Snap to Reality

# Phantasmal Pursuit Episode 4: Snap to Reality

### Video Description

After everyone's phobia visions have been dealt with, the next day comes, and the gang are greeted with a special surprise.

The gang never realized, or tended to realize that Blake still had the effects that the Hex Maniac hypnotized them with.

Once someone snaps their fingers, Blake goes through a terrible trance, and gets hypnotized like last time! Will the gang figure something out to get rid of this horrific side of Blake?

### Characters in the skit

* Blake/Flake
* Grey
* Dead Red
* Dawn
* Gold
* Popsicle the Glaceon
* A Box
* Hex Maniac
* Jake
* Bubblegum
* Luna
* Nova
* Cotton the Sylveon
* AI
* Pico
* Beezle
* Gonta Gokuhara
* Bury Man
* Moon the Umbreon

### Worlds used in this Skit

* Suburban Lakehouse
* Serenity Cove
* White
* Solar System

## Phantasmal Pursuit Episodes

* **NIGHT OF THE HEX MANIAC (Episode 1)**
* **BLAKE'S NIGHTMARE (Episode 2)**
* **PHOBIA ATTACK (Episode 3)**
* **SNAP TO REALITY (Episode 4) *[YOU ARE HERE]***
* ~~COMING SOON (Episode 5)~~
* ~~COMING SOON (Episode 6)~~

### Cast in this Skit

* SSB Smash - Blake
* Mizuki Quartz - Hex Maniac and Dawn
* RainuBabu - Grey and Flake
* SkyTheHedgehog - Dead Red
* Luccubus - Popsicle
* ShadowTheSkeledragon - A Box, Dawn (backup) and the Camera Man
* Twin Blue Merle - Jake and Bubblegum
* Cinnamon - Luna
* Damian - Nova and Cotton
* Xen0phan3 - AI and Helldrex
* InkySoul - Pico
* Patch357 - Gold
* WinterFlower - Beezle
* FoxyGalactic - Gonta Gokuhara
* Monty1922 VA&VR - Bury Man
* Phoenix - Moon

### Trailer

**WATCH THE TRAILER FOR THE SKIT HERE!!!**

### Trivia

* The first half of the skit, Blake's dream, the areas recorded were in the Sun, Saturn, and Uranus. Along with that, the recording for it is the same length as the Hex skit. (38 minutes and 26 seconds)
* The ending for this skit is a cliffhanger to the next episode of Phantasmal Pursuit.
* For the actor for Flake, there were four possible actors that could've been Flake. Xeno, Damian, Lucy, and Rainu. The final decision went to Rainu, and was Flake for the skit. Meanwhile, in the practice takes for the inner mind scene, both Merle and Damian took a swing at being Flake.
* The previous Flake concept was that Flake had a Freakachu chestbursting them. This was removed later on, because if someone snapped their fingers, they would've seen a Freakachu coming out of their chest every time it happened.
* SSB learned how to speak some French for this video. They learned how to say "O-Oh shit..." in French via Google Translate, and learned how to say "I am calm" through a Taylor Swift music video. This means that Blake can canonical speak French in the skits.
* Mike originally was going to be in this episode for a short gag with Gold, but due to being sent to the backrooms for the 60th time, it was unable to happen, and had to improvise for the gag.
* For the salt circle scene, we used a Light Fury GF avatar that breathes fire. Shadow was underneath SSB, spinning in a circle, and acted as an effect for the salt circle ritual to happen.
* Originally the crystal Blake picks up in the inner mind scene was supposed to be red, fitting in well with the other red crystals. Due to figuring it out, they used a purple crystal instead, and thought it would fit better for the scene at hand, sense it is the Hex that the gang is dealing with.
* Scenes that were recorded separately, The Dream, Blake and Grey, The Inner Mind, and White Void, were recorded first, and then the gang gathered up to record the rest of the skit on a different day.
* The scene where Blake confronts Flake took inspiration from Pixar's Turning Red, where in that, Blake confronts Flake to not hurt anyone in the gang, and keeps them within. Which is exactly what Mei does with her Panda form in the movie.
* Originally Jake wasn't supposed to be with Blake when they wake up from the inner mind scene, so with that, we retook that scene, and added in the scene WITH Jake, so they could have a moment with each other for a lil while
* This skit was SSB's ideas
* The type of skit: ANGST/NORMAL
* The skit stands with 2k views and 146 likes, with a runtime of 1 hour, 1 minute and 35 seconds

## Thumbnails

This skit was the first to have many thumbnails that had to be redone!

First Thumbnail (v1)Second Thumbnail (v2)Third Thumbnail (v3 + Teaser Thumbnail for Trailer)