The Red

# “BUT EVENTUALLY, EVERYONE RUNS OUT OF TIME.“

Vines growing under the Hype House.

FruitBerries

Boosfer

Dev

Bdubs

Etho

Charlie

Scout

## Early Smp

The early inhabitants of the SMP take note of red blocks being randomly put around an unmarked grave, nobody knows who (or what) put them there. The sheep in the community center start randomly turning red, but the confirmation that something is wrong, comes when a sign is placed on the grave, the sign is red and glowing, and it repeats 'can you hear it?' over and over. The contents of the grave are now these red blocks.

Kier covers up the grave, but the red appears again. When cleared away, they are met with a book, the book has 'what are you looking for? answers?' written in it, but when Kier writes back, it doesn't respond. Later on, the same red blocks, ones from the nether, are placed in the fishing chest at the community center. Everything starts really setting in when red blocks start showing up at Kier's house.

A more visible display pops up at the community center, where these same red blocks dig into the ground, and a big sign floating over a chest reads 'FOLLOW'. Inside the chest are beetroots.

The early members dub the red stuff 'The Big Red'.

Books get left around the server, all saying cryptic messages, asking the readers if they can hear 'it', how 'its' inside everyone, stuff like that. The sheep at the community center keep on getting dyed red again, and Kier launches an investigation into the farms on the server, determined to find anyone who's been growing beetroot.

The first person Kier goes to is Bytes, who agrees to letting Kier dig around. Kier then finds a beetroot farm under Bytes' house, who is quick to try and explain themselves. Bytes' tells Kier that he only hid it because he doesn't want people to worry if he's infected or not, Kier takes this as the truth, and they drop the conversation.

On Christmas Eve/Christmas Day, books where scattered around different peoples houses. These people are Illumina, Kier, and Bytes. Kier's book reads 'LIAR', and its repeated over and over across the page, and surrounding the book is rotten flesh. Bytes' book reads 'you can’t keep running from it much longer, can you? it will be here soon. the only thing you need to do is pray. pray it can’t catch you'. What Illumina's book read is unknown at the moment. After this, another chest appears at spawn, it includes a book, two diamonds apples, and a diamond sword. The books says 'this… thing that’s coming. making you believe it lies within us already, that it’s too late. masking the truth. but i know. you can’t fool me. prayer will bring you no salvation. you must fight it. before it lures you and your allies away. the Liar masquerades as one of your own. intending to lead you all to your doom. i can only hope you make the right decision. DON’T LISTEN TO THE LIAR.' After this, another chest shows up, a glowing sign is posted on it reading 'it loves you.'

Des discovers this big red cave, inside is a book that journals the early discoveries of the red, the cave is the root of it all. Charlie stands either in this cave or just generally on the red for a long while, and we are introduced to the first ever visual infected. During this time of Charlie standing on the red, Nova drinks some beetroot soup, which also ends up corrupting them. Later on, Bytes, Illumina, Kier, Charlie, Des, Moon, Nova, and Flumu all come together to try and make a plan to stop the big red. Illumina suggests that Charlie sleep in the red cave on a red bed, to see if that would do anything. Illumina only suggests this because Charlie is already infected. Nova offers to stay with Charlie because they are also infected with the big red through the soup. the two of them stay in the cave overnight. everyone else leaves for now, going to spawn to work on baiting the big red, letting Nova call them if anything weird happens. Before they leave for the cave, they also agree on leaving a book at spawn for the big red to respond to, stating that Charlie and Nova are willing and want to know more.

In the cave, Charlie and Nova make this (unknown currently) promise, and when Charlie finally tries to get some sleep, he's immediately stuck by lighting. Nova calls for the others, and they all come running to the cave, with the help of Bytes, Nova is able to calm Charlie down, who tells them all that the red is angry at him for sleeping. Illumina expresses guilt for even recommending this in the first place, and they all bring Charlie back home. Moon ends up infected, but it is unknown how.

Illumina, Kier, and Bytes cover up the cave with obsidian. The red vines are now found growing all over Kier's fox sanctuary, the vines are also all over Kier's house. There's a book found inside the house, which (unofficially described) says that Kier will experience some horrible death. The obsidian in front of the cave turns into "the blue stuff".

## Current

Flumu starts working in a lab, trying to find a cure for the red. There's a server-wide worry about Charlie, but people are starting to distrust him, as he's still infected. Things start to go downhill (downerhill, technically, things were already bad), when Kier and Des try to clear out some of the red in the 'red room'(?), Nova, now infected, kills Kier for taking down the red, kick-starting Kier's infection arc. Nova tells Des to tell Kier he's sorry.

Fruitberries logs onto the server and announces they're infected, only to immediately go missing. Their death message is seen, telling that they burned alive, but nobody is sure where they went. Illumina is devastated, and enlist the help of Kier to go look for Fruit, with no luck. Kier, Flumu, and Charlie meet-up and have some sort of conversation, but Scout suddenly jumps in, telling them that his van has been covered in red vines, and he points the finger at Charlie. While Kier and Scout go somewhere (unsure where), and Flumu sticks around and talks to Charlie.

Kier shows Bytes some sort of blue room he has, saying how he goes in there when he's upset, and how he's also worried about the red and how quickly people are getting infected. Bytes recommends people growing a combination of the blue stuff and the moss around, as Flumu had recently discovered that the moss stunts the reds growth. Bytes also brings up how sleeping in the blue room may help infected people, as sleeping in the red room made them worse. Scout and Moon both come down to the room. Moon is very quiet and more noticeably away from everyone else because of the blue. Bytes suggests to Scout that they could sleep in the blue room to see if it’d help, but he doesn’t mention the fact that he didn’t suggest Kier to sleep in the room, mostly because he wanted Kier to be safe. During the night, Scout wakes up and mentions how there’s a ringing/buzzing in his ear, and his memory is a bit fuzzy. the four of them try and venture out to see if the condition gets better. But, nothing changes.

An underdetermined amount of time later, Moon drinks some beetroot soup in front of Bytes. Obviously, this causes Bytes to freak out, but Moon tries to convince him that it's alright, though it's debatable if Bytes really believes this. They both acquire two clocks (it's unknown if Bytes made both of them, or if each of them made one), and Bytes makes Moon swear that if anything where to happen, Moon would tell him. Moon agrees, and they give each other clocks, which they both hold onto.

Some of the new members of the SMP face some red trouble, as the Hype House gets overrun by red, though nobody but the house inhabitants would notice until later on. The paper from the golden-apple-diamond-sword chest has changed, now reading 'it’s here. are you ready to face it?'. Kier and Dev return to the unmarked grave where it all started, the red has now engulfed it, and who do they find, but Nova, standing there. As soon as the trio notice each other, Nova flies off, leaving Kier and Dev with many questions. But, they mostly noticed how Nova looks different, their eyes seem to be red, and these weird red marks are growing on their arm. They decide to call Flumu.

Flumu, Charlie, Kier, and Dev all group up to go face Nova, though they run into Vienna, Sam, and Dog on the way. Dog gives Charlie their speech book, and Charlie accidentally runs off with it, causing Vienna, Sam, and Dog to have to chase after it. After retrieving the book, Vienna is now hooked on whatevers happening, and Flumu tries their best to explain as quickly as possible, just telling them to wait outside, just in case they need any backup. They don't know what's wrong with Nova, and they don't know if he's dangerous.

Now inside the house, the "Nova Search Party" do in fact, find Nova. He's been basically consumed by the red, and they all devolve into arguments, trying to figure out what happened and how Nova got so bad. Nova just tells them that the red made him some sort of prophet, and promised him his friends back. The red had also gifted him a crimson crown, dubbing him a 'king',

Nova eventually lets them all leave, not wanting to fight them. Kier confines in the group that he still hears the red, and Flumu assures them all that he's working on a cure, and nobody will become a 'host' like Nova had become. Later on, not sure if it's the same day or the same week, Bytes goes to talk to Nova. Nova is able to convince Bytes to join the red, feeding them the fake promises the red had told both Nova, and probably so many others. Bytes drinks some beetroot soup. In another interaction, Kier would make note of Bytes not wearing his moss cloak anymore.

A couple days later, during a conversation with Vienna, Scout, and Sam, Vienna runs off, wanting to talk to Nova, and see what's really going on. Vienna is able to get a hold of Nova, and unknowingly gets infected, as they'd been inside Nova's (arguably the most infected person on the server) house. Vienna sneaks out the backdoor when Sam and Scout come looking for them, successfully avoiding any suspicion that they may be infected, Vienna themselves doesn't even know at that point.

Possible weeks later, a new book gets left in spawn, there are red signs everywhere that read stuff like, “do you hear it? it needs me. it needs you, too.” and the book is named “DO YOU REGRET IT?”. Inside the book is writing, “do you regret not taking its offer? it just wants to help. i just want to help. why won’t you let me help? Why Do — if i plunged head first, accepted it with open arms, let My head be riddled… do you understand? do you hear it? hear its Words? hear it. hear it. hear it. understand my (/) Intentions, understand my Never ending apologies. understand that . . . Come Out. accept it. accept me. things can still be the same, Right? it’s all — red. — coming to an end? — i’m so scared. — it’s getting hotter. will you still hold me close? — clarity. at last.”

The reveal of the big red's real name, Ichor, comes from when Nova places 'something' at spawn that included the name. Kier, Dream, and Flumu venture to Nova's house to take down some of the red, they get caught by Nova who tries to attack them for taking it down, and that only ends with Dream and Kier teaming up on Nova, leaving them dead. Flumu catches up with Nova afterwards, and Nova drops that the reason they're so horribly infected now, was that everybody left them alone to deal with it. Flumu wants them to still be friends, but Nova just tells them to leave him alone.

Nova kills himself over and over to feed the red.

## Vessels

Vessels are people the red has possessed/heavily infected, the red basically acts through these people. This list may not be complete.

* Nova
* JSchlatt