Avalysium

Avalysium (pronounced /æ.və.ˈli.zi.əm/ or /eɪ.və.ˈli.zi.əm/ was a base founded in August 2020 as a result of a merge between the two building groups Avalonia and Elysium. It was griefed on April 16, 2021, by the Backstreet Boys.

Prelude
The leaders of both groups, Noah3j and Carlll_ met when Carlll_ caught Noah3j stealing one of Elysium2's stashes after it was compromised. Despite the fairly awkward and tense initial interactions, they grew to be friends, with Noah3j becoming a member of Elysium. They decided to do a joint base with both groups after their current bases were destroyed. Avalonia and Elysium 3 were both griefed shortly thereafter.

Foundation
Starting on August 16, 2020, the Avalysium group was formed out of the majority of the members from Avalonia and Elysium. A voting system similar to Avalonia was established. It was led by co-leaders Carlll_ and Noah3j. The base banner was created as a combination of the designs of the Avalonian and Elysian banners, with the base colors being white and pink. The merger had problems, initially. Two members, DrBeardStash and Ionar, secretly disliked Elysium but hid their feelings from the rest of the group in hopes of gaining a dupe that they knew Redstoner2b2t had. Ionar later reverse-engineered the dupe, and released it to the public in Pyro Client. As a result, the dupe became known to the public as the Pyro Dupe. After Ionar and DrBeardStash found the dupe, they left the group. The other base members discovered that they planned to grief the base. The base and all supplies were relocated before Ionar or DrBeardStash could act. With the supplies and new location, building started on 10/22/20 when Marcus4761 arrived at the new location.

Start of the Second Location
The first project at the new location was a large-scale terraforming operation. Marcus4761, Blocker, and CirocDrip were tasked with flattening a large portion of the central island in order to place builds there more easily. The storage hall was constructed, which could hold up to approximately 2,400 double chests of items. The hall was surrounded by circular roads lined with custom foliage designed by Xapamaa. A district on the southwest side of the central island was started with the self-stated theme of 'Amsterdam', the south side had a rendition of grand central train station, the east was to have a road of shops and end with docks and a harbor. As the weeks went by, the number of accounts arriving at the base grew. Shared base accounts were set up so users could play at the base without having to buy priority queue.

Visitors
Univercius triangulated the coordinates Carlll_ streamed his journeymap waypoints, allowing Avalysium's location to be determined through trigonometry. Ironically, it was Carlll_ that taught him how to do the math to triangulate coordinates in the first place. To the relief of the basemembers, Univercius chose to stay and not leak the base, thus becoming a base member. Also, IronException joined the group at this time. One night, while most accounts were at the dupe stash, Hausemaster removed priority queue from every single account online at the base. After inspecting the area where all the priority queue removals happened and attempting to communicate with Hausemaster, Blocker's priority queue was also removed. Members concluded that the items moving throughout the storage system sorter was the cause of the lag, prompting him to pay the base a "visit". The base accounts got priority back (despite the heavy price tag).

Continued Construction
Nexo was tasked with designing a Nether hub castle while Noah cleared a large area in the Nether. IronException created a mod that auto cleared lava source blocks to assist in this. Building the castle largely by himself, Noah was about to take a break from the project until Connor came. Being recently invited, the two were able to grind and finish in less than 48 hours with some help from Ciroc. The infrastructure then started underneath the castle to include a Nether road system. Tunnels designed by Noah, Iron, and Sky4 were created that extended 1k blocks in each cardinal direction. With the main focus shifting back to the overworld, Marcus and Connor built a town south of the pyramid with a plaza, obelisks, and a large Greek temple. As was tradition, Marcus made the same iron pyramid that can also be found at Avalonia or the Monastery. Carlll began a huge project of a volcano on an island southwest of the base. Another unfinished build was the Grand Central Station, which after a huge amount of terraforming by Noah3j could begin construction. With major help from Connor, Xapamaa, Ciroc, and Blocker, the station was nearly complete before the base was griefed. Had the base lasted another month, it's likely the volcano and central station would have been completed.

Grief
On April 16, 2021, Backstreet Boys griefed Avalysium, after spending several days tunneling to the base. They were given coordinates by odpay, after he got them from bard. In the popularized version of the story fabricated by iMems and spread by Fit, odpay secretly ratted bard's computer by plugging a USB stick into it in order to obtain bard's personal information including: his discord tokens, minecraft account information, etc. What actually happened was far simpler. Bard had logged into his discord account on a computer owned by odpay and had not logged out. Odpay had gone through the Avalysium bard's discord account and had gotten the coordinates from there.

Etymology
The name "Avalysium" originated with the merging of the names Avalonia and Elysium:
 * Avalonia, being a builder group, with their large principle base, "Avalonia."
 * Elysium, also a builder group, with several bases known as "Elysium."