tma au 2 but it's slabtek & also vsmp. Still canonically occurs in tmabolish au just in the london archives instead of the american one. This is how I'm fulfilling my dreams of shelby archivist
Etho: Stranger decides to replace a vampire. Unfortunately he then decides to socialise, immediately gets hired, and realises he has no idea how any of this works and hence doesn't realise that he's slowly being marked by other entities. Jmart...
Tango: random vampire coder that hides away in simulated dungeons & video games & also an evil fear game so that he doesn't have to acknowledge his fear of insignifigance. Then his old friend Etho is spotted by one of his fledglings and he just has to see what he's up to- Oh holy shit is that a grandfledgling. Holy shit that is a grandfledgeling. Etho I'm your colleague now. Jmart...
Shelby: Definitely already knew about all the supernatural stuff and knows to keep her distance. She already did... research when she was writing, so getting paid for it was a plus. Definitely had nothing to do with Oakhurst. Immediately recognised Tango as being an ancient vampire and the curiosity got to her. Wonderful setup for an eye avatar in my books.
Drift: Supernatural PI. Those are unrelated though. Somewhere between arthur lester, gertrude robinson, and basira hussein in her conflict resolution. Also an eye avatar but a fully fledged(heh) one. Honestly not paid enough for this(doing this of her own free will)
(also potential side characters under the cut)
Joel: he's just helen. First statement he talks about fish wife and how much he loves fish wife. Second statement he goes "take your archivist back PLEASE i can't bear another jingly bell" whilst both him and Shelby are dressed like clowns. This is how the moistening goes in this universe
Mumbo: Georgie Baker. Also the last part of the 3 ancient vampires. Personally i think this idea is hilarious idk about you.
Impulse: ghost vlogger with his crew GIGS. Instead of breaking up, the crew believed him and ASKED their weird new ghost skin friend... And added another G to their name...(This makes the grian & gem statements funnier imo.)
Instead of gerard there's joe. One of those names that just keeps popping up. This one is funny i think. Still tries to kill Jurgen
Other characters i want to replace the roles of:
Jude Perry with fWhip. Stupid welder freak/pos
Daisy is replaced by pearl or cleo depending on the event. Very fun in my opinion
Oliver Banks with Cleo i love my rotting corpses okay
Bdubs is a dark avatar i just don't know which one
Michael Shelley The Distortion is sausage and he's really just plain unhelpful and keeps trying to suggest stories and plotlines like it's a book. Shelby thinks he's nice to talk to he gives everyone else a headache
"So you got any idea what's happening there?" Scott asks, looking over at Jimmy who's pacing around with anxiety and worry.
"Nope, not a word. Tango just said things aren't going well and then nothing. I-i'm a little worried to be honest. He's never not texted me for this long. He said something about some of the hermits being missing but they returned? At least one of them did" Jimmy replies.
"Maybe he's busy? I don't know, maybe the hermits are celebrating their return? You know the hermits are always looking for a reason to party" Scott shrugs, maybe Jimmy is just overthinking this after all.
"Maybe, but he usually would tell me what the hermits are up to. It's just.. Maybe I'm overthinking this?"
"If you want, we could visit them? We're whitelisted after all" Scott suggests and Jimmy beams.
"We could?" Jimmy asks again for confirmation and Scott nods. Scott grins whem he sees Jimmy absoloutely ecstatic.
After a few preparations here and there and telling others on their short leave, they finally arrived on Hermitcraft. Everything looked normal at first. The grass is green, the sky is blue, the builds are towering and the hermits are... silent? No messeges in chats, no elytras or rockets spamming to greet them.
"Something's wrong" Scott concludes and Jimmy nods. Something is definitely wrong. The hermits are never quiet. Ever. "Do we investigate-what the?!" A blurry figure wooshes past them, taking Scott down in a matter of heartbeat.
"Woah, Scott? What are you doing here?" That voice is familiar.. Wait-in front of them is a really confused Martyn.
"Wow, buy me dinner first, Martyn" Scott shoves Martyn off him, "And we're here checking on the hermits because Jimmy here is worried about his rancher"
"I was *not*!" Jimmy retorts with a face that says otherwise.
"Yeah, you sure were" Scott teases, before turning back to Martyn. "What are you doing here, Martyn?"
"Same reason as you. Though, i find it weird that the respawns are turned off" Martyn scan their surroundings. "There's also no hermits coming over to greet us. Something is definitely wrong" Scott and Jimmy both nods, agreeing to that statement.
Their comms ping and they see a feminine figure with an angry yet worried expression on her face spawning in. "Lizzie?" Martyn tilts his head and so does Jimmy. Scott only watches with a weird, uneasy feeling bubbling up in his chest.
"Martyn? Oh, Hey, Scott, Jimmy. I'm guessing you're here to check on the hermits as well?" Lizzie guesses and they mutter a bunch of 'yes.' She nods, "Okay. Well, I'm here to see Joel. That guy married me and didn't reply to my texts for a whole week! Can you believe that!"
"Yeah, same with me" Jimmy shrugs. "And well, something's horribly wrong if no one is coming by to greet us so let's go!" The canary walks and they follow, going through what some of them partially remember as Hungry Hermits and the shopping district.
There, they find a figure wandering about. Scott gasps, the one in front of them aren't a hermit--at least not that they know of. The person also gasped, looking them up and dowm through their red visor. "Who are you?" Lizzie demands and they only stared back in silence.
"... Get out of this server right now" the person say and they start pacing around. That confuses all of them at once. "You aren't safe here" the guy added.
"What do you mean.?" Jimmy asks and the rest of them nods, they all needed an explaination right now. Seeing a guy who they were certain wasn't a hermit before warning them about the server not being safe is.. Concerning to say the least.
"I mean, it's *not* safe" the person glance around, scanning their surroundings carefully with high alert. "Respawns are not on. Something about a glitch or a code brokened or messed with.. And the hermits are grieving, they're not in the right spot to accept visitors right now"
"Wait. Who died?"
"The water isolated person- Xb. Yes, that was his name. He drowned. Respawns aren't on so it's a permadeath" The figure explains and their hearts dropped simultaneously.
"How come we've not heard about this?" Martyn chimes in, not believing a word the person is saying. "Are you sure you're not lying?"
The person laughs, "If I'm lying, I'd have told you the server's safe and sound and nothing is wrong" the person sigh, "The reason you've not heard about it.. Well, let's say the hermits are still oblivious to their messeges not able to reach outside world"
"Wait, why? Why are their comms jammed?" Lizzie asks and Martyn have a terrible feeling churning his stomach.
"No idea, but if i were to guess, it's because the stars are weird" the person shrugs. They all instantly look up. At first, nothing is wrong, but Martyn knows. Martyn knows something is wrong.
"Scott? I-you're a Starborne, do you feel anything weird about the stars?" Martyn questions and Scott shoots him an uneasy look as well. That means yes, something is wrong with the stars but what? Martyn squints, he listens to the stars and what they have to say and-
'My, my. A lost Listener here' The stars say and jumps back, surprised by the fact the stars know. The stars laughs, he glance at all of the other's faces, Scott and him are uneasy, Lizzie and Jimmy is confused and the stranger, remains calm like this is something that happens on daily basis.
'Well, then i suppose we should start the game' the stars talks amongst themselves. No, wait that isn't the stars, that's a Speaker! What's a Speaker doing here? Are the other beings here too as well? Watcher? Listener?
'Fear not, we're not the other group of powerful beings. We're not with them and never will' The star-no. The Speakers speak. Are these the rogue Speakers then? The ones that rebelled with the lab experimenting with other Watchers and Listeners?
'Welcome, to First Life' All of them froze, a life game? On Hermitcraft? Now?? Of all times? 'A Life game that isn't hosted by the Watchers. The concept are simple, one life. One soul. One chance. The rules? Survive'
All of their blood runs cold. Survive? One life? Jimmy gulps, he is the canary. The canary that always died first. There is no respawns. It's a permadeath if he died here. Scott on the other hand, noticed something.
"They didn't tell us the twist" Scott announces and the Speakers-no the Watcher have come, so did the Listeners as well-laughs. Their voices are filled with none other than malice.
"Jimmy, stay with me. I don't want you to die permanently yet" Scott instructs. "Martyn?"
"Me and Lizzie. Let's search for the hermits. Gotta warn them!" Martyn suggests and they all nod, muttering stay safes and take cares before going their separate ways. Things aren't going well, no wonder none of the hermits contacted them or tried to even contact them.
|Martyn and Lizzie|
"What do you think the twist might be?" Lizzie asks Martyn, who is seemingly lost in thoughts.
"I'm not sure. But whatever it is, i bet it's bad"
Lizzie nods, with the weird beings, nothing is alright and nothing good ever came out of them. "Hey, what's that?" She squints and Martyn does as well.
"It's.. False!" Martyn runs towards the eagle, "Hey False! So sorry about coming in here without notice, we were ju-False?"
Uh oh.
Oh.
Oh no.
"Lizzie, RUN!!!" Martyn scatters and so does she.
False's eyes are red-Red. RED. It might be alright if she wasn't already chasing after them with a sword!
|Jimmy and Scott|
"I'm scared.. What if i die again?" Jimmy confesses and Scott places a hand on his shoulder.
"You won't. Not on my watch" Scott promises.
"Please don't be a sacrifice again, Scott. You can't be honorable this time" Jimmy pleads desperately.
Scott doesn't reply.
"Scott-"
"I promise. I won't try being honorable"
"Thank you..." In the distance they can see cub, "Cub!" Jimmy marches up to Cub, but Scott stops him.
"Something's wrong" Scott doesn't explain. He didn't need to. Cub turns around, eyes red and bloodshot-
"Hello, Scott. Jimmy. Lovely day, huh?" Cub strikes a conversation, like everything's normal. "What are you two doing here?"
".. Cub. I-your eyes?" Jimmy stammers and Scott is on his full guard. Cub reaches up to his eyes, mouth curving into a smile-the red type of pyschotic smile.
"Ah that. You guys never told me it was *this* fun to be a red!" Cub laughs, his skin is more and more see through the longer they are there.
"Jim, run"
And so they did with a very feral vex chasing after them.
Hello cider beloved. What if Grian as a golden pheasant - @definitelynotshouting
[@definitelynotshouting] Hello tem beloved <3!!!!! I was looking at videos of this prettyboy bird and thought the crest move they use for courting would be fun to draw, next thing i knew i had a screenshot from a dating sim
