Alternate Chibawks

Around 2015, I created several settings featuring alternate versions of Dr. Chibawk, and the stories I wrote at the time (plus one new one) are hosted on my newly-populated Neocities website. Get ready to meet.....

Dorrec Bachawk

The legendary ice-cream-obsessed ruler of Nedren, moon of a Magic: The Gathering fan-plane called Forill

Dotrichabek

Every good fairy tale includes a flying machine with a laser that can zap things

Dirkek Bichak

CAKE WARS!!!

For years, the evil artificial intelligence Dirkek Bichak, who chooses to reside in the body of a rooster, has been stealing cake from all across this far, far away galaxy...!

Adjacent stories

I've added a couple more Dr. Chibawk-related stories to the newly-renamed other stories page, including the one that originated Chibawkia, Meran, and Lesto!

Netherroyals update

 (Disclaimer: this is not indicative of anything in the works; it's just some stuff I've been passively doing)

Some development I've done of the Netherroyals since when the stories tapered off!

First off:

(Side note: I am as well, not coincidentally)

They also, as shown above, have a new skin, as well as a new version of the princess outfit (though these things aren't entirely new as they've already been on my PMC profile for a while)

I also have some never-before-seen stuff for their sister, albeit stuff that's a bit more questionable with regard to this blog's continuity:

Matida  Has  Become---

---Er, that is, her name is Miatilva! Or Mia. And she also has a skin!

Some other misc notes about this hypothetical updated (dis)continuity:

• Netherroyal titles probably aren't gender-swapped? Repierk's still a princess though because that's kinda the point!
• Not so sure about Mia x Zoanna being a thing. 100% sure though that Mia is a lesbian and Zoanna is bi. (Hmmmm)
• Also Repierk, Mia, and Zoanna joined the siege on Chibawkia and lived happily ever after. Maybe Mia and Herobecky are girlfriends? Zoanna has a ghost chicken datemate? And as long as we're paring people up, how about Repierk x Meran? (And have I ever mentioned that Dieamond and Lesto have a polycule with a furtherman named Lugubrious?)

Aaaaand I think that's it for this year's one (1) post. (I wrote this at 2am. Hopefully it's not too weird)

Unused stories

I've had the deleted "Time Travel" story as a page on the bog for a while, but I decided that, since I have some other stories that I previously lost interest in and don't intend to post to the main blog, I might as well make pages for them too! Even if you're not interested in looking at unused stories in general, I might recommend checking out "A Magical Meal".

If you ARE interested in background-type stuff, and haven't noticed yet, I also have a credits page!

Some even older art

(Done in an art class several years ago)

The Mystical Valley, in four color palettes (trichromatic top-left, monochromatic bottom-left, analogous middle, complementary right)

Torn-paper collage of a furtherman

Spucow City, the village that the golems and Mr. Jones are from, being turned into Chibawkia

Some unused art

(EDIT: I now have a page for the story these were made for -- "A Magical Meal")

Happyguy with Dr. Chibawk in Viney Food



The evil village, post-Entity 303 (EDIT: also, I have a tall extended version here)



Happyguy being carried by a flying zombie

INHIDC video

I made an experimental video adaptation of "It's Not Herobrine, It's Dr. Chibawk":

Flying Zombie

I saw a winged zombie.



Brightened:

Meran's Story

EDIT: On a completely unrelated subject, MrCrayfish's Model Creator is pretty cool!

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I rushed through the forest, weaving between tall birch trees. This time, I hadn't even seen them coming. The strange, headless, spider-like creatures had seemed to appear from nowhere, jumping out from behind tree trunks and off of tree tops. A small crowd of them trailed me now--a smaller crowd than I had been chased by in the past, but still big enough that I was worried about my chances of survival if I turned around to fight them.

I scanned the landscape ahead of me, hoping to a find an ocean, or even a river, where I could jump in my boat and speed ahead of the monsters. I saw neither of these, but what I did see, over to one side, was just as welcome: a Steve-like figure with no irises...it was Herobrine, who I hadn't seen for nearly three years!

If you don't know yet, Herobrine is actually nice. He helps players. The true evil is Dr. Chibawk, an ender-chicken who wants to take over the world, and who delights in the destruction of players' creations and the consumption of stolen cakes. More recently, Entity 303 has also been taking part in destruction, competing with Dr. Chibawk.

As I ran around the tree trunks, I turned toward Herobrine. He seemed to see me, and a diamond sword appeared in his hand as he hurried toward me. A second figure, who I hadn't noticed until now, followed Herobrine. It was Heropiggy, Herobrine's white-eyed pig friend. Then we reached each other, and I turned around to fight the spider-things. Heropiggy distracted some of them, resisting their attacks with his invulnerability, while Herobrine and I killed the others without suffering too much damage. After that was done, we went after the ones chasing Heropiggy.

When all of the creatures were dead, I turned to Herobrine and said, "Hi. Thanks for helping me with that! Do you know what those were?"

"They're called araknids," said Herobrine.

"Oh. Are you doing anything in particular out here?"

"Actually, yes. We're meeting some people at the Forger's cave. You could come if you want."

"How far is it?"

"Not very far. We're almost there."

"Sure, I'll come," I said. "Where's the cave?"

"Follow me," said Herobrine.

We ran toward a hill that was visible in the distance. When he got to the base of the hill, Herobrine ran around the edge. I followed, and discovered that there was a cave entrance on the other side. The walls of the cave were lined with redstone torches, and I could see a bit of light shining from around a downward-sloping corner.

We went toward the light, and emerged in a cavern lit by redstone lamps. Three people were already there: the pure-black Forger; the Cultivator, with miniature plants growing on hir head made of dirt; and Skylar, holding that question mark-shaped scythe. They turned toward us as we came in, and Skylar said, "H! guYs! ! d!dn't n0 U were c0m!ng, craftYk!ds."

"Hi, everyone," I said. "I didn't know I was coming either. I got chased by some araknids, and I happened to run into Heropiggy and Herobrine, who invited me to come after helping me defeat the araknids."

"0!" said Skylar.

As I typed, Heropiggy walked over to a dispenser--well, actually, I guess it was probably a dropper--that had carrot in an item frame on its front. He stood on a pressure plate, and a few carrots came out, which he ate. Next to the carrot dropper another dropper, this one with a piece of rotten flesh in its item frame. I wondered what it was for.

I turned toward the Forger. "So what happened with that portal thing that the Mushroom Man had?" I asked, referring to a strange item that one of Dr. Chibawk's citizens had used.

"I think I've mostly figured out how it works," said the Forger, "but I haven't been able to replicate the functionality. It has a set of coordinates programmed into it, and it takes you to another portabal--that's what they're called--that's somewhere near those coordinates. We're not completely certain, but we think it just takes you to the portabal that's closest to the coordinates. It hasn't been much use, though. We keep it turned off, so that it can't be accessed by Chibawkians."

Everyone was silent for a moment. I opened the chat and started to type something else, but then an enderman appeared in the middle of the cave! It was accompanied by a redhound, one of Dr. Chibawk's thin, black, quadrupedal creatures made for sniffing out redstone. I quickly closed the chat and poised my finger over the "1" key, which corresponded to the slot which held my sword, but I waited to see how the others would react.

"H!, Meran!" Skylar said.

I relaxed, putting my fingers back on WASD. When I had met Skylar before, Skylar had said that Meran was friends with these people.

"Hello," she said.

"Meran, th!s !s craftYk!ds," said Skylar, turning toward me. "CraftYk!ds, ! t0ld U ab0ut Meran, wr!te? And th!s !s D0lent!" Skylar nodded toward the redhound.

Dolent walked over to me. He looked up at me, walked around me, and then nuzzled my shoulder, before walking over to the rotten flesh dropper and getting some to eat.

"S0, Meran, what's up?" asked Skylar.

"I just had an encounter with 303's kids."

"Y!kes! That s0unds l!ke a d!ff!cult s!tuat!0n. W00d U m!nd tell!ng ab0ut what happened? ! enj0Y hear!ng Y0ur st0r!es!"

"I wouldn't mind," said Meran. "I was walking with Dolent in a jungle..."

* * *
Meran surveyed the green landscape. She and Dolent were searching for redstone. Since Dr. Chibawk had created furthermen, redhounds had started going out of use. There were barely even any left these days; some had died or been killed, and many had been turned into furthermen. Dolent, however, seemed resistant to the idea of becoming a furtherman, and so Meran had convinced Dr. Chibawk to avoid transforming him.

"I don't see any temples," said Meran. "Do you?"

Dolent looked around, and then turned his head back toward the ground. He kept walking forward, toward the redstone that he could sense nearby. As they emerged into a clearing, a house--one that definitely wasn't natural--came into view.

"Is that that where the redstone is?" asked Meran

Dolent gave a quick nod of his head.

"Darn. Well, we'll have--"

MeeeeeeowBOOM! A kitten, covered in magenta flames, suddenly came shooting out of the jungle and made a tiny explosion on the house! It was quickly followed by a burst of green fire, which ignited the wooden building.

A player came running out of the house, presumably to see what was happening. As soon as they rounded the corner, a volley of fire, cats, and arrows flew at them. The player dodged out of the way, managing to only be hit by a kitten, which then ran behind the house.

Three individuals emerged from the trees.

* * *
"First came Prince Matida."

"Who's that?" I interrupted.

"Entity 303's daughter," replied Meran.

"And Princess Repierk's sister," said the Cultivator. "She has gray skin, long red hair, and cat ears."

"OK, thanks," I said.

"After Matida came Repierk, and a chicken holding a bow," Meran continued. "The chicken had blue eyes. I couldn't be certain from the distance I was at, but I was pretty sure it was Zoanna Chibawk, who had disappeared from Chibawkia recently after fighting with her father."

"Who I'm guessing is Dr. Chibawk," I said.

"Yep. I wondered if she had joined Entity 303 just to spite her dad. Anyway, when I saw them, I grabbed Dolent and teleported down to try to help the player..."

* * *
"Prepare to feel the wrath of the Nether!!!" shouted Prince Matida.

"We have come on behalf of our Queen, Entity 303!" put in Repierk.

As Meran took Dolent into the clearing, the sky got darker, allowing Meran to be away from the cover of trees without getting hurt by the sun. She set Dolent down, and teleported behind Princess Repierk, who she attacked. Repierk turned around and released a torrent of green flames from his hands, but Meran teleported away before they could hit her.

She appeared on top of the player's house. Dolent was running at Zoanna, who had her bow partially drawn. The player was charging at Matida, deflecting her kittens with their sword. Repierk shot more fire toward Meran, and she teleported back behind him. This time, he was expecting her, and quickly turned around again to attack her. Meran teleported away again, over to Matida, and hit her while she was distracted by the player. Then Zoanna shot an arrow at Meran, and she had to teleport once again.

Once she arrived on the edge of the clearing, Meran saw that Dolent had left Zoanna, and was rushing toward the larger threats. The player had been hit by Repierk's fire, and was trying to douse it in a waterfall, but the flames refused to go out. Meran was about to join in the fight again, but then--

"Matida, my love!" cried Zoanna. "Your cats!"

Meran turned toward the chicken, and was amused to see that several of the Prince's kittens, which had been abandoned after impact, were now clustering around Zoanna, apparently poised to pounce.

Matida stopped fighting and rushed over to her lover. The cats disappeared as she picked them up, and she dropped a cyan potion. Zoanna picked it up, drank it, and disappeared. Matida turned around and started to go back toward her brother, but Repierk was now fighting the player, Dolent, and Meran as she now teleported over to him, and he too drank a cyan potion and vanished. When Meran looked at where Prince Matida had been, she was also gone.

Meran turned to the player, who was standing next to their ruined house, and gave them a nod, picked up Dolent...

* * *
"...and then I came here," finished Meran.

"W0w!" exclaimed Skylar. "That was exc!t!ng!"

"So I guess Zoanna left Chibawkia to be with Matida," mused the Cultivator.

"Yeah, probably," said Meran.

"It was fun to see you all," I said, "but I want to continue exploring now. Thanks for telling that story, Meran. And thank you, everyone, for always being so helpful! Bye!"

"N0 pr0blem! BuY!"

"Bye."

"See you later!"

*Grunt!*

"Bye!"

*Intense staring*

"Bye."

I walked back out of the cave.

The Cultivator Art

The Cultivator. Originally drawn in pencil, and colored in GIMP.

Redstone and a Rescuer

I found a strange desert temple today. From the outside, it looked normal, but inside, the orange clay was replaced with black, and the blue was replaced with red.

When I mined under the stained clay and into the hidden chamber, I found that rather than a pressure plate, there was a mesh of tripwire two blocks above the ground. Fortunately, I didn't trigger it; I always mine down in the wall of the chamber, so that I don't accidentally fall on the pressure plate.

Looking through the chests, I found that they were full of redstone blocks and dust, redstone torches, repeaters, and other various redstone components. I took them all, then towered back out of the chamber.

When I came out it was dark, although I pretty sure it had been before noon when I went into the temple. I walked forward a few blocks, but stopped when I noticed a mob in the distance. It was thin and black, and walked on four legs, bending its head toward the ground.

Probably a redhound, I thought, thinking back to a book that I found half a year ago. I started moving away, hoping to avoid the redhound, but then its head snapped up, looking straight at me with its red eyes. Then, suddenly, it rushed toward me, and as it got closer, I saw that its eyes were realistic and high-resolution.

I stood with my sword in hand, ready to fight it, but before it could get to me, three lightning bolts struck in quick succession, killing the gaunt creature! The sky got lighter, and I looked up to see an iron and glowstone aircraft, which somewhat resembled a flying saucer. It descended, and a humanoid figure jumped off.

The pilot was holding a scythe, and had dark gray skin, claws, and a white shirt with an interrobang (‽) on it. This strange person came toward me, and a message appeared in the chat:

"<Skylar> Hell0! MY name !s SkYlar. ! d0n't halve pr0n0uns; just use mY name. Wh0 R U?"

"I'm craftykids," I replied. "He/him. Thanks for helping me with that redhound!"

"0, Yeah," said Skylar, "! th!nk the Cult!vat0r and h!r fr!ends talked ab0ut U a c0uple 0f thYmes!  Halve U met them?"

"Well, I've met Herobrine, Heropiggy, and the Forger. Is there anyone else?"

"The!rs als0 Meran, butt ! d0n't C her all0t. She's an enderw0man! Y R U 0ut hear?"

"I was just exploring this desert," I told Skylar. "The temple over there had strange clay colors in it, and it was full of redstone stuff. When I came out, that redhound attacked me. Well, I'm going to get back to exploring. Bye!"

"C U later!" said Skylar, hopping back onto the flying saucer. I ran off into the desert.

The Easter Fluzzerbunny

Last year, it was spotted eggs...

This year, it's striped eggs!

While exploring an abandoned mineshaft, I came across a pink egg with purple stripes. Remembering the evil block-eating monster that came out of last year's egg, I was curious to see if a different creature would hatch from this striped one. I didn't want to take it home, of course, since last year that resulted in a large hole being eaten out of my house. I decided to stay in the mineshaft for a while.

I set up a temporary camp, and stayed in the general area, mining while I waited for the egg to break.

The egg refused to open, however; although I waited longer than it took for the spotted egg to hatch, this striped one remained unbroken.

Then an idea came to me. Last year, I put the egg on top of my furnace. Maybe this egg needed warmth!

I quickly placed some torches around the egg, then stood back to see if anything would immediately happen.

After about a minute of waiting, particles started coming out of the egg. Then it shattered, and a huge pink bunny jumped out! (Fortunately, I got a screenshot this time, unlike last year when I had to use a bad drawing.)

The bunny ran at me, and I pulled out my sword, expecting it to attack me. Instead, it went straight through me, dealing no damage but clearing my inventory as it went!

I watched as it disappeared down the passageway, then turned around to find a furtherman looking in my chest! Seeing that I had noticed it, the furtherman closed the chest, dropped a book, and disappeared.

I opened my chest and confirmed that my redstone was, as I had expected, missing. Then I picked up the book and read it.

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The Fluzzerbunny Exterminators! by the Ghost Warrior

Recently, a plague of fluzzerbunnies has swept across Minecraftia, and it has come to my attention that something needs to be done about this.

That's why I started The Fluzzerbunny Exterminators! With the help of my colleague Mr. Jones, I have embarked on a quest to rid the world of these vile creatures. And it only costs one emerald, plus an additional one for each bunny killed!

(Also, please be nice to Mr. Jones. He is here to help, and will not, for example, leave you trapped in a cave. Alone. In the dark. Without any torches.)

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So, as I said last year: if you find multicolored eggs, don't take them home with you! (Or try to hatch them.)

The Porcine Prankster

I usually put pressure plates next to my doors, but only on the inside. So today, when I walked over the pressure plate and out out of my house on one of my singleplayer worlds, I didn't expect it to do anything other than open the door.

Instead, it dumped water on my head! Someone or something had connected the pressure plate to a dispenser, which contained a now-empty bucket. I thought it must have been Dr. Chibawk who did it, so I looked around to see if he had left a message anywhere to taunt me. As I looked around, however, a pig popped out of the ground and shouted, "Sdksdfksfjsdkksdksfjsk!" The chat message said that the pig's name was Patricia Piggleton, and she was wearing Groucho Marx glasses!!

I jumped back in surprise, and Patricia said, "ROFL! I booby-trapped your house, stupid!"

I was angry. "I'm so angry!!!" I typed into the chat, before running at the pig and trying to hit her.

"LOL," said Patricia, and she disappeared back into the ground.

Hoping that the crazy pig wouldn't come back, I put the water back in the bucket, cleaned up the redstone, and went to collect some wood, which is what I had been trying to do in the first place.

Craftykids's Art: Meran

I actually made this a couple months ago, but just realized that I should post it:

Meran, flying with some of Herobrian's winged squid.

"The Horse of Doom"

I found this book in a stronghold's library:

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The Horse of Doom by Meran

A friend of mine asked me to write this about an adventure she had.
--Meran



Emerald Glass stared at the moonlit desert, empty except for cacti and dead bushes.

There was nothing to recycle.

She looked around one last time, then teleported a couple hundred blocks to the west. Arriving in a plains biome, she examined her new surroundings. To the west: just some trees and flowers; to the south: some sheep and a pool of water; the edge of the desert was the only thing in the east, but in the north...a village! That would be recyclable!

Emerald appeared inside the librarian's house, and started grabbing the bookshelves off the walls. She could give them to her friend Meran; Meran liked writing.

After the bookshelves were gone, Emerald took the furniture, and demolished the walls, ceiling, and floor. She started to move on to the next house, but then, through the window, she saw a transparent figure wearing froggy clothes and talking to a villager. It was Rana, another agent of Dr. Chibawk! Emerald teleported inside.

"Hi, Rana!" she said.

Rana turned around. "Oh, hi! Sorry, I don't think I've met you...what's your name?"

"I'm Emerald Glass," said Emerald. "What are you doing here?"

The villager that Rana had been talking to looked between the two Chibawkians, then scurried out the door.

"Oh, I've been trying to sell clothes to the villagers," said Rana. "They don't seem interested, though. I told them that Dr. Chibawk would destroy their village, but that didn't help." Rana paused for a moment. "Hey, are you recycling the houses? Maybe that will make them want to buy my clothes!"

"We could try that." Emerald teleported on to the roof and began tearing it off. "I have been sent by Dr. Chibawk!" she proclaimed. "If you don't buy froggy clothes from Rana, your entire village will become supplies and houses for Chibawkia!" Not that I'll stop even if you do buy them! she added to herself.

The villagers, who had come out of their houses and were looking up at Emerald, now glanced at each other, then back at Emerald.

"UNLEASH THE HORSE OF DOOM!!!" shouted the priest.

The ground started to shake, and then, suddenly -- BOOM! -- a spot on the ground just outside the village exploded! Out of the explosion rushed a skeletal horse with flaming eye sockets. It reared up and let out a roar, then ran toward the house that Emerald was on, jumped right onto the roof, and attacked her! Emerald quickly teleported onto another roof. "Rana!" she yelled at the ghost, who had come out to see what was happening. "Is there anything you can do about this horse?" She teleported again as the Horse of Doom opened its mouth and shot a fireball at her feet.

"Not on my own, but I can try to contact Dr. Chibawk!" said Rana. She stood still for a moment, then said, "Dr. Chibawk says he'll send help!"

Emerald teleported into a house and waited for the Horse to notice her new location. As she was starting to wonder where Dr. Chibawk's help was, she noticed some strange particles, like the ones you find at bedrock level, hovering in the middle of the room. Then a figure appeared, and all the torches fell off the walls.

In front of Emerald stood an individual covered in diamond armour. He had no eyes; just a streak of red where his right should've been, and blackness where his left would be. Emerald recognized him as the Ghost Warrior, although she had never actually seen him before.

"Ghost Warrior!" exclaimed Emerald. "There's a Horse of Doom out there, and it's attacking me and Rana!"

The Ghost Warrior said nothing, but ran out the door. Emerald teleported into the roof to watch.

As the Ghost Warrior ran toward the Horse of Doom, the Horse turned to confront its new foe. It shot a fireball, but the Ghost Warrior disappeared into the Void, then reappeared and hit the Horse with his diamond sword! The Horse reared up and knocked the Ghost Warrior away. The Ghost Warrior disappeared again in midair, reappearing behind the Horse of Doom. He attacked it again, this time getting in three hits before before, once again, being thrown back.

They repeated this several more times. After about the fifth time, as the Ghost Warrior ran toward the Horse of Doom, it opened its mouth and spit a stream of lava blocks at the Ghost Warrior, who, after being enveloped in lava, vanished. Emerald waited for him to come back, but nothing happened. The Horse looked around, also waiting. It soon gave up however, and, seeing Rana, started running toward her. Emerald watched, hoping that the Ghost Warrior would reappear just in time, but the Horse of Doom got closer, closer...and Rana fled, gliding toward a cave opening.

Then the Horse turned its attention to Emerald, and she too left the village, and went to find a safer place to recycle things--but first, to go Chibawkia and drop off the remains of the library.

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Based on the recycling and teleporting, I'm guessing that Emerald is a cycleman.

The Mystical Siblings

I was exploring a cave.

It was a big cave, and I was running out of torches. I had some wood, but I hadn't bothered mining any coal yet. I looked around and spotted a couple of patches of coal ore, one a few blocks above the other. I went over to them and started mining ore.

As I mined, I noticed that the coal vein seemed to be curving around and going upward, almost in a corkscrew shape.

Sure enough, as I mined higher, the vein went around to the second patch of ore that I had seen. The spiral seemed to keep going, but I had plenty of coal by then, so I jumped out, crafted some torches, and kept going.

After a bit, I came to a cave opening. I could see a village through it, and tall, thin ore block structures in it.

I went to see what the strange structures were, but along the way I noticed a chest in a librarian's house, so I stopped to see what was in it.

There were three written books, along with various other book-related items.

One of the books, "An Exciting Mine" by Happyguy, I had seen before, but the others, "How to Play Goingol" by Meran and "The Legend of Herobrian" by Happyguy, were new to me.

I opened "How to Play Goingol:"

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Goingol is a game that endermen seem to have a natural enjoyment of. The rules are generally something along the lines of this:

1. Any number of endermen may participate in a game of Goingol.

2. On the blink of a redstone torch, all the endermen teleport randomly.

3. If an enderman finds a player, they can win by dropping sand on the player's head.  Otherwise, they randomly  teleport again and repeat this process.

Despite its popularity, games of Goingol are rarely won.

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I closed the book and opened "The Legend of Herobrian."

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Hey guys! Guess what?? I heard about this guy called Herobrian! He's mystical! Cool, huh??

---

I put both the books back and went to see what the ore block structures were.

When I got near them, I saw an iron golem and a snow golem walking next to the structures.

I've talked to a skeleton in the past, so I thought I might as well try talking to the golems.

"Hi," I said. "What are these structures?"

The snow golem turned toward me, and a message appeared in chat:

"<Henrietta> They're mine and my cousin Henry's houses."

"Ah," I said. "Hey, do you either of you know anything about Herobrian?"

"You mean Herobrine?" asked the iron golem, who, according to the chat, was named Bob.

"I don't think so. The book I read definitely said 'Herobrian.'"

"I've never heard of Herobrian," said Henrietta, "but I know someone who might be able to take you to him."

"Who?"

"Her name is Dieamond, and she has voidcarts, which are basically minecarts that can travel to virtually anywhere through the Void. She said that the Void can be dangerous, though, so you should only use the voidcarts if you really want to find Herobrian."

"You'll also have to pay her," said Bob. "Four emeralds, right? Plus the diamond that you mine to summon her."

"Right," said Henrietta. "See, she has these spirals of coal hidden underground, and each one has a block of diamond ore at the bottom which you mine to summon her."

"Huh," I said. "I think I found one of those a little bit ago. Thanks for the info!"

I went and harvested some crops from the village, and sold them and some coal to the villagers to get four emeralds. Then I went back to the ore vein that had seemed to spiral. I mined downward and, sure enough, there was a block of diamond ore. I mined that, too.

Suddenly, all my torches dropped off the walls, and a figure appeared in front of me. I placed a torch, and the light revealed a dark gray creature with a hunched back and diamond shards as teeth, which looked almost like they had been hammered into the creature's bleeding gums.

"Sorry about the torches," said Dieamond. "Side effect of Void-travel. Do you have four emeralds and a diamond?"

"Yep." I dropped the gems to her. She came forward and picked me up, and then we were in the void. A few seconds later, we were in a glowstone-lit stone room. It was full of minecarts which looked like they were made of a combination of iron and bedrock.

"Pick a cart, any cart," said Dieamond. "Now, where was it you wanted to go?"

I got into the nearest voidcart. "Wherever Herobrian lives."

"OK," she said, and I was back in the void. I thought I saw a flash of cyan, but then I was shooting out of the side of a mountain. As soon as the minecart came to rest, it dissolved into nothingness.
There was a building in front of me, made out of prismarine and with blue torches on it. Around the building were giant flowers.

I walked around the building, looking for some sort of entrance. I couldn't find one. Then, as I was wondering whether I should try breaking in, a faceless player walked through the wall!

"Are you Herobrian?" I asked.

"Yes."

"And I'm his sister, Herobecky," said a yellow-eyed player as she walked out of the wall.

"Hi," I said. "I was wondering...what do you do?"

"Umm..." said Herobecky. "Well, I'm an enchanter, and 'Brian is a biomancer."

"Ah. Are you friends with Herobrine? Or do you work for Dr. Chibawk or Entity 303 or something?"

"No, we generally try to stay out of that sort of stuff," said Herobrian.

"Hey, I just noticed--you two look a lot like the skeletons and zombies that were running around on Halloween."

"Yeah. I made the faceless zombies, and 'Becky enchanted the skeletons."

"Huh. I assumed that they had something to do with Entity 303 or Dr. Chibawk."

Before they could reply, Dr. Chibawk himself materialized next to us!

"Hello, craftykids," he said. "Didn't anyone tell you that Void-travel is dangerous? And it's especially dangerous when the Ghost Warrior tells me that you're Void-traveling! Hahahahaha! Chi-BAWK!" He pulled out a thin obsidian frame with a portal in it, and a villager popped out. "This is Mr. Jones. I don't believe you've met. He offered his village as a place to start Chibawkia! It was fun destroying those weird golems' houses."

Weird golems' houses? I thought. I wonder if they were Henry and Henrietta's...

"Anyway," said Dr. Chibawk, "I haven't visited you in a while, so I thought I should make sure you weren't OK!" He pulled out a diamond sword, teleported next to me, and hit me with it. As soon as he did, lighting struck me, and I ran away from him. As I did, winged squid flew out of nowhere and attacked Dr. Chibawk and Mr. Jones, who had taken out a spawn egg and was spawning skeletons. Herobecky waved her arm, and she, Herobrian, and I turned invisible.

The skeletons could still tell where we were, but I ran around and avoided their arrows. Patches of a grass-like plant with white spots on it sprang up around Mr. Jones and Dr. Chibawk. The plants seemed to slow down Mr. Jones, but Dr. Chibawk just teleported out. I ran over to Mr. Jones and attacked him, but Dr. Chibawk teleported over, placed a thin portal around Mr. Jones, and then disappeared, leaving behind a colorful spotted egg. I ran toward it, hoping to destroy it before it could hatch, but before I could get there, it broke, and an evil block-eating monster came out! The monster sheared off the corner of Herobrian and Herobecky's house before diving into the ground and burrowing away.

I looked around to see if there were any skeletons left, but the squid must've killed them. The invisibility wore off--or maybe Herobecky stopped it. Anyway, we were visible again.

"Sorry about that," I said.

"Eh, it's OK," said Herobrian. "From what I've heard, my faceless zombies seem to be able to get through walls, and seeing as zombies have been attacking Chibawkia, he might've gotten mad at me anyway."

"Thanks for helping me! Hmm. I just realized that I don't have a way to get home..."

"One of my squid could fly you."

"OK," I said, and a squid came over, picked me up, and flew off.

Ghast-Squid

I found a flying squid the the Nether that shot fireballs at me.



Brightened version:

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.

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.

"An Exciting Mine"

When I was playing Minecraft, I found this book in a village:

An Exciting Mine by Happyguy

Today I went mining! I didn't find any diamonds, but I did find some other things! Here's what happened:

I was using TNT to mine a tunnel--it's much more fun that way--when I came to a cave. Maybe there would be diamonds in it! I walked in, but just then I heard an ominous hissing noise next to me. I sprinted off into the cave, but the creeper followed me and trapped me next to some lava! I quickly placed some TNT and, as the beast drew near, lit it with some flint and steel. The creeper started to swell, but the TNT exploded first, tossing the creeper into the lava!

I turned to leave, but heard more exploding sounds behind me. Looking back, I saw a monster made of lava, with TNT all over its body! No time to look for diamonds now! I ran away from this new monster, and it launched TNT at me. Its sizable form should've slowed it down in the comparatively small cave, but it just made more explosions and made the cave bigger!

As I was starting to get low on health, I saw an enderwoman and some sort of skinny black quadruped ahead of me.

The enderwoman turned her head and, seeing the creature, said, "Another one of Entity 303's creepers! Follow me. There's some water over this way!"

We ran through the cave until we came to pool of water, which I jumped into. The enderwoman and her pet stayed by the edge. Of course! Water hurts endermen!

The sound of exploding TNT got louder, and the monster came into view. When it was almost upon her, the enderwoman and her pet teleported away, and the lava being ran right into the water where I was hiding! It let out a roar as it hit the surface and was turned to stone.

I mined my way out and went to find the enderwoman.

* * *
"Hi!" I said when I found her. "I'm Happyguy! Thanks for helping me kill that thing!"

"Sure. I'm Meran, and this," she said, gesturing at her pet, "is Dolent." The creature, which had been hanging its head 'til now, looked up, and I saw that it had red eyes, but there was something strange about them, almost like they were far away or were giant eyes that had been shrunk down.

"Hi," I said, and then, to Meran, "What is he? I've never seen anything like that."

"He's a redhound. Dr. Chibawk made them to find redstone for him. Most of the redhounds have been turned into furthermen, but we still use a few."

"Oh, I think I've met Dr. Chibawk! He's that ender-chicken guy who eats at Viney Food, right?"

"Yep."

"I don't know about furthermen, though. What are they?"

"They're basically red-eyed endermen which find redstone. And cake."

"Cool," I said. "Well, I'd better get back to mining! Bye!"

"Bye," said Meran, and I ran off.