#everything is the same except the ghosts have a Minecraft server

[pommunist]

This is mostly gonna be just a rant but it just baffles me how everything Qstudios has done since the beginning of the admins situation is a terrible pr move. So yeah this is just gonna talk how, even if you forget the immoral and potential illegal stuff that went on, I don’t think their strategy is doing any good for the studio’s image.

-Going radio silent publicly and privately : Kinda the original sin of all this mess tbh. This obviously just leaves the space for the ex admins to share their stories, even more so since they have been ignored privately beforehand when they tried to handle things internally. This also allowed for the union to publicly intervene and more ccs talking about it, and actual news article being made on it.

-Leaving the server open : Tbh I get wanting to leave it open, maybe to allow minecraft centered ccs to still make content or maybe because it’d be weird to close it right after new people got in but also I think it would have be better to close it temporarily while they focus on the changes they promised rather than having it getting deserted little by little until it feels like a ghost town. This + also not a good look to have so many npcs online when Q said there would be none until things get better (The current npcs are likely non volunteers, once again not a bad or illegal thing per say but not a good look). Closing it would also have made it so that the reopening would have been a big and probably positive event.

-Welcoming new ccs/new languages : This might just be because of scheduling necessities or whatever and something they couldn’t do later but it still made the community go :/// to get new people while on the flip side you had parts of the fandom leaving because of what was happening. Also not great for the new arrivals to start in such a weird climate, without admins help and with few people online on the server.

-Releasing merch at the worst time possible : This might have been something they couldn’t change, just like the arrival of the Koreans/Hugo, but it still isn’t a good look for them to release egg merch after it came out that some of the egg admins were poorly treated, especially when they haven’t stated clearly that benefits from the merch would go towards paying staff. It’s also not a good look for them to release new discounts every day, barely ten days after release. (Also the Qstudios Twt account retweeting every egg figures announcement except for Pomme will never not make me laugh)

-Making the twitter updates accounts active again : Yes it may just be that they’re using a bot or that it’s the people who are in charge of the Qstudios twitter account posting on it, both of which are not wrong per say. But of course people are gonna wonder if it’s new people being hired, of course speculation will happen when there’s a lack of transparency, of course ex admins are gonna be upset when it seems like things are continuing as if nothing happened, when they were fired without a warning, a thanks or even a sorry.

And now we have the two points that are kinda in a « you fucked up so bad it’s almost funny and I almost feel bad for you guys » category

-« Hey guys out of all the people we exploited and treated poorly you know which ones we’re gonna make eat dirt the most ? Hell yeah the ones that are from a part of the world who literally have a whole cliche about them complaining and rioting for anything and everything. Also happen to be the same ones whose community we alienated for months by sidelining them. Also happen to be a community who, during this time, has grown quite close to our most active community (who are themselves quite mad at us by now) to the point that they are making memes about the two of them being in love with each other. Yeah surely this can only go well »

-« Oh no, people actually really care » : QSMP Fans in general just loved and appreciated all the work the admins did, whether they were twitter admins, builders, actors, writers… This is even more true since the situation also revealed that some admins things people have been most critical on (lore being weirdly interrupted, french being ignored…) were not these admins fault. And of course, you have the eggs admins case. How do you make viewers and ccs alike get SO attached to these kid characters, as if it was their children, while mistreating the people playing them and not expect this to blow up in your face at some point. It’s like you managed to catch lightning in a bottle and then left it to rot thinking this wouldn’t end up badly. Weirdly this one makes me kinda hopeful bc Qstudios kinda HAVE to fix it or else they lose on of their main selling points.

[thevoidstaredback]

So, I told you guys about the Minecraft server that's been having problems lately, right? The one that I'm salty about for several reasons, one of which being that I'm not able to do what I was told I would be doing.

Anyway, our admin (a long time friend of mine) announced this past Saturday that he would be ending the project. The main reason being that the people holding big roles (I would totally [user]name drop them, but I'm not gonna be that petty yet) have been bailing out literal hours before recording happens. Two of them have even been ghosting us all!

The problem is that I don't want to give this up. This project is something Admin has been dreaming about since we were in middle school. I've been helping him with this since I was in middle school (he in high school)(he's a year older than me). I want this to be a thing that happens because, and this is a little selfish, it's something I've been wanting to do, too.

Now, I've got two options. I can continue with this on my own, get everything set up before even approaching anyone about retrying; or I can talk to the others (Admin R, admin I, admin S, admin B, and myself (admin L)) and we can work together on retrying it. Either way, we have to be more cohesive.

This is where y'all come in. I need advice. Under the cut is a message I have drafted to send to the others, or at least Admin R. Will y'all let me know what you think about it? Anything I need to add or clarify?

Any advice is welcome because I don't normally have conversations like this, but I have before.

I'm also very stubborn about this. I will be doing this project with or without the others. It'll just be faster and funner with them.

If y'all don't really care, that's fine. Most, if not all, of you followed me for my writing, and I promise stuff is coming soon. But I can't go to my other socials with this because they follow my other socials and I don't want them knowing about this until I've got what I need/want to say sorted out. Regardless, a version of this message, if not this exact thing, is being sent out by noon tomorrow.

Y'know, I was thinking about the announcement from Sat. If we want to try and pick this up again in the future, doing an actual casting call would probably be our best bet. With a hard set schedule, the world built before even looking for voices, and a storyline to follow (if we don't wanna improv our way through)

It wouldn't even have to be paid roles! A casting call between friends to see who would be best where would be fine as long as we have a set schedule that eveeyone knows to follow. Like when putting on shows for school, except the rehearsals would be recording episodes. (Same with crew calls, because having a set crew and a set cast is always good)

If we do end up going with the paid route, we'd have to establish ourselves and a channel first so we can actually pay people.

This is, of course, in the scenario that we actually wanna do something like this again. If we do, we have to delegate and communicate between ourselves, and whoever joins us, better. A lot better

I think our problem was that we held too high expectations for this project. Expectations aren't bad, they're great, even! But there's a bar that we set that we couldn't reach for several reasons.

I get it, life happens, stuff gets in the way. That's where we fell apart, I think. No one was communicating with anyone, and when people did talk, it was sporadic with hours to days between messages. Last minute schedule changes across the board that wouldn't have been last minute if we'd all communicated better.

I have the most time out of all of us, I'm pretty sure, as well as several large followings in different places. I can take on a lot more than the others because of that free time and ability to reach as long as you let me. If we want to retry this, it'll take a while to set up, but I believe we could.

[angelic-ish-phantom]

What if the ghosts played Minecraft? What if there was a ghost that decided they wanted to live in Minecraft? What do they even be able to do it

So you’ve come to an expert I see!

If a ghost wanted to ‘live in Minecraft’, their lair and aesthetic could be Minecraft. Think Max Brooks’ Minecraft: The Island. Said Minecraft ghost would appear like a Minecraft skin, even outside of their lair and would only able to cycle through certain emotions. They would also treat real objects like blocks or items in the game… and it would work. They’d need to punch/break stuff to acquire it, and would have a fully working inventory. Also hunger which is not great. They would be able to respawn back in their lair and craft armor so they could potentially be kind of powerful actually-

While incredibly cursed, they would be relatively harmless, and only come through portals to check for updates.

(Also the ghosts do play Minecraft. This ask has made my headcanon that all of Danny’s casual enemies have a Minecraft server that they all play on its the most chaotic shit ever. The server is modded to hell and back so they aren’t bound to plebeian non-dead Minecraft player rules. Technus is admin, because he would not play otherwise. He doesn’t actually do anything with this: Entirely unhelpful creative mode server God boi™. Tucker is the only actual staff because Skulker didn’t want to be in charge of maintaining the server once he found someone good enough at game stuff to take over. Tucker hates this but also can’t bring himself to just NOT do it. Ember learns Redstone specifically so she can make music in Minecraft also. She also has every disc on the server. Not just loot. She steals any discs anyone else gets and has them all. Pointdexter also knows redstone; he is worse at it than Ember, he just uses his skills to do actual things where she doesn’t. Kitty and Danny are the only ones that just play the game normally. Danny also patches the creeper holes like a Saint. Johnny fucks with everyone’s builds when he’s bored; this is the only reason he comes online. Sam has beaten all the ghosts at pvp, a lot of them at the same time; she is just that skilled. Lunch lady is there too, dedicating all her time online to killing and cooking every animal she comes across. On the one hand, she keeps the entire server fed, on the other hand she destroys all the farms and no one can have an edible pet or it WILL die. Skulker collects money heads, and it’s actually really impressive. He’s killed the Ender dragon a figmillion times; he just keeps respawning it for fun. Youngblood makes a tonne of ugly builds and lava casts, because pretty servers can’t exist with people like these. On that note, Box ghost is also whitelisted. No one knows how, but he keeps logging on and building dirt shacks. Dani plays also, because Danny gave her the IP address. She comes online to talk to Danny instead of calling or texting him with the phone she absolutely has. Valerie also has access to the server via ‘Phantom’. This was not a good decision. She destroys all of Danny’s stuff specifically. She griefs everyone, because ghosts, but mostly just blows up whatever Danny is making. She doesn’t come on often and it never occurs to them to just ban her- Dora and Klemperer also get to be on the server. This is good for them, they are just having a good times. Vlad is not allowed on the server, because he is a fruitloop and no one wants that. How do all the ghosts get their computer? Theft of course! And lots of it! This is fine.)

[nemofil]

i had a fun time discussing ideas for a dumb hollow knight content-creator au (where everything is also fine)

1. radiance was a big shot before the pale king arrived and stole all her followers bc he did basically the same content as her, just a bit better. eventually radiance started an ARG about someone controlling the whole world with a hivemind and got pale king in it and they’re very much besties with a small rival arc :D

2. lost kin used to do normal content like gardening and walking/hiking around until in one video it ended abruptly and they never uploaded again, implying that they died somehow. then some 400 years later they begin making content again where they wander and had a COMPLETE 180-degree turn on their content. it’s now all trolling and arson until like one day they went back to normal content for... some unknown reason

3. grimm’s the super enigmatic vlogger with the super hot voice and every one keeps wondering what he looks like and there’s some thirsty fancams and edits about him (mostly made by godseeker)

4. speaking of godseeker, she posts fancams of like... literally everyone and she’s probably into astrology, and her texts are always in a slightly elegant form like “greetings, may i interest you in [thing]?”

5. pure vessel doesn’t talk while they’re streaming, and you only see an arm playing and a bunch of plushies on their table :D also they’re EERILY good at this, and sometimes hornet comes in their room since they live together with the siblings 

6. little ghost REFUSES. ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to play anything other than platformers when they’re streaming. everytime a follower donates and asks them to play something that isn’t a platformer, they begin tapping on the table. it’s morse code that says “fuck off”. they have made small exceptions though, like when they played dark souls and bloodborne and were eerily good at it

7. myla and bretta do little animation memes and they sometimes collaborate together :D

8. the collector has an onlyfans where he shows off his shiny pokemon collection. he also streams gacha games and does NOTHING but whale on them. and... rarely, he goes bug catching

9. quirrel has a wide blanket of content, sometimes he’s walking around, sometimes he’s blowing toilets up with monomon, and sometimes he just gives out worthless information in 30-second videos

10. it’s a given but sheo does drawing streams, mato posts videos about, well... swordsmanship... and i like to think that oro’s a commentary person who like. drops the bluntest jokes and yet still manages to get his very based point across

11. sly’s one of those internet legends who gives like genuinely useful advice about money and scams and all that other stuff but his upload schedule resembles that of a hermit’s

12. the nailmasters have a minecraft smp series where mato and oro are planning to go to war, sheo’s just doing whatever and sly hasn’t appeared on the server in years

13. dung defender does like commentary and stuff where it’s super happy and he’s just a very positive content creator in general :D

14. lurien posts fancams on alt and does tea commentary on main. sometimes he slips up and posts a fancam on main. but the fucking amazing part is that no one knows who his alt is LMAO

15. i fucking heard dystopia sneeze so damn loud in the background @dystopiax you little shit /affectionate connotation

[lunatic-fandom-space]

Okay, you know how I said I wanted to watch all these german minecraft series and then watch 3rd Life SMP? Yea, I actually dont have the attention span to watch a bunch of white bread boys fuck around in minecraft with little to no story, regardless of wether theyre american or european so Im just gonna write this post and them start watching 3rd Life SMP so yeah.

First, I kinda want to discuss what Im hoping for on like, a meta-level I guess. The only other minecraft RP Ive watched that seems similar to this is Dream SMP so expect lots of comparisons.

I like to split dsmp into three major parts: no story/non-rp, story/non-rp and story/rp.

The first part was literally just a live streamed vanilla minecraft let's play and it was boring as shit. It felt exactly like watching a bunch of dudes play minecraft and unless they acknowledged the people in their donations (who could uncomfortably pushy and even shippy at times) you did not at all get the impression they were even aware of the stream. And as much as I appreciate some level of authenticity in this type of content, I also expect to be entertained by it and this did not even meet my bare minimum standard of entertainment. Admittedly, my attention span is very low so that definitely has something to do with it, but still. I personally have never felt anything but boredom and occasionally intense discomfort while watching anything from this 'era' of dsmp.

The second part was the start of the first conflict, and thus the start of some semblance of a story. They were kind of 'roleplaying' already (both in the sense that they obviously have their personas for their content and in sense that they didnt actually have grievances with one another and were just playing it up for the sake of entertainment) but it was more on the fly, even less focused and less serious. However, it was already legues more fun to watch.

And then we had the third part, where, starting with Wilbur Soot joining and deciding to larp Hamilton, they started to plan things out more and have more complex and/or dramatic conflicts. Needless to say, this was/is the best part in my opinion and what made me see the appeal of dsmp.

What Im hoping for 3rd Life SMP is, that they skip atleast the first part. From what I can tell, it was created sometime after dsmp has been in that third part for a bit and it is a minecraft rp, so Im assuming the people behind it wanted to do something similar, just with the story aspect there on purpose and from the get-go, if you know what I mean. And by the way, I dont think thats wrong or even "copying" in the slightest. Dsmp very much seems like a case of "they did it first, not best" and if anything, I think it would be a shame if people didn't want to do their own spin on this basic concept.

What Im personally hoping for in terms of the 'style' of roleplay itself, I really hope that they dont seperate it as rigidly into lore and non-lore as they did in dsmp. Ideally, they would do it like Ranboo (Wilbur when he was playing Ghostbur to an extend too, but he didnt actually stream and have his own POV back then), where he's always kinda 'In-Character' even when there isnt really anything happening in the plot at that moment. Again, I just dont have the attention span for no story in series like this anymore, so I'd appreciate it on a personal level, but I also think that it could humanize the characters more and potentially add additional depth to them. Especially since it looks like 3rd Life is made by the Hermitcraft group and if the stuff Ive read about Hermitcraft (especially in comparison to dsmp) it wont thrive off intense conflicts and wars in quite the same way, so that could also be a way of making a calmer rp interesting.

And now, some actual plot predictions!

So, the way I found 3rd Life SMP was this really neat 'Pitiful Children' animatic by ZylisticArt. I didnt actually 'watch' it because when I look up animatics I just kinda stare at the screen, not processing anything because Im too busy imagining my own OC animatic to the song, but I did read the description and was mildly intrigued, and its the main reason I wanted to watch 3rd Life so Im going to properly watch it now and post my predictions for the plot below.

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The description mentions something about the animatic being based on some kinda theory, but I only skimmed it in order to not get spoiled so idk what thats really about. Im mostly intrigued by the fact that the description mentions it being a hardcore SMP (with a twist!), that, combined with the name and the visuals of the animatkc lead me to a couple conclusions;

I dont really know how Hardcore mode works in multiplayer, but in singleplayer you just get permanently kicked out of your world when you die, so Im assuming it works like that on a server too, except on a server, Im pretty sure you have the option of being 'reinvited' onto a server by the admin(s) so you could theoretically have three lives while keeping it a hardcore project where you cant regenerate without potions or golden apples and all that. Again, idk if thats actually how hardcore works but I sure hope it is, because thats what Im basing pretty much all of my predictions on.

In the animatic there were like green people, yellow people and a red guy who was like, the antagonist I guess. I think the green guys still have all their lives, the yellow ones are down to two and the red lads are all down to their last one. Maybe theres gonna be a thing thats like, if you lose a life you lose a part of your soul and that makes you evil or something? Yknow, like the whole "character comes back wrong" thing, except its the conflict of the entire series. Pitiful Children is very much a 'Manipulating Others Into Doing Harmful Shit' kinda song, and I feel like that would be very in-line with a plotline like that, yknow?

Im not expecting there to be wars/conflicts on the scale of dsmp (no blown up countries here bois) but I am expecting to get ridiculously attached to a place that inevitably gets blown up/set on fire by an antagonist.

Speaking of antagonists, theyre definitely also doing the whole multiple POV thing, which means everyone is an antagonist in one way or another and Im a solutely watching every POV from every characters so that I know the full context and story of everything, so I can have the most correct opinions on them, which is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

Since these are the Hermitcraft guys Im expecting some beautiful builds that make me feel insanely untalented and the same thing with redstone shit.

Ghosts. If they havent added some kind of ghost mechanic/lore at the time Im writing this, they will add one in later, mark my words 3rd Life fandom, mark my words...

Thats pretty much it. This is all going under my mcyt tag too, and I dont think I'll be live blogging it, but it really depends on how interesting it is.

Also, if youre a 3rd Life fan who already watched all of it, the only thing youre allowed to respond to this with is a meme that is horribly incomprehensible to anyone who hasnt watched it.

Have a nice day!

[twitchesandstitches]

Another Adventure... Again.

In a universe, sewn together like the Frankenstein monster from all kinds of different universes that was either destroyed or left after The Cataclysm, lived many people and creatures. Creatures and people from far and wide, from formly many different universes, all now living together in one. From the the noble transformers, to the alien gems and lizardmen, to the beastly orcs, to the strange trolls, to kryptonians, to creatures known as pokemon, to the mighty rahis, skakdis and matorans, to the mysterious eldar, to the brutish skaarjs, gnaars and aludran reptiloid, the money-happy vortixxs and zorgs, the peaceful kleers and gungans and many others.

It’s not entirely clear what caused The Cataclysm, but what is known is that the vast majority of multiple universes was destroyed or wiped out. What else happened, was that pokemon went from the ordinary once we all know and love, to be mutated into giant mutants and monsters, and similar things happened to other creatures, like how rahis suddenly got a craving for the sacred kanohi masks and went full on feral and berserk, or how lycanthropy and vampirism spread violently and turned people into monsters, with the only population of infected who retained their humanity was those of The Dark Planet. It didn’t help that demons was suddenly let loose and started to destroy everything, and that Mental and his horde started to wreaking havoc on a large scale, as well as other things. How all of this happened as well as everything else, is left up for debate and research, but eventually was the gods and goddesses able to pull the universe back together, somewhat at least, and did their best to fix what they could. A lot of the damage and such was still left over from The Cataclysm, but the universe was once more inhabitable. The only creatures who didn’t really suffer from this, was the creatures knowns digimons, who kept themselves to cyberspace and also strengthened the barrier between their world and the real world to ensure that the damage wouldn’t carry over, or at least minimize it.

This is the universe that our little adventure will begin, and it so happens that our friend, who we will be following today, hates adventures, well to bad for her, because she’s getting dragged into this one as well. She lives in a house on one of the city worlds.

Her name is Odina.

A human woman of Algonquian heritage, standing at only 4’5 feet tall, but is well build, a bit round with a bit of belly, not big, but still noticeable and a bit of a short stack, was sitting in her couch, just relaxing and playing video games. She had a bit of a punk look to her, with her choice of jeans, grey-blue shirt, high boots, earrings and dark green jacket, as well as the red frontbang she has in her short brown hair. She also wears square glasses.

Odina could be described as a bit of a grump, sullen and kind of a lovable grouch. Ironically she sees herself as having a cool, punk badass, unemotional vibe to live up to, but in reality she’s a sleepy dork who is too laidback to be fierce, and one of the people who knows this, is her friend Sariel Isda.

Odina and Sariel Isda has been friends since they were kids. Sariel Isda can be a bit hard to classify if you meet her for the first time, since she’s made of pure magic, but is actually a demoted angel who was reborn on Odina’s world to get a new start, and yet for some reason is classified as a fairy. So yeah it can get kinda confusing sometimes.

In terms of appearance had Sariel Isda a bit of each. Her lower body consisted of a short tail, kinda like those classic cartoon ghosts. Four arms with the lower pair looking like normal human hands and the upper ones more like large claws. She has six wings that was in the shape of that of an angel, but had the texture and bug-like appearance of a fairy. She sometimes has a neck and sometimes she don’t, it seems to just come and go as she feels like, so her head was just floating above her body some times. Her hair is coily, thick and massive, almost like a mane. It does straighten out whenever she’s angry or aggressive, almost making her look like the classic banshee, but it returns to it’s normal coily state when she calms down and also stops floating everywhere as well. She had seven eyes, three on each side of the face and one big one in her forehead, her upper torso and lower body were detached just like the head, and just in between those two sections was a large orb floating. Just like with the neck, sometimes these three pieces are connected and sometimes they just float. The majority of her body was either primarily blue or secondary purple, with the only exceptions being the large orb and her eyes, which were all green, with the seventh eye in her forehead being golden.

Sariel floated towards Odina and laid besides her. “What are you playing?” She asked her.

“Just Minecraft. I’m currently exploring to see the new biomes and such that has been added.” Odina said with a little smile.

“Cool, can i play too?” Sariel asked. She wanted to point out how Odina was smiling, but she felt like being sweet today. She did find it adorable and funny whenever Odina tried to act up.

“Of course, i’ll activate split screen and you take the other controller.” Odina said and prepared Sariel to join the game.

Sariel logged into the game and grabbed her controller. “I don’t remember Minecraft looking like this.” She said as she looked at how the world looked.

“Oh, that’s because i’m using the “resource pack A'therys Ascended” to give the game a different appearance. I also downloaded Galacticraft so that i at some point can build myself a rocket and either build my own space station of calmly explore other places.” Odina explained to her. Odina was more into crafting games and casual stuff, not so much for hardcore grinding and all that. Just a game where she could go about her own business like she wants to. Though she’s also a fan of platformers and racing games.

In the game they travelled through the ice spikes biome. Sariel was quite impressed with how it all looked. It had been a while since she last played.

After a bit they left the ice spikes biome and entered a regular snowy tundra biome where they encountered a village. The two girls decided to put up shop here and build a house. Sariel stod for most of the house building while Odina explored and did whatever peared into her brain.

While Sariel was building their home. She swore she saw something off in the distance. She shrugged it off and continued building, might just have been the new snow biome mob called a “stray”.

Odina, while searching, found a pillager outpost. “Hey, Sariel, look what i found.” She said. “What’s that?” She asked. “It’s a pillager outpost. It’s something they’ve added. This also means there’s a chance for the village we live in now to be raided, so we should prepare defenses.” She replied, and Sariel nodded.

Sariel began building a fort around the village, as well as making sure it was as lit up as possible to lower the chance of hostile mobs spawning inside. She saw something move in the distance again, and this time she could tell that it’s body was to thick to be a stray and it moved like a player before disappearing again. “Did you see that?” She asked, which made Odina a bit confused. “See what?” She replied. “Well, i saw something walk in the distance, but it moved like a player and it was to thick to be a stray.” Sariel explained. “We’re the only players on the server, and none of my mods adds a mob that walks like that.” Odina said back, not sure how to respond, she mostly thought that Sariel just saw things.

However, after a few seconds, when Odina had returned to the village, a flash of flight suddenly erupted from the screen. One would be able to hear Odina yell “Are you kidding me right now?!” as it went on. Soon enough, both Sariel and Odina found themselves in a snowy region. It took a bit, but eventually was Sariel able to figure out that she had been sucked into the game, if the blocky terrain was anything to go by. Odina had figured it out right away.

Sariel looked down at her body, while she stayed mostly the same, she was more “human” shaped now. The orb that used to be her belly was now a regular belly, a bit on the chubby side, and her body was no longer detachable and was connected in the same way as it would a regular human or elf. Her wings were gone too, and she now only had two arms instead of four. Besides that everything was the same.

“YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME! DID I SERIOUSLY GET DRAGGED INTO ANOTHER ONE OF THESE SO-CALLED “ADVENTURES”?!?!” Sariel heard Odina shout, and she ran towards her friend. Odina was covered in snow and clearly angry and grumpy about being roped into another adventure, honestly she just wants to relax and play her games dang it!

They looked around and  saw that all of the mobs and villagers were no longer made of blocks. The world itself was still.

After Sariel helped her up, they were approached by a mysterious figure. “I’m very sorry about this, but i needed help, and was kinda desperate.” He said. Odina looked up at the tall man, and realised that this person was none other than Herobrine himself.

“HELP YOU?! YOU’RE F!”#¤KING HEROBRINE!” She shouted, clearly scared at the current moment. “Wait, let him speak.” Said Sariel and helped cool down Odina.

“Yeah, i guess i do owe you guys an explanation. Well to begin with, i’m not evil, that’s a common misconception. Villainbane isn’t evil either. As for why you’re here, it’s because i need help. I am trapped here, and both Null and Entity_303 is on the loose. I guess you’ve heard the stories about how i tortured players? Those aren’t true, i’m one of the good guys! Whenever i appear, it’s to try and either fight of those two or to warn people, sadly this caused people to think I’M the villain. Anyway back on track, Null is the one who keeps me trapped here, and i wish to be free, but we also have to stop him, because if we don’t, this will be his game, and he might not stop with simply that either. I’ve already heard him planing to make deals with creatures such as the hell beast Red, BEN, several digimon warlords and so on. Basically he’s forming his own digital mafia that could take control over the entire Net Ocean and beyond if we don’t stop him.” Herobrine explained to them.

That was quite a bit to take in, but both Odina and Sariel got the memo across. Odina was wondering why he choose specifically them, there were other people who were playing at the moment and such. “So how do we stop him?” Asked Sariel. “I’m not to sure, but we should get some gear for you two and get started.” Herobrine said. “Mind helping me get rid of that Pillager outpost and get those iron golems to town? We might need them.” Said Odina. “Sure thing.” he replied and went off with Odina who put on her iron armor.

Sariel took Odina by the shoulders before they left. “Are you okay?” She asked her. “Just slightly annoyed that i once again have been dragged into another of these so called adventures. At least this time, i can do regular stuff while we wait, since the game mechanics are still in full function on us. So at least it’s not as bad as the other ones i’ve been roped into before, so there’s that.” Odina replied. Sariel simply nodded and watched her walk off towards the pillager outpost.

Sariel remained behind and continued to built, it was pretty much like actually playing it, but more first-personish, well more first person than it already was. While she did that, was Herobrine and Odina out and pillaging the pillager outpost, killing all of the illagers in the outposts and looting EVERYTHING, while also freeing the iron golems they had captured, which Herobrine helped bring back to the village. Herobrine was also the one to kill the captain to make sure that neither Odina or Sariel got hit by Bad Omen, since he was supernatural in the “correct way”, he was able to remove the effect from himself easily.

When they came back, did they help with the building. Villainbane also showed up shortly where she helped out, though she did not stay for long. Having the potential of facing Null was a bit to much for her. Herobrine did not blame her, he understood it clearly, and she did have a bad history regarding Null. A very bad history.

After a bit of time was the fort around the village built and so was their house, and the extra iron golems should be able to protect the village incase either an event happens or someone is able to get over or around the fort somehow. Sariel also made some snow golems to help protect. They did live in a snow biome anyway, so why not? They all three proceeded to mine for ores and materials. Odina did ask why Herobrine didn’t just abuse his powers, to which Herobrine explained if he used his powers to much, he could end up attracting Null and Entity_303 to their location before they’re even ready.

Odina was pretty happy that they could still just explore for the moment. This “adventure” so far hasn’t been to bad, since she could just explore and do regular things at the moment, instead of exploring dangerous temples or fighting giant demons or being on a time limit or anything like that. Sariel was both scared and excited, this was her first adventure. For some reason, while Odina constantly gets dragged along on adventures, even though she doesn’t want to, but it ends up happening anyway, Sariel herself for some reason never got to come on any of them, but she was always ready to make Odina some hot chocolate for when she got home.

After a few days of mining they finally got enough diamonds to make full sets for all of them. While Odina and Sariel got themselves some diamond swords, Herobrine used a little bit of his powers to create a military war pickaxe. He had his tastes. Sariel and Herobrine became pretty good friends, while there was still a bit of a bridge between him and Odina. Odina was a bit aloof.

A bit more time has passed and Sariel noticed that there was phantoms outside, but they only appear when a player haven’t slept for a long time. It was then she looked around. She found Herobrine still asleep so it wasn’t him. She looked at Odina then, and discovered that she had bags on her eyes and rushed to her. “When was the last time you were asleep?” She asked panicking. “Don’t know.” Odina simply said, not really seeming to bother. “You can’t do this to yourself!” Sariel said as she tried to take Odina away from her work, “You need to get some rest!” she continued. “There’s no need for this! Just let me continue, the sooner we complete this “quest” of ours, the faster we can come home.” Odina replied.

Sariel knew that if she continued like this, things would end bad, even after returning home. She would not let Odina overwork herself like this, she would make Odina rest, even if she had to make her! She grabbed Odina’s cheeks and gave the woman a kiss on the lips. Sariel isn’t aware of this, at all actually, but so far she was the only one that Odina would allow and was comfortable to be kissed on the lips by. Odina herself wasn’t sure why that was, she was very confused by this as well. Sariel expanded the kiss so Odina’s head entered her maw, as she worked on getting the rest of her down. Odina was shorter then Sariel, but a lot broader. Sariel swallow Odina majestic breasts, her slightly chub belly (not as chub as her own), her wide and powerful hips and finally slurped up her legs and send her down into her belly. It was a different feeling, since her belly no longer was orb shaped and was like that of an ordinary human in terms of shape and build.

Odina would protest, but stopped herself, instead just sitting down all grumpy until her eyelids closed on their own. The phantoms outside began to slowly disappear. Sariel rubbed her belly gently before going back to work. They were working on getting experience points to enchant their weapons.

A few more days pass, and Herobrine began to notice a pattern between Sariel and Odina. He walked up to Sariel, who still had Odina in her belly, and wanted to ask some questions. “How long have you two known each other?” He asked. “Oh, we’ve known each other since we were kids!” Sariel replied happily. “Are you two close?” He continued. “Very close. We’re best friends! Though sometimes i wish we were more.” “What was that last part?” “Nothing, just mumbling.” “Do you think it’s possible that Odina like-like you? You two have known each other for so many years now, like really many years, and considering her personality, it seems a bit out of character of her to just, ALLOW, you to kiss her, unless she might have a thing for you.”

Sariel began to blush from that last one, only squeaks being able to escape her. She suddenly felt a tingle inside her belly and before she knew it, Odina had eaten her from the inside, absorbed her into her own body. Odina had the power to absorb magic, either neutral or sapient. Odina was also red in the face. “We’re just friends buddy, don’t you dare throw statements like that around!” She said in an embarrassed-angry voice. Herobrine was both shocked and surprised when Odina suddenly appeared like that after having slurp-absorbed Sariel. Though afterwards he just let out a little chuckle and turned around and went back to work. Odina was about to follow him, only to get her hips stuck in the door. “Oh, !”#¤ me, why does this have to keep happening to me, even when i haven’t absorbed any magic?” She asked herself annoyed. She could feel Sariel move around in them, and she let her out and her hips immediately shrank back to normal.

They almost fell over each other when Herobrine suddenly came rushing towards them at high speed. “THEY ARE COMING THIS WAY!” He shouted, clearly referring to Entity_303 and Null. However, Herobrine could also feel something else approach them. Through cyberspace. Soon, a digital portal opened up, and a short, but curvy, woman with aquatic features stepped through. It was Ranamon.

“What are you doing here Ranamon? What does the Cobalt Stingers want this time?” asked Odina bitterly. There are many factions in this broken-crossed universe, both small and big, and one of the more well known ones were the Cobalt Stingers, basically glorified pirates, lead by the troll Vriska, who takes and do whatever they want, while claiming to be “stylish”. Herobrine stepped in though. “She’s no longer a part of the Stingers. I know about that, and i know about the group she’s now a part of. What i want to know is, what do they want here?” he asked Ranamon, who replied with “My boss wanted me to take care of Null and Entity_303. She knows the threat that those two propose. I was the only digital creature that could easily slip in, so i was send in to try and stop them. For now at least, they’re working on making the gate bigger.” “They could at least have hired the bounty hunter Reapermon, or an army of mercenary tankmons, or even the D-Brigade or The Three Muskeérs!” Said Herobrine with a face palm, they did not know just WHO they were dealing with. Ranamon took note though and send the message back to Shockwave and the others, back at the Task Force X headquarters. Task Force X could be compared to an altered version of suicide squad, except less murdery and less about the members being meat shields and more about redemption, atonement and secret missions. Shockwave was one of these people who ended up with this group, and ever since then, has he become more and more like the beloved senator he once was so many years ago, but also a bit of a troll (not literally like Vriska or Nepeta, but as in he likes to mess with people, such as giving Reyes pineapple on pizza).

They all simply nodded to this, Odina still did not trust her, and Sariel was skeptical. The only one who really trusted her, was Herobrine. Not that she blamed them, while she wasn’t the biggest criminal or influence from within the Cobalt Stingers, she still did her fair share of bad stuff and harm. Back then she had to use a robot body to upload herself into in order to interact with the real world.

“I have some spare armor you can get.” Said Herobrine and handed it to her, she thanked him and put it on right away. The diamonds of Minecraft was many times stronger than and other diamond found throughout the universe.

Soon enough, the door flew across the room, as a shadowy figure entered the room, who was black as night, dark as void, with little to no features besides a humanoid form of shadows. He was void, he was Null. The other figure was a person, he was a white-hooded figure with two bloodshot red eyes, and everything under his hood was dark, but unlike Null, you could tell he had form and shape like a person, or at least a humanoid creature. He was Entity_303.

Null began to speak with a voice that send shivers down the three girls’ and Herobrine’s spines, even Grimlock, Undyne and Shockblast would have shivered in fright if they had heard it. “Well, well, well. What do we have here? Herobrine has gotten himself some friends? That’s so charming, but you know you can’t leave, this is your home, and you belong to me. I’ll let you keep them, they’re not going anywhere either, they’ll stay here too.” the shadowy figure spoke, making them all gulp in fear. Entity_303 simply laughed at their reactions, finding it enjoyable.

Herobrine readied his military war diamond pickaxe, and the others prepared their swords as well. “It seems like you need to be disciplined once more little Hero’, and so does your friends. Not that i mind. I enjoy to hear your screams and when you plead for mercy. I’ll make sure that the blood runs fresh. This might send a good mental message to your friends here.” Null said calmly, like he had nothing to fear, and that might just be true.

“Let me take care of them. You promised me i could do it next time, my Lord.” Entity_303 asked Null, who nodded in response. “Go ahead.” He said.

Entity_303 pulled out a large scythe and went on the offensive. Targeting Sariel first, but Odina just blocked it in time with a shield. “Nice block.” He said in response.

“Herobrine, a little help here?” Odina half shouted. “On my way, Entity_303 is the easier to deal with. He’s mostly using hacks, so his actual skills aren’t to high.” He replied back to her, before sinking his military war diamond pickaxe into Entity_303’s shoulder, causing him to groan and roar in pain.

Null just watched as Entity_303 fought against the others. Ranamon summoned a blast of water and hit Entity_303 with it, and send him flying out of the room and into the streets of the village. Both the snow golems and iron golems almost immediately jumped on him to attack him. “I knew those golems would be of great help.” Said Odina to herself, as she and the others ran out to continue to fight him.

Meanwhile outside of the game, another person had just entered. A massive lime-green woman with a vaguely humanoid body, her body composed of a constantly shifting amorphous mass; new features continually drift in and out of being, additional limbs are common. Overall she has a fairly solid, thick build, but she’s just slim enough to qualify as curvy instead. Black veins streak across her body, especially wherever she is about to change form. All her body is extremely soft, but not to the point of being liquid. She’s still solid, just… extremely wobbly. She’s got a lot of subtle details of marine life in general: gills, the sheen of scales, and so on, but she appears to base her form specifically on turtles and octopi in general. Her face is mostly featureless; huge, plump lips, several sets of eyes in fairly random places, and a slight swell where humans would have a nose. She does have several thick tentacles where humans would have hair. Below the waist, her body is a mass of tentacles, notably thicker than her upper body; she can grow any number of these, and her arms are a similar part of tentacles. She had pseudopods instead of fingers, with very dexterous cillae; she can grow fingers, but prefers not to. Her name was Lilisheb the Shoggirl. Odina tends to be the more practical and sensible between the two. Odina and Sariel also gets sandwiched into her body a lot.

Lilisheb was a good friend of both Odina and Sariel, and she came over to see if they wanted to hang out and play video games or something. She looked around the room and couldn’t see either Odina or Sariel anywhere. She did notice something though. The TV screen was cracked. She could see some minecraft players fighting in their blocky fighting style. Though she did think that some of the skins looked very much like Odina and Sariel, as well as Ranamon and there was also one with a Herobrine skin, who all seemed to be fighting this player with a shadowy skin in a white rob and red eyes. The robed player seemed to be a hacker of some sort, going of how he was just flying and running around.

Lilisheb went ahead and checked the controller curiously, only for a sudden bright light to invelop her as well. In panic she tried to get away, but it was to late, she to was sucked into this world as well.

Lilisheb fell through the skies and landed right on top of Entity_303, crushing him under her massive, yet soft, body. “W-what’s going on?” She asked randomly. “Welcome to another adventure that neither of us wanted.” Said Odina who looked somewhat surprised to see her. Suddenly was Lilisheb lifted up by an angry Entity_303 who both lifted and threw her away, straight towards Odina, she tried to stop herself from being crushed, but Lilisheb was to big for that. She was quick to remove herself from Odina though.

Sariel flew in and dropped kicked Entity_303 in the face. Sending him flying. “I’ve never been able to do that!” She said excited, she was pretty happy about having legs right now.

Odina took a look around. “Guys, we’ve come pretty far away from the village and our little golem army. We should be careful.” She said in a bit more worried tone. She looked around and spotted a big lake of lava and ran towards it. “It seems like his biggest skill is in his hax, we could maybe trick him into being pushed into the lava.” She stated. Herobrine soon arrived as well. “That’s a good idea! As Fart Garfunkel said “Let’s cook him up good”.” He stated with a childish smile.

Entity_303 spotted them. They were all standing in a group, Ranamon had joined them as well. He jumped towards them, his scythe standing high, ready to slice down on them as he flies towards them. He was getting near them and he readied to strike, and immediately fell into the lava on his own by accident.

The entire group began to laugh at the sight of what just happened. “Are you serious?” Asked Sariel still laughing. “After all that!” Said Odina chuckling. “FAIL!” Shouted Ranamon. “Again, in the words of Fart Garfunkel; “See what did i say? No skill!”, ha!”. They all continued to laugh, until a hand erupted out of the lava, and Entity_303 started to pull himself out. He was very angry and the others immediately shutted up with the laughing. “I’m sorry, what was that?” He said bitterly. “Nothing.” replied Lilisheb nervously.

Entity_303 charged out of the lava and started to attack again, striking out against Ranamon who was quick to grab Lilisheb and use her as a shield. She in return screamed in fear. “Calm down you’re indestructible!” Said Ranamon, as she just blocked his scythe in time. Lilisheb smacked him away with her large hands, though it barely seemed to do anything to him. Herobrine teleported to Lilisheb. “Put this on.” He said and handed her some diamond armor and a sword. Even if she didn’t really NEED the armor, she’s practically indestructible.

Ranamon was fighting with Entity_303 in a one-on-one fight, and it was here that he spotted something. He wanted to try something, using his hacks, he was able to “corrupt” the everyone, except for Ranamon who seemed to be immune, which was odd, since she should have been the easiest to effect, being made of pure data and all that. It was also here that he noticed her eyes, they were the same as his own.

He teleported himself and Ranamon further away from the others. “Interesting. I didn’t expect to see you again, my daughter.” He said, much to the shock of Ranamon. “What are you talking about? We have no connection, nor have we met before!” She said bitterly. “You don’t think so? Take a look at your eyes and than at mine. I created you, i stole a portion of the ancient legendary warrior of water, combined it with that of a weather program and my very own data. Why else do you think you’re so powerful or have it so easy hacking into anything mechanical? You have inherited that from me.” He said in a chilling, sinister and prideful voice, like a mad scientist who’s a bit to happy about his creation, and Ranamon felt a chill go down her spine. His focus was caught off when a large red claw smacked Entity_303 away. Ranamon looked up and saw two giant monster. Kuwagamon and Kabuterimon. “What are you two doing here?” She asked in surprise. “The scientist of the Task Force X, Soundwave, said you might need help, so he send us to aid you.” Kabuterimon replied. “Took him long enough to open that stupid gate honestly.” Said Kuwagamon. Ranamon looked at them both for a moment. She hoped they could keep themselves calm. Kuwagamon and Kabuterimon had a great known rivalry with each other. She just hoped they could push that aside for now. “Do you two think you can hold him for a bit? I need to make contact with Shockwave.” She asked them, both nodding in response and went after Entity_303 who was fighting Odina and the others.

While all the others were fighting Entity_303, made Ranamon contact with Shockwave. “Shockwave come in. Do you hear me?” She asked over the communicator. “Yes i can hear you. What’s the problem, besides you’re fighting a hacker-god?” Shockwave replied, keeping track of what’s going on from his screen in his lab. “Can you find any info regarding Entity_303 and me? Is it really possible that he is responsible for creating me?” She asked in a slightly worried tone. “I’ll take a look into it. For now, you just focus on trying to get rid of him and this “Null” creature.” He ordered before starting to look up information about the two of them. “Understood.” Ranamon said, before going back to help the others. She still had a bad feeling about this whole ordeal.

Odina ran towards Sariel. “Sariel, can you focus all of you arcane energy into this sword?” She said and pointed at her own blade. Sariel nodded, already knowing what she was planning. Sariel flew into Odina’s sword and it began to glow bright. Odina, now with the charged up sword with Sariel inside, charged forward, while Entity_303 was to busy fighting both Herobrine and Kuwagamon, and impaled him in the back with it.

Entity_303 let out a blood curdling scream, which only grew worse as Sariel started to release herself from the blade, her arcane energy streaming through Entity_303’s entire body. Her began to glow more and more, until he was steaming white like a white dwarf star and exploded like a supernova, sending Odina, Herobrine and all the others flying. Left from where the explosion was, sat only Sariel on the ground, exhausted and tired from what just happened.

Odina went over to her and picked her up. Odina could tell that she was out cold.

Null was still around and with Sariel in this state, she would not be safe. Odina took the opportunity and absorbed Sariel into her body, growing greatly in width and mass. Though not much taller.

Shockwave made contact with Ranamon again. “Ranamon! Null is still there! I’m afraid that you’ll need more than what you’ve got now! I’ll send some digi-orb ups to upgrade you all!” He shouted in what sounded like panic. Ranamon wasn’t sure what was going on, but she could tell that it was going to be very dangerous, and most likely deadly.

They all heard what sounded like clapping, and they looked up and saw Null walk towards them. “Well done,” he said in his calm yet threatening tone, “you managed to defeat Entity_303, at the cost of one of your own. I am very impressed. Herobrine usually is close to dying when he manages to fight him off, but this time, you all made it and only got a little bit tired. Though the question is; are you prepared for nothing?” he stated, before at blinding speed charging into Herobrine and send him flying into a nearby snowy mountain wall. He was gasping for air when he landed, Null had hit him hard, as bits of blood came out of his mouth.

Kuwagamon went on the attack, but Null easily grabbed the large insect’s arm and flung him into Kabuterimon like he was nothing.

Null ran forward, preparing to strike Odina, but Lilisheb jumped in front of her despite her great fears. Null’s fist hit her in the stomach, and for the first time in life, was Lilisheb actually bleeding. Lilisheb looked down in both confusion and horror. She had been on many adventures and had always been categorized as being indestructible, which was why she was always used as a shield even if she didn’t like it, she couldn’t break. She was a shoggoth after all. But right here and right now, she was bleeding, someone actually managed to harm her!

Odina looked in horror as well as her friend was wounded. “I-i don’t understand! Nothing should be able to harm her!” She said in horror.

Null laughed a bit and looked at Odina. “You just said the answer. “Nothing” can hurt her, and i am nothing. I am void. It was out of nothing you all came, and it’s into nothing you all will go. The people of the multiverse are builders, but look into their hearts, and you will find that they also have the power to destroy. I am that power, i am destruction, and i will destroy you. But first a little history lesson. When i say i am nothing, i am being literal. I existed before The Great Four, Azathoth, zeedmillenniummon, Primus and God, even created the omniverse. Shoggoths like Lilisheb over there can’t be hurt by anything that came after The Great Four created the omniverse and the Elder Ones, but since i came before, i am more than capable to hurt creatures such as her. For i am nothing, and nothing can hurt her. As for why i am here, The Great Four didn’t like how i kept consuming the universes they created, so they decided to imprison me here. You may not realize it, but minecraftians are among some of the most powerful creatures in the universe, being capable of lifting multiton of universes like nothing, living on planets that has black holes as their core and so on. Making them both the ultimate wardens, but also makes it so that these pocket worlds are the ones with the least amount of void in them, thus weakening me. Now then, now that i have told you all that. Should we get started?” He said, before preparing to strike again.

Lilisheb was scared and horrified. Sure, she was easily scared before, but this is very real. All the other times, deep down she knew she was indestructible, but not this time. This creature, could actually do her harm, and worse yet, none of them was safe.

Suddenly, two bright lights appeared in the sky, it was the digi-orb ups that Shockwave had send. They flew into both Kabuterimon, Kuwagamon and Ranamon. Their skin seemed to be ripped of, as they all digivolved to the next stage, and the missing skin was replaced with some new, alongside some new features. Ranamon had become a giant, kraken-like digimon called Calmaramon, while Kuwagamon had jumped over the perfect level and gone straight to ultimate, now taking the form of GranKuwagamon, Demon of the Deep Forest. Kabuterimon had done the same as Kuwagamon and went straight to ultimate, becoming HerakleKabuterimon, the Insect Kaiser.

The three digital kaijus jumped at Null, preparing to fight him with everything they got. Meanwhile could Odina feel that Sariel was regaining her strength more and more, growing inside her, causing her body and mass to increase more as well, adding a bit more power to her. Lilisheb, being a shoggoth, is already powerful, but she decided to unlock a greater portion of her power to fight Null, even though she was afraid of losing herself like Cthulhu and so many others did. Herobrine was Herobrine, so he just did what he was already doing.

From beyond the screen was Shockwave watching. He was in full blown panic and not sure what to do. No one else was able to be send in there to aid. Kuwagamon, Kabuterimon and Ranamon was the only digital lifeforms they had in the Task Force X, or at least at the moment, so sending reinforcements was out of the question. His thoughts were everywhere at once, as he watched them all fight Null, punching, smashing, stabbing, slicing, blasting, electrocuting, they threw everything at him. How could Null fight all these powerful creatures at once, and still look like he was having more fun than he was struggling? He was fighting against The Demon of the Deep Forest, the Insect Kaiser, the Legendary Warrior of Water, a powerful and ancient shoggoth, (while true Lilisheb didn’t have much combat experience or instinct, she was still powerful by any standards or meaning), a powerful human being powered by an angel and Herobrine himself, and yet he didn’t seem to slow down at all! It was than Shockwave remembered something that Null had said, and he got an idea. He went to the computer and started hacking every network and computer he could get his hands on.

HerakleKabuterimon, GranKuwagamon, Herobrine, Calmaramon, Odina, Lilisheb and Herobrine all battled Null, but even with their increased powers, they could barely do anything against him.

“It looks like your time is running ou-AARK!!!” Null suddenly shouted. The others looked in surprise as Null suddenly fell to the ground.

“What’s going on?” Asked Odina, and Herobrine looked at her with a smile.

“Calmaramon’s friend has hacked the entire network of Minecraft. He’s causing trillions of new worlds and servers to be spawned in by the second. Null’s powers are drawn from void, and every world and server lessons the amount of void that’s present, not to mention creating a sort of barrier to the void outside of Minecraft.” He replied with a hopeful smile as Null’s powers was weakening thanks to Shockwave’s actions. It wasn’t long before the entire network of Minecraft crashed in on itself, shutting it off from the outside worlds and universes.

“D-does this mean we might be able to defeat him?” Asked Lilisheb, who had begun to lose hope through the fight. The news made it return a little bit.

“Yes.” Answered Herobrine, and prepared his diamond military pickaxe.

Even though Null’s powers had decreased significantly, was he still a powerhouse of a creature.

The earth started to shake, as Null’s head suddenly shot out of his body, attached to a large void tendril. Soon many other tendrils erupted from his body, and the void and shadows flung up into the air. Null was now a whirling vortex of void, shadows and destruction. A screaming mash of tendrils, parts, objects and many other undistinquinsible things that could not be defined. All of it, twisting in and out of itself, going in all directions at once, and seeded out destruction like a horseman of the apocalypse.

Null summoned void-like creatures, that took the form of various creatures or people. Such as creepers, zombies, illagers, rahis, gnaars, skaarjs, aludran reptiloid, siths, demons and orcs, but also people such as Shockwave, Skullgreymon, Darth Vader, Megatron, Myotismon, Vriska, King Highblood, Ultron, Galactus, Thanos, The Joker, Darkseid, Doomsday, Yellow Diamond, White diamond, Cthulhu, Eliphas the Inheritor, Abaddon the Despoiler, Mugendramon and many others from all across the multiverse. There wasn’t one, he didn’t have access too. Including void clones of Odina and the others.

GranKuwagamon looked at HerakleKabuterimon and than at the others. “We’ll take care of Null’s army. The rest of you should finish him off!” He said, before flying towards Null’s army alongside his rival HerakleKabuterimon.

Odina, Lilisheb, Herobrine and Calmarimon looked up at Null’s highly unstable body. Between all the twisting and turning of no-existing mass of tendrils, parts, storms, vortexes and objects, they could see a mask with three holes in each cheek and two larger holes that seemed to be eyes, where dark yellow eyes pieced from, the mask itself was black and grey, almost as if it was infected. Thinking about it, the way the mask looked, reminded Lilisheb of some of the infected items, mostly masks, that made various creatures and people alike turn berserk right before The Cataclysm that tore the multiverse apart started, especially the rahis. Even some of the greatest and noble heroes was turned into killing machines by those things, maybe there was a connection here.

That was a thought for another day though, right now they had to fight in order to survive.

Six wings sprung from Odina’s back. Sariel was back to full power now, and was ready to help! She, along with the others, attacked Null, but kept at a distance, mainly using ranged attacks, in order to avoid being consumed by the endless vortex that was his body. He was far from defenseless though, as he used every weapon in his arsenal against them. Heat vision, laser vision, disintegration, fragmentation, poison, fear, anger, sleep, hunger, lightning, chain lightning, darkness, cyclones, gravity, illusion, confusion, magnetism, Mind Reading, molecular disruption, plantlife, plasma, Slowness, Sonics, stasis field, teleportation, vacuum, weather control, power scream and many more, he used them all!

suffice to say, after just a few minutes of fighting, where Odina and her friends already bleeding and gasping for air. This was not looking good.

Odina looked at Herobrine, he was laying on the floor, with his weapon besides him. She picked it up. She helped him up on his feet before giving it back. They all got up again and looked at Null, they could almost tell that he was gloating, as he openly showed his mask.

This was the opportunity they had unknowingly waited for, Odina just needed to give one look to the others and they knew what she wanted.

Odina took her blade, and filled all of Sariel’s energy into it before blasting it out in a beam of pure arcane energy. Lilisheb did her best to collect as much eldritch magic as she could, before following Odina’s footsteps and blasted it all towards Null’s mask. Calmaramon used one of WarGreymon X’s abilities and summoned the biggest Poseidon Force she could possibly manage before firing it at the direction of Null’s mask. Both GranKuwagamon and HerakleKabuterimon had been overrun by Null’s army despite their best effort, every time they had killed a thousand, a million more was ready to take their place, but GranKuwagamon aimed at Null and fires a barrage of explosive beams from his wings called “catastrophe”, as well as a large plast from his mouth called “dimension scissors” in the shape of its pincers. While HerakleKabuterimon fires his Giga Blaster. Lastly, Herobrine poured all of his strength and power into his diamond military war pickaxe and began to spin it around for a throw. All the beams fired hits Null’s mask, causing the entire whiling vortex that was his body to vibrate violently, and finally throws Herobrine his pickaxe with all his might and it hits Null right in the center. A loud crack can be heard, and soon the explosion disappears, and the pickaxe drops to the floor.

“You can’t destroy me. For i am, Nothing.” Null called one final time before the vortex, as well as the shadows, disappeared. Null was gone. At least it seemed so.

The army that had swarmed GranKuwagamon and HerakleKabuterimon had disappeared as well. The sky was clear once more, they all looked around. None of them could feel or sense the presence of Null anywhere.

A bright light began to appear and Odina felt herself suddenly being sucked through it, and not to soon after, she and Sariel had been separated and sat back on the couch in front of the tv-screen once more.

Odina looked down at herself, was it all a dream? No, the cuts and slashes was still there. She would have to get the blood cleaned up from her clothes after this, but for now, she just wanted so badly to relax now that this, in her opinion at least, stupid adventure was over! This had to be the one where she was the closest to dying, and properly also the most traumatising. Though she couldn’t relax yet, as the tv jerked and moved. “What now?” She asked annoyed and irritated.

Suddenly was Herobrine shot out of it and landed on the floor. He awkwardly got on his feet and looked down at himself, he almost seemed to cry, and Sariel couldn’t blame him. “I’m finally free!” He said in an overjoyed voice. Though his joy was interrupted when Ranamon was shot through the tv and hit him in the back, causing both to fall to the floor. “Sorry about that!” She said as she rose up, before realizing something. She was still in her original form, in the real world! Whenever digimons interact with the real world, after the barrier between the two worlds got thickened by a lot, it often has to be done through robots and such, to which they could upload and store their data into. There was only either a few cases or “loopholes” in which a digimon can enter the real world in their real forms. She wasn’t sure how, but apparently she had found one.

After a few seconds was it Lilishebs turn, her massive body hit all four of them when she was shot out, mushing them all under her soft body, yet big, body. She rose up quickly, looking down at herself. This so called “adventure”, had been the hardest for her out of everyone involved. There was still a few scars were blood could be seen. Odina and the others could understand if she wanted to stay hidden from the world or something for a while, because it was indeed terrifying. Sariel did her best to begin healing both Odina’s and Lilisheb’s wounds.

It was than Ranamon heard something and looked at the tv. It was pretty much jumping until it landed on it’s back, and she knew what was about to happen, she had completely forgotten about the other two! And now was both Kabuterimon and Kuwagamon, who both had returned to their normal forms like Ranamon had, erupting out of the tv, crashing right through the roof, like the kaijus they were, causing a little bit of panic to the people outside who saw them just suddenly erupt out of the building. Digimons weren’t, as stated before, commonly seen outside of their robot suits, and so it could cause a bit of panic when these semi-eldritch creatures suddenly appear in their true forms. Not to mention that the kuwagamon-specie is known for their aggressive nature and hunting habits.

Ranamon looked at the others in the room. Odina looked like she was about to explode. “Well, uh, i guess i gotta go, before people start calling the special forces on me and my friends.” She said in an awkward tone as she grabbed her phone. “Shockwave, please get us out of here and back to base. FAST!” she said in a slightly panicy tone. Soon enough, a purple train appeared, and Ranamon jumped inside, while Kabuterimon and Kuwagamon had to sit on the roof of it. Soon, the train, along with the three digimons, disappeared once again, leaving Odina and the others alone back in her half destroyed home.

“I’m so fucking happy this is over!” Odina said frustrated. “I kinda have to agree.” Said Sariel. Lilisheb simply nodded. Odina turned off the council and went to bed, while Lilisheb just laid down on the couch and began to read something random. She just grabbed a random book, which turned out to be a Donald Duck comic. Sariel went into the kitchen and prepared some coffee, and took some into Odina as well. She put Odina’s cup on the table, while she put her own on the drawer next to the bed. “That sure was something.” She said, looking at Odina who was still pretty angry. “Honestly, it was only because of you and Lilisheb that it was bearable.” Odina said out loud. “Want some Sari-pats?” asked Sariel. “Sure.” Odina answered with a little smile, as Sariel began to gently pat her. They were both exhausted and neither of them noticed that they both dozed of to sleep before long. There would be a bit of confusion the next morning though.

Meanwhile, back at the Task Force X’s headquarters, was Ranamon sitting with Shockwave. She looked rather worried. She finally rose her head and looked at Shockwave. “Is it true that Entity_303 is my father?” She asked concerned. Shockwave looked at her before talking. “Yes, that is true, but it shouldn’t matter. He wasn’t in your life up until now, and just because you have his eyes, doesn’t mean you have his soul. Your soul is your own, not his, yours. He is not close to be a family to you, even if you two share data, he is not your father!” Explained Shockwave, and he was kinda right. When it came to people she knew, Shockwave and Reyes both kinda felt like fathers to her, as they both took care of her and looked after her, even if Reyes’ dad-jokes can become quite annoying. Seriously most of the organizations founding comes from a “dad-joke jar” made specifically for him.

Ranamon looked up at Shockwave. “Thanks.” She simply said. “No problem kid.” He replied, as he watched her leave the room, most likely to either go relax after everything that happened, or to got to Harley Quinn for her therapist session. Shockwave knew though, that this would be a bit of a hard blow for her. He just hoped she could pull through.

(Twitchy thoughts!

this was an excellent read; thank you for going to the effort of writing this; it came out quite well and is an excellent, fun read!

You pretty much nailed Odina’s personality and how she generally interacts with others, and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of the mods she mentions; I’ll probably wind up using them myself, should i ever play minecraft on the PC. her relationship with Sariel is very good and has a good contrast/complement vibe.

The huge fight, the scope going on here and the somewhat existential threat is the most true thing of Crossthicc’s vibe I can think of. This is how it should be going, honestly! Big, epic fights against cosmically horrifying entities of mysterious purpose and origin

from what i’ve gathered, Null drops some sort of hint or reference but, honestly, it went over my head? sorry, I’m not good at reading into things or noticing sub-text

minor side note; given that Herobrine isn’t actually a character in minecraft, you could make the argument that there are digital worlds within video games, perhaps using the basis of the game (mechanics and/or setting) to form the foundation of the world? good way to either do Digimon or having a similar set up?

[myfriendpokey]

zine thoughts pt 2

where do you sell videogames? zine fairs, children's book stores, used record marts, from the trunk of a car like rudy ray moore, on etsy or on craiglist, with flyers on the wall of the local chip shop or library. through awkwardly hammered-together handmade electronic systems or the reverse, turning your game into a jumbled set of paper text and graphical fragments which can be sold in boardgame stores as some kind of reconstruct-the-narrative puzzle. you could make one-off bespoke games or game simulacra for movies that want to depict some kind of videogame being played onscreen without having to go through the licensing rights. you could ghost-develop games for wealthy people to put their names on ("american mcgee presents my life with princess diana by donald duck"). you could develop training games for the military-industrial complex, ha ha ha ha. you could get funded by the CIA to ensure the medium of videogames remains sufficiently arty and rehabilitated to function as propaganda for capitalism... i mean we already know they were involved with the paris review and iowa writer's workshop and all that jazz so they gotta have least a couple people on the payroll already, right, and we will all be treated to some very entertaining revelations following the inevitable freedom of information act request 15 years down the line. you could try connecting with the little self-contained fan communities for things like touhou, fnaf, undertale, m-minecraft, like those renaissance artists who had to drop their patron's face in the background of some religious scene except in this case it would be one of the homestuck guys. you could make "trainers" for more popular games, or demos that could show how they "feel" without a $60 investment. you could sell small games as assets for larger ones that want to have some kind of in-universe  playable arcade system without having to invent a whole new game from scratch. you could just make extremely specific forms of pornography, maybe not the worst option even, just make sure the very artistic sequences of the protagonist remembering his dead wife are broken up every now and then with scenes of him unhinging his jaw to swallow and slowly digest another, smaller sad games protagonist whole (with rumble function for controllers!!!). you could make games for all the people who are still on windows xp or earlier or have some kind of arcane video card setup that prevents them playing anything other than that one preinstalled pinball game. you could try selling them at street vendors. you could try learning another language and making games for non-anglophones that don't sound like an english-written game that was localised without much thought after the fact.   you could make games for kids in the hopes that they sexually imprint on them enough to support your erotic oil paintings of the characters 10 years later, just like nintendo. you could make an extremely interesting and thoughtful videogame and then offer not to release it if the donation threshold is met, thus sparing people the emotional obligation of having yet another thing on their should-play-this-eventually list. you could develop games with some bewildering system of in-game and real-world currency interactions and then sell it to the mob as a way to launder money. you could make videogames that robots record themselves playing to upload en masse which are then watched by other robots as part of some weird, ungraspably abstract SEO economy, or better yet make robots to make the videogames as well. you could make virtual cemetary plots either private (downloadable exe) or public (hosted on the server) with their own customisable mood-themes and weather settings (dark, stormy, remember-you-will-die; sunny, quiet, circle-of-life etc). you could make prosperity orbs. you could make games for office workers or call center staff which resemble excel documents or phone system frontends from a distance. you could make games which really ARE excel files, some dense collection of interlocking hidden formulas that change to display text and ascii characters as you tab your way through. you could probably talk your way into "adapting" any of those old IPs that still float around long after anyone stopped having any particular thought or feeling about them at all, like the flintstones or ziggy or something, maybe do like those 1960s superhero cartoons where they just filmed panels from the comics - just break a 2d flintstones cartoon into constituent elements and have them hover around in a little cutout diorama that you fly thru, possibly explained in-universe as representing the 4-d vision of the great gazoo. you could make games that play themselves, for the depressed. you could become a ghastly serial m**derer where after each crime you upload a new game to itchio which will reveal the  name of your next victim, and costs only $9.99, and of course everyone buys and plays it because the police have put up a reward for solving the crime because they can't get past the dinosaur on level three, and all seems lost until some plucky young computer student who found the game on a friend's hard drive manages to solve the riddle hidden within the game's structure, following the clues, to an old castle, she knocks on the door, it's opened by, yes, it's will wright, wearing a wizard outfit, who tells her that by dint of solving all the puzzles she is now invited to join that mysterious organization known as "The Elect" which is assembled from the finest minds in all game design with a view to secretly controlling the world economy (via "werewolf blood", somehow), that she need only complete the ceremony by sacrificing one untutored soul, he holds out an ornate knife, she hesitates........

the question is where to sell videogames rather than how because for the most part we already know how - there are a million more or less instructive articles out there about hitting up conventions or talking to the press, and it's not that they're wrong, exactly, more that they expect to be applied in an environment that no longer exists. but what should preface and qualify the idea of sheer volume swamping the indie games market is that, outside of a few small pockets, there never really was an "indie games market" to begin with - indie games drew and mostly still draw on the existing videogames market, rather than constituting a new one. it's telling that the glory days of indie games were just the ones where they were able to draw upon some of the same privileges larger titles already had in the ability to access that same audience - being frontpaged by steam, say, or making it onto a comparatively closed console platform, or generating earnest thinkpieces... you could say that they were tapping into structures the industry had already built but had not yet occupied to full capacity.

of course there are exceptions and various efforts to set up new economies for small weird interactive things (like patreon, or game bundles), and some efforts to reach outside the existing games audience likely were successful - but when we think of indie games "functioning" economically, whether that means supporting a small team, a single person, or just hitting minimum wage per hours spent, i believe we're mostly still talking about ones which are built around the existing games economy. which is fine, but i think it's also intrinsically precarious in ways which maybe get glossed over in discussions of the "indiepocalypse" - are all those new steam releases really causing a problem or are they just exacerbating a structural limitation which was already always there, a reliance within the indie game economy on a certain lucky-few-ism which just became grossly more noticeable the more disproportionate it got?

of course it's easier to be dismissive after the fact, and my fantasy about "where" to sell videogames is partly a fantasy of them having a location to begin with - of attaining something of the grounded and immutable appearance of the non-digital, as though brick and mortar stores  don't have a relationship to the likes of amazon as basically precarious as any online storefront. and there are also real and obvious reasons why the various videogame audiences all tend to clump together - similarities in terms of the hardware required, the inputs allowed, of visual and cultural reference points, to say nothing of the personal / professional histories of the people involved in each. we are all contained within "the medium"...

so maybe it's also a fantasy of starting to pick apart that conception of the medium. i think small game developers already have more in common with artists or musicians working on the fringes of their respective industries than they do with even moderately successful teams within the same format, and use similar language, engage in similar forms of practice - particularly as near everything  comes increasingly mediated by the digital these days. i think they already ARE working in similar spaces to some extent, whether it's social media sites or digital storefronts or meatspace stores pushed by necessity not to specialise. and without wanting to be paranoid (or moreso than the CIA thing, at least) i think we should be cautious of the way a certain focus on mediumicity can obscure these overlaps.  a "new medium" is one which inherently pushes against the image of one as grouded ahistorically in some eternal human verity or other (where each medium supposedly embodies some different mode of perception / medieval humour / ninja turtle etc) - it is to see firsthand the way in which supposedly eternal, neutral qualities are materially constructed, which includes seeing forms of social organisation and usage become mystified into extrahuman conditions.  and given their basis in technology that includes drawing from wider trends in the use of that technology as a whole - which specifically, in tech circles, can mean more and more tightly interlocking systems of proprietary knowledge and speculative capital, as well as "new mediums" constructed so as to be inseperable from some storefront, website or monitoring technology. i don't think anybody will necessarily break even taking their games to a zine fair (not that they're breaking even now). but i do feel like trying to build networks across those medium boundaries could be more valuable in the effort to build some sustainable environment for these things than any amount of reform within the house that tech built.

[PS: it occurs to me that you could plausibly argue that the very bagginess of medium-centric formulations is what makes them valuable, in forcing many different groups to butt against each other on one platform rather than just disperse into echo chambers. but i think exactly the reverse is the case: nobody really engages with each other's work in artgames because the stakes are simultaneously too small and too large. they're too small in that however much i might be picky about another person's work - and i think it's this vague pickiness or sense of not-quite-right-ness that drives the most searching critiques - it still feels pointless to pursue that instead of the glaring, omnipresent faults of the big AAA players, which means more complaining about far cry for all eternity. and they're too large in that most small game development is so precarious that it's not really worth the risk of knocking someone out of the circle over penny-ante shit. only with both economic security and broad similarity of outlook can a truly vital,  human culture of spiteful cattiness begin... our day will come]

(image credits: Eco Fighter, World Heroes 2 ,The Space Adventure, Nancy)

[sapphire-knight]

YES AND IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER!

I'm trying to summarize what happened since the 17th rn, hope it's gonna be understandable, so:

- Wilbur is now a Ghost, Ghostbur, and doesn't remember a lot of the stuff he did while he was alive, remembering only happy stuff

- Tubbo, Quackity, Fundy, Ph1lza and Tommy are rebuilding L'manburg

- One of the new whitelisted, CaptainPuffy, did a lot of pranks around the server teaming up with Dream and wanting to frame Tommy for it

- Quackity seems like he is possessed, he wants to rivive Schlatt and use him basically as a political puppet, but he didn't act on it yet

- Fundy's familiar storyline comes into focus to punch us in the face, because Ghostbur doesn't remember a whole lot about him and he's hurt, people keep reminding him that he's an orphan and Philza is trying (and succeding) at being a good grandfather for him. Eret wants to adopt him, but during the day of the adoption he didn't show up (it was thanksgiving day and basically they didn't tell him it was the day of the adoption so he was with his friends) so angst ensues but also Phil being a great grandfather ensues

- Someone new is whitelisted, Ranboo, and the day he has to get toured around he ends up burning down George's cottage with Tommy and joining Fundy in a scam

- in the same day, Niki and Puffy had a super chill minecraft date and they opened a flower shop :D also Niki is Ranboo's big sister

- in case you didn't know (I do not remember if it's said in the summaries), Fundy and Dream are engaged, but it's strongly suspected (and basically implied?) that Dream is cheating on Fundy with George. But the marriage is still up, the video comes up on the 5th and recorded on the 4th.

- Techno is outlaw in L'manburg

- Dream didn't take well that George's cottage got burned down, and once he discovered it was Tommy's fault he used it to his advantage, trying to get Tubbo to exile Tommy from L'manburg or Dream will rebuild the wall and take away L'manburg's independency

- Ranboo got no repercussion because Tommy covered for him, saying that he acted alone and that Ranboo wasn't involved

- Tubbo tries to get an agreement with Dream, putting Tommy under prohibition for three weeks and he has to report everything he does by writing in a book he has to give to Fundy, and then Tubbo will discuss the thing with Dream on December 2nd

- let's go to December 2nd

- The meeting is actually going well, Dream seems alright with Tubbo's decision on putting Tommy under prohibition. They come to an agreement that Tommy will stay under prohibition, and if he behaves well he will tear down the walls, if Tommy fucks up he will enlarge them. It's going well, right?

- But Tommy has an idea

- Tommy still has Spirit's leather (Spirit was Dream's horse on the SMP, that leather was one of the most valuable intems in the server for him) so he tries to basically threaten Dream, saying that if he doesn't tear down the walls and leave them be, he will burn the leather, but if he acts well Tommy will give it back to him

- it seems like it's working, Dream start to tear down the walls

- but then he just starts building it again, bigger than before. Dream is angry. He snaps at Tommy for trying to threaten him, claiming that he doesn't care about anything on the server now except for Tommy's discs, daring him to burn the leather right there in front of him and giving Tubbo an ultimatum: he has 3 days to decide if he wants to exile Tommy, if he doesn't, then L'manburg will lose its freedom and the people who live there will not be able to exit the city again, or Dream will personally kill all of them.

- Tubbo and Tommy have a really ugly discussion, they still didn't actually made up

- They will chose on the 4th tho (today, like rn in stream) bc Tubbo has other things to do on the 5th

- Quackity apparently gave born to a montain (do not ask) and he wants to build there "Mexican L'manburg"

- Dream dethroned George publicly, putting Eret back on the throne, saying that he's doing that to protect him, wheter he means it or not is not clear

- George is not too angry, but Sapnap is furious. He already was starting to doubt Dream because he said that "the only thing he cares about in the server are the discs". Both George and Sapnap join Quackity on Mexican L'manburg. Dream technically stends alone.

- later Dream joins again and he and Quackity have a political discussion, Quackity popping off there tbh

- Today is the day of the decision. The poll Tubbo made on Twitter wants to exile Tommy (but it's like a 56-44 thing), they are deciding right now

- Tubbo is indecise, but Tommy wants to fight, and has proposed to get Technoblade on the battle. Quackity agrees. Fundy seems to agree too. Tubbo is still indecisive.

- Tune into either Tommy, Quackity and Tubbo's stream

Ranboo: I am Homeless

Ranboo: I have short term memory loss

Ranboo: I am half enderman

Ranboo: And I am new in town