13: The Curse Reawakens (fic)

[isi]

So, I should really write this before the events that inspired it become too outdated. This is the continuation of what I've decided to call "the golden record mythos." Check out the first part here if you haven't read it before. This part details the most recent tragedy surrounding the curse of the golden record, as seen during MC Gamer's recent livestream marathon.

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The disc had awakened.

A new seeker lifted the golden record from its resting place. He was naive, and overconfident. With such nonchalance he snacked on fruit while a slew of newly generated skeletons raged around him. He knew of the curse it carried, but disregarded the warnings of his friend, a sheep man who was present the last time the disc's curse was evoked.

Last time... It had not forgotten. It had stolen Wolfie from that reality, but the Time Lord managed to bring him back. The disc could not forgive that.

Its current holder would not fall easily. Clothed in the most powerful armor, he made jest of the number of arrows fired upon him with little effect. But the disc cared little for him. There were other ways to attack him for his lack of concern for its curse, other ways to use this new surge of power.

Sure enough, the disc sensed another canine presence connected to this man. It could not stand these worthless pets, especially not after last time. Even through the geographical distance, the disc quietly took care of the wolf, a bitter surprise for when its overconfident holder returned from adventuring. And even though he did dispose of the disc's physical copy before he found his pet gone, it wouldn't save him from the curse clinging to him a while longer.

He sought replacements for his lost pet, but the curse infected them like a virus, turning them on his sheep friend with no provocation. Not long after, they too would vanish just as mysteriously as the first had. Somewhere once again hidden in darkness, the disc fed on their lost souls.

Comments

[guiltyshirts]

*hides behind sofa*

That is genuinely creepy.

[isi]

Bwahaha. >:D

[theropod]

That damn disk will give everyone nightmares and eventually no one will have pets because of it D:

[isi]

This may not make it any less creepy, but I had an alternate theory where the first Jerry was turned into what is now the second donation cow, technically still alive, but then I didn't know how to explain the other two just disappearing.

[damnreddit]

Etho got an enchanted golden record a couple of episodes back in Uncharted Territories (the one that Amlup named after Guude, no less). The very next area he went into, he fell into the void with it, but due to a glitch in 1.4.3, didn't die -- he wound up in a kind of limbo below the map where he couldn't get out and couldn't kill himself either. He cut the episode there saying he'd think about what to do.

In the next episode, he'd decided to load a backup, and so kept his inventory, including the golden record. Numerous commenters complained that he had technically died and should have given it all up. Those commenters were even more unhappy that when he updated his death counter a bit later, he only counted it as half a death. And if that weren't enough, at the end of the episode he returned to an earlier area to find a wool he had missed, saying first that he had found where to look when he edited the earlier episode, then later also mentioning he'd been influenced by the umpty-million commenters who kept yelling "THE YELLOW WOOL is in X area, like so he can see!!!!!" all over the place. So he got complaints about that, too, people saying he wasn't honest.

Less than an hour of game-time in possession of the cursed record, and good guy Etho's already cheating and lying. He still has the record. WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? Stay tuned. ;)

[mindcrack_love]

And you know, just today I was thinking "I probably should be watching Etho's Uncharted Territories run even if I want the map less spoiled for me, if only for excuses to listen to Etho's voice and giggle at the OOGE references". Dangit.

[isi]

Fascinating... I thought the curse only applied to natural spawns inside vanilla dungeons, but it may be expanding...

[guiltyshirts]

Its power is growing...