Playing with a new Beacon Angel concept. Same themes and basic gist but wildly different hermit associations and timelines, I think. Impulse and Skizz met, travelled together, but each wound up going back to their respective camp. No Ties associations, like that entire bit Did Not Happen.
The House of Sulphur still exists but the First Circle got its ass beat pretty bad, like unconditional surrender possibly barely escaping occupied home server beat, and one of the requirements was that Sarandiel 'leave' which is just whoever got there first's code for 'send that motherfucker out here so we can kill him' and Skizz basically had to fly by night flee Quire and can't ever realistically go home, or mount a beacon lest he connect with a third circle who would turn him in.
So our boy hobo'd across the multiverse for a while before settling onto a single player world where he proceeded to basically be lonely and miserable and not at all productive until one day a bug means a fresh mutli-player world basically generates INTO or perhaps ATOP his own.
Which is how Skizz finds himself in a semi-spectator mode on HC season 11, able to interact with objects to an extent but not seen, heard or crucially listed as present. He is in a singleplayer world. They are in a multiplayer world. And because he hasn't done any of the Big minecraft things, the world appears untouched. No End portals open, dragon's still alive, no End cities raided.
So Skizz discovers his new neighbors and, after freaking out a bit, spends all this time basically following random hermits around (within reason he doesn't want to be a creep even though he figures out early on that he can see and hear them but they can't see or hear him.)
it's almost like being with people and hey, here's Impulse the demon buddy I parlayed with for a bit! He's okay! He retired from his Princedom the way he said he would! He's making cool stuff! That's neat! That's great! That's...great.
And like the Hermits know SOMETHING is going on someone keeps using Xisuma's music machines when no one's around, Tango's found a small hole in the mountain he knows he didn't leave AND a dirt tower he accuses Scar of leaving. Gem's positive someone harvested some of her nether wart and Beef keeps finding resources he knows he didn't mine left where he logged out.
So it's all fun and games and existential dread with Cleo making Borrower jokes until one day Xisuma is doing routine maintenance and the bug menu notes that 'fusion is 100%' where before it had been like 85 and he couldn't find out why, and there is a name on the whitelist he doesn't recognize.
And a portal in the nether that's suddenly there, where it definitely wasn't before.
And there is Skizz, who thought he was just fine passively watching these people before they inevitably reset and left his world, finding out that's not exactly the case anymore.
