Grizzly Bear

Founding
The Grizzly Bear is a bar founded by Carpicious on Sept 27 2020. It's location is at 0,0 of the world, with it's main passage into the drinking pub, via a water elevator set against bedrock that has been there since the world's conception.

Overview
The Grizzly Bear offers a wide menu of unique beverages, using the talents of the brewery plugin, as well as a small selection of foods. Ordering from the Grizzly Bear is free, always. The Bartender monitors the stock and inventory of the bar and allows the heavy request of particular drinks and bulk orders at her personal discretion. Do not order from the 'secret menu' because it does not exist, and is not free. The Grizzly Bear is meant as a means to connect all nations and peoples. Anyone is welcome, and the bar has been known to serve even malicious hackers despite the warning they would be reported after they were given whichever drink they ordered. The land above the Grizzly Bear has no specific perms, and is meant as a public location for whoever would like to build above 0,0 as well. It has a public teleport of "/t spawn GrizzlyBear" and hooks up to the nether hub right outside. PvP is enabled, and there are a number of activities accessible at the bar. It is encouraged as a neutral meeting place, whether for diplomatic discussions, trade offs, or victory parties, and is always open, even if the Bartender is not on call. Please enjoy its many amenities.

Early History
Already designed, once started, the bar was quickly erected in a matter of hours, taking advantage of a wide ravine carved out under the ground. It quickly became a known public area, purely through its unique location, as well as the massively influential effort of the Public Works. With a nether highway quickly underway, the hub was centered on 0,0, and in only a matter of days, the nearby portal was moved by the Public Works to rest on top of the bedrock at 0,0. This made public access to the bar much easier, and helped in the bar's initial days of advertisement.

In the first week, the Grizzly Bear remained unclaimed territory. The hope was to maintain land that could be accessed by all, making any who entered it feel as if it wasn't owned by any single person or nation, and had no ulterior motives behind its use. This quickly became a problem however. In the next couple days, while more and more visitors were invited for free booze, the local Bartender's items were repeatedly stolen and continued going missing. This culminated in a massive theft, where the bar's entire means of production were stolen right out from under the Bartender's nose. Doing ./home to quickly get upstairs to serve a customer, revealed to the Bartender what had happened when she instead ended up in spawn. Her bed broken, cauldrons and brewing stands stolen, wheat fields and seeds gone, and the bar decorations completely abolished, all while brewing in the next room over, it was clear something had to change. But still the land remained unclaimed, and the Bartender dutifully grinded back the needed materials in a matter of hours.

Divine Intervention
On October 2nd, Enfys, the admin, messaged the Bartender, stating his interest in the bar, and giving funds to assist in the land's towny claim. Despite the Bartender's adamant disapproval of such an act before, she could do nothing more than accept in the face of omnipresent interference. Before the server switched from towny to lands, Don'tDrinkKoolAid aka Enfys was a member of Grizzly Bear, offering more land claim. After the switch to lands, this was no longer the case.

Notable Bar Features
The Grizzly Bear was initially designed as a single open room with an upstairs, looking out via a balcony, and one backroom up there, meant for private meetings. However, within a week after the Grizzly Bear's initial construction finished, expansions were made. A 'dog fighting arena' was put in, connected via a new door. Presently, the set up is limited, seeing as it required BarStaff member Ham52 to participate, and he left the server with the fall of Turtlonia. However, the space does make a more aesthetically appropriate pvp arena than the dance floor, and a bed was added nearby to facilitate its use. Future plans for player vs dog matches are in the works.

Another recent addition is the Lounge. A fireplace was added, to decorate a small library, where a collection of private publications are kept. There are empty books stored there for aspiring authors who would like to add to the collection. There is also a copy of 'Ancient Brews,' an old text, translated by Carpicious about new recipes. It's meant to make hints to new brews more accessible to the wider public, and can be accessed or copied by anyone at any time. This is a direct copy of a google doc made by Bleeksneot when creating 23 custom new recipes and adding them to the brewery plugin. However, it does have a preface added by Carpicious. There is also an event board inside the lounge. Customers can add any signs to it they like if an event comes to their attention. Finally, there is a roped off section of the lounge reserved for future slot machines that will become available at a later date.

Other aspects of the bar include: The sign book, located at the entrance/exit to the bar. The bar fight wall, with heads reminiscent of when head's still dropped from players upon death, as well as the quote book located there for bar fight winners. There are two lockers as well as a lost and found, located by the staircase to the second level. The lockers are useful during fisticuffs when all armor should be left off. There is a jukebox with a select playlist of noteblock hits, curated by Enfys. The jukebox is unique and was spawned in via commands. It cannot play normal disks, and that is why there is a normal jukebox to the left of the unique one. A limited selection of music discs can be found in the barrel there in the floor. There is a dartboard in the bar, as well as supplies in chests nearby. Arrows are often hard to stock, since most tend to disappear when clear lag removes all entities. While the menu should not be drank by customers, the Bartender does her best to stock a nearby chest with afterhours booze, allowing (1) glass per customer when she is offline.

Leave a Tip?
Finally, there is also a tip jar near the exit. All drinks offered at the Grizzly Bear are free of charge, so if you visit, any little bit helps. What you might even consider trash, might happen to be incredibly useful to a brewer who needs a wide variety of eclectic items to make the alcohol you appreciate so much.

Thank you