History WebVideo / BenDrowned

** The Dying World.wmv: [[spoiler:While the Father's corruption continues to degrade the world, Sarah meets another ascended represented by Darmani, who not only blames Sarah for the cartridge's corruption, but reveals the presence of another player and the existence of a "mirror world".]] The dialogue also reveals that the Moon Children and many of the ascended [[spoiler:do not find Sarah's goals noble at all.]]

** [[spoiler: WHO AM I WHO AM I WHO AM I WHO AM I WHO AM I WHO AM I]]

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** [=The=] [=Father=].wmv, which reveals that [[spoiler:BEN wasn't the real villain, and was in fact trying to stop an even more powerful entity called "The Father" (also known as Kelbris) from being set free.]]

** From a hidden page from the Eternity Project: "[[spoiler:Reverted the site back to normal after the extended maintenece ''(sic)''. Was shocked to find it really reverted back to an old gateway from almost a decade ago.]] Need to talk to Abel about this." For context, Abel's plan was to [[spoiler:revert the Majora cartridge to its uncorrupted state 10 years ago, by letting Sarah play the Song of Time, which apparently had far more extensive unintended effects...]]

** '''[[spoiler:...The Eternity Project]]''', which turns everything about the story upside down. [[spoiler:The Moon Children was nothing more than ''a lie''. The entire thing is just a front to lure people into ascending as an experiment to transcend mortality. The website also reveals the organization is monitoring everyone inside the game (notably Sarah, Ben, Matt, Rosa and Jadusable), the existence of ''a multiverse'' composed of at least six worlds and that even ''Kelbris'' was nothing more than a [[UnwittingPawn pawn]] and a [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil victim]]. One week later, an ad for the Eternity Project was posted on Youtube: the whole cult front was discarded and they're now operating ''to the public as a business'', meaning anyone can pay to be digitized. And details from the current version of their site indicate the Project has become aware of the broken state of the Cartridge, which they call "World Alpha", leaving the players a means to access it and "reboot" Sarah, but the consequences of doing so are yet to be seen.]]

** [[spoiler:...The Eternity Project]], which turns everything about the story upside down. [[spoiler:The Moon Children was nothing more than ''a lie''. The entire thing is just a front to lure people into ascending as an experiment to transcend mortality. The website also reveals the organization is monitoring everyone inside the game (notably Sarah, Ben, Matt, Rosa and Jadusable), the existence of ''a multiverse'' composed of at least six worlds and that even ''Kelbris'' was nothing more than a [[UnwittingPawn pawn]]. It also reveals that certain characters, including Sarah, can be "rebooted". One week later, an ad for the Eternity Project was posted on Youtube: the whole cult front was discarded and they're now operating ''to the public'', meaning anyone can sign up to be digitized. And details from the current version of their site indicate the Project has become aware of the corruption in Cartridge, which they call "World Alpha", leaving the players a means to access it and revive Sarah, but the consequences of doing so are yet to be seen.]]

* WhamLine: A major one is hidden in the spectogram at the beginning of The Happy Mask Salesman.wmv:
-->'''''[[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead Jadusable is alive]]]]'''''
** A related massive spoiler in The Showdown.wmv, revealing the predecessor's identity: [[spoiler: '''Jadusable:''' Conquer your corrupted predecessor.]]
** From a hidden page from the Eternity Project: "[[spoiler:Reverted the site back to normal after the extended maintenece ''(sic)''. Was shocked to find it really reverted back to an old gateway from almost a decade ago.]] Need to talk to Abel about this." For context, Abel's plan was to [[spoiler:revert the Majora cartridge by letting Sarah play the Song of Time, which apparently had far more extensive effects...]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: [=TheTruth=].rtf. And then, nine years later, [=TheRealTruth.rtf=] comes out, revealing stuff that was omitted from the original file by BEN.]] The latter of those led into the Awakening Arc, which is functionally one WhamEpisode after the other as the endgame takes its course:
** [[spoiler: [=The=] [=Father=].wmv, which turns ''everything we thought we knew upside down.'']]
** [[spoiler: "Methods of Revolution (Prologue Part 1)": Our narrator for the Awakening arc's first phase [[TomatoInTheMirror is sharing his skull with the players]], has been caught by the Moon Children, and is using a room that's implied to have been used by Rosa after her disapperance but before her death.]]
** [[spoiler: "Methods of Revolution (Day 11)": Thanks to the players' recklessness, Jadus is killed by the Jailer and the game skips to Day 14, where the players are now in control of a female prisoner.]]
** [[spoiler: "Methods of Revolution (Day 21)": Abel has left something for Player 3, now known as Sarah: a Nintendo 64 with a copy of Majora's Mask. Said copy ''is the same that was owned by Jadusable.'' And as soon as she starts a new game, someone speaks to her.]]
** [[spoiler:"Methods of Revolution (Ben.wmv)": The Father is still trapped inside the cartridge and is keeping an eye on Sarah. She manages to escape where he can't find her. And then, she meets someone else: Ben. As in, '''''the real Ben''''', who's been waiting for someone to play a song for him.]]
** [[spoiler:riot.txt, Jadus' final entry of his diary before he was kidnapped by the Moon Children that was posted after Ben.wmv on the Methods of Revolution's website shows the societal collapse of the United States in greater detail. And it's not pretty.]]
** [[spoiler:The Truth.wmv. Not only is revealed that Ben and BEN are the same person, it also confirms that BEN is indeed a HiveMind created by the Father by using the souls of the victims he killed. As thanks for playing the Song of Healing, BEN gives Sarah the Adult Link Mask and tells her to go back to where it all began to stop the Father. Sarah then plays the Song of Time and goes back to the First Day, bringing the game back to its original state before the Father got free.]]
** [[spoiler: Methods of Revolution [The Truth.wmv] and The Last Hero.wmv both follow on from The Truth.wmv. The former sees Able reveal the nature of the Moon Children's [[BrainUploading Ascension]], and reveals that Ben was the first to undergo the process. The latter explains a bit more on BEN's backstory, revealing that the original Ben was a boy who just wanted to be his favorite video game character, only to be [[AndIMustScream trapped in the Elegy statue]] until Jad executing the Fourth Day glitch set him loose. And even while Sarah is learning this, The Father's started making his move to stop her.]]
** [[spoiler:The Prisoner: Since The Father has been weakened after the cartridge's restoration, the remaining Moon Children are now acting in his stead until he gets his strength back. After confronting the Goht Moon Child, Sarah is left to fight the aliens in Romani Ranch until Gomess shows up to kill her. Unable to kill him, Sarah goes inside the barn, only for her to meet Rosa, who's been imprisoned by the Moon Children since her ascencion. She then gives the Light Arrows and the Pendant of Memories to Sarah, with the latter item being required to free and restore the memories of those who are still trapped in the cartridge.]]
** [[spoiler:The Happy Mask Salesman.wmv: Sarah discovers that she can't turn back into Young Link after trying to take the mask off and being greeted by the Majora Moon Child. Rosa tells her that the cartridge was originally a safe haven for those who wanted to be free from the real world, but something happened and the cartridge became the way it is today. She also reveals that the Moon Children were nothing like they are today. Tatl is revealed to be Circle, another individual who got their memory back thanks to the Pendant of Memories. Before heading into Snowhead, Sarah returns to Clock Town, only to find the town deserted and Matt missing. After exploring the town, she finds the corpse of the Happy Mask Salesman while the reverse Song of Healing plays in the background. And right before she leaves the town, the Moon Children sends Wart to kill her, but not before showing a glimpse of someone the players never seen before.]]
** [[spoiler:The Dying World.wmv: Thanks to The Father's corruption, Snowhead is starting to deteriorate. Sarah meets Ryan, another ascended individual represented by Kaepora Gaebora. Thanks to Ryan's help, Sarah obtains the Lens of Truth and the second Heart Piece. With the Lens, Sarah meets someone else represented by Darmani, who not only blames Sarah for the cartridge's corruption, but reveals that someone else came to Snowhead recently and the existence of a "mirror world". After all that, Sarah confronts the Goht Moon Child and wins, leaving only two Moon Children to defeat.]]
** [[spoiler:The Predecessor.wmv: With two Moon Children defeated, the Gyorg Moon Child goes to Great Bay to stop Sarah while the Twinmold Moon Child goes to Termina in order to lure someone known as "the predecessor" out of hiding. Sarah arrives at a corrupted version of Great Bay where the water behaves as if it doesn't exist and Sarah simply walks along the ocean floor. Sarah goes to Pinnacle Rock, where she encounters the Gyorg Moon Child, who says he thinks killing Sarah probably wouldn't accomplish anything, so instead, he makes Sarah invincible in order to make the fight last forever and run out the game clock. Sarah is now stranded at the bottom of Pinnacle Rock, unable to swim back up to the entrance due to the strange water behaviour and unable to deal damage to Gyorg without the Zora Mask. Rosa tries to give her the Zora Mask, only to discover that she can't... because ''somebody else is already using it''. One of Gyorg's attacks accidentally launches Sarah back up to the entrance, allowing her to escape from the fight. However, instead of reappearing back in Great Bay, Sarah is instead transported to a white void outside the game's bounds where she meets the person using the Zora Mask: '''''Jadusable'''''. The video ends at the screen announcing the Dawn of the Final Day. Gyorg may not have been able to run out the entire clock like he wanted, but did manage to waste the rest of the Night of the Second Day, leaving Sarah only one more game day to get the remaining two Heart Containers and perform the fourth day glitch.]]
** [[spoiler:The Showdown.wmv: Jadusable, now working with The Father, turns his Link into Fierce Deity and warps Sarah to the Chamber of Sages in Ocarina of Time. Cut to them fighting each other, ending with Sarah ''dying''. Before the video ends, BEN sends a link to a new website for...]]
** [[spoiler:...The Eternity Project, which reveals something major: The Moon Children was nothing more than ''a lie''. The entire thing is just a front to lure people into ascending as an experiment to transcend mortality. The website also reveals the organization is monitoring everyone inside the game (notably Sarah, Ben, Matt, Rosa and Jadusable), the existence of ''a multiverse'' composed of six worlds and that Kelbris was nothing more than their [[UnwittingPawn pawn]] this whole time.]]
** [[spoiler: One week later, an ad for the Eternity Project was posted on Youtube: the whole cult was discarded, but they're now operating ''to the public'', meaning anyone can be digitized. And details from the current version of their site indicate the Project has become aware of the goings on with the Cartridge, which is thier "World Alpha", and that it's fragile if not on the verge of failure, leaving the players a means to access it and revive Sarah, but the consequences of doing so are yet to be seen.]]

** [[spoiler: And details from the Eternity Project site indicate the Project has become aware of the goings on with the Cartridge, which is thier "World Alpha", and that it's fragile if not on the verge of failure, leaving the players a means to access it and revive Sarah, but the consequences of doing so are yet to be seen.]]

* RecapEpisode: During the Awakening arc, a file titled [=TheRealTruth.rtf=] was published in the Methods of Revolution website. It is essentially a compiled recap of the Haunted Cartridge arc, containing all of Jadusable's video summaries alongside [=TheTruth.rtf=]. [[spoiler:However, it contains major differences compared to what Jadusable posted in 2010: all mentions of Ben are renamed to BEN, and a new entry written by BEN (or rather, the in-game Moon Children that were part of BEN) was added to the document, revealing that he tampered with [=TheTruth.rtf=] years ago.

** [[spoiler:...The Eternity Project, which reveals something major: The Moon Children was nothing more than ''a lie''. The entire thing was just an act to lure people into ascending as an experiment to transcend mortality. The website also reveals Sarah's status as dead, the existence of six worlds and that Kelbris was nothing more than their [[UnwittingPawn pawn]] this whole time.]]

** [[spoiler:The Showdown.wmv: Jadusable, now working with The Father, turns his Link into Fierce Deity and warps Sarah to the Chamber of Sages in Ocarina of Time. Cut to them fighting each other, ending with Sarah ''dying''. Before the video ends, BEN sends a link to a new website.]]

** [[spoiler:The Predecessor.wmv: With two Moon Children defeated, the Gyorg Moon Child goes to Great Bay to stop Sarah while the Twinmold Moon Child goes to Termina in order to lure someone known as "the predecessor" out of hiding. Upon arriving at a corrupted version of Great Bay, Sarah goes to Pinnacle Rock, only for her to fall into Gyorg's trap: she's now invincible, but she's stuck at the bottom of Pinnacle Rock and unable to do any damage to Gyorg. Rosa tries to give her the Zora's Mask, but she's unable to. Why? Because ''someone else'' is using the mask. Sarah manages to escape Pinnacle Rock, but the time she spent trapped in the area was enough for the game to advance to the Final Day, leaving her only 24 hours to get the two Heart Containers and perform the glitch. Right before the video ends, Sarah goes outside the game's bounds and meets the person using the Zora's Mask. The person in question? '''''Jadusable.''''']]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: [=TheTruth=].rtf. And then, nine years later, [=TheRealTruth.rtf=] comes out, revealing stuff that was omitted from the original file by BEN.]] This led into the Awakening Arc, which is functionally one WhamEpisode after the other as the endgame takes its course:

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: [=TheTruth=].rtf. And then, nine years later, [=TheRealTruth.rtf=] comes out, revealing stuff that was omitted from the original file by BEN.]]

** [[spoiler:The Happy Mask Salesman.wmv: Sarah discovers that she can't turn back into Young Link after trying to take the mask off and being greeted by the Majora Moon Child. Rosa tells her that the cartridge was originally a safe haven for those who wanted to be free from the real world, but something happened and the cartridge became the way it is today. She also reveals that the Moon Children were nothing like they are today. Tatl is revealed to be Circle, another Moon Child who got their memory back thanks to the Pendant of Memories. Before heading into Snowhead, Sarah returns to Clock Town, only to find the town deserted. After exploring the town, she finds the corpse of the Happy Mask Salesman while the reverse Song of Healing plays in the background. And right before she leaves the town, the Moon Children sends Wart to kill her, but not before showing a glimpse of someone the players never seen before.]]

* Escapism: [[spoiler:This was the original purpose of the haunted cartridge: a safe haven for those who wanted to escape the harshness of the real world and live a peaceful life inside the game. However, something started affecting the cartridge (heavily implied to be The Father) and those who got digitized, resulting in the current state of the cartridge.]]

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: An interesting case of integrating ''Majora's Mask's'' base game mechanics with the narrative; during "The Prisoner.wmv", [[spoiler: the Moon Children]] summon a Gomess to fight [[spoiler: Sarah]]. Since [[spoiler: she]] doesn't have the light arrows, she's incapable of defeating it. It's only after [[spoiler: she flees and finds Rosa - who grants her the light arrows -]] that she can fight back and end the threat.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:It's implied that BEN is the spirit of a boy who fell in with the Moon Children cult and drowned himself for the purpose of "ascension". Somehow Ben's spirit got trapped in in the Majora's Mask game cartridge, and he wants out.]] [[spoiler: At the end of Arc 1, he succeeded.]]

** [[spoiler:The Truth.wmv. Not only is revealed that Ben and BEN are the same person, it also confirms that BEN is indeed a HiveMind created by the Father by using the souls of the victims he killed. As thanks for playing the Song of Healing, BEN gives Sarah the Adult Link Mask and tells her to go back to where it all began to stop the Father. Sarah then plays the Song of Time and goes back to the First Day, bringing the game back to its original state before the Father got free. And by that, I mean ''back to 2010''.]]

On March 17th, 2020, nine years after free.wmv was uploaded, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbSsjrasDU8 a new video]] was uploaded on Jadusable's channel, followed by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U11pXIg5-Q another]] two days later. And as of March 20th, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4Mtt0nQwY it seems]] that [[HereWeGoAgain a new chapter is about to unfold]]...