The Truth

The Truth is the seventh episode of Classic Sam Videos overall, the seventh episode of Arc 1: A Rogue God, and the ninth video to premiere on the ClassicSamVideos channel.
== Characters ==
* Microsoft Sam
* Microsoft Mike
* Microsoft Mary
* Mr. Afterlife
* Dr. Zomboss
* Crazy Dave
* Mr. B (errors)
== Things ==
* Killing Machine
* Orb of Light
* Windows
* Errors
* Doom-shroom
== Places ==
* Afterlife
* Windows Private Island
== YouTube Description ==
I could've finished this earlier, but I was lazy lmao. Anyways, Sam is in the afterlife. What could possibly happen now???
== Lore Description ==
Just like before, Sam’s Killing Machine came with him when he died, so seeing as there’s no other possible way to escape, Sam decides to try and kill Mr. Afterlife with it. It works as intended, of course, and now Sam has access to the Orb of Light. As implied before, this is an intentional part of Mr. Afterlife’s plan, as he knows he’ll be revived later, intentionally or not. Sam uses the Orb to revive himself, leaving Mike and Mary seemingly trapped in the Afterlife. With no other way to avoid telling the truth, Mike tells Mary that he is the creator of this universe and that he appointed his clone as the godhead, which means that Mike also has the power to revive not only other people, but himself, unlike Mr. Afterlife. He decides to leave out stuff like the Dark One, Caliborn, and the Prompter, because they are not relevant at this time.
Meanwhile, Mr. Afterlife’s soul is inside Mike, so he hears all of this, too. He expects Mike to say that they will hunt down Sam, but to his shock, he says something different. That being, Mike wants to have a truce with Sam and share the world in order for it to be balanced again. Even Mary is skeptical of this plan, but his reasoning is that as long as Sam has the Orb of Light, he will be unstoppable. If Mike and Mary attempt to kill him now, he can always revive himself, even from the Retcon Room, and this may cause a never ending loop of revenge. Not to mention that the Orb of Light gains the user access to all the variations of the universe’s code, making it possible for Sam to spawn stuff or increase the range of the Killing Machine, to give examples. Even if they were to steal the Orb back, Sam could just use the Killing Machine to kill them and quickly grab it. Also, there’s no point in using the Orb of Darkness since that’s fighting fire with fire, and Sam can simply fight back with his own. Finally, the reason why he is not gonna simply revive Mr. Afterlife is because Mr. Afterlife clearly had a bias against Sam, and he may make everything worse. As the creator himself, Mike feels that he alone should handle this.
Back in the world, Sam notices a strange thing about the Orb of Light, which happens to be the power to see the timeline. He jumps ahead about a few minutes later and sees Mike and Mary arriving at this house with no further context. Sam escapes to the private island, but not before writing a note for any stragglers who come looking for him. Meanwhile, Mike revives himself and Mary, going back to the house, forgetting all about the Orb of Darkness in the process. Dr. Zomboss is mad because they forgot to take him with them, as he would’ve been happy to help rule the world…but not without the zombie apocalypse. Mike and Mary see the note Sam left behind, and Mike knows that their only hope is one of Crazy Dave’s Doom-shrooms, because they can blow a hole in the steel wall. The reason why he doesn’t consider using the Prompter is because since Sam has access to all the code variations, there’s a risk that he could notice the update. Also, Mike doesn’t want to confuse Mary with any further details, as just the creator fact alone must be quite the revelation.
Error 1: At the island, Sam decides to do Episode 6 of Arduous Windows Errors. Mr. B decides to continue the conversation about niche Internet communities.
Error 2: Windows has encountered an error, and there’s only one good word to describe it all; “taco.”
Error 3: During the time of this episode, which is still July 4th, a new arc is taking place in the Flower Kingdom of the main Mario universe, which was created by Shigeru Miyamoto. In many other universes, this arc is being shown as a video game called Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and more footage of it has just been shown.
Error 4: Windows is trying to figure out whether Australia is a continent, country, or both at the same time.
Error 5: This specific version of Windows is wondering if it’s still 1995. Sam says no, it’s now 2023.
Error 6: Windows asks Sam why he’s still using Windows 95, but then they remember that it was the only OS Sam could afford all that time ago. Sam points out that at least he doesn’t have to pay taxes since he paid for the mansion himself.
Error 7: The other Windows icons have decided to social distance from the Internet Explorer icons.
Error 8: Windows tells Sam to try again later, even though the action succeeded.
Error 9: It is revealed that Scotty has been trying to call Sam and/or Mr. B, probably because he found out about the series starting. It is also revealed that Scotty is currently living in Bologna, Italy. Sam says that he does not know this person, and that Zomboss pretty much has the same voice except deeper, so he thinks it would be weird if Scotty became a character.
Error 10: Mr. B points out that the steel walls are not magically immune to anything. Sam hopes that they are, though, because he knows that only the ROFLcopter can go through here.
At Crazy Dave’s farm, Dave is about to play Vasebreaker when Mike and Mary approach him for the Doom-shroom. In order to convince Dave to actually give them one, Mike claims that Dr. Zomboss is trying to kill him. Dave believes him, since he just saw a zombie very recently. Since Edgar believes that Mike is a threat, Dave assumes that Mike already has the plants to protect himself, and Dave figures that he will only need one Doom-shroom for the finishing blow, despite what Mike says about needing multiple. Mike reassures Mary that one Doom-shroom is already enough to blow a hole through the steel wall.
== Director's Commentary ==
NOTE: After all the lore revamps on the document are done, I am going to actually tend to this wiki the way I should've done in the beginning. I'm also going to remake the director's commentary bits. So, as a little disclaimer, the following isn't the final version and may even contain outdated information in some cases.
So, I originally wasn't gonna mention the Independence Day Short as being a canon event, but in this very beginning scene, I decided to acknowledge it just because, which sealed its fate as you know. If I wasn't running out of ideas then, then I was definitely running out of ideas here, because I decided to have Sam kill Mr. Afterlife. By the way, the reason why Sam has his Killing Machine is because it was right next to him when he died by that explosion, so it was transported with him. It pretty much makes sense, since he killed Mike and Mary with it right before doing the last errors session. Also, if you remember last episode, Mr. Afterlife predicted that his death would happen, and he let it happen because he knew he would be revived later in 10-Sign Quickie Episode 2. This is also part of how I solved the lore later on.
I think I got the idea of the Orb of Light from looking at VEGAS Pro presets, and as you might tell if you've used it, the Orb of Light is actually a preset except with no black background. The background for the Afterlife is a preset, too, if that wasn't obvious. Now, originally, the Orb of Light was just an item that Mr. Afterlife happened to drop whenever he died, but I ended up changing it during the final 7 episodes. Since it's supposed to be a heavenly object, anyone who has it can revive themselves if necessary, and as Mike says, it can also give extra powers as long as it is close to the user, like upgrading weapons, seeing the timeline, and banishing things to the Retcon Room (like what Sam does to the Killing Machine). So basically, if someone has an orb, they technically have access to hard-coded settings. That's a good way of looking at it from the current lore perspective.
And of course, we have the most shocking twist of all. The elephant of the room! Mike is the creator of the universe. To be frank, I only did this because Mr. Afterlife sounded like Microsoft Mike, so I made up the story of Mr. Afterlife being his clone who was the designated godhead of the Afterlife. I'm pretty sure right after this episode, I was thinking about how there can be an Orb of Darkness, but I briefly lost interest in that part of the story until I started making the final two episodes of Arc 1. It's also funny that Mr. Afterlife was meant to not die from anything except the Killing Machine, which is the very same weapon that Mike would plan to use if Mr. Afterlife tries to betray him, and it's why Mr. Afterlife wasn't granted the power of revival. Of course, the fear of being killed by that thing (seemingly whenever Mike felt like it) was too overbearing, and as you know, fear turned into hatred. Why was he so mentally unstable? I'm not gonna get into why that would be, because I don't want to ramble way too much than I should.
"At this point, I'm tired of this sibling rivalry. We need to share the world. We need to confront Sam and make a deal!" ~ Mike
"No, fuck that! There has to be a way to permanently kill him, right?" ~ Mary
"Mary, I'm afraid it's not that simple." ~ Mike
You know, if you remember the context of how Sam was seemingly a snarky asshole for like 10,000 years, and you watch this scene a second time, this conversation would hit a lot different, I'd imagine. There are gonna be tipping points for all things eventually, and these first 7 episodes are exactly it…plus the part in the AWE S1 Finale that takes place a week after Episode 1. Speaking of, I realize that the Microsoft Gang having their stick figure forms during then is a plot hole. But, in lore concepts, I have said that Agony can change forms depending on circumstances (even without knowing that plot hole!), and in the main lore, I revealed that he can control the looks of the Microsoft Gang, which may or may not have implications in his backstory. As for why he changed it during the beginning of the CSV series, I guess he wanted to be more original and use a more humanoid look for Sam in the series, while just being cheap for the other two as it didn't feel like a good use of his time. You know, exactly how I did it? xD
I like how I predicted the existence of Mr. Afterlife 2.0. Fun fact, I actually used the sprite of Microsoft Sam to create the sprite for the Dark One, and that, in turn, became the Mike 2.0 design that you know. I also predicted that Dr. Zomboss would finally get what he wants for a brief moment in Arc 2. I think I had that promise in the back of my mind all this time, and it just finally came true because of the right circumstances. Finally, yes, Mike is right about Sam being able to easily steal the Orb of Light back if it's ever taken from him…as long as he has the Killing Machine, at least. Without that, it depends on if the other side has the Killing Machine or not, but if they don't, then Sam will only have a harder time. Also, the Orb of Light cannot kill people directly. So is the Orb of Darkness able to kill people? No. It just has the same powers that can upgrade weapons and stuff, which Dr. Zomboss would've utilized had he been allowed to take the orb during the AWE S1 Finale. The essence connected to the Orb of Darkness represents death, though, which is used in the surface web of the prompter's code to control what happens when a person dies (and physical kills are part of the hard-coded settings; it happens in literally every universe).
And yes, Sam's note is arguably the biggest plot hole in Arc 1, unless he knew that Mike was the creator, which the last 7 episodes disprove once and for all. It's a good thing I randomly made up the ability to see timelines in that one episode of Arc 2, because without that, this plot hole would not have been easily solved. This is another totally-not-OP mechanic that I didn't know could actually solve a plot hole until I actually looked lmao. So, back in the main lore, I wrote an elaborate piece of hidden lore about Sam jumping to conclusions when he got curious about the timeline seeker. Also, here's another thing: how can Sam's ROFLcopter go through the steel walls of Windows Private Island, yet normal helicopters can't? Well, I just made up the mechanic of it having a hologram mode, where every part of the ROFLcopter, including the pilots and passengers, turn into holograms for like 10 seconds. Well, 10 seconds plus the time the ROFLcopter is in the hitbox of another object, similarly to how Mario's hitbox works in Super Mario 64, at least for those Mr. Is. Of course, no other normal type of helicopter has a feature like this. Not yet, anyway. And yes, theoretically, the ROFLcopter can stay in hologram mode forever as long as it's in a hitbox, and no elements of any objects with hitboxes can affect it, so it could stay in lava for example. Finally, of course I would make Crazy Dave and the Doom-shroom relevant again, because they need it to enter the island and get through with Sam.
Oh man, that was a lot of words for a beginning segment. Good thing we're at the errors!
Error 1: Ah yes, a repeat of an error from Episode 3, except with the Super Mario 64 machinima community. If you don't know what machinima is, basically it's about making movies, skits, and shows by using assets in video games. The SM64 side of the machinima community has really improved and developed over the years, although the classic days have their own fair share of style, despite how almost all the videos were made during that time. Viewing those very old videos, you'd think that Super Mario 64 would be very hard to actually do proper machinima on (especially because of what type of game it is). This is why Halo and Gmod machinimas were way more popular back then, as they were more sandbox for this type of thing. However, over the years, SM64 became easily manipulated, and now we have programs like Saturn that makes SM64 machinima so much easier! Anyways, SM64 machinima lore is normally a bit more complicated than TTS storyline lore, but not by THAT much. The MarioMario54321 storyline community is definitely one of the most well-known ones, mostly because of how people started adding their own stuff in it and how the canon changed over time, so that's a special case.
Error 2: I believe I only mentioned the word "taco" as an error because I thought it was an overrated joke, so why not make fun of it a little bit? I still like Sam's response here.
Error 3: Yes, I actually mentioned Super Mario Bros. Wonder during the heyday of the first teaser clip, and I still like Sam's response.
Error 4: I can't tell if I got the idea of this error from r/softwaregore or from DarkViperAU's Twitter page. Probably the former, as I specifically remember a vague memory of the subreddit whenever I think about this error now. I still like Sam's "I could be wrong, but I could be right" line lol
Error 5: So, I decided to have a little two-error skit where Windows 95/9x feels very old, because so much time has passed that its name is severely outdated.
Error 6: This is the first time that we hear about the mansion in Windows Private Island, and the cost of the mansion is the reason why Windows 95 could only be used. At least Sam doesn't have to pay taxes!
Error 7: Just wanted to add something about the error icons hating the Internet Explorer icons.
Error 8: Someone must have definitely made this joke before. This error seems like something you'd think you've already seen in a random error message meme video from 2008-2010, back when Atom Smasher was still up. I did come up with this joke myself, and it was supposed to be a spin on the "operation failed successfully" joke, but still.
Error 9: I attempted to explain that Radar Overseer Scotty is not coming to the series…all because he would share the same voice as Zomboss. This is back when I still cared about if people having the same voice are somehow related or not, like what happened with Mr. Afterlife and Mike. But then, in Arc 2, I introduced him anyway as the guy who has all the memories of the Scotties in other universes. If it weren't for that plot detail, I probably wouldn't have made the Crazy Penguin storyline for AWE Season 4 in the first place! Also, Bologna is definitely a real place in the series, but I don't know what to do with it yet.
Error 10: What Sam says here further captures the plot hole: "No helicopter will come through here." lol
So, why does Crazy Dave give them only one Doom-shroom if he apparently believed Mike about the zombies? Well, Mike's lie implies that Dr. Zomboss thinks of Mike as a big threat, so thus, it is implied that he has plants already. Crazy Dave assumed that he was missing a Doom-shroom to catch Zomboss off-guard, so he gave him only one, which definitely caught Mary off-guard. I still like this scene a lot. So, to end these classic episodes off, the reason why the series suddenly stopped here is because I was slowly losing confidence in continuing the story, and I got too busy with creating Zushi Films-related content, plus some other miscellaneous things. I had no reason to come back to CSV…until that fateful September 23rd.