I Don't Own Minecraft
Things had an awkward tension to them in the following days, mostly between the two siblings, Alysine has taken to avoiding her brother and wouldn't even look in my direction recently, it was very confusing. I had asked a few times but Bine kept brushing me off, it was annoying and I really didn't like it when I've always been up front, but I finally decided to not worry to much, Alysine avoiding me isn't new, and recently Bine's been hanging around me a lot more anyway so I think it might be her avoiding him than me.
Not to say Bine's completely clear in all this, he's also actively ignoring his sister and every time when he thinks I don't notice or I'm not looking, he looks over at her and looks guilty and somewhat frustrated. Clearly the two had a fight, a bit one, but I just wasn't sure what it was about nor if I could really help any. It honestly pissed me off a bit, I am not a fan of being kept in the dark at all. But I was very familiar with putting my own pride, and to a lesser extent my stubbornness, aside at this point so I moved on.
Though it was a bit weird, Bine mostly hung around me now, and all the light chatter I had been getting so use to between the two siblings had almost fully dissipated like it had never been there. I couldn't hold an conversation with Bine long enough to match it and even then my voice now felt almost over used, I wasn't use to talking so much, nor was I so use to keeping my right eye closed for so long. During the day I almost always had at least a few hours to myself where I could use both my eyes, but now that was a pipe dream.
I couldn't say I minded though. It was different, and took some getting use to and I really didn't like some parts of it, but over all, it wasn't to bad, just awkward. Not like that was anything new, but still, I honestly liked that I had someone just around me, just there, even if I wasn't talking or even if they weren't either, it was honestly a comforting feeling that I didn't know how to really describe.
But while it lead to me feeling a bit more comfortable, it also lead to a number of set backs as well. For one, mining, before I could go off on my own without issue, while the other two stayed together, since only two of the three of us could fight it only made sense, and since I could already see in the dark perfectly if the other two weren't around, then it just obvious to pair the two together so one could defend while both looked for ore.
That doesn't work anymore, I couldn't move quickly to not risk my chest pouring out blood, meaning using a sword is out of the question, which meant I have to be a lot more careful in fights, and Bine grabbed onto that and used it as a reason to stick by me. I couldn't tell if he was being protective over the wound I took for him, or something else but because of it, we had to take Alysine along as well because she could barely hold a sword properly, no need to mention how bad she is with a bow.
So all that happened was that I had become a wall between the two siblings, those were when it was the most awkward and we barely got much done as we would have if we were doing it like we had been in the past. In two and a half days we had managed thirteen iron, in the last five and a half, we only collected ten. We already had the chestplates though so it wasn't like we would have to waste it all on more amour, though some leggings would be nice for the other two.
On a side note, we did end up finding two more pieces of gold, which was nice, but that also let me know we were really getting deep into the cave I had found almost a month ago now. We were lucky it was such a big one, but still, that means that we have four gold in total including the two that I had found in the nether fortress. So that's four in total and the ender pearl drop chance rate is what? A two percent chance? If I'm remembering right, which I might honestly not be, but it sounds about right.
Meaning that there is about an eight percent chance I can get at least two pearls from there, I think. It's not exactly great, but it's better than trying to kill endermen. Those things were scary, even in game with good items if your caught of guard they can rack up good damage on you. I didn't want to think about what they could do if they weren't controlled by an AI and actrually could adapt and maybe even learn, factor that in with teleporting and with how strong they are and I don't want to mess with one. At least until I have better gear than a worn out crossbow and a stone sword.
Well I can't say that's totally true, I have a new leather chestplate, and I was currently thinking of ways to improve it by hand, not using some craft grid or system, I was coming up blank. Doesn't mean I don't have any idea, but I don't want to waste iron on making a smithing table, though I'm half convinced it would work. I see no reason why it would only work on diamonds and netherite at this point now that this is real life and not a game. It might nor make it as good as iron amour but it should at least not hinder my mobility,
Another thing I learned from watched Bine work out, using a wooden sword for practice. He had been trained to use the weight of the amour and put it behind his strikes, making him even more deadly, but I couldn't do that. Not with how I know how to use a sword. Not to say I didn't try mind you. After I saw that, I asked for his chestplate to try it out. The thing easily weight upwards of fifteen to twenty pounds at best. I could move round without much issue in it, but it fucked with my reach and it was hardly to use my sword without using both hands, something I didn't ever need to do and doing so threw off my balance.
I'm sure given a month or two of training, I could overcome it without to much problem, I've adapted quickly enough to using a short sword after all, even though with my height I think a long sword would be better, and it wouldn't even be much heavier to me, but that wasn't the point, the point was that I didn't have the time really, and anything that threw off my pretty damn good aim with a sword could get me killed. And contrary to the things I've done so far, I really don't want to die.
So I would just have to adapt and find ways around the amour issue like I have been doing but we still don't have enough iron for it. I wanted all of us to at least have an iron sword and get the two maybe another piece of iron amour for the other two, at least Bine as he can move comfortably in it, and maybe a set of shields. All in all, that was twenty-three iron needed for that goal to be achieved, it was possible, sure but it would take at this rate about half a month to get it all. Hopefully our speed will increase when I finally heal up fully.
Which brings me to what was happening right this second as I sat on my bed as Bine and I slowly cut off and peeled away the incredibly dark red wool. Hopefully getting this wrapping off of me. Honestly it had started to itch a bit like two days ago, at this point it was just annoying. It was all the dried up blood breaking off and shifting around against my chest with how tight the binding it, but that doesn't mean it was comfortable.
"Damn dude, I knew it would scar up but that's kind of nasty" I blinked as I looked down at my chest, it wasn't fully healed but there was a massive long and surprisingly thick scab over my chest, it wasn't pleasant to look at but it wasn't gross either, compared to a zombie at least. It reached from my right shoulder to about half way to my left hip. The blade hadn't gone in clean either, the scab was a bit more jagged than I had expected so the path kind of curved at some points but it was still a relatively straight cut. The scabbing was a bit weird though, of course the parts on my black side were much darker but it was reflective a bit so it was a bit of a strange contrast from the light adsorbing black around it.
"I hope it at least looks bad ass by the time this is all gone" I didn't really care what it looked like to be honest but I wanted to lighten the mood, Bine had seemed to get a bit iffy when he saw the wound up close for the first time since it had happened and it was bugging me. Thankfully it worked as he luaghed a bit at that as he shook his head before saying to me as he poked my right peck, that was over the scabbing.
"I'd say give it another full week before it will be fully healed and you don't need to worry about reopening it, but in the mean time you can get away with some heavier movement I guess. I'll be honest, I'm not an expert, I'm just use to seeing people with sword wounds, accidents were kind of common place in my class. The teacher would force the first injuries to heal on there own to teach us to be better prepared or show us this isn't a joke. Here look, I doubt you got a good look at it a few nights ago"
As he finished speaking, he lifted up the side of his shirt and pointed at his left lower side. I looked and blinked as I saw a scar I didn't recognize, the man in front of me had plenty of scars, even with the regen potion, the ones he got from that swarm awhile ago had already set in, so his chest had a bunch of light ones that I'm sure will fade over time, but this one was still there. From the angle it was clearly a glancing blow from a sharp blade. Though the angle was weird, like the blade had come from above
"Sparring accident?" He laughed at that, as he dropped his shirt back down to cover the scar, like he thought the idea of getting that scar in such a way was hilarious, I didn't get it but I could assume it wasn't from a spar with a reaction like that. After a moment he calmed down and said.
"Nah dude, I wish I could say I got it from something like that. Instead I got it from being an idiot, when we are first taught, we're given sheath to keep our swords in, to get use to the weight or something like that. It's a cheeky way of not having to use an inventory slot as well, but being the dumb ass I was, I tried to stow my sword away one day without looking and ended up impaling myself with it. It was so embarrassing" As he said that he laughed a bit and I couldn't help but laugh a tad with him. That would be kind of embarrassing to do, of all things to get your first scar of.
"Well at least your pretty cool now huh? At least I hope so, it would be a shame if you accidentally stab yourself again" It was light sarcasm, of course it was, but I was so use to just disregarding making those comments nowadays since he usually didn't get the humor in them. I felt like smacking myself a bit at the slip, it just came out for some reason, I hadn't even thought about it. But interestingly enough, he laughed a bit harder at that and said.
"I hope so to, it would be even more embarrassing to survive this far only to accidentally get myself killed" I smiled a bit at that as he sat down next to me in a huff as I looked over at him for a second before looking down at the scabs on my chest again. I had this weird urge to pick at it a bit, but I held back and instead looked at how much dried blood was on me, mostly on my right side which made sense, which was going to be a pain to wash off. Still, the longer I ignore it the worse it will be. I really do hate baths though. God do I feel like a cat of all things.
Shaking my head a bit at that, I stood up and walked over towards my chest and opened it up. Ignoring the curious look Bine was giving me, he would figure it our soon enough. Pulling out the wool and this time two flowers, I hummed to myself lightly as I opened up the crafting grid and quickly made two dyes, then made them into one due, then made an item then dyed it. What was left in my hands was a dark purple shirt. Looking back over towards Bine, I raised it up a bit and tilted my head, asking for an opinion. He shrugged at the look and said.
"Purple suits you I guess? I'm not good with fashion, but I mean it matches with your eyes I think? Well one eye, not that I've never seen it before, though you do leave behind purple bits in the air when you teleport I guess..." He trailed off at that point, apparently losing his train of thought but that was ok. I spent the time pulling the shirt over my head. It was nice in all honesty to be wearing on again. With how much bandaging I had on, the thing acted like a shirt itself, but this was a lot more comfortable.
Even if I have become uncomfortably fine with uncomfortable things, that doesn't mean that I somehow like being uncomfortable, just that I'm use to it. I'd still take this shirt any day of the week over those itchy as hell bandages. Plus, I'll be honest, purple's growing on me. I figured I'd be a red type of person or blue, because admittedly I don't remember my favorite color before this, but purple was nice. It might be why I like my crossbow so much, even though I've literally only shot the thing like three times now.
Though the color does remind me of something I've been meaning to try, looking back over towards Bine, who seemed to be thinking about something, I felt a little bad about it, but I've been putting this off for over a week now, and I'm finally in a decently healthy position that I shouldn't tear open my chest if I go crazy. So with that I spoke up and said.
"It's getting late, you should probably go to bed soon. I know I do" It wasn't a lie, I don't like lies, being honest is just so much easier really, but just because I need to go to bed doesn't mean I will be going to bed. Still, he seemed a bit hesitant, after all he still had to go back to the shack to rest, something he can't do if I'm nearby. It wasn't fun but I really want to find a way to also counter that. Fifteen foot distance at all times from sleeping people isn't to much to ask but it can be annoying. For everyone involved.
"Y-yeah, I guess your right... Um, bye" He got up but just kind of stood there for a moment before walking off, like he didn't want to go confront his sister. I didn't get it, if I have a problem I'd rather address it head on and get it over with than avoid it but I have a feeling he wouldn't like that advice and I really didn't want to annoy him now that we are actually properly getting along. Besides I did kind of just not to subtle kicked him out of my cave so I doubt this is the best time either.
Still, I want to give this a try before I go to sleep. Turning around after I was sure the Bine had left, I opened up the chest again and pulled out an item, a spider eye, it was not all that nice to feel the thing rolling a bit in my palm but I ignored that. Honestly I had no idea if this would work, but from how my frenzies seem to go, when I make eye contact, I attack until the mob in question is dead, as in puffing up in a cloud of smoke where no eye is there to piss me off anymore.
So what happens when I look into an eye that doesn't have a live body for me to kill? It was a random though, and honestly nothing might even happen, but this might work and that was good enough for me to try it, because if I could use this instead of going around and mercilessly slaughter animals then I'm going to do this. Like I said before, just because I've become use to it, doesn't mean I want to continue to deal with doing so.
With that I took a deep breath as I closed both my eyes before opening them up again as I stared down into the eye ball. For half a moment I thought nothing would happen, for just a second I felt a mix of disappointment and then relief, that didn't last long as a near burning itch in the back of my head seemed to just appear as I felt my vision swim in colors of red as an before I knew it, my left hand balled into a fist and brought it down onto the eye, crushing it in my right palm, then it was over.
Gasping a bit as the blood lust faded, I sighed as I dropped my head back a bit as I grimaced at the slimy feeling of eye juice as it dripped off my hands. Well, at least it worked, and I didn't have to kill anything alive for it, well besides the spider but I don't feel bad about that. Anyway, now I just have to teach myself to hold back, at least somewhat, so I don't go instantly to the kill phase. With that I went back to the chest and pulled out another eye. In the last few days I had begun something of a collection.
I had only managed to kill one spider myself with my crossbow, but Bine had killed off a few as well and one request and I now had plenty of eyes to work with. At least I hope so. Only one thing to do I guess, with that I looked back down into the dead eye and fought as hard as I could against the itch in the back of my head, it barely lasted a second longer before the eyes was crushed again... Two down, sixteen to go, right then, this is going to be a long night isn't it?
It was almost three hours later, I had to take a few breaks which I hadn't expected but as it turns out overwhelming amounts of rage can really tire a person out, doubly so when your already pretty tired, and I don't think it helps when I'm going from incredibly filled with rage to almost completely calm over and over again. I feel some what bipolar with how much my mood has shifted over and over again so quickly.
Still, I've made some surprise progress, not to say I'm suddenly cured of my own eyesight induced insanity. More like I'm not as effected? That's not right, it's like the itch is there longer, if I'm focusing I can make it so the itch in my head is there and if I'm lucky, I might just have enough time to move my eyes away from the spider eye which cuts off the rage from starting, it told me something about my enderman side as well.
If I can look away faster than the rage can really peek then the rage subsides, and I can train myself to build a resistance to give me more and more time before I lose it. Right now at the best of times I can managed a solid three seconds before I lose control, but the fact that I managed to not lose control at all was something that nearly made me want to cry with happiness.
Before all this, I'll be honest, I was trying to see if it was possible and I honestly didn't really know, I was just holding out hope, and that hope was draining faster than I would admit with the more and more blood I had spilled. But this told me that it was in fact possible and that conclusion seemed to lift a weight of my shoulders, not all of it, I still wasn't a master at this to any level, but the fact that I could be at that level on day with enough effort was something I couldn't be more happy with.
I'm not one to shy away from hard work, it just isn't in me, in fact I hate not doing anything, and this was something I can do without stressing my body out to much while I heal, well, I'm stressing my mind out, but that's fine, I can take it, if I couldn't then I would have rolled over and died by now. Shaking my head at that, I looked down at the last remaining spider eye I had left.
I'll have to make sure to go out of my way to continue to collect these things, they are a lot more handy to use that random innocent animals, and I can use them whenever without having to worry about hurting myself by going hunting at night for mobs to try out my stuff on. Still, for right now, I've stayed up around three hours longer than I should have and with as much emotional whiplash I've gone through, I'm pretty fucking exhausted.
Shaking my head a bit to stay awake a bit longer, I did the smart thing and pulled out a bottle of water and cleaned my hands off of all the spider eyes that I had crushed, wincing a good bit while I cleaned off my right hand as quickly as I could, before sending the bottle into my inventory as I shook them to cry them off, though it wasn't fast enough in my opinion as I headed back over to my bed that I really wanted to sleep in. So that's what I did after I kicked my shoes off as I crawled into the cover and practically passed out right then and there.
Fun chapter, some character developments, Edison is slowly, and I do mean slowly, getting a grip on his enderman eye. This chapter was mostly here for a minor time skip with the divide in the group being slotted in a now different spot, along with some more resources and some relationship building between the two guys. I liked both of the guys while I made Alysnie to be kind of annoying and a smartass that doesn't think clearly. I have ideas for how they all will develop later but that's for later, right now I just want to mention that I write these chapters pretty far in advance. I'm writing this one the day before chapter nine is going to go out, which if I'm sticking to my schedule then you all will see this ten days after chapter nine is posted. So keep that in mind I guess if you comment something. Anyway, See ya.