Day 2
Today I woke up on the hard wood floor. It was surprisingly
comfortable. I’ve heard a firm mattress is supposed to be good for your back.
This wood plank floor is about as firm as it gets.
I remembered that Andrew was going to teach me how to mine,
so I immediately jumped up and ran out the door. Wait, the door? There wasn’t a
door! And wait, there is a table and chair and what looks like it could be a
work bench! I ran back out and looked around for Andrew.
“Andrew, where are you?” I yelled.
“I’m over here, um, I don’t actually know your name!”
I ran over to his voice and said breathlessly, “My name… is…
Fireh… gasp… Andrew, did you put some stuff in the house?”
Immediately, I gasped for the second time.
“Andrew…? Did you build all of this?”
My voice was filled with wonder and awe as I looked around
the spacious mine, covering about 50 feet in all directions, including going
down.
Andrew said to grab my pickaxe, so I did. And guess what? He
ran off and jumped down a small hole. I ran after him and crawled down the
chains that were hanging and going down the dark, deep, and dank hole in the
mine.
It was a smelly hole that went on for about 100 blocks before
abruptly stopping on what seemed to be a glowing blue grass. There were all
these little neon blue mushrooms that seemed to be pulsing along with the
grass. I plucked one right off of the ground and admired it. Since it had been
uprooted, the pulsing of the color started getting duller and duller, when finally,
it stopped.
I heard a groan and some clacking, almost like random notes
were being played on a xylophone. I put my pickaxe back in my wormhole pocket
(which was easier than it sounded), and pulled out my sword (this was also
easier than it sounded) and got ready to attempt to fight for the first time. I
saw a figure a little smaller than me walk out of the shadows.
With my sword, clenched in my hands so hard I thought the
grip might snap, I got ready to swing at whatever monster came my way. My palms
were sweaty, my knees were shaking, and I was still going to try to defend
myself from the evil beast coming my way. That’s when I saw it. A bony creature
staring at me with its beady red pupils.
I called out for Andrew. I wanted to know if he was hurt or
just out of earshot. I was hoping for the latter.
He responded
with an “I’m busy” and I yelled back at him,
“Come here,
Andrew! I need help! Whatever you’re doing can wait a minute!”
I heard
footsteps and pretty soon I saw Andrew in the same place the Skeleton was.
Probably because he saw it, cut it down into about one hundred pieces, and collected
the hook-like object from it in two seconds flat.
“Thank you,
Andrew!”
“No problem,
Fireh.”
“By the way,
what the heck was that?”
“That, my
friend, was a Skeleton”
“That
explains the bones, and noise it made.”
We made our
way back up to the first floor in the mine, when Andrew said,
“Now I’ll teach you how to mine.”
I took my
pickaxe back out of my pocket (or inventory as Andrew started to call it last
night) and did what he told me to do.
“Now just
hit a block until you break it, then touch it to collect it. It will be in your
inventory where you can take it out a build with. You remember how to build,
right?”
“Uh, yeah, I
think so. Just place a block of building material wherever you want, and it
will appear there.”
“Correct.
Now try to beat this obstacle course.”
Andrew
snapped his fingers and a strange-looking tile came through the floor in front
of us. He said that when I stepped on this, it would transport me to the obstacle
course. So, I guess this weird tile is a teleporter? That seems kinda cool. I
asked him how he made one on only the second day we’d been here, and he said,
“A Guide
never reveals his secrets. Ask me why and to that I’ll reply the same thing.”
I hesitated,
but finally asked why.
“A Guide
never reveals his secrets. But there’s one thing I’m supposed to tell you right
now: Collecting more health might make a Nurse move in.”
“Where would
the Nurse move in, though?”
“That would
be your choice.”
I thought it
would be cool to have a Nurse, so she could heal any wounds. I decided that it
was time to go back up to the surface and start building a house for the Nurse.
Andrew and I
went back up, but to our dismay, it was already sunset. We thought it would be
better to build during the day, so we wouldn’t have to fight all the nighttime monstrosities.
We made our way back to the tiny little house quickly and shut the door behind
us.
Andrew made
two beds for both of us. I honestly don’t know how he did it without any sort of
loom, but I don’t care as long as I don’t have to sleep on the floor again.
Goodnight,
Diary. I’ll see you in the morning and hopefully, I can convince Andrew to teach
me how to fight, so I can defend myself.
Oh, he saw
me writing this and agreed to it! He says he will teach me how to fight with
some different weapons. I can’t wait! It’s time for me to go to sleep in my new
comfy bed, so I’ll see you tomorrow!