Oi, I'm Tales

Sammy :) (Chapter 4, as far as I'm aware)

and the original:

hello im very excited about the minecraft 1.20 update........

for those not following Minecraft News, they've introduced an archeology mechanic, and one of the things you can occasionally excavate from ruins is ancient eggs of the once-extinct "Sniffers," which can be hatched -- they're large, strange planty creatures who can help you find and dig up ancient seeds. The crew has decided that [a] Jack, Peter, and Linda are all candidates for folks who might get a kick out of digging up ancient artefacts, [b] Joey had nothing to do with finding this egg but he's SO CURIOUS once it's been unearthed and watches it obsessively, and [c] Henry would be wary of this weird egg until it hatches -- at which point the Sniffer is immediately his son.

I’M PURPLE NOW!!!

Now that Thren's posted her original drawing, I can share this!! I got her permission to ink and colour it because I JUST,,, REALLY LOVE,, WHAT SHE DID WITH THIS MOMENT,,,,,

Thren talked about this a little bit in the notes at the end of the last chapter, but I'm STILL NOT OVER the shock of learning why Sammy was losing sanity all that time -- basically, every time he swapped with Prophet on purpose, he lost one sanity, which I just assumed was because "syncing" with Prophet's otherworldly mindset was stressful. It wasn't until this encounter that I learned that all Sammy's attempts to reach out to Prophet and connect with him were actually gIVING PART OF HIS OWN SANITY, ONE-BY-ONE, TO PROPHET, and when Prophet finally shared the first memory that Sammy had repressed... Prophet gained that sanity score. He HAS a sanity score, when he'd previously been ignoring all sanity mechanics for the entire game on account of already being driven irreparably out of his mind by the Masked Messenger.