New Tonyville

New Tonyville

Built by	Immabed, Burrowdizzy, SpoiledBIO
World	Wellstowne Boogaloo
Status	Finished
Type	Town
Coordinates	(6083, -2265)
Overviewer	Link

New Tonyville, formerly called Brodville, is the name given to the spawn village in Wellstowne Boogaloo created primarily by Burrowdizzy, Immabed, and SpoiledBIO. The village is primarily meant as a residential area for villagers, as part of the Minecraft 1.14 villager mechanic changes, as well as a location for Burrowdizzy and BWJC's Mega Lodge 2.0.

Lore

Pre-existing structures

Before New Tonyville was founded, and before even the ancestors of New Tonyville's residents discovered the area upon which the village stands, prior beings built ancient structures which have since been incorporated into the village itself.

The Old Tower

The origins of the leaning tower that stands on the East of the village is unknown, but it is clearly a very ancient building. It is built on stable land, at the highest point of all surrounding land, but in the eons since its construction the tower has tilted nearly 30 degrees. The design of the tower indicates it was clearly designed for defence, with machicolations and battlements built around the top of the tower. It may have once defended a castle or other building, though any remnant of an adjoining structure is long gone, being eroded by time. Nothing else is known about the tower or the beings who built it.

The tower has since been incorporated into the Mega Lodge that covers most the Eastern hill, and new floors have been added inside the tower, level with the ground, in place of the long decayed original floors.

The Library Ruins

The only other structure that remains from before the villagers found and settled the land now known as New Tonyville is the base of what is now the library. The origins of this structure is not fully understood, but ancient writings indicate that the old leaning tower was already ancient and leaning when the base of the library was built. The building was mostly eroded and only the outer stone walls remained when it was discovered by explorers many moons ago, but archaeologists discovered several ancient tomes within the ruins. The tomes suggest that an ancient masonic order, possibly of monks or sorcerors once studied in the building, though there are varied opinions on the reliability of translations.

Early Settlement

Discovery

Explorers from the continents first discovered the island of Caseus Nova a few hundred years ago. Several small fishing settlements were established over the next several decades, including one where the current New Tonyville fisheries are located. None of these original settlements still exist, but they were successful exporters of fish for nearly a century. Word of the ruins that were discovered on the island made their way back to the continent, and another wave of colonists arrived at the island. These were not fisherman or explorers, but archaeologists and scholars, and they quickly took an interest in the ruins that form the base for the modern library. In fact, the new colonists set themselves up almost entirely independently from the fishing settlements, and seemed to have brought great wealth with them, for they would periodically buy food from the fishing settlements, but produced no goods with which to trade, purchasing instead with continental emeralds, which the fishermen then used to buy goods from the merchant vessels that would visit to buy fish. The scholars quickly built a roof for the ruins and took residence inside it.

Isolation and Independence

Over time the fishing settlements became more self sufficient, as residents began to specialize in some of the trades that let them produce their own tools, clothes, and other necessities, rather than trade for it. This increasing sufficiency also led to a consolidation of the settlements, and the largest and wealthiest settlement began to see the other colonists moving to it, though it still had no formal name. The increasing self-sufficiency could not have come soon enough, since merchant ships from the continents were arriving less and less often. The power and wealth of the continents was beginning to fail, and they were becoming embroiled in internal disputes, famines, and political upheaval. There was less time and money able to be devoted to sea-faring, and the colonists on Caseus Nova were all but forgotten, though the few ships that still made the journey brought back much needed fish.

During this time period, the scholars, still secluded in the Library, constructed an addition, a second storey above the old ruins, and the occasional outsider caught a glimpse of scribes furiously producing tomes, and shelves filled to overflowing. The scholars continued to buy food and other goods from the colonists, and by this time the continental emeralds had been so widely circulated on the island, that it became the de facto currency, replacing the trade of goods for goods for more and more of the island's residents. In fact, those few ships that still arrived at Caseus Nova no longer had additional goods to sell, and so the emeralds became useful only on the island itself.

It was not through any war or great treaty that Caseus Nova became independent from the continents, but simply through increased isolation. No concrete date could be given for when the island became independent, and no one particularly cares. The degredation of the continents left Caseus Nova to take care of itself.

The Founding of New Tonyville

The First Permanent Structures

With the connection to the outside world vanishing, and the fishing business well established, ambitious residents of the island sought to establish more permanent structures. The wealthiest residents began construction of large houses with solid foundations. Stone was cut and timbers were brought from the small forest, and several large houses were built on the small hills around the valley that fed into the main fishing settlement. For awhile, a new home would be finished every few years.

Incorporation

With the settlement expanding and more permanent structures in place, one of the most wealthy of the residents, Billy, decided it was time to properly establish the small community as a proper village. With the support of several of the other families, the settlement became a village, and was name New Tonyville, after the ancestral home of several of the town's families, Tonyville. It is said that the first child born after the village was incorporated was given the name Tony, and to this day it remains a popular name for young villagers.

To celebrate the newly formed village, and to establish his own position of power within the local social order, Billy had a new home with a bell tower constructed on the easternmost hill at the end of the valley, near the ancient tower. Although the title was not used in his day, Billy is known as the first lord of New Tonyville.

The Establishment of the Lordship

Although no formal leadership had been established for the village, Billy's dominance over municipal activity was an established fact. It was expected that Billy's son would take over that unofficial position, but Billy's son died in an unfortunate boating accident. Supposedly, he got out of his boat after returning from a fishing trip, only to find his boat had vanished and he was suspended in mid air. He yelled for help, but as villagers approached to help him, his boat reappeared, cutting through his legs. The shock and blood loss killed him very quickly. Despaired but strong in character, Billy raised another son, who tragically died after walking off the bell tower several times. From that point on Billy lived in seclusion in his hillside home, and upon his death it was brought up by another member of the village that it was time for a proper leadership of the village. Billy was buried some distance away from the village, and a great tree grew over his grave.

And so the rest of the village agreed, and the lordship was established. Since Billy died with no living heirs, his home was vacant, and so the new lord moved there, and the tradition of the lord of the village residing in the eastern lodge was established.

The Growth of the Library

With a fledgeling village taking shape around them, the scholars of the library remained an enigma to the villagers. They remained secluded, though they continued to participate in the local economy, and providing a source of additional emeralds. During the third lordship the scholars contracted the villagers to build an additional level to the library, in stark contrast to the original expansion, which the scholars themselves constructed, outsiders were allowed into the library for the first time in over a century. The shelves of tomes amazed the villagers, although they were not allowed to read or even approach the books.

The current lord of the village took advantage of the situation and the good faith between the village and the scholars, and decided to formally accept the scholars and the library into the village of New Tonyville. In rare appearance, the scholars came out into the main village square for the ceremony, before retreating once again to their now expanded library.

Growth and Trouble

The village, now including the library and its scholars, was moving from the small coastal huts further into the valley, but the growth of the permanent structures was not without its setbacks.

Expansion of the Lord's Lodge

Principal among the new constructions in New Tonyville was the expansions of the lord's lodge. Starting with the fourth lord, lord Brode, whose massive expansion overshadowed Billy's original tower, many of the lords added expansions to the lodge to assert their leadership. Over time the lodge became known as the Mega Lodge, and had become a maze of passages, rooms, and hidden doorways.

Pillager Troubles

During the fifth lordship, New Tonyville received its first visitors in many decades. These were not merchants from the continents, but pirates and pillagers taking advantage of the new freedom of the sea allowed by the nigh complete reduction in the navy and commercial ships of the continents. Villagers were killed, homes were looted, and the seaside huts were burned to the ground. Even the library was ransacked, though the scholars had hidden themselves and their emeralds away, and the pillagers found little value in the books. The remainder of the fifth lordship was spent rebuilding and recovering, and saw some of the businesses move further into the village, away from the coastal fishing areas.

The Village Wall

The sixth lordship was dominated entirely by the construction of a village wall, in order to fend off future attacks from roving pillagers. This was a hard time for the villagers, with high taxes and forced labour on the wall leaving them tired and poor, but the action was justified when shortly after completion of the wall a small patrol of pillagers arrived on the island, but after seeing the wall they left and no raiding party came. During the fifth and sixth lordship the Mega Lodge was not expanded.

The Town Hall

The eighth lord, Lord Jay, saw that although his lodge had grown large, the village had no centralized meeting place, and instead of building an expansion to the lodge, he decided to begin construction of a large town hall. Jay decided to call it town hall rather than village hall to try and make the village seem more substantial under his purview. The problem Jay faced was where to put the building. The village now had a distinct boundary, and although there was much space available, none of it was large enough for the building Jay wanted to construct. The only location was where the library stood, so Jay approached the scholars about building around the library. The scholars agreed, so long as two additional levels be built upon the library as well. And so construction of the town hall proceeded, adjoining to the library. Construction was not completed until the ninth lordship, although the basement and jail were not finished until the eleventh lordship.

The Tavern

Although the lordship remained the most prominent position in the village, other families were able to gather great wealth. In particular, the family that ran the local tavern and brewery was able to amass great wealth. During the tenth lordship, a new and large tavern was constructed, along with state of the art brewing equipment, in the southwest corner of the village. The family also established their distinctive gold fringed garb, more befitting a priest than a brewer or barkeep, to emphasize their wealth and status.

The Second Raid

During the fifteenth lordship, a great raid of pillagers arrived to besiege New Tonyville, and a grave oversight in the village defences was discovered. Although a village wall had been built to protect the village, the villagers did not have warriors to fend off attackers. The raiders waited outside the village gates, and the villagers soon began to run out of food, as they were cut off from fishing. Several villagers got together and constructed weapons and armour, but when they went to confront the attackers, they were slain.

An Unlikely Partnership

Hope for the village came from an unlikely series of coincidences and alliances. In his expansion underneath the Mega Lodge, the fifteenth lord had discovered a great vein of iron ore, and had been having it mined for some time prior to the raid. Some time after the group of villagers was slain during their ill fated attack on the raiders, the scholars approached the lord, worried for their own safety against such a large and persistent force. The scholars knew of the iron that had been found and believed they could use it to forge a living weapon, a golem, based on their translations of the ancient tomes. The lord was wary of handing over his wealth of iron to the scholars, for he did not trust them and had never done any business with them, but they told him that they had already constructed part of a golem, and only needed a little more iron to finish it. Given the desperation of the situation, the lord relented and provided enough iron for the scholars to finish a single golem. They retreated back into their library, but soon they brought great mechanical pieces out into town square, and began assembling them into a giant man. As they finished, the golem began to move, startling the villagers and delighting the scholars. The golem was quickly led to the village gate, where villagers were attempting but failing to thwart the pillagers from breaking through. As the pillagers broke a hole in the gate with their axes, the golem leapt into action, grabbing the pillagers and throwing them around like toys. Startled, the pillagers tried to break through, but failed to get past the golem. They retreated, firing crossbows through into the village to slow down the golem's advance. Angered and aroused, the golem burst through the gate to the chagrin of the villagers and scholars, who watched in horror as the golem was struck from all sides by crossbow bolts. The villagers quickly sealed the gate once more, as the golem wreaked havoc through the pillager's ranks. Still, the ceaseless arrow fire and axe attacks overpowered the lone warrior, and the golems mechanisms began to fail as it broke apart.

An Agreement and An Army

The pillagers had been routed, and had retreated to regroup, but even now they could not be kept out of the village for long. The lord pleaded with the scholars to build more golems. Seeing his desperation, the scholars agreed to create enough golems to defend the village and to continue providing golems for future protection in exchange for exclusive rights to all the ore, iron or gold, that was discovered underneath the Mega Lodge, including all the iron that had already been mined and refined. The lord balked at the request, but had no other choice, he saw the scholars had all the bargaining power. He agreed and the villagers began moving all the iron ore, refined or raw, to the entrance of the library. The scholars got right to work on more golems, and by the next morning five new golems were being assembled in the village square. This time the gate was opened, and the golems strode out into the pillagers, laying waste to all they encountered. Two golems were slain, but the raiders were routed and the village was saved. The defeated golems were brought back to the library, and the scholars provided several more golems shortly after, and have provided golems ever since. Although the golems were savage and precise in their attacks on the pillagers, they turned out to be quite docile as they wandered the village, and they became a natural part of village life.

A Secret Discovery

Although all the iron ore was handed over to the scholars, during the excavation, the villagers discovered an ancient structure underneath the leaning tower. The lord kept this discovery a secret, especially from the scholars, and spent the rest of his life investigating the great pit. Though the secrets of the pit and the reasons for its construction eluded the lord and his advisors, he was able to tie its construction with that of the leaning tower.

The Library Beacon

During the eighteenth lordship, major developments began to take shape at the library. Villagers began to here strange sounds emanating from the library, like machines of metal and stone, or distant screams. Still, through any of the windows, or on rare occasions when the library door was open, nothing but scholars and books could be seen.

The Observatory

Although the noises stopped being heard, villagers soon saw activity on the roof of the library, as sheets of white material began being formed into a giant dome. When asked, the scholars said the dome was an observatory for measuring the sky. Construction on the dome completed within a few months, but it was several years before the dome opened to reveal a great telescope. At night the great dome would swivel, and the telescope would make shapes across the sky.

A Beacon Lights Up The Sky

After many years of operation, the observatory seemed to have stopped operations. For months it sat closed and unmoving, until one evening the dome opened, and after what seemed to be much fussing to interested villagers, a great sound was heard emanating from deep beneath the library, before turning into a low hum, and then subsiding below normal hearing. Simultaneously a beam of light shot from the centre of the observatory into the sky. The strange light shocked and startled the villagers, and the lord became quite upset, and demanded the scholars tell him what the beam was. The scholars rambled about measuring atmospheric interference or something equally unintelligible, frustrating the lord but ultimately getting him to leave them alone.

The beacon of light, as it is called, is sometimes activated, and sometimes it is not, when the observatory is closed. Its true purpose is unknown.

A Slow Decline

After several centuries of development and hard won prosperity, New Tonyville began to stagnate. There were no new construction projects during the nineteenth, twentieth, or twenty-first lordships, there were no visiting merchants, and centuries of fishing had led to a decline in certain local fish populations. Even the scholars seemed to be in decline, as the beacon of light was deactivated and the observatory closed late in the nineteenth lordship, and was not reopened.

Creatures in the Night

Only a few years after the beacon was shut down a villager spotted a strange creature while out for a walk across the island one evening. More villagers came to investigate, but nothing was ever found and it was thought to have been a trick of the mind. No one thought much of it until several months later when the silhouette of what appeared to be a tall skinny creature was spotted from the village wall. With several eyewitnesses confirming the sighting, it was clear that the villagers were not alone on Caseus Nova. Rumours ran wild, but no further sightings were reported for another year.

The next incident with a mysterious creature was a tragedy, a young villager was playing outside the walls one evening, when it was attacked. After hearing the child's cries, several villagers came to the wall to see a terrifying creature eating the child. The creature appeared like a man, but its flesh was decaying and its clothes were tattered. Terrified the villagers entreated the golems to go fight the creature, but by the time they arrived at the location where the child had been attacked, both the creature and the child were gone.

The twentieth lord was astonished by the reports and terrified of the creature, and entreated the scholars to tell him what the creature was. The scholars refused to answer, claiming they knew nothing, but those involved claim to have the scholars turn pale at the description of the creature. A name was overheard, muttered by one of the scholars, 'zombie'. The lord pleaded for the scholars to explain what a zombie was, but the scholars shuttered the library and locked the door, refusing to answer.

Fear led the villagers to spend less time outside the walls of the village, especially at night, and those fears were soon justified when sightings of more terrifying creatures, including massive spiders and living bones, were seen from the village walls. Many began to blame the scholars for the appearance of the creatures, and some claimed the creatures had come following the beacon.

Fears led to the villagers reducing even daytime trips outside the village walls. Crops were left untended, fishing shacks were abandoned, and the threat of food shortages led the lord to act. New farms were established inside the village walls, although the fields were much smaller than those now left farrow outside the walls. Fishing, once the lifeblood of the villagers, was now made mandatory, although only during daylight and the fisheries on the docks became little more than storage sheds. The village gates were now closed every night before sunset and only opened well after sunrise. Inside the village walls the golems gave some comfort, and since no creature had yet come into the village, it became the safe haven.

There were no more incidents, but every night a villager could look out past the walls and see the creatures roaming in the dark. Such a persistent display kept even the most adventurous villagers inside the walls.

See also

• Tonyville, the namesake for New Tonyville, and the original spawn village for New Wellstowne.
• Tonyville Two, the second village on the New Wellstowne main continent.
• Caseus Nova, the island New Tonyville is on, and which shares much of the same lore.
• List of builds on Wellstowne Boogaloo
• List of builds by BWJC
• List of builds by Burrowdizzy
• List of builds by SpoiledBIO