#quackity smp lore spoilers

[fallen-elytrian]

The code fundamentally misunderstood Phil

It saw how protective Phil was. How calculated and careful he was, the precautions he would take, the paranoia he had, how dedicated he was to keeping his eggs alive.

Surely, this meant that Philza would hesitate. That he would see his children, see their faces, and lower his sword. That he would let them wreck havoc because he couldn’t bare to see them die

But no, this is Philza Minecraft. This is the Angel of Death. This is the man who conquered the world. A man who keeps his heart close to his chest but knows who his friends are

A man who would do anything to protect his family and friends

And the code dares, dares, to impersonate his kids. To put on their skin and their faces and smile and wave and put on a grand performance. The code dares to mock him. To gloat. To say “I look like your kids, you wouldn’t dare harm your kids, would you?”

But it’s because the code looks like them that Phil attacks. If it just showed up as the code monster, he’d still attack. But it would be more calculated, more careful. He’d ask why the code was here, what it wanted, he’d wonder what it’s angle was

But it’s impersonating his kids, his kids, and Phil can’t hold himself back. The code signed it’s own death warrant. “This is for impersonating my f-ing son.” Phil couldn’t bare to stand the mockery of his children

It was the worst thing the code could have done. It thought it knew Philza. It thought it was dealing with a paranoid father. But it isn’t. It’s dealing with a father who’s a warrior, an emperor, a protector. And daring to challenge him is the last mistake the code will ever make

[winter-mornings]

Dread

[zandlikething]

I can't it was supposed to be a chill day with Chayanne and I come back to all this shit going down. Luffy asks for help trying to find his friends (Fit, Tubbo, Bagi) the one eye f***s come and try and take Luffy back to the big eyeball man who Luffy doesn't like. And then right as we think it's over the federation comes and forces Luffy to go with them while holding Phil back with a lasso.

Wednesday will be interesting. I really hope Chayanne will be ok and that rose can protect him and Taulluah. Phil just got them back and I know he won't let them go so easily.

I loved that Chayanne was watching over Taulluah while she was sleeping. Best sidings ever ❤️❤️❤️

Poor Chayanne

Father and son bonding is so cute. At least they have Rose looking out for them. I hope Phil can rescue Luffy and that Chayanne and Tallulah will be safe.... But knowing this island I am kinda scared for Wednesday.

Only time will tell

[infernothechaosgod]

that nether raid was honestly so fun?? Like everyone was there?? And they acted so cool??? And theyleftfoolishbehind-

THE GODDAMN SERVER IS SO SO COOL I LOVE IT AGHHHHH BARK BARK BARK RAWRRR RAWRRR BARK BARK

[spiritofboredom]

The new rule implies that ALL the eggs have matured to the point where daily tasks aren't needed.

If they even needed daily care in the first place... Tallulah.

I think that if Richarlyson was supposed to be younger, he would have gone through a daily care period, which wouldn't have been as hard for the new members since they share custody.

We see a lot of effort is put into the lore and secrets of the server so, I don't think they would just drop the ball on this. I think the eggs ALMOST died when they disappeared, hence the cracks, but something or someone stopped/rescued(?)/changed the minds of the federation for them all to end up back in the adoption center.

Am I overthinking and this probably was just a change in plans since Quackity saw the severe reactions of the streamers? Yup

[clay-the-pot]

slimecicle - the fool

if you have ideas for other tarot card designs send an ask :)

[kall-me-tord]

Estou fazendo um Docs que explica TUDO do QSMP desde o começo, se quiserem dar uma olhada :).

[dolmoonphin]

Matryoshka MV Ft. QSMP

Me duele el qlo de estar tanto tiempo sentada beso

[anonymous-dentist]

Okay, now here’s a crazy qsmp theory:

The qsmp duck? That’s Quackity.

For one thing: duck. Self-explanatory.

But there’s one problem, and it’s that q!Quackity is a seemingly-unknowing participant in the explicitly canon human experiment going on on the qsmp. And the Duck? It’s a mascot, but it’s also the ‘host’ of the island. It’s a stand-in for the experimenters, think Usami/Monomi from Danganronpa 2. How could that be Quackity if Quackity is participating in the experiment itself?

This is where it gets crazy.

So far, we have confirmation that this is an experiment. Watch the video announcing the egg event and come back. This is an experiment, and the eggs have been consistent across this and the previous experiment. That comes from the lore teasers from before the smp’s announcement. There were eight eggs/eight players (it’s unclear) before, and now there are 16. The experiment’s scope as increased. What’s important, though, are the eggs.

Q!Quackity’s character arc properly began only after the death of his son Tilín. Everyone else doing major plot had their arcs start prior- take q!Roier and q!Luzu as examples here. He’s been consumed by his grief to the point of desperation.

And his kindergarten’s homework assignments are on the official egg tasks list.

And he’s been saying not to trust Cucurucho/the Census Bureau Creature since day one.

And he explicitly dislikes Arin/AI Luzu.

And Arin is where this theory starts becoming super weird, because he can see the server’s “code”. Combine that with the literal code monsters flying around hunting him down and trying to kill the eggs, and the message during the funeral that said to break out and remember, it’s pretty clear that the qsmp is an electronic simulation with its members as unknowing and possibly unwilling members of a human experiment. Every member added got the digital ticket to the island through minecraft and in a digital version of their streaming setups, except for Quackity, who was only properly announced the day of the server’s start, and for Rubius, whose announcement poster was a glitched mess.

Q!Rubius is the devil/angel with creative and spectator mode, and with connections to God/Satan. While he and Cucurucho don’t seem to get along, they are on the same side, more or less. When Juanaflippa was essentially promised a life from Rubius, she was declared dead at the funeral, much to q!Slime’s anger. And when q!Maximus asked at said funeral what was going on, Trump responded with “I don’t know, but they’re strong…” These guys? Sus.

But back to Quackity.

This last bit is very Anime, but also he did say that he was inspired by Attack on Titan, and so I feel like I’m a little bit justified when claiming that the q!Quackity we see now is the same person as a hypothetical Experimenter Quackity. It’s a bit like Kamukura from Danganronpa 2 if you think about it, or a bit like Eren from Attack on Titan. Spoilers for the end of AoT, but it’s made canon in the end that, the whole time, Eren has been looking back from the future and has manipulated the series in that way. There are an infinite number of timelines because of this. And then with Kamukura, he’s literally the experimenter plugged in with amnesia into the virtual experiment. It writes itself.

Just why Quackity is doing this is unclear, though maybe it has something to do with the multilingual nature of the server (vape wizard, anyone?) or the eggs (again, his character arc only kicked off after the death of Tilín, which could mean that he’s going through these experiments to try and make a world where Tilín lives.)

But, hey, that’s just a theory- a game theory.

[octavianstar]

A New Au?

Hello hello...it's been a few months since I've been active. And lately I've been kinda busy lately with my life as well as other things, and I am probably going to be very offscript on this since this isn't a Twisted Wonderland AU.

I know, it's been a while since I update it however there will be more posts coming soon I promise. And it will take some time too, so thank you for your patience.

Soo in this Au is a Damp x Qsmp crossover, but here's the twist.. Both the Qsmp eggs and the Damp Children are the next generation. Meaning they would particularly take up the roles of either their parent(s) or role models.

Such as..

Shroud (the spider) as Tommyinnit

Chayanne as Technoblade (and possibly Philza)

Tallulah as Wilbur Soot

Michael as Tubbo

Leonarda as Foolish

Juannaflippa as Slimecicle

Tilin as Quackity

And so on. But of course in this au there will be practical changes along the way to make the Aug a little more sense. Like with Dapper and Skeppy Jr. are likely to be brothers, or have a strong brother-love bond that would stick together like how Bbh and Skeppy's friendship is felt with.

And Chayanne is a possible chances of both being Philza and Technoblade (cause I am not sure who else might be Philza) but I would think since he is canonically one of the older eggs in the Qsmp, it would make sense that he would be 'the older sibling' of the family dynamic with Tallulah and Shroud (despite shroud being the actual oldest but has that gremlin energy like Tommy). Having a little fun idea of a Gen AU of the SBI family dynamic.

Also for Tilin and Tallulah, this will be more of a sisterly rivalry/enemy energy because I wanted it to be. The reason that being it would be very weird and creepy if this becomes the next TNT duo (However it can be just a enemies to friends trope, no romantic relationships nor any intentions of this matter.) ship since they are both have a sort of 'fatherly bond' relatively or not with Quackity.

As for the other eggs (Bobby, Pomme, Richarlyson, Ramón) will figure out which place/roles they would want to be.

As for Our favorite egg, Gegg, it would pretty fucking funny if he's secretly be either Dream XD that would probably be an absolute menace to Leonarda or rather tragic if he (Spoilers if you haven't watch the Dsmp Lore) becoming the slime version of Slimecicle after getting pushed off by purpled.

Oh, which reminds me. There is a possible chances that Drista would be Dream. However she would be a very good Dream XD, but I'll mainly let you guys decide.

There will be more intel of this Au because I wanted to be a little fun experience and a fun experiment to try out and see how things go. And I will perhaps see what other updates I can do and also find some roles that might fit for the story (and perhaps bring some cameos from other smps).

Other than that, I hope you'd like this idea and hope to see a little more ideas about it. But yea, I'll be back with more updates soon. Until then, I'll see in the next one!

[fallen-elytrian]

Wow I can’t believe tnt duo stays winning

[quackalee]

5/8/23: General HCs will most likely keep changing to keep up with lore! However, there has not been any lore to separate eng!quackity and esp!quackity yet so for now this is just q!Quackity. (out of character)

You there!

Yeah you, you snoop!

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Hey there! :]

The name’s Quackity from QSMP! Is it Quesadilla SMP or Quackity SMP? (Hint: The handsome, gorgeous, too stunning for this world option.)

I mess around to have fun.

But no matter how things will change, one thing stays chronic: Big Ler Q! Yes, thank you, thank you. Hold your applause!

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General HCs

I’m a very, very tall and muscular man!!!1

Yes, I’m a duck, and no, you can’t eat me

You may be wondering if I ever take my beanie off… The answer may surprise you… No!

I banter with people no matter how well I know you so you’re in for a real treat!

I flirt occasionally but it’s nothing serious, promise

Still a bit sentimental about Tilín but trying to move on

Wearing Tilín’s old red ribbon on right wrist

1% Richarlyson’s Father and trying to get a higher percentage

Apart of project ‘Imortalyson’ to try and keep Richarlyson alive

[subject to updates]

Lee HCs

Immediate giggles if caught off-guard...

Affectionate teases? Gag. Oof. Hard Pass.

[redacted]

Ler HCS

Big, big fan of tickle games. Chasing? Check plus!

Laughs along with a lee. Who can't?

Loves the way lees giggle and smile it’s just so arghhh?/??!

Not a big fan of anticipation, would rather go for the kill

[redacted]

A Master at Work

A ram confronts a duck

Something’s wrong with Philza

Battle of the Lers (Spoiler: Q wins)

Eating some porkchop

Uno.

Potion incident- Holy shit there’s a baby??

Nightmares and New Discoveries

Blog Tags

[username] - reblogs and roleplays with a specific blog

asks

q's artwork - art done in character :]

rp starters - beginning of a thread of roleplay via reblogs

rp - posts related to roleplay content

q!quackity - roleplays relating to QSMP Quackity

preq!quackity - roleplay/interactions that are outside of the QSMP

dsmp!quackity - roleplays relating to DSMP Quackity

in character - out of roleplay posts or tags as Quackity

out of character - any posts or tags as an admin

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“Not only do I know you like flowers, I know that you like purple lilacs.” 🪻

[ao3feed-crimeboys]

Shout At The Wall (Cause The Walls Don't Fucking Love You)

by UnpoeticLoneliness

At this point he could very well move into the group home, he thought, swallowing harshly as to get rid of the lump in his throat but to no avail. In the corner of his vision, he saw something moving on the wall. He turned his head to face the atrocious wallpaper and blinked at what he came to face.

Big black letters appeared where flowers used to be, the cursive letters spelling out a word, Are. Tommy stayed deadly still, watching as more letters appeared, forming a whole sentence, Are you okay? --------- or; Tommy just wants to be loved, who cares if the text on his walls is the only one willing to give him that love he so desperately needs? (and what if the text leads him to so much more?)

Words: 5904, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Dream SMP

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Wilbur Soot, Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson | Philza, Cara | CaptainPuffy, Niki | Nihachu, Alexis | Quackity, Jschlatt (Video Blogging RPF), Henry the Cow (Dream SMP), Duffle, Shroud, Micheal - Character

Relationships: Wilbur Soot & TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson, Cara | CaptainPuffy & TommyInnit

Additional Tags: Tags Contain Spoilers, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Foster Care, Foster Child TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Memory Loss, Unreliable Narrator, Lonely TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit-centric (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit Needs a Hug (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit Gets a Hug (Video Blogging RPF), References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Religion, Implied/Referenced Suicide, no beta we die, Alternate Universe - Gods & Goddesses, TommyInnit is So Done (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit is Not Okay (Video Blogging RPF), Brotherly Love, Brotherly Affection, Pet Names, Platonic Cuddling, Platonic Kissing, Protective Wilbur Soot, Protective Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Protective Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), Wings, Winged TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Winged Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), Winged Wilbur Soot, Winged Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), instincts, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Foreshadowing, Clingy TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Clingy Wilbur Soot, Crimeboys - Freeform, Evil Jschlatt (Video Blogging RPF), Wilbur Soot and Technoblade and TommyInnit are Siblings, Sleepy Bois Inc as Family, Panic Attacks, Wilbur Soot Loves TommyInnit, TommyInnit Loves Wilbur Soot, Immortality, Tomminnit draws

[infernothechaosgod]

LET BADBOYHALO COOK

Seriously dude is making some of the most logical and sence making theories rn, he points out how foolish is probably an escape goat for the federation so people will blame foolish more than they blame federation, it is a real issue that could accur and I am honestly suprised by him pointing it out, while others lash out in emotion bbh stays still Even under-reacts to some things to criticly think and make a long term plan

Petition to call baghera cellbit and bbh the genius trio? Cuz they def deserve it

[argcicle]

Hiya! I’m Stell, and I use it/he/they/neos (noted in my bio)

things I post about (crossed out means I am currently not watching these):

Minecraft SOS (POVs: Shubble, Owen, Lizzie)

Pirates SMP (POVs: Tubbo, Owen, Ros, Bek, Redoons, and Sausage); here is a link to duo names I use!

Slimecicle/SCU

The Sorry Boys

TSMP

Jack Manifold

Tommyinnit (mainly mod videos & vlogs)

Spittake/Bizly/Milomumbles

sideblogs :D

@stimcicle-boards: my stimboard sideblog!! feel free to request :]

tags :D

#fateposting: minecraft sos live-blogging and memes

#sos spoilers: any spoilers for sos smp

#ballposting: tsmp live-blogging and memes

#🏴‍☠️💜⚓���: pirates smp live-blogging and memes

#pirates smp spoilers: any discussion of spoilers for psmp streams will be tagged with this!

#maniposting: any incoherent wips or thoughts about c!jack manifold

#blueberry au: my schlatt/quackity/phil au with ghostza; full au here

#egged!jack manifold: my au where jack joins the eggpire

Disclaimer: I rb and may discuss DSMP, but I have not watched it which may cause errors. But feel free to talk to me about any lore or arcs! I do enjoy discussing what little I know about it. When I post about dsmp, all mentions of people are their characters unless specified otherwise

[becauseplot]

:D !!!

"He's learning it's fun." <-as a fan who has to watch the series that is a TERRIFYING way of thinking about it. Btw. But yes I can vouch for the fact that it is very very fun to hurt/kill characters sometimes. The whump subgenre of fanfic exists for a reason (man you have no idea the kind of shit I wanna do to Dagger ehehehehe). Killing off people's character is definitely scary tho. I was actually a little worried about how the players would react but they seemed to take it in good fun so! No hard feelings! Calango getting up and punching his chair just about sums up the overall feeling, yeah.

Yeah Liz had more control in that situation, she took a risk and yes she paid for it, but she had agency. Arthur was entirely helpless. He was scared and tried to fight and immediately got killed for it. "Humanly horrifying" is the perfect way to describe it, I think. Like, getting consumed by a flesh monster (Daniel) and being eaten alive by head-sized spiders (Christopher) are horrific ways to die, but being beaten to death by your "father" is uh. Eyeah. A very personal, real kind of horror that we don't actually see too often in this series. I suppose that's why it's so impactful and won't stop rotating in my brain.

Joui and Arthur should Not be okay lmfao. But, suspension of disbelief. We're here for the mysteries and horrors and combat and worldbuilding and the relationships between the characters, not necessarily the medical realism.

Ohhhhh I didn't even pick up on the fact that this was done so that Rakin wouldn't be left out of too much Plot/Lore stuff. This is one hell of a "filler" episode, I'll give it that.

Yeah the,,,, magic disability cure. I avoided commenting on it bc I don't have a disability nor do I believe myself to be educated/experienced enough on it to form an opinion in that respect, but I can definitely comment on the loss of character building and themes and symbolism and all that. (I certainly skated around explicitly using the word fhjdks.) And yeah, trust me, when Thiago got his hearing healed, my first thought was---well all of what I said earlier, but then my second thought was "ohhhh this town is fucked fucked, isn't it?" Like that is way too good to be true. I wouldn't touch this place with a 12 foot pole no sir.

(Idk if you saw it but I made a post after I watched ep 9 kinda talking about it more. I've already covered a lot of what I said there but the post does indeed exist. I was trying to be more optimistic and /silly than critical and /neg while writing it, so for that reason some of my points are a little muddled and I tend to mince my words. However, it more or less goes over my first impressions.)

LMAOOO CELLBIT IS STRAIGHT UP SLAUGHTERING THE "COSMIC" RULES OF THEIR WORLD SO HE CAN SUBJECT THEM TO MORE HORRORS LATER. GOOD TO KNOW. No but that's actually so interesting. I'm actually kind of glad that I'm mostly unaware of the mechanics he's butchering because I feel like if I did know, I might be tearing my hair out all the time lmfao. What you've told me about the original system is really fascinating tho!! Clearly whatever rulebook he's using is just a base for his RPG, and it shows in how busted the healing is in this series. Taking a wildly uneducated guess here, but I'm assuming that the story would be incredibly different if he stuck more precisely to the rulebooks. To be fair, the fights are very fun. Love watching them shoot the horrors they should do it more often(<-have nearly died in combat 547839 times now.)

Understandable!! Life is Life-ing, good luck out there o7. Also oh god spoiler landmine. And yeah, ao3 tagging 0(-( Also it reminds me of when all Minecraft and Minecarft SMP and MCYT fics were alllllll stuck under the fandom tag "Minecraft" on ao3. I think some of my older DSMP fics are still tagged simply "Minecraft" for that reason. We're spoiled nowadays with our "QSMP | Quackity SMP" and "Hermitcraft SMP" I tell you. Also that's so fucking funny to me: "Oh wow I sure do love osnf I'm gonna go on youtube to see if there's any animatics or analysis videos in English oh what's this 'All Ordem Paranormal Deaths Ranked' whOAH WAIT NO---" ((IN THE THUMBNAIL?? BROOO WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, THAT'S FOUL LMAO))

(I think I read the nonsense fluff for ep 8? The one about Arthur and Ceasar cooking? If it's not that it's probably in my "to read" tag or I'll go grab it from your blog/ao3. I'll go check rn. Thanks for the food and gl with doing things this week!! <3)

finished ep 10 of osnf (long post under the cut oh lord)

crying sobbing kicking over chairs screaming CELLBIT IS AN EVIL EVIL MAN WHY WOULD HE DO THAT. FOR WHAT REASON. POR CUAL RAZÓN. LO ODIO. <-said with the utmost adoration and respect of a writer but the fury of a fan who just had to endure all of that my hearttttt 0(-(

god fuck i have thoughts and feelings regarding episode 10 of osnf. obviously. i don't even know how to start.

okay. first of all the way that he was able to orchestrate the like 57839 different POVs of the nightmare happening at the same time was actually pretty smooth, all things considered. being able to forcibly mute/deafen the others is a good thing to be able to do yesyes.

second, im losing my mind over how he hides the fact that "it's all a dream" WITHIN the "it's all a dream" trope by having the creatures be manifestations of dreams/guilt in "reality" themselves. idk if i'm making any sense, but like, you get it, right? like, it's the fact that we thought we had already discovered the dream-based deceit in the segment because of what the "Hotelier" told Joui at the start of it, but it turns out that THAT was a red-herring of sorts for the TRUE dream-based deceit, that EVERYTHING was a dream, not just the creatures. god there are fucking layers to this im foaming at the mouth that's soooo good.

i guess that's what makes the "it's all a dream"-style trope present here feel less cliche. because, you know, it is a trope, and it's not really a trope that i'm fond of, but because there's actually more going on, it feels less cheap. what certainly helps is that the fact that it's roleplay, so the reactions from the characters are so much more raw, and there are some irl stakes (character dead = out of the series = can't play anymore). that definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat.

edit: something i forgot to mention—what i dislike abt the “it’s all a dream” trope the most is that it is very easily something that can be so, so cheap. all angst, no stakes or consequences, no lasting impact on the plot on the characters. however, not only is there a “physical” impact via several characters losing SHITLOADS of sanity (something not easily recovered) but we get to see a little more into the psyche of the characters. which i suppose is often the point of the “it’s all a dream” segments, but this dream—one with a lot of references to past major character death and itself contains major character death—rings especially true for the themes of the series: the world they live in is dangerous, and the work they do is lethal. people have and will die. and they do and will feel guilty, reguardless if they are at fault. it’s not a horrifying death dream just for the sake of being a death dream, it feels grounded in their reality, and i love that.

third, man he did not hold back. when Arthur was being beaten to a pulp by not!Brúlio, i was actually in shock, i was screaming. plus, i think the fact that Cellbit rolled a 001 when not!Brúlio attacked actually helped to hide the fact that this was a dream. it made it look like it was bad luck rather than the segment was designed to kill the characters (well, at least until he revealed that the damage was 1d4+1d6, but i'll get to that later).

gosh the narration of how not!Brúlio killed Arthur. holy shit. i don't. i don't even have words, that is DEVASTATING. that is probably one of the worst ways for a person to go. i know it's a dream but if i were Arthur i would be emotionally fucked up beyond belief. beaten to a bloody pulp by the father who once loved you so much, screaming at you for abandoning him and that it's your fault he died a horrible death. and then he drops your body on the ground like you're nothing but a pile of useless meat. god. damn.

and then Liz. ohhhh Liz. i just. i was devastated. her whole struggle with Alex, the man she treated so horribly. yes it's true the real Alex never would have said these things to you, but how do you know he wasn't thinking it? that he didn't want to? that what not!Alex says doesn't hold some truth? christttt. and of course the way she dies: in complete agony. and did she forgive herself? because, unlike with not!Brúlio, the creature turned into that weird wispy black thing just as she died, and i would assume that means she forgave herself (if those rules even apply considering this was all a result of the parasite's deceit (holy hell my brain is melting i am the man with the hand on the conspiracy board)).

fourth: the 1d4+1d6 thing! when he read that out, i was stunned. that is a LOT of damage considering all of the characters have ~10 HP. with an extreme roll, that's basically an insta-kill, or it's easily a two-hit-kill. i thought Arthur was unlucky, but when Liz also went down, i was---well, devastated, at first, because that's Liz, she's my absolute favorite and i love her, but i started going through all five stages of grief at once, and at some point i arrived at "no that can't be right" because Cellbit is a good writer. and to deliberately construct a scenario where it would be VERY hard for a character to survive while still in the middle of the story? yeah. and yknow the fact that there's still 6 other episodes fhdsjk. (then again the series continues regardless if a character dies and i haven't looked at other episodes' thumbnails or anything like that for this exact reason. so. i was going in as blind as i could reasonably be.)

in any case, realizing and connecting all of this and then hearing the "Hotelier" start yelling at Joui right after Liz died explicitly blaming him for it sealed it for me: this is a trick of some sort. this is a dream sequence of some sort. these aren't real deaths. (a smaller part of me was still scared that they were real because i know that Cellbit does not shy away from killing off his players' characters, if op and opq are anything to go by. but i digress.)

and then the characters turned to black goo. and i just about threw my computer. rip Luba who got absolutely targeted by the GM lmfao.

anyway uhhh that's about it regarding the dream sequence! loving luzidius!joui and how he just keeps switching back and forth. ((and it further supports my little side-theory that the mysterious blond woman last seen with Team Kelvin was a luzidious we win these.)) i was surprised to see Liz thinking it was so cool when she's been so suspicious of everything in Santo Berco since she got here, but i think she could definitely be using it as a distraction from what she just went through, and honestly she's just happy to see Joui is okay. (the way she gave on up words and just hugged him, the way she held his face in her hands, the way she dragged him down the hall to show Thiago and Thiago was just telling her to fuck off (/aff) because he was getting dressed, my heartttt i love these three, mentor-mentee dynamics my fucking beloved)

also new outfits! sweet! istg the new outfits are so Cellbit's way of apologizing for putting his friends through that. "hey sorry i killed your character in the most emotionally devastating way possible it will happen again wOAH LOOK AT THESE NEW CLOTHES AREN'T THEY SO COOL YOU SHOULD TRY THEM ON!!!"

i've been having mixed feelings about the sudden setting/genre change since the group arrived in Santo Berco. i really, really loved the urban horror-fantasy vibe that they had going on in op and the first 8 eps of osnf, but evidently, this is good as well. the genre is most definitely still horror yippee. i definitely miss the urban-modern setting, but i think i can get adjusted to this. (i'm just,,, not the biggest fan of the auto-heal crystals im sorry i had to say it they feel too op i know their use is limited to visiting the doctor but knowing they exist lowers the in-world stakes for me im sorry---)

anyway, ep 10! you beautiful monster! i have been typing for an hour! i need to go eat food! k bye!