A New Land: Chapter 1

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June 13, 2008 7:52pm


Vechs couldn't believe his eyes. He had been in the boat for a day sailing across the water looking for land He had expected plains or maybe a forest, but certainly not a grove of beautiful pink-flowered trees. As soon as he landed, he took out his Modified Compass*1 and looked at it. "Cherry Blossom Grove". He said to himself. "I've never heard of that biome before. And I suppose these must be cherry Blossom trees then." He didn't bother chopping one down and simply plucked a sapling from the branches.

Vechs caught a glimpse of something through the trees. It was a house.

"It is getting dark. I wonder if the owner would let me stay the night."

He approached the boor and knocked. A young man answered.

"Yes, may I help you?", he spoke.

"I was wondering if I could stay the night here."

The man seemed to pause and look Vechs. "Your from the west aren't you?"

"How did you know?" Vechs asked surprised.

"No one around here uses diamond for swords. Now come in here, it's nearly dark!" the man spoke smiling slightly. "My name is David but you can call me Dave. So what's your name?" he said as they went in and set down.

"Vechs, Vechs Davion.", Vechs said, slightly confused. "What do you mean no one uses diamond for swords here?"

"Well the best way to explain it is to just give you this." he passed Vechs a book titled "Mods". "You see, here there different categories for all items and mobs, almost all of which aren't found in the west."

"Really," Vechs spoke. "What are the mobs like?"

"Lets just say you don't want to be unprotected at night.", he said as they walked into the living room, Dave motioning for Vechs to set down in one of the armchairs that surrounded a fire place in one wall. "That book will tell you about some the most dangerous ones and the best armor to combat them in. Now tell me, what are you doing traveling east?

"I wanted to find a new place to live, somewhere I had never seen before.", Vechs said, wincing internally at the half-truth.

"Oh, how far do you plan to travel?", Dave questioned.

"Two months exactly.", Vechs replied.

"I see", Dave spoke, glancing out the window." It's getting late, let me show you to your room."

Once there David left Vechs to read the book and, after about two hours of reading, Vechs went to sleep.



June 14, 2008 1:24pm


It had been about six hours since Vechs had left Dave's to continue on his journey. He had been lucky so far, having seen several new biomes and collecting many new types of plants. Fortunately he had seen only a few of the creatures that the book had warned of. He had avoided conflict so far but he knew he would have to face them eventually.

Now he was looking through the armor section of the book to see if there was any armor that was stronger than diamond that he could easily craft.

"Rupee*3 is too rare to mine for now. Same with ardite*3. Wood*4, too weak. Obsidian*5 is…" Vechs paused in his thoughts. "is almost as strong as bedrock*3 armor, has a sword I can craft, infinite durability, and I can craft it now!"

Excited by this discovery, Vechs pulled out his ender chest and selected 26 obsidian blocks and one stick from his bag. He placed down his crafting table and arranged the pieces. Then he stored his diamond armor, and sword in the ender chest and broke it with his silk pick.

He set to work crafting the armor and sword. The legs and boots looked like regular armor, and the sword like a sword, but the helmet and chest were slightly different. The helmet had two 5 inch spikes coming out from either side that sloped on the backside. The difference with the chest was that the shoulders of the chest were like the Hexxical*6 armor. Oh, and the gauntlets. A pair of them, one protruding from each arm hole, something never seen on armor back home.

Vechs put on the armor, struggling slightly with the gauntlets, and walked over to a near by pond, to see his reflection.

His eyes widened slightly. "Wow. I look awesome."

After admiring his reflection for a few minutes, he continued on his way with a new air of confidence around him.



June 23, 2008 8:49pm


Vechs had been lucky. Very, very lucky.

He hadn't had to fight a single mod-mob yet. Sure there was that time he had run from that jungle spider*3 till he had lost it, and that time in a snow biome in his underground hide-hole when a glacon*3 had practically walked over him, but he hadn't actually fought one yet. His luck had to run out sometime he supposed.

But why now.

Vechs had decided to walk a bit later than usual, and now that was coming back to bite him in the butt.

It was a rainbour*3. Why it was agroed he didn't know, he was just glad there was only one.

It came in from the front, and would have hit him if he hadn't jumped to the side. Vechs slashed at it with his sword, keeping it at bay as he recalled what he knew about them. "They circle the enemy, usually in packs, attacking it until it dies, and they're one of, if not the strongest overworld mob."

Well frick.

Vechs slashed at it when it charged at him, clipping its side, but that only made angry. It continued circling and charging, and Vechs continued slashing it when it charged. But Vechs was tiring and he had to end this now. There, an opening for attack! Vechs thrust his sword forward, into the rainbour's chest killing it, but not before the rainbour slashed his arm despite the armor. It designated into dust, leaving behind a pink gem that Vechs snatched up before racing to build a hide-hole, adrenaline keeping him from noticing the wound on his arm. Once done he set down a bed, took of his armor, and collapsed, falling asleep immediately.

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Chapter one has been edited. click here ---> http://mindcracklove.dreamwidth.org/906199.html


*1- tells the direction, XYZ coordinates, biome, time, and identifies materials.
*3 - all can be found here: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdivine-rpg.wikia.com%2F&ei=RCbsVM3fC8KdNuHagvgN&usg=AFQjCNH7CS5-gWSHiIgSZBv8G5GVLx9dOQ
*4 - it's from tinkers construct
*5 - from my imagination
*6 - http://hexxit.wikia.com/wiki/Scale_Armor_(Hexxit_Gear)

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Well that took longer than I had hoped it would. To be honest with you guys o have the whole plot laid out I'm just too lazy to type it. What do you guys think? Like it? Hate it? Tell me in the comments. Tell me of any mystakes too.