Chapter XII: Unendings

Chapter XII: Unendings

Tacky comes to in a fair-sized, empty room of End Stone. He asks where he is and is shocked to hear a reply; a deep, ominous voice responds in the boy’s mind that he is a prisoner and that he had found the voice’s island. After Tacky asks, the voice introduces itself as the Endlord, and it informs Tacky, who looks around wildly for the source of the voice, that it is not there, not even in The End, and is speaking with Tacky telepathically. The panicked boy asks where The Maker is, and the Endlord responds that The Maker is also its prisoner, being held elsewhere.

In another part of The End, The Maker waits impatiently within a bare, 3x1 chamber of End Stone. Suddenly, a terrifying voice speaks in his mind, informing him that he is to die at its—the Endlord’s—mercy. The Endlord rants about how The Maker did not follow its plan and how he was too strong but Tacky was a pushover until The Maker came along. The Maker challenges the Endlord to attack him, brandishing his Enchanted Diamond Sword. The Endlord just laughs, then ponders over how to kill The Maker. Fire suddenly erupts from the ground all across the tiny chamber. The Maker stands calmly in the fire, telling the Endlord that there is no way to kill him. It responds by saying that if it takes his powers away from him, there would be no hope for him. As the fires continue to burn, The Maker suddenly finds himself on fire, pain searing through his whole being. He screams as he burns, while the Endlord laughs, satisfied.

Tacky is shooting Fire-Arrows at the walls of his prison and loudly asking where the Endlord is, when the Endlord’s voice reappears in his mind, informing him that it has returned…and that The Maker is dead. Tacky says that that is not possible, that The Maker is invincible because of his powers, but the Endlord informs him that it had stripped him of his powers, that its power is stronger in The End than in Tacky’s world, The Nether, and the other world. Tacky asks what other world the Endlord is referring to, but the Endlord just laughs. Tacky then asks when he will be set free. The Endlord tells him that he will be its prisoner until it can figure out what to do with him. The boy responds by saying that he could just find the exit and escape, which the Endlord denies. Spotting the narrow, 1x1x3 space in one wall, he smiles, saying that it was too easy. Still holding his Enchanted Bow, Tacky breaks the End Stone that makes up the ceiling of the small space and is greeted by The End’s “sky.” He flies up and out of the hole, realizing after looking back down that the Endlord had trapped him within the small, independent island that he and The Maker had found. The Endlord screams in his head to come back and that it does not want to have to kill him. Tacky continues flying toward the main island; when he is almost above land, he finds himself drawing his Bow against his will. He releases an Arrow into The Void below. Despite this and the Endlord’s continued screams and threats, he continues flying, soon noticing a hole in the ground from which faint smoke billows. He descends into the hole and is shocked to see The Maker laying in a small, linear chamber, scorched and scarred…but alive. The Endlord notices this now, unable to believe it. Suddenly, Tacky draws his bow again against his will, Fire-Arrow pointed at The Maker’s head. He shouts that he will do not such a horrible thing, but the Endlord offers that he had already done some terrible things and that this one is no different. Tacky releases the Arrow, but The Maker rolls out of the way, anticipating Tacky’s move. Tacky fires another and another, and The Maker dodges them all, despite the narrow space. Screaming, Tacky resists firing another one, The Maker slowly and painfully making his way towards and around the boy. When he is behind Tacky, The Maker shouts for him to get to the Exit Portal. Tacky fires the Arrow in his Bow, The Maker grabs onto him, and he flies up through the hole, emerging out into the open End air. The Endlord, out of its mind with rage, screams in the adventurers’ minds to come back. Tacky continues flying toward the Exit Portal and descends into it as quickly as possible, the Endlord’s screams still echoing in his mind, even after he and The Maker leave the mysterious threat behind.

Tacky and The Maker reappear inside The Maker’s Hut. The Maker collapses onto his bed. Tacky leaves him to rest and heal, stepping out into Maker’s Grove. Walking around to the back of the hut, the boy is filled with a bittersweet joy as he sees in the sky the red-orange glow of dawn. He remembers the Endlord and the ordeal that they had just been put through. The identity of the Endlord was never revealed to him, but that would have to wait for another time. For now, Tacky climbs out of Maker’s Grove and climbs to the top of the highest tree nearby and watches as the Faradesia sun rises.

END OF ARC 4

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Played out in-game on 12/26/2012. Written 12/26/2012.

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Chapter XI: Something Different

Chapter XI: Something Different

Tacky and The Maker find themselves standing side-by-side on the Obsidian platform in The End. After flying over to the island of End Stone, The Maker suddenly realizes that something is different in The End since his last visit, although he cannot quite put his finger on what it is. Tacky suggests that the two of them explore the island in search of this “something different,” to which The Maker agrees. The two adventurers walk all over the island. It isn’t long before they discover a narrow tunnel in the ground that seems to lead downward. Drawing his Enchanted Bow, Tacky takes the lead as they begin descending the tunnel. When they reach the other side, they emerge on one of the narrow cliff “levels” on one side of the island. At Tacky’s suggestion, the two of them turn around and walk back up the tunnel before Tacky can fall off the cliff into The Void. When they emerge onto the top of the island once more, The Maker suggests that they climb an Obsidian Pillar to give them a vantage point that would enable a panoramic view of almost the whole island. At this suggestion, Tacky runs off ahead of The Maker and climbs to the top of a Pillar. He looks around him and fails to see whatever The Maker had unconsciously noticed. When The Maker reaches the top of the Pillar and looks around, however, he quickly spots what he had apparently seen before: a miniature End Stone island floating independently off of the main island, which had not been there during his previous visits to the dimension. The two explorers fly off from the Pillar and eventually land on the tiny island. Tacky turns around to look back at the main island and is suddenly hit from behind, knocking him out. At the same time, The Maker finds himself being dragged back to the main island by an invisible force; his screams for Tacky’s help are not heard.

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Played out in-game on 12/4/2012 and 12/25/2012. Written 12/25/2012.

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Chapter X: Flashes of Silver

Chapter X: Flashes of Silver

When The Maker and Tacky enter the Stronghold, they find that it is very dark. The Maker brandishes his Diamond Sword, and Tacky loads his Bow. It is virtually no time at all before they find a large, sealed door in a large atrium. It seems that a key is required to open this door. The Maker tells Tacky to stay at the large door while he goes off to search for the key, to which Tacky obliges.

The Maker sets off down the corridor, using a button to open an iron door and diving through before it slams shut right behind him. He finds himself face to face with a Zombie, whom he dispatches effortlessly. Walking down more corridors, he encounters few creatures other than the occasional Spider and even a Cave Spider which drops from the ceiling. He eventually finds himself in what seems to be a library. After taking out three Zombies and a Skeleton, The Maker makes his way to the back of the library, where a narrow passageway ends in a Chest. Opening the Chest, The Maker discovers a small, silver key. Removing it from the Chest appears to set off some kind of booby trap because the stone above the Chest breaks suddenly, and water crashes in from above, flooding the library and sending The Maker back to the library door. The Maker traces his steps from earlier and makes his way safely back to Tacky.

Tacky does the honor of inserting the silver key and opening the large door. In the center of the room beyond, a set of stairs leads up to the frame of an End Portal that hovers over a contained pool of lava. At the top of the stairs, there is also a Source of Life for hostile Mobs. The latter sight puts The Maker and Tacky into combat mode, poised for what may jump out at them at any moment. Cautiously, Tacky mounts the stairs and sees that the End Portal frame already has two Eyes of Ender placed into it. Suddenly, The Maker shouts at Tacky to jump down. Tacky looks down at his feet to see a glint of silver as a small, bony, metallic, rat-like insect crawls around his ankles, down the stairs, and into a stone tile, disappearing. Tacky rushes back down to The Maker. The Maker runs up and strikes the Source of Life with his Diamond Sword, but it glances right off. He leaps to the ground just as another of the creatures emerges from the Source of Life. The second shiny insect scurries down and disappears into another tile. The Maker and Tacky watch in horror as a swarm of these Silverfish spawn from their Source of Life, running around the room and burrowing into the stone floor, hiding. Waiting. When the swarm concludes, the two explorers slowly walk up the steps. Before they can reach the top, a wall of fire erupts from the ground on the top step, blocking their path to the End Portal. The Maker swings his sword at the Source of Life, and this time it shatters, destroyed. But their path remains blocked by fire. Tacky flies up and tries to fly over it and around it, but the flames simply reach up higher and around the Portal. The Maker realizes that this is a challenge; they will have to kill all of the Silverfish in order to proceed.

Using extreme caution, the two walk across the stone floor. Startling Tacky, The Maker suddenly lunges at one of the floor tiles, smashing it with his Sword with a loud crash. Tacky moves behind The Maker, Arrow aimed at the ground, understanding what The Maker is doing. The Maker smashes another tile and another. Then he smashes another…and a Silverfish flies out, latching onto The Maker’s leg with its teeth. Tacky fires his Fire-Arrow, and the Silverfish dies, The Maker’s skin scorched by the Arrow’s flame. The two continue smashing tiles, Silverfish occasionally bursting out of them and leaping at the two humans, sometimes two at a time, until most of the original floor is smashed up, and the wall of flame recedes.

Tacky and The Maker walk up the steps until they stand before the End Portal frame. The Maker proceeds to create Eyes of Ender, each of which he places in a different empty slot in the frame. As he places the last one, the Portal bursts into life, a starry abyss appearing in the center of the frame. The two explorers nod to each other, and they step into the Portal together, falling through the dimensions.

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Played out in-game on 12/3/2012. Written 12/4/2012.

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Chapter IX: Guided by the Eyes

Chapter IX: Guided by the Eyes

The Maker and Tacky fly up into the air, heading in the direction that the Eyes of Ender had seemed to be floating up into. Occasionally throwing Eyes out in front of them, they fly over the Nullard Mountains, over the northeastern corner of Mistal Swamp, and over Sekyl Jungle. About two-thirds of the way through Sekyl Jungle, on its western side, they realize that their Eyes are now guiding them in circles, to a single, central point. They fly to this point, and their Eyes begin floating down, through the trees and through the ground. Landing and then digging down at the point provided by the Eyes of Ender, they discover, deep underground, a massive dungeon, a Stronghold.

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Played out in-game on 12/3/2012. Written 12/3/2012.

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Interlude II: Eyes That Foresee The End

~A few weeks have passed~

ARC 4: ENDINGS ARE BEGINNINGS

Interlude II: Eyes That Foresee The End

Tacky returns to Maker’s Grove from his travels, having greatly expanded his map of Faradesia. He also presents The Maker with a souvenir: an Eye of Ender. Tacky informs him that he had, according to his notes, found it laying at the bottom of a shallow pond at coordinates (220,61,-208), in the northeastern Nullard Mountains. The Maker absorbs the Eye, allowing him to create more Eyes using his powers, and insists that they go to the Eyeland, a small island in the Great Ocean, just south of the central Nullard Mountains. They do so, but this visit proves fruitless. In frustration, Tacky tosses an Eye up into the air. To both of their surprise, the Eye continues to float up and forward, surrounded by Ender Aura, seemingly pointing them somewhere, before falling back to the ground. The Maker and Tacky decide to toss it back up and follow the path that subsequent tosses will eventually draw out.

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Backstory; never played out in-game. Written 12/3/2012.

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Chapter VIII: The Underworld of Faradesia

Chapter VIII: The Underworld of Faradesia

While The Maker rests from sprucing up the surface, Tacky makes his way underground as part of his exploration mission. Near Eastern Station in Faradesia Forest, he digs down to discover a ravine (Underbrush Ravine), in which armed Skeletons, vicious Spiders, and usually-peaceful but deadly Creepers have made their home. Luckily, Tacky is armed with The Maker’s Enchanted Bow! In a cavern branching off from the main cavern, he discovers an abandoned mine. Deep inside The Abandoned Mine, he has a terrifying encounter with a horde of Cave Spiders in their web-nest, which makes up the entirety of one room of the mine. He manages to defeat them all (with some help from his Fire Charge) and destroy their Source of Life before proceeding deeper into the mine with his life still intact. Eventually, he finds himself emerging into another ravine, the Landside Ravine, located under the Great Ocean off the shore of the Faradesia Hills. He swims up through a waterfall, emerges into the ocean, and swims to the surface.

Tacky then travels across the ocean using The Maker’s new Cross-Ocean Rail. While in Kra’an Desert, he digs down near the desert border and discovers another ravine. This one is unusual, however, in that is completely and utterly dry: not a drop of water or lava is present anywhere within it. The explorer dubs the ravine Dry Ravine after this rare phenomenon. Much to his surprise, he discovers another abandoned mine, Desert Edge Mine. This mine, like The Abandoned Mine under Faradesia Forest, is crawling with creatures; however, Creepers have an especially strong presence here. Adventuring into the mine with heightened caution, Tacky eventually discovers another ravine, across the width of which a bridge connects at a great height two sides of the mine. Far deeper underground than any ravine that Tacky has previously discovered, the “Mine Gorge” is home to multiple nests of Creepers, a sight that prompts him to turn back and re-enter the mine, which is dangerous enough. Before he can head back in, however, a Creeper lands on the bridge and starts walking towards Tacky. He backs up into the mine cavern that he had come from and shoots the Creeper. He is loading another Arrow when the Creeper explodes in a violent shock wave of energy. Unharmed but shaken, Tacky looks up to see a relieving sight: the bridge has suffered minimal damage. He turns around and heads down another path in the mine. He comes to a room flooded with water and into which more water flows from the ceiling. Tacky swims up through this waterfall and finds himself under the ocean, just off the desert shore. Terrified of returning to the Creepers’ den, he swims out of the water and heads off to spend the night in the nearby village of Oasis instead.

The next day, Tacky heads off into The Nether to build his own Nether Portal using the instructions that The Maker had told him during their last meeting. He succeeds in building a stable Portal, which he is pleased to discover connects with another one located at the base of the southernmost mountain in the Crescent Mountains, south of Faradesia Forest. He creates a book and makes note of the coordinates of each Portal in the new pair like The Maker had done for his own Portals.

END OF ARC 3

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Played out in-game from 11/30/2012 through 12/1/2012. Written 12/2/2012.

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Chapter VII: Making Faradesia His Own

ARC 3: FARADESIA RISING

Chapter VII: Making Faradesia His Own

After two days of experimenting with his powers, The Maker discovers a special device that can channel and store a given ability like a capacitor and then use that ability when a Redstone current is passed through it; he names this a Command Capacitor. In Maker’s Grove, he sets up three different Command Capacitors underground, channeling weather-altering power into each one, and, using Wooden Pressure Plates, he turns these into his Weather-Controllers, allowing him to stop on a given “WC” to change the weather in a fairly wide radius to clear, rainy, or stormy for a guaranteed duration of five minutes. Then, in an effort to protect the Blessed Beacon from invaders, he sets up similar devices around the perimeter of the diamond pyramid that will teleport anybody who steps on one of the Wooden Pressure Plates straight into a small pool of lava that sits near the edge of Faradesia Forest.

The Maker then heads to the nearby beach to figure out a fast, convenient method of travel across the Great Ocean between western and eastern Faradesia. He starts by building the Forest Dock, but that does not turn out as he had hoped. Then, he decides to build a massive bridge between the two shores, one end in Faradesia Forest and the other end on the southern end of the Nullard Mountains, on which he places rail tracks. At each end, he builds a small “station” and deems the whole thing the Cross-Ocean Rail, an express minecart railway on which travel is occasionally supported by Powered rails charged by Redstone Torches hanging underneath. From Western Station (the Nullard Mountains station), The Maker builds a Powered railway starting from just up the hill from Western Station and stretching all the way to the base of Nullard Hill, around the corner from his Nullard Mountains Nether Portal. There, he sets up a small farm, The Maker’s Farm, replacing some of the Kra’an Desert sand with grassy dirt and fencing the area in. He uses his powers to summon a group of chickens into the pen, and he makes one side of the pen suitable for the growth of cocoa beans, wheat, and melon.

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Played out in-game from 11/26/2012 through 11/30/2012. Written 12/1/2012.

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Chapter VI: First Contact

Chapter VI: First Contact

Tacky searches The Nether for The Maker to no avail, so he heads back to Maker’s Grove to search for clues inside The Maker’s Hut. Once again, he finds nothing, but remembers the book of coordinates. At the end of the book, he finds a page that he has never seen before, a page telling of a “second End Portal” being found in deep in the ravine behind Underwater Cavern. Tacky remembers seeing the strange portal frame down there and decides to return. When he arrives, he finds that it is no longer merely a frame; in its center is an infinite abyss filled with stars: a portal. He enters it.

Tacky arrives on a small island of obsidian just off a much larger island made out of unidentifiable rock. He flies over to the larger island and sees a man standing on a ledge. He slowly approaches the man, consciously but unwillingly drawing his Enchanted Bow and pointing the Arrow at the man’s head. The man notices Tacky and looks at him calmly and knowingly. The man tells Tacky…that he is The Maker. The Maker then informs the young adventurer that they are in The End, a dimension entirely separate from Faradesia and The Nether, and that he has returned here to research what The End actually is and how it could possibly exist. Tacky suddenly unleashes his Arrow but manages to move the Bow so that it shoots the flaming Arrow past The Maker’s shoulder.

The Maker then gets down to business. He knows vaguely what is happening to Tacky, that Tacky possesses some of the same powers as him. He tells Tacky to take out the Fire Charge that he knows the boy has in his pocket and explains that Fire Charges draw upon the mysterious power that exists within the two of them in order to summon fire from the ground. He also informs Tacky that he has no idea why he is having blackouts and attacking people and plant life uncontrollably but he does know that he, too, has had experienced dark, destructive impulses over his lifetime; he reveals that the so-called “Ruined House” of Desert’s Edge is in the condition that it is in because of him, a revelation that shocks Tacky.

The Maker and Tacky then, at The Maker’s insistence, leap into the Exit Portal, returning both of them to The Maker’s Hut. Also at The Maker’s insistence, Tacky leaves to explore and map out Faradesia for him, a quest that will hopefully give Tacky the time to overcome whatever is plaguing him. The Maker, in turn, sets off to experiment further with his own power, inspired by the coming of his “heir.”

END OF ARC 2

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Played out in-game on 11/23/2012 and 11/26/2012. Written 12/1/2012.

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Chapter V: Overcome by Power

Chapter V: Overcome by Power

Tacky makes his way to Mistal Swamp via the Nether Portals, which he has now determined to have been built by The Maker himself. However, shortly after arriving, he finds himself feeling woozy and subdued. He loses control of himself and blacks out. He wakes up in a pit in nearby Sekyl Jungle, trapped. He tries desperately to jump out of the pit, but it is far too deep. Then, he flies up and out of the pit. Unable to believe what had just happened, the young adventurer continues into the jungle. It isn’t long before he experiences the same out-of-body sensation and blacks out again. This time, he comes to at the bottom of a small, semi-deep body of water, shocked that he can still breathe. When he walks out of the water, he smells burning. He looks up and sees that a few large trees are on fire. It is then that he realizes that he is holding a mysterious rock. He waves it around a bit and is startled when a burst of fire rises up from the ground nearby. He is holding a Fire Charge, a powerful object sometimes used as a weapon against vicious Mobs.

Tacky decides to visit a doctor back in Desert’s Edge, and he leaves Sekyl Jungle promptly and walks back to his village on foot. This also involves walking underwater for an extended period of time, as he must cross the Great Ocean in order to reach the other subcontinent. (He is surprised to find himself in Faradesia Forest, in which Maker’s Grove can be found, when he reaches the other side.) And he can breathe the entire time that he is underwater. When Tacky reaches Desert’s Edge, he heads towards the doctor’s house. Before he can make it, however, he blacks out again. He wakes up at the bottom of the village well; he surfaces, only to realize that he is again holding the Fire Charge and a villager has been burned to death. He rushes to the doctor’s house.

The doctor tells Tacky that he must find The Maker because the abilities that he has been displaying match some of those possessed by The Maker. Tacky is shocked that the doctor believes in The Maker’s existence but inquires as to where he should start. The doctor tells him: The Nether. Then, Tacky suddenly finds himself with his Enchanted Bow drawn and aimed at the doctor. He tells the doctor to run because he cannot control himself, but it is too late; the doctor is hit with a fire-arrow and perishes. Tacky runs off to find the nearest Nether Portal, terrified by what has been happening to him.

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Played out in-game from 11/19/2012 through 11/22/2012. Written 11/22/2012.

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Chapter IV: The Legend Lives

Chapter IV: The Legend Lives

After traveling for weeks, Tacky comes to an unfamiliar forest. And in the middle of this forest, he finds a clearing, in which a Beacon protects the surrounding land and a tiny hut rests beside a strange, purple portal. Tacky approaches the hut and is stunned to find out that the sign posted beside the hut’s door reads “The Maker’s Hut.” The presence of a nearby mine entrance and the Beacon only confirms his suspicions: this is Maker’s Grove. The Maker exists. In an effort to gather more information about the Maker’s current whereabouts, he enters the portal and finds himself in The Nether. In the Nether, he finds a plethora of Nether Portals, each leading to a different part of Faradesia. While investigating The Maker’s whereabouts, he also ventures deep into The Nether in an effort to find out the meaning behind its existence.

In The Maker’s Hut, Tacky finds and takes an Enchanted Bow from the Chest within. In The Maker’s Mine, while in Deep Haven, Tacky finds that he possesses powers similar to those described in the legend to be possessed by The Maker himself. With his newfound power, he builds a mysterious, unnerving box called an Ender Chest. When he opens up his creation, he is shocked to find that it already has things stored in it…even though he has just built it. One such item is a book containing a list of coordinates for various Nether Portals and ruins throughout Faradesia and The Nether. Shortly afterwards, however, he loses his power and falls into a coma. He wakes up two days later in the bed in The Maker’s Hut. Later, Tacky discovers Underwater Cavern. However, he also discovers that just beyond its back wall lies an underground network of massive caverns, in one of which he finds a strange, horizontal formation of odd altars, placed in a square as if forming a portal. He decides to remember this and leaves, a tad afraid of the strange frame. When Tacky takes a Nether Portal to Distant Forest, he discovers The Maker’s Retreat, the most beautiful abode ever described in legend; it is just as breathtaking as the stories say. In The Maker’s Bedroom, just off the Retreat’s main cavern, he finds a book describing the three known homes of The Maker: The Maker’s Hut, Deep Haven, and The Maker’s Retreat. He also finds another Ender Chest containing the same things that he had found inside his own Ender Chest in Deep Haven, minus the book of coordinates. In the Nether, Tacky travels to the highest point in the dimension, Y-coordinate N128, and finds that the roof of The Nether is an endless, flat, expanse of stone, like the stone found in Faradesia.

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Played out in-game from 11/18/2012 through 11/19/2012. Written 11/19/2012.

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Interlude I: Tacky

~About fifty years have passed~

ARC 2: CHASING A LEGEND

Interlude I: Tacky

Many years have passed since the events of Arc 1. Tacky is a youth from Desert’s Edge who hears about the legendary Maker. He decides to leave Desert’s Edge to explore Faradesia, inspired by the mythical exploits of The Maker.

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Backstory; never played out in-game. Written 11/19/2012.

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Chapter III: The Maker & The End

Chapter III: The Maker & The End

During a visit to Desert’s Edge, The Maker decides to check out the Desert Temple, located at the far edge of the village (technically outside its border). The villagers warn him that the Temple is absolutely forbidden, even to someone with his now-legendary power. The Maker ignores their words and walks to the Temple, armed with his signature Enchanted Diamond Sword. He discovers a hidden passage in the back of the Temple leading behind the temple. There, he finds a very dark Portal unlike any he has ever seen before. He enters it and finds himself in a third dimension—this one completely separate from Faradesia and The Nether—known as The End. There, a single, massive island floats in an empty space. On this island, hundreds and hundreds of dangerous, intelligent Endermen live. And a mighty dragon, the Ender Dragon. The Ender Dragon flies above the island, healed of all wounds by several powerful Ender Crystals. The Maker engages the Ender Dragon in combat, creating for himself an Enchanted Bow. He flies and easily dispatches the Ender Crystals, and then begins attacking the Ender Dragon directly. Eventually, the Ender Dragon explodes in a ball of light, leaving behind another End Portal that takes The Maker back to Faradesia.

END OF ARC 1

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Played out in-game on 11/18/2012. Written 11/19/2012.

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Chapter II: Shortcut World

Chapter II: Shortcut World

The Maker begins building several more Portals in the Nether and explores different areas of Faradesia, including the Nullard Mountains, the Nullard Depths, the village of Desert’s Edge, Distant Forest, the Subterranean Rivers cavern, and Mistal Swamp. At the same time, he studies The Nether, learning about its connection to Faradesia. He also discovers three more Nether Portal ruins: in Underwater Cavern, the peak of Sky Mountain (part of the Nullard Mountains range), and on a partially-floating isle in The Nether. He begins keeping a log of coordinates for all of the Portals he has built, all of the Portal ruins he finds, and villages he comes across.

In Desert’s Edge, The Maker has a run-in with a couple of villagers and decides to demonstrate his power by constructing a Redstone circuit that detonates TNT under said villagers’ house. Both villagers drown after falling into the small lake below. In Distant Forest, he digs out a large cavern in a hill near his Nether Portal and makes it into a beautiful underground retreat with walls of diamond, a ceiling of lapis lazuli, and a floor of gold. He also digs out a second room, which he makes his bedroom, modeled in the style of his hut back in Maker’s Grove.

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Played out in-game from 11/16/2012 through 11/19/2012. Written 11/19/2012.

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Chapter I: The Maker & The Nether

ARC 1: OTHER WORLDS

Chapter I: The Maker & The Nether

The Maker builds a Nether Portal beside The Maker’s Hut and discovers a semi-parallel dimension called The Nether. He builds another Portal a few yards away in The Nether, and finds himself in an undersea cavern (which he dubs Unknown Cavern) about half-a-mile away from Maker’s Grove. He returns to The Nether and discovers the ruin of a previously-built Nether Portal near his portal to Unknown Cavern.

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Played out in-game on 11/16/2012. Written 11/19/2012.

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Prologue: The Maker

Prologue: The Maker

The Maker builds his hut in a grove. He also digs a mine, eventually turning one of the larger caverns he digs out into an additional makeshift shelter (later coined as Deep Haven). Shortly afterwards, he discovers that he has the ability to create anything.

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Played out in-game on 11/16/2012. Written 11/19/2012.

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