Banishment (punishment)

Banishment (also known as the  Gulag   or being gulaged) is one of three possible punishments on the Escharon server for transgressions; the other two being Demotion, Banning.

Banishment on Escharon typically means demotion to member or visitor status and the player's gamemode relegated to survival mode; after which they are teleported to the Gulag, an area far from the city; and be forced to fend for themselves in the wilderness. The player's spawnpoint is also set to within the Gulag, so not even death will allow them to escape. This particularly cruel punishment was the brainchild of ModEschar, DukeOfLlamaTown, and PopulistPath199. ModEschar being the first to use the term '"gulag"' to refer to the punishment.

If, by some unlikely stretch, a player makes it back to the city after a particularly distant banishment, they will be regarded as having "served their time", and have some, if not all, their privileges restored as a reward for their ordeal. However this is next to implausible as the Gulag is located at x=90,000; and walking the distance back to Escharon City is the equivalent of walking 90km in real life. Most people simply rage quit when sentenced to the Gulag, never to return.

Players sentenced to the Gulag are referred to as scrubs.