The Chained Watcher

The Prank War

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This chapter is basically just progressing the canon timeline, because just skipping over the entire prank war with a "Oh and by the way, war happened." feels wrong.

There's no actual Watcher/plot relevant information.

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Facing each other, the two teams made their final checks. The opposing bases, one looking like a strange water filter and the other like a turtle, stood tall and proud. War was upon them.

Now, you may be wondering how this happened.

Well, Mumbo was afk and lost all his stuff, so Iskall and Grian gifted him a trident while also boxing him in obsidian he would then have to punch out of, Mumbo retaliated with giving them shulker boxes with obsidian on top that they weren't supposed to break, Iskall broke it so Mumbo gave him a large supply of diorite which he then used to prank FalseSymmetry's base with a chicken in a Grian costume, leaving his name on a sign to claim ownership of the prank.

Now, here's where things start to go sideways. ZombieCleo found it first, and changed the sign to blame Rendog instead. False recruited Grian to help retaliate, and the two of them built a roller coaster of doom before attempting to frame Iskall for it. Ren doesn't fall for the 'very convincing' signs, but instead of pranking False teams up instead to get Cleo for changing the signs. Together with Doc and Impulse, they built a ghost ship complete with fake pirates making off with all the valuables, and set up a death trap inside of it.

Somehow, not Cleo's fault this time, the signs guiding their hapless victim to the pit of zombies and poison ended up in Grian's base, so after falling for the trap he prepared to retaliate against Ren, Doc, and Impulse. Dragging Tango into the mess, Grian breaks into the stock exchange and replaces all their diamonds with player heads like are put on armor stands. They also touched the bush. Noone touches the bush.

Doc ends up bringing Xisuma into this when they have to explain why they can't liquidate the stocks at this point in time. Meanwhile, False and Ren were building a giant diorite/netherrack cake around Iskall's sand castle, which he later asks Grian to bomb out of existence. Cleo ropes in JoeHills and iJevin to help get back at Impulse with a surprisingly nonfatal 'hall of atonement', though Grian tries to convince them to add a lava trap at the very end. Joe takes offense at the suggestion, and pours lava down from on top of Grian's non-flammable base.

To get out of further retaliatory pranks, Joe pulled out an old IOU from Grian and managed to get a promise of nonaggression from him. Doc along with Xisuma and Welsknight sabotage Tango's rocket shop with exploding rockets, putting up "SALE" signs for good measure. Their next target is Grian, spiriting away his chicken, Sally, to bargain for their missing diamonds. Unfortunately for them, Stress and Iskall find the signs first and go on a hunt for the missing chicken that promptly dies to a pufferfish.

Iskall shows Grian to his new "war room" in a show of trust, while the stock exchange team finds their missing diamonds have been moved yet again by an unknown party. Sides now properly forming, everyone involved meets to establish the rules of this war, as a proper war it had become, and a temporary peace treaty was agreed to.

The two teams, now named G-Team and Team Star, started building bases for the newly-dubbed Civil War as the end of the peace treaty approached. On Team Star, Impulse made a ghast cannon that worked surprisingly well while Tango made a specifically anti-ghast-cannon weapon targeted right at the ghast control booth.

There was an unspoken agreement that flying over the defenses and breaking blocks to bypass traps was against the rules of the war, so infiltration had to be done on foot.