Ectoplasm89

**Ectoplasm89** is a factionless player on Purity Vanilla, briefly seen in a Johnayy video attempting to grief the nether hub and subsequently being blown up.

His PvP skills are stunted, and he deals with encounters by running or logging out.

## May 2020: Beginnings

Ectoplasm started playing on the server in May of 2020, taking two days to fully escape spawn. During his earliest days, he came across a glass dome inside of Warvan's 420 420 watercube. This would imprint within Ectoplasm a lasting fascination for watercubes and greater spawn terraforming. Ecto performed his first grief by breaking the campfires and signs within the dome.

Upon escaping spawn, he was almost immediately killed by a skeleton after gaining some basic tools from a nearby forest. He made his way back to the site and created another set of tools. He then decided to explore a nearby base, which he raided after finding out it had 8 diamonds in it. Upon exiting the base, he was greeted by the base's owner, Woketoast. Despite the latter claiming he was friendly, Ectoplasm ran away.

Ectoplasm spent the next few days travelling along the shore and raiding bases, gaining enough diamonds to make diamond armor. He travelled by nether to a location around 50K blocks away from spawn, where he set up a base. He eventually grew tired of his isolated base, lacking the resources needed to get enchantments or stronger gear. Upon creating his first ender chest, he stored his valuables and returned to spawn.

## May 2020: Starting Over

During his second stay in spawn, Ectoplasm was lured and backstabbed by a player called "ymse". He attempted to get revenge using a diamond sword, but was scared away after ymse revealed he had a bow. Upon escaping, Ectoplasm wandered around until he eventually came across some villagers. Deciding to set up a villager trading hall, he kidnapped them using boats and carted them around. However, he ended up forgetting where the villagers were during a trip to the shore. To replace them, he captured 90% of another nearby village's population and brought them to an island base site.

## June - August 2020: Settling Down

In his new base, Ectoplasm bred the villagers he had captured and forced them to work as librarians in a crude trading hall he had made. After amassing a large amount of enchantments, Ectoplasm built a sugarcane farm to trade for emeralds. Eventually going back to spawn and finding a player named Twistedpuppet64, Ectoplasm dragged the latter over to his base and made them farm crops for him (although this didn't last long).

Now emboldened and equipped with fully enchanted diamond armor, Ectoplasm ventured back to spawn. He was quickly crystalled by Boog, serving as a painful introduction to their might. He later travelled out with Twistedpuppet64 to set up a spawnbase for fun, razing a decrepit crop farm to make a hotel out of dirt. Although they received a few visitors, Ecto and Twisted were scared off after Grandmapepe showed up and threatened them.

Desiring shulker boxes, Ectoplasm then went to the end with a voting elytra for around 3 days. During this time, he amassed a large amount of shulker shells. Following this rise in power, Ectoplasm would develop an obsession with destroying the nether hub. Over the course of the mining, Ectoplasm amassed 30-ish stacks of obsidian (which he wasted on building a giant platform of obsidian above the center of the overworld). He would later give up after coming back to find the nether hub had been completely rebuilt, undoing weeks of mining.

## August - December 2020: Moving Out

Having grown restless after realizing how close to spawn his base was, Ectoplasm made the decision to move out to 400K blocks rather than 30K blocks. Dragging Twistedpuppet64 with him, he went into the nether and walked for a total of 1 week. During this journey, they were not yet aware that highways existed. As a result, they slowly inched along the nether floor by foot, strider and ender pearl.

Upon making it to their destination in the overworld, Ectoplasm abducted several villagers and carried them to their new base site. He then set a goal of making their (underground) base unreasonably large, with the ensuing mining being so boring that Twistedpuppet64 left for good. Eventually realizing that mining out the base without help would take too long, Ectoplasm decided to go back to spawn and hunt withers to access haste II.

## December 2020: Wither Hunt

Unwilling to walk through the nether, Ectoplasm flew back to spawn in about 2 days with an elytra. Upon arriving, he tracked down several withers and killed them for their stars. During the hunt, he accidentally stumbled upon a bait room that had been created by server staff to catch ESP hackers. He was temporarily banned as a result, although he was unbanned after proving his innocence.

Returning back to his base, Ectoplasm spent the last of 2020 either mining or expanding his new trading hall. Setting up one of his six beacons from the wither hunt, he mined out a large chunk of the base's ceiling.

## January - March 2021: Stocking Up

Having amassed dozens of villagers, Ectoplasm's OCD motivated him to make 27 fully enchanted suits of armor and tools. This ended up taking several months, during which 2 stacks of golden apples, 32-ish anvils, over 10,000 emeralds, several hundred bookshelves, and countless experience bottles worth of EXP were used up. Now equipped with more gear than he needed, Ecto left his base.

## April - June 2021: Misadventures

Uncertain of what to do, Ectoplasm travelled around the map for several weeks. During this time, he "allied" with MSLucifer and obtained coordinates to a pillager outpost from them. After using the outpost to obtain enough totems to keep himself alive for more than 10 minutes, Ectoplasm went to spawn. He attempted to destroy the netherhub again, but quickly gave up after taking in its mutated form.

Sometime during this period, Ectoplasm encountered Godsredempt at spawn before her rise into the ICP/Pumpkin faction. She offered to base with him, but Ectoplasm was too protective of his underground hovel to accept the offer. He attempted to set up a town at 400 -400, advertising it in chat with colored text. He would quickly regret this broadcasting, losing control of the town after someone showed up and crystalled him. The town's structures were then destroyed to make way for Bong Town, an irony that Ecto would remember for months.

Following the town's destruction, Ecto tried to build a watercube around central spawn. He gave up after realizing construction of watercube machines was controversial and potentially bannable. Having lost his resources during his failed projects, Ecto came to Pog Town in search of company that was too weak to kill him. He spent several weeks walking through the small area, using the remainder of his resources to crystal armorless players while invisible. His resources steadily dwindling and the town's population slowly decreasing, Ecto packed up his gear and left.

## July - September 2021: Returning Home

Wanting to return home, Ectoplasm stocked up on rockets and began the long flight back to his base. Towards the end of his journey, he stumbled across a poorly hidden portal that led to an Obsidian Reactor farm. Excited by his discovery, Ecto attempted to activate the machine. This attempt resulted in the destruction of the reactor, cratering of the nearby landscape and wildlife, the release of the farm's withers, and a hostile dispute with Ribitson (the reactor's owner). Ectoplasm continued his flight home, (allegedly) missing the rest of Ribitson's base only a few thousand blocks away.

After finally reaching his base, Ectoplasm spent several weeks remodeling it. This included replacing every surface with stone bricks, expanding the storage area, and placing lanterns along the ceiling. This compulsive construction was a distraction from Ectoplasm's insecurities, namely his inability to fend against other established players. Ultimately, Ectoplasm found himself living in isolation. His base was sized for a group and equipped with a perfect trading hall, but he had no one to share it with. This revelation would finally expose Ectoplasm to the insanity of playing Purity Vanilla alone, but he had invested too much to turn back.

## September-November 2021: The Water Cube at 400 -400

Realizing that he could not fight his enemies, Ectoplasm fought the world instead. After returning to spawn, he used the obsidian from the reactor to build a small tower inside of his half-formed watercube. The proximity to the incomplete watercube reminded Ectoplasm of his earliest days at spawn. When he had stood within the immensity of Warvan's watercube, he had felt as if the world stood still.

Watercubes themselves were not bannable, only the machines used to automate them. He could finally create something indestructible. Pushed over the edge by the memory, Ectoplasm wildly flew to Bong Town. He razed the floor to ocean level with a pickaxe, killing the players that spawned in the grassy fields of the area. Once the ground had been flattened, he began the construction of the cube itself. Kelp was gathered from the nearby ocean, ice was gathered from distant icebergs, and the last of the reactor obsidian was used to create a frame marking the cube's dimensions. For weeks, Ectoplasm obsessively tended to his rising cube of water source blocks.

Every day, he layered kelp inside of the water.

Y level 80.

Y level 100.

Y level 160.

Y level 255.

When it was done, Ectoplasm began to decline in activity. For weeks, players took notice of the sudden appearance of the water cube. It still stands unmarred.

## October 2021-August 2022: Death Throes

Having completed his greatest objective, Ectoplasm spent the rest of the year flittering in and out of existence. His base was distant and empty. The spawn was barren. The potential and mystery of the world had peeled away, leaving only cobblestone mountains and the faint echo of distant groups.

When the server updated to 1.18, Ectoplasm briefly attempted to start a watercube on the top of the first obsidian sky. This was short-lived, and the watercube was never completed. When the server updated to 1.19, Ectoplasm enacted a long-meditated plan of bringing wardens into the end portal to kill geared players. This surprisingly succeeded in killing players, although it was countered when water was used to drown the wardens. The operation was ended when players followed Ectoplasm's stronghold tunnel to the ancient city thousands of blocks away.

## April 2023: Closure

Ectoplasm's final moments on Purity began at spawn, where he returned to the site where Warvan's watercube had once stood. The glass dome lay under a mound of cobblestone, but its frame of glass and obsidian still remained. Flying into the sky on his nearly depleted elytra, Ectoplasm began building a frame for his final watercube. After 2 days of construction, the ruins of the glass dome were underwater for the first time in years.

## Epilogue

After the final cube, Ectoplasm attempted to return home one last time. However, he never made it. Noticing a new player begging for armor in the chat, Ectoplasm recalled his own beginning on the server. For years and across hundreds of thousands of blocks, he had worked alone. Unable to trust other players, he had found himself in isolation. During his long journey to become indestructible, he had never considered who he was doing it for.

Flying back to spawn, Ectoplasm told the player to meet him at 400 -400. Upon arriving, Ectoplasm gave the player his suit of armor and the tools he was carrying. The new player donned the equipment, possessions that Ectoplasm had once believed would protect him from the world. Immediately after the exchange, a creeper exploded behind Ectoplasm. Without his armor, he died instantly.

The new player survived.