1 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,880 Welcome back everybody to the Minecraft Short Stories podcast. 2 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:19,320 This is episode 83 and in this episode I will be telling 2 3 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 listener stories. The 1st is by Ishaan, I'm really 4 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,480 sorry if I'm not pronouncing your name correctly, and the 5 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,040 second is by Kitsune Crafting. 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Anyways, another thank you to 17 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,160 Ishaan and Kitsune Crafting. Hope you guys enjoy these 18 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,600 stories and let's get right into this episode. 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:14,080 This first story is by Ishaan, The Curse of the Buried Layer. 20 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,120 Steve had one rule in his Minecraft world, never dig 21 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,080 straight. Down SO. 22 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,800 Naturally, the 1st. Thing he did. 23 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:24,200 Was. Dig straight down. 24 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,760 To be fair, it wasn't on purpose. 25 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,760 He was chasing an iron vein and got excited. 26 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,600 Oh, jackpot. He said, breaking blocks with 27 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,040 the enthusiasm of someone who hasn't been jump scared by lava 28 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,520 in at least a week. But this time, there was no 29 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,720 lava, just a weird stone room deep underground. 30 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,160 It wasn't a dungeon, no spawner, no chests. 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:49,520 Just double stone walls, floors made of mossy stone bricks, and 32 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,960 in the center, a single chicken. Steve stared at it. 33 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,480 The chicken stirred back. Its head did a slow, glitchy 34 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,440 tilt. Whack, I. 35 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,400 Steve offered, confused. He stepped forward and the floor 36 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,080 slam shut above him. The blocks reappeared. 37 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:14,080 No hole, no ladder, no nothing great, Steve muttered, wrapped 38 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,320 with a creepy poultry he tried to mine out. 39 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,840 Every time he broke a block. It reappeared. 40 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,480 He punched, he pickaxed, even tried. 41 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,840 Placing a bed to reset his spawn, jump, sleep out, no luck. 42 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,240 The chicken hopped once and twice, then walked to the far 43 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,560 corner and pecked a button hidden under the vines. 44 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:35,440 With a grinding. Noise. 45 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,040 A new doorway opened in the wall. 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,760 He blinked. Are you a puzzled chicken whack? 47 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:45,840 He followed. The hallway twisted. 48 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,120 Left and right until it led to a room full of Redstone 49 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,160 contraptions, levers, tripwires, pressure plates. 50 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,000 Oh no, you've groaned. It's one of. 51 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,240 These the chicken. Strutted ahead confidently and 52 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,960 stood next to a lever. He scratched his head. 53 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,600 Want me to pull it Mark? He pulled it. 54 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,640 A piston launched a dispenser into his face. 55 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,200 And it shot. Cake well. 56 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,800 At least it's not arrows, he said, eating a bite. 57 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,680 But then the door behind him slammed shut. 58 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,440 The chicken vanished. OK, what? 59 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,520 Another chicken reappeared, then another, then 10, then 30. 60 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,280 They circled him. One laid an egg. 61 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,040 The egg exploded. What kind of chickens are these? 62 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,440 Steve ran. He dodged feathers. 63 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,920 He leapt over eggs. He karate punched A hen out of 64 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:35,960 panic. The room filled with more 65 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,000 clucking than a barnyard on karaoke night. 66 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,320 Finally, he dove through an open tunnel and slammed the door shut 67 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,080 behind him. Panting, sweaty, feather 68 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,120 covered, he landed in a small room with a sign. 69 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:49,840 You have. Passed the trial of the cluck 70 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,360 below it another chicken stood when your carved pumpkin on said 71 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:00,280 next to it a chest. Steve opened the chest inside 72 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,560 one enchanted feather named flightless Fury and a book. 73 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,080 Long ago the chickens ruled the overworld until the player 74 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,440 uprising for some underground. Only the worthy may earn their 75 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,840 trust. You have survived, you may now 76 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:16,959 leave. Steve looked up. 77 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,680 The pumpkin chicken was gone, and so was the wall behind him. 78 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,880 He was free. Back at his house he mounted the 79 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,000 feather in an item frame next to his other trophies with her 80 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,560 skulls, dragon egg and chanted hoe. 81 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,920 Well that's over beside flopping into bed. 82 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,160 But just as he drifted off to sleep, he heard it. 83 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,240 Look, look, He sat up. Look. 84 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,520 Click, click. He walked outside. 85 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,400 Slowly, there on his front lawn were hundreds of chickens, all 86 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,200 staring at him. Each one wore a carved pumpkin 87 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,520 on its head. Once stepped forward and dropped 88 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,920 a sign at his feet. He picked it up. 89 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:57,360 It read. You are now our leader. 90 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,120 Congratulations, Chicken King. Another sign fell. 91 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,880 Also, we live here now. Hope you like feathers. 92 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,120 Suddenly, the chickens all stormed into his house. 93 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:09,960 Dozens of them crammed through the door. 94 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,560 Feathers, flu, eggs bounced off his furnace. 95 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,800 One was somehow already using his bed. 96 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,000 Another chicken took his diamond pickaxe and walled it off like 97 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,280 it paid rent. He stood in the chaos, holding 98 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:24,120 the enchanted feather like a scepter as one last chicken 99 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,080 climbed onto his head and perched there proudly. 100 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,720 It placed a tiny gold crown made out of wheat on his. 101 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,600 Head, He sighed. Yes, I'm running a coop now. 102 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,760 From that day forward, villagers whispered of a strange man who 103 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,680 ruled from a house overflowing with poultry. 104 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:44,160 They called him the Cluck King, his throne a compost bin, his 105 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,760 crown a wheat wreath. His dignity. 106 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,520 Well, he was. Probably under a pile of eggs 107 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,080 somewhere. The end. 108 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,880 Thank you Sean for this really fun story. 109 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,880 Our second listener story for this episode is by Kitsune 110 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:20,400 Crafting The Forgotten Echo Part 1, Chapter 1. 111 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:25,240 The horde of mobs cornered me on the edge of a Cliff in a cave. 112 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,600 A zombie groaned and stumbled. Forward I. 113 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,200 Held my sword in my blocky hand and swung. 114 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,680 I killed the zombie, but not before getting hit by a first, 115 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,240 leaving me at half a heart. I'm half a heart. 116 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,200 I cried out, even though I was in a single player world. 117 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,000 I ate a piece of cooked steak, eating my health back to four 118 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,960 hearts before an arrow whizzed past me, barely missing me. 119 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:49,400 I stumbled to the left. Out of freight. 120 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,360 Coming closer to the edge of the Cliff, multiple mobs came at me 121 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,360 all at once. Another zombie stalked forwards, 122 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,160 but I killed easily. The baby zombie was a little bit 123 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,560 trickier, though. It would come up to me with 124 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,120 alarming speed and then dart away. 125 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,960 Just as fast. I could have sworn that the baby 126 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,240 zombie had a brain from the way it was acting. 127 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,760 A spider leaped out of the crowd at me. 128 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:15,000 I ducked the spider falling over the ledge behind me as I got. 129 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,400 Off the cold. Cave floor. 130 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,720 I heard the familiar hiss of a creeper as I looked up at the 131 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,040 green armless mob. It exploded, stone under me, 132 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,040 getting destroyed. I fell. 133 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,120 Through the hole. Watching the Cliff disappear 134 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,520 Into Darkness, I fell. For what? 135 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,160 Felt like forever. I looked around frantically, 136 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,120 arms and legs flailing as I fell, trying to see something I 137 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,000 could use to stop my fall. There was nothing. 138 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:40,880 I started to go through my inventory, dropping some of my 139 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,720 items by accident. I had nothing that could stop me 140 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,800 from death. No water buckets, no powdered 141 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,360 snow, nothing. I'm going to die, I thought, 142 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:50,960 already imagining what it would look like. 143 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,400 As I continued to sift through my inventory, I found a golden 144 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,440 apple I had saved. I knew it wouldn't help, but I 145 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,440 ate it anyways, eating a few extra golden hearts. 146 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,640 I didn't notice the piece of deep slate jotting out of the 147 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,600 wall I was hurtling towards. I was going through my inventory 148 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,400 again, trying to see if I had missed anything, but my head 149 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,760 collided painfully with the deep slate, making me go unconscious. 150 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,640 Chapter 2 I woke sputtering in a pool of water. 151 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,800 I jerked upwards, trying to stay afloat. 152 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,080 The aquifer was about 3 blocks deep. 153 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,600 I swam to the edge of the water tiredly, my head throbbing. 154 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,520 After I got out of the water, I looked upwards from where I 155 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,640 came. All I could see was darkness, so 156 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,880 I decided to look around The Cave I was in instead. 157 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,559 After about 5 minutes I noticed something dark blue and glowing. 158 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,159 It looked like vines, but it acted like algae, covering the 159 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:45,560 walls and casting a faint glow on the surrounding area. 160 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,000 As I ventured deeper into The Cave, I saw what looked like the 161 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,200 weird vines, but a block formed. I tried to pick it up but 162 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,920 nothing worked. Big axes didn't work neither. 163 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,480 Didn't axe. Double or hoe? 164 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,160 I then tried with enchanted items after going through two 165 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:02,640 different enchantments. I tried silk. 166 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,720 Touch and it worked. I was able to retrieve the 167 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,920 block. It was called a skulk. 168 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,480 Block skulk. I wondered, I've never heard of 169 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,080 skulk, what is this? I continued to venture more, 170 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:16,560 dripping over the occasional block. 171 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:18,720 As I got. Closer to the entrance of a 172 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:19,880 bigger cave. I saw it. 173 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,760 Looked like half. A bone block, half a skulk 174 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,200 block, and. Went closer, crouching to 175 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,640 examine it. On the inside there was what? 176 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,800 Looked like. Souls that moved just like 177 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,240 soulsand in the nether. The only difference was that the 178 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:32,200 souls. Were blue. 179 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,040 On the bottom of the outside was more skulk. 180 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:37,920 Interesting, I pondered. What is this? 181 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,560 I uncrouched, stepping. Back that. 182 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:44,560 Was a mistake. As soon as I moved it went off, 183 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,880 making a high pitched shrieking noise, blue circles coming out 184 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,080 the. Top I. 185 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,160 Covered my ears, kneeling on The Cave floor. 186 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,200 Even though it. Lasted only a second. 187 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,200 My ears were still ringing. I'm going to keep crouching for 188 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:57,400 a. While I thought. 189 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,600 I slowly crept to the entrance of the massive cave I saw 190 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,120 earlier. On the inside of the cavern was 191 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,600 an underground city. There's more sculpt growing 192 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,320 everywhere I couldn't find any signs of. 193 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,840 Life I. Entered the lost city and 194 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,400 started to look around. After a while of searching I 195 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,560 found a chest and opened it. Found a few snowballs, a diamond 196 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:20,280 sword with the enchantment knockback 2 on it, and a notch 197 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:21,880 apple. As I close the. 198 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,640 Chest I saw two rings which were the same color as the ones from 199 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,800 the Shrieking bone soul thing, but towards another skulk block. 200 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,240 This one had 4 vines pointing upwards that moved the rings 201 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:33,800 then traveled to. The shrieking block. 202 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,840 No, I thought, not another one of those. 203 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,040 I covered my ears and waited for the ears splitting shriek to be 204 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,000 over. OK, I thought after the noise 205 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,080 was gone, making my hands off my ears. 206 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,760 No more opening chest. I continued to explore the 207 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,360 ancient city, ignoring any chest I came across. 208 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,360 As I was walking through what I thought used to be a hallway. 209 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:58,160 The floor was covered in a dark. Blue Gray carpet. 210 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:00,800 I was swelling out a book I'd been using to write down 211 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,040 coordinates when I suddenly dropped my quill. 212 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,240 I quickly covered my ears and shut my eyes, waiting for the 213 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,560 shrieking noise. It never came. 214 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:11,960 I slowly took my hands off my ears and opened my eyes. 215 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:13,880 I looked down at where the quill fell. 216 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,640 It was on a block of wool. Why didn't the shrieking noise 217 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:18,840 happen? I wondered. 218 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,240 I decided to do an experiment. I dropped the book onto the wool 219 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,800 and nothing happened. I decided to uncrouch and move a 220 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,920 block. No sound whatsoever. 221 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,640 Now I don't have to Crouch. I thought I almost yelled it 222 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:33,840 aloud. But thought better. 223 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,880 I decided to stay in the wall so I could go faster. 224 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,800 The wool didn't go far. So I decided to collect some. 225 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,000 As I collected wool, I kept. Expecting a creeper or skeleton 226 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,600 to come up and try to kill me, I then realized how there were no 227 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,360 mobs whatsoever, except the occasional enderman who would 228 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,080 tell part near me, then tell part away right as I finished 229 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,600 collecting wool and enderman teleported right next to one of 230 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,160 the moving blue upward vines. The blue. 231 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,920 Circles went from the enderman to the blue moving vines. 232 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:02,800 They then moved to the shrieker block. 233 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:07,160 The ear splitting shrieking sound came again, but this time 234 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,640 something different happened. After the shriek was gone, I got 235 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,760 the blindness effect. I heard a rumbling noise and 236 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,040 then when I looked at the spot of floor where the sound came 237 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:17,360 from, I saw. A dark. 238 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,040 Blue creature coming out of the ground. 239 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,800 It was the warden. The ends of Part 1. 240 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,520 Thank you guys so much for listening. 241 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,240 Thank you to Ishaan and the kitsune crafting for these 242 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,320 stories. Really enjoyed reading them. 243 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,160 They were really well written. I also think you guys did a 244 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,800 really good job on both having the store send Minecraft using 245 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,800 things from Minecraft and those, so having a putting a new spin 246 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,480 on aspects of Minecraft. Yeah, thank you guys for 247 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:55,800 swinging those. They're really good. 248 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,040 Anyways, I hope you, the listener, enjoyed this episode. 249 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,600 This has been episode 83 of Minecraft Short Stories. 250 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,840 Make sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel if you want to 251 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,320 leave a review on Apple. Podcasts. 252 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,640 If you're on Spotify, comment down below, there's a poll. 253 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,240 Make sure to respond to the poll question. 254 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:19,320 Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you inside the next 255 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:19,880 episode.