Adjacent: A Distant Land

(Written in 2013 based on a prompt from the book Moe's Café. The titles were added later.)

 

Answers

1. What is the name of your kingdom?
1. Chibawkia.
2. How do you get there?
1. The same way you’d get to any other universe, or, if you’re already in it, by going to the Overworld.
3. What do you notice when you first enter?
1. That it’s sort of dark, and there are endermen everywhere, some of which are wearing Rana’s Froggy Clothes.
4. Who is in charge?
1. Dr. Chibawk.
5. How are the laws enforced?
1. Endermen lock up anyone who disobeys Dr. Chibawk (if it’s an enderman, its enderpearl is removed).
6. How do ordinary people make a living?
1. Well….all the players are in prison. The endermen have public zombie farms to get food from.
7. How do ordinary people spend their free time?
1. The players are all locked up. The endermen mine, build, explore, and torment the players.
8. Who are the great heroes of the kingdom? The great enemies?
1. For the players, the hero is Herobrine and the enemy Dr. Chibawk. For the endermen, vice-versa.
9. What do people hope will happen in the future?
1. The players want Dr. Chibawk to die. The endermen want him to rule forever.
10. What do the people argue about?
1. There aren’t any big arguments.

Breakfast

Darmad, an enderman, teleported to his local zombie farm. He watched as a zombie appeared next to the spawner, fell through some lava, burned to death and dropped some rotten flesh, which fell into a hopper and came out of a dropper next to him.

Inventor

Darmad, an enderman, stepped out into the perpetual dusk.

"Hey, Darmad! Look at me!" someone called from above him. "I'm flyiiiiiing!"

Darmad look up. An enderwoman named Meran was in the air, being pulled by a cloud of bats attached to leads.

"Where did you get all those bats? And the slimeballs for the leads?"

"I found a slime chunk and hollowed it out!" she shouted.

"Can I try?"

"Sure!" Meran teleported to the ground.

"Quick," she said. "Take them from me before they carry me up again!"

Darmad grabbed the leads from her. The bats took him into the air—but he couldn't control where he was going.

The bats took him over the walls of Chibawkia, where skeletons were standing in buildings made of water. This was to keep endermen from going in—water hurts endermen.

Darmad stared apprehensively at the skeletons. Would they shoot at him? Wild skeletons, zombies, and creepers had been attacking Chibawkia since not long after it was created.

A flaming arrow zipped past his head. Several more followed, and one of them hit Darmad. He quickly teleported to his house.

Darmad stood there, waiting for the fire to go away. He couldn’t put it out with water, because that would hurt him even more. The bats fluttered around, but they couldn’t go upwards through the ceiling, and they were all pulling in different directions horizontally.

When the fire was out, Darmad drank a healing potion, tied the bats to a fence, then went to find Meran.

Siege

Lesto the skeleton stared through a sheet of water at the creepers as they climbed onto pigs. A zombie flipped a lever, and TNT started blinking around the pigs. Then it exploded, sending the pigs and their riders over the walls of Chibawkia.

Lesto heard more explosions from inside the city, and he knew that the creepers must have blown up.

When Dr. Chibawk had taken over, the skeletons, zombies, and creepers had hoped that they would be able to live in Chibawkia. But it turned out that Dr Chibawk and the endermen treated them just as badly as the players had—endermen found spawners in dungeons and farmed skeletons and zombies, and searched for creepers and killed them just so they could put on firework shows. So the skeletons, zombies, and creepers had started attacking Chibawkia.

Rescue

Herobrine crept invisibly down the hallway, pushing along a pig, which was also invisible. He stopped next to a door and poured some lava on the floor, then placed a few blocks of TNT in it. The TNT started blinking, then exploded with loud bangs.

Endermen came out of the door to see what was happening, and Herobrine slipped in through the door and ran to a part of the huge, floating cube that was now unguarded. He placed vines on the wall of the room and climbed up them, then placed some on the side of the cube and jumped over, then got out a diamond pickaxe and started mining a hole in the obsidian.

Herobrine heard a squeal from outside the room, and knew that endermen must have noticed the pigs particles and started attacking it. Good. That was why he’d brought the pig. But now they’d know what it was. Herobrine had to work quickly.

He finished mining the obsidian, and threw and ender pearl into the lava inside. He was immediately teleported into the lava.

Herobrine had used a fire resistance potion, so the lava didn’t hurt him. He swam through it until he came to another obsidian cube. He started mining.

The second block of obsidian broke, and Herobrine stepped through the doorway he had created into Dr. Chibawk’s prison.

“Here are some potions and ender pearls,” Herobrine whispered to the players inside. “Come with me. I’m going to help you escape.”