Editing Event:Obituaries March 21

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Obituaries — March 21, 2026}}
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[[Category:Obituaries]]

March 21, 2026 was a quiet Sunday on Xandaris, but no less lethal for it — three players fell across the early morning hours, all to mob encounters, all in a single session each. New arrival [[Player:kahl_1755|kahl_1755]] turned in the day's most productive run, rattling off '''7 advancements''' in under twelve minutes before a skeleton cut things short. At the other end of the spectrum, [[Player:SWRD0|SWRD0]]'s '''19-second''' appearance may stand as one of the shortest visits in server history — courtesy of a Creeper that apparently didn't need much time to make its point.

== Death Toll ==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
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! # !! Time (EST) !! Player !! Cause of Death !! Playtime !! Advancements
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| 1 || 2:36 AM || [[Player:Picklejuice2033|Picklejuice2033]] || Slain by a Drowned || 3 min 33 sec || 2
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| 2 || 4:33 AM || [[Player:kahl_1755|kahl_1755]] || Shot by a Skeleton using Bow || 11 min 21 sec || 7
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| 3 || 9:56 AM || [[Player:SWRD0|SWRD0]] || Blown up by a Creeper || 19 sec || 1
|}

== Notable Deaths ==

=== kahl_1755 — Seven Advancements and an Arrow (4:33 AM) ===

[[Player:kahl_1755|kahl_1755]] logged in just after 4:22 AM and hit the ground running. Within the first minute they'd cracked their first stone and claimed '''[Stone Age]'''. Sixty seconds later came '''[Getting an Upgrade]''', and the pace only quickened from there — '''[Monster Hunter]''' landed at 4:25 AM after dispatching a pig, a zombie, and a sheep, followed by '''[Acquire Hardware]''' at 4:27 AM as the iron started flowing. By any measure, it was a tidy early-game sprint.

Five mob kills and 45 blocks mined in under eleven minutes paints the picture of a player who knew what they were doing. Unfortunately, a skeleton had its own plans. At 4:33 AM the Bow connected — the death message even saw fit to note the kill happened ''somehow'', a rare qualifier that suggests the shot came from an unusually awkward angle — and kahl_1755's run ended at '''7 advancements''', the highest count of the day. Two more advancements, '''[Adventure]''' and '''[Husbandry]''', rounded out a final tally that holds up well against far longer sessions.

=== SWRD0 — Nineteen Seconds (9:56 AM) ===

[[Player:SWRD0|SWRD0]] connected at 9:56 AM. A Creeper was apparently already waiting. Before a single block could be mined or an item crafted, the explosion landed — and at '''19 seconds''' from login to death, the whole affair was over. The only advancement earned was the automatic '''[Adventure]''', collected sometime in the brief interval between spawning and being vaporized.

What makes the moment slightly curious is that SWRD0 does not appear on the ban list, unlike the two players who fell earlier in the day. Whether that reflects prior standing on the server or some other arrangement, the Creeper's efficiency was not diminished by it.

== Statistics ==

{| class="wikitable"
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! Stat !! Value
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| Total Deaths || 3
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| PvP Kills || 0
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| By Drowned || 1 (Picklejuice2033)
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| By Skeleton || 1 (kahl_1755)
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| By Creeper || 1 (SWRD0)
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| Fastest Death || SWRD0 (19 sec)
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| Longest Survival || kahl_1755 (~11 min 21 sec)
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| First-Time Players || 3 of 3
|-
| Total Advancements Earned || 10
|}