The Downers

The throne room in The Downer's jungle base.

**The Downers** are an alliance on the Hybrid Smp consisting of the courageous and brave leader Sterling, the small but deadly Bun, the regular sized cat enthusiast Cats, and their estranged but beloved adopted cat and little meow meow Lyvi.

## History

### The First Day

The alliance was founded on The First Day, where Sterling, Cats and Bun gathered after waking up in the mysterious Hybrid Smp lands. Finding the other people on the server awfully aggressive, they decided to create their first base underground in a hidden location. They began making the base more homely, placing their beds one block apart and not next to each other, creating a wheat farm for food and constructing a dining room that they would later rename 'The Downing Room'.

### First Meeting

A week after their arrival on the Hybrid Smp, the gang had almost completed their now thriving base. There was an abundance of food, materials and even a full enchantment table set up. Once returned from a trip to the nether, Cats and Bun found Sterling, sat at the downing table, with a book in his hand. Sterling invited the pair to the downing table, where he began the first meeting, his book being the agenda. They discussed the following:

* The Alliance Thriving: Sterling began the meeting by speaking of the great work they all had done with the base, the amount of food and materials they have collected and their hidden position of power on the server.
* Plan for Future: He then spoke of the future of the downers, and their plan to secretly stay on top. They had to stay under the radar, stay underground in both the literal and figurative sense, and this was where the proposed name of 'The Downers' was created. They would attract no attention to themselves, not staying completely hidden but only stopping to say 'hi' to the other server members before leaving, thus hiding in plain sight.
* Lemon: After Sterling asked if either Bun or Cats had anything to bring forward to the meeting, Bun brought up Lemon, seeing him as overly interested in The Downers compared to the other server members. It was then agreed that any sketchy information found out about Lemon would shared with the group.

Cats and Bun agreed to the name and the plan, and this was point where 'The Downers' were born.

### Lemon's Appearance

The Downers continued to farm, mine and build themselves up, but with such a secretive plan, any sort of small problem could result in a consequential crumbling of their power. This became apparent when Cats heard the footsteps of someone in the base. It didn't take him long to find Lemon, looking like he'd just woken up from a nap, standing in the middle of the enchantment room. Cats wasn't too bothered by this, and saw Lemon as an innocent friend just happening to find their base. After all, it was quite close to spawn and the other members of the Smp. Cats told the others about Lemon's appearance, and while there was some paranoia, they all took note of the event, which prompted them to make the entrance more secretive, and moved on.

#### Doxxing

It wasn't long before Lemon had told everyone living near spawn the location of The Downers, effectively doxxing their home and resources. This had put a major hinderance on The Downers, being robbed and ransacked to the point of their pets being murdered. With an event this bad taking place, action of equal calibre had to be acted on. Cats had the idea of taking what they had left and moving far away where no one could find them; they wouldn't even have to stay underground. Sterling and Bun agreed to this, and they said goodbye to the home they had created, but not the friendship they had made, The Downer alliance would not succumb that easily.

### Second Base

The trio walked as far as their legs would take them, a sun setting behind them, and in front, lied the smells of wet moss, the thick jungle trees that sheltered them from the harsh heat and the hydrated grass soft on their feet. This was home. They journeyed through the labyrinth, finding a small hill they would dig into and eventually become the main piece of their second base. Bun worked hard to dig out and create the new base, Cats made a new enchantment set up, now with 69% more bookshelves and Sterling began work on an improved 'Downing Table', enlarged to fit the enormous thrones he had constructed and renamed to 'The Throne Room'.

### Timebomb and Lyvi's Announcements

The Hybrid Smp members gathered at spawn when it was found that a second wave of individuals had woken up into the server. People rushed to make friends with the 2 newbies for their own benefit, pressuring them to join their sides. A week past, and the new players, Timebomb and Lyvi had made their decisions on which side they would join. In an effort to join both sides and fool the veteran players into thinking they were separated and vulnerable, Timebomb joined Andro and Bee's alliance, while Lyvi joined The Downers. They pretended to be mad at each other and ran off with their alliances, keeping contact when they could.

#### Lyvi Joins the Downers

This meant The Downers had a new member, Lyvi, who they would take back to the jungle base. They accepted him but he was relatively low on The Downer's social ladder being the only new person. He would be treated well, but the original members were to always have an eye on him; they didn't know much about him and his values.

### Second Meeting

Perhaps the most official meeting The Downer's will ever have was the second meeting. Now in the newly build throne room, with the alliance stronger than ever and in a place foreign to even the bravest adventurers on the Hybrid Smp, The Downers had found the underlyving power they had sought weeks prior, and **no one** could take it away from them. The following was discussed:

* Re-explanation of The Downer's goals to Lyvi: Lyvi was told that The Downers wanted to stay out of touch from the rest of the server, so they could maintain and thrive further than anyone else and keep control over themselves.
* Success: It was felt that their alliance had completed their goal of surviving, and Sterling now wanted to start thriving, doing this by expanding out into the jungle and constructing buildings on the surface.
* Their problems had come to an end: They no longer needed to make friends or enemies, kill or protect. They could put all that effort into the creation of their new lands.
* Continued Security: With so much to lose, it was crucial The Downers understood some of the sacrifices they would have to make to keep the alliance protected. These sacrifices were declared in the 'Downer's Directive', an official book of the 5 laws for The Downers were to follow. Another book being the contract for The Downers to sign pledging their allegiance to the Downer's Directive, was used during this meeting.

The meeting ended after the 4 members signed the contract, kept safely in Sterling's ender chest. They then went to establish the first surface building, The Downer Tower.

## Items

There are items that have high importance to The Downers, being crucial to The Downer alliance and hindering them if an outsider were to become in possession of any item.

Items of Importance
  Downer's Directive
DOWNERS DIRECTIVE
1. NOBODY OTHER THAN DOWNERS ARE ALLOWED TO COME HERE AND SHOWING THEM THIS PLACE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
2. CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IS TO BE CONTAINED AND NOT RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC.
3. INTERACTION WITH THE PUBLIC IS TO BE KEPT TO A MINIMUM.
4. A DOWNER CANNOT KILL ANOTHER DOWNER UNLESS THEY ARE USING DOWNER'S DAGGER.
5. ALL DOWNERS ARE EQUAL AND STERLAD'S LEADERSHIP DOES NOT DEFY THIS

  Contract

I HEREBY AGREE TO FOLLOW DOWNERS DIRECTIVE AND COMMIT MYSELF TO THE DOWNER GROUP. I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL HARM AND/OR MENTAL DISORDERS GAINED AFTER BECOMING A DOWNER.
Signed: SterLad, Cats, lyvi <3 bun ;)