Winter Crises

Winter Crises is a name given to the peculiar phenomenon of a major crisis taking place during each winter since the server's creation.
== The First Winter Crisis ==
The first Winter Crisis varies depending on the source. This is because there were in fact two great events that threatened to tear the server apart during that winter, these being the Vis Raid and Black Saturday. 
The Vis raid occurred on December 27th, 2019, after at the time moderator Ninetiethbeef08 invited the Midnight owner to raid PtR. This even, despite only lasting a few hours, would have a disproportionate affect on PtR-Midnight relations over the next few years.
Black Saturday meanwhile fits better with the other Winter Crises, it being a time of unrest among the server's populace. Black Saturday would occur on Saturday, January 25th of 2020. The incident would happen after the first PtR Saturday event earlier in the day, and in the incident Shiite would offend Lonathan, leading to his leaving of the server. The fallout of this would lead to Shiite declaring he would cede power to Ramiro007 (the first time this would happen, but not the last) and try to take a break. This would all be fixed however by the next day, as Lonathan would return later on the 25th and Shiite would official return as owner on the 26th
== The February Crisis of 2021 ==
The Second Winter Crisis would come about naturally, and in historiography can be seen to be perhaps less than it was thought of at the time.
During late January of 2021, PtR would agree to hold the first great "invite poll" since 2019, this being to determine the new "69th member". Shiite would hijak this using his connections to rig half of the votes up until the final ballot when he would rest his men and let the obvious favorite (Sanador29) win. The day before the vote would end however, events would be set in motion that would begin the crisis.
In the early morning hours of February 1st, Shiite, Vlad, and others were discussing in PtR general, as sometimes occurs. Eventually the topic of Midnight was brought up, and Shiite informed Vlad of a piece of information he had recently heard, that being Eevee had left Midnight. Now to this point Eevee was a punchline to the PtR community, as she is a woman. Despite this, the way Vlad would go on to describe her and her private server (which Shiite would later be invited to) intrigued the owner, and eventually he would decide "fuck it, let's invite her". He would proceed to kick Omino's alt to keep the member count the same for the 69th member, and gave her the invite. This would be the first of many during these few strange days.
Between the 1st and 3rd of February, 6 users would join PtR. This is the most users per day ever in the servers history, a truly special event. Though 2 of these were returning users, Nick and Goktug, the arrival of Eevee, Sanador, Fun, and Oreo Puffs all in less than two days is extremely peculiar for such private a server as PtR is. This era had Shiite genuinely considering letting down on the fundamental value of PtR: being a private server, yet it would all come crashing down on the 3rd.
The Crisis would begin when Borat began posting Among Us nsfw. After he refused to stop, he was banned. This became greatly controversial, and many users (led by the ever-rebellious Tony) would revolt against this perceived "injustice". All of this pushed PtR to the brink, and the protests forced the staff team to allow Borat to return, though muted. All of these events would lead to Shiite commencing Operation Union Mills, or the formation of the National Salvation Junta (composed of the Moderators, himself, and rather strangely Eevee) to "save" the server. The only real accomplishments of the Junta would be the pruning of a few old inactives and the writing of the much-maligned #rules channel.
In the end, the February Crisis never amounted to anything other than a scare, with the biggest results of it being Eevee and Shiite's close cooperation for the next two months and Sanador's entry into the server. Whether the lack of a collapse is because the incident was overblown or because of the quick action of the Junta is up for debate.
== Black Monday and the Triumvirate (2022) ==
As 2021 wound down, PtR would experience its greatest crisis since The Mocracy in Spring 2020, the result of a gradual cultural shift as the server's population aged.
Sleier had been a very active member since his entrance during the Second Midnight Conflict. Algie on the other hand was an original member from the RP in 2019 who was always controversial for some of his actions.