"Against— Dream, was it?" 

"That is correct, yes." They head back out. "Wilbur made the van, I believe. And the revolution."

...sometimes it's really, really easy to be fond of Wilbur. (Fuck, he misses his Wilbur.) He follows Eret out, still keeping his hands to himself. 

Once out, Eret faces the the black-brick wall. "This was the wall that surrounded L'Manberg. I made it because we were immediately under attack by the Dream SMP. Wilbur started it, with the black and yellow concrete, but I added all the blackstone and built it up to what it would become."

"What did it become?" 

"...Taller, mostly. It didn't--protect the nation inside as well as we might have hoped."

"What made it a nation? Like, as opposed to a household or a group of friends or something." 

"It was--I mean, we didn't share a household. But it was also a--community, an ideology. And of course part of it was just that that's what Wilbur called it."

When your friend group is also your community is also your ideology is also demanding independence and getting it and can order executions, maybe it just is a country. A really, really small country, still, but. 

"...more of an answer than Wilbur had, I'll take it." 

"I suppose that's all I can ask for." They walk to the right of the wall, towards the two rooms. "These are the control rooms. L'Manberg was--it started as an independence movement. My whole thing is-- I wanted to see-- I saw war as a bad thing, I wanted L'Manberg to--reintegrate into the SMP. I wanted everyone to stop fighting, I wanted peace. And the way I saw that--having built the walls and helped L'Manberg so much--" They walk into the room made of blackstone bricks with the chests inside. There's a sign at the entrance, labeling it Final Control Room. "--was to deliver a crushing blow to their military. And in this room, I brought them all into here, pressed the button" (they demonstrate this by pressing the button) "and it opened several doors, letting in the entire Dream SMP army. They slaughtered the L'Manbergians. They were trapped so they couldn't escape."

...there's four chests here, plus Eret's. Eret, the Eret he met at sixteen, the Eret who won the fifty-seventh Hunger Games, had four allies— 

"That's— huh. Can I tell you something weird, I don't know if it means anything but—" 

"Go for it."

"So, the thing where I look and sound like Quackity, it's not a one off. Before I showed up here, on this server, I lived near a Tommy and a Tubbo, I was dating a Sapnap, I was friends with a Wilbur. And nobody I've met here is exactly the same, but there's— weird coincidences, sometimes. 

There's someone I know named Eret. And when they were in the Hunger Games— uh, in a death arena that only one person could make it out of alive, that is— they had four allies, and they told them they'd found a source of water and led them into an enclosed space and killed them by pushing a button. And that's, that's obviously not the only thing they've ever done, it's obviously not the only thing you've ever done, but— it rhymes weirdly closely." 

"It sometimes feels like it's the only thing anyone will remember me for."

"I don't know Eret very well. I know they're friends with Foolish. The two of them collaborated a while ago, on— some kind of kinetic sculpture thing I don't really understand? I think they used to work for an electrical plant. They're in the mentoring ring every single year, most people don't realize how impressive that is but it's really impressive. They turned thirty-one a few months ago." 

(He doesn't in fact know Eret very well and he can tell this is sort of weaksauce but— you can't just tell someone 'oh, yeah, your alternate universe counterpart tried to handle that by coming out and it almost even worked, now they're known almost as much for wearing dresses as they are for the deaths of four people who trusted them.' Even if it's true. Especially if it's true.)

"I'm friends with Foolish as well. We haven't done any collaborations. Maybe we should."

"I think I understand what this Foolish does even less somehow. It'd probably be cool, though." 

"Have you seen his summer home? You should, if you haven't. It's a bit out of the way but it's worth it."

"I haven't! I've mostly been around Kinoko and Las Nevadas, I'll check that out." 

"It's absolutely gorgeous. And massive, the amount of time he must have worked on it--I suppose if you've seen Kinoko you have some idea of what he can build."

"I do." He hadn't actually known that was Foolish but it does make sense. "I live there, actually, it really is gorgeous." 

"If you come over to the maps over here" --they're on the other side of the museum, they have to walk over to them, but the museum isn't that large -- "you can see it--I had to make a whole separate map for it, that's how big it is." There are two maps on the wall. "Here's Kinoko Kingdom and Las Nevadas. You can, uh, see how big they are in comparison."

"Holy fucking shit." 

But also, if Kinoko is empty, if Las Nevadas is too much space for too few people, and Foolish's summer home, just for himself, empty most of the time, looks like that— this thought doesn't really go anywhere. 

"Yeah. As I said, it's definitely worth seeing."

"—what's it like? Having something that can be called a country, and have that mean anything, and it's only got six people in it?"