The Static

The Static is a type of corruption that affects its targets both physically and mentally. Grey television static slowly spreads through an affected player's skin until they are overcome by it. Psychologically, someone afflicted by the Static attempts to resist at first, but later experiences a sense of freedom and knowledge, convinced that the Static is actually a force for good.

The source of the Static is unknown, but it was first experienced by VowCooper in mid March 2021 after consuming glowstone. VowCooper would experience extreme nausea and debilitating sickness, which is strange, as glowstone should not cause such effects, being a largely harmless material that spawns only in the Nether but can be placed in the overworld without consequence. Some speculate that there might be interference from outside forces that contaminated the glowstone, but these cannot be confirmed.

In any case, VowCooper was eventually overcome by the Static, accelerated by his canonical death. Gaining enhanced physical abilities but also a sense of delirium and a conviction that he was on some sort of righteous mission, he reached out to his friends and recruited many of them into his group, including Mix77\_, M6LU, LukasCritical, and oceanizee. In every case, the players affected would resist the corruption, but would eventually be taken over. Even Beethoven became an advocate for the static and attempted to persuade Chey to join, but she refused.

Their ultimate goals are unknown, but their increased aggressiveness have alarmed Snowseek, who has received several journals of players' experiences as they succumbed to the static, especially a journal written by Mix77\_. She reluctantly declared an Inquisition in late March 2021 and planned a trial for them at the Courthouse.

## The Trial of March 28

On Sunday, March 28th, Snowseek declared the Two Trials at the new Courthouse that she built along with the help of Chey, fleebagmonkyface, Hotshot, and others. The second trial, held at nighttime, would be an Inquisiton into the nature of the Static. Moneymelon located their base during the investigation and Snowseek was temporarily locked in a prison but escaped with Wolfy's help. Shaken up by the experience, Snow nevertheless did not wish harm on VowCooper or- the others. Judge Chey assigned a restraining order on VowCooper and the other Static members there, notably the juror LukasCritical and lawyer Mix77\_, were spared from any further consequences. As a joke, Snowseek attempted an exorcism of Cooper using a Flint & Steel, setting him on fire as people danced around him and sang songs, but this had no effect.

## the Statics plan

Vowcooper heard a voice he first heard when he originally woke up, but during the trial it told him to build a machine to open a portal to the "static realm", but he needs some sort of power to open it, but since he was weakened from the trial he does not have the power to open it. but he has a idea to get snowseek involved because Vowcooper can see the powerful aura from snowseek, so she would be a good fit to help, but since Vowcooper has had some conflict with her it would be hard to convince her to help. there are only a few people that know about what hes doing and one of them is his father, Beethoven (ign beetheeven) and when Vowcooper showed him he seemed a bit concerned from what Vowcooper was doing