Villaj–Cove War

**The Villaj-Cove war** is an event that was declared on April 23rd and officially began on April 30th.

Participants

## Background

A week before the initial attack, Whespir had officially declared war on Villaj. However, the threat was not taken seriously and the rest of the village was not informed.

### The First Blow (Bombing of Luminary's Peak Podium)

On April 30th, 2021, a Villaj emergency meeting was held to warn the people about the coming of war. Near the end, Whespir and Tropi took control of the event. The former made a speech on the perfectionist image that Villaj's Luminary government held, before restating their declaration of war and exploding the Luminary's Peak and surrounding area.

Casualties included property damage and many wounded, including Henki, which some believed to have died.

In the aftermath, the Luminary members created a list of potential recruits including the following: Bill, who is aligned with The Cove, Fox, who is currently staying neutral, and Radiantrice, who has been hired to assassinate Whespir by Henki. Licore, Squiddo, and Ross have yet to be informed.

The war was arranged to take place a few days later, with a battleground being prepared for the two sides to fight on. Before the actual battling, the sides held their own meetings in secrecy to create their plans of attack.

## Prelude

Minutes before the war was to be held, several members of Cove (Whesp, Tilly, Melody) and those who had pledged their help the group (Ice, Squiddo, Bill) gathered in a hidden underground area known as The Bunker. The Bunker was constructed as a hiding place and intended to be kept completely a secret from Villaj residents, and featured a meeting room where the aforementioned soldiers gathered. Inside, the leader (or "Bigman") Whesp promised to lay out the plans to the others, but interrupted herself by calling out Ice, asking why she'd heard that Ice had snitched about the bunker to the luminary powers of Villaj, Oddity and Taffy.

Ice begged the group to see that the conflict could be resolve without violence, but was told coldly to leave. Following this, Whesp explained their plan to use invisibility potions to ambush the Villajers, with Bill interjecting that such potions were supposedly banned. Squiddo brushed this off, saying it didn't matter, since Cove's policy was to be against rules anyway. Melody began to disagree, which was met by stern words from Tilly- scaring her off and leaving the Cove group two members short. After Melody ran off, Bill recieved a phone call from Captain Double, informing the Cove that Ice and Melody had switched up and would be fighting with Villaj, instead.

The group gathered in the archery room, where Whesp revealed they had created chests filled with invaluable resources such as netherite armour, potions of harming and matching shields for the whole group. Feeling a new wave of confidence, the group left the group fully equipped, and met the participating Villajers outside of Melody's shop.

## The Battle

The two groups met and awkwardly greeted each other, before walking together to the designated battleground, passing the ruins of the podium on the way- an important Villaj structure which Whesp had detonated in an act of terrorism. Upon arriving, the two sides split apart to face each other. Squiddo confusedly gave a half-hearted speech about the groups hating each other, before Whesp (more professionally) informed both sides that the war would begin when all participants had arrived. Melody subsequently showed up, who Tilly took the time to apologise to; however, Melody did not accept. The Cove side sang kareoke to lift their spirits, before Henki suddenly arrived, shooting the end crystal on the raised podium to signal the start of the war.

**Battle Participants**

The battle lasted for several minutes with Cove members apparently outnumbering Villaj members. Neither Ice nor Melody actually showed up to the fight, with Melody telling Cove she just wanted to see what would happen. FXXTRN also appeared, but remained completely silent and watched from the sidelines. Similarly, Double also joined the rest of Villaj in metting Cove outside of Melody's shop, but ran off with the excuse of making sure their dog was safe, not returning for the actual fighting. Seek canonically wasn't there because he was canonically hiding in a bush. Henki had given his netherite armour to Ice to ensure their safety, which left them with a slight disadvantage, having to use diamond instead. After realising they were outnumbered, Taffy and Henki began to flee- only to be interrupted by Bill announcing that he had Oddity hostage at the clock tower, whom he had presumably captured using the aforementioned invisibility pots. The fighting ceased immediately.