Summergate Sematary

“	"That graveyard is seriously legit. Great idea."	”
 	—Pyroviking 	—Pyroviking
The Summergate Sematary was a Fourth Era graveyard in Summergate for Dragonhollow residents who lost their lives, were missing and presumed dead, or simply were living on borrowed time.
As one of the largest landowners in Summergate, Retro had quietly begun acquiring property on the northeast side of the city. He chose a location once owned by Ultree on the North Road where it crossed Summer Stream.
Construction commenced on 4E:252 and the initial layout was completed on 4E:255.
Summergate Semetary opened to the public with twenty-five graves and a marble mausoleum in honor of Acey, who had been missing since 4E:182. Both Retro and Tox served as cemetery caretakers, adding new markers and epitaphs as needed.
Mourners could leave offerings that would be stored in the earth below. An unknown benefactor dropped a poppy in each grave daily, while Tox left individualized eulogies called Requiescat. Others simply used them as receptacles for their unwanted trash.
Buried beneath the soil and accessible from Acey's mausoleum were mazelike catacombs that provided close contact with the coffins themselves and were used by Retro for maintaining the redstone mechanisms that collected offerings and stored them. HyperSilence was kind enough to preserve the severed heads of citizen corpses in the catacombs so that they could be displayed as a kind of macabre memorial.
On 4E:366, Retro and Tox expanded the graveyard northward to cover the former site of the Summergate Secret Santa. They raised capacity to forty-five graves, added two entrances, and built a covered bridge connecting it to the green urban parks near Ashford.
Retro devised plans to move the entire graveyard to a different location, but never quite got around to doing it. 
In the Seventh Era, Jinx drew upon the Sematary for inspiration when she built the Hammerlea Catacombs, even using some of the existing epitaphs.
=Graves=
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The following is a list of tombstones and their epitaphs.
Image	Name 	Lifespan 	Epitaph
 	NeonicDolphin 	2003-2015 	"Check out this weird fish thing"
 	Rocco 	1969-1975 	Neighbors in life and in death
 	MrSharkberries 	1999-2015 	An enigma but with teeth
 	Boo 	1999-2015 	Shark's eternal partner in crime
 	Gimpley 	Copyright 1995 	Here lies the greatest and free-est image editing software
 	Chris McClellan	1975-2015 	Number One Undefeated* World Champ AFKer
 	Ana McClellan 	1995-2015 	Number Two Formerly-Undefeated* AFKer
 	Master 	2001-2015 	Not really...fuck that guy
 	Nut 	1865-1873 	She will be fondly remembered for hating the French
 	Fluffy Ferret 	1997-2015 	The finest stripper in all the land
 	Wojcik 	 	Shanked in a dark alley for closing Fera's farm to the public
 	Ferathmai 	1932-2015 	We will miss his shit
 	Zen 	19diggity2-1957 	He regretted the day he trifled with Hyper
 	Rolo 	1971-1990 	He was the best mayne. He did it
 	Mari Pikasaur 	1970-1984 	She had decent shtuff
 	Tater 	1842-1852 	Here lies the most hated potato in DH
 	Azureila 	5124BC-4892 BC 	Resurrected 420 BC
 	Acey 	0-2015 	She did a thing
 	HyperSilence 	1912-1942 	The last of the admins
 	Mudkip 	2002-2016 	will epitaph for gold. contact on forums please
 	Gabault 	1965-2015 	A man named Gabault no longer walks this earth
 	Sprankles 	 	Epitaph stolen by Jinx
 	OuttaTime 	 	Inevitably lived up to his name
 	Tohbeh 	1665-2015 	Here lies Yb_ot. He died for trying to have fun.
 	Jevie 	 	Got lost in his own secret passages and starved
 	Bearcote 	1496-1534 	He went into the sunset Naked and Afraid
 	Ky 	 	As he was loved by all, they looted his claim last
 	Jinx 	 	A dragonslayer in /nick only
 	Tox 	 	First in, last out.
 	Mason 	2013-2015 	Just a babe in the woods
 	Trancesk8er 	1945-2015 	His heart died with Mason
 	Elite 	2010-2015 	What can I say? He was kind of a dick.
 	TurtleShell 	1965-2005 	Beloved lover of Print
 	Print 	2002-1985 	We will miss The West Road
 	Katie 	2008-2015 	She was a lover and a fighter but mostly a biter
 	Retro 	 	Insert hearsay here
 	MaccaMan 	 	Possible winner of the 2013 Best Base Contest
 	Summerlands 	2014-2016 	It was the best community a gravekeeper could ask for
 	Sensei 	1885-1930 	Only popular due to chest size
 	Paul 	 	Mysteriously vanished after critical review of Bloodmoon Come
 	Wicked 	 	Long-running Broadway musical and occasional dragon builder
 	0ut of 0rder 	[Out of Order] 	[Out of Order]
 	Cary 	 	The reason we can't have nice gold things anymore
 	Pyroviking 	1971-today 	"That graveyard is seriously legit"
 	Zerg 	?-64,000,000 B.C.	Eaten by a Compsognathus while Spud just collected feces
 	Terry 	1999-2016 	Some still harbor suspicions that he was Russian
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=Gallery=
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File:2015-11-02_03.58.46.png|Original layout before expansion
File:2018-10-31_04.11.30.png|Main entrance
File:2018-10-31_04.11.21.png|Summergate Sematary
File:2018-10-31_04.31.13.png|At night
File:2018-10-31_04.33.37.png|Near downtown Summergate
File:2018-10-31_04.11.51.png|Acey's monthly blood sacrifice
File:2018-10-31_04.13.46.pngAcey's mausoleum
File:2015-12-10_23.38.19.png|Retro and Hyper in the mausoleum
File:2018-10-31_04.15.02.png|Inside the mausoleum
File:2018-10-31_04.16.04.png|Hidden ladder to the catacombs
File:2018-10-31_04.16.57.png|Within the catacombs
File:2016-03-18_02.58.28.png|Cary touring the catacombs
File:2018-10-31_04.17.48.png|Azureila's head in the catacombs
File:2018-10-31_04.18.35.png|Poor Katie, no offerings
File:2016-01-10_07.03.48.png|Two Jevies
File:2015-12-17_23.39.44.png|During the Summergate Secret Santa
File: 2016-02-22 01.05.58.png|With Ashford in the background
File:2016-03-18_02.50.47.png|Cary on Summergate's grave
File:2016-02-01_19.35.23.png|Dolphin and Panda pay their respects
File:2015-11-02_03.56.39.png|Azureila's original epitaph
File:2016-03-18_02.38.09.png|Retro outside Acey's mausoleum
File:2016-02-23_16.29.18.png|Horses, beacons, and Dark Castle
File:2016-02-01_19.38.25.png|Panda and Gabault face off
File:2015-12-26_04.04.03.png|RIP :(
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=Behind the Scenes=
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The following is out-of-universe information about the real world Dragonhollow.
The name is intentionally misspelled as a reference to the Stephen King novel Pet Sematary and the film of the same name.
The years listed on the grave are out-of-universe because the official timeline hadn't been devised yet, and even if it had, who really gives a shit?
Summergate Sematary's epitaphs often referenced obscure jokes or events:
*Rocco's epitaph, “Neighbors in life and death,” referenced the fact that he lived next to Retro
*Boo's epitaph, “Shark's eternal partner-in-crime,” made note of the fact that she and Sharkberries were often inseperable
*Gimpley's epitaph, “Here lies the greatest and free-est image image editing software,” tied his nickname Gimp with GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program
*The epitaphs of both Ana and Chris McCellan made light of the fact that they both AFK'd for long periods of time trying to win Summergate Survivor
*Fluffy Ferret's epitaph, “The finest stripper in all the land,” came from her co-ownership of the Retro Ferrett nightclub
*Wojcik's epitaph, “Shanked in a dark alley for closing Fera's farm to the public,” owed itself to the fact that he briefly took over and closed Ferathmai's XP Farm because it was broken
*Zen's epitaph, “He will regret the day he trifled with Hyper”, was taken from a quote HyperSilence made in the Third Era as he put a bounty on Zen's head
*Azureila's epitaph, “Resurrected 420 BC”, referenced the fact that she returned from a very long absence just weeks after the graveyard was built
*Mudkip's epitaph, “will epitaph for gold, contact on forums please,” poked fun at Mudkip's mercenary nature and a sign he posted on the community board in Summergate
*Gabault's epitaph, “A man named Gabault no longer walks this earth,” was a tongue-in-cheek reference to Gabault's frequent name changes, though it took on even greater meaning after he was banned from the server
*Sprankles' epitaph, “epitaph stolen by Jinx”, humorously referenced a brief dispute during the Black Claim Incident wherein Jinx stole horses and other items from him
*Tohbeh's epitaph, “here lies Yb_ot. He died for trying to have fun,” came from a tombstone Tohbeh had made for himself in Ashford, itself referencing the loss of his original Minecraft account Yb_ot due to hacking.
*Jinx's epitaph, “Dragonslayer in /nick only”, a play-on-words with the phrase “...in name only,” came from Jinx's fascination with the Dragonslayers to the point where she used the nickname command /nick to add Dragonslayer on to the end of her username
*Tox's epitaph, “First in, last out,” a play-on-words with the accounting maxim “Last In, First Out”, referenced the fact that Tox was one of the first residents to enter Dragonhollow and planned to be the last. The epitaph proved prohetic as he was the last user to log out of the server on October 31st, 2017.
*Trancesk8er's epitaph, “His heart died with Mason”, was an ironic jest aimed at his intense dislike of Mason, to the point where he formed the Mason Mob to kill him and eventually saw him banned by Acey
*MaccaMan's epitaph, “Possible winner of the 2013 Best Base Contest”, referred to the fact that he was one of the participants in the Lakeview Best Build Contest despite the fact a winner was never declared by Acey
*Sensei's epitaph, “Only popular due to chest size,” subtly made note of his home in the Summerlands, the Big Chest.
*Paul's epitaph, “Mysteriously vanished after a critical review of Bloodmoon Come,” jokingly traced back to the fact that he was completely unimpressed with Tox's book Bloodmoon Come
*Wicked's epitaph, “Long-running Broadway Musical and occasional dragon builder,” referenced Wicked, the musical retelling of the Wizard of Oz and her participating in the DRGN competition.
*Cary's epitaph, “The reason we can't have nice things anymore,” owed itself to the massive megaportal overworld gold farms he built during the Second and Third Eras that led Acey to ban their construction on the server
*Zerg's epitaph, “Eaten by a Compsognathus while Spud just collected feces,” was a reference to the fact that both Zerg and Spud abandoned Dragonhollow in order to play ARK: Survival Evolved, a survival game featuring dinosaurs.
*Terry's epitaph, “Some still harbor suspicions that he was Russian,” described Retro's misplaced belief that Terry lived in Russia, which eventually became a common server meme embraced by Terry himself and led to Russian-themed gifts for him in the Wyvern Pointe Secret Santa and the Russian flag above his Post Office mailbox
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