Doom City Conflict

Doom City Conflict
A Doom City obsidian bunker fortified on the riverbanks near Mount Augusta
Date 12th December 2023 — 19th December 2023 Location Mount Augusta, Arsenia, Fempire, Doom City, in Alenarith (Quadrant +,+) Result Doom City Victory
Combatants
BUILD Mount Augusta WhipLikesToast Podly ComradeNick Nightmarr Defender4488 Fempire Union Jindosh Imperial Federation Jahlf Arsenia SQOpenSpellbook Pqrrot Transylvania Xa_n Jarltalos Intelligences	Doom City Symsquid FRESH_candy Michhh GiveMeNoods GGJoe S4NTA thejkh Gray9111 Estalia Walkers Lysika_Lantariel Template:Note: The participation of Estalian fighters is disputed
Casualties and losses
3 pearls - multiple traps in Mount Augusta disabled	1 pearl

The Doom City Conflict, sometimes known as Operation Doomsday, was a conflict initiated on CivMC, having begun on December 12th, 2023 and ended on December 19th, 2023. The initial conflict was sparked due to a disagreement over the Mount Augustan nether portal, formerly belonging to Cortesia Del Mar and Mehri. Following disagreements between Doom City and Mount Augusta over the portal, members of Doom City (Laconians) raided and stole from Arsenia's factory bunker and Arsenia's Birmingham Bunker, eventually resulting in SymSquid being pearled by SQOpenSpellBook. On December 19th, the conflict escalated significantly at the border between Mount Augusta & Doom City when Laconian fighters disabled a bunker being built on the Mount Augustan border, initiating a fight that caused SQOpenSpellbook to retreat until reinforcements arrived. Doom City fighters then entered Mount Augusta, placing an obsidian wall on "[their] plot [as a] defensive measure" despite the land being derelicted through Mount Augustan law months prior. Nightmarr, SymSquid, Defender4488, and SQOpenSpellbook were all pearled as fighting between the two factions continued; leading Defender4488 to declare that a state of war existed between Doom City and BUILD. Later that day, BUILD would formally announce its surrender after "independent fighters" from Estalia signaled their intent to bridge the vault of Fempire unless SymSquid was released.

Background

In the aftermath of the Butternut–SEC War, the nation of Cortesia Del Mar was disbanded following the departure of many of its members from CivMC. This left the portal to be claimed by Mount Augusta with Mehri's blessing. Mount Augustan officials began attempting to share the portal 20% between five nations, Ila'Kyavul, Mount Augusta, Rivia, Wayrest, and Doom City. During the early stages of MTA's nether portal project, Doom City council member, ShadySauce, discovered several Mount Augustan officials using Doom City's private iceroad between Doom City's fortress, Mt. Doom, and the CDM portal. This prompted immediate discussion between ShadySauce and then MTA governor, ComradeNick, in which both parties had reached an agreement for Doom City to retain their preexisting private iceroad into the portal, as well as Doom City's nether farms to remain private. Months later, upon the return of two inactive Doom City members, FRESH candy and SymSquid, discovered Doom City's private entrance into the portal to be locked, which sparked arguing and later negotiations to remerge between ShadySauce and ComradeNick. This later fell through due to the trapping of the portal. During the latter half of the War of the Icenian Coalition, SymSquid began raiding Arsenia, breaking into a lightly defended factory bunker and looting many of the factories inside. This would lead to a series of events that would eventually conclude with SymSquid being pearled by SQOpenSpellbook and held in the Fempire Union. Reparations for SymSquid to be released were set at "3 stacks of xp, 32dbs, and materials to make a bastion factory OR 32 vbs" for his involvement in stealing these items from Arsenia's factory room. However, SymSquid would escape his pearl due to server crashes just prior to the December 19th conflict.

Course of the Conflict

Trapping of MtA Portal

In early July, shortly after the collapse of Cortesia Del Mar and the subsequent claiming of the area by Mount Augusta, Doom City and Mount Augusta negotiated for Doom City to retain their preexisting private entrance, iceroad, and farms, with other nations allowed to continue to use the public access route. Months later, on December 11th, members of Doom City attempted to use the now Mount Augustan owned nether portal, only to find their once private entrance into the portal was locked and their private iceroad had continued to be used by MtA. This prompted Doom City members FRESH_candy and SymSquid to begin breaking the bunker door and arguing with then Mount Augustan mayor, ComradeNick. After a few minutes, the situation deescalated following negotiations remerging between ShadySauce and ComradeNick regarding their previous agreement of the portal. Both parties soon came to a compromise and agreed to continue fleshing out its execution the following day. The subsequent day, SymSquid found himself trapped in a reinforced footgrinder, and escaped shortly before butter_villager arrived in prot. At this point, the portal negotiations had reached an abrupt stop, and ComradeNick stated the trap had now been removed. Shortly afterwards, however, GiveMeNoods died from fall damage after traveling through the portal and discovering that water drops were removed.

Arsenia Bunker Conflict

Following the events of the portal, Doom City fighters rotated to Arsenia to begin disabling their bunkers. SQOpenSpellBook responded, and a standoff at an iceroad eventually resulted in SymSquid being pearled. SymSquid's pearl was extradited to the Fempire Union's vault, providing the first concrete indication of wider BUILD alliance involvement, which would later be confirmed by the arrival of BUILD fighters in Mount Augusta both before and during the Battle of the Bridge.

Battle of the Bridge

On the morning of December 19th, a border conflict between Doom City and BUILD in Mount Augusta devolved into violence. Both sides contend that the other initiated hostile action, with Doom City arguing that they entered Mount Augusta to fortify their own property, and Mount Augusta contending that they had been subject to an unprovoked attack. As additional BUILD fighters arrived in Mount Augusta, Doom City members, who found themselves outnumbered, briefly retreated across the river before fighting continued, eventually resulting in the bridge marking the border being covered with obsidian. Various battlefront skirmishes resulted in Nightmarr Defender4488 getting pearled on BUILD's side, and SymSquid being pearled on Doom's side Hours later, SQOpenSpellBook was pearled by GGJoe underneath the border between Mount Augusta and Doom City, setting the score at 3-1. After SQOpenSpellBook was pearled, Doom City would release a statement making it clear that they intended to press claims on SQOpenSpellBook for the insiding of the Arsenio Pact during the Butternut-SEC War. A statement from FE_Flagss, the last governor of AP, would later denounce this action.

BUILD's Surrender

As the situation continued on the 19th, Lysika, Gray911, S4NTA, thejkh, and Walkers began an attack on the Fempire Vault, and it was announced that the attack would continue unless Doom City fighter SymSquid was released. The potential of an extended fight during the Christmas season and the relative disparity in pvp forces convinced BUILD to release SymSquid and issue a post formally surrendering, as well as expressing pride in their relatively less pvp oriented alliance for its performance during the war and the forces mustered in the battle at Mount Augusta. They also expressed dissent towards a long sentence for SQOpenSpellBook, citing the fact that "SQOpenSpellBook, who was 15 at the time, was manipulated by Chosen into insiding. Chosen] employed every trick to manipulate him into giving Chosen and his friends a block game advantage." This referred to SQOpenSpellBook's insiding of the vault Reluctance and the freeing of various pearls during the Butternut-SEC War.

Reactions

Poll

A (currently active) poll suggested that, as of 4:46 P.M. EST, 53.8% of CivMC players supported the BUILD alliance, 27.5% were supportive of Doom City, and the remaining 18.7% were neutral or undecided.

Statement of Neutrality

In the immediate aftermath of initial battles in Mount Augusta, Pavia & Nara would issue a joint statement claiming neutrality both in the present and going forward, while stressing that the absence of other Elysian Pact nations in the post shouldn't be taken as a sign of involvement.

Mehri Statement

After debates on the Mount Augustan portal began to reach the subreddit, Mehri, the joint owner with Cortesia Del Mar prior to the Butternut-SEC War, would shortly release a brief statement denouncing Doom City's ownership claims over the portal, claiming they transferred ownership to Mount Augusta when Cortesia Del Mar collapsed, and asking that it be de-griefed by Doom City for continued public access.

Vinland Embussy

In an attempt to bring hostilities to an end, Vinland offered to facilitate negotiations in their Embussy located in the neutral nation of Dirt.

AP Statement

Flags, the last governor of the Arsenio Pact, discussed his thoughts on the situation and on SQOpenSpellBook's actions following the surrender of BUILD.

See also

• Elysian Pact