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And just like that... our time together draws to a close.

That's right, just like the series it came from, this blog will now be going on hiatus! There are big things coming up in my future that will take me away from the internet for extended periods of time, and as the sole admin, I just won't be able to keep up unfortunately.

But fear not! The blog isn't going anywhere! Everything currently in the archive will be staying where it is, and perhaps one day in the future, we shall return to regular posting again.

In the meantime, thank you all SO much for coming along on this journey! Genuinely. I NEVER expected this blog to get as popular as it did when I started it on a whim over four years ago now. It's been an absolute delight to be here and I'm so incredibly grateful for all the fun we've had together :)

Until the next game~

❤️💛💚

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I've had this idea for a while...

I NEED a Life Series equivalent of the Game Changer episode "Samalamadingdong," in which every Lifer secretly goes behind Grian's back and creates an insane challenge series for him and him alone, as repayment for the years of insanity and torture he's put them through.

Make Scar be the final boss. Give us that delicious full-circle moment for the Desert Duo.

FANTASTIC.

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Trans life. Everyone has to make their skin "the opposite gender" and treat/refer to everyone as such (with the exception of Cleo) Trivia bot makes a return once or twice per episode (maybe every real world hour and a half?) but their questions are instead very probing questions about their gender identity and how this experience has been for them. This is primarily to get the lifers thinking about their gender. There's no wrong answer, but trivia bot instead gives much smaller rewards- however, answers that seem to promote more serious thought give slightly better rewards. One of rounds, probably in episode 5 or something, Trivia bot instead marks everyone as wrong. I just think that would be fun to make them panic. Other than that, it's 3rd life rules. This life series can be how we crack ethos egg. I know it.

"This life series can be how we crack ethos egg. I know it."

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princezam is there. that's it. i saw how she was in chained life (run by saparata and friends), she would thrive there on every life. i believe in her

I believe in her 🫶

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Half life smp, basically the map decays from the outside in. This of course means that in the last episode all the reds are sqooshed together in a tiny section in the center of the map. Inspired by my pre calc teacher talking about hypothetical “third-life” problems as opposed to half-life problems when we learned about exponential functions. I felt like a sleeper agent activating in that damn classrooom

🤝 we're a fandom FULL of sleeper agents

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Enigma Life

Everyone has to role what their player is for each aspect of themselves, for instance someone may role Martyn for combat, Tango for movement, Mumbo for building, Gem for redstone, Pearl for inventory management, BigB for defense, Grian for personality, etc. Now, they have to scale their abilities to what they believe others are capable of: for instance if Bdubs roles Jimmy for building he has to make himself build worse than most other people but even better than a few others, like the person who rolled Skizz. However, if Jimmy got Bdubs he can't size down to try his best, so he either has to build confidently to his ability while making others have to now down to him due to his belief in himself or just not really build at all.

Throughout the series there will be scoring based on certain criteria, such as the first to get achievements, the amount of kills you get, or how long you survive as each color, with greens being worth more than yellows and reds. Also, when the season is fully over each player can collect their notes and assign each possibility to each player, almost Ratfish style, and for each segment they get right they also get points, more so for locking those hypothesises early and getting more categories in one person correct.

Unaffiliated with the rest of the Third Life rules, you also cannot tell or hint at your role - you have to stay not only in character, but in skill.

If the point system is too weird and undermines actually winning the series, which it might, a better way to sort this out is after death you can try to fully predict a person's combination, or the majority of it, to then earn a life back after completely dying. If the player that you guess correctly is still alive, they may also lose a life, and if they may die, can do the same thing.

Sorry, this is so stupid, I need to go to bed.

There is a LOT going on here

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Random Life: Mob spawns, Mob Drops, Block Drops, and crafting recipes are randomized every session.

Additionally, every player is given a randomized gimmick from a previous series (every Wild Card and Super Power counts as a different gimmick, further adding to the chaos). The Boogeyman mechanic is used to represent Last Life. The Secret Society gimmick is also part of the pool. Whoever gets Past Life's gimmick has to play on a different version than everyone else.

Because this isn't awful enough, the Minecraft version is ALSO randomized every session, meaning entire blocks may vanish from bases, or the world height and depth may increase or decrease at any given point.

Life counts are randomized at the start of the series, but collecting Totems of Undying instantly consumes the Totem to grant an extra life.

With the randomized drop table including the chance for Grass Blocks to drop Totems instead of Dirt, you can PROBABLY guess where this goes wrong, and why this series would go on for WAY longer than the standard 8 weeks.

"you can PROBABLY guess where this goes wrong" I mean I have a few ideas,

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Everybody has to sing the entire time but also theres no wood.

Martyn InTheLittle[Redacted]

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Art exam life. They have several months in which they make plans and gather resources (it is a survival world but no lives) then, they have ten hours (likely split into several sessions) to create an actual build.

They get a really vague prompt on what to build as well, just to top it all off

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origins life-

all greens have the same (low impact) origin like arachnid or Avian. All yellows have the same (medium impact) origin like enderian or feline. All reds have the same (high impact) origin like merling or phantom.

No one can go near the water because the piranhas (red names) will get you 😔

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Can't remember if someone already said something like this before but whatever!

Tether life! Similar to double life in that everyone gets randomly paired with another player and has to stick with them the whole season, except it's a lot more literal now, they all have an invisible tether between their partner that stops them from going far away from each other, like some two player games have.

I think the limit would be 15 blocks before they would get stopped, and for added bonus they can walk farther away from each other if they want but they would start taking tick damage that goes faster and does more damage the farther you are from your partner.

Another fun thing that could happen is if someone gets like tossed in a way out of their control, ie like a wind charge or fishing rod or knockback or even just falling of a cliff cuz they weren't paying attention, their partner will get DRAGGED behind them and with them!

And damage isn't shared, it's just a tether, so players can die leaving their partner alone, and then they would be in "unlinked" status, where they can move and play as the normally would with no extra gimmicks, however, if they don't get relinked to anyone by the end of the session they lose a life. How they do that is by finding another unlinked player, and will automatically get tethered to them once they're in close enough proximity to each other. This process continues all the way to the finale and the last player alive.

And yes, there is absolutely nothing stopping players from killing their partners

I was looking for a different image but since this (possibly) life series meme was the top results then hey why not

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Dino Life

Everyone must have a dino skin but no one can speak. It must all be growls and roars

You lose a life of you speak actual words

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Counterpoint: Dinosaurs do not necessarily communicate in growls and roars, they have a far greater vocal range than that. Also, the fact that birds are avian dinosaurs and can mimic human speech (if not actually "speak") means that human-like vocalizations can be made by dinosaurs.

Potential concession: Players can speak human languages but can only speak in verified "soundbites" produced by birds in real life. I say this, obviously, because someone screaming "I CAN'T WORK, I GOT FOUR BED RATS!" would be very funny.

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Bed Life:

When players spawn, they're invisible and invincible, and have to choose a spot on the map to hide their bed.

If you craft and place a bed, your original bed is destroyed and the bed you placed becomes your new one (matching the color of the old bed). However, Beds now require Iron Blocks instead of Wood and Gold Blocks instead of Wool, making moving them MUCH harder.

They start with a Green bed, where they can infinitely respawn. You can only sleep or set your spawn in "your" bed.

However, if the Boogieman or a Red Name destroys their bed, they'll instead respawn as a Yellow Name, and have to choose a place to hide their Yellow Bed.

Yellow Names can't destroy beds unless they're the Boogieman, but if they try to "sleep" in a Green Name's bed, then it will become marked on all maps for the rest of the session or until its moved.

Die as a Yellow Name without a bed to respawn at, and you become a Red Name and must, you guess it, choose a location to hide your Red Bed.

Red Lives can destroy other people's beds, but can't destroy Red Lives' beds UNLESS there are only Red Lives on the server and all Red Beds have been placed. They can also engage in PVP.

Die without a bed as a Red Life, and you're out of the series. Die with a bed, however, and you can respawn infinitely.

(You can also still mark people's beds on the map like you could as a Yellow Life, but why would you when you can just break it?)

The Boogieman cannot mine the beds of Red Lives, period.

Bed Wars... 2 !!!

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Dino Life

Everyone must have a dino skin but no one can speak. It must all be growls and roars

You lose a life of you speak actual words

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Creative Plague Life:

If you die as a Red Life, you're switched into creative instead of Spectator, with the only rule being that you now have to use your creative mode for special tasks. Failure to complete a task in the alloted time results in being switched into Spectator for the remainder of the session.

Prior to this, Green and Yellow Lives are tasked with building certain things within a time limit for a reward, and Red Lives with sabotaging those builds.

Oh they would be a plague alright...

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hearts don’t disappear when you loose them, they are randomly transferred to another player. The final fight takes 5 hours.

At LEAST 5 hours...

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Skill life or smth name still pending.

Last life rules (boogeyman is active), all players start on 5-3 lives. But none of them know that. Life count is hidden to everyone. Only exception is that you get a warning when you're on red

Basically, at the start of every session, a big minigame is organized to test every player in one of the skills needed to win a life series, the winner get a special item we'll get to later. But the 2 worst players will get a secret bonus life. No one is aware of this, not even the players who end up getting it. To balance grian knowing this twist, he cant get bonus lives. The bonus lives are no longer given after the 5th session

The tests are:

Skill 1 - ressource gathering: a big bingo with semi-rare items each player has to collect. First to a bingo wins and ends the game. The losers are based on who got the least amount of items

Skill 2 - Movement : the session starts with a large orientation race across the server and the builds

Skill 3 - PVP: each player is given a "golden life" that can only be taken out via direct pvp. Last one that still has it wins. Anyone can attack a player with a golden life. Also througout the session strange noises can be heard. When only one player still has his golden life, the message "it heralds" is sent to everyone

Skill 4- Knowledge: an obelisk appears in the middle of the map. It will ask obscure minecraft-related trivial questions to players randomly. Whoever as the most correct answers by halfpoint wins

Skill 5 - Self-preservation: invulnerable shadow-versions of the players start emerging out of the obelisks and will hunt for them, they can slowly break blocks and build towers and bridge to get to them. They dissapear when hurt by daylight and will re-emerge the next night.

Skill 6 - Deduction: the obelisks grant life to 3 guardians, they are played by three CCs, one who is related to the life series crew. One who has interacted with them a bunch but isnt directly related, and one who isnt related at all (the all have the same, custom, golden skin and have their names hidden). They are tasked with creating chaos and killing the players. They however have golden hearts that cant regenerate. The winner is whoever is able to guess the identity of all three guardians correctly, upon which they will all dissapear. If no ones manages to guess by the end of the session, the closest guess is declared winner

Skill 7 - Anticipation: no special test is made during this session, however, the obelisks randomly sends cryptic messages throughout the wait

Skill 8 - Final Test: Apocalypse errupts for the finale, the world starts to tear itself apart, bits and pieces slowly dissapearing, it could be anything from some blocks to entiere chuncks, but it could also be texture or even game mechanics and functionalities

Finaly we can get to the special prize for winning one of the tests :

"the eye of everything". A golden amulet granted to the winner for the rest of the session, when used it will randomly gives an information-based power to the wearer and will need 15 minutes to be recast, informations include:

- being able to see the amount of health a player has displayed over their nametag

- seing all boogeymens having their names red

- seing all players having their names colored corresponding to their amount of lives

- seing all players with a glowing effect

- being able to see into other players' inventories

- being able to place and access "watchefull eyes" anywhere (basically serves as cameras)

- getting secret whispers about secret informations towards the events in future sessions or cryptics messages made by the community giving information seen in other's videos

- being able to turn completly invisble (no particles, armor doesn't show)

- superhearing (like martyn's wildlife power)

There's the works for a really compelling dystopian au here