The Withering Massacre of the Southeast Desert

The Withering Massacre of the Southeast Desert was an event that occured during the second season of SMPLiv. It took place in a desert located southeast of the world spawn and involved several players such as ramennnoodle, zirqn, denightwalker and ImpulseFibre731.

Prelude
Following the unfortunate Tragedy at the Nether Fortress, ramennnoodle, zirqn and denightwalker each managed to acquire a wither skeleton skull. All three are needed in order to spawn a wither in order to obtain a nether star, an item required to craft a beacon. Together, they decided to summon another one after the first one that was spawned and defeated during the Battle of the Southeast Desert. Unlike its precedent, only 2 participants were involved from the previous one, as icyblue87 had logged out prior to the Tragedy. This was also denight's first time in a multiplayer server fighting a wither.

The Battle/Massacre

 * ramen was the first to die due to close proximity to the newly-spawned wither
 * All of them eventually died either by withering away or blasted off by the skull attacks as they struggled to get ahold of the monster
 * denight decided to play stal, a minecraft disc inside the waterlogged wither-proof hut, for no reason whatsoever

Aftermath

 * Eventually, the wither was defeated, the nether star was given to ramen.
 * No wither roses were dropped, much to everyone's disappointment.
 * All of them lost most of their gears and inventory.
 * Denight lost all of his armour and weapons that was given to him by ramen after the nether fortress tragedy. This marked the third time denight had lost his entire set of armours and weapons - the first one was due to falling into the void and the second during the nether fortress massacre.
 * He was subsequently compensated, again by ramen.
 * As Impulse exited the game for the night and zirin and ramen returned to their base, denight remained in the desert, gathering cacti for his resources.
 * However, due to his unreasonably high ping, he was timed out from the server. Later, when he relogged, the lag costed him his life when he was unknowingly killed by a husk.
 * This caused him to momentarily panic as the Stal disc, which icyblue87 had given to him, and the jukebox was left unclaimed upon his death in the desert. This led him to embark on a hasty mission, dubbed the Mission: Retrieve Stal, to regain the coveted music disc. The mission was successful.
 * icy would criticize the Massacre as being a failure to plan, and thus a plan to fail. His criticism was softened by the fact that most of the players were sleep-deprived, and had thus made poorer choices than usual.