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“Karl… I’ve been waiting so long to meet you.“

Tales from the SMP: The Maze

Cast: Karl Jacobs, Quackity, Sapnap, George, Dream, Tubbo, BBH, Punz, Technoblade, Jack Manifold, Foolish, Slimecicle

• The stream starts off with Karl, Tubbo, Technoblade, Quackity, Sapnap, George, BBH, Foolish, and Punz in a large clearing surrounded by a tall wall, with no memory of how they got there.
• On a TV screen, a video plays. Slimecicle, the host, tells them that the maze is full of puzzles and challenges, and it’s their job to make it through to the end to become the champion. They are highly advised to not be in the labyrinth after the sun sets. 
• Throughout the next puzzles, BBH, Tubbo, Punz, Quackity, Sapnap and Foolish die. Sapnap and Quackity are revived. Later, Punz reappears alive, then dies and is revived over and over throughout the rest of the puzzle. Slimecicle says that Punz isn’t really alive. 
• At the next puzzle (in an Egyptian-inspired area), Slimecicle seems genuinely surprised that there are so many of them left. He further urges them to hurry before the sun goes down, seeming frantic.
• The next part of the labyrinth is reminiscent of the Inbetween, the end of the labyrinth being met with the Inbetween castle. Slimecicle tells them that someone needs to die willingly– to flip the center switch and fall to their death. Quackity offers himself and falls to his death. 
• The final TV, in a small room with a hole in the center. Slimecicle congratulates them, but can’t let them go home– they didn’t beat the maze, only made it to the end. Hostile, he tells them that there was an exit the whole time, but they were too focused on running the “rat race” to search for it. He says they will go back to the beginning and so will he, doing this over and over until something breaks.
  
• They jump through the hole in the floor and end up in the clearing from the beginning, where they see themselves. The TV plays, where Slimecicle speaks to them one last time, welcoming them to the “Labyrinth of Ceaseless Agony”.

• Karl wakes up in “Dream XD World”, a beautiful island seemingly floating in the galaxy, where massive clock ticks. Clouds line the area with golden cogs. There are two portals on either side, one to the Inbetween and one the Otherside. 
• He is met with Dream XD, who says it is nice to finally meet him and introduces himself as “God”. He’s been watching Karl for a while, as he is the one who made him a time traveller. 
  
• He mentions that the last person who was a time traveller forgot that he was and so he needed to “get rid of him”.
• There are two demi-gods in both worlds, called the Overseers. Whenever he goes there while time travelling, Karl will need to pick between the Inbetween and the Otherside. Both will have consequences, but tonight he can travel to both. Karl goes through to the Otherside, as he doesn’t trust the Inbetween. In the Otherside, Karl meet the Overseer in the castle (played by Jack Manifold, but is canonically a different character).
  
• The Overseer is glad to finally meet him. He tells him that the whole place was created from Karl’s memories. A hallway leads to the Village That Went Mad, with the characters wandering about aimlessly. Every time he is there, his memories will allow the places to become stronger until they become real places and real people. He will eventually be able to speak with them and learn what went wrong and how he can change it in the future. He feels an obligation to give them a happier ending, though they aren’t exactly the people he met in the past.
  
• He expects to find more places, but his memories are not strong enough yet. The Overseer urges him to spend more time there to make it stronger, and not go home like he wants to. He believes that Karl’s place is the past and the future, not the present.
  
• Karl leaves anyway– there are people who are relying on them back in Kinoko Kingdom.
  
• Back in Dream XD World, he runs over to the portal to the Inbetween. He meets the Overseer (also played by Jack), who was the person talking to him through the books. He doesn’t know anything about Karl being chased out last time, and tells him that he shouldn’t be going to the Otherside and that he belongs there. He wants to teach Karl how he can control his ability to time travel if he stays. He tells him that his life is in the present, not the past or future. The longer he is there, the more he can help him and thus the people in his present. He basically tells Karl everything that he wants to hear.
  
• Back in the present, he appears in his library. He places the photo of “The Maze” on his wall. In his diary entry, he expresses his confusion and stress about what the right decision is, leaning slightly towards the Inbetween.
  

i’m so hyped for tales from the smp s2!! i’ll be posting a really detailed recap tonight a little while after it ends if you’re interested :D

everyone is theorizing while i am a simple man

i see a maze. i complete the maze.

Imagine dying twice

the other side

Am I the only one that thinks the other time traveler is Fundy not Ranboo, because the Overseer was in Fundy’s dream?

The same picture