Let’s Do Some Sheepy Science!

@zeds-mailbox

PFP edited from webcomic "I'm Good I'm Gone" on MSPFA.

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Hello everybody! You have arrived at Zed’s Mailbox! How exciting!

If you believe your letter has reached the wrong inbox, please refer to this master list of every mailbox hooked up to the system. It’s quite long. You may need to grab a couple snacks.

This also happens to be the place where all Worm Man fanmail is forwarded to. I know the guy personally. We’re different people, obviously, but we share an inbox because of taxes or something I think. Not that we get taxed here on Hermitcraft, but like, yeah.

My partners: @impulses-mailbox @tangos-mailbox @skizzs-mailbox

#zeds mailbox #hermit mailbox ask universe

they so evils

#🐑┆rebleats!

[After zed's earlier message about doing science, Skizz hadn't been too concerned about the looping death messages. Surely Pearl, Doc and Zed were just doing something together, Ren only died once with that message so it had to be some kind of optional thing!]

[He had zoned the pinging of his comm out until a certain ringtone sang, the bleating of a sheep. He checks his messages from Zed, brow furrowing. That can't be good.]

[Skizz doesn't head there with anything except his armour, weapons, flint and steel and some obsidian to make a portal. Surely by 'stuck in the nether', Zed just meant stuck because of mobs or maybe his portal broke, who knows! It has to be one of those, its what makes sense]

[He slips through his portal, heading to spawn. Seeing two people there, he pauses to watch as they take some damage, concern growing as they seem to die with no enemies around]

"Zeddle dop?"

[Skizz gets closer, focusing on Zed first, looking at him for any sign of injuries - arrows, wither affect, anything. He glances at the other hermit, noticing the same lack of visible damage]

"Doccy boy? What's goin' on, experiment gone wrong?"

[This feels like a very intense science experiment. Death loop is something he could see Doc coming up with but why would Doc include himself in this and not already leave?]

@skizzs-mailbox

Skizz! My knight in shining armor, I require of you some, um, some help, please.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Yeah, so I broke my own spawnpoint for science purposes, and it has backfired tremendously. And as much as I’d love to use this opportunity to do some Zedvancement-y sorts of activities and what-have-you in the nether, I—

His eyes dart to Doc, whose stare could span a thousand yards were it not for the fact that he was looking straight at the floor, then back at Skizz.

He’s been at this longer than I have and, um… I really do not want what he’s having. No offense, Doc!

No reply.

See, like, look, he’s not even… acknowledging my existence anymore, he’s just, yeah. I can wave my hand in front of him and th—

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

—‘eres, um, he— he dies, I guess. Ha! Look, Skizz, I’m the harbinger of death now! What a throwback. Although I suppose you weren’t there for that. But yeah, um, I need to actually, like, leave. Preferably as quickly as possible.

“Hell you mean throwback-“

[he doesn’t focus on that for too long, glancing between zed, the portal, and doc. His expression gets a bit more concerned seeing how disconnected Doc seems to be, but right now his focus was Zed]

“How do we-bed. I don’t have a bed. I should go run to grab a bed. How long do you have between deaths? How did you manage to get yourself in this situation-“

Zed shrugs.

I wasn’t the one doing the getting-into of the situation, it’s more like it just started happening. I’m just along for the ride.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Seven seconds or so, by the way. On average. At least, that’s what Doc said. But personally, my high score is a bit closer to twelve.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

“High score”

[he repeats. The way zed treats this, like a game - he doubts the constant deaths, only 7 seconds apart, feel nice, but he supposes this is just how zed is]

“Alright. Okay. I need to go get things to- I’ll figure it out. Are you going to be okay alone for a few seconds awesome alright-“

[he’s running to the nearest portal before zed can even answer]

[he comes back with a bed, food, and some potions that had found themselves in one of the trading hall chests. He hands the potion over first, hoping it’ll help zed stay alive]

“We can set your spawn and move it everytime you die, maybe youlll be able to get further than you can currently run!”

It doesn’t do much for him in terms of saturation, but it tastes fruity, so that’s nice. And it heals him, which, of course, is the whole reason he drank the thing in the first place.

And the bed looks awfully snug. Really comfy. Soft. Nice. Very warm. Generally, the thing just looks pleasant. So sue him for wanting to jump in so fast, to get under those covers and—

Zedaph was killed by [Intentional Game Design]

Skizzleman was killed by [Intentional Game Design]

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› flawless escape plan ‹Zedaph› SKIZZ ‹Zedaph› WE’RE IDIOTS

[waking in his own bed isn’t how this plan was meant to go]

“Alright new plan! Zeddle dop, you should’ve known better, no beds in the nether. All your fault”

[he has another bed, but he set that one up outside the portal. He’d been a bit slow to get back, stuck without his elytra now. He quickly gathers up all his items that had dropped when he died, saving them from the fires started by the explosion]

[before discussing a new plan with zed, he rushes to put out all the fires. He doesn’t what either zed or doc set on fire on top of the constant dying. As he passes doc, he shoves one of the other potions in the man’s hands before returning to zed]

“Alright buddy, let’s get you out of here. I set up a bed outside the portal, so if you just run-“

The first mad dash to the portal was a complete bust, on account of the fact that Zed didn’t down the regen potion correctly and started coughing like a maniac. The thumbs up helped matters somewhat, he assumed.

The second was not much better. Bad spawn. Bit too far from the portal.

And with the third, he was so close. So so so very close, everything went about as good as it could go, until—

Something broke.

Be it force of habit, or maybe because this wasn’t his armor to go around breaking; for whatever reason, Zed paused to inspect the status of the armor.

I broke your p—

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

…ants.

Well, this is extremely inconvenient.

You might have to splash me, now that I think about it. These potions take way too long to drink normally.

[he stays by the portal, just where zed died, head in hands. So close, but so far. He picks the armour pieces on the floor up, returning to zed’s side]

“I don’t know if I have splash potions. I’ll need to switch some bottles over”

[he helps zed get the chest plate on, then puts the helmet on for him]

“If anything else breaks, don’t stop to think about it- it’s just diamond, I can get new diamond easily.”

This go-round looked promising.

It’s gonna work this time, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna make it—!

And Zed dives through that portal headfirst.

…

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

…

I, uh, I went the wrong direction.

Maybe we need some of those breeze balls, what are they called, breeze… charges.

“What are you planning to do with wind charges..?”

[he returns the armour to zed again, then glances at the portal]

“I’m going to go turn the potions splashable.. and get your wind charges. You’ll be all good for a few minutes?”

[again, he leaves before he gets his answer, so focused on just getting here and back as soon as possible. He leaves zed with a kiss on the forehead and the armour that’s left after all these deaths, rushing to the portal]

With the addition of wind charges, the mad dash to the portal was made not only dashier, but slightly more mad. Or, as a normal person would put it, the whole ordeal was “faster” and “somewhat weird looking.”

And sure enough…

‹Zedaph› SUCCESS

‹Zedaph› Skizz you are actually the BEst ever i lov you

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› Aw and theres a sheep here thats so nice

#zeds mailbox #docs mailbox #skizzs mailbox

[After zed's earlier message about doing science, Skizz hadn't been too concerned about the looping death messages. Surely Pearl, Doc and Zed were just doing something together, Ren only died once with that message so it had to be some kind of optional thing!]

[He had zoned the pinging of his comm out until a certain ringtone sang, the bleating of a sheep. He checks his messages from Zed, brow furrowing. That can't be good.]

[Skizz doesn't head there with anything except his armour, weapons, flint and steel and some obsidian to make a portal. Surely by 'stuck in the nether', Zed just meant stuck because of mobs or maybe his portal broke, who knows! It has to be one of those, its what makes sense]

[He slips through his portal, heading to spawn. Seeing two people there, he pauses to watch as they take some damage, concern growing as they seem to die with no enemies around]

"Zeddle dop?"

[Skizz gets closer, focusing on Zed first, looking at him for any sign of injuries - arrows, wither affect, anything. He glances at the other hermit, noticing the same lack of visible damage]

"Doccy boy? What's goin' on, experiment gone wrong?"

[This feels like a very intense science experiment. Death loop is something he could see Doc coming up with but why would Doc include himself in this and not already leave?]

@skizzs-mailbox

Skizz! My knight in shining armor, I require of you some, um, some help, please.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Yeah, so I broke my own spawnpoint for science purposes, and it has backfired tremendously. And as much as I’d love to use this opportunity to do some Zedvancement-y sorts of activities and what-have-you in the nether, I—

His eyes dart to Doc, whose stare could span a thousand yards were it not for the fact that he was looking straight at the floor, then back at Skizz.

He’s been at this longer than I have and, um… I really do not want what he’s having. No offense, Doc!

No reply.

See, like, look, he’s not even… acknowledging my existence anymore, he’s just, yeah. I can wave my hand in front of him and th—

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

—‘eres, um, he— he dies, I guess. Ha! Look, Skizz, I’m the harbinger of death now! What a throwback. Although I suppose you weren’t there for that. But yeah, um, I need to actually, like, leave. Preferably as quickly as possible.

“Hell you mean throwback-“

[he doesn’t focus on that for too long, glancing between zed, the portal, and doc. His expression gets a bit more concerned seeing how disconnected Doc seems to be, but right now his focus was Zed]

“How do we-bed. I don’t have a bed. I should go run to grab a bed. How long do you have between deaths? How did you manage to get yourself in this situation-“

Zed shrugs.

I wasn’t the one doing the getting-into of the situation, it’s more like it just started happening. I’m just along for the ride.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Seven seconds or so, by the way. On average. At least, that’s what Doc said. But personally, my high score is a bit closer to twelve.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

“High score”

[he repeats. The way zed treats this, like a game - he doubts the constant deaths, only 7 seconds apart, feel nice, but he supposes this is just how zed is]

“Alright. Okay. I need to go get things to- I’ll figure it out. Are you going to be okay alone for a few seconds awesome alright-“

[he’s running to the nearest portal before zed can even answer]

[he comes back with a bed, food, and some potions that had found themselves in one of the trading hall chests. He hands the potion over first, hoping it’ll help zed stay alive]

“We can set your spawn and move it everytime you die, maybe youlll be able to get further than you can currently run!”

It doesn’t do much for him in terms of saturation, but it tastes fruity, so that’s nice. And it heals him, which, of course, is the whole reason he drank the thing in the first place.

And the bed looks awfully snug. Really comfy. Soft. Nice. Very warm. Generally, the thing just looks pleasant. So sue him for wanting to jump in so fast, to get under those covers and—

Zedaph was killed by [Intentional Game Design]

Skizzleman was killed by [Intentional Game Design]

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› flawless escape plan ‹Zedaph› SKIZZ ‹Zedaph› WE’RE IDIOTS

[waking in his own bed isn’t how this plan was meant to go]

“Alright new plan! Zeddle dop, you should’ve known better, no beds in the nether. All your fault”

[he has another bed, but he set that one up outside the portal. He’d been a bit slow to get back, stuck without his elytra now. He quickly gathers up all his items that had dropped when he died, saving them from the fires started by the explosion]

[before discussing a new plan with zed, he rushes to put out all the fires. He doesn’t what either zed or doc set on fire on top of the constant dying. As he passes doc, he shoves one of the other potions in the man’s hands before returning to zed]

“Alright buddy, let’s get you out of here. I set up a bed outside the portal, so if you just run-“

The first mad dash to the portal was a complete bust, on account of the fact that Zed didn’t down the regen potion correctly and started coughing like a maniac. The thumbs up helped matters somewhat, he assumed.

The second was not much better. Bad spawn. Bit too far from the portal.

And with the third, he was so close. So so so very close, everything went about as good as it could go, until—

Something broke.

Be it force of habit, or maybe because this wasn’t his armor to go around breaking; for whatever reason, Zed paused to inspect the status of the armor.

I broke your p—

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

…ants.

Well, this is extremely inconvenient.

You might have to splash me, now that I think about it. These potions take way too long to drink normally.

[he stays by the portal, just where zed died, head in hands. So close, but so far. He picks the armour pieces on the floor up, returning to zed’s side]

“I don’t know if I have splash potions. I’ll need to switch some bottles over”

[he helps zed get the chest plate on, then puts the helmet on for him]

“If anything else breaks, don’t stop to think about it- it’s just diamond, I can get new diamond easily.”

This go-round looked promising.

It’s gonna work this time, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna make it—!

And Zed dives through that portal headfirst.

…

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

…

I, uh, I went the wrong direction.

Maybe we need some of those breeze balls, what are they called, breeze… charges.

#zeds mailbox #docs mailbox #skizzs mailbox

[After zed's earlier message about doing science, Skizz hadn't been too concerned about the looping death messages. Surely Pearl, Doc and Zed were just doing something together, Ren only died once with that message so it had to be some kind of optional thing!]

[He had zoned the pinging of his comm out until a certain ringtone sang, the bleating of a sheep. He checks his messages from Zed, brow furrowing. That can't be good.]

[Skizz doesn't head there with anything except his armour, weapons, flint and steel and some obsidian to make a portal. Surely by 'stuck in the nether', Zed just meant stuck because of mobs or maybe his portal broke, who knows! It has to be one of those, its what makes sense]

[He slips through his portal, heading to spawn. Seeing two people there, he pauses to watch as they take some damage, concern growing as they seem to die with no enemies around]

"Zeddle dop?"

[Skizz gets closer, focusing on Zed first, looking at him for any sign of injuries - arrows, wither affect, anything. He glances at the other hermit, noticing the same lack of visible damage]

"Doccy boy? What's goin' on, experiment gone wrong?"

[This feels like a very intense science experiment. Death loop is something he could see Doc coming up with but why would Doc include himself in this and not already leave?]

@skizzs-mailbox

Skizz! My knight in shining armor, I require of you some, um, some help, please.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Yeah, so I broke my own spawnpoint for science purposes, and it has backfired tremendously. And as much as I’d love to use this opportunity to do some Zedvancement-y sorts of activities and what-have-you in the nether, I—

His eyes dart to Doc, whose stare could span a thousand yards were it not for the fact that he was looking straight at the floor, then back at Skizz.

He’s been at this longer than I have and, um… I really do not want what he’s having. No offense, Doc!

No reply.

See, like, look, he’s not even… acknowledging my existence anymore, he’s just, yeah. I can wave my hand in front of him and th—

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

—‘eres, um, he— he dies, I guess. Ha! Look, Skizz, I’m the harbinger of death now! What a throwback. Although I suppose you weren’t there for that. But yeah, um, I need to actually, like, leave. Preferably as quickly as possible.

“Hell you mean throwback-“

[he doesn’t focus on that for too long, glancing between zed, the portal, and doc. His expression gets a bit more concerned seeing how disconnected Doc seems to be, but right now his focus was Zed]

“How do we-bed. I don’t have a bed. I should go run to grab a bed. How long do you have between deaths? How did you manage to get yourself in this situation-“

Zed shrugs.

I wasn’t the one doing the getting-into of the situation, it’s more like it just started happening. I’m just along for the ride.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Seven seconds or so, by the way. On average. At least, that’s what Doc said. But personally, my high score is a bit closer to twelve.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

“High score”

[he repeats. The way zed treats this, like a game - he doubts the constant deaths, only 7 seconds apart, feel nice, but he supposes this is just how zed is]

“Alright. Okay. I need to go get things to- I’ll figure it out. Are you going to be okay alone for a few seconds awesome alright-“

[he’s running to the nearest portal before zed can even answer]

[he comes back with a bed, food, and some potions that had found themselves in one of the trading hall chests. He hands the potion over first, hoping it’ll help zed stay alive]

“We can set your spawn and move it everytime you die, maybe youlll be able to get further than you can currently run!”

It doesn’t do much for him in terms of saturation, but it tastes fruity, so that’s nice. And it heals him, which, of course, is the whole reason he drank the thing in the first place.

And the bed looks awfully snug. Really comfy. Soft. Nice. Very warm. Generally, the thing just looks pleasant. So sue him for wanting to jump in so fast, to get under those covers and—

Zedaph was killed by [Intentional Game Design]

Skizzleman was killed by [Intentional Game Design]

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› flawless escape plan ‹Zedaph› SKIZZ ‹Zedaph› WE’RE IDIOTS

[waking in his own bed isn’t how this plan was meant to go]

“Alright new plan! Zeddle dop, you should’ve known better, no beds in the nether. All your fault”

[he has another bed, but he set that one up outside the portal. He’d been a bit slow to get back, stuck without his elytra now. He quickly gathers up all his items that had dropped when he died, saving them from the fires started by the explosion]

[before discussing a new plan with zed, he rushes to put out all the fires. He doesn’t what either zed or doc set on fire on top of the constant dying. As he passes doc, he shoves one of the other potions in the man’s hands before returning to zed]

“Alright buddy, let’s get you out of here. I set up a bed outside the portal, so if you just run-“

The first mad dash to the portal was a complete bust, on account of the fact that Zed didn’t down the regen potion correctly and started coughing like a maniac. The thumbs up helped matters somewhat, he assumed.

The second was not much better. Bad spawn. Bit too far from the portal.

And with the third, he was so close. So so so very close, everything went about as good as it could go, until—

Something broke.

Be it force of habit, or maybe because this wasn’t his armor to go around breaking; for whatever reason, Zed paused to inspect the status of the armor.

I broke your p—

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

…ants.

Well, this is extremely inconvenient.

You might have to splash me, now that I think about it. These potions take way too long to drink normally.

#zeds mailbox #skizzs mailbox #docs mailbox

[After zed's earlier message about doing science, Skizz hadn't been too concerned about the looping death messages. Surely Pearl, Doc and Zed were just doing something together, Ren only died once with that message so it had to be some kind of optional thing!]

[He had zoned the pinging of his comm out until a certain ringtone sang, the bleating of a sheep. He checks his messages from Zed, brow furrowing. That can't be good.]

[Skizz doesn't head there with anything except his armour, weapons, flint and steel and some obsidian to make a portal. Surely by 'stuck in the nether', Zed just meant stuck because of mobs or maybe his portal broke, who knows! It has to be one of those, its what makes sense]

[He slips through his portal, heading to spawn. Seeing two people there, he pauses to watch as they take some damage, concern growing as they seem to die with no enemies around]

"Zeddle dop?"

[Skizz gets closer, focusing on Zed first, looking at him for any sign of injuries - arrows, wither affect, anything. He glances at the other hermit, noticing the same lack of visible damage]

"Doccy boy? What's goin' on, experiment gone wrong?"

[This feels like a very intense science experiment. Death loop is something he could see Doc coming up with but why would Doc include himself in this and not already leave?]

@skizzs-mailbox

Skizz! My knight in shining armor, I require of you some, um, some help, please.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Yeah, so I broke my own spawnpoint for science purposes, and it has backfired tremendously. And as much as I’d love to use this opportunity to do some Zedvancement-y sorts of activities and what-have-you in the nether, I—

His eyes dart to Doc, whose stare could span a thousand yards were it not for the fact that he was looking straight at the floor, then back at Skizz.

He’s been at this longer than I have and, um… I really do not want what he’s having. No offense, Doc!

No reply.

See, like, look, he’s not even… acknowledging my existence anymore, he’s just, yeah. I can wave my hand in front of him and th—

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

—‘eres, um, he— he dies, I guess. Ha! Look, Skizz, I’m the harbinger of death now! What a throwback. Although I suppose you weren’t there for that. But yeah, um, I need to actually, like, leave. Preferably as quickly as possible.

“Hell you mean throwback-“

[he doesn’t focus on that for too long, glancing between zed, the portal, and doc. His expression gets a bit more concerned seeing how disconnected Doc seems to be, but right now his focus was Zed]

“How do we-bed. I don’t have a bed. I should go run to grab a bed. How long do you have between deaths? How did you manage to get yourself in this situation-“

Zed shrugs.

I wasn’t the one doing the getting-into of the situation, it’s more like it just started happening. I’m just along for the ride.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Seven seconds or so, by the way. On average. At least, that’s what Doc said. But personally, my high score is a bit closer to twelve.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

“High score”

[he repeats. The way zed treats this, like a game - he doubts the constant deaths, only 7 seconds apart, feel nice, but he supposes this is just how zed is]

“Alright. Okay. I need to go get things to- I’ll figure it out. Are you going to be okay alone for a few seconds awesome alright-“

[he’s running to the nearest portal before zed can even answer]

[he comes back with a bed, food, and some potions that had found themselves in one of the trading hall chests. He hands the potion over first, hoping it’ll help zed stay alive]

“We can set your spawn and move it everytime you die, maybe youlll be able to get further than you can currently run!”

It doesn’t do much for him in terms of saturation, but it tastes fruity, so that’s nice. And it heals him, which, of course, is the whole reason he drank the thing in the first place.

And the bed looks awfully snug. Really comfy. Soft. Nice. Very warm. Generally, the thing just looks pleasant. So sue him for wanting to jump in so fast, to get under those covers and—

Zedaph was killed by [Intentional Game Design]

Skizzleman was killed by [Intentional Game Design]

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› flawless escape plan ‹Zedaph› SKIZZ ‹Zedaph› WE’RE IDIOTS

#zeds mailbox #skizzs mailbox #docs mailbox

[After zed's earlier message about doing science, Skizz hadn't been too concerned about the looping death messages. Surely Pearl, Doc and Zed were just doing something together, Ren only died once with that message so it had to be some kind of optional thing!]

[He had zoned the pinging of his comm out until a certain ringtone sang, the bleating of a sheep. He checks his messages from Zed, brow furrowing. That can't be good.]

[Skizz doesn't head there with anything except his armour, weapons, flint and steel and some obsidian to make a portal. Surely by 'stuck in the nether', Zed just meant stuck because of mobs or maybe his portal broke, who knows! It has to be one of those, its what makes sense]

[He slips through his portal, heading to spawn. Seeing two people there, he pauses to watch as they take some damage, concern growing as they seem to die with no enemies around]

"Zeddle dop?"

[Skizz gets closer, focusing on Zed first, looking at him for any sign of injuries - arrows, wither affect, anything. He glances at the other hermit, noticing the same lack of visible damage]

"Doccy boy? What's goin' on, experiment gone wrong?"

[This feels like a very intense science experiment. Death loop is something he could see Doc coming up with but why would Doc include himself in this and not already leave?]

@skizzs-mailbox

Skizz! My knight in shining armor, I require of you some, um, some help, please.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Yeah, so I broke my own spawnpoint for science purposes, and it has backfired tremendously. And as much as I’d love to use this opportunity to do some Zedvancement-y sorts of activities and what-have-you in the nether, I—

His eyes dart to Doc, whose stare could span a thousand yards were it not for the fact that he was looking straight at the floor, then back at Skizz.

He’s been at this longer than I have and, um… I really do not want what he’s having. No offense, Doc!

No reply.

See, like, look, he’s not even… acknowledging my existence anymore, he’s just, yeah. I can wave my hand in front of him and th—

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

—‘eres, um, he— he dies, I guess. Ha! Look, Skizz, I’m the harbinger of death now! What a throwback. Although I suppose you weren’t there for that. But yeah, um, I need to actually, like, leave. Preferably as quickly as possible.

“Hell you mean throwback-“

[he doesn’t focus on that for too long, glancing between zed, the portal, and doc. His expression gets a bit more concerned seeing how disconnected Doc seems to be, but right now his focus was Zed]

“How do we-bed. I don’t have a bed. I should go run to grab a bed. How long do you have between deaths? How did you manage to get yourself in this situation-“

Zed shrugs.

I wasn’t the one doing the getting-into of the situation, it’s more like it just started happening. I’m just along for the ride.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Seven seconds or so, by the way. On average. At least, that’s what Doc said. But personally, my high score is a bit closer to twelve.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

#zeds mailbox #docs mailbox #skizzs mailbox #fym “high score” bro 😭

[After zed's earlier message about doing science, Skizz hadn't been too concerned about the looping death messages. Surely Pearl, Doc and Zed were just doing something together, Ren only died once with that message so it had to be some kind of optional thing!]

[He had zoned the pinging of his comm out until a certain ringtone sang, the bleating of a sheep. He checks his messages from Zed, brow furrowing. That can't be good.]

[Skizz doesn't head there with anything except his armour, weapons, flint and steel and some obsidian to make a portal. Surely by 'stuck in the nether', Zed just meant stuck because of mobs or maybe his portal broke, who knows! It has to be one of those, its what makes sense]

[He slips through his portal, heading to spawn. Seeing two people there, he pauses to watch as they take some damage, concern growing as they seem to die with no enemies around]

"Zeddle dop?"

[Skizz gets closer, focusing on Zed first, looking at him for any sign of injuries - arrows, wither affect, anything. He glances at the other hermit, noticing the same lack of visible damage]

"Doccy boy? What's goin' on, experiment gone wrong?"

[This feels like a very intense science experiment. Death loop is something he could see Doc coming up with but why would Doc include himself in this and not already leave?]

@skizzs-mailbox

Skizz! My knight in shining armor, I require of you some, um, some help, please.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Yeah, so I broke my own spawnpoint for science purposes, and it has backfired tremendously. And as much as I’d love to use this opportunity to do some Zedvancement-y sorts of activities and what-have-you in the nether, I—

His eyes dart to Doc, whose stare could span a thousand yards were it not for the fact that he was looking straight at the floor, then back at Skizz.

He’s been at this longer than I have and, um… I really do not want what he’s having. No offense, Doc!

No reply.

See, like, look, he’s not even… acknowledging my existence anymore, he’s just, yeah. I can wave my hand in front of him and th—

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

—‘eres, um, he— he dies, I guess. Ha! Look, Skizz, I’m the harbinger of death now! What a throwback. Although I suppose you weren’t there for that. But yeah, um, I need to actually, like, leave. Preferably as quickly as possible.

#zeds mailbox #skizzs mailbox #docs mailbox

[After zed's earlier message about doing science, Skizz hadn't been too concerned about the looping death messages. Surely Pearl, Doc and Zed were just doing something together, Ren only died once with that message so it had to be some kind of optional thing!]

[He had zoned the pinging of his comm out until a certain ringtone sang, the bleating of a sheep. He checks his messages from Zed, brow furrowing. That can't be good.]

[Skizz doesn't head there with anything except his armour, weapons, flint and steel and some obsidian to make a portal. Surely by 'stuck in the nether', Zed just meant stuck because of mobs or maybe his portal broke, who knows! It has to be one of those, its what makes sense]

[He slips through his portal, heading to spawn. Seeing two people there, he pauses to watch as they take some damage, concern growing as they seem to die with no enemies around]

"Zeddle dop?"

[Skizz gets closer, focusing on Zed first, looking at him for any sign of injuries - arrows, wither affect, anything. He glances at the other hermit, noticing the same lack of visible damage]

"Doccy boy? What's goin' on, experiment gone wrong?"

[This feels like a very intense science experiment. Death loop is something he could see Doc coming up with but why would Doc include himself in this and not already leave?]

@skizzs-mailbox

Skizz! My knight in shining armor, I require of you some, um, some help, please.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

#zeds mailbox #hermitbox lore #hermit mailbox ask universe #🌌┆skizzles!#skizzs mailbox #docs mailbox

Zedaph’s comm had been muted for a good while by now.

Walls of deaths in the public chat made it rather hard to pick up on the messages of substance interweaved within them. So, instead of perusing the chat for a justification to interact with other people (god forbid he actually go out and seek it with anyone other than his ZITS, that would just be silly), Zed elected to work on his newest challenge.

His Haul of All was coming along. He was busying himself fine, stripping the bark off the pale oak logs, when—

Ow! A splinter!

…

Except there isn’t a splinter.

Nothing got splintered. And the damage keeps accumulating.

‹Zedaph› Ummm

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› What’s happening???

Zed parks his donkey in a hole and ties it to a pale oak fence— and that’s when he puts two and two together.

‹Zedaph› I’VE BEEN HIT BY THE CURSE THINGY

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› oh god not you too

‹Zedaph› Afdgfshsdh!

…but as inconvenient as it is…

…it does give him a bit of an incentive to think creatively.

As if today couldn’t get any worse, another person has been victimized by his rogue machinery.

You whisper to Zedaph: get armor

You whisper to Zedaph: im sorry thats the best i can do for you

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Zedaph whispers to you: Cant you just turn it off?

The wave of shame cuts deeper than the thorns— which he’d probably have grown tolerant to by this point were it not for the fact that he feels it everywhere.

You whisper to Zedaph: i forgot to set my spawn properly so no

You whisper to Zedaph: and its pretty far away as well

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Not a lie, per se. He’s not at his base, so he’s not very close to the contraption.

You whisper to Docm77: Not to worry! You whisper to Docm77: Sheep are famously adaptable! You whisper to Docm77: Unless they are not in which case i may be screwed?

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

You whisper to Docm77: But of course i am also adaptable so if they are not maybe that is a good thing because otherwise they would cancel out i think?

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Docm77 whispers to you: yeah ,that is how math works haha

His head is already aflutter with Zedvancement ideas! Or his brain is simply experiencing some kind of instinctual panic response making him unable to think straight. Zed isn’t entirely sure which one it is. Regardless, his creative juices are flowing… somewhere.

‹Zedaph› Fear not, everyone! I am doing science!

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› Above death message unrelated to my science.

Well… at least he’s having fun with it.

It takes many minutes of intensive scienceage for Zed to engineer a contraption that enables him to tie his donkey to a fence that is slightly closer to his primary living space.

Many pressure plates, mattresses, slime blocks, pistons, and wind charges are involved in the transportation. His exterior, Zedaph realizes, has come to be a reflection of his inner psyche. Whether or not that is a good thing is to be determined by future Zedaph.

Now is not the time to decide on the aesthetic value of exteriors. It is time for science. And, having had ample time to marinate, Zed is finally comfortable enough to test a hypothesis he’d been working on for the past twenty minutes.

‹Zedaph› Not to alarm anyone, but I may have found a way to stop the wrath of the goat from hitting me at all!

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› (I have not yet done it as you can see.)

‹Docm77› bro what are you talking about

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› there is no way to stop this from happening even if you somehow compose yourself enough to leave and come back it will keep targeting you

‹Docm77› it cannot be outranged

‹Zedaph› Oh, Thats what you think Doc…

And as the final thorns prod at his hooves, Zed can’t help but smile to himself.

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

…

Oh no.

A wretched anger twists inside him, like a knife to flesh, jimmying at an open wound. Why now? Why now must his solitude be broken, at the apex of a tragedy for which he is the perpetrator? Because this is his fault. It’s all his fault because he couldn’t save them, because he couldn’t save Pearl and he couldn’t save Zed and he couldn’t save Etho and he couldn’t save Bdubs and when Beef came to rescue them he couldn’t save him either, and now he’s stuck wading through brambling vines in the midst of the jungle and— and he’s not very conscientious of how disheveled he looks.

Hard to think over all of Zed’s shouting.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› DID NOT WORK.

Hold on a second.

There’s someone else taking tick damage.

Is that…?

Doc?

He can’t even turn around to meet his gaze. Not a word. Not a single noise escapes him.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Zed sprints closer to him, seeing as walking would be a poor use of his limited time.

Doc! You’re here too?

…now that he thought about it, that’s probably what Doc meant when he said he didn’t “set his spawn properly”.

Oh, he’s screwed.

Where the hell is Ren?!

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

He’s still within earshot. The respawn radius isn’t all that large.

Didn’t realize this thing’d work in the nether.

Of course it works in the nether, it’s freaking Thorns damage, man! You cannot outrange it!

Although Doc recognizes that it’s probably a bad idea to get snappy with the guy who is well within his right to be cross with him for the rest of his life, he simply can’t help himself right now.

It’s an unstoppable torture machine. What about that is so hard to understand?

A sage nod.

Ah, thorns damage. That explains why my bits feel so pokey…

He smacks his lips together.

Speaking of which!

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

The guilt washes over tenfold. For a fleeting moment, the nether feels frosty.

That was out of line, I apologize.

Hm?

I said, I’m sorry. For talking to you like you’re stupid. I don’t think you’re stupid, this— this situation isn’t as obvious of a thing as I was making it out to be.

Zed blinks, then tilts his head to the side.

…I didn’t take it that way.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

He can’t fight the urge to chuckle.

No, yeah, Doc, you’re fine. We’re all good here!

How Zed hasn’t completely denounced their friendship at this point is… beyond him, frankly.

He glances at his fellow Hermit, only to find that Zedaph is once again doing that weird thing with his eyes.

Hold on. If I die with my eyes uncrossed, are they gonna be st—

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

—uh— whoa! Interesting! I’ve always wondered that.

Luckily for everyone involved, his eyes don’t end up getting stuck in that state forever.

…

Ah, yeah, y’probably not in a talkative mood right now, ‘cause of the whole, um, spiky… pokey… death loop thingy-ma-what’s-it. I know social skills.

Doc flinches.

Who, me?

He feels this wave of thorns pierce through him, moreso than the others. It grounds him, in a sense. In a way none of the others did.

No, I can— I can literally handle this, I’m… look, I’m standing up now, I ha~ᵃʳᵈˡʸ even get knocked back—

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

—I don’t get this huge knockback anymore. See? You know the GOAT ain’t one to keel over and die, no, I’m doing just fine, thank you very much.

…assuming one were to ignore his prosthetic arm, which he has to physically hold in place to stop it from moving in ways he doesn’t want it to move.

With any luck, given the ways it’s been strained and jostled about since the start of this loop, Doc’s certain that it’s bound to shut off or break within the next few hours.

I survived getting my horn cut off. This is— this is child’s play, man, you know this machine actually has higher settings, right? Saving those for Scar, though.

…yeah, no, if that’s Doc after… however long it’s been since this whole thing started, then Zed’s in for a world of pain. And he’d much rather spend it with his friends in the overworld.

‹Zedaph› Skizzzzzz i need help i am stuck in the nether

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

#docs mailbox #zeds mailbox

Zedaph’s comm had been muted for a good while by now.

Walls of deaths in the public chat made it rather hard to pick up on the messages of substance interweaved within them. So, instead of perusing the chat for a justification to interact with other people (god forbid he actually go out and seek it with anyone other than his ZITS, that would just be silly), Zed elected to work on his newest challenge.

His Haul of All was coming along. He was busying himself fine, stripping the bark off the pale oak logs, when—

Ow! A splinter!

…

Except there isn’t a splinter.

Nothing got splintered. And the damage keeps accumulating.

‹Zedaph› Ummm

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› What’s happening???

Zed parks his donkey in a hole and ties it to a pale oak fence— and that’s when he puts two and two together.

‹Zedaph› I’VE BEEN HIT BY THE CURSE THINGY

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› oh god not you too

‹Zedaph› Afdgfshsdh!

…but as inconvenient as it is…

…it does give him a bit of an incentive to think creatively.

As if today couldn’t get any worse, another person has been victimized by his rogue machinery.

You whisper to Zedaph: get armor

You whisper to Zedaph: im sorry thats the best i can do for you

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Zedaph whispers to you: Cant you just turn it off?

The wave of shame cuts deeper than the thorns— which he’d probably have grown tolerant to by this point were it not for the fact that he feels it everywhere.

You whisper to Zedaph: i forgot to set my spawn properly so no

You whisper to Zedaph: and its pretty far away as well

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Not a lie, per se. He’s not at his base, so he’s not very close to the contraption.

You whisper to Docm77: Not to worry! You whisper to Docm77: Sheep are famously adaptable! You whisper to Docm77: Unless they are not in which case i may be screwed?

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

You whisper to Docm77: But of course i am also adaptable so if they are not maybe that is a good thing because otherwise they would cancel out i think?

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Docm77 whispers to you: yeah ,that is how math works haha

His head is already aflutter with Zedvancement ideas! Or his brain is simply experiencing some kind of instinctual panic response making him unable to think straight. Zed isn’t entirely sure which one it is. Regardless, his creative juices are flowing… somewhere.

‹Zedaph› Fear not, everyone! I am doing science!

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› Above death message unrelated to my science.

Well… at least he’s having fun with it.

It takes many minutes of intensive scienceage for Zed to engineer a contraption that enables him to tie his donkey to a fence that is slightly closer to his primary living space.

Many pressure plates, mattresses, slime blocks, pistons, and wind charges are involved in the transportation. His exterior, Zedaph realizes, has come to be a reflection of his inner psyche. Whether or not that is a good thing is to be determined by future Zedaph.

Now is not the time to decide on the aesthetic value of exteriors. It is time for science. And, having had ample time to marinate, Zed is finally comfortable enough to test a hypothesis he’d been working on for the past twenty minutes.

‹Zedaph› Not to alarm anyone, but I may have found a way to stop the wrath of the goat from hitting me at all!

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› (I have not yet done it as you can see.)

‹Docm77› bro what are you talking about

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› there is no way to stop this from happening even if you somehow compose yourself enough to leave and come back it will keep targeting you

‹Docm77› it cannot be outranged

‹Zedaph› Oh, Thats what you think Doc…

And as the final thorns prod at his hooves, Zed can’t help but smile to himself.

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

…

Oh no.

A wretched anger twists inside him, like a knife to flesh, jimmying at an open wound. Why now? Why now must his solitude be broken, at the apex of a tragedy for which he is the perpetrator? Because this is his fault. It’s all his fault because he couldn’t save them, because he couldn’t save Pearl and he couldn’t save Zed and he couldn’t save Etho and he couldn’t save Bdubs and when Beef came to rescue them he couldn’t save him either, and now he’s stuck wading through brambling vines in the midst of the jungle and— and he’s not very conscientious of how disheveled he looks.

Hard to think over all of Zed’s shouting.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› DID NOT WORK.

Hold on a second.

There’s someone else taking tick damage.

Is that…?

Doc?

He can’t even turn around to meet his gaze. Not a word. Not a single noise escapes him.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Zed sprints closer to him, seeing as walking would be a poor use of his limited time.

Doc! You’re here too?

…now that he thought about it, that’s probably what Doc meant when he said he didn’t “set his spawn properly”.

Oh, he’s screwed.

Where the hell is Ren?!

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

He’s still within earshot. The respawn radius isn’t all that large.

Didn’t realize this thing’d work in the nether.

Of course it works in the nether, it’s freaking Thorns damage, man! You cannot outrange it!

Although Doc recognizes that it’s probably a bad idea to get snappy with the guy who is well within his right to be cross with him for the rest of his life, he simply can’t help himself right now.

It’s an unstoppable torture machine. What about that is so hard to understand?

A sage nod.

Ah, thorns damage. That explains why my bits feel so pokey…

He smacks his lips together.

Speaking of which!

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

The guilt washes over tenfold. For a fleeting moment, the nether feels frosty.

That was out of line, I apologize.

Hm?

I said, I’m sorry. For talking to you like you’re stupid. I don’t think you’re stupid, this— this situation isn’t as obvious of a thing as I was making it out to be.

Zed blinks, then tilts his head to the side.

…I didn’t take it that way.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

He can’t fight the urge to chuckle.

No, yeah, Doc, you’re fine. We’re all good here!

How Zed hasn’t completely denounced their friendship at this point is… beyond him, frankly.

He glances at his fellow Hermit, only to find that Zedaph is once again doing that weird thing with his eyes.

Hold on. If I die with my eyes uncrossed, are they gonna be st—

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

—uh— whoa! Interesting! I’ve always wondered that.

Luckily for everyone involved, his eyes don’t end up getting stuck in that state forever.

…

Ah, yeah, y’probably not in a talkative mood right now, ‘cause of the whole, um, spiky… pokey… death loop thingy-ma-what’s-it. I know social skills.

#zeds mailbox #docs mailbox

Zedaph’s comm had been muted for a good while by now.

Walls of deaths in the public chat made it rather hard to pick up on the messages of substance interweaved within them. So, instead of perusing the chat for a justification to interact with other people (god forbid he actually go out and seek it with anyone other than his ZITS, that would just be silly), Zed elected to work on his newest challenge.

His Haul of All was coming along. He was busying himself fine, stripping the bark off the pale oak logs, when—

Ow! A splinter!

…

Except there isn’t a splinter.

Nothing got splintered. And the damage keeps accumulating.

‹Zedaph› Ummm

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› What’s happening???

Zed parks his donkey in a hole and ties it to a pale oak fence— and that’s when he puts two and two together.

‹Zedaph› I’VE BEEN HIT BY THE CURSE THINGY

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› oh god not you too

‹Zedaph› Afdgfshsdh!

…but as inconvenient as it is…

…it does give him a bit of an incentive to think creatively.

As if today couldn’t get any worse, another person has been victimized by his rogue machinery.

You whisper to Zedaph: get armor

You whisper to Zedaph: im sorry thats the best i can do for you

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Zedaph whispers to you: Cant you just turn it off?

The wave of shame cuts deeper than the thorns— which he’d probably have grown tolerant to by this point were it not for the fact that he feels it everywhere.

You whisper to Zedaph: i forgot to set my spawn properly so no

You whisper to Zedaph: and its pretty far away as well

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Not a lie, per se. He’s not at his base, so he’s not very close to the contraption.

You whisper to Docm77: Not to worry! You whisper to Docm77: Sheep are famously adaptable! You whisper to Docm77: Unless they are not in which case i may be screwed?

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

You whisper to Docm77: But of course i am also adaptable so if they are not maybe that is a good thing because otherwise they would cancel out i think?

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Docm77 whispers to you: yeah ,that is how math works haha

His head is already aflutter with Zedvancement ideas! Or his brain is simply experiencing some kind of instinctual panic response making him unable to think straight. Zed isn’t entirely sure which one it is. Regardless, his creative juices are flowing… somewhere.

‹Zedaph› Fear not, everyone! I am doing science!

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› Above death message unrelated to my science.

Well… at least he’s having fun with it.

It takes many minutes of intensive scienceage for Zed to engineer a contraption that enables him to tie his donkey to a fence that is slightly closer to his primary living space.

Many pressure plates, mattresses, slime blocks, pistons, and wind charges are involved in the transportation. His exterior, Zedaph realizes, has come to be a reflection of his inner psyche. Whether or not that is a good thing is to be determined by future Zedaph.

Now is not the time to decide on the aesthetic value of exteriors. It is time for science. And, having had ample time to marinate, Zed is finally comfortable enough to test a hypothesis he’d been working on for the past twenty minutes.

‹Zedaph› Not to alarm anyone, but I may have found a way to stop the wrath of the goat from hitting me at all!

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› (I have not yet done it as you can see.)

‹Docm77› bro what are you talking about

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› there is no way to stop this from happening even if you somehow compose yourself enough to leave and come back it will keep targeting you

‹Docm77› it cannot be outranged

‹Zedaph› Oh, Thats what you think Doc…

And as the final thorns prod at his hooves, Zed can’t help but smile to himself.

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

…

Oh no.

A wretched anger twists inside him, like a knife to flesh, jimmying at an open wound. Why now? Why now must his solitude be broken, at the apex of a tragedy for which he is the perpetrator? Because this is his fault. It’s all his fault because he couldn’t save them, because he couldn’t save Pearl and he couldn’t save Zed and he couldn’t save Etho and he couldn’t save Bdubs and when Beef came to rescue them he couldn’t save him either, and now he’s stuck wading through brambling vines in the midst of the jungle and— and he’s not very conscientious of how disheveled he looks.

Hard to think over all of Zed’s shouting.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› DID NOT WORK.

Hold on a second.

There’s someone else taking tick damage.

Is that…?

Doc?

He can’t even turn around to meet his gaze. Not a word. Not a single noise escapes him.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Zed sprints closer to him, seeing as walking would be a poor use of his limited time.

Doc! You’re here too?

…now that he thought about it, that’s probably what Doc meant when he said he didn’t “set his spawn properly”.

Oh, he’s screwed.

Where the hell is Ren?!

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

He’s still within earshot. The respawn radius isn’t all that large.

Didn’t realize this thing’d work in the nether.

Of course it works in the nether, it’s freaking Thorns damage, man! You cannot outrange it!

Although Doc recognizes that it’s probably a bad idea to get snappy with the guy who is well within his right to be cross with him for the rest of his life, he simply can’t help himself right now.

It’s an unstoppable torture machine. What about that is so hard to understand?

A sage nod.

Ah, thorns damage. That explains why my bits feel so pokey…

He smacks his lips together.

Speaking of which!

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

The guilt washes over tenfold. For a fleeting moment, the nether feels frosty.

That was out of line, I apologize.

Hm?

I said, I’m sorry. For talking to you like you’re stupid. I don’t think you’re stupid, this— this situation isn’t as obvious of a thing as I was making it out to be.

Zed blinks, then tilts his head to the side.

…I didn’t take it that way.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

He can’t fight the urge to chuckle.

No, yeah, Doc, you’re fine. We’re all good here!

#docs mailbox #zeds mailbox #it helps that zed also lowkey thinks he himself is a bit stupid 💔

Zedaph’s comm had been muted for a good while by now.

Walls of deaths in the public chat made it rather hard to pick up on the messages of substance interweaved within them. So, instead of perusing the chat for a justification to interact with other people (god forbid he actually go out and seek it with anyone other than his ZITS, that would just be silly), Zed elected to work on his newest challenge.

His Haul of All was coming along. He was busying himself fine, stripping the bark off the pale oak logs, when—

Ow! A splinter!

…

Except there isn’t a splinter.

Nothing got splintered. And the damage keeps accumulating.

‹Zedaph› Ummm

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› What’s happening???

Zed parks his donkey in a hole and ties it to a pale oak fence— and that’s when he puts two and two together.

‹Zedaph› I’VE BEEN HIT BY THE CURSE THINGY

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› oh god not you too

‹Zedaph› Afdgfshsdh!

…but as inconvenient as it is…

…it does give him a bit of an incentive to think creatively.

As if today couldn’t get any worse, another person has been victimized by his rogue machinery.

You whisper to Zedaph: get armor

You whisper to Zedaph: im sorry thats the best i can do for you

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Zedaph whispers to you: Cant you just turn it off?

The wave of shame cuts deeper than the thorns— which he’d probably have grown tolerant to by this point were it not for the fact that he feels it everywhere.

You whisper to Zedaph: i forgot to set my spawn properly so no

You whisper to Zedaph: and its pretty far away as well

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Not a lie, per se. He’s not at his base, so he’s not very close to the contraption.

You whisper to Docm77: Not to worry! You whisper to Docm77: Sheep are famously adaptable! You whisper to Docm77: Unless they are not in which case i may be screwed?

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

You whisper to Docm77: But of course i am also adaptable so if they are not maybe that is a good thing because otherwise they would cancel out i think?

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Docm77 whispers to you: yeah ,that is how math works haha

His head is already aflutter with Zedvancement ideas! Or his brain is simply experiencing some kind of instinctual panic response making him unable to think straight. Zed isn’t entirely sure which one it is. Regardless, his creative juices are flowing… somewhere.

‹Zedaph› Fear not, everyone! I am doing science!

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› Above death message unrelated to my science.

Well… at least he’s having fun with it.

It takes many minutes of intensive scienceage for Zed to engineer a contraption that enables him to tie his donkey to a fence that is slightly closer to his primary living space.

Many pressure plates, mattresses, slime blocks, pistons, and wind charges are involved in the transportation. His exterior, Zedaph realizes, has come to be a reflection of his inner psyche. Whether or not that is a good thing is to be determined by future Zedaph.

Now is not the time to decide on the aesthetic value of exteriors. It is time for science. And, having had ample time to marinate, Zed is finally comfortable enough to test a hypothesis he’d been working on for the past twenty minutes.

‹Zedaph› Not to alarm anyone, but I may have found a way to stop the wrath of the goat from hitting me at all!

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› (I have not yet done it as you can see.)

‹Docm77› bro what are you talking about

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› there is no way to stop this from happening even if you somehow compose yourself enough to leave and come back it will keep targeting you

‹Docm77› it cannot be outranged

‹Zedaph› Oh, Thats what you think Doc…

And as the final thorns prod at his hooves, Zed can’t help but smile to himself.

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

…

Oh no.

A wretched anger twists inside him, like a knife to flesh, jimmying at an open wound. Why now? Why now must his solitude be broken, at the apex of a tragedy for which he is the perpetrator? Because this is his fault. It’s all his fault because he couldn’t save them, because he couldn’t save Pearl and he couldn’t save Zed and he couldn’t save Etho and he couldn’t save Bdubs and when Beef came to rescue them he couldn’t save him either, and now he’s stuck wading through brambling vines in the midst of the jungle and— and he’s not very conscientious of how disheveled he looks.

Hard to think over all of Zed’s shouting.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› DID NOT WORK.

Hold on a second.

There’s someone else taking tick damage.

Is that…?

Doc?

He can’t even turn around to meet his gaze. Not a word. Not a single noise escapes him.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Zed sprints closer to him, seeing as walking would be a poor use of his limited time.

Doc! You’re here too?

…now that he thought about it, that’s probably what Doc meant when he said he didn’t “set his spawn properly”.

Oh, he’s screwed.

Where the hell is Ren?!

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

He’s still within earshot. The respawn radius isn’t all that large.

Didn’t realize this thing’d work in the nether.

Of course it works in the nether, it’s freaking Thorns damage, man! You cannot outrange it!

Although Doc recognizes that it’s probably a bad idea to get snappy with the guy who is well within his right to be cross with him for the rest of his life, he simply can’t help himself right now.

It’s an unstoppable torture machine. What about that is so hard to understand?

A sage nod.

Ah, thorns damage. That explains why my bits feel so pokey…

He smacks his lips together.

Speaking of which!

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

The guilt washes over tenfold. For a fleeting moment, the nether feels frosty.

That was out of line, I apologize.

Hm?

#zeds mailbox #docs mailbox

Zedaph’s comm had been muted for a good while by now.

Walls of deaths in the public chat made it rather hard to pick up on the messages of substance interweaved within them. So, instead of perusing the chat for a justification to interact with other people (god forbid he actually go out and seek it with anyone other than his ZITS, that would just be silly), Zed elected to work on his newest challenge.

His Haul of All was coming along. He was busying himself fine, stripping the bark off the pale oak logs, when—

Ow! A splinter!

…

Except there isn’t a splinter.

Nothing got splintered. And the damage keeps accumulating.

‹Zedaph› Ummm

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› What’s happening???

Zed parks his donkey in a hole and ties it to a pale oak fence— and that’s when he puts two and two together.

‹Zedaph› I’VE BEEN HIT BY THE CURSE THINGY

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› oh god not you too

‹Zedaph› Afdgfshsdh!

…but as inconvenient as it is…

…it does give him a bit of an incentive to think creatively.

As if today couldn’t get any worse, another person has been victimized by his rogue machinery.

You whisper to Zedaph: get armor

You whisper to Zedaph: im sorry thats the best i can do for you

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Zedaph whispers to you: Cant you just turn it off?

The wave of shame cuts deeper than the thorns— which he’d probably have grown tolerant to by this point were it not for the fact that he feels it everywhere.

You whisper to Zedaph: i forgot to set my spawn properly so no

You whisper to Zedaph: and its pretty far away as well

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Not a lie, per se. He’s not at his base, so he’s not very close to the contraption.

You whisper to Docm77: Not to worry! You whisper to Docm77: Sheep are famously adaptable! You whisper to Docm77: Unless they are not in which case i may be screwed?

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

You whisper to Docm77: But of course i am also adaptable so if they are not maybe that is a good thing because otherwise they would cancel out i think?

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Docm77 whispers to you: yeah ,that is how math works haha

His head is already aflutter with Zedvancement ideas! Or his brain is simply experiencing some kind of instinctual panic response making him unable to think straight. Zed isn’t entirely sure which one it is. Regardless, his creative juices are flowing… somewhere.

‹Zedaph› Fear not, everyone! I am doing science!

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› Above death message unrelated to my science.

Well… at least he’s having fun with it.

It takes many minutes of intensive scienceage for Zed to engineer a contraption that enables him to tie his donkey to a fence that is slightly closer to his primary living space.

Many pressure plates, mattresses, slime blocks, pistons, and wind charges are involved in the transportation. His exterior, Zedaph realizes, has come to be a reflection of his inner psyche. Whether or not that is a good thing is to be determined by future Zedaph.

Now is not the time to decide on the aesthetic value of exteriors. It is time for science. And, having had ample time to marinate, Zed is finally comfortable enough to test a hypothesis he’d been working on for the past twenty minutes.

‹Zedaph› Not to alarm anyone, but I may have found a way to stop the wrath of the goat from hitting me at all!

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› (I have not yet done it as you can see.)

‹Docm77› bro what are you talking about

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› there is no way to stop this from happening even if you somehow compose yourself enough to leave and come back it will keep targeting you

‹Docm77› it cannot be outranged

‹Zedaph› Oh, Thats what you think Doc…

And as the final thorns prod at his hooves, Zed can’t help but smile to himself.

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

…

Oh no.

A wretched anger twists inside him, like a knife to flesh, jimmying at an open wound. Why now? Why now must his solitude be broken, at the apex of a tragedy for which he is the perpetrator? Because this is his fault. It’s all his fault because he couldn’t save them, because he couldn’t save Pearl and he couldn’t save Zed and he couldn’t save Etho and he couldn’t save Bdubs and when Beef came to rescue them he couldn’t save him either, and now he’s stuck wading through brambling vines in the midst of the jungle and— and he’s not very conscientious of how disheveled he looks.

Hard to think over all of Zed’s shouting.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› DID NOT WORK.

Hold on a second.

There’s someone else taking tick damage.

Is that…?

Doc?

He can’t even turn around to meet his gaze. Not a word. Not a single noise escapes him.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Zed sprints closer to him, seeing as walking would be a poor use of his limited time.

Doc! You’re here too?

…now that he thought about it, that’s probably what Doc meant when he said he didn’t “set his spawn properly”.

Oh, he’s screwed.

Where the hell is Ren?!

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

He’s still within earshot. The respawn radius isn’t all that large.

Didn’t realize this thing’d work in the nether.

Of course it works in the nether, it’s freaking Thorns damage, man! You cannot outrange it!

Although Doc recognizes that it’s probably a bad idea to get snappy with the guy who is well within his right to be cross with him for the rest of his life, he simply can’t help himself right now.

It’s an unstoppable torture machine. What about that is so hard to understand?

A sage nod.

Ah, thorns damage. That explains why my bits feel so pokey…

He smacks his lips together.

Speaking of which!

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

#zeds mailbox #docs mailbox

Zedaph’s comm had been muted for a good while by now.

Walls of deaths in the public chat made it rather hard to pick up on the messages of substance interweaved within them. So, instead of perusing the chat for a justification to interact with other people (god forbid he actually go out and seek it with anyone other than his ZITS, that would just be silly), Zed elected to work on his newest challenge.

His Haul of All was coming along. He was busying himself fine, stripping the bark off the pale oak logs, when—

Ow! A splinter!

…

Except there isn’t a splinter.

Nothing got splintered. And the damage keeps accumulating.

‹Zedaph› Ummm

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› What’s happening???

Zed parks his donkey in a hole and ties it to a pale oak fence— and that’s when he puts two and two together.

‹Zedaph› I’VE BEEN HIT BY THE CURSE THINGY

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› oh god not you too

‹Zedaph› Afdgfshsdh!

…but as inconvenient as it is…

…it does give him a bit of an incentive to think creatively.

As if today couldn’t get any worse, another person has been victimized by his rogue machinery.

You whisper to Zedaph: get armor

You whisper to Zedaph: im sorry thats the best i can do for you

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Zedaph whispers to you: Cant you just turn it off?

The wave of shame cuts deeper than the thorns— which he’d probably have grown tolerant to by this point were it not for the fact that he feels it everywhere.

You whisper to Zedaph: i forgot to set my spawn properly so no

You whisper to Zedaph: and its pretty far away as well

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Not a lie, per se. He’s not at his base, so he’s not very close to the contraption.

You whisper to Docm77: Not to worry! You whisper to Docm77: Sheep are famously adaptable! You whisper to Docm77: Unless they are not in which case i may be screwed?

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

You whisper to Docm77: But of course i am also adaptable so if they are not maybe that is a good thing because otherwise they would cancel out i think?

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Docm77 whispers to you: yeah ,that is how math works haha

His head is already aflutter with Zedvancement ideas! Or his brain is simply experiencing some kind of instinctual panic response making him unable to think straight. Zed isn’t entirely sure which one it is. Regardless, his creative juices are flowing… somewhere.

‹Zedaph› Fear not, everyone! I am doing science!

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› Above death message unrelated to my science.

Well… at least he’s having fun with it.

It takes many minutes of intensive scienceage for Zed to engineer a contraption that enables him to tie his donkey to a fence that is slightly closer to his primary living space.

Many pressure plates, mattresses, slime blocks, pistons, and wind charges are involved in the transportation. His exterior, Zedaph realizes, has come to be a reflection of his inner psyche. Whether or not that is a good thing is to be determined by future Zedaph.

Now is not the time to decide on the aesthetic value of exteriors. It is time for science. And, having had ample time to marinate, Zed is finally comfortable enough to test a hypothesis he’d been working on for the past twenty minutes.

‹Zedaph› Not to alarm anyone, but I may have found a way to stop the wrath of the goat from hitting me at all!

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› (I have not yet done it as you can see.)

‹Docm77› bro what are you talking about

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› there is no way to stop this from happening even if you somehow compose yourself enough to leave and come back it will keep targeting you

‹Docm77› it cannot be outranged

‹Zedaph› Oh, Thats what you think Doc…

And as the final thorns prod at his hooves, Zed can’t help but smile to himself.

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

…

Oh no.

A wretched anger twists inside him, like a knife to flesh, jimmying at an open wound. Why now? Why now must his solitude be broken, at the apex of a tragedy for which he is the perpetrator? Because this is his fault. It’s all his fault because he couldn’t save them, because he couldn’t save Pearl and he couldn’t save Zed and he couldn’t save Etho and he couldn’t save Bdubs and when Beef came to rescue them he couldn’t save him either, and now he’s stuck wading through brambling vines in the midst of the jungle and— and he’s not very conscientious of how disheveled he looks.

Hard to think over all of Zed’s shouting.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› DID NOT WORK.

Hold on a second.

There’s someone else taking tick damage.

Is that…?

Doc?

He can’t even turn around to meet his gaze. Not a word. Not a single noise escapes him.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Zed sprints closer to him, seeing as walking would be a poor use of his limited time.

Doc! You’re here too?

…now that he thought about it, that’s probably what Doc meant when he said he didn’t “set his spawn properly”.

Oh, he’s screwed.

Where the hell is Ren?!

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

He’s still within earshot. The respawn radius isn’t all that large.

Didn’t realize this thing’d work in the nether.

#zeds mailbox #docs mailbox #more TBA I just gotta write it

Zedaph’s comm had been muted for a good while by now.

Walls of deaths in the public chat made it rather hard to pick up on the messages of substance interweaved within them. So, instead of perusing the chat for a justification to interact with other people (god forbid he actually go out and seek it with anyone other than his ZITS, that would just be silly), Zed elected to work on his newest challenge.

His Haul of All was coming along. He was busying himself fine, stripping the bark off the pale oak logs, when—

Ow! A splinter!

…

Except there isn’t a splinter.

Nothing got splintered. And the damage keeps accumulating.

‹Zedaph› Ummm

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› What’s happening???

Zed parks his donkey in a hole and ties it to a pale oak fence— and that’s when he puts two and two together.

‹Zedaph› I’VE BEEN HIT BY THE CURSE THINGY

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› oh god not you too

‹Zedaph› Afdgfshsdh!

…but as inconvenient as it is…

…it does give him a bit of an incentive to think creatively.

As if today couldn’t get any worse, another person has been victimized by his rogue machinery.

You whisper to Zedaph: get armor

You whisper to Zedaph: im sorry thats the best i can do for you

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Zedaph whispers to you: Cant you just turn it off?

The wave of shame cuts deeper than the thorns— which he’d probably have grown tolerant to by this point were it not for the fact that he feels it everywhere.

You whisper to Zedaph: i forgot to set my spawn properly so no

You whisper to Zedaph: and its pretty far away as well

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Not a lie, per se. He’s not at his base, so he’s not very close to the contraption.

You whisper to Docm77: Not to worry! You whisper to Docm77: Sheep are famously adaptable! You whisper to Docm77: Unless they are not in which case i may be screwed?

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

You whisper to Docm77: But of course i am also adaptable so if they are not maybe that is a good thing because otherwise they would cancel out i think?

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Docm77 whispers to you: yeah ,that is how math works haha

His head is already aflutter with Zedvancement ideas! Or his brain is simply experiencing some kind of instinctual panic response making him unable to think straight. Zed isn’t entirely sure which one it is. Regardless, his creative juices are flowing… somewhere.

‹Zedaph› Fear not, everyone! I am doing science!

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› Above death message unrelated to my science.

Well… at least he’s having fun with it.

It takes many minutes of intensive scienceage for Zed to engineer a contraption that enables him to tie his donkey to a fence that is slightly closer to his primary living space.

Many pressure plates, mattresses, slime blocks, pistons, and wind charges are involved in the transportation. His exterior, Zedaph realizes, has come to be a reflection of his inner psyche. Whether or not that is a good thing is to be determined by future Zedaph.

Now is not the time to decide on the aesthetic value of exteriors. It is time for science. And, having had ample time to marinate, Zed is finally comfortable enough to test a hypothesis he’d been working on for the past twenty minutes.

‹Zedaph› Not to alarm anyone, but I may have found a way to stop the wrath of the goat from hitting me at all!

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› (I have not yet done it as you can see.)

‹Docm77› bro what are you talking about

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› there is no way to stop this from happening even if you somehow compose yourself enough to leave and come back it will keep targeting you

‹Docm77› it cannot be outranged

‹Zedaph› Oh, Thats what you think Doc…

And as the final thorns prod at his hooves, Zed can’t help but smile to himself.

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

…

Oh no.

A wretched anger twists inside him, like a knife to flesh, jimmying at an open wound. Why now? Why now must his solitude be broken, at the apex of a tragedy for which he is the perpetrator? Because this is his fault. It’s all his fault because he couldn’t save them, because he couldn’t save Pearl and he couldn’t save Zed and he couldn’t save Etho and he couldn’t save Bdubs and when Beef came to rescue them he couldn’t save him either, and now he’s stuck wading through brambling vines in the midst of the jungle and— and he’s not very conscientious of how disheveled he looks.

Hard to think over all of Zed’s shouting.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› DID NOT WORK.

Hold on a second.

There’s someone else taking tick damage.

Is that…?

Doc?

He can’t even turn around to meet his gaze. Not a word. Not a single noise escapes him.

Zedaph was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

Zed sprints closer to him, seeing as walking would be a poor use of his limited time.

Doc! You’re here too?

…now that he thought about it, that’s probably what Doc meant when he said he didn’t “set his spawn properly”.

#zeds mailbox #docs mailbox

Zedaph’s comm had been muted for a good while by now.

Walls of deaths in the public chat made it rather hard to pick up on the messages of substance interweaved within them. So, instead of perusing the chat for a justification to interact with other people (god forbid he actually go out and seek it with anyone other than his ZITS, that would just be silly), Zed elected to work on his newest challenge.

His Haul of All was coming along. He was busying himself fine, stripping the bark off the pale oak logs, when—

Ow! A splinter!

…

Except there isn’t a splinter.

Nothing got splintered. And the damage keeps accumulating.

‹Zedaph› Ummm

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› What’s happening???

Zed parks his donkey in a hole and ties it to a pale oak fence— and that’s when he puts two and two together.

‹Zedaph› I’VE BEEN HIT BY THE CURSE THINGY

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› oh god not you too

‹Zedaph› Afdgfshsdh!

…but as inconvenient as it is…

…it does give him a bit of an incentive to think creatively.

As if today couldn’t get any worse, another person has been victimized by his rogue machinery.

You whisper to Zedaph: get armor

You whisper to Zedaph: im sorry thats the best i can do for you

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Zedaph whispers to you: Cant you just turn it off?

The wave of shame cuts deeper than the thorns— which he’d probably have grown tolerant to by this point were it not for the fact that he feels it everywhere.

You whisper to Zedaph: i forgot to set my spawn properly so no

You whisper to Zedaph: and its pretty far away as well

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Not a lie, per se. He’s not at his base, so he’s not very close to the contraption.

You whisper to Docm77: Not to worry! You whisper to Docm77: Sheep are famously adaptable! You whisper to Docm77: Unless they are not in which case i may be screwed?

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

You whisper to Docm77: But of course i am also adaptable so if they are not maybe that is a good thing because otherwise they would cancel out i think?

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

Docm77 whispers to you: yeah ,that is how math works haha

His head is already aflutter with Zedvancement ideas! Or his brain is simply experiencing some kind of instinctual panic response making him unable to think straight. Zed isn’t entirely sure which one it is. Regardless, his creative juices are flowing… somewhere.

‹Zedaph› Fear not, everyone! I am doing science!

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› Above death message unrelated to my science.

Well… at least he’s having fun with it.

It takes many minutes of intensive scienceage for Zed to engineer a contraption that enables him to tie his donkey to a fence that is slightly closer to his primary living space.

Many pressure plates, mattresses, slime blocks, pistons, and wind charges are involved in the transportation. His exterior, Zedaph realizes, has come to be a reflection of his inner psyche. Whether or not that is a good thing is to be determined by future Zedaph.

Now is not the time to decide on the aesthetic value of exteriors. It is time for science. And, having had ample time to marinate, Zed is finally comfortable enough to test a hypothesis he’d been working on for the past twenty minutes.

‹Zedaph› Not to alarm anyone, but I may have found a way to stop the wrath of the goat from hitting me at all!

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› (I have not yet done it as you can see.)

‹Docm77› bro what are you talking about

Docm77 was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Docm77› there is no way to stop this from happening even if you somehow compose yourself enough to leave and come back it will keep targeting you

‹Docm77› it cannot be outranged

‹Zedaph› Oh, Thats what you think Doc…

And as the final thorns prod at his hooves, Zed can’t help but smile to himself.

Zedaph was killed while trying to escape Wrath of the GOAT!

…

Oh no.

A wretched anger twists inside him, like a knife to flesh, jimmying at an open wound. Why now? Why now must his solitude be broken, at the apex of a tragedy for which he is the perpetrator? Because this is his fault. It’s all his fault because he couldn’t save them, because he couldn’t save Pearl and he couldn’t save Zed and he couldn’t save Etho and he couldn’t save Bdubs and when Beef came to rescue them he couldn’t save him either, and now he’s stuck wading through brambling vines in the midst of the jungle and— and he’s not very conscientious of how disheveled he looks.

Hard to think over all of Zed’s shouting.

Docm77 was killed while trying to hurt Wrath of the GOAT!

‹Zedaph› DID NOT WORK.

Hold on a second.

There’s someone else taking tick damage.

Is that…?

Doc?

#zeds mailbox #docs mailbox

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