Grizzly Bear

## Founding

The Grizzly Bear is a bar founded by Carpicious on Sept 27 2020. It's location is at 0,0 of the world, with it's main passage into the drinking pub, via a water elevator set against bedrock that has been there since the world's conception.

## Overview

Ordering from the Grizzly Bear is free, always. The Grizzly Bear is meant as a means to connect all nations and peoples. Anyone is welcome, and the bar has been known to serve even malicious hackers despite the warning they would be reported after they were given whichever drink they ordered. The land above and around the Grizzly Bear is meant as a public location. It has a public teleport of "/t spawn GrizzlyBear" and hooks up to the nether hub right outside. It is encouraged as a neutral meeting place, whether for diplomatic discussions, trade offs, or victory parties, and is always open, even if the Bartender is not on call. Please enjoy its many amenities.

## Early History

Already designed, once started, the bar was quickly erected in a matter of hours, taking advantage of a wide ravine carved out under the ground. It quickly became a known public area, purely through its unique location, as well as the massively influential effort of the Public Works. With a nether highway quickly underway, the hub was centered on 0,0, and in only a matter of days, the nearby portal was moved by the Public Works to rest on top of the bedrock at 0,0. This made public access to the bar much easier, and helped in the bar's initial days of advertisement.

In the first week, the Grizzly Bear remained unclaimed territory. The hope was to maintain land that could be accessed by all, making any who entered it feel as if it wasn't owned by any single person or nation, and had no ulterior motives behind its use. This quickly became a problem however. In the next couple days, while more and more visitors were invited for free booze, the local Bartender's items were repeatedly stolen and continued going missing. This culminated in a massive theft, where the bar's entire means of production were stolen right out from under the Bartender's nose. Doing ./home to quickly get upstairs to serve a customer, revealed to the Bartender what had happened when she instead ended up in spawn. Her bed broken, cauldrons and brewing stands stolen, wheat fields and seeds gone, and the bar decorations completely abolished, all while brewing in the next room over, it was clear something had to change. But still the land remained unclaimed, and the Bartender dutifully grinded back the needed materials in a matter of hours.

## Divine Intervention

On October 2nd, Enfys, the admin, messaged the Bartender, stating his interest in the bar, and giving funds to assist in the land's towny claim. Despite the Bartender's adamant disapproval of such an act before, she could do nothing more than accept in the face of omnipresent interference. Before the server switched from towny to lands, Don'tDrinkKoolAid aka Enfys was a member of Grizzly Bear, offering more land claim. After the switch to lands, this was no longer the case.

## Notable Bar Features

The Grizzly Bear was initially designed as a single open room with an upstairs, looking out via a balcony, and one backroom up, meant for private meetings. However, within a week after the Grizzly Bear's initial construction finished, expansions were made. A 'dog fighting arena' was put in, connected via a new door. However, the space does make a more aesthetically appropriate pvp arena than the dance floor, and a bed was added nearby to facilitate such use.

Another recent addition is the Lounge. A fireplace was added, to decorate a small library, where a collection of private publications are kept. A copy of 'Ancient Brews,' an old text, translated by Carpicious about new recipes, has been known to be available there. It is a direct copy of a google doc full of hints made by Bleeksneot when creating 23 custom new recipes and adding them to the brewery plugin. 'How to Exist' is another book offered by Carpicious on request, detailing server specific commands for new players. There is also a single bathroom accessible through the back of the lounge.

Other aspects of the bar include: The bar fight wall, with dropped player heads. There are two lockers as well as a lost and found, located by the staircase to the second level. The lockers are useful during fisticuffs when all armor should be left off. There is a jukebox with a select playlist of noteblock hits, curated by Enfys. The jukebox is unique and was spawned in via commands. It cannot play normal disks, and that is why there is a normal jukebox to the left of the unique one. There is a dartboard in the bar, as well as supplies in chests nearby. Arrows are often hard to stock, since most tend to disappear when clear lag removes all entities.

## Grizzly Bear Events

* On Saturday, October 17th, The Grizzly Bear was honored to host the first World Embassy meeting.
* The same day, a proposal at the World Embassy was brought forward that would separate notable public institutions from their owner's personal conflicts. If passed, this would protect Grizzly Bear from being griefed as a consequence of unrelated conflicts or actions entered and taken by its founder Carpicious. It was never signed.
* On Monday, October 19, Grizzly Bear declared its first war as a land against Barbary, a VIR colony, owned by Starlorde123. This was a careless decision and was quickly resolved.
* On Friday, October 23, Carpicious declared war against the world, and used GrizzlyBear as her host nation to do so.
* The same day, SewerMafia massively greifed the building in an act of revenge, and slowed down its ability to function.

### Leave a Tip?

Finally, there is also a tip jar near the exit. All drinks offered at the Grizzly Bear are free of charge, so if you visit, any little bit helps. What you might even consider trash, might happen to be incredibly useful to a brewer who needs a wide variety of eclectic items to make the alcohol you appreciate so much.

Thank you