#3rd Session

[eydilily]

small victories ^^

[eluminium]

Bro that Clock question was VILE. What are the CHANCES?!?!?! Imagine some new fun thing gets introduced to your world with a cute little robot avatar and the FIRST THING it does is ask the traitor you've just forgiven a question about your deepest mental scar that just happens to be related to betrayal AS WELL. AND THEN YOU'RE THE ONE WHO HAS TO STEP FORWARD AND ANSWER IT. BECAUSE YES. IT WAS YOUR CLOCK. SCAR GAVE BDUBS YOUR CLOCK TO CONVINCE HIM TO BETRAY YOU. IT WAS YOUR CLOCK.

IF GOD THE WATCHERS GIVES THEIR HARDEST BATTLES TO THEIR STRONGEST SOLDIERS THEN IMPULSESV MUST BE BUILT LIKE AN ENTIRE COMMERCIAL FREEZER.

[racsiniy]

Pretty little things wilt away

unfiltered / no text under cut

[iwoulddieforienzo]

Personally I think percabeth is at its best when Grover is in it. I don’t necessarily mean in a polycule way I just think it’s great when he’s around

[ladidatt]

This session was something for sure! I was constantly bobbing between ecstasy and depression. (I was left in depression as mumbo died😢). What with the almost pointed questions (why did the bot have to do scar like that) and the mace alliance (is it even an alliance?) it all seemed a bit specific to desert duo. Can all that really be a coincidence? Here's my headcannon.

The watchers made this series to mainly feed off the emotions of the players. Out of all the emotions they have had, grief was their favorite one (they generally preferred negative emotions). So, they put them in a game that one could not really win.

The first season was Grian's win. To the watchers this was almost perfect (the only thing they were unhappy about was that Grian had won). After killing Scar he was a sea of grief, and the watchers could feast.

The second season, they considered a failure. This time Scott won. They would have preferred almost anyone else. Even after winning the death game he did not have much negative emotions. In fact, he had a sense of victory. The watchers out of anger and shame killed him on the spot.

Double life was much more successful in their eyes. Pearl had given them a constant stream of negative emotions. Upon her death she left behind a huge amount of rage and not enough greif. She even left behind relif. This was far from perfect.

In limited life Martyn gave them a huge mocktail of negative emotions, but his cons overweighed his pros. He was aligned with the listeners. He asked much too many questions. Upon his win they sped up the clock and waited him to die. He left behind grief but it wasnt nearly enough.

Scar constantly radiated greif and lonliness in this season. They decided to keep him and feed off him until the next games. But they still longed for the huge amount of grief that had cured their hunger for weeks during the first game.

I think real life was not something the watchers had control over. It was a regular minigame conducted by the players which they subconsciously built to resemble the watchers games.

In wild life, I feel the watchers are chasing that perfect formula they had in third life. Renchanting is back, and they are trying to bring desert duo back through the bots and stuff. They had tried the same in double life but that had failed. They hope for better results this season so they can once again make them kill each other.

[silly-guy-tendencies]

Something about 3rd Life desert duo that has been going through my brain lately is how they both know how bad they are for each other. They’ve just accepted it. They’re ruining each other, but in a death game such as this one, it’s more meaningful. It’s a devotion to ruining each other. Grian and Scar are both impulsive in their own ways. Scar in the way that he wasn’t careful around dangers, and Grian in the way that he put himself in front of those dangers. They both knew what the outcome of this game would be. They knew that they were hurting each other. They knew they would die. They knew all of this, yet they stayed glued together throughout it. At the time of when Scar killed Grian, Grian had been furious and hurt. Yet he still didn’t kill him. Scar was ready. He’d accepted that Grian would kill him right then and there. Yet he didn’t. He couldn’t. They were hurting each other more and more yet they refused to leave the other’s side to the very end.

[salemelas]

some old dnd art from last year that i can share now, since this npc's face is no longer secret. howell adamos be upon ye.

[morrigan-sims]

who says adventurers can't dress cute?

aka: "I spent almost three hours giving Zen new outfits and took 140 screenshots of them."

[noisesfrombeyondtheuniverse]

If someone tried to summarize the entirety of 3rd life what do you guys think the most important parts from session 1 would be

[redrapscalian]

Scott, biting a stalactite like a carrot: Potato

[archive-rat]

the Watcher’s poorest little meow meow

[eluminium]

hey, just a fun little pattern I noticed in Secret Life... Impulse keeps failing his tasks in the exact same ways he fails to win a season. He has a plan, he executes it pretty well, but is always brought down by another person screwing him over. Always so close, and yet somehow out of reach. The first task he failed? He completed it, only to spill his secret to Tango right after. And Tango did nothing to stop him. He won, but couldn't go all the way. The second task? He completed it, only for Skizz to call him out on it and sink the entire operation. He did it, and yet he still got nothing out of all that effort.

Compare this to all his final deaths in the series.

In 3rd Life, he was on a good path to victory, only for Bdubs to infamously kill him.

In Last Life he may have died way earlier but it has a similar pattern. He releases the Wither without getting hurt himself, and with a loyal ally behind him. Only to be shot by Scott who shouldn't have been able to kill him as a yellow name because Impulse wasn't specifically attacking him. A sort of betrayal by the rules of the universe. In Double Life, he came third and was in a 2 on 1 fight against Pearl. Only to die because Bdubs axed him and dealt too much damage to them both to survive Pearl's attack. Betrayed by Bdubs yet again.

And finally, in Limited Life he came second, the closest ever to victory. He could have won that season, if he and Scott hadn't been betrayed by Martyn. So close, yet so far away.

Impulse's biggest enemy really is himself around other people. He just loses brain cells by the second. That, or the Watchers really like seeing this one man be betrayed, intentionally or not, over and over again.

[sodaneko]

friends tell me lore about a tattoo of yours

[izelthewashbear]

Canary's thrill, the first to kill - chapter 11 (fragment)

A long chapter again, but I like this one! A lot of lore! Yippie!

"Please don't kill my teammate, that's not nice..." Jimmy teased, flying just above Martyn's grave. He looked down, but the body was already covered with a layer of soil. "Ahhh shucks, I didn't get to say goodbye..."

"What are you doing here, Jim?" Ren grunted, his ears pinning down and the fur on his tail bristling.

"What do you think I'm doin'? Celebrating!"

"Oh, cut it off!" Cleo immediately fired back with an annoyed expression. The canine looked at her, trying and failing to hide the shock on his face.

"Yeah! You're so excited that you're not the first one, you have to make it everyone's problem?" Gem rolled her eyes.

"It wasn't even your kill!" Joel pointed out "What are you happy about?"

"What's with you all? This is the whole point of this game, to kill each other! And suddenly all of you are upset that I'm not dead yet?" the phoenix hissed, landing right over the edge of the not fully covered hole.

Grian pulled away several meters from the group and looked down at his wristband. He really needed to message someone, someone who wasn't even here... When he noticed something. The tip to his superpower was gone, but it was replaced with simplistic icons of Martyn and Ren. But why? And what did that mean? He squinted, then clicked the first icon and looked back at the group.

"You told Scar to do it, huh?"

"You're acting like a lunatic!"

"What's going on, Jim? This isn't you!"

He could hear them as if he was right next to them... He could even hear their breathing, rustling of their clothes, clang of the weapons they had on them. Immediately, the realization clicked in his head. Silently, as to not bring too much attention to himself he sneaked into the group, then deselected Martyn's icon and chose Ren's. A few more little pictures appeared, and at that moment, he knew full well what to do.

[piglinmyfeet]

Joel in every life series ranked on how immoral he was (not including SL)

1. Limited Life

Killed a lot of people, pretty immoral guy honestly. I guess you could call him a bad boy

2. Double Life

Also killed a fair few people, killed Pearl right after she surrendered, burnt the jellies, not a great fella overall

3. Third Life

Really not that bad in the grand scheme of things, he didn't kill anyone, his only real charges would be attempted murder and arson (and probably illegal backyard breeding but that's a whole separate thing)

4. Last Life

The most moral of the Joel's. He did nothing wrong. All those people he killed were justified, he's just a girl in the world, fellas, you can't hold him accountable, I forgive him and you should too (please, this is my last life joel propaganda post)

[cingulata]

I didn't want to let Pride month go by without an update to my fic, so here's chapter 3! Featuring some Zoot backstory. And breaking into the Mallory Gallery... again.

This chapter's song:

If you've been following along and enjoying the fic, comments are super helpful so that I know people are out there reading!