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For the most part, the early days were like any other beginning stages of an SMP, where everyone is mingling, mining, building starter bases and gearing up, some pulling pranks. However, people didn't really interact with others outside their language-groups as the live translator had not been introduced quite yet.
But, that doesn't mean that this time was boring, no siree.
The first few days are kind of peaceful, as peaceful as a bunch of people playing Minecraft can be. However, as they keep playing, they soon find out that they're not alone on the island. There is something else there, watching, taking notes.
A white creature follows them, lagging behind, spying, and when people finally notice, getting scared that this thing is just silently watching, it smiles and laughs before introducing itself.
It calls itself The QSMP Census Bureau, and it's here on official business to interview the islanders.
Since it doesn't have a name, the islanders take to calling it Osito Bimbo, after the Latin American bread mascot.
However, they also make fun of the creature, eventually calling it Cucurucho, meaning the white paper vendors use to wrap ice cream cones in. This is the name that sticks.
Cucurucho, for the most part, is tame and curious, seemingly keeping away at first because it's shy and laughing along with the jokes. He can only speak in text-to-speech with simple answers like "Yes", "No", and "Good morning". Its English voice is higher pitched and sounds more feminine while its Spanish voice is deeper and sounds more masculine. This only adds to the eerie-ness as Cucurucho sneaks up silently on the islanders, and then when they notice, laughs and tells them "Good morning" and asks "What are you doing?" And the end of each conversation, it leaves with a classic "I hope you enjoy the island." or the more well-known "Disfruta la isla."
For more complex conversations, Cucurucho uses books to write questions or responses in them and throws them on the ground for the islanders to pick up and read.
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Roier spends his first few days on the server wanting to build a taqueria, but making tacos require a lot of very specific ingredients that he had to go out and find in the wild before he could make a farm. After searching for a long time, Roier calls out to Osito Bimbo to help him find the elusive tomatillo.
After searching for a bit longer, Roier eventually finds it, giving him one seed. Osito Bimbo finally shows up, and Roier tells him it's too late, he already found what he was looking for. But, he could always use more. Roier asks for a stack of seeds, which prompts Osito to make a deal with him. In exchange for one stack of tomatillo seeds, Roier must make Osito ten tacos and three chimichangas. They shake on it.
However, when Roier heads home to actually make the tacos, he realizes that he's missing a few more ingredients and has no idea where he could find them. Luckily, Osito Bimbo returns to help. When Roier asks for more, Osito makes a second offer. Vegetta had been planning something, and Osito is convinced that Roier knows what it is. Roier denies it, saying that he has no idea. Osito even pulls out a gun to try and intimidate Roier, but Roier remains firm; he has no idea what Vegetta is up to. Finally, Cucurucho relents, giving him the missing ingredients and coordinates to find more. But, Osito doesn't forget.
As Roier prepares his tacos, he sees two of the creatures at the same time, one sat in his kitchen watching him cook, and the other in his garden, watching the plants grow. A bit weirded out, Roier finishes his first taco and hands it to Osito in the kitchen. Osito eats it, then shoots him with a gun after Roier makes a bad joke. Rightfully, Roier gets offended, and Osito hands him a poppy in apology. But it's too late. Roier has to leave for the day and will finish the tacos he owes Osito the next day, despite how much Osito tries to command him to stay. Roier tosses the poppy on the ground, says they're no longer friends, and logs out.
The next day, Day 5, Roier finds a trail of poppies in his house leading to a chest with a book and three tacos. The book is from Osito, apologizing for the way that it made Roier mad to the point where he wasn't enjoying the island. It offers three tacos to make up for its behavior. Roier accepts Osito's apology and writes a letter back saying that he enjoys Osito's company, knowing that he's probably watching him put the book back into the chest.
On Day 7, the Devil appears to Spreen and asks for an alliance. Spreen will do the Devil's dirty work, and as a reward, the Devil will give him items. However, if Spreen tells anyone about their deals, the Devil will make Spreen's life hell for the rest of his time on the server. To make things more interesting, the Devil also proposes a time limit on the tasks. Spreen must complete them in the allotted time, otherwise he'll again make Spreen's life hell.
As the Devil is interviewing Spreen, he asks him who is the person he likes best. Spreen answers Roier and Missa, that they're good friends. And when the Devil asks if he would ever betray them, Spreen says in a heartbeat but it depends on what the betrayal is. That's a good enough answer for the Devil, and he writes Spreen's first task. Spreen must find out if Roier has a pet, and name it if it doesn't. Spreen accepts the quest.
In order to keep Roier's suspicion low, he tells Roier that he's opening a veterinary's office on the island and needs to know who already has pets to see if it was worth it. Roier says that he has a dog in a cage in his backpack. He lets it out, tames it, and names it Firusflais. Spreen tells him that Roier shouldn't keep pets in cages in his backpack, it's bad for their health. But Roier says that he doesn't want people killing his dog or Missa's cat, which he also keeps in his backpack. Even though he has a secure door with a passcode to enter, there are still a few people on the island that have access, like Spreen, Missa, and Mariana. He's trusting them.
The Devil messages Spreen saying that he only has five more minutes to return with the information.
Spreen also has been setting up turtle races in his free time, and Roier jokes that Spreen has been rigging them in his favor. He proposes another race, a clean one, with one taco on the line. Spreen doesn't really want to make one taco if he loses, just because it's a lot to do for some little thing. Roier is offended. How dare he diss the taco, the one thing he's been spening almost his whole time online building towards?
Roier challenges Spreen to find all five ingredients to make a taco within ten minutes, and if he does, he will gift Spreen one hundred subs. Spreen agrees, the bet is made. As Spreen heads out, Roier finishes the tacos and chimichangas he owes Osito Bimbo.
Since he's running low on time on his deal with the Devil, Spreen heads there straight away and hands over the information that he learned. The Devil is satisfied, he wants Spreen to kill Roier's dog, and he'll give him whatever he wants. Spreen asks for the taco ingredients after telling him what just went down.
The Devil agrees, but alters the deal a bit. He will give Spreen the taco ingredients, but Spreen must kill Roier's dog as well as Missa's cat while holding the made taco and gifting 20 of the 100 subs to Rubius (The Devil). But Spreen really doesn't want to bring Missa into this. He's innocent. So he's going to still kill the cat without Roier knowing, and then replace it with an exact copy. The Devil agrees, as the cat still dies in the end, and hands over the taco ingredients, telling him he only has fifteen minutes to complete this deal. Spreen heads off, now with only five minutes to complete the taco deal with Roier.
Spreen shows up at Roier's house with all of the taco ingredients, gloating how Roier is really bad with bets. Roier is shocked that Spreen managed to find everything within ten minutes, his suspicion starting to grow. Spreen doubles down and says that Roier is just bad at finding stuff. He demands that Roier complete his end of the deal, subs and all. But Roier starts to question Spreen, poking holes in his story, asking where he got all of the components for the salsa and when he had time to assemble it. Roier starts calling Spreen a liar, escalating into an argument, where Spreen starts getting mad because now Roier's not delivering on a promise he made, refusing to gift him the subs. Spreen pulls out his sword, Roier puts on his armor. Roier suggests fighting to settle it, but Spreen doesn't want to. It wasn't part of the original bet.
Roier reluctantly agrees, but insists that he never said when he had to pay Spreen the subs. Now Spreen doesn't trust Roier to follow through. He tries to explain that he already had the ingredients from finding them offstream to make his own taco shop. He even has the build to prove it.
Spreen leads Roier to the supposed taco shop, but Roier still doesn't trust Spreen. He says that he'll have to get his lawyer, Quackity, on the case to find out if he really was lying or not. They'd settle it tomorrow. But Spreen, keeping track of the time ticking ever down, wants to resolve this fast. If Roier wants a lawyer, he better get one now.
Roier messages Quackity, who arrives quickly. But it's not fast enough. The Devil starts striking lightning around Spreen as a warning. Spreen quickly tells his side of the story before excusing himself to the bathroom as Roier tells his side of the story.
Spreen quickly enters Roier's house and kills the cat, apologizing to both the cat and Missa. However, the Devil is not pleased. He forgot to be holding the taco while doing so. He better not forget while killing the dog. Spreen hurries back to the pair.
Once Quackity hears both sides, he declares that finding a taco is not that difficult at all, that he himself found a taco within minutes of logging into the server (the one that Roier paid Quackity with to be his lawyer). Roier questions where he got the taco, as he was the one who made it, not Quackity, but Quackity doubles down and says that he made it himself with all of the ingredients.
Spreen says that he's hungry, and asks for Quackity's taco. Quackity hands it over, no quesitons. Everything is lining up. He has the taco. The cat is dead. All he needs to do now is kill Firusflies. The Devil starts counting down. 30 seconds.
Quackity rules that Roier is in the wrong and must spend the next few weeks in prison. Roier is shocked. But, Spreen says, we won't have to go to those lengths if you gift me the subs right now and give me your dog. But the dog wasn't part of the deal.
Doesn't matter. Roier says Spreen can have the dog as long as he doesn't have to gift the subs. He also doesn't have it on him currently. Spreen calls bullshit, he say Roier put the dog in a crate and into his backpack in front of him earlier that day.
Quackity suggests beating Roier up if he won't hand over the dog. Roier feels completely betrayed. That Quackity is corrupt. That Spreen is too angry. It's not normal for either of them.
Three seconds left on the clock. Spreen starts attacking.
Spreen hits Roier first, right across the chest. Roier turns and runs, Spreen hitting him again. Quackity tries to calm things down by asking Roier to pay up, but Roier won't negotiate further if Spreen doesn't stop attacking. Quackity tells him to hand over the dog as Spreen corners him and slowly whittles down his health.
Roier trusted them! He trusted them with the password to his house! He trusted Quackity to be a fair lawyer! He trusted Spreen to be level-headed and willing to talk things through!
Spreen downs Roier. Finally, Roier relents, telling Spreen he can have the dog. But it's too late. Spreen lands the final blow, sending Roier back to his spawn. Spreen takes the dog crate off Roier's body and sets it free, killing it too, much to Quackity's horror.
But he did it. Spreen did it. He completed his end of the deal. The cat was dead. He had the taco. And now the dog was dead. He gets a message from the Devil to meet up with him again.
In the meantime, Roier recieves the message in chat that Firusflies was killed by Spreen. He takes a few seconds to grieve before pulling himself back together. He can't do that. Not here, not now.
He respawned in a dungeon from a few days prior, thousands of blocks away. To get back to spawn quickly, he sits and lets a zombie kill him, begging the zombie to kill him. He's tired of life. When he eventually dies, Quackity laughs at him in chat.
Roier is completely numb. Quackity and Spreen both blindsided him from nowhere, he never would have expected anything like that to happen.
When he gets back to his body, he realizes that both Spreen and Quackity had looted it, clearly upset. Quackity tries to reassure him, gives him some of the food he stole back, says that's what friends are for, that they're still good friends. Roier is not buying it, but he doesn't let it show.
Spreen meets up with the Devil. The deed is done. The pact is set. Despite going over the time limit, Spreen managed to kill both the dog and Roier in such an exciting and brutal way that the Devil is waiving the time penalty. Satisfied that Spreen has sold his soul to him, he had done evil against his closest friends, the Devil leaves, and Spreen must now head back and face his consequences.
In the meantime, the Angel appears, and says that he's looking for a red being. Roier steps forward, as he's wearing a red hoodie. The Angel gets closer to see and punches the block below Roier, sending him drowning into the water below. As Quackity laughs and the Angel stumbles out an excuse, Spreen finds where they are and drops down to Roier to apologize. He picks Roier up, gives him some food, and says that he's genuinely sorry. Roier doesn't accept it and remains upset the rest of the day.
To cheer Roier up, the Angel gifts Roier a new pet dog. He thanks the Angel but still remains upset.
The next day, Roier is still upset. He goes over the list of people that he still trusts on the server. There's Vegetta, Missa, Mariana. None of them would betray him, right?
He ends up going to Vegetta and telling him what happened. Vegetta is very sympathetic, and despite not knowing who betrayed Roier, he understands that feeling.
Roier starts to make a plan to backstab Spreen back to the point where won't even know what hit him. He also somewhat smooths things over with Quackity, telling him that he's over it when in reality, he's after Spreen.
Missa logs in and finds that his cat is missing. Roier explains everything that went down, and Missa is confused and upset that he was roped into it too. His cat was innocent! Despite what Roier told him, he blames Roier for what happened, that Spreen was his brother and wouldn't do something so horrendous. That it must have been imposters instead. But Roier is telling the truth.
He then tells Missa exactly what he's going to do. How he's going to pretend to be Spreen and Quackity's friend and then get them back, just as bad. Missa can't believe this is happening and doesn't want to live with Roier anymore. That his need for tacos has broken all of his friendships. Missa leaves Roier to the empty house.
Links: Roier Vod Day 4, Roier Vod Day 5, Spreen Vod Day 5 Part 1, Spreen Vod Day 5 Part 2 Roier Day 6, Missa Day 6
Wilbur's band LoveJoy have finally written and produced enough music that they're going on tour in the United States! This means that Wilbur will not be logging in for the next while. Day 12, April 3rd, 2023, he plays for what he's expecting to be the last time on the server, finally leaving his Minecraft Streamer persona behind to go worldwide as the lead singer for LoveJoy.