Butternut–SEC War: Difference between revisions

With SEC blood in the water, however, former Gang Shi leaders and fighters returned, seeking retribution for their own grievances following the sack of Gang Shi in the [[The "That's Nuts!" War]]. Freed from the heavily griefed Black Mesa vault with the help of [[Jindosh]] of the [[Fempire Union]], [[Gwua]] and [[Ch1pr|Ch1pR]], who had never been pearled following the war, returned to assist in the collapse of their enemies and began the construction of a skybridge to Whole Foods, an Icenian skyvault and XP farming complex. The Gang Shi fighters successfully recruited their former citizen, fastestgrass, to renege on his plea deal and abandon Mercutio to assist in the bridging. Immediately after the server restart on 11 June, Whole Foods was successfully bridged after [[Haxx0r]] sabotaged its curtain and bunkers - and its pearls released. Some released players, such as Highroll and SlothInASuit, joined the Butternut war effort. During the disabling of Whole Foods, chosentwicelol secured the pearl of [[Complexii]], who was trapped inside after logging in, however, many other SEC fighters remained logboxed at the complex. Haxx0r also griefed the Icenia city bunker, pearling [[ChrisChrispie]] in the process.

At the start of the attack, 4 SEC fighters were pearled by Butternut forces. As the attack progressed, TNT minecarts blew up Shadno twice, along with Jaydon_ and auqust - however, these deaths did not count as pearls. Several Butternut fighters led by bewsiej then jumped into the skyvault to attack [[Xcios]], [[Hg_80]], and Shadno. In the midst of this battle, a third party entered the fight: the [[Elysian Pact|EP]] members [[thejkh]] and [[ShadySauce]], initially there to spectate the fight, intervened due to the grievances between Estalia and Ez2Clutch. In the confusion, EP war reporters including [[Creepi0n]] and [[What777]] also jumped into the fight following the other two, assuming the EP had suddenly chosen to intervene; it was later determined that thejkh and ShadySauce were acting independently of their alliance. The two sides traded blows, with IbisMan pearling Xcios, and Shadno pearling 7joshh with EP assistance. Butternut{{who}} forces followed the EP members as they kited the pearl away from the fight, but were unsuccessful in recovery. Following this fight, S4NTA, thejkh, and ShadySauce departed from Estalia in order to volunteer for the SEC forces, and Butternut announced they would no longer tolerate the presence of "war reporters" at future battles.

On 28 June, the [[Arsenio Pact]] vault Reluctance, SEC's final complete vault, was insided by SEC members [[PolyBit]], [[SQOpenSpellBook]], [[_BaniShed]] and [[BillyBopBeans]]. Belonging to a nation forcibly annexed by the AP, they had recently been added to its groups in order to assist with an anticipated defense. All of the Butternut and Gang Shi pearls were freed besides Ez2Clutch, who was held at the Estalian Mushroom Bunker. Additionally, all bastions at the vault were removed. Butternut forces congregated at the vault using MTA as a center of operations in order to start dismantling its remaining defenses, with sporadic SEC resistance. During this phase, admins banned most of the people involved on both sides of the war in order to “pause” it whilst investigating the suspected VPN user PolyBit, who had assisted in the insiding of the vault. Approximately an hour later, the admins determined that these players were not alts and as such unbanned all players involved (with the exception of the 4 insiders and chosentwicelol, pending further investigation) and teleported them away from the vault, to prevent abuse of the incremental unbans to gain a tactical advantage by either side.