The Story


Yesterday, I started a survival world. Strolling over to the nearest patch of trees, I began to rapidly punch them. Watching the cracks spread across the wood blocks, I started imagining my dream house. Built out of cobblestone, seven stories high, a huge statue of myself in the center. But that would come soon. For now, I had to concentrate on the present and not the future.


Climbing out of my mineshaft, I was exhausted after such a long first day. As I built a small house out of my leftover planks, the sun crept down towards the horizon, shrouding the world in darkness.


I placed a torch on each wall, and a bed in the corner. Since it was night, I walked over to my bed, ready to sleep until the next morning. Suddenly, something flashed into my inventory. I looked down and saw it was a book. Curious, I opened the book and began to read. And for a second, I saw this:

In that second, I wondered how that book came into my possession. I was on singleplayer survival, and no village was anywhere near me. I was safe from the mobs, so it wasn't a drop.

Then I died.

I hit respawn, thinking that maybe it was a dream, possibly an update I overlooked. I waited as the terrain downloaded, which took much longer than usual. The loading bar inched its way to the final 10. With a quiet clicking noise, the screen went black. Why was that happening? I never installed any mods, so that was out of the question. Out of nowhere, a piercing scream erupted from my speakers, and another clicking noise spawned me in what used to be my survival world. However, this is what appeared:



So it had been Herobrine all along. I quit the game, and deleted the world file quickly. When I tried to log into my account today, I heard a distorted laugh and the program shut off.

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That's the end of my story. Just some advice for the future: don't open any mysterious books anytime soon.

~Stampmatthew