Temp Town

Jmen\_07

Pokey\_junior

Maxpork

OneLinedPaper

Temp town was a base on the temp map of June 18th 2020. It was known to it's accesability near spawn and it's openess to all newcomers, along with it's unfortunate demise.

## History

On June 18th a temp map was created by Penguin to install server changes, with the perspective of the new nether update on the horizon. For many players at the time, this would their first temp map however, as it was the first after the start of the Covid era. As one of these new players, Jmen had hoped to start a journey with a close friend named Agorm. After both being killed and sent back to spawn however, Agorm would log off as Jmen too was planning to exit the game. Before this, he would however quickly look to explore that what others had worked on and was surprised to see a open invite to a spawnbase in the server chat by the player MashleSmash. As most bases with public coords tend not too last long, he hurriedly made his way there, to see a small community of players still living at the location. It wouldnt take long however for a group of PVPers to arrive at the location, beat up all those present and claim the base to be over. The inhabitants however had other ideas.

Despite seeing their home burned in front of them, many returned, including MashleSmah, L, Pokey\_Junior and a handful of others, who's names are forgotten to time. Together with Jmen, they rebuild their community home and started further work on their mines. An unspoken rule quickly formed however, as none of the inhabitants would communicate by chat, opting to use only signs as a way of speaking. Adding to it, the players were massively undergeared, as a result of the many raids. Thus Jmen opted to build a protective wall around the small settlement, with hopes of slowing down any raider group. The massive mountain at their back and the vast open fields to the other side formed a somewhat defendable position. It would not nearly prove enough however, as a geared player named DeeVee, would descend on them.

Unlike other raiders, Deevee took it up himself to make sure temptown wouldn't rebuild, as the player would stay at the location and kill anyone coming close. After being killed himself and getting sent back to spawn, Jmen would stumble upon Cawa casually lavacasting at spawn. As Cawa was well geared aswell, Jmen broke the Temp town code and started talking with Cawa. He asked if she'd be up for the challange of saving temp town, but left somewhat empty handed, as Cawa wasn't fully convinced. Undeterred, Jmen himself pressed on to find the place in ruins. Being unable to beat back the attacker without gear, it was only by a miracle that Cawa and Cicada ended up arriving at the ruins. Together they were able to beat Deevee, who quit the tempmap as a result. For their actions, a totem was erected in the middle of temptown, thanking the two players for their commitment. While being invited to live with the rest, the two players opted to continue their adventures, leaving the town unprotected once more.

While not completely destoryed, Temptown was in bad shape, with all inhabitants left severely undergeared. Temp town was surely to fall to eventual doom, wasnt it for their eventual saviour to arrive. Maxpork would arrive to the base, geared and confident. As a player in full Iron, with a diamond sword, all inhabitants were on high alert and expecting the worst, when Max approached over the vast plains in front of the base. Surprisingly enough though, Max's intention's were noble, as he would soon start distributing armor and tools. Together with the return of Pokey\_Junior, the town would have a respectable 8 concurrend members as they entered their golden age, shortlived as it was, as the worst was yet to come.

While Temptown had never looked as respectable before, with a community house, a tavern and several homes dug into the cliffside and outside the wall, the small town wasn't too last. During the course of this temp map a group by the name of DogBoob had established itself as a big player on the server. boasting some of the better pvpers at the time, all well armoured after several hours on the server had gone by, the group was looking to cement their legacy. While the group had not yet interacted with temp town thus far, it would become their focal point. as night turned into dawn, a few armoured players were spotted over the vast fields leading to the town. As the inhabitants readied themselves however, they would understand the magnitude of their situation. a dozen players with enchanted armor charged the main gate of the city, slashing down any who dared to stand in their path. As many had set their bed inside temptown, most rejoined the fighting as soon as they respawned, useless as it was. Jmen, who had stored a stache nearby once again armoured himself and shot at one of the invaders, catching his attention. faking a retreat, he managed to lure the attacker to a ravine with a slim bridge connecting both ends. Hoping he would take the bait, Jmen waited calmly on his side of the overpass, though the invader would not attempt his luck. In the distance, it could clearly be seen how the once thriving community was now getting plundered, burned and even lavacasted. Despite the resilient residents having gone through many hardships to preserve their town, it was now obvious that there was no saving it anymore.

## Aftermath

While the raid would spell the end for temptown, it would become the defining moment of DogBoob's short stint on the server. After their victory they would quickly start to build their own town, calling it DogBoob city. Previous inhabitants of temptown would sporadically return, harassing the new locals with arrowfire and lava, using mountaintunnels they dug when they lived there. They would never succeed in driving off the established group, as the server would be preemptively returned to the original server the next day.

Despite only taking place during one day, both temp town and DogBoob have become a piece of trivia for older players on the server. The usage of dogboob can still be found in names items and withers. Even a book has appaered on the tales of temptown, however it has not seen any distribution on the server. Despite the temp map being of little significance to the server as a whole, many still look back to simpler days like these.