KalebT103

## Beginnings

KalebT103's Purity adventures began in a similar place to most other players; a love of Minecraft. As he had played the game for years on console, he had to try out a java server when he finally bought his own PC in June of 2022. The first server he joined? Purity Vanilla.

After a few hours of researching factions, watching YouTube videos, and joining discord servers, he finally joined the server. His escape was rather quick at first, within an hour or so he made it to around +15k, 0 using the Nether highways. Here he found a farm, and an area seemingly safe enough to begin mining iron, and gathering resources. Long story short, within six hours he had full diamond gear and some iron to spare.

Much like the majority of greys, he resorted to asking questions about factions, groups, and trading in chat. Most answered with sarcasm, larp, and hate, but one not very well known player by the name of Therion\_Warlock (now known by the name of Onpiov), who had very briefly based with Thomaslilli and a few other well known players, privately messaged Kaleb telling him to, "Shut the fuck up and go make your own faction." This started a chain of messages that quickly moved to DM's that lead to Kaleb getting an invite to the Serenity Division.

## The Serenity Division

The Serenity division is a faction founded during mid 2021 by Onpiov, which quickly disintegrated due to unknown reasons, and coincidentally was restarted by the same player on Kaleb's join date.

After a few hours of traveling, Kaleb reached a meetup point organized by Onpiov. Here, he was given totems, enchanted gear, and a few stacks of golden carrots. The two traveled a while by foot and reached the base. Kaleb had finally made it.

The base was certainly an upgrade from the hole in the ground Kaleb had been staying in, but was nothing too glamorous. Because the base is still being used as a threshold for farms and as a meetup place with allies, not much can be said about this base, besides the people there. Here Kaleb met not only Onpiov, but Onpiov's irl friends L1ghtning, Rac00n, BlueyLinn, and Xen\_Is\_Lost.

This "starter" base didn't last long though. Within a week or so, the group had outgrown its cage, and so everyone moved. At the new location, everyone was very active. Kaleb, being a Minecraft veteran and pretty decent builder was given charge in making the Serenity Divisions first megabase. This base can be described as an underground, three perimeter long base designed to look like an underground cathedral. Nothing more can be said about the base as it is still active. In fact, most of you reading this have only very briefly heard of, if at all, the Serenity Division because of it's anonymity, as they have never been griefed, nor were they ever a part of a large grief excepting Thomaslilli's solo base Onpiov had visited a few times. Eventually though, around February of 2023, the Serenity Division began to fizzle out. This came to a penultimate when AwfulFern, had made friends with the Serenity Division and somehow saw a screenshot of the base. He quickly explained he could block rotate the image and apparently threatened the group, resulting in a self grief of the base, dubbed DaHub.

After a few days of the self grief, Kaleb learned how to block rotate to see if Fern could really have griefed his home. As it turned out, the Snapchat filter L1ghtning had used in the photo of the base obstructed the textures of the blocks, rendering the image useless in block rotation. Throughout the next several months, Kaleb remained active to repair the base which had once stood intact. The base, as of now (November 2023) is back to it's former glory, but the rest of the faction was not.

Until July, Kaleb and L1ghtning remained the only active members, and once the base was repaired L1ghtning disappeared, and the only activity besides Kaleb was the occasional log in of another member once every few days to check up on things. By this point, Kaleb had been appointed the official Leader of the Serenity Division.

## SIP ventures

Previously, Kaleb had briefly been in SIP and did a few projects here and there with Onpiov, but had never really enjoyed it. This is until July 21, 2023. Kaleb DM'ed Server Moderator Jamool and asked for another invite to SIP, and Jamool Agreed. quickly, Kaleb climbed the lower ranks of SIP by repairing the skygrid. Roughly 1/4 of the original roofs of the grid were put together by Kaleb, of course though, they have been repaired again multiple times by other SIP peers.

Eventually Kaleb earned the trust of Jamool through his work, and the trust of other "TheVite" members by giving them the rarest Trim, Eye, before almost anyone else had obtained it. Through sheer luck, Kaleb had landed himself an invite to TheVite base, which had initially been Larp, but was quickly becoming an established faction.

## TheVite

Not much can be said about TheVite, as it is also still ungriefed and semi-active. At TheVite, though, Kaleb met and befriended many notable players, such as D1cka D1cka, TimberKoi, Cannabis, Needle, WaterBugBoy, Liqhtu, Fluxio, and last but CERTAINTLY not least, Kriesen <3. Here, Kaleb fit right in, and was even allowed to build the center piece of the base, his tree. TheVite eventually fizzled out, as everyone had their own things to do, and summer was coming to an end, but of course, this was not the last of TheVite.

## Overworld highway work and HT0027

Kaleb now had a lot of spare time, and only a few people to base with, so he decided to branch out. In an attempt to recruit new players to the Serenity Division, he managed to secure a channel in the faction lodge and began reaching out to players in need of a faction. Unfortunately this came to a halt when Kaleb discovered 6 out of the 7 recruits were either insiders or known griefers, the 7th recruit being PickledPothead, who is as November, an official member of the faction.

All that aside, after Project Serenity fell through, Kaleb noticed some small OW highway construction taking place within SIP and decided to lend a hand. One thing led to another, and Kaleb, alongside esteemed SIP member HT0027, with the help of a few others along the way, expanded the +X highway from about 55k to 100k. this took the two a little less than 2 weeks, and after this project was finished, Kaleb was feeling risky.

HT0027 received not only an invite to the Serenity Division, but an invite to DaHub as well. This risk paid off, as HT ended up being a great asset and friend.

## The Present, and the Future

As of November 2023, Kaleb can be found decorating TheVite for christmas with both old and new members (BillBob, EveQ, PickledPothead, and soon Ht0027), larping in PV discord channels, carrying Najivka EveQ and Ferrari in squads, or playing jackbox games in PVVC. Perhaps one day in the near future Kaleb will finish his tree, and begin Project Serenity.