1 00:00:13,250 --> 00:00:17,130 Welcome back everybody to the Minecraft Short Stories Podcast. 2 00:00:17,690 --> 00:00:21,170 In this episode today we have a story by myself and not a 3 00:00:21,170 --> 00:00:23,130 listener story. Do not worry, your listener 4 00:00:23,130 --> 00:00:27,490 stories will be read eventually. I just have some story ideas I 5 00:00:27,490 --> 00:00:30,410 want to get through and also I don't want to bog people down 6 00:00:30,410 --> 00:00:35,560 with stories besides my own. I want to get some stories out 7 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,600 that I wrote just because this is a podcast about me reading. 8 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,600 Hope that makes sense. Anyways, in this episode I will 9 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,320 be telling a story by myself and as you can see from the title, 10 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,120 this is a Minecraft Spooky stories episode and this is a 11 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,040 Minecraft Spooky story also called a creepypasta. 12 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,000 A creepypasta is like an urban legend. 13 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,080 If you ever heard of like Slender Man or that's what 14 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,519 Herobrine is, where it's just a player's account of something 15 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:08,440 strange. So this is what that is, and 16 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,120 this is a player's account of something strange that happened 17 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,000 to them. And I just wanted to explain the 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,880 story a little bit, just so you guys can go into it knowing some 19 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,040 stuff. So the story is written from the 20 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,880 account of a player, and it is written a lot more casually, a 21 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,840 lot more for general audiences than my usual stories. 22 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,920 Not that my usual stories are hard to understand, just I don't 23 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:36,080 usually use filler words such as like pretty as in pretty large. 24 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,240 It's just written a little bit more simply, and it's not 25 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,040 written simply for any reason besides the fact that this is a 26 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,200 player's accounts. It's meant to be a fun read 27 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,560 because that's most Minecraft urban legends usually are. 28 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,800 So I tried to add in some themes that were not usually found 29 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,000 within Minecraft urban legends, just to make this different from 30 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,600 the normal ones you'll find like null and etcetera. 31 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,600 So I hope you guys enjoy. I just finished recording a 32 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,200 Prologue podcast episode all about the story getting into all 33 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,000 the things I just mentioned. And if you want to find that 34 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,840 podcast you can find that@patreon.com/minecraft for 35 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,000 stories that pre show is available for patrons of any 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,080 tier. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy 37 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,440 and let's get right into the story. 38 00:02:26,580 --> 00:02:28,220 The story does not currently have a name. 39 00:02:28,380 --> 00:02:32,260 It is just labeled Spooky Story, but it shall be renamed. 40 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:37,920 The world looked like any other when I appeared. 41 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,000 After growing bored with my previous one, I decided to 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,080 attempt a new Minecraft world. I left the generation seed 43 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,800 blank, so be random and then push the button to generate my 44 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,040 new survival world. The loading screen took forever 45 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,000 to load the cube in the centre, slowly filling in as the 46 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,040 completion percentage climbed. After several minutes of 47 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:00,240 waiting, the game crashed. I sighed loudly and relaunched 48 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,040 the game. This happens sometimes. 49 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,600 Going to my world's tab, I immediately located the grey 50 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,800 landscape that adorned any unloaded world. 51 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,160 As one of my cover images, the world had been generated 52 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,600 successfully, just something that intervened with the 53 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,640 initialization. I loaded the world and entered 54 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:18,960 it. It looked like any other world 55 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,160 when I spawned in at least what I could see if it did, I had 56 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,920 oddly spawned with my view almost entirely encompassed by a 57 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:27,200 tree's trunk. I chuckled out loud. 58 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,400 This was the weirdest spawn I'd ever seen. 59 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,680 What I could see past the dappled bark looked promising, 60 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,840 though a gentle field of green grass spread as far as my 61 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,160 limited viewpoint showed. An uneven layer of tall grass 62 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,200 and even some corn flowers covered the Meadow. 63 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,760 If this was a forest or plain spine, then I would have ample 64 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:46,960 food and wood. Perfect start to my Minecraft 65 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,640 world. I stepped away from the tree and 66 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,920 surveyed my surroundings. It was pretty dismal. 67 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,600 The landscape was an absolute lie. 68 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,840 The grass I had seen was only in a section of land around 20 69 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,560 blocks square. Hilariously, the tree red 70 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,000 spawned uncomfortably close to was the only tree insight all 71 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,560 around me. In every direction spread a vast 72 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,560 desert. The tan dune stretched around me 73 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,320 like a still ocean, sparsely dotted with cactuses. 74 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,839 The section of green grass and light blue flowers I stood in 75 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,040 was stark and out of next to the glaring sun and dull sands. 76 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,720 I was surprised and certainly taken aback by this revelation. 77 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,440 To say the least. My initial feelings were just 78 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,080 amusement mixed with some indignation. 79 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,800 My initial reaction after having my dreams of easy food and wood 80 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,200 destroyed was to delete this world and try again. 81 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,880 But somehow that felt like letting it win. 82 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,200 I knew it wasn't the desert's fault, but I was still 83 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,400 chagrined. As I faced the desert, I made a 84 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,680 decision. No matter how hard I would stay, 85 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:49,760 survive, and thrive in this world, I would embrace the 86 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,920 challenge it posed and not let it stop me. 87 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,320 With a new determination, I turned to the soul tree. 88 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,000 My fist pounded into the wood, but as soon as I began to strike 89 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,040 the log, the fans on my computer started whirring intensely. 90 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,920 As cracks began to spread across the block, my game started 91 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,680 lagging non-stop. My screen looked like my arms 92 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,400 were moving through water. Still, I kept my finger on the 93 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,600 mouse. With a pop, the log block broke. 94 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,440 Suddenly, the game froze entirely for a few seconds and 95 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,880 it finally started running normally again. 96 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,720 I picked up the dropped log. Maybe I should restart my 97 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,880 computer, I thought to myself. I didn't want to wait for it to 98 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,760 reboot, so maybe later I started to mine another of the tree's 99 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,560 logs, ready for the lag, but it didn't come. 100 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,840 I successfully gathered all the wood and then waited until a 101 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:38,720 sapling appeared from the decaying leaves. 102 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,720 Holding the small tree in my hands, I considered whether I 103 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,920 should plant it. The tree from which it had 104 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,200 dropped was the only tree for hundreds of blocks. 105 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,440 Without it, I could have never been fooled. 106 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:53,000 As it had been spitefully, I took the tree into my inventory, 107 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,760 using my wood to craft a pickaxe. 108 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,920 I experienced another lag surge with my new pick. 109 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,840 I mined through the few block layer of soil, dirt only one a 110 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:04,400 few blocks deep, and into the stone underneath. 111 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,720 I gathered a decent amount and they crafted a set of stone 112 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,160 tools. Pickaxe, axe, sword, and a 113 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:11,880 shovel. No lag. 114 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,400 I noted aloud, somewhat puzzled. I'd gone through my graphic 115 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,760 settings for Minecraft, but hadn't found anything to account 116 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,440 for it. With tools now on my hot bar, I 117 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,200 was almost prepared to cross the desert. 118 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,000 My hunger was already growing low so I would need food for the 119 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,400 journey. I made a quick pass with the 120 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,720 tiny Meadow and instantly picked out my target. 121 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,080 In the middle of this vast desert, a 20 block square of 122 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,920 green grass was the perfect place for animals to spawn. 123 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,840 I sprinted over to the clucking chicken sword in hands and soon 124 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:42,640 had food along with some feathers. 125 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,760 I made a furnace and used some I would as fuel. 126 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,360 I cooked my chicken, gave one last look to the tiny Meadow and 127 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,840 began my trick across the desert. 128 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,960 Luckily this was a video game so I couldn't feel the heat of the 129 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,560 desert. Still, the tan sands and the 130 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,320 relentless sun give an atmosphere of oppressive heat. 131 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,960 There is no trouble traversing the sands, just continuous 132 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,640 walking. Once the sun dipped below the 133 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,600 horizon and the monsters began to appear, I knew I was in 134 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,000 trouble. I hadn't had any way to craft a 135 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,600 bed as no sheep had spawned. With no way to get wool, I would 136 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,840 have to continue and try to avoid the mobs. 137 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,320 I stopped to consume an apple. The chicken had been devoured a 138 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,520 long time ago, turned up my brightness and kept the steady 139 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,600 pace onwards as the mobs started to appear. 140 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,680 I had no problems keeping out their sights. 141 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,480 The mobs wouldn't even turn towards me unless I was within 142 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,560 about 15 blocks from them. If they did start to pursue me, 143 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:38,560 I could easily outpace them until they stopped. 144 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,200 The desert was completely flat. Imagine a plane spime but sand. 145 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,200 It was quite boring to look at. Two more apples. 146 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,480 A few confrontations with mobs, and seven minutes later the 147 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,960 night had passed along with the night. 148 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,120 So the desert. Right after the break of day I 149 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,240 reached the edge of the sands. Like with any Biome in 150 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,200 Minecraft, transition between them was a sharp cut off. 151 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,080 One block there was sand, the next block there was green 152 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,680 grass. The cut off wasn't in a straight 153 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,000 line, but still felt unnatural. Once I'd stepped out of the 154 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,720 desert, I entered a forest Biome. 155 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,120 It honestly looked quite similar to my spawn points, except that 156 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,000 I had more trees. The first thing I did was to 157 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,680 head to the nearest oak tree and reinforce my wood supply. 158 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,000 The trees in this forest were pretty tall, so I couldn't reach 159 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,160 the last two logs situated high in the leaves. 160 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:30,800 I decided to leave it floating. Who cared? 161 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,480 Anyway, as I walked away from the tree, my game froze for a 162 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,159 second. I ignored it as always, and kept 163 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:39,799 walking. I slew a few more chickens, 164 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,760 cooked them, and devoured them. With my hunger and health 165 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,560 restored, I began the search for base worthy terrain. 166 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,280 Making my way quickly through the woods, I almost stumbled 167 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,960 into a pool of lava. Why Mojang? 168 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,680 I whispered, my feet only half a block from the edge. 169 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,200 Why Minecraft had melted rock in the middle of a forest was 170 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,280 beyond me. Turning to go around the pits, I 171 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,200 caught side of a log that I've been lit a flame through 172 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,480 proximity to the immense heat. I probably should have put it 173 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,320 out, but I let it burn. I was the only one in this world 174 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,280 anyway. I had exited the forest when the 175 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,000 white wool of sheep in the distance caught my eye and also 176 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,600 reminded me to make a bed. A short walk later, I'd reached 177 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,040 the sheep. I dispatched them with my stone 178 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,600 sword and gathered the wool. A game freeze hit me twice, one 179 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,040 after killing the sheep, another one crafting the bed dividing 180 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,400 the landscape I was in. It seemed satisfactory for a 181 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,600 home. I was on the top of a small hill 182 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,200 overlooking a river. On the other side of the river 183 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,360 was another hill about the same height as the one I was 184 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,320 currently on. It had a good vantage point and 185 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,440 was also in proximity to wood and food. 186 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,400 I just started laying out the outline for my house with 187 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,200 planks, making sure to leave enough space for storage after 188 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,480 how woefully unprepared I'd been in my previous world. 189 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,560 Simultaneously, I'd also started to terraform the landscape to 190 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:57,920 remove cave entrances when I was hit with another lag spike. 191 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:01,240 This time it didn't go away. It lasted even longer than the 192 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,520 first one I had been met with. I was moving in ultra slow 193 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,760 motion as I turned from left to right. 194 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,040 The lag seemed to increase when I turned right and decrease when 195 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,480 I turned left. I slowly turned left and then 196 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,200 changed my mind. I dragged my mouse to the right 197 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,680 and tried to find any explanation for the lag. 198 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,360 The landscape inched into my view as I turned, and it was a 199 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,960 strange sight indeed. I noticed some trunkless trees, 200 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,000 leaves inexplicably floating free in the forest that hadn't 201 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,400 been cut down by me. But the first thing I noticed 202 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,200 was that the entire forest was ablaze, burning away with no way 203 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:42,800 to stop it. End of part one, bum bum, boom. 204 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,800 As I said, this is indeed the end of part one. 205 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:55,200 It came out as like 10 minutes, so hopefully it does not end up 206 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,600 after editing as about 5 minutes because that would be kind of 207 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,960 disappointing. Anyways, I hope you guys did 208 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,000 enjoy this part. Like I said, I have a deeper 209 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,080 explanation of this because it probably requires some 210 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,600 explanation as of right now. So if you want to wait till Part 211 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,120 2, you'll get some explanations. But like I said, there's the 212 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,640 prologue episode if you want some now. 213 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,920 Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of the Minecraft 214 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:27,840 Short Stories podcast and I hope you guys have a good day and I 215 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,760 hope you guys will join me in the next episode and then I need 216 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,160 to say my catch phrase at the end. 217 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,080 See you guys inside the next episode.