Shroud at the moment was under a the same tree in a crounching position and covering his ears in a feeble attempt to block out the voice that was talking to him. The tactic wasn't working very well since the voice was inside his head.
"Hey! I'm trying to talk to-" The voice began to say when Shroud growled at it to stop. Shroud was not trusting a stranger's voice inside his head.
"GO AWAY!" Shroud screamed into the empty air.
"No I will not go away! I'm trying to help you!" The unknown voice said with a hint of determination.
"Yea right! you're just another one of those Followers trying to fool me!" Shroud retorted at the voice. For a moment Shroud thought that got rid of the voice before it came back a moment later.
"That's why you won't listen to me? because you think I'm one of THEM? No no I'm not an ally of theirs. I'm a player." The voice calmly said and Shroud was about to state his disagreement, but the last bit the voice said confused him.
"A player? what." Shroud somewhat quieter said and of course the strange voice replied.
"um... well a player is...um... kinda a guide of sorts. Every Minecraftian has one from what i can tell. soooo yea." The voice said with some awkward-ness. Shroud didn't believe a word of it.
"Okay sure, but where the Nether were you when i was in the Nether!?" Shroud screeched at the voice still feeling it was a trap he was being led into.
"Well... technically I'm not your original 'guide'. My brother was and then for some reason he couldn't reconnect with you because of that other guy. That guy you called a Follower, i think he hacked in and forced my brother away from being able to contact you. Oh and BTW i was with you in the Nether, you called me the 'other voice', but that Follower dude wasn't letting me speak to you properly." The voice finished the monologue leaving Shroud to pondered whether the words had truth in them or not.
He wasn't sure, but if it knew about the 'other voice' than maybe it was telling the truth since Shroud hadn't told anyone else about it. Still he wasn't pleased with having a strange voice inside his head so soon after he had encountered the Follower who could talk inside his head as well.
"Grrr... Fine I'll believe your story for now, but you do something i find suspicious I won't listen to you anymore." Shroud angrily replied to his 'guide' feeling a little helpless that he couldn't do anything else besides not listening to the person.
"FINALLY! You'll listen to me at last and good thing too, it's starting to get dark. You need to make a shelter quickly." The player cheerfully said with an ominous undertone.
Shroud didn't know what happened at night so it was understandable that he didn't understand why the player seemed eager to make a shelter quickly.
"Why? what happens at night?" Shroud curiously question and tensed his body for the answer.
"You see, hostile mobs come out at night in the Overworld and will attack you on the spot. That and it gets colder at night and you might freeze being outside in the snow." The player stated the obvious.
"good reasons i guess" Shroud thought grudgingly before looking around to see if he could find a hill of sorts to dig out a temporary shelter. He saw one almost at once and made a move to get going, but the player interrupted.
"Also you should probably get wood while you're at it... maybe.. you don't HAVE to but-" the player spot short and remained quiet except for a 'meep' which made Shroud a bit nervous. Sure he hated having to hear voices in his head, but this one at least seemed better than the last.
"so what made it shut u-" Shroud began to think but then suddenly...
"GET DOWN SHROUD!" the player's voice boomed out making him wince, but he ducked down anyway. And it was a good move to do because a few sharp 'TWANGS' rushed over his head. When Shroud looked up to see what had made the noise, he saw four arrows (not that he knew they were called arrows) imbedded into the bark of the tree behind him.
"Run! y-y-you're not prepared, j-j-just make a s-small shelter quickly! The skeletons can't-t-t dig like y-y-you." The voice advised with weird stuttering. Shroud hesitated for a bit since he was battling rather to run away (which he hated) or to stand his ground and face the enemies.
Had Shroud not been injured from his previous fights he might've fought, but that wasn't the case and so he made a break for the hill he had saw eariler as more arrows whizzed by close to him.
He dodged the trees as he sprinted past them towards the hill with more arrows thudding into the trees around him. Shroud got to the hill quickly and was shivering from the cold as he started to dig the dirt away with his bare hands. All the while the sound of clicking bones came closer.
Shroud had made a 2x1 entry two blocks into the hill when he turned around and blocked off the entry-way. another 'twang' was heard as the skeletons shot one final shot at Shroud, but instead hit the dirt that was now in the way.
In total darkness, Shroud sighed a breath of relief and turned away from the closed off exit. feeling cramped, Shroud dug away at the dirt around him and made a small 3x3 room, still in darkness. It was very silent, making Shroud wonder if those mobs had left.
He also wondered what happened to the player. It had warned him and told him to quickly make the shelter he was now in, but now he wasn't hearing anything. That is until a few seconds later when it spoke again with the same weird stuttering.
"l-l-l-l-ll-laaaaaaa-a-a-aaaaaaaaggg-g-g-g..." Was all the voice said with annoyance and Shroud honestly had no idea what it was talking about this time.
"lag? what the ^^^^ is a lag?!" Shroud questioned with a bit of anger and he waited for a reply which was taking a lot longer than it should. Still he got an answer.
"s-ss-sorry-y Shroud. My-y connection with y-you is bug-g-gy and so I'm l-l-aggin-gg which means in my POV y-y-ou're moving really slow. J-j-just give m-me a minute I'll be back soon hop-pefully." And then silence which Shroud was grateful for because the 'lagged' voice of the player might have made his ears cry blood if it continued any longer.
So Shroud sat down on the dirt floor bored. A few minutes pass and still no word from the player. Soon Shroud's thoughts were wandering and some of them were not pleasant.
One of which was so unpleasant that Shroud bolted upright in panic. He huffed before going to check to see if those skeleton mobs left him alone. He dug out the top dirt block and looked out into the night. Shroud quickly closed it back up because the cold air made him shiver.
He was beginning to doze off when the player voice rang inside his head again.
"hehe... um.. sorry about that. can't control lag unfortunately." Shroud huffed in response thinking it was a petty excuse to talk to some Follower ally or something.
"Well 'person inside my head' care to explain what happened, who are you, and how come i can't see you, but you can see me?" Shroud distrustfully told the player.
"okaay... let's see.. night-time came, skeletons spawned, i got lagged behind because of bad connection. That's what happened in a nutshell. As for who i am, I'm known as jlott," the voice paused at Shroud's snickering," yes i know dumb name, i didn't pick it mind you. And as for the last part, I'm in a different world known as Earth and i have equipment to view minecraftia, while you don't have the same tech. does that answer your questions?"
"Yes and gives me more questions about this 'Earth' of yours." Shroud replied back before going back to punched out the top dirt block to see if the sun had risen yet while waiting for 'jlott' to speak again. Shroud mentally laughed at the name again. Who would come up with a name like that?
Then Shroud frowned because outside it was still dark and still cold or at least colder than the little makeshift shelter he was in.
"I'm not surprised that you have more questions, but right now how 'bout we plan on where to go before we set off in the morning, hmm?" The player suggested. Shroud paused before making a blunt response.
"Well how would I know where to go? I just landed in this realm with no idea of my surroundings." Shroud plugged the entry up again still waiting.
"oh no i didn't mean it like THAT. I meant which biome should we go to? You obviously don't like the taiga biome. There are jungles, moutains, forests, deserts, plains and a few others to choose from." the player rephrased a bit with a small hint of childish excitement in it's voice.
"Which ever one is the most warmest, I'll go with that one." Shroud boringly said hoping to quickly get jlott to shut up.
"That would be the desert, but problem with it is LOTS of mobs spawn there, that and there's no food unless you find a village." Shroud sighed, but perked up at the word village.
"Village? What are those like?" Shroud asked only to mentally hit himself when he realized that the question would keep the player talking for longer.
"Well villages spawn in two biomes; deserts and plains. In the villages live peaceful people known as just Villagers. Also, they mainly grow food and trade items with any Minercaftian. That's pretty much it about villages." The player quickly stated.
Shroud thought for a moment thinking about the idea of a village. For one he would get easy access to food and possibly other items. It also seem like a place that Aodh might go to since he did mention a lot of place names when blabbing of his travels.
"To the plains it is then."
A/N bit boring this chapter huh? don't worry it won't be this way next chapter. oh a still accepting a few more OC's, either PM me or leave a review :)