kingliminal

tango trying to open a can behind the counter is something else, that’s for sure. so, as i promised, here’s the second compilation of this stream featuring the worst ever handshake, the almost smooch, rubbing spoons, raw pizza and the awful high-five

you don't understand: they didn't talk to each other. sure, they did for Big Planned Things, but the vast, vast majority of episodes would only contain One Hermit, that being the guy making the episode. they might see another hermit on-camera but pre-prox chat that didn't mean they could like, talk without joining a skype call, and they often didn't (and even post-prox chat it actually takes a few months in for them to realize they could just... leave prox on and have random drive-by interactions as they may). it was really common in videos and streams to be like "damn. didn't know that was there? i guess someone's been busy? wild." or, just as often, "oh no i didn't know that was there, what if i'm not supposed to show the viewers, i should avoid accidentally learning more!"

and to be clear this was in part because the youtube "meta" was different then, right. like hermitcraft started as basically being a solo letsplay other people happened to build on and has marched steadily closer to being a place coworkers and maybe eventually friends hang from there. but i think in this season 11 world, where basically every hermitcraft video has a second hermit show up at some point, it's just... wild. they like. hang out with each other on purpose. server-wide storylines are not only now the norm but like, mostly don't have half the server ignoring them anymore. they hang out with each other on purpose.

are you kidding me!? bone of anthropods??!

Here's the premise:

Instead of being secretly assigned to be a boogeyman, someone is secretly assigned to kill Jimmy. They succeed if Jimmy is eliminated from the Life Series while they have this role. If they succeed, they automatically win the series. Because everyone else doesn't want to lose, it is their job to keep Jimmy alive at costs.

Every player protecting Jimmy gets one guess as to who the "hitman" is for the entire season. If they guess correctly, they get to keep their guess, the person fails, and a new hitman is assigned. The hitman will stay the same episode to episode if they don't fail. This guess is administered via typing a command in chat.

Jimmy is not informed about any of these rules, he thinks it's a normal Life Series. No one can tell him about the rules, but the game does not end if he finds out.

Basically, you want to be CERTAIN your guess is correct, because there are only so many guesses, and they need to last the whole game. Why? Because if you are not Jimmy, or the person trying to kill him, there is NO WAY TO WIN. Because either Jimmy stays alive until the end or he dies, making the hitman the winner. Even though everyone is protecting Jimmy, no one WANTS to be protecting Jimmy. You want to be the hitman. You guess the hitman, so you have a chance of being the hitman.

Meanwhile, the hitman needs to balance trying to kill Jimmy while the whole server protects him and is trying to figure out who's trying to kill him.

...

The series starts. The hitman is assigned. Despite all efforts, Jimmy is on red by the third episode. Half the guesses have been used, but no one can figure out who the hitman is. People are joking that the hitman isn't even doing anything, they're just letting Jimmy be Jimmy.