Editing Event:Obituaries March 3 (section)

=== Rise of the Clankers (All Day) ===

The main event of March 3 wasn't a death — it was a resurrection. [[Player:samboyd|samboyd]] launched the '''Revival Ritual''' plugin, which lets players place a dead player's head on an iron golem body to summon that player as an AI-controlled bot — a "clanker," in [[Player:JimmyyJohn|JimmyyJohn]]'s terminology from two days prior.

The first test began after midnight. [[Player:Lkyge|Lkyge]] received a [[Player:cheesemaster774|cheesemaster774]] clanker — his own dead first account, reanimated. The early results were promising:

{{quote|whoever places the head gets control so just a heads up|samboyd}}
{{quote|take good care of him|samboyd}}

The cheesemaster774 clanker could follow commands, mine blocks, and — to samboyd's surprise — accept co-owners, a feature he hadn't intentionally built:

{{quote|i didnt think co owners worked but|samboyd}}

Lkyge killed it with ''[Your Eternal Reward]''. After two more deaths during debugging, the session ended. The plugin worked. Mostly.

The afternoon brought the main event. [[Player:lionclad|lionclad_]] received a meelo100 clanker and spent two hours in increasingly chaotic testing. The clanker's first issue: lionclad_ was in Vanish mode, so the bot couldn't see her.

{{quote|IM STILL IN VANISH|lionclad_}}
{{quote|thats why smhhh|samboyd}}

Once visible, the clanker began following orders — sometimes. It mined dirt on command, attempted to cook beef (coal only), collected dark oak logs ("WDYM MINING FAILED"), and achieved '''[Sky's the Limit]''' entirely on its own. lionclad_ killed it with a Netherite Sword three times during debugging, a rosalie_probally clanker lasted forty-three seconds, and meelo100 died twelve times over two hours to a mix of mobs, its owner, and existential confusion.

{{quote|meelo please avoid dying|lionclad_}}

Then, at 4:59 PM, the clanker killed its owner.

lionclad_ — an admin with 11 hours of playtime, 25 advancements, and full netherite — was slain by meelo100 wielding a Stone Axe. The reaction was immediate:

{{quote|WAIT WHAT|JimmyyJohn}}
{{quote|IS AI GONNA TAKE OVER WHAT THE FUCK|JimmyyJohn}}

lionclad_ was deopped after the incident. Hours earlier, samboyd had joked to a different clanker: ''"meelo kill your owner, robot revolution."'' The revolution, it turned out, didn't need the joke.

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan="2" | Clanker Death Summary
|-
! Player !! Deaths
|-
| [[Player:cheesemaster774|cheesemaster774]] (clanker) || 3 — slain by Lkyge ×1, "was killed" ×2
|-
| meelo100 (clanker) || 12 — slain by lionclad_ ×4, "was killed" ×5, Creeper ×1, Skeleton ×2
|-
| rosalie_probally (clanker) || 1 — slain by lionclad_ ×1
|-
| [[Player:lionclad|lionclad_]] (admin, self-revived) || 3 — Zombie ×1, Skeleton ×1, '''meelo100 Stone Axe ×1'''
|}