Friday, October 31, 2014

Strange Monsters, Cakepeckers, and the Cultivator

When I went onto one of my survival worlds today, it was night. I got into my bed. The screen darkened, but then suddenly got light again to reveal a zombie standing next to me. A zombie with no face--just smooth green skin.

I killed it, and went back to bed. This time, there were no monsters standing next to me when I woke up. Strangely, though, it was still dark outside. I right-clicked the bed, but the chat informed me that "you can only sleep at night."

I went outside.

There were more faceless zombies, as well as some blackish-purple skeleton things with glowing yellow eyes.

I ran around, avoiding the strange monsters. After a little while, two figures came into view. One of them I recognized as the Mushroom Man, who was fighting the other, unfamiliar person who appeared to be made out of dirt, with rocks as facial features and plants as hair.

The dirt-person wasn't holding a weapon, but pumpkins were springing up, getting in the Mushroom Man's way, and cacti grew out of nowhere and hurt him.

"What's happening?" I asked.

"Well," said the Mushroom Man, "I was having some Halloween fun, but apparently the Cultivator didn't like it when I destroyed hir garden. Ze also also works for Herobrine, of course, so that could be part of it."

"Ah." I said. "In that case..." I ran at the Mushroom Man and attacked him with my sword, careful to avoid the Cultivator's cacti.

The Mushroom Man backed off, and pulled out a thin obsidian frame with a portal in the center. "Say hello to Jhounny!" he said, and a chicken shot out of the portal. It ran at us, jerking its head forward to deal damage, and I noticed that it had red eyes.

I hit Jhounny with my sword, and the Cultivator grew a giant, green-tinged potato in front of hirself, just as Jhounny pecked at hir. He started taking damage--the potato was poisonous, probably--and I slashed at him some more, killing him.

The Mushroom Man darted in, placing a gravestone where Jhounny had died. Then he backed off, and the Cultivator and I backed off too.

Suddenly, the grave exploded, spewing red-eyed chickens everywhere.

"Mrooo! Say hello to Jhounny and Jhounny and Jhounny and Jhounny and Jhounny and Jhounny and Jhounny and Jhounny..." said the Mushroom Man.

As the copies of Jhounny swarmed me and the Cultivator, a tree grew up from under us.
The red-eyed chickens milled around the base of the tree, and the Mushroom Man quickly started building a dirt staircase toward the top of the tree. The Jhounnys followed.

"Do you have anything that could stop him?" I asked the Cultivator. "Jhounny's duplicates will overrun us if they get up here."

"Just wait," ze said. "I think I've heard of these---they're called cakepeckers--and in just a second they should..."

The cakepeckers froze, then started being drawn toward each other, eventually combining into a single Jhounny. Then the cultivator waved hir arm, and a pumpkin sprang out of the dirt underneath Jhounny, catapulting him far away from us. The Mushroom Man took out the portal again--or maybe it was a different one--and placed it under himself. He disappeared, and the portal went out.

The Cultivator jumped over to the portal frame, destroyed it, and picked it up. "Hmm," ze said. "The Forger might be interested in this." It disappeared from hir hand.

"Cool," I said. "Well, it was nice meeting you. I'm going to go run around and see what else is going on. Bye!"

"OK. Bye!" said the Cultivator, and I jumped down and ran off.

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Chibawkia

As I was going home from exploring, I found an obsidian wall. For some reason, there was a zombie and some skeletons wearing pumpkins, along with some creepers, standing next to it. The skeletons were holding splash potions of poison, and one of the zombies was placing ladders up the wall. I cautiously approached them.

A skeleton turned to face me, and a chat message appeared:

"<Lesto> Stay back. We'd rather not waste time attacking you, but, if necessary, we can overwhelm you."

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"We're attacking Chibawkia, of course," Lesto said.

"Why? And what's Chibawkia?"

"Dr. Chibawk started this city, but he only lets endermen and his other agents in. In fact, they have spawners from dungeons and farm skeletons and zombies, and they hunt creepers just so they can put on firework shows! So we're attacking them."

The zombie stopped placing ladders two blocks from the top of the wall and started building a dirt platform next to the top of the ladder. Monsters began climbing the ladder.

"Hey," I said. "Could I  borrow a pumpkin--which will hopefully stop the endermen from noticing me--and go inside? Maybe I could find something out that would be useful to you."

"I suppose so..." said Lesto. "But if you attack us, we will kill you." He dropped a pumpkin toward me, and I put it on. Lesto started climbing the ladder, and I followed.

When all the skeletons were on the platform, they suddenly, all at once, jumped up and threw their splash potions over the wall. The zombie placed water on top of it, and creepers started swimming over the wall. I followed them. As I went over the wall, I noticed that there was a shadow with no discernible source covering the city.

Endermen started appearing and attacking the monsters. Fortunately, the pumpkin seemed to work, and they left me alone.

I fell into the water on the other side of the wall, then quickly walked away, careful to avoid the creepers, which were now exploding.

As I walked through the houses, which seemed taller than normal--to accommodate the three block tall endermen, of course--I saw some familiar buildings: MooTech, Rana's Froggy Clothing Shop, and...well, this one was sort of familiar. It was a small sandstone pyramid, covered in vines, and surrounded by two block tall vine-covered redstone lamp structures. There was a jungle tree next to it, and it had banners on it saying "Viney Tacos."

The vines and lamps reminded me of Viney Food, but the pyramid and word "taco" made me think of a book I found several months ago:


My Friend TacoMan by Happyguy

My friend TacoMan lives in a desert temple! I met him when I was exploring!

Inside the temple, there was a lever with a sign by it that said "Don't flip this lever!"

I thought, "That's obviously a trick, so that people won't find the secret entrance to some diamonds or something!"

So I flipped it.

Some netherrack appeared, with a sign that said "Light the netherrack to complete the ritual."
A ritual! Cool!

So I lit the netherrack, and TacoMan appeared!

He ran toward me, swinging a sword, so I ran and hid, and started writing this.

But I'm sure he'll be my best friend when I explain that I wouldn't steal his diamonds!



I went into Viney Tacos.

The Vineman was there, along with a player who looked like Steve with a taco as a head-- TacoMan, probably.

"DARN!" said the Vineman. "WE'RE OUT OF POISONOUS POTATO TACOS! HANG ON, I'LL GO GET SOME MORE."

The Vineman ran out of the room.

"Craftykids," whispered TacoMan. "Entity 303 told me about you."

"Entity 303? Do you work for him?"

"Maybe..." said TacoMan.

"Spying, perhaps?" I asked.

Before TacoMan could answer, the Vineman came back.

"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? ATTACK HIM!"

Poisonous potatoes appeared everywhere, and TacoMan came at me with a sword.

I ran from the restaurant, and TacoMan ran after me. The endermen, seeming to notice me for the first time, attacked me too. I couldn't escape them all, and I died.