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'''Lucha''' is a [[Tárrases|Tarrasean]] nightclub and music venue that was originally opened in 1933 by [[Livio Barrientos]] in the city's [[Zona Roja]] neighborhood, on Calle Cicatrices (<span class="plainlinks">[http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-58.27849/83.95429 map]</span>). The club has passed through several incarnations, at first having been a simple workers' "taberna" in the Tarrasean tradition but later including, at different times, a casino, a jazz bar, a labor union and political meetinghouse, and several further different styles of bar. Since the 1980's it has been the unquestioned premier rock, progressive and experimental music venue in the Duchy, and one of the city state's most well-known cultural institutions.
'''Arhet''' is the name of a planet. And the name of a geofiction project. Tag-line: ''"Imaginary real estate doesn't need to be a scarce resource."''


One storefront next to Lucha evolved to become the "Estudios Lucha", which despite its name was mostly a record shop and art gallery. In the late 1980s, "Estudios Lucha" was expanded to include a smaller venue where by musical artists of very diverse sounds is performed, ranging from traditional Mahhalian music styles, modernist classical and international acoustic and folk, to jazz and experimental music styles.
Alternate tag-line: ''"Sometimes you want to just toss verisimilitude out the window and map something crazy!"''


The venue has been associated with a substantial number of famous events and personalities through the last 80 years of Tarrasean history. In 2005, Lucha was formally added to the ''Registro de lugares históricos'' (''Registry of Historic Places'') for the Ducado de Tárrases.
The planet Arhet is the planet currently hosted on the map portion of the Geofictician site.


= History =
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== Founding as Workers' "Taberna" ==
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The workers' "''Taberna''" had been a fixture of the Tarrasean cultural landscape from at least the 1840's. Livio Barrientos had come to the city from the down-island village of [[Los Ecos]] where his parents ran a small ''taberna''. He wanted to try his luck in a more urban setting, and so he started the club in the Zona Roja neighborhood. At first there was no music venue, it was just a bar and restaurant. It was reasonably successful but not particularly notable.
I have decided to try an experiment. I have opened Arhet to other mappers. In principle, this is no different from the OpenGeofiction model. However, in implementation, I plan to take a different route. Below is a draft of current rules. The project is live, now. Contact me via email for membership. My email is not hard to figure out - consider your ability guess my email as a kind of ''qualification test'' for participation in the project.


== Jazz Club and Casino ==
==Rules==
# Luciano is god in Arhet. My word is law. Period.
# Arhet is not "open" in the way that OpenGeofiction is "open." Participation is by invitation. If you wish to request an invitation, you should contact me via email. My email is easy to figure out. Hint: my name, at my domain.
# For now, invites will only be offered to OGF participants in good standing. Anyone with a history of sockpuppetry, disrespectful mapping, etc., on that site will not be considered.
# For now, I will ask users to use the same username as on OGF. This just makes it easier for me to decide if you're a decent person or not. (This might change in the future.)
# Arhet is not to be the same kind of planet as OGF, however. I currently expect it will be quite a bit more chaotic. That's because...
#* There are no assigned territories - map where you want, what you want
#* There will be no wiki. This wiki, that you are reading, is mine. For my projects. If you want to wikify your mapping on Arhet, find or build your own wiki elsewhere.
#* There is no "verisimilitude rule" - map fantasy or alien things, if you want
#* There will be no plan for a planet-wide coherent geology, ecology, history, culture, or language. Those things were neglected on OGF at the beginning, and efforts to retcon them later are depressing. We avoid the problem by stating at the outset that these things are irrelevant.
#* There will be no user diaries. If you want to write about your mapping, start a blog or something.
# In general, if your map is interesting, I won't object. There aren't that many rules, but there is zero tolerance for rule violations. Immediate banning, no discussion. Period. Mappers can be asked to leave for any reason, or for no reason.
# Users are expected to connect to Arhet using JOSM. I have seen very little evidence that high-quality geofiction is possible using iD or Potlatch. So deal with it.
# For now, because I can't be bothered, there will be no automated map update. I'll set a job to run updates a few times through the day. I may get organized and implement something if things go well and the site becomes popular. So you won't get immediate feedback on the map for your work.
#* I will happily kick off the update manually on a request basis, if you ask politely and I'm not busy with something else. But I am often busy with something else...
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Barrientos was also interested in music, however, especially the new styles infiltrating from the outer world, such as jazz. He decided to put a stage at the side of his main dining area and allow jazz performers local and international to perform. This proved to be such a popular decision that within a year he'd taken over a neighboring building to expand, and had installed a casino in one of the anterooms (as was in the vogue in popular social venues of all kinds at the time). The casino was short-lived, but the transformation of the club into a musical venue was permanent.
==Member List==
Current members (users) in Arhet.
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/luciano/history luciano]
| 2
| active
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/sockpuppet/history sockpuppet]
| 3
| probation
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/MrJones/history MrJones]
| 4
| banned
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Troll/history Troll]
| 5
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Infrarrojo/history Infrarrojo]
| 6
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Tito_zz/history Tito_zz]
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Rhiney%20boi/history Rhiney boi]
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| active
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/plainoldbread/history plainoldbread]
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/JoJoBa/history JoJoBa]
| 10
| active
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Trombonist2003/history Trombonist2003]
| 11
| active
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/diamantschiff/history diamantschiff]
| 12
| active
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Moskva/history Moskva]
| 13
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/lars/history lars]
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/iiEarth/history iiEarth]
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/CartographerKing/history CartographerKing]
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/theruler/history theruler]
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| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Rustem%20Pasha/history Rustem Pasha]
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== Labor Unionhall and Political Meetinghouse ==
==Discussion Channel (Discord)==


Throughout the 1930's and 1940's, the club was almost better known as a meeting place for labor and political activists than it was for its music. Notably, in 1937 the modern [[Partido Obrero Social (Tárrases)|Partido Obrero Social (POS)]] took its modern form at the club under the leadership of [[Heródoto Rezanaper]], and the club was, ''de facto'', the party's first headquarters.
There is a an #Arhet channel on the "unofficial" OGF Central server hosted by austinhuang. Contact Luciano for an invite. Most Arhet discussion takes place there.
 
== December 8th, 1944 ==
 
The club's popularity as a political meeting place included its use by several Tarrasean separatist groups. Although the Tarrasean government tended to ignore these groups' activity, the Mahhalians were much less forgiving. During an organizational meeting between two separatist groups at the club on December 8th, 1944, a Mahhalian government mole was discovered. When he was confronted, he somehow managed to notify other Mahhalian agents active in the Duchy that he'd been discovered.
 
The agents came to the club, and under cover of a jazz performance by the noted trumpeter [[Alberto Gonzales Gonzales]], began to murder the activists at the club with knives. The club exploded in violence as the separatists attempted to defend themselves with guns, and by the end of the night, 66 people had died and more than one hundred were wounded, including Gonzales Gonzales. The whole thing was swept under the carpet by both the Tarrasean and Mahhalian governments, but the events were etched on the popular imagination under the rubric "La Lucha en Lucha." Most Tarraseans simply refer to it, even now, as "December 8th." It remains the single largest event of violence associated with Tarrasean separatism.
 
== Rock Comes to Tárrases ==
 
During a decade of obscurity in the wake of the 1944 disaster, the club nearly went bankrupt, as local rumors of the club being haunted by vindictive ghosts prevented the frequently superstitious Tarraseans from attending the club. In 1957, the club's owner at that time, [[Damián Barrientos]], entered a kind of limited bankruptcy to save the club.
 
However, the emerging musical styles of Rock and Blues travelled to Tárrases in the 1960's and Lucha was one of the first clubs in the city state to provide a venue for both international acts and local imitators. By the end of that decade, it was once again at the center of Tarrasean culture.
 
== "Consulate" for Jeres ==
 
Despite the 1944 events, the club also remained a popular informal meeting place for various political groups. During the famous period of the [[Jeres Collective]] in Mahhal (1969-1973), the club was transformed by radical sympathetic groups in Tárrases into a kind of unofficial "consulate" for the Collective, which, due to the latter's lack of international recognition, became a focal point for various diplomatic negotiations. Notably, several international leaders on a visit to Tárrases in 1972 visited the club to meet with several leaders of the Collective who had travelled to Tárrases surreptitiously.
 
When the Collective fell in 1973, there was a "''Concierto de luto''" ("concert of mourning") held at the club, including several famous Mahhalian folk performers who lived in Tarrasean exile. The concert was problematic when it was revealed that several dozen Mahhalian secret agents had attended, and many in the press felt that a repeat of the 1944 events had been averted only by the agents' incompetence.
 
== Dreamwave and Ghosthouse ==
 
From the 1970's to the 2000's, several musical and cultural movements associated with Tárrases first emerged at the club.
 
Dreamwave, a dance style associated with the the emerging global drug culture of the 1970's (an era when Tárrases' permissive drug regime was globally quite uncommon) brought a great deal of international attention and alarmist criticism.
 
Later, in the 1990's, the harder and less international "South Seas Ghosthouse" sound was developed by several famous acts associated with the club, mixing Archantan rhythms, electrically amped traditional Mahhalian instrumentals, and politically and socially radical "rap" vocals. The name "ghosthouse" is a reference to the long-standing reputation of the club as a "haunted" locale (from the 1944 massacre).
 
== Fnord-Carapreta Liaison ==
 
In 1998, [[Cleopatra Carapreta Noraggamenon de Dimitredes|Cleopatra Carapreta]] (who since 2007 is the current reigning duchess of Tárrases, Duquesa Cleopatra II), was in the habit of attending the club "incognito" (under the pseudonym Rocío Montoya). In the same period, a socialite scion of the wealthy [[Rhododactylia|Rhododactylian]] [[Fnord family]] (which has long enjoyed strong business roots in Tárrases), [[Fnoogas Yamauchi-Fnord]], was also in the habit of attending the club "incognito" (under various pseudonyms). A journalist working for the TV tabloid ''Tárrases Hoy'', [[Lizabeta Moro]], managed to capture the two women in obvious romantic liaison at the club on repeated occasions.
 
Rather then deny the story, both women acknowledged the relationship and the conservative elements in the Tarrasean press were unable to transform the unconventional relationship (Yamauchi-Fnord being Carapreta's senior by 10 years, not to mention the only just emerging acceptance of same-sex relationships in Tarrasean society) into a major scandal. Notably, Carapreta's father and the Duke at that time, [[José Miguel Redcrosse Carapreta|Duque José III]], said only, "''pués ella es capaz de vivir su propia vida como quisiese''" ("well, she is able to live her life as she wishes"). To this day, the two women remain, quite publicly, "more than friends", although they have never formally married.
 
There was some controversy when the two women posed together for a series of publicity posters for the club's 75th anniversary party in 2008, under the headline "Nuestra Lucha" (a play on the name of the club and reference to the 1998 events). The main objection had been not the display of the relationship but the by then reigning duchess's participation in a private business's publicity stunt. The issue was mostly resolved to the public's satisfaction then the club transformed the party into a charity event benefiting the Hospital Zozete de Tárrases.
 
= Current Configuration and Ownership =
 
Lucha currently occupies three contiguous buildings on Calle Cicatrices in Zona Roja. The center building is the original club, and to the north is secondary venue and record shop "Estudios Lucha". The building to the south has been converted to business offices and a small "Museo de Lucha" and lucrative gift shop.
 
The club continues to be owned and operated by the 3rd generation of the Barrientos family, who have risen to fairly high status in the Duchy due to the popularity of their club. Currently the head of the family and chief proprietor of the club is [[Bertila Barrientos-Alussain]].
 
= See Also =
 
* [[Mahhal]]
* [[Tárrases]]
* [[Carapreta Dynasty]]
 
[[Category:Tárrases]]

Revision as of 01:44, 13 February 2020

Arhet is the name of a planet. And the name of a geofiction project. Tag-line: "Imaginary real estate doesn't need to be a scarce resource."

Alternate tag-line: "Sometimes you want to just toss verisimilitude out the window and map something crazy!"

The planet Arhet is the planet currently hosted on the map portion of the Geofictician site.

Loading map...

The server structure is similar to, but not identical to, that found at OpenGeofiction.

Project

I have decided to try an experiment. I have opened Arhet to other mappers. In principle, this is no different from the OpenGeofiction model. However, in implementation, I plan to take a different route. Below is a draft of current rules. The project is live, now. Contact me via email for membership. My email is not hard to figure out - consider your ability guess my email as a kind of qualification test for participation in the project.

Rules

  1. Luciano is god in Arhet. My word is law. Period.
  2. Arhet is not "open" in the way that OpenGeofiction is "open." Participation is by invitation. If you wish to request an invitation, you should contact me via email. My email is easy to figure out. Hint: my name, at my domain.
  3. For now, invites will only be offered to OGF participants in good standing. Anyone with a history of sockpuppetry, disrespectful mapping, etc., on that site will not be considered.
  4. For now, I will ask users to use the same username as on OGF. This just makes it easier for me to decide if you're a decent person or not. (This might change in the future.)
  5. Arhet is not to be the same kind of planet as OGF, however. I currently expect it will be quite a bit more chaotic. That's because...
    • There are no assigned territories - map where you want, what you want
    • There will be no wiki. This wiki, that you are reading, is mine. For my projects. If you want to wikify your mapping on Arhet, find or build your own wiki elsewhere.
    • There is no "verisimilitude rule" - map fantasy or alien things, if you want
    • There will be no plan for a planet-wide coherent geology, ecology, history, culture, or language. Those things were neglected on OGF at the beginning, and efforts to retcon them later are depressing. We avoid the problem by stating at the outset that these things are irrelevant.
    • There will be no user diaries. If you want to write about your mapping, start a blog or something.
  6. In general, if your map is interesting, I won't object. There aren't that many rules, but there is zero tolerance for rule violations. Immediate banning, no discussion. Period. Mappers can be asked to leave for any reason, or for no reason.
  7. Users are expected to connect to Arhet using JOSM. I have seen very little evidence that high-quality geofiction is possible using iD or Potlatch. So deal with it.
  8. For now, because I can't be bothered, there will be no automated map update. I'll set a job to run updates a few times through the day. I may get organized and implement something if things go well and the site becomes popular. So you won't get immediate feedback on the map for your work.
    • I will happily kick off the update manually on a request basis, if you ask politely and I'm not busy with something else. But I am often busy with something else...
  9. Respect other people's creations - do NOT map on top of other people's work. This doesn't mean that Luciano will be your "enforcer." People getting into edit wars are likely to be both banned.
  10. No megalomaniacs. Creating a large continent doesn't give you a right to it. The world is big, but focus on detailed mapping, and large objects and spaces should be collaborative.
  11. A note on copyright and trademark violations. Personally I don't care if you copy or use "real-world" places/names/etc. However, I don't want to get sued. Therefore copyright and trademark violations on the Arhet map are grounds for immediate banning. Note that OSM is copyrighted, and using OSM data or tracing any copyrighted map without attribution is against the law! Note that putting a Starbucks or McDonalds in your imaginary town is using a trademark without permission, and is against the law. 'Nuff said.

Member List

Current members (users) in Arhet.

User User ID Status
mapadmin 1 inactive
luciano 2 active
sockpuppet 3 probation
MrJones 4 banned
Troll 5 banned
Infrarrojo 6 active
Tito_zz 7 active
Rhiney boi 8 active
plainoldbread 9 active
JoJoBa 10 active
Trombonist2003 11 active
diamantschiff 12 active
Moskva 13 active
lars 14 active
iiEarth 15 active
CartographerKing 16 active
theruler 17 active
Rustem Pasha 18 active
Mapping Expert 19 active

Discussion Channel (Discord)

There is a an #Arhet channel on the "unofficial" OGF Central server hosted by austinhuang. Contact Luciano for an invite. Most Arhet discussion takes place there.

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