Duncan stared enthralled by the giant cube- it must have been 20 miles long at least. He pondered on how such a construct was possible. It was mythical-and deadly. He paced around the small lab he had built down on the office layer. He built a whiteboard and began to make some calculations.
"There has to be a weakness. Uh…Lewis.. Try and find out what that… Thing.. is made of… Literally." Duncan asked Lewis blinked confused, coming down the elevator.
"Why do you need to know that? Lewis replied.
Dunc nodded to his calculation. " A force field isn't going to work- we'll be squashed like a bug. They say the best defence is a good offence. If I can find a weak spot we could build a laser- like in hole diggers- just rotate the system. We have enough power to blow a decent hole into it." Duncan explained. Lewis shook his head.
"there's over a million life signs inside that thing- that's a battleship. We cant take on an army…unless…. we can make an army ourselves!" Lewis rushed up to the top layer and began to build golems.
Simon meanwhile was yelling his little head off, dying to mobs constantly. He respawned near Lewis- who handed him some dark steel armour and tools he had built using the stuff Duncan found earlier. Simon yelled a dwarfish battle cry and charged back into miners delight, hacking at spiders constantly. He retrieved his inventory and returned triumphantly holding items and deposited them in a chest. Duncan set to work to create a pink slime, constantly asking Lewis to send him items. They would be victorious- their lives depended on it. This was the culmination of a thousand years of J.A.F.F.A- and Lewis wasn't about to let it go. Simon had delved deeper than ever into miner's delight- finding diamonds and valuable items. Duncan had now built the basic parts for the laser. Lewis had about fifty turrets poised at the Cube-city.
Lewis thought to himself then-it was just a vicious cycle. Threat appears- make selves powerful enough to fight it, keep going- disaster occurs because they became too powerful. Indeed that was the case during shadow of israphel. Lewis had expected that adventure to come back and haunt them. And maybe it already had… but Israphel was long dead, it had been a thousand years after all, and even if he was alive- they were lost in deep space. Seems a long way to go for revenge, he mused. Simon poked him multiple times before Lewis finally noticed.
" I've cleared out miners delight- the s**ts in a chest." He informed him-his tone for once solemn. Lewis was scared- Simon was rarely so serious. Lewis walked with Simon and taught him to switch out miners delight with the biosphere. He then warned the dwarf that the biosphere was significantly more dangerous than miner's delight. Simon obviously ignored this and was already in the sphere yelling like a mad-mun and killing mobs
Simon tried to swim in lava to escape .
Lewis laughed his head of then. "Simon! I did bloody warn you you prat…hahaha..oh god, brilliant." Simon slapped lewis in the face when he respawned- heading back into the biosphere once more and rage-digging some sand. He then exclaimed a happy cheer. "I foooooooounnnnd something!" he crowed. He dug his way inside and looked around-and his comms went dead.