Blackrock Chronicle is a plot-driven Minecraft Let's Play series by Rythian and Zoey of the Yogscast, using the Tekkit modpack.
The series includes The Tekkit Prequel, The Tekkit Adventure, The Tekkit Rebirth and Blackrock Chronicle - Rising.
Blackrock Chronicle contains examples of:
- Appeal to Force:
- Duncan's method of trying to dissuade Rythian from murdering him (the nukes).
- Rythian also has one at the beginning of Series 3 where he traps Duncan and threatens to finally kill the scientist unless he agrees to a pact of non-aggression. Sort of justified given that Rythian blamed Duncan for what had happened to Zoeya, but given that Duncan planted the nukes because Rythian was threatening aggression... Duncan would have welcomed the pact even without the threat of death.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Duncan in Rythian's series. In the fourth episode of the second season, he traps Rythian in a force field and reveals he's rigged nukes under Blackrock Castle, all while mocking him.
- Blatant Lies: After Zoey Proasheck leaves, Rythian insists repeatedly and at length that Zoey was a "distraction" and he's glad he's alone again because he's better off by himself. He clearly isn't.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: "Rythian... Rythian, you have to fly off now and I have to whisper something into Nilesy's ear that will be revealed two seasons from now and tie all the plots together."
- Butt-Monkey: Nothing goes right for Rythian.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Duncan in Episode 3 of Rebirth. You can tell he's trying so hard to be evil, it ends up crossing over into dorky territory.
- Cerebus Syndrome: Near the end of the first season, the mostly silly series has a turn to still-silly-but-with-a-lot-of-drama once Teep is kidnapped and Operation Dino Day begins.
- Character Development: Rythian's persona goes through a fair bit of this. His original vengance quest was interrupted early on by Morality Chain Zoey Proasheck and her antics, but he continued to plot against Sjin and Duncan Jones in spite of the occasional thought that maybe they weren't as guilty as he believed (it didn't help that they kept doing things which proved him right). He became dangerously destructive after Zoey left, but at the beginning of Blackrock Chronicle - Rising bartered a truce with Duncan after losing Blackrock Castle, and almost Zoey, acknowledging that a continued feud would only lead the world to ruin all over again.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Rythian starts up his own series to get revenge on Sjin and Duncan after they accidentally destroy his Mage Tower during their Tekkit War.
- Cycle of Revenge: Basically what Rythian was causing. His quest against Duncan and Sjin for destroying the old world resulted in them individually freaking out about his "warmongering" enough to commit some rather What the Hell, Hero?-esque acts, ranging from Sjin kidnapping Teep, to Duncan placing three nuclear bombs under Blackrock. Of course this only strengthens Rythian's resolve. fortunately all three seem to have lightened up since the start of season three, with Rythian realising that a continuing feud would only lead to more trouble than they're prepared to risk.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: Zoeya repeatedly talked to mushrooms in Season 1. Season 2 reveals that the mushrooms were sentient the whole time. Hell, they can even play instruments, and can apparently hollow out a volcano and turn it into a prison.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Rythian's persona wears dark clothes and seems to have a connection with endermen. He is also very kind and heroic, as well as being a very laid-back person. It's not a good idea to hack him off, though.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Watch episode 28 of The Tekkit Adventure and listen to what Rythian says after The Reveal. Doesn't he sound like a boyfriend that found his girl cheating?
- Drowning My Sorrows: Rythian in Episode 5 of Season 2. He seems to be much less depressed afterwards, though that's probably due more to the chat he had with Ravs the bartender than five mugs(!) of Scotch he downed.
- Establishing Character Moment: Zoey's intro: Falling out of the sky into a lake, then confusedly wondering what happened to her mushrooms from the previous server and continuing to talk about mushrooms and just about anything else on her mind while Rythian tries to focus on the task of revenge against Sjin.
- Evil Laugh: Duncan mocking Rythian trapped in the forcefield... well it's more of an evil giggle.
- Green-Eyed Epiphany: Near the beginning of The Tekkit Rebirth, after being in denial about missing Zoey Proasheck, Rythian realizes that he loves her shortly after hearing about her friendly visit with his rival, Duncan Jones. The next time they talk, the first thing he does is beg her not to go to him.
- Hope Spot: There's a very brief one in episode 4 of Rythian's second season. Rythian has managed to outwit Duncan and escape the force field trap - as the sun rises, no less. Meanwhile, Zoey has finally decided to return to Blackrock Castle and protect Rythian by disarming Duncan's nuke; and for just a moment, it seems like everything is going to work out. But then it turns out that the castle has already been almost completely obliterated, and the destruction wasn't caused by the nuke. There's now a dragon loose in the overworld.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Ravs' "secrect ingredient" for his beer is apparently Squid ink, Rythian spends a few minutes gawking at him... then says it's good and that he doesn't care.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: Ravs and Teep invent a game that just involves flicking a switch back and forth at high speed. (They try it once with a door, but for some reason that doesn't seem to catch on.)
- Interface Spoiler: Subverted. We don't see Zoeya's inventory until after The Reveal, where it turns out she's carrying various types of technology.
- Interrupted Declaration of Love: In episode 5 of the second season of Rythian's series, Rythian tries to tell Zoey how he feels. Right before he can though, the computer he's using to talk to her loses connection and explodes.
- This scenario is mirrored for the finale of season 2. This time it's
far more tragic, because the interrupting explosion happens to be the nuke Zoey was trying to defuse.
- This scenario is mirrored for the finale of season 2. This time it's
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Averted. In part 6 of season 3, while looking for his companions, Rythian checks the contents of a random chest he stumbles upon. He immediately stops, calls himself out on it, and continues looking for the others without looting the chest.
- Left Hanging: The series was ended unfinished. According to Zoey, this is because she kept working herself to the point of mental exhaustion while building the sets. She'd work 2 weeks off screen for 20 minutes of content.
- The Magic Versus Technology War: Rythian focuses greatly on magic and is disgusted by the technology Honeydew Inc and Sips Co produces; both sides seem to have their in-game pros and cons.
- Mood Whiplash:
- Not only is the second season of Rythian's Tekkit series this compared to the others, it even has this within itself as after the first ep Zoey seems to have given up all pretenses of trying to maintain seriousness and has gone back to being her ditzy self, all while Rythian monotonely comments about how he's all alone and everyone's out to get him.
- On top of that, there is a quick moment in episode 4 of that series. After Zoey overhears Duncan telling a captured Rythian that he's planted a nuke beneath Blackrock Stronghold, she becomes serious and resolves to leave Jeff and the Brown Mushroom Rebels, return to Rythian and deal with the nuke, and that she's taking Teep with her whether he likes it or not. She then suddenly turns around and lightheartedly comments that Duncan's castle looks like Disneyland from where she's standing.
- Morality Chain: Zoey appears to be one to Rythian. When she leaves him, Rythian's change from an upbeat, optimistic Straight Man to a depressed sociopath obsessed with revenge is sharp enough to cut steel.
- Mutually Assured Destruction: Duncan, at least, believes this is the best way to prevent the Cold War on the server from becoming a hot one: he installs three nukes under Blackrock Hold in order to deter Rythian from attacking. Unfortunately for him, by the time he gets around to installing the nukes Rythian has become so Ax-Crazy that he doesn't care if his base gets destroyed whilst he's seeking revenge - all the deterrent does is make him hate Duncan even more.
- Nietzsche Wannabe: Rythian starts expressing nihilistic ideas and is emotionless in his second season. He believes the everyone's out to get him, and even stops caring about Blackrock.
- Only Sane Man: In a hilarious personality 180 from earlier in the season, Rythian finds he has become this by episode 16 of season 2, as he witnesses the growing chaos of Zoey, Ravs, Nilesy, and Teep wreaking havoc on Ravs' bar."Why does this always happen to me?"
- The Reveal: In episode 28 of Rythian's series, it's revealed that Zoey's been using science behind Rythian's back.
- Revenge: Rythian has been arming himself with all sorts of magical weaponry to get revenge against Sjin and Duncan (primarily Sjin) for what happened during the last Tekkit playthrough.
- Running Gag: In Rythian's series, we have Gilbert the snowman constantly melting and Zoeya talking to mushrooms.
- Science Versus Magic: This has apparently been a rivalry on the server, but it's more apparent with Rythian due to his being the server's resident mage.
- Becomes even more pronounced in episode 28 of Rythian's series, where Zoey reveals that she has been using science to try and find Teep, something Rythian disapproves of so strongly that he even threatens to stop teaching her magic.
- It should be noted that Rythian has become a lot more forgiving of science, as of Zoey's return.
- Ship Tease: Counting every example between Rythian and Zoey would require more appendages than a mutated octopus. Other examples include:
- Nilesy and Zoey.
Zoey: Do you want to look at my puppies?Rythian: *coughs* Over here.Nilesy: Oh... you meant dogs.- Zoey's search bar in Rebirth #4 reads "lalna's kinda cute eh".
- Stuff Blowing Up: Blackrock Castle in Season 2 episode 4 of Rythian's series, apparently due to a dragon attack.
- Also the finale of Season 2
- Threat Backfire: Duncan thinks that the threat of three nukes under Rythian's base will deter Rythian from carrying out his vendetta against Sjin and Duncan. Unfortunately for Duncan, Rythian doesn't care about BlackRock Castle, so all Duncan accomplishes is making Rythian loathe him even more.
- Wham Episode: Episodes 28-29: Zoey's been doing science,and leaves Rythian to create her own facility with Teep.
- Wham Line: Zoey in Rythian's series, episode 29 : "I'm not going to be going back to Rythian's castle."
- After Rythian has been captured by Duncan in episode 4 of season 2:
Duncan: I may have installed a nuke. Under your base.\\- Rythian's unsent message to Zoey in episode 5 of season 2: "I love you"
- And another after the duo enter the twilight forest at the end of episode 8: I can't feel my magic anymore.
- Windmill Crusader: Rythian is absolutely obsessed with the evilness of technology, and blames it (along with Sjin and Duncan) for the destruction of the Old World, stating that technology causes suffering. Yet, ignores the fact that magic can be equally as dangerous, and was in large part equally responsible for the destruction of the old world arguing with Zoey when she tries to point it out a few times.
- You Can't Thwart Stage One: Rythian comes up with several plans to deal with the nuke under the Blackrock fortress. These range from surrounding it in blast proof materials to using force fields of their own. Zoey keeps talking him out of it, though; always insisting that it would be best if he just let her disarm it. This is especially jarring since the season 2 finale reveals that Zoey has no idea how to disarm the nuke.
