War for Kinoko Kingdom

Kinoko Kingdom during the war

Kinoko Kingdom is annexed as a district of Hardcore Empire

DexDude is imprisoned in Atlantis' Palace for the second time

Fundy

Cinder

The War for Kinoko Kingdom was the third war on the Hardcore SMP involving Hardcore Empire and Kinoko Kingdom. It began on July 11, 2023 when Hardcore Empire betrayed Kinoko Kingdom during DexDude's speech. It ended on July 25, 2023 when the war day arrived.

## History

### DexDude's speech

DexDude held a speech on July 11, 2023 to basically thank Hardcore Empire for becoming allied with Kinoko Kingdom again. However, Dev had a plan to betray Kinoko Kingdom during the speech in a surprising way. He sent Skull Tissue to hide in a window in the Kinoko Kingdom dojo while invisible and wait for the perfect moment to strike. So at one point during DexDude's speech, Skull Tissue pulled out his bow and shot DexDude and killed him. PolarIce then ran up to the Hardcore Empire members in the audience and asked what the meaning of this was. Dev then revealed that he was not really going to be allied with Kinoko Kingdom and he just wanted Kinoko Kingdom for the empire. He asked the kings if they were ready to give up the kingdom to Hardcore Empire yet. But when they still refused to surrender the kingdom, Hardcore Empire declared war on Kinoko Kingdom and they all fled after Dev detonated a block of TNT in the dojo. This began the War for Kinoko Kingdom.

### Preparation for war day

Both sides used the downtime in the server to prepare for the war. On Kinoko Kingdom's side, Pivotal built a long wall around the front of the kingdom to defend themselves from any possible attacks from Hardcore Empire. PolarIce also distributed his potions from the drug trade with New Vegas to DexDude and Pivotal. On Hardcore Empire's side, Lucky and Fundy prepared poison, strength, speed, fire resistance, and regeneration splash potions. Lucky also made weakness arrows for himself and Fundy prepared his healing arrows ready with his medigun. Finally on July 25, 2023, the actual war started.

## War day

On July 25, 2023, Dev and Skull Tissue logged in to see all the potions that Lucky and Fundy had made. Impressed with this effort, Dev rewarded Lucky with the honor of killing DexDude in the war. After listening to some before-war music and gathering all their resources, the soldiers for Hardcore Empire headed over to Kinoko Kingdom. However they saw the wall surrounding Kinoko Kingdom and decided to just mine through it and then they looked for people to fight.

PolarIce from inside his house saw that the members of Hardcore Empire had arrived in Kinoko Kingdom without warning. He rushed outside with his potions ready and began attacking Dev. Lucky began defending Dev and chased PolarIce down, attacking him until he was dead (though Dev confirmed that this was not a canonical death). After PolarIce was dead, Lucky and Skull Tissue started looking for Pivotal. When they went looking for him in his house, they found that he was waiting there to shoot them. As they tried to get through Pivotal's arrows, Fundy was healing them from behind with his Medi Gun. Eventually Lucky was finally able to get through Pivotal's arrows and began attacking him and almost killed him if it weren't for his totem of undying. Dev then retracted Lucky and ordered him to look for DexDude and kill him. Lucky found him in the main square of Kinoko Kingdom and he killed DexDude with barely a fight. This caused PolarIce to halt the Hardcore Empire and let them know that Kinoko Kingdom surrenders.

## Aftermath

Once Kinoko Kingdom had surrendered in the war, there was nothing they could do to stop Hardcore Empire from finally annexing Kinoko Kingdom as a district of the empire. Dev stated that there would no longer be kings in Kinoko, but PolarIce would still be the Protector of Kinoko Kingdom for the Heroes Pact. Dev then revealed that he was taking DexDude to prison presumably because he wasn't as much of an asset as PolarIce and Pivotal were. After securing DexDude in Atlantis' Palace, the members of Hardcore Empire returned to Kinoko Kingdom and ordered PolarIce and Pivotal to log off for the day. After this, Dev, Lucky, and Skull Tissue tore down the wall in Kinoko Kingdom and began marking their territory in Kinoko Kingdom over the course of the next few days.