#zedaphweek2024

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Zedweek Day 7 - Birthday!

Happy birthday to Zedaph!!

There was a horrible scanning incident that cut off only half the speech bubble on the last page. Don't even worry about it. Original scan below cut

now doesn't that look so much better except for the darn speech bubble??

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Zedweek 2024 Prompts!!!!!!!

Day 1: Dec 2

ZSMA:  It’s the anniversary of the series that started it all! Spanning four years, Zedaph’s Super Minecraft Adventure showcases Zed’s growth as a creator and contains countless silly moments! Farms and western villages, breakups and singing and time travel! Whether you embrace a younger Zedaph, a best build, or a favorite moment, it’s a blast from the past!

Free space: We know that Zed’s earliest series is also one that many haven’t seen, so this day is also open to anything that anyone wants to make! Get crazy with it! The only limit is your own imagination!

Day 2: Dec 3

Hermitcraft 5-6: Caves of crystal and bases galore, we’re going back in time! Featuring lovely characters such as Worm Man and Zedeath, season 5 and 6 give a lot to work with! The rise of the gaming district and the iconic Is That Sheep Looking At Me? entertained the Hermits, and our hero still found time to try his hand at aerial livestock delivery! The following season saw a Jack (Er. Zed?) of all bases, with 5 in total, but no one official base to call his own. Truly, the season of embodying what it means to be a hermit!

Hels: From the mind of Hermitcraft’s own Welsknight, Hels has taken the fandom by storm with its intrigue and possibilities. Explore what Zed’s own Hels could be like, create an elaborate theory where he is a Hels, or where he doesn’t have one at all! If anyone would transcend the rules of the universe to relax and simply share a meal with Evil Xisuma in the most dismal part of the universe, it’s surely the birthday boy.

Day 3: Dec 4

Hermitcraft 7-8: Settling into the Hermitcraft server, seasons 7 and 8 pushed our existing knowledge of Minecraft! From the Cave of Contraptions to the Sciscraper, Zedaph made it his mission to discover the secrets of Hermit psychology as well as some of the most useless functions in the game! Hang out for a round of golf or come up with an even less efficient contraption! There’s plenty of time for a new completely ethical experiment; the moon isn’t getting any bigger…Right?

Oddity:  Zed’s brain and body don’t quite work like anyone else’s, but that’s all the more reason to love him! This is a day to embrace everything that makes Zed peculiar, or to enjoy the peculiarities that he loves right back!

Day 4: Dec 5

Hermitcraft 9-10: Up for a challenge? This pair of seasons has plenty! Try your hand at an advancement or gamification, or design one for our guy! From falling at world height to cheeky spying to getting his friends caught on fire by an angry furnace, these seasons bring plenty of fun! Maybe get a little meta yourself and add a sneaky game to whatever you create!

Death: It’s a well-known fact that Zedaph toys with the cycle of death and life! To me, this seems like a great day to celebrate the way Zedaph celebrates death, whether it be his hundredth demise, making a game of ushering souls, or testing the limits of respawn! 

Day 5: Dec 6

Create: It’s important to properly enrich your Zedaph by letting him play with wrenches and gears with his eccentric friend every so often. Bite into a honeyed apple and feel the rush of being catapulted! Or catapulting your friends! Catapult everything!

Alternate Universe: Put this boy in a situation!!! Get creative and share the role another Zedaph plays (heh) in your story, whatever it may be! Alternatively, try and stop Zed from falling into another universe all on his own. He’s got portal technology, you know!

Day 6: Dec 7

Kris & Jack:  As long as I, Ell Cillpiines, am running this event, there will be always be a KnJ day. This is a day to appreciate Zed’s second channel in all of its filmy frenzied goodness and cast of characters! (D.I.)Why? Because a world without Kris & Jack isn’t a world I would want to be in!

Kris & Jack but in Minecraft this time: oooh you wanna think about them so bad

Day 7: Dec 8

Birthday!!!!!:  It’s a Zelebration! Grab a noise-maker and join the party however you see fit! Happy birthday, Kristopher Zedaph Plays!

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@zedweek Day 4, Death

“Please?” Zed put his hands together.

“No!” Tango shook a finger at him.

“Pretty please with a glow berry on top?” Zed was kneeling now, giving Tango the biggest puppy eyes he could muster.

Tango paused for a moment, almost seeming to succumb before shaking his head. “For the last time, I’m not letting you reap my soul!”

Zed stood, letting out a little annoyed snort. “Oh come on! It will be fun! I promise!”

“Yeah about as fun as getting dunked in a bucket of happy fun sauce.” Tango rolled his eyes, beginning to walk away.

Zed grabbed the shoulder of Tango’s vest. “I’ll bring you right back, you won’t even know it happened!” He began dragging Tango back towards his ravine.

Tango pried himself free from Zed’s grip. “Why don’t you ask Skizz? I’m sure he'll be more than happy to help.”

Zed kicked at the ground. “Stupid angels don’t have normal souls.”

“And what? Mine’s perfectly average?” Tango tried to sound hurt. He failed.

Zed still played along. “Oh no no no! Your soul is the most non average soul to ever soul!”

“Mmhmmm.” Tango then noticed how Zed had been holding one hand behind his back for the past minute or so. “Zed… what are you hiding back there?”

Zed’s eyes widened. “Nothing!” He tucked his hand even tighter against his body.

“Sure.” Tango rolled his eyes before moving to get a peek. He didn’t move more than an inch before…

“Hadjah!” Zed swung his whole body around, slashing Tango across the chest with the scythe that he had been hiding behind his back. The wound began to glow, and before Tango could speak, his body crumpled to the ground. Zed reached into the wound, pulling out a small flame.

“So Tango, what are we going to do for the rest of the day?”

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Day 2 - Hermitcraft 5-6 / Hels

worm behavior

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Day 3 - Hermitcraft 7-8 / Oddity

I got this idea to make a meta animation and I'd never animated before...so of course I engineered myself a light box and gave it a go!

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Day 1 - ZSMA / Free space

I fear the very particular kind of strangeness Zed carried in ZSMA is lost to time and the PG nature of Hermitcraft, but we can always look back to remember canonical alcoholic Zedaph and his attraction to villagers

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Zedweek Day 5 - Create / AU

The artist and the engineer

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@zedweek Day 2, Hels

Zed stood in front of the mirror, turning his head back and forth, stretching out his skin. He dropped his hand back to his side, a deep sigh escaping him. He sat back at his desk, stabbing a pen at the empty notebook page a few times.

Why did everyone else get to have the fun? Imagine how much he could get done if there was another one of him to lend a hand? Or a hoof or tentical or anything really, he wasn’t picky about the appendage.

But nope. It was just Zed. Plain old boring Zed. Maybe he could get Beef to rebuild that machine? Assuming he even remembered how after all this time. Zed could give it a shot himself, and just hope he didn’t liquify his bones or something.

How did X do it? Did it just happen? Zed really should have asked EX when he had the chance. That way he’d at least have something to point him in the right direction.

Another sigh. He had begun just doodling on the page, random shapes, a vague outline of a person, a sandwich, when was the last time he ate? A swirl. There had to be some trick to it, some way to get the universe to listen. A ram’s horn. What was he missing? A triangle. He heard something about False when all those strangers came through the rift. A scythe. Maybe if he could open another portal… A rectangle. Sure X would be mad, but would he really be that mad? A worm.

Zed threw the pen at the desk. Why couldn’t this just be easy? Like it was for everyone else. He banged his forehead against the desk a couple of times. He rolled his head over, staring unfocused at the mirror once again. Wait, what was that shadow?

He blinked hard, straining his eyes so much they hurt. Then, just when the shape was becoming clear, he felt a gentle hand on his shoulder.

Or no, it might not have been a hand. A hoof? A tentacle? Something. Zed sat up with a jolt, and the touch offered no resistance. He stood, looking where he saw the shadow in the mirror.

It was him. No it wasn’t. It was just a shadow. No it wasn’t. It was bright pink. No it wasn’t. It was just shapes. No it wasn’t. It was short. No it wasn’t.

In fact, the harder Zed looked, the harder it was to make out what this thing actually was. He reached out, trying to touch it. The moment he made contact, it became solid in that spot only, a little patch of brown in a swirling mess of shapes and colours.

And somehow, Zed knew this was what he had been looking for.