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mimick-the-mcyt · 3 years ago

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(mermaids beloved) ((one week later: fic was wonderful thank you))

Okay, so! Third Life/Last Life (aka Third Life Season 2) ((the name change will be explained once I get there)).

I'll explain Third Life and then move onto Last Life. Also spoilers for Last Life session 4 below, for anyone who might be reading this who's into Last Life. Everything below a cut cuz I'm Verbose.

If you're opening this, I'd open it in a different post/tab/whatever because this is multiple thousands of words long. In fact, its 17k words long! I got carried away!! I also tried bolding and italizing to make the text less "slippery".

okay below the cut time to stop being grammer-y. OKAY SO im gonna establish some biases rq cuz i just feel most comfortable doing that

and again reminder: third life is season 1. last life is just season 2 with a name change (due to format changing). so like keep the names in your head. also i will list off all the ccs involved in the seasons so uh good luck with names lol

main bias: i really like looking at the story of third life through a traditional story structure (heros/villains, three acts, themes and morals, ect), especially due to how it ends. this is mostly due to this sort of lense being very enjoyable to me, cuz i like trope subversion a lot lol. another bias is that i have only watched one and a half third life povs. THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT FOR LAST LIFE I AM WATCHING LIKE A DOZEN POVS SAVE ME. but for third life, i only watched Grian's all the way through, and like the first half of Martyn's, which you can especially see in the latter half of third life, even if theres a lot of story elsewhere, i only saw that one pov. anyhoo thats biases.

Third life was(is?) basically, as Grian (the host) put it, a hardcore series with a Twist -sparkle emojis-. Everyone starts with 3 lives, and their name is green. Basically they go about their lives handy dandy aok. Now lets say they die. Theyre now Yellow! aka on their second life. still all handy dandy, but a danger hangs over them, for if they die again! They become RED. and in that, they become hostile. and with that, theyre allowed to kill other players.

(a later established rule is that green (and yellows but greens can just generally refer to "peaceful" players, aka not red) lives are not allowed to attack and/or kill red lives unless the red life attacks them first. this makes a lot of sense lol)

this game is to go until one man is left standing. One.

also it happened over the course of 8, 3 hour long sessions. the sessions were on every friday, and no one was to be on the server outside of these sessions. this is to prevent people from like gathering supplies and shit. also this means that the server in total was only live for 24 hours exactly which i just love to bits.

also also (text cant get smaller aw), the server is very small. 700x700, aka small enough where you can see the entire world border with high render distance. which like, you get familiar with the layout of the ENTIRE server, thats how small it is, or at least i got familiar with where things were and stuff. this makes it so everyone can run into everyone else

oh also also also on the topic of the fact they run into everyone: its through proximity chat, which means that you can run into people and just have conversations with them, and even overhear other conversations. this actually lead to third life being VERY DIALOGUE BASED which is fairly unique for an mcrp. theres action of course but also a huge part of it is alliances and enemies and whos friends with who. very interesting, very beloved.

also also also also: THIS IS ALL FROM MEMORY. i hyperfixated on this which means i remember a lot of it, but i am but a falluable little man. (how the fuck do you spell faliable. faluabel? i make mistakes cuz i exist, basically)

this season starts with 14 creators, and heres the name list. bolded is main players (to the overarching narrative generally), italics are important, and again i point to my bias: Grian, Etho, Tango, Bdubs, Ren, Jimmy, Cleo, Impulse, Skizz, Big b, Martyn, Scott, Joel, and Scar.

and Scar is the man i will start with~ (ish)

SO. session one. people are still getting used to just. everything. theyre banding together in larger groups, all done up in iron armor, having to deal with the difficulties of survival minecraft and some of them are struggling.

now, to first name drop, its not gonna be scar, but Martyn! cuz i might as well be continousoious. continuital? im going in order.

basically, martyn real early on, headed over to Ren's base, and ren had set up an enchanting table, a very useful thing that early in the game. martyn, deciding to be tricky, decided to enchant his stuff without paying the toll that ren had set up.

this establishes a very joking and light hearted Debt between the two, where basically martyn works under ren for Renchanting, the basically-a-buisness set up on a mountain.

Later in the session, a large group of people are crowding around a village, with grian also being there along with scar due to the village people offereing grian a deal. scar is also there because hed been asking grian about if he wants to monopolize the desert. usual scar things.

blah blah blah the deal doesnt actually have much importance, but what IS important is that some of the people go off to the side, near the world border, to chat.

this group includes off the top of my head impulse, either tango or etho, scar, and grian. martyn runs over, playing a prank through the proximity chat with a creeper hiss, scaring the group. they laugh at the good natured prank, and continue to chat, also getting a slight startle from a burning zombie that wanders over from the leftover night, usual harmless minecraft stuff.

and thats when grian notices a creeper in the feild just a bit away.

grian, ALSO being a netorious prankster, decides to pull this creeper into the center of the group, to properly spook them.

unfortunately for him, the creeper agros onto scar, a man also netoriuous for dying constantly, and kills him. the first death of the server.

and to quote impulse, said with a laugh, "the worst part, is with proximity, hes just gone"

scar comes back, cue him humourously looking at his own grave, and grian pulls him aside (with some healthy hesitation from scar lol), to apologize. grian then offers scar his first life, which is a deal scar READILY takes. and this puts grian in scars debt, a full on life debt, that grian will serve scar until grian loses his first life and turns yellow.

scar, putting grian up on his pet llama, says that (paraphrased from memory) "Now you'll have to monopolize the desert with me!" and leads grian and himself away from the village, up north-east to the desert. (with humorous shenanigans all the way, scar being very much scar and refusing to keep his 'clothes' (armor) on (this becomes a running gag lol)). This establishes the Sand duo.

and yes this all happened in like the span of 20 minutes, cut down to more like 5 with editing. the COMPLETELY ACCIDENTAL foreshadowing in this series is one of the best parts of it. Here's a clip of scars death! (volume warning)

over the course of session two (as well as one) ((my memory is blurrier)), other groups are formed, such as the Crastle (cleo and bdubs), the flower valley (scott and jimmy. they become husbands (aka flower husbands) at some point but im not sure on the timing.)

scar scams people out of their clothing for 'reputation points' and pointless pieces of paper (grian trying to warn them all that its a scam through and through.)

at some point during either session 2 or 3 (i believe early session 3 but dont quote me on this). scar visits Renchanting, and he strikes up a deal, using the fact hes on yellow, close to red, as a selling point.

this 'deal' is more of a concealed threat, and i am very willing to give the timestamp of martyns video if you wanna watch it cuz i LOVE how scar speaks and shows that like manipulation and stuff.

but either way, even if i cannot remember the details of the deal. ren denies it. and scar leaves, leaving the final message of "when i turn red, youre on my list."

terrifying, to say the least.

and that comes to a front that when scar and grian go to journey on and maybe do some shenanigans

scar, the ever death prone.

falls straight into a ravine. dying immedately. (with the VERY comedic "SCIENCE BROOoooooooos" as he falls out of proximity chat)

this makes scar The First Red Life (hes a lot of firsts, huh? (forshadowing tone of voice))

he, in a pathetic-in-a-puppy-sort-of-way asks grian if theyre still friends, tossing roses and other flowers at his feet, and grian calls upon the fact hes still endebted to scar, as he has not lost his last life.

of course. everyone else on the server is, rightfully, terrified of this new threat. (even if from grian and scars episodes, youd think theyre just jolly fools, the creepy music other povs play over them says otherwise)

well, scar (with grian in tow) heads around the server, being Threatening as he does, leveraging the fact hes now Red to try and get deals or allies.

two scenes that i remember from this Trip 'Round Town, maybe not quite in the right order.

Scar and Grian head south i believe, not too far, to the flower forest, where Scott and Jimmy have set up little hobbit holes (it might have been someone else but i think its them). I forget the deal exactly but i very well remember the fact that grian stayed behind for a moment, as scar left, he turned to i believe jimmy (maybe impulse? gods i need to rewatch third life), and panickedly warned him, that scar was going to kill all of them.

scar called for grian, and grian also left the hidey hole. the two walked for a moment, until they were out of earshot, where scar then said "you're right. i am going to kill them." (bias time: this is mostly prolly just a lighthearted joke. the rp wasnt too heavy here yet, and grian like Honestly Laughed (the two of them are friends outside of this series so they laugh a lot at things), but like NARRATIVE pov, this is a very creepy scene and i love it and scar is SO GOOD at playing a villain like jesus christ he can be terrifying if he wants to, hes one of my favorite ccs)

The next scene is scar and grian visiting the crastle, with cleo and bdubs hidden up in the walls of the castle tower. scar tries to call them down, or to be invited inside, but they only shoot arrows at him. grian says "you cant hit a red without them attacking you first" , in which bdubs i believe replies "i'm not shooting him. i just want him to dance." ((both quotes from memory)) (which is a trope i personally LOVE so this scene is very fun to me lol)

in general, the crastle is definitively against the sand bros, due to the crastle having stolen Pizza (their beloved llama), and while scar and grian had gotten pizza back, it didnt leave these two groups on good terms.

at some point, grian and scar seperate (physically not metaphorically), and scar heads back to renchanting, now on red. rightfully, the two (ren and martyn) are terrified of him, especially due to his previous 'parting words'. but scar acts peaceful, even saying "look! im not wearing any armor!" and strikes up one last offer, to put them on his good side.

they deny it.

During session 4, grian and scar chat about plans at their sand mountain. plans for scar being red. up until this point, grian had insisted to others that "im in his debt. i have to do whatever he says. if he says pass the flint and steel and tnt, i gotta do it."

which sort of comes to front when discussing plans because for some reason, grian keeps sort of pushing scar to do traps (actual pov: grians a tnt-happy prankser, hes just Like That. narrative pov tho its interesting lol), to kill, while scar just really wants Big B's cookie that he built on his base (not an actual cookie, but a wooden thing made to look like one).

they strike an agreement, and they head out, Grian on green with tnt in hand, Scar on red with a... bee on a lead. (this duo is so humourous and yet terrifying at the same time i love them)

sometime earlier in the session, likely between here and next, tango had also set up a sort of game, as i have slowly picked up he is oft to do, lol. this one being life or death. which ended up with jimmy on yellow as well as others i believe. maybe others. again i only watched 1.5 povs.

big b's base is on a hill just by renchanting, now named the Kingdom Of Dogwarts, and after grian and scar steal big b's cookie, they head down to dogwarts, which has many people around. scar goes over to the crowd and plays destraction, going down under the building and such to destract ren and the others. martyn is suspicious, and goes up to check around the walls of dogwarts, and finds grian just inside.

a funny thing is when martyn asks what grian was doing, he answers "potatoes" and eats a potato which... doesnt answer martyns question whatsoever. lol.

grian comes to get scar, and they leave up towards big b's hill. although now there is a suspicious enchanting table on dogwarts doorstep, just outside its walls.

some people investigate (scott, martyn, jimmy, skizz being among them i believe), and reveal that its a trap.

a faulty one, that didnt end up working.

oopsies.

Scott and martyn head up to big b's hill, scott laughing at the fact "you stole his cookie. you stole his cookie!", following grian down the hill when just by the foot of dogwarts

an explosion goes off

Jimmy, Skizz, and Rendog are killed. grian just laughs, a terrifying laugh, even at being the cause of two red lives (Skizz and jimmy. jimmy who had only JUST lost his green life, too) scott going "youre a monster"

ren and martyn rush to repair the hole now in dogwarts, as scar and grian gleefully leave the premises, although not before scar punches the now-yellow ren off of a cliff, nearly killing him yet again lol.

heres a clip of the killing! you can see where my memory faultered lol. i am VERY WILLING (genuine offer) to provide a transcript if needed, so you know whos talking and junk.

grian and scar leave, cookie and 3 deaths in hand, and head over to scott and jimmy, to check in on them. jimmy is fairly shocked by it all still, but they invite him as allies, "welcome to the red desert" (im actually skimming through the videos to make sure i have my facts straight now lol)

the four of them leave and head west of the desert to skizz's base, who rightfully is upset with them, saying he doesnt even trust the button to open his own door anymore. they chat peacefully, skizz saying that he is angry at scar (the red life) and jimmy (for having set the explosion off).

and they take their leave.

SO THAT WAS SESSION FOUR.

WE'RE HALFWAY NOW :D

Session five starts off fine and dandy,

but ren has something to ask of martyn. an exercise of trust, in a way, something to prove the loyalty of martyn as the king's hand.

he leads martyn to an alter within the walls of dogwarts, and hands him an axe.

and bows his head in front of martyn. and he asks for martyn to kill him. and who is martyn to deny?

Red Winter is coming

Ren is now on red. and has crowned himself as the Red King, reigning over dogwarts and its allies. and most namely, he is against the red desert, seeing them as dangerous (fairly rightfully so)

and cue my bias that i love viewing this story through a traditional story structure lense: this establishes the Heroes and the Villains. Dogwarts, and The Red Desert.

grian and scar, after getting some bits of netherite, decide to mess with the crastle, setting them up with a bubble elevator (and then also trying to trap it with lava)

they also try to poison bdubs through a pufferfish, although grian only neds up poisoning himself lol, while setting up a tnt canon aimed at the crastle.

the lava trap works, and bdubs dies to the lava. grian giggles in pure delight, despite supposed to be a green life. this leads to bdubs being on red.

which also brings delight to another thing i love about this story: theres 4 seperate green/red pairs, despite the fact reds were supposed to be Dangerous And Evil. they also are all unique in their dynamics too. people will stick together, after all. (also this is a thing i did in my designs for third life! which i can also talk about if youre curious lol)

however, after talking with etho (after etho helped them reign some hell on the crastle), martyn and ren appear on top of the roof of ethos house, announcing their presence with a striking sheild design, a banner, of Dogwarts. which is also the banner on etho's sheild.

turns out, Dogwarts has brought etho under their protection and allyship, and now is saying that they wont let the red desert go and burn any castles. (i think scar was scheming something but curse audio processing i couldnt understand his mumble)

scar and grian feel betrayed by etho siding with Dogwarts (note the theme of loyalty (narrative bias)), grian even genuinely sounding a bit hurt at it. etho shoes the two off his land, hiding away in his house with martyn and ren still poised at the ready on his roof, and the two leave (not before scar gets the achievement 'taking aim' (aka he shot and hit someone lol) and running).

heading west, they arrive to the flower hobbits, (scott and jimmy), and they say how dogwarts had come over demanding an alliance, but more like an alliegence, which they denied. jimmy burnt the banner in front of them, marking the hobbits as an enemy of dogwarts.

and this starts the allyship between the flower hobbits and the red dersert. enemy of my enemy is a friend, after all.

"i think we have all become great friends today."

scar and grian leave (sheesh you can really see that i only watched the one pov lol. i didnt get this far in martyns), and head up north, and swing by skizz's place, where they see to their great disapointment, a banner of dogwarts flying high and proud above his base.

again, theyre disapointed. how much like etho, they had 'friendship papers', and yet here they were siding with dogwarts of all people.

grian climbs up to tear down the banner, in which skizz warns him that they were the ones who had disabled his friend pass.

grian passes the banner to scar, along with a flint and steel, to burn it. skizz threatens that he will see burning the banner as an act of violence, but grian threatens him right back, how they have netherite and skizz is on red. (also scar somehow managed to burn the flint in steel. "good job i carry a spare" says grian lol)

thats when dogwarts arrives, right on scene (are they just tailing scar and grian!? haha) and they bail right out, getting chased at their heels and attacked.

shenanigans continue with scar trying to scam people again, and eventually Dogwarts (in its entirety) follow scar and grian back to the red desert, standing at the border of it.

(i love the posing here just like. the allies as protection, the king in the center but ready to jump in, and the hand as the deplomacy. (i should note that ren is very much a story teller! he gets very into the roleplay into his pov (ren beloved), so narrative pov isnt as much of a bias when it comes to him lol). just like! you can tell ren is the king! you can tell martyn is the second in command! its so cool)

scar, as you can see him aiming above, shoots at martyn. martyn chases scar but grian gets him with the pufferfish, causing him to retreat back beyond the cactus wall.

scar puts the banner on his sheild, to show he cannot give it back, a mockery of sorts. and ren walks to the front, within earshot, and calmly announces that doing so was a declaration of war.

"we will be seeing you very soon."

scar and grian retreat back up to their mountain, and dogwarts down on the hill below, instead of aiming for the two men, aim for pizza the llama instead, killing them.

this almost makes scar go after dogwarts, but grian calls him back saying its the end of the session, not now not now.

and so they sit, silently in their base. when grian comes up with the idea of burning etho's wool castle down. always such a silly thing lol.

AND THATS SESSION 5. A LOT HAPPENED BECAUSE DOGWARTS BECAME A THING AND IS SETTING UP THE CONFLICT THAT'LL CARRY THROUGH THE NEXT 3 SESSIONS. also im actually watching the video instead of just going from memory so theres more detail too. (but also more Story Stuff is happening now instead of just playful shenanigans, meaning theres more to cover when it comes to narrative)

session six for the red desert starts off with scar making a pride rock of sorts off their mountain, building Pizza a grave. In memory of pizza, as well, they make it so their banner is, well, a slice of pizza. (scar still holds the mockery of a dogwarts shield).

Scar runs off to burn down etho's castle, while grian gets to trapping their front door with tnt. for if dogwarts is to step through the door to try and find them, theyll theoretically get blown sky high.

grian sets off to also make a bunker, a very trapped bunker, down in the desert. scott and jimmy arrive, quickly getting warned to not go through the front door, when they notice etho up in the base.

grian shoots etho as he tries to make an escape, and the red desert alliance chases him across the desert, killing him and bringing him down to red. (and also politely putting his stuff into a chest. lol)

Scar hits the final blow and the other three cheer him on, jumping around him with grian chanting "king, king, king!" which i just feel is very fun seeing as theyre fighting against a king.

they return to working on the bunker, where they set up that INSIDE the bunker, you can press a switch and sand will drop down and drop you into lava. a very finicky trap but an effective one, since youd have no reaction time.

dogwarts arrives to escort etho to get his stuff, and scar takes the time to ask who had burnt down the flower hobbits' wall. yet no one knows lol (i think it mighta been joel?)

the flower hobbits arrive not soon after, cleo (of the crastle) with them as well.

dogwarts goes up to the mountain, where the red desert alliance realizes that THAT means that dogwarts (location) isn't under protection, and they leave to raid and trap it.

grian bailed lol but the REST of the red desert ends up fighting with dogwarts.

back at the red desert, expectedly, the trap on the base failed! it blew a MASSIVE hole in the thing that should have killed any enemy but bad luck struck and everyone survived.

-flex tape voice- THATS A LOTTA DAMAGE. (like. legit. that hole looks like a solid 15-20 blocks deep, and about as wide, too)

they finish up the lava trap around the bunker, and that finishes off the session!

although it does NOT finish off the trapping of the bunker. by the start of session 7, the red desert set up a bunch of tiny holes across the sand, filling them with MULTIPLE STACKS of tnt and covering it all up. a "hail mary" of sorts, that is set up to a lever in the bunker.

Grian heads to the crastle, and overhears impulse talking to the crastle about a trapped door, in which impulse mentions being a mole on the inside. (narrative bias; note the themes of loyalty).

grian bursts in, catching the crastle by surprise. amusingly, cleo points out that grian has caused most of the damage on the server, even while technically being allies now with the red desert.

bdubs asks for grian and scar to apologize for having brought him down to his red life. he does, and they both go to lay down in coffins (beds sorrounded by trapdoors), "you dont just climb into a coffin with another man, and not be bros for life. you know what i mean?"

back at the desert, grian and scar bring in the flower hobbits (scott and jimmy) into their bunker plan. to pull as many people as possible and then pull the armegedon lever.

quickly, Dogwarts arrives, and jimmy and scar both head into the bunker (due to being red), while scott and grian stay around the desert to draw Dogwarts in.

dogwarts charges in, following the "retreating" scott and grian, and scott dies from a shot by etho. grian keeps shouting at scar to pull the damn lever and it takes him a moment before he does, the ENTIRE DESERT lifting up in explosion, grian barely suriving, SOMEHOW, with half a heart.

and so did everyone else.

no one died in this.

SOMEHOW.

like its genuinely kinda halarious.

whats even funnier is scar pulls the lava-moat button RIGHT AS GRIAN JUMPS IN. Who luckily had fire res, but that also means no one else got stuck in the trap. Martyn, the kings hand himself, finishes grian off.

Jimmy is also killed, marking the first permadeath of the server.

grian crawls out of a safety net he had made, deep underground with some spare stuff, including enough for a spare trap, sort of in shock. the battlefeild is now quiet, the enemies having left nothing but their banners behind in their victory, and scott is there to greet grian, now yellow, to see the battle scar the tnt had left on the desert. (scott going "my husbands dead!" (with a laugh lol. but like narrative bias there aint too much difference between laughter and sadness at times) )

scar, grian, and scott talk about where to go next, mentioning how they dont have a home anylonger (scott does, and a new vaccancy, heres a clip lol. but they dont take it of course).

they head to Big B's (who iirc was not present for the session, along with joel. what a session to miss) which overlooks dogwarts, to Observe.

scott runs over to etho's reconstructed wool castle and burns it down (yet again) to try and drag dogwarts away. Dogwarts is made aware of the attack by tangos dogs teleporting to him on fire (due to being damaged), and dogwarts comes running.

they raid dogwarts, also killing impulse, the last green life, (aside from big b who is as mentioned before, not present for this session), and they bail south to the crastle. very clever plan all in all, as they have also taken dogwarts enchanter. (which is a very funny thing with knowledge of how last life is going)

grian sets up a trap at the door of the crastle (with Far playing in the background???), and leave. although they remain closeby due to trying to avoid dogwarts.

Cleo, on her last life thanks to ren, quite literally starts seeing red and goes after ren, and is killed as it was a 1 v 5.

tango goes through the door of the crastle (struggling a bit at first lol), annnnd.... the trap doesnt go off. (scott: GRIAN. HOW. you need to go to TRAP MAKING LESSONS sir grian: i did it- i did it right narration grian: grian did, in fact, not do it right.)

also grian at some point had picked up the "RED WINTER IS COMING" axe, meaning they have that axe, their enchanter, AS WELL as banners ready for the mocking.

.(funny screenshot break. they were running over to the crastle and scar just immedately stopped his hello to go "look how many zombies are going over the wall!" and everyone else just stopped to watch lol)

they head inside the Crastle, (bdubs and tango up on the top), as grian disables and investigates the trap, just "????" showing up on the screen lol.

they talk outside, scott commenting on how impulse was supposed to be on the crastles team, but theyre still waiting for him to show it (narrative bias: note the themes of loyalty)

the crastle invites the red desert in, and they set up shop.

dogwarts arrives, firing arrows and even tnt cannons curtousy of etho, and theres a quick battle pausing with the night (impulse is there now??? grians pov skipped over him ariving but hes there.) i LOVE the mental image of them all just standing around this circular room, though. scar in bed, scott looking out the window with grian coming to walk around as he goes over which side has more people. wonderful imagry. (around 29 minutes of session 7 note to self lol)

the sun rises and even as the session starts to pull to a close, the fight starts back up again. grian taunts that he has the red winter axe, and that causes dogwarts to leave their walls and come charging into the crastle, oh no!

skizz goes through the trapped front door and yet again nothing happens, ren shouting from outside "skizz my man what are you doing?!". he runs up to where grian is, and loses the fight, killing off skizz. Dogwarts retreats.

Grian goes to investigate the trap again with impulse, upset at how it didnt work. grian set it off, because Of Course He Did, scott from the stairs shouting "WHY ARE YOU A PHYCHOPATH". i just find this to be amusing that he keeps calling grian all these things and yet theyre allies lolol.

and thats the end of session seven!

one left to go~

(side note time to look at these screenshots.

in that first one, thats the world border. the BOTH CORNERS of that side of the world border. this is just a terrarium of a world, a glass box, where ALL OF THIS, murder and betrayal, happened.

just in the second image, they were in the far right corner. if they looked south they could see dogwarts and even the crastle! and here you can just BARELY see the shadow of the fucking desert base. such a tiny world! it makes me feel nutso!)

so for quick reference: You have Dogwarts with Ren, Martyn, Etho, Impulse (a spy for the crastle), and big B. and you have The Red Desert/Crastle Alliance with Scar, Grian, Scott, Bdubs, Impulse (not trusted fully by the crastle), Joel (plus like 50 dogs, screenshot below), and Tango. Dogwarts is outnumbered but they have fear and skill on their side.

"hey yeah wonderful. do you guys like dogs?" "thats a lot of dogs" "yeah i wouldnt touch me if i was you."

Grian and scar build a scaffolding above dogwarts, to shoot arrows and potions from above. and grian, while cat plays (thanks for your contribution scar), comments "you realize that if we win this battle, we'll have to turn on eachother, right?" (which is a thing. do you die as allies or live long enough to be enemies? its only one victor after all. and is part of why so many friends is not nessicarily a tactic to take)

This attempted seige doesnt result in anything, and they return to the crastle (which i must note is LAUGHABLY close to dogwarts. this isnt the other side of the server or anything, its like 100 blocks away), and they comment on how ren seems invinicble.

they (bdubs, scar, grian, and tango) then talk about how they dont trust impulse.

During this time, Scott is killed by ren, now out of the game.

Scott, (the cc) also is evil and i love him, watch this clip :3. your heart will be torn from your body. (the line "i just... ran out of time" hurts, but then oh, how the color returned when he saw jimmy~. ouch (again if you want a transcript, i can provide!))

They head to where ren and his hand (martyn) is, at skizzle point, and try to take him down, and manage to get martyn down to his red life. (joel also apperetly died at some point. lol. this is why i gotta watch the other povs, i can make something more in depth! that could be so much fun)

So its now 4 v 4 (plus impulse). Grian leaves the group, to go stock up his hidey hole again, due to the fact hes one of the only people with a spare life still. if he dies, he WILL come back, so he needs gear. He also walks by some of joels dogs, now wandering the desert without an owner.

Come night, impulse and grian stand on top of the scaffolding they had built before, as support as the other 3 prepare by Big B's hill. (at one point, scar knocks impulse off the platform and HE SOMEHOW SURVIVES? its like a 50+ block drop going by visuals alone, so he must have like feather falling 2 or 3, to survive that lol

impulse kills etho for good, and grian and scar agree, that this is where they stay together, and go against everyone else, "for the fallen kingdom. for pizza!" (and impulse is also brought down to his red life by martyn)

scar and grian go down into the walls of dogwarts, and a fight ensures. tango dies from martyns hand, big b is brought down to his red life by grian. martyn and ren pop up out of the ground, and in the confusion, grian gets badly damaged and leaves.

And Ren is killed by Scar. Martyn goes after him, in revenge, and is killed right after his dear king by scar. (again: note the themes of loyalty)

Grian cheers scar on, shouting "king, king, king!" yet again. bdubs runs over, excited by the victory as well. (grian opening the tab menu shows something a bit darker. of dogwarts, only big b is left... (narrative bias) theyve won the battle, the war even, but the game is not over. what a horrible fate, to have to kill your friends. maybe the king and his hand were lucky in that they never had to betray one another.)

bdubs runs away, and scar and grian kinda meander in his general direction. Big b, in the chat, says 'no kill pass activated' (to scar and grian), and they take the deal.

Scar and grian approach the crastle, bdubs cautious up on the top throwing arrows down at them. Scar calls up, (charisma ALL the way max), and says that he has a clock. and the clock will be bdubs if he comes onto their side. Bdubs takes the deal.

Scar asks bdubs to kill impulse, and when impulse just so happens to arrive. bdubs goes through with it, and impulse is killed.

the three of them seek out Big B, and find him in the swamplands to the north. Grian and scar watch from a boat as Bdubs kills Big B, technically not violating that pass.

And then there were three.

Scar and bdubs talk, while grian cowers under a tree away from them. They comment on how grian is quiet, bdubs asking if he wants scar to kill him. grian says, "listen,boys. we can just arrange for me to win the series, right?" to which they both laugh. so does grian, although his voice is noticably shakey when scar approaches.

Scar comes up with a solution (dramatically standing up on a block higher than the other two. he is consistnatly higher than the other two in this scene, while theyre on the same level. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT. (he was previously up on that sconce, when bdubs was over by the bridge, too))

He has the two stand a metaphorical ten paces apart (although i think its pretty close to 10 blocks lol). he clears out the grass. sighs with that not-regret that villains do.

"whoever gets the no-kill pass, i dont kill." and tosses the paper down between them both.

Bdubs picks it up, and Scar kills grian (the killing blow technically being bdubs lol).

grian shouts "you turn on me after all that we've been through?!"

and he spawns back in his hidey hole. He shouts "betrayal!" as he puts the gear he had stashed away on, and runs back to the others.

"i- i got double betrayed. first b-[bdubs]" (he said big b but i think he meant bdubs) "[bdubs] got revenge by going after me, thats- im okay with that. but scar. hes going first."

Grian finds the other two in the forest, and chases after them quietly. they stop overlooking a cliff and lake, and grian jumps down from the trees slashing at scar, shouting "BETRAYER! TRAITOR!" (as scar sends a message to grian, "i have plan". grian ignores it, of course.) (say it with me now, note the themes of loyalty). scar falls down the cliff into the lake, and grian goes after bdubs. bdubs also goes down into the lake, and scar finishes him off.

"traitor!" grian shouts at him again, as they both stand knee high in this shallow lake. and scar says simply. "you can kill me." and bows his head to grian (how reminicent of a king before him.). "for everything you did to me, to keep me alive this long. you may slay me and take the enchanter."

grian denies the offer. he cant do it.

but the ghosts want blood. they want a victory. (aka those still on the server in spectator mode are typing in the chat. but also the DRAMA of the ghosts of those THEY KILLED quite literally telling them to fight.)

Scar: okay we can do this. we have FRIENDSHIP. Grian: they want blood. they want blood. Scar: dont let them br- okay. can we at least do the duel if we have to at pizzas grave?

They laugh and cheer their way back to the desert. The ghosts demand a fist fight, no armor no weapons, and so they cast their items aside, and make a ring of cactuses.

they get inside the ring, and scar seals the entrance with fire.

and in one last mockery, to the ghosts. scar tosses the dogwarts banner into the fire. (heres a clip!)

"scar, i think that no matter what happens, we can claim this as a double victory, right?"

"yes, we're good."

"alright. lets let the ghosts count us in, then" (that line is UNNESSICARILY DRAMATIC and is literal too its not even meant to be dramatic lolol)

and they fight. They say sorry over and over, laughing all the way (narrative bias: it genuinely kinda sounds like laugh crying. even if its just them laughing over the silly scenario in actuality.)

And Grian Wins.

And he does not feel good about his victory.

And the ghosts whisper. "One more life to go."

And grian says his thanks.

And jumps off of the mountain.

And thats the series (at least from the red deserts pov lolol)

I told you to note the themes of loyalty, yes? In this story, if you choose to look at it as a story, Loyalty is rewarded. Right up until the very end.

Those who were not loyal, did not recieve loyalty in return. They were not trusted, and in turn were killed, be it by friend or foe. Even in that last battle there. Technically, the reason Grian won is because he's simply a better fighter. He got more crits off. But narriatively, its because he was loyal to Scar up until the end. And Scar lost because of that last second betrayal of Grian, even if he had a plan.

Dogwarts fell apart because the members were not loyal, even if just because they were neutral. And even then, The king and his Hand died side by side, together, and never had to fight against their own allies or one another.

And here's where my personal bias comes in because i love looking at this story from a traditional story structure standpoint. It loosely fits, and honestly it WONDERFULLY fits just perfect as a shakesperian sort of tragedy if you take away all the minecraft, with everyone falling to their own end from their own actions (again that theme of loyalty coming to say hello).

but my favorite part of this perspective is that the villains win.

I know well the difference between villain/antagonist, and hero/protagonist. but arguably, the red desert are the villains. Murderous people that from everyones perspective but their own are evil and terrifying. The King of Dogwarts lost his own life to them, and lost his second to become the Red King to stand up against them. The arguable heros of this story, the supposed good guys, being dogwarts. The Red King even regrets the bloodshed. He know's it's nessicary but the the crown still weighs heavy on his shoulders. How noble.

Another wonderful part is the allies, too. You'd think the duo who stood by eachothers side high in a castle would be on the heroes side. Youd think the two husbands who lived sorrounded by flowers would be on the heroes side.

But no.

The heroes offered alliegence.

The villains offered friendship.

And isn't that a wonderful twist?

(side note: the llama. the FUCKING LLAMA. FOLLOWS A THREE ACT STRUCTURE. COMPLETELY ON ACCIDENT. She lead grian away to the desert with scars debt. She (is pizza she? idk oh well) died at the beginning of the war, the mid point. And her grave site is the site of the final battle and last lives lost. The Fucking Llama.)

also: PRAISE BE TO OUR BELOVED RENDOG. FOR HAVING ADDED THE WHOLE PLOT AND STORY WITH DOGWARTS. OUR FAVORITE STORY TELLING DOGMAN HERE IS THE REASON THIS STORY IS AS DAMN GOOD AT IT IS, CUZ HOW HE DID STARTED THE MAIN CONFLICT WITH A STORY TONE TO IT THAT LEAD TO THE DRAMA OF THE LATTER HALF OF THE SERIES. PRAISE RENDOG. like it prolly woulda still been fun and dramatic but like, it wouldnt have been the story that came out of it, and its thanks to him.

just this Fuckin Story, man. its improv and i doubt most of them were fully playing characters, but like if you're willing to dramatize (aka treat certain reactions with more weight and like ect ect), then its Such A Fun Dramatic Story oml. some are definetly more into roles than others, and you can tell somewhat who is (especially those in other series involving roleplay, like those from empires (like joel, scott, and jimmy). and ren. ren you can definetly tell, and that hes having fun doing it. ffs he even started Plot-sparkles emoji- in hermitcraft once season 8 launched after this, with a whole ass arg. everyone to those new to hermitcraft: oh dont worry theres not rly that much lore or plot (which is a lie tbh) || ren:)

also a very cool trailor someone made! you can hopefully pick out osme of the happenings i mentioned lol (And again if you want i can just type out what all the things are (the things i know anyway))

And that's Third Life.

...

Season 1, that is.

LETS GO LAST LIFE TIME BABEYYYYY

Now, you may be asking. Why the name change?

WELLL, thats because theres a rule change!

This rule change is Kinda Complicated. like its simple but its also complicated.

Basically, at the start of the game, everyone (aka everyone from last season, plus Mumbo, Pearl, and Lizzie, making 17.) gets a randomly selected amount of lives from 2 to 6 (aka why it couldnt be named THIRD life anymore)

here is the starting count. (the fact it was 2 short from 64, a full stack of lives, will forever infuriate me i think)... I was going to show the count as an image but i only have Two Images Left and im gonna save those for the full chart, so lets list them out!!!

Grian, Scott, Ren, Jimmy, and Cleo started with Two Lives, and their name is Yellow.

Big B, Skizz, and Impulse started with Three Lives, and their name is Light Green

Mumbo, Etho, Lizzie, Bdubs, and Martyn started with Four Lives; Joel started with Five Lives; and Scar, Tango, and Pearl started with Six Lives, and all of their names are Dark Green.

now, you might be wondering. why the weird life counts? wouldnt that make it unfair for those with lower counts? thats where the next new feature comes in

trading.

people, if they so choose, can /givelife and give someone else (the target of the command) a life of their own. Be it a gift for an friend. a trade for an ally. or even to an enemy, if they so choose.

This means that there are 62 (COULD HAVE BEEN 64 I AM ANGRY (/LH (NOT))) lives in play for Everyone, if they're willing to trade, or have the right thing to offer.

Red lives, also, now have the rule that once they turn red. all friendships are off. all alliships are off. they can team up with other red lives, but their green friends are now their enemies.

although thats not all. theres one more thing. something that promises beytrayal, and pain, and suffering, to those poor souls inflicted.

something with such a cutesy little name. The Boogeyman.

The boogeyman, chosen at the beginning of each session, is inflicted with the boogeyman curse. (it can be multiple, too). they must kill someone (be it friend or foe), and be cured. or the start of the next session, they will lose all their lives, and become red. all alligences are off.

Now this is all rather complex, yeah? And me, five minutes into the first episode, saw the writing on the wall, made and pulled up a HANDY DANDY CHART!

(some additional notes: no villages although villagERS may come into play. also no one is allowed to enchant above a level 1.)

Let's go over some biases first, though.

due to the complexity all the life trading and junk brings, i actually am watching many many povs! at least a dozen per session (of the 17 players) ((i have a lot of free time can you tell)). So this fairly eliminates my bias that was present for season 1.

But i do have one bias that will be more apperent later on: I have only watched one pov from session 3 (grians, funnily enough), and NON from session 4. i have picked up on what happened in session 4, especially through the help of clips, but i have not watched it myself. Thats also why i wont be showing the chart for session 4 (i dont actually know the life counts! (well i do, i follow a blog that tells me that, but i didnt See It Myself ya know?) And my chart for session 3 is Very Incomplete (and may be inaccurate. i know the number of deaths but i do not know if any lives were traded).

also, fun-ily enough. much like in the previous season, session 4 seems to be where the plot kicks off, which makes me very excited for session 5 because thats where the sides truely came apperent, in the last seasion.

anyhoo. session 1!

Here is session 1's chart! a bit overwelming to look at, at first, i know.

in the first row you have some notes, in the second you have the column labels! in the first column you have all the people (those shaded grey i watched the videos of!). In the second, you have their starting count of the session (since this is session one, its the starting count of the whole season!), and the third column is the end-of-session count. the fourth column is where why and how the lives are where they're at. and the fifth column is alligences! The bottom row also notes who the boogeyman is (and if they were successful, although we've yet to have an unsuccessful one (though one was close!)

the major players that stay around through the next sessions are already in play by the end of session 1 (you can see two of them in the bottom right, there), so time to go over what the hell happens!

The game starts with everyone circled around spawn, all 17 members (plus one extra person with a puppy skin thats caught in some clips in some povs, i think they might just be the server admin tho cuz theyre never explained) around a bedrock circle (a diameter of 7 i believe, with some tuff bordering it) with an enchanting table in the center.

the only enchanter thatll be in play the whole game. Just One.

(they also changed the tnt recipe to be less gunpowder heavy)

The game starts, and they all scatter in seperate directions into the world. a few minutes later, the countdown starts, and everyones lives are chosen.

Lets start with the B.E.S.T. alliance (although they arent called that yet, and in fact they arent even allies in this session lol)

i dont fully rememeber the first part of tango and skizz's povs (the T and S of BEST), but i do strongly remember bdubs' pov (plus etho), so lets go with him!

Bdubs flees in some direction (if i rewatched these episodes i might be able to place where they go, now that im familiar and have a map, but oh well) and gets crowned with Four lives, dyeing his name dark green.

eventually, he meets up with Etho, who also has a dark green name, and they hide away underground as the night comes.

and thats when the chime marking the boogeyman being chosen starts.

Etho and Bdubs look into eachothers eyes as text scrolls across their vision, tense music growing and growing.

etho jokes "now, watch, as bdubs gets picked as the boogeyman."

and then the text is red

"You are the boogeyman."

Etho laughs at his own joke, and turns away (with some hesitation) to go back to mining.

They mine around, bdubs just. thinking. Etho keeps joking about him being the boogeyman, joking threats and intimidation, all done in play (OR IS IT? Jk jk only bdubs was the boogey)

eventually, they meet up with tango and skizz in a ravine, and have some jolly conversation. tango hands both of them a diamond each, and etho tosses his into the lava??? #justethothings ig

bdubs takes his diamond and makes a jukebox out of it, and puts it down in the cave. etho takes out the disc he had gotten out of a loot chest, and plays it. 13. (you only really need the first 15-30 seconds as thats all they really usually play)

They laugh over how spooky it is. and tango (or skizz but i think its tango) says "imagine if the boogeyman played this right before they killed" (paraphrased from memory), which they laugh about some more. tango and skizz skedaddle, and etho and bdubs make their way out of the underground as well.

also i have to say, the dramatic pauses bdubs did during this scene are FANTASTIC to watch, even if theyre prolly unintentional. just him taking a moment once its just him and etho again, looking at the jukebox as he picked it up only looking away when etho called for him. chefs kiss.

they head topside, and run into grian. etho vets bdubs, saying he had given bdubs multiple chances to kill him or even others (such as putting a spiderweb on skizz), and bdubs never took it. bdubs also vets etho similarly.

they wander around a bit trying to find spawn, and manage to get there by nightfall. they light up torches real quick, and get to enchanting.

bdubs is silent, before putting down the jukebox. "hey, etho. do you still have that disc?"

etho tosses it to him, and bdubs puts it in the jukebox. grian and etho put up their sheild, and grian says (not immedately there was some shenanigans but lets pretend it worked first try) something along the lines of "one of you better be the boogeyman because this is perfect"

in which bdubs shouts "i am!" (or the like) and starts swinging at grian. etho, watching, just slowly backs up with his sheild up.

grian runs, and bdubs gives chase. and bdubs kills him. The First Death (oh how the turns have tabled for grian). bdubs happily runs towards etho, now cured, but etho just moves away cuz, Ya Know, Boogeyman Running Towards Him Top Speed.

alls good though! as bdubs is cured. they end up going just a bit east of spawn, and start building a castle on a cliff/hill. etho, having learnt from the previous season, decides to make the wall out of snow rather than wool.

eventually, Tango comes by offering a game. one titled "You Bet Your Life." This game, this bet, is where someone (who has the lives to spare) bets on anyone else in the game, on who will become a yellow life first.

etho and bdubs both take the bet, and talk privately down the hillside about who theyre betting for. Etho bets for cleo, and gives tango a life (putting him down on 3). Bdubs bets for jimmy, doing the same (and also putting him down on three).

after getting interupted by multiple people (scar and pearl being among them i believe?), tango moves on and bdubs and etho get back to building. i forget if anything else happens so lets continue on with tango!

Tango after coming up with the game, set up in a hill with skizz, headed around the server. and was fairly unsuccessful. most people didnt trust him to hold the lives, to enter the game, so they turned down the deals.

tango (actually before bdubs and etho) headed north to Joel, a man living in the side of Magic Mountain (we'll come back to them later). Joel takes the bet as well, betting on Jimmy (these people have no faith in the man, huh? lol)

this actually brings tango up to NINE LIVES at the end of the session, due to him starting with six.

next up we have Cleo, who while having wonderful vibes i dont remember too much of her episode (i have shit memory so knowing as much as i do is a godsend as is), and whom started off with Two Lives, much to her own terror.

She, much like the rest of the server, hid underground come nightfall i know that much lol. And i know from context that she had to've run into joel at one point but im blanking on the details.

on an important note that i DO remember, she eventually heads south-west, and comes across a mountain biome, one of which has a mountain with a large overhang.

aka the perfect place for a secure fort. a fort. not a castle. theres too many castles as is, she says.

she climbs up and gets building, making a nice fort. eventually after making one, she heads down just a bit northwest, within eyeshot of the mountain fort, to a circle of dark oak trees. aka Lizzie's base! the fairy fort. (Lizzie also has 4 lives, making her name dark green)

cleo sorta threatens it, saying how its flammable, and lizzie is like. yeah. it is. eventually some time later they bond over equally wanting to Kill Joel. cuz he was rude or smth lol.

eventually, cleo runs into big b, (who has Three Lives), and they both stick together and decide to uproot the sand out of the largets lake in the server to have some power over sand, and more spesifically, tnt.

they dig up multiple chests worth, and hide it at the foot of a tree at the foot of cleo's mountain. and big b, who had previously had to deal with Way Too Many Visitors For Comfort due to his base being near spawn, agrees to move up into cleos fort next session, as the three hours were up by then.

Now time for grian!

So grian fled like everyone else, and when his count got chosen, he was one of the few unlucky sods who got Two Lives, much to his dismay.

he eventually ran into scar, who he noticed had a Dark Green name, and had an idea. He told scar to give him a life, to show off the new mechanic to the viewers and such.

and then he didnt give it back.

Scar sticks around with grian, sorta chasing him around the server (might as well stick around with whoever scammed you. better than being alone), and they run into lizzie whos just tryina mine.

scar jokes, "what if the boogeyman was in diamond armor?" talking about himself (he isnt in full diamond ill get to that later), in which lizzie rightfully flees in fear. scar goes after her and asks if she had ran in fear, and is like "see! i am scary!" to grian, in which grian just goes "yeah yeah let her get to know you first". in which lizzie notices that the armor is fake, and is no longer fearful of scar in the slightest. which is both correct and incorrect, knowing scar.

with scars nagging, and lizzie being present, grian agrees that if somehow scar gets to a life count below grian, he'll give him the life back. scar agrees, and they split (scar taking grians horse). and grian ends up with bdubs and etho

and we know how that goes.

he messages scar in chat, relaying him that he had lost scars life. scar is fairly :( about it lol.

Everyone, and i mean almost EVERYONE, eventually crowds around spawn due to the threat of a boogeyman no longer being present. people ebb and flow, and eventually grian shows up to spawn after working on a base down in the south, with a few people still around spawn. he talks about his story of the boogeyman, with a much more sarcastic/jaded tone now.

the few people that were around spawn had picked up a sort of joke, where theyd pull up their spyglasses and go "AHA!", how fun!

scar and mumbo start to head north, but grian runs over and asks for what mumbo (who has four lives, a dark green name) could want to join grian in the Southlands. Mumbo doesn't take any of the deals, already having anything grian could offer, BUT he accidentally picks up the fish grian had dropped, taking the deal. oops.

They head south (slightly to the east), with the 3 other southland members, Jimmy (on 2), Martyn (on 4), and Impulse (their token yankee as a post i saw put it lolol) (on 3).

they work on clearing out the trees, and building 5 towers up around a central tower that grian had built previously, and just have a RIGHT ol' time making jokes about AHA in which i am way too american to do properly lol. heres a clip! its 5 minutes tho so be weary lol. "I CANT COPE WITH THIS" lolol

next up is ScAHAr!

scar, upon getting 6 lives, immedately does what scar do, and thought of making a buisness out of it. a soul buisness.

scar, the ever-prone to death, also decides to make his base on top of the TALLEST MOUNTAIN ON THE SERVER SORROUNDED BY CLIFFS. where he proceeded to make a dirt hut. theres a cliff two blcoks from his front door.

he also proceeds to put on diamond armor!

or not. hes got a skin on with fake diamond armor, complete with a six pack! or as many people end up calling it, his pjs.

he runs into grian and such, i already covered that scene. and he steals away on grians horse, which he lovingly names yellow snow.

he goes around the server, chausing mahem, just pretending to be the boogeyman to try and Get Stuff from people in trade for 'sparing their life'.

eventually he runs into Scott and Pearl who are up in a tree, and tries to threaten them. they also immedately recognize that his armor is just part of his skin.

jimmy comes over, and heres some transcripts i typed out when first watching the episodes, cuz i watched scars first.

jimmy: just as i was running over here i was thinking how i havent spoken with anyone this whole time, and how id immedately run into the bougey man. so please, scar, please, tell me-

scott: yeah he just said hes looking for someone to off

Scar tries to make jimmy take a deal with a life, but like... dude jimmys on yellow.

jimmy: and what i say to that [deal] is... bon voyage! <hops onto the horse and rides away>

of course yellow snow is quite possibly one of the WORST horses in all of minecraft, barely able to jump two blocks and slower than the players sprint, so scar easily catches up with jimmy.

he gets jimmy to give him i believe a spyglass to 'spare his life', and then this happens lol.

Scar: ohh, i cant take that (lapis). im not really the boogey man.

Jimmy: WHAT. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Scar: bye! have a good time!

and a bit back over to the tree scott and pearl are hiding on.

scar: i got a spy glass!

jimmy in disbelief: he isnt even the boogey man!

scott: duh

pearl: of course he isnt the boogey man. this is the most scar thing to do

scar, with an audible smile: this isnt even my horse!

scar heads off, and runs across mumbo who comes out of a hole in the ground. mumbo has ACTUAL DIAMOND, just a chestplate but still lol. scar calls upon their other-world friendship to say he wouldnt kill mumbo as long as mumbo gave him reason not to.

anyhoo, mumbo didnt realize scars diamond was just pjs, lol Scar: did you see my six pack? Mumbo: you are shredded--- wait- WAIT

Scar, on yellow snow, heads to spawn, where bdubs, etho, pearl, martyn, jimmy, and a fully decked out joel. bdubs, up on a tree by etho, tells his tale of being the boogeyman, although scar buts in just quickly. Scar: everyone everyone, stare at bdubs <bdubs is up in a tree> Scar: now, bdubs, take off your chestplate Bdubs: oh here we go <he does it> Scar: he looks like oscar the grouch from seaseme street <cue everyone laughing because its true> Bdubs: REAL FUNNY SCAR. IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY? Scar, giggling: he looks like a trashcan

i'd show a screenshot but im running on a limited number, but bdubs looks like a very sad ocar the grouch lol.

also due to how tall the mountain is, and the fact its only like, if i had to estimate, 70-100 blocks from spawn, which makes it so that you can see scars dirt hut from spawn, which is pretty neat. also means he gets CONSTANT VISITORS.

but yeah, scar sticks around spawn and eventually has some fun with martyn, mumbo, and jimmy, with the spyglasses. grian arrives, tells his tale, and we know how this goes.

And then joel and scar steal the enchanter from spawn.

it was Right There, to be fair. it was ripe for the taking.

joel travels to magic mountain with scar, going a bit further north and building into the side of the mountain (not DARING to make the trip up to the top, he likes his 5 lives where they are, thank you very much.)

also can i say... a magical mountain... based upon an enchanting empire... that will have a grand build on the top... sounds familiar.

scar goes down to joel, whos gotten to making a nice cave in the side of the mountain, and joel talks about how he struck up a bet with tango, and how: Joel: so if jimmy happens to have an accident Scar: you want me to yeet him off a cliff? i totally can

Last but not least is, as ive seen referred to them as, The Scottage. aka Scott and Pearl.

and like. if i had to bet on the horses, on who gonna win. its these two. they have communication [sparkles emojis] on their side.

in usual me fashion, i dont actually remember much of what happened early on in the series for them, but i DO know what happened near the end.

Scott and pearl had set up a permimeter around their base of stone, along with the starts of the previously mentioned Scottage, aka a nice cottage that scott built, which is just a bit east of spawn. they also have a not-quite-as-secret-as-they-wished base hidden underground, complete with a skelly spawner too.

Scar drove in on yellow snow, while the two were talking with ren, who is their neighbor, building a sulking tower (much to the worry of scott and pearl, due to ren being on only Two Lives) on a hill just east of them. scar just so happened to be holding the enchanting table, which scott and pearl noticed. scar denied such BASELESS accusations, and even went through his hotbar at their request to show nothing in hand. (he totally had it and they know.)

and if i remember correct, with comedic perfect timing, just after scar left pulling ren along, tango typed into the chat "theives!" as he had found spawn enchanter-less.

On the side of the hill, out of earshot of the scottage at the foot of rens tower, scar got a deal with ren. one in which ren would feed magic mountain with fish, and ren would have access to the enchanter.

Some point later, pearl went up to rens tower noticing him doing some detailing. she jokes about how her and scott were thinking of making ren a moat, incase he fell, and she asks about if scar had made a deal with ren.

ren kinda obviscates the truth, or maybe its just what he actually thinks of the deal, but he says that yes he did but it was a bad deal that he didnt really get much out of, and iirc he doesnt mention the enchanter directly but he says enough to confirm that magic mountain has it.

they try to get a deal with scar, to get access to the enchanter, or to get the enchanter entirely, but the only thing he'll take is a life, and they can't offer anything else good enough.

eventually, in the nice use-room of their underground base, they wait to the end of the session. Scott reminds pearl of their deal, and she aquices with joy, giving scott a life, bringing him up to 3, pearl going down to 5.

And this is why i feel like theyre going to win. they have the power of Communication.

(if i had to guess, based off of stuff i know from session 4, communication might be season 2's loyalty.)

And Thats Session 1! feel free to look at the chart again to check over things and all that.

time for session 2! speaking of charts, here it!

as you can see people were quite busy, in multiple areas.

ffs cleo literally named her episode "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss".

and for Fairly Obvious Reasons of What You Can See In The Bottom Right, we're gonna start with Magic Mountain (as well as the southlands cuz when i was laying out this the Southlands Just Entered Themselves In lolol)

So to start off the session, scar shows off his new skin to the audience. hes now a wizard! a rather purple one, and if others have say, he looks much more like a grape than anything else. joel comes up to the dirt hut and thats when they discover that joel ALSO got himself a wizard-y skin, this one green and complete with a beard. cue spiderman pointing meme, as they both did this indepentdent of eachother.

they promise to tell eachother if they get chosen as boogeyman, and split before the countdown goes off. scar idk spaces out for a bit, maybe thinking about the cool house hes gonna build on the mountain top, and wonders (transcript cuz i watched scars video first)

"wait who got selected as the boogeyman? has it started yet :(? i didnt hear the boogeyman chime has it started yet?.. hold on hold on" opens chat "uhmmm 'you are the boo-'" big gasp "OH NO"

"i almost just did a wheely in my wheelchair oh no"

through his hands "y o u are, y o u are. you are the boogeyman. ohhh no"

"ive got to rethink our plans today"

scar also proceeds to not tell joel that hes the boogeyman, even though he said he would. oops. so i guess im just gonna preemptiviely, even though the story isnt finished and we dont even know where its going, say "note the themes of communication"??? lolol

looking at my live reacts and the transcripts i put down, i remembered that scar at some point went down by the scottage and it happened around here i guess, so have this funny bit. Scar: hello cleo! Cleo: OH- hello scar. what have you done to yourself? Scar: im a wizard :D Cleo, exasperated: what is it with you and wizards? (context: scar was a wizard in season 7 of hermitcraft)

Scar goes mining below the magic mountain, and comes across a lava cave/lake, and an idea pops into his head. he calls down joel when he comes near, saying that he found some diamond and ore, but doesnt have the right pick and doesnt want to go All The Way Back Up.

joel comes down, and scar tries to punch him into the lava, claiming accident when it doesnt work. he tries again, and it doesnt work, and again and fails again, and joel walks away from the lava pit suspicious of scar. scar gets frustrated ("dangit dangit dangit!") and he asks for joel to pretty please with a cherry on top not to tell anyone. joel reacts with shock, because HES the boogeyman, too.

cue the spiderman pointing meme for the SECOND time in 10 minutes.

also communication 10/10 here people (scarcasm). NEITHER of them went with that promise.

Lets cut over to the opposite in both local, location on the map, and also dynamic, to the southlands!

the southlanders, having woken up all nice and snuggly in their towers (and one bunker. looking at you mumbo), meet in the center of their land. they make an AHA JAHAR, aka a swear jar of sorts, to make sure that joke dies where it stands.

grian also approaches the group with another idea, due to how... this sort of story can go, and this idea is for them to trade a life in a circle to assure a lifelong bond. the others agree, and they pass a life around. and every single one of them (except for martyn) pretend to run away with it. like a sort of game of how far can they go until the others think they aren't coming back, although no one runs out of earshot.

they laugh at more jokes, and then go on their day, Mumbo and Martyn on 4 lives, Impulse on 3 lives, and Grian and Jimmy on 2 lives. now, back to magic mountain.

Scar, seeing everyone going into the nether and everyone else seeing everyone else going into the nether, goes into the nether.

that sentence was very fun to write.

He eventually spots bdubs and etho from afar, and actually very convincingly pretends to be low on health and hunger. (scar can be terrifying in his acting ability, i tell ya). bdubs and etho try to tell him to stay up on the cliff shelf where he is but he jumps down anyway, and they toss some food at him. of course, scar then tries to kill etho, ya know, the man that bdubs had previous session said he didnt try to kill as the boogeyman cuz he knew etho would win.

scar doesnt lose, but he also doesnt win either. he actually does some fairly good damage on etho, and starts to chase the two across the nether when they flee, but eventually they get away from him, going through a portal and all that.

Eventually, scar runs across grian. scar mutes to question on weither or not he can kill grian, due to grian being yellow (as he got mistaken about the rules), and grian gabs in the background and its actually really funny from scars pov cuz you just hear him speaking gibberish (or maybe thats just my audio processing) guesturing all and even putting on a wither skull at one point for who knows what reason.

grian got seperated from his group, and had run into the nether in a panic due to seeing Everyone Else run in. at some point, mumbo dies to lava in the nether, having been pushed in by a piglin brute, due to him, jimmy, and martyn having gone into a bastion.

grian and scar head down to a portal on a sand elevator of sorts, where scar muses again that he could very easily knock grian off and into the lava below. oh but he cant because grian is on yellow and he isnt sure if thats against the rules.

they exit out topside into some mountain biome, (maybe to the north east? maybe to the west) and they go off to search for the southlanders.

through the power of the spAHAyglass, they spot the southlanders down at the foot of magic mountain. grian runs down the side of the mountain, saying goodbye to scar and shouting out "friends! my friends!" and running over to them.

the reason theyre at the foot of magic mountain? joel had picked them up from spawn, saying that he had the enchanter and was offering them a free enchant.

joel leads the 4 southlanders, plus scar, inside, and into a winding cave.

they come across a pit in the cave, which joel jumps across... and so does grian. noticing a lever on the wall, he flips it... revealing joels trap. (aka theyd jump across the pit, hed flick the lever down which would make them hit their head on some pitsons, and drop fatally down)

joel just sort of... accepts his trap having been revealed. he kinda fixes it, but also just jumps the gap and tries to punch scar in, who lands into falling water (that a southlander had previously put).

joel decides to go for a pvp kill, and goes after martyn. however, the other southlanders quickly come to martyns aid, running as well as chasing joel out of the cave. joel is killed, mumbo getting the last hit in.

mumbo, standing at the bridge at the foot of the mountain, celelbrates the loot he gained, especially due to having lsot everything to lava.

and thats when scar comes up, completely silent, and dumps lava on mumbo. while mumbo is obviously in inventory, and therefore wont react quickly. mumbo dies, and scar picks the lava back up, walking down the bridge towards the terrified southlanders. "welcome to magic mountain!"

this kill was VERY CLEVER TO WATCH. cuz he didnt dare raise attention to himself just... scar beloved.

(also if you scroll up to the <hahahaha> earlier in session 1, this is why i was laughing. is it foreshadowing? is it irony? who knows not me)

Scar and joel join the others on the mainland area, having some jolly ol' conversation, when the southlanders quickly realize that Joel Isnt Cured Yet.

they head south leaving him, to go pick up mumbo from spawn. mumbo, who clientside has been perpetually on fire, and was just about the opposite of chilling (get it? cuz on fire?) with ren. they pick up their spare member, and head down to the southlands.

joel heads over to the scottage, and they ask what the death messages were about and joel claims that mumbo was in fact the boogeyman.

the three of them go into their house, and joel blocks off the door behind them. a moment of quiet, and then joel starts swinging. and he actually successfully kills scott!

he quickly tries to plead to pearl that hes cured hes cured! but she kills him either way, bringing him down to red.

This marks joel as The First Red Life.

Scar stands on the other side of a broken bridge (how dramatic) from joel. its the dead of night, and i swear you could hear the cicadas and crickets making ambient lolol. and scar asks him in a hopeful but sad voice (something along the lines of), can they still be neighbors? even if joel cant be his ally anymore due to being red. joel promises that he wont climb up the mountain, and that they can still be neighbors.

impulse watches the scene happen from the cliffside, ready to step in if joel attacks.

joel also informs (and apologizes to) scar that they've lost the enchanter, as he had it on him when he went to kill scott or pearl.

NOW BACK IN THE SOUTHLANDS, THEYRE HAVING QUITE A LOVELY TIME TOGETHER NOT TORN APART AT ALL BY CRUEL FATE.

(not sarcasm i just find the difference between these two groups this session Very Amusing)

Impulse, as previously mentioned, had decided to go mining at the beginning of the session, thinking he wouldnt miss much... he missed everything, joking to his audience that THATS one way to avoid getting killed.

he headed above ground to go and intervine in any boogey buisness, but went back to the southlands to meet up with grian and mumbo (who just finished one HELL of a giggly mining session), and to admire the diamond and even enchanted goodies.

he tries to play the disc he had found while mining, but it just so happens to be 13 and grian tells him to turn it off. the three of them head off to the scottage to get the other two enchanted, as thats where impulse had gotten his enchants from, but when they arrive, scott and pearl say that theyve already gotten rid of it, because in their time of having it they had WAY too many visitors for comfort.

the southlanders head back home, now with some disapointment.

i will find it endlessly amusing that in my chart, the magic mountain and southlands have such a different outlook in this session. such is luck i suppose lol.

now you might be wondering. where the hell did one of joels lives go? hes now on red? now heres where i talk about lizzie.

lizzie is definitively cleo and big b's friend, this session. they even work on building escape tunnels between their bases to start the session off.

Eventually, after the tunnel is made, lizzie finds joel inside of it. cuz she "hid" the entrance under a trapdoor of all things. he offers to bring her to magic mountain to get some enchants, and she follows him north.

when joel tries to spring the trap on lizzie, she does hit her head but she makes the jump. joel, going 'oh shit', and tries attacking her. lizzie, low on health, makes the jump back over to escape him, in which joel gives chase but fails the jump and falls into the pit, dying to fall damage.

lizzie crosses the makeshift bridge, looking back at joel recently respawned. they talk for a quick moment, not exactly peaceful, and i dont remember what about. lizzie turns to go but a zombie catches her by surprise, taking her last bit of health, killing her.

lizzie, on her run up the west side of the map, back to the magic mountain to try and get her stuff, gets stopped by tango and skizz asking what had happened, the two environmental deaths right by one another. they asked if it was a boogey attempt.

she says she cant answer, because "oh it'll risk my marriage" or the like. becuase guess what, their rivalry is EXTRA FUNNY because joel and lizzie are legit married.

so those two now know joel is the boogeyman, and lizzie mentions how shes going to get her stuff. they offer to come with her, as protection of sorts, but she denies their offer.

she gets her stuff, left kindly in a chest by joel (also complete side note but i kind of love how people have to use double chests to store peoples items becuase a single chest is too small. because double chests, if you squint in imagination just right, look like coffins.) and she heads up to the castle fort to inform them how her trip had gone. they asked in hush voices if she knew who the boogeyman was, ans she said "well its only my bloody husband!" they also have some fun with saying that their spyglasses have a unique soundeffect when they pull it up, aka them just voicing a little jingle when they do it from the cliff overhang.

not too longer after the conflict with magic mountain and the southlanders, lizzie passes by tango again, and this time requests to enter You Bet Your Life.

She gives tango a life, bringing her down to yellow, and bets on joel. tango reminds her that they put a new rule in place, they cant go after their target themself. lizzie promises that she wont, she just has a hunch that joel aint gonna last much longer. and she leaves.

and not 5 minutes later, joel loses his life to pearl.

"lizzie! you are the winner of You Bet Your Life, and have gotten 4 lives"

(HELP SESSION 5 IS ALREADY GOING LIVE AND I HAVE SEEN A SINGULAR SPOILER (THANKS SCAR, FOR PUTTING SPOILERS IN THE THUMBNAIL), AND I AM TERRIFIED)

lizzie runs the VERY short distance back to the base that tango is working on, and cashes in her 4 lives, bringing her up to 6.

she goes back to her fairy fort, and not too long after ren washes up on the river, and asks for a deal. she gives him a life, and ren with pledge to protect her until he no longer can.

she accepts, and gives ren a life, bringing him up to 3, and making him her knight.

a bit later, scott and pearl ask if lizzie is home in the chat. they swing by the fairy fort (and can i say i love their vibes here. very put together, intimidating in a friendly way not an enemy way. at least not yet.) they approach her with a deal. they would give her the ever wanted enchanter. if she gave them a life each.

she ruminated over it, i think asking dragon ogre and taxes for advice, and she comes to a conclusion.

she takes the deal, giving scott and pearl a life each, (bringing scott up to 4 and in dark green finally, and pearl up to 5). they leave, and lizzie hides the enchanter away in her house. not very well, mind you, as the particle effects phase through the blocks she had used to cover it, but well enough, as JUST as she left her house, scar jumped down from the tree tops asking if scar and pearl had come by (brought on by their chat messages).

lizzie says that they had just left, and scar asks if they had done anything with an enchanter. she says that they had offered it but she didnt take the deal they offered. scar thanks her, and leaves. (and if i can read tone right, he 100% knows she has it. scar is tricky (complimentary) like that)

continuing on, lets talk about the Castle Alliance. dont know what that is? dont worry, cleo will make sure you know. and she'll make sure youre a part of it, too.

cleo had a very busy session, and she let the viewers know that with her title of "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss"

i am not even kidding. thats the actual title.

cleo is delightful. (genuine)

i, as usual, do not remember much, BUT I REMEMEBR SOME.

she heads to bdubs and etho early in the session, set out on her girlbossing plan to become allies with half the damn server. while cleo is talking with the two, the boogeyman count starts up (which shows how early in the session this was). bdubs leaves the building and cleo goes up on the roof, etho staying inside, as the boogey is chosen. of course, we know that non of them were boogey, but they dont know that.

after its chosen, bdubs comes back inside and cleo comes down the stairs. bdubs jokes about how the tone of the entire conversation has now changed, and etho actually blocks cleo off with dirt, basically if she breaks the dirt then shes clearly gonna try to attack them. a very funny scene from bdubs' perspective cuz her head just barely peeks over.

they make an alliance, cleo hands over some sugar cane (as its a useful thing. cant have a monopoly on sugarcane if cleo gives it to everyone), and she moves on her way up north a bit to the scottage. she meets scott outside and they chat. i forget what they make the deal on, but cleo gets the goodies of their skelly spawner, and at one point in the conversation scott said "you gaslight (smth smth), you gatekeep the sand, and you girlboss the series" which made me laugh so hard. they agree on an alliance, and cleo leaves

she then finds skizz and tango in the woods, and decides to make an alliance with them too. they talk over the terms of an alliance, and there was also a surprising amount of dating jokes. they come to the terms of the alliance, and tango says that cleo has to do a flying chest bump to seal the deal. they fail like. 5 times in a row, but then they do! tango then gives cleo a life, bringing her up to 3 and out of the yellow, and cleo goes on her way.

and, unfortunately for my memory, cleo uploaded the second half of her video after the tuesday so even tho i watched it, i dont remember it pretty much whatesoever. oops.

next up is the B.E.S.T and in this session they actually become the B.E.S.T, aka Bdubs, Etho, Skizz, and Tango.

i dont really remember what happened early on, but i know that both halves were working on their bases.

etho and bdubs on the snow wall around their hill (etho learnt from the wool of last season), and tango and skizz on a stone octopus looking thing.

bdubs and etho come up with the idea of setting around a bunch of soul sand on the inside and walls of their base, and getting soul speed 3 boots. so while any enemies will be slow, theyll just zoom around. and so, they head into the nether. starting off the nether craze that marked the beginning of this session, lol.

they, of course, run into scar during this trip, and have to flee. theyre unsuccessful in getting soul speed, but they get some soul sand anyway.

later on in the session, skizz and tango come by and skizz brings up the idea of forming a sort of group, with the goal of getting the enchanter from magic mountain, or wherever it may lie, and put it back at spawn, becoming the heroes of the server!

and with this they become the B.E.S.T alliance. they set out to try to do some Survalence and figure out where the enchanter is and all that.

last but as mentioned before never least, the scottage. ill just skim over what happens to them in other povs, and go over the two main things that i didnt cover.

so blha blah blah, scott finishes up on the aformentioned scottage, finishing off its roof. scott and pearl dramatically look into eachothers eyes as the boogey gets chosen, neither of them get it. cleo swings by and gets an alliance.

some time inbetween of all the above, ren actually went mining, and he spotted scott and pearls nametags. he dug towards them and dug straight into a diamond cluster.

he told them that the diamonds could be theirs, cuz he already had some and found nothing in it. they said that they couldnt just take it, so he accepted a "happy" iou of sorts.

moving on to near the end of the session, after all the ya know boogeyman murdering, Scott, pearl, cleo, and big b are chatting just inside the territory. (note: i may be combining two scenes in my head, and im actually pretty sure i am. although i also might not be oh well)

they mention scar, saying how his skin looks like a grape (and i mean they aint wrong), and scar, who was just sneaking behind the wall, jumps up, shouting across the way "im not a grape :(!" and running over.

impulse follows behind him, and scar tells him to start digging around for the underground base, believing that scott and pearl would have put the enchanter down there.

they find the pit and scar goes down the stairs, impulse scott and pearl following behind him. scott and pearl try to tell him to leave, scott shooing him away from looking through their chests, and pearl goes up to cleo and big b to give them their bows and arrows real quick before going back down. (this is where im pretty sure i mixed up the scenes. i think its the one im describing and then later on scar swings by again when cleo and big b are there).

scar refuses to leave, demanding the enchanter. he goes deeper into their cave thing, impulse joking that they gotta put the guy on a leash. the three follow scar (impulse sneakily grabbing some sugar cane), and scar goes back over to the chests and offers a life for the enchanter, not even looking back at them. when they try to deny, he says two lives. he even threatens that he has joel up top, ready to burn down their house if they dont. they call his bluff, and threaten him up the stairs with some lava.

they block off the staircase with some stone to think about it, impulse sitting nice and patient on the steps out of their earshot. scott and pearl move some furnaces, revealing (not revealing, technically, but im dramatic lol) that they had hidden the enchanter in a room behind it. they barely close the room in time just before scar dug through the wall above it, and they scold him for not haivng listened. he leaves, revealing to his own audience that he never would have given them the lives, he only wanted to know if they had it, and went on his way. and this iirc is where scott and pearl offer to let impulse enchant. (again i may be getting scenes mixed up, since similar scenes happened in similar locations)

and thats session 2! 4 thousand words alone, the length of most of my oneshots, how bout that.

now, session 3 i do not have a chart for, so im going to be flying a bit more blind than i did for the previous two sessions. it was luckily pretty quiet, at least on the death and drama front, so lets get into what i know/remember.

so i only watched grians perspective (cuz scar hadnt uploaded yet lol) and it starts off with the life trade of the southlanders. they do it, due to the fact as they get lower on lives, its more tempting for someone to run with it, seriously this time. grian jokingly runs, but no one else does. this makes 3 of them on yellow, too, only 13 lives between all 5 of them.

scar heads around the server, being the salesman that he is with his little wheelbarrow of things, and he sets up shop in the southlands. Mumbo and grian are the only ones home, and they paruse his offers.

among the offers are crystals (aka renamed stain glass) that work as life tokens. Grian and mumbo each take one, but they refuse scars price for it. they instead offer a secret alliance once he cashes in the tokens.

scar leaves, and mumbo and grian i guess arent happy with the deal? or maybe they later take advantage of a situation. at some point, the southlands steal yellow snow. they set her up over a lava pit, hanging by a lead, and have scar come down. grian and mumbo up on the wall demand for scar to cash in the life tokens, or yellow snow will drop into the lava.

in my head, scars got that thing where his eyes are dramatically covered in shadow, as theres a moment of silence. and then he speaks up.

"it was never my horse."

and runs away.

i will never not love how dramatic in a comedic way this guy can be, istg.

the southlands groan and grumble about their failed plan, and cut yellow snows lead. aka when grian promptly remembers that technically its HIS horse. oops.

also im like 80% sure scar steals the enchanter from lizzies house during this session. he ends up with it somehow.

and you might wonder, what about deaths? there had to be at least ONE boogeyman. did they fail? did they succeed?

it was lizzie. and of course she succeeded, its lizzie.

(i read something that went over what happend so thisll be in more detail than otherwise lol)

basically, she called for the scottage to come help her dig out a slime chunk. they obliged, and they followed her down a ladder. lizzie swept aside into a hallway, and removed the water from below the ladder, leading to a pit trap.

pearl notices, and gets off the ladder into the small hallway with lizzie, where lizzie promply kills pearl, scott left to watch in horror from the ladder above. how fun! (also i love how common it is for the boogey kills to involve allies looking on in frozen horror as its happening. bdubs with etho. scar and mumbo with the southlanders. lizzie and pearl here with scott too. very fun, much drama)

and thats all i know from session 3! not much happened and i know even less of it, but ill prolly be making a post recounting things as i catch up, so uhhh follow i guess lolol (not even 600 words hah)

moving on, the drama ranks up tenfold. however, for session 4 i am flying VERY blind. im using last life sigil (link) to help guide me, especially as theres much more death in this session (as metnioned before i think its similar to season 1's session 4 when it comes to setting up the drama lol), but DO NOTE i have not watched a single full episode so my recounting and timing of events may be very off.

so lets start off with the boogeymen, as i have otherwise so far (except for session 3 cuz that one was just small anyway and i hadnt even watched it myself) and to do so, lets look at the fairy fort. i hope you didnt miss the plural ;p

When the boogeymen get chosen, the bells ring for two people. Ren, and Big B.

Ren, upon hearing his fate, goes to the fairy fort and tells lizzie (and by extension the other two) that he was chosen as the boogeyman. cleo notes to big b that she doesnt trust ren due to this. how ironic.

Ren goes off and sets up a trap in his tower, and leads skizz into it. he blows out the floor, and skizz falls to his death. he takes it remarkably well, even though hes now on yellow, understanding that ren was the boogeyman.

This also establishes trust with ren in the fairy fort.

big b, however... he doesnt tell anyone.

however. as the session turns on. hes running out of time. and... cleo is the nearest person.

big b apologizes, and starts attacking cleo. she runs, confused, but big b gives chase and kills her. he apologizes all the way, whispering them into the wind.

cleo wakes up in her bed, betrayed, (ethos there invisible lol i think he offers some condolences), and declares herself no longer a part of the fairy fort.

big b has broken her trust to the point of losing her entirely.

she goes to leave the fort, digging through a dirt patch in the wall in which NOT MOMENTS BEFORE. LIKE HES LITERALLY LEAVING AS SHE ARRIVES, joel had set a trap.

the trap blows up, and kills cleo. and she laughs at it. happy, even. she doesnt feel hurt, despite this trap putting her on red, because it was just joel being joel. and, well... now she has the opportunity to get her revenge.

she leaves the fort, and goes to magic mountain, to the house joel built into the bridge on the side. shes welcomed with open arms.

however, cleo isn't the only person to land on red this session. not even close.

southlanders time.

they all wake up bright and early at the start of the session, and do the life trade. no one runs, no one even makes jokes about it. its become routine at this point.

everyone goes on their way, and mumbo and grian spesifically head up to the nether roof.

they get to work making a ghast farm, and even joke about being the boogie man (as in dancing), shifting and moving around in a dance.

theyre having just a right old time dancing and joking.

and then joel arrives.

and mumbo barely has the time to anounce that hes here before an arrow strikes grian in the back, sending him off the edge and down to the roof below.

he dies upon landing.

joel cheers like a kid on christmas, and leaves. mumbo climbs down the ghast farm and puts all of grians stuff in a chest, leaving a sign saying "I saved your stuff, dont hurt me" which just actually hurts my heart, like, ow.

grian gets his stuff, and climbs back up to the incomplete ghast farm, now red.

what happens next is a genuinely sad (if with narrative glasses on) scene with grian begging to kill mumbo so that they can stay friends. aka the fanart that you saw that started this whole thing. grian destroys blocks below mumbo, chasing him back towards the ladder, almost dropping mumbo to his death along the way.

mumbo denies his deal, and the southlands kick grian out.

grian leaves, and joins with joel, his killer.

and with this, the southlands become divided, leaving only 4.

and with the last group, with a much more literal division, is the BEST alliance.

at some point in the session, bdubs finds scar and strikes a deal with him, or maybe scar is the one with he offer. either way, they shake hands and trade. bdubs gets the enchanter, and scar gets a life. this brings scar up to 7 lives all his own, the most in the series (excluding the lives tango got as a part of a bet), and it brings bdubs down to 2, to yellow.

and this ends up striking a match in fate. quite literally, when bdubs ends up getting caught on fire in the nether.

he falls off the edge of the fortress that he, etho, and tango were in, making him the third red life to fall to their death in this session, and dies.

etho asks tango why he hadnt been watching bdubs, why it happened. but now bdubs is red.

back on the surface, in the snow castle. etho builds a cobble wall right down the middle, to seperate himself and bdubs, if just for his own safety.

3 more reds. betrayal, and being abandoned, and losing trust.

what a wonderful session.

and thats last life so far! its very fun so far, and i am TERRIFIED of what spoilers ive seen of session 5 (ONLY FROM THE CCS THEMSELVES. WHY DO THEY DO SPOILERY THUMBNAILS. WHY) so time to go catch up on a dozen pov of three sessions so i can leave my tumblr lockdown lolol. (the one downside to following blogs based around things you like. spoilers if you fall behind)

i wanna talk about this stuff SO MUCH MORE so like. a hundred and ten percent feel VERY VERY VERY free to send any questions, or like reblog the post with thoughts or shit, ect ect. i love gabbing about this shit, and it encourages me to think more about the content i love which is never a bad thing lol.

i also really wanna rewatch third life, and like to write thoughts and like infodumps about it (maybe even working on like a fic project where i rewrite it in a fic sort of format, although im about as reliable as a rotten plank of wood, its something id just do over time (and is actually something i straight up might do when i rewatch))

im definetly gonna post about my thoughts on last life, as well as the sorta au i made based on speculation from session 4 (that was very recently launched into the fucking stratopshere of au territory for obvious reasons lol) so follow if youre interested (and so like i dont have to tag you anytime im like "HEY HEY LOOK LOOK" lol)

((also if you want/are interested, i can also reblog cool third life/last life fanart, cuz theres some good shit so like tell me if your genuinely interested so i can set up a queue))

You mentioned not knowing anything about third life/last life, and like feel free to just delete the ask if unwanted, but I am VERY willing to just gab about this series if you wanna know anything. Mcyt hyperfix go brrr

-mimick

i cannot promise i can read well rn but if you want to tell me about it feel free!!! idk if i'll be able to watch it anytime soon but i like hearing about things :D

(also i found out i have an assignment due tonight so unfortunately ur fic request won't be out until like.. tomorrow night lol. but i am getting to it!)

#last life #mimick infodumps

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