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He sat on the hill, watching the clouds drift by, munching on a porkchop. The sun was shining, no chance of mobs spawning today. Not that it would bother Nebris if they did spawn, he was perfectly capable of handling himself. Still it was nice to just enjoy a sunny day once and awhile.
Nebris suddenly felt the hairs on the back of neck stand on end. He drew his sword, quickly stood, and spun on the spot in one quick fluid movement. He saw another man standing almost directly in front of him, his sword also drawn. Nebris didn’t pause, he swung his sword forward. The other man, with a mask hiding most of his face, blocked the blow skillfully with his sword. The two men looked at each other with intensity in their eyes for a moment when suddenly the other man spoke.
“Oh man Nebris, how do you always know I’m there?”
“I don’t know Etho, maybe you should be more sneaky.” Nebris giggled. This had become something of a routine for them. Nebris sat back down, putting his sword away and pulling back out his porkchops. He offered one to Etho, smiling brightly.
“Thanks.” Etho sat down next to him, smiling behind his mask. Nebris watched him eat, and it was only then, after so many times watching Etho eat that he realized that something was strange.
“Hey Etho?” Nebris inquired. “How do you eat without taking your mask off?”
Etho looked startled and answered slowly. “You know, I never thought of that before…”
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Vechs sat in his underground base trying to figure out something that had been bothering him for awhile. He has called over his friend Zisteau, who had brought Kurt with him.
“Hey man, what’s going on!” Zisteau called out boisterously.
“Hello.” Kurt said, somewhat more quietly.
“Okay guys, I am having a bit of a problem here. It just occurred to me the other day.” Vechs was sitting in his tree farm, looking at a tree he had half chopped down. Zisteau was a bit concerned. Normally Vechs would be jumping all over the place, and fawning over Zisteau, calling him pigderp and flirting. It was rare to see a contemplative Vechs sitting down. “Why doesn’t the tree fall down?”
“What?” Zisteau said taken a bit aback.
Vechs stood up, and searched through his inventory for another block. He placed a sand next to the floating tree, and it fell to the ground. Then he did the same thing with a gravel block. “Why do some blocks fall down, and others don’t? It doesn’t seem to make a lick of sense.”
Zisteau and Kurt looked at each other, at a loss for words. Still it was Kurt who finally spoke up first. “Isn’t that just the way the world works? I mean it’s always been that way.”
Vechs still looked dismayed. “Listen up buddy, don’t think too hard about it, it’s not that important.” Zisteau tried to cheer him up.
“Yeah.” Vechs said, trying his best to put a smile on his face, but only Zisteau could tell that it wasn’t a true smile.
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“Guude!” Pause called out so loudly that Guude almost fell off the wall he was building.
“Damn guy, can’t you talk normally for once in your life?” Guude called out, smiling while he did so.
“Haha like that would ever happen.” Beef called out from beside Pause. They stood at the bottom of the wall, but Beef pulled out some blocks of dirt and began block jumping up to Guude.
“Hey what about me?” Pause said from the bottom of the wall, in a sad small voice. “Beef?”
Beef chuckled and threw him down a stack of dirt. Pause jumped up the blocks and joined them on the top of the wall.
“So what brings you guys to Spawn Town today?” Guude said, sitting on the edge of the wall. Pause and Beef sat down next to him.
"Well we thought you might be hungry, so we brought you some chicken from BTC’s Royal Chicken.” Beef replied. “You’ve been working so hard on these monuments. Go on Pause, give the poor man some.”
Pause smiled and pulled out a stack of chicken, which he divided among the three of them. “Huh.”
“What is it guy?” Guude asked, seeing the look of confusion on the Indian’s face.
“It’s nothing, just…” Pause trailed off, but still seemed unwilling to let it go. “Just, like, how come when we have things in our inventory they are so small, but when we pull them out they get bigger? And where exactly is our inventory anyway?”
“Oh come on Pause don’t ask such silly questions.” Beef smiled, but the smile quickly faded.
“Ugh, you guys never listen to me.” Pause jumped off the wall and stormed off.
Guude and Beef looked at each other. “Well you know, he does have a bit of a point.” Guude said, but then just shrugged it off. It probably wasn’t all that important anyway.
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Nebris went to bed that night, but couldn’t really fall asleep. His mind was full of thoughts of all sorts. Things that didn’t make sense, things that just didn’t seem right. He tried to remember as far back as he could, but all he could remember was this world. Always being here, in this world. He didn’t know why it bothered him so much, but still a lingering feeling of unease washed over him. He sighed again. He tried to think of something else, and somehow managed to fall asleep.
He dreamed of a strange place with bright lights and a pure white ceiling. He could hear a voice calling out to him. Quietly at first, but then louder.
“Chris…..”
Nebris woke with a jolt. It was morning, but unlike the day before, it was raining heavily. He sat in his bed for a few minutes, trying to make sense of the dream he had. It seemed way too strange. Nebris rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, and rolled out of bed, still feeling very much uncomfortable. In a way, he wished he had never noticed the strangeness around him.