The host stood in the center of the stage, several of the redstone lamps moving up and out of the floor, a number of chat terminals being projected onto them as the clocked figure adjusted something near their neck. Husky took a step back and leaned on a pillar, eager to know who this was and to hear his cue to "explain" whatever he was asked to explain in that letter.
"Districts SMP…" the host declared their voice much like a hybrid of the clown fish app and Siri. "Hope you don't mind, but my identity must remain hidden; theres a fun little game at the end of all of this involving it." there was a few murmurs among the crowd, but the chat terminals on the red stone lamps blinked to life, catching the audience's attention.
"Husky, I believe that's your cue." The host took a step back as the amphibian slide to the center of the stage.
"This time around in Districts we got a tournament style elimination thing going on." The mudkip gestured to the screens as all the districts appeared with each of the members. There was a red box around Husky's picture.
"Every week you all will have a challenge. The winning district, player, or players will gain immunity." The host added as they typed a few commands into a screen. The screen with the district members on it expanded so the whole audience could see it. "As a reward for helping me, Husky gets immunity from this week's challenge."
"That means even if my district fails, I'm still in the game!" Jerome and Jason glanced at each other for a moment before looking back up at their self-appointed leader again. "Every week the winner gets immunity, while the loser gets kicked out of the SMP. It will either be one or two people, or even a WHOLE district."
The excited air of the hall seemed to die a bit. The game hadn't even started yet and people were wondering if there time in season 2 was already cut short.
"By the end of week four there will be only three districts left. I hope you all have fun and try your best in every challenge." The cloaked figure who will officially be referred to as The Host took center stage again. They extended their arms as if to hug the whole room. "Now go! The challenge has begun and will be a secret! Play as you wish, do what you believe will get your district to number one this week, and most importantly; claim your district land!"
Husky leaped from the stage and shouted for Jerome and Jason to follow him. "DIBS ON THE NORTH!" he exclaimed as his district left.
The host laughed as they pressed a button and began to descend into the lower floors of the district hall. "Theres a few surprises waiting for you! Have fun! See you all next week! Same time, same place." As The Host vanished D6 left the scene, the other districts all did the same, either just as excited as D3 or much mellower like District six.
"Come on! We have to find a plains biome!" Fitz shouted as his plans to hoard all the horses on the server began to form.
"Surprises? I love surprise!" Hdawg exclaimed as she ran off, her district mates calmly following after her.
As they left the halls, District 7 noticed their leader pause as a gentle breeze swept over them.
"You okay, Seto?" Izsak asked with a sort of annoyed, sort of concerned tone. The purple mage seemed to be trapped in a trance as he stared at the sky.
"Seto you're lucky it's not raining, you turkey." The purple haired gentleman walked over and gently tapped his friend on the shoulder. "Why in the world are you staring up at nothing?"
"I'm not staring up at nothing." The sorcerer spoke as if he was reading something and was getting to the good part. "The code… theres something in the server code I…." he paused.
One of the things that Isaak and Matt have grown… not really "used to" but more "aware of" is the fact that sorcerers, mod makers, and server owners all tend to do the same thing; get smacked in the face by server code where ever they go and promptly read it as if it were the lost sea scrolls or the answers to life, the universe, and everything. Matt moved to stand with the violet birt as the purple mage tried to gather his words, the breeze from before long gone.
"I recognize the code!" Seto exclaimed with wide eyes as they darted around, looking for a sort of confirmation of this thoughts.
"What? Seto stop running around like a kid in a candy store and explain-SETO!" with a groan the brit adjusted his tie and sprinted after his companion who had ran off in some direction.
"Is that the way were going?" Matt shouted as he stood there for a moment.
"Matt help me! Hes throwing melons!"
"H-Hang on!" Matt sprinted after his purple themed friends. When he arrived the sorcerer was, well, throwing melons! The thing that surprised him was the fact that the melons were breaking. Normally they stayed solid blocks unless they were on seto's personal mini mod ser-
"OH!" Matt walked over to Isaac (who was helping Seto gather up the melon slices) "Izac, the server has-"
"DINOSAURS!" hdawg screamed as she brought Elm and Wren a small pile of fossils. The three had gone off like the other districts had and were mining out an area that was going to be the basement to their base. "GUYS THE ARCHOLOGY AND REVIVAL MOD IS IN HERE OH MY GOSH!"
"Hdawg calm down haha" Elm gave the excited dawg a pat on the head before taking the pile of possible excitant animals and placing it in a chest. "Wren also found some blue topaz from aures magica. I wonder how many mods are in here?"
"Maybe that's the challenge." Wren spoke up as he deposited a few stacks of granite into a nearby chest. "The host didn't mention there were mods. Maybe who ever finds the most or figures out which mods are in here wins?"
The lava creeper nodded and turned to hdawg to ask what she thought about it, but was met with thin air. Glancing around he spotted the dawg running with a shovel in her mouth.
"haha. Looks like we're going to be making the base ourselves."
"eh, I'll save her room for last than." The human chucked another stack of granite to the side. "maybe fill it with all this granite she loves."
"she'll kill you and dance on your grave man." Elm chuckled as he began to mine with his friend.
Elsewhere, district four was down in their mine, digging and smelting as a conversation was held. It was the same as the one the last district was having, only all three members contributed rather than running off to do whatever it was they were going to do.
"I BET its to get all the achievements!" vaecon claimed as his chat terminal alerted the server to the fact he found diamonds. He promptly tossed the blue gem to Ariz, who got the achievement and threw it to abby who tossed it to vaecon.
"At this rate we'll have that immunity for next round for sure!" abby cheered as the chat exploded with notifications of them gaining achievement after achievement. Other districts had the same idea and slowly the chat began to fill with similar alerts. "uh oh…"
"Well, I have a bucket of lava and we have one diamond." Ariz spoke up as she broke threw another wall of andesite. "Two more diamonds and a small pool of lava and we can "go deeper" "she laughed as she made a joke to the achievement. District four cheered and continued their mining.
Above ground, District 9 marched on, being the only district that hadn't settled just yet. Zykic glanced around while calmkat chopped down another tree. AngelDaughter found herself day dreaming; looking at the sky, watching the clouds roll by. That's when she got an idea.
"lets make a sky base!"
"Sounds okay to me. zykic?"
The ninja was already building a tower of dirt up into the sky.