I played POTCO from 2009-2011, and then started up again from 2013-2015. The best I can remember is I quit playing regularly a few months before the shutdown, meaning I had no idea about it until after it happened.
Throughout my first years of POTCO, I had 2 main
characters: Rosa and Emma Winters. Emma quickly became my main-main after meeting a great group of friends on her. Ah, our pirate shenanigans... Anyway, I drifted roleplaying guilds with them. (until then, I was unaware roleplaying existed. Hearing about the "king of England" and various other "important" people quite confused me until I got into it. Actually, it still vaguely confuses me; they ain't my king, I didn't vote for them!
JK.) I think a few of the guilds were ROD (Reign of Darkness), Reign of Terror (ROT), and United Alliance (I joined the CIA... I think?), until settling for a guild founded by my friends and I called Caribbean Reunited. And sometime during all that, I got "married." After CR, we disbanded and quit playing due to school and other factors. I don't quite remember what all I did from 2013-2015, although I seem to remember finding at least one of my old friends and writing a few chapters of a POTCO fanfiction. Also, some of my
pirate selfies are from that era (I had just figured out how to take screenshots on my old computer).
Thanks for listening!