The Console Chronicles (Chapter 3: Backstory.txt)
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mindcrackloveFirst off, I want to say that the "The End" series has now been changed to "The Console Chronicles" due to reasons that will become more apparent over time, and me deciding to make a sequel at least. I am really enjoying writing this, and am really enjoying the community. Expect me to be around until December at least. Todays chapter doesn't have too much action in it,considering the first two chapters were only that, although it does answer some questions.
With that said! Onto the chapter!
SMASH!... SMASH!...
Seth's rock em sock me robots seemed to be functioning properly. He had modified them from stationary entertainment toys into versatile monsters of death. He was probably living most relaxed of all the mindcrackers during this apocalypse, but that by no means meant that he was comfortable with anything. All it meant was that he didn't need to fear zombies and skeletons as much anymore.
Etho...
The ghosts from his past began to haunt him. All who had died he was held responsible for. If he hadn't decided to interfere, to attempt to keep everything vanilla, non cheaty, to prevent another Nebris, this wouldn't have happened. He just seemed to be at the wrong place at the right time. He could remember it easily. Had a full week really passed?
He was walking to BlingMart to check his profit, when he saw Etho rummaging underneath the town beacon. That's where the only command block in the server was located, used to switch between regeneration and non regeneration. Etho was an operator, easily able to recommand it to his own will.
"Redstone, need more wiring for the project..." He muttered. He had been making a top secret project with Doc to advance the server, and had asked for total secrecy from Doc. It apparently took a lot of redstone, and he was the number one buyer of it at BlingMart.
"What are you doing Etho? I'm pretty sure one cheater is enough on the server."
Etho whipped around so fast he created a breeze. His eyes were bloodshot, his hair was a mess, you could tell that he hadn't slept by the way his eyelids seemed to want to shut over his eyes and how his entire body was sagging.
"I need that redstone...," he said in a quiet and deadly voice. "AND YOU WON'T STOP ME!" He yelled as he drew his sword and swiped at Seth.
The sleepless ninja missed by a few inches and instead trimmed the first meter off a nearby bush. Seth jumped back and used his scabbard to deflect a hit aimed at his head.
"So he's aiming to kill..." Seth thought. "No use to try and find a peaceful solution with a crazed sleep deprived ninja with a sword as powerful as his mind." And so Seth drew his sword and fought, he fought for his life, and in the fighting Ethos sword missed again and rammed into the Command block.
"COMMANDBLOCKOUTPUT = False" it read, directly afterward "NATRUALREGENERATION = False"
It ended up saying a whole host of commands, diamonds began appearing in Seth's backpack, and sponges began to place themselves around the fighting, making it a cage match in all but mercy.
"/EFFECT MCGAMER 7 12" the console read on its screen, and somewhere McGamer had his last sight of the world before he was killed by magic.
Then Seth kicked Etho back and drew his bow. He aimed for his sword arm, still having reluctance over killing his friend. Etho anticipated the shot and deflected it to the side, where it hit the already damaged Command Block. This time it said some of the most dangerous words possible.
/TIME SET 18000
/GAMERULE DODAYNIGHTCYCLE = FALSE
/DIFFICULTY 3
..............SERVER HARDCORE MODE..............
BANNED PLAYERS - MCGAMER
Seth spent too much time looking at the console, and gave Etho an opportunity to smash his face with the hilt of his sword. The skin on his cheek tore leaving bloody muscle.
Seth turned around and ....
"SETH! SETH!" A voice in the distance called. Seth looked, and he saw Paul Soares in the distance.
He was with a large group, and one member was on a stretcher made of wood. How they managed to make wheels was beyond him.
Paul got in front of him and began talking. The first words out of his mouth were "How are you handling it?"
"Well enough, did you manage to find Vechs and Aureylian?"
Paul left the touchy subject out of the conversation and instead answered Seth's question. "Yeah, and along the way we found a couple more people."
Paul then introduced the group he was with. When he got to Pakk, Seth asked how he got wounded and in a stretcher.
"We were ambushed during the night by a horde of skeletons." Zisteau answered. "They were in armor and some had enchanted bows. Seth, they are becoming killers. Look at what they did to Pakk, and that was just over a dozen. And Vechs isn't doing good either."
Seth looked over at Vechs. He was standing near the back of the group, with Aureylian and BTC looking at him worried and Kurt examining his left arm. Seth walked over to him and took a look himself.
"Damn" he said. "Thats some wound you got there." Vech's arm had barley recovered from the skirmish, and there was a hole a good 2 inches in diameter underneath his bicep. The skin was either red, or black, and it was raw and melted all over.
Kurt spoke up "We tried dropping a little fire resist on it, but Vechs said all it did was make the skin itch and irritate. We probably treated it too late." Jsano then pitched in "We've been regularly applying paper on it to stop the infection, but we ran out and it's probably infected now."
Seth then addressed Vechs directly "Tell me exactly what happened." And so Vechs explained how his group had met on the road, how he had charged the skeletons,how one shot a flaming arrow at him which he in panic pulled out, and how he had only been saved by BTC's quick thinking. "Are you still able to use the arm?" Seth asked. "I used to be able to twitch my fingers, but now my arm just hangs at my side uselessly." Vechs said bitterly. All that the arm was to him now was a reminder of how he had failed to keep cool, a reminder that he should've been more cautious, not so driven by jealousy, and that he would need an amputation. "Vech's, we are going to have to amputate, we can't let that infection spread to your heart, we do not want to lose you." Vech's just nodded. The sooner it was over the better. "Kurt, you come with me, you know the most about the arm, and Jsano you come too, you're a nurse right?" Seth didn't wait for an answer, he just walked over to a tent he had made and went inside. Vech's Jsano and Kurt soon followed, and Vechs didn't look at all intimidated.
"What could be going on in his mind?" Aureylian wondered. She did not want to lose her friend, actually no, Vech's was now more than a friend to her. She knew that if they were cornered in room together with someone about to kill them, and the killer said "We'll let Aureylian go but we'll kill Vech's on the spot." Vechs wouldn't hesitate to take them up on the deal. And even if they didn't propose a deal, he would probably use his own body to sheild her, to give her a chance to escape. He was now a part of her, a goofy, derpy, loving part of her. When she learned that he might need amputation, she cried a waterfall. Vechs reassured her that he would be fine, but she didn't believe it. Then BTC said that it would make both Vech's and him happy if she stopped putting herself through this suffering. And that made her cry more. How is it fair that she could show her feeling for one of that at a time! How is it that the world found humor in putting her in the middle of these decsicions, of which love she loved most? Did she love Vech's, who was derpy, kind,and just wanted her to feel happy, or did she love BTC, who was careful and mysterious and who she had know longer?
Aureylian turned around and sat near the lake that ran through Seth's base. Everyone else was making themselves comfortable. She took off her pack and Vechs pack. She carried it with her instead of letting Kurt or Paul carry it, who had volunteered to do it so Vech's arm wouldn't suffer any more damage for the simple fact that she wanted something of his to hold on to. He had been with her only for short conversations after the skirmish,usually to reassure her that he would be fine.He couldn't do much else, seeing as he had to preserve enough stamina for traveling and doing so was tricky whenever your arm was just a useless limb. She had been scared that his personality would change since he had to get amputation, so she wanted to keep something of his personality with her.
She looked in the pack for the first time ever, not being able to resist it's pull longer. Inside was his broken diamond sword, a few unlit torches, some flint, a ghast tear... and then she found something else. A book and quill titled "Daily log" she opened it and on the first page was A note and a picture. The note said "Zisteau, do not touch or I will decapitate you with your own sign." She stifled a laugh. Then she turned over the picture. She felt a tear trickle down her cheek. It was a picture of her on top of her castle smiling in the sunset. The picture was titled "Rel Rel". She contained the rest of her tears. "Is he that in love with me?" she wondered. She had to find out. She began reading the rest of the book.
Next chapter should be out by Thursday. Thank you for reading!
With that said! Onto the chapter!
SMASH!... SMASH!...
Seth's rock em sock me robots seemed to be functioning properly. He had modified them from stationary entertainment toys into versatile monsters of death. He was probably living most relaxed of all the mindcrackers during this apocalypse, but that by no means meant that he was comfortable with anything. All it meant was that he didn't need to fear zombies and skeletons as much anymore.
Etho...
The ghosts from his past began to haunt him. All who had died he was held responsible for. If he hadn't decided to interfere, to attempt to keep everything vanilla, non cheaty, to prevent another Nebris, this wouldn't have happened. He just seemed to be at the wrong place at the right time. He could remember it easily. Had a full week really passed?
He was walking to BlingMart to check his profit, when he saw Etho rummaging underneath the town beacon. That's where the only command block in the server was located, used to switch between regeneration and non regeneration. Etho was an operator, easily able to recommand it to his own will.
"Redstone, need more wiring for the project..." He muttered. He had been making a top secret project with Doc to advance the server, and had asked for total secrecy from Doc. It apparently took a lot of redstone, and he was the number one buyer of it at BlingMart.
"What are you doing Etho? I'm pretty sure one cheater is enough on the server."
Etho whipped around so fast he created a breeze. His eyes were bloodshot, his hair was a mess, you could tell that he hadn't slept by the way his eyelids seemed to want to shut over his eyes and how his entire body was sagging.
"I need that redstone...," he said in a quiet and deadly voice. "AND YOU WON'T STOP ME!" He yelled as he drew his sword and swiped at Seth.
The sleepless ninja missed by a few inches and instead trimmed the first meter off a nearby bush. Seth jumped back and used his scabbard to deflect a hit aimed at his head.
"So he's aiming to kill..." Seth thought. "No use to try and find a peaceful solution with a crazed sleep deprived ninja with a sword as powerful as his mind." And so Seth drew his sword and fought, he fought for his life, and in the fighting Ethos sword missed again and rammed into the Command block.
"COMMANDBLOCKOUTPUT = False" it read, directly afterward "NATRUALREGENERATION = False"
It ended up saying a whole host of commands, diamonds began appearing in Seth's backpack, and sponges began to place themselves around the fighting, making it a cage match in all but mercy.
"/EFFECT MCGAMER 7 12" the console read on its screen, and somewhere McGamer had his last sight of the world before he was killed by magic.
Then Seth kicked Etho back and drew his bow. He aimed for his sword arm, still having reluctance over killing his friend. Etho anticipated the shot and deflected it to the side, where it hit the already damaged Command Block. This time it said some of the most dangerous words possible.
/TIME SET 18000
/GAMERULE DODAYNIGHTCYCLE = FALSE
/DIFFICULTY 3
..............SERVER HARDCORE MODE..............
BANNED PLAYERS - MCGAMER
Seth spent too much time looking at the console, and gave Etho an opportunity to smash his face with the hilt of his sword. The skin on his cheek tore leaving bloody muscle.
Seth turned around and ....
"SETH! SETH!" A voice in the distance called. Seth looked, and he saw Paul Soares in the distance.
He was with a large group, and one member was on a stretcher made of wood. How they managed to make wheels was beyond him.
Paul got in front of him and began talking. The first words out of his mouth were "How are you handling it?"
"Well enough, did you manage to find Vechs and Aureylian?"
Paul left the touchy subject out of the conversation and instead answered Seth's question. "Yeah, and along the way we found a couple more people."
Paul then introduced the group he was with. When he got to Pakk, Seth asked how he got wounded and in a stretcher.
"We were ambushed during the night by a horde of skeletons." Zisteau answered. "They were in armor and some had enchanted bows. Seth, they are becoming killers. Look at what they did to Pakk, and that was just over a dozen. And Vechs isn't doing good either."
Seth looked over at Vechs. He was standing near the back of the group, with Aureylian and BTC looking at him worried and Kurt examining his left arm. Seth walked over to him and took a look himself.
"Damn" he said. "Thats some wound you got there." Vech's arm had barley recovered from the skirmish, and there was a hole a good 2 inches in diameter underneath his bicep. The skin was either red, or black, and it was raw and melted all over.
Kurt spoke up "We tried dropping a little fire resist on it, but Vechs said all it did was make the skin itch and irritate. We probably treated it too late." Jsano then pitched in "We've been regularly applying paper on it to stop the infection, but we ran out and it's probably infected now."
Seth then addressed Vechs directly "Tell me exactly what happened." And so Vechs explained how his group had met on the road, how he had charged the skeletons,how one shot a flaming arrow at him which he in panic pulled out, and how he had only been saved by BTC's quick thinking. "Are you still able to use the arm?" Seth asked. "I used to be able to twitch my fingers, but now my arm just hangs at my side uselessly." Vechs said bitterly. All that the arm was to him now was a reminder of how he had failed to keep cool, a reminder that he should've been more cautious, not so driven by jealousy, and that he would need an amputation. "Vech's, we are going to have to amputate, we can't let that infection spread to your heart, we do not want to lose you." Vech's just nodded. The sooner it was over the better. "Kurt, you come with me, you know the most about the arm, and Jsano you come too, you're a nurse right?" Seth didn't wait for an answer, he just walked over to a tent he had made and went inside. Vech's Jsano and Kurt soon followed, and Vechs didn't look at all intimidated.
"What could be going on in his mind?" Aureylian wondered. She did not want to lose her friend, actually no, Vech's was now more than a friend to her. She knew that if they were cornered in room together with someone about to kill them, and the killer said "We'll let Aureylian go but we'll kill Vech's on the spot." Vechs wouldn't hesitate to take them up on the deal. And even if they didn't propose a deal, he would probably use his own body to sheild her, to give her a chance to escape. He was now a part of her, a goofy, derpy, loving part of her. When she learned that he might need amputation, she cried a waterfall. Vechs reassured her that he would be fine, but she didn't believe it. Then BTC said that it would make both Vech's and him happy if she stopped putting herself through this suffering. And that made her cry more. How is it fair that she could show her feeling for one of that at a time! How is it that the world found humor in putting her in the middle of these decsicions, of which love she loved most? Did she love Vech's, who was derpy, kind,and just wanted her to feel happy, or did she love BTC, who was careful and mysterious and who she had know longer?
Aureylian turned around and sat near the lake that ran through Seth's base. Everyone else was making themselves comfortable. She took off her pack and Vechs pack. She carried it with her instead of letting Kurt or Paul carry it, who had volunteered to do it so Vech's arm wouldn't suffer any more damage for the simple fact that she wanted something of his to hold on to. He had been with her only for short conversations after the skirmish,usually to reassure her that he would be fine.He couldn't do much else, seeing as he had to preserve enough stamina for traveling and doing so was tricky whenever your arm was just a useless limb. She had been scared that his personality would change since he had to get amputation, so she wanted to keep something of his personality with her.
She looked in the pack for the first time ever, not being able to resist it's pull longer. Inside was his broken diamond sword, a few unlit torches, some flint, a ghast tear... and then she found something else. A book and quill titled "Daily log" she opened it and on the first page was A note and a picture. The note said "Zisteau, do not touch or I will decapitate you with your own sign." She stifled a laugh. Then she turned over the picture. She felt a tear trickle down her cheek. It was a picture of her on top of her castle smiling in the sunset. The picture was titled "Rel Rel". She contained the rest of her tears. "Is he that in love with me?" she wondered. She had to find out. She began reading the rest of the book.
Next chapter should be out by Thursday. Thank you for reading!
This is awesome
Date: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 10:53 am (UTC)keep up the good work :)
Dang those cliffhangers man.