Compendium of Server History (Text): Difference between revisions

The first notable event of the Middle period was the Icedale Guild-Rhett war ''[editor's note: this is currently called the [[Order of Icedale]]-Rhett Crusade.]'' On September 14th, there was a minor border dispute between Icedale and the [[Water Boys]], which never would have escalated and never did between the two. However, at [[FlyingGMM]]’s idea of doing so, they decided to start a coalition to “teach AbstractEgg a lesson” for not being involved in some sort of diplomatic dispute.

This was suggested entirely in jest, although it was carried through in a very serious manner. Erjan101, FlyingGMM, GoatWhisperer, 06Smg05, ClapYoThighs, and later RHIN0SAURUS83 (who was “drafted” at bowpoint from his island by GoatWhisperer) made up the coalition, which was styled the “Order of Icedale”, with erjan101, called “Grandmaster Yorgi” placed at its head.

A beachhead was established on the western side of Rhett Island, with a tent, campfire, and a few chests set out to serve as basic aesthetic and functional facilities. Supplies of food were lain in, and soon thereafter the construction of a fort began. Erjan101 ordered the digging of defensive trenches, and himself built, astonishingly quickly, a cobblestone fort in the middle. At this point, FlyingGMM went out in front of AbstractEgg’s house, set up a cross made of logs, and burned it. AbstractEgg, sitting in his house and completely oblivious of the actions going on on his beach, saw the burning cross and came outside. FlyingGMM lured him to the newly-made fort, a relatively imposing complex considering that it was on his land and had been made without his notice. 

Immediately after AbstractEgg appeared, in full enchanted diamond armor, several members of the Order of Icedale began firing at him with their bows. He was struck many times, until a shot fired by FlyingGMM (his only shot fired) killed him. Given that the invasion was meant as a joke, AbstractEgg was allowed to respawn and recover his items—except they despawned. As a result of this, he became very angry and loosed his pack of dogs—which easily numbered in the hundreds—upon the Order of Icedale.

Despite only being armed with a stone sword himself, he was able to quickly overwhelm 06Smg05 and ClapYoThighs with his dogs, killing them both. The rest of the members of the Order of Icedale retreated in panic, watching the off-white wave of hundreds of dogs tear their comrades apart. Several boats carrying the surviving members of the Order of Icedale arrived at erjan101’s tavern nearby, regrouping for another attack. AbstractEgg died by drowning en route, chasing after a boat rowed by FlyingGMM.

The third event was the burning of AbstractEgg’s house, only hours after the cultivation of the Bagelonian swamp. ClapYoThighs announced to the discord that Rhett’s house was burning, and sent a screenshot of it with no further context. He soon after went to work in real life, and no one was able to communicate with him for several hours afterwards. This left room for many theories to be spun by those present, and it was arrived at that ClapYoThighs must have burned the house himself. FlyingGMM himself built a reconstruction of AbstractEgg’s house in creative mode, set it alight, and determined that the location that the screenshot was taken from gave enough time for the fire to have been lit and for ClapYoThighs to have ran to the location from which it was taken.

ClapYoThighs came on later, and told the story behind the picture. According to him, he arrived at Rhett with the intention of stealing blaze rods from AbstractEgg’s chests, as he had done before. Upon landing to the northwest of the island, he found the house—made almost exclusively of wood—ablaze, and took the picture. There were two other people online: RHIN0SAURUS83 and 06Smg05. 06Smg05, according to himself and ClapYoThighs, helped ClapYoThighs put out the fire once it was discovered. However, because ClapYoThighs had seen the fire first and taken the screenshot himself, (not to mention having came over to Rhett with the intent of burglary) he was suspected primarily.

On September 20th, a court was held in the same courthouse built by erjan101 for the treaty at the end of the Order of Icedale-Rhett war. After about a half hour of deliberation, it was determined by a jury vote that ClapYoThighs had set the fire alight, more because there was more evidence for him than anyone else, even though there was no conclusive evidence. A specific sentence was never determined nor put in place against him.

Fourth chronologically of the few violent events of the Middle Period was the Montrosian-Icedale war, which took place on September 16th. This was sparked by a routine, albeit uninvited, diplomatic visit to Icedale by FlyingGMM, the header of Montrose. Erjan101 punched FlyingGMM in jest. FlyingGMM, in response several minutes later, broke a cobblestone block on one of Icedale’s bridges beneath erjan101, plunging him into the water. In response to this, erjan101 declared war upon Montrose. FlyingGMM first interpreted this as jest, given the perceived inseverity of the events, but it was discovered that it was not, as erjan101, fully unarmored, descended first upon Castle Montrose and then Gabeford, where FlyingGMM was located. He burned out Castle Montrose, but was repulsed from Gabeford by bow fire, and retreated to the south along the western world border. FlyingGMM chased him on horse, but was ultimately bogged down by the dense forest and lost his trail.

After this victory, having thought Erjan to be defeated due to the loss of his armor, FlyingGMM descended upon Icedale, leaving Montrose open to erjan101 to plunder Montrose freely. This was a massive tactical blunder, although he did not see it at the time. There were about 15 minutes where erjan101 was able to plunder Montrose without any threat from FlyingGMM, and he caused widespread damage. Spruceville was burnt to the ground, as was Gabeford. The resources thereof were burned, the chests broken, and animals slain or released. Even the aquarium in front of the house was destroyed, with all of the fish therein swimming into the River Montrose. Furthermore, at some time during this, the Montrosian Staple Port, at the mouth of the River Montrose, had been torn down block-by-block by erjan101.

FlyingGMM returned from this venture, frustrated at his inability to cause structural damage to Icedale, and came back to Gabeford to find it in the aforementioned ruins. Erjan101 was in the process of destroying the fishtank when FlyingGMM found him. He tried to escape by boat, but, given that he was unarmored this time, was quickly hacked to death by FlyingGMM near the northernmost dock in Gabeford. Items plundered by erjan101 were recovered, including the very first wooden pickaxe used by FlyingGMM. Peace was made soon hereafter, the only term thereof being Montrose agreeing not to expand politically into the South Sea.

In the Middle Period, there was also the discussion of the topic of adding plugins to the server. This was started by a proposal by FlyingGMM on September 21st, to add a plugin that would prevent the repair cost from increasing each time an item is repaired. This was rejected by most of the server along the lines of it being “cheating”, but it brought up the idea discussion of the fact that in order to install plugins to begin with, there needed to be bukkit installed. GoatWhisperer was about to install bukkit, as this alone would have no effect on the server gameplay itself, when Perihelion_Jack said that it was needed to hold a vote to determine whether or not to add plugins. His argument for this was that many people (himself included) didn’t want any plugins whatsoever, and, as such, was opposed to the idea of adding bukkit, as it would allow the addition of plugins. (Even though these plugins would have to be added by a vote themselves.)

Eventually, two days later, all of the server, with the exception of Perihelion_Jack, voted to add bukkit. At this, Perihelion_Jack was furious, and declared that he was only in opposition to the plugins system because FlyingGMM had proposed it, due to a personal, IRL hatred for him. Furthermore, he was even more enraged at Hatty_Hominid, his IRL friend, who had voted for bukkit, and very nearly came into conflict with him on the server over this. He later stated that he supported adding MCMMO (an RPG-type plugin) now that bukkit was added, and this passed 4-2. 

The fifth event, on September 24th, which marks the transition of the Middle Period into the Coalition Period, was the killing of FlyingGMM by RHIN0SAURUS83. This happened as FlyingGMM was attempting to rebuild the Montrosian Staple Port, destroyed in the Icedale-Montrose war. The island it was on had been since converted by Hatty_Hominid, living nearby, to a llama pen. FlyingGMM, upon discovering this, told Hatty_Hominid that the land there was part of Montrose. After some negotiation, he was able to get Hatty_Hominid to agree to let him move the pen. However, soon thereafter, RHIN0SAURUS83 showed up, and began throwing tridents at FlyingGMM, hitting him a few times. FlyingGMM fired back with his bow, and Hatty_Hominid told him to stop. FlyingGMM said that he would stop if RHIN0SAURUS83 stopped throwing tridents. A few seconds later, he had a massive lagspike, during which he was killed by RHIN0SAURUS83. FlyingGMM, totally taken aback by being killed for no reason, asked why he was killed, but RHIN0SAURUS83 never answered more than the cryptic “you were on Hatty_Hominid’s property”. FlyingGMM made his way back to where his items were, to find that his sword (The Sword of Montrose) and pickaxe were stolen. He enquired as to where they were, to be told that they had despawned, which was impossible considering that the rest of his items were still there.

From here, FlyingGMM made his way to The Water Boys’ island, fully armed and armored, and demanded his items be either returned or replaced. This was declined, as The Water Boys said they lacked the proper materials. This was responded to by FlyingGMM as being no excuse, as they had killed him and should not have if they could not pay the price. At this time, Perihelion_Jack and Hatty_Hominid showed up to the island and tried to intimidate FlyingGMM, out of demanding reparations.

GoatWhisperer, who had been in contact with FlyingGMM about the whole ordeal, got on at this time, and made his way to the island to stand with FlyingGMM. He engaged in the standoff/negotiations, but was told the same thing. Eventually, FlyingGMM broke off from the standoff, but was followed by Hatty_Hominid to the dock to the north of Icedale’s Tavern Island, who began shooting at him. FlyingGMM fired back, causing Hatty_Hominid to retreat; it was later determined that he nearly was killed and had to retreat because of that.

The Water Boys eventually gave FlyingGMM a book with some of the enchantments of both his sword and pickaxe (which could not be applied to both), in addition to a “curse of binding”. FlyingGMM viewed this as in no way compensatory. It was eventually reached, by a contract signed by NoCheezyFrizz, that The Water Boys would get FlyingGMM replicas of his sword and pickaxe, with all their previous enchantments. While it was obvious that the originals had been stolen, likely as trophies, and that the xp levels that he lost in doing so would not be returned, nor that he would be given what he lost any time soon, he accepted this, seeing it as the only effective deal that could be reached.

Later that evening, ClapYoThighs got on, and showed to FlyingGMM and GoatWhisperer, who were the only ones online, how The Water Boys had massive storehouses hidden underwater full of enchanted books, which they had fished. FlyingGMM determined the previous statement of The Water Boys not being able to recompensate him on the spot to be a lie, and got all the enchanted books he needed to replace his items. He then announced to The Water Boys that this would everything needed to resupply him, and this was agreed to. In this same interaction with ClapYoThighs, his old estate was sold to Montrose for the price of four diamonds, and was renovated and dubbed “Fort Graham”.