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 === FlyingGMM Slain by the Water Boys ===

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 [[Montrose-Icedale War|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.

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]]”.

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The Coalition Period of the server is primarily defined by diplomatic hostilities between the Prosperity League and the South Sea Coalition. The hostilities from the killing of FlyingGMM were in no way resolved, and they continued to increase over many minor things. This period lasted from September 24th to 29th. It is worth noting that for almost the entire scope of this period ClapYoThighs lived in the mesa biome in the far east of the map, moving there at its outset and moving to HUM at its conclusion.

Perihelion_Jack’s and The Water Boys’ want for southern Montrosian land, The Water Boys’ want for Rhett land and waterspace, and general diplomatic tensions resulted in most of the server fracturing along two lines, forming the Prosperity League and the South Sea Coalition. 

The PL was formed foremost defensively, along the lines of protecting the balance of power in Sylvia and surrounding landmasses from the SSC. Member states were Montrose, HUM, ClapYoThighs, Rhett, Lucas, and Bagelonia. The states therein were mostly bound together by mutual allegiance, wanting to have an orderly server, territorial interests against the SSC, or a combination of the three.

The SSC was formed to gain an edge against PL nations which it found itself in conflict with, namely Rhett and Montrose. Member states were The Water Boys, Hatty_Hominid, and DFIC. It was later determined that the SSC was founded largely due to exaggerations told to Hatty_Hominid and The Water Boys by Perihelion_Jack.

In general, most of the activity in this period was each coalition plotting amongst themselves. The PL established defensive public works projects, including Fort Spearhead, a holding of HUM, to project influence into the South Sea, while the SSC mostly focused on battle strategies and political plotting.

The Coalition Period reached its climax and ending event during the infamous Hatty_Hominid Raids, on September 29th.

In preparation for a war between the PL and SSC, GoatWhisperer rigged Hatty_Hominid’s house to be burned remotely—by placing a dispenser in his house that could be filled with flint and steel or a firecharge, and activated with redstone to set his mostly wooden house alight. However, he must have left a flint and steel in the dispenser during testing, as Hatty_Hominid came on the server one day to find his house on fire, with a flint and steel in the dispenser. (It was not determined that GoatWhisperer had been the one to accidentally set the house alight until several weeks afterwards, when he admitted it.)

Hatty_Hominid then proceeded to do what he called “collective justice”, by burning Lucas’ house, searching unsuccessfully for ClapYoThighs’ mesa house, and finally burning FlyingGMM’s house around an hour later, in addition to the dark forest in Montrose, and Spruceville (in addition to massacring the villagers.) This was responded to by FlyingGMM by burning down and looting the rest of Hatty_Hominid’s house.

The raids would have continued, had it not come out via Perihelion_Jack that Hatty_Hominid had been the one who had burned AbstractEgg’s house, in addition to a number of high-value item thefts. At this, GoatWhisperer banned him from the server, and installed the legacy factions plugin, as it was determined that it was far too easy without any territorial protections to cause the type of mayhem that Hatty_Hominid had. At this, Perihelion_Jack and the WaterBoys declared that they were leaving the server. They all ceded their lands to Icedale.

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A map of the claims held by Icedale, as of September 29th.

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After the end of the Coalition Period came a short period of economic and diplomatic activity for members of the PL. Among Montrose, HUM, and Rhett, the lands given to Icedale were split up in the Taco Bell Conference, held IRL at a Taco Bell between the heads of the three nations. Of the previous possessions of DFIC, the large island separated from the mainland by the HUM Sound was given to HUM, as well as everything in Sylvia on the eastern side of the HUM railroad branch line 2. Everything else of DFIC was given to Montrose, including the swamp to the east. The main building of DFIC was heavily renovated and ultimately designated as the headquarters of the Prosperity League. Of The Water Boys, their main structure was given to Rhett, with their massive stores of enchanted books. While this doesn’t characterize the Barren Period, it was a result of events that caused it.

The Barren Period took place in the period between September 29th (when The Water Boys, Perihelion_Jack, and Hatty_Hominid left/were banned) and November 24th. It is characterized by very, very few people playing on the server. (It was reported that for the month of October, only FlyingGMM and ClapYoThighs logged on.)

On October 24th, FlyingGMM, upon seeing a group of people in an urban planning Facebook group wanting to play on a Minecraft server, asked the players of the server if this would be alright. The general consensus was indifferent, but GoatWhisperer said that the permissions weren’t set up entirely to support new people. Seeing as the server had been dead for nearly a month, he did not set them up. Exactly a month later, server interest ticked up again, and he set up the perms. At this time, though, there was little “hype” from the people who FlyingGMM had advertised to. However, this opened up a precedent of advertising in circles having to do with things done on the server. This began the Repopulation Period.

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The Repopulation Period was a period of repopulation of the server. This was due to some of the original players who still played (GoatWhisperer, FlyingGMM, ClapYoThighs, and AbstractEgg) advertising in certain circles, such as Facebook and Reddit groups, PoliticsAndWar discord servers, and reaching out to their friends. Additionally, the “LGS Waiting Room” discord server, which had been made for members of the LGS discord not “qualified” to be in the main group (of which a channel had been set aside for Minecraft, which had been the previous platform used for communication), was renovated into the “LGS Minecraft Server Discord”, with its own specialized channels dedicated to the Minecraft server. The Repopulation Period lasted from November 24th, 2018, to February 18th, 2019, with the formation of Goomnest and the beginning of the Unification Period.

There were nearly a dozen people who joined the discord in the following weeks and expressed interest, but of those few got on. The first was goomyman76, from a Politics and War discord server, who also got his brother, awesomeketchup, to join. They founded Goomlandia on December 5th, and settled in the dark forest to the east of Bagelonia, eventually expanding over most of the eastern mesa biome. 

On December 12th, FlyingGMM got his friend Cassti to get on, who joined Montrose and built a house next to the road to the south of Fort Graham. GoatWhisperer got jedixander, who he knew IRL, to join the server, and he joined HUM on December 24th. However, he was largely inactive during his time on the server, and eventually left the discord.

On December 12th, aquascissors joined the server from the urban planning Facebook group. Aquascissors was mainly only interested in building roads, and initially joined Montrose on December 16th. Upon doing so, he began to make unnecessary, poorly-designed, and completely unpermitted roads throughout Montrose. In response to FlyingGMM’s condemnation of such construction, aquascissors defected to HUM that same day, where he began to do the same thing. However, aquascissors’ roads in HUM began to stretch south to the unclaimed Heaven Island and then-Icedale-owned Dwarf Island, as well as a planned route to Rhett Island. The international community (HUM included) condemned these roads (which were simply 2-block-wide cobblestone paths suspended above the ocean), and tried to make aquascissors stop, mainly due to the fact that he was making egregious violations of sovereignty in doing so. Aquascissors refused to back down or even show that he understood the concept of sovereignty, and was banned on December 22nd.

On December 27th, FlyingGMM made a new account, named “Duguntho” (after the Proto-Germanic word for “strength”) and transferred all his items and holdings, so that he would be able to have less of a hassle when it came to dealing with his account, as it was registered under his mom’s email address. He gave FlyingGMM, renamed “Lucavario”, to his friend, who joined the server under Montrose and settled along the road left of the Prosperity League Headquarters.

Erjan101, having abandoned the server since the Barren Period, got back on the server on January 8th. He abandoned Icedale (with the exception of the tavern) to build Tsarevets, a giant castle complex modeled after the real-life 12th-century Bulgarian fortress. He built this in the southeast corner of the map. On the same day, Autraya joined the server and Montrose, but left the discord soon afterwards and was never heard from again.

Dinoking93, who had gotten on the server temporarily in the Founding Period, joined the discord on January 12th, founded the state of Divinity, and built a skybase above an island to the south of HUM, called “Heaven Island”. He invited his then-girlfriend, ForeverAmor, to get on, and they together lived on the island. Dinoking93 was active for intermittent periods until April 20th, 2019, where both he and ForeverAmor were banned for x-raying.

AbstractEgg got pizzaswithbone, who he knew IRL, to join the server on January 7th. Pizzaswithbone, upon being explained the server political-roleplay theme, decided that he was going to be a pirate, raiding undefended structures, and founded the state of Deathwatch. Under the limited patronage of Tsarevets, he established himself on a pirate ship in the Bay of Tsarevets, built by erjan101. He later covered this entirely with a cobblestone cube, which was covered in water to protect it from TNT-shelling.

On January 11th, pizzaswithbone announced that he had “raided” the house of AbstractEgg. This consisted of him blowing a hole in one of the supply sheds holding loot from The Water Boys, owned by Rhett. After doing this, he /f-enemied Montrose. FlyingGMM also discovered a booby-trapped hut made of birch planks and logs on the side of the road to the south of Castle Montrose, and attributed it to pizzaswithbone. 

At this, FlyingGMM and AbstractEgg, who, along with pizzaswithbone, were the only people on the server at the time, agreed to meet together at Tsarevets and neutralize the threat of pizzaswithbone, who lived nearby. FlyingGMM swam up the northern side of the cobblestone cube, while AbstractEgg waited below. FlyingGMM hit pizzaswithbone, who was on the roof of the cube, off the side of it, where AbstractEgg began to hit him below. However, he was unable to hurt pizzaswithbone, as he did not have Deathwatch /f-enemied. 

Pizzaswithbone used the /f home function (which was removed soon afterwards) three times to get into his pirate ship, but FlyingGMM and AbstractEgg swam under it, with the former continuing to hit him. When he was chased back into his /f-home spawn, and could no longer retreat, he combat-logged, saying that he lost connection. He logged in several times afterwards to see if FlyingGMM and AbstractEgg were there, but in each case he ended up logging off due to them still being there, still claiming the excuse of his internet failing.

The following day, pizzaswithhone claimed that FlyingGMM and AbstractEgg had no right to burn down his ship, and that he had done nothing to deserve such action. GoatWhisperer and FlyingGMM devised a plan to trap him in a 3x3 obsidian cell in Fort Graham with a bed, that was /f claimed by Montrose. GoatWhisperer lured him to it, with the promise of finding “The Montrose Vault”, which didn’t exist. Once pizzaswithbone was in the cell, GoatWhisperer told him that to open the vault, he had to lay in the bed. (This was so that, even if pizzaswithbone killed himself, he would respawn in the cell.) It slowly dawned upon him that he was trapped. He spent the next few days complaining about not being able to be let out of the cell, and professing his innocence. The decision to put him in the cell was described by FlyingGMM as a “preventative measure”, given that pizzaswithbone only intended to raid on the server.

Once pizzaswithbone was imprisoned, he got his friend, Carpo_Diem, to join, solely to infiltrate Montrose and break him out. However, this plan was discovered, and Montrose did not admit Carpo_Diem, despite his many pleas to join. Carpo_Diem built a house on an island to the northeast of Rhett Island, directly outside of Rhett’s borders. 

On the same day, Goomy got his friend, grooge64, to join the server and Goomlandia. Goomlandia soon afterwards began a number of public works projects, such as the creation of three villages, public agricultural works, and fortifications.

During the week that all of this was going on, erjan101 knocked 06Smg05 off the wall of Tsarevets, killing him. Erjan101 took 06Smg05’s items hostage, attempting to force Bagelonia into vassalization. 06Smg05 refused, and erjan101 attacked him, blowing up his dog “Popo” with TNT. The only third party who knew about the incident was FlyingGMM, who happened to be on at the time. The event entered the eye (and knowledge) of the international community on January 19th, when FlyingGMM casually asked both parties if they were still fighting, as no formal peace agreement had been brokered. In response to this, at some point, GoatWhisperer planted TNT beneath the Icedale tavern, and it was later set off my accident by ClapYoThighs. GoatWhisperer also blew up Dwarf Fortress with the help of ForeverAmor. The precise dates of all of these events are unknown.

Plasma_Mintz, one of goomyman76’s IRL friends, joined the server on January 24th and founded Voidnest, taking up a large central part of Wildia, including lands previously owned by Richard. In the following weeks, he got taakoyaki, mimoche, boboismissing, and Eight_Zero to join. The same day, banishthespleen (who had joined the discord in early December) got on the server and founded the state of Spleenmark to the northwest of Goomlandia, along the coast of the East Sea.

Throughout this period, there were many incidents of structures in Montrose being destroyed or damaged, such as fields, stables, bridges, etc. Next to each of these were signs all saying various things demanding the release of pizzaswithbone from captivity. Carpo_Diem and erjan101 were suspected for this, both because of style and motive, but no solid evidence was presented. Similar damages were found throughout Goomlandia and HUM, but the signs were absent.

On January 27th, FlyingGMM announced that the Archives of Montrose, housing all flags of the world and many books, was un-/f claimed and made public for all to come and makes copies of the books and banners. A day following this announcement, the entire library was found looted. Upon further investigation, there was a trail left of birch wood leading to a large cave in the north of Montrose that was titled “Birch Cult HQ”. The entire inside of the cave was paneled with birch wood. Inside of it were the entire contents of the Archives of Montrose. They were recovered, but the front complex was rigged to flood with lava when an iron door in the back of it was opened with a lever. FlyingGMM and ClapYoThighs, who was helping investigate, put water over the lava reservoirs where the lava flowed from, The books, maps, and banners were all recovered and placed back in the library. A phallic-shaped birch totem was also later found in front of Gabeford, rigged to explode with TNT upon its removal.

At first, FlyingGMM suspected that Carpo_Diem was responsible for the looting of the library, due to both motive to cause mayhem within Montrose and the fact that the only trees he cultivated for timber were birch, despite living in the desert. However, further analysis of witness testimonies, the fact that he logged on and watched the investigation process fold out, the odd specificity of birch wood, and even characteristic misspellings on signs pointed to erjan101. As the entire thing was effectively a very large and elaborate prank, no action was taken against Tsarevets. Erjan101 denied this, but never tried too hard to do so, and often giggled in mirth when confronted with the accusation.

On January 29th, Carpo_Diem joined Goomlandia, bringing their population up to 4, the largest on the server at that time.

After nearly a month of imprisonment, on February 8th, pizzaswithbone started making more demands for his release. He made a very heartfelt speech (which was later found to have been written by erjan101), and also pleaded with FlyingGMM IRL to release him, saying that he only wanted to build a barn that he had been designing. FlyingGMM and the rest of the server agreed that he could be released, as it seemed that he was genuine. 

The very next day, several raids were found to have been done all over the server, such as the looting of everything owned by Voidnest, the burning of Cassti’s house, the burning of a building in HUM, the burning of two buildings in Goomlandia, the partial damage of a stable in Bagelonia, and many of the wooden buildings in Tsarevets. Furthermore, pizzaswithbone became ever-more snarky as the day progressed, even going as far as to say that FlyingGMM couldn’t actually enforce him not to raid people. Upon the discovery of this, GoatWhisperer determined that it violated the rule of no senseless griefing (even though it was within the roleplay of pizzaswithbone), and promptly banned him.

Erjan101 announced his resignation from the server a day later on February 10th, officially due to HUM having conducted “vigilante interventionism” but suspected as being a result of Tsarevets’ burning. Dinoking93 also announced that he was leaving due to unrelated reasons. Around this time, construction of Bageltown, a city in Goomlandia, commenced.

On February 17th, on a weekend Model UN trip, FlyingGMM invited argetlam04 to the server, who joined Montrose. When he got home that night, FlyingGMM found that all of his animals had been killed in his absence. When he began asking the discord who did so, Eight_Zero, a citizen of Voidnest, admitted to it, and claimed little motive other than sheer malice. In response, FlyingGMM trapped him in the newly-built Fort Graham prison (which was a great deal more secure than the one pizzaswithbone had been kept in) until a trial could be held. The reparations demanded by FlyingGMM were rather lenient given the nature of the crime, and amounted to Eight_Zero replacing all the slaughtered livestock. During the whole debacle, goomyman77 lobbied heavily for Eight_Zero’s release, despite them not being in the same faction and goomyman77 having no official authority over Eight_Zero. This was an early example of the “eastern unity” that preceded Goomnest’s founding a day later.