Chapter 1 - A Perfectly Fine, Normal Day

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**Part 1 - Understanding the World of "Minecraft"**
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***Chapter 1 - A Perfectly Fine, Normal Day***

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## Content

I woke up in my comfy bed in my room, at 9 AM. I had fallen asleep at 9 PM, for the first time. I missed my Minecraft friends. I wished I could enjoy and play the game better, and Hypixel would create more games, or at least better ones. I wished Watchdog would be better. I got on my computer and played all day. I did it all on a YouTube stream, and - good news - I got prestige 1 in the Pit game on the Hypixel server! It honestly was very exciting, but most of the other players just made fun of me for being so excited ‘bout the “noob-prestige” (prestige 5 or below). I typed, “At least I got it in the first place; for a player like me, it‘s very exciting.” Most of the other players joked again. BlueberryCloud started streaming (and I was still streaming, too), and I fell asleep during it. I was AFK all night, and it was really funny. I guess I coulda earned the title, “most active player.”

When I woke up the next morning, I saw the computer was still running. I turned off the stream and told everyone ‘bout it. Most didn‘t believe me, but would you expect ‘em to? I felt a tingling sensation throughout my body, for no sane reason. Then, everything went blank.

Everything formed cubically. I didn‘t know what had happened. I felt odd, like I was cubic, too. I still had my same thoughts, remembering everything in that other world, but that other world didn‘t seem to be the reality anymore. Suddenly, my mind wildly forced into my thoughts, *Vivid dream! Vivid dream! Vivid dream!* I thought ‘bout dying to get outta it. That always worked. What if it was real? I didn‘t wanna find out. *Maybe let‘s try to find something painful,* I thought, *If it feels somewhat soothing, then it‘s a vivid dream.* That would make a lotta sense, but what could I find to give myself pain? I already would hafta deal with the pain even if it wasn‘t a vivid dream, but how could I get hurt in the first place? Can I answer these questions? Is there anyone else in this world? By asking these questions, I only became even more perplexed.

I finally got an idea, I thought it would work perfectly. I was gonna punch myself, yes, it‘s strange, but it‘d work! I was thinking ‘bout it, *How would this hurt me, to begin with?* Eventually, I thought of an answer, *It might not **hurt** me but it wouldn‘t be **soothing** either.* I began punching myself then I accidentally hit the ground next to me. The weirdest thing happened, the ground cracked, but it went back to normal. For a moment, I was very bewildered. Then, an idea sparked, *Is this Minecraft?!* I looked up. To my surprise, a sorta hologram came into view. It read “SpeedoThreeSixty,” in all white. This world **was** Minecraft! Then, I had another thought: How could I punch myself? It wouldn‘t hurt (puns everywhere, y‘know) to try, wouldn‘t it? I looked at my feet with my right hand and punched. I felt a short, disorienting pain. It was not **soothing** at all, just **painful**. I was **really** in the world of Minecraft.

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