LakuTheDark

LakuTheDark is a player on the TG Minecraft Server, who lives in Grogstown, and is known for constructing the Western Overworld Highway railroad.

## Time on TG Server

Joining the server in mid August, 2020, Laku initially chose to live away from any towns, simply digging a hobbit hole into the side of a mountain off of the Western Overworld Highway. Not long after, Laku decided to begin construction on a railroad system along the Western Overworld Highway, in order to more easily connect the towns along the highway.

Construction on this railway lasted roughly 2 weeks before completion. During construction, Laku decided to move into Grogstown, unceremoniously building a cobblestone extension to his house to reach the path.

After completion of the WOH railroad, after being attacked by multiple mobs on the highway, and having an excess of stone from mining and excavation for the railroad, Laku began construction of a wall along the WOH and a south-facing highway, in order to prevent mobs from entering the highway. These walls took roughly 3 days to complete.

After this, Laku turned his attention to constructing a local transit system for Grogstown. At first, Laku attempted to build an L (elevated) system, but due to it interfering with the pathway, it was vetoed by the town. In response, Laku switched to an underground approach, though one station, Grogs Bay, sits high above ground.

After building only 5 stations, Laku was asked by Nowhere to remodel their expansion's tunnel to the WOH railway, which Laku did over the course of a day. Afterwards, he was asked to build a second track in the tunnel, which he began extending to the rest of the WOH railroad. However, while attempting to build the second track for the WOH railroad, in order to prevent collisions, Laku was interrupted by a mine. After attempting to bribe the owner with 2 diamonds after being offered the chance to ask for it to stay, Laku was allowed to leave it without paying the bribe.

However, during construction in an unrelated incident, Laku received a 2-day ban for minor griefing on September 18, 2020. Due to the 14-day autodenial of ban appeals, Laku could not appeal the ban before it expired, and decided to simply wait 2 days, telling mods he would be "going to hypickle." He was unbanned 2 days later without incident.

IRL, on Janurary 27, 2021, Laku announced that he had been accepted to Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.

As of 2/9/2020, Laku is no longer on the Grogstown Council, due to its dissolution.

Laku's builds can be identified by the use of stone and the rather simplistic design, if not simply drilled into a mountain.

## Laku's Reign of Terror

Occurring on the Grogstown Discord, some time during January 2021, Laku found out that he was able to use ban, kick, and mute commands, as his position on the Grogstown Council gave him mod permissions. With somewhat popular support, and partially due to influence from watching Skeppy's modabuse videos, he began to bully S3edling and DankTurtleMaster, due to the latter having threatened to blow up Grogstown, and the former being allied with him, as well as both having resigned from the council; Laku declared he was about to modabuse, finding the Grogstown discord server to be rather unprofessional. He kicked and banned S3edling and DankTurtleMaster multiple times for various reasons, including "you heard the mob" and "trying to stick his dick in a town," and even tormenting S3edling with kicks, kicking him every time he tried to rejoin the discord for a short period of time. Laku ended up giving himself the role of "modabuser" on the Discord. He would continue to modabuse every few days, generally targeting Dank and S3edling, but would also sometimes edit nicknames on the server. His reign of terror ended on 2/9/2021, due to the Grogstown Council being dissolved, stripping Laku of his mod powers, and muting Laku for 30 minutes after he spammed "#GIVELAKUMODBACK." Laku did not continue the spam after being unmuted.

## Notable builds

* Western Overworld Highway railroad:
	+ Spawn station
	+ Great Cross Station
	+ Tree Town Station
	+ -600 Station
	+ -1000 Rest Stop Station
	+ Coastline Station
	+ Grogstown Station (Laku did not build the station building)
	+ DxD's house Station
	+ -1450 Rest Stop Station
	+ Above Neighborhood Station (Laku did not build the station building)
* Overworld Highway Anti-mob wall
* Grogstown Subway:
	+ Grogstown Central Station
	+ City Center Station
	+ Grogs Bay Station
	+ Waterfall Station
	+ Observation Tower Station

## Trivia

* Prior to September 1, 2020, Laku's skin was that of Zamasu, from *Dragon Ball Super*. Laku changed his skin to look more like what the username is supposed to represent.
* The name "Laku" comes from the name of a character Laku's IRL counterpart is writing, who has blue hair. "TheDark" comes from the fact that Laku is supposed to give off the sense of a member of a dark organization in the book. Laku's actual role, however, will be revealed when the book is released.
* While he does play on Java, Laku is known for his tolerance towards Bedrock players.
* Due to Laku playing with a trackpad, he will never turn on his PVP, and can more easily be killed by mobs.
* Laku prefers to use the arrow keys, rather than WASD, to move around. This is due to the setup of his laptop.
* Laku's love of building railways in MC comes from his IRL counterpart's desire to work in the public sector to take on the climate crisis, by using methods to take cars off the road, including the use of railways.