Perfect penguin

Penguin is a Diamond Rank Player in Divergent SMP. He joined the server May 7th, 2020 before leaving and rejoining on July 19th 2020.

## The prequel: Pre-Pixopolis

The story of Penguin begins with his accomplis known as zebra. Back in the olden days, long before the days of Divergent, the pair were on a realm together. This realm would however get lonely and boring. One day when primordial penguin got bored, he hatched a diabolical idea, and proposed it to Zebra. They shared admiration of the idea to venture to other servers using reddit. They would do this not to socialise and to build a community, but to bring grief and petty annoyance via causing as much chaos as they could before being banned, and being a general asshole. Zebra agrees and they head off on their mission. Their first stop was an unsuspecting server with a small population. They were welcomed with opened arms. Once in Penguin and Zebra began ransacking the spawn village and stealing all their useful items that could be used as a form of destruction. Lava buckets, tnt, flint and steel, it was all unleashed on the quiet server setting it ablaze. Fortunately they were quickly kicked and questioned in discord. They responded in various immature ways taking nothing seriously and then leaving. (Penguin would attempt to rectify their wrongdoings in the far future but noticed they were blocked, and realising the server owner likely long forgot this incident, decided to just bear the guilt)

## The prequel: Pixopolis

After raiding one server, their hunger for destruction was not satisfied and after a few days Penguin and Zebra would begin to chart a course for another server to attack: The server of Pixopolis.

After making each of them making the fakest applications on earth, with Penguin even boasting his youtube channel pretending to be a content creator, they were granted access and entered the server. They were welcomed by the discord server owner; **TheGaryDoesSales.** This server was quite different to any they had been to before having datapacks, one of which added ships around the spawn. When arriving Penguin and Zebra decided these would provide a great head start to their destructive reign. This went quite poorly however as the boats were guarded with mobs the pair had rarely encountered before, evokers and illager alike. They died numerous times but eventually conquered a ship, and set up shop on it. This ship was right off the shores of spawn which was perfect for them. They used the resources on that ship to conquer other ships in the area until they had amassed an adequate amount of goods to sustain living. Zebra had documented some of their exploration of these ships in a very low framerate video linked here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEChegFxb] This raid of the server would have to be big as there was already a sizeable spawn which would need more than a few buckets of lava to torch, Penguin planned to source a form of gunpowder and sand to try amass a large enough bomb to do some damage, so until then they would have to PLAY MINECRAFT on A FRIENDLY, LIVELY, INVITING SERVER how horrible.

One night on the server Penguin was busy doing nothing in the ship alone, when TheGaryDoesSales approached him. He was kind but had to deliver unfortunate news, the boats around spawn were being removed, so Gary asked Penguin to move out as soon as possible. Penguin did so and evacuated his stuff to a nearby beach facing spawn. When Penguin was done moving he was asked by Gary if he would like to assist Gary in removing the boats. This meant exploding them, so of course penguin agreed. He enjoyed the time he spent with Gary removing some of the ships with explosives, and this presented the biggest buffer to their plan of creating havoc, the power.. of friendship.

Later Penguin now again with Zebra decide they need a source of income to fuel their plan so they plan to make a shop and sell sand and other desert themed items in their sand castle stores. For some reason they decided not yet to stoop to xray or stealing, but to create a store. Was it a plan to not raise suspicion before their grand plan? or was it the friendliness and inviting nature of the server beginning to grow on them? Perhaps the answer was different for each of them however, it's not known. The pair would work hard to keep their store stocked and once managed to completely demolish an island together using unenchanted tools for sand. The sand store would eventually be one of the oldest stores still standing in the shopping district.

## Pixopolis: The x-ray incident

One faithful day Penguin was in the nether and happened upon a nether fortress. He for some reason thought he was capable of taking on the fortress alone, he'd soon find out this was not the case. While attacking some wither skeletons, one way or another penguin becomes overwhelmed and perishes. In a panicked daze spawning back in the pixel plaza (the spawn/shopping district of pix) Penguin decided he'd make the great decision of borrowing an elytra so he could get his stuff. In and out mission, what could go wrong? Penguin got the borrowed elytra, flew to their stuff successfully but then he died yet again. Penguin awakening at the pixel plaza again now more panicked and in debt, decided, "hey I took one elytra already, I'll just take the last one, get my stuff, and then return both elytras!" Of course, this would not go to plan. Penguin flew off back to his stuff, gathering it in a hurry but then tragically dying and losing their stuff for good.

Distraught and in total panic and guilt Penguin realised he needed to pay for these elytras he lost, but having just lost everything he decided to turn to the dark side and boot up the old hacked client. Penguin returned to the server, went to his mine and got to work, activating the dastardly xray tool, and got mining. He would soon make two fatal flaws. One, not blocking up his x-ray tunnels, and two, **telling a friend about this.**

## Pixopolis: The betrayal

After using x-ray once, like a drug, it becomes addicting. If you did it once and got away with it, why not do it again. Penguin sometimes would use xray again but for less urgent reasons. Once getting diamonds for the sole purpose of giving them away to people in their stores, and another time to make fun games with diamond rewards for his friends. It was one of these times he'd tell dear friend and former partner in crime; **Zebra** his source of diamonds. This would prove to be a big mistake.

One day Zebra and Penguin were wandering the shopping district and Zebra found a barrel selling eggs. Zebra, not thinking, took some eggs and just yote them into the sky without fearing consequences. Penguin however was unsettled by this fearing admin intervention if they found out, but Penguin, realising it was just some eggs decided to forget about it.

wait this story doesnt add up penguin didnt lose his items hold on its 1.30am i'll be back in the future to continue and iron out the details i sleep

## Divergent: Season 1

### The volcano base.

Penguin in season 1 did not do any significant lore, apart from naming his base **Antarctica**. This is the first instance of Antarctica being mentioned in Divergent history however it was nothing like the Antarcticas to come.

The base was a Volcanic island in a similar shape to the continent of Antarctica in real life. The terrain was grassy with an upward slant in the northern axis, and the volcano in the middle surrounded by lava. The terrain cracks on the east side of the volcano allowing lava to flow from the center, with a wooden bridge crossing it. On the north face of the volcano, a bridge stretched to the land, with a giant circular nether portal carved into the volcano. The inside of the volcano was mostly empty with a wool floor of varying colors representing lava, covered by a layer of orange glass. Below the surface of the island there was a villager breeder, pumpkin and melon farm, and a small trading hall with all the essential villagers and butchers. Penguin had the butchers as he had constructed a hoglin farm and used their meat for trading and for selling in the shopping district.

Penguin based in one of the diagonal tunnels that existed in the nether hub of the primal days of early Divergent SMP, along with a player who was known as schrute\_farms.

### Playing with friends.

In this season of Divergent, Penguin was joined by his friend Leaping Lion. Together they co-owned the food store, where Lion got half the cut, despite contributing nothing to the store. Lion made his abode in Penguin's mine, and penguin built a small hovel there too joining him. They'd spend time together mining for diamonds to see who could get more, and duking it out in a small arena they carved out. It wasn't much but Penguin enjoyed the time they spent on Minecraft together, which had never happened successfully before. He'd come to miss this in later seasons.

### Meeting Gnail and Kanji.

It was in this mine where Penguin would meet Gnail, in quite an unfortunate way. One time when Penguin and Lion announced they were to begin fighting to chat to check if people wouldn't mind chat spam, a now banned player known as Kanji liked the idea of a fight, and declared he would come over to Penguin and Lion and murder them. With the pair not knowing how to react they ignored him, until he actually showed up soon after, and began his attack, starting with Lion. Luckily Kanji was quite the bad PVPer so much so that Lion who was very inexperienced and in iron gear could hold off Kanji with the advantage of a shield, while Kanji was in highly enchanted diamond gear. Lion held off Kanji long enough for Penguin to attack, Lion had done a significant amount of damage but sadly perished to Kanji. Penguin was able to, with a lot of attacking and the help of a respawned Lion, slay Kanji while they tried to escape.

Kanji became furious that the two had actually killed him, so he ordered his friend **Gnail** to follow him to retrieve his gear. Penguin and Lion shulkered his items and fled into the walls of the base. Kanji and Gnail arrived and began to search the twisting mines. Penguin secretly passed the shulker to Gnail who insisted on being pacifist, however Gnail didnt notice the shulker and so ignored it. So Kanji continued their rage filled search. Eventually they were found and a slaughter began with death occurring on both sides and inventories mixing all around. After a while peace was achieved, with Kanji leaving, satisfied with their items back and a bit of blood on their hands. Penguin and Lion enjoyed this time however, the other members of the server did not like Kanji's *boisterous* way of speaking in chat, and called on co-owner TheGaryDoesSales to deal with him.

### Other experiences.

Once on the SMP, a skin competition was hosted themed around the Nether. Penguin decided to join using a hazmat skin he already had used for the Nether update. A now banned member of Divergent took offense to Penguin coming second in the competition under the argument "He always wins". (note: There were three skin competitions, Penguin had come *second* twice.)

Penguin helped co- owner at the time, TheGaryDoesSales build a section of spawn. Together they built a part of the raft which was being destroyed by a giant squid. This is also where Penguin re-learned how to use litematica.