Blessed One

*Not to be confused with Blessed Be.*

The Blessed One's old YouTube profile picture.

**"彼らに加わる(join them)"** - *A message from the Blessed One.*

The Blessed One is a small-scale ARG created by *Bob*, and is a precursor to the *Strigops* arc which is currently yet to happen. The Blessed One is believed to be a shape-shifting Strigops posing as Blessed Be. Its purpose remains unclear.

## Appearance

The Blessed One shares a striking resemblance to Blessed Be (and, by extension, *Flan*), with some minor differences in its depiction. Firstly, its beak is uncolored and maintains the same dull white as the rest of its body. The beak is also made of a more triangular shape than Blessed Be's axe beak / hooked beak (I am still debating on the final design). Lastly, its eye-holes seem to droop down to the base of its beak instead of just being plain eyes.

## Blessed ARG

The Blessed One ARG was initiated in the middle of a Minecraft VC involving Flan, *Reubz*, *Bob*, and *Ghosty*. They were waiting on Reubz to find a server to take over, so to pass the time, Bob asked Flan how the *Official RZ* channel was doing. Flan checks and sees *I HERE* has reached 104 views. This was surprising, but not creepy ARG material. He looks deeper, and checks the latest comments just in case there could be any amusing non-RZ onlookers. Instead of something funny, he finds something very worrying...

Immediately, Flan noticed the profile picture and the Japanese text. It wasn't hard to connect the dots; that was Blessed Be. Upon translation, the name is revealed to roughly be *"blessed one"*, and the message is *"salvation".* Though they didn't know at the time, it was likely a mistranslation from *"blessed be"*. Everyone immediately started accusing Ghosty because of his prior creation of various alternate accounts to comment on Official RZ videos, such as *paos pez* and *TUVERG ALARGA*. Ghosty recieved a friend request from the Blessed One on Discord, and all discussion was moved to the RZ GC. The discussion remained fruitless, however, and all leads that seemed possible ended up leading nowhere. The next day, however, the Blessed One returned and messaged Ghosty another image, along with a message.

    The image, upon brightening via epic Aseprite skills (credits to Flan), was revealed to be a house with many indiscernible features, mostly being unimportant, such as what seemed to be a car parked at the front. What most caught the *Sex Club's* attention was a snippet of text near the bottom left...

**"B916".**

*Usefuln't* stepped into the case and researched this odd string. He nearly immediately discovered it to be a Columbian bus line in Bogota, and thusly searched through its 85 stops. Unfortunately, even that clue turned out to be a dead end, and no further progress was made in discovering the mystery of the Blessed One. However, some RZ individuals were ruled out because of their time zones or their general character not aligning with the type who would start an ARG like this. For example, people such as *NeoNote* and *Mistery* were deemed impossible to be the Blessed One. The trail grew cold again until the next Blessed One activity.

> *"あなたは私の名前を袖につけている 先に進み、どこに到達するかを確認してください 結局、それは決して私のものではなかったのかもしれません"*
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The Blessed one sent that cryptic statement to Ghosty once again, and it was translated as per routine. It translated to the following:

*"you have my name on your sleeve," "Go ahead and see where you get," "Maybe it was never mine after all"*

Some debate was made over what these phrases could mean, but nothing stuck. It ranged everywhere to Reubz being the Blessed One, which actually had no evidence whatsoever in its favor. Ghosty decided he didn't have enough eyes on him, so he did the only rational thing he could think of: start a cryptic video call with Reubz in which he acted as Tuverg and told Reubz that he had something to show him, and reflected something in his mask. Likely due to Ghostycam quality, whatever he was trying to show was not distinguishable.

Nearly a month later, Bob released a sudden update to *Club Bailey*, and Flan, Reubz, and Ghosty went to check it out, with Bob watching as well. The club's lighting had been reduced to a black fog, and an eerie ambience played in the background. Every single club patron was missing, even the barista *Nessie* was gone.

Reubz, after seeing that everyone was gone, rushed to check *Bailey's* room in the hopes that she would still be there. Instead, he was met with a vacant throne and a void beyond the hole behind it. He alerted the other who were just as startled and confused as him, that is, if they were able to make it to the throne room without being softlocked by broken chairs. Bob did however fix that bug in a later update. Interestingly, the hole in the wall used to be scratch marks in a beta image that Bob revealed. Upon Flan remarking upon that in the RZ GC, Bob sent the message *"Strigops will be pleased."* and quickly deleted it. His profile picture soon changed to pitch black, and thus marked a shift in the Blessed ARG, though they didn't quite realize it yet. Google revealed to them that Strigops is the scientific name of the Kakapo (the dreaded Negakiwi). The very next day, the Blessed One's Discord username changed to Japanese text which translated to *"Strigops"*. And so it was finally revealed that the true culprit behind the Blessed One was Bob, despite how innocent he seemed.

The Blessed one was enraged by their diligence in figuring out his identity, and he rid himself of the Japanese facade and began speaking in plain English.. This was not the Blessed One anymore. This is Strigops. The Sex Club decided that enough was enough, and wanted to face Strigops head-on. They performed a ritual in the RZ GC and sacrificed Ghosty to summon the foul beast. *Lightzen* joined in, but it was way too late for him to be awake, so they banished him (by the suggestion of Strigops) and brought back Ghosty. Strigops began to taunt his opposition, telling them that Bailey was "*beyond the chapel"*. Everyone was furious, demanding their stolen friends be returned, to no avail. Reubz was furious, and with a deep breath, he shouted--

That's not going in the doc. Anyways, Strigops continued playing with the Sex Club, and told them he would leave them be and give them time to prepare for his true assault. He left the GC and calm fell again amongst the RZ people, but an uneasy calm at that. These are the events that would lead up to the currently brewing Strigops Arc, coming to a theatre near you...

## Aftermath

Both Blessed One accounts have now been changed to Strigops, and the original comment under CARNAGE has been deleted. The Blessed One event is technically not over via Strigops Arc, but for all intents and purposes, this is the end. Despite the hype around the event, Bob is not too proud of how it ended up being. There are numerous unused ideas for the Blessed One ARG, attached below.

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