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egopocalypse · 2 years
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do u remember the cloak arg? i was in it back in the day and i was wondering how u feel about it almost like five years later?
Yep! I don't know how much it spread beyond the server since we announced it at the end of the ARG, but I was one of the five people behind Mun! I was one of the four Anti writers (long story), and I also wrote Henrik!
While it hasn't been five years yet (I think this January marked three), I have reflected a lot on the ARG and the others I either wrote or participated in back in the JSE days. There's a lot I learned from that experience, especially when it came to dealing with drama, balancing player interaction, format, and handling a server with that many people.
Would I change anything if I went back with the knowledge I have now? Absolutely. There's a lot to be desired with the story, especially in the sequel, but I'm still grateful for the opportunities it gave me. I made so many friends during Cloak, including my best friend in the world, and the time I spent with them is something I'd never give up.
Ultimately, it was a learning experience, and one I needed at the time. Without it and the other ARGs I was part of, I doubt I would be the same writer--let alone the same person--I am today. I hope that if I ever made another ARG (which I do have plans for, though they're on the backburner at the moment), I would take the lessons I've learned from Cloak, TSR, and all the others to create an experience the players would remember fondly long after it ends.
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lasnevadascryptid · 6 months
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I'm gonna say something that might be controversial but I'll say it anyways.
Ahem.
Ranboo's lore is unoriginal by dream SMP standards, not just as a concept. Naturally it's unoriginal by concept standards other people have come up with this idea before.
But on the dsmp he is not the only person to have this lore, and this issue for lack of a better word is why I LOATH to bits people scapegoating CC dream for whoever the CCs didn't or don't communicate. He may have owned the server but the lore wasn't is idea and largely didn't partake in lore, and from what I understand didn't overlook it either.
My impression from looking at fans talk about the lore behind the scenes stuff was that Wilbur was to some unknown extent in charge. But as I heard more stories and rumors about the treatment of the server's playerbase towards their fellow player, it became clear neither was true, and it was always that responsibility to communicate with the other players fell upon to the individual CC to do so, not Wilbur and certainly not Dream as many seem to claim.
Even your favorites are guilty of this, you should scapegoat Dream to ignore the issue just because they're your favorites and Dream is easy to punch down on and pin all the problems of the server on. Hell I rarely see any drama go by without Dream being dragged in as blame partly blamed on him regardless of we know or not he's involved or to blame. He is partly to blame, but not solely like I see a lot of people imply.
The miscommunication problem should have been called out a lot sooner, evidence was kinda always there, but it's now way too late, and i genuinely think some good would have happened if it was addressed.
For example:
Fundy and Ranboo have the exact concept for their lore. And it's never addressed. This is lead to a lot of interesting parallels and themes between the two that are never acknowledged. If it wasn't for the fact the way they discussed their lore and ideas for it, I'd assume it's intentional but it's very clearly not and I think their lore suffers for it.
What is Fundy and Ranboo's lore? Well, person has a supposed subconscious other version of themself with powers the consciousness version doesn't have, and causes the person to have issues sleeping, and generally causes them bouts of severe mentally health issues and "spells" of unreality and disassociations.
This subconscious self claims to the same person as the awake conscious self, and claims to genuinely want to help, but does so in a way that comes across as scary, unhelpful, strange and unusual, their actions and methods concerning. They also claim not to exist. Also, the more this subconscious self takes over, the worse the mental health of the waking conscious self gets.
In both cases this leads the person to another person with a smile motif often known for being shady or morally grey at best, others of the server often keeping their distance from this smile man. Though when they met this smile man, it's in a dream, and it may not even be the real person, the real deal, but rather something conjured up by the subconscious self to serve a purpose of sorts.
Especially now on the QSMP it's plastered everywhere to point if I wonder it's meant to be subconscious programming of sorts and for whom.
Besides a man with a dubious moral code and smile motif, they also come across a mysterious entity. For Ranboo, his Enderwalk ARG calls this entity Z. Just Z. And as for Fundy, it's not named, but there is a shadowy cloaked figure that chases him until he wakes up.
In both cases, they eventually give into this subconscious self seeking help and guidance, hoping for answers from the self proclaimed subconscious version of them directly.
And that's kinda it. Nothing comes from the similarities, and as far as I can tell. They aren't intended to be this similar. I WANT to theorize that they are similar because Z/"Nightmare" is lying to Fundy and Ranboo for some unknown reasons.
But it's basically confirmed that's not the case, Ranboo implied he didn't really know what they wanted from their character having changed their lore and even species a lot, eventually settle on: full blooded enderman that's just a chimera/half albino, and he's not possssed by anything it's genuinely a subconscious self that trusts dream for some/no reason???
And it's too similar to be Fundy somehow was predicted or copying Ranboo in the sense of again, Ranboo kept changing what he wanted the end to be, hell he changed how his death was play out, Wilbur confirmed it was gonna be self sacrifice to save Tubbo only for it to changed to be by Sam's blade.
I largely believe things could have been different if they just communicated, especially given how to some extent unintentionally Fundy gets replaced by Ranboo as Philza's grandson, as in Philza rejects Fundy in lore and disowns him only to turn around and allows Ranboo to live with him and Techno in their secluded fuck off away from everyone else cabin when they shunned nearly everyone else. Additionally Ranboo's being Fundy's last ally prior to Las Nevadas.
It could have been very interesting. It's clear as CCs they talked but also clear there similarities by chance are not intentional. The only thing that hints that I'm wrong here in my eyes is Z talks to Fundy in ender only for Fundy to realize what it means, meaning CC fundy knew about the ender walk but to what extent?????
:(((((((((((((((( stuff like this makes wish things... turned out differently. I genuinely wanted a s2 of dsmp. But seeing the CCs either not show up the ender dragon fight and or slowly quietly leave. Just. Ugh. The community thrives just bittersweet seeing the CCs move on to greener pastures.
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3/30/22
My focus for the next month needs to be working on my beliefs and focusing.
I am so close to the lightest I have ever been as an adult!
That is exciting and a little terrifying. It's the terror I need to work on. The suddenly becoming visible to people.
I realize I have used fatness as an invisibility cloak.
I am taking that cloak off. Intentionally and with purpose.
I deserve to live in a world where I am seen, religious background be damned.
Meal pics below from my keto-ish day. That light n fit yogurt does not really fit keto macros and I have so much of it. Arg.
The eggs is what I lovingly call truckers eggs. My favorite truck stop meal used to be the hashbrowns with all the fixings. Onion, mushrooms, ham, peppers & eggs. Back 13-14 years ago I developed a way to make it with all the flavor and none of the hashbrown.
Some meals from yesterday:
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deanwasalwaysbi · 2 years
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What my brain's like watching The Winchesters ep 2 and noting what I want to post:
First moment, Russian dolls metaphor, GIF it
Lata at zombie v willow at body in call of the wild episode with abusive boyfriend GIF
"The box is not working" oooooo theories. Is that only for demons? Not zombie....
Mary on Samuel, thinking he's infallible even though she knows he's not. Samuel... marks his shotgun shells yet always covers his tracks. "Only bc he wants to send me a message" .... who says these messages are even from Samuel (probably are bc spn s1)
At commune: "the people who hurt you, but for most people, it's their parents" (cuts to John) GIF (Why why why. I want it to be that he'll hurt Dean but millie hurt him. Whyyyy millie thooo)
Millie ada at garage: Henry planted it, somehow it's still here after all these years. it's jasmine, for protection
WHERE THE FRAK IS DEANNA
Mary is posing as what she thinks she has to be, SO early Dean coded
Ada is going to be making tea. Hahaha yes it was tea
Ada and lata: the intelligencia
John with pipes, literally use a wrench John. Many explainers are maybe more than we need. Can't trust the audience anymore but, could be smoother.
Not cabaret, what did Joel Grey ever do to you
Mary was steamrolling but the moment Lata says she's wrong she listens. She apologizes. John also apologizes in this episode. Winchesters capable of growth. Who knew
Millies in a dress? No way. Not millie. I love that they've already established her enough for that to work. The audience saw ada tell her for us, but John should question it.
John being sure enough to attack millie is SOMETHING, just on her knowing Mary's name. Easier in a small town than knowing where to find you, idiot.
Old TV in hotel room.
AUDREY 3
She doesn't like children who disobey
Lata talks about the tunda attacking children, but these folks (although babies) are grown!
Monty Python "we're lost in a dark and very expensive forest"
This show needs better wig work. Psst psst psst hire me
Boy returning home, what was his "rebellion"? It seems like he just left, but rewatch for gay allegory
Every time John talks he sounds like early Tom Welling and it's so distracting
John and Millie are talking at the garage, but behind them ISN'T the aquestrian star. It's PART of it. 👀 Rune theory lives on.
Oh god. They're going to kill millie and she's going to tell John she loves him as she leaves through a door.
Clubhouse gives the Sunnydale library vibes
Ah crap. More writings to be normal about. Probably more runes.
Not millie smiling at Henry's Jasmine! Uggghh if Robbie wasn't writing this the fear of outing and killing millie would be massive
song title- cloak person
This could be Rowena even if Ruth won't be here until later, but seems like my for guess is akreda related
Omg the way I expect the grr arg end title card
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libraryleopard · 2 years
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See I’m cisgender I’ve spent way too much time overthinking my sexuality to have not also given some thought to my gender and while I ultimately do feel comfortable with the gender I was assigned at birth and how I present myself, I DO therefore have a list of things that have given me an interesting frisson of gender™ and they go as follows:
Putting all my hair under a hat and wearing a vest to act out a scene from As You Like it as Rosalind/Ganymede for my Shakespeare class
Anne Hathaway as Viola/Cesario in Twelfth Night
Wearing a suit jacket to go as Crowley the year before the Good Omens show came out so I could just vaguely make up the outfit instead of having to go by the more official one
Nick Scratch from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (this one puzzles me immensely but it’s true)
That promotional photo for Interview With the Vampire where Sam Reid is wearing a long black coat and standing in a doorway
A very specific vampire guy from an ARG I once played who had a nice waistcoat and cloak and an immense amount of angst
I feel like the takeaway here is that maybe I just want a really cool coat and a waistcoat but I also typing out this list has made me realize that all of these fall into either the category of “demon/vampire/warlock vibes” or “cross-dressing Shakespeare heroine” which are awfully specific patterns? 
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melodicwitchlight · 3 months
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starkmatriarch:
It was no an uncommon occurrence for captors to be found and brought before the Silent Sister. Gendry, the young boy who took care of most of the orphaned children at the inn was always sure to bring any Lannister or Frey which came their way. The Brotherhood kept them safe and in return they brought them their enemies. It was more often Freys or Boltons than it was Lannisters, and Stoneheart’s hands itched for the sight of a golden haired enemy to swing the noose around. The pain in her heart had not been abated by the death of lower-rung Freys, by passing Boltons. Though she felt some justice had been served, she could not rest until the Lannisters were gone from this world and Walder Frey’s body hung from the tree, his aged body nothing but food for the hungry crows. She would not rest till the deeds were done and she had her daughters returned to her. Harwin, a former servant of Winterfell, told her he had seen Arya, with the Houd, so she knew her to be alive. And though Sansa had disappeared from King’s Landing, Lady Stoneheart knew she was alive as well, as surely as she knew her son Robb lay dead in the ground, his body as desecrated as her own had been. There were two brought before her this time, as she sat, Robb’s iron crown grasped between her hands, as her cold, pale fingers traced the patterns on the iron. Lady Stoneheart kept her shawl high, hiding her white, brittle hair and gaunt features, the scratches down her cheeks, and her dark cloak hid the gash which cut across her neck, the gaping wound which made speech so difficult now. “Found these on the High Road, milady,” Lem volunteered bringing them forward. The two prisoners had covers upon their head so they would not know their location. “We didn’t think much of them till we saw Lannister papers on this one,” He gave the male of the two a nudge with his arm. Stoneheart placed a hand to her throat, “Remove…their…hoods” She whispered, wishing to see their faces and her Brotherhood nodded in assent. Lem removed the hood of the girl, revealing a dark-haired beauty, frightened but unknown to Lady Stonheart. Jack-Be-Lucky took the hood from the man and though her memories dimmed, she knew the man there, though she had last seen him in King’s Landing…when her family still lived. “Lord Baelish...” She said hoarsely, barely audible and Jack-Be-Lucky raised his eyebrows. “Seems milady recognise you. Now what might you two be doing on that road, we’re wondering”
Sansa was sat in the carriage, with Petyr, feeling the movement beneath her seat, and the clip-clopping of hooves from the horses pulling the carriage, now upon the High Road.
They were to visit one of the lords in a land, that passed the Riverlands. Normally, Petyr wouldn’t take Sansa along with him, so far out of the Eyrie, for safety reasons, but this time, the person they were visiting, couldn’t make the travel. Additionally, Petyr had said the lord they were visiting, had requested for Alayne to be present as well, in his letter. Sweetrobin was kept safe, in the hands of his wet nurse and Mya, tucked away safe and sound in the Eyrie. Along with more of Petyr’s most trusted liege lords.
She wondered what it was that the lord had requested this meeting for; she felt a twinge of nervousness, but perhaps it was to discuss typical business. 
She smoothed the black feathered dress which she’d aimed to look like mockingbird feathers, that she’d sewn, in an attempt to calm her nerves, and eyes flickering towards Petyr, her Lord Protector.
A smile formed across Petyr’s face, although it was a slight strained with worry, over having the woman he loved’s daughter being in less safer circumstances.
“Hold it!” A voice pierced the silence, and Sansa heard the horses neigh in surprise, and then the clip-clopping of her hooves stopped, as the carriage slowed down to a halt.
She protested, when a man with lemon yellow hair took her by the arm, to lead her out of the carriage. Petyr, however brooked no argument, seeing that he was outnumbered, and he knew these looks on these intruders’ all too well. They could not be swayed by words, not these men.
He allowed another man to take his arm, knowing that he could explain the misunderstanding to their leader. At least, Sansa was now disguised as Alayne, brown bottles of hair dye hiding her true hair colour and different clothes; this would lessen the distinction to a Stark greatly. One of the others hastily stuffed hoods down onto her and Petyr’s faces.
Now blind to where she was going, Sansa walked slowly, afraid of what was going to happen to her, and if she was going to crash into a tree. But the man who held her arm seemed to know the way, and was surprisingly gentle with her.
Upon feeling the hood lift up out of her face, she didn’t immediately look up, her body shaking with fear. What was going to happen to her, and Petyr?
 She heard Petyr swallow beside her, but she dared not look into his eyes. “Cat…” He whispered hoarsely. “We were on our way to see someone…a business meeting, you would say. I-I had not thought I’d see you again. You cannot imagine how grievously sorry I am, to hear of what happened to you.”
When she did look up, she let out a gasp of horror. What she saw in front of her chilled her to the very core, a creature she would only dream of associating in her nightmares. The woman’s throat was a garish bloody red, from being slit open, and her eyes. Oh gods, her eyes! Upon scanning closer though, the woman seemed to trigger something in Sansa’s memory; she looked familiar. “Mother…it’s me.�� 
What had the Freys done to her Mother?! 
She had heard of what happened, yes, but seeing it with her own eyes…
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thesopwithcamel · 4 months
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'We've got hostiles but you're a member of the Prospero Home Army stuck fighting Keepers in Prospero.'
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Video made by Imex P on youtube.
Ever since I joined this fandom I have always had a massive interest in the Moleman ARG and its lore, notably the Time War which occured when the founders through a massive hissy fit and attacked the Shadows to grab an object of unimaginable power for their own usage and deployment: the Sunpiece.
The Founders had the Keepers attack the shadows under the pretense that with the power of the sunpiece the shadows could cause Times End and potentially cause some massive damage, not much about this war, which I and some others call the time war, but all we know is the outcome: the shadows were driven to near extinction, Puella and Tempus found and took in Cavus and shit hit the fan at 1000mph.
I have only seen a couple of interpretations of this conflict and those are few and far between, so I thought I might as well throw my hat into the ring...welcome to Prospero, the first battle of the time war and the worst place to live right about now where you can get bomed from miles away and have a cloak wearing supersoldier with the firepower of light artillary break into your house, drink your milk and then leave.
While the main bulk of the population of Prospero are shadows there are also humans living there who hate the founders...like a lot and as such them sending their troops and Keepers to the city pissed off a lot of people, an entire militia known as the Prospero Home Army was setup under an unidentified captain to fight against this threat.
It very quickly turned into Trench warfare with the militia forced to dig in as wave upon wave of untrained conscripts crashed against their defenses, the only time their lines fell was with either overwhelming bodies or Keeper's came and did a little bit of trolling.
Prospero fell a few short weeks after the initial landing, due to overwhelming numbers of conscripts charging at their lines as well as a large number of Keepers arriving the PHA and Shadows began evacuating civilians from the city via train and airship, some of these trains didn't make it but the monumental effort paid off brilliantly. After the last civilian was evacuated the PHA also left the city before it was levelled by nuclear torpedoes buried in the sewer systems to prevent its capture, Prospero claimed millions...but worse was to come.
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cloak-ooc · 4 years
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sneakymalou · 4 years
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Steal his cloak (headcanon)
Dimitri
Dimitri doesn't take off his fluffy cloak except for sleep (or washing). But you did manage to steal it and you're quite proud of it.
He searched everywhere, until the thought of you taking his cloak reachs him.
Founding you was pretty easy : you are sitting in front of a fire, in your shared bedroom, your shoulders wrapped by his fluffy cloak. He can't help but smile, seeing you like this so relaxed and happy.
He stands here for a while, looking you with his only eye, completly hypnotized. He doesn't make a sound, afraid of disturbing you.
When he sees you shiver, he comes to you and wrappes you in his arms, taking back his cloak to take it on both of your cold bodies. Night are pretty rush on Faerghus this time of year...
"Mind if I join my beloved ?" His voice is whispering, wishing only to be heard by you. His strong arms hold you tight but your gaze reached his, gently. You kissed him softly, only to swaddle back in his warmth. You could stay like this forever and never want to leave for a second.
"I felt lonely without you, so I took your cloak. I do this from time to time... you never noticed before, but I guess I forgot to put it back ! I needed your sent, your warmth..." Your explanation sound so cute he starts to hold you even tighter. He still didn't forgive himself for the harm he caused when Fódlan was still at war.
"If you ever feel lonely or misses me again... feel free to take my cloak whenever you please, my beloved. But know that today, I missed to as well. Badly. Every second lived without you arround me is not worth living at all..." His voice is strond, nearly desperate when he stole you another kiss. "Maybe I should steal your cloak too, beloved ?"
His smile and laugh... God you love this man so bad it hurts.
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tanyamills666 · 4 years
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Channel Name euros summers
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An experience! 
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Hollow: You’re smiling. Why are you smiling?
Jinx: What? I can’t just smile?
Hollow: No.
Austin: Cisi tripped and fell in the parking lot.
Eli: Thunder is still out there laughing.
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antirrhinummajus · 5 years
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Hey, everyone!
In the aftermath of... Anti, we figured some of you might benefit from talking about what all of you have been through, so we made you guys a server! Think of it as some form of group therapy. We hope to see you there! 
 - Jack, Jackie, Chase, Jameson, Henrik, Marvin.
https://discord.gg/e7umPRa
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ahalliance · 5 years
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in honour of marvin’s egoart week, take a meme from the Cloak ARG. Starring Marvin himself and his evil counterpart, the treacherous Long Toe Man
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turquoise-amethyst · 5 years
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I was asking since that group came to talk with you and something apparently happened?
Yeah, I met with two of them, but nothing happened outside of that.
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