No More Heros

*"We follow an unknown player in the year 2020 as they are dealing with the world's Awakening, the H.E.R.O.S Incident from 2018, and the Riot. We return back to Jadus and Baker as we uncover certain methods of Xavius Solutions and the Eternity Project."*

- About

No More Heros is the current Ben Drowned project by Ethancraft08. It is a fan-made side story un-related to TNMC, and involves the H.E.R.O.S Incident and the Riot.

## Part One - Methods

On April 12, 2022, the TNMC discord server updates with a new channel titled "No More Heros".

Later that night, an image of The Jailer is posted, with the text "*Another World..."*

On April 13, 2022, the next image was posted. The image was of Ben with the text "*Turn the game back on...NOW."*

Skull Kid, one of our players, responded to the image with a picture of an N64:

### awake.txt

The same day, the first video of No More Heros was premiered, titled *awake.txt*

The Video's description read as follows:

*Mar 17, 2020*

*"I Apologies for my poor grammar in this message, I hadn't slept in a while and I hadn't been thinking straight"*

Seeing as this video was made on March 17th of 2020, and if we look at awakening.txt on Jadusable's channel, the day it was uploaded was on Mar 17, 2020.

With this information, we can assume that both videos were made on the same day, and awake.txt is a re-post.

below the video's description, there is binary:

*"01110100011010000110100101110011001000000110100101110011001000000110000101110010011000110110100001101001011101100110010101100100001000000110011001110010011011110110110100100000011101110110100001100101011011100010000001110100011010000110010100100000011101110110111101110010011011000110010000100111011100110010000001100001011101110110000101101011011001010110111001101001011011100110011100100000011101110110000101110011001000000111001101110100011000010111001001110100011010010110111001100111001011000010000001100001011011100110010000100000011100110110111101100011011010010110010101110100011110010010000001110111011000010111001100100000011000110110111101101100011011000110000101110000011100110110100101101110011001110010111000100000"*

Skull kid put the binary into a decoder, and the binary translates to this message:

*"this is archived from when the world's Awakening was starting, and society was collapsing"*

The video begins with footage of Majora's Mask with Link on the clocktower with Skull Kid, however it is silent, and there is not a moon crashing countdown. We see Link confused on what is happening, along with transmission static cutting in and out, not before it cuts to black. We then open to an image of a dining area, and text starts to be written on the screen:

*awake.txt*

*"Dread. that's the feeling you get when you're scared, well not for me. I suppose It's a feeling I've never felt before, clawing at me like some kind of wild animal- something like that. I've found myself in a strange place, It's weird. I feel like I'm in some kind of limbo of sorts. It looks like my house, but something doesn't feel quite right. Somethings different, my brain is telling me I need to figure it out. I know this isn't really my house, this is not home. I keep hearing strange noises in the night, like popping sounds or scratching. I believe I'm not alone, there's someone else here with me. Whether or not they are friendly, matters not, It's still a break in...something like that. I woke up on the couch, I will write these notes to keep my sanity in tact. I hope someone finds this transmission, the world has gone to hell at this point."*

throughout the video, the footage of the clocktower cuts in and out, at the end of the video Link is Z targeting Skull Kid, then the Majora's Mask game over theme plays before the video cuts off and ends.

awake.txt had some thumbnail changes before it premiered, these are the following changes:

After the premiere, the No More Heros poster was posted on the TNMC discord server, with fanart of The Jailer.

On April 14th, 2022, a new image was posted on the server with a very familiar painting:

The next day on April 15th, 2022, a different shot of the painting was posted:

### flashbacks.txt

On April 23, 2021, at 8:00 pm, flashbacks.txt was premiered. The description of the video read as follows:

*Apr 21, 2020*

"*01100100011011110110010101110011001000000110100001100101001000000110100001100001011101100110010100100000011000010110110101101110011001010111001101101001011000010011111100001010000010100111100101100101011100110010110000100000011100110111010001110010011011110110111001100111011011000111100100101100001000000111001101101111011011010110010101110100011010010110110101100101001000000110100101101110001000000011001000110000001100010011100000100000011010000110010100100000011001110110111101110100001000000110100101101110011101000110111100100000011000010010000000100111010000010110001101100011011010010110010001100101011011100111010000100111000010100000101000101110001011100010111001110111011010000110000101110100001000000110100001100001011100000111000001100101011011100110010101100100001111110000101000001010011110010110111101110101001001110110110001101100001000000111001101100101011001010010111000101110001011100000101000001010"*

When decoding the binary, it led to this conversation:

*"does he have amnesia?*

*yes, strongly, sometime in 2018 he got into a 'Accident'*

*...what happened?*

*you'll see..."*

Seeing as this video was made on April of 2020, and if we look at baker.txt on Jadusable's channel, the day it was uploaded was on April 20, 2020, making flashbacks.txt take place right after the events from baker.txt.

The video starts with transmission static before cutting to black, then we cut to one of the images of the lamp with the Majora inkblot painting with typing:

*flashbacks.txt*

*"A vast, deep ocean, tossing at the waves as the fisherman catches his batch. I was thinking back to some old memories from my past, memories that were good. Memories from before the H.E.R.O.S virus broke out, those were better times. Before the virus, before talk of a doomsday cult and a riot planning something really bad, those were better times. Everyone wasn't scared or afraid, times were simple back then, but ever since the virus broke out in 2018, well...we've all seen better days.*

*Recently, I visited my local coffee shop as I went there to get caffine every now and then. I ordered a tea, and I sat at a table as usual. I couldn't help but notice two men talking about something, I didn't know who they were, but they were talking about leaving the city due to something "big" happening... something biblical...something interesting.*

*Anyway, I stayed at the shop sipping my tea and thinking as usual, afterwards I left and payed for my drink, and left the coffee shop. For days I've been worried about this riot that's been talked about, I have a feeling something terrible is going to happen, some kind of fate of sorts, I'm not sure what, but it doesn't sound good."*

The Video then cuts into static once again, then cuts to a clip of Majora's Mask. Link is in the lens of truth cave, and is cutting the grass with his sword. It then cuts to static again and then cuts to a silent clip of Link in the stone tower boss battle with Twinmold. The video cuts to static yet again before returning to the typing:

*"Anyway, I was searching my house today. I thought I would try to look at and find some old things from a while ago that have been stored in boxes and such. I remember looking through some of the boxes until I pulled out something that I don't remember owning at all my entire life. Inside one of the boxes, I found a old painting of sorts, not just any painting, but one of those paintings that a therapist would show to someone, an inkblot shaped like a heart with spikes coming out of it. I decided to hang up the painting in the living room, I had no idea why but, for some odd reason, I found the painting to be fun to look at. I also got a strange feeling from the painting, I felt something that I wasn't quite sure was right, like this painting had something important in the past."*

After the writing is finished, the video ends with transmission static.

### 2010.wmv

On April 24, 2022, 2010.wmv was premiered. The Description of the Video read as follows:

*Apr 23, 2020 01111001011011110111010100100111011100100110010100100000011001100110010101100101011011000110100101101110011001110010000001100001001000000111001101100101011011100111001101100101001000000110111101100110001000000110010001100101011010100110000100101101011101100111010100101100001000000111100101101111011101010010000001110010011001010110110101100101011011010110001001100101011100100010000001100001001000000111001101100011011001010110111001100001011100100110100101101111001000000110101001110101011100110111010000100000011011000110100101101011011001010010000001110100011010000110100101110011001011100010111000101110011000010110110001101100001000000111010001101000011001010010000001110111011000010111100100100000011000100110000101100011011010110010111000101110001011100110000100100000011001000110010101100011011000010110010001100101001000000110000101100111011011110010111000101110001011100110001001110101011101000010000001101110011011110111011100100000011010010111010000100111011100110010000001100100011010010110011001100110011001010111001001100101011011100111010000101110*

Decoding the binary, this is the message that follows:

*"you're feeling a sense of deja-vu, you remember a scenario just like this...all the way back... a decade ago...but now it's different."*

The video's date is April 23, 2020, taking place two days after baker.txt. It's also worth noting that the video was created on April 23, the day that Ben was drowned.

The video begins with Majora's Mask footage fading in. We see Link in the tunnelway that leads to the Astral Observatory, along with the Song of Unhealing in the backround. The Video appears to be corrupted, with popping sounds in the backround and being really choppy at points. As Link runs down the tunnel some binary flashes on screen with transmission static, when the binary is decoded it reads:

*"FIND THE WEBSITE"*

Once Link gets to the first main part of the tunnel, the Elegy of Emptiness theme begins to play, along with Rosa's monologue from *Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines*.

Link then jumps into some water, and the video begins to get even more choppy and corrupted, with the footage pausing on Link in the water at one point before cutting to the N64 title screen and some static. The Majora's Mask title screen appears, and we see whoever is playing press start before being cut off by more static. Another binary code appears, when decoded it reads:

*"PLAY BY MY RULES."*

At the end of the video, we hear a voice whisper "*FOR THE FOLD, NUMBER THREE"* as footage of The Jailer beings to flash, before the video ends.

It's unknown if the voice we hear is from Kelbris or The Jailer itself.

Another note is that the Majora's Mask footage shown looks very similar and seems to match day four.wmv, when Jadusable goes into the tunnel. However, in this version, Ben is not chasing the player, and the player is alone with the song of unhealing.

*"More Soon..."*