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The story so far...

In the previous section, Vincent Adams returned after a multi-year long absence. Surprisingly, he was quite friendly with the players and was willing to answer their questions. He also began uploading a series of music videos that depicted what happened to him over the past few years. He also shared a bit more of the Lunar Children's inner-workings. He described some sort of experimental "Brain Operation" that would supposedly alter an individual's memories and personality in order to transform them into a more loyal follower. It also acts as a final test of faith, as it could be lethal if done incorrectly.

Vincent claims that he regained control of his body on the night of the Cataclysm in April of 2016. Here, he witnessed Patrem supposedly being pulled into the Parallelos... Afterwards, Vincent fled and moved to a new home. He was safe for nearly a year. However, in April of 2017, he felt his mind and soul slowly beginning to degrade... Before long, he found himself trapped in the Parallelos as well - a realm he described as terrifying. Time and space were distorted here - though he was only gone for three years, he supposedly spent thousands of years inside the Parallelos. Thankfully, he claims that he didn't need to eat, drink, or sleep while in the Parallelos. Instead, he simply walked through a seemingly endless expanse of trees.

Eventually, Vincent lost hope and stopped walking. He sat and stagnated for countless years as a tree slowly grew around him. While here, he saw a massive "storm" in the distance. This storm was actually the tendril of an Absque Fascie, who Vincent reveals are actually massive beings that dwell outside of the Parallelos. Supposedly, they even outclass Patrem in terms of strength. The Absque Fascie's tendril was slowly growing closer to him, threatening to devour Vincent. However, before this happened Vincent was rescued by someone he describes as an "Angel".

This Angel freed Vincent from the tree and pulled him up into the sky. Vincent and the Angel then flew through some sort of "fake" sky and entered into a more terrifying realm - one that supposedly existed outside of the Parallelos - the location where the Absque Fascie dwelled. Here, Vincent saw that he was previously within some sort of sphere. He also saw various other things in this realm - though he doesn't go into them, fearing that it's some sort of forbidden knowledge... Afterwards, the Angel brought Vincent back home.

Though Vincent is currently safe, he's recently begun experiencing something rather strange - he can recall two different sets of memories. One set of memories are the ones that he's inherently familiar with - the lifetime that he himself experienced. However, this other lifetime seems both foreign and familiar to him at the same time... He claims that he knows who these other memories belong to. However, he's afraid to reveal this information, fearing that it may have some "world-collapsing" ramifications. This strange memory-merging is possibly a result of Vincent's aforementioned "Aggregation"...

Meanwhile, Erika became active once again. After a fair amount of in-fighting and drama, the players eventually came to the conclusion that she's actually NOT canon - at least according to both her and a supposed friend of the GM's... It seems that the source of her "exclusive footage" and "insider knowledge" was the result of her having loose connections to the GM's. Though several players were still suspicious of her, they accepted her as a fellow Internet Detective yet again - something that seemed to make her quite happy.

Back on Silentdork, the players were finally shown a continuation of Tyler's journey. After coming in contact with the Mannequin Entity on the bridge in the Parallelos, Tyler was seemingly in two places at once - sleeping in a hospital bed and exploring a strange hotel. This hotel was actually Alex's Hall of Fame. Within it, the transcended giant Alex spoke cryptic riddles to Tyler. Most of this seemed to be a sort of meta-related commentary regarding Ben Drowned - something that was fitting considering that the long-awaited third arc, "Awakening", had just recently begun. Interestingly, Alex claims that Tyler was currently trapped in "The Machine", though what exactly this is referring to is unclear.

Meanwhile, TheLaw began assisting the players directly. He claims that his very nature is to uphold the demands of his own law - his own justice. Recent events have supposedly caused him to reconsider his allegiances and he's decided that assisting the players will result in the best possible outcome. Shortly after this, he departed to rendezvous with some sort of individual wearing a trenchcoat... Around this same time, a strange video was uploaded to Silentdork - one that was supposed recorded by SKM himself back in 2014. This video showed SKM uncovering a device near the Cellphone Tower that was supposed left for him by "The Gray Man" back in 2009.

Afterwards, the players discovered that Lunarchildren.com was once again back online - now sporting a brand new look...

Character Summaries

Expand the section below to access a list of characters. Hover over their icons to view a brief summary covering their current status.

Relevant Characters

Tyler

BUP

The Producer

TheLaw

Rune Entity

Erika

Vincent
Adams

The "Angel"

Greth

Alex

Yuukichan

"Wolfcat"

Munnin

Tenebris

Other Characters

John

Regiminis

Patrem

Mat
Hubbard

Moonman

IsocelesAssassin

GHOSTBABEL

Pumpkinhead

SKM

Astral
Tyler

Tyler00

Yugi

Kaiden
Zoromichi

NotAHoax

The Watcher

Nocta

Doug

Spencer

Kelbris

Old Man

Ben
Hubbard

Max

Samuel
Charleston

Luna

Jacob

Helper

Jeremy
J

Rosa

Chris

Hunter

Diana
Hubbard

José

Daniel

Zack Nelson

Kayd

Thomas

David

Danielle

Quia

The Man

Mason

Mason
xxxxxxxxx

The Gray
Man

Ezekiel
Thoth

Jinn

Kuu

Nathen

Hina

Eddie

SheepDog

HarryM1

Alignak

Kalfu

Sin_yarikh

Tsukuyomi

Igaluk

Losna

Hope

Hope's
Friend (M)

Hope's
Friend (F)

Tyler
(SilentDT)

William
Reynolds

Justin
Reynolds

Carla

The Flying
Child

Drowned

Guide

Glossary

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Misc.

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A

Absque Fascie

Aggregation

Alex's Hall of Fame

Amiibo

B

Beacon

Believers

Ben Drowned

Blood Moon Ritual

Bloody Mary

Blue Baby

Bomb Plans

Briefcase

BroGaming

Bullet Necklace

Bunny Hood

BUP's Group

C

Candyman

Cellphone Tower

Ceremony of the Three Elements

Cipher

Cherrington High

Cleverbot

Conduit

Contact Page

Crescent

Crescent Moon Necklace

Cycle

D

Dark Link

Decoy.link

Deku Link

Demon

Detour Sign

Devium

Downloadable Files

Drezz

Drok

Dungeons & Dragons

E

Elder Children

Electro Drek

Elegy of Emptiness

Elegy Statue

Epona

Epona's Song

Eulogy

F

Fairy

Fakeworld

Father

File 59

Finitor

Fish Ponds

Full

G

Gamejack

Gibbous

GM

Goron Link

Goron Lullaby

Greth Vlogs

Guestbook

H

Hacker Group

Happy Mask Salesman

Harbingers

Harbinger's Link

Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge

Helper's Hat

Hiatus

Hole

Holy Building

Hospital

Hubris

Hubris Game

I

IIIII

Internet Detectives

Inverted Song of Time

IRC

J

Jadusable

Jadusable's ARG

Janus Room

JanusVR

Jumping

John's Cellphone Number

Johnisdead.com

K

Kamaro Mask

Key592

Killing Assignment

King Kong

L

Layered Being

Lens of Truth

Letschasethemouse

Libro Lunarus

Link

Link.exe

Listening

Listening Device

Lostmemory.exe

Lostmemory423

Luna Prophecy

Luna's Parallelos

Lunar Children

Lunar Children Forums

Lunar Children Servers

Lunarchildren.com

Lunarum Oculus

Lurch.co

M

Majora's Mask

Malagasy

Masks

Mask of Truth

Max Headroom

Messenger

N

Neophyte

New Moon

New Wave Bossa Nova

Night of the Father

Novum Ascensionem

Nullstorm

O

Oath to Order

Observation Duty

OOC

Overseer

Overworld

Owl Statue

P

Parallelos

Parallelos Child

Parallelos Forum

Parallelos of the Ascended

Parallelos of the Dead

Parallelos of Time

Parallelos Path

Parallelos Symbol

Pididoip

Playing Cards

Portal

Postman's Hat

Prime Timeline

Pumpkinhead Gamejack

Q

Quiet Family

R

Raven Figurine

Reading Session

Remember.exe

Red Dot

Redirect Page

Regiminis's Domain

Regiminis Sigil

Revival

Room 592

Rosa

S

Safehaven

Samsara

Scrying

Scrying Device

Shazbot

Silent Hill

Silentdork

Skull Kid

Skype

Sleeproom

Sonata of Awakening

Song of Double Time

Song of Healing

Song of Soaring

Song of Storms

Song of Time

Song of Unhealing

SSTV Signal

Sphere

Steganography

Stone Mask

Strand Sensations

Submitting

Sub-Parallelos

Sub-Traversing

Subspace

Sun's Song

T

Tatl

Tenebris Symbol

Tenebris.link

Tenor

The Blackout

The Bridge

The Cataclysm

The Gate

The Factory

The Fishery

The Four Giants

The Glitch

The Killswitch

The Legend

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

The Misguided

The Misguided Legion

The Moon

The Ocarina

The Orchard

The Paths

The Poem

The Rule of Three

The Spire

The Three Silver Secrets

The Truth

The Whiteout

TheLinkMissing

TheTruth.rtf

Time Bomb

Time Links

Transcendence

Traversing

Truth Seeker

U

Undecim Nocte

Usekeb

V

Vampire

Vigil

Vocaroo

W

Wayward Horizon

Weenie-Licked

Whatisben.com

WireTalk

Within Hubris

Wyndstrom Institute

Y

Youshouldnthavedonethat.net

YSHDT.com

Z

Zora Link

Story

Lunarchildren.com's sudden return came as quite a surprise.

The site now featured a completely new design - one that was reminiscent of older internet webpages. The site had a very space-centric feel, featuring starry night skies, ornate pillars, and images of different phases of the moon. The announcements on the front page were all the same announcements that were present on the site back in 2018. Additionally, the site now featured a navbar leading to other pages such as "Archives", "Lore", "Anthem", and "Contact".

The page "https://lunarchildren.com/anthem" featured the same content it did back in 2018 - a lyricized version of the Lunar Children theme. However, the other links on the navbar were all still locked. It seemed as though the site was still slowly being loaded in... Additionally, the site featured its own "Redirect Page" - attempting to access a non-existent page would bring players to "https://lunarchildren.com/notfound.html", which featured an image reminiscent of the Parallelos titled "lost.gif".

As the players continued exploring Lunarchildren.com, they began noticing some strange oddities...

First, clicking on the word "She" on the "Anthem" page would link players to a completely new page - "https://lunarchildren.com/she.html". This page was titled "Holy Place" and contained two images - "realmfourth.gif" and "watching.png". These both seem to be references to Luna and her own designated Parallelos - a location that was previously referred to as "The Fourth Realm". In fact, "watching.png" seemed to be a stylized version of the classic "Lunarum Oculus" symbol from 2015.

"Realmfourth.gif", referencing Luna's Parallelos.
"Watching.png", referencing the Lunarum Oculus.

In fact, clicking this symbol would actually redirect players to yet another new page - "https://lunarchildren.com/come.html".

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lunarchildren.com/come.html

This page was accessed from clicking on the "Lunarum Oculus" above.

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Meanwhile, the IIIII account began sending the players cryptic messages on Discord - ones that led them to even more pages on Lunarchildren.com:

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lunarchildren.com/masked.html

This page was titled "apkreca". It seemed to be referencing the player Yoshi's old username - "Maskedsheikah".

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In response, the player Yoshi decided to submit the "Frog Song" yet again. Shortly after this, the players were sent another new page:

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lunarchildren.com/kaetu.html

This page was titled "Shift" and hid the text "XII" in its source.

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The name "Kaetu" was quite strange... However, by using the hints provided in the page's title and source code, it was quickly discovered that this was actually a Caesar cipher that translated to "Yoshi" - yet another reference to this player. Considering that this page's image featured a frog, this seemed to suggest that her frequent submissions of the "Frog Song" were having some sort of effect...

On March 27th, 2020, the player Xenquility discovered that Lunarchildren.com had updated. José's avatar on the front page was now slightly animated, glitching and jittering slightly. Upon clicking it, players would be taken to another new page:

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lunarchildren.com/hcj.html

This page was titled "the patricide".

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This page contained a distorted image of "The Watcher" - the name given to the mysterious alien mask-wearing entity who was stalking Greth back in 2018. However, what exactly he has to do with José and the meaning of "HCJ" is a mystery...

Later that night, Erika once again began messaging the player Xenquility.

Erika

I noticed something weird I think >.>

in that other place where people talk about arg stuff =p

Xenquility

Wait where did your messages go lmao

OH this is in the awakening discord

damnit

Thank you Erika :D

Erika

np np ^w^

where do you think I should post my silentdork amv's if at all >.>;

Xenquility

probably in #self-promotion or #art-gallery

or #other-arg if you're canon 😏

Erika

lol stop oml XD

Erika points out that TheLaw had posted a strange file in a rather unusual place - the "Awakening" Discord server. As a reminder, this is the location where "Awakening" was being played - the third and final arc of Ben Drowned.

The file that TheLaw posted was rather strange. It seemed to have no direct significance to Johnisdead. Instead, the image was a famous example of "Steganography" - a sort of "puzzle" that was used quite often during the first arc of Johnisdead. Steganography is the process of hiding files within other files - such as hiding text files within images.

Since it was so heavily related to this subject, the players attempted to see if this image itself contained any hidden messages via steganography... Sure enough, it did - a hidden link to an audio file. This audio file was a spectrogram that contained a concerning message:

"I have been compromised". It seems that BUP has discovered TheLaw's betrayal, implying that he may now be in danger... Unfortunately, the players' contact with TheLaw was still very sparse, meaning there was little they could actively do for him...

On March 29th, 2020, Lunarchildren.com updated once again. The "Lore" page, "https://lunarchildren.com/lore", was now accessible. Unfortunately, it currently did not contain links to any individual topics - only the following text:

The following excerpts contain vital information regarding our beliefs and the teachings of Father. Those willing to follow our path and ascend to Mother's sacred realm must familiarize themselves with the terminology found on this page. Provided you have proven yourself a true child of the moon, seek the guidance of an elder child for more in-depth studies.

Members are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN from discussing any of these terms outside of authorized areas. Failure to comply with elder child regulations may result in termination.

Afterwards, players found several more pages hidden across the site... The first one was discovered by clicking on the "Wisdom" header text on the page above:

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lunarchildren.com/fate.html

This page was titled "Was it?".

This page was seemingly calling into question whether or not "something" was fate. What exactly that "something" is referring to is unclear, though. Clicking on the moon on this page would redirect players to yet another page:

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lunarchildren.com/chance.html

This page was titled "Beginnings" and hid the text "did he start it? will he end It?" in its source.

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This page contains several references to Undecim Nocte 2011, possibly answering our question regarding the previous page... Was Undecim Nocte 2011 fate? Or was it left up to chance? Cryptically, the page questions whether or not "he" started it and if "he" will end it, though again, the context surrounding this is a mystery.

Shortly afterwards, the players noticed an oddity on the front page of Lunarchildren.com - one instance of Mat's username had been replaced with "Rodney R." - one of Mat's Moon Children aliases. Clicking on this name brought the players to another page:

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lunarchildren.com/watch.html

This page was titled "murderer rodney".

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This page contains an image of "The Watcher", labelling him as some sort of "Neophyte". Given the references to Mat, it's possible that he's Mat's neophyte - not too unlike how Regiminis was Patrem's neophyte in the past.

Another page was discovered by clicking on the word "CHANGED!" in a sentence regarding password changes:

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lunarchildren.com/transformation.html

This page was titled "upgrade".

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Disturbingly, this page contained flashing images of brain surgery. Given the context, this is no doubt referencing the "Experimental Brain Treatment" mentioned by Vincent...

Finally, clicking on the word "Life" in one of Mat's posts led players to one more page:

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lunarchildren.com/L.html

This page was titled "ianaltd us".

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This page seems to be depicting someone's final moments, though what exactly is taking place is a bit unclear. It seems to involve someone encountering a cloaked figure in a long corridor.

On March 31st, 2020, Erika and the players began discussing various different religions and religious figures.

HaouDeSoul

Lok

Erika

lok

Loki more like it =p

Wolfcat

the only loki i know is the one everyone on tumblr wanted to fuck

Erika

Why would you want to fuck such a nasty man honestly XD

Loki is really funny but he is also really REALLY gross imo

Slinky

Loki turned into a horse and the male horse fucked Loki

Erika

Loki transformed into a female horse to have relations with the horse a giant was using

This was to cause him to lose a bet in which he sought to build the asgardian wall in under a few days in order to win ownership of the moon, the sun, and freya

he distracted the giants horse as a mare and did gross things with said horse, and birthed a 6 legged mutant horse to represent the crime against nature that occured lol

then he gave it to odin and odin named it "sleipnir"

Slinky

HE TURNED INTO A PONYTA AND THEN HE GOT PREGNANT

Wolfcat

tbh i cant blame my guy for being a clopper

Later that night, the player Xenquility decided to submit the "Sonata of Awakening" in an attempt to hopefully awaken and contact Tyler. While this didn't seem to work, the IIIII account did become active and change its avatar from the soda can sprite to a painting of a skeleton by the artist "James Ensor".

Afterwards, Erika continued her conversation with the players, commenting on this sudden change.

Erika

The painting style reminds me of Tarot cards xp

otherLiam

kinda, actually.

Xenquility

his profile picture is a skeleton

this is a stretch but skeleton might equal death tarot

i mean the usual is a skeleton riding on a horse

but im going to refrain from posting more tarots in the off chance they're canon lmao

Erika

I dreamt last night of tyler emerging from some water and then heading off too a place where we could walk together

for some reason this convo reminded me of this. I would say this in the #dream channel but I guess thats not for normal people anymore 😛

Xenquility

Emerging from some water

okay erikanon

still though im jealous that sounds HOT

Erika

I dont know what I am saying >.>

forget what I say <///<

Xenquility

AHEM

Erika

I knew if I said that you would get goofy tho so I had to XD

Xenquility

Ah okay

Erika brings up the subject of Tarot Cards, noting that the IIIII account's new avatar looks similar to them. Additionally, she recounts a strange dream she had that involved Tyler emerging from some water before going someplace to walk with her. She also briefly quotes Rosa, though this was mainly done to tease the players about them believing that she was canon.

Afterwards, the IIIII account became incredibly active, sending many strange and disturbing images in a variety of different places:

The Mannequin Entity.
A disturbing face.
A disturbing face.
Link wearing the "Don Gero's Mask".
A disturbing face.
A t-posing figure.
A disturbing face.

On April 1st, 2020, activity from the IIIII account continued. Ominously, its avatar had now changed to one of the creepy faces from the night before.

IIIII

"Benjamen"

Around this same time, the players noticed that Jadusable himself was about to premiere a video on his channel titled "king.txt". This was most likely Alex Hall referencing the infamous "King Kong" April Fools' prank from 2012. Likewise, a video was also set to premiere on Silentdork around the same time - "Kong.txt" - most likely an extension of this same joke. As the countdown to this video's premiere grew closer, its thumbnail changed several times:

KING KONG
KING KONG
KING KONG
KING KONG
KING KONG
KING KONG

...Some of these thumbnails were a bit more concerning than others.

"Kong.txt" finally premiered later that night:

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The livestream begins with Greth seated outside on the porch on his porch.

IIFan2001: "hello"
Greth: "Hello. How're you doing?"
IIFan2001: "im doin good"
Greth: "Oh yeah? That's good. Haven't been on here in a while. Just thought I'd catch up with people."
Gesp: "hi"
Greth: "Hi! How're you doing?"
Gesp: "good"
Greth: "I'd like the answer to whether you guys can hear me or not. Everything seems to be working. Let's see... Make that a couple people here. I guess that's about good enough to get this livestream started, technically."

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "-today cause I wanna just, catch up. I haven't posted on this channel in a long time. I think over a year easily. Last time I posted on here I was a little stressed out, so..."

((IIFan2001 posts an unarchived message mentioning how it had been about eleven months since uploads last appeared on the channel.))

Greth: "Uh, it was longer than eleven months for sure. I don't think I was like, posting on here elven months ago at all. It's been like, over a year. Sorry, I'm just checking something really quick. I wanna-"

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "Why'd you remove your message IIFan? It just said eleven months, I mean, yeah. It hasn't- it has been longer than that since I've been on here is all I was saying, for sure. I think the last time I posted on here was probably close to an actual year ago. I think the last Greth Vlogs that I posted was like, Greth Vlogs 12? I know I posted some videos after that like the "Experimentations" video. But like that was in a weird headspace. And then, ((inaudible)) you probably would've seen it, the hitch. But yeah. Yeah, last video I remember uploading was Experimentations. And that's when I was getting really high and doing weird shit. And then I kind of abandoned this place. That was after I had done my like, "hiking in the woods journey" or whatever, and some weird shit happened there too. I'm not really here to talk about that with you though. I'm here to talk about some other stuff, what's been going on with me."

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "-mentally from a lot of the internet prescence that I had. And I did some soul searching, and I'm back now. So for sure going to try and update the Greth Vlogs more. I guess if you want to you could officially call this "Greth Vlogs 13" even though this is a livestream. I might update the title to reflect that later though."
Xenquility: "Damn good to hear from you man"
Greth: "Well thanks."
IIFan2001: "or Greth Vlogs: The Return"
Greth: "Yeah. Well, the whole thing was that they always had numbers. So "Greth Vlogs: The Return" doesn't have that 13 in it. So like, maybe "Greth Vlogs 13: The Return"."
Xenquility: "Sorry to ask this as I'm sure you've already answered (Just got here) but what's been going on in the past few months?"
Greth: "I'll tell you, actually, no, no, no, this is uh, pretty early in the steam. I haven't really talked much about anything other than the fact that I haven't posted much on here recently. Past few months have been crazy. I moved into this new place I'm at now. I'm sure you guys remember the original point of Greth Vlogs was to kind of document my life in the new apartment which is no longer new. It's two years old and I have left. It was crazy. Right in the middle of this Coronavirus thing I was supposed to get the fuck out of the old place. I probably wouldn't have considering everything going on and I probably would've taken advantage of rent freezes to stay, but I was already in the middle of doing it so there was like, no point. This new place is behind me here. It's an efficiency that I live in. But it's, you know, it's my own place, there's no roommates, it's great, honestly. You would not believe the crazy shit I have around here. I got a mango tree right there that I can't really see because it's out that way, I'm growing a couple plants out here myself, I have monkeys, believe it or not. That's not even a joke. That's not an exaggeration. There are literally monkeys. There's a monkey cage right in front of me with an actual living money. Who's asleep, you can't see him. Look, I'll prove it. Check this out. That is a monky enclosure right in front of where I am sitting. And behind me is my apartment! So, apartment, monkey enclosure. I feed him grapes and flowers and shit. The type of monkey he is, they can't really eat most fruits cause it'll give them diabetes from the sugar, so they actually eat flowers."
Darkzero: "its like in the jungle"
Xenquility: "Sorry to ask but where the hell is this place?"
Greth: "Well I live in South Florida. It practically is the jungle, isn't it? I mean, look at this, look at this shit. You can't really see much because it's dark out, but I mean, this is like, all brush and tree. I mean, there's the mango- actually, you can see the mango tree now up there. It covers like the whole area above my head."
TheOtherLiam: "Florida is all just humid swamp"
Greth: "And I was talking about how a fresh mango just fell from the tree and scared the shit out of me. Well, it fell right around here, I can probably find it. Yep. Actually, it broke. You probably can't see it, but there's a broken mango down there. As you know, I've got my own things growing. Like this, we don't like to talk about it, but that's my friend."
Xenquility: "inb4 it's a disk"
Greth: "What do you mean 'a disk'?"
Xenquility: "Just a reference to some past stuff"
Greth: "Florida definitely is humid swamp. So, extremely tropical. Very, very, I mean, technically subtropics, but like, I mean, if you let this place grow it'll just turn into a swamp jungle. But uh, the main reason I'm on here is just to talk about what I've got going on."
Xenquility: "Any chance you remember that Tyler guy?"
Greth: "Yeah, I remember Tyler. I haven't seen him in a while, but, you know, I remember him. We used to hang out for a little bit. Um, me and Tyler was a werid thing. Like, we met online, then we met in real life due to-"

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "I hope he's doing okay though. Like I said, I haven't seen or spoken to him in quite a while. I don't remember much about our last encounter other than we got really stoned or whatever, so..."
Xenquility: "Sorry, missed what you said at the end there. Stream is a bit laggy on my end"
Greth: "Yeah, I would imagine the stream is going to be a little laggy. I'm doing the best I can."
TheOtherLiam: "Any chance you know when you last heard from him?"
Greth: "Sheesh, I don't know, I haven't seen Tyler probably since around the time I made uh, Greth-"

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "-yknow, which is just fine. Um, yeah, you guys uh, y'know, enough about Tyler. I've got a record label now I'm trying to push. The record label is called "Astral Observatory". We're going to be releasing small tape releases. Weird shit, I like weird stuff, I don't know if you realized. So I'm only trying to release really weird stuff. I don't know why I called it Astral Observatory honestly, it just came to me. It was just, it felt like it was something I had to call it. Like, something out of a dream, or, I don't know."
TheOtherLiam: "That's a cool name, did you go into that with anyone?"
Greth: "Uh, no, it's just me. Like I said, I kind of had the idea in a dream or something. I know uh, I used to be really into vapor wave, and I still am obviously, but I don't talk about it as much. Vapor wave seems to have sort of hit a downward curve in popularity. I would say around 2014 it was peaking, and when I actually entered the game as an artist, it was like 2018, so we were already kind of going like this. Now it's fucking, it's all future funk, which is not my scene, really."
Xenquility: "What type of "dream" we talking about here"
Greth: "Uh, I don't know, the kind of dream you have when you sleep. What? What do you mean? Like-"

((The livestream stutters))

Xenquility: "Alright missed most of what you said there but I meant more like "What were the contents of the dream"
Greth: "Like, ha, hold on a sec. Let me see if I can, uh, get my mic volume a little better. I feel like that's part of the problem. Because my mic is not picking up so well. Just a minute."

Greth briefly sets the laptop down to search for an outlet.

Greth: "Okay, bad news is uh, there's no plug out here, and I thought there would be, so we're going to have to go inside. Which is probably good for you guys, bad for me, if you'll just give me a moment. If you're a sketchy motherfucker like me, you'll know how to break in to houses. Watch this."

Greth opens the lock on his door with a screwdriver, and sets the laptop down in his kitchen.

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "-when you're living on the cheap you've got to find creative solutions for things, so I don't actually have a kitchen. So this is about my kitchen, and I am looking for a place to plug this in. And I don't think there is one. Unless I unplug my microwave, so guess what. You guys want to meet my cat? Come here, come here Luna! This is Luna. She's not happy that I picked her up. She's like 'What the fuck was that?' Alright, back to the questionnaire. Sorry about like, all the fucking shit. What? I'm trying to talk to people on the internet now. I don't have treats for you. You can come here and hang out? Come on!"
TheOtherLiam: "so your label says I can buy cassettes, why'd you choose that instead of a cd or something?"
Greth: "Uh, there's three reasons for that. Cassettes are cheap, cassettes are en vogue, if you want to put it that way, like they're popular again, and I fucking like them."

((The livestream stutters))

((An unarchived message is posted questioning the uploads on Greth Vlogs))

Greth: "Like I said, the last video I uploaded was Greth Vlogs, or uh, Experimentations after Greth Vlogs 12. Speaking of, so, the dream-"

((The livestream stutters))

Xenquility: "missed most of that"
Greth: "her name when I got her from the pound, I swear to god. So, it's just, it's always treated me well, and I felt like in my dream there was uh, something telling me that I needed to name my label that as if some, as if I already had some sort of connection to it. The best thing I can really relate it to is Majora's Mask. I always remembered liking that game as a kid, obviously, and, it worked."
Greth: "You missed most of what?"
Xenquility: "Can't remember now lmao. Excuse my short term memory loss. How's the sleep issues going? Any better at the new place?
Greth: "Your short term memory loss? Okay. Uh, as far as I can tell, I sleep better, I guess. At least I feel like once I'm out, I'm out. I've been told I sleepwalk now, which was never something before, but..."
ガンズフォーハンズ: "Why do you have that profile picture?"
Greth: "My face? I think my profile picture is just my face. Sorry, I keep getting a message, one sec."
Xenquility: "Is your body still, for lack of a better word, "resisting" sleep?"
Greth: "Um, yeah. That's always been a problem of mine, but moreso the last couple of years. What, Luna? She's being so weird, I'm sorry."

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "Come here, stop running into my computer. Meow! I'm sorry, it's just she's being annoying."
Romina Schute: "Where's tyler?"
Greth: "Tyler's at his house as far as I know.
Xenquility: "But yeah, we haven't really heard from Tyler since last April"

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "-for quite a while. Things were really cool between us at first, but I remember things getting a little tense. I can't remember what it is was about now. It was probably something stupid. It's probably why we haven't hung out, or really talked much at all."
Romina Schute: "Why did you take so long to upload videos?"
Greth: "What do you mean? 'Why did I take so long to upload videos' what videos specifically?"
TheOtherLiam: "Who is 'Toad the Druid'?"
Greth: "That's my alter ego. It is my uh, uh, I'm trying to come up with a word for it, Identity, I guess? As a dungeon synth/metal music aficionado/record producer? Mostly because I don't make music right now."
Xenquility: "all I can think of is that fucking BUP meme from simpleflips"
Greth: "What's a 'BUP'?"
Xenquility: "Not sure, to be honest. Uh, toad's face, is the best explanation."
Greth: "Well that's not very helpful, is it? Well, I think I might stand up for a minute and set you guys on here."

Greth's lights flash off and on.

Greth: "That was weird. Hold on. Going to figure out if that was my cat. Yeah, I don't know. Sometimes this place is a little creepy. I mean, you just got like, a-"

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "-you know. You know, the reason I'm having you guys stand up is so I can do uh, some drinking while I'm doing this."
TheOtherLiam: "Can you tell us any more about the 'test audio only' album?"
Greth: "Um, Test Audio Only, yeah, I don't remember where that came from either. I mean, obviously it's been there for like a year or so, or maybe more. When I first made the Astral Observatory conceptually it was around that time, about a year ago, but I never really did anything with it until now. But I don't remember uploading that at all. I kind of repurposed it and put the new logo and stuff on it, but I don't remember where it came from. I do remember there used to be some other stuff on there too. There was like, a JohnisDead album sort of thing, but I think that got removed because I didn't know what that was for either. One sec."
Xenquility: "what's a 'johnisdead' lmao"
Greth: "I feel like I used to know. I feel like I used to know what that meant. I feel like... So I started having some memory issues around the same time I was having sleep issues. Most of that's good now, but, well there's still a little weirdness. Uh oh. I think the stream froze on me. This isn't a joke, like, it froze on my end. Oh, there we go. Everything's working now, everything's working, a lot of people talking all at once."
Xenquility: "Any odd knocking at your door or anything spooky at the new place?"
Greth: "Sometimes I'll hear, in response to Xen, sometimes I'll hear banging outside at night. I don't know if I would call that knocking. I just assume that it's the monkey. Wow, way to embarass yourself on the internet, huh? Spill some beer. Yeah, I guess this was kind of a bust. I just wanted to talk to you guys a little bit cause it's been a while, but, I guess uh, I don't have that much to talk about. But I just felt like catching up. So, I'm not really sure where to bring it from here. I feel like I need to come back. I need to make my prescence known again on this channel, and I plan on updating more, so you guys can expect that. I don't know. Just that's something's telling me that I need to be here now. You know it's funny, you guys mentioned that uh, that sound outside, I think I just heard it actually, like 20 seconds ago."

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "I'm wondering if I should take a look, actually. Do you think we should go for it? It didn't come from this way, I think it came that way though. Yeah, I just heard it again. Um, I think it'll be a little hard to carry this around with me and keep you guys informed if I have my headset on though, so, just... Okay, you're free."

Greth heads back outside to investigate the noise.

Greth: "I have to turn the light on again. Hold on. Yeah, that's pretty coo- Hold on a sec."

The stream briefly freezes as Greth walks out of the range of his internet.

Emerald Heart: uh oh >.>

The stream returns as Greth nears his house again.

Greth: "I don't want to get too close to Dave's house. He's in there, probably. You can see his house, the guy I rent from is back that way."
Xenquility: "What came of the noise? Stream seemed to die"
Greth: "Oh yeah, did I cut out? I'm sorry. I was takling about... I don't know, this is a big yard, there's a whole nother house back here, where-"

((The livestream stutters))

Greth: "-a monkey cage, and that monkey does not like to be woken up."

A shuffling noise is heard.

Greth: "The fuck was that? Yeah, that's what I'm investigating buddy. I'm getting a little spooked myself, actually. Ah, fuck. THat was a huge spider web. Gross. I'm not finding anything. I feel like it was- Why's my door open? Hold on. This door was not open before. I mean it's like, I mean I can see inside, though. I don't see anyone in there. Can you? I don't know. Maybe I'm just going crazy or something. Hold on."}

Greth begins erratically staring at his door window, before poking his head inside.

Greth: "Um, I'm not trying to weird you guys out, but I don't feel like going back in there. My bathroom's light on, my bathroom light is on I mean, uh, it was not on before. I'm going around the side to check it out. Because I do not want to go in there if there's somebody in there. I'm just probably being paranoid. But that, that fucking light right here, that was not on."

Greth quickly turns around and drops the laptop, ending the stream.

Emerald Heart: "oh no <.<;;
It looks like greth is not as safe as he made himself seem at first :P
More messes at the edges of dream spheres or something :P"

BUP begins to speak in the live chat under the Greth Vlogs account.

Greth Vlogs: "Well that was fun
I hope you enjoyed chatting with my new toy

Emerald Heart: "POSSESED
Emerald Heart: OML POSSESED
Emerald Heart: POSSESSEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDD DXXXXXX"

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