Editing The Covid Chronicles

'''The Covid Chronicles''' is a three-part in-world book series written by [[ComradeFeliks]] (under his felixdeportu account) in [[Diaspora]] during the COVID-19 lockdown of April–June 2020. It is a dated first-person diary of the server, and the most detailed primary source recovered from the Diaspora era.

The three volumes are held on lecterns in region r.-1.-1: Part 1 at -300, 66, -204 and -336, 71, -192; Part 2 at -337, 71, -192; Part 3 at -338, 71, -192.

== Opening ==

<blockquote>
April 3, 2020 - I could have started this sooner, but here we are. It is been three weeks since the quarantine started for me.
</blockquote>

== Part 1 ==

Records the cathedral finished at the centre of spawn and named [[Porta Coeli]], and the redrawing of roads and plots at spawn. [[TheWanderingFool]] set up a store and a Guardian farm for Sea Lanterns.

The server's first Ender Dragon kill:

<blockquote>
Lokilindo, wizardofire, FreakinMike, Hylianerd, TheWanderingFool, and I slayed it in short order.
</blockquote>

The server's first pair of Elytra was found after raided cities; six players rolled for it and [[FreakinMike]] won. [[Lokilindo]] later found his own pair and opened a shop selling wings and shulker boxes.

[[theoubre]] settled a plot north of ComradeFeliks in the desert to build [[Aquarius]], described as "a fully fledged very stylish new aquarium".

== Part 2 ==

Covers 10–17 April 2020. The 1.16 Nether Update snapshots were anticipated. theoubre, F_Z_Bunny and ComradeFeliks made the pillager outpost safer with an elevated road. [[justin1423]] moved villagers to his mountain by minecart and built farms at his [[Canadian Village|Canadian Rockies]] village. Lokilindo built a pillager grinder that disappointed him.

[[Linatic|LINATIC]] arrived and built opposite [[Casa Blanca]] as an impromptu marketplace, later helping redesign Casa Blanca by removing the centre building. A Wither fight with Wiz, TheWanderingFool, Linatic and ComradeFeliks went badly without justin1423.

theoubre claimed two islands south of [[Termina Bay]] and named them '''Dark''' and '''Light''', using one of them to make charged creepers. Neither island has been located by coordinate; no sign bearing either name has been found.

== Part 3 ==

Covers 2–23 June 2020. ComradeFeliks and [[Micky]] began a TV station in [[New Tristram]] — green screen space, news room, weather room — to record regular programming for the server. The build is [[Ravenport Broadcasting]], and it was never finished.

<blockquote>
Our inspiration is coming from KENI Radio Building, an art deco style station in Anchorage.
</blockquote>

Lina and ComradeFeliks paved and organised the spawn portal area and added sewers, and landscaped the neglected park by the train station into New Ravenport Central Station Park. A dye store was completed; candidate names were "Colors 2 Dye 4" and "Dye Hard". Wiz reworked his rail station facade, removing the south wing to make a harbour.

Rail was traced north toward [[Hyrule|Hylia]] and "The Broasis (Canadia)". RangedSpider, a friend of Lina's, joined and settled islands to the southwest. Lina found a Mushroom Island. A June entry also records [[wizardofire]] bringing his daughter — later the player [[Frog]], his co-builder on the [[Kingdom of Zeal]] — to the server for the first time.

== Players named ==

[[ComradeFeliks]] (author), [[Linatic|Lina]], [[theoubre]], [[TheWanderingFool]], [[Lokilindo]], [[wizardofire]], [[FreakinMike]], [[Hylianerd]], F_Z_Bunny, [[justin1423]], [[Micky]], RangedSpider, and [[Frog]].

== See Also ==

* [[Diaspora]]
* [[Porta Coeli]]
* [[Ravenport Broadcasting]]
* [[ComradeFeliks]]

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