Bloody Saturday

Bloody Saturday, unofficially The Battle of Anchorageville or The Pigstep Skirmish was the first of two defining battles that occurred during the Skirmish Arc. Marking the beginning of Operation WakingEon and the end of the Dissolution Era. Occurring on Saturday, December 26, 2020, it marked a turning point for the goals of the participants and a great shift in ideologies, as well as a day of loss, considering the many deaths on Parlade's side. And like the Pangaea Raid, it was a defining moment in Parlade's history as well as the Castlestad / Freewood member's.
The event was also famously done to the tune of Lena Raine's "Pigstep" which was put of loop on the Discord Server's Rhythm Bot.
== Post-Freewood Backstory ==
After the raid of Freewood during Mid-December 2020, Jester fled to Eribonkga, a city in Parlade for safety. During this time, a base, coined Anchorageville by Jester, had had it's coords leaked by an unknown source. This prompted the people of Parlade to fly to the base, knowing that Kirbs would be there. Coincidentally, Jester logged on around 5 minutes before the mass invasion began with Bumber's famous line in chat: "we ride at dawn". Kirbs was already at the base by the time Parlade logged on, and Jester was curious as to what they were saying. He joined VC and asked to be teleported to Bumber. Bumber accepted, and Jester was placed on a small sand island in the middle of a vast ocean.
For about 10 minutes, Jester, Dennys and Writhing waited on the island while Bumber flew towards the given coords. Until Jester realized that one of his friends, Gray, was at the base with Kirbs. He then proceeded to ask Gray for permission to teleport himself to the base, which Gray accepted. Soon after everyone on the island teleported to Jester and they began looking around.
== History ==
=== Skirmish of the Mountains ===
It was here that they had a small run-in with Kirbs, who wanted no conflict and so flew away on his elytra. The group chased him down, to which he said again that he wanted no conflict out of the raid. This request was denied by Ranger, one of the people from Parlade, who began getting critical hits on Kirbs with an axe. Surprised by this, Kirbs decided that he would kill Ranger via spawn anchor. Jester happened to be in the way of Kirbs and Ranger, and so Kirbs asked Jester to move out of the way, as to not accidentally kill him. Jester complied, after some hesitation, and Kirbs proceeded to blow up Ranger. This shocked the rest of the group, who were surprisingly powered by the bombing. Dennys then began a countdown of 5 seconds before they began their attack. The count went to zero and Dennys, Writhing, Bumber and Jester all rushed Kirbs, who fought all four of them with ease. The fight made it's way down to the village that soon became the new battle site. The fight was taken to the nearby oak forest, where Parlade lost sight of Kirbs for a few minutes.
=== Skirmish of Anchorageville ===
After later returning to Anchorageville, Jester saw Kirbs by the well. Kirbs approached Jester, with a walk that would signify peace, but instead it was a diversion. Out of nowhere, Kirbs pulled out another spawn anchor right next to Jester and loaded it with such speed. The force of the explosion severely injured Jester and ultimately killed him for the final time. Not knowing he was dead, Jester continued the fight as Ghoster. The events that followed would change Jester's mental perspective. Since he was dead, Ghoster couldn't feel pain. Such was the case when in an attempt to save himself from fire, he placed down a water bucket to put out the fire. He didn't realize that he couldn't feel the pain when Kirbs slashed his back.
=== Standoff atop the Stone Hill ===
As Dennys and Kirbs fought around the village, they were at a standoff on a small stone hill south of the village. Kirbs was on the higher ground while Dennys was near the base of the hill. Initially Ghoster arrived with Shadow, then thought of the opportunity to get his stuff back. Kirbs and Dennys started to talk. Dennys had previously said that he had the "high ground" compared to Kirbs. This time, Kirbs had the high ground. Mocking Dennys while attempting to look intimidating. Ghoster asked for his things. And he was ignored by a stare-down of Kirbs and Dennys; whom looked like they were about to resume the battle.
=== Skirmish of the Two-Sided River ===
The battle did resume, and so Kirbs, with help from Eon, escaped as they were chased further south to the Two-Sided River. In an attempt to save himself and buy time, Dennys combat-logged on the enemy side of the river -- which was on the southern side. Kiwi and 5ATAN would build a spawn-trap of obsidian and armed with spawn anchors for when he returned. It took Eon a minute or two longer to get to that side of the river, however. He was fighting the members of Parlade. Notably Writhing and (briefly) Ghoster. Ghoster would then seize the opportunity to try and spawn-trap Eon with hay bales. It later didn't work after Eon logged back on, to which he "killed" Ghoster. Eon then made his way to Kiwi and 5ATAN to join them in Dennys' spawn-trap. Kirbs later returned to the battle for a brief point and fought Writhing. Writhing would combat-log for a few minutes, before crossing the river and fighting Kiwi. He then popped one of Kiwi's totems and she fled the area.
=== Talks of Peace ===
Kirbs had had enough of the fighting. And so he said that the battle would only get worse if they did. The two sides, battered and bruised -- some more than others -- decided to stop the fight. The battle had lasted for just over 45 minutes.
=== Immediate Aftermath ===
The water remained, and when Ghoster and Shadow began getting artifacts from the battle site, the water was picked up and put in a special bucket. A temporary monument was built for the victims of the battle. It is currently unknown what happened to the monument that Ghoster built.
== Controversy ==
Bloody Saturday was, for a few weeks, brought up in conversation and responded by in arguments that lasted hours if not days. Fights about who started it and who did what often resonated with people even until this very day. 5ATAN joined Parlade's side during the middle of March 2021 and apologized to Jester after he was resurrected on February 27. This was a nod to the time in Mid-December when Jester was jumped by 5ATAN when he entered the End. Cheep and Taco later helped track him down and gave Jester 5ATAN's armor and tools as compensation.
== Impact ==
Aside from the original raid of Old Hope, there has perhaps never been one single day in the History of Parlade and Castletad-Freewood's existences that has shaped the ideological identity of the two factions. While Freewood had been gone for close to two weeks by this point, Jester was out for revenge. And seeing a perfect opportunity in the form of revenge alongside his allies was the perfect plan. In all seriousness, it was unexpected. The knowledge that Kirbs would arrive as soon as a raid was called would be a no-brainer. While Kirbs didn't want a fight -- as previously said -- Ranger was not informed of this when he first got to Anchorageville.
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