Man im gonna be honest, im really nervous posting this. Friends, welcome to the very first episode of Flood Theory. The only show on the internet to discuss Flood Escape's Lore. I've been working on this concept for a while and I'm really proud of what it is. Of course, this will not have the same quality as actual Game Theory videos. I'm not a professional editor, nor do I have the team they have, but I still think I get the points across while still being entertaining. I guess you could call this a pilot episode of sorts. Thank you for watching, see you later!
Finally somebody who understands Guide went to the training room instead of the escape route. I've been itching to share my thoughts on the lore for so long, so here's what I think: Guide heard an explosion coming from inside the facility, so he checks to see what happened and screams can be heard coming from the easy elevator. He opens the hatch in a panic and an escapee comes out and explains to him how lava burst through and rose unbelievably fast, leaving him the only one left, telling Guide they must evacuate fast. Guide signals a distress call, being received from an abandoned facility underground. The emergency exit sequence was initiated and the whole facility flooded with water. They went through the pipelines of the facility in a hurry and through the long tunnel leading to a room in the Flood Escape facility. Guide found his way to the practice area but the escapee who lagged behind was separated after another explosion happened and boxes fell and blocked the entrance, forcing him to find another way. As the door out was also blocked, he had nowhere to go, so he stood on the hard elevator, accepting his fate. It's not until the medium elevator's hatch is lifted and 3 people emerge from below. A plank falls from the ceiling, allowing a possible exit through the window. The rescuers use their tools to carve off the bars and get out. A shift in the plates caused part of the floor to rise which allowed them to make their way to the exit route, going beneath the ruins. The crew used everything around them to navigate through a dangerous place, finally falling into the practice area where they find Guide, shaken up from everything and carve a small hole to escape to. After much more struggle, they finally make it to the extreme mode area. Having nowhere else to go, they painstakingly carve through solid rock and have just enough room to get out and find their way into a cave system where they are lifted out. Of course this is just a theory and it isn't perfect, but it explains some of the other things that could have been left out. I have another theory on Crazyblox involving the creation of Flood Escape 2, Dark-Sci Forest/Facility, and more, but it's pretty long too, so maybe another time.
Theory: the players work for Crazyblox's "rescue escapees" company that he created after the creation of the "Abandoned Facility" and after FE2 begun development. The reason for this is that in both the FE2 Lobby and at the start of Abandoned Facility is the monitor which seems to be broadcasting Beneath The Ruins (possibly someone monitoring the place after destruction. Maybe they're aware that The Guide was left behind) along with the text "Flood OS 2.0 20xx , Comms check... , Comms check OK , Monitoring Distress Calls". Since Abandoned Facility is... well... ABANDONED... We can assume that possibly whatever caused it to be abandoned (possibly some flooding incident that caused the underwater sequence of the map) happened on the last time someone logged on this monitor. So assuming that whoever was on this monitor at this, possibly Crazyblox or some random employee, was checking for any communications for any new calls or from nearby facilities , like possibly the dark sci facility but more into that later, before monitoring distress calls until whatever incident happened occurred that forced the surviving employees to escape. Also the reason I say the "rescue escapees" company is owned by Crazyblox is due to the white Crazyblox symbol from No Light's unlisted teaser shows up on these both monitors. Now about Dark Sci Facility and No Light. This part could be considered "Non-Canon" since No Light was never added (and most likely never will :( ) but in this map (well at least in the footage there is left. Mainly talking about the second room) + the unlisted teaser shows that it was another facility owned by the rescue escapees company due to it having the same symbol. Possibly also now abandoned now because of the lava now present inside. Now about Marred Dreams and Fallen. Marred is defined as damaged or spoiled to a certain extent. So with that context we can assume that Marred Dreams is a dream that the player has of this beautiful place they'd like to be in only for it to be ruined by the constant trauma of escaping floods while trying to help others escape. The trauma has marred the dream. Causing it to be destroyed by the acid and once we reach the end we wake up in the aftermath aka Fallen where the place is just a floating memory now broken and slowly falling down. Now about one last thing. The player isn't just rescuing escapees... They are also collecting the lost pages. The lost pages seem to be documented findings of each map they are in and possibly might become the ultimate tool or something once they're all together (although I do wish there was at least actual text on these pages rather then collecting them for xp. Possibly some info on maps or something). If this is the case then that would also mean that Marred Dreams and Fallen might not be as much as a dream than we expect but I can't really think of how Marred Dreams and Fallen are in reality despite them being dreams unless it's like how dreams work. Now for a random thing and to do the "map timeline" that people do although I don't think there really is one I do think it would be funny to do one. This won't contain every map. This isn't every map + it's just mini timelines. FE1, Familiar Ruins, Beneath The Ruins,FE2_Lost Woods,Oriental Grove,Mysterium,Cave System,Castle Tides_Buried Oasis,Sunken Citadel_Marred Dreams,Fallen_ Poisonous Valley,Poisonous Forest,Poisonous Chasm_Infiltration,Abandoned Facility_Sinking Ship,Flood Island _Forgotten Tombs,Lost Desert,Sedimentary Temple_Dark Sci Forest,DSF and No Light.I hope you enjoy my theories (if you managed to read throughout this essay lol) and I will be excited for the next flood theory and for me to find more random stuff to call out and say LORE on... (also I forgot this at the end but in a secret in Poisonous Valley is The Guide pouring in "the poison" into the map along with a book on The Flood Sword + a broken Flood Sword. I think The Lost Pages actually contain everything to power up The Flood Sword which might be the most powerful tool in this universe, maybe being able to cause floods or contain floods or something else entirely but either way The Guide is trying to fix and power the sword and is even ready to take out the lives of Crazyblox's employees trying to help escapees and.. LIVE! I think this is clearly showing us that The Guide is purely against CB's Company and possibly needs The Lost Pages to power up and fix The Flood Sword to destroy FE2 or something while Crazyblox is trying to keep them away while needing them to possibly make his own Flood Sword or power his own. That's it this time.. BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!).
Using the previous theories I made + this video showing this secret area in Northern Mill (supposedly it's there but I haven't seen it much so unless it involves breaking out of the map idk how people found it). It reveals 4 notes. The first shows the Guide with the text "I was given a second chance after the incident of the facility). This is most likely referring to one of the destroyed known facilities of Crazyblox's company (FE1,AF or DSF) and possibly... he was the cause... if I had to guess it was FE1 due to the image of Guide being from Beneath The Ruins. So.. The Guide caused it????? I have no idea how to be honest... The next image is idk really know it looks like shattered pieces so maybe The Flood Sword when it was the most broken (so possibly the image was taken before The Guide went to Poisonous Valley due to the sword being less broken than the image) with the text "I needed to be strong" and "I needed to survive" so if I had to guess I think this is like The Owl House with the hunter grimwalkers how they had to keep in Belo's order or... they die... I think this is what is going on here. The Guide was given another chance yet The Guide knew what could happen if he stepped out of line. Crazyblox would've killed him... This leads to the next image of a figure that looks like Guide reaching out his hand with the text "So I've committed sin after sin" possibly telling us that the reason why the employees aka the players are always in danger is because The Guide is flooding every map. Causing distress calls. Bringing in employees to save escapees that might just be high tech illusions made by The Guide or even tech that he stole from Crazyblox all to wipe out the company before Crazyblox could end him. The last image shows a darkened image of Crazyblox (brighten up the image and you can see it) with the text "And when I decided to stop" "I ended up letting go of someone I really cared about". This might be The Guide realising what he has done. He has technically wiped out employees. Destroyed facilities and locations. Turned people into FE2 speedrunners (lol) and now... he lost Crazyblox when he stopped. Crazyblox was never truly gonna wipe him out.. He was just a friend... Only The Guide had caused all the trouble... And to back this up.. In the secret room there is a sign that reads "Because I was too selfish". So... TIMELINE TIME: Prologue: FE1 is created and years later gets bigger and more successful! Everyone is playing through the levels and are so happy! Except The Guide... The Guide was jealous of Crazyblox.... He was the owner of a successful facility with many visitors. Meanwhile was just a guide for new players and soon nobody needed him... He was technically... alone.... Soon after more advertising for FE1, Crazyblox realised that the facility wasn't gonna last for long. And so he created FE2 and his company (which I will refer to as No Light Corporation) went to worked and made sure to evacuate everyone. Everyone except... the people still left completing the medium level back in FE1.... The Guide with this advantage realised water into the area, knowing exactly that down below the facility contained lava. This leads into Familiar Ruins! Chapter 1: The players managed to get out of the level and made it to the lobby yet it was too late... The facility is already getting destroyed rapidly! The players then managed to reach the exit door of every level... Not sure what is now on the other side... Chapter 2: The players explored what was now Beneath The Ruins. They discover new areas until they reach a crack in the wall... it was The Guide... with a paper titled FE2.. At that moment.. he thought Crazyblox betrayed him... Soon No Light Co. find the players + The Guide. Chapter 3: The players are now hired as employees for No Light Co. with the company lying about that they're testing.. FE2... and they were very gullible lol. The Guide however was given another chance yet he thought he was dead if he messed up... he had to erase No Light Co. for good. And so he went ahead and destroyed both the DSF and the AF. After realising someone was monitoring his journey down below, he didn't know what to do then... But then he decided to take care of the players aka new employees. He wanted them gone so it would drive more and more employees until they were all dead... The Guide isn't the one causing the floods yet he found a way to change water from acid to lava and so fourth. He used this as his advantage. Chapter 4: The Guide then used high tech illusions to create "The Escapees" which No Light Co. actually does. They do help people in danger of flooding. Yet The Guide manages to bring people to maps which he can changed the water into more liquids and finally wipe out employees (or even create speedrunners lol). But then he remembered something.. Something that could help end No Light Co. in one swipe.. Yet he needs something... a set of pages... Chapter 5: The Guide then manages to figure out the locations of each page. Strange enough.., they were all in the maps he went to... As if someone else hid them here while he was distracted... Did Crazyblox do this? Off course not! He wouldn't want him to find these. But then again... Why would he? Well it didn't matter... He never could collect them... Due to him being a NPC. And so he tricked players into getting the pages for XP (a lame prize Guide... could've given me lore instead). Needless to say... He never got them regardless... They all went back to Crazyblox.. so Guide had to sneak in and get them... Yet.. someone found him.... Chapter 6: The Guide finally managed to complete The Flood Sword! He finally could finish everything! His work is now done! But... He remembered something... Those new employees that died... They were just people visiting FE1 for a good time... dragged into the mess he made... they were never a part of it all.... And now the majority of them are gone... gone to his illusions and traps... Their dreams marred from the trauma... And he remembered the monitor... It showed Beneath The Ruins.. Crazyblox cared enough to find him... a random NPC... and all the innocent real survivors trapped in the real floods.. He knew at that moment... he had to stop.... But then Crazyblox found him... he was of course insane mad.. no... crazy difficulty angry! Guide has cost him and his employees in danger. And so... he decided to let him go.... he was no longer considered as a friend... The Guide was angry at himself.. he knew he couldn't actually do anything to earn Crazyblox's forgiveness.. but he knew he could use The Flood Sword to possibly end this nightmare... once and for all...... WOOOOOO THIS TOOK LONG!!! IDK IF THIS LONGER THAN MY PREVIOUS THEORY LOL. I hope you enjoy my next theory based off the video + a working timeline! I am excited for the next flood theory!! BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always wanted to see the lore of FE2 actually being a thing, because of all the connections there are in a lot of maps, these theories always keep my hopes up, thank you chris, great video!
Woaw! I’m not a lore type guy, but I loved your video and all the educational stuff and researches and efforts you put into it. Amazing work ! You just got a sub, buddy! Take care!
It's always been rapped around my head of Flood Escape's story, even if lore wasn't intentional on Crazy's part the fans definitely helped and try to expand the lore of FE2, Maps having continuity with one another (Poisonous Trilogy, Dark Sci, Married Dreams and Fallen) and Maps that have Guide in them
It honestly scares me to think you’ve made it to the point where you’re making full on conspiracy theories on funny little button game, but respectable and awesome video nonetheless. Cant wait for Ep. 2!
you forgot something (but can add it later): FE2 is not a real place. it is a collection of the memories of a survivor. i have a comment on BoonMoon’s vid, just search my name. basically, a survivor/explorer who came to FE1 was unlucky enough to get caught in its destruction. After a few events (the maps made by Crazyblox), he reaches Dark Sci. this facility, run by Crazy as seen by his logo in the leaks, is made to spread the Dark Sci Virus (look in the auras) up through that one room in Dark-Sci Facility. eventually, after making it out alive, i believe he goes into a comatose state. Flood Escape Two is his coping mechanism for his own death and the death everything he knew. he also probably picked up a few more survivors, but… you know what happens. also, based on Fallen, the color purple is a metaphor for death. many of his friends must have died on the maps later remembered as Insane. maybe it even made him insane.
I feel like another thing to mention is that players should have more skills by average, some have wins in the thousands, whilst the guide is just sitting there, they also should have a good reaction speed so there would have been survivors if they were there
Some stuff that ive noticed about the FE2 lobby: - It's connected with the Dark-science facility OR has something to do with Dark-Science. It's also connected with whatever Abandoned facility was supposed to be. - Judging by the rust in the lift, it seems like the lift is a really old device that was found by whoever runs the FE2 project. I say found, because it has nothing to do with the FE1 lift. While the FE1 lift takes you to different places INSIDE the FE1 facility, the FE2 lift is capable of taking you to different places around the world, or even outside this reality (Fallen, Marred dreams). The rust in the lift also doesn't fit the rest of the lobby. It would make sense if both were as rusty, but only the lift is. Suggesting that the lobby was built much after the lift was made.
Ngl, it would make sense why the water in FEC instant kills the player. If the Lobby is indeed built on a volcano, then it would make the water in the facility super heated, thus making it deadly. As for the Extreme Mode, I honestly don't know why it's not as deadly as the main facility
The fact that one of my old favorite games that I recently have been getting back into “has” elaborate LORE?! Is something I love, great to see somebody actually look into the 2 maps FR and BTH. Also I would just like to say love the gam- I mean.. FLOOD Theory intro, really neat.
He’s still here as if you get the rescue mission in Beneath the ruins you are rescuing Guide and at the end at BTR you should see Guide with a paper reading ‘Flood Escape 2’ And you can still play FE1 but you will see dust and rust. You can still see guide walking around the lobby tho. Ghostly is the other guide and is in FE2 and he will say that he loves FE2
I did try to make a lore about FE Timeline but it seems like I did the similar to your theory. We got both theory that FEC Lobby has begun to be old due to Crazyblox forgotten it. And Him? But I never got the idea the expansion of how volcano exploded in sea. This theory honestly feels to be makesense on how it got destroyed. Now, what really weird is Crazyblox has been planned the FE2 before the destruction of FEC but why hidden as a secret? If Crazyblox already know that there will be destruction, he is really like a monstrous person and very disappointed because of how Guide's and Worker's life will be troubled on just unexpected event. Even tho they're NPC that controlled by Crazyblox. I'm pretty sure there still players playing FEC not just being ghost town. I did found out that some BoonMoon's storyline has accurate to main storyline of FE Timeline like for ex., The players can still respawn but memories has been faded, Crazyblox needs tester in Dark Sci-Facility and Forest on how the interactions work of FE2 but the experiment is nil. But focusing to respawn, I'm bit disagree on that because of the escapee in Familiar Ruins (which is ik you perhaps already mentioned this but too lazy to rewatch xD). As well as disagree that Guide has been escaped to various map of FE2, because we escapee that working in rescue service, trying to find all the remaining survivors in FEC destruction then we saved Guide. Yeah maybe perhaps I just did recapping but in comment version but whatever. Looking forward in next ep. :)
I already knew loads about the flood escape time line and it’s so weird because some of the theory’s I had such as Crazyblox forgetting guide is the same theory as what others have. I’ve wanted to make a series of the flood escape time line and I know boon moon has already made a flood escape series but it’s quite different to how I want to show the time line. Im doing media studies at college so hopefully this helps.
There's a pretty neat series created by Boonmoon which gives another theory as to why FE Classic was destroyed. It's about a plot by Crazyblox himself to destroy FE Classic to create FE2 and Guide gets entangled in it. It's very neat.
FLOOD THEORY!!! Edit: Its actually a cool idea of this. Maybe AVM has something to do about silo's nuke? Well that is just a flood theory. (Idea for episode 3 since episode 2 is why Crazy left FEC/FE1/Flood Escape)
We also need to talk about the Retro teleporter in the bottom of the lobby in FE1. The lava could have teleported there and flooded it too but we don't see a map on that
I used to play both games back in 2016 When I stopped playing FE (beta version) : 2019 When I stopped playing FE1 : 2021 When I stopped playing FE2 : 2022
I like to think that the reason that the FEC lobby is destroyed is by Crazyblox failing to make a teleport for fe2. And since there is a page in BTR that says fe2 Crazyblox was working on fe2 at the time And this teleport fail teleported all of the escapees in the FEC lobby at the time to random places in the fe universe In the fe2 lobby there is a screen that says it's checking the comms relay which means that Crazyblox is actively looking for escapees to save, and we get to those places in fe2 by the elevator which is literally a giant teleporter
The escapees could have been investigating the ruins of Flood Escape but then got trapped with no escape. (As for example the FR Escapee could have been afraid of heights.)
My theory on why some maps have fire: On an episode of Kick Buttowski where Kick Buttowski's failed his stunts and he jumped into the plane, he didn't know that Crazyblox was in the plane, and Crazyblox took his theme to form maps with fire, such as Graveyard Cliffside, etc. Cover my theory next please
Ok what I was differing between the Flood Escape crack and fe2 FR crack, but how did the crack opened up in 4:58 when the fe2 FR says its still like the fe2 crack. Was it covered again?