A few more people confirm; Mapicc gets Zam on a call, and he agrees to come back to spawn, with some complaints.

While they're waiting for Zam to return, a few things happen: 

- Poafa shoots Parrot once and Parrot's totem pops, giving him the Postmortal achievement; some people, including Poafa, seem shocked by this, while others (Roshambo, Mapicc, Spoke) are unsurprised
- Mapicc really wants to be the one to kill Zam this time; Poafa says that's fine since he already got one kill on Zam
- Bacon gives out pork chops! Free samples for IHOB! He makes a joke about how they should do more executions, they're good for business, and Leowook volunteers to be executed. Mapicc hits him once as a joke.

Leowook left the game
Leowook was slain by Mapicc

There is widespread shock that Leowook actually got banned for that, but it seems legit: Roshambo picked up five hearts from him that he was holding. Everyone's still a bit in shock around Leowook's body by the time Zam gets back.

Zam says he has more to say, that he forgot some things before because he didn't write them down. Mapicc asks if he's on one heart. As soon as he confirms, Ashswag kills him.

PrinceZam left the game
PrinceZam was slain by ashswagg

Mapicc kills Ashswag for doing that; he leaves Ash's items but keeps the heart. And then he kills Vitalasy for taking Ash's chestplate, although Vitalasy denies it. 

It's pretty chaotic. Ro says he's leaving and calling Perseus chat.

Perseus chat is... confused, mostly. Well, guess that's it.

He doesn't know Leowook, but he is not happy that he was killed by accident.

And Zam-- he was the one behind Medusa and now he's gone, and Drizzt is not sure if he feels more sad or betrayed.

He goes mining to be able to repay Subz.

The rest of the night is quiet. Perseus agrees to disband now that Medusa's gone; half of them were on different teams anyway. No one takes watch; no one needs to.

Subz has a few diamonds and several stacks of cobble show up at his base. Weird how those must have magically appeared.

At least tomorrow he can see if Guenhwyvar is back. 

The next morning, everything at spawn is obsidian. All the builds, all the paths.

Roshambo's sent out a message to everyone. Medusa was never just one person: it was Mapicc, Roshambo, and Zam, all working together. Zam was only ever one third of Medusa, and even then, he only joined a couple days ago; from the beginning, it was Mapicc and Roshambo pulling the strings.

Zam's been revived. All of spawn has been petrified. Meet at spawn in the afternoon for a final exchange of speeches and a final fight for control of spawn.

Parrot adds Drizzt to a new group chat: Parrot, Subz, Planetlord, Spoke, Ashswag, Baconwaffles. Everyone who might be interested in fighting Medusa. After a bit, they add someone named Clutch who Drizzt hasn't met. After longer than that, and with much excitement, they add someone named Clownpierce.

The plan is to pretend it's just Planet and Clown and Drizzt at first--Parrot's on one heart, Spoke doesn't wear pants, Subz is a pacifist, Clutch and Ashswag and Bacon aren't actually very involved. Clownpierce isn't either, he's less involved than Bacon is, but he wants to be one of the ones giving a speech. Parrot will be there giving a speech too but he actually won't be fighting. It'd be a tough 3v3, but winnable. But it won't be a 3v3. Subz agrees to let everyone use his base to gear up.

A few hours before the fight--

SpokeIsHere has reached the achievement [Postmortal]
SpokeIsHere blew up

And Ashswag is removed from the group chat; Subz says Ashswag crystaled Spoke. Which is bad for two reasons: first of all, Ashswag might be betraying them--which isn't terrible, 7v4 is still a huge numbers advantage, especially because Ashswag isn't actually very good at fighting--but second of all, it means that at least one person in the fight will be cheating. All bets are off.

They go to spawn tentatively, worried that the portal will be trapped. It isn't. On top of a blackstone-and-obsidian snake with emerald eyes stand Medusa: Mapicc, Roshambo, and Zam.

Thinking a bit what that means can happen later. He's going to fight to defend spawn, and then he'll work out where he went wrong. 

... if people are already cheating, if bets are already off-- well. If Parrot dies, Mappic and Ro might get to meet Guenhwyvar again.

There's a bit of back and forth about the fact that only three people have showed up; Parrot sells it pretty well.

<roshambogames> you guys suck
<roshambogames> this was gonna be so cool
<roshambogames> ok anyway

"Alright," Roshambo says. "Speech time."

His speech is pretty clearly rehearsed, although he falters a couple times trying to remember the next sentence.

"As you might know, we are Medusa. Together, we have petrified the entirety of spawn. And-- guys, you have to understand. Nothing on this server lasts. Nothing on this server ever lasts for any period of time. And I came up with a way to prevent that, through the petrification. And... Although we may have manipulated, we may have lied, we may have put friends against each other, we may have caused betrayal-- We've done a lot of wrong. But I think the means justify the ends. Now spawn will be eternal forever. And if you oppose that, then you are about to die, right here right now. Before we start, I'd like to give anyone the opportunity to join us. If you sympathize with our stance and you would like to help eternalize spawn and support our stance--then please join us up on top of the snake right now. But if not, then..."

How is this eternalising spawn, seeing as they themselves were tearing down their own buildings. 

He gets ready for whatever Ro is about to do. 

What Ro is about to do is wait a moment to see if anyone joins him and then cede the floor to the other team for dramatic speeches.

"Season four spawn has got to be my favorite spawn of any Lifesteal season. It really had a bunch of creative builds and-- a bunch of stories attached to them, too. And you just fucking ruined it. You fucking muppets. And for that reason, I'm going to kill all three of you."

"We ruined it? I think we preserved it. We're saving it."

"Can I say something, bro? Are the other speeches over?" (Quick confirmation from Roshambo and Clownpierce.) "Okay. The author of War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, once said-- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Basically, what we're saying is that we are not here to fight. We are here to win."

And on the word win, Subz and Spoke and Bacon and Clutch come out from where they were hiding; people splash potions on themselves and then they start pearling towards Medusa and Medusa is pearling away.

Using ender pearls is dizzying, but undeniably effective.

He tries to keep on Medusa's flanks. This is going to be much easier if they don't allow them to scatter.

The fight is not going great for Medusa. Roshambo and Zam are shaking; Mapicc is the calmest, yelling reassurances that they can still win this, just keep going, but he's also chugging gaps and his shield is getting damaged fast. Zam's getting targeted pretty hard. Mapicc is trying to target Spoke, but it's not working very well while also trying to stop any of them from dying in a 7v3.

And then Spoke pulls out the crystals. There's obsidian everywhere. The only thing Medusa can do is try to run, but Zam takes a crystal to the face before he can get away. Not dead yet, but looking pretty hurt; Mapicc eats his last god apple and jumps in to try and get everyone off him.

It's strategically sensible to try and keep all your team alive. 

It's loyal to help your friend in danger.

It's just not a good idea if you have someone chasing you down who wants to specifically kill you. 

If Mapicc wasn't distracted and surrounded, it would have ended up differently. Drizzt would admit Mapicc was better than him. 

> Mapicc was killed by Drizzt

Mapicc forgot to set his spawn; he's back at spawn, with no stuff. Luckily, everyone is distracted; he turns his second layer off and crouches out of sight. Won't last, but he can live a bit longer, probably. Roshambo and Zam are split up; Roshambo is in, approximately, a 1v1 with Subz, while almost everyone else is on Zam. A few people split off to aggro pearl on Ro.

(Ashswag has found Mapicc. He's not doing anything about that; he hasn't actually participated in the fight at all, on either side. Yet, anyway.)

PrinceZam has reached the goal [Postmortal]

A shower of gold and green sparks explode around Zam. Roshambo is holding a shield rather than a totem; he's holding his own against Subz until everyone else shows up--most of them aren't very good fighters, but they're good distractions, and that's all Subz really needs.

roshambogames was slain by ItzSubz_ using [Deliverance]

roshambogames: DONT KILL ME
roshambogames: im running back for stuff
baconnwaffles0: ok

Zam's second totem pops; he's out of totems. He tries to pearl away and pearls into someone else farther away. He's screaming in panic, a high-pitched shriek, NO NO NO PLEASE OH GOD PLEASE NO--NO NO NO--IT'S OVER--

PrinceZam was slain by ClownPierce using [Piercer]

Mapicc's grinning. They lost but it doesn't matter, it was a good fucking fight. Even outnumbered like this it was a good fight.

<Mapicc> gg
<PrinceZam> ggs
<PlanetLord> gg
<roshambogames> stage
<ClownPierce> gg

Ro doesn't make it back to his stuff, or to the stage; Bacon cuts him off.

roshambogames burned to death whilst fighting baconnwaffles0

... could they at least minimise the amount of betrayal?

<PrinceZam> WHAT
<Mapicc> DONT KILL
<roshambogames> i said dont kill/

Spoke sees Mapicc.

Mapicc was slain by SpokeIsHere using [Pants Breaker]
<PrinceZam> WTF
<Mapicc> what did i just-\
<roshambogames> stage
<roshambogames> stage
<roshambogames> stage
<Mapicc> its dfine
<roshambogames> stage

Medusa starts heading back to spawn. Well, Ro and Zam do; Mapicc respawned there. No armor, no weapons, although Ro did get some pearls and pork chops from his ender chest. Not a threat. It's... quiet. It's weird how quickly the world can go from the chaos of battle, of 10 people shouting over each other, to silence.

There are cobwebs covering the ground. Roshambo is the first to reach the stage; Ashswag is there, too, but he doesn't do anything. Ro waits for Mapicc and Zam show up.

<PlanetLord> ggs guys
<PlanetLord> ill give you guys back your shield.
<PlanetLord> i know its important to u

Once again, Ro's the one to speak.

"So. I guess we lost. But--I will say that--maybe I was wrong. 'Cause looking at it right now, I realize that--all this, has just led to--our perfect world, our eternal city, what we wanted to be a peaceful area, is... once again, just another violent battlefield. So maybe I was wrong."

Ashswag puts down a crystal.

Mapicc blew up

And then Ashswag is flying, moving faster than humans can move without moving at all.

Not a thing he expected Ashswag to do, but he's definitely seen wizards do similar before. 

There's some chaos; people follow Ashswag as best as they can, trying to hit him and mostly failing. Subz is mostly laughing; other people seem more annoyed. Ashswag is having a wonderful time. The consensus from the crowd seems to be that Ashswag is "hacking".

Ash flies to Zam, kills him in one hit, flies back away.

PrinceZam was killed by ashswagg using [twitch.tv/georgewashington]

 Ash flies over to another body of land, waits for everyone to swim over to him, flies back. He's still giggling.

And then Ashswag disappears.

ashswagg left the game

"I'll be back in a second, I need to let him know he's banned for a while." And then Parrot takes his leave from the crowd.

Without anything to do, the crowd disperses. Medusa has taken this opportunity; they're long gone. Baconnwaffles and Planetlord are sticking together; everyone else seems to be setting off on their own.

He expected something more.  They have enacted justice against Medusa, but--

The part of him that is from Menzoberranzan boggles at the thought of leaving enemies anything less than completely annihilated. That part of him that left that city wonders at letting wrongdoers free while not even asking how to prevent it next time. 

...He goes back to his mines. He still needs to pay back Subz.

No one disturbs him.

The next few days he spends in a mixture of mining, returning resources to Subz, and making a bolt hole away from spawn.

It's a very effective strategy for not thinking about things! And he should. He just does not understand what is happening well enough. He never would have said he understood Menzoberranzan, but in the face of this place--

<baconnwaffles0> @everyone i show up for your dumb little things. be part of my thing
<baconnwaffles0> BOAT TOURS AT SPAWN
<baconnwaffles0> BOAT TOURS AT SPAWN
<baconnwaffles0> BOAT TOURS AT SPAWN
<baconnwaffles0> BOAT TOURS AT SPAWN