IPRE

IPRE was a faction led by Magnus. It was a small faction that first appeared towards the end of Canvas 8, and at the beginning of Canvas 9. It was ultimately destroyed by the faction IFunny because of a number of battles and provocations from both sides.

# Design

The name comes from an organization from the Dungeons and Dragons podcast known as *The Adventure Zone*. It stands for "Institute of Planar Research and Exploration" and the faction sign was simply their logo, but made into a pixel art by Titus. He also designed IPRE's pattern. The faction's border, which only appeared in Canvas 9, was a three pixel wide one of orange, brown, and gold. This same border pattern was also used briefly by IFunny

# Activity On Canvas 8

IPRE was a very small triangle of pattern with the sign over it on Canvas 8, without any arts. Very soon after the faction had begun, the canvas was reset.

# Activity on Canvas 9

On Canvas 9, IPRE started with quite a bit more land but was still very small. Ultimately, the largest it grew to was a little less than half the originally intended land encompassed by its border.

## Arts

IPRE grew very slowly, due to the fact that only a single person was in the faction. There was the faction sign in the top left corner, a jellyfish in a tank of dark fluid next to it, and a minecraft grass block underneath. After that was a simple art of Ryuko Matoi from *Kill La Kill*. All of the arts were small and simplistic, but the jellyfish was the largest of the them. It was while Ryuko was first being built that IPRE's problems first began.

## The First Attacks

It began because of a miscommunication, which is a common theme with both IPRE's history and R&R's, which was the next faction formed by Magnus . IPRE was thought to be completely inactive due to Magnus' slow rate of progress, and so an emerging faction called IFunny thought that it was free game. Borders were drawn, logos were built, arts were griefed, and it was entirely hopeless for Magnus since the faction opposing him simply had more people. A deal was made in which Magnus could keep some of his land and not be bothered as long as 1) he kept a small IFunny logo on his land, 2) he agreed to the separation of the land, and 3) the jellyfish art was shared between the factions, like a child of divorce. And too like a divorce, the terms involving that jellyfish changed many times. Both factions were insistent in keeping it for themselves. It was a topic of debate for as long as IPRE and IFunny shared a border.

## The Dent

The Dent was a tiny 8 by 13 rectangle of land in the bottom right corner of IPRE that IFunny insisted on having. It was directly above Arya and directly below the jellyfish. The Dent was never filled with anything, due to its small size, but when a single IFunny member by the name of "King of Black Goo" decided to fill it with pattern Magnus started a fight over it. At some point during this, someone tried to expand further into IPRE and erased the rightmost border in the process. When Magnus rebuilt it, he accidentally put it one pixel to the right and that became grounds for war.

The Dent was not important really, but more of a marker of the amount IFunny wanted to further expand into IPRE, in order to fully take the jellyfish out of its hands. The battle caused by this fight ultimately gave IFunny what they wanted, and essentially took IPRE off of the map.

## The Death of IPRE

After the Battle of the Dent, IPRE was basically toast. It hung around a little longer but the griefs kept coming and soon it really just would not have been worth it to keep going. The leader of IPRE started a new faction nearby with the hopes of expanding back into his old land, but it never happened.