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The Chicken King - Listener Stories
In this episode of the Minecraft Short Stories Podcast, listeners share their thrilling adventures in the blocky world of Minecraft. Ishawn presents 'The Curse of the Barry D'Layer,' wh...
The Chicken King - Listener Stories
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Welcome back everybody to the Minecraft Short Stories Podcast.
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This is episode 83 and in this episode I will be telling two listener stories, the first
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is by Ishawn.
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I am really sorry if I am not pronouncing your name correctly and the second is by Kitsun
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Crafting.
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If you would like to submit a story you can go to the description or just go to
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Minecraft Short Stories.com, go to the submit a story page, fill your story and it
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may get right on the show.
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Anyways there is some other links inside the description.
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The YouTube channel just surpassed 500 subscribers but if you too would also like to
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listen to the podcast on YouTube then make sure to subscribe to that.
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There is a Patreon, I am not really uploading on it so I am working on content for it
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but while I am not producing anything I do not charge you guys so you are not just wasting
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your money.
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Anyways, another thank you to Ishawn and Kitsun Crafting.
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Hope you guys enjoy these stories and let's get right into this episode.
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This first story is by Ishawn, the Curse of the Barry D'Layer.
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Steve had one rule in his Minecraft world, never dig straight down.
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So naturally the first thing he did was dig straight down.
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He'd be fair it wasn't on purpose, he was chasing an iron vein and got excited.
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Ooh Jackpot he said, breaking blocks with the enthusiasm of someone who hasn't been
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jump-scored by lava in at least a week.
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But this time there was no lava, just a weird stone room deep underground.
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It wasn't a dungeon, no spawner, no chests, just double stone walls.
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Floors made of mossy stone bricks and in the center a single chicken.
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Steve stared at it.
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The chicken stirred back.
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It's headed a slow glitchy tilt.
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Walk.
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I, Steve, offered confused.
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He stepped forward and the floor slammed shut above him.
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The blocks appeared, no hole, no ladder, no nothing.
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Great, Steve muttered, crept with a creepy poultry.
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He tried to mine out, every time he broke a block it appeared.
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He punched, he piqued, he even tried placing a bed through said a spawn jump-sleep out.
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No luck.
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The chicken huffed once and twice, then walked to the far corner and pecked, a button hidden
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under the vines.
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With a grinding noise the new doorway opened in the wall.
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Steve blinked.
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Were you a...
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a zold chicken?
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Walk.
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He followed.
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The hallway twisted left and right until led to a room full of redstone contraptions.
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Leathered, tripwires, pressure plates.
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Oh, now, you've ground.
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It's one of these.
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The chicken strutted ahead confidently and stood next to a lever.
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He scratched it said.
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Want me to pull it?
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Walk.
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He pulled it.
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A piston launched a dispenser into his face and it shot...
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cake.
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Well, at least it's not arrows, he said, eating a bite.
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But then the door behind him slammed shut.
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The chicken banished.
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Okay, what?
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Another chicken reappeared.
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Then another.
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Then ten, then thirty.
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Discircled him.
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One laid an egg.
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The egg exploded.
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What kind of chickens are these?
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Steve ran.
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He dodged feathers.
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He leapt of rigs.
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He karate punched a hen out of panic.
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The room filled with more clucking than a barnyard on karaoke night.
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Finally he dove through an open tunnel and slammed the door shut behind him.
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Hanting, sweaty, feather-covered.
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He landed in a small room with a sign.
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You have passed a trial of the cluck.
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Below it's another chicken stood, when your carved pumpkin on it said.
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Next to it, a chest.
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Steve opened the chest.
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Inside, one enchanted feather named, lightless fury, and a book.
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Long ago, the chickens ruled the overworld, until the player uprising forced them underground.
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Only the worthy may earn their trust.
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You have survived.
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You may not leave.
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Steve looked up.
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The pumpkin chicken was gone.
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And so was the wall behind him.
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He was free.
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Back at his house, he mounted the feather in an item frame, next to his other trophies.
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With his skulls dragging egg and chained at Ho.
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He'll have that sober.
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He sighed, flopping into bed.
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But just as he drifted off to sleep, he heard it.
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Cluck.
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Cluck.
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He sighed up.
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Cluck.
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Cluck.
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He walked outside slowly.
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Bayer on his front lawn were hundreds of chickens, all staring at him.
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Each one wore a carved pumpkin on it's head.
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Once stepped forward and dropped a sign at his feet.
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He picked it up.
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It read.
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You are an hour later.
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Congratulations, chicken king.
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Another sign fell.
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Also we live here now.
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Hope you like feathers.
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Suddenly, the chickens all stormed into his house.
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Dozens of them crammed through the door.
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Feathers flew, eggs bounced off his furnace.
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One was somehow already using his bed.
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Another chicken took his diamond pickaxe and walled it off like a paid rent.
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Steve stood in the chaos, holding the enchanted feather like a scepter.
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As one last chicken climbed onto his head and perched their proudly, it placed a tiny
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gold crown made out of wheat on his head.
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He sighed.
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Guess some were in a coop now.
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From that day forward, the villagers whispered of a strange man who ruled from a house over
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flowing with poultry.
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They called him the Cluck King.
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His throne, the compost bin, his crown, a wheat wreath.
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His dignity?
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Well, he was probably under a pile of eggs somewhere.
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The end.
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Thank you, Sean, for this really fun story.
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Our second listener's story for this episode is by Kit Soon Crafting.
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The Forgotten Echo.
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The Horde of mobs cornered me on the edge of a cliff in a cave, as I'm aground and
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stumbled forward.
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I held my sword in my blocky hand and swung.
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I killed the zombie, but not before getting hit by it first, leaving me at half a heart.
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I'm at half a heart, I cried out, even though I was in a single player world.
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I ate a piece of cooked steak, eating my health back to four hearts before an arrow whizzed
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past me, barely missing me.
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I stumbled to the left out of fright, coming closer to the edge of the cliff.
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Multiple mobs came at me all at once, and other zombies stalked forwards, but I killed
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easily.
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The baby zombie was a little bit trickier though.
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It would come up to me with alarming speed and then dart away just as fast.
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I could have sworn that the baby zombie had a brain from the way it was acting.
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A spider leaped out of the crowd at me, I ducked, the spider falling over the ledge behind
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me.
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As I got off the cold cave floor, I heard the familiar hiss of a creeper.
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As I looked up at the green, armless mob, it exploded, stone under me getting destroyed.
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I fell through the hole, watching the cliff disappear into darkness.
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I fell for what felt like forever.
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I looked around frantically, arms and legs flailing as I fell, trying to see something I could
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use to stop my fall.
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There was nothing.
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I started to go through my inventory, dropping some of my items by accident.
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I had nothing that could stop me from death.
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No water buckets, no powdered snow, nothing.
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I'm going to die.
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I thought, already imagining what it would look like.
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As I continued to sift through my inventory, I found a golden apple I had saved.
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I knew it wouldn't help, but I ate it anyways, eating a few extra golden hearts.
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I didn't notice the piece of deep slate joting out of the wall I was hurtling towards.
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I was going through my inventory again, trying to see if I had missed anything.
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When my head collided painfully with the deep slate, making me go unconscious.
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Chapter 2
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I woke, sputtering in a pool of water.
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I jerked upwards trying to stay afloat.
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The aquifer was about three blocks deep.
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I swam to the edge of the water entirely, my head throbbing.
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After I got out of the water, I looked upwards from where I came.
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I like to see with darkness, so I decided to look around the cave I was in instead.
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After about five minutes, I noticed something dark blue and glowing.
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It looked like vines, but it acted like algae, covering the walls and casting a faint glow
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on the surrounding area.
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As I ventured deeper into the cave, I saw what looked like the weird vines, but a block
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formed.
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I tried to pick it up, but nothing worked.
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Pickaxes didn't work, neither did an axe, bevel, or hoe.
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I then tried with enchanted items.
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After going through two different enchantments, I tried silk touch, and it worked.
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I was able to retrieve the block.
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It was called a Skulk block.
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Skulk, I wondered.
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I've never heard of Skulk.
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What is this?
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I continued to venture more, dripping over the occasional block.
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As I got closer to the entrance of a bigger cave, I saw what looked like half a bone
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block, half a Skulk block.
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I went closer, crouching to examine it.
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On the inside there was what looked like the souls that moved, just like the soul
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sand in the nether.
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The only difference was that the souls were blue.
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On the bottom of the outside was more Skulk.
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Interesting, I pondered.
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What is this?
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I uncrouched, stepping back.
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That was a mistake.
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As soon as I moved it went off, making a high-pitched, shrieking noise.
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Blue circles coming out the top.
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I covered my ears, kneeling on the cave floor.
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Even though it lasted only a second, my ears were still ringing.
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I'm going to keep crouching for a while, I thought.
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I slowly crept at the entrance of the massive cave I saw earlier.
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On the inside of the cavern was an underground city.
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There was a more Skulk growing everywhere, I couldn't find any signs of life.
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I entered the lost city and started to look around.
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After a while of searching, I found a chest and opened it.
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I found a few snowballs, a diamond sword with the enchantment knockback two on it, and
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a notch apple.
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As it closed the chest, I saw two rings, which were the same colors to ones from the
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shrieking bone-soul thing, but towards another Skulk block.
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This one had four vines pointing upwards that moved.
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The rings then traveled to the shrieking block.
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No, I thought, not another one of those.
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I covered my ears and waited for the ear-splitting shrieking to be over.
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Okay, I thought after the noise was gone, it came my hands off my ears.
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No more opening chest.
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I continued to explore the ancient city, ignoring any chests I came across.
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As I was walking through what I thought used to be a hallway, the floor was covered
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in a dark, blue-gray carpet.
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I was wondering how to book I had been using to write down coordinates when I suddenly
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dropped my quill.
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I quickly covered my ears and shut my eyes, waiting for the shrieking noise.
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It never came.
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I slowly took my hands off my ears and opened my eyes.
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I looked down at where the quill fell.
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It was on a block of wool.
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Why didn't the shrieking noise happen, I wondered?
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I decided to do an experiment.
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I dropped the book onto the wall and nothing happened.
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I decided to uncrowge and move a block.
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No sound whatsoever.
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Now I don't have to crouch, I thought.
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I almost yelled it aloud but thought better.
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I decided to stay in the wall so I could go faster.
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The wall didn't go far so I decided to collect some.
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As I collected wool, I kept expecting a creeper or skeleton to come up and try to kill me.
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I then realized how there were no mobs whatsoever except the occasional indermen who would
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tell part near me than tell part away.
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Riot as I finished collecting wool and indermen teleported right next to one of the moving
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blue upward vines.
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The blue circles went from the indermen to the blue moving vines.
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They then moved to the shrieker block.
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The ear splitting shrieking sound came again.
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But this time something different happened.
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After the shriek was gone, I got the blindness effect.
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I heard a rumbling noise and when I looked at the spot of floor where the sound came
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from, I saw a dark blue creature coming out of the ground.
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It was the warden.
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The end of part 1.
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Thank you guys so much for listening.
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Thank you to Eshan and the kids who crafting for these stories.
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Really enjoyed reading them.
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They were really well written.
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Also thank you guys for doing a really good job on both having the store send Minecraft
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using things from Minecraft and also having a new spin on aspects of Minecraft.
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Yeah, thank you guys for sending those.
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They were really good.
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Anyways, I hope you, the listener, enjoyed this episode.
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This has been Episode 83 of Minecraft Shroom Stories.
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Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you inside the next episode.