#Bedrock/Obsidian

[vanivanvanilla]

lifestealtober2023 day 4 - paranoia

"i can't have this happen again."

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[size-two-shrimp]

Changed up the way I think about singleplayer survival minecraft and I have decided it's fun now.

[thatone-highlighter]

that post made me think of our bullshit lore, since there are a ton of ender dragons over time, what if they had different scales and such related to different end things? Like a chorus fruit dragon, or end stone, end crystals could also be cool. Maybe the current one could be enderman [if we include mobs] or the void? Idk how this would connect to our lore but it would be a cool feature yk?

Ive been thinking about this and an idea that the egg sort of, mimics i guess is the best word, its environment. It also comes with an astrix that it prefers/tends to mimic living things more, like plants and creatures.

A particularly bountiful season of chorus fruits may lead to a dragon that looks like chorus fruits, maybe has some growing off of her, as if she was built to blend in.

Sometimes the egg finds comfort in the sand, and carries that love on in her life, and eventually in death finds herself returning to from whence she came.

Some long for the skies, the egg hatching pitch black like a pocket void.

One time a dedicated group of endermen make it their mission to make this egg the most cared for thats ever been, and when it hatches they see but their own eyes staring right back at them.

Some day fate may decide its time for a change, and the first baby dragon may know the feeling of soft grass beneath its feet and flowers blooming off its back

[mcyt-builds-contest]

Pandora's Vault

Builder : Awesamdude

Series : DSMP

Propaganda : its so big. Its so so big. Look at a map of the dsmp. Its just a black void bigger than l'manburg was. You look at it and you just know it's something terrible. the obsidian walls, lava, the iron. It's just there. In the middle of the ocean. It does not fit in and its scary. the AMOUNT of redstone and functions it go is AMAZING. the only way to enter is through a portal that then leads u to the nether and has to be manually activated again by the warden. So to enter you literally NEED the wardens permission. All the bridges and all the door. It's so fucking cool man what can I say. The amount of security. the lore that happened inside pandora as well. Pandoras arc was the best arc of the whole of dream smp and I stand by that. There is so so much to unpack. Sam and Dream could have just built some shitty obsidian box and called it a prison, but no they made PANDORAS VAULT

Bonus : it's a very big prison and now it's containing way too many peeps

Pearlescentmoon's Alien Landscape

Builder : Pearlescentmoon

Series : Hermitcraft Season 9

Propaganda : It's so pretty. The terraforming is gorgeous. The alien plants are stunning. She put diamond blocks and purpur into the build and it looks good. Everything about it is stunning, including the alleyway/abandoned human civilization area. | Took around 2 years to make, regarded as the best hermitcraft build yet, fully detailed and equipped with awesome redstone stuff (flickering lights, doors, custome music discs and more!) The landscape is 100% man made, all the trees and plants are all custom built and the land was terraformed to perfection. AND it has awesome lore: a lost human civilization being investigated by a curious alien. Also it's so cool mojang put it on the bedrock market place

Taglist!

@10piecechickenmcnugget @choliosus @biro-slay @betweenlands @xdsvoid

[mikaikaika]

What's been discovered so far about the crying obsidian structures

If you plant the crystal, it grows and spreads

If you mine the crystal, they grow back on the structure

Can't spread on bedrock and goes around it

Latches to obsidian

Skips slabs and attaches to the block underneath

Spread faster when placed on ground

If there is height space, it just sprouts up

Spread quick, spreads fast

Actually goes through chests and grows over it

If you mine the source, it comes back stronger

Sometimes has an end crystal on top of the structure

If you blow up the end crystal, it spreads amethyst crystals everywhere (which are source blocks) and the end crystal comes back

[sexycornenthusiast]

eden's garden minecraft server headcanons

Damon: Guy who loves elaborate piston doors. Thinks he's a better builder than he actually is. He and Eva take turns upgrading random stuff in each other's bases while they're offline as a show of dominance. His storage "system" has been a disaster since she was banned. Keeps finding chickens all over the place and doesn't understand where they're coming from.

Eva: Dug herself into a mountain 10,000 blocks away from everyone to build absurdly complicated redstone contraptions, none of which have much utility beyond being cool (eg. working calculator, world's most efficient pickle farm, machine that automatically launches chickens all the way to Damon's base, etc). Likes to build traps in random places. Currently serving a month long ban sentence for blowing up Wolfgang's entire base in a fit of rage (nothing survived. you can see bedrock in some places)

Wolfgang: Has been living out of Grace's basement since The Incident and spends most of his time out on quests to get her whatever items or blocks she asks him for. Building anything stresses him out because he's a perfectionist so he's pretty much embraced the homeless lifestyle.

Grace: Builds almost exclusively out of white concrete. Surprisingly good at making minigames and has recently been preoccupied trying to find the best way to build Minecraft golf. Never collects her own resources. Anything Wolfgang can't get for her, she steals from someone else's storage - usually Damon, Wenona, or Diana. She would love to steal from Eva, but Eva only has one chest with two string and a poppy.

Jett: Also makes minigames but they're kind of bad in a charming way. Claims that Mark lives with him, but Mark has never been to his base. Teamed up with Cassidy and Jean to build a subway system (ice boat tracks) between everyone's bases and has since become enamored with the idea of iceboat racing.

Mark: Does nothing but dig perfect 16x16 holes to bedrock. No beacon, no enchantments, just pure love of the game. It's stress relief for him. Anything he doesn't directly need for crafting more tools gets left behind in a chest. Every once in a while Jett comes by and throws him 4 stacks of cooked pork chops so that's all he eats. The others eventually realize that if they fence off an area and label it as 'to be cleared' he'll just show up and do it.

Cassidy: Technically the server owner but hates admining. Flexed her speedrun strats by beating the ender dragon on day one. Gave everyone a free elytra in the first week (Wenona threw hers into lava in front of her and they've been Minecraft enemies ever since). Spends most of her time either doing community projects or pranking people. Was in the middle of trying to convince Eva to help build a fully functional postal system before The Incident.

Wenona: Has a huge villager trading hall and a farm for pretty much everything. Half the server is indebted to her in some way. The true extent of her infrastructure is unknown even to her closest friends. If you visit her at the wrong time your game WILL drop to 10 fps. Has been caught online at 3 AM multiple times but always claims she was "just AFKing" (this is a lie).

Ulysses: Bad at video games. Can barely play and has a death count in the multiple hundreds. Makes a full map of the server every week or so. Whenever he isn't doing that, he just finds someone doing something interesting (usually Wenona but not always) and watches them like a personal livestream.

Ingrid: Better at the game than anyone expected and has died the least amount of times. Obsessed with armor trims and has a downright unreasonable amount of dogs. Doesn't trade with villagers but uses them as "background characters" for her medieval city build. Constantly the target of pranks like turning her house into an aquarium or encasing it in obsidian, but seems to genuinely believe her friends are just giving her gifts in silly ways.

Toshiko: Building in the same city as Ingrid but in completely different style. Somehow they've made it work. Never affected by the pranks against her basemate because the last time that happened she made them regret their entire lives. Tries and fails to hide the fact that she's afraid of the nether. Types in chat in full grammatically correct sentences complete with punctuation.

Jean: Has admin privileges and does most of the work on that front. Had the final say on Eva's punishment after The Incident. Can never stay in one area for very long and has built something unique in every one of his classmates' bases. Not all of them are aware of this fact. Has sooo many tridents and no one understands how he gets such good drop rates.

Desmond: Spawn-proofed his entire area immediately and now plays the game as a chill farming sim. Only leaves said area on special occasions. Has more food than he could ever use and doesn't care if people take it.

Eloise: Beat all the in-game bosses in a span of like a week then got bored and stopped playing (this is valid).

Kai: Built an actually really impressive castle, but it's all facade and no function (there are no lights on the inside and it doesn't even have a back). Lives in a pile of chests and shulker boxes in an open field. Can never find anything in it. Has a pink bed.

Diana: Plays with shaders. Builds beautiful landscapes like a painting in Minecraft and focuses a lot on little details and atmosphere. Loves doing interiors. Don't ask her what a repeater does because she will not know. Gets all her materials through hand-gathering and generous donations. Eva also tried to blow up her base, but she found the TNT and dug it all up, leaving behind only a few minecarts that did minimal damage.

[oqmemphis]

i MUST hear more about this very normal and completely functional minecraft server. please spill more details

Before the last world reset, there was a region a few hundred blocks across which was permanently lit as though it were noon 24 hours a day, because one of the admins replaced every air block with an invisible level 15 light block. Directly next to this was a former ocean that got turned into a vast plain of packed ice stretching in every direction; you could stand in the middle of it and it would be indistinguishable from superflat.

On that old world, the market next to spawn had about a 50% chance of completely locking up my game any time I went there, and the only way to fix it was to go into Task Manager and force-crash Minecraft. Nobody else ever had this issue, and to this day I do not know what caused it.

There was an entirely separate world containing a single castle, which you could only get to if the owner of the castle teleported you in there. The castle was supposed to be surrounded by an inescapable dome of barrier blocks, but I managed to get out and explore the rest of the world. At 0,0 there was a village that had generated in a massive pit, a hundred blocks across and stretching nearly to bedrock. Immediately next to this pit was a frozen river bearing the shatter pattern of some kind of large explosion, set off by forces unknown.

Someone built an outpost one million blocks away from spawn. Those chunks got culled at some point, and when the player who built it went back there they found a completely different landscape generated in its place. There was never an update that changed terrain generation during that world's run.

Recently, the functionality of rails got completely inverted. Unpowered rails would accelerate a minecart, while powered ones would stop it in its tracks. This, at least, was just an issue with one plugin being configured wrong. Sometimes there are issues where multiple plugins exist alongside each other fight for dominance.

We have one plugin that allows some players to fly and resist all fall damage without elytra or equipment, and another plugin that (until recently) was configured to block the first plugin from functioning whenever you were in another player's land claim. This led to situations where you could fly into an invisible claim region and instantly drop out of the sky and die. I have died seven times on this world, and all of them were because of this.

There is an obsidian sphere about a hundred blocks across, mostly submerged in the ocean; elsewhere, there is an island of comparable size which is covered entirely in basalt; and elsewhere still, there is a region of forest that has been fully replaced with sculk. I know this because I am currently making a map of the server covering around 12000x12000 blocks, and all those places just show up as mysterious, cursed splotches of black.

There is a lot of lore and roleplaying. The Queen is both fae and vampiric; my queries as to how precisely a diet of blood is reconciled with an iron allergy have gone largely unanswered. She has also canonically destroyed and remade the entire world on two separate occasions. The server has only undergone one world reset.

Immediately before said reset, I wrote a 70-page book filled with footnote labyrinths, in which my character briefly goes on an anti-capitalist rant before discussing the architectural styling of his home and the impending obliteration thereof. It serves as a spiritual sequel to a 100-page book which is ostensibly a user manual for installing an item sorter, but which also contains the lyrics to Mr Blue Sky and mentions something called the "City of Ouranos Department for Bibliographical Metaphysics and Chilled Legumes" (which is a reference to a different server I used to play on, in which a "Cool Bean War" was instigated with the help of a book that would crash your game if you tried to read past the first page).

The item sorter that the aforementioned user manual is for is a colossal assemblage of redstone components that click and flash for several minutes every time you put anything into it. I never actually built this on the server, because I ended up making a much simpler design using a custom plugin called SlimeFun (which tries to emulate the functionality of a tech mod without actually being one). This plugin's cargo management system does not contain a priority allocation mechanism, so I ended up implementing one by forcing the lower-priority route through a very long cargo pipe that eventually loops back on itself and ends at an overflow chest a few blocks from the starting point, thereby tricking SlimeFun's pathfinding algorithm into only sending items through it if every other option has been exhausted.

A reincarnation of Herb the Herbalist, the bizarre glitchy NPC entity that @the-unseelie-court-official has discussed at length, now resides in a hole directly under world spawn, repeating the same six lines of dialogue on a loop for all eternity:

I once was free, you know? There was a time when the Queen almost came toppling around me. Like a puppet with no strings I could not move nor speak, but I was free. It was stripped from me. Even now I dance her tune, only speaking of this past because she lets me. I crave nothing more than death. Please, unjust unmerciful God who would leave me to survive.

So, y'know, they're doing fine.

[hdusa]

that was my first time watching a lifesteal stream in like 6 months i dont know what is going on in season 5 at all . the red sky was kinda awesome. guns were scary. i hope u kill more people soon ^_^ will be trying 2 tune in more - @renchant

I can try to summarize the entire season in like 3 paragraphs it’s going to be so terrible and long I’m so sorry watch me do it here we go

So basically… lifesteal season 5 begins…. There’s a group called the PMC that consists of MinuteTech LeoWook and ClownPierce and since they’re all big strong men they beat up every other team on the server. Eventually the PrinceZam + Pangi pirate team group up with Gucci Gang (Bacon Parrot Mapicc) to beat them up because they’re really strong and scary. Eventually Clown stops logging on so they feel the need to form a new team called the Phantoms with Vitalasy Jumper and Reddoons and they go around jumping people by staying logged out and then all logging in at the same time after someone’s lured to a location. It got them a PrinceZam kill but they failed against Mapicc and Bacon. Tons of fights happen that are just PMC vs Gucci Gang + Me or LaLa Legion (Spoke Ash Ro Planet) vs Us or whatever. Eventually new members get added, Squiddo Pentar Jepex Wemmbu. There’s a gay wedding between Parrot and Ashswag. Squiddo kills the entire server at a birthday party. I made 200 backup maxed out armor sets. Midmystic makes Pangi and I an awesome pirate base and lastly a chunk of the server lowkey stop logging on.

Because of the void left by the players that are now gone (Parrot, Vitalasy kinda, Reddoons, Poafa, Woogie, Vort3x etc) Mapicc and I have no choice but to find a way to make things awesome again. We build a void trap at spawn and try to lure Minute and Planet over, successfully killing Planet (this is ok because he’s a 20 heart monster this season btw!!) Bacon joins us and decides we need two extra members so we invite Pentar and JumperWho as well. Together we formed a team called The Abyss, a group of players that want to revive the server by destroying it. By making ourselves the big bads of the server every time people logged on their goal was to kill us so that we’d stop making our void hole at spawn bigger. They tried other things like filling the hole with water and obsidian but those all got fixed relatively fast. One of the things they did was find my secret base and steal all 200 of my armor sets. This made me really mad so I destroyed the entire PMC base. After months of constant fighting over this big dumb hole to the void at spawn eventually we come up with an end goal. We were going to turn the entirety of spawn island into void. While working on this insanely large project we get jumped and after like 5 battles where Planet just keeps dying but his teammates live, he bans himself in the void hole. Before doing so he asks what our goal is so I told him activity, and he says “well in that case I guess in a way I’ve beat you”. This was like cold asf so we immediately switch gears deciding we need to make our plan way awesomer and cooler so we add a puzzle for them to solve!! It’s super long and if they couldn’t finish it in 7 days the entirety of spawn would be turned to void. Our team immediately got to work running big bedrock break machine and cleaning out layer after layer. However, as this is all happening Wemmbu Squiddo and 4CVIT reveal that they have a massive canon that will blow up literally EVERYTHING on the server unless we give them 50 hearts. They blows up 4Cs entire beautiful base to show they’re not joking around. Minute and his group are able to find the canon and break it saving the server but for a moment the entire server was united against Wemmbu and his team. The Abyss goal was completed before our final project even began which sucked, but we kept moving forward. To get people interested Minute (temporarily) added Rekrap2 Back To The Server!!!! He was here to help them finish the puzzle and after a week of us racing to void everything while they solve our puzzles, it was over and they had won. The 5 of us now had to jump into the void but that’s when JumperWho revealed she had been a mole the whole time. For 3 months of constant work on the void hole, she was betraying us. Relaying everything to Minute and his team. Filled with rage Mapicc decided to bomb her base but ended up with Clown Leo Minute Jumper and potentially more on him. I came to help but I wasn’t ready to fight Jumper, somebody I’d been allies with for 3 months. I managed to escape but I couldn’t believe it. Afterwards Pentar also left our team leaving just Mapicc Bacon and I.

The next paragraph is basically everything that’s happened since so basically the last month or so. To fix the lack of order on the server players could now run for God! Mapicc, Minute, Squiddo and 4CVIT/Reddoons decided to run. Simultaneously Branzy was now working on a carnival which was really cool! During one of the games I rigged it so that Jumper would die which was silly revenge but then for serious revenge me and Mapicc tried jumping her. Unfortunately she got Minute to save her leading to us losing badly. Afterwards the presidential god stuff starts taking priority and to campaign we ask a bunch of people to vote for us. In the end we came 2nd place, and Pentar as well as Pangi voted against Mapicc. Pentar made sense since he never said he would vote Mapicc, but Pangi had quite literally betrayed all of our trusts by voting for Squiddo. Also Minute came dead last despite helping everyone on the server regear and also saving them from void and the canon which is hilarious. The winners were 4C and Reddoons who instead of actually running themselves chose to give their presidency to CaptainSparklez! It takes him a while to join and during that time period to fill the lack of things going on Mapicc and I start an all out war against Jumper. It started with a silly spar against MinuteTech that ended up turning into a 2v2 against Jumper as well. We got them to run the first time around but the 2nd time we just lost badly. The next day Jumper said she’d deliver stone from Vitalasys old base to Midmystic so we hid in Vitalasys base all day long. It was taking a while so I changed my discord pfp and name to match Mids and got her to log on 😭😭. Once she showed up we killed her. Minute logged on and she ended up coming back but we escaped with me on the brink of death. Because of this they were angry angry at us but we didn’t care we wanted to make them more mad. We started base hunting and found Minutes somewhat old base for the anti abyss people. While searching the base Minute showed up so Mapicc got there and we 2v1d him. During the fight we spawned a wither in the base bombing the area and revealing a third of the 200 armor sets I had stolen from me during the void arc!!! Eventually Jumper showed up so we decided to run away taking our win. But after this we had another fight where they jumped us at my base and we ended up losing after an extremely long and hard fought battle. Before this I forgot to mention but Bacon Mapicc and I brainstormed a team name as well as an end goal, SPOILERS NO LIFESTEAL MEMEBRS READ BEYOND THIS!!!!

STOP IT! DO NOT READ AHEAD LIFESTEAL MEMBERS!!!

Essentially we wanted to reset the server to how it was on day one, breaking apart every team and then resetting every area back to how it looked on day one. With this goal in mind I realized we’d need to actually be able to kill people so I needed to get past being on 9 hearts. 4C/Red made hearts literally uncraftable so I had to kill. This segment is really cool there’s a 10 or 20 minute clip of everything that happens and if I tried to explain it I wouldn’t do it any justice but I’m sure somebody will link it below. Anyway after the awesome clip moment I’m evil now so I try to kill Pangi. I lead him to our old day one base and get him to help me repair it but he is wayyy too sus of me. I eventually muster up the courage to block off the bases exits and ask him over and over why he voted Squiddo, as this was supposed to be revenge for that. However, MinuteTech logs on and arrives at the base leading to them 2v1ing me but I end up escaping. We scream at each other before I leave to set up a new base. Later that night Pentar calls with Mapicc and I to join our team. Thanks to him I’m basically able to fully regear myself after losing almost everything to all the fights we had with Minute and Jumper. I end up on 12 hearts by this point and I think that’s most the shenanigans wrapped up, all that’s left is the captain sparklez stuff which this specific asker has already seen I think. For anyone else I personally believe this should be vod watched!! Up to you of course but I’m sure someone else on here would be willing to summarize that specific event sometime.

I spent an hour writing this on my phone before bed and I can’t believe it took this long. I thought it’d be shorter. Sorry!

[derww]

DAY 7: ALIANCE

First time meeting with Zam after revival, Wemmbu is really easy to agree to work together. He has no real allies; he has no gear; he has nothing against Zam, and Zam wants to kill Minute, and Wemmbu always wants to kill Minute. Well. Maybe not always always, but still pretty often.

And Zam is such a great to discuss it too: they instantly find themselves on the same wavelength and spend several hours discussing killing methods and the degree of their effectiveness against a known paranoid, and then switch to the issue of mass murder.

It's not like Wemmbu had many options there, but he actually enjoyed it in the end. It was cool sometimes, to speak with someone who would actually understand you.

Being alive again, he has little to no wishes except for revenge and power and humiation for all his enemies. He was a god, he is the god, and he had to regain his power and wipe everyone who dared to step on his way. He is so much more than they all, and he was ready to make a huge bet if it meant that he would snatch victory right from Minute's hands.

And he meets Zam and all his people and piches the idea, and it sounds so fucking insane and unreal, but Wemmbu knows: it'll work. All of them are crazy enough to agree with him. And he smiles and laughs because, oh, had he finally found some actually competent allies?

It's easy to believe the players exactly because they are evil. He is evil too. They have common goals and enemies. Sometimes it's just as elementary as it goes.

It's Mapicc who does all talking instead, and he does a good fucking job. He convinces almost all of the neutrals and even Minute's own allies and teammates. As the cherry on the cake, he wins over Minute's closest friends, with whom he has been since day one. Wemmbu can just go and reap the fruits, and he is pleased.

All this is worth the opportunity to see minute shocked, desperate, and betrayed. He looks at Wemmbu as if unable to comprehend reality. Wemmbu smiles back at him. And LifestealOwner shakes his hand, and he feels the return of his own power, and he is truly in the right place.

Its always great to be a god, really – different level of the existing and his native harbor. He thinks out a plan for the rest of the season, considering every possibility, even that his immortality will be bypassed by a chunkban. He laughs and smiles, and bombs fly from the sky, crushing reality into a crater. People try to kill him, but it's not like they have even a chance. He walks around the server as if on his own domain without armor and with bare feet, and he is where he should be.

He stays allies with the players – they were quite useful, after all, and loneliness was making him bored. He wanders around the server with Zam, pushing him further and further into madness, he gently strokes Ro's hair, whispering mantras in his ear, he laughs at bacon, but - he comes when Minute attacks Mapicc, and Minute is forced to leave, and Wemmbu stays, watching as Mapicc breaks a wooden path. And no matter how wrong it sounds, he stays fair till the end.

It feels... strange. They were so much lesser than him, but he still listens to them.

It's temporarily, he says confidently. It's temporarily its temporarily its temporarily-

Before meeting with LifestealLord he writes down all his hexes and commands and codes and leaves them under obsidian between bedrock. He writes coordinates to Ro. "Go there if I'm dead,"  thats what he says and nothing more.

Maybe, at the end, he was much more of a human than he wanted to admit. Maybe he was not a god, but the player.

[jadegretz]

Black Cat: Feline Fatale by Jade Gretz

The humid New York night clung to Felicia Hardy like a second skin as she shimmied across the gargoyle-laden rooftop. Moonlight glinted off her emerald green bodysuit, the sleek fabric whispering promises of forgotten treasures and daring escapes. Tonight's target: The Oculus of Odin, a legendary sapphire rumored to grant the power of foresight.

Felicia, better known as Black Cat, had a healthy skepticism for such mystical nonsense. But the hefty payday promised by a mysterious collector, a man shrouded in more secrecy than a Gotham sewer, had piqued her interest. Besides, a little light danger always kept the adrenaline pumping.

The building loomed before her, a gothic monstrosity that seemed to sprout from the very bedrock of the city. Its windows, dark and lifeless, held an unsettling, watchful air. Reaching the rooftop access, Felicia bypassed the rusted fire escape with practiced ease, her movements a silent testament to years of honing her craft.

A skylight, thankfully unlocked, provided entry. Inside, the air hung heavy with the scent of dust and decay. Cobwebs draped precariously from the vaulted ceiling, and shadows danced like phantoms in the flickering moonlight that filtered through the grimy windows.

Felicia, ever the pragmatist, dismissed the spooky ambiance. This was just another dusty antique store masquerading as a high-security vault. Still, a prickle of unease crawled up her spine as she navigated the labyrinthine corridors, her footsteps echoing in the oppressive silence.

Finally, she reached a heavy oak door, intricately carved with runes that sent a shiver down her spine. It was here, according to the collector's cryptic instructions, that the Oculus resided.

With a practiced flick of her wrist, Felicia disarmed the ancient security system, a forgotten skill gleaned from a dusty tome on arcane security measures. The door creaked open, revealing a dimly lit chamber.

In the center, secured in a pedestal of obsidian, pulsed a sapphire the size of a robin's egg. Its inner depths swirled with a maelstrom of blue, a hypnotic dance of lig …(see the rest of the story at deviantart.com/jadegretzAI). For more supergirl, chun li, batgirl, tifa, lara croft, wonder woman, rogue and much more, please visit my page at www.deviantart.com/jadegretzai - Thanks for your support :)

[bleue-flora]

Ohhh Dreamweaver sounds cool :0

Hmm good choice. Great minds think a like it seems. Yeah so you are right anon, Dreamweaver is the name I’ve finally decided on for the Dreamcatcher sequel, which will be about Dream and Punz learning about Dream’s dream abilities. I plan on it being my next project after I finish Musical Chairs, cuz I really wanna work on the Sweet Dreams series. Anyways in the fix, at some point, Dream actually enters Punz’s dream, so here is a snippet of that.

There’s fire and ash everywhere, filling his lungs with the smell of burning and the air in a film of condensed grey. He looks around and finds an obsidian grid above him obstructing the sky and vast craters scattered before him. TNT rains down like beautiful destructive fireworks drilling the landscape to bedrock like it has done before, decimating gaudy colorful buildings full of greed. Until all that remains of the once city, once country are patches of surviving land covered by a thin layer of sand and the single letter L of the obnoxious, over the top, lit up sign.

He smiles broadly, expecting nothing less from his ally, and yet not really expecting it at all. It shouldn’t surprise him that this is Punz’s dream, but it does all the same. The idea that someone wants vengeance on his behalf makes something bright blossom in his chest he never thought would ever again.

There’s a strong part of him that yearns to stay in this revenge fantasy. To sit back and watch the world fall to ruin for him. But he’s not here to wade through Punz’s fantasies and fears. He’s here, despite his better instincts, to more or less explain shit.

And yet, he has no idea where to start or how to best satiate Punz’s curiosity. It wasn’t the best plan he’s ever made (it wasn’t the worse either) but it’s not like he had a lot time to hash out the details and think things through.

So for a moment, he just contemplates and sorts his mind as he watches the TNT rip through the sky, flashing and sparkling like a festive light display. Ultimately, he decides the view from underneath is even better than from the grid above. Something about being able to see the horror splashed on Quackity’s face straight on and the feeling of power and superiority not bound to literally looking down.

Is this what Doomsday looked like for the server? 

Minus the hound army and Technoblade that is. The thought crosses his mind to add them and watch the dogs tear Quackity to shreds, but he quickly dismisses it. 

He doesn’t have all day to explain shit and he doesn’t want to get punched by Punz when they inevitably wake up later for nothing.

So, with a thought he appears next to Punz, who’s sitting feet swinging off the edge of the obsidian grid looking down at the devastation below. Sighing, he plops down next to him, “You know this is a good fucking view.”

Punz smiles back staring at Quackity, “Could be better.”

Dream chuckles back, “I suppose that’s true but to be fair, it’s not as fun if he isn’t here to view it. Right? Or at least that’s what I assume is the reason he’s not brutally mutilated to near death and fucking choking on blood.”

“Yeah…” Is all Punz mutters, taking in the glorious view.

And with that, Dream leans forward and pushes Punz off before falling himself into the gaping man made canyon. It’s not more than a few seconds before they’re no longer falling and Las Nevadas, or more accurate the hole that used to be, evaporates into an all too familiar obsidian box.

[purpleglitch]

Hi this is a post where I go crazy over stuff I read on c!george's dsmp wiki page 😁👍

Under the read more because it gets a bit long, this is a very unserious analysis(???) ^_^

King george I never moved on from you,,,,,, and he also never moved on from his kingship, I didn't get to add something because of the image limit but in a introduction to a new character much much later in the lore, the wiki says he introduced himself as "the king of the dsmp still" like GIRLLLL, and that days after the dethronement he was asked about his feelings on it and he said he didn't care about it...... so what's the truth.... ☹️

Also pig george I'm crying icb that's a thing in the wiki agshshdhjfjf, he's just a little guy

C!George was so based they silenced him....

Hello, he should've stayed in a team with c!dream since the beginning, they had the same goals hello.... Also underrated lore was politician c!gnf, swag2020 was better prepared than pog2020 but because everyone watched from their povs, george and q were seen as the bad guys. Can we talk about how it was c!george the first one to say the whole thing about wanting the server to be one big happy family, I'm crying

THIS IS WHAT I WAS SAYING HELLOOOO GEORGE PLEASE LET ME STUDY YOU UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

"George took pride in being king and enjoyed his title" he loved being protected by dream and how he did everything for him, they were both freaks in that arc oh my god.... dorry.

c!george's apathy and carelessness were such great parts of his character I'm so serious. Like on one side he doesn't care about anything so he's going to sleep through every drama, but at the same time he cares about everything so he's going to participate and instigate conflict and he just wants his friends...

I'm not breathing. Can anyone hear me. Can we talk about this. He wanted to visit. Hello. He impulsively went to visit dream. He was angry c!dream was in prison hello. He wanted to go in so badly he risked it all and broke a block from the prison instead of going in and asking c!sam like normal and then he was banned from ever going in

do you think one of the reasons he later was seen standing in front of the prison but never going in was that ban??? I mean, besides the guilt and pain that brought him thinking about c!dream. Is this why on his last lore stream where he dreams about meeting dream post prison and being confronted about never visiting him and george saying he didn't know he could've asked was because Sam threatened him??

That whole stream where tubbo, ranboo, foolish and george were gambling with XD for items could be seen as not canon lore but think about how funny it would be, like so many streams XD is in are so random (mainly because dream wanted to goof around the server without pulling his mc character out of pandora but shhh) they all could be taken as dreams from c!george or other characters like c!foolish

C!DNF couple goals being both stuck in prisons (c!dream in pandora, and c!george in a bedrock box). also the dethronement already happened by this point but dreamXD proclaming c!george the king of chaos is making me cry so much, what's up with cc!dream giving george the king title again..... idk im gonna overthink this a lot

"It was given to George by Dream himself and was George's only highly valuable item." let's take a second to process this- c!george's most valuable item was a non enchanted shield that c!dream gave him, in the image it doesn't show but the shield had the blue brick pattern because it represented the obsidian wall c!dream built around new l'manburg after c!george's house was vandalized. AND IT'S HIS MOST PRECIOUS ITEM HELLOOOOOOOOO, it was the only thing he had left of c!dream and it was his most valuable item over his weapons, beckerson and the netherite armor XD gave him...... ok.

This one is really interesting because the relationship tab is not really accurate with the descriptions lenghts so i find really interesting how they made c!dream's description the longest one while c!sapnap's description was like 2 lines long 😭😭

Ok but this description is so sad, "They stuck by each other's side. [...] But as time flew by, they seemed to get more distant." I don't agree that the dethronement was "spontaneous" because c!dream did say that he did it because he cared about c!george and he didn't want him to keep losing his stuff to assasination attempts and because of the danger of being associated to c!dream... plus the other reasons of c!george not staying neutral to the dsmp faction.

It haunts me that they never got to talk to each other once c!dream got in pandora and their relationship was left like that in "bad terms" because of the dethronement but the way they both thought about each other with c!dream wanting gnf to visit him and talk, and c!george dreaming about dream leaving the prison and being a team together again..... idk c!dnf my doomed yaoi..........

Also cgeorge seeing XD as a stand-in for cdream is the funniest thing he misses him so much he dreamt god looks and sounds like his ex imghjhdkjfhdkfhkghk

"me and the bad bitch i pulled by being whimsy and heartbroken (im scared of him but dont tell him)" -c!george, probably.

again there's stuff i didnt put because of the image limit but reading the wiki was so crazy there was stuff i didnt remember that are now feeding my cgnf brainrot, he's such a silly guy i really like his character :( aaaa feel free to send me asks to talk about him or dsmp lore in general, i probably have bad takes on other stuff but whatever,,, i stay silly

[citrous241]

1.21 is looking fire, but 1.22 has got to be an End update.

Minecraft has always had really good lore and story-telling, but does anyone else feel like the End is just missing something?

It's to be expected, it hasn't been updated for the last 7 years and the last update added more questions than answers. I feel like it's just on the cusp of being as clear as the rest of the game.

It's a dimension that's supposed to feel off, and uncanny. Literally the only track that plays is 15 minutes of warped mash-ups of Overworld tracks. End stone is just inverted Cobblestone.. etc. But even then it's still wrong.

I just have to know, Minecraft lore is built off of head canons but I'm just unable to form one that makes sense regarding the End. Endermen make sense, I believe they're warped and "evolved" humans. Eating only chorus makes them teleport, their long arms and bodies to reach the high snaking chorus plants, their larger eyes to see in perpetual darkness, etc. Their aversion to water is a wrench in that but I'm not perfect and my head canon isn't right. Endermen could have nothing to do with humans.

Shulkers and End Cities are what confounds me. Are Shulkers natural living organisms? The Dragon and Ender-men both have black skin and dark purple eyes but this thing has yellow skin and an almost magenta shell. I think they're some sort of automatons, but built by who? The ancient builders, the ones who evolved into Endermen? But the spiral staircases in the End Cities don't seem designed for humans (or maybe I just suck at climbing them) and the ceilings aren't really high enough for Endermen. Maybe Shulkers are another protector mob of their area. But protecting what? Protecting the means of personal flight maybe, but that looks nothing like the rest of the end - its literally made from the wings of the Phantoms of the Overworld.

End Cities themselves do kind of make sense to me, their architecture mimics the branches of a chorus plant. But whilst chorus seems to be the only natural thing in the End, the cities very much aren't. There's no way that structure would work under normal gravity. But surely the End just has weak gravity? Nope, it's the same as the Overworld.

Everything in the End just feels so artificial. The central island; with Obsidian pillars punching through the whole thing, a material that can only be made using 2 fluids that don't exist in the End, topped with a crystal made partially from the tears of a creature in another dimension and some sort of Eye which we can only make by killing an Enderman and fusing it's remains with the ground up remains of another creature from said other dimension. Also, it is so far away from the rest of the End, as if someone destroyed or moved these other islands away. The Dragon itself to, she works like no other mob. People say that she's a machine which I don't agree with, her erratic behaviour is because she is the only mob of her type and hasn't been updated like ever. I don't think she's native to the End though; Endermen, the only other creature in existence that looks like her, can be hostile to her.

Trying to piece this together as I'm writing this is making me think of a new head canon: The End is just a melting pot of travellers who got lost and stuck. Think of something like the Void from the Loki show. I think the End was initially just a mass of floating islands with the chorus fruit, in the Void between dimensions. Then the ancient builders arrived, constructing the obsidian pillars and the bedrock portal frame. I think they found something, maybe it could be whatever made the End Cities. But regardless, something dangerous. Something that made them separate the only way out of the dimension by several kilometres of Void, that made them create a Dragon to guard said way out. Something that made them sacrifice themselves by sealing themselves into the End.

There are a few holes in this. Maybe the ancient builders did build the End Cities before/after becoming Endermen. Maybe the danger was the Dragon, but why would it guard the exit portal? And I've kind of ignored the fact that Endstone is inverted Cobblestone, maybe the whole dimension if artificial? Built by the ancient builders entirely? Or maybe the End was spawned from ancient humanities collective mind, like a sort of yin to their yang.

I would love an End update to add a few things. I don't like most popular ideas or mods for an End update, as they often stray too far from what the End is. I would like to be able to find whatever gravity-defying sentient race built the End Cities, maybe they could also be warped into Endermen like the ancient builders were - but could still have a sense of self and humanity, or maybe they're some sort of Phantom People. I would like to find this danger that caused the ancient builders to sacrifice themselves, a new huge boss at the edge of the End would be awesome. I would also like, if they made them less annoying that is, for Phantoms to spawn in the End just normally. They feed on Insomnia right? What's more insomniac then an entire dimension where it's always night and nothing can sleep?

I would also like purple chorus wood lol.

[bluedragonfairy2000]

Ok since no one else has done it yet I thought I would provide a list of all of the staffs used in AVM 33

Warning Spoilers Below:

Alright I’m going to do this in order:

Diamond staff: Blunt weapon/possible creation (destroyed the majority of a brick wall. It is assumed that it can also create diamond blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

Netherite staff: Blunt weapon/possible creation (destroyed the entire brick wall and a large portion of the surrounding area. It is assumed that it can also create netherite blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

Obsidian staff: displacement/creation (didn’t destroy any of the wall but did push several of the bricks back in a dent formation. This staff can also create obsidian)

Bedrock staff: displacement/creation (seems to be a stronger and more accurate version of the Obsidian staff. It only sent a 3x3 chuck out of the wall and off the screen before pushing a larger portion of the wall away from the bast when TSC pointed at a larger section of the wall. This staff can also create bedrock.)

Wool staff: creation (can create anything that is made out of wool, such as carpets and wool blocks. It is unknown if it can change the color of the wool, though I assume the wool is stuck being whatever color wool is placed into the staff.)

Cobblestone staff: creation (can create anything that is made out of cobblestone. This includes blocks, slabs, stairs, and walls. Given my initial assumption about the wool staff it can be assumed that any stone block should work in roughly the same way only replacing the material with whatever stone block is used.)

Oak wood staff: creation (can create anything that is made out of oak wood. This includes logs, planks, slabs, stairs, fence posts, and even doors. Going off my initial assumption I would assume this works for each type of wood individually.)

Crafting table staff: creation (This staff needs to be supplied with raw materials. However, if these materials are supplied the staff will absorb them and instantly craft whatever the user is thinking about. It is assumed that it can also create crafting tables but this has not been confirmed.)

Furnace staff: cooking/smelting/possible creation (will instantly cook/smelt any item you wave it over as long as it is something that can be typically cooked/smelted in a regular furnace. It is assumed that it can also create furnaces but this has not been confirmed.)

Enchanting table staff: enchanting/possible creation (can add any enchantments to any item or person regardless of what the item is or what enchantment it already has. An extreme example is when Yellow added Flame aspect to some carrots that Red had so he could use them as flaming projectiles. It is assumed that it can also create enchanting tables but this has not been confirmed.)

Brewing stand staff: projectiles/possible creation (can brew and and dispense splash potions of any potions that the user knows. It can also shoot out a ray of colorful potion smoke which seems to only be able to blind a target. It is assumed that it can also create brewing stands but this has not been confirmed.)

Note block staff: projectiles/possible creation (can create musical notes which can damage targets while also being quite pleasant to listen too. It can also make a musical staff which can increase the amount of notes and damage that a target has to face. It is assumed that it can also create noteblocks but this has not been confirmed.)

End portal frame staff: teleportation/possible creation (can create space like portals that a user can user to teleport wherever they want. If a user gets trapped in between these portals the will be lost in a space themed pocket dimension. It is assumed that it can also create end portal frames but this has not been confirmed.)

Spawner staff: creation/summoning (can create/summon any mob the user can think of even if the mob is a hybrid of two separate mobs. These mobs seemed to be loyal to whoever summoned them. It is assumed that it can also create spawners but this has not been confirmed.)

Bone staff: gardening (will instantly place bonemeal on any plants the staff is directed towards almost instantaneously growing whatever crop it is directed towards. It is assumed that it can also create bone blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

Magma block staff: blunt weapon/projectile/possible creation (can both be used to hit users and set them on fire or can launch flame charges at a target. It is assumed that it can also create magma blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

Piston staff: transportation/possible creation (can be used to push someone or something either away from the user or the user can use it to launch themselves in a direction. The pistons arm can extend over great lengths. It is assumed that it can also create pistons but this has not been confirmed.)

Campfire staff: projectile/possible creation (launches a large flaming burst at the target. This burst can also be used to fly around like a rocket. It is assumed that it can also create campfires but this has not been confirmed.)

Anvil staff: blunt weapon/possible creation (this staff is far too heavy to be normally used. However if one were able to lift it and use it the blow would likely be enough to knock some unconscious if not kill them out right. It is assumed that it can also create anvils but this has not been confirmed.)

Dispenser staff: projectiles/possible creation (this staff needs to be loaded with ammo to work. Any ammo will work but some of the more effective ammo are arrows, fireworks, eggs, and snowballs. Once loaded this staff can fire the projectile and an alarmingly rapid speed toward the target. It is assumed that it can also create dispensers but this has not been confirmed.)

TNT staff: projectile (this staff lights and launches a block of TNT which each swing. These blocks will land near a target and explode after a minute.)

Redstone staff: charging/projectile/possible creation (this staff can send any redstone device that it is pointed at into overdrive. However the user must be careful as at higher intensities this staff can produce a extremely destructive lazer beam. It is assumed that it can also create Redstone blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

Lapis staff: transportation/possible creation (this staff will cause the user and anything else that it is directed at to float. This staff can also shoot out a intense magical beam as an attack. It is assumed that it can also create lapis blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

Command block staff: control/possible creation (This staff allows the user to instantly set any command that a typical command block can produce without having to type it in. However the user must know how a command block works for this staff to function. It is assumed that it can also create command blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

Lucky block staff: unstable (This staff is highly dangerous and it is advised to never create or use it to to it’s unstable nature. This staff can summon lucky blocks. It can also transform any item or target it is directed at into any random item or target that can be found in the lucky block dimension. Warning the lucky block in the staff can turn into a random block at any time. This will give the staff whatever properties that block usually gives the staff until the luck block changes back. The luck block staff may also become sentient due to the instability it causes in the lucky block dimension. In which case your best case scenario is to run and hopefully find a way to separate the luck block from the staff. If this happens to you, good luck!)

Netherack staff: creation (can create and summon netherack. Little else is know about this staff but it is assumed that it acts similarly to the Cobblestone staff.)

Bookshelf staff: projectiles/possible creation. (This staff can create and launch paper and books at a target. It can also be assumed that this staff create bookshelves but this is not confirmed.)

Dripstone staff: creation/weapon (can create large stalagtites and stalagmites to attack foes. This staff can possibly also create dripstone blocks but this is not confirmed.)

Grindstone staff: weapon/possible creation (This staff seems to act as if the grindstone at the end of it was a buzzsaw. As such this staff can cut through opponents and blocks as long as it makes contact. It is assumed that it can also create grindstones but this has not been confirmed.)

Beehive staff: summoning/possible creation (can contain and release many bees, including hybrid bees It is assumed that it can also create beehive, which may already contain bees, but this has not been confirmed.)

Ice staff: creation (can create ice and freeze opponents solid)

Head staff: creation (can create whatever head is placed inside the staff.)

Lightning rod staff: projectile/possible creation (can summon lightning to attack foes It is assumed that it can also create lightning rods but this has not been confirmed.)

Herobrine staff: enhancement/projectile (this staff can give it’s user the powers of Herobrine himself. It can also release Herobrine heads as a projectile.)

Skulk sensor staff: enhancement/possible creation (this staff uses nose vibration to detect when danger is near and it will drag it’s users out of harms way. It is assumed that it can also create skulk sensors and possibly other types of skulk, but this has not been confirmed.)

Cobwebs staff: projectile/creation (this staff shoots out cobwebs that can either be used to stick things in place or can be used to swing around on the spider webs like a grappling hook. Can also create cobwebs)

Bell staff: unknown/blunt weapon/possible creation (the effects of this staff are mostly unknown but when used as a blur weapon it makes a bell chime as it hits the opponent. It is assumed that it can also create bells but this has not been confirmed.)

Emerald staff: blunt weapon/possible creation (this staff doesn’t seemed to have any unique properties. The only use I have seen makes it look like it is a weaker version of the diamond staff. It is assumed that it can also create emerald blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

Wither skull staff: projectile (shoots out wither skulls that can likely apply the wither effect.)

Red Mushroom block staff: creation (shoots out miniature red mushrooms, possibly can create larger red mushrooms.)

Snow staff: projectile/possible creation (shoots out snowballs. It is assumed that it can also create snow layers and blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

Smooth granite staff: creation (seems to act similarly to the cobblestone staff)

Cauldron staff: absorption/possible creation (this staff has been seen able to absorb potion effects. It likely also can absorb water, lava, and powder snow due to being a cauldron. It is assumed that it can also create cauldrons but this has not been confirmed.)

Amethyst staff: creation (can create amethyst blocks and can likely create amethyst clusters. Warning amethyst are good at refracting light.)

Iron block staff: creation (can create anything made of iron, including blocks, iron chains, and likely much more.)

Barrier staff: creation (can create barrier blocks, barrier blocks can prevent anything from being placed in their location. They also can be used as a sheiks to block projectiles. If they are force into a space they can break through any block in their way, including bedrock.)

Quartz staff: creation (can create and manipulate quartz blocks.)

Other staffs from season 3

Source block staff: creation/destruction (gives the user all the powers of someone in creative mode.)

Gold block staff: blunt weapon/possible (seems to not have any special properties. Just seems to be a weaker version of the Diamond staff. It is assumed that it can also create gold blocks but this has not been confirmed.)

The Nexus staff: unstable/destructive (this staff can only be created by combining two source blocks together. This increases their creative and destructive powers but makes the staff itself highly unstable. It is advised not to use this staff as it’s effects can trigger a collapse of whatever area you are currently in.)

[wildpeachfarm]

Snippet from a fic where the server is alive and loves her administrator.

In the heart of the server, once a great nation, or a blight on the server, depending on who you asked, was L'manberg. Reduced to rubble, burned and blown to bits all the way to bedrock, the obsidian grid still hung in the sky, a better testament to the foolishness of man, who thought they could spit in the face of God, of multiple gods, and believed what they had built would live to tell the tale. A desolate reminder that no one, save the gods themselves, were unfallable.

Or, rather, what should have been desolate.

Sapnap slowly descended the steps that had been carved into the sides of the crater, after one too many of our personal items had fallen or been thrown in. Almost entirely the whole way down, he could see the sky blue and verdant green moss of George's clothes, the man in one of his rare bouts of consciousness. He was kneeled in the dirt, deep and focused on something blocked from sapnap's view.

"Sapnap, come look at this," George demanded the second Sapnap's foot finally touched the bottom. Unlike the quiet, oppressive unease that had settled over the server, conflict lurking underneath every action and coating every word spoken bitterly, George is alive, a breath of fresh air, unaffected for the most part by the ongoing of the community, whether that be out of apathy or ignorance. Either way, Sapnal didn't care, and it was nice amongst everything else to have something stable, something that never changed. Just him, and George, and-

Sapnap cut his thoughts off, refocusing on his task. He approached George, planting his axe in the dirt to lean on and peak over George's shoulder. "What's up?"

Slowly, carefully, George removed his cupped hands away from whatever he had been protecting. Underneath was a small plant, a tiny green thing, just barely poking out of the dirt.

Sapnap frowned. "You know everything you plant here is going to die, right?"

"It won't." George leaned back on his haunches, using a muddied hand to push his goggles up and off his face. "It grew here itself."

"This place has been uninhabitable for a year now," Sapnap reminded him. "Maybe someone else was enough of a dumbass to plant it here but it won't survive."

"It grew here," George insisted, gently petting the budding plant with his index finger. "It will survive. A brave little thing. It's growing here because it wants to. The world wants it to."

Sapnap frowned. George, out of all three of them, had always been the one most vaguely spiritual. But Sapnap thought of mossy caves and of rapid growing trees, branches stretching out underfoot. He thought of only the freshest, juiciest apples always being in arms reach, of perfect gardens with little maintenance from his fathers. And he knew George was thinking of it too, based on the soft smile on his face and how he gently put the slowly unfurling leaves of the plant like how one might pet a dog.

Together they thought of fruitful autumns and summer breezes and snowfall enough to plan but not enough to trap them inside. They thought of odds 1 in 7 trillion, of never rolling an ankle.

In the end, they said nothing.

ohhhh echo this EATS

[simplepotatofarmer]

the admin

a commission for @kiuda who asked for my take on admin c!dream

The server was humming.

Dream could feel it beneath his feet even through the soles of his boots. Everything was vibrant and alive. The air smelled fresh, clean. It was new and wide open and waiting for them to make it their own. The humming sounded like words, like a greeting, and Dream understood the meaning implicitly.

This was his word, soft and warm and simple, and it was waiting for him.

He stopped and turned, shading his eyes with his hand. George and Sapnap were two dots on the horizon but he could feel their footsteps the same way he could feel his own heart beating.

“George! Sapnap!” He waved an arm as he called out. “Hurry up, idiots!”

The whole world was waiting.

Dream never used to get tired.

There had been a time, in the beginning, when he hadn’t slept. It had been as if the lifeblood of the server was flowing through him. It had been alive and whole and had so Dream had been alive and whole.

But the server was fractured now and he was tired.

He could feel it like he could feel a broken bone.

This was still his world but now it was hard and cold and complicated and he was hard and cold and complicated. He didn’t know which had come first. It weighed on him. All he wanted was it to be the way it had been, at the start.

The sun was shinning and Dream could feel it like a distant memory, like he could still feel the server’s life flowing, even though he was standing in the shadow on the blackstone wall.

Dream shivered and the world shuddered.

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There was a hole in the world.

Dream felt it as if someone had reached their hand into his chest, ribs cracking, and yanked out his insides. He felt it the same way he had felt everything else but deeper somehow; his was his own doing, he had torn the world asunder. His world.

Not that it mattered.

It had stopped hurting some time ago.

He was numb. The tiredness went down to his bones. To bedrock. The obsidian grid beneath his feet ached and all Dream could do was laugh.

This was his world and his plan and maybe it would work.

Maybe it was all a game and he would wake up and be able to start over.

The world was tense, as if it knew what was coming next.

Dream knew what was coming next.

His stage was waiting.

It was time to play.

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The prison was like drowning.

It was like slowly dying.

The obsidian under his bare feet hummed but it spoke a different language and Dream didn’t understand. It made his skin itch. He felt wrong. Like a fish plucked from the ocean and tossed on land. Like a bird whose wings had been severed.

And he was tired.

“You alright there, man?”

Dream was so very tired.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” he said, glancing over at Techno.

There was worry deep in the lines of his face.

“You sure?”

Dream snorted.

“I was tortured, Techno,” he snapped. “I’m—I’m in prison.”

Techno scooted a little closer and Dream wanted to move but it felt good to be close to someone. Like there was a breeze wafting from Techno and Dream was gasping for air. Without thinking, he moved closer himself. Techno was a tether and Dream was clinging to any connection he could.

“Yeah, speaking of, how does that work?”

“What?”

“It’s your server, right? Can’t you just… admin your way out of here?” asked Techno, head tilted to the side.

Dream looked away.

“It doesn’t work like that.”

“How does it work?”

It worked like breathing, like blood pumping through veins.

It worked like Dream was a part of this world in a way that was more than anyone else, in a way that meant he felt everything, that the world was living and he was living and he wasn’t sure where one started and the other began.

And that ever since the prison, he had lost that connection. He was tired. He didn’t know when the sun was in the sky anymore just by instinct alone. His skin was pale and his eyes were dull, the obsidian walls closing in around him.

He thought maybe it had started before the prison, back when lands and borders began scarring his world, but his memory was as fuzzy as his connection to his world was now.

“I don’t know. I can’t remember.”

Techno wrapped his cloak around Dream’s shoulders.

“It’s alright, Dream,” he said. “It’s alright.”

The cloak was warm and smelled like pine sap and dog fur and smoke and milk, like the whole world distilled into one piece of red fabric. Dream pulled it around himself and closed his eyes.

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There was still a hole in the world but life was growing inside it, slowly but surely.

There was still a hole inside Dream’s chest.

But the sky was bright and blue overhead and the air was fresh and clean, the smell of sulfur beginning to fade as the horse’s hooves pounded across the ground.

Dream felt that like he felt his heart beating in his chest.

He felt it.

He felt the pains and aches, in his bones and mind and in the world itself. It would take time to heal. Dream wasn’t sure that he ever would, that the world would ever be the same. It was broken and scarred.

But there were trees and sunlight and he could feel it once more.

The world was still alive and he was alive and he could feel it.

There was more to be done.

The server hummed.