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Honestly, J had no idea how she got into this situation. She'd been peacefully playing Minecraft like any actually stable player (ironically, she was on the Unstable SMP where most players were psychotic) when this kid named Yungy showed up at her base uninvited. He was annoying and kept yapping about some king named Arachnid or something but she wasn't the type to kill so she let him be.
Yungy, who had gotten pissed off that she had barely even reacted, crit her out three times with a netherite sword that was enchanted, which were quite rare since most diamonds had been pillaged a long time ago from the confines of the server. She didn't really care about shit since she didn't care about a lot of shit, but being a one-tap away from a ban was not ideal.
She debated calling her friend FlameFrags to come and kill the guy but decided against it. After all, Yungy was persistent but not a real threat to her. Flame can handle one day without some new threat, she decided and flicked Yungy in the arm.
"Could you shut up for one goddamn moment? I'm trying to play Minecraft like a normal person and you're making that very hard," she deadpanned, going back to what she was doing, making an automatic bread farm. Yungy, offended or some shit, gasped dramatically and flopped down on the grass next to J. She frowned at him, tsking slightly and eating 4 loaves of her bread, getting back up to full saturation and her health going back up to full.
"Well that's not very nice! And also Arachnid would still like you to join us in the caves," Yungy complained, leaning back on his hands.
"That's not my problem," she responded, finishing off the last detail with profound tiredness. "Ah, 32 hours of work and I'm finally done."
Yungy gave her a weird look. "You haven't slept in over 24 hours?" he echoed.
"Sleep is overrated," she shrugged, flicking the lever that would power the whole contraption.
He went silent for a long moment, not like she minded it, and looked into the distance like he was questioning reality. She turned to start walking away, back into the design of her base that was just a decorated hollowed out section of a mountain.
The outside walls closest to the open exit were strictly jungle logs (they were in the jungle biome actually at that point in time) and the flooring that was at the entrance was jungle wood, cobblestone, and bamboo wood that was scattered around. Farther into the hobbit hole type situation for a base, the walls were mainly dirt and the flooring was mainly dirt with a couple of jungle slabs that made indents into the ground. Along the walls facing the exit were where the decor was, with a crafting table in the back with a lantern hanging above it by a chain, two blast furnaces stacked up on top of each other next to the crafting table, another blast furnace next to the one one top of the stack on the other side. To the right of that, in the ground, was an enderchest, and to the right of that were two double chests stacked on top of each other.
To the right of that was the white bed laying sideways from the entrance, with a jukebox in the floor right in front of it, as well as an anvil in the floor diagonally right and towards the entrance. To the right of the anvil was a regular furnace facing the left wall, with a cartography table on top of the furnace and a smithing table about that facing the same direction as the furnace. To the right of those was a furnace facing the entrance, and directly diagonally right and towards the entrance of that, facing the left wall were two furnaces stacked on top of each other. In the corner the furnaces created was a lantern hanging by a chain. There was a final fourth furnace also facing the left wall.
On said wall, it was bare, with the only decor there four double chests, two double chests stacked on top of the other two while being next to each other, facing the right wall, all of which being near the back with the crafting table.
"You a fuckin hermit?" Yungy asked, having followed J. Wow, she really regrets not putting a door in her base if this asshole was just going to keep annoying her until she gave in and joined that kid Arachid's cult or whatever it was.
"Pretty much." J shrugged, putting the items away back in her chests. She was going to have to make a storage space soon for all her random shit. "Okay, so wait, if Arachnid is your cult leader-"
"King."
"Same thing. If this Arachnid kid is your cult leader, does he know you do this for a living?" she asked, staring at him blankly. "Or are you an unsupervised child who's been let free by your ignorant parent?"
"He told me to recruit you. He never said how I had to do it," Yungy explained, which was the only helpful thing he'd said since he arrived.
"At this point, I'm willing to come with you to tell Arachnid to hire you a babysitter," she deadpanned, flipping him off.
"Hey! That's rude," he mumbled under his breath, crossing his arms over his chest and looking away slightly.
"It's rude that you came to my home, nearly banned me, came inside my home uninvited, and started complaining about random shit while doing it. It's completely deserved," J snorted, counting on her fingers for everything he'd done thus far. "And you interrupted me too as well."
"Well I- okay that's fair, actually." Yungy grinned sheepishly. "But did it work?"
"Sure, whatever gets you out of my house faster," she shrugged, watching his face light up with delight for the first time. Wow, he could actually be happy. That seemed impossible for all the complaining he was doing.
"Yay! Alright, get all the stuff you need and then we'll go! You won't be back here for awhile," he told her, jumping with excitement.
She sighed, crafting an enderchest with the obsidian and chests she has in her double chests as well as some shulkers. She grabs a couple of them that has stuff inside already as well as empty one and filling them with valuable ores. She collects all of them and sorts her inventory before finally, grabbing her god bow and one arrow since she had infinity on it. She never thought she'd have to use it again.
"Okay, let's go," J nodded, walking outside her cave house. Yungy noticed the last detail right outside of her base.
"Uh, yo. Why the fuck is there a grave that says
" Sky
2026 - 2026
A happy ghast " ?
Are we fucking serious?" Yungy asked, then turned to the fence post on the ground with another happy ghast having the same name, attached to the fence by a lead.
"Long story dude. You don't wanna know," she shook her head somberly. The happy ghast whined as if in agreement. Yungy stared at her for a long moment before finally sighing.
"O... Kay."
Arachnid's kingdom was dark. That was the first thing that was obvious. Though when Yungy splashed the both of them with night vision, she realized instantly why the regular citizens were called "Spiders" and the lower-levels were called "Bottom-Feeders". The whole Kingdom had custom-made cobwebs, and the castle even had built spider legs that looked hella realistic. Apparently Yungy was a rank called "Royalty", which meant he had access to all his gear and his enderchest whenever he wanted, and hence why no one had hired him a babysitter.
Squiddo would probably hate this, J thought, referring to her friend TheRealSquiddo who had massive arachnophobia and still played an arachnophobia mod with her friend Wifies.
Yungy led her through the massive castle, stopping at the meeting room where Arachnid was sitting at the head of the table. She stared at the annoying asshole who'd been bothering her until he left before turning her gaze to Arachnid, yet she made no move to get any closer to the table.
"You're Jasperse, then?" Arachnid asked calmly, too calmly for someone with a ragebait Royalty who'd spent 30 minutes complaining about her not joining his cult leader. She refused to think of Arachnid as anything otherwise.
"J. I go by J," she replied stiffly, refusing to move forward. Arachnid walked over to come face-to-face with her, being quite noticebly taller than her but she didn't care too much.
"Right, of course. Well, J. Do you know why I asked Yungy to bring you here?" She shook her head. "J, I've heard you're considered a god when it comes to the bow. We have a war coming up quite soon and quite frankly, your help would be greatly appreciated. Would you be willing to join us for the war?"
J froze. She hadn't used the bow since the battle against LAW when Parrot, one of Flame's friends, asked her to help and promised a full explanation, one she never got from it.
"No. The last time I made a deal about something like that, I was denied what I was supposed to be given for that," she declined. He nodded in understanding, his expression neutral.
"I understand. However, I could offer you things that would actually show up and most definitely be more valuable than what you were denied. In fact, you'd be given anything you wished as soon as you required it." Arachnid's tone was... Almost soft but not quite, as if he was trying his absolute hardest to gain her trust and to keep it for forever.
That doesn't seem too bad... Will Wemmbu be mad if I say yes? Does Wemmbu even know who this guy is? Probably not since he's never mentioned once, she thought, referring to her purple blob friend, who was one of the most powerful players on the Unstable SMP who had a mace, elytra, and dangerous nukes called orbital strike cannons he could use at any time.
"All you have to do for me, the only other thing I'd wish you to do is recruit Wemmbu to the Kingdom. Then anything and everything will be yours." Ah. There was the catch. If only Arachnid knew the type of person Wemmbu was. And the only way that Wemmbu would possibly join.
"He won't come on his own. But he'll do anything for his friend called Eggchan. I'd say the only way to get Wemmbu is to get Egg. That wouldn't be too hard though, Egg is always getting taken hostage, what's one more?" she told Arachnid, feeling slightly guilty at the truth of Wemmbu's nature laying at Arachnid's feet.
Sorry Wemmbu. But also not. Someone has to survive here.