World 101
A Short Story By: Jennie Bean
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Chapter 3 - Where Do I Go?
"Really?" I just realize I have to dig down to find the next blue brochure. I create and stock up on more ladders to be able to return to the surface. I scout out an initial digging location close to where the arrow points straight down.
I dig down and place ladders against the dirt and sand as I go down. Down about fifty feet deep, my wood axe disappears. I grab another one in my bag to continue digging, but start to wonder if there will ever be a clearing. I arrive at a block of material that is grayer in color that resembles clay. As I keep my eye on my watch, the blue arrow rotates towards my left side, but is still a few feet lower. As the arrow levels out, I turn to my left and dig in front of me. I have to clear out more sand to gain distance this way. Darkness surrounds me, and I feel very lost. As soon as I think I am doomed to be digging forever, I see it: a clearing.
Blocks of an unknown rock formation fills the outer walls of the clearing. There is a torch on the ground revealing a cave before me. A green tint, which must be a cool mineral, glows from the wall on my right. There is a tunnel sloping downward with scattered light reflecting off the walls.
Music fills the cave just then. It reminds me of a Middle Earth adventure tune, and it seems to echo all around me, though I do not know where the source resides.
Excitedly, I run down into the cave tunnel. Luckily, there are torches placed on the ground so I can find my way. Who put the torches down? The survivor must have gone this way. The arrow soon guides me to the blue brochure: iron axe instructions. I could really use this because this wood axe takes too much effort to break through the harder rock formations.
I turn around and spy a yellow slip that reads:
Since there are no iron minerals in site, I decide to return to my home base to see if I can now buy the iron axe by trading in all of my clay. Before I go up the ladder and despite my recent wisdom scroll, I hit the green shiny mineral, hoping to take it with me. Wow, this is way too hard to break, as it disintegrates my wood axe. I run up the long passage to the surface.
I give in all of my clay to the material computer, and fortunately, I have just enough coins to purchase the iron axe. Beaming, I take hold of the iron axe and dash down the chute to the cave. I continue where I left off down into the different cave levels. Jumping and swerving around huge rock formations, I gain depth towards my next blue brochure. My watch then stops and goes completely white.
I tap the face hoping it will spring to life again. It could be possible that there is a signal making this device work, and I am too far into the ground to connect to it. I hear a faint tapping, and then a rumbling noise from far away. Then my bag shakes, rattling my wood axe against my purple glow stone. The ground shakes relentlessly, and I see something falling from a distance. I look up and quickly veer away from a block of clay dropping from the cave ceiling. I dive into a small pathway, and the shaking stops. The earthquake filled the cave with various blocks of stone and now covers some of the torch light. Just as I am making my way out of the small pathway, I hear a small boyish voice coming from behind me, “Help!” My heart leaps into my throat and realize there is someone else here.
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Stay tuned for Chapter 4 - Who is that?
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Thank you to Total Miner for being the inspiration to my story. Thank you to the bf who motivates me to actually do things.
A Short Story By: Jennie Bean
-continued-
Chapter 3 - Where Do I Go?
"Really?" I just realize I have to dig down to find the next blue brochure. I create and stock up on more ladders to be able to return to the surface. I scout out an initial digging location close to where the arrow points straight down.
I dig down and place ladders against the dirt and sand as I go down. Down about fifty feet deep, my wood axe disappears. I grab another one in my bag to continue digging, but start to wonder if there will ever be a clearing. I arrive at a block of material that is grayer in color that resembles clay. As I keep my eye on my watch, the blue arrow rotates towards my left side, but is still a few feet lower. As the arrow levels out, I turn to my left and dig in front of me. I have to clear out more sand to gain distance this way. Darkness surrounds me, and I feel very lost. As soon as I think I am doomed to be digging forever, I see it: a clearing.
Blocks of an unknown rock formation fills the outer walls of the clearing. There is a torch on the ground revealing a cave before me. A green tint, which must be a cool mineral, glows from the wall on my right. There is a tunnel sloping downward with scattered light reflecting off the walls.
Music fills the cave just then. It reminds me of a Middle Earth adventure tune, and it seems to echo all around me, though I do not know where the source resides.
Excitedly, I run down into the cave tunnel. Luckily, there are torches placed on the ground so I can find my way. Who put the torches down? The survivor must have gone this way. The arrow soon guides me to the blue brochure: iron axe instructions. I could really use this because this wood axe takes too much effort to break through the harder rock formations.
I turn around and spy a yellow slip that reads:
'Wisdom: Antidisestablishmentarianism was a plague upon the nations; forsooth it is better to seek scrolls of gnomic wisdom than to disintegrate the building blocks of minor countries.'
Since there are no iron minerals in site, I decide to return to my home base to see if I can now buy the iron axe by trading in all of my clay. Before I go up the ladder and despite my recent wisdom scroll, I hit the green shiny mineral, hoping to take it with me. Wow, this is way too hard to break, as it disintegrates my wood axe. I run up the long passage to the surface.
I tap the face hoping it will spring to life again. It could be possible that there is a signal making this device work, and I am too far into the ground to connect to it. I hear a faint tapping, and then a rumbling noise from far away. Then my bag shakes, rattling my wood axe against my purple glow stone. The ground shakes relentlessly, and I see something falling from a distance. I look up and quickly veer away from a block of clay dropping from the cave ceiling. I dive into a small pathway, and the shaking stops. The earthquake filled the cave with various blocks of stone and now covers some of the torch light. Just as I am making my way out of the small pathway, I hear a small boyish voice coming from behind me, “Help!” My heart leaps into my throat and realize there is someone else here.
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Stay tuned for Chapter 4 - Who is that?
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Thank you to Total Miner for being the inspiration to my story. Thank you to the bf who motivates me to actually do things.
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