"…But I wouldn't have to go buy more melk, if someone…" Laura was talking to the camera in her dorm room at Silas University. She glanced at Carmilla, who was lying in her bed, reading something, listening to some punk rock and ignoring her completely. "…hadn't turned my melk container into a blood bank."
"It was just a prank", Carmilla said, still not taking her eyes off the book. Laura didn't check, but she heard from Carmilla's voice, that she was smiling.
"I've heard that before", Laura said, kind of pissed off since she didn't have any milk anymore, but she still smiled thinking about the first days Carmilla was her roommate. So much had changed between them in so short amount of time. Suddenly LaFontaine stormed in with a laptop in their hands.
"Hey LaF, mind if I borrow your melk?" Laura asked and Carmilla smirked to herself.
"Um, my milk?… Go ahead. Anyway, are you doing anything right now? You need to come play Minecraft with me", LaFontaine said and sat on Laura's bed.
"Really?" Carmilla said and finally took her eyes off the book. "Out of all the video games there is, you choose to play Minecraft."
"What's Minecraft?" Laura asked LaFontaine.
"You seriously don't know what Minecraft is. It's a really cool game where you can build everything you want and do all kinds of fun stuff." When Laura still looked questionable LaFontaine opened a picture in their computer and showed it to Laura. "Here, take a look."
"But… that's just cubes."
"That's the fun part. I started playing this game yesterday and it's much more awesome than it looks like. I already found a diamond", LaFontaine said with pride. At that point Carmilla put her book down and snapped: "Excuse me, I need to get out of here before you two start fangirling about pixel cows." Then she took her bag and left.
"So, are you doing something or…?" LaFontaine said when the door closed behind Carmilla and pointed at the camera setting.
"I was just… documenting my life. Even though I don't have to do it anymore for journalism, I got a lot of people following my vlogs and wanting to know about my life, so I decided to keep filming. I'll turn it off, for now", Laura told them and turned off the camera. "Now, how can I start playing this Minecraft?"
Once Laura had her own account and her character didn't look like creepy Will with colorful clothes anymore, LaFontaine took Laura to the wonderful world of Minecraft. They were both sitting in Laura's bed and LaFontaine was guiding her.
Laura2theLetter has joined the game
"You couldn't make up a new username, could you", LaFontaine said as Laura managed to get into a small server. LaFontaine got their own computer and joined the same server.
MasterOfTheWeird has joined the game
"I like this one. I put a lot of thought in it…" Laura tried to defend herself but she got distracted by a chicken. "He's so cute. I'm gonna name him Owen. Owen! Come to me!" Then she ran after the chicken.
"It's fascinating how easily you get excited by this", LaFontaine said to not particularly anyone. After a while they decided that Laura had played whit the chicken for long enough.
MasterOfTheWeird: Calm down Laura
MasterOfTheWeird: And come back here
"Sorry. Teach me how to do that", Laura said as she turned around and tried to find back to LaFontaine.
MasterOfWeird: Press t and type.
Laura2theLetter: This is so cool!
Laura2theLetter: …I kinda lost you
Laura2theLetter: Please help
LaFontaine laughed a little and went to look for Laura.
"Okay, first thing you gotta do, other than chase a chicken, is to find a tree and get some wood", LaFontaine instructed Laura while searching her.
"I'm surrounded by trees. How do I… never mind." Laura was about to ask them how to get wood but she didn't want so seem any less brainless than she already did. She walked in front of the nearest tree, pointed her cursor to it and clicked. Her characters hand hit the tree. She checked if LaFontaine had noticed her failure which they seemed to not have, and tried to press it for longer. It seemed to work since the tree started forming cracks and eventually broke. The rest of the tree remained at the same place, floating in the air.
"Well that's stupid", Laura burst out.
"What's stupid", LaFontaine asked without taking their eyes off their own screen.
"The tree's floating in the air."
"Cut the rest of the wood off, the leaves will disappear eventually." LaFontaine told her. She did. After a short amount of time LaFontaine finally found her. They already had a wooden pickaxe.
"Hey LaF, I can see you now. I'm waving" Laura shook her mouse trying to move her character's hand but only managed to move around its torso. "I don't know how to wave…"
"Now you need to turn that wood into planks. Open your inventory by pressing e and place the wood in the Crafting section."
"I got four wooden planks", she informed when she'd done it.
"Great, now put one in each square and make a crafting table." Laura did it with excitement.
"Yay, I'm learning."
"To make a pickaxe, you need to place the crafting table somewhere and make some more planks..." LaFontaine guided Laura through making a wooden pickaxe, and when she'd succeeded, she was very proud.
Laura2theLetter: I officially like this game
Laura2theLetter: Hey look there are dogs
"Those are wolves", Lafontaine informed her. There where at least seven of them. Laura thought they looked nice. ", though you can tame them to be your dogs."
Laura went up to the wolves and tried to pet them. Accidently she hit one of them. And the whole pack turned angry.
"Don't piss off the wolves", LaFontaine tried to warn her but it was too late. The wolves attacked Laura, who yelled and tried to run away.
"LaF! Help me!" she screamed so deep in the game that didn't realize she was actually yelling very loudly… in a dorm room… in a university. LaFontaine tried to kill the wolves but they only got mad at them too. The wolves bit Laura and even though she tried to fight back, wolves got her.
Laura2theLetter was slain by a wolf
Panicking she yelled: "No. What happened. What do I do. It's telling me I died. Should I respawn? LAF!"
MasterOfWeird was slain by a wolf
"Sorry Laura, I haven't died once before. I don't know what to do. And by the way, I think you're over reacting a bit."
"My pickaxe better be there when I go back", Laura ignored them and pressed the respawn. To Laura's dismay, it wasn't there.
"NO! My pickaxe isn't here. Everything is lost", she cried.
"You can probably get it back", LaFontaine said considering again if it had been a good idea to learn Laura how to play Minecraft.
"Really? How?" Laura was pressing every button in her computer, but the pickaxe remained missing.
"Um… I don't know exactly."
"Quick, do you know anyone who does know." Laura took her phone and was ready to call anyone who knew what to do. LaFontaine thought about it for a while and then said: "Well, Danny plays Minecraft."
"…Right, of course she does."
"Do you really need them back though. We can easily make new ones."
"Yes I need them back. I worked hard for that pickaxe", she said as she dialed Danny who answered immediately.
"Danny, we have an emergency."
"What is it Laura?" Danny asked sounding alerted.
"I failed to tame the wolves."
