Holy fuck. I need to share this story on the Nations At War server.
So for the past two weeks Fire has been utter assholes on the mainland. Any time Earth tries to build they completely demolish it when nobody is on and has constant orders to kill on sight Earth.
It turns out that on day one of the mainland being open Air constructed a fancy room hidden near the Fire base, where they pretended to be their god. Fire thought this was something the admins(We shall call the Magistrates from now on) set up and they did the request Air had put there, which was something like 100 netherrack(They had a ton, so no problem). Air snuck in some diamond armor to make the thing believable, and went on to do other sneaky requests.
During the first week Air constructed a base called Saturn, which they were completely unable to defend. They decided to have Fire to their dirty work and gave something along the following message:
"The nations shall not overstep their realms! Air shall never let a structure touch the group, Earth will live in their caves, and your opposite foe shall remain in watery strife."
It was basically telling Fire to tear down Jupiter so they could construct another forward base that was better. However, instead of fighting Water like they intended they followed the flavor text and took that as not allowing any aboveground structure from Earth.
Each nation has a shrine in their Capitol that holds around 300 tokens representing their nation. The challenge for the week was to have the most so you could get a prize from the Magistrates. Air told Fire through the room to burn their tokens. It was then that the head Admin(Ein, not our Ein, a different Ein and for all intents and purposes I'll be referencing him unless stating otherwise) decided things had gone too far and told Fire that it was an Air trick.
Fire was angry that Ein had not told them the trick, and burned all their tokens in protest to the old gods. The Magistrates came down and slaughtered every last Fire nationer and tore their island asunder. But word came out on the deception, and the other nations were enraged.
Earth was in a very strong alliance with Air, coming to their defense multiple times and being the best bros. They seemed to have major problems with the system and never had enough bows or arrows or always seemed to die because they couldn't wear armor. When we heard that they tricked Fire into utterly removing our ability to build on the Mainland and causing several guys to quit because the 'griefing' was too much we were ballistic. So ballistic and also angry at Ein for not telling us that we also burned all our tokens, to which we got the same fate as Fire.
But there was one common cause: Every nation invaded Air at once for the ultimate ball busting of the game. It turns out their complaints of too few bows and arrows and ease of dying in no armor were tricks. They had thousands of arrows ready and at least two full chests of bows. They put up a really good defense, but they could not save their altar from being ransacked.
So yeah, things really flipped on their heads. Everyone is pissed at Air, Earth is now allies with Fire because we both rejected the Magistrates(Stonefather and Earthmother forever!), the gods are angry, Water doesn't know that the fuck to do and Air turns out to be an offensive powerhouse now that they are attacking instead of manipulating.