Battle of Isbukt

editor's note: I wasn't here, this is a second-hand account, so some details may be different than what really happened.

The Battle of Isbukt was part of The Summer Wars. It took place on the 22nd July 2020 between The Secret Society, who were defending, and a combined force of The Boomers (CreamForce's group), Tynominally, and MissPrism, who sought to grief the base. Overall, despite losing the town, it was a tactical victory for TSS.

Background
A few weeks before the battle, CreamForce obtained a map of Isbukt, the capital of The Secret Society, after killing TooAtomic. Tynominally and MissPrism set out to use this map to find the location of the city. MissPrism managed to track a founding member of TSS, carebear, through the nether highway, narrowing the location of the city down further. Despite this, Tynominally and MissPrism were unable to discover the location of the town, but CreamForce had. The griefers began readying their resources for their attack.

TSS were aware of the imminent danger however: they had AshesOfWillow insiding The Boomers, and so as soon as word got out that Isbukt's location was compromised, all valuables were evacuated and the defenders got ready to make a stand.

Start of the Fight
TSS had Rebecka, Samm_C, TooAtomic and xleoC defending Isbukt, later joined by firne_ and adamercsn, while the griefers had CreamForce, DivineSmooof, DragonFriendly, MissPrism (on an alt) and Tynominally. Samm_C served as a scout, watching a map of Isbukt to signal the others to log on and begin attacking when the enemy showed up, and to flank them and grief their beds, the locations of which were provided by AshesOfWillow.

Ashes prematurely told them that they were on their way to Isbukt, and so Leo and Atomic flew off to their bunker to check if they were there. The attackers saw them flying northeast, and so were put on edge.

The griefers were flying in from the Northwest from a secret bunker 5k away from Isbukt with Cream leading them. They encountered an ender pearl holder, and so they destroyed that first, then carried on. Upon reaching the city, they split up to separate any defenders and to grief multiple parts of the city at once: Ty and Divine in particular began blowing up a crop farm. The griefers noticed that the beacons were gone, and they immediately knew something was wrong. Before they knew it, the defense force ambushed them and pvp ensued.

The Battle
The majority of the battle was in the sky, as the griefers were caught off guard by TSS's ambush and despite outnumbering the defenders, they mostly avoided combat. They opted to place what tnt they could on builds and light it off, which led to not much actual griefing getting done. The defenders flew after them, shooting them with arrows but they rarely got close enough to engage with swords. While this was happening, Samm_C managed to flank the griefers and take out their hidden bunker with their beds.

A melee fight eventually broke out in the crop farm Tynominally and DivineSmooof were griefing. Multiple totems were popped on both sides before the griefers retreated back to the skies. Divine didn't make it though, and was killed. MissPrism was forced to combat log, and Rebecka did too - that or her computer malfunctioned. Both would rejoin the fight later.

Loss of The Boomers and TSS's Reinforcements
After the initial fighting, something happened that surprised all parties involved: it turned out that CreamForce had used coordinate exploits to locate Isbukt and was banned by stadekxiel. The loss of their leader caused The Boomers to break and flee. All that remained were Tynominally and MissPrism. To add to the griefers' misfortune, TSS reinforcements in the form of adamercsn and firne arrived. Knowing that they couldn't fight them head-on, they began playing a high-stakes game of "cat and mouse": Ty and Prism would fly from building to building, setting off tnt, while the defenders would chase them. Eventually, the attackers and defenders got bored, so they parked atop Becka's ruined end city replica and took some screenies together, before lighting more tnt atop the end city and parting ways.

Aftermath
After the battle, Isbukt would no longer be the capital of The Secret Society. After the loss of their leader, The Boomers would move servers. Tynominally and MissPrism figured out that Ashes was a spy the entire time, and so a race began for Cream's base. Ty and Prism arrived first and cleared out the base half an hour before TooAtomic arrived. Tynominally was up for 29 hours, and was severely sleep-deprived: marking the first instance of psychological warfare being used in server history.

Discussion was rampant in TSS, and the name of EdgyCommunist69 was brought up, and so on the way to grief CreamForce's base, TooAtomic griefed parts of Heretic's End, formerly the capital of the Heretics thinking it was one of Edgy's bases. He stopped once he realized who the base really belonged to. This would create a rift between the remaining Heretics and TSS. Possibly unrelated, hamoodi123 logged on to the server a few hours after the battle and declared war on TSS, but nothing has come of this yet.

The lack of military aid from their allies, the Provinces of Lumen, was one of the many factors which caused TSS to end their alliance with them. In turn, this would allow the griefers of Lumen to grief with little to no resistance due to TSS's skillful PvPers not being there to help them.