Scar-Grian Alliance (Season 1)

The Scar-Grian Alliance (Season 1) (also known as the Desert Faction, the Sand People, or the Fallen Kingdom) was an alliance between GoodTimesWithScar and Grian created through a deal, with the goal of creating a monopoly on sand. The members resided atop Monopoly Mountain, within the desert in the north-western corner of the map, until Pizza's death when they moved to a bunker. Though after Battle of the Red Desert the desert is conquered by Dogwarts, making Scar-Grian Alliance temporarily homeless, but after Crastle Alliance finally joined Pizza Alliance, their new temporary home became Crastle. After Final Battle of Dogwarts, desert once again is owned by Scar-Grian Alliance.

Creating Monopolies
During a meeting within the 3rd life members, Grian lured a creeper over to some members in the Village as they gathered up, in an attempt to prank them. Not expecting the outcome, the creeper then blew up, accidentally killing Scar leaving him on his second life. To apologize to Scar, Grian offered him a promise of service until Grian's first life ended. Scar immediately started to try and take control of the desert to gain a monopoly on sand, and Grian had no choice but to follow through with this idea. The two also tried to monopolize dark oak wood by cutting down the only dark oak forest on the server they knew of, but the plan was foiled in the second session as there had been another dark oak wood forest on the other side where people had gathered saplings and distributed them on the server.

Scamming Other Players
Scar started bartering with other players, saying he would give them "reputation points" for giving him items. Grian was adamantly against Scar's scamming and was constantly baffled when others allow themselves to be scammed, even after being warned by him. He often tried (unsuccessfully) to speak to them privately as he warned them to never trust Scar's reputation points. Successful scams included: ZombieCleo's enchanted chestplate, TangoTek's enchanted pants, SmallishBeans' diamond sword, EthosLab's enchanted shoes, and two diamonds from Bigbst4tz2.

Declaring War
After Pizza, Scar’s pet llama, went missing, Cleo visited Monopoly Mountain and informed Grian that she knew where Pizza was. The two waited for Scar to return and when he did, she gave them a riddle in exchange for all of Scar's enchanted gear and his shield."There are 341 pepperonis and they go on 200 pizzas". The riddle turned out to be coordinates and the two headed off to retrieve Pizza, eventually finding it and bringing it back home. However, on the way back, Grian and Scar passed by the Crastle where they came to learn that Cleo and BdoubleO100 stole Pizza in the first place. Scar promptly declared war on the two of them before heading off. This seems to be forgotten, however, as on the 6th episode, Scar made an alliance with Cleo.

Scar Losing His Second Life
After retrieving Pizza and returning to Sandland, Scar and Grian noticed that their enderman security guard was still aggravated. Grian speculated that it was still set on Cleo and the two contemplated letting it free from its boat to see what it did. Grian warned Scar that "this will have serious consequences" as they made their way to the security guard. 15 seconds later, Scar fell into a ravine and died, losing his second life and making him the first member on the server with a red name.

First Targets
Scar, in the third session, attempted to scam Renchanting out of their enchanting table but was denied. He then announced to them that they would be his first target should he lose his second life. Not long after, Scar died by falling into a ravine he failed to see. He then headed back to Renchanting where he once again attempted to make a deal with Rendog and InTheLittleWoods for their enchanting table and in exchange wouldn't kill them. Ultimately, Ren turned down the offer and solidified Renchanting's status as Scar's first target.

Thirst for Blood
After losing his second life, Scar changed his skin to a grey version with red eyes, which Grian later mocked for appearing to look like a robot. He also quickly began making plans to kill Rendog. Together with Grian, Scar travelled to Renchanting with the intent of luring Ren into a trap. When they got inside, Scar distracted everybody within Renchanting giving Grian time to place a TNT minecart trap using an enchanting table hooked up to observers as bait. Once the trap was set, Scar and Grian quickly climbed up a nearby hill to watch what would happen. InTheLittleWoods noticed the trap and along with other people who were in Renchanting at the time went to investigate. Smajor broke the enchanting table but the trap failed to explode as the TNT minecarts didn't collide due to a miscalculation in the build. As Solidarity tried to defuse the trap, he accidentally fell onto the minecarts, causing the trap to go off and instantly killing him along with Ren and Skizzleman, leaving Scar and Grian as the responsible murderers for Skizzleman, Ren, and Solidarity.

Alliances
After Smajor and Solidarity declined Rendog’s offer of an allegiance, they decided to try and make allies with Grian and Scar, despite Solidarity’s previous death. The two factions decided to help each other if they were attacked, and exchanged gifts, including potions, TNT, and a pufferfish Grian had bought from a wandering trader. The alliance was with both Grian and Scar, and so if they stopped working together, Smajor and Solidarity would still help them both separately.



Pizza’s Death
After aggravating Renchanting, Rendog and his allies declared war on Scar and Grian. Though no player met their death in the first battle, Rendog and his allies decided to target Pizza and Bubbles, Scar’s pet bee. Bubbles survived, but Pizza was killed, leading to any hope of peace being destroyed. Scar made a coffin to mourn Pizza, and Grian made a banner that looked like a slice of pizza in honor of the death. The banner has since been used as a symbol of Scar, Grian, and those allied with them.

New Base - The Bunker
After the tragic death of Pizza, Grian worked on booby trapping his old desert castle while Scar was out burning Etho's castle. He worked on the construction of a separate base/bunker with a moat of lava below sand, and a decoy lava moat to cover up the noise from the lava underneath. Later, Grian surrounded the entire bunker with TNT, rigged up to a lever inside the bunker. This was triggered during the War Of The Red Desert, but killed nobody. Coincidently, the rigged lava moat happened to be where Grian lost his first life (though his actual death was caused by InTheLittleWoods’ arrow).

The Final Duel
As the final two members of the server, Grian and Scar ensued in a final fight to the death in a cactus arena near Pizza's Grave. Ultimately, Grian won the duel by shoving Scar into the cactus wall. Grian, now victorious, mourned Scar and Pizza, before jumping off Monopoly Mountain, ending Season 1 of 3rd Life.

Reputation
Reputation is the faction's standings with other members of the server. This is primarily gained through Scar scamming each person. High reputation members are allowed in their base and have access to trades and resources. Reputation is kept track of on the Reputation Board at the base of Monopoly Mountain. As of Scar losing his second life, any member with high reputation or a Friendship Certificate is considered safe and will not be targeted by him. Though it stopped working during Red Winter.

Trivia

 * This alliance disbanded when everybody else got eliminated, making it last standing.
 * This alliance was brought back in Season 3 when Scar and Grian were randomly assigned to be Soulmates