AreaDenial

AreaDenial was a player on the Viper's Lair snapshot server. He joined sometime in late 2015, before the Minecraft 1.9 update. He was a part of Alas' team for some time, and took part in a few minor shenanigans during the time he played. He's changed his username several times on the server, which includes names such as EchoBlade and Shock_and_Awe.

Early Viper's Life
AreaDenial first joined with the username EchoBlade. He was a bit of a noob whose only skills were a bit of redstone knowledge. Nevertheless, he enjoyed playing, and got to know many people on the server. He started out by traveling out a couple thousand blocks from spawn, stumbling upon builds and highways and generally exploring. Once he realized that hacking was allowed on the server, he started out x-raying for diamonds and soon amassed a small fortune, which he kept in his ender chest. The enderman farm was another nice discovery, which was pointed out to him by a fellow player. He began enchanting tools and armor, and eventually he was kitted out with some decent gear. One day, a player called Alas took notice of EchoBlade, and recruited him to his team. He started out at a small floating island base a few thousand blocks from spawn, and helped create wheat farms and make a home inside the island. Then one day an admin spawned a bunch of anti-gravity boats, and EchoBlade and Alas took several of them to their small floating island base and stowed them inside. Eventually the base was discovered, and the remaining boats were transferred to a new base in a much more hidden location. The new base was inside a much larger floating island, and Alas' team began to hollow it out to create a base inside. This project was abandoned eventually, as a new base was under construction. The new base was along one of the major bedrock highways, in an area where it cut through a lot of terrain which was hollowed out by TNT, creating an artificial ravine. The base was over 100 blocks up in the side of the ravine, and the entrance was a hidden redstone door constructed by EchoBlade. The new location served as a sort of air base, with stalls for storing many flying boats. This base was raided fairly quickly, in a few weeks' time. After that, EchoBlade played alone for a while, exploring and gathering resources. He stumbled upon many builds, including an enormous stone brick sphere several thousand blocks from spawn, and a small watch tower outpost within a thousand or so blocks.