"I'm coming for you."
- "Out of all the eldritch horrors we've seen today...That one's definitely top of my list."— Smoke (Episode 6: Smoke & Mirrors Part 2)
The events of Scratched Universe take place where an alien race plots to take over the world by infecting its inhabitants into horrendous eldritch creatures that no one could imagine. So there will be monsters, deaths, and other creepy factors that are presented in the series
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Episode 1 - I for an Eye
- Midway into the Lazytropia match, a Monoculus cosmetic appears on a BLU Demoman's head. This attracts the attention of the actual Monoculus, who takes a liking to the cosmetic and decides to bestow it life... This forces the poor Demoman to behead himself with his bare hands, allowing his Monoculus cosmetic to float about on its own. Acoleyet the Neyenth is born, and Monoculus sets him out to test out his new abilities. His first course of action is to steal a RED Sniper's body and infiltrate a storage room where more Snipers like him are hanging out. He grows exasperated with their antics, cutting them short and dismembering the Snipers with a violent, magical, bloody explosion.
- After the V.A.C. team processes what they're looking at as Acoleyet introduces himself, they snap out of their confusion and train their weapons on their target. In response, Acoleyet sprouts arms in a fairly gruesome way, with them bursting out from under him as their forms gradually take shape. It completely shatters whatever confidence the team had left, especially when those arms allow Acoleyet to effortlessly kill his opponents in seconds. He reflects their bullets into them, causing all but the Soldier's head to blast apart with a spray of blood. The experience leaves the Soldier with a lot of trauma after he's revived, and his first action upon coming to is grieving them, shouting out to the heavens in outrage and despair.
- A V.A.C. BLU Sniper tries attacking Acoleyet from afar, and for his troubles, Acoleyet phases into the wall behind him and brutally smashes his head apart against it. Acoleyet then shoves his arms into the corpse's neck to commandeer it for himself, and he has the gall to make a quip about it:Acoleyet: [speaking with Sniper's voice] Well, I be stuffed! HEH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
- After all of the carnage he committed, Acoleyet initiates a ritual to summon a blood portal, using the body parts of each dead mercenary. This includes the Sniper body he possessed; he even nonchalantly tears the body's wrist open so it can bleed out blood, complete the portal, and allow him to escape.
- As the Soldier inspects some victims of Acoleyet's attack, a Sniffer rises into view in all its zombified, bony glory. With a raspy roar, it immediately rushes toward him. It's quite frightening on a first watch, as neither the Soldier nor the viewer know how he can possibly defend himself until the very last moment, when American Myth intervenes with his knife. Had it not been for that, the Soldier would've met a very abrupt end—just after being saved from death.
- One of the Soldier's first priorities is to check out the server's security rooms to read whatever status logs he can find. There, he happens across an unfortunate BLU Medic's corpse, who had his leg torn apart by a malfunctioning security door and his skull torn open by something, presumably a Sniffer. And in his last bit of consciousness, the Medic managed to write the three digit code of a briefcase with his own blood. It's one of the most grisly deaths in the series, especially this early on, and the Soldier stops to mourn him before making use of the code he wrote.
- When the Soldier gains access to the server's backbone, he discovers that it's become extremely uninviting. Corpses and Sniffers litter the place, and the entire area is overwhelmed by a thick, dark, gloomy fog. The tension of the episode reaches its peak here as the Soldier stealthily navigates his way to safety, killing any Sniffers getting in his way with his Stand.
- During the post-credits scene, a mysterious figure is shown in Lazytropia. Much like the Soldier, he appears to have a spirit following him, too. They are the ones responsible for the Sniffers overrunning the server; one magical tap of their hands ends up turning a Pyro's corpse into one of them. Their appearances immediately imply their malicious roles in this outbreak; the spirit has an exaggerated, skeletal face with glowing green eyes, while its owner's remains hidden, with only a single eye being shown.
Episode 2 - Endless Greed
- The atmosphere of the episode is a lot more outright spooky than the last. Heavy Guy and his team find themselves without an opposing team to fight on a Ghost Fort server, and the capture point is dysfunctional. Their first solution is to wait around and hope things return to normal... but they don't. Not only are there odd glitches in reality occurring, but someone is on the hunt for them, and they carefully assassinate each teammate one by one until only Heavy Guy is left.
- The Sniper is the first to go missing, and Heavy Guy orders everyone to split up and search for him. As the Demoman and the Pyro conduct their search, the point of view shifts to the killer, quietly breathing heavily as they stare at their potential prey. When the point of view returns to the Demoman and the Pyro, they're surprised to hear the Sniper's voice taunting them from above outside. His bloody corpse abruptly drops upon them, much to their horror.
- Having found the Sniper's body, the Pyro launches a flare to direct everyone's attention to his location, and the Demoman runs to get Heavy Guy and the Medic's help. During the few seconds the Demoman was absent, something attacked the Pyro and ripped out his throat, leaving behind their handiwork. The poor Demoman mourns the loss of his closest friend as the Medic suffers a panic attack.
- Everyone left alive starts accusing each other of being responsible for the Pyro and Sniper's deaths. Heavy Guy immediately suspects the Medic as the one responsible; he's missing a medal he started the match with, despite never returning to the spawn room to change his cosmetics. His suspicions are proven half-correct when the Medic soon stabs the Demoman to death without warning... But the Medic is not in control of himself. Someone has been invisibly puppeteering his dead body to commit the killings, and with no one but Heavy Guy left alive, the perpetrator finally reveals himself: The Masked Spy.
- With Heavy Guy as the only normal mercenary left alive, the Masked Spy decides to demonstrate his Stand, Fight the System, to show off how he's been screwing with reality in the server. He stands the Medic's corpse back up and proceeds to suck it into his body, using System like a straw. Nothing but the Medic's hat is left, and the Masked Spy spitefully stomps it into the dirt, taunting Heavy about how wonderful it feels to have the Medic's bodily fluids flowing within him.
Episode 3 - The Distortion
Episode 4 - Crossroads
Episode 5 - Kicking against Pricks
- The morning before Fixer and Jumpsuit start their new jobs, Fixer has his first hallucination of Hot Rod. Without warning, his friends disappear from view, replaced with Hot Rod's hemorrhaging corpse sitting nearby. Even worse, he's still alive, if barely, and he speaks to him. Fixer, stunned into silence, can only sit and stare as he's demeaned for his inaction when the Railway United Incident started... And then, Hot Rod threatens to visit him as a Distorted, startling Fixer and the audience with his newly grotesque facial features and warped voice. It's one of the most terrifying scenes in the series, as it perfectly encapsulates how deeply Fixer's trauma and guilt both run.[A hallucinating Fixer notices only Hot Rod's corpse in the room with him, and he drops his spoon in shock. A few seconds pass, and the corpse slowly leans up from its slump and raises its welding mask, looking at Fixer dead in the eyes.]
Hot Rod: Fixer... Why did you fall asleep? During your damn job!
[Fixer can't speak.]
Hot Rod: ... Y'know. I saw you asleep. But... I left you there. That was my mistake! Y'know why? I liked you, kid. You always were a great kid. And a great worker! Perhaps, too great... I felt pity.
[Hot Rod looks down and away from Fixer as if his pity were genuine.]
Hot Rod: Of all things... a man can die from. I died... Because of you. If you didn't slack off, I woulda' been here with y'all. Alive, and well... Maybe not well... But my point still stands!
[Fixer still says nothing.]
Hot Rod: I was really hoping we would all... make it out alive. To see all of you again!
[This strikes a nerve; Fixer clutches his chest and scrunches his face, fighting back tears. He glances up to see Hot Rod flashing a devilish smile.]
Hot Rod: Maybe... Maybe I will. Hope... is the last thing to die... Right...? I'm coming for you.
[Suddenly, Hot Rod's eyes pop out of his goggles, and he smiles even wider. He bursts into loud, maniacal laughter, his voice distorting and his face morphing into something that defies description. Thankfully, Jumpsuit snaps Fixer out of his daydream, leaving him and everyone else processing what the hell just happened.]
