Entity was responsible for that I think He and a few others were working on a new server mod to make villagers more lifelike This included villagers with different personalities outfits and genders But after that many of the players said the girl villagers looked strange so Entity made their noses smaller and gave them hair Then the Scribes a handful of players tasked with writing the history of the game world added a paragraph about how villager boys shave their heads as a tradition And after the server crash every last word the Scribes originally wrote became real You lost me What’s this about the crash What happened He went on to tell me that in the Earth year 2039 their world was facing imminent destruction As the final hour approached some of them chose to flee into VR or virtual reality Apparently all they had to do was throw on a helmet to be transported to another world But that was just imaginary an illusion The world they had escaped to was this one once known as the Aetheria server After having spent thousands of hours in this virtual world most of them had made countless friends and they wanted to say goodbye They were all the most hardcore of game addicts and 2
they’d spent more time in Aetheria than their own reality Not many of them even had friends in the real world Some didn’t even have family So it was only fitting for them to spend their last moments in a world they cherished surrounded by virtual friends So what happened I asked Your world didn’t end The real one I mean We have no way of knowing With the countdown approaching zero those logged in lost consciousness and eventually woke up in a different area still logged in to the game And the game was different somehow Real We couldn’t quit or exit To this day we’re still able to access the original main menu system but it’s unresponsive Oh I stared ahead blankly until something caught my eye Hey look A coal vein Let’s stop for a bit and mine S looked at me and sighed 3
SATURDAY UPDATE 22 By the time we hit Owl’s Reach it was dark and cold A chilly wind blew through the streets The place would have seemed abandoned if not for those few scurrying here and there Even so most of the shops were still open Their windows glowing cheerfully in the gloom flickered every now and then when there was Take care out there Breeze Runt It’s been real Stay safe Thanks again Couldn’t have done it without you 4 Good luck on your quest Be sure to visit us kay
movement inside But first we headed to the square with our new allies There we saw each other off I watched them go wishing we’d said more than simple goodbyes wishing we’d never had to say goodbye at all But they had their quest and we had ours Wind gnawing at our backs the two representatives of Team Runt walked straight to that blacksmith Or is it Team Breeze after today The blacksmith gave me 750 emeralds for the glowmoss as promised We traded the loot for another 3,572 That was unusual I think because it was mostly Urf’s stuff not the boss loot Breeze and I felt it’d be a good idea to give those items to our friends back home Souvenirs from our first little tour of the Overworld And if you were wondering yes Breeze insisted on keeping that dumb stick We went to the Quill Feather right after the blacksmith After we sauntered in I looked Feathers straight in the eye and slammed 2,500 onto her light-blue carpet counter I’ll take an advvvvvaeon forge Not a spelling error I began to say advanced crafting table then smoothly transitioned to the item’s real name Because I’m as smooth as an ice block on a warm sunny day 5
