Jessica

JessQwest (Referred to as Jessica, Jess) is one of the two Divergent SMP Owners and the main technical administrator of Divergent SMP.

## Server Information

### Server Relatives

Schrute (Partner and Parent of all our baby Divergents)

## Background

Jess has been playing Minecraft since March 2013, and Divergent SMP is the second ever SMP that Jess is a member of. Jess left the last SMP she was in, Mine4Fun, in 2014 and took a long break before joining another SMP.

In August 2020, Josh “DrWatson64” Watson convinced Jess to apply to join Divergent SMP to play with them and InputDolphin718, an administrator of the server. Jess applied to Divergent SMP on September 8th 2020, after recently moving house during the COVID pandemic. Jess was accepted onto Divergent SMP later that day.

## Season 2

Jess joined Divergent SMP towards the beginning of season 2. she initially settled next to Watsons Cave mansion, in close proximity to Dolphins guardian farm base and Schrutes island. On Jess’ first day, she met Schrute in the east nether tunnel, and got yelled at by her for littering her boat on the tunnel.

For most of season 2, Jess lived inside “The birch holiday home”, A day 1 structure which Jess planned on developing more but never did. The birch house has made repeat appearances in subsequent seasons of Divergent SMP. Later on in the season she moved into “The landfill”. A stone structure dug into the ground that would have been covered over at the end of the season. This did not happen due to “The Gnail incident”

### Happy Redstone

Jess started a redstone shop on Divergent after receiving a loan from Watson to buy up land in the shopping district. The shop started off as a 10x10 oak plank plot with some chests on it, selling essential redstone products at a high price. Jess wasn’t intending on actually selling anything at this stage, but was more focused on reserving land and the right to sell redstone while she was acquiring gear and working on the infrastructure to sell redstone more efficiently.

Soon after starting up her redstone shop, Delanium contacted Jess offering to team up for redstone sales, as she already had a redstone shop but not much time to play on the server. Jess agreed to sell half the redstone products in one shop, and half in the other, so there could still be 2 shops in the shopping district, hitting the maximum allowed shops. This allowed Jess and Delanium to hold a monopoly over redstone in the shopping district as under the rules at the time only 2 shops could sell redstone.

Jess manufactured a facility with inefficient and poor construction techniques, and named it Happy Redstone, as a cover up for the illegal practices going on inside the establishment. she installed a door locked with a unique key and gave a copy to her closest friend Watson, who then neglected it and dumped it in a chest, where it was found and confiscated.

On October 6th 2020 at 23:18 PST, `Happy Redstone Investigation 0 (HRI-0)` was opened by Alpha Who, as an unknown inspector identified trouble at the facility. Members snuck into the establishment unauthorised using the key handed out to Watson. Happy redstone responded with an official statement mostly denying the accusations.

Two weeks after this incident, Kveisar opened up a competing redstone shop as the shop rules now allowed 3 shops to sell redstone. Kveisar had significantly more time and resources than Jess and sold redstone at a much lower price. Jess reached out to Kveisar asking if together they could fix the price of redstone parts. Kveisar mostly refused, though adjusted some prices following lengthy talks. Jess focused more on other projects after this, and eventually started buying up Kveisars redstone for her own personal projects.

### Other shops

Jess teamed with a now banned player cringedotexe and worked together to build a wither rose farm, with the intention of building a wither skeleton farm. Together they opened a shop that sold wither roses, critised for its dangerous lava perimeter. Cringe was banned before the wither skeleton farm had gone past a land scouting phase

### Promotion to Discord Moderator

On September 22nd 2020, 2 weeks after joining the server, Penguin and WeFoundDaniel were arguing in #announcement-discussions. Daniel was arguing that Dolphins skin competition was ‘rigged’ because ‘Penguin always comes first’. This was following Penguin not winning the skin competition that had just happened. Other Divergents were adding fuel to the argument and all staff were presently offline. Jess was in a Discord VC with Watson at this time, and against Watsons advice, Jess intervened and stopped the 2 from arguing. The next morning, Jess woke up to a DM from Gary, inviting her to the staff team as a Discord Moderator for the way she handled the situation. Jess accepted and joined the staff team on September 23rd 2020.

### Promotion to Admin

Dolphins harsh attitude during season 2 made him unpopular, and as the only active staff member online, many Divergents complained that Dolphin had too much unrestricted power. To combat this, on November 25th 2020, Jess was made an Admin after public endorsement by Luna, Titan and Papsse. After becoming an Admin, Papsse immediately changed his mind and criticised the move due to Jess and Dolphin both being in the streaming group “Brit Gang” together, comparing this to the squids from pixopolis. Jess was asked to step down later that day but did not, and remained on the team.

As Admin, Jess and Schrute were given power to rule over the shops due to the unmaintained state of the shops. All shops were properly catalogued and unstocked shops were destroyed. Darths unstocked iron shop was given ‘immunity’ from the shop rules that everyone else followed.

### The Pumpkin Dungeon

In an attempt to end the Melon and Pumpkin war in a fun way, Titan decided to work on a dungeon. Jess asked if she could join and together they started building levels for the dungeon in mid October. In November Jess had a University work crunch and took a break from the server. Titan stopped working on the dungeon so it was left abandoned for a couple months.

The plan for the dungeon was to have 2 parts. Part 1 was the build up to entering the pumpkin lair, and part 2 was exploring and escaping the pumpkin lair. As of November, Part one had 6 levels constructed without redstone, and one level planned out. Part 2 was going to contain 5 levels but none of them had been planned out.

In January Jess returned to the dungeon and decided to finish it quickly so it could be played before the end of the season. Part 2 was dropped and the dungeon would be reworked so that the end would be after level 7 of part 1. This did not take much work as none of part 2 had any plans at this stage. Jess started working on this in secret, in an attempt to surprise Titan. Jess worked with Kveisar to design a couple custom redstone machines that would be used in this dungeon. After a month of work to finish everything, the Pumpkin dungeon opened on January 25th. The season ended without warning on January 26th. Jess is still salty.

### World download

Darth shut down the server on January 26th after the server ran out of storage when Gnail travelled to the world border 30 million blocks out. Jess claims that this could have been easily avoided with better planning. After 2 days of attempting to fix the server, Darth claimed the server unfixable and so a new season would begin without a world download. After a day of persuasion, Jess was allowed to have access to the server overnight as she believed she could generate a world download. She generated a world download and fixed the server in less than 24 hours, but it was too late to turn back and the new season begun soon after.

## Season 3

### Brit Gang Mole Hill

On January 31st, the season opened with 2 hours notice from the owner. Jess teamed up with Dolphin and Watson to base together for the start of the season, before splitting off for a main base. They based next door to Papsse, Titan and Kveisar, sharing some resources but mostly living independently. Schrute invited herself to join the molehill and worked in the background as “Brit Gang” worked together on the base.

### Team up

On February 3rd 2021 Jess moved some steak over to Schrutes “Cow Ass” shop as it was on her way during her day. Schrute DM’d Jess asking if they were teaming up together on the cow ass. Jess did not join the steak shop but accepted schrutes invitation to work on Jess’ most recent shop endeavour, the “Did you Dye dome”. Dolphin heavily criticised the name of this dome. After building the shop, Jess and Schrute spent more and more time with each other, and eventually based together. Jess and Schrute have messaged each other at least once every day since February 21st 2021. They soon worked on the Nyan cat shop, The Hole, The Great Platuwu and many more endeavours together

### Promotion to Server Owner

Jess, along with admin Schrute and Moderator Luna, were unhappy with the conditions and standards held in the ownership of the Divergent community, specifically towards people with autism. On March 29th, after Darth violated many rules in the Season 3 PVP event and incited violence in others, the group of 3 demanded change and accountability from Darth, the owner at the time, and the three threatened to step down from the server if no change was promised. Darth refused to follow these standards and instead stepped down from the server, making Jess, Schrute and Luna co-owners in the process.

### [Redacted]

Not put out by the Pumpkin Dungeon, Jess teamed up with Schrute, Luna, and Penguin to create a sequel dungeon. They started work in private outside of spawn in the Mesa biome. They were caught by Papsse, who was following the crew working while invisible.
The dungeon was referred to as [Redacted] during development and construction, and that WIP name was eventually adopted to be the official name of the dungeon. Dungeon plans started on April 14th 2021, with the dungeon opening officially on July 18th 2021 after many months of constant work.

[Redacted] was a significant upgrade on the pumpkin dungeon, with larger levels, advanced redstone per-level resetting systems, and unique mechanics. Jess says that [Redacted] is the most advanced project she has ever done within Divergent SMP.

When the Dungeon opened, there were speedrunning attempts made by Papsse and Mequidis, competing for the fastest time. Multiple ‘Skips’ were found in the intricate analysis of the dungeon mechanics. Level 1 could be skipped by running through the exit door before the reset closes it, if the previous runner had gotten past level 1. Level 3 could be skipped by sitting on a slab on the other side of a locked door. There was a shortcut for the parkour on level 4 which allowed a portion of that level to be skipped, despite Penguin claiming the shortcut to be impossible to execute. Papsse holds the record for [Redacted] with a total time of 12 minutes and 30 seconds from start to finish. Average [Redacted] completion time is over an hour when not speedrunning.

## Season 4

Due to other commitments such as the final year of University, Jess toned down game playtime in season 4 when it started on December 18th 2021. Jess based with Schrute and created an underground base with thousands of hoppers and a 350-item sorter storage system. Above ground was a desolate sand-land with an excavation centre and an abandoned power plant.

### Expedition Antarctica

Jess, Schrute and Penguin teamed up to work on a large item collection event in the new “Antarctica”. An outpost was created over a few weeks and then a large event was hosted there. The event was heavily critised for requiring the killing of a wither with iron gear as a requirement to finish the game, with many people rage-quitting and giving up with the event. In response, Jess gave enhanced prizes to those that got up to the wither and to those that managed to kill it.

### Hunger games

On October 8th 2022, Jess, Schrute, Alpha, Stella and GreyAlchemist teamed up to create a Hunger games map for the end of the season. GreyAlchemist dropped out soon after idea conception. An island was found on chunkbase to hold the event, 130k blocks away from spawn. Over the period of a week, the longest ice tunnel on divergent was created, spanning 18k blocks total length. The event was held on December 4th 2022, with Papsse winning overall. After her victory, he was given the power to type /stop to end the server and the season.