1 00:00:13,150 --> 00:00:16,710 Welcome back everybody to the Minecraft Short Stories Podcast. 2 00:00:17,150 --> 00:00:21,310 In this episode today we have a listener story and the stories 3 00:00:21,310 --> 00:00:23,670 by Zachariah. Zachariah has read a story that 4 00:00:23,670 --> 00:00:27,190 I've read on the podcast before. It was the story with the 5 00:00:27,190 --> 00:00:32,159 stiffer in the villager who stole it, so hopefully you can 6 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:33,600 find it through that description. 7 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,840 I forgot the name of it, but it's definitely worth the 8 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,160 listen. In the prologue episode today 9 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,800 that's I recorded and that were released today, we talked about 10 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,080 the worst ever Minecraft short stories, the worst ever read on 11 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,560 the podcast. And if you've ever been 12 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,880 listening to this podcast and are like was calm OK when you 13 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,120 wrote this? Then maybe you'd be interested 14 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,280 in this episode. So you can find all the prologue 15 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,720 episodes on my Patreon and you can find that link inside the 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,599 description. The story is called The Uncanny 17 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:07,680 Tale of Hollow and let's get right into it. 18 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,520 Disclaimer before the story begins, the following story is 19 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,320 fictional. It is not based on actual 20 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,720 events, User names are made-up, and any relation to any actual 21 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:29,320 player is coincidental. The Uncanny Tale of Hollow by 22 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:32,240 Zachariah. It started with a pumpkin. 23 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,960 What else am I supposed to say? There's no chunk glitches, no 24 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:40,200 cobblestone crosses, no none signs, no giant footsteps. 25 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,680 Just a pumpkin. Well, I guess you would call it 26 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,400 a carved pumpkin. I was playing on an earlier 27 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,160 version of Minecraft, the version right before the regular 28 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,200 pumpkins were added. So the carved pumpkins were just 29 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,200 called pumpkins. Anyway, I've been scouting an 30 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,720 area in our survival realm for me and my friends to build 31 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,120 castle on. I've been taking measurements, 32 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,520 digging an outline, and assessing what blocks to use 33 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,160 ever since that morning the sun began to set. 34 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,160 I decided to head back to my house to change it to morning. 35 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,039 No one else was on, so I would have had to wait on anybody. 36 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,680 I ran back to my house and helped them bed. 37 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,320 As my screen began to fade, I realized I'd forgotten 38 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,240 something. I clicked leave bed. 39 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,160 I was supposed to check on the zombie farm for zombie villagers 40 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,880 tonight. I sighed and decked myself out 41 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,200 in armor. If I waited until day, they 42 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,960 would just burn up. Grabbing my sword, I opened my 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,600 door and that's when I saw it. The pumpkin. 44 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,560 It was just sitting there, a few blocks away from my door, 45 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,440 staring at me with his expressionless, hollow eyes. 46 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,240 It was certainly startling, but I almost instantly rolled my 47 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,080 eyes and checked to see if anyone else had joined the 48 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,560 server. I was friends with a prankster, 49 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,040 so it could have been one of his jokes. 50 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,360 To my surprise, I was the only one still in the realm. 51 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,000 A little off put, I moved away from the pumpkin, eyeing it as I 52 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,200 walked off. I'd heard of strange things 53 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,680 happening in people's worlds, like finding sand pyramids and 54 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,600 leafless trees, but I never heard of a pumpkin creepypasta 55 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,840 before. After checking the farm and 56 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,240 going to sleep, I decided to leave the world to do some 57 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,200 investigating. First, I hopped on the Internet 58 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,520 and search for any reports of carved pumpkins on people's 59 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,920 doorsteps. No helpful results. 60 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,160 The next day at school, I tried to see if any of my friends knew 61 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,880 about it, but none of them had been on the realm in a week. 62 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,720 The prankster said he was on a restriction for video games for 63 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,240 a month. All this information narrowed 64 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,760 the possibilities. No one had bet on the server, 65 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,560 and no one had experienced any pumpkins on doorsteps. 66 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,080 And so I conclude that it was very possible I might be sharing 67 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,000 a world with a new creepy pasta entity. 68 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:38,960 I shrugged it off. Maybe I placed a pumpkin by 69 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,280 accident. That was a bad assumption. 70 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,240 Next time I hopped them to the realm, the pumpkin on my 71 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,920 doorstep was gone, but it was replaced by more. 72 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,480 Pumpkins riddled my yard and my house. 73 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,720 Some even replaced the wood planks of my walls. 74 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,480 I was shocked. My breath became imbalanced. 75 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,480 So there is a being in the world, I thought to myself. 76 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,640 I paused so I could leave the world and then notice something 77 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,520 run by my half pumpkin house. It was Neon Creeper. 78 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,720 The prankster Neon creeper. What'd you do to your house? 79 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:08,480 Sniff. Sniff. 80 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,520 Which is me. Don't even try, man. 81 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:12,680 What? You think I did this? 82 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,560 I must admit you had to be thinking that Herobrine was in 83 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,760 the room or something. Neon creeper. 84 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,040 I didn't do it. Yes, I love to prank you guys, 85 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,600 but I didn't touch other people's builds. 86 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,840 That's against my policy. Then who did this? 87 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,200 I don't know. I've been on restriction for the 88 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,120 past month. Remember? 89 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,560 I was released today. Maybe we do have a Herobrine 90 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,000 entity of some sort in the realm. 91 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,240 How cool. Me. 92 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,720 Is it really that cool, though? Yes, it is. 93 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:38,960 Totally. Neon. 94 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,800 You there? Ah, it's him. 95 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:43,400 He he's got me. Me. 96 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:44,160 What? Who? 97 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:44,960 Who? Who's got you? 98 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,240 Neon Creeper left the game. I rolled my eyes. 99 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:50,640 It was another one of his pranks. 100 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,000 Neon Creeper was fine. With him out of the way, I could 101 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,560 think I observed my house. What did the pumpkins mean? 102 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,360 For once, I actually trusted the end. 103 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,360 Creeper. Breaking other people's stuff 104 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,960 was out of his character and no one else was mean enough to 105 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:05,360 vandalize my house with pumpkins. 106 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,440 Maybe someone was mad with me that I hadn't updated the world 107 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,520 in, you know, years. I had not heard any major 108 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,520 complaints yet. I sighed. 109 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,440 I was delaying the truth. There was a pumpkin obsessed 110 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,760 entity in my world. With this idea in my mind, I 111 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:21,680 knew what I was going to do. Find it. 112 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:25,320 Capture it, if possible. Ask us some questions. 113 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:27,640 I know they're going to be some risks. 114 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,040 I spent about 45 minutes listening to some creepypasta 115 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,600 episodes of podcast that I like to prepare me for what I could 116 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,080 encounter. I opened Minecraft again and 117 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,200 into the realm. I looked around. 118 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:40,160 More pumpkins had already replaced blocks in my house and 119 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,760 yard. I ignored it and concentrated. 120 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,080 If I were a Minecraft lunatic monster who loved pumpkins, 121 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,480 where would I hide? Thought to myself, there was a 122 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,560 field not too far from my house that contained some pumpkin 123 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,480 patches, so I decided to check there to try and increase my 124 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,960 chance of finding the thing. I crafted some pumpkin pies and 125 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,160 put them in my hot bar. Maybe I liked pie. 126 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:03,960 I sprinted out to the field and began my search. 127 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,040 I spare you all the details and just tell you that after a whole 128 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,280 life hour of searching I didn't find the vandal. 129 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,200 I even tried coaxing it out of its hiding via the chat but with 130 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,200 no avail. I didn't even know if it could 131 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,920 hear me or not. I logged off and decided to go 132 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,880 to bed talk with Neon Creeper in the morning. 133 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,800 Neon Creeper was OK as I thought. 134 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,200 He said that the whole He's got me thing was just a joke, but 135 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,040 said that he was going to hold off on the pranks for a bit so 136 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:29,680 that's not to interfere with the investigation. 137 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,280 While Neon Creeper was a prankster, he knew when he 138 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:36,120 needed to stop. I checked with everyone else and 139 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:37,480 still none of them have been on the realm. 140 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:39,680 After school and homework, I entered the realm. 141 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,680 As the chunks loaded, I realized I was still inside the pumpkin 142 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,840 field. I returned to my house only to 143 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:46,640 find it completely made of pumpkins. 144 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,840 The walls, the yard, the roof, even the fencing gates were 145 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:53,040 replaced by pumpkins. I busted through the pumpkins, 146 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:54,720 occupying the space where my door was. 147 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,800 I stared wide eyed. I was in front of me. 148 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,360 Everything was replaced. That made my chest as well. 149 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,840 If Minecraft characters could crumple to the floor, mine would 150 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:06,720 have done just that. I had diamonds, Redstone, even a 151 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,480 scraper to have nether in those chests. 152 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,920 Now they were just pumpkins staring at me with that dark, 153 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,400 hollow gaze. Now I was mad. 154 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,200 I assessed where I had my inventory, tried to stay cool. 155 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,320 Pumpkins have been appearing in an out of place environment, I 156 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:23,240 thought to myself, So what if this time I searched in a place 157 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,160 where pumpkins don't naturally appear a waste? 158 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,720 Behind my house was an oak forest that went in for miles. 159 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,800 I certainly didn't remember seeing any pumpkins there and 160 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,480 once again set off. I walked for days with no luck. 161 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,760 Not a single pumpkin. I didn't even bother sleeping. 162 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,360 I fought through the nights and searched through the days for 163 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,400 real time, hours. Finally, after growing tired of 164 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,600 fighting off armies of zombies, skeletons and whatnot, I decided 165 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,920 to pitch a bed and sleep. I watched the sunset, waited 166 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,720 till I knew I could sleep and click the bed. 167 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,080 My character lowered its head. The screen began to dim and 168 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,480 that's why I saw it. A pumpkin looking straight at 169 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,640 me. As I was dozing off, I clicked 170 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,600 leave bed, jumped out and stared at the pumpkin straight in the 171 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,600 eyes. It stared back, expressionless. 172 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,120 I sighed. I looked around the forest. 173 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:12,480 Miles would soon spawn if I didn't do something. 174 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,480 Quickly mined the pumpkin and crafted into a Jack O Lantern 175 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,840 that would help me a bit. I seen the Jack O Lantern on the 176 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,840 ground so it illuminate the area around me. 177 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,800 I looked around not too far from where I was. 178 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,800 There's another pumpkin. I walked over to it and saw 179 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,600 another pumpkin. And another. 180 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:30,760 And another. It was a trail. 181 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,120 As I followed it, things became even more out of place. 182 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,360 There were no mobs and the trail of pumpkins was getting thicker. 183 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:40,840 So twice I thought I saw a mob, or worse, the Pumpkin Vandle, 184 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,039 but they're just some strange statues. 185 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,200 They look like the recipes for some sort of golem, but they 186 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,040 weren't like any I had seen. They took the same shape as an 187 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,920 iron golem recipe, but instead of iron it was made of black 188 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,400 concrete with a typical pumpkin on top. 189 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,920 It was eerie, but I continued on. 190 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,840 After following the trail for a few minutes, I reached a cave, 191 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:02,680 the tap that goes almost straight down. 192 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,800 I couldn't see the bottom, but I could see the walls. 193 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,040 They're completely made of pumpkins. 194 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,760 Their faces seemed to gesture downwards, as if they're afraid 195 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,040 of what was down there. I know I was. 196 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,440 It was night time, both in Minecraft and in real life. 197 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,120 I wasn't really supposed to be playing games this late. 198 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,280 Nonetheless, I pulled out a water bucket, dumped it down the 199 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,840 mouth of The Cave, and descended into the unknown. 200 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,440 The Cave was also eerie. As I reached the end of my water 201 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,520 elevator, I observed the inside. Instead of regular pumpkins, 202 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,360 Jack O Lanterns took their place, making the small cave 203 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,240 bright and clear. Although it was no longer dark, 204 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,600 the place was disturbing. The Jack O Lanterns gave off a 205 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,480 creepy disposition, same one that the backgrounds gave off. 206 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,240 Everything was still too still. Noticing a small opening in one 207 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,960 of the walls, I walked over to it, my nerves making me shake 208 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,160 with such intensity I could hardly press the right keys on 209 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,720 the computer I appeared inside. It was a long one by two 210 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,520 hallway, which was of course made of Jack O lanterns. 211 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,280 With a shaky breath, I began walking a drone and coursing 212 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,800 through me. One step, 2 step, three-step, 213 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,760 four steps. Every step seems to last for 214 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,880 hours, each time seeming to echo out through the Jack O Lantern 215 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,480 hallway. Their faces haunted me, watching 216 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,560 my front, my side, my back with a seemingly fret and look in 217 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:24,800 their eyes like the Stony statues of Medusa till finally I 218 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,760 reached the end. I sprinted out hoping that this 219 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,920 would be the end of the nightmare, the light, the end of 220 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,400 the tunnel. I emerged from the hallway, 221 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,120 relieved me in a more open cave. That ecstasy was almost 222 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,640 immediately shot down because of what was before me. 223 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,440 My house. All the right blocks were there 224 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:44,640 and a single pumpkin on it. It was almost as if someone had 225 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,840 taken a structure block and then copy and pasted it. 226 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,640 I ran inside. My chest were there too. 227 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,760 I opened them up, grabbing as many items as I could carry, and 228 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,360 then burst out back of the door and there he was. 229 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,240 His appearance had the shape of a player's skin, except he was 230 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,880 pitch black on his head. He wore a pumpkin, the same dark 231 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,040 hollow expression I've been staring me for days now. 232 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,760 I gasped upon saying this thing and Sprint as fast as it could 233 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,400 back down the hallway, fear of being caught being the only 234 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:12,800 thing that kept me from passing out. 235 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,400 As I ran, the hope of escape filled me. 236 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,600 I may have been able to make it at the thing that turned out the 237 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,840 lights in the midst of my escape towards as all of the sudden 238 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,440 popped out of all the Jack O lanterns at once, turning them 239 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,880 into pumpkins. The hall became completely 240 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:28,560 black. I kept running. 241 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,360 Not only if I was moving or if I was running up against a wall. 242 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,800 The yellow text slowly materialized in the middle of my 243 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,680 screen. Stopped running. 244 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,000 I let go of the West Key, my heart beating like a drum. 245 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,000 Handshaking, I open the chat. Who are you? 246 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:45,240 New words appeared in my screen. I am hollow. 247 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,840 That was all I needed. I paused the game and quit, not 248 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,920 before seeing the words. No, wait. 249 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,880 I was returned to my world's collection and I hovered over 250 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,920 edit. Then I noticed the world name 251 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:58,960 had been changed. Don't do this. 252 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:01,520 I ignored it. I clicked edit and started 253 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,320 scrolling downwards. The toggle on off features have 254 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,480 also been changed. Please listen. 255 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,560 You can't do this to me. I won't hurt you. 256 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,240 The pleadings went on. I kept scrolling, ignoring The 257 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,440 entity was practically down on its knees begging for mercy. 258 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,560 You knew what was coming. Finally, I reached the bottom. 259 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,040 In the place of the deli bun were 5 words. 260 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,160 This is my only home. I froze as all the pieces 261 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,640 clicked on my brain. Hollow was a glitch that was 262 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,480 accidentally created in the game before regular pumpkins existed. 263 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,440 Mojang eventually discovered Hollow and fixed a glitch when 264 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,160 they updated the pumpkins. Therefore, Hollow could only 265 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,200 thrive in worlds which did not have the update. 266 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,360 Is it really possible that I'm the only player who hasn't 267 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,680 updated? I thought I moved away from the 268 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:48,200 delete button and pressed play. I was meant by blackness once 269 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:49,840 more and words appeared on my screen. 270 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,520 You're back. Sniff. 271 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,280 Sniff me. Why did you steal my house? 272 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,560 That's just what I do. I replace blocks with pumpkins. 273 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,680 Well, lay it off. You're not going to delete me. 274 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,320 I thought about this. I tapped your response. 275 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,040 No. You're harmless entity, right? 276 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,440 Yes. Then you can stay. 277 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:13,520 You know what? You can have the world as well, 278 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:15,360 please. As many pumpkins as you want. 279 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,800 The world is yours. I don't know what made me do it, 280 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:21,960 but I did it. My eyelids were heavy. 281 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,360 My senses were weakening. Early awake, I clicked save and 282 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,520 quit and dozed off the last thing I saw being the world's 283 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:30,520 cover. The name had been changed again. 284 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,920 Thank you. I got busted. 285 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,040 Of course. My parents awoke the next 286 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,280 morning to find me, collapsed my game chair in front of my open 287 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,720 computer, and banned me from games for two months. 288 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,120 Beat that in the young creeper. Usually I would have launched 289 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:45,960 into a state of depression, knowing that I couldn't play 290 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:49,080 that long or knowing that I gave away my world to a Minecraft 291 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,720 density. But I felt fine. 292 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,320 I had done something that no one else had done before. 293 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,240 I had somehow made friends with a Glitch. 294 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,040 I didn't even know that was possible. 295 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,000 I've removed the world from the realm to keep everyone away from 296 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,320 Hollow, and I don't plan to join the world either. 297 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,320 I'm just going to let Hollow do his thing. 298 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,440 I told Neon Creeper about the experience and he thought it was 299 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,400 amazing. He told me I should try to 300 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,920 spread the story on the net so everyone knows about Hollow. 301 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,000 I've tried to recreate the experience into Worlds, and I've 302 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,920 sent it to a guy who reads stories on a podcast for a 303 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,080 living. With any luck, I can spread this 304 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,600 experience to other players, warning them about Hollow to 305 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,880 help remind people to update, or maybe so they can invite Hollow 306 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:34,080 into their own worlds. The end Thank you to Zachariah 307 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,280 for submitting this story. This is going to be a chunky 308 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,000 episode. The recording thing says it's 309 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:44,480 already been 21 minutes and this has been the single handedly 310 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,320 longest story ever in the podcast. 311 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,360 At 3000 words. At least I think it is. 312 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,520 Maybe so. Thank you so much to Zachary for 313 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:54,600 submitting this. I really enjoyed reading this on 314 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,040 the podcast and I'm sure the listeners enjoyed listening to 315 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,480 it. Thank you for submitting this. 316 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,480 And now the story was not too long. 317 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,640 The story was fine. I'm glad it was this long. 318 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,600 So thank you. And I'd just like to thank you, 319 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,120 the listener, for getting to this part of the episode. 320 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,880 This is the end of the episode, if you haven't noticed. 321 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,320 I hope to see you inside the next one.