Lacksal

Lacksal is an epic retard, acclaimed as one of the top retards in Purity Vanilla. He is well known for his youtube videos, his verbal incontinence, his general poverty, and the tendency of all his factions to get griefed hard.

Debate has arisen over whether his presence in a faction is causal for their griefs, or merely correlated to their obvious retardness, as only retards would let him, or EJ, in.

## First Encounters

Lacksal first visited Purity Vanilla in September 2019, invited by a fellow co-user of his shared Minecraft account, TipTopBop. Logging on to the base known as Chromium , he thought OwO's tower and lolingcraft's underground builds were kind of cool, but the rest fairly meh, and logged off.

A few days later, in a presumably unrelated event, the inhabitants of Chromium realized their base had been compromised. The base vanished in a blaze of lavacasts, the coordinates were spammed to chat, and Chromium fell on 18 September, 2019.

## Humble Beginnings

Later, in April 2020, Lacksal was looking for a server where his redstone skills would be deemed excellent by comparison to other players. He remembered the inefficient automated crop farms and completely non-functional autobrewer of Chromium, and decided Purity Vanilla was the server for him. His future decided, he logged on with his committed non-shared account, Lacksal7HE1337.

Lacksal attempted life as a solo redstone engineer for a while, founding the non-faction redstone study group, The Stoners. Finding his creations unfulfilling without seeing them help others, he joined a faction in desperate need of his help: The Council.

Lacksal made the journey to The Council's bases across many days and weeks, his tendency to die many times on long distance journeys both in nether and overworld stymying fast travel. Finally, once he arrived and began to build wonderful redstone machines to provide everything the Council needed, YeahItsRico simultaneously manifested at five different Council bases, filling them all up with withers at the same time in a miraculous multilocating feat that could only be attributed to Lacksal's curse.

Hoping to escape Lacksal's curse and taking advantage of the removal of their incredibly poor quality wiki page, the Council reformed without Lacksal on the membership list, first as The Committee, then as Baba Booey. Lacksal meanwhile attempted to deflect via solo basing. These efforts were to no avail, as their remaining attempts at bases were shortly thereafter blown to bedrock under mysterious circumstances, and Lacksal's independent base covered with lava.

## In and out of the Children of Athena

   Finding his faction dissolved and reformed without him, Lacksal joined CoA (Children of Athena) with his fellow infamous retard, EmeraldJaguar. Shortly thereafter, their provisional base was destroyed by GlaceonGuy . Hoping to confuse the curse around him, Lacksal attempted to provisionally join the faction of many of his fellow redstone enthusiasts: Invicta.

### An Epic Journey

Unfortunately, Lacksal, in his capacity as Alpha Stoner, had authored the Stoner pledge, including "I pledge to never create nor help to create a [...] machine which negatively effects server performance on a large scale." His Invicta stoner friends had a factory base, Panta Rei , that was among the most resource-hogging, lag causing, inefficient redstone constructions ever seen in the history of the server. Unsurprisingly, the universe resolved this apparent contradiction with the burning of Panta Rei on 14 October 2020.

#### The Party

Invicta pointed out that it had clearly evaded the curse of Lacksal, as Panta Rei could not be considered an Invicta base, only having clear evidence of significant usage and builds by 5 of its members--Soosh, Jimothy, Nethzyran, Ras, and Kiddu--out of 16. To celebrate the end of the Curse, they staged a week-long celebration at their main base, Glaciagrad, full of explosives and lava/water light shows. Lacksal continued his journey to Glaciagrad meanwhile, his progress slowed by repeated deaths. Finally, their celebration over, Invicta shared screenshots of their amazing party. Realizing that Glaciagrad had no remaining intact buildings, and he was unlikely to get there anyway, Lacksal gave up and after his next death, sought another faction to join with a base closer to the main axis highways.

### Which color's lives matter?

Lacksal next tried to join GLM, whose main base was only 15k from the main highway. This excited GLM member Tidepod, since as Lacksal's minecraft skill-level was almost exactly the same as the unable-to-escape-spawn greys GLM had been founded to help, he was clearly the perfect fit. In her excitement, Tidepod sent pictures of Lacksal's new home to the entire rest of the game in the best, most efficient manner she could: via direct message to the seed crackers and technical base hunters of NSO, who would further disseminate the information.

However, during their routine algorithmic investigation of the exact X, Y, and Z coordinates of the screenshotted base, NSO's investigators discovered evidence of something terrible: that GLM may have been discriminating in favor of grey lives mattering, as opposed to other colors. This color-based prejudice could not stand without challenge.

    NSO and fellow BLM supporter faction Legion staged a fiery but peaceful protest, chanting "Black Lives Matter" in the streets of GLM's main base. As all BLM protests are entirely peaceful, it can only be concluded from the pictures of the base after the protest that GLM's members blew up their own base in an attempt to atone for their terrible sins of color prejudice.

### CoA once more

His potential new home destroyed before he could reach it, Lacksal returned to CoA and their new base. This time, he reached the base and successfully contributed to the several unfinished buildings present when the base was mysteriously covered with cobblestone, water, and lava shortly thereafter.

## Future Plans

Unfortunately, the possibility of making a youtube series out of joining factions and filming as their bases are destroyed is not practical for Lacksal, as he is usually unable to reach the bases in question in time to witness their griefs. Potential careers under consideration include:

* Demolition expert: helping factions remove their existing bases before disbanding by simply joining them.
* Anti-griefing consultant: preventing griefs by joining factions whose bases are on the opposite side of the map.
* Scientific test subject: researched to determine the source of his strange grief-calling powers.

Whatever his future path, one thing is certain: the swathe of destruction Lacksal has left behind him has put the game's best griefers to shame.