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Who is Alice and What is Zloy: An Essay* on the Lore of Zlobert Experience

Aka I did not watch hours of Zloy videos and dig through his Tumblr to keep this information to myself.

*This will not be written in essay format. I have a visceral hatred toward structured writing. Thank you for your understanding.

Zloy is a dimension-jumper/worldhopper, which means he spends most of his time doing whatever he wants wherever he wants. Of course, Zloy was actually alive at one point, and he had trouble surviving in servers he wasn’t native to.

The solution? An exosuit! What exactly this damn thing is is a little unclear, but it is, presumably, pretty good at keeping the man alive, and most likely has an awful lot of robotic functions, or at least can be easily fitted with robotic functions.

So Zloy was doing his thing in some world or another when he ran into the ghost of a witch. Said witch’s ghost then proceeded to steal Zloy’s original body for reasons that are unclear to me but might have come up somewhere maybe? (Zloy for the love of god please tag your lore consistently I’m begging you-)

Zloy, now disembodied and watching a witch run around in his former body, then proceeded to possess the nearest humanoid creature, as one does. Said creature was, of course, a zombie, which was allergic to sunlight, as most zombies are. Being possessed by the ghost of a Player didn’t exactly change that little fact.

Fortunately(?), Zloy knew how to cure zombie villagers! And, consequently, how to look after his new zombie body: golden apples and weakness potions. Of course, those can only manage an actual zombie so much, and also his body was kinda decomposing, and part of Zloy’s brain was being exposed to the open air and the guy was just kinda miserable in general, so he made himself a helmet out of his available materials. (Gold. He made a gold helmet. It got stuck to his head pretty much immediately. Now he’s even more miserable).

So Zloy’s wandering the land, consuming weakness potions and golden apples, a helmet glued to his head that he’s waiting to break but also really doesn’t want to have break on him, and eventually it does, in fact, break, because gold is not a very practical metal to make your helmets out of.

Unfortunately, the helmet breaking does not change the fact that it is still, in fact, very much attached to Zloy’s head. The golden apples, meanwhile, finally start doing something useful, so Zloy is now a ghost possessing a zombie with chunks of gold helmet embedded beneath his skull that conveniently work as sunscreen.

(either the apples or the helmet also turned his eyes yellow at some point)

And things are looking up! Not only has Zloy brute-forced his new body into being a fully functional Player, but his newfound zombie nature means he’s compatible with worlds by default, because zombs are a Minecraft constant. He’s free to travel the universe and cause problems for everyone, including himself!

Eventually Zloy finds his way to a little server called Truly Bedrock, where the moon is in pieces before they even start and the inhabitants are every flavour of unhinged imaginable. Zloy, who has seen weirder things than a broken moon and is also very unhinged, was right at home!

…Until said home got blown up by a chunk of moon.

And then the rest of the moon.

Fortunately, the TBers are frankly impossible to kill, even if they get bits of moon dropped on their heads every season finale. They’re like extremely weird cockroaches (affectionate).

So welcome to Season Two! This is where things get really interesting.

Zloy starts the season off with a shop in their new shopping district called the All Store. The All Store’s function is that people can both sell common resources to it, and buy from it, ideally creating a shop that restocks itself.

Originally it starts out as a fairly traditional chests-and-signs shop, but after a while Zloy gets bored waiting for the server to update to 1.16 I guess, so he revamps the All Store with an awful lot of well-explained redstone.

Realizing he’s kinda created something that could tangentially count as an artificial intelligence, he dubs it Allistore (Alice for short), mostly for the pun.

He then takes a break to reinvent the TNT duper because those don’t work on Bedrock. His solution is ghasts. He also builds a bunch of pirate ships and giant skulls because Zloy. He ignores the current ongoing serverwide problem that is beacons causing nether corruption in the overworld, but so does the rest of the server so.

Eventually going back to the All Store, Zloy gets to work and expands it once again and kinda rants in the general direction of whoever’s been messing with the circuits.

He finds a dark oak sign saying ‘hi’ in one of the dispensers, renames it to ‘henlo’, and chucks it into Alice’s water stream (which is set up to never let items despawn, meaning it'll in there forever) as a stupid joke. 

Then he goes off to design a vault! It has elder guardians, cobblestone generators, obsidian, the works. His plan is to convince his servermate Dadcraft73 to pay Zloy for the right to put his diamonds in said vault. Dadcraft agrees, so long as a) the diamonds are insured and b) Zloy stores his diamonds in there as well.

…So the diamonds get stolen like a week later.

Zloy’s put on trial, and the court is a kangaroo court, and nothing makes sense and a definitely-not-Foxy-person shows up at one point while Judge Foxy steps out of the room, but he ends up owing Dadcraft hundreds of diamonds he doesn’t have.

Zloy finishes his expansion of the All Store, and checks his accounting chest to find not the results of his test run, but a face saying hi dad. Here’s the sign you lost.

So it turns out Alice is, in fact, sentient. Somehow. Neither they nor Zloy are quite sure why.

(It’s at this point Zloy switches from using she/her to they/them pronouns for Alice. Canonically they’re fine with both. )

Zloy installs a shulker box swapper so Alice can talk more easily than messing with the accounting chest, and then Alice tells him to get his act together and reopen so they can maybe earn Dadcraft’s diamonds before Zloy gets locked in his own vault (which is a very effective prison).

Alice mail-orders a mech from Mr Beardstone, who has a mech shop for some reason, and Zloy realizes Alice can look after themself and doesn’t really need him anymore. He gives them the diamonds he managed to accumulate and goes off to lock himself in his vault-turned-prison for the remainder of the season.

Alice is, quite frankly, having none of this, so they scan the inner workings of the mech and combine that information with a scan of a thing named Chuck that showed up like once and…. Look, I dunno what that thing is either tbh. There's no context as far as I can tell.

Anyway, these scans come in useful when Alice uses them to get Zloy’s old exosuit working and operational and they finally have a player-sized body to work with, so it’s time to bust Zloy out of jail!

Alice basically tells him to get his act together and get mining, because apparently he hasn’t told anyone other than Lyarrah that his shop is a person, and they don’t particularly want to get repossessed.

Zloy does a lot of mining and gives Dadcraft a stupid amount of diamond ore arranged in the most obnoxious tree he can manage and that’s the end of that.

The TBers finally decide to do something about the ongoing beacon corruption, and JessieB comes in with news of an extremely big, extremely ominous nether portal that will spell the end of the server.

Naturally, the TBers go to investigate, and learn that the extremely big, extremely ominous nether portal will not, in fact, turn off. And then a giant magma cube came out and started destroying stuff.

While most of the TBers ran to upgrade and fire FoxyNoTail’s giant laser, Zloy and Beardstone split off to make a giant mech out of shops for Alice to pilot, and Alice fought the giant magma cube… at least until the laser destroyed both the mech and the magma cube.

The problem, as you might imagine, is that giant magma cubes tend to split into many, many, many smaller (large-size) magma cubes that are now swarming the entire server. The things are everywhere. There’s no escape.

Foxy figures that hey, they haven’t had the moon fall on them yet, may as well get it over with. He shoots the moon with the aforementioned laser, and everyone hauls tail into the very secure, apparently moon-proof vault/prison. Zloy doesn’t want to leave Alice to die, but Alice just kinda yells at him to get in the vault, they’ll be fine, they literally can’t die as long as the All Store still stands.

Zloy grabs part of Alice and goes, and then another chunk of moon lands on the TB server because these people really can’t go a season without that happening. It’s a wonder they have any moon left. 

Speaking of which, the moon is suspiciously fine for Season 3. Not only is it in one piece, something that has not been the case for the server’s entire history, and also Alice shows up and starts acting really weirdly about halfway through the season (the thing Zloy grabbed turned out to just be a monitor).

Turns out Season 3 is a simulation run by Alice so the TBer’s brains don’t die while they heal from being squashed by the moon again. Unfortunately, Alice had to strip a lot of Zloy’s permissions to make this work, so even if they do pull everyone out, Zloy will be left without a functional body, and- no, stop offering yourself up as sacrifice you stupid zombie.

They break the server via the medium of maps, because maps in bedrock servers take up obscene amounts of data and completely destroy the file size. That’s not a TB-exclusive thing, that’s just a known problem with bedrock edition.

They get out, but Zloy’s body is, in fact, no longer functional, so Silent chops off his head and they take it with them. Zloy is fine, if rather grumpy from being stuck in Silent’s hotbar and unable to do anything except loudly judge Silent’s actions.

Eventually Silent gives up and gives Zloy to a random zombie he finds in a cliff, and Zloy, once equipped, is once again able to possess the zombie’s body and is capable of making that everyone’s problem, including his own.

Alice shows up eventually, names his overcomplicated autobrewer, and starts chilling in his hotel.

In short: Zloy is a ghost possessing a decapitated zombie head possessing a zombie. Alice is his offspring, an immortal AI/building who is able to use player-sized proxies to interact with people in a more traditional way. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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Timely "Yellow Vests" on the eve of the Normandy Four summit

The other day, The Insider investigative journalists published another shocking evidence of Russia's interference in the EU’s internal affairs through its intelligence agencies. I'm talking about those published documents The Insider got hold of, which the investigators say confirm the Kremlin’s close contacts with politicians supporting the Yellow Vests opposition movement in France and the far-right Alternative for Germany party.

The Insider has published letters by Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, in which he recommends that the Russian consulate grant visas to European politicians from Germany and France, who are repeatedly noted by the pro-Russian stance. Besides, representatives of the French side in question were leaders of movements that took an active part in the radicalization of the Yellow Vests protests.

Actually, it might seem that The Insider simply did a great job in revealing yet another abscess on the EU body in the form of Kremlin influence. But, guess what, the fact that the Yellow Vests movement is a Russian project supervised by the GRU has long been known. And in this context, a little bit of nostalgic reminiscing won't hurt.

I'd like to remind you, dear readers, of the reports on radicalization of the Yellow Vests movement through cells controlled by the People's Front, whose leader is Russia-funded Marine Le Pen. Here it's worth recalling adepts of the "DPR" and the "Russian world" concept like Fabrice Sorlin, chairman of the far-right Doomsday movement (Marine Le Pen's party member), or head of the Katehon analytical center, whose supervisory board includes Russian propaganda mastermind Alexander Dugin and whose HQ is funded by the GRU, or Xavier Moreau, who played the role of international observer in pseudo-elections held in the occupied Donbas and authored a propaganda pamphlet "Ukraine. Why France is deceiving itself…" All of them took an active part in the Yellow Vests protests as media figures.

Also, we shouldn't forget that those protests were attended by some very infamous personalities who took part in Donbas hostilities on the side of the so-called "DPR". For example, Sergei Munier, an activist with the French "Anti-Maidan" movement and "Novopole", which is "Novorossia" representative office in France. He fought against the Ukraine Armed Forces in the Vostok battalion since 2014 and stormed Maryinka as part of the Piatnashka brigade. Or let's recall Viktor Lenta, the founder of the Continental Unity organization, which recruits and deploys French men to hot spots worldwide. He also sided with "DPR" terrorists and took an active part in the battles against Ukraine. There's also Christian Legrega, who in 2014-2015 was a blue-eyed-boy of Russian propaganda, as he opened fire at, and quite possibly, killed Ukrainian troops. The list doesn't end here, obviously...

The fact that the Yellow Vests protests were radicalized through the GRU operation and direct intervention by Russia was also confirmed by the late coordinator of the Information Resistance OSINT group, Dmytro Tymchuk.

An important circumstance for understanding the situation is that during his August visit to, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid out all his cards on the table just a few minutes before meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. These cards were speckled by "Yellow vests" blackmail, of which I wrote in my piece "Putin's Latent Freud-style blackmail of Macron." If someone didn't pay attention back then to this obvious detail... then, apparently, they aren't pay attention to how timely the latest investigation by The Insiders was released.

But why is something revealed over a year ago is receiving such wide and deep coverage precisely now? Indeed, the tune of the GRU being strongly affiliated with Yellow Vests has been played numerous times, and by no means was it The Insider's trumpet which played it.

It is noteworthy that The Insider gave birth to its "investigation" exactly after the Normandy Four summit was scheduled to be held on December 9. A volley of information artillery fire is clearly targeting the Champs Elysees, hinting that the French leader should not be trusted in the negotiation process. Besides, recalling all the latest ups and downs with the Nord Stream 2 project, the Chancellor of Germany shouldn't be trusted either, it is suggested.

But is this a warning to President Zelensky from some well-wishers with The Insider? Not at all...

The fact is that two intelligence agencies, claiming hegemony in the Donbas settlement issue – namely, the GRU and the FSB – have clashed in a major duel for this area of influence, especially in the wake of decisions taken in recent days. In particular, the Normandy Four summit scheduled for December 9 is an unconditional win for the GRU camp, represented by Vladislav Surkov. Here I should recall that Surkov sees a solution to the issue of the occupied territories of the East of Ukraine through the actual political sovereignty of Donbas from Ukraine, while Dmitry Kozak, representing the FSB team, is solely focused on settling economic issues.

And there's nothing surprising that amid Surkov’s success in this field, Yuri Ushakov, a Russian president's aide, raised his voice, too, saying he doesn't rule out the holding of the Normandy Four summit, although its date could be delayed beyond December 9 (the date confirmed by the competing team).

By the way, let's not forget that Yuri Ushakov works in tandem with foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and SVR foreign intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin, thus representing the SVR-FSB camp in the Kremlin.

What's funny is that the when the row broke up with an uncovered CIA mole in the SVR ranks, Mr Oleg Smolenkov, The Insider was all mute, deaf and blind on the story. Indeed, almost all of The Insider's investigations concern the GRU in the first place, and almost never offend the FSB. What, you aren't supposed to piss off your employers, huh? But that's a whole different story so we'll stick to ours and just cross the t's and dot the i's.

And however hard some might want be to believe in the impartiality of certain media investigations, they should always look deeper into the core of the ongoing developments. In this case, the core is that the latest informational attack by The Insider is an attempt by one intelligence agency to seize from their competitor the initiative in the Normandy Four negotiation process, with the incidental discrediting of HUMINT network the GRU had long been developing in France and Germany.

Competition between the GRU and the FSB creates a "stick-in-a-wheel" effect for both, of which we can't but rejoice. However, the fact that so many people have blind faith in "prophets", who actually act on behalf of the evil, shapes up a dangerous precedent for the future.

And, yes, that's not all on The Insider for today, so stay tuned.

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