Keep quiet - they have ears everywhere, and eyes, too. We know them, but at the same time we don't know them at all. Who are they? They're Many, and yet, One. Talking points: Speak-as-One, SAO & Humanity, The Shape, SAO's relationships with other gods.
Spoiler + Content warning begins at 1:14. Content warnings: General horror, cults, religious symbology, dehumanization, brainwashing, brief mention of suicide.
This episode has some inaccuracies! For more details, check out Ep 10: For the Record.
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/TDP-Ep7
Cass Marshall's article on Polygon: https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/27/20806677/blackout-club-enhanced-horror-xaviul-laugh-last-god-encounter
God Encounter Transcript Master doc: https://tinyurl.com/tbctranscripts
The Blackout Club store page on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/599080/
The Blackout Club Lexicon, for player/game lingo & terminology [on Google Docs]: bit.ly/TBCLexicon
Credits:
- lavanya: host, transcript, video editor, asset artist, speak-as-one's #1 fan
- astriferal: host, audio editor, puncher of things
- be11amy: advertising
- xaviul: guest, moral support
- spoderman: publicity, hype squad
- intro & outro music, "ringing bells": a weirdly handsome individual
- transition audio clips, music, voice lines: the blackout club/question games
- weird ambiance: Magmi Soundtracks on freesound (https://freesound.org/people/Magmi.Soundtracks/sounds/475737/)
- the blackout club: question games (https://www.blackoutclubgame.com)