#THE DECAYED

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analog topaz
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Literally none of us saw it until retro pointed it out

lethal spire
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we love underestimating the powers of youtube bitrate

spice elbow
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Yep

analog topaz
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Trolololo

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Did retro mention it in the video?

lethal spire
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youre supposed to be able to see things more clearly in abgrund

analog topaz
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I haven't finished it

lethal spire
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youtube bitrate ruined it

spice elbow
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Personally I think watching the series on lower quality would give it more of a personality

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At least with my interpretation

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Of its msaning

lethal spire
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nobody noticed the quality difference in the footage

compact plume
spice elbow
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Yep

analog topaz
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Very cool

lethal spire
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the difference between episode 1

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and 20

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the gui scale is the same for everyone

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same with quality

compact plume
spice elbow
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Also will you guys release the songs used?

lethal spire
spice elbow
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Do you mean u played thomas

compact plume
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Yeah

spice elbow
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Or did I misinterpret

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Oh dang

compact plume
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in lifeless only

spice elbow
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Ooh

lethal spire
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thats why he acts strange

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theres no other reason behind it

compact plume
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my typing style when I do character acting is very much, separate things

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to make it seem rushed

lethal spire
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his personality was kinda butchered but its fineee

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nobody noticed

compact plume
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so the script was completely disorganised

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Some stuff was said before i could catch up

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because ig they saw "oh he said 3 messages so now it's time for my line"

spice elbow
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Yeah he did seem a fair bit less formal

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Is there a lore reason why you played him in lifeless?

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Or was the person who plays him otherwise not available

compact plume
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They didn't know about blockbuster

lethal spire
spice elbow
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Begins the scenes of stuff like this is so interesting to me

compact plume
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It's a mod that lets you record fake players

lethal spire
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we had to use actual people as actors

spice elbow
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Makes sense

lethal spire
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i reaaally wanna show limbo without a texture pack

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its so funny

spice elbow
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Limbo is the empty void ain't it

compact plume
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I was already friends with them beforehand due to really goofy reasons and I liked the series and they needed people so

lethal spire
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limbo is the purple area

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experiments

spice elbow
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The place where u go experiments

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?

compact plume
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The area with the experiment numbers

spice elbow
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Yeah I assume itd look rly goofy with no tpack

lethal spire
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i wanna find the screenshot

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hold on

compact plume
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oh wait I just remembered something from the lifeless recording

lethal spire
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have this nice pic of voyeur meanwhile

compact plume
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this could actually be put on a metal album cover and it would go crazy

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hold on

spice elbow
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Does the logo mean anything in particular?

compact plume
spice elbow
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It kind of looks like that q Greek letter

spice elbow
lethal spire
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my dark limbo

spice elbow
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How do u change names btw

compact plume
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Plugin

spice elbow
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I highly doubt spectator wasn't taken lol

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Oh right

compact plume
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you can see armour stands flash on serenemists head at some point

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those are the fake names

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Buying every account would actually be insane

lethal spire
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my limbo door

spice elbow
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Lmfsoo

compact plume
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incredible

spice elbow
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I'm genuinely curious

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It does look like a iota kind of

lethal spire
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i cant say anything about the symbol

spice elbow
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Oh okay

lethal spire
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it obviously reappears a lot tho

spice elbow
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Yeah

compact plume
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Also before we actually did the lifeless recording, we were just messing around and uh

lethal spire
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its on jacinthes face

compact plume
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birch fence gates

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I think we also built a contraption at some point

spice elbow
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I just assumed it was a diadem of flowers

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But that's good to know

lethal spire
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it is apparent if you look closely

spice elbow
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Oh yeah I see it

compact plume
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how did I not realise that

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Also this series has had like 3 pfp changes I think

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at the start it was just the symbol on a black background

lethal spire
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it changed after disposal

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and now after les fleurs

spice elbow
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Omg I swear

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I know that wont happen

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But imagine if a next vid happens it's Andrew waking up from a coma

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😭

compact plume
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it was all in le head

spice elbow
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It was all a coma

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Least overused ending

compact plume
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pyrocinical starts talking

spice elbow
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LMFSOO

compact plume
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outro starts

compact plume
spice elbow
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Yep

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Unless the story REALLY builds up to it

lethal spire
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i really dislike that trope

spice elbow
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Same

lethal spire
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one of my least favorites

spice elbow
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But if the series builds up to it from the beginning then I suppose it's fine

lethal spire
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also wow we are boosting this thread so hard

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300 messages to 1.1k

spice elbow
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yep

compact plume
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It will never reach mmbah thread level

lethal spire
compact plume
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It got like 40k messages with no RGN coverage

lethal spire
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decayed

compact plume
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it was a cult

spice elbow
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Good works tend to strike conversations

compact plume
spice elbow
peak vapor
compact plume
compact plume
spice elbow
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I should watch it lol

compact plume
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most sci-fi-esk MC webseries are

peak vapor
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ah

compact plume
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TBoTV was 1.12.2 95% of the time

spice elbow
compact plume
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Mods

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Blockbuster mostly

peak vapor
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idk i think a arg im watching currently is 1.20

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and its "beta" styled

compact plume
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Yeah there's a lot of those

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some people slap on a texture pack and call it a day

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as if it's not really obvious

peak vapor
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this dude has it spot on tho

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hes using mods to make it perfect

compact plume
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at that point just play the actual thing bruh

peak vapor
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lol

spice elbow
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You like really need to play in beta

lethal spire
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and performance

spice elbow
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Ah

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Makes sense

spice elbow
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Tbh I can't recall any changes past 1.9

compact plume
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Jappa is the root of all evil...

peak vapor
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1.16 is my fav version

spice elbow
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I rly just stopped paying attention to changelongs when Microsoft bought the game

peak vapor
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but i want 1.8 combat back

spice elbow
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Cuz ik they'd ruin it

lethal spire
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i fw jappa textures but i dont like the usage of them in "args"

spice elbow
compact plume
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1.9 combat is fine, but it's way too slow

lethal spire
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and besides the diary was in 2017 and what version released in 2017

compact plume
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if they can strike a balance between the speed of 1.7 and the thinking of 1.9, you would have something good on your hands

spice elbow
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Wats jappa mean

compact plume
lethal spire
peak vapor
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1.7 blocking in 1.12.2 (ignore it saying 1.9.4, I did have it in 1.12.2)

spice elbow
compact plume
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It's way more in comparison

spice elbow
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You kind of just jump hit with axe and run

compact plume
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spam clicking is objectively less

spice elbow
compact plume
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so does in 1.9

lethal spire
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combat pre 1.9 is insanely braindead

spice elbow
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1.9 has hardly any combos

lethal spire
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1.9 introduces at least some strategy

spice elbow
peak vapor
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dude I love they put models in resource packs in 1.8 but why did they have to go and break every 1.8 model in existince in 1.9, thye should of just started with the 1.9 model system, 1.8 models would still work to this day if that was the case but Nooo, they had to break them

spice elbow
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It has a lot of strategy weirdly enough

lethal spire
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for ultraspecific pvp setups

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if youre doing regular pvp its braindead

compact plume
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not as much as 1.8 but still more thought

lethal spire
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like being tossed in hypixel op duels

compact plume
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1.9s combat system works well for mob encounters but not as well for player Vs player

spice elbow
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It's rly mid

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Mob farms just don't work

lethal spire
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1.9 introducing variety to combat is the best change

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like axes having higher damage but lower speed

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trident

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mace now

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crossbows too

spice elbow
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Crossbows are just worse bows no?

lethal spire
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na

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better in some situations

spice elbow
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Doesn't it pierce

peak vapor
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the new snapshot gives me hope because my bug also got triaged, in the new snapshot they split the food component into two 'food' for food data and 'consumable' to make a item eatable, and with "consumable" component, you can provide a eating animation now, customize the eating sound & particle

one of the animations is block, so you can make a sword "block" now but it only works in thirdperson and no animation in first person so I made a bug report and how to fix it, and the bug got triaged meaning theyre gonna work on fixing it which will be amazing

we will finally be able to add back sword blocking via components visually & the server can do the rest

lethal spire
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bows dont but crossbows do

spice elbow
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Personally they rly should make bundles work

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Shulkers don't fix inventory space

compact plume
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Crossbows can also act as suprise attacks which can make stuff more interesting

spice elbow
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You have to place them

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Which doesn't work when you're building stuff in the sky

lethal spire
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bundles are coming soon

spice elbow
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They said that

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A lot tho

lethal spire
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no but like actually

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theyve introduced them into snapshots

compact plume
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The point is that it's early game and you can store random things

spice elbow
peak vapor
compact plume
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you can only store a stack of 64 I think it was

peak vapor
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this is vanilla ^

compact plume
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of all items combined

lethal spire
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64 of any item

spice elbow
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Anyway imma go now cuz its late

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Bai bai

compact plume
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Bye

peak vapor
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this is possible in vanilla now in the new snapshots

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it has since been triaged meaning they will work on fixing it :)

lethal spire
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its just imitating the shield usage

peak vapor
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right now its through eating

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/give @s iron_sword[consumable={animation:"block",consume_seconds:72000}]

spice elbow
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Btw my username was jacinthe before I watched the series at all

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I just rly like flowers

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Ans french seemed cool idk

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Anyway baii

lethal spire
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bye

compact plume
peak vapor
peak vapor
compact plume
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there was no cooldown and it would just halve damage

peak vapor
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it blocked half damage

compact plume
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that's about it

peak vapor
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1 - (damage * 0.5)

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i think

lethal spire
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thats kinda strange

peak vapor
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and axes didnt disable swords

compact plume
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also crits were automatic for a while

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in b1.8

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because of wrong code

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so every hit was a crit

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absolutely fire

peak vapor
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lol

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i made a mod example of a blocking component

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can I share it

compact plume
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the decayed...

peak vapor
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this channel is decayed

compact plume
peak vapor
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ill continue in #media

compact plume
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because you could do both at the same time for some reason

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which made combat even more brain-dead

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pre 1.8 combat had no CPS cap (1.8 added a 10 cps cap) which made it even sweatier

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and also made getting locked into combos way more devastating

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as opposed to something like 1.9 where you can still get comboed, but you can get out of it somewhat easily as long as you think quickly

fair ice
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Interesting series

analog topaz
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I didn't finish the video. Would anyone like to watch the RGN video with me in #979436594576654406

uncut root
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fun fact- jacinthe is seemingly named after the pillar of jachin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz_and_Jachin or the 'pillar of severity/strength'

According to the Bible, Boaz (Hebrew: בֹּעַז‎ Bōʿaz) and Jachin (יָכִין‎ Yāḵīn) were two copper, brass or bronze pillars which stood on the porch of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple in Jerusalem. They are used as symbols in Freemasonry and sometimes in religious architecture. They were probably not support structures but free-standing, based o...

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anyway, some people are saying the series is over, is it known if les fleurs is the end of it?

lethal spire
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not known

uncut root
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hope its not

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afterall, we still have no idea how the videos are getting uploaded, as the architect brought up

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or why sandY is 'EXEC UNKNOWN'

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one thing thats odd to me is, if everyone in the concept were put in there to preserve them after getting sick, then why were there alternate versions of sandy and kargo in episode 3

lethal spire
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so the command feedback just goes unknown

uncut root
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i assumed that meant they had gotten exec privileges though

lethal spire
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idk

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the commands require exec privileges but i would assume thomas granted him the permissions

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a lot of stuff could be linked to thomas actually

uncut root
lethal spire
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like if theyre preserving their souls in the concept then they would try to figure out how to expand it

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in turn making alternate versions of already existing vessels

uncut root
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perhaps but that seems to clash with the obsession with having them run exactly identical loops
i get the feeling that thomas's explanation of the concept is leaving a lot out. they probablly should have asked jacinthe to explain better before erasing reality

uncut root
lethal spire
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the house might actually be like a set

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from my point of view the vessels were placed in a simulation with a predetermined set

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kinda like exactly like truman show

uncut root
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if the architect built it, then things in the other quadrants managed by others might be different

lethal spire
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we havent seen the other quadrants so it would be hard to know

uncut root
lethal spire
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but the sets being different is likely

uncut root
lethal spire
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the thing is we dont know about anything outside arc's quadrant

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like the only thing outside it is the abyss

uncut root
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id assume the other quads also connect to the abyss as 111 seems to be an exec from one of the caretakers on the blue side of the table

lethal spire
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i mean 111 stated that the abyss is below the entirety of the concept

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so its shared between the keepers

uncut root
lethal spire
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there could have been plans from the start

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what if the sickness was planned

uncut root
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possibly but it would conflict a lot with jacinthe's characterization. unless it was one of the caretakers that did it. would have to have some sort of reverse causal type stuff going on?

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im also not sure- the vessels certainly seem to no longer have physical bodies, but it seems like this may be true of everyone else. i wonder if physical reality just stopped being in this reality

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perhaps in that case the sickness was just a way of pulling people into the concept before that happened

compact plume
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it's just the vessels that are no longer human

lethal spire
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the execs keepers and jacinthe were real people like on a computer then that wouldnt line up with arc dying

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if he wasnt in the game itself how would he die

compact plume
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Architect was streaming on twitch the entire time and had a program on that made it so that there was a 1/10,000 chance of /killing himself in-game when someone chatted

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and it happened coincidentally

uncut root
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i feel like we would have heard some mention of something in the physical world if they did still exist physically. even when we are in execs perspectives they dont seem to be able to close the game

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is this even minecraft to them, or is it just a framing device for presenting things to us?

compact plume
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If they're real people then they are definitely getting paid for doing this

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so yknow, they want to not go homeless

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so they do their jobs

uncut root
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same thing with 05. why bother running from arc when he could just shut the game off and log back in when they were gone

compact plume
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like

lethal spire
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what if theyre working to stay inside the game

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because the real world is like

compact plume
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The execs most likely know stuff about The Concept since 05 claims that they heard from the other execs about stuff like this

lethal spire
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abandoned

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post apocalyptic

uncut root
lethal spire
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yea

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so they gotta work or theyre offed

compact plume
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maybe

compact plume
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they don't have much reason to freak out in that case

uncut root
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if the current pfp is jacinthe's symbol, and purple is her color, i guess the current pfp implies a focus on her in the future

lethal spire
uncut root
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ah nevermind

lethal spire
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the pfp has changed twice in the span of the series

compact plume
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it don't make much sense

uncut root
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exec 09 seemed pretty shaken by it

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'that [pause in typing] was certainly something'

compact plume
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Probably his first encounter with it, but that is his job

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he knows it would happen

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he was probably told this, and if he wasn't he could most likely guess

lethal spire
compact plume
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I don't rember

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but their job is to monitor the vessels so like

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why should he leave

uncut root
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yeah in the least no vessel has ever become sentient before sandY. so thinking mind would still be very unusual

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i think their job is usually more to maintain the concept- run experiments and make sure there are no bugs. the cameras are there for vessel monitoring

compact plume
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It would be a bit odd to manage the concept in multiple different quadrants though

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wouldn't you ideally want that to be united under one

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unless there is some sort of universal meeting area where every exec can go

lethal spire
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8 keepers for 1 whole thing with presumably 100s of execs

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splitting into quadrants would be ideal

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the keepers share their thoughts and ideas at the meeting room

uncut root
uncut root
compact plume
lethal spire
compact plume
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uniting it would be messy but would allow for faster decision making

lethal spire
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so its still 8 quadrants

lethal spire
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apparently not enough cuz thomas didnt get the memo

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everyone was tasked with dealing with sandy

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at least in arc's quadrant

compact plume
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I mean, he was technically dealing with sandy

lethal spire
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if he gets the message across to a few execs then itll spread

compact plume
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just in a different way

uncut root
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wonder whats with the red/blue division

lethal spire
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who is purple

uncut root
uncut root
lethal spire
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and also

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limbo is purple

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would that mean that its a collaboration between the keepers

compact plume
uncut root
lethal spire
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and also do each of the quadrants have their own limbos

uncut root
uncut root
lethal spire
uncut root
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on the one hand yes on the other hand it feels more blue

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i think because its so dark

lethal spire
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its like a dark purple

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the skybox is lighter

worthy yarrow
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Yoooo you did it @analog topaz , he made a vid 😄

woeful wedge
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Hopefully some season 2 or any extra expansion on stuff is made even though this series could be completed

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Ending did solve a lot for me and I’ve based down a personal theory that most people probably agree with but I still have some gaps

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I do sort of grab Alice In Borderland vibes if anyone has ever watched that, you may also connect it up a bit.

uncut root
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Reminds me a lot of OFF

analog topaz
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How. I don't see the OFF in this that much.

woeful wedge
# steady anchor It's collapsing

I like to think the sickness is some big disease that hit the world, and every vessel that is shown as one of the flowers in the garden is someone who passed awsy because of it

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So when the garden collapsed, all the vessels got released to pass away and move on

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How it connected to minecraft is honestly interpretation my guess is how the characters we see in the videos are portraying the afterlife/limbo/etc

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But there’s obviously the problem that these executives are holding the vessels in infinite loops and etc.

steady anchor
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What if the loop the player are seeing

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are actually minecraft in their mind

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The exec loop it

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wait no nevermind

minor rain
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this comment made me so mad (under your asking for part 2)

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he was saying you never finish these args because you want people to subscribe to wait for the next one

lethal spire
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never heard of a story and taking time to develop things

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why would we care about subscribers if nothing changes based on the number

uncut root
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average lore-brained media consumer

hardy heath
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Yup

novel matrix
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If only I was that smart

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I’m actually pretty bad at getting people to subscribe

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In my YouTube career, I’ve moved towards basically not reading comments at all

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The analytics tell me what I need to know

lethal spire
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ive read a few of them under the latest video and its kinda shocking that ppl like specifically go to your comments to hate on things

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i havent seen that anywhere else

novel matrix
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People complain, but they watch

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And a lot are watching this one

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(watch time)

lethal spire
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video length may be a contributing factor but its still apparent ppl wanna watch it

novel matrix
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so it's like, who cares if there are some negative comments. people clearly like this video overall

woeful wedge
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Sort of offtopic to the conversation at hand,
The Decayed should really drop their OSTs. Albeit some is just disturbing slowed down minecraft song. they have some amazing ones.
They seem to be using Community posts as a Out Of Lore platform to speak so maybe they will

lethal spire
novel matrix
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when I was less experienced at youtube the negative comments would actually bother me. but now it's not an issue

woeful wedge
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hooraayy

lethal spire
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and besides negativity often has a stronger effect than positivity so its best to ignore it in general

novel matrix
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yeah, I think that's one thing you just have to learn from experience

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no matter what, there will be negativity

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oh well!

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as I said earlier, the analytics are the best indicator of if people like the video

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and they obviously do

novel matrix
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I really liked how they modified the MC music in the first few videos

woeful wedge
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You caught up on the videos Retro?

novel matrix
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no not yet

lethal spire
woeful wedge
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They used some more modified MC music in a perfect manner

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Les Fleurs

analog topaz
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But I think a lot of these commenters come from his deep dive audience, who should be in for a treat soon

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But honestly I don't think the majority really cares

novel matrix
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well that's where the analytics are useful: because it actually does show information about what the majority thought

compact plume
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I thought that most people knew

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apparently not

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A lot of people call them creepypastas despite the fact that what a creepypasta is, is in the name
Some people think they're real even if they're far from any sensible logic
Other people have apparently never heard of fiction in their lives and think that it's a grand scheme for the creator to get clout and bait YouTubers

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the interpretations vary wildly

novel matrix
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I wonder what I would think of them if I'd never been exposed

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they're definitely in the same category as creepypastas. I actually would say that in some ways my ARG videos are me successfully doing what I failed to do in the Entity 303 video

compact plume
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Creepypastas are text form, pasta is basically just slang for a big amount of text
That's why it's also called "Copypastas"

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Though ironically, entity 303 is technically one of the earliest MC unfiction and one of the earliest creepypastas

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due to the creators official videos about it

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both the mini films and the infection shenanigans

novel matrix
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right, I'm not saying they're the same

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but I do think they both exist in a broader category

compact plume
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Digital storytelling?

novel matrix
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sure. using a game as a platform for a story. Critically, though, the story is intended to be possibly real (even if only in a vague sense)

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It's not fiction in the same way as a machinima, where everyone knows it's fake

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but to a certain extent, this is all semantics. there's a blurry line between all of these categories of similar content

spice elbow
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Than saying "digital art scare" or something

compact plume
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like just saying ARG would be better and would be faster

spice elbow
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true

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its not even that creepypastas are necesarily bad

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its just the popular ones are

glacial apex
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Creepypastas.

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Are a mood

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An atmosphere

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Of some story

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Maybe ours.

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Or something to relate to us

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A feeling

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Fiction,

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Built for inspiration

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Beautiful

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Nostalgic

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An Evergreen feeling throughout the years

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Something to

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Keep our minds open to possibilities

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To something that's beyond our grasp

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And keep wondering

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And chasing

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And fathoming the bizzareness

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Of our own little tales

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It's a reflection of our selves

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This fiction

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A reflection showing what we long for

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We long for more

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Fiction is something to learn from, not to be placed as ultimate

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In this sense

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It is truly a thing of beauty

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And I am thankful for this.

formal scarab
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But slender is a pretty chill dude, the king of creepypasta

glacial apex
novel matrix
spice elbow
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@lethal spire i have a question

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do the sound effects that play whenever a higher up character(architect, jacinthe etc) speaks mean anything in particular?

spice elbow
spice elbow
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most ppl will call this an arg rather than a webseries as well

lethal spire
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execs and any higher role has the ability to use the sound

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their sound

spice elbow
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is it specific to just them?

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or could 2 characters use the same one

lethal spire
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specific roles have their own sounds like all the execs share the sound you hear 05 use in les fleurs

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the keepers have arcs sound

spice elbow
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also

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what was matthew sorry for

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to jacinthe?

lethal spire
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i wanna see what u interpret it as

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theres a lot of intentional vagueness

spice elbow
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as in i am doubtful any vessels before made it this far

lethal spire
#

but its up to interpretation

spice elbow
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Yeah

uncut root
#

the sound thing is another thing that makes me think the execs dont exist physically, and that the game just sort of automatically expresses their tone of thought via their talk sound

lethal spire
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what are some things brought up in the series that havent been elaborated upon but should have

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i immediately think of the sickness

uncut root
#
  1. why was exec 03 seen before the sickness?
  2. who is jacinthe? where did she come from?
  3. what is the current state of physical reality, if it still exists
  4. whos uploading the videos
  5. what chased sandY in the disposal area
  6. what is the purpose of the constant looping? why is vessels becoming more aware seen as bad?
  7. what are the other keepers quads like?
lethal spire
#

interesting

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though for 5 didnt thomas mention that there are more souls within the disposal

uncut root
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if so, why would they chase him? what would happen if he was found?

lethal spire
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how do you know he was chased

uncut root
#

it seemed like the footsteps were getting closer. i guess we dont know for sure, but it feels like something was hunting him down

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oh and of course why did thomas burn the diaries
whats up with the 'real house', why does it disintegrate

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why is serenemist's version of MC so different from ours

lethal spire
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ill take note of these

uncut root
#

honestly not that interested in hearing more specifics about the sickness

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knowing why it happened though i think would be interesting

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but not how it works, leave that a mystery

lethal spire
#

the only issue with explaining all of these things is its hard to do when youre locked to using minecraft chat and/or books

uncut root
woeful wedge
#

I guess it’s all up to interpretation but is there a definitive line between just it being Minecraft or is this going on in the characters head due to the sickness. just portrayed in Minecraft

uncut root
lethal spire
woeful wedge
#

Oof had a little theory written but it got
Blocked

uncut root
woeful wedge
#

Not really thought about it hard

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All up to interpretation aswell apparently

uncut root
#

oh and the fake kargo is another big question, but im under the assumption that that was 03?

woeful wedge
#

Probably an executive trying to resolve the situation

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Situation being sandY becoming Sentient

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Hopefully some more expansions happen in the near future, would love it. but I think it’s not a bad idea to leave it how it is and just let interpretation have its course.

lethal spire
#

nobody knows

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i like to view it as a story which had been going on but it just happened to start getting captured when sandy started becoming sentient

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if that makes sense

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like stuff had already been progressing but sandy becoming sentient was the beginning of the channel

woeful wedge
#

I think this story shines a lot of light on just personal stuff people deal with like change, (vid before les fleurs) and then I guess it gets even worse for our characters when the illness that maybe has a grip on the world starts to shed down their life

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Just kids/teens enjoying their time on games, preparing to move on to many things like college but it just goes south due to this sickness which can be explained via anyone’s interpretation

lethal spire
#

also, wouldnt an international sickness causing presumably death to like millions even billions of people cause the world to go through a big change

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because we can assume they were actually in the real world beforehand

woeful wedge
#

If that’s the case, the characters are probably the first few carriers of it. Since the doctor had no idea what Matthew had in the diary he wrote.

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I followed my own view on the les fleurs video and (need to rewatch soon) I think there was a mention that the flowers are all vessels in the garden

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If the vessels are the disease carrier

lethal spire
#

it shows every vessel within the concept

woeful wedge
#

Yeah so I’m thinking maybe cause Andrew and Matthew caught that stuff first, (doctor in Matthews diary saying he hasn’t a clue what the disease is) it let them be the first (mainly Andrew) to break out of the concept

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Not too sure

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Maybe I’ll polish that up

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Cause Matthew was the first one to get it out the group

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But Andrew got sentience first

lethal spire
#

interesting

woeful wedge
#

But essentially my point is somewhat around since the potential first carriers of the disease are the characters we know

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It allows them to bust out this concept

lethal spire
#

im not too sure about that honestly

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why would they be so special compared to anyone else

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they got the same sickness

woeful wedge
#

Yeah you are right

lethal spire
#

though the two have a friend as an insider

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thomas

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did he cause anything

woeful wedge
#

The executives aren’t really cleared up personally enough for me but I’ll probably do some revising on the videos

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Like I can’t tell if they are actual workers in real life, or if it’s

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Idk 🤷

uncut root
#

oh huh in ep 2 the house has the symbol of jacinthe built over it

woeful wedge
#

That is a good catch wtf

uncut root
#

odd that its tied to a character that seems to have such importance

woeful wedge
#

So with that logic executives can be explained

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Its workers irl who have uploaded the deceased/ill on a network (ig it’s Minecraft) to study them

lethal spire
#

do yall understand how the cameras work

woeful wedge
#

I only know that they come into the loop worlds if a signal is given in the world and the signal means something is messing up

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And let’s execs see into experiments from the limbo

lethal spire
#

not the office

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terminal hall

woeful wedge
#

O ye

lethal spire
#

whatever u wanna call it

uncut root
compact plume
#

I doubt the sigils matter

woeful wedge
#

I remember the one vid of the exec checking a camera and It was serenemist staring at it for a uncomfortable amount of time

compact plume
#

it's just a fake player that they can look through

lethal spire
#

yea the sigils are meant as differentiators for the cameras

woeful wedge
#

Imagine clocking into work where you deal with AI and one of the AI just stare into your souls through the camera

#

Forgot which exec

lethal spire
#

09

woeful wedge
#

But that was a cool touch

uncut root
#

oddly in the first 2 episodes when we see through voyeur it can move its veiw but later when we see 09 use the camera it seems it cant

woeful wedge
#

Serenemist just peering into 09s soul

lethal spire
#

not important

compact plume
#

she never got her fries

uncut root
#

could explain it away as a more advanced version of the camera system 09 uses later

woeful wedge
#

Are we serious bro

compact plume
uncut root
#

yt comments have never been serious

compact plume
uncut root
#

:(

woeful wedge
#

LOOOLL

uncut root
#

please no more comments i might die of second hand emberassment

compact plume
#

game theory get on this one

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Is jacinthe Thomas' girlfriend

compact plume
#

we must figure it out

woeful wedge
#

How do you even like

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Comment this

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That video hit hard asf

compact plume
# woeful wedge

All of the comments on the videos where it's just serenemist and kargo are all just "I loved the part where they made out"

uncut root
# woeful wedge

going to show up in these commenters dreams tonight and make them nightmares

uncut root
woeful wedge
#

Bro the vid was bomb asf “one of those days” hit hard as hell

lethal spire
woeful wedge
#

But then u look at comments

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And it’s absolutely horrendous

lethal spire
#

i love the serious comments

uncut root
# compact plume

this is 100% the worst comment though i dont think we can find a lower low than this

compact plume
compact plume
#

the thing I just posted is under one of those days

woeful wedge
#

Top comment on les fleurs was a guy spoiling the entire thing with no warning but in fairness who reads comments while watching the video

uncut root
#

these other ones are dumb but not that conceptually dumb

woeful wedge
#

Ok

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I give up

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Reading

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I’m gonna leave this here

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If you know you know

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If you don’t I’m so sorry

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Everyday we grow further from god

lethal spire
uncut root
#

this one made me chuckle, not trying to make fun of this person its just a bit funny

compact plume
#

ArchitectLover

woeful wedge
uncut root
#

they either comissioned or drew a custom arc pfp only for him to die

compact plume
#

also there's an exec05 twitter account that someone made

woeful wedge
#

Did he try to fake any lore

compact plume
#

no

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It has nothing

woeful wedge
#

Or was it the one that talked about

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Oh

compact plume
woeful wedge
#

I remember seeing some guy spamming exec05 and then abunch of heart emojis

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Forgot where

compact plume
#

not related though

lethal spire
#

dw i made a community post so most ppl know the only real stuff is on the channel

woeful wedge
#

Honestly fan accounts for a pretty little piece of media (no offense) is kinda impressive

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That’s how yk

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It hit hard

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I won’t lie.

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Unless ur a

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Gooner who want to see all the characters do stuff to eachother

compact plume
#

Surprisingly I'm pretty sure that the decayed is literally the only mc unfiction channel with these types of comments

#

not even TBoTV has that and it's way more schizo

uncut root
#

there are honestly a lot of comments for a mc unfiction

woeful wedge
#

Alrighty

compact plume
woeful wedge
#

I’m done now

lethal spire
compact plume
#

me when I see a friendship (it must mean they're dating)

woeful wedge
#

Yeah idk what people saw in “one of those days” but I was expecting like a good amount of people to relate to the problem they was having

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Since it happens almost

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All the time

uncut root
woeful wedge
#

I was watching that vid realizing I’m moving into college soon

#

Hit hard man

lethal spire
#

its bound to happen

uncut root
#

what is this commentor even on about

#

wait there are more of these chair comments

compact plume
#

we hope and pray that everyone else is safe

woeful wedge
#

☹️

compact plume
#

Both a fanfic and drawing for some reason

uncut root
#

as long as they are only gooning over the 18+ characters

compact plume
#

Alphavers characters are all above 18 but also

#

they're Minecraft skins

#

what are you doing

lethal spire
uncut root
#

very angry commentor

lethal spire
#

the amount of chair spam was insane

compact plume
#

Are you french?

uncut root
#

'ARE YOU? ARE YOU FRENCH?'

woeful wedge
#

2 friends talking about moving on in life and having to go through big social changes (they are now dating)

compact plume
#

He must know right now

compact plume
woeful wedge
#

2 AI trying to escape a loop (They Dating)

compact plume
#

The premiere chat was really goofy in general

woeful wedge
#

Blud acting like he didn’t act as fart master 5000 and in behind the scenes he crucified the exec

compact plume
#

me and some other guy made people believe that the premier was genuinely starting in 3800 years for us

woeful wedge
#

New character

compact plume
#

not just in the decayed

compact plume
#

my favourite

woeful wedge
#

Did you guys know eachother beforehand (friendgroup) before making The Decayed or did you guys kinda band up to make sum fire

compact plume
#

the reasoning as to why we became friends was uhh

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ok basically

#

The decayeds first pfp was black and white

#

Same icon, but white instead and black background

lethal spire
#

hes acted in 2 episodes n made the abgrund track

woeful wedge
#

I thought he was ngl

lethal spire
#

but everything else is me and another

compact plume
#

The thing is though, 2 other webseries' ALSO had this same thing, and both of them had a similar style in terms of titling and abstractness. Those being CONTROL/LucidityAwoken (the one I made) and Slots available. We made a group chat because of this really dumb coincidence and I am now friends with them

woeful wedge
#

Oh but he had some contribution then atleast rite

woeful wedge
#

Dope dope

uncut root
#

Slots available is great, really creative

compact plume
#

I don't actually know any definitive lore, I just helped out a tad and the rest from me is genuinely just theories

uncut root
#

dont think ive seen those other 2

analog topaz
compact plume
#

I did a slash because they're the same

#

Control is the channel name but LucidityAwoken is the series name

lethal spire
#

i unironically theorize about my own series (decayed)

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its fun

analog topaz
#

should have known you'd like slots because you mentioned OFF

uncut root
woeful wedge
#

I’ll be honest only story I kept track in was slightly mine watch cause of RGN, the decayed caught my eye well maybe I’ll check out some in the future

lethal spire
#

i like coming up with a lot of stuff and hearing others’ thoughts

woeful wedge
#

Yeah did you know that your characters are all automatically dating cause they had a interaction in the story

compact plume
#

ong

woeful wedge
#

Have to break the news right now pal

compact plume
#

stop writing your characters so zesty bruh...

woeful wedge
#

On god

uncut root
#

how come so many mc args/webseries have a character named andrew as a main part of their cast

woeful wedge
#

ArchitectLover5 was born because of you

compact plume
#

coincidence

analog topaz
#

Old pfp:

compact plume
#

Andrewgaming was first, then andrewgames I think

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and then the decayed

lethal spire
analog topaz
#

sorry for the intrusion I am just consolidating stuff

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I need to make a pinned message

uncut root
#

andrewgames is. hm

lethal spire
#

oldest decayed pfp was so boring

compact plume
#

the fact that this pfp is the reason why we became friends in the first place is so goofy LMAO

analog topaz
#

is there anything I should include in the pinned message?

#

other than channel link, probably my playlist

compact plume
#

nah I don't think so

woeful wedge
#

Vid is probably all you need, cause the story according to strats is all interpretation

compact plume
#

Ig pfp evolution would be nice

woeful wedge
#

You get given some facts and then piece it for yourself

woeful wedge
analog topaz
#

First Pfp (before disposal_): https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1216521577978396782/1221989069916082186/olddecayedd.png?ex=66d5b8c1&is=66d46741&hm=190635dd021d90b70ab4c1a7486150555d33d6224722f2e387a61a69d27302a2&

Second Pfp (between disposal_ and les_fluers):
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  • Banner Evolution:

First Banner:
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lethal spire
#

theres a lot of interpretation but a lot of definitive answers

woeful wedge
#

Errrm guys I think the sickness makes people sick

#

Not too sure

uncut root
#

false

woeful wedge
#

Smh

lethal spire
uncut root
#

it makes them better by freeing them from the physical world

compact plume
#

I personally believe that the sickness is a conspiracy theory perpetuated by the world government

#

Just like climate change

#

same thing im telling ya

woeful wedge
#

I’m convinced that this is the sneak peak of a mr beast video but minecraft

#

I trapped 500 people in a looo

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Loop

compact plume
#

That would be insane

#

he would

#

He absolutely would

#

he would not feed them either

woeful wedge
#

I trapped 500 people in a loop and gave them a brand new sickness constructed by my unpaid workers in a lab 500m deep underground

analog topaz
compact plume
lethal spire
uncut root
compact plume
#

That's something more akin to what skeppy would do

uncut root
#

oh heres the channel banner full version

lethal spire
#

i must say i really enjoy symbolism

woeful wedge
#

Next video the welcome to the game hackers hack the concept

compact plume
analog topaz
uncut root
#

generally symbolic storytelling is better than overly literal storytelling. without stuff to read into media becomes boring

woeful wedge
#

Very nice touch to the ending

analog topaz
#

did anyone save the older one?

lethal spire
woeful wedge
#

Andrew think he cold for saying that

compact plume
#

Andrew think he a real one for real

#

he ain't getting invited

woeful wedge
#

Bro thought it hit deep

uncut root
#

i dont really think what andrew did was good, for all they know they will just end up on another layer of reality rather than being erased

compact plume
woeful wedge
uncut root
woeful wedge
#

I thought it was just a hint of irony considering the execs know about the myth of the garden and also Jacinthe

#

It seems flowers in general make a big appearance in this

lethal spire
#

do u guys have any theories for jacinthe

uncut root
lethal spire
#

seeing as theres not a lot of info surrounding her

analog topaz
#

jac probably exists

woeful wedge
compact plume
#

Id personally like to believe that the entire story takes place in Thomas's head while he was completely zooted and the next video will be a compilation of what he did irl during his green out

woeful wedge
#

How she came to be or backstory is idk

uncut root
woeful wedge
#

Maybe the blunt was too strong

#

Started getting red spots

#

They was passing it around

compact plume
analog topaz
#

I'd like to think she made the Concept as a way to kinda make her own afterlife, especially since there was a virus just straight up crippling people, and nobody knew why.

compact plume
#

dream blunt rotation

analog topaz
#

so she is the creator and hired the super execs to run the place

#

but they are obviously throwing the bag

woeful wedge
#

Problem is execs had other ideas

#

And she doesn’t try to correct them

#

Idk why

lethal spire
#

id like to point out that jacinthe is white/purple

woeful wedge
#

Think she loves the garden too much

lethal spire
#

the keepers are red and blue

analog topaz
woeful wedge
#

Jacinthe enters the terminal hall and guns down every executive

lethal spire
#

that would be the keepers

woeful wedge
#

Ye keepers

uncut root
#

execs are just pawns for the keepers yeah

woeful wedge
#

Forgot the name for a second

analog topaz
#

oh that's what I meant instead of super execs

woeful wedge
#

Execs are the grunts

uncut root
#

honestly we dont even know enough about the other keepers to judge them yet

lethal spire
#

i assume jacinthe doesnt do anything about it because shes slightly incompetent and well shes outnumbered

analog topaz
#

looking at the meeting hall, it looks like each keeper has their own hallway., so they all manage their own thing.

lethal spire
#

8 to 1

compact plume
woeful wedge
#

Dug down for some stone

lethal spire
woeful wedge
#

Called it a day

compact plume
#

Realized it was a super flat world

uncut root
lethal spire
#

do they have their own exec offices too

#

do they have their own limbos

woeful wedge
#

Realized it was a super flat world so he just quit to title screen

lethal spire
#

and also

analog topaz
lethal spire
#

are there more places in the concept that we havent seen yet

#

like unheard of dimensions

uncut root
analog topaz
#

yeah like the nether. Homeboy could have just left via the nether

lethal spire
#

shocked by the occurrence

woeful wedge
#

They speak of jacinthe as a god tho, always referring to her as “her” so she might have the strength to really correct the keepers. But doesn’t OR her reputation just carries her and she’s lost the ability after something

lethal spire
#

clearly she holds some power

woeful wedge
#

And no ones tried their luck

lethal spire
#

they dont refer to her as jacinthe

compact plume
#

which is basically a way to say "yo this dude a god"

lethal spire
#

but that might because she is common knowledge

compact plume
#

you capitalize the first letter

uncut root
uncut root
lethal spire
#

sandy mentions arc as a “being”

#

what does that imply

#

because hes obviously in the game

#

does it mean hes a higher being or a normal vessel just with more control

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its clearly something otherwordly because sandy eliminated arc without interaction

uncut root
#

execs and higher clearly have sentience at least. execs, at least some of them, were at one point hired humans, the names of the keepers are more... archetypal though.

lethal spire
#

like the creators of each individual quadrant

#

the only ones that dont have sentience are the vessels

#

where do you find the vessels? within their respective loops

uncut root
#

they all are named after some sort of creative or creator role

lethal spire
#

where everything they do is predetermined

#

and then you have execs who are sentient

uncut root
#

im unsure what the distinction between sentient and thinking mind is honestly.

lethal spire
#

its almost like they were peacefully transferred into the game to act as the workers

lethal spire
#

thinking mind would be half that

#

youre like on the verge of gaining self control due to an occurrance

uncut root
lethal spire
#

yeah exactly

#

their loops may be off

uncut root
#

like in the early episodes when sandY is distressed at the looping but keeps digging the stairs like they did before

lethal spire
#

still following the loop but is able to think

compact plume
# lethal spire like unheard of dimensions

I mean, every layer has some sort of purpose and the importance of each layer seems to go in descending order

Garden is where all of the souls are
Grenzen is where, I assume memories of things can be emulated and it uses the souls memories so it yknow, works
Then abgrund whose purpose I don't think was revealed, but most likely some sort of barrier between them.
Limbo needs the other layers to operate
And so does the experiment hall

Though, considering there seem to be no dimensions, but just layers of things. The place where all of the experiments are actually located in is most likely slotted in-between somewhere. Most likely being below limbo since you drop into each experiment through limbo. Though no one ever drops into the grid of experiments, but they TP to it instead

The keepers realm is probably at the very top

I don't really see why there would be extra layers aside from maybe some place where jacinthe chills. It's obviously not the garden because she only goes to it after architect vanishes and it's most likely not in the keepers realm due to the fact that there is no place for purple as there is already a split middle of blue and red

If I were to assume, the experiments themselves are their own layer, but are probably counted as part of limbo for ease

The keepers realm is also probably its own layer, and so is wherever Jacinthe goes to do whatever she does but they're simply never mentioned because why would the execs know about them

lethal spire
#

rather the concept is the multiverse

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so the keepers would have their dimension

#

which consists of the meeting room and their domes

#

limbo/abyss dimension

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because limbo is above the abyss

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but then 111 says the abyss is below the entirety of the concept

uncut root
#

the garden seems to be an underlying symbolic layer from which the rest was built- each flower is a vessel and the tree is the concept itself. if one is destroyed the other is too

lethal spire
#

so what if the dimensions correspond to eachother

lethal spire
#

presumably the bottom one

compact plume
#

Grenzen and the garden are supplies for The Concept at the top

lethal spire
#

the garden is like the founding plains of the concept

compact plume
#

The Concept gets what it needs from them

#

and then does whatever it does

uncut root
#

perhaps its non-euclidean and the different quads are overlaid on each other from a 3d perspective, being seperate in 4d space

compact plume
#

I'm pretty sure this is still meant to be in Minecraft so idk why they would add the 4th dimension

lethal spire
#

im thinking its like how the overworld and nether works

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but its 1-1 rather than 1-7 or whatever

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overworld is limbo/abyss

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nether is keepers dimension

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and seperate dimensions for each other unspecified location

#

like the office or even thomas’ white space

uncut root
#

wonder what the purpose of grenzen is?

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we know it has many black boxes containing many other spaces

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execs can warp to it, at least thomas can

lethal spire
#

grenzen translates to boundaries

#

each black box being a boundary

lethal spire
compact plume
#

What if Thomas' white space was actually just the set for a black mirror episode that they never used and he appropriated it

lethal spire
#

through some transitional area in abgrund

uncut root
lethal spire
#

its not

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the office is unspecified as of now

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id assume it has its own dimension

uncut root
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ah i guess it just contains a similar room like the other grenzen space contains the house. or did i imagine it having an office area

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oh not the office i mean the table and 2 chairs

lethal spire
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oh

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well from what we can tell

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both andrew and matthew saw the castle in their boundary

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the castle is a memory

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does this mean the boundaries represent memories

uncut root
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though wasnt the castle never built

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they said they were going to build a castle

lethal spire
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andrew says he remembers building a castle

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in ep 3 i think

uncut root
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i remember thomas saying 'we were going to build a castle' when introducing himself. perhaps they are actually from slightly different continuities

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so from andrews perspective the castle was built and from thomas's it wasnt

compact plume
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it's possible that he just didn't see the castle being built and assumed it was never built

uncut root
lethal spire
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and also there are details from loss of control that tie into les fleurs

compact plume
lethal spire
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like andrew was jumping to see on top of the staircase bookshelf, there was nothing, he looked behind the tower ladder, nothing, but when matthew went there he saw things in those same spots

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on top of the bookshelf was a mushroom, behind the ladder was a sign saying andrew was there

lethal spire
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did the keepers reuse sandy and kargo’s set

compact plume
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it's not the same exact set but probably just laziness

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alternatively, serenemist and xiphoid couldve just not been real people at all and instead it's an attempt by arch to create new people using people who already exist

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I mean, we see sandycarps842 or whatever

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so

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clones can happen

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We also don't see the other experiments so

lethal spire
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sandycarps26 and kargosh54 are definitely attempts at clones

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but that brings the question

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why

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why would they need clones

compact plume
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superiority complex?

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I mean, that would be a crazy thing to bring up at the table

lethal spire
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does this tie into a bigger picture perhaps

uncut root
compact plume
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"yo bro, I just created new people"