Green Cumulon Crisis

**Containment Operation:** Day 64 (01/24/2020)
**Splitting of the Cumulon:** Day 65 (01/25/2020)
**Restoration and Preservation:** Day 66 (01/26/2020)

* Far East Siberia, Bosnia

 TimeDeo
 SoftWilly
 Isaacwhy
 TanningOil
 GrunksPromise
 IDontKnowYT
 Michaelmcchill
 AllanahVA
 King\_Burren
 Kwite
 Jmak
 KaraCorvus
 Fruitberries
 InkTea
 ArchieMcW
 VoiceOverPete
 Artymo
 Krtzyy
 Chip

The **Green Cumulon Crisis** is a series of events where majority of SMPEarth players attempted to eliminate, yet later intended to contain, the megaslime called Green Cumulon, in a man-made chunk-error located in Kamchatka Peninsula, Bosnian Chukotka. Prior to that, the beast had viciously committed a massacre in the Olympic Stadium where it was first spawned in.

## Confrontation

### Attempt on Extermination

On Day 64, a group of players began to make attempts to kill the Cumulon. As VoiceOverPete, Grunk, and others dragged the beast onto the ocean in order to eliminate it, it grew larger and its hitbox did not allow any weapons to damage the Cumulon. Other streamers became interested in the events, especially Michaelmcchill who wanted to join in the event.

### Plan on Containment

Chip admitted that they made a mistake on spawning the Cumulon by breaking the Java integer limit of the slime's health. They also told the players that they could not kill the slime because it's not 'listed in the logs' and is 'not counted as entity.' As a result, the slime was declared to have 2.147 billion health points (HP).
Chip would further attempt to kill the Green Cumulon by targetting all entities with names, to no avail; this action would Thanos-snap all named entities barring the Cumulon out of existence. They then offered to restore the missing mobs by means of spawn eggs soon afterwards. Even though the slime was unkillable, Michaelmcchill insisted that it still could be killed, but later, with the other streamers, decided that it could be kept as a pet.

     When the newcomers learnt about the situation, especially with the problem of the slime's hitbox, Michael and AllanahVA introduced a plan: make a 4x4 chunk error on the nearby island, Far East Siberia initially claimed by Bosnia. Remembering his past days in SMPLive, he told them that he and King Burren were part of Team Chunk Error, a group dedicated in making man-made chunk errors. Hence, to execute this mission, he granted everyone present the honorary membership of Team Chunk Error.

### Assembling the Team

Michael would summon Burren to Bosnian Chukotka, the nearest land to the Cumulon and began recruiting other players such as Allanah, KaraCorvus, Grunk, IDontKnowYT (Mason), ArchieMcW, Artymo, Isaacwhy, and Softwilly for the massive project. He spearheaded the mission by demarcating a 4x4 chunks designated for the containment chamber of the Cumulon. Meanwhile, a team of pilots commandeered by Pete and TimeDeo strived to maintain the slime over the waters but not too far away from the shores. After other players made dirt barricades to hold the slime in place, the pilots decided to help the diggers.

Softwilly would later return to Log Lagoon and retrieve a shulker box full of stacks of iron blocks and a beacon to assist and enhance the digging process with Haste II effect. Pete also offered a spare beacon to be installed there. Kara inquired on how deep should the chunk errors be, to which the majority of the diggers agreed that it shall be all the way down to bedrock. Timotainment, leader of Bosnia and owner of the lands upon which the chunk errors were being made, stated in Michael's chat that "any diamonds found belong to Bosnia" but this was largely ignored by everyone else. He also stated that the Green Cumulon was "Bosnian experiment gone wrong". Throughout the excavation process, there was only one reported death: Archie was accidentally slain by Softwilly. The incident reminded Michael of a time when one of the original members would often got killed as well whenever a chunk error is being dugged out.

Allanah then asked if Chip could despawn all the items dropped from the excavation as they were starting to cause lags on the area. Chip would ask the command for that, to which Michael told them the command is `/kill @e[type=items]`, and not `/kill @a` as it would instantly kill everyone within the area. Chip then tested the latter code and proved that it worked, since the server has other base plugin to allow items removal instead of massive insta-kill. Grunk tried to trick unwary players to press 'Q' when Chip despawned the items (pressing Q would drop any tools/weapons held by player).

After a while, the players' tools were about to break, prompting Michael to ask Chip if they could fix their items. Chip then set up a repair station to allow players to fix their tools to maximum durability with a single click of a sign. When it didn't function the first time, Pete successully tricked Grunk, Mason and Isaac to press Alt+F4.

During the digging, Grunk noticed that Allanah was AFK for quite a long time and there was a frequent heavy breathing sound coming from her end. This prompted Michael to check on her. After calling her name several times and she was unresponsive, Allanah revealed that she had a difficult time to breath and passed out on stream in real life. Michael urged her to end the stream immediately and get some well-deserved rest, as the team progressed on the digging.

In one instance, the team manage to disrupt SalC1's plan to kill the slime with lava, as he was unaware of the containment plan that was undergoing.

### Spleef

Before finishing the chunk error, the remaining members of the team (Grunk, Kara, Deo, Softwilly, Mason, Michael, Chip and Bitzel) decided to play a round of spleef on the single layer of stone blocks left on the chunk hole. Though Chip offered to spawn a layer of snow blocks, the players were confident that the stone platform would suffice for the minigame. Chip then began a countdown, as Michael made a last minute announcement for the others to take off their elytras to make it a fair game.

Countdown came to zero and the game started. Softwilly and Michaelmcchill chose to isolate themselves in a corner and eliminate any congruent blocks that could threaten their position. Grunk would be the first to be eliminated by both Kara and Deo. Next, Grunk came and broke the one block where Softwilly stood. Later, Deo successfully knocked Kara and Mason off the platform, but he himself was eliminated by his fellow faction mate, Bitzel. By this time, Michael was left standing still in his corner, away from Bitzel. This prompted Kara and Mason to break the blocks where Michael was and forcing him to an easy defeat, leaving Bitzel the only man standing and became victorious.

### Conflict on Containment

As they prepared for a second round of spleef, Michael alerted the team about a plan hatched by Luemas and ItsAsaii to kill the slime by trapping it with magma blocks and sinking it into the depth of the ocean. The team wasted no time to fly to the ocean and tried to thwart their plan.

Meanwhile, Krtzyy, who just arrived to the scene and equally unaware of the plan, decided to "yoink" the slime using a fishing rod. He started to make glass stairs and attempted to hook the slime and tried making it jump upwards. Michael and Deo saw him and knocked him off the structure multiple times, mistaking him as an accomplice of Luemas and Asaii.

    However, as they tried pushing the slime across the ocean, they accidentally made it moved closer to the magma trap, causing a huge framerate per second (FPS) drop to everyone. Once the trap was dismantled, the slime was then rammed towards the land by planes, initially to no avail. The team then decided to level the beach at water level to allow the slime to enter the chunk holes.

    After some trials and errors and several close calls, they managed to relocate the Cumulon into its containment chamber. Suddenly, it was lit on fire due to the lava on the floor, but was quickly put out by Deo and Chip. Later, the team built a glass roof over the hole and took a group photo to commemorate the event.

Upon completion, Deo would later place a territorial claim over the containment as part of Business Bay. This led to Kara attacking and killing him. Chip then declared it as the Cumulon Heritage Site before placing it under **Warzone**.

## Aftermath

### Day 65

After checking out the 4x4 chunk error, CaptainSparklez (and JoshA20) managed to split the Green Cumulon into three after Captain tried to kill himself by the giant slime. Jordan would go on to declare himself more powerful than god.

### Day 66

Michaelmcchill revisited the Green Cumulon, accompanied by AntVenom. He later spotted a command block at the floor of the containment chamber, prompting him to jump into the chamber. Though he was slain by the Cumulon, he managed to flick the switch on the command block, spawning another Cumulon.

Realizing that Chip had accidentally left the command block to spawn a new one following the one split by Jordan the day before, Michael, Ant, and later joined by Kara, took the opportunity to spawn more Cumulons in the chamber. Unfortunately, due to the massive lag spike caused by the Cumulons (dubbed Babulons; 'baby cumulons'), Chip intervened by insta-killing all slimes, relocated the command block and restored the original Green Cumulon in its chamber. All players are henceforth warned from visiting the Cumulon ever again, to avoid any further crisis and massive server lag.

## Trivia

* The name '**Green Cumulon Crisis'** is taken from a streamer during the livestream of the event.
* WardenToons would submit a poster of the event based on the movie picture of *The Thing* in the public discord, featured on the right.

## Gallery

A broken plane in the air, a casualty of the battle. Image by Eret during the Third Faction Reset.Access to the containment facility.A polar bear observed to be living in the Green Cumulon's containment facility.The Green Cumulons during the events of the visit of Kara and Jordan on Day 65.Kara's reaction to the beast's mitosis.A message from one of the admins (in reality JoshA20), when the Green Cumulon was split in to three.Lava spawned in the interior of the containment facility in an attempt to slay the beast.