#etho single player

[daily-ethoslab]

[196]

PFT stupid sensor

[smallest-turnip]

u_u

[hermitcrossovers]

etho stared at the immobile body lying before his giant redstone-powered tamagotchi face. he shuffled his inventory around for a few moments, crafting a stick out of wooden planks.

hesitantly, etho took a few steps closer to the maybe dead body. whose chest didn't show any signs of movement, to poke it. the body, under further inspection, was an older teen with a buzzcut coated in a thick layer of gunpower and ash. any sliver of visible skin that etho could see that wasn't cybernetic parts was covered in deep purple-blue bruises.

prodding the teen in the shoulder with the stick resulted in a heart-wrenching gasp and the teen lurching up and away from the foreign touch. his arms flailing, confused if he needed to attack or defend.

etho took a few steps back to give the panicked teen some space. it took a few moments for the teen take a few deep breaths and shakily stood up, mismatched red and blue eyes met his as he scanned the area. the teen's eyes flashed with fear, taking a step back before his shoulders straighten out, face flushing red with anger.

"who the hell are you and where am i? this isn't limbo." the teen snarled out, wide eyes searching for a weapon to defend himself.

etho let out a strained laugh, shifting even more back, "i was about to ask you the same thing. my name is etho and you are currently in my single player world. i was hoping you knew how you ended up here."

the tension leaked away from the teen's shoulder the more etho talked. "i'm jack, jack manifold from dream smp. dunno how i got here really, just fucking died yeah? this bloke ran his sword though my guts. terrible times, terrible times," jack joked as he looked around taking in the jaringly different sight from the war-torn crater he just left, "thought there would be more fire and brimstone, all the works when i died. not all this fancy building shit."

"oh, snappers." etho said in despair. knowing that his peaceful life would be ruined, maybe beef would take the angry teen off his hands.

-mod tides

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we are hosting a two-year anniversary event from august 12-13!

[hushberry]

big weekend for the mcyt girlies. we're getting etho in mcc on saturday, followed by the qsmp election results on sunday ^_^ content overload!!!

[single-malt-scotch]

listen i will always tell people to watch Etho Ziseau terraria lets play but should be said much of my own EZ content is based off dated 8 year old ask blog lore nonsense but. still.... EZ season 1, EZ season 2 :)

[lorephobic]

does docm77 know what he did for gay people everywhere when he organized the first ever ethubs collab

[gaytubboswag]

looks at the 26 videos in my watch later "hmm im bored i think ill watch technoblade! "

[stingyslegslookweird]

honestly i’m so behind on hermitcraft that you could tell me basically anything has happened and i’d believe it. all i know for sure is that they’re on season 6 or 7 and grian’s there now.

[wasyago]

something about etho's armor trims in his single-player world just makes me so happy. he's wearing them big boots ^_^

[apollos-boyfriend]

not only should cyan change their skins to all match etho, but i think every single player should show up in ethoslab cosplay

[athanmis]

etho's dream

i had this dream sequence planned for etho, one which shuffled through each life series season.

of course there would be tragedy with scar attacking etho in the nether and bdubs dying in last life. this moment, with joel and etho appears in the middle of the dream. the significance behind it is that etho would have just met joel in a different reality (where he fell alseep), perhaps one more like ours. the dream would end with etho falling off of sky net and just as he hits the ground he jerks awake.

he originally woke up in the zombie apocalypse au started by falconearring but i think he could wake up in any au, the upcoming life series, hermitcraft, or even his single player world. anything could work cause you know i love the edginess.

the song is "ayxita, wake up" by yves tumor.

thank you my brain is rotten😊

[daily-ethoslab]

“Man these are some tough questions im being asked today…” [247]

[kingjullian-3]

This was a season of curses being broken. Jimmy through a technically was not the first to die. Grian as far as I’m aware did not kill or be the direct cause for an allied death. None of Scott’s allies this season won.

Lizzie was the first to die. Forgotten by the watchers, left to suffocate in the thin air of the void. Her death had been a complete accident not many people even noticed or felt sorry. Her death also wasn’t the start of chaos, but neither was Jimmy’s. He died during the chaos, and a watchers last ditch effort to see through a curse that shouldn’t have lasted.

Grian didn’t have many allies this season. The only real ones being Cleo and Etho. Every other season he has had a strong alliance almost the entire season. This time? It really wasn’t till session 4/5 when he made any real connections. However he still trusted Etho and Cleo as if they had been his allies the whole season, stayed with them despite his history. Everyone knows of Grian’s Icarus curse, doomed to cause a ally to fall. But they stood by him, never dying as a cause of him.

It’s common knowledge that in every other season, the winner had somehow been connected with Scott. The Flower Desert Alliance, Scott himself, Pearl was his soulmate, Martyn had been the other Mean Gill. Yet Scar never really had any real connection to Scott. Sure they got along, but I wouldn’t call that an alliance. Scar turned his back on anyone who sided with him in a way.

This season was more about healing than anything else. Curses were broken, more than just those 3. Joel didn’t have his signature red bloodlust (as far as I know). It’s also important to note the implication regarding the forgotten duo as I’ll call them.

Lizzie and Grian were both forgotten in a way. No-one showed up to Lizzie’s birthday party, A single person really cared that she had died. Lizzie has been forgotten by everyone. The watchers, listeners, and players alike. This ultimately lead to her unfortunate demise, trying to fill out a task given to her by Joel.

“He was never meant to be there, he was only ever meant to watch” that line alone sums up almost the entirety of Grian this season, especially session 7. During the curse of the boogey, they only thought of Scott and Cleo. Sure he was mentioned in passing, but no one ever really looked for him. Etho realised that Grian had been forgotten when he looked to the sky and saw the changed platform. His way of apologising was by letting Grian complete his task freely.

Grian watched carefully from the safety of the cobblestone tower as the rest of the server was in chaos. Hunting for allies and enemies alike. Never once looking up to the skies. Just as a watchers should be. Watching. Never getting involved and forgotten to do his own thing. Perhaps THEY had successfully done one thing this season after all

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

@smoozie okay!!!!! i just finished figuring out every hermits godly origin so.

the basic premise of the AU is that every single hermit is a god, or a being of similar power (except for Xisuma, who didn't intend to be admin of a server of mostly gods and DOESNT UNDERSTAND HOW THIS HAPPENED TO HIM GODDAMNIT.) together, they make up a pantheon thats occasionally worshiped by members of other servers, which some of them lean into and others find very, very uncomfortable. It's also a "being worshiped makes you more powerful" setting so there's that.

specifics as to their origins:

BDubs - A living saint of the sun and its light. Inherits some small amount of divine power from this, and says that this makes him a god. The other gods, especially Gem (who helped to grant him this power) think this is very cute of him.

Beef - A semi-omniscient demigod who mostly acts in service of other, greater gods. His latest patron is Big Salmon, a "higher power" that he claims controls the concepts of the water, consequences, and commerce.

Cleo - All Cleos across the multiverse have been left in mental contact with each other after the Time Witch's ritual. They form a powerful network between them, altogether controlling the flow of time and space across the servers they intersect with.

Cub - Through blood sacrifice, poorly understood magic, and worship of Vex gods, rendered himself functionally immortal. This was a science experiment for him, but he'll take immortality if it's what the end result comes to.

Doc - Achieved code-warping levels of power after the successful slaying of a Developer in single combat. Xisuma frequently enlists his help in keeping the server stable, because surprise surprise, 26 gods in the same place of vastly different origins makes the code a bit unstable.

Etho - Shapeshifting trickster god. Old, though not the oldest member of the server. Sometimes claims that he's following a script handed down by beings above him, though most other members of the server think he's saying that to dodge responsibility for his mischief.

False - False and her sister Symmetra were natural-born deities, worshiped as counterparts. False is worshiped as goddess of victory, art, and the water, while Symmetra is worshiped as goddess of defeat, industry, and the earth. False hasn't seen her sister in hundreds of years, and over time their worshipers combined their iconography into a single god.

Gem - Gem is a dimension-hopping, shapeshifting celestial being with domain over nature and sunlight. She pretends not to know what other members of the server are talking about when they bring this up, and mostly uses her powers for LARP purposes.

Grian - Watcher. Has claimed the server as his own, and thus sustains himself on high-intensity emotions of its occupants. To sate this hunger, he regularly starts wars, games, and other server events.

Hypno - A mage who ascended to demigod status through feats of arcane prowess. Longstanding enemies, dating back to their mortal days, with Wels. Their feud has become more amicable recently, thank god.

Impulse - He and Tango have the same origin, having ascended as part of the Rule Our World challenge they were placed into. After the forces of the universe were done subjecting them to whatever whims crossed their minds, Impulse became the embodiment of achievement and industriousness, while Tango became the embodiment of chaos and games.

Iskall - Part of the first group of players that Developers ever made. Escaped the purge of the first players, and has been dimension-hopping and stealing power from different servers ever since. Technically still mortal, but has been alive longer than any of the other server members.

Jevin - A demigod, and champion of the demigod Wels. Jevin was granted some of Wels's power under the condition that he helped Wels bother Hypno, which Jevin is more than okay to do. When he's not using divine power to prank Hypno, he's using it to prank everyone else.

Joe - Has, on separate occasions, claimed to be both "the most powerful of the Hermits" and "just an average guy." When pressed on what made him more powerful than the gods and eldritch beings he kept as company, Joe just smiled and said "I'm Joe Hills, recording as I always do in Nashville, Tennessee." Nobody knows what this means.

Joel - Joel Thundercheeks of Stratos, an 11-foot tall deity of lightning, lore, and the skies. His abrasive personality and tendency to throw power around made some question whether he should be invited, but Gem and Pearl advocated for him hard. He's used to being the only god around, so he's a bit surprised that throwing his power around doesn't always work now.

Keralis - Fragment of an eldritch being, and the conduit through which most of its power expresses itself. Bridges dimensions, and travels through time as easily as it does space. Unclear whether he is aware of any of this.

Mumbo - Was a mortal, though he has rendered himself immortal through animancy. His own soul is bound inside of a golden heart inside of his S7 base, and he has supplemented it with a fragment of Grian's, making him part-Watcher.

Pearl - Santa Perla, goddess of flowers, the harvest, the summer solstice, and the noonday sun. Thought she was mortal until the Empires crossover, when she remembered her past queendom. Her life force is tied to the lands she cultivates, so she has taken careful effort to ensure all her bases are verdant and flourishing.

Ren - One day declared himself "the king of all gods" despite not having been a god before this. None of the other Hermits were particularly willing to challenge him on this since it seemed harmless. Somehow, though, news of it spread, and he has established a fairly thorough following across other servers as a god of leadership, trade, travel, and theater.

Scar - Ate God. Which one? He never elaborates. Oh, sure, he'll go into detail about, say, the recipe he used to cook God, but ask him which God he ate, or how he killed it first, and he just brushes right past it. His power can't be denied, though, so he must be telling the truth.

Skizz - Suffused with Withering Energy, and acts as a bringer of doom and despair because of it. Oh, sure, he's a really nice and supportive guy, and everybody loves him, but also things tend to collapse around him in dramatic and spectacular fashion. Hermitcraft has only survived because of the power of 25 other gods crushing any disaster before it happens.

Stress - Goddess of hope, beauty, and love. Unfortunately, she was cursed a long time ago by Iskall when they first met, adopting a monstrous form, which is worshiped as a deity of doom, evil, and hate. He's been very apologetic about it since and offered to help her reverse the curse, but she's overall very happy with the state of things. They've become very close friends.

Tango - See Impulse. Unlike most gods, who become more powerful the more they're worshiped, Tango draws power directly from the souls of those who perish inside his games, which has made him somewhat giddy about the concept of death in general.

Wels - A knight and folk hero who ascended to demigod status from the pure gratitude of those who he saved. Considered a patron of justice and protection. Over the years, he's become bored with this, and gotten into quite a bit of mischief. See also Jevin and Hypno.

XB - A mortal godkiller. He ruthlessly hunts gods outside the server in order to make them answer for their crimes against mortals. Within the server, he also occasionally kills the others, just for funsies.

Zed - Avatar of Death. Controls the process of respawning, though he often gets so distracted that he forgets to actually pay attention to it, leaving some players in limbo for quite a while before he remembers he has to pay attention to their souls.

[nerdyenby]

Fun Facts about Limited Life ep7 deaths (spoilers)

There were a total of 45 deaths this session

Grian got 10 kills - the highest of any single session thus far

Scott came in second with 9 kills, all of which were pvp

Joel got the third most kills (6)

Joel had 7 deaths this session, the most any player has gotten in a single session

Scott had the second most deaths (5)

Etho, Grian, Impulse, Jimmy, and Skizz are all joint third with 4 deaths each

The only person who didn’t die at least once this session is Pearl

All three permadeaths this episode were different types (according to my sorting system); Jimmy- natural causes, Skizz- consensual, Joel- pvp

[prokopetz]

One of the bits of rules tech in Eat God that I'm particularly proud of is how it handles effects that could potentially mess with player agency.

Basically, the rules are never going to unilaterally dictate how your character behaves. The choice always rests with the player. However, if you run into a situation where you're not sure how your character would react, or if you're okay with leaving it to chance, you can make what the rules half-jokingly term a Saving Throw.

To make a Saving Throw, you roll a single die flat against whatever Facet seems most appropriate. Does my character anticipate the obvious consequences of what they're about to do? Roll Ethos. Does my character give in to peer pressure? Roll Pathos. And so forth.

If you succeed, your character does the smart thing. If you fail, your character does the dumb thing. However, it's not just a roleplaying aid because you still get the effects of making a test, too: most importantly, if you fail (and are thus obliged to do the dumb thing), you regain a point of Obstinacy, the game's primary meta currency, just like you would any other failed test.

Thus, it's still 100% optional – you never have to let the dice dictate how your character behaves – but there's a soft incentive to do so because you get more resources that way, and it avoids the sense of arbitrariness that often accompanies "good roleplaying" incentives by a. leaving it in the player's hands when to invoke it, and b. attaching the potential reward to a concrete mechanical outcome.