The Great Hood War

## Participants

 Columbia**Supported by:**
 Ovre Ardal
 Anthropia

 Occidentalis

## Commanders and leaders

 Ratte
 Adata
 Normandio

 Majkel4747
 Jersey

## Size and strength

3
6

## Casualities and losses

36
14
+30 Sheep killed/lost

The **Great Hood War** is the unofficial name given to a skirmish between a multitude of people that occurred as a result of the murder of Finger, a Giant Zombie living in Albuquerque, Columbia, at the hands of an Occidentalian known as Majkel4747. While it caused no truly significant damage, none worthy enough to warrant a genuine war or the acquisition of a casus belli, it still led to several deaths and the accidental deaths of many innocent sheep that lived at the site of the battle.

The "conflict" initially started as a simple manhunt by one man, Ratte, the former president of Columbia, to capture and administer justice to the murderer, Majkel. However, as spectators gathered and more Occidentalians arrived to support Majkel, such as initially MarekMarchewka and eventually even Ace and Jersey, the manhunt escalated into a full-blown fight that raged in the Polish-majority Occidentalian village of Warszawa.

The skirmish ended in an Occidentalian victory, as Ratte was eventually forced to leave the country and stop the continued murders (or attempts thereof) of Majkel and his allies. However, he was able to kill the culprit several times, which could be considered a successful enactment of revenge and justice.

## Prelude

### The Assassination of Finger

The catalyst of the Great Hood War was the murder of the Giant Zombie known as Finger, who had been inhabiting the Columbian city of Albuquerque, by an as-of-then unknown criminal. The first person to discover the giant's death was Ratte, the former leader of Columbia, at 19:53 UTC of July 11th, 2023. He declared a state of high alert and quickly worked to arrange a funeral for Finger, later building a grave dedicated to him at the mausoleum of Columbia.

### The Assassin Revealed

Meanwhile, people began asking Brazilian, the owner of the server, to look into the server's console and find out who had killed Finger. At 20:24 UTC, Brazilian revealed in the Minecraft channel that the perpetrator of the zombie's murder was a Polish member of Occidentalis known as "Majkel4747". These news shocked many, with some demanding an Orb trial to bring the criminal to justice. Later on, these requests were formalized into an official statement by Columbia in the Orb channel asking for Majkel to be forced to stand trial before the Orb. This proposal was endorsed by Danieer, the leader of Anthropia.

## The Manhunt

### The Murderer Flees

At the same time, Ratte, the man who had discovered Finger's death to begin with, declared his intention to engage in a mission to personally hunt down Majkel and bring him to justice. At 20:31 UTC, Majkel was spotted in the Columbian city of Port-au-Prince and was quickly approached by Golden, the current President of Columbia. Majkel had allegedly been looking through some of Golden's shulkers as he was attacked, and quickly fled to the End and then Almaren for refuge. Here, Ratte and Golden interrogated Majkel, but he denied the murder of Finger and acted as if he hadn't seen any Giant Zombie. Eventually, Majkel left and returned to his home in the Occidentalian village of Warszawa.

### One-Man Death Squad

To track down the murderer, Ratte entered Occidentalis and made his way to Warszawa, where Majkel had taken refuge and where the initially-neutral Occidentalians Panda and MarekMarchewka also lived. Once there, Ratte began shooting at Majkel, prompting the latter to use his Elytra to fly around and avoid the shots. It was during this time that Matteo\_Games, a neutral observer, also arrived on the scene and began spectating the situation.

Eventually, Majkel agreed to speak with Ratte as long as he wouldn't try to shoot him down again, and landed on the ground. Here, he said that the situation wasn't as it seemed and that he was sorry for the death of Finger. At that point, Ratte loaded his gun and killed Majkel to administer justice in the name of the dead giant, and temporarily left the area to go take a look at Danieer's cool McDonald's that he had built.

### The Hunt Continues

However, Ratte came back shortly after and began looking for Majkel again: thanks to the dynmap, he figured out that he and his ally MarekMarchewka were hiding near the savannah city of Freiburg, and were regularly teleporting back to Almaren for still unknown reasons. Thus, Ratte began moving south, passing through Neu Katzland followed by a now somewhat sizeable entourage that included the unaligned Anything64. Once at Freiburg, Ratte looked for Majkel and Marek, scouring the city's underground metro, but finding no traces of the culprit and his friend. It was then that Ratte realized that the two had returned north to Warszawa, so he quickly made his way back to the town, and entered it again around 21:12 UTC. It was raining, and by now Ratte's punitive campaign had gained much traction, which led to people from countries such as Rovoda, Dromcabalea and Ovre Ardal to assemble in Warszawa to watch the fight.

## The Hood War

### The First Skirmish of Warszawa

Once in the town again, Ratte started aggressively attacking both Majkel and Marek, who either tried to fight back or fled by foot and by wing from the Columbian. The two were under-geared compared to Ratte, but they managed to keep up the pressure on him by using guns and vast amounts of ammo, which even managed to kill him twice. Later, Majkel and Marek took up a defensive position on top of a small building, from which they pelted Ratte with bullets. It was also around this time that Adata arrived to the scene, and swore allegiance to Ratte's efforts of trying to bring the Occidentalians to justice: he joined the attack against the Poles by striking them from the air with his firework crossbow.

### Special Forces

Finally, Ratte entered the building and attacked Marek heavily, who was only clad in unenchanted diamond armor, but was interrupted by the sudden arrival of Ace to the scene. Ace shot Ratte to death with his gun and told the Columbian to go home and to stop trying to kill the Poles, which he implicitly refused by coming back to Warszawa and attacking Marek yet again, even though he wasn't even the person who had killed Finger. Jersey also arrived to the village at this time and aided Ace and Marek in stopping Ratte from killing the murderer's ally.

### Chaos Reigns

As such, starting later in November 22nd, a fully-fledged battle raged on within the small building, with the situation of total disorder exacerbated by the arrival of the Anthropian Normandio. The situation essentially devolved into a free-for-all, and the massive usage of guns and the generally low brain usage caused dozens of deaths, with Normandio alone claiming 9 lives. Many innocent sheep were also killed or liberated during this fight as a consequence of gun fighting. Eventually, though, the Occidentalians successfully forced Ratte out of the country and "convinced" him to stop trying to take his revenge on the Poles, whom he had already killed a couple of times. With the other fighters also scattering or trying to regain control over the situation, the skirmish finally died down.

## Aftermath

While the battle caused little to no actual damage, the lives of many sheep were irreparably lost, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were wasted on the fighting. On that day, the world collectively mourned and avenged the loss of Finger, but also learned not to mess with low-income Occidentalian neighborhoods.