The Plains Massacre

## The Raiding of Kirn

Within the early settlement of Tyro, two large powers emerged: The Colony of Kirn and GamerTopia. Naturally, their interests conflict against each other and has led to conflict. The player Fatherxie took advantage of poorly-assigned town permissions within The Colony of Kirn's town to loot and raid their storage. This action was done in belief that they can get away to it. To the mayor of the town's dismay (sunshinebread), CoreProtect's command "/co i" was readily available to the public and the culprit was quickly found. Originally bluffing with the claim of not knowing anything about the raid, GamerTopia found itself with an ultimatum sent by Kirn: negotiate or war. Sunshinebread decided to go to war and skip negotiations.

Three things led up to this war. The sudden rise of GamerTopia led to mass fear from the independent player towns, leading to a unified nation as a coalition against GamerTopia's influence steamrolling Tyro. GamerTopia also started developing a nationalistic mindset, leading to a sense of superiority and a destiny to conquer the land. Finally, the Tyro Trading Company just industrialized heavily into musket warfare and was waiting to try it out.

## The First Shot

On November 2nd, the first skirmish and blood was spilled in Tyro's history. Originally on a mission to plant down a banner to start an official siege, AdminArcane deviated from his plans and decided to cause some extra chaos in GamerTopia. Taking his musket, he took advantage of an unfinished wall on the backside to pop some shots at unsuspecting individuals. This led to a skirmish between Fatherxie and AdminArcane as Xie chased Arcane back to the ocean. Arcane was able to attain five quick kills against players like Overwatchh, but would soon find himself stalemated. Due to Xie having a full set of diamond armor, Arcane was unable to 1-hit Xie. This in addition to Arcane's poor planning leading to a heavily forested region for the battle allowed for Xie to take cover behind trees.

From there, Arcane took musket shots from the ocean as he tried exhausting Xie out of food. However, Arcane exhausted himself out first due to swimming in the water being burdensome on the hunger bar. From this point, what Arcane did next is seen as debatable. To some, he combat logged and cheated and to others he had to go for a dental meeting about wisdom teeth. For the sake of this Wiki article, we'll conclude it as combat logging as even the latter option still led to it. However, it is still important to note that Arcane could've very easily escaped if he wished. The Caravel is faster than sloops and has the same speed as Xie's Cutter.

The result can be viewed as a win for either side. For GamerTopia, they fended off the leader of the Company and displayed the ability to fend off single attacks. For the Company, they realized the potential of muskets against the averagely armed GamerTopian, retrieving one of their diamond swords dropped by a player, and took five players without a single loss. Regardless, GamerTopia's soldiers fended off further damage.

## The Plains Massacre

Around 8:10 pm EST, the Company banded together in an offensive aimed right at GamerTopia. Believing a Battle Siege will happen soon, the Company sent troops North and South of GamerTopia. With the Siege Banner south of GamerTopia, AdminArcane was going to snatch zone points while an army led by G3 and TwoSixes would distract them up north. However, no Battle Siege was started and things turned into a bloodbath. With tensions peaked in all-out war, the Northern Company army was fighting the full wrath of GamerTopia. However, G3 and TwoSixes' s army led victorious through the sheer power of orginization and (most importantly) well equipped soldiers with muskets. Although outnumbered 4:1, G3 and TwoSixes' division held up with GamerTopia's army not being defended enough against musket shots. Too little people had diamond armor. Sunshinebread was taken out in addition to Fatherxie.

Arcane also sought to reunite with G3 and TwoSixes after the plan to take the capture zone proved useless. However, seeking opened fence gates, Arcane snuck into GamerTopia and proceeded to massacre their livestock. After narrowly escaping back over their vast walls, Arcane continued to try escaping but was taken down. By the time Arcane returned, peace was started to be negotiated.

Arcane gave sunshine a new offer: a cease fire or an end to the war. Sunshinebread, likely seeing the KDR, accepted an end to the war. With that, both sides went walking (and sailing) home.

## The Aftermath of the Plains Massacre

The sheer one-sidedness of the raid proved one thing: Musket Warfare in open fields is a devastatingly effective tactic. With diamond armor and muskets, iron armor is close to useless. In addition, it proved that GamerTopia would need to pass sweeping reforms to industrialize an effective war machine.