Lore

# The Storyline

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NOTE: this site talks about the TabSMP's ongoing storyline. All scenarios, fights, accusiations or more are fictional and should not be taken seriously.

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## We need RESOURCES (partial lore)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcUOufuqcMc&list=PL10wA4ZVgh59JocRZfgsbb2qH-wWyf3nn&index=10 (link to the stream on Tab's VOD channel, lore begins approximately at the 01:14:00 mark)

On the 17th of August, 2022, one of Tab's stream ended up being a small, improvised lore stream, in which various members talk about having noticed strange things happening lately.

It started off with Tab going to Diamond's house, where they found that Diamond's pet enderman, Mark, had gone missing. A chest full of multiple stacks of clean stone was placed in the middle of the house, accompanied by signs saying "I hope for a peaceful and friendly relationship on the server and in the lore - by sagittarius". They both assume that Sagittarius had been the one to kill or release Mark. Diamond also mentioned that she found a spyglass in her chest by an anonymous gifter.

Later on, in the public chat, Diamond called out Sagittarius for the missing enderman.

Tab then moved on to look at the Dawn Village, which Vicgamer had rebuild and upgraded. After Tab mentioned some "suspicious activity", they both went to the Dawn Tower to make sure nobody else was listening in on them, to discuss the topic further.

> *"I can't think of anybody that was in her house, but then there's Sagittarius, who's confirmed to have been in her house. And then the enderman is gone. Don't you think that's kinda sus?" - Tab to Vic*
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After this, the lore temporarily stops, but starts again at the 01:56:00 mark in the stream. Tab suddenly starts hearing laughing and explosions from underneath the village. After figuring out that it must've been Sagittarius expanding his basement, they told Vic, but he didn't quite believe them. He checked on his map for any underground structures or hallways, but couldn't find anything.

They moved on to see that the birthday table was slowly but surely getting destroyed. Diamond joined in on the conversation about it, and Vic jokingly accused her of stealing parts of the table.

Tab mentioned the explosions, which Diamond had also heard. They both agreed that Sagittarius was acting strange, and conveniently, he showed up just a couple of moment later. Tab asked where he'd been before, to which he replied *"I was in my basement. I was... building a little bit",* confirming Tab's theory. Despite having the confirmed information that Sagittarius was in his basement, he didn't want to admit that it reached all the way to the village, so he questioned Tab again whether they're sure that they heard him laugh. A light discussion ensued, which ended in most people changing their minds, and rather believing Sagittarius over Tab.

After Sagittarius mentioned his iron farm, and how he doesn't have a lot of food, Diamond opened up about a stack of wheat from her farm that'd gone missing, also bringing up the lost enderman again.

> *"As I said... items go missing, next it's people. [...] It's all a matter of time 'til one of us disappears. Who's gonna bite the dust? I don't know." - Vic*
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Everyone agreed that a weird vibe was in the air; more and more things were going missing, strange things were appearing out of nowhere. All of a sudden, Sagittarius excused himself, and left to do other things. Equally as sudden was Diamond's leave. Not long after though, Sagittarius sent another message in the chat, inviting anyone to check out his "humble home and basement".

Vic, Tab and Kaiju (who'd been present the entire time, though not actually involved in lore) made their way to Sagittarius' house, which had apparently been struck by lightning. The roof burnt down and it was resembling more of a ruin than a home now. Vic stayed hidden, while Sagittarius invited Tab inside and showed them around. They visited the iron farm, which, strangely, had apparently not produced any iron at all. He kept on insisting that he was very poor and the iron farm didn't work properly. The rest of the basement was still under construction, but there didn't seem to be any hidden corridors or similar, and it definitely wasn't big enough to go underneath the village.

Once Tab left the basement, they met up with Vic again, who'd sneaked in behind Tab and Sagittarius, and seen him disappear after Tab left. They talked about the obvious lie that the iron farm was broken, and assumed that Sagittarius was just trying to make himself seem like he was poor, for whatever reason. Tab promised they'd keep an eye on him and that the basement creeped them out.

> *"So far, he hasn't really done anything, like, REALLY weird. I don't know, I just have a really, really bad gut feeling... but we'll see. For now, I think he's fine." - Tab, about Sagittarius*
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After concluding that they couldn't decide whether to trust Sagittarius or not yet, they both went separate ways. Tab kept pondering about how strange the basement was, and that there was definitely more to it.

## THE FALLEN HERO

On October 19th, 2022, the first ever official lore stream took place on both Tab's and Diamond's twitch channels. It also featured Vic, and partially Sagittarius. You can see the stream from Tab's perspective here, or watch the summary on a video on Vic's channel.

The stream began with Tab talking about their concerns regarding the end raid, and they also mentioned having a bad feeling, with no apparent source. This bad feeling lead them to add totems of undying and golden apples to their inventory, "just to make sure."

While preparing more things and making sure everything is as it should be, they made their way to the village.

> *"Something changed, I'm telling you. I just don't know what." - Tab, regarding the strange tension in the air*
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As they were about to enter their summer residence, they saw a spruce sign placed on its wall, which read "THE PAST HAS COME TO BE". Confused as to why it was there or what it could mean, they proceeded to look for more signs.

Three more signs had been placed on the Dawn Tower, which read **"WHAT NOW? HOW WILL WE SURVIVE???", "THE THREAD IS REAL - WHAT WILL OUR CAPTAIN DO?"**, as well as **"MAGIC IS REAL - WE ARE DOOMED"**. While reading out the signs, Tab saw Diamond nearby, and went on to question her about the meaning or origins of the signs.

Diamond mentioned that she'd also noticed the signs, and while talking about what the signs could mean, they noticed more signs, presumably written by either Sagittarius or Falkon. Placed just above the sign reading "WE ARE DOOMED", the other birch signs read out "well - too bad" and "guess you'll all die", which sparked the idea that whoever wrote these signs either didn't feel threatened by the apparent danger, or was the threat themselves.

Next to the entrance to the villager community place, Tab found yet another spruce sign, reading **"THE STORIES ARE TRUE"**. Discussion ensued about which stories this sign might be referring to; the story of the end was mentioned, and both Diamond and Tab expressed doubt in its truthfulness. During the conversation, it is revealed that the end appears to be another dimension, and nobody had ever either gotten there, or returned from it. The two of them came to the conclusion that it was probably made up, as they saw Vic in the distance.

Walking up to him, they immediately addressed the elephant in the room; the signs. After wanting to ask him about "some stuff", Vic suggested that Tab and Diamond should take a look at the entrance to the headquarters, which was plastered with more signs.

**"THE CAPTAIN KNEW ABOUT THE MAGIC - HE LIED TO US", "HOW DO YOU SLEEP CAPTAIN???", "MAGIC IS REAL - CAPTAIN WILL AND DAWN WILL FALL", "WE LIVE IN FEAR NOW - YOU MUST TOO THEN???", "THE CAPTAIN IS A LIAR - HE WILL FALL"**, is what was written.

Vic also mentioned that he'd been on edge, especially after reading what the signs said, and wondered where all the sudden talk about magic came from. Tab stated again that they didn't believe in magic, and after asking more questions about the signs, it was revealed that "the captain" appeared to be Vic. He then went on to explain that magic, in some way, was indeed real. Things like the nether portals were considered magic, although the signs were referring to "ancient magic."

> *"They're talking about ancient magic, so summoning, uhm... otherworldly things. And I think someone might've leaked all my research." - Vic, in regards to magic*
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Apparently, the leakage of said research had caused the entire village to fall into a panic, and Vic invited the two inside to make sure nobody else was listening in on them.

Once inside, he opened up about having found a book titled "The Fallen Hero". He gave it to Tab, who read it out loud:

### (Story) The Fallen Hero From Another World

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> **`The Fallen Hero From Another World.`**
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> **`It is believe that it is possible for worldly time travel is possible. Travelling from one world to the next requieres exponetial power and will. Though its lead to believe that any strong minded and kind hearted can obtain this power. They can easily corrupt and conquer other worlds and destroy. One has the power and strength to defeat any that has crossed his path. Though after using the power once, he was tainted by darkness and now roams from one world to the next finding the most powerful foes he can erase. This character has amounted mass strength and health. Not even the gods of the time can stop him. The gods had prophesied that one man will have the strength to stop him but that has never came to be. They sent out the strongest men and women to clash against this beast.`**
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> **`They have all fallen.`**
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> **`They have all failed.`**
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> **`Children of gods now rest easy.`**
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> **`Calamity will rise.`**
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> **`This is not a tale, alas of an impending doom. Heed the warning and prepare for a fight. Prepare for doom. May the gods weep for many fallen worlds. Many cities prospered then collapse.`**
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> **`May the gods weep.`**
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> **`May the gods cry.`**
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> **`The gods pray for the end of this Calamity.`**
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> **`Young gods had fallen.`**
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> **`We shall fall too.`**
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> **`The inevitable is coming.`**
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> **`May god bless us all.`**
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> **`May he free us from this demise.`**
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> **`End.`**
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Being left pretty speechless after having read through all that, Vic said that he was hoping that the legend wasn't real, and was going to try to prove it wrong, especially since the entire village was already on edge because of the massive expansion of Sagittarius' castle.

After Tab's question of whether Vic had found anything else, he opened up about another discovery, which he wanted to show to them.

On the way through the village, another sign had been found; **"THE TALE IS REAL - WHAT WILL THE CAPTAIN DO??",** to which Vic's reply was that he was going to debunk the myth.

The three walked a bit through the distance, and eventually entered a nether portal. Back in the overworld, they were met with strange stone trees "growing" next to a frozen lake, that seemed to grow out of the ground for no apparent reason. Diamond suggested they might be runes, and could mean something in a different language, Tab thought they might be totems of some kind.

Vic had been to this place before, but the strange trees had only appeared after he came back a second time.

Then, he revealed that they were all standing right above the end portal, and warned Diamond and Tab to not go down the staircase leading down towards it. They agreed that nobody should go down there or even enter the portal alone and unprepared, as they'd heard a lot of scary things about the portal or the possible end-dimension.

> *"Scary things? I haven't heard anything. All I know is that it's a portal, and I wanna go in it. But we have to wait 'til we're fully prepared. You know, I'm a man of adventures. There's a saying that goes around- live for glory, die for honor." - Vic, regarding the portal*
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Vic seemed to be eager to find out what was behind the portal, while both Diamond and Tab seemed very suspicious of it. After talking more about the magic, Vic mentioned the fallen hero legend again, and talked about wanting to try summoning it. He repeated the catchphrase (live for glory, die for honor) again, and explained that it's a saying from his hometown.

As Vic walked onto the frozen lake next to the strange trees, he begun building some sort of shrine, and concern began to rise within Diamond and Tab. They were all slowly starting to be worried that magic was, indeed, real. Either way, Vic proceeded to finish the summoning ritual.

After dropping a totem of undying, a gold ingot and a netherite ingot onto the shrine, a creature appeared out of nowhere, labelled "The Fallen Hero". It immediatelly began to attack Vic, seemingly teleporting around. Tab's first suggestion was to leave, but Vic countered that it would just follow them.

Just a couple of seconds after having been summoned, the demon already broke one of Vic's totems, which motivated Tab and Diamond to join in on the fight and help Vic. Moments after, it broke another of Vic's totems, and killed Diamond, who respawned back at her base in the village. Confused as to what had happened, they kept theorizing about why Diamond was fine and why she could still talk to them, while the demon broke two more of Vic's totems.

Since Diamond couldn't find the way back to the battlefield, Tab left Vic alone temporarily to come pick her up and return her stuff. Yet, just a bit after reentering the nether, a message saying "PURIFIED" appeared on the screen, both for Tab and Diamond. They asked whether Vic had received that message as well, but got no response, which they blamed on the distance.

After reaching Diamond, Tab made sure she was okay, to which she said yes, and also mentioned that it didn't feel like the first time she had died.

> *"I mean, one second I was there, fighting the thing, and then it- it hurt, and it went black, and I was... back at my house." - Diamond, about dying*
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Upon returning back to the frozen lake, they were met with nothing but a pile of items on the floor and no trace of the fallen hero. They came to the conclusion that Vic had died, somehow, despite still having tons of totems in his inventory. This marks Vic's first canon death, As they were about to return to look for Vic, he came out of the portal, not being able to remember what had happened.

Tab and Diamond gave him his items back, where he, much to his confusion, realized he was missing at least half of his totems. He also mentioned having found "two funky swords": Excalibur, which was golden, and Desperatio, which looked a bit like netherite. Diamond pointed out that the demon had been holding onto two swords, which made Vic confused, as he did not remember a demon. Tab showed him the shrine, which he did remember, as well as dropping the items. After that, everything was gone. He dropped a random piece of coal on the ground, which Tab later picked up, assuming that it was the remains of the demon.

Trying out the two swords he'd received, Excalibur mysteriously vanished as he was about to use it. Desperatio remained though, and was capable of a mighty attack, similar to one of the fallen hero's attacks. Vic kept using it, much to the disliking of Diamond and Tab, who asked him to put it away or get rid of it. Trying to find the sword's good sides, he suggested that it could be the key to opening the end.

Since Vic's memory seemed to be gone for the moment, he wouldn't believe Tab or Diamond when they said that magic was actually real. Concerned about him, Tab suggested that they should all go back to the village and calm down. On the way back through the nether, Diamond died again, but like earlier, she simply respawned back home and felt fine. They were wondering why Diamond could remember what happened prior to dying, and Vic couldn't.

After having arrived back home, Tab and Diamond took a moment to speak in private about Vic's condition. Diamond voiced concerns about what the villagers would think of Vic like this, as he was obviously not in his right mind, mindlessly downing bottles upon bottles of water. They came to the conclusion to tell nobody about the events or mention the existence of magic, as well as deciding to not mention it to Vic anymore.

As they returned back to him though, he had slowly begun to regain his memory.

> *"I just remember a black figure. That's it, so far." - Vic's slowly returning memory*
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Tab eagerly started reciting everything that had happened, as they made their way back to the headquarters, but was interrupted as the three abruptly stopped in front of a sign placed inside the building, saying "curiousity kills". Vic didn't seem bothered by it, and ran off into a nearby jungle forest to try out the new sword's abilites. Ignoring his friend's pleads to stop using it, he figured out it could one shot all the mobs he came across. After a while, he suddenly mentioned that his totems began disappearing. They thought that maybe this was happening because he was using the sword, which was proven wrong shortly after.

Still trying to convince Vic to stop using it, Diamond wondered if the demon's soul was still inside the sword- which would explain the demonic noises that came from it every time the special attack was used. Vic eventually gave in, and promised to not use it, under the condition that he would be allowed to experiment on it and figure out its good and bad sides. He said that he would think about everything that had happened in the headquarters, so they made their way back.

Vic continued to remember more details of the fight and the fallen hero, and despite not actually knowing what had happened to it, they all hoped that the demon had died and wouldn't return. Tab and Diamond made Vic promise again to not use the sword again, and they all went seperate ways.

> *"I guess we were wrong. I guess... it is real." - Diamond, about magic*
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Tab returned back to their base, trying to sort their thoughts and figure out what had just happened. They opened up about feeling guilty for being the one that hadn't died at all, and realized that there was something strangely different about Vic's death and Diamond's deaths. Back at their home, they came to the conclusion that there simply was no conclusion as to what was happening. Time would tell.

## THE END

**The end raid** took place on the 29th of October, 2022. It was streamed on Tab's, Diamond's and Falkon's twitch channels, you can see it from Tab's POV here. A summary of it can be viewed on a video on Vic's channel. It also featured Sagittarius.

Tab started off the stream by preparing weapons and food, but was soon interrupted by Falkon showing up, who had been running around the village before, looking for the others. Falkon and Diamond talked about Diamond's bet enderman Mark for a bit, before he made his way to Tab's base.

He gave Tab two rotten flesh and a clock, before pretending to leave, yet instead sneaking around Tab's base some more, before finally retreating back to the village, where him, Tab, Vic and Diamond met up in the headquarters. Sagittarius joined them just a bit after.

Everyone began telling how they felt about the end and the legends; they were wondering what that dimension would be like. Their guesses ranged from it being similar to the nether, to being the happiest place on earth, or perhaps being nothing but a void, which would trap them forever. Falkon brought up that there was apparently an entity awaiting them in the end, but nobody really knew what to expect or what it could be.

Vic opened up about a book he found that someone had left in his base. Everyone sat down, and he read it out loud.

### (Story) The Legend Of The End

> `{THE LEGEND OF THE END}`
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> `Once upon a time, way before the world was the way that we know it, there were three gods, known as the safekeepers of our timeline. [1], the god of space, [2], the god of time, and [3], the god of reality. Some say that since [3] combines both [1]’s and [2]’s powers, they were the most powerful out of the trio.`
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>  `As a way to ensure the safety of our dimension, they combined their powers to form what we know as the “Enderdragon”. They used it like an anchor for our timeline- time, space and reality all revolve around it. It’s the source of energy for everything we see, feel, hear- you get the point. You can look at it like a backup for our world.`
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They began to wonder what the reward might be, how dangerous the dragon might be, and so on. Yet, they decided to stop thinking about it and just try to kill it. Before Vic lead them to the portal, though, he showed them a different place located in a ravine in the overworld.

After landing in the water at the bottom of the ravine, Vic opened a button, revealing the armory. It was filled with 10 full sets of diamond armor, along with 10 diamond swords and axes, for the members of the raid that weren't fully geared out yet.

While in the armory, the server restarted due to system overload, which was canonically interpreted as everyone fainting at the sight of all the gear. tab assumed it must've either been because they were overwhelmed, or maybe it had been caused by the lack of ventilation and hydration. As they spoke the word "hydrate", Diamond felt like she was being addressed, but couldn't quite say why.

They left the armory, and Sagittarius said that he'd be right back, leaving the others alone to share more of their worries about the end. Diamond stated a theory that the Fallen Hero might be connected to the enderdragon; if the dragon was dead, then maybe they could be sure that the Fallen Hero would be dead, too. Falkon asked about the hero, since he hadn't been there at the time of the fight. Tab began explaining what had happened, to which Falkon agreed that it could've been connected to the end.

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Their conversation was interrupted by Sagittarius returning in full enchanted netherite armor, riding on a horse with gold armor, to everyone's surprise. As some of them had made up the theory that the "unimaginable treasure" that awaited them after slaying the dragon could be a ton of gold, Falkon jokingly suggested that they should sacrifice the horse to please the dragon. Vic added on to the joke by claiming that the horse was called "Dragon Lunch".

Eventually, Vic began leading everyone to the end portal. They travelled through the nether, as it was much faster, and realized that the netherrack around Vic's portal had begun spreading, but didn't mind it much.

Tab brought up the topic of Vic's bridges having no railing and therefor being unsafe, mentioning that Diamond had already died on one of them once. She added that she'd died twice in the nether in total, and mentioned that she'd heard that if you die three times, you stop coming back. She also mentioned that she felt like she'd died before, and brought up a story about a tower next to her house, but Tab insisted that that was nothing and didn't matter. They stated that it was fine and moved on.

After entering the next portal, they found themselves back at the frozen lake. Falkon and Sagittarius began messing around with the stange stone trees, the shrine and the ice, much to the disliking of Tab and Diamond. Tab told the story again, warning the two of interacting with these things more, and Sagittarius showed a lot of interest in the mentioned sword, Desperatio. Despite Tab and Diamond trying to keep them away from the possibly cursed objects, the two kept on breaking them and eventually, Sagittarius even blew up the shrine, and decided to keep the netherrack pieces. When questioned by Diamond on why he was so curious about this, he replied that he just found magic to be very interesting.

Beginning to grow impatient, Falkon asked whether they were finally going to the end or not, to which Vic finally lead everyone down the staircase to the end portal.

At the end of said staircase, they finally reached the portal. Everyone expressed a bit of discomfort at the seight of eyes being placed inside these frame-like blocks which made up the portal.

Everyone gathered around it, doubt suddenly settling in. As they realized they were just stalling more, Vic decided to place the last eyes, causing the portal to activate. Without waiting, Falkon jumped right in, followed by Vic, Diamond, Tab, and lastly, Sagittarius.

They were met with a big island placed in the void, inhabitated by seemingly just endermen. As they progressed further into the endstone, which they assumed to be moonstone or cheese, they suddenly heard the dragon roar. Vic began digging through the island so they could get to its surface, but the dragon shot magic at all of them, immediatelly killing Falkon, resulting in his first canon death.

Strangely, he respawned back in the village. He got lost in the nether while trying to find the portal to the frozen lake, and only returned later with the help of the Sagittarius.

Meanwhile, everyone else began fighting the dragon. They realized they couldn't return, as there was no portal out. While Vic distracted the dragon, Tab, Diamond and Sagittarius found a bedrock frame in the middle of the island, as well as obsidian towers all around it. After just a bit, Sagittarius died to the dragon's magic, just like Falkon.

Together, Tab and Diamond realized that the dragon's health was regenerating, which seemed to be caused by strange crystals placed on top of the obsidian pillars. The three of them began blowing up the crystals, constantly being attacked by the endermen, which appeared to be a bigger threat than the dragon itself.

After around 20 minutes, Vic finally killed the dragon, just after Falkon and Sagittarius returned. Just after its death, endermen began attacking Diamond, and her, Tab and Falkon began trying to get rid of them.

Things finally calmed down a bit, and Falkon noticed a purple egg sitting atop the bedrock structure they found earlier. Another portal had appeared underneath it.

Sagittarius' discovered another bedrock structure, floating in the sky, which turned out to be another portal. They tried to enter it using multiple methods, but neither of them worked. Eventually, everyone decided to not test their luck, and instead go through the "main" portal, especially since the endermen kept attacking Diamond specifically, and it was hard to even walk without being attacked by one. Falkon suggested that it might be a hive mind; the dragon had died, so the endermen were now attacking everyone, regardless of whether they looked at their eyes or didn't.

Yet, as they were about to (hopefully) return back home, they were met with the question on why the egg had appeared and what to do with it. Vic began playing around with it, and they soon realized it wasn't easy to mine, as it kept teleporting every time someone attempted to do so. Both Falkong and Sagittarius accidentally fell in the portal, but returned just fine in a matter of minutes, confirming that it was indeed the portal home. Not long after, Vic managed to break the egg, using a torch.

Tab picked it up, and although they were joking about it first, their behaviour changed just seconds after holding the egg, even thoug nobody seemed to notice. Sagittarius returned, asking about the egg, and wondered why they went to the end in the first place. What was the "big reward"? What was the whole point of going to the end, of killing the dragon?

Diamond had somehow captured a bottle of dragon breath, which Vic tried to drink, for "research purposes". They kept on discussing themes like magic and such, while Tab left with the egg.

On Tab's stream, a cutscene could be seen, featuring various shots of the end, as well as them holding the egg. It flashed to a spiral-gif of a clock, as well as a screen showing an error message, before they ended their stream.

After Diamond and Falkon returned to the overworld, they began talking about their experiences when they died.

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The two tried finding their way back home through the nether, but accidentally ended up going through the wrong portal, which landed them at a ruined portal in the overworld. Obviously not knowing where to go, they returned back to the nether, where they stumbled upon Sagittarius. He decided to lead them back to the original portal, but as they were being attacked by ghasts and piglins, he accidentally hit a zombified pigman, angering them all. By blowing up a cobblestone bridge, he managed to get rid of most of them.

Building up to avoid the rest of them, he showed Falkon and Diamond the rest of the path, and they finally safely returned home. Falkon expressed more concern about the "tendrils" coming from the nether portal, but again, neither him nor Diamond thought much of it.

While on their way home, Falkon said that there were still many unanswered questions, to which Diamond agreed. She pointed out that the egg only appeared after they had killed the dragon, which would automatically mean that nobody had done so before. The same problem appeared with the end portal- it hadn't been activated yet, so nobody had been to the end before. Falkon thought that maybe the legends weren't true, then.

The two eventually parted ways, and Diamond returned to her home to set Mark free. After being attacked by so many endermen, she figured that perhaps it was because she was holding one of their kind hostage. Back at home, she broke the boat Mark had been "trapped" in, said goodbye and let him leave.

## THE WANDERER

**The wanderer** stream took place on the 7th of December, 2022. It was stramed live on Tab's, Diamond's and Link's twitch channels. It also featured Vic and partially Sagittarius. You can watch it from Tab's POV here.

Tab started off the stream by claiming that they didn't know how much time had passed since the end raid, and that they were trying to focus on other things instead. While beginning to sort out some chests, the alarmsystem suddenly went off. Wanting to check out who or what it was, Tab decided to leave the house, but immediately ran into a strange being that somewhat resembled Diamond. The only thing the creature said was "Hydrate", and by asking a couple of questions, Tab figured out it was called Hydrate, too. It gave Tab a bottle of water, before beginning to fly around, repeatedly saying "hydrate!".

Suddenly, it started raining, and being intimidated by the creature's apparent power, Tab started apologizing for the End Raid, stating that they shouldn't have done it. Just after, "Hydrate" flew away.

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Tab decided to calm themselves down by following through with their plan of sorting the chests scattered through their houses. As they entered through the nether portal on top of their summer residence, though, they caught a glimpse of something growing out of the ground, just next to their house. It seemed to be corrupting another house from the village, and also had a strange stone tree growing out of its middle, just like those at the frozen lake.

Vic was already examining it, and Tab went to talk to him about it. Meanwhile, he had found similar spots scattered all throughout the village. They all looked very similar; mostly made up of the strange cheese-like stone found in the end, accompanied by gooey, sparkly "slime" and vines. Some of them had the strange trees growing out of them, others did not.

While showing them to Tab, they spoke up about the strange encounter they'd had at their base. Yet, Vic didn't seem to believe the story. Tab gave him the bottle that Hydrate had given them, but since it was just an empty bottle, it didn't count as proof.

Changing the subject, Vic stated that he wanted to try and take down the stone trees, which they later started calling anomalies, and Tab suggested they might be leading them somewhere or indicate magic, just like the ones above the end portal. Vic had no idea whether they meant something, as he hadn't seen them before; they seemed to have appeared overnight.

The two started talking about what they'd been up to since killing the dragon, where Tab stated again that they couldn't even really remember what they were doing for the past weeks, whereas Vic had spent his time exploring the end and doing more research. Then, he opened up about a theory he'd made up while doing said research.

> *"Remember the story, about the end? How each world has a portal? [...] What if, instead of said portal leading to one end, rather the end is out of our timeline of space? [...] What if there's one end that connects to all worlds? So, essentially, we were the first ones to ever open the portal. [...]" - Vic, telling his theory about the end*
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He continued to talk about said theory, stating that this would also explain why magic was so much more powerful in the end dimension, also admitting that he'd been experimenting with magic. He decided to show Tab a machine he'd built in the Dawn Tower, which could apparently detect magic. Strangely, it hadn't detected the anomalies in the village, but it had found something else that Vic wanted to show Tab. Before doing so though, Tab excused themselves and went to talk to Diamond.

She had been busy farming and making tools and food, making sure the wheat kept getting replanted and taking care of her pets.

Tab recited everything that they'd told Vic about Hydrate, and mentioned how it looked a lot like Diamond. She reassured Tab though that Diamond hadn't been anywhere, and had no idea what Tab was talking about. As the two talked about the anomalies appearing, Diamond showed Tab a massive statue that had appeared just behind her house, next to the graveyard.

She had no idea where it had come from, even though half of it kind of resembled an enderman. Tab jokingly suggested that it might come to live one night and start walking through the village.

Being in a rush due to the uncertainty of how threatening the anomalies are, Tab urged Diamond to follow them back to Vic. Once they reached one of the anomalies, Diamond suggested it might be connected to whatever had placed the statue, though Tab didn't believe that it was somebody that PLACED the anomalies- they rather probably grew out of the ground.

Vic lead them towards the anomaly that his machine had detected, but stopped when Tab found another anomaly growing in the river near the village. While they started to investigate it, Vic said he got "slapped by a fish", which lead Tab to assume that the anomalies were mutating the fish.

After Tab tried calming everyone down by saying that it was probably fine, Vic joked about what had happened last time they'd said that, eventually revealing that he had regained his full memory from the fallen hero fight. He said that he remembered that he was still holding onto a totem of undying while he was stabbed, and had no idea what caused it to not activate it.

While talking, Tab found more of the anomalies, where the strange goo had begun consuming an entire tree. Vic tried eating it, but was held back by Tab, who explained that there could be poisonous spores, chemicals or even radiation coming from it.

They continued to walk towards the place that Vic's scanner was leading them to, and soon enough, the silhouette of a tower emerged from the horizon. It appeared to be made of the "strange cheesestone", as Tab described it, as well as strange lavender bricks that they hadn't seen before. It was built on a small island of the stone from the end, which was surrounded by more of the strange, dark blue goo. A ladder in its middle led up to the top.

The three climbed it, and as they reached the second level, were surprised to see a person staring out the window, who they had never met before. Vic's first intention was to jump them, but Tab quickly told him not to, as the new person had already noticed them.

The new person, who introduced themselves as "King Link of the Enderstar kingdom from Oreduna", or just Link, began explaining that they were a prince, who ruled the "Enderstar kingdom". Neither of the village's members had heard of it before, and neither had Link heard of the Dawn village or similar.

> *"I tried to go to my archives, like I always do. I tried to make the portal in here, like I always do, and suddenly, I'm stuck here." - Link, telling the others about what happened*
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As Link kept explaining, they revealed that they used to be able to teleport and timetravel, but as they tried teleporting to a different place in their world, called "Oreduna", the portal for some reason failed, landing them, together with their watchtower, in the TabSMP. All the powers they previously had were now gone, and so they had no way to return back to their world. Further discussion proved that Vic's theory of there being multiple ends was true.

Link explained that they were an enderian, and that there were more, back where they came from. The enderians used to live in cities in the end, and they were the protectors of the dragon.

As Tab mentioned the end, Link was surprised that they had been to the end and returned alive. They asked if the dragon had been killed, which Vic answered with a yes. They continued to ask the others about the end, and Diamond explained that the endermen seemed to be very hostile towards her, which Link already knew. But as she explained that they seemed to attack her without her even looking at them, Link suggested that it might be because her looks remind them a lot of water. Just as they said that, it began to rain.

Link also stated that they were allergic to water, and therefor, all of them had to wait to leave the tower until the rain stopped.

While talking more about their end, Link said that they killed "their" enderdragon, as it had turned against the enderians and Link wanted revenge. Not understanding, Tab asked what they meant when they said "their" dragon, where Link revealed that there were, indeed, multiple dragons.

When they tried to figure out what it was exactly that got Link to end up in the TabSMP's timeline, they eventually came to the conclusion that it must've been caused by the enderdragon's death in the TabSMP. This caused Tab to guess that there were also multiple ends- one for every timeline. According to Link, the enderians in their timeline had the power to travel through time and space in order to protect the dragon, which made them question why their dragon would attack its protectors.

After thinking about it some more, Link said that the only possible reason they could think of was that their dragon had been a decoy, meant to lead travellers astray.

> *"Is that why nobody ever returned from the end? [...] People go into the end, and they never come back. But, we've been to the end and it didn't look like there was anybody there, it didn't look like anybody was dead. What if they all, just, went to different ends? Or had different versions of the end? What if it's layered?" - Tab, about the decoy theory*
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Everyone agreed that this theory didn't make sense to them, although it would be a good explanation. Link, though, said that it made perfect sense to them, since they had grown up with magic all around them. After asking the others whether there was anybody in the server who had supernatural powers of any kind, Diamond spoke up about being able to (probably) die an infinite number of times. Aside from this, nobody knew of any powers.

Vic assumed that the laws and physics of this timeline would work for anybody, which would be why Link didn't have their own abilites anymore. They already had the theory of multiple timelines existing, but it was never proven, until now.

Since Link was now apparently stuck in the TabSMP, the others decided to show them around the village. Tab asked them about the anomalies, and they did recongize the stone, which was apparently "endstone", but other than that, they had never seen anything similar. Though they did show interest in the sparkly goo.

Tab began theorizing about why there would be different enderdragons, and came to the conclusion that maybe, there was only one "real" dragon, that was holding all the power about space and time. And that dragon, for some reason, happened to be the one that was killed in the end raid, which was now causing all the timelines to fall apart. Link promised that they'd do anything they could to protect the village from whatever was happening, as long as everyone else tried to find a way to find a way for them to go back home.

They showed Link the festival hall, Tab voiced concerns about whether they would even be able to celebrate christmas, given how things were developing at the moment.

While they talked, Sagittarius showed up outside of it, and Tab warned Link to stay away from him, before leaving to go back to their home.

They rushed back through the nether, suddenly beginning to ramble about the dragon egg and how it could be a possible way to bring back the dragon, despite them absolutely not wanting to loose the egg or do what was nessecary to revive the dragon. They took a secret path to a room underground, where the egg was placed on a pillar, surrounded by abyss that seemed to go all the way to the ground level.

They began pondering about what to do, as they assumed that the egg could be a possible way to bring the dragon back and save the timeline, but they also explained that they were strangely attached to it and would do anything to make sure they got to keep it. They repeated that they lost track of time again, not in the slightest feeling like the raid had been over a month ago.

Tab tried reassuring themselves that it was "only spreading a tiny bit" and that they would find a way to fix everything, with the help of Link, and with research on the egg.

After Tab left, Diamond decided to do the same, even though it was dark outside. She went back to her home, taking her time to look at the village and take in the scenery. She said that she was afraid of loosing everything. She also hoped that the TabSMP's timeline wouldn't be too much for Link to handle, since nobody has any clue of the effects of accidentally falling into another parallel universe. Being very concerned about how the anomalies were spreading, she just really hoped that they would find a way to stop it and restore the time space continuum.

## THE CHRISTMAS DINNER

The christmas stream took place on the 23rd of December, 2022. It was streamed live on Tab's, Link's, Diamond's and Falkon's twitch channels. You can watch it from Tab's POV here, or watch the recap on Vic's channel here. It is a canon event, although it was very lighthearted and it also included non-lore members, such as Hunter, Pier and Mega.

Tab started off the stream by going to the festival hall, also known as christmas hall, in the village. On the way there, they noticed some more anomalies (strange stone trees surrounded by end stone and odd goo) in the nether and around the village, and it seemed like the ones that had appeared previously were growing and consuming more parts of the village.

Falkon started off his stream by working on his new base, while waiting for people to show up and start celebrating christmas.

Since nobody was at the hall yet, Tab began looking around for others, finding Vic (although he seemed to be lost in thoughts), and lateron they ran into Link while returning back to the hall. As the two were talking, Pier and Vic finally showed up, and a bit of awkward silent ensued, which Tab explained by their "Mic" (pronounced Mike) dying. When Vic asked who this Mic was, Tab responded that he was dead. The conversation quickly turned to a more lighthearted topic.

> *"It's okay, it's just... it gets harder every christmas." - Tab, about Mic*
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Tab and Link had a bit of a talk about santa hats and christmas outfits, as Link wasn't sure whether they were standard in the TabSMP's timeline or not. While discussing this, Diamond finally showed up, also seemingly had some problems with a person named "Mic". While trying to help Diamond to regain her voice, Pier, who had been gone for a while, came back, holding onto a stack of suspicious white powder. Tab accused Vic of being a bad influence on Pier, to which he responded that Tab was the one doing the drugs.

After just a bit, Falkon appeared, who hadn't talked to Link before. They quickly introduced themselves as "the being from another timeline" and before they could say more, chaos broke out as everyone randomly started punching each other.

Tab began to chase Vic, where he suddenly mention that Tab's Mic was dead, which resulted in them whining about his death; apparently, he had died in a fire 17 years ago and was connected to something called "Five Nights at Freddy's". Not wanting to talk about this sensitive topic any longer, Tab invited everyone inside, asking them to sit down and not eat any of the cake until after dinner.

Everyone got some baked potatoes, bottles of water, and depending on what they preferred, steak or cooked chicken. The conversations trailed off as Link mentioned that they had never had a "jacket" potato before, Vic apparently canonically turned into a child, decided to sit in a window, inspired Falkon to do the same, who suffocated in the wall and died.

As Falkon got all his stuff back, Tab asked him to please take off the armor, as there should be no weapons, murder or fear of dying during christmas. He then asked if there was a jukebox and played cat, which strangely, Link couldn't hear. They took the disc out and put it back in, which fixed their temporary hearing loss. Somehow, the conversation trailed off to Mic again, and Falkon asked who he was, why he was dead and if there was a grave for him. Apparently, there had indeed been a grave, but Vic had eaten it, claiming it was very crunchy. Diamond mentioned that she was having problems with "Mic Rophone", causing Tab to be surprised that she knew Mic's full name.

The food was finally served, and Vic said that he was curious to see what Link would eat, as he assumed that enderians only ate stuff from the end, which they denied.

Again, Diamond brought up the topic of Mic, stating that his height was six foot.

> *"I'm gonna be asking that constantly- is my Mic working?" - Diamond*
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As the center of attention trailed to Diamond, Vic took his chance to start climbing/crawling around the tree, much to the disliking of Tab, especially since they should all eat the food together now. He got back down and complimented the steak, as everyone who was hungry ate their portions. Diamond wasn't hungry enough yet, so she couldn't eat anything, which got Vic to assume that she only ate diamonds, even though that would be cannibalism.

Just moments after, Tab noticed that someone had taken a bite out of the cake, immediately assuming that it was Falkon, as he had been sitting closest to that cake. This resulted in Vic threatening him with Desperatio, before being told not to do that by Tab.

They started fistfighting with Diamond in an attempt to get hungry fast, and Vic joined in with the magic sword, jokingly calling it the "discipline stick", which caused the fight to stop right away.

As everyone sat back at the table, Falkon and Vic decided the chairs were too boring, and decided to sit on the christmas tree instead. This reminded Link of their wedding in Oreduna, where they had floating chairs for people to sit on. Vic and Pier eventually started playing around with a candle, lighting it up and extinguishing it over and over again, until Vic ended up setting the tree on fire. Luckily, it didn't burn.

Since most people were now sitting or standing on the tree, Tab had the idea to take a couple of group pictures with everyone on or around it. Even though it was difficult to get everyone on it, they managed to capture a couple of good photos.

Tab asked everyone to say "cheese" while taking the photo, which resulted in Diamond wondering what even cheese was, since she had never seen it before. Link explained that it was the less disgusting part of letting milk sit for too long, and Tab said that they thought that Mic used to work in a cheese factory, although the others thought they meant that Mic WAS a piece of cheese.

Confused about Mic's backstory, Link summarized everything they had heard about him so far; apparently, he was cheese that stayed over at Tab's place called Freddy's (which they corrected to Tabitha Fazbear's Pizzaria), where he stayed up until 5 AM and was killed by fire.

Vic started crawling underneath the tree, and Tab told him to stop trying to peek into the presents, where they realized that nobody had even expected presents. He kept playing around with Desperatio while still sitting underneath the christmas tree, and Link warned him to be careful or else he might accidentally cut it down.

Tab told everyone to sit back down, as they weren't done with the food yet. They sat down next to Link now, as they were sitting by themselves and Tab felt a bit bad.

As Falkon asked what exactly the whole point of this was, or what they were supposed to do now, Tab responded that the most important part was just spending time together, talking about everyone's experiences, positive or negative.

It started raining, and Pier asked Tab if they could make it snow, to which they had to say no. Diamond suggested that the "flying water person" that Tab had mentioned to her, referring to Hydrate, could perhaps make it snow. Shortly after, Hunter showed up.

Vic started singing "It's beginning to look a lot like christmas", which was starting to get on Tab's nerves, as he'd started singing it approximately 4 times already. They threatened to step on the cake just to punch him, and suddenly everyone except Vic began jumping around on the cakes, making them extremely unsanitary, according to Diamond. Either way, people kept eating them without second thought.

As things calmed down again, they realized that Pier was now sitting at the very top of the tree, who refused to come back down. People agreed that she kind of looked like an evil overlord.

They moved on to dinner now, and Tab asked everyone whether they wanted pumpkin pie or cookies, to which Link replied that they were very allergic to pumpkins, and also couldn't even see them. If anyone was to wear a carved pumpkin, Link wouldn't be able to see them.

Falkon asked Tab if there were any cookies for Santa, which eventually turned into cookies for Satan. Tab gave him a couple, causing him to wonder who even was Satan. Everyone agreed that it was Vic right away, and to Falkon's question whether he also kidnapped children, Tab said yes. To this, he replied that that was why he had the magic sword. Now Link was telling him to put it away, or "put it back in his pants, or wherever he stored it". He stated that he didn't even know that he was keeping it there.

A couple of minutes later, a fight broke out between Falkon and Pier, causing Falkon to die again. Tab said that if they were staying true to what they'd said at the beginning of the stream- that only people who behaved got presents- at least half of them wouldn't be allowed to get any. Despite this, they let everyone open the presents on the count of 3.

All present members stood in front of their chests that were marked with their name, and as Tab counted down, Vic blew the goathorn he had, and everyone opened the presents.

Against what everyone was expecting, there were no gifts inside these chests. Instead, everyone had a note with a word and a number on it. As they put the notes together in a barrel, it resulted in this message:

**YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK IN THE TALLEST BUILDING HERE**

Assuming that this note was referring to the Dawn Tower, everyone rushed there. Instead of finding the missing presents, they were met with a sign, saying "Nope, not here... maybe try the graveyard?". This note was most likely referring to Diamond's graveyard, and Falkon found the next sign, which hinted towards them having to go back to the festival hall's attic. There, as well, was placed another sign, which read "haha, my bad! still not here. check the villager community place". Surely, there was the next sign, now leading them toward Sagittarius' bridge. It took a bit to even figure out what the writer of these signs meant by "Sagittarius' bridge", but in the end, they successfully found it. Now they were told to go to Tab's summer residence, where they found three final signs.

The last sign told them to dig underneath the chests back in the christmas hall, where they indeed finally found the actual presents. Everyone opened them, and messages of achievements filled the chat. The chests were filled with diamonds, gold, emeralds, flowers, banners, shulkers, tools, enchantment books and more. Everyone had also gotten a simple bottle of water, always named "HYDRATE".

### Vic's 1v5

While everyone got pretty much the same items, Vic got a written book by Tab, which was an invitation to the 1v5 he'd been asking for for months. Since nobody else had known about this until now, 4 more competitors had to be found. Eventually, with the help of Tab and Vic handing out spare armor, all fighters were set: It was Vic against Tab, Link, Diamond, Falkon and Pier.

Once this was set, Tab lead everyone to a big battle area they'd been building just for this moment. They lead everyone through the portal, revealing the Netherdome arena. They explained that everyone should go and read the rules and terms of service, and the competitors had to sign at the end of the book. As Tab had already signed it, they went to their base, getting the tools, potions and armor they had prepared. Once they were ready, they returned back to the arena.

As soon as everyone else was done reading and was prepared, they all went down into the battlering. Hunter stayed in the viewer ranks and watched the battle go down. Before starting the fight, Tab made sure that nobody had any prohibited items on them. Once everyone was absolutely ready, Vic pressed the button, starting the countdown for the fight.

Vic first killed Falkon, and just seconds after, Link died. Next up was Pier, and lastly, Diamond was slain by Vic, exactly 60 seconds after starting the battle. This was Diamond's 100th canon death. Tab and Vic kept on fighting for 6 minutes and 39 seconds, before Tab finally died as well, making them loose their first canon life.

The battle ended, and Vic had officially won. Everyone went back into the arena to get their tools and armor back, and the lore basically ended, as Hunter started playing songs on noteblocks inside the arena and everyone began messing around. Lateron, Diamond revealed that Mic was also Vic's child.

Although, after a bit, Tab started expressing discomfort at being in the arena with Vic or fighting with him, which eventually caused them wish everyone a "merry freaking christmas" and to go back home. As soon as they entered the nether portal, they began crying, explaining how horrifying the battle was to them and how scary that death was, wondering why dying this time felt so different than any other deaths.

Diamond also returned back home to put her gifts away, as well as Link.

## THE ENTITY

On the 11th of January, 2023, one of Tab's streams on the SMP turned into the biggest lore stream so far. It was 100% unplanned and unscripted, but everything during the stream should be considered canon. It featured Tab, Vic, Diamond, Sagittarius, Link, Falkon and some other members who are now partially considered to be canon, such as Ethernet and Piercxr\_, the latter now officially being a semi-part of lore.

You can rewatch the stream from Tab's POV here. The canonical events start at 37:10, proper "lore mode" was entered at 1:29:20.

Tab was gathering materials to restore the houses at the Dawn Village, when suddenly a message appeared in the chat, saying that a player named "Nullscape" had joined the world. They left again a second later, leaving Tab and everyone else confused as to how they had gotten in and who they were. As Tab returned to the village, they met up with Vic, who was once again examining the strange goo next to Tab's summer residence, causing them to jokingly say that they were having a déjà vu, referencing the wanderer stream, where the exact same situation had occured.

They joked about Vic trying to eat it again, when suddenly, Nullscape joined again. The two scattered to find the new player, who must've appeared in or around the Dawn Tower, since that is where the world spawn was. Yet, as they couldn't find anyone nearby, Tab came to the conclusion that Nullscape must've been there before. Nullscape logged off again.

Getting more and more confused about how this "player" could join the server, Tab checked the whitelist, but couldn't find anyone with that name. Neither did kicking or banning them work. As they were beginning to wonder if it even was a player, Pier suggested that it could be linked to the "Null" creepypasta, which would mean that this Nullscape was not someone it'd be fun to be around.

A few seconds after, as if they'd listened to Tab, Nullscape returned to answer the suspicions.

Not knowing whether to be concerned or relieved by the statement, Tab returned back to their original quest of fixing up the village. Vic stayed in the village center, claiming that he could "smell Nullscape" and was waiting for them to return.

While Tab was repairing some roofs, Ethernet and Dark started questioning them about a portal that apparently sat on top of the summer residence, yet there was nothing. While trying to figure out what the two were seeing, Nullscape logged back in, now apparently in spectator mode. Tab tried kicking them over the server console, but the only response they got was an error message saying that there was no player with that name on the server. Tab asked them who they were, to which Nullscape replied with "I've always been here".

Everyone was starting to freak out, but since they couldn't do anything against Nullscape's presence, continued doing whatever they were doing. After Ether pointed "the portal" out again, Tab wondered why everyone was acting so weird and strange things were happening- people were seeing a portal that wasn't there, "semi annoying" items were going missing, such as books or axolotls, and now there was a strange player joining over and over again that wasn't being recognized by the server console.

Tab assumed that it could maybe be a glitch, but immediately scrapped that theory as glitches wouldn't talk and reply to people. Yet maybe it could be like a sentient glitch, and they compared it to Monika from DDLC.

A bit later, messages sent by the server itself began showing up in the chat, and the server and Nullscape began talking to each other. Nullscape claimed that they were more powerful than server, which apparently offended it, causing it to send Nullscape "back to sleep". This sleep didn't last long though, as they were back just moments after.

Pier pointed out that Nullscape's skin had the "pi" sign on its head, which strangely insulted them. People kept messing with Nullscape, taunting them, challenging them or offering help. Vic and Tab seemed to be the only ones taking the situation seriously.

Nullscape kept on speaking in riddles, saying ominous statements such as "I'm right here" (despite nobody being able to see them). Even though Tab and Vic kept on looking for the strange entity, nothing was to be found. No matter what Tab tried, the server console also wouldn't recognize any player by the name "Nullscape".

As things seemingly calmed down, Tab went back to fixing up the village, until they heard a strange noise, which nobody else had noticed. A while later, there was another eerie sound, and Pier asked Vic if he'd noticed that there were strange vines spreading from the magic locator device in the Dawn Tower, which he outright denied. Eventually, Pier also began hearing things that weren't there.

Tab, still trying to brush the events off as nothing and keep working, was interrupted by a strange darkness effect, which only lasted for a second. What finally caused them to focus on what was going on was a message sent by Nullscape, reading "Dawn village will be nice :)". Tab looked around and only now noticed the strange, glowing slime spreading through the inside of the tower, and went to check it out. There, they met up with Vic, who explained that the machine could read and locate any magic, but it did not receive a signal for Nullscape. Tab wondered if this meant that Nullscape wasn't magical, but a message from them quickly revealed that this assumption was wrong. Some people thought it might be a robot, then AI, but neither of these guesses felt right.

Pier and Ethernet (who had just logged on) kept on asking for favors or signs that Nullscape was really there, and Tab kept on hearing noises that nobody else could hear. Panicked, they asked around if anybody else did something to trigger these noises, but it seemed as if they came out of nowhere. Vic came by to ask them if they were alright, to which they lied and said yes. Moments later, Tab received this message from Nullscape:

Without second thought, Tab took off and left the village to go to their base, suspecting that whatever was going on might be connected to Dawn and all the strange spots appearing there. Yet, as they arrived home, more messages from Nullscape appeared, where they claimed that "everything was ok" and that they "wanted to be generous" for Tab. While looking for places to go or hide, Tab suddenly got a massive health boost, freaking them out more than it did good. As the sound of a firework (which, like so many other sounds, seemed to have no origin) echoed across the land, the health boost was gone again.

Not wanting to be alone any longer, and not being sure where to feel safe, they started the journey back to Dawn through the nether, before they stopped, wondering if the nether might be a place to be safe from the strange entity. Even there, Nullscape sent Tab a message, asking why they decided to stay in the nether. Not even sure themselves, Tab returned back to Dawn, where Nullscape stated that they were "just a friend".

Not knowing what to do next, Tab asked Nullscape what they wanted from them all. The answer was simple;

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In return, Tab began breaking blocks from the biggest anomaly chunk in the center of Dawn, hoping that getting rid of it might help get rid of Nullscape, too. Though, right away, Vic stopped them, claiming that they needed everything to remain the same for research. Suddenly, Ether appeared, holding a piece of the glowing goo, asking Tab to hold it and ask Nullscape a question as if it was a magic 8 ball. Tab refused, and Nullscape told them to watch Vic, who got struck by lightning shortly after.

Tab picked up the block that Ether dropped, stated that it felt gross and made them feel weird, and gave it back to him, who immediately handed it to Vic. He placed it down and started examining it, or as Tab thought, eating it.

Just as they turned around, Sagittarius was there, trying to replicate the strange stone trees. Fed up with everything, Tab finally agreed to holding the sparkly block and to ask Nullscape for a sign. Immediately after, Vic said that he couldn't see anymore. After Tab asked Nullscape to give Vic his eyesight back, they did just as requested and Vic could see again. He tried his luck with the block as well, loosely asking Nullscape to do something, resulting in him taking damage for a couple of seconds.

Everyone else kept playing around with it while Tab, once again, tried fixing up the village, now questioning why they were even doing that, thinking that the village was doomed to fall apart in the end.

Sag eventually offered to build a theatre to entertain Nullscape, which both Vic and Tab thought was a horrible idea.

Suddenly, Diamond logged on, and Tab dropped what they were doing right away to go talk to their friend and made sure she stayed safe. Vic followed closely behind.

At her house, Nullscape referred to Diamond as "the one with infinite lives", confirming the theory her and Tab had come up with, and shortly after she began levitating for a couple of seconds. On top of that, a random bee appeared out of thin air.

Now Falkon showed up as well, and Sagittarius' also joined them all in Diamond's house. After getting a quick rundown about the situation, he decided to ask Nullscape if they wanted to be friends, to which Nullscape replied that this was the least of their concerns, and gave Falkon a glowing effect.

Tab and Sagittarius' began arguing about whether Nullscape was really all that evil, or if perhaps, this was an opportunity for them to fix their timeline. While talking, Falkon kept on taking damage, and Vic started levitating again. Sag kept on trying to defend Nullscape's actions, saying that nobody had seriously gotten hurt yet and that everyone had really good armor anyways. He also came up with the theory that Nullscape wasn't actually the entity that was hurting everyone, instead they might be trying to save them from whatever was threatening everyone. Tab thought it might be possible but extremely unlikely, and just in that moment, Vic began taking damage until the totem of undying that he was holding broke.

Tab used this to justify their suspicions against Nullscape, but Sag pointed out that Vic was doing fine, since it had obviously just broken his totem and not actually killed him. Sag kept wondering whether the being wanted magic because it didn't have any and wanted some, or if it already had magic and just wanted more. Either way, he seemed to not be intimidated by the events, and as Tab asked him about it he confirmed that he was not scared.

Laughing, Tab said that they should've expected that, considering that he was the one with the "creepy basement", and called him insane for not being scared. In return, he called Tab out for hearing things that weren't really there, referencing the very first lore stream. A small argument broke loose between the two, where Sag kept on denying that his basement was scary or big or anything. But when Tab kept insisting that they heard Sagittarius' laugh from underneath the village, he replied that he'd lost the ability to laugh years ago, and eventually the conversation died down and they focused back on Falkon, who definitely seemed to be getting targeted. And just as they turned to him, he died, seemingly having "withered away".

Sagittarius' was about to suggest that maybe they should be diplomatic, but apparently changed the way he viewed Nullscape after witnessing the death. After wondering if Nullscape could listen to their conversations, which Tab assumed was the case, he ran off and said he would be back in a minute.

Vic left the house, now approaching Diamond's graveyard, and Tab followed him together with Diamond. There, Tab decided to give their friend the totem of undying they were holding.

As Falkon and Sag joined them, Diamond began glowing again, causing both Vic and Tab to pull out their weapons, in an attempt to signalize Nullscape to not mess with their friend. They simply replied with "She has many lives, it won't matter", causing Tab to immediately confirm that it DID matter.

> *"It doesn't numb the pain after it happening so many times. It... it matters" - Diamond, in response to Nullscape*
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Just then, Sag returned and handed Tab a book. He'd used it to communicate with the others, so that they could maybe plot a way to get rid of Nullscape without them knowing. Tab replied to it, stating that nobody else was really taking this threat seriously. Sagittarius' response to this was that "just because he wasn't panicking didn't mean he wasn't taking it seriously." Tab realized that he was right, and they came to the conclusion that maybe it was best to just play along, be diplomatic and careful, until they knew what exactly to do.

Meanwhile, Diamond had a conversation with Nullscape about Mark. They claimed that he wasn't really the enderman Diamond thought he was, and thinking back, she realized that there had been some strange things happening in and around her home lately, like her axolotls going missing. Tab came to the conclusion that the only reason someone would steal them would be to try and turn everyone against each other.

Their conversation was interrupted by Falkon accepting Nullscape's offer to give him his lost canon life back. He got a health boost, and soon after, it was confirmed that his life had been restored. Sagittarius' pointed out how generous Nullscape was being, now that they'd helped Falkon out. Even though it felt wrong, Tab agreed that maybe Nullscape wasn't too bad and could probably help them out. Vic on the other hand was not too fond of praising this entity, calling them "small and weird", to which it taunted him about dying to the fallen hero.

While this was happening, Falkon kept asking them for more health boosts, seeming to have gotten addicted to the feeling of them. Surprisingly, just as he'd wished, he got the same effect again, which concerned Tab a lot.

Just then, Link joined the server, and again, Nullscape showed off his knowledge by addressing them as "the being from another world". Diamond suggested that, considering Nullscape seemed to know everything, maybe they could help them with saving the village, like how Tab had suggested earlier, or it might help Link return back to Oreduna.

Again, Vic was struck by lightning, and Sagittarius recommended that he should apologize to Nullscape for whatever he did, in order to please them and avoid more punishments or even deaths. He did as Sag had suggested, but chose to apologize "for being so strong".

Not liking the idea, Tab tried talking to Sag about how they shouldn't try and act as if they were just trying to please Nullscape, and Diamond agreed that refusing to stand up to them just gave them control over everything.

At the same moment, Falkon got another health boost, and Vic was upset with him for liking the entity so much. Either way, Falkon suggested that the others should fake love and devotion to Nullscape to get infinite lives, but Tab expressed worry about what would happen as soon as they found out that Falkon (or whever else might follow this strategy) was lying. He even compared it to a "get out of jail"-monopoly-card, even though everything that was going on had absolutely zero resemblance with a game.

During all of this, Vic had run off and laid down underneath a strange cobblestone build further away from Dawn, and had stopped responding to anyone. After Sagittarius' attempt to get him to get up, Tab told him to back off and leave him his free space.

Falkon was back at trying to get more health boosts from Nullscape, "to help him recruit more people", despite Diamond's and Tab's warning words that he'd already died and the entity most likely wouldn't hesitate to kill him again. He tried reasoning with how more lifes would give him more chances to die, but Diamond assured him right away that that was nothing to look forward to. Suddenly, Sag joined the conversation and stated that he wanted to join Nullscape's side. After asking him three times whether he actually wanted to join or was just in it for the free lives, and him repeatedly confirming that he really wanted to join, Falkon pulled out his sword and killed Sagittarius. In shock, Tab yelled that this was probably exactly what Nullscape wanted; for them to turn against each other.

Two sides were slowly materializin- the people who supported Nullscape one one side, and the one's that didn't on the other. Nobody even really knew what was happening, but everybody was already making the choice whether to trust this strange entity or not.

Upon Sagittarius' return, he found that his netherite pickaxe was missing, and immediately suspected that Falkon had taken it. After a bit of going back and forth, he swore that he didn't have it, and thought that maybe Nullscape had claimed it, instead. Yet, Sag kept insisting, until Falkon realized that he did indeed have it, but had mistaken it for a stone pickaxe.

Meanwhile, Tab returned to check on Vic, who hadn't moved at all. Somebody had placed a sign on the block above him, reading "here lies vic, once our great leader, now insane". Not liking what it implied, Tab tore it down along with the block behind it, after which suddenly moved a bit, just to retreat back underneath another stone block right away.

Turning to the others, Tab asked if they should do something about Vic, now that Falkon and Sagittarius were done arguing about that pickaxe. Falkon suggested they should all pay their respects to him, to which Tab assured that he wasn't dead, so there was no need for that. Out of nowhere, Falkon began repeatedly chanting "humina", with the purpose of worshiping Nullscape and showing his eternal love for the entity. Nobody minded it much, now focusing on Vic, who seemed to either be passed out or in some sort of trance, or, according to Falkon, he was dead.

They eventually came to the conclusion that the most likely option was that Null was messing with him, and Tab asked for the 8-Ball goo block again, and Sagittarius went to get it. Falkon left to do something, and just as he was out of earshot, Vic placed a block, surprising Diamond and Tab. Tab threw some food at him, still trying to figure out what was wrong, when Sag came back with the magic block. He broke off a piece of the stone tree that was nearby and put the glowing block on top of it, placing the structure in front of Vic. Seconds after, he began glowing and also moved a bit.

Sagittarius began walking around in front of him, holding the dark anomaly blocks, basically trying to contact Nullscape and apologizing for Vic.

> *"Nullscape, please be merciful on Vic's idotic stubbornness and pride. He's very, very young and foolish." - Sag, talking to Nullscape*
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Yet, he was cut off when he saw Link standing at the bottom of the statue, that had appeared in front of Diamond's house, shortly after the end raid. He hadn't met them before, so Tab introduced them to Sag and explained their backstory. He then asked to see the watchtower that Tab mentioned, but they refused and said they didn't want to leave Vic alone like this.

They broke down the pillar that Sagittarius had built in front of him, saying again how it gave them bad vibes and made them feel weird.

Sag tried thinking of things to give Vic in order to "revive" him, like cookies or water bottles, and asked Diamond if she had any. While she went to retrieve them from her house, he turned around to examine Link, and commented how "colorless" they looked. Tab proceeded to ask them if they knew what was going on, but Link hadn't even noticed anything strange happening. They also didn't know about anyone called Nullscape either.

Diamond returned, along with Ethernet, who had just logged on, and just then, rain started pouring from the sky. Thinking that hydration might help, Tab broke the blocks above Vic, but he kept on replacing them and crawling back underneath.

Going back to the conversation with Link, the question came up whether "Nullscape" even meant anything, but everyone came to the conclusion that it was probably just a name.

The idea came up that Vic was maybe scared of Nullscape, even though it wouldn't be likely and he wouldn't admit it. Tab thought that this sounded logical, and that maybe, everyone standing there and staring at him just made him more anxious. A couple of people helped make the area around Vic more comfortable, by replacing the grass with wool and building him a proper roof.

Just then, Link started glowing, and Falkon soon returned and wondered what was going on. After seeing the enderian glow, he thought that maybe this was Nullscape showing that they weren't familiar with Link yet, which gave Sagittarius the idea that the glowing meant that, whoever was glowing, was being analyzed or scanned. He stated that he hadn't glowed yet, and was about to come to a conclusion because of this, when he was interrupted by Falkon, who suggested him to challenge Nullscape. He kind of accepted, asking for cookies in return.

Meanwhile, Vic sent a message in the chat, simply saying "link gone". When they turned around to look for the enderian, they found that they had gone invisible.

Walking over to the closest anomaly, Falkon asked what exactly they were and if the blocks were linked to Nullscape, since they seemed to respond to questions asked while holding a block of the blue goo.

> *"Is Null just, like, insecretely trying to take over the server whilst we've just been minding our own business? [...] I feel like we've been very oblivious to everything that's been going on." - Falkon, about Nullscape*
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Tab agreed with him, but when Falkon questioned whether Nullscape was even really that scary, they accused him of only thinking like this because of the effects Nullscape had given him.

Again, Tab began hearing noises, but Diamond seemed to have heard it, too. They all walked over to the anomaly, thinking that maybe it came from there, and Falkon was tempted to eat it, like so many others had been tempted before. Not being able to resist, he tasted the stone tree on top of the anomaly, and claimed it tasted like "stone that's been put through a microwave".

Suddenly, Sagittarius put on a carved pumpkin, stood on top of a cobblestone platform, and tried doing a séance to contact Nullscape. Link was irritated at first, because since they're an enderian, Sag had turned invisible for them the moment he put the vegetable on. He began taunting Null, yelling at them to "come and fight him", calling them weak and stupid and so on.

Even though most people expected Sag to be targeted, suddenly darkness closed around Tab, limiting their vision. Link added that they had a similar experience earlier.

Almost sounding offended, Sagittarius voiced his thoughts that he felt like he wasn't interesting for Nullscape at all, since it hadn't targeted him even once. They all came to the conclusion that it seemed to only be targeting one person at a time, and when Tab thought Null may have targeted them because Tab didn't trust the entity, it responded in the chat, simply telling everyone to trust them.

After hearing another strange noise which was described as something hissing or clicking, Pier and Ether asked everyone to sit with them and perform a proper séance. As they all approached the ring of chairs, more noises could be heard, including something that sounded like heartbeats. They sat down, and after hearing a very ominous noise, suddenly, Vic got up and joined them, wondering why everyone was sitting.

Tab asked him if he was okay, to which he responded that he "kinda blacked out" because of too much magic. Upon hearing more hearbeats, which EVERYONE was now hearing, slight panic began to break out. Nobody knew where these noises were coming from or what they meant. The séance might have helped Vic come to again, but what else did it cause?

> *"Tab, do something, please! I just built the castle and now I don't want to lose it!" - Sagittarius, asking Tab for help*
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Everyone suddenly put their armor back on, getting their weapons and shields out, preparing to face whatever was the source of all these noises. Sag was really worried about his castle, wondering why all this was happening right next to it, to which Diamond said that it was next to her home as well. He suggested they could go to Tab's base, as it was the furthest away from Dawn, but they immediately shut down the idea, claiming that Nullscape was there too. Vic ran off, not really having a place in mind that they could go to, but suggesting that being out in the open would be better than being stuck between the graveyard and Sagittarius' gigantic fortress.

Tab, Diamond, Sag and Link followed him and crossed the bridge over to the island north of Dawn. While passing the court, they began hearing screams from the ground, which died down as they walked away from the building again. Link said they'd never heard anything like that before, and the sounds weren't familar to anyone else, either.

Sagittarius opened up about feeling especially unsafe, since the only armor he had at the moment was made of leather. Not wanting to stand on the bare ground, he built a granite platform, because he'd learnt that it was a very strong mineral, and might protect them from magic. Everyone stood on top of it, except for Vic, who felt like standing still made him too vulnerable.

Link suggested that maybe everyone was grouping up to much. There were too many people in the same area, making them an easy target. Not quite wanting to split up, everyone walked to the very edges of the granite platform, trying to get as much distance between them as possible, while still not leaving the stone.

After a bit, Link got off to investigate the noises coming from the entrance to the court, and it turned out that they sounded only when people walked on a couple of blocks right in front of the main gate. Thinking there was something hidden underneath, Tab began breaking the dirt all around the sounds, until they found a batch of strange blocks. They had a dark blue, spinning center, which reminded Sag of the symbol he built behind the Sacred Tree in Dawn. Not knowing what these things did, Tab adviced everyone to back off.

Seconds later, Nullscape laughed, stating that he "had an idea". He asked for mayority votes on whether he was going to do the thing or not, to which Tab immediately said no. Link, Vic and Pier all asked what "the thing" was before answering. Both Diamond and Tab didn't even want to know what "the thing" would be.

While Sagittarius was busy breaking the screaming blocks in front of the court together with Ethernet, Nullscape had already made his decision. A mob appeared out of nowhere, one that nobody had ever seen before. It was big and dark blue, like the inside of the screaming blocks, seemed to have an open ribcage and tendrils sticking out of his head. In the subtitles, it was named "Warden".

> *"WELL TOO BAD. ENJOY" - Nullscape, before summing the Warden*
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Vic immediately began fighting it, while Tab helped Sag and Ether break the rest of the weird blocks. Then, they all approached the ongoing fight between Vic and the Warden, all being affected by the strange darkness that was repeatedly closing in on them. After not wanting to get involved at first, everyone changed their minds and didn't want to let Vic fight alone. Together, they started attacking it, thinking that maybe it wasn't that dangerous and it could just be there to scare them. After just a bit, Diamond dealt the final blow, and the monster was gone.

All it dropped was a beige colored block, covered in the strange, sparkly goo, found all around the village. Sagittarius placed it, and when he tried breaking it again, it disappeared. Nullscape seemed disappointed, stating "that's no fun". Vic quickly left the scene, claiming that there were too many flashbacks for him.

Sag approached Tab, showing that he'd gotten one of the screaming blocks that they'd mined together earlier. Tab had one as well. He was about to place it down again to get a better look at it, but both Diamond and Tab told him not to. He then went on to question Tab about how these things had gotten there anyways. He thought they'd been there all along and blame them for not checking the area, but Tab KNEW that they hadn't been there before. Sag concluded that this meant they'd had to have appeared after the work on the court had begun. Next off, he said it must have something to do with Nullscape. Ether placed one of the blocks he'd obtained, which disappeared after he tried breaking it again, and Tab suggested that they all should just stop messing around with things that they didn't know anything about. Link responded that they never wanted to get involved, and just kinda got dragged into it. But they agreed with what Tab had said.

Moments later, yet another message showed up in the chat, where Nullscape was trying to keep the others from listening to Tab. Pier replied that she'd listen to Nullscape, choosing him over Tab. Diamond stated that she'd never had a reason not to trust Tab, but before they could say thanks, Null sent another ominous message.

Tab's attitude changed drastically, going from scared to enraged. Why was this entity bringing up Mic, suddenly?

Confused, Sagittarius kept asking who Mic was, while another message appeared in the chat; revealing that Nullscape had been the one to cause the fire that killed Mic. After the realization set in, Tab began freaking out, promising to murder Nullscape whenever they had the chance to. Sag tried talking to them and asking them to explain, but there was no getting through to them. Their outburst was stopped when they began floating into the air, immediately building up a dirt tower to catch them whenever the effect would run out. But the blocks wouldn't last forever.

Lightning struck them twice, but they landed safely on top of the dirt tower, only having taken one heart of damage. Diamond put some water down, and Tab landed safely on the ground again. She asked her friend if they were okay, to which they replied yes, before both of them got bombared by Sagittarius' questions again. He asked who Mic was and what fire Null was referring to, but before anyone could answer him, more messages from the entity appeared in the chat.

He'd made the strongest person leave, referring to Vic, and was now focusing on Tab. But they wouldn't leave that easily.

> *"I'm not gonna leave, I don't care! I will fight. I WILL fight. This thing cannot get me down, and it just did a mistake" - Tab, basically declaring war on Nullscape*
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Before finishing their sentence, they got struck by lightning again, which was more annoying than harmful. They extinguished themselves and were about to keep on ranting, when Sag spoke up again, telling Tab not to be angry, because raging wouldn't help defeat this being. They couldn't see what he meant, stating that the only thing that had changed was that they weren't scared anymore now.

> *"I don't want you to not fight it. But please, be wise. Always consider everything." - Sag, trying to get Tab to calm down*
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Link joined in on the conversation, defending Tab's statements. Right after, Nullscape made it clear again that all he wanted was magic. That that was his mission. Immediately, everyone told him that there was no magic. Not even the enderian Link had any magic abilities left, that's how unmagical this universe was. But Nullscape seemed to know more than they did, responding with "one day you will see what I mean".

Meanwhile, Tab was pacing around, thoughts far off, wondering what all of this had to do with Mic. They kept on threatening to kill Null, even if they didn't know how, and Link offered to help them with it, as they already had experience killing the ender dragon deity. And Nullscape couldn't be that different from that, right?

Right after this, Link began floating, but also landed in some water, which burnt them a bit, but was definitely better than taking fall damge. At the same time, Diamond decided to finally explain what was happening to Sag. She told him how Mic didn't live long enough to meet Sag, and that now they'd figured out that Nullscape had killed Mic. He then asked about Mark, Diamond's enderman friend, whom he had confused with Mic, apparently. Still not understanding who exactly Mic was to Diamond and Tab, Tab finally opened up a bit about him as well, claiming that having a Mic was "just different".

The conversation got interrupted for a second, as the entire group began glowing all at once. But still, Tab kept explaining that the difference between a normal person and a Mic was that a Mic would always be there for you. Sag then concluded that this meant that he probably didn't have one, but Tab was sure that he did.

As quickly as he'd appeared, Nullscape left, claiming that he would return and maybe reveal himself next time. But nobody paid much attention to his messages, as the conversation between Sag and Tab was escalating. He kept on asking about the fire, but Tab refused to talk about it.

He said this meant that Tab was keeping secrets from everyone, and while he really wanted to trust them, having a secret that only Tab and Nullscape knew didn't seem like the trustworthiest situation. Diamond intervened, saying that the entity was just trying to turn them against each other, but Sag didn't listen. At this point, Tab was absolutely done talking about it, and yelled at Sag to drop it. Instead, the entire group began floating and glowing again.

Tab argued that the fire wasn't important, and instead they should start thinking of ways to get rid of Nullscape. But Sag didn't listen and kept pressuring Tab into talking about it. Now both Diamond and Link were telling him to stop bothering Tab about it, Link even threatened to "give him fire" if he didn't stop asking about it, but again, he kept on pushing, until Link hit him with their sword to get him to back off. Tab shouted again that they didn't want to talk about it, and finally, he gave up.

> *"Well then. I'm not gonna trust you." - Sag, after Tab refused to talk about the fire*
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After he left them alone, Diamond, Link and Tab returned back to the granite platform. Reflecting on what had just happened, Tab realized that this was exactly what Nullscape had wanted, and Link agreed. They said that the scariest thing about Nullscape was how it just knew things. Like it had been watching for a long, long time.
Not wanting to go back to their base alone, Tab suggested that the three should head back to the village, and the other two agreed. On their way there, Diamond brought up something that Null had said earlier that was still bothering her.

> *"What did it mean about Mark not being Mark, though? It talked about Mark, and when I said that I'd seen him it asked if I was sure, it said maybe it wasn't him. What if... it killed Mark, and replaced him with someone else?" - Diamond, thinking about what Null had said about Mark*
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They were just passing the west entrance to Sagittarius' fortress as Diamond said this, and before anyone could respond, they heard someone placing blocks nearby. When the three turned around, they found Sag, boarding up the entrance.

Not wanting to deal with that, they kept moving, and Tab suggested that maybe the reason that Nullscape knew everything was that it was a part of everything. Like as if it wasn't an entity, it just *was*.

As the three finally reached the village, they settled down on an even spot in the grass, and Diamond mentioned how a piston that had been put in the side of a house's wall nearby had always driven her nuts, but now it was gone, and Tab explained that they were working on making the houses look nice again before all of this had happened. Link said that if they found whoever was responsible for vandalizing the houses, they'd go up in flames, just like Sagittarius had.

Meanwhile, they caught a glimpse of Pier running through the village, who stopped to stare at the three, before moving on. Seeing how she'd constantly praised Nullscape all throughout the day, they shook their heads about how someone could be a follower of this cruel entity and agree with its ideas. She said that she just wanted to feel safe, but Link doubted anyone would be safe blindly trusting a deity like this. Tab added on that nobody should trust anything that had anything to do with magic, which almost made Link get up and leave, Quickly, Tab defended the enderian, saying that they weren't making anyone float, so they were fine.

Pier proceeded to whisper to Tab that she was just pretending, but they didn't believe it. The three all agreed that she was just too enthusiastic, too into it, for their liking. Tab then turned to the others, asking if they could trust them, to which they both said yes. They then went on to apologize for snapping at Sagittarius like that, but it was understandable, judging by the circumstances.

Going on, Tab voiced concerns regarding everything that was going on. What if there was no way to reverse what they did? What if killing the dragon sealed their timeline's demise? Even though Diamond told them not to think like that, Tab still felt like it was very possible. The memory of what Nullscape had said about Diamond having infinite lives came back, and they said that they were scared that if everything ended and everyone was dead, Diamond would be left, trapped in an empty world made of gooey slime and yellow stone. She went on to admit that she'd rather die than live in that world alone. Neither Link nor Tab knew what to respond to that, so Tab excused themselves and left to go for a walk.

Strolling through the village, they passed the festival hall, which had multiple signs placed in front of it. They read through them.

Assuming that these signs were placed by Sagittarius, they finally really lost their mind. Going to the nearest river, they used their trident to go as far away as possible. They didn't know any "safe place" to go to, so all they wanted was a place that nobody had been to yet. A place that was untouched, from both magic and humans. They blamed themselves for the end raid, for not preventing it from happening.

Eventually, they stopped on top of a birch tree, saying that they wished they knew a place with mountains around Dawn. But there were no mountains. They settled down on the tree and watched the sunset, while talking to themselves.

> *"It's kind of funny. Back, when I was younger, mountains made me feel safe and made me feel at home. I don't know what to call home anymore. I don't know where to feel safe anymore. Becaus even out here, even though nobody's been here, it's not safe either, is it? Why is everything just going down the drain? I thought that after I- I was looking for a home, I was looking for a safe place, that's ALL I've ever been looking for, my entire life. And I find this, I find Dawn, and everything just starts falling apart. Everything just starts falling apart. I just want all of us to be okay. I don't care about anything, I just want everyone to be okay." - Tab*
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The sun set, and tomorrow would be another day.