The 2nd Realm

The 2nd Realm, also known as 'Elyag's Realm', was the second Minecraft multiplayer realm the League of Mothers would make. It's believed to have been created by Elyag around the 7th of August 2019. Due it being a fair while ago, the realm is remembered not completely vividly by its members, but still had its iconic moments and builds. Unlike the first one before it, it would last beyond a month due to the members forgetting to do 'the End'. Many of the failures of the last realm were taken into account during the span of this one, with a changing of certain rules and allowances to give it more of survival feel such as turning off 'keep inventory' and 'TP'. Though in hindsight, it is somewhat believed there was too much worry of trying to be like the original realm, as there were many elements that did make it good. However after doing The End, not much else was done and thus it came to an actual end. Though unlike the bittersweet ending of the previous realm, this one felt far more relaxed and safe to play on, though it still had it's moments of chaos that have arguably not been seen since.

 The History  Once starting the realm, Elyag would spawn in a dark oak forest. This would confirm Elyag's greatest fear that he is in fact cursed with only ever spawning in a dark oak forest biome in every world he ever makes. Later on Rusty, Shmexi and Joker would join, eventually settling not far north of spawn on a hilly plains biome. The other members such as Kelloggs and RoxyVelma would slowly come on, with the town taking shape and being named 'Ian Town II (:Electric Boogaloo) '. It was made a priority that the town was not to have any walls around it, unlike in the original Ian Town from the first realm. It was believed the walls made it very difficult for newer players to want to come live inside, or for the original members to make their houses any bigger. Events such as a horde of falling chickens descending from the sky, with it's last survivor being named 'Council', a figure head of the town who would decide your fate if you'd messed up, would become an iconic part of the realm. Also during the start, there was a skirmish between RoxyVelma, Shmexi and Rusty which resulted in a large dirt and stone tower near the settlement. Though many of the residents of the town wanted to keep it as a reminder of what happened, Kelloggs desperately wanted to tear it down, but was alas told he couldn't. Similar to how the first Ian Town was made at its start, there was an almost unintentional building pattern of all of the resident's residents, mainly using cobblestone and dark oak wooden planks. Eylag's house would be styled like a viking longhouse. Shmexi would create a house, bearing certain similar vibe to his one in the first Ian Town, referencing a certain fascist government in 1930's to mid 1940's Germany. Joker would create his house on stilts over the beach and looking onto the ocean, with Rusty creating the largest of the houses and making an almost mayors office sort of build. Kelloggs would create a lighthouse for his residence on the northern edge of the town. However later on he would move to an island north of the town and would build his own wonder 'The Gayet Lighthouse', a mock build of the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria. Though after it was built would try to move again and work on another project, but couldn't decide where to build it for a long time. At some point, KB the lord of trolling himself, arrived on the world. He still had vengeance to what had happened to him and his builds on the last realm and would make it his mission to find and troll the other members bases when he deemed it appropriate. Due to this and the fact that people wanted to move away and build there own homes and bases, the members of Ian Town II collectively agreed to blow it up in style (somewhat), with Kelloggs even recording the video and putting on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8DgQSfM4yk&t=13s, Though as Elyag's states, it may have been slightly "anticlimactic". After the destruction of the town, the members built there own builds further away. Shmexi would build a large base on the surface of the ocean. Elyag would make his house on an island northwest of Ian Town II with a large nether portal inside of an arch on the cliff side. Kelloggs would begin work on his second attempt at building the Acropolis of Athens north of the island where he put his lighthouse, however it once again came to nothing more than a small temple like building and nothing like the actual build. It is believed Rusty once again made an underground bunker base and it's unknown if RoxyVelma made a base or not. Joker would make a fancy somewhat hidden base underneath a big tree in the dark oak forest and KB would over time create perhaps the most tedious but best build of the world with his underwater/ocean base alongside an impressive village that almost resembled a large town with large cobblestone walls.

As the server was coming to its eventual end, the members were to make sure Rusty would not go do major dungeon raids and end bosses all by himself. A team of Rusty, Elyag, Kelloggs and RoxyVelma would venture out into the ocean to do (for some of them the first time) an ocean monument. As stated in the introduction, the server came to an end with the players forgetting that they hadn't done 'The End'. Though Elyag would actually pay for one more month, he himself did not join the group of Shmexi, Kelloggs and KB to fight the Ender Dragon. Rusty was most likely unavailable to join at the time but was also fine with not joining after what had happened in the previous server. Kelloggs would once again record his adventure in slaying the Ender Dragon, getting the final blow with one of his arrows (though missing many shots in the process). The footage of the fight would be put on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW4xYIgU5O4&t=26s. After completing The End there was a sense of not much to do, even though Elyag had bought the world some more time. Though Kelloggs would now and then attempt to fix his acropolis style build he lacked a great deal of motivation. Another thing that scared him a great deal would be when KB and Rusty would find his base that he made sure was quite difficult to find, covering up the nether portal. A long time after the realm came to an end, Rusty would later admit that they used X-Ray to find Kellogg's portal and vowed to not do something like that again. However at the time it made Kelloggs worried to do anything, especially as KB was threatening and trolling his build occasionally. Thus the realm came to it's eventual end. The realm is remembered overall as quite a fond experience, though in hindsight Elyag has stated that it was a much slower experience compared to the previous realm. As stated earlier too, there was also too much of a fear of letting the failures of the first realm mess with this one, thus there was a great deal of doing everything together rather than doing some things individually. Nonetheless it is still remembered as one of the best realms the League has played on.