Methods of Revolution [Ben.wmv]
| Video title | Methods of Revolution [Ben.wmv] |
|---|---|
| Creator | Sarah |
| Channel | Jadusable |
| Upload date | May 30, 2020 |
| Runtime | 4:08 |
| Tags | N/A |
| Game | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask |
"But anyway, that's interesting, right? I mean it's not every day that there's a crazy AI out there that tries to communicate with you. You should keep on talking to it and see what it wants. You know, pull its strings a little bit."
Methods of Revolution [Ben.wmv] is the eighteenth video of Awakening and the thirty-eighth video in Ben Drowned. It is preceded by Methods of Revolution [Day 21] and followed by The Truth.wmv.
Synopsis
Sarah plays the game. She encounters the Happy Mask Salesman lying down in the forest before being taken to a safe place below. The seemingly-kind entity she encounters calls himself Ben and requests for her to play a song.
Video
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Transcript
The Rosa intro plays as images flash on screen. The first image shows the Majora's Mask cartridge and the Nintendo 64 console in Sarah's room. The second and third images are screenshots of methodsofrevolution.com's homepage, showing a journal entry from Jadus called "riot.txt". The fourth is a corrupted version of the text from the end of Methods of Revolution (Day 21), now reading "@A@@@C@C@ESARH - That's a nic" with part of the text in red.
The video begins with Sarah having entered the cartridge. She appears in a forest area with several bare tree trunks in the centre – the same area in which Skull Kid steals Majora's Mask from the Happy Mask Salesman in the original game. She hesitantly walks forward toward the tree trunks where she finds the Happy Mask Salesman lying on the ground, presumably dead, looking up at the sky with his bag sitting beside him. The forest shakes, and Sarah switches to first-person mode. She looks at the Happy Mask Salesman's body, before looking up at the sky to see a corrupted moon with Kelbris' face. She quickly exits first-person mode and runs toward a corner of the field. Sarah suddenly jumps through the floor and falls for a few seconds, taking fall damage as she lands in a white void. The Song of Healing begins to play as the screen goes black and a blue text box flashes on screen, reading "It's OK... you're safe from him here." Sarah looks around in the white void to see the forest area above her. She walks forward, and the music stops as the screen fades to black.
Blue text boxes appear. The first reads "It's been so long since I've seen anyone." The second reads "My name is Ben. Please... I don't know what he's saying about me but it isn't true..." A new piano track begins to play as Sarah appears in a similar forest area from before, this time with mist covering the area and several spots of light shining from above. She looks to the left to see a tree trunk with Link and Skull Kid engraved on it; it is the same trunk from the end credits of the original game. She approaches it and examines it closer in first-person before the music stops. Another text box flashes on screen, which reads "Can you be the one to finally play me the song?" Sarah then takes out her ocarina and waits to play a song.
The screen suddenly switches off and the video cuts back to the hotel room. Sarah presses buttons on the controller and looks back towards the TV in confusion before the phone beside her makes a crackling sound. Sarah turns toward the phone as Abel begins to speak: "Well, that's weird... I know the game's old, but come on." He laughs. "That shouldn't really matter here. Huh... let me try rebooting something." As Sarah turns back around towards the TV, rapid flashes of static appear in her view and a brief glimpse of an image from the original Methods of Revolution website is seen, depicting a man staring out of a large window overlooking a city. As Sarah looks at the N64 controller in her hand and moves the control stick, Abel continues, "But anyway, that's interesting, right? I mean it's not every day that there's a crazy AI out there that tries to communicate with you. You should keep on talking to it and see what it wants. You know, pull its strings a little bit."
Sarah looks back towards the TV and the footage cuts back to the gameplay from the cartridge. The video ends with Sarah waiting to play a song.
Gallery
The following images were used as thumbnails leading up to the premiere:
Notes
- This is the first time the Song of Healing has been heard in its original, unreversed form.
- This video marks the first in-game appearance of Ben.
- The piano song which plays after Ben's introduction, titled "Ben's Theme", was confirmed by Alex Hall to be an AI-generated song created with a deep learning neural network, based upon the Song of Healing.
