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Welcome back everybody to the 
Minecraft Short Stories podcast.

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This is episode 84, and I know 
it's been a while since I 

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released. 
A lot of stuff has happened 

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since I last released. 
Silk Song has come out. 

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Summer has ended. 
I started a new school. 

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I wrote a new story, but I'm 
back back to releasing on a more

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regular basis. 
In this episode, I'll be telling

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parts one of a new story series,
which doesn't mean I'm not going

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to continue any old story 
series. 

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It just means I am introducing a
new one. 

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I'm going to write for this one,
probably continue some old ones.

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I'm working on those. 
If you'd like to listen to these

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episodes on YouTube, there's a 
link for that down inside the 

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description. 
There's also a link to the 

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Patreon where you can gain 
access to new bonus content. 

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I am still trying to figure out 
my schedule for making content. 

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So I've not released content in 
a while and I'm still trying to 

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figure out what I want to do 
with it. 

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But while I am not releasing 
content, I do not charge you 

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guys. 
So you guys are not paying for 

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no content if you are a patron. 
So don't worry. 

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I hope you guys enjoy the story.
Make sure to leave feedback 

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inside the Spotify or Apple 
podcast comments and let's get 

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right into the story. 
The fall of Katara Part 1. 

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In the village where I grew up, 
everyone was sure of their 

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future and fortunes. 
The villager merchants didn't 

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bother to stockpile any 
resources, and the farmers left 

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their crops unguarded and let 
their livestock roam free. 

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In the glades beside our 
village, villager parents had 

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forgotten the fear of the night,
and their children regularly 

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stayed out past dusk. 
To really show the extent of our

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arrogance, all you have to know 
is that we didn't even have an 

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iron golem. 
Our cleric had bought one from 

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the central religious 
blacksmith, which is a journey 

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of several weeks from our 
village. 

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But the Gollum had quickly 
fallen into disrepair, not from 

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the result of battling mobs, but
because the village had refused 

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to allocate any iron to it. 
The villagers had called the 

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Gollum an unnecessary 
expenditure. 

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We didn't know what a dire 
mistake this was until later. 

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At the time, life in the village
seems perfect. 

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I could wake up, water and tend 
my crops, feed my animals, 

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perhaps add to a redesign a part
of my home, all without the 

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worry or weight of constantly 
searching for an oncoming raid. 

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I couldn't see it then, but now 
I realize that our way of life 

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in Qatar Village was a creeper 
ready to explode. 

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My story began 10 years before 
the horrifying circumstances 

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this story follows. 
I'd spawned into this Minecraft 

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world in the middle of the 
Plains Biome. 

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Upon my appearance, I instantly 
knew how to mine and craft. 

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Where I acquired this knowledge,
I don't know. 

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I knocked down a tree, then 
another. 

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I fashioned the logs into planks
and figured out how to assemble 

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them into a crafting table. 
The crafting table is a magical 

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block. 
I still do not know how it 

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functions. 
The block somehow cuts and 

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finishes wood, leather, iron, 
and much more in no time at all.

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The villagers have to 
painstakingly craft their items 

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to sell, but the players have 
access to their own crafting 

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station that can make things the
villagers have never even 

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dreamed of. 
This is just one of the many 

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ways my race differs from the 
villagers. 

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By night of my first day in this
world, I had a set of stone 

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tools. 
At the time, I had no knowledge 

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of the dangers of the night. 
Watching the sunset, the only 

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thought in my head was grumbling
about the inconvenience of the 

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darkness. 
If only I had known. 

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A zombie struck my back hard, 
sending me sprawling. 

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It snuck up unseen in the 
forest, blanketed by darkness. 

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I kicked the zombie as hard as I
could in the more rotten of its 

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two knees. 
It joins me on the ground. 

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I sprung up, switching my axe 
for a sword. 

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The zombie couldn't figure out 
how to get up off the ground 

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yet. 
Trying to stand up without using

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its clumsy arms, I finished the 
poor creature off quickly. 

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Momentarily out of danger but 
still wincing in pain, I begin 

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navigating my way out of the 
woods. 

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The only problem was that the 
encounter with the zombie had 

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caused me to lose all sense of 
direction. 

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In a rising panic, I ran in 
random directions, weaving and 

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running into trees. 
I would Sprint in a direction 

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for a few dozen blocks and then 
turn around and come back to 

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where I had started. 
I was more scared of being lost 

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in the forest alone than I was 
with the zombies. 

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I finally realized that my 
backtracking brought me nowhere,

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so I decided to pick a direction
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I picked the left of the rising 
moon as I thought that was the 

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general direction of my planes. 
Walking through the forest in 

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the dark was slow going and 
painful. 

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I didn't yet know how to craft 
torches. 

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Zombies groaned all around me. 
The rattling of what I would 

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later learn were skeletons 
frightens me. 

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After running a couple of 
zombies, I had had enough. 

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I towered up the closest tree 
and waited in its leaves for a 

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night to pass. 
The night I spin that tree was 

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one of the worst nights of my 
life. 

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The stumbling corpses of zombies
ambled past, occasionally 

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bumping into my tree trunk or 
another green creatures that 

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sort of looked like the leaves I
was peering through stalked in 

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the distance. 
Of course, as I later found out,

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those leaf monsters were 
creepers. 

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I was wise to fear them. 
My surroundings slowly became 

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brighter and all the zombies 
began moving towards deeper 

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canopy or cave openings. 
Finally the sun peaked over the 

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horizon and I knew the ordeal 
was over. 

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I descended from my tree and 
stood for a moment on the soil, 

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so glad I was still alive. 
I peered into the early morning 

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mist but couldn't discern 
anything but tree trunks. 

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I realized the forest was just 
as difficult to navigate in the 

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day as it was in the night. 
With no better options 

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immediately visible, I just 
began walking in a straight line

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away from my temporary hideouts 
and deeper into the forest. 

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This wasn't one of the infamous 
dark forests or on the deadly 

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mangrove swamps, so All in all, 
my trip through it was fairly 

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uneventful. 
I had to fend off a few wolves 

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and at a close run in with one 
of those leaf monsters who could

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apparently survive past the 
night. 

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But the forest was filled with 
more grazing cows and sheep than

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monsters. 
I only thought about a bed once 

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I saw sheep grazing. 
Some memory deep inside me 

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compelled me to slay the animals
and to take their white wool. 

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With no explanation for how I 
knew. 

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I placed three pieces of wool in
the middle of my crafting table 

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and placed a parallel line of 
planks beneath it. 

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Like the magic that it was, the 
materials were instantly 

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consumed and a bed fell off the 
crafting table. 

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Putting the bed into the 
mysterious satchel I had 

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appeared with, I continued on my
journey. 

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Once the sunset in my first full
day of travelling, I was able to

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test the bed. 
The bed was surprisingly hard 

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and a bit uncomfortable. 
The sheets were nice and soft, 

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but the frame was much too low 
to the ground and the bed hardly

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fit me. 
I'll have to build a nicer bed 

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later, I thought at the time. 
Around mid morning of the second

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day, the forest began to thin. 
The train grew rockier and 

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steeper, the air felt crisper. 
Suddenly the canopy ended and I 

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was met with a breathtaking 
sight. 

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For the first time, I could see 
the entirety of the gigantic 

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mountain I've been trekking 
towards. 

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Its sheer cliffs revealed mass 
amounts of iron and coal. 

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Unfortunately, it was too 
dangerous to harvest them. 

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The mountain was crowned with a 
humongous spike of rock up to a 

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snow. 
Trees and waterfalls decorated 

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its sides, but the very top was 
separated from it all, free of 

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life. 
Where the lower regions were 

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lush greens and Browns, the peak
was covered only with whites. 

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Gazing up at this Titan, I felt 
enchanted. 

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I felt the calling that all 
inevitably feel, the calling to 

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adventure and discover. 
I knew it would be far less 

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treacherous to go around the 
mountain, and also more likely 

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for me to find civilization, but
I didn't care. 

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I decided I would climb this 
mountain to conquer and claim 

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its treasure for myself. 
I couldn't walk away after all 

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the oars I'd seen, and I 
couldn't walk away without 

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feeling I'd betrayed a core part
of myself that which yearned for

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adventure. 
Preparations took a few hours, 

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mostly just acquiring further 
provisions and also crafting 

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some leather armor. 
With more food, torches, and 

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backup pickaxes than I probably 
needed, I began to climb. 

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This proved to be one of the 
hardest undertakings I would 

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ever attempt in Minecraft. 
I'd only been alive for a few 

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days, and I was used to the 
gradual inclines of the plains 

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and forest. 
My back felt like it was 

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breaking my arms, like they were
tearing off my body as I climbed

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and mined up the mountain. 
Before I could back out and 

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reconsider my choices, I was up 
too high to quit. 

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At multiple points my feet 
slipped and I was left with only

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my arms or a block to hold me. 
The hours of tension and fear 

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slowly accumulated. 
I didn't make it to the top 

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until after dusk. 
The last part of my climb was 

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the most perilous. 
Not only was I exhausted and 

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tired, but I was also shivering 
violently. 

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It seems obvious now, but I 
somehow hadn't connected the 

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snow on the mountain top with it
being cold up there. 

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I came entirely unprepared. 
Even though the climb through 

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the cold, I still conquered the 
mountain. 

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After a full day of non-stop 
climbing, I lifted myself up the

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final block and stood exhausted 
on the precipice. 

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I would have fallen on the 
ground and slept right then and 

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there were it not for the snow. 
Without delay, I grabbed some 

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cooked pork from my inventory 
and began wolfing it down. 

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I sat on the ground against a 
tree trunk and rested. 

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After I was finished with my 
meal, I began my hike further 

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onto the mountain. 
It didn't take long to find the 

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thing that changed my life 
forever. 

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As I walked forward in the snow,
I started smelling A faint aroma

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of cattle and cooking food. 
As I walked further, I could 

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hear the sounds of cattle and 
doors opening and shutting. 

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As I hiked over the final peak, 
my eyes were met with a glorious

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sight. 
Civilization. 

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I was not alone in this world. 
Below me, tucked in between two 

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cliffs and invisible except from
above, was a hustling village. 

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End of Part 1. 
Hope you guys enjoyed that 

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story. 
This is like I said Part 1. 

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Part 2 of course is coming along
soon. 

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Hope you guys are excited for 
Part 2. 

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This part has been a little bit 
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This is kind of the build up, 
you know? 

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You want to know how the main 
character actually got into the 

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circumstance rather than just 
the usual thing of the player 

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spawns into a village or 
something. 

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So so this is just a lot of back
story. 

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Hopefully it was still a good 
listen. 

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If you enjoyed the story, feel 
free to tell me in the Spotify 

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comments or in the Apple podcast
reviews. 

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If you didn't, you can also tell
me then maybe I'll be sad. 

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Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed. 
Make sure to check out the links

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inside the description. 
If you want to submit a story, 

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go to minecraftshortstories.com.
More listener story episodes 

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will become soon, so if you want
a chance for your story to be 

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read on the podcast, then you 
know you have to submit a story.

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Anyways, see you guys inside the
next episode.