#avid adventures

*ADDITIONAL EDIT: it's not Olm. thank goodness. enjoy the lore recap though :3

100 Days In A Minecraft Nightmare:

Avid is the kinda-protector kinda-new-guy in a town called New Salem. two of the main mods here are Manic and Sanguine; Avid begins losing his mind after a beloved iron golem dies and pledges his soul to the Demon of Darkness on a whim.

after Avid gets further into Manic and starts to use corpseplants, Olm tricks Avid into entering the Nether by speaking to him through the plants, then traps him in Incendium (Nether-but-worse).

Avid calls them the Nameless King and believes them when they tell him the only way to end the repeated blood moons plaguing the world is to kill his former patron. they also warn him that doing so may come at the cost of never being able to return home.

they are lying about this. Avid gets stuck in the dimension Limbo, yes. but they sent Avid to Limbo because they wanted to. we don't even know if it fixed the blood moons at all.

Skyblock Kingdoms:

Olm appears to Avid after he's spent a thousand years in Limbo and convinces him to hand over part of his soul, which they will then send to a "land of pure Void" so that part of him technically escapes. Avid takes the deal and gets a soul chunk violently ripped out of his body; his main body stays in Limbo and becomes a monochrome shade.

oh also Avid falls into the Void almost immediately and Olm decides to turn him into a monkey as punishment. they do it to Doovid too but disguise themself as Sun Tzu for some reason?

while in SBK, Avid works under Olm's order to prevent people from falling into the Void, which in turn upsets the natural balance of the world and nearly leads to several people falling through the Void into Limbo. why does Olm want to starve the Void? lol. lmao

it was probably Olm's idea to kidnap server members and make OSSHA-compliant clones of them. didn't stop Avid from following through with both intense fervor and even glee, though.

Marm, the server's local void witch, manages to get into Limbo and find out about what's happened to Avid. with the help of Leon, Penguin That Flirted With Olm Once, she convinces Olm to free the Limbo shade of Avid. Olm agrees, but transfers the Enderman curse Leon is suffering from to Avid while sending him to another world.

Olm also possesses server member Vintage, pushing Rue (the OSSHA clone of Ruby) into the Void and engineering their own freedom from Limbo by tricking Viking into performing a ritual that "exorcises the Void".

Avid Adventures/the Shrouded Isles:

they're THEEEEE big bad of this series, both in the adventure map's lore and in the actual text of the series.

Avid, who has zero memory of his past, is making an adventure map! also he's an enderman, which for some reason is "cured" when he runs through his own Rosewood dungeon and cleanses the curse on it!

Olm becomes increasingly more active throughout the course of this series and alongside the map; in the lore of the Shrouded Isles, they tricked an ancient civilization into bringing about the apocalypse by building a portal to Limbo -- while presenting themself as the Old One, an entity that could solve an ongoing energy crisis.

remnants of that civilization, Agolith, still remain; Olm has been sealed away and escaped multiple times. at one point they possessed a mage called Eromourn and convinced him to go on a rampage to "restore the balance of magic"; in another age, they trick a dwarf into excavating their tomb and freeing them (and then immediately gloat about it and twist everyone involved in the excavation into becoming various creatures).

Olm ALSO messes with Avid throughout the course of the series, nudging him into building the Dark Path (a route for the adventure map where you can side with Olm) and beginning to re-corrupt Avid directly. they like making him build architecture gore and forcing him to make bosses. i think they send him to Turbo Hell (the Abyss) at some point also?

SBK1 Avid somehow manages to get onto Avid Adventures around the same time Adventures Avid is packing up to potentially leave for Misadventures. unfortunately, Olm seems very aware of the fact that SBKvid is there. Uh Oh.

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