"-because I've been extremely busy in real life, including, getting ready and preparing another series of 3rd Life/Last Life. It's gonna be a new life of some kind, but you can expect that- well, not soon, but pretty soon? Is that vague enough? There's- There's no set date yet, but you'll see."
Something big is happening in Empires & Hermitcraft. Let's discuss! Specifically, Grian, Smallishbeans, LDshadowlady and Fwhip's episodes the week of October 9, 2022. I've clipped all the relevant scenes down below. I'm very interested in corrections and commentary!
[Note: They all ended their episodes at a portal with weird stuff happening, so if you're looking to check videos for rift lore, maybe skip to the ends.]
- October 9 - Grian finds a button in front of his Hermitcraft rift. It says "Begin?" Grumbot[1] gives him a message that says "Push the button". He tries not to, but eventually gives in. (This is typical Grian behavior.) (HC 9: Ep 23)
- October 11 - Lizzie finds a portal on Empires that bears some suspicious resemblance to Grian's rift. Hoping she might get crystals, she sends a fox named Gary through on a minecart to investigate, and bring back "lots of crystals, the shinier the better". They hit the portal, Gary goes through, the minecart doesn't. (Is Gary a modded villager? That's lizzie's thing?) (Empires s2, Ep 11)
- October 13
(1) Joel spies the portal from his bridge, having heard about it already. He says he'll send something through because Lizzie already did. He sends one of his Jimmy dolls - it's important to remember the doll is named "Smallishbeans's Head". There's no minecart, he just chucks it in. (Empires s2, ep 19)
(2) Fwhip hears an explosion and finds the portal, decides to not engage with any of it. Later, Lizzie comes to Fwhip for help rescuing Gary, and they send Fwhip's creature, "Sniff, Explorer of the Deep", through the portal on a minecart to get Gary. I have no idea what kind of creature Sniff is. Some modded goblin horse I get. Snort's older brother. idk. (Empires S2 : Building a GOBLIN LAVA FORGE, because he can't be bothered to use episode numbers I guess?)
Maybe it's not Grian's rift, maybe Hermitcraft and Empires aren't connected, but that would be WILD. If you don't know, Grian is IRL friends with Lizzie and Joel, so them collaborating makes a lot of sense. Sausage is having big flashbacks to Empires s1 and Afterlife SMP. Gem and FalseSymmetry are in both Empires & Hermitcraft, and False's plot is about having woken up in a strange place. Pearl is in Hermitcraft, and was in Empires s1, and there's deep lore about her that I'm not caught up on, but she already exists between series, she sent Oli (theorionsound) from Afterlife SMP to Empires season 2, from her base in the sky. She's been Watching everything! She's a Saint? A Goddess? (I am going to catch up, I only finished emp1 this month.) And I'm told her afterlife/empires sky base is her hermitcraft s8 base.
The Jimmy toy looks like Jimmy and has Joel's name. Their Double Life soulmates are in Hermitcraft. I saw a comic once that had Tango finding a Jimmy doll and it feeling familiar. Thus, I am now insane and will be at least until empires s2 is over, probably forever.
Here's some videos and some transcripts, but I've been at this two hours and I'm not transcribing them all, sorry!
(I will hopefully keep updating as things develop, but no promises. Probably with less transcription. I'll tag them all #mcyt crossover, because who knows how deep this will go.)
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Joel transcript, at 13:26 - Joel spies the portal. "and whilst we're here, look at that. that's lore right there. weird lore stuff's happening on the server guys. what is it? I don't know. But I saw that Lizzie put something in it, so we should go put something in it as well. So what better than this little toy man here? Well, the toy version of the toy man. Have fun little toy-- oh, it's missed. Let's try again." [toy name says "Smallishbeans's Head"] "Have fun little toy man! And just like that, he's gone. I hope he's okay, but if he's not okay, then that's fine as well to be honest.
Fwhip transcript
11:57 - Fwhip says Jimmy is toying with his heart. </3
12:00 - Fwhip hears an explosion. "What? Bridge? What is (x3) that? I'm sorry but this is brand new. How did this pop up here out of the wall? [confused goblin noises] You know what, if I've learned anything being underground in the goblin cavern it's don't dig where you're not supposed to be digging. I'm going to be leaving that as if I've never saw it [things about copper and cave safety] spooky things are happening".
15:30 - (too long to transcribe) Lizzie blows the emergency horn, says there's a situation with Gary, the greatest explorer who ever lived in Animalia. She's upset that Gary hasn't come back, Fwhip tells her that he heard an explosion earlier, Lizzie is more upset, wants a rescue mission. Fwhip says his empire's greatest explorer, "Sniff, Explorer of the Deep" has just returned home, [they laugh heartily]. Lizzie takes Fwhip and Sniff to the "crystal cave". Fwhip says maybe Gary did the explosion. Lizzie says Gary had a very specific mission (get crystals) and he'd never stray from the mission protocols. They tell Sniff to find and bring back Gary. Sniff spins around a lot, because he's excited for a job. They put him on a minecart, Lizzie makes a Harry Potter reference (which she and Joel do all the time), and the episode cuts right there, no outro.
Time stamped links to the original videos (give them a like!):
Joel https://youtu.be/rUmWjXaJGcw?t=805
Lizzie: https://youtu.be/bunhaERjxmE?t=533
Fwhip: https://youtu.be/jI3bYNJXuVs?t=717 (second part is at 15:30)
Grian: it's the whole episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onsbmy3r70g
[1] Grumbot is... in HC s7 Grian and Mumbo he made a robot son to help Mumbo win the mayoral election, then they lied to him and sai that he won, and put him in a (nice) box. Now there's a grumbot here and maybe he's from an AU and he says creepy things like "My Grian was sorry too" and I've only watched bits of all this.
#in the 12 ep ones its just ploplotplotplotplot and anything else that tries to be a bit more slow paced still feels like its only there for
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
Scar: *wants to build a Jellie petting zoo.*
Grian: *throws Scar and his Jellie pandas out so he can build a very flammable cake-shaped fortress (?)*
Scar: *also goes and builds a very flammable enclosure for the pandas.*
Me: They're both idiots your honour :`)
98 notes - Posted June 25, 2022
#4
I'm watching Petezahhutt's pre mcc stream en and he just said that regarding his team, he is "Very happy that Scott decided to hand me Tumblr fanservice".
124 notes - Posted April 30, 2022
#3
Ren: makes a quest center where you can get diamonds for literally just existing or doing mundane tasks if you just read the instructions carefully.
Grian: "I donated so many diamonds to Ren but I havent gotten back any! If there only was a way to earn back the diamonds very easily!"
Grian: "I know! I'll make up fake quests that benefit me and me only, impersonating Ren in the process! Thats not gonna start a war at all"
184 notes - Posted September 8, 2022
#2
This has the energy of when mom calling you while youre with friends and they start making inappropriate noises in the background lmao
(Source: Jimmy's stream on youtube from 14.12.2021)
248 notes - Posted January 7, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
Grian's attitude towards Ren and the new resistance in the latest episode is the funniest thing ever. According to him, if he doesn't make a resistance, no one else gets to make it either. And the only reason he was upset Ren's diamonds are stolen was because he can't continue laundering them. This is just so funny because we can clearly see how he operates this season- out only for his own gain. And maybe, a little bit jealous over the resistance he doesn't lead or even is a part of.
Some of my favourite parts about the Diamond Pillar finale
The TNT device that misses by a SINGLE block, and only missed because Scar was literally too lazy to keep building
Doc flying over to surrender and immediately getting shot of the sky by Scar
Impulse going full-on rush mode by being the offensive and crashing into people any chance he gets (boatem on boatem violence)
The first TNT device the opposing side makes LITERALLY blows up in their faces (accompanied by a faint scream when it does)
Grian saying the calmest "no" possible before firing at the other side and killing Doc, knocking his corpse off the side and making his stuff fall
Some of Scar's arrows going right through Impulse as he charges towards Scar, with only the third one hitting him
"Uh, so what happens now? We tidy up?" "Nah, let's just leave them there." "Eh, okay."
Xb being completely absent from the whole thing
Only the hermits could turn the stupidest PG dick-measuring contest into a finale that has no right to be as action-packed and filled with weapons as it was. I love this show
Grian was really onto something when he decided to rank how the hermits treated him while he was AFK, because almost none of them can resist the urge to mess with another hermit while they're AFK
Which, of course, in your attempt to shove them around, leads to them waking up, followed immediately by a creeper destroying most of their chests, and then you having to scramble and help them pick up all their things. And this was all because you came over for some honeycomb