Norman Otterman

## General Information

Norman Otterman *was* a semi-active player on Euphoria. He is according to Euph lore canonically 45% Otter, 25% sloth, 15% goat , and 15% lion. He joined the server any time before the end of May 2021, and he is mostly known for causing conflicts with Caketown, and for his long, rant-induced arguments that can sometimes occur multiple times a day. He is a fan of the phrases "Stay off the weed, homies," and "Au contraire, mon frère." He also enjoys what he calls "trolling," which is usually flaming someone and then spamming off the same 7 gifs. He does not like when others do this back, saying that they are being unreasonable and that he “was just joking”.

## Life on Bedrock X

Norman joined BrX sometime before the end of May 2021. His first notable action was the co-founding of the Anti-Grim Alliance, alongside his then friend, Unspeakable1707. This group consisted of many assorted players, along with a high number of soon to be Caketown members. It used a number of methods to antagonize and prevent Grim from griefing, which were eventually made futile when Grim left spawn in shambles. With spawn in disarray, Demon the admin led an expedition to a faraway spot, where a more peaceful settlement could be located, it was named Caketown. Norman joined Caketown soon after its creation, but he is not considered to be one of the original founders. Norman coexisted seemingly well with the other Caketown members, until it was griefed by another member named IUPJessica.

After this, Caketown shifted to a much more distant area, next to the border, and became much more selective with who it let in. During this time, Norman temporarily lived in an abandoned house 1000 blocks from spawn while he attempted to join New Caketown. However, the members of New Caketown didn't trust Norman enough to let him join, making him bitter. He began to insist that because many of the town founders had been in his old alliance, he in fact owned Caketown and should not only be a member but be its leader. Everyone thought this was ridiculous, except for Norman, and he was only *temporarily* deterred from his claims when the Alliance Severing occurred. Soon after this, BrX was reset for the 1.17 update.

## Life on Bedrock X Revived

Norman joined BrXr around the same day it came up. Almost immediately, his goal became less of joining Caketown, and more of slandering its reputation. He began to talk about how Caketown had betrayed him after its members had agreed to let him be king, and he said it to nearly every person he met. It was on one of these occasion that a Caketown member named Splurge6196 became annoyed, he began yelling at Norman, telling him that just because he had led an alliance of people rooted against Grim, it didn't mean he led a town that held some of its members. Norman then began to draw parallels to real life Austria-Hungary, and because it was supposedly both an alliance and an empire, that Caketown was owned by him. At this point, Splurge snapped and called Norman a bigot (someone who is unreasonably and irreversibly prejudiced against against members of a specific group). Norman immediately began yelling that because he was black, this statement was racist, which, although incorrect, made Splurge feel bad and temporarily exile himself from Caketown.

Soon after this, Norman gave up hope on joining Caketown and decided to make his own nation. He was unsure whether or not to call it Nova Scotia or Brunswick, eventually deciding on Nova Scotia. He proceeded to recruit many players such as Akemi Corvus and his soon to be right-hand-man, Technoblade6116. For a short amount of time, nobody knew where the town was located. That changed however, when Adi, a Caketown member, found a small settlement a short way from spawn, at x: 574, y: 102, z: 556. She asked Splurge, who had now unexiled himself, to check out the base and see what it was for. He went to the coordinates, and after reading a few signs scattered about, decided that the base was most likely a Dream SMP roleplay base.

Later in the day, Caketown members Ben and Axe went to check out the base, but unfortunately for them, Norman was there. Norman, now revealed to be the owner of the base (which turned out to be Nova Scotia), was angry that people were trespassing on his land, he demanded that they leave or else there would be war. Right after this, Techno, Norman's general and right-hand-man, kidnapped Axe, prompting Ben to have to try and rescue him. Little is known about this encounter, but there are two stories on how it goes. Ben and Axe's story is that Ben rescued Axe after a battle and then left. Norman's follows this same idea, but at some point, he states that Ben declared war, but he had no evidence as he was "too caught up in the moment" to take a screenshot of the message. Norman continued to engage in petty squabbles like this, until the server was unexpectedly reset following deleted chunks developing over spawn.

## Life on the Last Vanilla Survival Server

Norman's era of conflict didn't pause for the opening of the L.V.S.S, and he started making trouble almost immediately. Before the server had even opened, Norman had been "trolling" players relentlessly, and refused to let up, even to the demands of the Euphoria admins. Norman also made a surprising alliance with the nation of Dreamtopia, which was led by Captain Axe, creating the new nation of Novatopia in the process. This nation was to consist of three cities, one was to be led by Norman, the next was to be led by Sky, who is Axe's cousin, and the third, which was to be the capital, was to be led by Axe himself. A Discord server was created to discuss plans for this nation, where Norman insisted that Splurge be barred from entry, because of the last argument that they had had. However, Axe was friends with Splurge, as they were both members of Caketown, and he refused to let the ban come to fruition. Soon after Norman had been raising some more fuss in the Discord server, Axe invited Splurge to the server and put him in the position of Norman's supervisor, effectively making him Norman's boss. Eventually, it came time for a base for the capital to be found, and it was decided that this would be a woodland mansion. After the coordinates of a mansion were found, an expedition set out to get to it. It soon became a race, with Norman and Axe traveling through the Overworld while Splurge traveled through the Nether. Splurge continuously died, so Norman and Axe won, with Splurge in close second, having gained the idea for a quicker method of travel from spawn to the mansion.

Once here, all of the members of the base set up their rooms, with Norman's being on the first floor in the hallway to the right, close to his then friend Jafrith, aka CoolKid. Things seemed calm for a while, until Norman accused Splurge of stealing seven of his emeralds after finding some in his chest. In retaliation of this accused stealing, Norman took the seven emeralds, along with multiple enchanted axes and other bits of loot, starting what would later be known as the Emerald Escapade. Splurge, obviously upset with the accusations and then being stolen from, asked then-moderator BridgeGoBRRR to make Norman cut it out. Bridge obliged and threatened to ban Norman if he didn’t return the items he stole. Norman, still bitter, asked for a screenshot as evidence, and then an un-cropped screenshot once a screenshot had been provided. Once he decided the messages were real, he gave back the emeralds and one of the axes back to Splurge, so he wouldn’t be banned.

Things remained tumultuous until Norman tilted CaptainAxe17 over the edge, causing him to sell the coords of the mansion to a known griefer to spite Norman. To prevent any damage from happening Norman and CoolKid fought against Axe and Splurge (who was packing his belongings), in the start of a battle that would later be known as The Great Mansion Battle of Novatopia. Later, once Splurge had left, Norman invited Ell1e258 to fight on his side, and she obliged. Together they cleared the mansion against the remaining defenders such as Adi and SteelingKitty. Norman moved out of the mansion soon after, and it was later stripped and made uninhabitable. Norman continued to make himself a nuisance, causing conflicts over the slightest things and saying offensive things to see if he could get a reaction. The server eventually became whitelisted as well, meaning he couldn’t join for a while (until he was, unfortunately, whitelisted). He gradually stopped playing as did everyone else, until the server reset.

## Life on BR2022

Norman was occupied with real life things for most of Br2022, but he returned to activity on December 29, 2021. He did not join the server for a few more days, but on January 2, 2022, he finally did, and began playing once more. Once on the server, Norman followed ChalkyCrystal aimlessly for a while and read the rules. Eventually, he set off and discovered a mushroom island biome, a separate snow-related biome, and was soon after gifted a woodland mansion by Ell1e258 (formerly known as DTS), who had partaken in the Great Mansion Battle of Novatopia. Norman lived in the gifted mansion for a few days before the server experienced a glitch which deleted the inventories of all players, leading to the Br2022 Anarchy Era. Norman did not log on during this period and was not present in the anarchy days leading up to Br2022's reset.

## Life on BR2022v1

Norman moved a to taiga biome some point after joining the server. Soon after, he began construction on a wizard tower and argued with Sambug05 (and somewhat Ell1e258) over past conflicts. He has not been active much, and is seen very rarely these days.