Petrifaction
Petrifaction, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the process of petrifying.
 Petrifaction
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| About | |
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| Creator | Admin team |
| Start Date | March 2022 |
| End Date | TBD |
| Location | Freedonia |
| Public? | Yes |
What is the Petrification Event?
The month of March 2022 is that time when 
MasterFlippeh, also known as Terrain_Master_Flippeh began to denounce those who stuck a claim on his land. During this period, Nexus Borderland Hubs began appearing on the map in a broken down and destroyed state. Through currently unknown means, a Terrain Dragon spawned presumably at the location of a Borderland hub, and once that dragon was vanquished, that respective Borderland hub was restored and became fully functional.
Timeline
May 24th, 2021
Terrain_Master_Flippeh makes his first appearance on the server, alongside the other members of the "Flippeh_Fam"
Sometime between August 21st and 30th, 2021
SketchyPixel notices a glass platform in the middle of an ocean in the then-newly expanded 1.12 terrain with the text "RESERVED FOR ADMIN USE"
March 12th, 2022
- Terrain_Master_Flippeh makes an in-game appearance on the server, possibly teasing a new event stating, "This flippeh is busy getting his plans together"
- Nexus Borderlands Hubs began appearing across Freedonia in a dilapidated, broken down state.
March 13th, 2022
xerosmythe vanquishes the first Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub South-West (Light Blue) 3
March 16th, 2022
- xerosmythe defeats the second Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub North-East (Red) 2
March 18th, 2022
- Spawn lake begins to recede
March 20, 2022
techkid6 defeats the third Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub South (Lime) 1- MasterFlippeh logs into MCO as a white name, leaves minutes later sporting an imperial yellow name
DanThePilot01 defeats the fourth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub North-West (Purple) 1
March 21st, 2022
2b2tisFull defeats the fifth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub South-East (Yellow) 3
Broncoskip defeats the sixth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub North-East (Red) 1
Stedley vanquishes the seventh Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub South-West (Light Blue) 2
March 22nd, 2022
ScarClaw72 claims retribution from 
EnderLordFlippeh by slaying the eighth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub North (Pink) 2
March 24th, 2022
AdoreKitten defeats the tenth? Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands East (Orange) 2
March 25th, 2022
- SketchyPixel defeats the eleventh Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub South (Lime) 2
All_Above defeats the twelfth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub North-East (Red) 3
RainBd defeats the thirteenth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub East (Orange) 1
March 26th, 2022
lol1o1 defeats the fourteenth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub North (Pink) 1
ClonLP defeats the fifteenth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub South-East (Yellow) 1
March 27th, 2022
GiannisN5 defeats the sixteenth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub North (Pink) 3- ??? defeats the seventeenth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub ??? (???) ?
- ??? defeats the eighteenth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub ??? (???) ?
March 28th, 2022
Filip0706 defeats the nineteenth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub West (Blue) 1
March 29th, 2022
- Spawn lake completely dries up.
March 30th, 2022
- xerosmythe defeats the twenty-third Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub West (Blue) 3
Jaysax_ defeats the twenty-fourth Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub South (Lime) 3
LordOfTheShadows slays the twenty-fifth (final?) Terrain Dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub South (Lime) 3
The battle against the eleventh Terrain Dragon at the Nexus Borderlands Hub South (Lime) 2
Teaacup attempting to slaughter the twelfth dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub North-East (Red) 3
Numerous Players fighting the thirteenth Terrain Dragon at the Nexus Borderlands Hub East (Orange) 1
The battle to reclaim Nexus Borderland Hub North (Pink) 1 from the fourteenth Terrain Dragon
The defeat of the fifteenth terrain dragon at Nexus Borderlands Hub South-East (Yellow) 1
Discord Channel Names
Along with the above changes in the game, the name of the Discord #general channel was changed multiple times for this event. The changed names recognizably match the runes from the Enchanting Table, although not very precisely since those characters are not part of the normal character set, and are synthesized here by Combining Diacritical Marks.
Here is the list of when each new name appeared, and what the word decoded to:
- March 9th: OCTOGRAM
- the raw text of the channel name was not captured before it had already been changed
- March 11th: BEASTS
- ʖᒷᔑᓭℸ-̣-ᓭ
- March 13th: PROTECTORS
- ¡∷𝙹ℸ-̣-ᒷᓵℸ-̣-𝙹∷ᓭ
- March 15th: TWENTYFOUR
- ℸ-̣-∴ᒷリℸ-̣-⎓𝙹⚍∷
- March 21st: I WILL WIN
- ╎-∴╎ꖎꖎ-∴╎リ
There was some debate about some of the precise translations; after the second one was decoded, an admin spoke on the issue:
TheDarkrai85 The translator isn't perfect, but she'll do. (Also discord handles some special/very uncommon characters poorly)