Archive of Our Own

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Morning sun beamed down on hundreds of trees scattered around the server baseplate., fracturing the heavy morning humidity, turning it into beams of mosaic-gold and deep shadows loading into sight causing small but noticeable lag spikes, Strong winds starting to pick up -not strong enough to break branches but causing trees to rattle their leafs, peaceful nature only lasted so long before it was filled with sounds of leafs being crushed. Netherite trimmed boots cracking many fallen decaying leaves,

More specifically Reddoons netherite trimmed boots. treading in a organised line, before hailing immediately falling back on his heels. “argh!-…” the unfortunate lack of awareness caused the player to run into a branch. Reddoons let out an annoyed groan, wiping off birch bark flakes that dared to stick to his armour. Mostly the chest plate,

“Stupid fucking tree..” muttering more slurred nonsense in irritated tone while he continued on an imaginary path, obviously knowing exactly where he was going, Reddoons was extremely lucky this was happening in the morning, otherwise the sun would of blinded him the whole way, Despite the players level he was always carried a maxed out enchanted sword, If anyone even dared to take him on atleast he could keep the blood off his hands.

What felt like thousands of trees later Reddoons switched paths, Forgetting his journey in the makeshift forest, treading in a more open grass field, He was getting close, Extremely close to the Arena. Today wasn’t any normal day on the defiantsmp, you can argue no day on the defiantsmp was normal however this was considered “special”,

A group of new comers will be joining the smp, The group is already be waiting at the Arena. It has also been previously called “spawn point.” However is not referred to that as of anymore- This is hardcore whats the point of a so called “respawn point” if you can’t even respawn, If your killed your dead forever. No second chances.

Thats why its Reddoons job was to met them at the Arena to give the new comers a chance, This server has been labeled as extremely deadly for the right reasons, Due to such a harsh environment players are selfish, relentless and rude. All coming from the fear of death, void if you will, 

With only a few more steps forward reddoons arrived at the back of the arena, You wouldn’t even be-able to tell it had anything special to it unless you help build it. He dug deep-Grabbing some random items previously placed in his inventory, before throwing them on the ground in a specific pattern,

Right on top of cracked sand stone, Red-stone and Piston machine sounds echoed in the background while blocks where pulled, revealing a medium sized door- Reddoons spent zero time stalling, racing inside the open wall, the scattered items being pulled right back into his inventory like a magnet, While red-stone is extremely helpful- it doesn’t hold for long, with a sigh of relief (of not being locked outside,) Reddoons catches his balance and makes his way up carved stair-case,

This staircase leads straight to the main “front” area, in the spot light, However stopping mid way he takes a cut off into a another medium sized hole, Leaning forward to avoid hitting his head- Walking into a room full of chests. All of the warriors shared everything item related,… expect tools, or armour-, tools were specifically crafted for the person using them by the person who uses them. Same with armour, Despite already being quite late Reddoons was missing several items he refused to go with, kneeling down in-front of a set of chests, *REEEEK* Flipping up a chest lid, then diving into the belongings, specifically looking for more golden apples and potions, Taking his time searching for the right types of heals and damage. 

It wasn’t even minutes before someone else came into the room, Reddoons could tell he wasn’t alone, despite this door having the lack of annoyingly loud red-stone, Netherite armour wasn’t exactly the quietest material, Light sound of rattling and clinks got louder as someone got closer, Before hailing, Not being right behind reddoons however close enough to know the warrior wasn’t here for items- being followed with a loud thump, More specifically a irritating tail thump to the ground, That was all Reddoons needed to figure out who it is, deciding to break the silence himself,

“…Are you going to grab something or just stare at me Cam.”

noticing his own tone drop lower then he would have liked-Not enough to a growl, ignoring the small fumble reddoons Continued to read different labels on the health potion he recently picked up,

“Have you even bothered to check the panels?”

Camman question crossing his arms, letting out an irritated sigh, The panels. Reddoons remembering the conversation the 2 had yesterday, Fast Replying with a half assed groan

“I thought we already talked about thi-“

“One of the new comers have already unlocked a set of command’s.,”

Camman ended with, He watched as reddoons turned to face him, Camman was never sure what expression this man had, never could tell with the lack of a visible mouth- and the stupid shades he always wore,

”Unlocked a set of commands?”

“Look at the past chat history, it’s right there Red,”

Cocking his head back into a front position, placing down the recently tampered with health potion, reddoons used the chest to kneel-up, pushing himself up, landing on his boots with a soft thud, turning around to face Camman, Reddoons pulled out one of his own smaller panels, giving the past messages a quick scan, Didnt take long to find the system message hes sure camman was referring to,

“SYSTEM: Architect Key registered to User:Esta”

“[WARNING]:Defiant Protocol bypass authorized”

”Some guy name etsa found the entry panel?,- Uhhh Why is this such a problem to you anyways? it’s not like the commands are easy to use.”

Reddoons replied before shoving his panel back into its previous void. Wiping it off as nothing

Camman on the other hand rejected this careless attitude. 

”Esta isn’t just some guy, I know He doesn’t look like much- however I know what he’s capable of,

 If He can manage to understand the panel- im afraid whoever picks him won’t make it out,”

Before camman could even finish, reddoons laughed in his face, not noticing the irritated expression camman’s face held,

”Yeah thats real funny, could you imagine!-“

 “Im being serious.”

Not appreciating the sour performance Reddoons was throwing for him,

Suprised at the tone, Reddoons replyed With a raw cough,

“even if someone did mange to get into the commands why is that a problem anyways, We have never been able to /kill or even /ban anyone.”

”While that is true- That specific panel holds a lot of other very powerful commands, Including: Being able to take enchantments, Take / remove anything from your inventory, tools, items, armour-, Taking max damage from tools and adding more damage, On command TNT carts, Maces-“

Camman was cut off again from listing his concerns, Reddoons started to loose his funky persona. Genuinely getting annoyed with this topic,

“We are already both already extremely late to this Selection. And i dont need you yapping my ear off about shit that isn’t important. its one thing to die by a mace, Its another to get blown up by a fucking minecart. Get your priorities straight on what you are most concerned about”

Reddoons inhaled a sharp breath, frustrated it got to this point.

“Get your head in the game before it’s to late, Camman.”

forcefully ending the conversation with a sharp growl, before turning around and getting back to the chest,

“I suggest you get what you need and leave. “ *REEEKKK* “I better see you up there once im done or you’ll have a much bigger problem on your mind,”

With that reddoons dives back into the chest, Acting like the conversation that just took place meant nothing,
camman knew it meant nothing, nothing to Reddoons at least, with a disappointed sigh, Camman took his leave, Continuing up the staircase in defeat, the low thumps disappearing as he made it further up before the sound disappeared as fast as it appeared.

Gripping a damage potion tightly reddoons shook his head trying to cleanse himself, as he continue browsing,

finishing up with a new inventory load out at his finger tips,
 reuniting with the other warriors behind a wall,
then presenting themselves to the new comers. 

“I sure wonder how this will turn out” reddoons scoffs out in a joking matter
before starting to speak louder for the others to hear,

Officially beginning the selection

20 minutes late lol.