The Rejected Times: Special Release - 21st Century Ghost(fox): An Interview with Lynxi, Soon-to-be Pharaoh of Osiris

21st Century Ghost(fox): An Interview with Lynxi, Soon-to-be Pharaoh of Osiris
INTERVIEW | WRITTEN BY Senior Reporter Marilyn manson freaks | EDITED BY TRT STAFF

Hello, Lynxi. :)

Thank you for agreeing to do this interview.

No problem.

It's a pleasure to speak to you. Let's just jump right in! For those who aren't aware, when did you join NS?

Same, definitely. I started in December of 2016. So basically I'm an NS baby. Though that's not when I founded my first nation. I just really didn't get into more than issues til 2016.

So, when did you found your first nation?

2011, I think. It's a guesstimate that Satya was able to help with. I think I was founded in TWP.

Jeez! You're far from being a NationStates baby. :P

Well sure, but I had the nation for like a few weeks and then forgot about it. I consider myself to have started in 2016, since that's when I actually did stuff.

Understandable. How did you find your way to Osiris?

Well at first I didn't. I was a Warden when my interest in Osi started to grow and that was before the proscription was lifted. So I kind've stuck around as a visitor in the discord and just watched from the outside. I'd say that particular experience gave me a bigger drive to do stuff I'd never done in Osiris and was the cornerstone for my pursuit of the delegacy.

Were you surprised when Altino appointed you as her heir?

No. We had been talking about it for a while. The response we got from the rest of everyone was that they weren't surprised either. So I guess that shows how big of a "secret" it was, lol.

And, if you could change one thing about Osiris, what would you change?

I'm not sure, that's actually a tough question. I think if I had to change something it'd be the citizen role color in the discord. I'm pretty sure I'd be a regional legend for doing that at this point.

Heh. Yeah, it's a pretty odd color. When Altino made the announcement that she was going to abdicate as Pharaoh soon, how did you react?

Well, I knew that she was going to so it wasn't too big of a surprise. We've planned all of this out for a while now. But as with any leap in responsibility, I grew a bit more nervous and excited when she made the post.

Okay, huge question here. When you are officially coronated as Pharaoh, what will your first action be?

THAT is a big surprise, so stay tuned. But uh, my second action(s) is probably going to be meeting with my Viziers one by one and laying out a sort of timeline for each department. I plan to spend a lot of time on the interior during my time as Pharaoh, and that's the first step: making goals.

That's great. You definitely have to focus on internal affairs before you deal with external affairs. :P
Do you have any goals? Anything planned for your reign?

I have one overarching goal that's going to be the drive for everything I do, and it's born on the back of Altino's vision for a meritocratic Osiris. That goal is to promote dedicated people to the place they want to be in Osiris. As a regional leader you can't just think about the tings that happen in your term, but you have to set a solid foundation for the person after you. If not, you might be handing them a grenade that'll blow up in their hands. And because of that, I'm going to be following an old management cliche: My job is to promote the people under me. Hopefully in pursuing that we get to build a solid level of community on top of Altino's foundation.

Yeah, I do think that sometimes GCR Delegates can unknowingly and knowingly ignore or overlook the contributions of others. Fortunately, I haven't seen that in a while. Now onto our next question. What's your favorite moment/memory from your time in Osiris?

Hm, probably the #BullyCulture Anti Valentine's Day we did. I think that was one of the best tings CA has pulled off as a team. It went real well, got the entire community behind the idea of Bully Culture and was really funny. Though mine and Dali's St Patrick's Day Drunk VC was pretty great too. Ultimately my favorite memories from Osi are all based on a big show of camaraderie and community.

What did those events involve?

Well the first one was getting everyone to submit anonymous and lighthearted insults to each other via a google form. Me and a few CA helpers released them throughout the day on discord, tagging the recipients and laughing at the carnage. I have to emphasize that they were entirely lighthearted. The idea of #BullyCulture is less about the bullying and more about giving friends a hard time to mask the affection. Affection spreads cooties, after all. The drunk VC with Dali was about as literal as that can sound. Me and Dali piled into VC for somewhere close to 7 hours and drank while celebrating St. Patrick's day with the rest of the community.

Sounds fun! Are you still a defender, or did your perspective change as you played a bit longer?

I haven't thought about my place in R/D for a minute, and part of that is because Osiris has taken my full focus. So this last year or so is really captured by the phrase "Lynxi is an Osiran" more than "Lynxi is a defender." When my WA frees up, whenever that is, I'll start thinking about it.

That's great. Some people let alignment go to their heads, personally I couldn't care less about my gameplay alignment.

I actually think that it's important to find your niche and try to focus on it. Early on I was all over the place, these days I'm drawn away from unaligned/independent alignments and I'm more curious about the people and mindsets that stick to one side of the line. I think that makes for a more interesting r/d meta and I'm kinda done with being unaligned as I was in the past. It just remains to be seen which side I'll choose. :P

Do you regret anything you've done in Osiris?

Nope. I don't regret anything I've done in NS really. Not that I haven't made mistakes, but I try to be as candid and sincere in the tings I believe in. I don't really find the IC morally grey stuff fun anyways, so there's nothing that I really have to regret in the first place. Sometimes I feel like I can do better, but there's no point in dwelling on that.

And, lastly, would you say that you've evolved as a player over the years? If so, how?

I have undoubtedly evolved over the years. When I started I was a roleplayer, and very unsure of the difference between IC and OOC shouting matches. I stayed in the shadows of the larger GP community, a bit unsure of if I really wanted to pursue stuff like a GCR delegacy, and more trying to figure out how community building worked. Unfortunately I learned the hard way as I watched several of my earlier regions implode due to clique based mentalities and people trying to control others. So when I helped cofound Caer Sidi with Aynia, I got a good glimpse into why these tings happen when regions are growing or building. And that process helped me see, really, what nationstates was at its core and how to have an IC mask over my OOC personality. I suggest to anyone, if you're looking to grow you should try to build a UCR. It does wonders for gaining NS experience.

Well, this concludes our interview. Thanks again, Lynxi! I hope the transition goes smoothly. :)

No problem! And me too, haha. So far so good.

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