The Lore War

The Lore War was a competition that occurred during between May and June of 2023.

The War began on the 17th of May when Noah refused to give Pagebird any lore on Parabola, his ENA OC. Pagebird grew enraged and declared war on Noah. Those on Pagebird’s side were called Team Evil and Noah’s team was initially Team Good, but quickly changed to Team Silly. A neutral team, Team Moose (known briefly as Team Neutral), was also formed. It was headed by (you guessed it) Moose, and it advocated for peace and eating desi food. However, Team Moose proved to be just as competitive as the others, so what exactly it meant by peace is up for debate. Later, two additional minor teams were formed, made of a single person each: Team Ced (Cedar) and Team Scotland (Ras). The latter proceeded not to do anything, so we can stop talking about Team Scotland now. On the 25th of May, in order to give the war an actual objective, Pagebird set up a lore-making competition. Anyone who wanted to participate would be assigned a prompt and would have to make lore about it. Their team would be given points based on the amount/quality of lore.

Team Evil initially pulled ahead, helped greatly by Rainy who had scored 12 points by the 26th. Team Silly was coming second. Team Moose and Team Ced had only 1.5 points each.

Pagebird went to Berlin for a few days. By the 2nd of June, Rainy had made it to 33 points and Team Evil was cruising at 58. However, Team Moose had unexpectedly catapulted to second place as Moose gained 30.5 points out of nowhere. Team Silly hadn’t done anything and was now pretty far behind.

Pagebird then announced an end date to the lore war, which was the next Sunday. A special prompt would be announced on the Saturday that would give double the points.

The next day, Moose scored EVEN MORE points and managed to overtake Team Evil by a small margin.

Finally the Special Prompt was announced... one day early by accident. Oh well, more time to work on it! It was: ‘Anything to do with the Backrooms.’ The lore-makers got hard to work on that one. Noah, who had only scored six points thus far, made a nine-minute YouTube video that netted him 100 points. But the main competition was between Team Evil and Moose, who kept pulling ahead of each other... (or not, I (Zinc) am dramatising this a bit.) In the end, Team Moose managed to beat Team Evil by only 2.5 points, mostly due to the incredible work of Moose, who managed 179.5 points in total. But it didn't look like that at first - due to a mathematical error, Team Moose appeared to lead by 58.5 points. This was rectified later.