As Epicmafia currently resides in a waning phase, I thought there might be some value (however small) in finally compiling and historicizing its history. I began this project a few weeks ago by posting silly writeups on certain people's profiles, and at the request of a few I am ready to begin taking requests and going public with the project.
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I always thought Shouko and Ghost were the same person.
Shouko Aquarius has been, at various times in Sandbox history, a businesswoman, a political activist, and a professional mafia player.
Originating in Training before migrating to Sandbox, Aquarius backed Error during the unrest at the end of the Christopherzilla era and continued to support the Kenny regime through 2015. She was one of the first to oppose the Golbamaniacs and the sacking of Kenny, which perhaps led to the drawing of lines in the sand for Epicmafia factions that didn't fade until around 2018. Under Pax Morgana, Aquarius had come to inherit the Chatbox and became its sole proprietor during this period. After the Owner Wars came to a conclusion, Aquarius retired to the beaches of Sandbox with her husband Uprizzle. There they remained until recently: Aquarius, it seems, has re-entered the business of playing Sandbox games.
Arials 92 is one of those unsung influences behind modern Sandbox. Originating in the eons when gods and monsters still roamed the land and Ballsy was a mere spheroid gathering sand in the dunes, Arials 92 has been here for longer than most of us and will be here long after we're all gone. It is said that she knew Lucid when he was a mortal, maybe even came with him on the journey from Earth to here.
Arials 92 maintained a low profile for years, managing a mafia ranch in the mountains between Training and Sandbox. She fell comatose during 2013 and woke up in the radically altered future of 2015, in Sandbox's inner city. There she met an old friend, Ballsy Strippers, and they maintained a flat with their friend Fred the Mole for some time. It was about here when Golbolco came into their lives.
Under Golbolco's influence, Arials became one of the earliest hosts for Golbultima-brand setups. This alliance eventually led to the formation of the Templars. Arials served as a moderator during Golbox and then after the ignition of the Owner Wars, managed a rest stop with Ballsy, Fred, Parudoks, and Nuggets outside of Sandbox city limits. Around the time of Lucid's reawakening in late 2016, Arials and Golbolco reconnected and the Templars reformed.
Following the Christmas Eve War, the Golbamaniacs continued to prosper (although scattered by the final attack by [DATA NOT FOUND,]) and Arials served as their public face until her assassination by a rogue Clique revanchist. Arials was thought dead until re-emerging at the end of 2017. Now she is able to blend into the faceless mass of Sandboxers with no trouble, at least so long as Golbolco isn't playing games with her.
For a community that prided itself on anonymity, the so-called “webcam” era was a strange one indeed. From 2008 to 2014, players would meet in private mafia booths and take off their masks and voice monotonizers, the very things that Epicmafia culture predicated itself on, in order to play mafia face-to-face. This was a continuation of the more traditional, less automated mafia game played on Earth, but with all of the benefits that Lucid’s technology has brought us. Unfortunately, the last “webcam” mafia booths fell into disrepair in 2014.
Chowder, under Pax Pizzeria, was the premiere royal hedgehog of Sandbox, thoroughbred from a long line of show-hogs kept by Dooze's family out in the dunes. After Dooze's retirement and subsequent appointment as moderator under Shwartz, the hedgehog once again became a symbol of Sandbox strength. In February Shwartz signed a bill redesigning the Sandbox coat of arms to include the hedgehog, cementing Chowder as part of Sandbox history for forevermore.
Owner propaganda is something you will never see in the Epicmafia Lore Book.
Many owners have, over the years, paid Sandboxers to promote certain memes that are more favorable to their regime than others. It has also been argued that, depending on who is in power at which time, certain institutions such as the Daily Drama Report or Forum bulletins like "EM Players say the darndest things!" have functioned as propaganda. It is up to the viewpoint of the reader to decide if these are propaganda outlets or not.
The Epicmafia Lore Book is a library privately funded by Golbolco to record and archive the history of Epicmafia for future generations. It is a traditional library in the sense that certain documents are stored within the archives itself, but is more like a non-linear encyclopedia due to the ability to search for key phrases in the records. The physical building is at Balls Square behind the Ballsy Strippers memorial and next to a Dooze's Pizzeria (it used to be a Golburger but they moved to the block over.)
In November of 2018, while overseeing a quarry outside of the city, Joseph Mongrel came across a set of golden tablets while supposedly under the direction of his guardian angel. The angel is said to have translated the tablets for mister Mongrel, who then dictated them to Shayne Ismyname (a former minister of the Church of Jamal) and from there, the two were able to form a new religion known as the Church of Sandbox.
Declaring Mongrel himself as a living prophet, the Church of Sandbox claims to have the ultimate goal of eradicating toxicity from the Epicmafia community. The people of Sandbox have flocked to the Church, causing it to grow to one of the largest today. Donations to the church often go to the effort of noavi reeducation and activity in the mafia rinks, which make it a welcome part of the Sandbox ecosystem. However, much of the church's theology is in direct opposition to the Holy Church of Jamal's beliefs, and some political scientists now speculate a potential holy war within Sandbox's borders. This is made all the more tense when Sandbox's current owner, Shwartz the 99th, is a Jamalite while his moderator Dooze and most of the community are members of the Church of Sandbox. Will things boil over? Only time will tell.
The Holy Church of Jamal is a sanctuary for all and a community for all.
Founded in July of 2016, the Holy Church has been Jamal's largest community outreach program to date. The Church numbered in the high hundreds at its peak in early 2017, but following the betrayal of Plissken the Church has been in a steady decline since spring of 2018.
The Church of Jamal's main holy document, the Book of Jamal, is a collection of works on Jamal's life before and slightly during his time here on EpicMafia. One saga in particular, Jamal Marley vs. The New World Order, has seen a film adaptation by Arnold Schwarzenegger Studios. For the most part, the Book's chronicle of Jamal's life gives an insight into his personal philosophy--or at least, his philosophy as it was in 2016. An unofficial sequel, the Book of Plissken, was penned in 2018 by an unknown author to record Plissken's downfall in a mythological light.
The Church was fairly popular through 2017, but come Plissken's "turn" and the declaration of holy war on much of Sandbox (AND former members of the Church,) the organization began to disintegrate without Jamal's guidance. When Jamal returned to banish Plissken the damage was already done: Shwartz the 99th had already formed a Second Church of Jamal as a safe haven for those who did not follow Plissken, and Joseph Mongrel opened his church's doors in direct opposition to Jamalitic theology.
While the Church is not what it once was, it still sees high attendance rates each Sunday and Jamal is still revered by many in the community despite what Plissken (and himself) have done to his reputation.
Tragedy struck around September of that year. Jamal had sent a picture of male genitals--not his genitals, mind you--to user Nikki Cute. This led to the infamous Jamal Accords wherein for two weeks Bebop and [DATA NOT FOUND] interrogated Jamal and learned a wealth of information on his past. The results of the investigation have never been fully released but exist in the Sand Castle's audio archives.
Jamal backed the Golbamaniacs during the Christmas Eve War and later put his support behind Fred as Sandbox owner, which landed him a spot to inherit Sandbox were it not for the meddling of Edark and Merlot. Jamal's activity in 2017 waned until a new foe emerged: Plissken. See the Plissken article for more information. Ultimately the Plissken saga ended in religious betrayal, a church schism, and the end of a Sandbox era for unique and creative setups.
Most recently Jamal has been involved in a crusade against what he refers to as the "new Clique," whose roster seems to include anyone from Bramble to Ladynuts to Joseph Mongrel (religious competition?) He has limited his public appearances, but can most often be seen at the Selfie Bulletin at the Forum, judging people's faces as he always has. What Jamal will do next is anyone's guess.
There is perhaps no Sandboxer more polarizing than Jamal Tiberius Marley. The self-proclaimed "messiah" of the Sandbox people, Jamal has been involved in nearly every major conflict since mid-2016 with seemingly the only steady goal being to cause as much chaos as possible.
We know very little about Jamal's early life. From the Jamal Accords we know that starting around June of 2015 and ending around August 2016, there was an influx of people claiming to have migrated from a land called ROBLOX. Jamal seems to mark the first of these migrants: SpookyNoodle, the last.
Jamal bears a striking resemblance to Earthly TV actor Jesse Williams, which has led to the suggestion of conspiracy by corporate powers by some. It is more likely that this is an anomaly, however.
In 2015 Jamal was known to cause problems at the Forum and denigrate users in defense of his then-girlfriend Ari. His personality at the time did not match the one we are familiar with: he could best be described as "impish." The Kenny administration had him banished, carried off not to Outcast but to a smaller Sandbox federal prison. During Golbolco's sack on Kenny it is known that Ballsy traveled to this prison and opened all cells; this is when Jamal was given another chance of freedom.
Jamal reinvented his personality starting around May of 2016. Envisioning himself as a verbose intellectual. He started working as an active influence in the Sandbox community, but his polarizing behavior made him a target of many. It was during this time that he received information from a reliable source that Sandbox's upper crust had organized itself into what he called "The Clique." Jamal made it his mission to end the Clique's control over Sandbox. Around this time Jamal would open the Holy Church of Jamal and declare himself messiah of Sandbox. For many years, the Holy Church was Sandbox's largest religious organization.
The Legendary Lollipop League is a charity organization specializing in the excellence of mafia plays. Originally organized by Luis4rod and Ballsy, the Legendary Lollipop League became extremely popular with users who are under five feet tall. However, in the modern day, playing "League" is looked down upon, with users like sl0nderman recommending to "uninstall" it from your life.
Equity Release was a Celtic warrior-king who entered this realm with his squire Bebop with the aim of bringing an environmentally-conscious point of view to Epicmafia. His campaign against hydraulic fracking fell upon deaf ears, but he was (perhaps unintentionally) turned into a wealth of memetics for Bebop's private trade before he got into politics. Unfortunately these same memetics would eventually cost Equity his freedom: he was banished for slurring one too many times at a sitemod, and due to certain government influences was never RELEASED from Outcast. It is said he sleeps there now as Lucid does under the sands, waiting for the day that his people need him. But until that day comes, fracking in the Mendips will continue.
It's been much longer than 6 months. It's time to release.
In late 2018, the Epicmafia sitemods came together under Lucid's divine orders and declared that racial slurs would be moderated with zero tolerance if heard spoken aloud.
The ruling has been met with mixed reception. Many are glad to see that racial slurs are being cracked down upon in an era where more and more become comfortable using slurs. At the same time, however, some argue that the rule is redundant when put next to the Hateful Comments rule. It was this distinction in the rules that led to a controversy over Lauren Hefestion's ban. The rule appears to be staying for the foreseeable future.
