Season 2: Hot Mountain

## Background

Season 2 was when most server members were finally getting the swing of things. The server owner understood much more of how plugins and mechanics worked. The season launched on 5 March 2021 and featured Gruber's Hot Mountain custom map. This was also the last season where new additions to the server regularly happened during the season. From Season 3 onward, it was done by application only, and new players were added on launch day only.

## Main Story Arc

As the islanders woke up, they discovered that Cardwaithe had become an island housing a volcano, amongst many other interesting sites. They were greeted by an older southern man named Buck who told them that the Sky God himself had asked Buck to run an official mayoral debate, followed by an election. That mayor was to appoint a sheriff, and then the two of them were to choose some deputies. Additionally, the magic of the island restricted building to a certain area for the first few days.

Once that period ended, island exploration commenced. It was needed to be done very carefully, since The Demon was able to persist and exist outside of Purge Day. This proved to be quite tricky as time passed.

After the debates, Sydney Humprey Humphreys was elected mayor. He appointed a sheriff and some deputies, one of which was named Alek Sokolov.

As time progressed, the islanders learned of The Demon's master plan. He intended to collect the skulls of all the elemental gods so that he could reabsorb their essence and gain control over all the elements. To do so, he began systematically hunting down each one. He found issue in locating them due to the presence of the Sky God. Therefore, he concocted a plan to once and for all finally kill the Sky God. He made a bargain with Mayor Sydney to lure the Sky God into a public situation where he would render himself mortal. The mayor agreed in exchange for the health, well-being, and prosperity of all the islanders, as well as their reverence.

Keeping in mind that the Demon was powered by fear and violence, Priest Zeez suggested a Day of Peace to bring the islanders together in harmony. Upon learning this, Mayor Sydney approached Zeez with a suggestion. He asked if Zeez would request the Sky God's appearance for a meet & greet with the islanders, where they could ask questions and feel closer to the gods. Zeez agreed with this idea, and upon completion of a vigorous vision quest, used his one no-questions-asked request of the Sky God to have him appear during the Day of Peace.

Shortly thereafter, Mayor Sydney had a sudden change of heart. Riddled with guilt, he confessed to Zeez that the meet & greet was a trap set up by the Demon in a cruel bargain. Having broken the terms of their agreement, the Demon brutally murdered Sydney in front of Zeez, and then proceeded to brutally destroy the community home and all belongings of Sydney. Zeez challenged the Demon and told him that he would not win, for the believers of the Sky God will empower him to survive any ambush.

Thankfully, due to the plans of the Sky God, Sydney's essence remained on Hot Mountain. The Sky God offered Sydney resurrection in exchange for causing chaos at the Day of Peace so that the Demon would kill him. Sydney reluctantly agreed, having faith in the Sky God's plan.

During the Day of Peace, everything happened as the parties involved desired. The Sky God appeared, Sydney's essence caused chaos, and the Demon killed the Sky God and harvested his skull, destroying the church in the process. The Demon then systematically hunted, killed, and harvested the moon & water goddesses, as well as the earth god.

Being the final remaining elemental god, The Sun God realized what was happening. He made an offer to the priest, sheriff, and deputy that if they each completed his quest, he would give them his skull willingly as to prevent the ascension of the Demon. With some teamwork, the trio completed the quests and earned the Sun God's skull. Soon after, the Demon killed the Sun God, but couldn't acquire his skull. It was then that the islanders learned of a way to give "the chosen worthy" some abilities of a god through a ritual, provided they had a skull of the Demon. As fate would have it, an islander named Don Dino actually possessed that skull, having been awarded it in an early duel with the Demon. The islanders performed the ritual, which granted Dino the abilities to rival the Demon.

Meanwhile, once the Demon had all skulls aside from the Sun God's, some fractured memories returned. He remembered his name was something like "Faro" and that he controlled the element of fire as, in fact, a god himself. Upon learning this, he softened, and offered all islanders deals in order to convince Dino to willingly give up his powers and the skull of the Sun God. All islanders aside from Sydney and Ludi agreed to these bargains. They were able to convince Dino to at least barter with Faro.

In the final confrontation on Purge Day, Faro offered Dino guaranteed protection of his loved ones off-island in exchange for the skull and relinquishing his powers. Dino revealed that the powers were the only thing keeping his advanced stage cancer from killing him, so this deal needed to be ironclad. Faro agreed and magically locked it in. Faro then ascended into the center of town, only to reveal that there was one last thing he needed to do for this Purge in order to be able to reform Cardwaithe in an image he saw fit... and that was to completely obliterate the entire island.

OmegaNukeSeason 2 Final Moments
After nearly every structure was destroyed, the islanders met one last time. As they discussed what happened, they were suddenly interrupted by a newcomer. He said his name was Tony, and he was in search of his father. Upon some additional questioning, Tony revealed his last name moments before the island entered its metamorphosis...

**Vacone.**