The Journey To The West

The Journey To The West was an impromptu and incomplete journey by foot to a jungle biome west of the SMPLiv spawn.

Prelude
icyblue87 had recently returned from the Dimension Tripper modpack (better known as SolaV2 or Dimension Tripper) to find that following the reset, a mob head plugin was added. His presence prompted several members of the server to request (or demand) the surrender of his head, a request he adamantly refused to consider.

He planned a journey to the north-western jungle, noting that he could possibly bait headhunters into teleporting to him at the top of a giant jungle tree and, with ramennnoodle's help, execute them by pre-emptively throwing them off.

This plan was unsuccessful, as shortly after departing from ramen's base, he was pursued by zirqn for unknown reasons. He was able to teleport out after hearing mining sounds nearby, though he would be forced to log out as she followed him back to spawn.

The Journey
After waiting a brief while, icy logged back onto the server after joining a call with ramen. He noted that zirin had fallen into the void, though judging from the Dynmap, she was able to reacquire reasonably power armor. In preparation for being stabbed, he called ramen to show up, just to make sure zirin didn't try anything.

The trio headed west after a brief punching contest inside the no-pvp zone, and icy decided to attempt to bait zirin into attacking by chopping down random trees. An attack never came, though another person did. Denightwalker joined the group as he saw the three players gathered just west of spawn town. There, the four of them stood around aimlessly before icy decided to continue his journey over to the jungle.

Their journey was rather eventful, with multiple beehives being stolen and many animals being killed for their heads. TyT briefly joined with the intent of collecting beehives, though he left the group after his objective was completed. Denight, however, struggled to keep up with the group as he kept getting disconnected due to high ping. Nonetheless, despite the rubberbanding, he managed to follow the group all the way across various biomes.

Soon afterward, the group exited a dense forest, finding a lava pool. As the quad group had been travelling a little aimlessly, they decided to construct a completely random nether portal by casting it with buckets. Meanwhile, Denight paved out a path and crafted several oak fences for the portal with no actual reasons other than pure satisfaction of decoration. As they finished, Impulse arrived by tpa. The four members convinced him to jump in (with the reasoning that they didn't want to die, and he had the best armor).

Nothing really happened, though the four were given a strange idea by this action, and plotted to "do something" involving map art to mess with Impulse.

Soon afterwards, the group had to disband as they each had something separate to attend to in real life, as evidenced by Impulse's comment on the discord server that the group had suddenly disappeared. Prior to disappearing, icy gave each of the members present one or more apples of different kinds.

Participants

 * icyblue87 (de facto leader)
 * ramennnoodle
 * denightwalker
 * zirqn
 * ImpulseFibre731 (later on)
 * TyTKaydn (briefly)

Aftermath
The journey would later became a precedent for future cross-country and interdimensional explorations such as the Journey to the Netherlands.

Both zirin and icyblue87 would construct tunnels linking their own portals with the Western Portal through the Nether.