Hermitcraft 10: Episode 12 - THE WAITING ROOM

[@wigiot1273]

For a cursed music disc, you should make a "please hold" disc but periodically include a recording of you saying "We're ready to see you now" or "you wait is over, please come upstairs". When they come up, question why, deny ever having said anything, and send them back downstairs (bonus points if they start ignoring the messages, cause then when you actual call them up they won't believe it)

[@PromethealBee]

the permit office is etherial now oh gods-

[@Chirpy-eo8jq]

Interspersed with random life insurance ads and "we are working hard to get back to you. we appreciate your call." that just completely break the immersiveness of the music

[@LindenF]

@@Chirpy-eo8jq I was thinking about the song just suddenly stopping and including something like "we will be with you shortly" then continuing

[@SkodaYetiFan96]

Okay Satan

[@1403gavin]

The song that cried “upstairs”

[@GarlicBredFries]

What I feel would make the permit office better: - A lamp thats on a simple redstone clock that flickers on and off - A fake floor at the bottom of the stairs that drops you into one of those item frame map rooms - Knocking in the Please Hold song (this one might be a little too much) - The song fading in and out like it is being put in and out of water - A skeleton skull or two to bring the ambience of the waiting room up - Those glass shields in between the employee and the guest with the little opening at the bottom to pass things - One of those number signs that announces the number - Water dripping from the ceiling and a bucket (cauldron) to catch it - A cup with the pen that has an obnoxious flower (this could be done using a flower pot) - One of those silly posters like "TEAMWORK it makes the dream work", "DID YOU APPLY FOR DIAMOND INSURANCE? See how you can apply today" That's all I got for now

[@theonolaivar2840]

An upside-down version of the permit office in the downstairs waiting room

[@fxarts9755]

you are evil...

[@spaghettiwithachickenpatty7877]

What about wardens in the wall

[@stevena105]

A poster about the website. "Don't wait in line, go online!"

[@greymouse451]

I see discussion about whether Cleo or Doc is more evil. Neither can hold a candle to Grian's evil!

[@gronk4341]

You should put a snail in the “out-of-order” waiting room. So when they ask why they can’t use it, you have an explanation and can just say, “snails.”

[@LEGO-CREAM]

It's a good idea, but you can't make the snails do something. They do what they want.

[@phrog-gs4hy]

what do you mean "put" , the snails do what the snails want to do

[@RJE95]

Waiting rooms sometimes have plants, right? So what if there was just a plant that was so tasty looking, the snails turn up by themselves. And once it's eaten, that will really add to the vibes of the place

[@phrog-gs4hy]

@@RJE95 thats is absolutely genuis

[@GrayscaleStudios7]

Yes

[@StaceyFiles]

Make the “Out of Order” waiting room have a nice vibe, live having a television, or a couple of plants. It will make you even more depressed in the other waiting room, just knowing you could’ve had an enjoyable experience

[@Space_Toast_.]

Amazing

[@BostonWilkinson]

Make the tv with a painting referencing another season or the fisher grian painting😂

[@Keg46]

Make the plants dead shrubs

[@loumos8364]

Grian, to make a permit take a piece of paper in hand and run the command; "/trigger CustomModelData set #" 1 - diamond 2 - gold 3 - iron. Then, use an anvil to name the permit. if you ever forget use the command; "/trigger CustomList"

[@K4rt_]

Get this man pinned!

[@loumos8364]

Just happy to help. 😍

[@andrewbloom7694]

Wait how do you know what the command is? Did he show it on stream or something?

[@loumos8364]

@@andrewbloom7694 tangotek was making stamps with etho on stream and i was able to see the way to do it from that.

[@Kur0Engel]

Probably from watching Xisuma when he was playing with the triggers or something lol 😂

[@Ertplays]

Grian, the command is “/trigger custom_model_data 1”. I know from the S9 world download. You have to have a specific item in your hand for it to give the permit though. (For permits, it is paper). If that does not work, change the 1 to some other positive number. It’ll work at some point.

[@TheSilentPr0tag0nist]

Get this likes for grians sake

[@loumos8364]

It's paper and 1 for diamond 2 for gold and 3 for iron

[@RemyCon42]

I pray that Grian sees this

[@masterofthetime]

sort of right but this is the command /trigger CustomModelData set

[@chaoticcat365]

Commenting so grain sees this 🌾

[@barbecuedwaffle3795]

Grian should commission a painting for the waiting room downstairs that is just a bland wheat field against an empty sky and place it directly in front of the chair. If people have nothing to look at their mind will make something up for them, but if they have 1 mundane thing to look at, it will drive them crazy.

[@DoubleTrouble-li5wi]

This is a beautiful idea!

[@FelidaeEnjoyer]

And give the song constant sub-bass noise after the whistle, and during all of the bzzes and a moment or two afterwards so that everybody feels an automatic Run leave fast run go leave leave run fast go leave bad fast run leave leave leave hide hide hide hide hide **deep breath** sensation 😊

[@mathijs8537]

Or Just the wall, but 1 Block that is a different shade so its annoying

[@FelidaeEnjoyer]

@@mathijs8537 A 1 block painting that is one shade off from the background, interspersed of course, with the backstory 'oh yeah mushroom log textures are just like that'

[@IWontBuy-RP]

"Slightly off white on a white painted canvas"

[@cakedye]

The uncanny song with added unsettling missed notes AND WHISTLING??? naw (I can’t wait for Scar’s reaction)

[@GodlyDra]

I just wont be watching it sadly. I caught the last half a second of the whistling (i desperately tried to skip it) and due to hypersensitivity spent the next 30 minutes vomiting. I hate hypersensitivity so much.

[@PastaV4]

​@@GodlyDragood god... that certainly doesn't sound very fun

[@ArtestMb]

@@GodlyDra wow that actually rlly sucks....

[@dragonic8241]

"There are no wrong notes in Jazz"😂😂😂

[@cheemania2157]

What was the second song?

[@lilsav6693]

It would be hilarious if Grian put an “employee of the month” or a “we will miss” and it shows a custom painting of the backrooms monster in the waiting room.

[@RemyCon42]

THAT'S SO COOL THO!!

[@tigerlilykitty3281]

THAT WOULD BE SO FUNNY

[@johannmatthes6697]

I would love a " ___ days since last incident" sign down there

[@PastaV4]

​@@johannmatthes6697 i don't like the feeling of this☠️

[@axobotl]

Idea: If Scar wants another permit, put as one of the questions “Have you sorted all your ores in to chests?”

[@CraftingCat_IX]

That’s evil and I love it

[@sneezingProtogen]

HOHOAAHAHAHAHAHHAH

[@kylepool5140]

And make the correct answer no

[@potatoverse367]

He needs a permit for an ore stack that high anyways

[@barakingplayz5581]

​@@kylepool5140 Oh that's evil

[@EntityofDarkness696]

Grian, what you need to do is colour code each line in the permit office to be for a different service (Permit renewal, permit creation, permit disputes, whatever you want) so when someone walks into one line for a new permit, you can tell them to wait in the other line until you're ready to serve the next person in that line.

[@KimeGaeming]

You evil genius I love it

[@elreydidistudios]

YES

[@S7upidity]

go a step further, signpost the colours and behind the desk have a button that randomises the colours or adds a new one.

[@Szystedt]

PFFFFF-

[@grovitemultiverse]

@@S7upidity If possible, randomizing the colors when a person gets put on hold, forcing the visitor to remember the color and move lines every time they are put on hold.

[@YourVintageStick]

Just Joel’s pure confusion with a hint of horror “What is that.” When the whistling began in the wait song was perfect

[@gunnolfreal]

NO GRIAN, the bad music was amazingly terrible it did not need to be toned down. Its perfect.

[@Dense-Comms]

EXACTLY I WANT THE HERMITS REACTIONS TO THIS CURSED MUSIC

[@ThatGuyRNA]

I NEED THE EVIL PLEASE HOLD IN FULL!

[@monatae9725]

the whistle had me cackling, it's so good!

[@EclipseFactor]

Keep it how it is it’s perfect

[@gunnolfreal]

Like I said, it's bloody brilliant.

[@TheBlankOneIsMe]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DONT REMOVE ANYTHING FROM THAT NEW SONG, it perfectly captures the feeling of sitting in the dmv here in the USA loosing your entire mind, wondering what on earth is going to slow me down next, it is perfect, in every way.

[@notjebkerman6207]

He should make it a 24-hour track, but the distortions are different each loop-through.

[@RyanSoltani]

The song slowly driving you insane…..

[@ZacharyBrasseaux-ze2cs]

Grian Send help The song is taking me over I can’t think anymore Send help Duh dee duh duh de duh-duh duh da duh-de da da daaa duh dahhhh…

[@mil4456]

i feel like one of the loops should just turns into a massage of some sort like a ominous call for help/warning of something in the permit office

[@Heroo01]

losing* lmao I guess your mind would be pretty loose after all that though

[@sonofgenesis7584]

“The most unnecessary thing I’ve ever built.” 24:58 *Literally built an underground tunnel bunker all for a picture that he can pray to for a mending book a few episodes ago* **Edit** Everyone in the comments saying it was necessary is absolutely correct and I was out of line to suggest anything different. My apologies 🙏🏼

[@RealKaldrac]

But that one was highly necessary

[@cliffyang7687]

That was absolutely necessary

[@ammoncreager6019]

He would never have gotten a mending book without it

[@proplaystowin]

@@ammoncreager6019neither would have scar

[@agrizzlybearwithinternet6090]

That was strongly necessary

[@Viper76PL]

Joel's complaint being burned was TOP NOTCH, perfect permit office vibes LOL Great comedy Grian!

[@sickomode6440]

I feel like Grian purposely added Permits into the game to terrorize all the other hermits in the permit office 😂😂

[@DarkRaven006]

lol true

[@PepperParsleyRadio]

I like you so much less because of the bringing of the video. 🎉 No idea what scar is dealing with or me. God's work just to keep me alive. Over it.

[@BananaWasTaken]

I feel like the permits were just because he thought it was a cool idea. But when he realised that he’d be the one who’d have to deal with sorting out all the minor flaws with the system he decided “I’m not gonna be the only one suffering because of this”

[@yourlocalstraycat1835]

​@@BananaWasTaken the embodiment of : if I'm going down I'm taking you with me.

[@archniki_]

And nobody asks him for prismarine actually

[@RoweClementine]

If your not careful and noclip out if reality in wrong areas, you'll end up in the Department of Hermit Permits waiting room, where it's nothing but the stink of moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, and endless backround noise of Please Hold By Jono Smithers Edit: this is a copypasta. I used the wrong your on purpose.

[@IrregularityRowan]

You'll have to cancel dinner with you're mom as well :(

[@Werewolf914]

That needs to be in the movie

[@shawnlam3109]

So you're implying that the actual backrooms are better than this?

[@gemtun2]

​@@IrregularityRowan *your

[@WackoMcGoose]

You're clucked if you hear something down there, because it sure as heck has heard _you._ _muffled sound of a glitchy shracker in the distance_

[@DarthNihilusTheDarkness]

Scar just redefined the phrase, "I did some off camera mining,"

[@PastaV4]

"i did some off-home mining"

[@justsomeguy3267]

I think the waiting room should be a bit run-down, to achieve the full backrooms look. A couple ceiling panels missing, some blotches of yellow on the floor, some drywall peeling, etc. I think a looping music disc with fluorescent light buzzing would add to the atmosphere as well.

[@randomdrawsss]

I love how the permit office has gone from bureaucracy to something straight up sinister. (And i love this idea)

[@RaviTheGod]

Grian should make a Break Room in the Permit Office for employees that get overworked by rampant clients.

[@matthewe3813]

He can give them chinese finger traps or throw a waffle party if they are extra good.

[@dumbllama]

It would be perfect if there was a water cooler, but their out of cups to drink out of

[@jaydenblight3115]

We need this to happen

[@Cheesling]

YES PLEASE

[@larrychilders6599]

Or make a break room be a straight drop to some dripstone with skeleton heads

[@NeatNaut]

Fun idea: 1. Lead every Hermit to the Permit office by making up random “issues” with their shops. Make everyone experience the glory of the Permit office and make everyone hate it, make everyone shiver at the thought of being on hold. 2. Have skulk sensors that activate the song randomly placed around the map. This will make the fellow Hermits feel like the Permit office is inescapable, like it follows them everywhere just to torment them. 3. Start selling therapy lessons under the name “Grien”. Market these as the best way to finally escape the Permit office. 4. Use the exact same tactics as you used with the Permit office. Every time someone needs these so called therapy lessons, tell them to please hold.

[@raehell.]

i like #2 but it need more Horror vibs

[@GuiSmith]

I think the point is deterrence, not psychological torture…

[@screamingblackhole]

I love all of this

[@forlornfaerie]

EVIL!!!!

[@Cottor_OwO]

Each new comment surprises with more cruelty and insanity than the previous one

[@thatguydownthestreat]

Grain you forgot one of the most important parts to add to the music disk! You should add the faint buzzing of fluorescent lightbulbs to it, but make it fade in so slowly that the person gaslights themselves into thinking it's in their heads.

[@halmittens]

oh yesssss

[@Cxrm3n]

yess that's perfect

[@KnittedSister]

Grain! Grain! Whoever is this Grain character??? 😉 But yearh, that is an amazing idea.

[@darkwolf577]

Omg that’s what perfect I love that xD Grain should do that it would be so funny peoples reactions

[@KarthikSibanyanam-o1y]

Are you OK?

[@rowanastercode]

Okay im not super musically inclined and also days late but just as someone who likes liminal horror, if you want some more ideas about how to make the song less anxiety inducing and more just generally unsettling, my thoughts: - instead of adding more instruments, have the instruments drop out (ie, sudden a capella) and restart at times that don't match the lyrical phrasing - add just like. slight wind or water drop sounds after a certain point - slowly reduce tempo, only by like 15 bpm max, then abruptly reset it when the phrase restarts - slow descresendos and crescendos - quiet static overlay that gets louder when music gets quieter and less quiet when music gets loud

[@Blaueswunder_]

Yo Grian. If you ever feel the desire to close up the Permit office for some time, just get a bee in there, let it hide in one of those 300 bee hives and say the office is closed due to a bug infestation or something like that. Maybe only until the professional exterminator arrives, but who knows who got the permit for that, so.. I think that would be a really effective way to put off permit work :)

[@davidpugh8772]

Oh this is an amazing idea!

[@MrE987]

Of course a proper government building cannot just hire the first exterminator they find. There has to be a proper tender procedure, where multiple companies can bid to get a contract. This can take days, if not weeks unfortunately.

[@davidpugh8772]

@@MrE987 and don't forget that they always go with the lowest bidder

[@Cokamo]

The paintings could be the stereotypical motivational quotes but theyre demotivational instead Don't keep swimming The sky is out of reach You can always do it tomorrow instead Edit-my dsylexic self cant type

[@foxspirit2146]

“Don’t finish the back of your base..”

[@oz_jones]

Demotivational posters were a huge thing circa 2000s. This is perfect

[@DerEingerostete]

Also "You are bound to fail" or "You can't lose if you never even tried in the first place"

[@RyanSoltani]

Fr

[@Foreverwithevermore]

@@foxspirit2146underrated comment dude :)

[@Chigger]

The new hold music isn't bad, it's _jazzy._ The waiting room isn't unsettling, it's _subconscious-stimulating._

[@peterloper4168]

this person is trapped and trying to keep sane

[@edwarddavis7858]

No such thing as wrong notes in Jazz. Just new style!

[@clairetogno6325]

there is no war in bar sing se. there is no problems with the permit office

[@chaoticauraa]

I’m so happy to hear the glitched version of “Please Hold”, when I first heard it I thought glitchiness would suit it so it was cool to see that become a reality! If you’re toning down the glitchiness I think it would also be cool to have the sound of humming lights in the background to add to the eeriness (and perhaps some flickering lights in the waiting room to match?) :)

[@RJE95]

A flickering light that Grian controls from upstairs would be perfect 😗👌

[@mia-sq5sg]

The part where Grian and Joel are fighting and Grian goes "Sir, SIR! Please calm down sir!" and Joel walks straight to the complaint section was comedy gold it was actually perfect XDD

[@MojoBeast]

21:21 if anyone's looking for it. It's SO perfect 😂

[@Hope_B-68742]

Yesss! I laughed SO HARD!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Zebra_M]

The "click, tsss" sounds from that dispenser were entirely not unexpected but man I doubled over laughing

[@DMtarzan]

I loved it. 😂

[@gigantor5380]

You could add a full skeleton sitting on one of the chairs using armor stands, so the hermits sit next to a skeleton of someone who had waited for too long! Also a wall reserved to employee of the month and put like 10 pics of you with different dates

[@Bryophytan]

Id love to see some custom analogue horror style posters or warnings in the backrooms! Something like "you will be perfectly safe if you keep an iron helmet on at all times" or "if lights go out, do not move" would really make the hermits want to spend ss little time in the permit office as possible.

[@SkodaYetiFan96]

Wow so many evil people in the comments today

[@nonya-bizness]

"Hold Ctrl to RUN"

[@B_Skizzle]

Excellent. A few more ideas: • "Do not respond to unknown voices." • "Remember: a careful customer is a happy customer." • "If you suddenly lose the ability to comprehend the letter " ", please inform the clerk." (This one's my favorite.)

[@mariotheundying]

honestly it seems really easy for grian to make this as creepy as possible without any type of monster, hints at it or smth, just everything being as unsettling as possible, what would help this tho is muting or staying away enough for them to not hear him, making them think they're alone

[@drawingmoo4109]

It's the outdated small-pile carpet texture of the gray concrete powder that really sends it for me. You just KNOW that floor hasn't been cleaned since the 80s.

[@PokeyPoris]

My GREAT ideas for the permit office: 1. BUZZING FROM THE LIGHTS. (bee head on a noteblock that randomly goes off) 2. White lights. We need this to be a sterile environment that induces sadness.(BONUS IF THEY FLICKER) 3. Tip jar! (Must be empty) (flowerpot or something) 4. Leaky ceiling! Have water above the ceiling for drips! 5. A loud clock. We need that horrible ticking in the mostly quiet. We need the Joel amount of mania to come from this building. 6. Roches or Rats infestation signs downstairs 7. “False hope is the only hope!” Painting

[@stas4217]

Reading through some of these comments really makes you wonder just where the hell is this coming from....

[@stas4217]

Grian decided to tone DOWN the backrooms feel, not UP 😅

[@PokeyPoris]

@@stas4217 intense pain at the dmv as a neurodivergent person.

[@RyanSoltani]

Dang

[@noahhager1187]

I would also make a maze of bookshelves

[@spazmatic53]

2 Things to add to the Permit office: 1) A twisty disneyland-esque waiting line 2)A number system. Like when you get in they have to take a number and wait for their number to be called even though there are no people in line.

[@mr.fuzzfuzz]

Yeah and he can call our random numbers that aren’t the persons who is waiting’s number

[@FoxCrewVideos]

Also the number system could always give them a large number, so they would have to wait for the other numbers to be called out first

[@frostsystem]

*Imagine* if Grian finds a way to pull off a build with the same vibes as the AI-advertisement Willy Wonka Experience that's been in the news and the memes lately

[@Z3ph3rus]

Definitely add a number system. You can dispense random numbers to the waiting area

[@ici123-r2e]

​@@frostsystemThere should be THE UNKNOWN in the walls of the waiting room

[@nohlbenson1860]

I actually love the backrooms vibe in the waiting room. I would love to see you go deeper into it. If the floor was made out of snow you could put down patches of powdered snow that drops you down into an actual backrooms with wide open waiting rooms, stairwells to nowhere, libraries of filing cabinets with obscure forms, hallways of out of order restrooms/drinking fountains, etc. I would prefer running into a warden than to drop into an endless government office building.

[@fjolliff6308]

Don't forget doors that lead to walls, doors that open and close randomly, and fake creepers in random jump scare locations.

[@robbiefroggy8568]

the powdered snow idea is INCREDIBLE

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

To add to it make it so after they call for help grian starts crouching on top of them and says "I can't see you" or "where are you?" While occasionally breaking the block on top of the hermit and putting it back before they can see through it

[@SkodaYetiFan96]

​@@airplanes_aren.t_real are you for real😬

[@BM-dg4rk]

PLEASE THIS

[@Benjboi]

Grian and Joel arguing was the most British thing I’ve ever seen. I’m gonna go drink a cup of tea now…

[@exnihil13]

I am CRYING over the hold music remake. Jono is a genius. And it is absolutely not too much.

[@mariotheundying]

I think it is a bit too much for hermitcraft, it is too unsettling (tho only if the customers do not hear grian say anything at all and they think they're alone) for the server, but if he wants to keep it like that then it's funny, not for the customers tho

[@SamUel-uf5xe]

I'm autistic... that music is so repulsive to my ears that I nearly destroyed my headphones. I mean, it is a musical work of art, but one that I also absolutely despise.

[@felicia9097]

I was fully expecting him to cut in over the music with a "thank you for holding, we value you're patience" lmao

[@dredgenauryx3382]

Grien in previous seasons: "I hate the Goverment!" Grian in season 10: "I am the Goverment!" I love this.

[@anastasijahabarova1533]

Who’s this Grien character? 🤨🤔

[@lasercraft32]

"You want something done wrong, you do it yourself!" - Grian probably

[@Moloxer]

Why don't people get it: He is but a simple cog in the machine, he doesn't create the the rules!

[@musicalsciectist7148]

@@anastasijahabarova1533Grien succeeded Grian in the 100 hours of hardcore series after Grian died.

[@FablesTold]

I'm looking forward to Season 11 when Grian becomes the head of the Hermits HOA.

[@kingdadinator]

I don’t think I’ve laughed as hard as when Joel got to the whistling part. Don’t change the music. It’s perfect.

[@kevinbehan]

Grian I think it would be funny if, by chance gem needed something from the permit office and you were super helpful. But if any of the other hermits notices how cooperative you are for gem, completely down play it and respond with something like “well it is the permit office, that’s what we’re here for. To help people.” It would drive scar and Joel crazy… also love the idea of the Poe Poe riding pigs😂😂

[@Holden_B]

What about mumbo?

[@lasercraft32]

Okay, Grian, you NEED to add more and more floors to the waiting room. Have it go wayyy deeper than it realistically should, and the deeper you go the more unhinged the music gets... The Permit Office needs its own dedicated Backrooms! XD

[@daniiii888]

Level 5 of the permit office is legit the worst one 💀

[@mariotheundying]

With the same design too, until it gets to a level where it can be noticed it isn't as maintained as the other levels, and then abandoned, and the last level you being able to hear just a faint mumble of the music, tho idk how far that would be

[@mozzapple]

I love when there's a familiar song that's just *slightly* off to give a sense of unease. I especially prefer it when it's just unnoticeable enough to where you think, "wait a second... was that note correct? Maybe I'm just imagining things........ THAT ONE WAS DEFINITELY OFF!!" "Was that little chime always apart of the song? I don't remember it being there.." "Is this part of the song normal???? I can't tell anymore"

[@IDKisReal2401]

Though that wouldn't make you leave

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

That must be what people comming across the channel "SiIvagunner" for the first time feel like.

[@Poetawesomendo]

Like in ddlc

[@kre8or465]

for a good example, myhouse.wad :)

[@Jaymac720]

Joel's reaction to the complaint just getting burnt is PRICELESS 21:34

[@Logan0324_]

Scar: the pillar of ore is probably so annoying for other hermits Grian and Gem: its so well done, don’t tear it down pleaseeeee

[@ulischmidt03]

I love how Scar made that spire of ore expecting everybody to want it gone, but Grian and Gem are just actually impressed by how good it looks

[@mmmcatfish4299]

Something that would make Please Hold - Terror Edition all the more terrorizing would be to add distant screams in the background, barely audible but clear enough to send shivers down one's spine >:D

[@WackoMcGoose]

I was planning to make the original Please Hold into a Heaven Studio remix... now I kinda want to make one for Terror Edition (if he releases it), have every note be on off-beats, and mess with the tempo on every minigame change, just to make it as painful to _play_ as it is to listen to. _Go for a Perfect! (Good luck...)_

[@project_z3z511]

🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@justynajoniak6737]

this, but make them go slowly louder, faster paced and out of tune with the rest of the song and make them glitch out ever so periodically that you feel its over until they come back stronger

[@COBfan1996]

I mean just take a bit of inspiration from blut aus nord's disharmonium - undreamable abysses and you'll be all set. "In to the woods" has an amazingly haunting intro section that might actually fit some of these key and tempo shifts occasionally.

[@1st1anarkissed]

A horsehead on a noteblock?

[@asherjones5725]

As far as I can tell, all the hermits have various niche skills in minecraft. Terraforming, texturing, gradients, redstone. And now that these guys have been playing with each other for several years, everyone's operating at top form and pushing this game to it's limits. It's a marvel to see, really.

[@PardonSylver]

Grian being "too lazy to enact order" while having previously started 2 separate wars, one of which was against a government HE CREATED is hilarious to me.

[@alvardio]

You should place a repeating jukebox 60-ish blocks below the waiting room so its barely in range, that only plays a light buzzing and flickering noise for like an hour.

[@8cladgamer210]

YOU my friend are a monster…and I LOVE it.

[@andrewpinedo1883]

This should be documented.

[@mrawesomepenguin6440]

Ooo that's good, just in range so you can hear it, but you're not sure if it's really there...

[@DoubleTrouble-li5wi]

This is genius.

[@gorgonaught]

The permit office may be my favorite thing in all of Hermitcraft history. I cannot help but laugh out loud every time. Especially with Joel's exasperated sighs every time. 😂

[@anemarin4lif358]

Grian, you have started wars, insighted rebellion, been morally ambitious around every corner, but you have never been evil,,,, until bureaucracy

[@asterling4]

i know it's just a misspelling but i love the implications that grian is somehow "morally ambitious"... what does it mean... if anyone was ever "morally ambitious" i guess it would be grian

[@RyanSoltani]

Bureaucracy brings out the best of the worst in Grian

[@anemarin4lif358]

@@asterling4 he's being a moral overachiever he's got to be the absolute best at morality (whatever that means)

[@daseptictank]

Grian, two suggestions: 1) Turn the waiting room chair around so it faces the wall. 2) In the music disc, add the hum of flourescent lights, and occasionally a flicker. That would be so good! I loves the Permit Office so much XD

[@oliverpyide7748]

Definitely 😂

[@Apate-]

Make the waiting room a maze!

[@spaciousdawgg]

The flickering lights are genius lol

[@RReapxRR]

To make it more eerie. When people are attempting to get a form for their permits. You should use a soundboard and have only specific responses. Makes it feel like there is less human interaction and more unsettling

[@daephx]

Genius

[@DoubleTrouble-li5wi]

Yes

[@sonny1524]

That's a great idea xD

[@tanukinoodle]

DON'T REMOVE ANYTHING FROM THE SONG! Joel's reaction was priceless!! just that "what the hell was that?" and "what is happening?" every now and then just GOT ME

[@Spoodboi]

I'm genuinely surprised Grian didn't add a music disk that played "depressingly dreary office sfx" on loop for The Permit office. With slow clacking of computer keys, occasional depressed sighing, awkard coughing, shuffling of office papers, a phone eternally ringing in the distance, and muffled monotone mumbling with the periodic "Im afraid I'll have to direct you to another department, please hold" being heard. THAT would make anyone wanna leave the permit place quickly! XD

[@OrigamiMarie]

Hmm, make this disk run on an endless loop in one jukebox, and then run the hold music in another jukebox when needed. The layering would be excellent.

[@Spoodboi]

@@OrigamiMarie My thoughts exactly!!!

[@ArcticPuzzle]

That is *so* evil. I love it.

[@gc2009able]

​@@OrigamiMariePerhaps it could be left playing even when the Permit Office is closed, as if it's a multiverse echo of every soul-crushing office ever. Or, better yet, the off-hours version would be a second disc that's much quieter: loud enough to *just barely* hear at Xisuma's sales trophy location.

[@jhonsmith5093]

Improvements for the permit office. - Make a real entrance... It's 100 blocks away disguised as an outhouse, with signs pointing to it saying "The entrance is 50 blocks ----->" so people have to triangulate it. The entrance leads to a deep dark hole that you fall down that leads to a well lit hall that slowly goes dark, the floor is covered in pressure plates that might occasionally play the sound of tnt being primed. The tunnel leads to a nether portal that will plop them down in a maze, the maze has piglin brutes that, using carpet magic, can't actually kill anyone, but will scare them. And a sign telling them to follow the yellow brick road to reach the end of the maze. (the yellow brick road is a road of honey blocks that will take a very roundabout way of getting to the exit portal.) The exit portal leads to a back storage room with empty file cabinets, lots of cobwebs, maybe one or two dead bodies from former employees who got lost in the file maze and people who died waiting for their number to be called. Finally they climb up a ladder and exit through one of the paintings into the permit office. Where they can then take a number and wait to be called.

[@emmasullivan7258]

This sounds perfect

[@jhonsmith5093]

@@emmasullivan7258Thanks

[@motekz]

this is an amazing idea

[@AnimilesYT]

You are evil. You need therapy. I love the idea :D

[@deeejaaay27]

It's so cruel I love it

[@_shibe_7150]

from terrorizing the Hermits with chaos to Terrorizing the Hermits with Psychological horror. I'm loving season 10

[@ConvenientLamp]

Grian should create a corporate-style ad for the permit office in a way that’s intentionally vague and gives barely any actual information about it at all. Soulless corporate 'nothing' music in the background would be the cherry on top

[@CConRye]

I love how in Scar's video he was saying he would have to take down the ore tower because the other hermits probably wouldn't like it, and Grian and Gem are gushing over how cool they think it looks.

[@ltskai]

9:43 “the permit office enforces. POE for short. and because there are two of them, they can be the POE POE” classic

[@DoubleTrouble-li5wi]

That was a great line

[@maartenkok4477]

I thought it was permit officers so it would be po po.

[@shaunalleyne2003]

Don't forget the POE POE ride around on pigs 😂

[@tsdk107]

9:52 "I need those two imbeciles-" Me: Escar-roast.

[@l9m241]

You took the idea of going to the DMV and not only hit the vibe of it being physically painful with all the paperwork and waiting and just the soul sucking dread of it all, but also just made it emotionally unsettling too. I went in the other day too and thought of that waiting song in my head while I was waiting for my number to be called and fully understood the reason. Grian. It's genius. Bravo.

[@AK-qh6lr]

🫡 Did you get a nice employee or Grian?

[@thatonearoace]

⁠@@AK-qh6lr Are you implying that Grian isn’t a nice employee?

[@Sprungj]

@@thatonearoace…I’m gonna have to put you on hold for that one. (cue the music)

[@thatonearoace]

@@Sprungj Jokes on you, I play it when drawing! Willingly! You hold no power here!

[@Jeftaaa]

The permit office music is possibly the most fun thing in HermitCraft ever! I'm laughing tears when Joel just says "no"

[@georgeleft6221]

To make the waiting room more unsettling instead of a 2x1 chair just make it a 1x1 chair so its not symmetrical just to annoy them. To solve your diamond problem charge anyone that comes to the permit office some diamonds since they come back like 4 times just to be told they need to "please hold"

[@MJAnonymous6003]

Hear me out: adding occasional whispering into the updated waiting room music and pauses where all the music stops and theres just humming or breathing before going back to normal. +The spongey looking mushrooms could give off that popcorn tile ceiling feel in the waiting room

[@dimensionalchaos8422]

Pro tip for making the forms: Type it up in a separate word document, one paragraph per question. Then you can copy and paste it in whenever you need a new book. Had to make a form office for a worldbuilding server. was very fun to ask people "did you fill out a form?"

[@Wyrmknave]

The "is it fixable?" at 19:49 is the realest thing in the world

[@Jackaboy15]

24:35 Grian you should totally have painting of you that says employee of the month.

[@SaAndV]

LMAO AND SCAR AND BDUBBS WHO WILL WORK HARDER WILL NEVER GET IT

[@SleepyVenice]

I REALLY want an unnecessary wall in the waiting room, to really drive home the "Liminal space" vibe; just a random wall, is someone hiding behind that wall? is someone else in the waiting room with you? who knows! why not check behind the wall? Random wall and white noise would be absolutely perfect

[@Omniscient_AI]

I wanted to add onto your suggestions: 1. I feel like the wall shouldn't reach the ceiling, just 2 block below 2. The white noise should be just close enough that you can hear it while next to the wall, but far enough away so that you can *only* hear it next to the wall

[@thegourmetchefegg4947]

"And to respond to Pearl..." "TRIDENT! Oh. Dodge! Weave! Ow. Gyeah! Aww. " I love how distracted he gets sometimes.

[@audrey.o.]

Sometimes we don't need to focus on one thing for a long time, that's the type of video I want to watch 😅

[@LycanMOON]

Neurodivergent energy

[@zacrushworth7911]

Here’s an idea for next season’s shopping district. It starts as one building, then every time someone wants to add a shop, they have to build an extension. I’m imagining stairs circling the outside and doors that reveal different paths depending on if they are open or closed.

[@TheCappuccino04]

20:31 I cannot get over Joel's reaction when the whistling in the music starts. just the straighest and most monotone *"What is that."* followed by grian's evil cackling

[@doesitmatter3642]

Grian is putting more effort into not doing any work for the Permit office than it would take to actually *do* the work XD For your starting to appear chest monster - since it's in a dock area, just turn into a stockyard, then you can have as much chaotic chests and boxes and barrels everywhere as you want ;)

[@ayaanahmad_]

THIS COMMENT NEEDS MORE LIKES!

[@Lohi42]

A very important detail i want others to know too: jono means line/queue in finnish. It's the perfect name for artist making hold music

[@isaacthecorncob]

There should be a sign at each line saying something along the lines (heh) of "please use the other line" and "please wait for your turn, your patronage is very important to us"

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

WAIT A MINUTE, I don't even think the Permit Office even has a permit for selling permits!! This is outrageous and I demand a full investigation by the a Buero of Internalized Affairs!!

[@jetho9859]

They don't sell the permits, they just create them. There's a difference.

[@crazytiger6]

They’re not selling permits, as they don’t make a profit off of it, and thus do not need a permit

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

@@crazytiger6 they are selling permits, it just costs time instead of money.

[@ToniToniChopaaa]

@@jackalenterprisesofohiothey are not selling permits…

[@cliffyang7687]

They are not selling permits…

[@Flash-mv8rn]

grian i need you to be AS UNSETTLING AS POSSIBLE I need you to go FULL HORROR here this is bringing me much joy!

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

I really wish grian could use the seamless nether portal mod that mumbo used a while ago so they could make non-Euclidean mazes

[@Unclevertitle]

The new "Please Hold" or rather "Please (Don't) Hold" music is PERFECT, imo. Not too too far, just too far enough.

[@T3kRazor]

Grian, the Permit Office _needs_ a post box. Every government office/building should be accessible from an external means -even if the post is destroyed/lost/returned for whatever reason-

[@anaceattorneyfangreatgame9770]

Grian: "I also don't want him to remove it..." Also Grian: "Do you think he'd know?" *Starts Mining*

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

What? When did Grian mine it? He did no such thing. It was the snails.

[@905maywick8]

Yes what are you tallking about? It was obviously the snails.

[@adrianjimenez250]

Idea for the permit office paintings: Get an alternative set of demotivational paintings that you swap out while they are waiting downstairs (example: "We are here to help" with a happy face is swaped out by "We are here to help sometimes" with a tired face.)

[@BostonWilkinson]

Put one of those cringy cat motivational posters (ex. Hang in there)

[@Ovinaaa_]

The snail terror will never end

[@SerenaTheTurtle]

Th- the... the snerror...

[@PeriwinkleRoseYT]

That’s what the snails want you to think

[@ApolloPugmire]

YEAH

[@russsian1582]

Nor should it

[@rowenasmit5454]

I hope so 😂

[@Ari-fl8jx]

I love how Scar is just tinkering and sometimes that ends up with a finished build

[@aztecpatrick]

This comment section is ABSOLUTE GOLD. You should all be proud of yourselves, and I hope Grian reads your suggestions! Added ideas: -Actually collect the feedback, but burn something else in its place, just in case you do want to read it while making the customer think their feedback got burned -Make a chest, and put a piece of paper in there saying "Every time you open this you need to pay a diamond" and if they don't, you make them stay until they do or you hide Hold music in their base on infinity loop.

[@musicalsciectist7148]

As much as I love that second suggestion, remember that the permit office does not take diamonds.

[@dababy-hu6vh]

@@musicalsciectist7148 then burn the diamond in front of them

[@candykayn2159]

You should add a donation box to the permit office that heavily insinuated that donating improves your standing to gain a permit but does nothing. No bribes, no favors, only pain.

[@AceMcCrank]

"Your donation helps keep our office open, and ready to serve you. By donating today, you help the Hermit Permit Office to expedite your permit needs!"

[@bibsisol9960]

That's the best comment i've seen today, absolutely genius.

[@branard5748]

they place the donation in the box and it gets pulled out of the barrel and you just hear the item burning sound

[@matthewglenguir7204]

Genius idea. Legal Bribes LMAO

[@somerton4383]

​@@branard5748just gets burnt in lava like the complaints? 😆

[@Cluemily]

Honestly I think the hold music needs a really eerie reverb, I think it'll really make the downstairs waiting room much creepier. Bonus if there's random pauses so you just get to hear the reverb fade out before the music kicks back in.

[@jonatandjurachkovitch460]

Nah man that's too much

[@bakedpotato7746]

Just wanted to say you NAILED the liminal/backrooms vibe. I didn't know that's what you were going for, but that's the EXACT vibe I got when I saw the thumbnail. Even my little nice came in the room and pointed at it saying "backrooms?"

[@PickledGingerEdits]

Grain: “the permit office does not accept bribes” Also Grian: *accepts a bribe*

[@artisharma8904]

Well the 'permit office' doesn't accept bribes, but 'Grian' has no such restrictions...

[@TheGoldenApex]

Grian is too funny😂😂😂

[@johanneskunz9096]

Grian… I am very proud of you. The Permit Office even has a backside ^^

[@samstone8674]

This episode is great. The Creepy Hold Music was an awesome idea that JONO knocked out of the park and the permit office turned out fantastically. It really does look like it holds the horrors of red tape and bureaucracy.

[@LollypopR2]

I sincerly hope he makes this waiting room a labyrinth at some point. But like an exruciatingly long labyrinth with only one path, not difficult at all just long, and he asks the hermits to come fast to redeem the permit and if they dont go fast enough he cancels the permit for "lack of good manners"

[@catfin1299]

Man, I love hearing Grian all chirpy and bubbly at the start of a new episode. Makes me all warm and giggly inside.

[@deldarel]

I think a mailbox in the permit office would be great! That would allow for extra steps and less efficiency. Ooh, and more permit office ideas: have a 1x1 painting between the book cases with a portrait of you in your civil servant uniform. Only light up the lamp of the lane you're gonna use. It'll make the whole place just that extra bit depressing.

[@_marshP]

One fun trick with "creepy" music is to desync the tracks (as in the melody, the harmony, the bass, etc or alternatively each individual instrument) The slight difference in tempo for each track will sound normal at first only to slowly make you realize something is wrong with the music without being able to find out what, until you realize it's the tempo

[@linuslundquist3501]

That's actually genius

[@thfreakinacage]

Grian in past seasons: Annoying friends with pranks Grian in season 10: Annoying friends with bureaucracy.

[@andreababcock2622]

The whistling in the waiting tune killed me beyond everything else. PLEASE KEEP THE UNNERVING VERSION!

[@Shepard--Tauren]

8:57 Grian: "39 diamonds, that is above average" the average between 20 and 60 is 40.... 39 is one below that

[@magnettilemanalt]

Thank you I was looking for someone who said it

[@TickleTurtle]

No, the average that you can get from mining diamonds. The chances of getting 60 is insane, while its very easy to get 20-30

[@magnettilemanalt]

@@TickleTurtle that’s not how averages work. An average is a median not a mean. Therefore percentage chance of getting it is not taken into account.

[@chvredstone5752]

@@magnettilemanaltwrong way round. An average is by definition the same thing as the mean.

[@TejasIsAmazing]

With fortune 3, the average diamond amount is 2.2 diamonds, so for 20, it would come out to 44 diamonds. Grian got less than the average

[@StrangersCallMeHantu]

Grian "Are you proud of me, I did interior, made a basement-" Me "Im just proud he finished the back"

[@wyvernsbane7752]

You know, I’m watching this months later and I wonder if this is where the inspiration for the wild life snails started? Especially scars. eSCAR-no? Basically it’s escargot and scar in the… well in everything put together. And the shrinking may have come from Piko Park and…. I’m starting to understand the mind of Grian.

[@plaidhatter1674]

This really is the DMV of hermitcraft. I dont know wether to applaud the accuracy, or hate the fact that we have to deal with this in real life because they make you go through the whole application process just to tell you that the camera is broken AFTER YOU FINISH THE WHOLE TEDIOUS PROCESS AND THEN HAVE TO LEAVE EMPTY HANDED.