Snowgrave Raid
| The Snowgrave Raid | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
| Edge Gang Slim Fiddle Volunteers Supported by:  Brown Pixelstuck (briefly) Flandre  Rose Khanate | The Ember Empire  Neuro-sama's Swarm  osu! FURU Pxls RunePxls Volunteers | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| Distance Kross22 Fruity Lana | Selio Sohiimfine Swarm Council Firenze | ||||
| Strength | |||||
| 12+ | 31+ | ||||
The Snowgrave Raid was a conflict on Canvas 93. Faction members from The Ember Empire, FURU Pxls, Neuro-sama's Swarm, osu!, conducted a raid on the "King of Snowgrave" artwork (notably, the raid was not publicly supported by osu! or Swarm, despite many of their members helping). The attack was organized by the Ember Empire's leader, Selio, and began on the evening of September 16. Volunteers from Flandre and the Rose Khanate came to the defense of the Snowgrave art shortly after. Additionally, Firenze, leader of RunePxls, joined the war by attempting to place a Deltarune art they failed to claim during reset over the remainder of Snowgrave. RunePxls overlapped an enclave/collaborator faction in Snowgrave called Slim Fiddle.
King of Snowgrave, often shortened to simply "Snowgrave", was designed by Distance for their faction, Edge Gang. It was created in collaboration with Slim Fiddle, who are represented by an enclave within the art piece. Critics of the Snowgrave art claim that it is oversized and looks ugly due to excessive fiddle abuse. These sentiments form the primary motivation for the raid. Pxls culture has long stigmatized fiddled art, which contributed to the raiders' support among the wider Pxls community.
Defenders of the art claim that the fiddle abuse is an intentional artistic choice, and thus the art's unpopularity is unwarranted. Slim Fiddle, which specializes in fiddled art as an aesthetic, is not the first group on Pxls to utilize the concept. Lake Fairy Crew made a similar art piece only four canvases prior, and the user Chalkless has also been known to make intentionally fiddled artwork.
Though somewhat slowed by the defenders, the raiders progressed at a steady pace on the first two days of the war. The raider's attack force was somewhat split as a result of Sohiimfine and several others switching to help RunePxls for the rest of the conflict. As fighting progressed, unaffiliated volunteers joined both sides of the conflict, but mainly the attackers. By the 18th, defense of Snowgrave had largely collapsed. Distance made a new template over Snowgrave's remains, focusing on the Slim Fiddle portion, that conflicted with RunePxls. Rose Khanate placers pulled away from the war to focus on other areas of the canvas, and the other defenders withdrew from the wider Snowgrave art to focus on Slim Fiddle's enclave. RunePxls initially failed to take over Slim Fiddle, whose art was fully completed. Simultaneously, The Purple Empire began expanding their lattice into abandoned parts of Snowgrave.
The main Ember-led Raid art finished in 4 days. Most of the raiders moved on their own volition to help RunePxls and quickly overpowered the Slim Fiddle defenders. Distance's secondary template was abandoned. Firenze's art finished less than a day after the larger raid art. The rest of Snowgrave was cleaned up and there were no griefs on the final image.
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Snowgrave before the raid -
Canvas final image
