I've been watching Hermitcraft for a few years now and I know most of the major lore stuff, except for one thing that continues to elude me
What happened to Bdubs and Etho (maybe other NHO people too, but those are the ones I know something happened to) in the Jungle of Season 5?
"you seem like the right person to ask abt what happened in the nho jungle" what could've possibly given that away?
well ur right. i can tell u!
what happened in the nho jungle is, basically, nothing.
due to various irl stuff (burnout, family member death), etho, bdubs, and beef all ended up dropping out of s5 mid-season, or at least, some time before the season ended, and none of them returned for season 6.
however! bdubs had. some lore(?) he was doing where vines were gradually growing on his skin, enveloping him almost completely. and so it became fanon (and, in s6, questionably canon*) that the nho were all taken by the jungle.
*the canonisation of this comes from the convex! who were the quote unquote enemies of the nho. they had beef (no, beef was in the nho) with each other for various reasons, but the nho obviously vanished, altho doc continued using the nho name in s6 by himself for stuff to oppose concorp. but there's a bit witht he area 77 stuff when scar is showing doc his alien that he found in the jungle, and there's an etho head (and possibly other nho heads? i cant remember) along with redstone (blood) in the pit that the beast is in. and then scar makes some ominous comment abt things going missing in the jungle, implying that the beast ate the other nho members. yknow how it is.
if someone has this clip on hand that'd be awesome
🐝 (I think bee was the fake fic title?) "that's the way the cookie crumbles"
OH GIVE ME A MOMENT TO PHRASE THIS SUMMARY BUT LIKE. OKAY. SO IT HAS TO BE ABOUT BIGB. OKAY. SOMETHING LIKE.
BigB has several things he'd like in life.
- To have people he can trust (somehow, despite everything).
- To have people who can trust him (somehow, despite everything).
- To be able to hold things close to his chest when he needs to (this contradicts the first two things).
- To live (this contradicts everything else).
What can he say? He's a bit of a romantic, can't you tell?
BigB has several things he'd like in life. He's yet to get them. But hey--maybe fifth time's the charm.
For me, Etho's like brownies. Each episode-brownie is slightly different, but the same delicious dish. Some are crispety crunchy, some are warm and gooey, some are perfect corner pieces- but they're all still chocolate, cakey brownies! When I know I'll get to eat one, when I can smell it in the oven, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy and buzzing with excitement, and eating one is very, very seldom disappointing (I don't want to say it's never disappointing, but I can't remember a time I've been disappointed by a brownie or an Etho episode or appearance)
I love all these little discriptions. you're right about the brownies tho!
SHADOWBEANS!!! they are married they are sooooo married. i don't really care for it much in 3l/ll maybe cuz they don't interact too much? but in empires they're super cute and while they didn't get married in s2 i'd still like to think joel had a huuuuge crush on her :3 it depends on my mood is mainly bcz i do have some scary thoughts about S1 and various Issues they may have but it's nothing insanely bad they are still so perfectly in love forever and ever until the rapture hits and ruins everythinf
New excerpt from my Last Life musical! This is from Song 12, Their Dubious Game. Leading up to this, Joel has become the first Red name and the server is ostracising him, as per the rules of the season – however, Scott finds this a little suspicious, recalling his time on 3rd Life where Red-Green alliances were prominent. For the first time he starts to doubt if the games are really what they seem.
Lyrics:
SCOTT:
In spring, I dwelled, with my husband long ago
We lived among the flowers, no thought for sand or snow…
But then he fell to red
That should have meant the end
If the world truly matched the rulebook in our heads
Yet still we stuck as one
Our tie was not undone*
And looking back, I can remember
A fealty shades could not dismember
Red, crimson, gold, all indifferent we stayed
The king did not turn from his kingdom,
With sun and sands, the swindler remained
What changed were the rules, not the game we all played…
*thank you @rurus-kadoo for helpful tweaks with this line!
Extra notes:
THIS IS NOT THE FINAL PRODUCT! I'm not sure I'm entirely happy with all of this so there will be tweaks made.
The voices at the start are a chorus of players singing the previous song, "Green, Crimson, Gold", and will have lyrics as well but they're not included here possibly because I haven't written them yet, so they will sound less messy. This is because the two songs take place at around the same time and I thought it would be a good way to show it + it sounds cool + it shows Scott's attitude to the game compared to various other players, who aren't defying anything and are completely following the rules the game has set.
There are some glitches in the audio, eg 0:42, but they're either in the voice parts which means they'll be fixed during the recording process, or in the parts, which I can fix with splicing in production.
I don't think you have to watch 3L to understand this (though it would probably enhance it and I really recommend it, it's still my favourite Life series) – it is mentioned a few times in the musical but only as "the spring", and not extensively. Everything important that happened in it in relation to this will be explained in said song, and the first song implies that there have been multiple games and that this one takes place in the autumn "red leaves to mark the colours of the first to fall", so hopefully it's not too hard to figure out what "in spring" refers to. I'm following a headcanon I saw during Last Life that 3L took place in spring and LL in autumn, which I really liked but can't remember the poster (help would be appreciated).
That being said feedback on the above point (whether it's clear to understand or not) would be appreciated!
Likewise what it means to be red, etc, will be explained earlier in the musical.
I have alluded to a slight headcanon of my own in that (especially Last Life!)Reds aren't made aggressive, untrustworthy etc just by being Red, it's because that's what everyone just perceives of them as well (I have around 100 words of a fic I started for this actually...).
And yep there's a reference to the first song here (the titles of "the king" – ren, and "the swindler" – scar, being used hehe)!
The reference you have for Three scs's mask goes to a 404 link, do you have the image saved?
so, i can at least find the reference in my discord conversations! this is the reference i was using, although you can use another version of the idea of "red venetian harlequin mask" as needed, the more important thing to me was the general vibes here than the exact mask!