Hi! I am EXTREME! I am, or WAS a gamer on Earth. I was highly addicted to this game called the Aetheria Server, a VR Minecraft server with extensive modding.
I had a good life on Earth because of it but this is besides the point.
It was in 2039 and the world as we know it was about to end. In just a few seconds I was going down in an explosion, the blast waves will be strong enough to rip me apart, and the flames would be millions of degrees. I was certainly going to die.
Being the addict I am, I plugged in my VR to look at Aetheria one last time... I looked down at my gear, I picked up my Adamant weapons and admired them. I then looked at my stats. My combat skills were godlike, 1000. I looked at the world for the last time and took in the view.
Suddenly some players near me said they couldn't leave the game! The creator Entity installed a plugin to prevent players from leaving. I had no desire to leave. I would rather die here peacefully than be blown up on Earth. The Earth was facing certain destruction and at least here I wouldn't feel the pain from the explosion. Well it's been a good run, I existed 12 years on this planet and...
All the energy in my body escaped me. I blacked out on the ground, vision slowly fading away and energy levels draining. My eyes felt weighted down like rocks and I passed out. At this moment I thought my body on Earth was blown up. I just accepted death on the ground right there.
When I woke up, I was lying all alone in the woods in the position I fell down in. All my items were gone. My set of godly tools I spent HOURS getting, my armor, my food, my goods, all gone. This stuff took me 3 years to get! I couldn't complain, at least I'm still alive.
All I had was this lousy wooden pickaxe and my Evoker Robe I was already wearing. It has pretty good armor and enchantments on it so I'll probably keep it.
I tried to exit the game but guess what?! I CAN'T! The button to exit was gone! And also there was no settings, nothing for me to toggle, and no external apps to contact the outside with. The only screen I could access was my inventory screen. How is that for the start of the day!
Great. I am now stuck inside Aetheria, a real life Minecraft world. Well guess what you have to do in your first day of playing Minecraft? Get wood.
Since I already have a pickaxe, all I had to do was to mine stone and get some stone tools. I found some pieces of iron in the process so I'm actually gonna make an iron tool set.
While waiting for the iron to smealt, I was feeling pretty hungry. I saw 6 noob players standing around a campfire in the open. I walked over to them hoping they would share some food. One of them drew his wood sword and yelled. "HEY GUYS THIS NOOB HAS GOOD LOOT! LET'S KILL HIM!" "Oh you're one to talk!" I said drawing my pickaxe. "LOL NOOB! HE THINKS HE CAN FIGHT WITH A WOODEN PICK!" They all surrounded me and I had no choice to fight them.
He took a swing at me and I took a swing at him. I actually hit him in the chest with my pick and made him drop his sword. "WHAT NONONONONO!" he yelled. I picked up his sword and killed him. and waited for him to respawn. He was going to respawn right?
Wrong. I looked down at my hearts and they looked slightly evil. I was on hardcore mode. FRICK! I just killed someone. And if you die here, you're probably going to die in real life.
That means I just killed someone... Well now I have no choice to kill because HIS FRIENDS LOOKED ANGRY AND THEY ARE GONNA KILL ME!
"He just killed Dan" one said. "THAT IDIOT!" one hollered. "ATTACK!" They all charged onto me and stabbed me with wood and stone weapons. I stabbed one and drove him into the ground but that just made them more angry. He dropped a stone sword so I could use that. Since I had the best weapon and the best skills, I could now kill them easily.
Now I have a better weapon. I drove my swords deep into the 4 remaining noobs. Unfortunately the last noob grabbed onto my hair and banged my face against the ground. I turned him over and wrestled him to the ground as well. We were locked in a struggle for dominance. He stabbed me in the stomach with his pickaxe multiple times. Finally I stabbem him and he vanished into a pile of items. The last noob was finally gone.
I sifted through their items and ate some food. Pork chops and some apples. That filled up my hunger bar and let me heal. I then picked up their wood and stone. Their tools I threw away because they were trash. I then went to my furnace and crafted some iron tools.
After trudging through the woods, I found a traveler sitting by his fire and I staggered toward him. "Hey, do you have a map?" I asked him gasping for air. "I need to get to the capital"
He replied "Yeah I do, you seem pretty hurt, maybe I'd give you some items to help you out." He gave me his map, his leather bag, and some food. I left and thanked him for his gift.
lets see... It said I was somewhere at the far Northwest of Ardenvell. Very far from the capital... Dangit! I need to get going because the capital is where all the action is!
The capital is the most populated place on the server, and arguably the nicest. All the action I probably spent 50% of my time there.
I found a settlement, Block Town they named it, creative name guys. It was just a simple town made of wood, stone, and with large glass windows. I went in to look around a bit. there were 8 people there which seemed nice. They had a public farm which read "Please Replant!" I took some wheat and potatoes from the farm.
They actually gave me a room for free! Noobs can be nice sometimes, when they don't try to kill you.
When I ate dinner and went to sleep, I couldn't sleep much. I kicked around and thought of the guys I just killed. Sure it had to be done but I kinda felt bad. They were just kids and they thought they were in a video game still. I thought "why couldn't we just talk it out, we could've been friends"
Update Day 2 It has been a sleepless night twitching in bed. I felt hungry and baked myself a loaf of bread. It smelled rather nice when I made it fresh from the crafting table.
I went down the road saying goodbye to Block Town. The kids there sure were nice. Maybe I can find another town I can visit on my way? Who knows lets get going.
Sure enough I saw another town. "Gravel Roads, Population 18". That's a more creative name than BLOCK TOWN! I went into the fence. Gravel Roads was a much larger town than Block Town, and much nicer too. The streets were more even and the buildings were larger. I took a pit-stop here.
I decided I should go down in the mines and get some diamonds. I laid down torches and cut down some zombies and skeletons in my way. They didn't light this place up well. Sure enough I found some gold and diamonds, and some Lapiz to enchant stuff with. I also mined 23 obsidian so I can make an obsidian sword but I can't right now. I need an Aeon Forge for that.
What is an Aeon Forge you ask? Basically it is a crafting table with a 5x5 grid instead of a 3x3. Cool right? You can make stuff like redsteel armor, adamant tools, and clothes made of spider silk with it.
Neat right?
I now have a full set of diamond tools and obsidian waiting to be crafted into something. I need to find an Aeon Forge but where...
I kept walking along saying goodbye to the people at Gravel Roads. I decided to take a bath in a pond nearby until I heard something. I heard footsteps near a trail. They looked like players with full diamond gear. I quickly dried up and followed them I followed them staying unnoticed until they went into a town, Krytopia.
Krytopia was a rather well off town. They had an Aeon Forge, an enchantment room, and 24 people. All things that I need. I was able to sneak into their library and craft some 2 obsidian swords and pair of obsidian boots.
I took some enchantment books and enchanted my swords. Each sword had Sharpness V and Unbreaking III. I added Fire Aspect II to one sword and named it Noobslayer. I added Looting III to another sword and named it Mobgrinder.
I put Protection V Unbreaking III Feather Falling V and Speed III on my boots and I went inside a Rune Chamber to give myself Vex Spawn and Evoker Fangs. All of the abilities that come with my class that was SOMEHOW WIPED! With these abilities I will be able to run kids over and maybe even survive on the road. I just went forward on the road.
Fun fact: Obsidian weapons do one less damage than diamond in this world, but I don't care. If you hit someone or something hard enough in the right place you can one shot them. I killed a player with a wooden sword in a duel in one shot by hitting him REALLY HARD. I also massacred the capital using an IRON SWORD! I must've killed HUNDREDS of players in my streams but I don't just spend my day massacring players. I built tons of awesome houses and won tons of competitions.
I then stole the Aeon Forge and darted out! Nobody saw me and I kept running for about a thousand blocks. I was absolutely winded and needed some rest.
After an hour of walking I saw a village! I greeted the villagers and traded some items for a few emeralds, about 223. Something seems weird, the villagers have more emotion and personality than in the Aetheria server. The villagers actually greeted me first and offered me some hospitality. Just over my shoulder I saw a guy bullying a villager.
"HEY GIVE ME THAT PICK YOU STUPID NPC!" he said. The villager cowered in fear. "If you don't want to give it to me, you will DI..." I stabbed him in his shoulder and slammed him through the ground. "QUIT BULLYING THAT VILLAGER! IT'S HIS PICKAXE AND HE DECIDES WHO HE TRADES IT TO!" I yelled in his face. He took a swing at me and stabbed me in the chest with an iron sword. It freaking hurt! I still hand the strength to kick him to the ground and grab at his neck trying to snap it. He stood up and stabbed me 3 more times. I yelled out in pain.
I stood up and drew both my blades out. I used both and split him in half. I fell down unconcious.
That guy totally deserved to die. He was a total jerk. First off he was bullying the villager which is not cool, second he tried to kill me, and third he stabbed me in the most painful way possible.
The villagers gave me healing potions and let me rest in their inn. At night when I was brushing my teeth, I heard some groans, zombies. I came out still sore from the wounds and cut them up. Killing zombies is easy, all you do is hack and slash. They're just very angry meat targets. When I was done I gave some advice to the villagers.
"Build a 10 block high cobblestone wall to keep the mobs out. Also craft these training dummys and train your combat skills frequently." I gave them all the advice they'd need to survive. They gave me a saddle in return. Nice.
Day 3 I left the town saying goodbye to the villagers. I realize it would take over a month to go from where I am (Northwest of Ardenvell) to make it to the capital so I'd have to find a horse sooner or later.
I went down the road and saw some horse footprints. It had just been raining and the horse prints look rather dry. I could just follow it and tame the horse. That sounds like a great idea!
The horse prints went to the side of the road for a bit. He was probably taking a rest on the side. I went over to him and rode on his back a couple times until he accepted me. Then I gave him the saddle
The horse was fast! I mean REALLY fast. I had trouble hanging on. He was pure white with black marks on its legs, a very beautiful horse. Anyways I got on his horse.
I went down the road MUCH FASTER! At this rate I'd be there in a week. I saw this zombie walking along, but you know me. I just stuck out my sword and off went his head.
Nothing happens on this road except zombies walking down like plastic targets. I won't write down anything down until I go to the next town.
One week update. Day 10 I made it to a quiet little town. In that week I killed 14 zombies on the road, stopped in 3 towns, and traded items (and stole a few). I realized something important.
This is a real world! Not a video game, not a simulation, REAL! The NPCs are actually real people and the players I killed are gone! It makes me feel a bit bad about the people I killed but it has to be done, right? They tried to kill me and if I didn't react I would've been dead. Tough world guys.
I am at this town called Birchwood Grove. It is HUGE and I walked around talking to people and looking at their gear. Apparently they are very undergeared and are hiding inside the walls of the town from the mobs. How pathetic!
"Just wait until a zombie horde comes like in that village I stayed in!" I muttered.
Oops I jinxed it! I umm... accidently left the gate outside the town open and went inside the inn to craft some items. Next thing you know everyone is fighting mobs and getting killed. I saw people getting killed left and right. YOUNG KIDS! This is getting bad... this is getting really bad...
I went into battle ready to kill mobs. I fought in the very front cutting up mobs. They couldn't do backflips and maneuvers like how I can so they had a disadvantage, but there were a lot of them. A LOT! The zombie horde at the village was nothing compared to this. I saw the horde of zombie go AWAY from me and TOWARDS THE KIDS! WHAT?!
We CANNOT WIN THIS BATTLE! There are simply too many. "FALL BACK!" I yelled "GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CANNNNNNNNNNN!" I yelled louder. I saw 2 kids still alive on the ground. A little boy wearing a creeper hoodie and his sister wearing a kitten mask. Something designed by Becca I believe. I picked them up and went on my horse
We all fled for our lives. I tried to calm the group down and be the leader here. I felt so bad though because I heard some kids saying the names of their friends they just lost. A lot of them were crying and none of them looked happy at all. One kid lost his sister, one lost his best friend, and one lost his girlfriend. Really kid, you shouldn't be dating at this age. He was about 13. Now's not the time for this. I was responsible for all of this because I couldn't close a stupid gate!
We pitched some tents and got settled in for the night. I gave the injured kids some food to refill their hunger bar but nothing helped. They both evaporated in my arms into a pile of items. I cried myself to sleep that night.
Man this is really getting dark...
Day 11 I woke up to a camp with kids huddled together still remembering every little detail of what happened that night. I made some milk and cookies to lift everyone's spirits. Sure enough it worked. They would eat up anything with sugar in it, but it didn't change the fact that the town was overrun by hostile mobs.
I finally made it to the capital! It was so beautiful! I really like the extensive use of Quartz and various clays to give it color, and the detail, and the rare blocks involved, and the amount of thought put into this. The capital was one of my favorite parts of the map. I congratulate whoever built this.
The massacre was all anyone can talk about. They thought it was some mobs, or a griefer, or Herobrine! I couldn't speak. I was traumatized because of what happened there. I just walked around the capital to clear my mind for a bit.
Everyone is still mourning over the massacre at Birchwood Grove and I don't really want to do anything today. I just walked around and took everything in. There were thousands of players within the walls of the capital, about 6 thousand. They were all cowering behind the walls and after hearing the news of the massacre, they were just more scared than ever.
Suddenly I heard a loud BOOM at the city wall. Creepers have exploded a portion of the wall and now every mob you can think of is flooding the city. "Just perfect!" I said drawing my blades and running toward the mobs. I saw plenty of kids running away from the mobs and many dying to the mobs. I picked up my sword and began splitting the mobs who tried to attack the kids. "wow he's good" said someone from the crowd. "I wish I could do that" said someone else . More people started helping me. I just realized, I had my Evoker Fangs ability which came with my class. I used my fangs ability to attack any zombies. I also spawned some Vexes which killed every mob they saw.
I got hit in the chest by an arrow. I staggered towards the sidelines and pulled out the arrow. I also stabbed a witch and took her healing potion and drank it.
While I was drinking the potion I saw an Iron Slime. They are rather rare and they can be smealted for iron but the amount they drop is so miniscule you're better off mining it in caves. "Here you go" I said handing it some raw beef. It was now tame and it loves me! "Let me get you a name tag" I said reaching for a name tag in my inventory. I placed a name tag that read "Quicksilver" on him. Now I have a pet iron slime! It is super small, so small I can put him on my shoulder and he'll fit!
Back in the frontlines I saw tons of people dying by the second! I was shocked and I was not going to let this happen again. I placed some cobblestone and sealed the gap in the wall.
Later I went to the town square and was distraught. At least 542 PEOPLE DIED IN THE MOB INVASION! I laid down some flowers as a sign of respect. Everyone was laying flowers down in the square. For the rest of the day I just stayed in my room munching on porkchops with mushroom stew. I also played with Quicksilver. He's small enough to be put in your hand and be bounced like a slime toy in your local toy store. He's also really cute.
This has been by far the darkest week of my life. I had to deal with 2 massacres within 48 hours. I looked at the ceiling staring at the wall.