I hope that Badwater being afraid of the dark room isn’t a major plot point with some spooky dark figure. It would be cooler if it played into the idea that Badwater is someone younger that has been given too much power over sentient beings and is abusing it, that making sense as to why he’s afraid of the dark room, being young and afraid. His outburst in the tutorial video also adds to the theory.
I like how the dark room in gm-construct, which is often the “bad place” in most g-mod ARGs is a safe place here. It’s a nice way of turning a trope on its head
Well yea a pure white void kinda sucks, how tf can you judge distances that easily second is, what was inside the dark corridor that scared the animator to begin with.....also found you lol
feels like the antagonist (or player) probably heard of the dark room creepypastas and decides to avoid it while npcs dont hear about dumb internet rumors and just see it as another escape option.
I think it's due to the visibility, badwater might feel vulnerable because it's so hard to see and could be led into some sort of ambush by the ragdolls or lose his way. At least i'm hoping, and it isn't due to 'spooky shadow figure'. But knowing this arg creator, i'm sure he's got something much better in store than that. very interesting that there's a bed and light in their though, someone had to have placed those
It's wild how even knowing that Badwater doesn't catch Scout from the "How to Animate" video, watching Scout try to sneak off without getting caught was still an insanely tense moment.
My fact about badwatervideos Hes not a child is rather confusing what people thinks that gmoder that he's is a child but it not, in fact it is a conspiracy theory made by Richter overtime a YTber that made these explainations of these ARGS, what I don't like about its speculation itself is not well explained and too conspiring, fact he had doubts about gmoders, gunslingerpro2009 and badwatervideos2009 aren't the same gmoder as others think about this ARG, this is why the white room is important for other gmoders to transport in all types or kinds of maps what makes annoy to adult gmoders is phenomenons that cause and affects the game by itself in fact the gmoder is not always a kid he's doing a part of his job to make videos
@@b0cket380 i agree GSP and BWV are not the same people, the Q&A basically confirmed it's not the same universe. not sure if hes a kid or adult though, i don't think we have enough info to go either way yet
Yea and the fact scout has been praising himself in the past for being incredibly swift only for badwater to be able to catch him must be a shot to his ego and terrifying because well he runs at what 22 mph and badwater can outrun him so I’d be terrified if I ran that fats and some rando in a lab coat caught up to me that fast
@@sinctova Pretty likely. We never see BLU Heavy again, and if deleted ragdolls could be brought back the Soldier incident wouldn't have mattered. On the other hand Teethineer is either incredibly resilient, or deletion is the only way to kill them.
@@darkuscarlet if it was permanent, I don't think he would just throw away BLU heavy like that. Assuming its permanent, there are only 9 classes, and with the 2 separate colors 18 characters. You think he would just delete one of the characters for slightly acting up?
I am not sure if they are entirely "ragdolls". We do see the Scout in the perspective of a normal player playing TF2. (First video posted.) I believe they are more of a actual person. Not like "a person trapped in the game" or "a sentient AI" but more of a outside force controlling the ragdolls. Considering the scout isn't already deleted, we have to assume there is something saving him. Probably the same thing letting him go through the "passage". If a "guardian angel" and exist, something tells me we can have this be a sentient character or a person controlling the character.
Really nice concept of the dark room being a sanctuary for what i'd like to call the protagonist of this series instead of a place to be feared,well i guess badwater's afraid of it yeah but still.
If these were only bad waters videos you could argue he’s the protagonist is more say that it’s playing into that classic fear of the darkroom we all had not subverting it
I’m a bit skeptical about bad water being a 13-14. To be fair I’m 15 and I still get a little spooked about scary rumors but usually at that age you know it would be fake like Santa or something. Also in the second melon man video, he threatens the removal tool on melon man. If he knows his rag dolls are alive and basically fear them like a god, then why wouldn’t they think the spooky dark room figure wouldn’t fear them as well. If he was a kid say 13-14, why wouldn’t he be put off by say the dying rag dolls screams and cries, but be put off by a dark room? I just think it’s a little weird that they ain’t scared of the rag dolls but scared of a black room at that age. Then again I could be wrong.
@@maderspotz2140 probably because the kid is a psychopath and doesent give a dam if he is torturing live ragdolls infact hes most likely glad they are alive so he can fuel is psychopathisty
I feel this is less of a traditional ARG, in which there is a mystery we are too solve (Or be solved), but just an innovative mix of gameplay and animation that creates a mysterious narrative
Yeah, it's almost like it isn't an ARG at all. But that's rediculous; obviously all media with a mysterious edge to it is automatically an ARG even though an ARG is defined by finding clues scattered across multiple media types in various locations or anything.
I think that's why the first video that we saw the white room in is called "Passage". The White Room is not a safe haven, it's a passage that allows you to teleport to different maps without actually leaving the game and loading into a new map.
@@thesoldier3537 well yes but as we saw on gunslingerpro, we know he can't hid there forever as he could be simply trapped with a simple weld and a door. Unless that guardian angel radio has another fake door for a wormhole he might need to move out of there fast
I love that the dark room’s usual spookyness has been used in an unconventional way in this series, and actually works to the protagonists advantage. absolutely genius lol
that detail is actually genius, in the classic gmod args the dark room is used as a place of terror as thats where the spooky shit was hiding. this probably stemed due to the rooms sens eon unease in actual gmod. of course theres nothing in there but still badwater would still not follow his "play things" into that room. considering how hes probably afraid of such an area. its like dropping your toy under the bed.
Most likely yes. The ragdolls are tied down to the point where they can't even move their eyes, but they can still feel the things/surroundings around them. If the Engineer could speak, he would've probably warned Scout about the dangers of what's happening to them.
@@workingjoe5599 i think it’s more because of them being frozen. scout is the only ragdoll we see able to free himself, as seen in one of the videos. so badwater most likely froze engineer, or statue’d him so that he couldn’t escape removal.
Wasn’t 2008 around the time where Gmod was rumored to be hainted (specifically rp_downtown of course). Maybe he heard those rumors and now he’s paranoid.
I think the reason badwater is afraid of the dark room is more superstition than anything else. I mean, at that time I was (I mean, at the time when the Badwater videos are supposed to take place) that belief that something bad was in that dark room was very strong and the players stayed away from that place.
It seems that Badwater was actually afraid of going into the darkroom. Is it because there's something in there that can possibly defeat him and help the ragdolls, given that it is indeed on their side, and Badwater doesn't want to risk it? is it just because it's the natural fear of the infamous black room? maybe this further proves the theory of him actually being quite young. Guess we'll have to wait and see, at least until Richter makes a video about this. :P
It might just be that badwater had a video to finish and instead of wasting his time chasing a misbehaving ragdoll he'd rather just spawn in a fresh one and finish the video and find the scout later, I could be wrong though.
@@HankHillbrecht Good theory, though considering how much trouble Scout has really caused him, he'd be pretty mad at him. Especially when running off yet again. But of course, I could also be wrong.
something I would like to note is that engineer didn’t react to scout when he touched him, is his entire body frozen so can not move, or maybe he knew bad water was gonna come back for him for the tutorial video and he didn’t want to risk his life
@@kumekazuma7728 nah, he's scared of the dark room. Like most players in Gmod ARGS, the dark room is sinister to them. But for the npc's and Ragdolls, the exact opposite of the players, it is a safe heaven.
@@soggybreadman4035 that is another possibility too, but like, why didn't he just put some lights in that room? So then maybe badwater could get scout easily, or maybe he will launch a video where he goes to that room, to see If he can find scout
Out of every horrible thing in this series, theres just something about the Scout and his situation that hits the hardest. Going from a well meaning, snarky little brat in canon, to being abused and broken and terrified out of his wits as he can do absolutely nothing but quietly sneak away and curl into a ball to hide from this absolute monster of a player is extremely heartbreaking to me.
Alright, It’s pretty obvious that Badwater is scared of the dark room, it could be because he’s a kid and all gmod kids are afraid of the dark room, or something worse could actually be in there. It might just be something evil, but what if it isn’t? what if the shadow entity in this ARG is on the side of the ragdolls, and wants to help them against the player?
unlike a lot of other people who are commenting, i really hope the shadow man doesn't show up in this - i feel like it'd ruin the quality of the channel if badwater relied on such a tired trope. instead i do think that scout's "guardian angel" is the person who may have been controlling him in the beginning, before his HUD vanished
I'm going to assume that at the end of the video, Scout must've came across a mattress, before laying on it and falling asleep, thus ending the video with a fade to black.
God just imagine waking up in world only for a god-like being with a strange object that picks up things and has the ability to noclip around the world just chasing you down.
I've never been so genuinely tense and nervous before, this series is amazing. Also, I wonder if the dates of these scout-focused videos in the description have any meaning. This is about a month after the last one, it seems.
I did the math 2009-08-27 to 2009-09-22, 26 days and about 3 hour inside the white void. 2009-08-15 to 2009-08-27, 12 days and about 3 hour of being kidnapped, forced to partake in a movie, kidnapped by some guardian angel, and wake up in Passage. Also the time it took from being captured to nearly being removed is about 5 hour. Still have no idea what it meant tho
Holy shit HOLY SHIT HE DID IT! HE DID THE THING! HE UPLOADED! EDIT: Apparently the dark room is a safe haven for the mercs because the player's afraid of it. Never would've thought of that.
I don't think BadWater is afraid of it. Rather, he couldn't see where the Scout was because it was too fucking dark to see shit in just the hallway itself.
BADWATER: part 3 SANCTUARY As the scout got up, he hoped that everything that had happened was a dream. But the void that surrounded him disproved him. But then a terrifying sound echoed through the emptiness, footsteps. The scout jolted awake just in time to see the same being that he feared walking through what he had just previously seen as a safe place, fortunately not noticing him. Quietly thanking his lucky stars, scout walked through the blank halls to find another doorway similar to the one he entered. Scout walked into the scene as a Red Engineer caught his eye. He walked over to the engineer and tried to move him to no avail, but this one was alive, unlike that sniper. But before a small joy could materialize, he went limp again as the monster captured him again….. Scout woke up once more, this was getting tiring now, something he could have said if he could speak, as well as if the perpetrator was not in front of him. This was the closest look he had gotten of the monster so far. It seemed to look like a middle aged man, though he doubted that was who the monster truly was. The thing grabbed scouts had with the mysterious blue light again, forcing him to wave his hand to a fixed camera. After a pause it did the same thing again, and again. After that it turned to a set of objects and brought out the gun he used to delete the heavy and all the other things before. This time however, he seemed to be assembling them into some kind of contraption. The scout paid no mind to this and looked for an escape route. He spotted a massive building with an ominous room at the back of it. As much as scout tried, he could not look away from the room, and then decided to head over to it. He could feel the control coming back to his body, as he rushed to the door while the monster was distracted, but as he entered the room he tripped and fell on the ground. To scouts dismay, he heard the footsteps of the monster coming straight for him as he braced himself for his end. But it did not come, scout peeked past his raised arm to see the player hesitant to enter the dark room, before retreating away. The scout stood up and walked through the room, before finding a mattress illuminated by a small light. As he laid down on it many questions ran through his mind. Was he safe? Why is he here? Where is here? What is that monster? But he knew the answer to the most important of the questions in the back of his mind, he Was safe, this wasn’t some kind of hell, but rather a safe place. Sanctuary, as one could say as he drifted off to sleep. Peacefully, this time, he could finally rest peacefully for once… To be continued in DISCOVERY ua-cam.com/video/SkOkH9rBuOM/v-deo.html
Here’s my speculation. The white endless void is what it looks like to be in the map selection. Badwater knew how to transfer ragdolls to different maps. In the video we see scout spotting a doorway to a different map. Then when the scout inspects the area through that door then he gets caught by badwater. Then scout wakes up in gm_construct. Badwater was making a tutorial but scout decided to sneak away from badwater and scout ran to the dark room. The scout trips and badwater spotted him. Badwater was ready to grab him but he probably saw something behind the scout that the scout couldn’t see and badwater got scared and went for a different ragdoll. The thing that scared off badwater would probably be the dark figure seen in other args. So my speculation is that the thing that protects scout is the dark figure. And then scout became tired. When the scout walked right into the dark room, he saw a bed and light knowing that it’s best to rest for now. But that’s my theory
This isn't an ARG. There's no puzzle we have to solve to discover the rest of the story or anything. Now, if these ragdoll POV videos were uploaded on various other platforms and you could only find them through hidden URLs, then it would be an ARG. But since they're all right here in this UA-cam channel, it's just a suspenseful series.
oh my god, I love the level of detail here. if you go back to watch the walking tutorial, you can see scout disappear after Badwater welds the brick and canister
0:11 melon-man is being transported to the next chapter 0:36 this enginner, probably the future theetineer is in an inanimated pose, (it would be increadible if we can see how he becomes a monster) 0:55 badwater is moving the scout like a toy, be can see that he is moving (probably his right arm and leg) 2:55 i have two theorys for the scout (1, scout is a player, so he knows that the dark room is a safe place from younger players and 2, scout sees darkness as a way out of the player) 3:52 the dark room, the infamous place, has turned into a sactuary for our protagonist
1. the teethineers are blue 2. badwater moving scout is because hes making a video shown earlier in his channel 3. scout is a ragdoll, theres no indication that it's a player
@@theman933 ua-cam.com/video/CwmjmEewadU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=BadwaterVideos2009 in this video it shows that red scout is a player actually i dont think the scout on this video is another one so yea
@@theman933 I think Scout "was" a player, or at least a player-controlled character, at some point. But when Badwater first captured him, the connection between him and the person playing him were severed.
This isn't an ARG. There's a mystery going on in the narrative, but it isn't a puzzle we have to solve to find out the whole story. Now, if these ragdoll POV videos were uploaded on various other platforms and you could only find them through hidden URLs, then it would be an ARG. But since they're all right here in this UA-cam channel, it's just a suspenseful series.
I hope bad water keeps on making this Arg. It's a nice a new way to tell a good story. I like the dark room being a safe place while the white room strikes with fear.
Imagine a Gmod series (I refuse to call them ARGs) where the player doesn't know the Ragdolls are alive at first, being confused whenever a ragdoll would suddenly twitch but chalking it up to some quirk with the physics engine. Then he'd get weirded out when he finds ragdolls in a different place than he left them. Then he'd get creeped out when he starts finding them in poses that he didn't put them in and are way too natural looking to be chalked up to the physics engine. As the sentience of the ragdolls gets more and more apparent, the player (who is the only POV we'd get) becomes more and more freaked out, especially when at one point he accidentally backs into an environmental hazard because he was too distracted threatening a ragdoll with his tool gun, and the ragdoll picks up the dropped tool gun and gains access to the spawn and c menus. Then the big reveal is that the ragdolls we're never trying to hurt him, and in fact are just as afraid of him as he is of them. And the final video is the player making a Gmod animation with the ragdolls, but this time the ragdolls are moving freely and going along with it, then they all celebrate after the animation is finished being recorded.
I watched this before I went to sleep last night and I ended up having some dream that Badwater had a friend with a mic who was playing gmod with him (and was aware of the sentient ragdolls) and the friend would scream or yell out, “this motherf*cker moved!” and Badwater would come and the video would cut out… kinda terrified that my mind was able to do that, but it made me think of how interesting it’d be to hear how someone would sound when messing with the sentient ragdolls. (The voice was that of a teenager, if anyone cares 😂)
From 1:30 to 1:55, BadWater just stands there, motionless. Imagine getting kidnapped and being completely immobilized, and your kidnapper is right in front of you, watching you. Just watching you, motionless.
I think what's happening is he paused the game, the models and such freeze and stop animating but the physgun glow usually doesn't freeze when you pause. Nice attention to detail. When Badwater's playermodel stops breathing, it's not just him that's frozen. Scout probably couldn't move if he wanted to in that moment either.
@@Walternity still, the still shot was so ominous and creepy to me. It's like staring face to face with a god who can easily obliterate you at any given moment.
With all these sentient ragdoll args where the player is evil it makes me wish there was one where the player had like tea parties and stuff with his ragdolls, just as like a contrast to the evil ones. Like maybe the nice player could be a kid who was bullied in school and likes to spend his time making the ragdolls happy so he feels better.
Imagine that tho. Like he even is like “so I spawned in this rag doll and it started moving! I made a little house for it and stuff. That was a good day :)
Or maybe he plays nice with his Ragdolls, like how Andy played nice with his toys, but then he starts noticing odd things like props moving around or Ragdolls changing poses when he's not looking, resulting in him becoming scared of the Ragdolls or be afraid of some malicious entity within the game like those Gmod creepypastas revolving around some entity originating from the dark room, when really it's just a toy story situation and the Ragdolls don't mean any harm, and are in fact just as afraid of him as he is of them. The best part would be that since the player isn't aware of the fact that his Ragdolls are alive, we won't be aware of it either, at least not at first.
either badwater is scared of the dark room being a kid/teenager/having nyctophobia, or he just simply juuuuuust missed the red scout the moment he got into the darkness because badwater wasn't using the flashlight
I just realized, Scout doesn't know that Badwater is making these videos for youtube. All he knows is that he and his friends are being used as puppets for some insane guy's amusement.
Great video love the trope of the dark room being flipped from being this Evil place to it being a safe haven (also it seems my theory of the red engineer being a normal ragdoll was right it's also cool that the sentient ones don't know he isn't alive it's a cool plot element imagine how you would react if you just found a non sentient human who doesn't rot or anything but just kindove never was alive creepy)
@@dottych hope so, i am way too attached to the characters for the next part to just not happen, just spent half an hour sketching a poster for this series instead of doing my homework
I hope that Badwater being afraid of the dark room isn’t a major plot point with some spooky dark figure. It would be cooler if it played into the idea that Badwater is someone younger that has been given too much power over sentient beings and is abusing it, that making sense as to why he’s afraid of the dark room, being young and afraid. His outburst in the tutorial video also adds to the theory.
Me too
Yeah, him just being a player afraid to go in there, a common theme in the playerbase, is what I hope it is, too.
Bruh even adults afraid of that room💀 shits creepy
@@zhx4195 ghiacchio moment
I thought of that god being a child plot point too in the past and this video is just perfect for it. It's too good
I like how the dark room in gm-construct, which is often the “bad place” in most g-mod ARGs is a safe place here. It’s a nice way of turning a trope on its head
Its a bad place for the player but a good place for the npc's
Yeah, and for some reason the combine always go to the darkroom naturally
WELP NOT SCARY FOR ME!!!!
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and i guess the white room is already seen as a "bad place" since thats how the player moves around, so that would make sense
@@sentientoven5219 which is weird since, as far as i know, black mesa hecu soldiers, which use combine ai, dont
Oh to be a red scout seeking refuge from a dangerous godlike megalomaniac in an endless white void
Oh to be a red heavy erased from existence in front of my red scout friend to motivate them…
I didn't think I'd see you here.
Well yea a pure white void kinda sucks, how tf can you judge distances that easily
second is, what was inside the dark corridor that scared the animator to begin with.....also found you lol
@@numnaut1314 oh hi numnaut
@jpouxfroug? megalomania from live-a-live starts playing
a gmod arg where the dark room becomes a safe haven instead of a catalyst for creepy happenings. this is some seriously good shit
feels like the antagonist (or player) probably heard of the dark room creepypastas and decides to avoid it while npcs dont hear about dumb internet rumors and just see it as another escape option.
The players fear the dark room because of their fear of the unknown, and because of this, it’s a safe haven for NPCs
Maybe badwater is too scared to enter the dark room bcuz he knows that the NPC's are alive
Finally some good fucking food
@@mauroghen9157 that honestly would be hilarious
“Hey i lost those ragdolls”
“Oh come on again? They didnt just grow legs and walk away”
“Well…”
i mean they do have legs doe
@@Exile1778 "they didn't grow bones and walk away" mpre like that
@@goldenstone8631 "They didnt become sentient"
@@DaxyGamer "they didn't run away from the player in fear"
@@Exile1778 Hey its me the Engineer PLEASE HELP I was able to connect to the internet and we need help its been 12 years PLEASE
Badwater may be scared of the dark room, like me. That’s kinda terrifying.
That’s the thing, it’s the representation of the player, LITERALLY
I mean, of course it is, if your greatest fear has is terrified of something else, you should be afraid of it too
I think it's due to the visibility, badwater might feel vulnerable because it's so hard to see and could be led into some sort of ambush by the ragdolls or lose his way.
At least i'm hoping, and it isn't due to 'spooky shadow figure'. But knowing this arg creator, i'm sure he's got something much better in store than that.
very interesting that there's a bed and light in their though, someone had to have placed those
it's only a matter of time until Badwater discovers the Lamp Tool.
@@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755 good theory, I still think bad water is a younger child/teen so it would be believeable for him to be scared
It's wild how even knowing that Badwater doesn't catch Scout from the "How to Animate" video, watching Scout try to sneak off without getting caught was still an insanely tense moment.
Scout knows that staying staying in the dark room is better than being tortured by the player
This arg has utilized not only the dark room, but the bright room as well. Respect.
My fact about badwatervideos
Hes not a child is rather confusing what people thinks that gmoder that he's is a child but it not, in fact it is a conspiracy theory made by Richter overtime a YTber that made these explainations of these ARGS, what I don't like about its speculation itself is not well explained and too conspiring, fact he had doubts about gmoders, gunslingerpro2009 and badwatervideos2009 aren't the same gmoder as others think about this ARG, this is why the white room is important for other gmoders to transport in all types or kinds of maps what makes annoy to adult gmoders is phenomenons that cause and affects the game by itself in fact the gmoder is not always a kid he's doing a part of his job to make videos
@@b0cket380 I wish I could report you for your atrocious grammar and punctuation, I cannot understand what you're trying to say at all...
I can understand him perfectly even though he didn't use proper grammar
@@b0cket380 i agree GSP and BWV are not the same people, the Q&A basically confirmed it's not the same universe.
not sure if hes a kid or adult though, i don't think we have enough info to go either way yet
@@ow_ they said he didn't know since gunslinger takes place I'm 2010, but I don't think they're the same though
Being in Scout’s perspective where your chances of hiding is so limited and the thought of being deleted sooner or later. I feel bad for these guys.
Yea and the fact scout has been praising himself in the past for being incredibly swift only for badwater to be able to catch him must be a shot to his ego and terrifying because well he runs at what 22 mph and badwater can outrun him so I’d be terrified if I ran that fats and some rando in a lab coat caught up to me that fast
If they were deleted, does that mean they're deleted forever?
@@sinctova either that or they go somewhere like that white void, but I don't think our RED scout friend wants to find out what happens
@@sinctova Pretty likely. We never see BLU Heavy again, and if deleted ragdolls could be brought back the Soldier incident wouldn't have mattered. On the other hand Teethineer is either incredibly resilient, or deletion is the only way to kill them.
@@darkuscarlet if it was permanent, I don't think he would just throw away BLU heavy like that. Assuming its permanent, there are only 9 classes, and with the 2 separate colors 18 characters. You think he would just delete one of the characters for slightly acting up?
I love the fact that the player is scared of the dark room but scout (a ragdoll/npc or something) isn’t.
I assume cause of the shadow figure
i also like that he’s more scared of a dark room than literal living beings in his game
@@shrekconfirmed5456 I mean, he is God in this world. But a figure he can't control would scare the shit out of him.
@@somedude9450 Game Theory: Shadowman is the protector of the ragdolls, and scares away the player to keep them safe
@@ediodimacaroni Given the history of him, I think he's more of a, "Worse Evil" Like, Badwater is a kidnapper, and Shadowman is Satan
I love how Scout walks slowly knowing the Creator will hear the rag doll noises if he goes fast.
Just those little touches
I think he might even been injured from when he was pulled away from the red engie, it did look like he was slammed against the ground when it cut out
This really does show how awkward life must be for a ragdoll in Garry's Mod.
I am not sure if they are entirely "ragdolls". We do see the Scout in the perspective of a normal player playing TF2. (First video posted.)
I believe they are more of a actual person. Not like "a person trapped in the game" or "a sentient AI" but more of a outside force controlling the ragdolls.
Considering the scout isn't already deleted, we have to assume there is something saving him. Probably the same thing letting him go through the "passage". If a "guardian angel" and exist, something tells me we can have this be a sentient character or a person controlling the character.
_It’s awful man, soon as you get teleported into the place ya get drowned to death or painfully flung into the weird barrier things._
*PLEASESENDHELP*
Really nice concept of the dark room being a sanctuary for what i'd like to call the protagonist of this series instead of a place to be feared,well i guess badwater's afraid of it yeah but still.
If these were only bad waters videos you could argue he’s the protagonist is more say that it’s playing into that classic fear of the darkroom we all had not subverting it
Mr yakuza
I really like how badwater is probably (at the time of recording) a child who is scared of the dark and won't enter the dark room.
my headcanon is that badwater is like a 13 or 14 year old boy doing these gmod vids, and he's scared of the dark room, just like me at 13
@@poopmaster7166 that makes a lot of sense actually
I’m a bit skeptical about bad water being a 13-14. To be fair I’m 15 and I still get a little spooked about scary rumors but usually at that age you know it would be fake like Santa or something. Also in the second melon man video, he threatens the removal tool on melon man. If he knows his rag dolls are alive and basically fear them like a god, then why wouldn’t they think the spooky dark room figure wouldn’t fear them as well. If he was a kid say 13-14, why wouldn’t he be put off by say the dying rag dolls screams and cries, but be put off by a dark room? I just think it’s a little weird that they ain’t scared of the rag dolls but scared of a black room at that age. Then again I could be wrong.
@@maderspotz2140 probably because the kid is a psychopath and doesent give a dam if he is torturing live ragdolls infact hes most likely glad they are alive so he can fuel is psychopathisty
@@someidiot5229 or he thinks the ragdolls being alive are a common thing
I feel this is less of a traditional ARG, in which there is a mystery we are too solve (Or be solved), but just an innovative mix of gameplay and animation that creates a mysterious narrative
Have you seen passage? The radio is literally a puzzle in itself
@@Cyrogenesis. It has already been solved sooo..
I feel like it’s a story and not a arg
@@skaynne54 I know... also wtfdym "sooo.." I just wanna tell this commenter that passage's radio is a puzzle
Yeah, it's almost like it isn't an ARG at all. But that's rediculous; obviously all media with a mysterious edge to it is automatically an ARG even though an ARG is defined by finding clues scattered across multiple media types in various locations or anything.
I assume that the white void is named “Sanctuary,” and was originally a safe haven for these characters
actually no, it’s the last room scout enters into since the player won’t enter himself
yeah what the fuck how. Originally a safe haven??? Since when the hell did one of the previous character shown gleefully living in the white void
@@pyuku5842 Because its a hiding spot from badwater.
@Vincent The Bear it’s going out of context
I think that's why the first video that we saw the white room in is called "Passage".
The White Room is not a safe haven, it's a passage that allows you to teleport to different maps without actually leaving the game and loading into a new map.
This adds more lore. I never thought I'd say it, but I hope scout wins.
I hope they win and able to find a safe haven
Scout for now we know its in a safe place soo i Hope he can rest a little
@@thesoldier3537 well yes but as we saw on gunslingerpro, we know he can't hid there forever as he could be simply trapped with a simple weld and a door. Unless that guardian angel radio has another fake door for a wormhole he might need to move out of there fast
Thank you, I appreciate the support, but honestly I have no sweet clue what happened..
I love that the dark room’s usual spookyness has been used in an unconventional way in this series, and actually works to the protagonists advantage. absolutely genius lol
Wait protagonist?
*_IM THE PROTAGONIST TO SOMETHING?!_*
@@lescoot6153 ye
Just got back home after a long day of college classes, only to be greeted by this.
Best way to end a week, I must say.
Yes and also 69 likes *noice*
Hope college is great
Oh. Hello, EarthBound 64 Claus.
While we do see how Scout got recaptured, we still don't know who this guardian angel/entity is...
There isn't any
I think it’s the blu heavy that got killed
@@learnirishthebestway5749 Okey? Why do you think so?
@Logan Crabtree I think, when its No a living doll, its mabye the think that Made the dolls live in the first pleace
it’s engineer gaming
i've never had these issues with ragdolls running away from me while i'm posing them. Try verifying your game cache?
Hahah lol
I usually just pop a bullet in them then remove decals if it starts happening
@@darkryder4698 i guess that works
If my tf2 ragdolls were alive, I'd let them go
Put them in a good map if you let them go
that detail is actually genius, in the classic gmod args the dark room is used as a place of terror as thats where the spooky shit was hiding. this probably stemed due to the rooms sens eon unease in actual gmod. of course theres nothing in there but still badwater would still not follow his "play things" into that room. considering how hes probably afraid of such an area. its like dropping your toy under the bed.
wow scout actually escaped by himself
Scout finnaly managed to do anything with out help
for him to even get to that point he needed help.
Of course I did! I’m the freakin’ Scout!
Damn scout got a balls of steel tho
It’s all that radioactive side of effect from bonk
@@scootthescout9426 Probably.
Wait.. you’re me?
Or am I you?
_BONK HAS RADIATION??_
making the player scared of the dark room was such a perfect touch this ARG is really well done
Hmm, I wonder...
When Scout was touching the RED Engineer, could said engineer feel Scout touching him?
Most likely yes. The ragdolls are tied down to the point where they can't even move their eyes, but they can still feel the things/surroundings around them. If the Engineer could speak, he would've probably warned Scout about the dangers of what's happening to them.
Pretty sure because it’s been confirmed all ragdolls are alive but most don’t have the strength to move freely
probably. He could probably also see badwater sneaking up behind the scout. but engi had to sit there motionless, unable to warn him. spooky.
@@apurpledragon or he might have ptsd of being in said position
@@workingjoe5599 i think it’s more because of them being frozen. scout is the only ragdoll we see able to free himself, as seen in one of the videos. so badwater most likely froze engineer, or statue’d him so that he couldn’t escape removal.
Scout is finally safe
Until badwater gets a little older and loses the fear of the dark room
Which won't happen so scout safe
Idk that might happen on the future
This channel is a mystery but as i can see that will happen
The dArk room is good here but when he finds out lights are a thing he is gone
Its amazing how i am 23 years old but still scared to even look at the dark room. I tell you that place might be cursed after all.
By then he’s probably more mature and won’t do evil shit them
Wasn’t 2008 around the time where Gmod was rumored to be hainted (specifically rp_downtown of course). Maybe he heard those rumors and now he’s paranoid.
That would make sense
oooh, that’s a good theory.
I think the reason badwater is afraid of the dark room is more superstition than anything else. I mean, at that time I was (I mean, at the time when the Badwater videos are supposed to take place) that belief that something bad was in that dark room was very strong and the players stayed away from that place.
It seems that Badwater was actually afraid of going into the darkroom. Is it because there's something in there that can possibly defeat him and help the ragdolls, given that it is indeed on their side, and Badwater doesn't want to risk it? is it just because it's the natural fear of the infamous black room? maybe this further proves the theory of him actually being quite young. Guess we'll have to wait and see, at least until Richter makes a video about this. :P
I hope it's the second. The idea of him being a kid too afraid to go in like most younger players would be so charming and well written
It might just be that badwater had a video to finish and instead of wasting his time chasing a misbehaving ragdoll he'd rather just spawn in a fresh one and finish the video and find the scout later, I could be wrong though.
@@HankHillbrecht Good theory, though considering how much trouble Scout has really caused him, he'd be pretty mad at him. Especially when running off yet again. But of course, I could also be wrong.
@@HankHillbrecht If he could spawn another ragdoll then the soldier being torn apart would not be a problem, but I could be wrong.
@@TheCaptainsParrot there might be a difference between sentient rag dolls and normal ragdolls
I clicked on this so fast because i couldnt miss this
same
Same dude
Same
same
something I would like to note is that engineer didn’t react to scout when he touched him, is his entire body frozen so can not move, or maybe he knew bad water was gonna come back for him for the tutorial video and he didn’t want to risk his life
Somebody said scout entered the bright room in gm_construct in that weird door, turns out they were right!
Hmm, that explains why BadWater wasn't able to recapture Scout in the Tutorial video.
*It was too damn dark.*
Why didn’t he spammed the “light” tool ?
I think that the badwater spared scout, Just a possibility
@@kumekazuma7728 nah, he's scared of the dark room.
Like most players in Gmod ARGS, the dark room is sinister to them.
But for the npc's and Ragdolls, the exact opposite of the players, it is a safe heaven.
@@soggybreadman4035 that is another possibility too, but like, why didn't he just put some lights in that room? So then maybe badwater could get scout easily, or maybe he will launch a video where he goes to that room, to see If he can find scout
@@kumekazuma7728 I don't think so
Out of every horrible thing in this series, theres just something about the Scout and his situation that hits the hardest. Going from a well meaning, snarky little brat in canon, to being abused and broken and terrified out of his wits as he can do absolutely nothing but quietly sneak away and curl into a ball to hide from this absolute monster of a player is extremely heartbreaking to me.
Alright, It’s pretty obvious that Badwater is scared of the dark room, it could be because he’s a kid and all gmod kids are afraid of the dark room, or something worse could actually be in there.
It might just be something evil, but what if it isn’t? what if the shadow entity in this ARG is on the side of the ragdolls, and wants to help them against the player?
Maybe it could be the thing that teleported the scout away.
There were also rumors of Gmod being haunted in 2008, and the series takes place in 2009 before the rumors were debunked
Highly doubt it. It'd be a bit cliche if there was some entity in the dark room, which is unlike what this ARG has been doing so far.
Maybe, wait why does everyone call me a ragdoll?
unlike a lot of other people who are commenting, i really hope the shadow man doesn't show up in this - i feel like it'd ruin the quality of the channel if badwater relied on such a tired trope. instead i do think that scout's "guardian angel" is the person who may have been controlling him in the beginning, before his HUD vanished
Today is the day badwater i'll be waiting.
were all waiting EVERYONE OF US
And so we waited and then waited some more :(
I felt more tense during that scene where scout is just waiting for an opportunity than a lot of movies made me be in two hours.
I'm going to assume that at the end of the video, Scout must've came across a mattress, before laying on it and falling asleep, thus ending the video with a fade to black.
Why do you have 10000000 comments on this singular video?
@@INEEDAWITNESSTOMYLIFE ikr
God just imagine waking up in world only for a god-like being with a strange object that picks up things and has the ability to noclip around the world just chasing you down.
I've never been so genuinely tense and nervous before, this series is amazing. Also, I wonder if the dates of these scout-focused videos in the description have any meaning. This is about a month after the last one, it seems.
I did the math
2009-08-27 to 2009-09-22, 26 days and about 3 hour inside the white void.
2009-08-15 to 2009-08-27, 12 days and about 3 hour of being kidnapped, forced to partake in a movie, kidnapped by some guardian angel, and wake up in Passage.
Also the time it took from being captured to nearly being removed is about 5 hour.
Still have no idea what it meant tho
Bad Ending: Todo lo que dijo TV-Nauta quedó erróneo xd
Bad ending: privatizó el vídeo :(
@@danielsoria6821 Good ending: Volvio a estar en publico
Holy shit HOLY SHIT HE DID IT! HE DID THE THING! HE UPLOADED!
EDIT: Apparently the dark room is a safe haven for the mercs because the player's afraid of it. Never would've thought of that.
also i see that gunslingerpro unless of being afraid of it, he uses the dark room to torture the mercs or something
@@sabritas4251 Good, I like seeing people with creative ARG's, not just your average pitch plack gman in the background bullshit.
I don't think BadWater is afraid of it. Rather, he couldn't see where the Scout was because it was too fucking dark to see shit in just the hallway itself.
@@SwaggyG_2102 but like.... he could just p r e s s f
@@MooseEgg1 what does F do again?
I haven't played GMod
BADWATER: part 3
SANCTUARY
As the scout got up, he hoped that everything that had happened was a dream. But the void that surrounded him disproved him. But then a terrifying sound echoed through the emptiness, footsteps. The scout jolted awake just in time to see the same being that he feared walking through what he had just previously seen as a safe place, fortunately not noticing him. Quietly thanking his lucky stars, scout walked through the blank halls to find another doorway similar to the one he entered. Scout walked into the scene as a Red Engineer caught his eye. He walked over to the engineer and tried to move him to no avail, but this one was alive, unlike that sniper. But before a small joy could materialize, he went limp again as the monster captured him again…..
Scout woke up once more, this was getting tiring now, something he could have said if he could speak, as well as if the perpetrator was not in front of him. This was the closest look he had gotten of the monster so far. It seemed to look like a middle aged man, though he doubted that was who the monster truly was. The thing grabbed scouts had with the mysterious blue light again, forcing him to wave his hand to a fixed camera. After a pause it did the same thing again, and again. After that it turned to a set of objects and brought out the gun he used to delete the heavy and all the other things before. This time however, he seemed to be assembling them into some kind of contraption. The scout paid no mind to this and looked for an escape route. He spotted a massive building with an ominous room at the back of it. As much as scout tried, he could not look away from the room, and then decided to head over to it. He could feel the control coming back to his body, as he rushed to the door while the monster was distracted, but as he entered the room he tripped and fell on the ground. To scouts dismay, he heard the footsteps of the monster coming straight for him as he braced himself for his end. But it did not come, scout peeked past his raised arm to see the player hesitant to enter the dark room, before retreating away. The scout stood up and walked through the room, before finding a mattress illuminated by a small light. As he laid down on it many questions ran through his mind. Was he safe? Why is he here? Where is here? What is that monster?
But he knew the answer to the most important of the questions in the back of his mind, he Was safe, this wasn’t some kind of hell, but rather a safe place.
Sanctuary, as one could say as he drifted off to sleep. Peacefully, this time, he could finally rest peacefully for once…
To be continued in
DISCOVERY
ua-cam.com/video/SkOkH9rBuOM/v-deo.html
i’m not reading that
@@NeedyBoBeedy cool
wow, amazing that you still take the effort to do this
You mean it wasn’t a dream?
Wait did you just say the whole..
Story..?
@@lescoot6153 yee
Here’s my speculation. The white endless void is what it looks like to be in the map selection. Badwater knew how to transfer ragdolls to different maps. In the video we see scout spotting a doorway to a different map. Then when the scout inspects the area through that door then he gets caught by badwater. Then scout wakes up in gm_construct. Badwater was making a tutorial but scout decided to sneak away from badwater and scout ran to the dark room. The scout trips and badwater spotted him. Badwater was ready to grab him but he probably saw something behind the scout that the scout couldn’t see and badwater got scared and went for a different ragdoll. The thing that scared off badwater would probably be the dark figure seen in other args. So my speculation is that the thing that protects scout is the dark figure. And then scout became tired. When the scout walked right into the dark room, he saw a bed and light knowing that it’s best to rest for now. But that’s my theory
When the scout was flung into the air, I felt terrified
This channel is one of the best, if not the greatest Gmod ARG's I've seen so far. He always sticks to the plot, and make it interesting.
This isn't an ARG. There's no puzzle we have to solve to discover the rest of the story or anything. Now, if these ragdoll POV videos were uploaded on various other platforms and you could only find them through hidden URLs, then it would be an ARG. But since they're all right here in this UA-cam channel, it's just a suspenseful series.
So the ragdolls are not only sentient, their actually smart and know the players fear.
If you look closely scout covers his face with his hand he didnt know that badwather feared the dark room he was just lucky
He probably just ran where he could
Scout just took a risky guess
oh my god, I love the level of detail here. if you go back to watch the walking tutorial, you can see scout disappear after Badwater welds the brick and canister
OOOHHHH That was SUCH A CLIFFHANGER!! And I loved every second of it. Glad to see you're still uploading too!
Keep up the great work with these ideas they really are genius.
Scout in da backrooms
0:11 melon-man is being transported to the next chapter
0:36 this enginner, probably the future theetineer is in an inanimated pose, (it would be increadible if we can see how he becomes a monster)
0:55 badwater is moving the scout like a toy, be can see that he is moving (probably his right arm and leg)
2:55 i have two theorys for the scout (1, scout is a player, so he knows that the dark room is a safe place from younger players
and 2, scout sees darkness as a way out of the player)
3:52 the dark room, the infamous place, has turned into a sactuary for our protagonist
1. the teethineers are blue 2. badwater moving scout is because hes making a video shown earlier in his channel 3. scout is a ragdoll, theres no indication that it's a player
This engineer couldn't be the teethnier, the teethnier is a Blu engie, and this one is a red one
@@theman933 ua-cam.com/video/CwmjmEewadU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=BadwaterVideos2009
in this video it shows that red scout is a player actually
i dont think the scout on this video is another one so yea
@@arandombird327 it doesnt show he's a player, i believe the red scout is just a sentient ragdoll and thats just how they see things
@@theman933 I think Scout "was" a player, or at least a player-controlled character, at some point. But when Badwater first captured him, the connection between him and the person playing him were severed.
Let’s thank the scout for wearing a go-pro so you can see this footage
You make great and very nostalgic videos; don't die, dude.
Scariest part is, this confirms my suspicion the "tutorial" was cannon, as we can see it from scout's perspective.
The dark room being shown as a sanctuary is just plain genius. Badwater, your ARG is awesome
This isn't an ARG. There's a mystery going on in the narrative, but it isn't a puzzle we have to solve to find out the whole story. Now, if these ragdoll POV videos were uploaded on various other platforms and you could only find them through hidden URLs, then it would be an ARG. But since they're all right here in this UA-cam channel, it's just a suspenseful series.
I hope bad water keeps on making this Arg. It's a nice a new way to tell a good story. I like the dark room being a safe place while the white room strikes with fear.
And also, you REALLY inspired me to do a video with that sort of a dimensional door in Minecraft, you are best ❤️
Imagine a Gmod series (I refuse to call them ARGs) where the player doesn't know the Ragdolls are alive at first, being confused whenever a ragdoll would suddenly twitch but chalking it up to some quirk with the physics engine. Then he'd get weirded out when he finds ragdolls in a different place than he left them. Then he'd get creeped out when he starts finding them in poses that he didn't put them in and are way too natural looking to be chalked up to the physics engine. As the sentience of the ragdolls gets more and more apparent, the player (who is the only POV we'd get) becomes more and more freaked out, especially when at one point he accidentally backs into an environmental hazard because he was too distracted threatening a ragdoll with his tool gun, and the ragdoll picks up the dropped tool gun and gains access to the spawn and c menus. Then the big reveal is that the ragdolls we're never trying to hurt him, and in fact are just as afraid of him as he is of them. And the final video is the player making a Gmod animation with the ragdolls, but this time the ragdolls are moving freely and going along with it, then they all celebrate after the animation is finished being recorded.
why not call them args
that's wholesome
That would be awesome
I've had that exact same thought
I watched this before I went to sleep last night and I ended up having some dream that Badwater had a friend with a mic who was playing gmod with him (and was aware of the sentient ragdolls) and the friend would scream or yell out, “this motherf*cker moved!” and Badwater would come and the video would cut out… kinda terrified that my mind was able to do that, but it made me think of how interesting it’d be to hear how someone would sound when messing with the sentient ragdolls. (The voice was that of a teenager, if anyone cares 😂)
10/10 like the idea
I cant do anything but watch thease episodes. Good story, keep going!
What a normal GMod video! I hope nothing suspicious or horrifying is going on behind the scenes! That’d be bad!
haha what a funny gmod video
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@@Novaisherestill chill bro
@@randomlittleidot oh ok
Ha
This is indeed a UA-cam video
Did someone notice that badwater using the gunslingerpro2009 walking technique
To place Scout?
Wtf is true
Hey Badwater i really like your videos and sometimes its a bit scary but i really enjoy watching it! Keep up the good work mate!
Loving the continuity from Passage! This is amazing
Oh man, a new video!
From 1:30 to 1:55, BadWater just stands there, motionless.
Imagine getting kidnapped and being completely immobilized, and your kidnapper is right in front of you, watching you.
Just watching you, motionless.
I think what's happening is he paused the game, the models and such freeze and stop animating but the physgun glow usually doesn't freeze when you pause. Nice attention to detail.
When Badwater's playermodel stops breathing, it's not just him that's frozen. Scout probably couldn't move if he wanted to in that moment either.
@@Walternity still, the still shot was so ominous and creepy to me. It's like staring face to face with a god who can easily obliterate you at any given moment.
Weird that Scout's mind wasn't paused when the player paused.
Amazing Animation!
I can't wait to see more!
The bright room is often as scary as the dark room when you get the feeling there is something in the white light.
The dark room being treated as the good place. That's a nice change
Scout,you need to cause a revolution over here
Never in my life have i felt bad for a ragdoll. but, congrats, you just made me
another absolute BANGER as always badwatervideos! keep it up!
tbh the dark room is literally for testing lights
why is my mans so scared of it
red scout atleast has moderately sized balls like sheesh
Probably a child.
My balls fell off when i was 4
With all these sentient ragdoll args where the player is evil it makes me wish there was one where the player had like tea parties and stuff with his ragdolls, just as like a contrast to the evil ones. Like maybe the nice player could be a kid who was bullied in school and likes to spend his time making the ragdolls happy so he feels better.
Imagine that tho. Like he even is like “so I spawned in this rag doll and it started moving! I made a little house for it and stuff. That was a good day :)
Or maybe he plays nice with his Ragdolls, like how Andy played nice with his toys, but then he starts noticing odd things like props moving around or Ragdolls changing poses when he's not looking, resulting in him becoming scared of the Ragdolls or be afraid of some malicious entity within the game like those Gmod creepypastas revolving around some entity originating from the dark room, when really it's just a toy story situation and the Ragdolls don't mean any harm, and are in fact just as afraid of him as he is of them. The best part would be that since the player isn't aware of the fact that his Ragdolls are alive, we won't be aware of it either, at least not at first.
PlasticApple
thats so cute!!!
Really nice animation bro i like that i finally found a gmod channel with nothing wierd
This man gets to live 2009 forever
LETS GOO NEW VIDEO
either badwater is scared of the dark room being a kid/teenager/having nyctophobia, or he just simply juuuuuust missed the red scout the moment he got into the darkness because badwater wasn't using the flashlight
Seems like bad water found the red scout and started to make a video, but scout gained consciousness and escaped when badwater wasn’t looking
Amazing work! I love it!
I just realized, Scout doesn't know that Badwater is making these videos for youtube. All he knows is that he and his friends are being used as puppets for some insane guy's amusement.
Ayo where is the next upload
the animation quality is superb. you can see his knuckles tense when he grabs the engineer or when he pushes himself up from the ground.
He is back the legend is back!
My theory is that the dark room is a place where bad water has no power, hence leaving scout there
Nah, he's just a pussy and its scared of the dark.
its all safe for scout until Badwater finds the light tool and uses it to light up the dark room
I love how scout’s pace picks up when he gets closer to the dark room
I like how when scout gets captured we can see his pov of creating the tutorial from the last video
Nice vid bro! I wonder how this story is going to end, lol.
By the way, good animations, how do you do these?????
ah he made a video explaining his process!
You're even here?
So you're Telling me that badwater isn't scare either terrified by the living ragdolls he use but afraid of the dark room? Bruh momentu
a man having no power over something is the worst fear he can experience
Great video love the trope of the dark room being flipped from being this Evil place to it being a safe haven (also it seems my theory of the red engineer being a normal ragdoll was right it's also cool that the sentient ones don't know he isn't alive it's a cool plot element imagine how you would react if you just found a non sentient human who doesn't rot or anything but just kindove never was alive creepy)
as much as we’d like to talk about the trope turnaround, the animation is really freaking good.
any second now, i swear
in 4 hours
@@dottych hope so, i am way too attached to the characters for the next part to just not happen, just spent half an hour sketching a poster for this series instead of doing my homework
😔
@@QuijoxteTV :((
First Eventide Media Center, now this?
On a Friday too?
Somebody pinch me, I must be dreaming...
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Long live badwater videos another master piece