on chat. When you lead ACP the first time, you were a very serious guy. After you retired though, the funny side of you came out. You write some of the most intriguing posts I’ve ever seen, and I wish I could write like you can, even though I do think my abilities are pretty good. Moo.

Foxtails- You may very well be one of the greatest friends I ever made in ACP. I felt like I could talk to you about anything, and we seem to be linked together forever because of our Boston connections (Boston FTW). Dubbing me the ZMeat was one of the most meaningful (and funny) moments during my time in ACP. You are a great friend, a great writer, and one of the most powerful figures in ACP during your prime. I swear, if I could choose one person involved with ACP to know where I really live, it would be you, even though you already know where I live. I may have stumbled upon where you live (quite by accident) thanks to my endless boredom whenever I am on the internet. If you don’t want me to know where you live, I can bang my head off a watermelon until I forget. Anyway, great friend, great writer, great person. Byezz.

Capncook- Capn, Capn, Capn. You have proved to be another one of those true friends that I could tell anything about. You became (hey, I just hit 3000 words!) one of my greatest friends in ACP. We talked so much, about the Beatles, leadership issues, and just whatever the hell we wanted to. Everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my monkey, right? Your a great guy. You know how to lead. I really hope that my retiring gets you a leadership spot, because you should be one. You have the ability to be leader. You can be leader. Just…don’t lose faith, like I did. The leadership is a messy place, full of endless problems, but you should know that as well as anybody. Your a great guy, Capn. You should be a leader. I hope you make it. Truth is, you didn’t, because you just retired, so everything in front of your name and before this is meaningless :D.

Ennbay- ENNNNNNNNNN. Your also one of my greatest friends. I met you pretty early into my career, and somehow we ended up becoming great friends, despite the fact that I’m a Red Sox fan and your a Yankees fan. The Red Sox might not make the playoffs this year, but if you damn Yankees win the World Series again, I’m going to explode. Wait, maybe not. Your currently on 27 titles, right? Get 28. 27 is my favorite number, and I can’t bear to have the Yankees have that many championships. Moop. If I hadn’t met you, ACP may have been pretty boring. Your hilarious, live in NYC, and a Yankees fan. Tell all the taxi cabs in NYC I said hi, because one of those psychos almost ran me over once.

lasgae- las, las, las. What is there to say about you? If you had stayed ACP leader, you could have been considered on of the greats. But you retired, and you seem to be fine with that, so whatever. I thought I was never going to see you again when you randomly dissappeared for a while. Thought the leprechauns had taken you away. You are an amazing poster and unbelievably funny. You’ve reminded me of Person of the Nachos at times. I can talk to you about anything, and anyone. We created MCP (along with Bluey’s help) and although it died pretty quickly, we seem to be pretty proud of it for some reason. It could’ve been a Top 10 army eventually, but we failed. Miserably. Yay.

Motor– Motor. You could have became ACP leader months ago, but unfortunately, you were unfairly fired and had to work to gain your former rank back. Many people would have went to another army and sought revenge on ACP for being fired, but you kept at it. You wanted it too much. I probably would have just given up, but your a fighter. You, like Boomer, have a natural aura about you that makes people want to listen to you. You have the capability to be a good leader of ACP. Don’t give up.

Mchappy- I will admit that I have had mixed feelings about you for a while. Like Motor and Boomer, people like to listen to you. You have a natural leading capability. You know how to lead. You were very excited to find yourself become one of the leaders, and you are arguably the most active person in the army. You get to posting everything before everyone else (which is part of the problem in which everyone is complaining only two or three leaders are doing anything) leaving people like me, who can’t get on as much as this army might like, with nothing to post about. I was told by someone that you and Dj planned on demoting me due to inactiveness if you were to become leader before me. I don’t know if you really planned on doing that, but it doesn’t matter. I’ve been on the verge of demotion for a long freaking time, apparently.  You remind of me of a mix between Dryvit and Meat- like Dry, you love to post and have a similar style of arguing (which, I must admit, is merely taking everyone on a guilt trip and dismissing everything anyone else says as lies) and a Meat-ish love for rules and whatnot. Part of the reason why I probably seem so inactive is because you are so active. People expect me to live up to your “standard”. Anyway, kid, you can be a great leader, and your going to be around here for a long time. Don’t get discouraged if you don’t get leader right away, because you will eventually.

Little- Like I said earlier, I’m going to offer advice. Little, you can be a good 3ic or 2ic, maybe. You do have a lot to learn, though. I don’t know if you can ever be a good leader- you haven’t been an owner rank long enough to tell. I will admit that if it were up to me, I wouldn’t have agreed with making you a 3ic over some people, but, then again, I’m just Klug, that guy that was 2ic that nobody ever asked-nor cared-of his opinion. You have the capability and the will to work. Don’t waste it.

Dryvit– You probably don’t remember this, but you saved me from retiring almost a year ago. I was really ticked off at the time, and you somehow managed to calm me down and persuaded me not to retire. I thank you for saving me from retiring. I do consider you one of my friends in ACP, but there are parts of you that I do not like too much. Your influence over the ACP and what the leaders do annoys me from time to time, and there has been times where I’ve felt that you (and other retired leaders) have been trying to influence ACP in a direction that you approve of, and not let the current administration actually do something by themselves. This isn’t just you-I see it from Shab, Oagal, and even Boomer at times. You do seem to have a knack for arguing with people, and I do respect that. You are one of the most influential-and at the same time, dangerous- figures involved with ACP. I’ve said it many times before, I’m glad that I’m not your enemy, because ACP can be hell if someone like you hates you.

Matre– Another one of my good friends. I first met you when las, Bluey, and I were creating MCP. You helpfully made us a header for the site, and a friendship was born. You were a good leader, and I can’t think of anything else to write about you for some reason. Err..yeah.

Shab- Ahh, mr. Shabbeth. You, like Dry, have an immense influential power over ACP and like to offer suggestions. A lot. You may think your helping, but in my eyes it’s just trying to influence the leaders to go in a direction that you would have gone in had you been in power. You are very unliked among the majority of ACP- I myself have been known to critizise you, but you made me a 3ic. I never understood why you did that, but I’m grateful for it. You are one of those people that imagining ACP without you to be an odd thought. Moop :D.

Oagalthorp– Ah, is any retirement from ACP complete without Oagal? Oagal, you created ACP, as you very well know. Without you, this post most definitely would not be on right now.  So…uh, thanks. I guess.

Uno- I haven’t seen you in a while, but your awesome. Lawlz.

Uni– Some random dude I met like a year ago. Hehe.

Bob- Your a really good leader. Keep it up.

The Nacho Army- Ah, the Nachos. I once hated you guys. Now, I have the utmost respect for you guys. I’ve seen the Nachos go through alot, from the success of when Person and Aka lead together to all of the falls, rises, and more. I admire the Nachos ability to pretty much oppose all of the rules and regulations that armies like ACP are known for. And they still are large while doing it. Some of the funniest people I ever met in CP armies came from the Nachos. I know sometimes you guys’ leaders can be more than unreasonable, but that’s how you roll, and I respect that. Whatever it takes to stay up there, right? If I ever feel the need to come back to armies (and one that isn’t ACP), I may just choose the Nachos.

I know I probably left out a ton of people, but I really didn’t want to complete this entirely.

ACP, you guys have a lot of problems. If I might, I’d like to give some suggestions.

• A Senate that does good- The ACP Senate is a major problem. It’s supposed to be here to make good laws and ideas for the ACP, right? That isn’t what has happened. Instead, we have a senate that tries to make rules that are overall annoying and restrict a lot of stuff.  It needs to be fixed. Please. Moo.
• Constitution, perhaps?- Many of you may not know this, but lasgae, former leader of ACP, once wrote a possible constitution for ACP. I forget the link to it, but I remember that it’s awesome. I’d consider using it.
• GAAH. I CAN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING I WAS GOING TO SAY AT THIS PART. MOO.
• I remembered something. Use reason. I considered myself to be one of the few voices of reason in the ACP. I need somebody to carry that on for me. Accept that you lose if you lose, guys.

Basically, guys, I’m done. I can’t stand this anymore. All the secrets, all the lies, all the extreme bullshit. I just…can’t. I once thought myself destined to be ACP leader. I was so freaking wrong. My destiny, as far as I can tell, in ACP was to give reason to an army too used to success. To try to help, but be ignored.

I’ve always wanted to see the ACP fall. Originally, it was so that they would never get back up, but now, it’s to see if you guys could handle it. The ACP is too used to success. The ACP does not know how to admit defeat. I do. I thought I could help ACP with that, but I guess not. I really want my retirement to have in impact on the ACP. Change your attitudes. No more stupidity. No more arrogance.

Now, one of the questions your probably asking yourself is this: Will Klug ever come back?

If the ACP ever needs my help, I’ll try to do whatever I can. I can’t say that I’ll ever rejoin, but I’ll help. And one day, you guys are going to need a lot of help. I just might be the guy to give it.

If I do ever join another army, I might join the Nachos. Don’t call me a traitor, right now, I’m not joining anyone or anything. I’m just going to enjoy retirement and see how it affects the ACP.

Anyway, good luck in the future, ACP. You might need it more than most armies, no matter what it seems like how powerful we are. The administration of ACP is a scary, scary place. All future leaders, beware.

If I do have a last request, I just want to be remembered. As a person who did everything he could for the ACP, but in the end fell short. I’d like to be remembered as a legend. Klug the legend. I’d like that.

1 2/3 years, 19 ranks, millions of words read and written, 5,049 words in this post alone. Been one hell of a ride. But it’s over.

Thank you,

~Klug1234~

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I’m going, bye.

~Capncook

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