Life Series Winners - Blog Posts
Joel gives the winners a ride in his car, and they drive around to different seasons of the life series. It's basically an interdimensional travelling car. And then they crash into the side of Joel's base in hermitcraft because someone let martyn drive.
life series memory thing, but what if it's the LOSERS that remember everything!!
Like the life series members compete to forget the horrible events of the games
So impulse being really wanting to win in WL was him getting desperate for the memory wipe
They all do horrible things with the hope to not remember them in the end
Spoilers for Simple Life SMP and the Winner of Simple Life SMP.
SCOTT YOU DID IT OMG. HE’S A REPEAT WINNER. I’M SO PROUD AND HAPPY AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAAAAA
I was watching his video, and I could tell you the exact moment I knew he was going to win. I mean, it was quite clear the whole time, but when Joel died I knew he would win. I could feel it in my bones, and it was clear that there would be a repeat winner for even longer than that. I knew for sure that there would be a repeat winner when Gem, (who was the biggest competitor) died. (Gonna state this just in case) I’m not trying to come off as rude, or smart, or condescending, or anything else, I’m just super happy that my favourite YouTuber won, and wanted to share with the few people in the world who will see this.
So Joel's car, beating all other celestial beings and other representations has become the defining symbol of his victory by outbeating the other depictions that include Jupiter (black hole too) from celestial beings and charriot from tarot cards (I'm not sure). Compared to all the other symbols of previous winners, Joel's theme is outlandish against all the other astral bodies.
But besides this contradictory stylisation, Joel's symbol does fit his and the cast of the Life Series' rebellion against the higher beings or the Watchers. With Wild Life being more passive compared to seasons like Limited Life or Last Life, the main objective could be boiled down to surviving against the enviornment/nature compared to surviving against players. With these wildcards that proved to be deadly even when peaceful, the players objectives were mainly on surviving together then compared to antagonizing each other until around the last sessions where PvP was mandatory to win. This would've angered the Watchers with the disruption of their eight week-long feast. So the symbol could be a lasting effect of a Fuck-you to the Watchers by playing unprecedentedly but still winning.
But another instance of definace is earlier in the Life Series where death and betrayal was rampant in Last Life yet Scott still remained loyal and disregarded the laws of the Boogeyman. And yet even as the Watchers tried to punish him, he still won fairly gaining him the representation of not just a singular star, but whole star systems. Him being an embodiment of the possibility of the players to rebel against the system that brought them there. Him being the person that planted the seeds of rebellion that sprouted into Joel with depictions of his car in multiple fanarts (I can't find rip) of essentially crashing the Watchers and leaving them in disarray.
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pt 37 thrs and hdcnns im back
Drops this half formed life series winners rhyme and scurries away
The sun, the stars, the moon, and mars
All gather round
As the earth takes his crown
so here it is! the first of my winners portraits!
( pls click for quality bc tumblr turns quality to shit)
so here it is! the first of my winners portraits!
( pls click for quality bc tumblr turns quality to shit)
and again tumblr fucked the quality..... but heres my finished gtws secert life thing!!! not the best work i've done, but needed to draw him so yeah (alt version below cut)
played around with some effects..... think he turned out pretty cool
Is this something?
i had a vision
The Winners
Life Series: Watchers Introduction from the players' pov? (Poems)
After watching Martyn's POVs of the life series and like the rhymes he has in the lore bits. I got thinking what if the Watchers spoke the the players at the start of the series to "explain the rules" of the game and stuff. So I wrote a poem for each season that is what I imagine the players would hear before spawning in. I put loads of like little hinty words and stuff for fun since the watchers like to be a little unclear with what they say sometimes.
3rd Life 3️⃣🚦
The game will begin Three attempts at Life Fourteen shall enter Only one will survive
Do Green as you must Weary Yellow what you can Spill Red when you turn Single victor, one man
Kill at your risk Those failed will be gone No matter what wins Our will be done.
Last Life 🎰🚦
We had a taste before Back in the winter Lives not set as three Three more players enter
Shades of green careless play Yellow lurk off the edge Roll of fate for curse of sickness Spill joined by new of Red
A cure will found from shed of blood Too a gift will unbare of one Remains one victor in end No matter what, Our will be done.
Double Life 💞🚦
Rules have changed Fourteen players enter Co-owned lifeline A link drawn connector
Live not to pale Wary burden shared For every heart broken An equal lost in pair
Redden after two Third takes both runs Fight final link remaining Watch, Our will be done
Limited Life ⌛🚦
Now play thirteen Life limited by hours Prevail one at end Enter this game higher powers
Dawn to dusk lifetime Hearts ticking from green on Pale yellow at sixteen Eight kills to last long
Gains half with any shed Wholes lost at every spawn Three of hour cure is needed Spectate as such, Our will be done.
Secret Life 📜🚦
This game join a Keeper Now players sixteen Rule of third, damaged hearts Unhealable by any means
Wake, each tasked differently Succeed if task completed Not fail by dusk, or hard reroll Ten taken if not kept secret
Hearts may break from Yellow guess Friend or foe may aid of one Crimson spill gain each an eXtra Till last succession, Our will be done.
I haven't done one for Wild Life since its just come out but ill update this post with it once I've made it. Let me know what you think and if you find all the hidden bits. :)
❤️~💛~💚
i feel like theres something to be said about how both scar and pearl were knocked off a cliff, and they both essentially let it happen as a sacrifice.
IDK WHAT TO SAY I AM LITERALLY PSYCHIC AS SOON AS I SAW JOEL DIDNT WIN I WENT STRAIGHT TO SCARS VIDEO
GENUINELY I AM SO SAD JOEL DIDNT WIN BUT SO HAPPY THAT SCAR DIDD
also scar didnt die??? like he just ended the video WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT???
After I made this post, I just had the scenario in mind...
And please read Joel's boxes in his hysteric Voice.
guiding star
First playtest notes
The first playtest was today and it was.... something.
I already knew this group was unhinged so I expected madness, but i'm always suprised at the flavor of the madness.
Now they checked out grian's area and I thought the landmines would be a minor hazard, turns out it was more fun than i thought. The idea that not even open spaces are safe plus some funny moments (the rogue tossed the other rogue on one of the landmines and it didn't go off).
Honestly, i thought physical D&D would be more organised, but it's still chaotic.
Plenty of work left to do but assignments are first, then this passion project.
Grain's area
After some trouble, I have finished the first area of the campaign.
This is the general area, as per 3rd life events, the house is gone and there are craters everywhere (a bit non canon but it's funny with the red unactivated mines). The white square where the house used to be is a trap door to the tunnel dungeon.
The main gimmick is the next floor is determined by a d6 and has plenty of refrences to both the life series and evo (a friend suggested them), unfortunately my notes are on paper but here is the gist: First floor is a refrence to evo, with a watcher statue on 2 and a lump of stolen clay in the chest marked with 1. The second floor refrences last life with the skeleton of mumbo pst-betrayal and glowing exploding crystal. The third floor refrences double life, as it has a higher ceiling and stalagmites. The funkier numbers are the spawn points of bigb and ren, only ren's skeleton is agressive. The fourth floor is based on limited life, with refrences to the bad boys, bread bridge and the entire layer seems to be high up (like skynet). The fifth floor has a heart shaped stone in the lake and has a mini secret keeper with the warning to not disturb the cactus ring. The last floor holds the most important artifact, the enchanter. This holds the clues on how to defeat all the ghosts.
Small note: After the enchanter is picked up then Scar gets aggressive and tries to take the book in whatever way he can.
I have started to work on pearl's area, but don't really have much to share. The playtest begins this thursday and I'll see if I messed up or not.
First map for the campaign
Finished the first map of the campaign. In the 2024 rules there is a thing called bastions, so I wanted to implement something similar in the campaign.
Present on the outskirts of Monch:
The entire point is that the players return to the base and rest, possibly upgrading it to get various benefits (bastion upgrades according to level).
To note, in the 2024 rulebook bastions are, by default, individual to each player with the option of joining 2 or more bastions together.
More substatial updates are coming so stay tuned.
Quests and plot
Helloooo, so following another map remake I have figured out some of the quests and the plot.
Martyn: Once the group reaches the coast they meet Martyn, staring at a pocketwatch. Talking to him will reveal he is trying to fix it as the stopwatch is stuck on 1 hour (it actually says -8766 as in 1 year since limited life ended). Martyn's questline is focused on finding the remaining clocks for "spare parts", each present at the spot the owner died (Pearl's one will be underwater, Grian's will be on the rock he fell on, etc). Once all of them are collected the group will find Martyn at the meadow where Scott and Impluse fell, there the fight with him begins.
Grian: For the most part the quest related to grian is digging up the "monopoly" that he set up. Near the base there is a ring of saguaros that the players are informed not to enter unprepared. Anyone that picks rogue/has criminal interests will know of a artifact burried with the monopoly, of course this artifact is the enchanter.
To get to the enchanter you have to go through the schizofrenia tunnels (If you saw the tunnels of someone using xray, you know what I'm reffering to). The tunnels are a 6 layer dungeon where the mechanic is that the next level down/up is determined by a d6 to simulate the disorintating effect of xray tunnels.
That's about it for now, I will add towns and a fort to the map and post that soon, alongside more lore and quests.
Map update
So I figured out how to make the map more readable and added areas for future refrence. Feels a bit too big but once I add events and lore location it might feel less Ubisoft open world.
Part 1: the map
I had a map in mind, created by Azgaar's fantasy map generator, and i actually learned my lesson this time and restricted the map size to 4 regions. The problem while DMing is that I need to use multiple programs to make it work, so i'm centralizing it to Photoshop, since my players sometimes forget how dndbeyond works so using Roll20 or something similar is asking for more problems. Here is the world map (political and biomes):
I noticed that each edited map has a problem with scale/different cropping, here's how the map is supposed to look:
The entire idea is that the players reach specific locations on the map, with each biome corresponding to one of the winners (Grian - desert, Scott - plains, Pearl - woods, Martyn - coast, Scar - ravine/plains). The only problem is that editting the zoomed out map means the text is tiny, I'll try to fix it somehow. I have prepared map markers for events, with the only difficulty being that I need a higher resolution map to make them not pixely.
I'm surprised that there are people interested in this and if you have any suggestions then send them.
Life series themed DnD Campaign
Hello!
I am currently working on adapting the life series to a dnd campaign and perhaps consider this a announcement for help (as I do not have the time to watch the 18 hours of life series content during my first year of university)
The concept is based on the watcher lore and this video, centered around the winners. Their souls have remained restless after their victories and and haunting the places that mattered to them.
Currently I have the map ready, but it requires some polishing, so here are my ideas for each Watcher:
Grian: From my memory, in 3rd life Grian's playstyle involved a lot of traps (that rarely worked) and a lot of defensive warfare. From that I would attribute a low armor class (14/15) and reasonably high health, wielding a dagger with a ability to halve your disengage speed and place a tnt trap where you disengaged.
Scott: Last life is the season I remember the least so I'm not sure what special spell adjascent abilities Scott would have. All I can say, as of now, is high health and high armor. Anyone who knows Scott's POV better, feel free to send recomendations in the comments/tags.
Pearlie <3: From the season I remember the least to the season I remember the most of. Pearl's boss fight would be a duo of her and Tilly (as a big werewolf). Tilly's strategy would be centered on rushing, using the dog horde to pin the players (basically the entagled spell) at the cost of pearl not being able to use the dog horde as a ranged attack. Pearl in many animatics has either a scythe or axe, so she would use both weapons, the warscythe would be for crowd control and the axe would unlock a special attack after Tilly dies, dealing huge amounts of damage (around 10d8) on a single target. If someone is farther away, and TIlly is not using the dogs to pin a player down/dead, then the dog horde can be used to chase them, dealing 10d6 damage with a dex saving throw to halve it.
Martyn: I already have a Martyn monster sheet made, based on Malenia.
From there it would need some minor changes to fit the pirate fighting style.
Scar: While I did not watch Scar's POV, I still remember a lot of it. Scar's villain persona could work with some kind of taunting mechanic (though I'm not sure how to format it for a sheet) plus a ranged attack focus, perhaps with a fishing rod attack that deals more damage than the regular shot but has a lower likelyhood to land.
Feel free to add ideas or suggested changes, I will publish it as a campaign once everything has been worked out and I'll playtest it at Uni.
Thanks for reading.
Life series winners
A life series winners drawing I did quite a while ago
Doodles of the cube people
They smudged a bit :(
A few full bodies too
May do Scar, Cleo and Joel, idk depends on if my procrastination goes away or not :,)
Okay so I've been seeing a lot of takes on the Life series winners version of Epic!God games and now I want to make an animatic (but I'm lazy and have exams so idk if i can do it or not). I do not have a very well-defined idea of the full plot for an epic!au so I only focused on the order of the characters and events in god games.
So basically the synopsis is that Gem would go to the winners to convince them to let Joel join the winners lobby with his car. As simple as that (●'◡'●)
Athena-Gem : She just passes the vibe check. Also Joel 's family so she has to present all the reasons as to why Joel is a good candidate. Zeus-Grian : Cause he is the first winner and I think he would like to make it a game just for funsies(watcher instincts) Apollo-Cleo : Originally Apollo was supposed to be Grian because of his celestial symbol but then I changed it to Cleo because she would be the most unbothered about Joel becoming a winner Hephaestus-Pearl : Pearl has trust issues through double life and being soulmates with Scott. (similar to how Aphrodite and Hephaestus were in an arranged marriage) At the same time, she would not put up much fight and can be easily reasoned with cause Gem is here (Shiny duo!!!) Aphrodite-Scott : Just like Gem he passes the vibe check. He is the one who cares a lot about allies and relationships and would be the one who is most against Joel joining the winners thingy. (also he could have angst with Pearl and Martyn) Ares-Martyn : I don't think I need to explain this, it is very obvious because of how he won and his celestial symbol. Also Aphrodite and Ares are lovers and Scott and Martyn can be mean gills together. Hera-Scar : He is very flashy and dramatic and also would respect anyone who doesn't cheat on their partners (looking at you Grian) Oddyseus-Joel : again he passes the vibe check and can be very bloodthirsty and reckless but also loves his wife a lot (Lizzie is Penelope obv but idk about Telemachus maybe hermes)
P.S. : I just wanted to put this out there cause I spent hours thinking about this and I need someone to see my vision. On second note the voices would sound so wrong /pos
Tbh, he has the red already in his skin, and those eyes….
I saw it in a dream
I did NOT edit the gif because I used the wrong skin for Ren and Secret Life Scar, I dont know what your talking about
Ok ok, you caught me, heres the original
Hey, If you like this meme gif i made, im making more, check these out
Underwater bloop
If you see a trend in my latest art… no you don’t
