Proser

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Proser (formerly silverstreet, Piaras2020) is an EMC player from the nation North Sea Republic / Ireland. He is perhaps best known for being a former Staff Manager and Moderator on the server and being a former Hoyenah (leader) and prominent member of the NSR. He has played EMC for 4+ years but endured a long hiatus in 2021.

Beginnings: March - September 2020

The sign dedicated to Proser (silverstreet at the time), found in New Shannon on Nova, dated May 30 2020

Proser first heard of EMC from the youtuber Toycat's videos. He first joined Terra Nova on 23 March 2020 when he was bored shortly after COVID lockdown began. He joined and tped to Ireland. He left the capital (a 3 chunk meme town called Wales) and walked to the nearby town of Ossory, where he met the mayor IamGawain. Proser soon bought queue priority and the 2 became friends and grew the town, bought the nation Ireland and began rebelling against Accordo's Britain. He changed his ingame name to silverstreet about a month after first joining. Proser began the Irish settlement of Iceland, creating New Shannon where there is a sign commemorating his mayorship. He was the first elected leader of Ireland and was the primary architect and builder of Ossory's shopping district.

Proser's favourite activities around this time was playing poker at the Lixus casino and attending community events. He was part of the team at the EMC Player's Union. As an Irish mayor in Iceland he decided to go on a grind and build up some gold. After amassing around 5k gold, Proser announced on 24/06/2020 that he would be leaving the nation. He created the nation of Khazar in Asia on 2 July (his birthday) and grew his town to 100+ chunks. He built a shop and began to build roads in the town.

Inactivity would strike, however. As the summer went on, particularly around mid-August, Proser began to log on less and less frequently. A combination of COVID restrictions relaxing, school starting back and other irl reasons led to him going outside more and to stop nolifing. This culminated in him giving out approx. 3.2k gold in one night in October to randoms for free. He kept his res data until January 2021 by logging in once a month, but simply forgot to one time and his res data was wiped. Proser regrets quitting so early and looks back at this time as his fondest in EMC.

Proser creating Cork, May 2 2022

Late Nova

Proser was curious to see how EMC had changed so decided to log in on 2 November 2021. He was recruited by Mednis, the leader of Austria and whose name he recognised from when he first played. He joined Vienna and kept playing casually. Mednis got one of his inactive mayors to give him the 120 chunk town of Sopia for free on 12 Dec 2021. Proser thought EMC had sort of fallen off from when he first played but continued to play a bit nonetheless. He was recruited to the staff team as a helper on 27 March 2022, which gave him a lot of motivation to play. Shortly after he was made helper, Terra Aurora was announced that April.

Aurora

Beginning

After Terra Aurora was announced Proser originally planned to make an Ireland nation with RandomWill, RandovMan, Connor_Oreilly and Lokibeeper. He knew Will from Ireland on Nova (Proser was the one who recruited him). Will knew Connor from Iceland on Nova and Will recruited Randov from EMC general chat. After Dublin was founded by EchoOcelot on May 1st, Proser wanted to abandon the Ireland plans last minute and move to Dubai as he believed Britain, or someone else got to the nation first. But Will insisted they make Cork (about the same location as the original Ossory on Nova). Cork was created by Proser on May 2nd as the 3rd town on the island, behind Dublin and Belfast. They went on a mining grind for gold, amassing the 2048 gold in 3 days (including a 500 gold loan from Ulok of Switzerland) and creating the nation Ireland on May 5th with Cork as the capital and Will as the King. They believed creating the nation so fast was vital as they wanted to have the Ireland name. After some days, Will told Proser he would be going inactive until at least June, and gave the nation and Cork to Proser to hold.

NSR (North Sea Republic)

On May 15th Dayzle reached out to Proser ingame asking to vc on discord, where he proposed plans to unite the nations Ireland, Britain (of which Belfast was a part of) and Iceland (of which Dublin was a part of). Proser was intrigued as he believed large nations with an active community were the keys to success on the server. He tried to get in contact with Will but did not get any meaningful response. Proser then held a vote in the Ireland Aurora discord (which included some old friends who did not play aurora) which ended 6 to 3 in favour of unifying. During the voting period Britain pulled out of the unification, but despite this Ireland officially unified with Iceland on May 18th. Proser, with the help of RandovMan, moved the nation capital to a 1 chunk town within Dublin (Stormont, later named Dublin Castle), which Proser held until the Hoyenah's (Logancreeper50 at the time) term ended on June 2nd. Proser was voted in as a Chief in the June election. Proser handed the nation and the 1 chunk capital to RlZ58, the newly elected Hoyenah. The union went on to recruit more nations and evolved to become the North Sea Republic.

RandomWill logged on to give the town Cork back to Proser and moved to the town Shanghai, however nowadays Will continues to be inactive. After being promoted from helper to Mod on 23 July, Proser handed Cork to iMogs (an old player who he recruited) on the 26th, as he felt that he lacked the time and motivation to build and run a town. After the NSR voted to move the capital from Dublin_Castle to Better_Dublin, the nation held a public vote to rename it. Proser and others campaigned for it to be named Ossory in honour of the Irish capital on the previous map, which won the vote.

Proser then held towns or lived as a citizen in Cork as a councillor. He was elected Chief again in December 2022, and was elected Hoyenah (leader) in January 2023 for that month in the largest ever election up to that point. He moved to the capital to become owner of the ingame nation of Ireland (as was tradition). He did not run for a second term, and after his term ended on February 2 he returned to Cork and became mayor again. He spent most of his time working on Cork Castle which had begun being constructed by iMogs, and engaging in staff activities. He was elected as Chief 2 more times in May and September 2023, however his activity tapered off a bit in the summer.

In late October he began recruiting in Cork. He recruited a number of active residents throughout November including Irish_Bludge, Bucked_Zulu, and Owry. This along with other factors led to a drive in activity in the NSR towards the end of the year. Proser was elected again as Hoyenah for 2 consecutive terms in Dec 2023 and Jan 2024. Proser spent these months living in the capital and gave Cork to Owry, and later Bucked_Zulu to hold while he was there.

Proser returned to Cork after his final term ended on February 2 2024, however he entered an inactive spell which continued until late May/early June. He then returned as an active member of the NSR, and mayor of Cork.

Staff

Proser made a total of 4 staff applications before being recruited to the team. 3 of which were in 2020 and the final one was made in December 2021, shortly after he returned. CorruptedGreed, who was a Staff Manager at the time, added Proser to the staff team on March 27 2022 as a helper.

He was active as a helper and was promoted to Mod on July 23 2022 along with others from his wave. He was an active staff member and was promoted to Staff Manager on May 28 2023, to replace the outgoing Professor__Pro and xFiji. Proser served as a Staff Manager for a year, resigning from the position and retiring from staff altogether on June 4 2024.

Trivia

• Proser is seen for a split second at 8:56 in Drew Durnil's video on EarthMC (ign silverstreet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkztlVwoGo
• He had his discord hacked in June 2020 and had to make a new one
• He is 21 irl.
• He is from Northern Ireland, but considers himself to be Irish.
• He is the first and only European Hoyenah in the NSR's history.