1923 Homeless Rebellion
| 1924 Homeless Rebellion | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Joe Farmer, Av. Rosting and John Godfrey raiding the encampment. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| The Boxcars | Republic of Faru | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Koi Goodfox | Novak | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Paramilitary Boxcar Forces | Disorganized Government Forces | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| ~12 hobos, ~17 ill children | ~5 Government | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Koi Goodfox sent to Providence Hospital, ~17 ill children aborted. | One helmet | ||||||
The 1924 homeless rebellion was a short lived event headed by Koi Goodfox in August, 1924. It was the defining event for Koi's character and Foxcubensis's debut scheme.
Background & Motivation
Foxcubensis had just joined the server on August 2024 after having an urge to rediscover Faru. Koi Goodfox,(Character Sheet) a loose canon of a character was their first character, mostly as a joke as Fox didn't expect to stay on Infaru for long.
After Koi joined the server, they went north to find a new home only to find out it was completely inhabited. They were told by members that Urbis City was the best candidate for their new home - so they traveled south and were amazed at the level of construction and the quality of buildings done.
After arriving, Koi Goodfox would struggle to find a place to live, as many plots were taken up and Novak was not available to sell Goodfox a plot of land.
Construction of the camp
Koi Goodfox would find that sending a political message would be the best course of action to solve their housing crisis - and on August 26th, they would build a shanty town on Parliament's front lawn, built from stolen materials such as spruce and wool from unlocked chests surrounding Urbis and providence.
The Shanty Town, formally known as the "Infaru Atonymous Zone", would serve not only as a temporary home, but a political message aswell, and other unhoused people would join suit, forming the rag-tag group "The Boxcars".
Early image of the Infaru Atonymous Zone
News coverage of the construction
The Lynching
The Lynching by a defacto private and government forces occured mere hours after the building's construction, with pogram members including Godfrey, Av Rosting and Joe Farmer. The lynching would conclude in an invasion and partial destruction of Koi Goodfox's primary residence, with Koi being sent unconcious to the hospital after attempting to punch a lynchmob member our of their home,
1st Raid Photo
News report of the 1st raid
Rebellion & Demands
Demands
Soon after the construction began, approximately one day after, Koi Goodfox would make a speech, demanding the following:
- A luxury hoboplex built in the heart of urbis, with a wet bar, a chicken coop filled with hens that lay soft boiled eggs, warm beds, handouts so plentiful they grow on bushes, and train tracks near moments away
- A budget allocated to renovating Urbis's National Housing with quartz, fabreeze and airfresheners.
- Classification of unhoused people as a protected disabled class
- Welfare for the unhoused
- A bench on every street, and a sign for every beggar
- The complete and total abolishment of an honest day's work.
These demands would be a common theme of the rebellion.
Armament by the Apes
The hobos would picket and protest while fighting Urbis City residents and government forces until the downfall, however a short alliance with the Apes during the Farun Bush War led to the Boxcars obtaining netherite armor and weapons.
Presidency stint
Koi Goodfox would caste their name in Presidential elections as a joke, to be a vermin supreme-esqe character, and would also build a Children's hospital in the shanty town as a way to give it more credibility and "make it a war crime to destroy it.". The election would end up rather successful in the September 2024 Presidential Election First Round.
Opposition
Many Faruns were vocally opposed, spewing anti-unhoused slurs such as bum and phrases such as "get a job", assaulting Boxcar members, giving anti-homeless panthlets and a variety of other hatecrimes. On a few occasions, faruns would fire guns from rooftops into the camp and at Boxcar members.
News Report: Hobos Obtain Netherite
News Report: Koi's Speech
News Report: Children's Hospital Opens
Downfall & Destruction
Mayor of Urbis Novak would eventually get tired of the shanty town, and on August 30th, 1924, would destroy the shantytown with government forces while Koi Goodfox peacefully complied, placing the items in chests. Premeir Novak would end up giving Koi a free plot of land as a concession, where koi promised to build a "1.2 million lira abortionplex"
Raid on Shanty Town by Ava, Godfrey and Farmer.
News Report: Raid on Shanty Town
Arrest of Koi Goodfox
Days after the downfall of the Boxcars and the shanty town, Senator and Farun Army Member Francis Urquhart, in collaboration with Judge Beavis, would attempt to serve Koi Goodfox with an arrest warrant for trespassing and rioting, among other things. The arrest surprisingly yielded universal backlash and was received as an attempt of election interference and extrajudicial punishment. The warrant would be revoked by the court, and Francis would be dishonorably discharged from the Farun military, with reasoning also being the P7/24 campaign to overthrow President Victor.
Common themes for backlash against the arrest included:
- Francis waited irl days post-downfall to arrest koi goodfox for the shanty town; After a large character arc from Koi Goodfox into an upstanding CEO and presidential candidate; and after a de-facto conclusion to the event (Koi abandoning the town and novak giving Koi land in urbis),
- The warrant was delivered directly after a presidential debate where Koi Goodfox was a participant,
- No one had heard of the arrest warrant, not even the chief justice, and the judge who approved it resigned immediately after.
Once Koi Goodfox was appointed censor, a lawsuit was served to Francis. The lawsuit went nowhere due to holes in OOC-IC rules, misguidance from the Chief Justice, and crimes not being properly defined in the Penal Code.
Koi Arrested
Cranberry dishonorably discharged, warrant overturned
Aftermath of events
- Koi Goodfox's joke presidential campaign would actually lead to her WINNING the 1st round September 2024 Presidential Election First Round in a majority, kicking the libcon-president Jenny out of the race, but would subsequently lose in the runoff.
- Francis (cranberry) as a character would end up dying in a fight regarding a plot by Koi Goodfox to plagiarize a book.
- Koi Goodfox would end up dying intentionally and replaced by Kino Volchok, as Foxcubensis put it, "i prefer making movies and being a more serious chracter. the goofy hobo rebellion backstory shit needed to go", to universal praise.
- The events of 31 Fox Street and Goodfox Incorporated would occur primarily due to Novak's land donation to Koi as a concession. Kino-Film would follow soon.