Annie

### **Overview**

Annie is played by Annie (haha) or the Minecraft name appieslice (previously \_hee\_hee\_)

One of the original players on the server, Annie helped the members of the Communists to establish land, rules, and property in the server.

Initially everyone was a communist, hence the name of the server, but with the establishment of the Burrowers, Annie took to maintaining connections with the new side, and preparing the communists in case of war.

What was an initially peaceful divide, Annie managed the political aspects, land, and property of the Burrowers in relation to the communist lands, farms, mines, and other property. As the Burrowers established their laws Annie realized that war was a probable outcome, and later sought to prepare for war.

#### **The Beginning**

Finding the flower biome that would later become the main area of the server, Annie, Emmy, and Marshall settled creating the "communists" of the server. Please note that it's not actually communism, more of a community that can help each other in times of need. Cottagecore Communism just sounded cool. But if you needed iron, residents would help, and other materials. We were there for each other.

Annie and Marshall built the community village. It was built by hand, and the villagers were kidnapped from a distant village by boat (so it took forever). Later these villagers would glitch and all disappear, so the village was left empty for awhile.

##### THE INCIDENT

The incident took place in 2020 when Annie and Marshall were building the village. A memorial still stands to this day reading : "remember the incident 2020," and it is customary to ring the bell in remembrance. We don't talk about the incident.

After the server grew a bit, the communists built some more community areas including a mine and a farm. The strip mine goes for thousands of blocks in all directions, and the farm has seen better days (being constantly blown up by creepers). But these areas provided materials and food for the communists. (Credit to Lily, doctor enchilada, for building most of them).

#### **The Server Grows**

After a good 80% of the members were added, the two came that created the Burrowers. I think if people were on to show them around the established server then this lore wouldn't have happened, so it's an interesting moment. But Marie and Leo were added to the server on days where people could not show them around. Instead of going to the established areas, Marie spent the night in a cave and established a home there (refer to her page) and Leo was left to his own devices. They established the Burrowers, putting a book of their independence in the middle of the Communist area on the jukebox of the community music area.

Please note that these events spurred the lore of the server, and Annie's character's paranoia regarding who she could trust and rely on. What ultimately lead to the downfall of the Communist's prime, and Annie as a character.

#### **The Burrowers**

The Burrowers were quick to declare independence from the "communist rule" that had previously not existed. I say this because everyone was part of the server itself. With the creation of the Burrower's, the Communists now had to officially form as an opposing side.

Staying with only two members initially, yet two of the best PvP players the server had, the Burrowers were the first to obtain netherite, spawners, and enchanted items. On a server mostly for building, and occupied with iron armor, this quickly became a threat and a problem. The difference in tools led to many one-sided fights, or just the killing of players for fun, as well as the need to play catch-up.

Annie and Joseph would work together to lead the communists around this time. As the Burrowers became more violent, with threats of war and the increasing gap in weapons and tools, Annie and Joseph created the Villager Trading Outpost and the Communist Spawners.

Please note that the Communists were never for war, but prepared for what we thought would be inevitable with the Burrower's violent tendencies. Which had been Leo running around killing everyone, and Marie's threats of how much tnt she had. Annie and Joseph tried to create opportunities for the Communists to be prepared, relying on number to win the potential war. This war never occurred, but was still a pressing issue.

#### **Communist Secrets**

Marie, member of the Burrowers, had taken over a village for the use of Librarian Villagers. While Communists used this area, Joseph and Annie decided to create one located under the village the Annie and Marshall had previously built. This underground bunker had every enchantment that one would need to upgrade weapons, armor, and tools (this included the villagers at Joseph's house, Ikea). With the help of Wesley, the communists built a key card system to manage who could enter and trade with the villagers.

The Villager Trading Outpost was created when no Burrowers were online, and took weeks to build. While doing this, Joseph and Annie also repopulated the village, previously left empty (as mentioned before). The villagers took hours to find the best deals on each enchantment, and countless emeralds to lock those trades in. It managed to remain hidden from the Burrowers for a long time, but was eventually discovered.

The Communists now had the opportunity to trade and get the enchantments needed for better weapons, tools and armor. Yet we were still relying on the Burrower's spawners. The leader of the Burrowers, at the time, was Leo. He had access to a zombie spawner that he mostly shared with he communists. But as time passed so did the price of using the spawner, until communists had to carry books saying they had permission to use it. If one forgot, they would be killed on sight.

The Communists did not like these events and sought to make their own spawners. Annie asked people to help locate the nearest spawners to their bases, and one was located a decent walk from the main area. Yet Joseph uncovered a spawner located on the far side of the field under his old base. Here, two communist cave spider spawners were made in an attempt to give the communists a way to quickly gain levels and enchant items. Once paired with the Village Trading Outpost, the Communists had the opportunity to catch up to the tools and armor that the Burrowers had.

Thus concludes the preparation for a war that never occurred, and the set-up for the downfall of the Communists.