ElaborateJade

Jade chillin in her inventory

ElaborateJade (known as Jade) is an active Purity Vanilla player and a member of The Legion. She is known for digging holes and yelling at the server's weirdos in chat too much. When she isn't spending too much time playing block game, she enjoys learning about languages, taking walks, and drawing in many different styles.

## Early Days

ElaborateJade joined the server around the beginning of February 2020, and her first words on the server were "Hmm, nice spawn." After only a few unfortunate deaths, she made it out of spawn and started walking to find a suitable base spot. She learned from server chat that the best way to travel was through the nether, but she didn't know about the highways, so she died many times trying to navigate the harsh nether terrain in unenchanted diamond and iron armor. After losing her stuff one too many times, she ragequit and went back to the previous vanilla anarchy server she had been playing on. She was off purity for a few weeks, but once the other server closed due to staff neglect she steeled herself and rejoined Purity.

She found a nice little spot at a lagoon near the ocean, and dug a small hole in the ground to store her stuff. She built a wheat farm and an animal pen, but once she noticed that her cows were disappearing she tried to figure out what was going on. Thinking that the squids in the nearby ocean were using up the mob slots, she relocated a few hundred blocks inland, to a scenic mountain. This spot is where she built her first real base, a stylish wooden house on stilts.

## Joining Legion

While at spawn, after completing her first trade on the server, she saw Profresher in chat recruiting for his small group. She messaged him and asked in, and he accepted pretty quickly. This surprised Jade, since she was still a grey nobody at the time. She assumed that Profresher would kill her once they met up, but she didn't have anything to lose, so she started walking along the nether highway to the meetup spot.

It took a long time, even though she now knew about the nether highways, but eventually she found him. Still expecting to be randomly killed, she followed him warily. "Come look at this cool trap" he said (or something like that), and she went to a door labelled "Safety here". She knew that it was a trap, and she saw that it opened into a massive pit, but *somehow* she still fell down it and died. This was... extremely embarrassing. Pro thought that it was both really unfortunate and really funny that she had gotten herself killed in a trap that he had explicitly pointed out to her, and honestly, it *was* pretty funny. Luckily, she had set her spawn in a bed somewhat close to the meetup spot, so she was able to get back relatively quickly, and Pro had saved her stuff as well.

## Time at Ravenna

At last, she made it with Pro to the base. Jade was amazed at the scale and beauty of the builds there, not thinking that anyone would spend so much time building things on an anarchy server. She knew from the beginning that she wanted to make her mark on the base, so she scouted around for a good house location, settling on an undeveloped Dark Oak forest next to the central plaza. Progress was slow for a while, since she was building her house (a massive mushroom) out of mushroom stem blocks, which are one of the most tedious building blocks to farm in Minecraft.

In the meantime, she welcomed new members to the base like Arount, Basicbaldieboy, and Julian419, and worked on group projects like farms. She participated in the group's decision to name itself Legion, and on April 19, 2020, they decided to name the base Ravenna. More to come soon!