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Round 1

90's Dude (Atop the Fourth Wall)

Abalone (Wings of Fire)

I know Both/Neither.

Voting ended onAug 21, 2024

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90’s Dude: So, again, your story is that you were just walking past our house when a mysterious other evil mad scientist handed you the ray gun, made you put your prints on it, blew up our front door, and then hid the ray gun in your underpants.

Insano: Well, yeah, if you say it like that, it don't sound believable.

90’s Dude: Oh, hey, Harvey. Did you get a chance to try the new weapon I made you?

Harvey Finevoice: Yeah, I practiced with it on Comicron-1. Nice work.

90’s Dude: Good. Thanks, dad… Why is everyone staring at me?

Jaeris: You just called captain Holt ‘dad.’ You just said, ‘Thanks dad.’

90’s Dude: What? No, I didn't. I said, ‘Thanks, man.’

Harvey Finevoice: Do you see me as a father figure, 90’s Dude?

90’s Dude: No! If anything, I see you as a ‘bother’ figure, 'cause you're always bothering me.

Linkara: Hey, show your father some respect.

90’s Dude: I didn't call him dad!

Harvey Finevoic: No, no, no, no, Shades. I take it as a compliment.

Linksano: It’s not a big deal. I called Nimue ‘mom’ once, and she's an AI.

90’s Dude: Guys, jump on that! Linksano has called Nimue mom and she’s not even human.

Nimue: Old news. But you calling Harvey 'daddy'—

90’s Dude: Hey, 'daddy' is not on the table here.

Insano: But you did call him ‘dad,’ Dude.

90’s Dude: You shut up. You’ve done nothing but lie since we captured you.

Insano: All right, all right, I was lying about the other evil scientist. But the dad thing, that happened.

90’s Dude: Aha! He admitted that his story was a lie. It was a trap, all part of my crazy, devious plan.

Harvey Finevoice: I believe you.

90’s Dude: Thank you.

Harvey Finevoice: Son.

90’s Dude: …

Harvey Finevoice: Do you want to talk about it later over a game of catch?

90’s Dude: … I'd like that.

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Thoughts on the end of latest AT4W episode AKA the end of The Clone Sage

Spoilers under the Keep Reading

I love this storyline!

I just want to hug Erin and Linksano so bad.

Mirrorkara, you are the worst! He ended up on a bad parallel Earth, he found a traumatised little girl crying in pain and loneliness after the death of her parents and he’s first thoughts were, ‘how can I use this to my advantage? I know! I’ll turn her into a weapon that I can use for revenge!’

“Hello sad child. Come with me and I will protect you. Also, I know you have a name already but I can’t be bothered to learn it so I’m giving you a new one.”

I was talking about this on the Reviewerverse discord before the second part came out but Mirrorkara’s treatment of Erin (does she even like that name?) reminds me of a Tumblr post I once read about respect. It was talking about some adults say things like, “If you show me respect, I will show you respect,” to children. However, what they really mean is, ‘By show me respect, I mean treat me as an authority figure who can never be question or crossed in any way and much always be treated with deference. By show you respect, I mean I will treat you with the bare minimum expected level of human decency. If you fail to do the former then I will take great pleaser in denying you the later.’

Mirrorkara only ever seemed to see Erin as a means to an end. He didn’t care about any emotionally scaring experiences she goes through, reminding her that he could make it worse for her if she didn’t toe the line.

Erin was so clearly unhappy but Mirrorkara didn’t care. He thought he was more important than anyone else and no one else really mattered. In his mind, Erin would never stop owing him for saving her life – even though he was constantly emotionally abusive to her after the fact – and made Seras for her, even though he would happily let Seras die if it suited him.

Mirrorkara talked in front of Erin about how he liked her terrible world that scared her and all the awful things he planned to do. She was expected to smile when he looked at her.

Damn, that poor Linkara clone. He was made to be subservient to Linksano, spent years in stasis and then had a short life where he was tortured to death.

I love that hope, optimism and kindness win out. Linkara wins because he makes friends, cares about people and has people who care about him in return.

It’s nice to see Jaeris coming to the rescue alone with the Comicrew.

Mirrorkara really shouldn’t have insulted Seras. Erin loves her so much. Go girl! GO! Make him pay for his words!

Harvey and 90’s Dude turn up late to the main party but are still in time for an awesome line up.

Seriously though, I really want to hug Erin and Linksano. She clearly been though so much and his little look to see if he was even welcome in the room just broke my heart.

Did… did Moarte eat Mirrorkara? I mean, he’s a ghoul so I’m guessing so.

I don’t care what anyone says, Moarte turns up every year because he likes Linkara and the Comicrew in his own way. When Linkara walked in on one of his videos Moarte just told him to get out. When Linksano used the Longbox for his own reasons Moarte just scared him away. When Linkara wants to use the room, he asks permission and Moarte lets him in. If Mirrorkara goes in, he gets eaten.

Gotta love the fear in Jaeris’ eyes when he realises Linkara is changing outfits. I’m liking the new look and I want that pin badge.

Human Mechakara is still out there. FUTURE STORYLINE!

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So I’ve been watching Linkara’s storyline videos and have I ever mentioned that I kinda love watching review series and that Atop the Fourth Wall is fantastic? Man, I wish I could do something like AT4W’s storyline... I’d love to have an excuse to fight cosmic horrors, fight monsters using Doctor Who, Pokemon, and other franchise toys, and cosplay all the things! Not to mention that being your actual job for actual gainful employment! But one can dream, can’t they? Maybe one day.

In any case, Linkara sure has a lot of friends that look exactly like him in his videos, doesn’t he? So I decided to try and draw some of them! From memory! With no references! So if they’re not entirely on model... Well... I don’t actually care! Seriously though, Linkara deserves all the subscribers and is probably like... The third most important internet reviewer ever. He’s great, makes great stuff and you should watch his stuff.

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Big Damn Heroes Chapter One

AT4W Round Robin fanfic so far written by @twincityhacker and myself. Also on AO3.

Summery: “You know, one of these days he’s going to be halfway through the review and we’ll have already saved the world without him.”

The Entity is dead but Vyce won’t believe it and is now planning to destroy the Earth in his quest to kill something that isn’t there anymore. This is a ‘what if’ story about how Linkara’s friends could have been the ones to save the day.

Chapter Summary: While this is mostly how things started to happen after the Entity died, there are a few more details and things start to diverge from what actully happened at the end of The Sleepwalker storyline.

Word Count: 2344

Author’s Notes: This is a Round Robin fanfic to celebrate AT4W reaching its 500th episode. If you’d like to take part and write part of it or help in some other way, send me a message and I’ll send you a link to the google doc.

90’s Dude is still called 90’s Kid at this point in the storyline so, for simplicities sake, that’s what he’s called here.

Linksano, Harvey Finevoice, Pollo, 90’s Kid and Lord Vyce all watched the screen on the bridge of Comicron-One as it showed them the events unfollowing aboard Comicron-Two. They stared transfixed as Linkara reassured MissingNo through its last moments. 90’s Kid and Lord Vyce watched the closest as the Outer God of unimaginable power faded away and accepted death.

If 90’s Kid hadn’t been so absorbed in the events on the other ship, him might have recognised the danger that Lord Vyce now posed. Unfortunately, he was too concerned with the death of the Entity to notice anything else. In all likelihood, those few extra seconds wouldn’t have made a difference anyway. Vyce was like an unstoppable force of nature when he set his mind on something, it was the reason he had survived so long.

“No,” Vyce cried and his clenched fist came down with a clang. Everyone turned to him as he continued, “NO! It’s a trick! It’s still alive!”  Vyce quickly began pressing buttons on the arm of his chair.

“What the hell are you doing?” Harvey asked taking a step towards Vyce but not reaching for his weapon yet.

“I have increased power to the singularity generators,” there was no remorse in his voice or uncertainty that he might be doing the wrong thing. He seemed proud as he insisted, “There is no escape now!”

“Nims! Lock him out!” Harvey cried desperately as he moved towards Vyce.

“Unable to comply,” came the voice from the speakers. Vyce pulled his weapon out and pointed it at Harvey’s heart, Harvey froze. “This Unit no longer has full control of Comicron-One.”

The weapon moved slightly to point in Linksano’s direction. Linksano held his hands up to show they were empty and backed away until he was against the wall. The memory of Vyce’s hands around his throat, chocking the him, flashed vividly in his mind and he tried to swallow his fear but found himself unable to think clearly.

While Vyce pointed his weapon threateningly in Harvey and Linksano’s direction, Pollo flew and 90’s Kid ran forwards from Vyce’s other side. Vyce swung his weapon around and fired it at Pollo who only just managed to dodge out of the way.

90’s Kid reached the console on Vyce’s chair and started typing commands in as quickly as he could, trying to undo Vyce’s instructions.

Vyce hesitated for less than a second before attacking. Using his free hand, he hit 90’s Kid squarely in the chest with enough force to send him crashing backwards. 90’s Kid let out a strangled scream and his vision went white as his left shoulder connected with the metal floor of the bridge.

Vyce had already turned away. He switched the view on the screen from the bridge of Comicron-Two to the growing portal in space. “In one hour, the singularity will be large enough to engulf the Earth itself. The Entity will NOT escape this time! Their sacrifice will not be in vain. I will kill the Entity!”

From the floor, 90’s Kid tried to focus through the pain and listen to what Vyce was saying. Harvey, Linksano and Pollo watched in horror as Vyce raised a triumphant fist in victory, “Behold the end of this game! Lord Vyce wins!”

Before the others had a chance to do anything, Vyce hit a few more buttons sending Harvey, Linksano and Pollo to the ship’s brig. A few more taps and Nimue was completely locked out.

90’s Kid struggled slowly to his feet and fought down his nausea. The world spun dizzyingly around him and black spots obscured his view.

His left arm felt wrong. It didn’t seem to be hanging right. 90’s Kid deliberately didn't look at it and tried his best to ignore the pain. When he was sure that he wasn’t going to be sick, he opened his mouth and begged imploringly, “Please, Vyce. Don’t do this! You’re smarter than this!”

Vyce sighed and turned back to 90’s Kid. “I am sorry that I hit you so hard and for what I am about to do, but surely, you of all people understand why I have no choice.”

“Don’t be an idi…” 90’s Kid started to say but then he stopped because, no matter how faulty Vyce’s thought prosses currently was, he did understand. He took a deep breath and started again in a calmer voice, “Just think about this for a second, dude. Please, close the portal and think. If it is a trick, we need a new plan.”

“While you may act the part of a clown, you are the only one amongst the Champions companions that I have respect for,” Vyce told him, shaking his head sadly. “You recognised the danger before the others and knew to act on it. I am sorry for what I must do to protect all of reality.”

Vyce pressed some more buttons and teleported 90’s Kid away to the brig too. After a moment of looking at the spot where 90’s Kid had just been standing, Vyce turned away. He banished any regret from his mind and concentrated on what was important. Eyes on the viewing screen, he made a vow to the Entity that he knew was still out there,

“As it was before, shall it be again; Lord Vyce alone with his ship against the Entity. Let it take me to the edge of eternity if it must, I will end you.”

90’s Kid found himself teleported into the brig with Pollo, Harvey and Linksano. He swayed on his feet and Harvey ran forwards to catch him before he could collapse. 90’s Kid couldn’t stop himself from whimpering in pain as his arm was jostled.

“Sorry, 90’s,” Harvey said, rearranging his grip on 90’s Kid.

“Are you okay?” Pollo asked 90’s Kid as Harvey lead him to a small bed. 90’s Kid slid gratefully into a sitting position on the bed and nodded.

“Fine, dude,” 90’s Kid said as reassuring as he could.

Linksano rolled his eyes behind his goggles, “You’re not fine,” he strode forwards. “Here let me take a look.”

As carefully as he could, Linksano removed 90’s Kid’s top. 90’s Kid bit his lip to stop himself from crying out in pain. Linksano gave a long whistle, Pollo swore and Harvey clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles went white when they saw what 90’s Kid’s top had been hiding. His left arm hung limply from his side and there was a dark, nasty looking bruise in the shape of a hand on his chest.

Linksano was the first to recover. His hand went to the side of his goggles and his fiddled for a moment before letting out a frustrated breath and gently running his hand over 90’s Kid’s shoulder. “I don’t think it’s broken, just dislocated.”

“Can you fix it?” 90’s Kid asked.

“Well… I can put it back in its socket but it’s going to hurt.”

90’s Kid clenched the fist of his other hand, “Do it.”

With a wince, Linksano grabbed 90’s Kid’s arm and pushed it back into position with a sickening pop. 90’s Kid’s vision went white with pain for the second time. He leant against the wall, breathing heavily until he could see properly again.

Linksano, Harvey and Pollo were looking at him with worried faces. He gave them a thin smile, “Thanks. I’m good now, my dudes.”

He sat back in a more comfortable position and let the pain from his shoulder slowly fade, there wasn’t much he could do about the pain from the bruise. When the pain had faded enough, he pulled his top back on.

90’s Kid looked around the room for the first time. It was small, probably only meant for holding one person at a time, not three humans and a robot. 90’s Kid was sat on the only bed, on the opposite wall was a thick metal covered in locks and bolts, in one corner there was a toilet and a sink and, other than the speaker in the corner of the ceiling, the room was completely bare.

90’s Kid noticed Harvey’s eyes moving slowly around the room too. With a sigh he told him, “It’s no good, dude. There’s nothing in here we can use to escape.”

“Indeed,” Linksano agreed. “If I had some of my tools with me maybe but unfortunately, there’s also a dampening field in place. My goggles are just working on regular vision right now.”

“None of my weapons or communications are working either,” Pollo informed them. “I can’t transfer my consciousness to one of my other bodies. It’s only my shields that stop the dampening field from deactivating me completely.”

Linksano’s face suddenly broke into a smile as he fiddled with his goggles, “No wait!” they looked at him expectantly, “Twitter’s still working so not a total loss.” The others let out a collective breath they hadn't realised they were holding.

“We’ve gota do something!” Harvey insisted. “We can’t let bucket brain do that to…”

He was interrupted as the speaker crackled to life, “Err guys, what’s going on?” came a familiar voice.

“Linkara!?” 90’s Kid asked in disbelief.

“Ye, it’s me,” came the reply. “Why is the portal getting bigger? The Entity killed itself again. We need to shut that thing down.”

“It’s Vyce, dude,” 90’s Kid said, struggling to his feet. “He’s gone totally bogus. He thinks the Entity just tricked us all again and he’s gonna to use the portal to swallow the Earth and stop it!”

Linkara let out a frustrated noise, “because of course he did!” The speakers went silent for a few moments before he asked, “Okay, the portal will close on its own if the Entity goes into it, right?”

“Right. I can try to access the satellites to reverse it,” Linksano told him. He sighed before admitting, “Unfortunately, we’re kind of in the brig right now and the long we wait, the larger the portal will get and the harder it will be to do that.”

“I think I have a plan forming,” Linkara’s voice said over the speaker. “Give me a little time to work on it.”

“How long?” Harvey asked.

“Mm twenty, thirty minutes. Length of a review, I think,” Linkara admitted.

“Seriously, right now!?” Harvey asked incredulously. “Kid! Priorities!”

“I do have my priorities,” Linkara told them. “One of those priorities is the ability to pay rent should we survive all of this. I’ll call you back when I’m ready.” The speaker cut out.

Pollo’s light blinked off and on again, which was his version of rolling his eyes, “You know, one of these days he’s going to be halfway through the review and we’ll have already saved the world without him.”

Harvey growled, “Well, I ain’t waitin’.” He turned to the others, “Whether or not the kid succeeds, we’ve gotta try and get out of here and help, right?”

The others nodded.

“I mean, obviously,” Linksano said, “but I don’t see what we can do stuck in here.”

“I’m pretty useless, right now,” Pollo said bitterly. “If my gun was working, I could try to break through the door but I doubt it would help.”

90’s Kid looked around the room again and his eyes settled on the door before they flicked back to Linksano. Suddenly he started to laugh but he stopped quickly because it made his ribs and shoulder hurt. He grinned despite the pain as he really thought about thing for the first time.

“Are you okay, 90’s Kid?” Pollo asked.

“Ye, dude!” 90’s Kid said happily. “I’ve just worked out the totally bodacious way we’re getting out of here and what Vyce was planning to do if he ever ended up trapped here.”

“How and what, 90’s?” Harvey asked.

90’s Kid turned to Linksano, “Well, assuming that your goggles really are still connected to Twitter,” Linksano nodded, “then you just need to tweet some of our friends asking for help and I bet at least one of them answers.”

“Huh… yes, that could work,” Linksano admitted. “Why didn’t I think of that?”

“And what would Lord Vyce do if he was captured and sent to his own prison?” Pollo asked.

“Well, he’s always the dude with the bitching back-up plans,” 90’s Kid told them. “He would definitely have a plan for what to do if he was somehow defeated and sent here. There’s probably some spoken code that would let him straight out but I doubt we’d crack it. However, I do know what he’d do if he wanted to stay in here a while without anyone reaching him.”

“What?” Harvey asked.

“Look at the door, dude.”

They all turned to look.

“It looks like a regular prison door to me,” Pollo said.

“Yes, locks, catches and chains, that sort of thing,” Linksano agreed.

Harvey laughed suddenly, “But they’re all on this side of the door!” He looked at 90’s Kid for confirmation. 90’s Kid grinned back at him.

“There’s only one lock on the outside. Everything else is still in here. He’d never build a prison that he wouldn’t willing spend time in himself,” 90’s Kid told them all. “I bet if we locked that door from the inside, it would put a dampening field on anyone trying to listen in on us from the outside.”

Linksano moved towards it, “Don’t,” 90’s Kid instructed. Linksano stopped and 90’s Kid continued, “It’ll only alert Vyce to what we’re doing. He’ll be the only one who knows how to overcome the dampening field and still listen to us.

“Right now, he’s concentrating on defeating the Entity,” he continued. “He thinks we’re trapped so he’s not paying attention. Now is the perfect time to call for backup.”

“Right!” Linksano started to write a message.

“Tell ‘em to get Nims back online and bring some weapons,” Harvey instructed.

“And I want my other bodies,” Pollo added.

“Got it!” Linksano finished the Tweet and made it public. “Sent! Now all we have to do is wait and hope someone answers.”

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Food Allinemt Chart AT4W Edition

“We have food at home”: Linkara, Harvey Finevoice, Nimue, Ninja Style Dancer, Allen, Sierra, Boffo

*Pulls into drive though as children cheer* *Orders a single black coffee and leaves*: Pollo, Eliza, Jaeris, Lord Vyce, Mechakara, Holokara, Mirror!Kara, Seras

MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS!: 90’s Dude, Doctor Linksano, Doctor Insano, the Entity, Margaret, Spoony, Erin, Snowflame, Moarte

Blank and original chart here

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A King of Worms sits on a throne of sorrow A King of Worms eats up a man’s tomorrow With a platinum mask your soul he’ll borrow And a clockwork solider is born and hollow

The King of Worms wears a crown of terror In the Court of Worms there is none fairer We are all equal beneath the surface layer Our souls are screaming and begging in prayer

The King of Worms saw fear, it is said The King of worms thought fear should be fed The King of Worms takes your soul to shred In the court of Worms, we are all dead

Thoughts under the ‘keep reading.’

‘The Machinations of Worms’ storyline brings us back to Lovecraftian horror with the Entity younger cousin. The King of Worms is terrifying, which of course was the point. He does a great job of embodying fear. If Lewis ever stops reviewing comics, he can always start writing horror stories.

I’m using the King of Worms poem as the opening quote. I know that each verse was revealed to us separately and it was never performed as a complete poem during the storyline itself. However, I could say the same thing about the Enitiy poem and the fandom still treats it as one poem. I’m not sure why the King of Worms poem didn’t get the same treatment. I think I might be the first fan to but the verses together. No regrets!

‘The Machinations of Worms’ storyline expands upon the mythology and lore of the reviewerverse. I love the idea of a pantheon of Outer Gods all based on technology in some way. It offers so many story possibilities. The two members of the Technumina we’ve met so far, MissingNo and the King of Worms, have been great, scary creatures. I look forward to learning more about the Technumina in future storylines.

One thing that this compilation doesn’t show, which helped to build the tension, was how the shelves behind the futon slowly filled with more and more cybermats. At the time, it felt like each episode they had multiplied.

I really, really love Linksano. I maintain that he’s slowly becoming a technomancer (someone who uses both technology and science) through his study of magic and the way he integrates magic into his creations and inventions.

Linksano was just so pleased with himself and excited to show Linkara when he brought Eliza, the toy foam lizard, to life. Truly, he deserves the title of Mad Scientist. However, he should probably get around to reading Frankenstein at some point. Mary Shelley wrote a very good book about why people shouldn’t do this sort of thing. Luckily for the comicrew, unlike Victor Frankenstein, Linksano isn’t a brooding mad scientist who’s horrified of his own creation and Eliza isn’t a misunderstood lonely monster who hates her own creator.

Speaking of Eliza; she’s great! She has a wonderful sardonic reaction to being brought to life. That’s probably why I headcanon her and Pollo get on together really well. She spent a year working things out and then came to the rescue everyone and drink coffee. Go Eliza!

It’s nice to see the Ninja Style Dancer playing a part in the storyline again. I understand why he isn’t used as much but it’s good to know he’s still an active member of the comicrew. Can we please have some sort of explanation of how his smoke bomb, disappearing act works? Is it magic? Is it science? Is it a ninja secret? I want to know! He somehow escaped a possessed cybermat, while he was onboard Comicron One using a smoke bomb. How!?

The battle against MirrorKara is fun to watch and I like the different but similar origin of his magic gun.

‘The Machinations of Worms’ storyline continues to hint that, ever since he came back from the future, 90’s Kid (now 90’s Dude) has been up to something the others don’t know about. It’s confirmed at the end that he’s working with Lord Vyce. I was always sure he had a good reason for his actions and this never shook my faith in him.

I was so happy when Vyce treated 90’s Kid with respect and actually listened to what he had to say. 90’s Kid often gets treated as the idiot but the truth is he’s a lot cleverer than people give hind credit for. He’s also been through a lot and should never be underestimated.

Seeing the characters turn up again after they’d been knocked out by the cybermats was creepy. Especially because they continued to act mostly normal. At the time, we didn’t know if they been replaced or were being controlled.

Allen doesn’t get nearly enough credit. He’d a genus and could crack a code in seconds that Linkara and Pollo hadn’t been able to crack in years. I love the fact that the government has protocols to deal with someone who works for them being replaced by an android.

Pollo and his multitude of bodies which can share his consciousness are just great. He is legion.

“It’s really weird seeing you all talk like that.”

“We are a group of robots sharing a single consciousness, fighting alongside robotic silver fish and a foam lizard brought to life using science. Normal is relative.”

I remember how, when ‘The Machinations of Worms’ storyline was first coming out a lot of people, myself included, were a little disappointed that we could see the reviewing room reflected in the masks. We thought it was a failed effect but then it turned out that even that was a part of the storyline and the masks were reflecting what was in Linkara soul. Lewis thinks of everything and he still manages to surprise me. Linkara’s soul is really, really, really darn creepy when we get a look at it.

I like Linkara in this storyline. He’s not turning evil in it and comes up with a lot of good plans and continuance plans to try and deal with what’s happening. It’s a shame they don’t work but that isn’t really his fault. I also like the fact that he still plans to exile Lord Vyce if possible rather than killing him.

Poor Linksano at the end. It takes a lot to shake him. Most of the time, he’s the one causing the craziest things that happen. However, he really didn’t know how to react to the knowledge that nothing they’d done had hurt the King of Worms. I’d be scared too, if I realized that a God that embodied fear had somehow been frightened to death.

“You do realise that people are going to write fanfics about this.”

“The hell do I care? I anit gonna be around to read ’em.”

After ‘The Machinations of Worms’ storyline we get the lovely and short storyline ‘Here and Back Again.’

I’m glad Jaeris finally reunited with his wife, got a way to go home and live there. He deserves to be happy.

The little bit of Joanna we got to see was good. Hopefully, we’ll get to see more of her at some point.

Want to know my thoughts on the other storylines? Here are links to them which I’ll update each time I give my thoughts on a new completion.

His Soul is Blue

The Other Insano

All That He Sees, He Conquers

A Piece of the World is Missing

His Blue Soul

Gun and Sorcery

Ghost of the Machine

The Machinations of Worms (you’re already here)

The Sleepwalker (I’ve not done thing one yet)

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Beneath the seas, besides the flame, Off the coast where the lost beast came, To bring the world misery and shame, A piece of the world is missing.

The path you should have never crossed, The Beast exacts a heavy cost, The number of the Beast is lost, You will know it by its hissing.

The bones from hell you cannot tame, Devour your life and all your fame, That is the price to play its game, And all while you’re reminiscing.

And now for something completely different.

Until the ‘A Piece of the World is Missing’ storyline, Linkara had always been able to defeat the ‘big bad’ of a story arc through fighting. Oh sure, he didn’t always win and sometimes there were phycological attacks to overcome first but in the end, Linkara could always prevail with a little help from his friends.

That all went out of the window with ‘A Piece of the World is Missing.’ Something started making people disappear and Linkara’s list of allies started getting shorter. However, even if Linkara and the whole gang had been there to face the Entity at the end, they still wouldn’t have won because some things can’t be beaten with force no matter how big or magical your gun is. When you are facing an Outer God that has absorbed whole universes and plans to make all of reality a part of itself, you really don’t stand a chance.

I’m glad that this storyline wasn’t fixed through a big silly Power Rangers like fight at the end (though they are enjoyable). It wouldn’t have made sense and would have diminished the threat that the Entity represented.

The Entity knew that Linkara was never a danger. It was happy to let him work that out and feel scared and depressed before excepting his situation because there was no choice. It played with played with Linkara, like a cat with a mouse, except that the mouse sometimes escapes and Linkara would never have stood a chance of even that.

“Welc͠o̕me ͏ba̛c͘k, ẖ͙̖̿ͣͯ͂̍̈́̕u̥̗̳̙̣̖͌ͤͫ͂̊́͝u̺̠͚̱̻͉̗̦ͬͦͭ͋̒̃̐̏ư̹̼̝͔̺͈̱͌͛͗̂̈̏́ư̺͇̗ͧ̔̋͝m̧̖̮̺̗̱͎̭̻̊ͦ̂ͮͩ̊̋͊̕a̬̲̖͕͇ͯ̾̄ͅṅ̀̌̓͛͑͗̊͏̶̺̬͉̙̳͍̥͡. I͢s t͞h͟is̴ ͘ţhe͘ pa̧r͝t w͜heŕe̵ ̧you ̴f̢i͜g͡h̷t̛ m̴e̢?”

“No, no there’s really nothing for me to do. I could shoot you with increasingly larger guns but it wouldn’t work. I could pull some exciting new morpher out of my pants and hope that it would give me the power to defeat you but we both know that that wouldn’t work either.”

“No͝,͜ it̛ ̶wo̵uld n͟o̶t.͟”

‘A Piece of the World is Missing’ was the first introduction to the Technumina. The Technumina is a pantheon of Outer Gods, Lovecraftian monstrosities that are all based in some way on technology with the Entity being a glitch in reality itself.

This is the first storyline which I watched from the beginning as it started coming out. I loved every minute of it. If you’ve never watched the show and you’re watching this video, while you’ll probably enjoy it, you’ll miss half the fun. The fandom had a great time trying to work out what the Entity was and a lot of people succeeded.

Since 90’s Kid (now 90’s Dude) had interrupted episodes plenty of times before (those interruptions haven’t made it into these completions cos they aren’t part of the storyline), at first, we didn’t realise that those new ones were anything out of the ordinary. Later in the storyline, we did start to realise something might be wrong with 90’s Kid but it was a slowly growing list of clues which tipped people off.

This storyline came out when Linkara was on his old website and didn’t have YouTube videos. Linkara used to approve all comments before letting them go through and some fans took advantage of the fact that he had anon comments to pretend to be the Entity in the comments section. I’ll always love the fact that Linkara just went with it. After the storyline had been completed, he admitted that he hadn’t had anything to do with writing those comments but he wished he’d thought of it first.

Who knew that Pokémon could be so terrifying? Apart from anyone who’s actually read some of the more horrifying Pokédex entries that is (looking at you Yamask).

Want to know my thoughts on the other storylines? Here are links to them which I’ll update each time I give my thoughts on a new completion.

His Soul is Blue

The Other Insano

All That He Sees, He Conquers

A Piece of the World is Missing (you’re already here)

His Blue Soul

Gun and Sorcery

Ghost of the Machine

The Machinations of Worms

The Sleepwalker (I’ve not done thing one yet)