#Oooo maybe Sapnap could like infiltrate and somehow get information about the revival book from Dream#And they can use that to cure people (kill someone and they come back uninfected)
This actually does work - seeing Sapnap start to break down from fear and loneliness in front of him lets Dream momentarily override Bad/The Egg's control - but the issue there is that Sapnap only gets half the revival spell, and it's the front end of the spell, which isn't exactly super helpful for, yknow, reviving people. What makes it worse is the fact that this is a direct possession, not a heavy influence thing like it is in canon. The Egg is using Bad's abilities to speak directly through Dream's mouth. That's not Dream, that's just the Egg wearing his body like a costume.
...but because this is the Egg and not Dream, it can't access Dream's memory and try to weaponize the revive book through there. It knows even less about the revive book than the Uninfected members do because it had no way of hearing Dream tell Sapnap the first half of the spell.
It takes them another week to get the rest of it, which they first attempt to decipher through Tommy's hazy memories of being revived (gets them about 2 words), praying to lady death (she's blocked from the server by the Egg having Phil so it's wildly unproductive), and using an ouija board to contact the spirit of Schlatt, who gives them another two words, although he mispronounces both.
They end up having to pin Ranboo down and use the smile symbol to force them into an enderwalk state (which shoves the egg out for a bit) and get them to write down the rest of the spell.
#They go after the weaker ones first but that leaves the most capable people working together#And it gets really hard especially since they only reliably have like 3 fighters because everyone else is susceptible to being possessed
Going after the infected player that's the worst at fighting would mean trying to kill Karl first, which makes Sapnap downright refuse to do that. Instead the three of them sit in a circle to decide which server member they'd be willing to accidentally permakill just in case the spell doesn't work. They decide on Connor.
Fortunately, the spell worked! Unfortunately, they now have to deal with Connor.
#Just like the desperation it takes to even try killing and reviving someone in a attempt to cure them#And then all the effort it would take to do that to everyone affected (sometimes having to kill a person 3 times before you can cure them)#And the weight of not knowing if this is the best way to go about it but it's the ONLY way they have#So even if it's bloody and terrible they still have to go out and do it
Ranboo immediately vetoed going after Techno and Phil, worried that the revive book wouldn't work on them at all and not wanting to risk their mentor's lives, so they settled on going after a different powerful fighter first: Punz.
Punz was extremely difficult to kill, for obvious reasons, but Sapnap managed to lead him into a burning mineshaft long enough for him to asphyxiate on the smoke, and fortunately he only had 1 life left (bc of homoerotic murder drunz experimentation obv).
Surprisingly, Tubbo was also extremely difficult to kill, mostly because Eryn, who doesn't have diamond-hard demon bones, went after him alone. Tubbo nearly broke one of Eryn's ribs by sheep-ramming him into a tree before Sapnap tracked them down and then had to manually wrestle Tubbo to the ground and pin him before very quickly and cleanly breaking his neck.
This was partially because Ranboo was nearby and would likely flip out watching their husband be disembowled, but it was mostly because Tubbo pissed Sapnap off to the point he decided that evisceration would be too good for him.
#And of course the egglire isn't going to make it easy for them either#As soon as they realize what the resistances plan is they start taking counter measures to keep themselves safe#Idk idk
The Eggpire actually attempts to reinfect the freed server members, using Bad's possession abilities as a conduit again, but Sapnap is a genetic and magical clone of Bad, so when he possesses someone, it's just different enough to force the Egg out. This also means that Sapnap can replace Bad's possession with his own, although because he's a subadult demon who hasn't gone through metamorphosis or gained his full demon magic, he can't really be in more than his own and another person's body at the same time.
He also hates doing it because it's creepy and uncomfortable and he'd much rather murder things instead :(
Punz is getting desperate, wanting Dream back and slowly panicking the longer they're separated, so eventually Sapnap possesses him for like 2 full days while they rescue Dream. Sapnap really really really hates this, but Punz begged him and he obliged :(
