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Here is the true story of a "normal" day in Minecraft. I'll never play this game again!
==The Start of Bob's Nightmare==
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I started up Minecraft later in the day (3:00 am) and decided that my 300+ hours’hours' worth of work creating a giant, floating, tortoise-shaped castle in my newest land was already getting boring. So, I knew a new land was needed!! This new one would be… wait for it… I looked up some random articles on Wikipedia to get me ideas. I finally got an idea: Choolu! From a story by H.P. Lovecraft, this monster was so dangerous, even looking at it funny would make you crazy. Seemed like a good land name. I quickly typed in the name into the new map menu.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I was placed underground, of all places. Go figure. I couldn’tcouldn't see, and wacking around in the dark didn’tdidn't help much. So, I dug up. I kept digging up until I reached a snow area, and was looking at a monstrous face from the hole I just dug. It turned out to be a cow, so I named it Bob.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Bob and I were best friends. It didn’tdidn't follow me at first, but I grew some wheat and had it follow me all the time. I brought it inside the house I built of sand/dirt blocks, and would blast music with Bob in a big party until my mom started pounding on the ceiling below my room, yelling, "Turn that trash off!!" I guess Bob and I needed to find other fun things to do for bonding.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Next thing we could do was fishing. A fishing rod required sticks and string. I had the sticks, so I left Bob in my house and decided to go out into the world to find some string.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I figured when I got back, I would make an island for Bob and me to hang out safely on without worrying about creepers blowing up the side of our sand/dirt house every night. I figured I would make a bridge to an island for Bob, and it would be our personal little disco island. We could invite our friends over for big parties, and go fishing. I said goodbye to Bob and ventured out into the world for some spider webs…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">When I came across the snowy, blocky hills, I found our house was still disguised with snow and in perfect shape.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"Bob, I’mI'm home!" I yelled out loud as I came through the door. I heard my mom pounding on the ceiling below my room.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Bob wasn’twasn't there. I looked in our basement, but no Bob. I looked in our bathroom, which was empty except for two dirt tubs of water, but it was empty. I started to panic. I looked at the windows and made sure they weren’tweren't broken. I looked in our disco room: behind the chairs, around the big stage, but no partying, mooing Bob.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"Oooooh," I said sadly, as the game made a very similar noise. It made more of a "Moooohhh."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"Wait, that’sthat's Bob!" I figured. The sound was coming from inside a wall in the disco room. I dug through a wall, but found more blocks. This was in the hillside.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I kept hearing a "Moo!" so I kept digging. I dug about ten blocks ahead until the sound no longer came from ahead, but below. I had plenty of food, armor, and wheat, so I dug down into the underground world.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I only dug down two blocks until I fell into a cave. Not just any cave, but a very wide, round one lit with torches. I’veI've never seen that in a Minecraft game, so I already knew this was special place like a dungeon. I didn’tdidn't think I would live though, because I kept falling right past all the torches. I kept falling to a new section of torches below the last one. When I thought my character would hit the ground and die instantly, I hit a big pond of water. I swam up and found that I couldn’tcouldn't see the hole I fell out of. The ceiling was amazingly high. I was in this exploration for the long haul.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I bobbed over to an edge of the pond and found a flat ground of grass. I didn’tdidn't know why they were growing, because there wasn’twasn't sunlight. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They covered the whole ground of the area, lit by torches, and at one end was a single pile of blocks that shaped a chair. I walked over. Because of proportions, it was hard to say if the blocks were supposed to be a chair or partly completed sink, but it was just sitting out in the open.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I heard a "Moo!" behind me. I turned around and saw a 2D upside down tree drawn in the wall across the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I walked over to it. It was made of a light-colored wood.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I started freaking out. What could this upside down 2D tree mean?! It had only one stem and two branches angled 45 degrees away from it. I suddenly felt cold, and started shivering.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"Oh, that caving fiend. Like Dad, like son," I said for some weird reason.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">My render distance was tooooo short to see who it was, though.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"Dang it, why did I turn it so far down when I started the game?" I asked myself. Man was I stupid; it didn’tdidn't make sense. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I quickly went the menu and changed the render distance. I saw a player character in plain clothing running in the other direction. I heard a moo also come from that direction.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"GIVE ME BACK BOB!" I shouted, chasing after him. As I heard my mom below my room start ranting, I thought that this guy must be an animal thief. I chased him down a series of 2X1 shafts and we also ran through rooms with small pyramids surrounded by water (toilets?). At the end of one hall, I saw him jump in a purple portal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Before I chased him, I placed a bed and went to sleep. I was tired, too, so I shut off the game and waited until tomorrow to see what was behind the portal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">That night, Bob came to me in a dream, hovering over my character with red eyes. I was my character, and Bob was wearing a pink tutu around his big black and white waist (it seemed fitting at the time) and was saying in a French accent, "Save me, Steve. Save me." Yeah, my name’sname's Steve.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">After loading up the game the next day, I found out I misspelled the world and that I wrote Choolu as "Chooly." Oh well, close enough. I don’tdon't think Choolu is how it’sit's spelled in the first place.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I was disappointed when my character woke up in his old house. Then, I saw Bob right in front of me. His big, white eyes stared wistfully at me as though to tell me that the days we spent together were only getting started and that he has an infection in his left-back hoof because he stepped on a rotten piece of wheat which held a spider’sspider's nest and a spider bit him which didn’tdidn't cause much damage but made it itchy so he itched it until a sore opened and then it became infected.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I ran up to the big lug to give him some wheat, and the moment I got close to him, I was suddenly in the tunnel I had been in before. In Bob’sBob's place was the same player character I saw before, now facing me. His eyes were missing colors.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">He whacked at me and turned around and ran, jumping into the purple portal from earlier. I noticed the portal’sportal's edges were made of sponges. Weird.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I jumped in after him, not thinking twice about what I was doing. The world I found was much darker and more disturbing than anything I could have ever imagined or even created.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">The land was entirely made of hills of sponges. Sponges. There were no trees, but instead blocks of emerald with wool tops of different colors. Instead of flowers there were mushrooms, and there were towering mushrooms of wood stalks and gold and diamond tops, creating a horrific image of trapping whatever lied below. The nearby ocean was milk.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I started screaming loudly, only faintly hearing a banging noise on the floor of my room through my loud voice. This was Bob’sBob's darkest dream. I knew it was. I started to put two and two together. I had named my world "Chooly." Could this be the work of the monster itself? Was the strange character the monster in disguise?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I knew how bad it had gotten when the world started raining light-blue blood. There was no escape for me. No turning off the game and shutting down my computer for eternity. To escape, I had to save Bob.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I started off checking my provisions. Nothing had changed. I still had two spare iron swords and a couple of spare pickaxes. I gulped down my overwhelming fears and went down a nearby hillside.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">In the far distance, past the gigantic monster mushrooms of terror, was a large structure. That was a start.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I ran towards it, and once I neared the mushrooms, I veered around them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">In this strange land of grotesqueness, I was not alone. Oh no, there were… things. Things with orange block heads with dark stripes along the heads’heads' length. Probably blood. They had no eyes and mouth but blackness, with gaping mouths and large, thick, uneven teeth. Their heads sat on two blocks of pure white, like white bone. All they had for limbs were two measly, gnarled, brown arms that seemed disproportionate to their whole body. I stayed clear of these at all costs.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I finally reached the building. It was a tall, large castle of wood. I saw a sign near the archway leading to the black depths within.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I walked up to the sign, fearful of what I would find.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">The sign stood in the place a real sign might be. It was on the wall of the building. On it was written, "DEATH TO STEVE!!"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I nearly choked. I could’vecould've almost cried reading those words.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I walked into the archway, and kept walking. Everything was dark, but I saw a faint glow in the distance. Walking up to it, I found they were glowing pools of thick, sludgy blood. Or lava.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">These pools were arranged on both sides of a pathway, the one I was on. This path led up to a faintly lit figure. As I got closer, I saw it was Bob.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"I… am… BOOOOOBBBBBBB," He yelled in such a terrifyingly loud voice that I jumped back in my chair. He head shook wildly as he yelled this into the ceiling.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I stared in shock with my mouth hanging open. The cow I loved and trusted for the last day, a traitor??</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"Thank you for this fine wheat you’veyou've provided for my family. It’sIt's time to wake them up."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Suddenly, I noticed there was a lot more light in the room. I turned around in horror to find it was set abaze! The lava had started burning away the wood building.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"Grrr… No matter," I heard Bob grumble from behind me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">The block ocean of milk started to move, like it was churning.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">"The time for awakening had come!!!1" His head twisted around wildly and he started whacking the wheat in his hand like a mad man.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">In one fell swoop, he ran to the ocean and threw what I’mI'm guessing is the entire stock of wheat I had given Bob, uh, the monster, our entire time together.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Suddenly, what seemed like thousands of squids flew out of the ocean en mass. They all few into the portal-like reflection above and disappeared in flashes of light. Bob started laughing maniacally so strongly that I shook in fear in the awe-inspiring site.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Once the flight of the squids from the ocean began to slow down, Bob stopped laughing and shaking his head at the heavens. He instead ran straight into the ocean himself. I wanted to stop him; to do anything. I was too scared to take out my sword and hit him.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Suddenly, the milk ocean started churning again. It churned and churned until I had to run up the hill behind me to the now half-standing burning building to escape the waves of killer milk.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I heard a large roar, like the sound of thunder mixed with a dragon’sdragon's roar. Out of the mass of milk came the most horrible thing you could imagine. I couldn’tcouldn't believe my eyes, and blinked several times to make sure I wasn’twasn't dreaming.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">A giant dragon figure came out of the ocean, but instead of a head it had a giant squid. It was a dragon-squid hybrid, like a science experiment gone terribly wrong. Its expression couldn’tcouldn't be read as it flew into the portal above.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I needed to get to the real Minecraft world. I turned around to the formerly burning building and saw a portal standing among the ruins of the extinguished fire. I ran to it and jumped in.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">I did get transported back to the real world, but it had a sky of red, like flames, and the squids flew around in dizzying arrays of destruction. Behind me, I heard a roar.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">Near where I originally started the game, I saw the monster beast, flying in great circles and breathing fire blasts out of its squid mouth. It was shouting something, but I couldn’tcouldn't make out what it was saying except the last part.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">"…I AM CHOOLY! HEAR ME ROAR!"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">I jumped in my seat upon these words. The squids began to increase their speed. Many were dive-bombing trees, while others were attacking wildlife. One had a bucket of lava which it spread with glee on a patch of ground.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">No time to think. I pulled out my sword and ran to the beast. All my life had been leading up to this moment. I may lose my mind, but who knows what would happen to the Minecraft world, or even the real one, if I didn’tdidn't win this battle.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">The beast was more than ready to attack. It came at me with a powerful burst of speed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">"…ARRRGH!" I yelled. I heard someone in another room say, "Lunch is ready!" It must have been my mom. Little did she know that her son was locked in a battle that would change his life forever.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">Suddenly, a flurry of black tentacles came out of the computer screen and began choking me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">"Gah gah!" I sputtered out, fighting the ultra-realistic suckers around my throat.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">"You should have never named your game, ‘Chooly,'" said a deep, threatening voice from the computer or my own head. "Now you will suffer."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">My mom and dad burst into the room from behind me. I didn’tdidn't need to explain the situation, so my dad and mom both picked up baseball bats and started beating the creature. When that didn’tdidn't work, they started beating the computer instead. With the last spark of life from the computer, the monster evaporated into thin air. I fell to the ground in a great heap, choking for breath.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">My parents walked up. "What was that?" They asked sympathetically.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">"Choolu or Chooly or something. Whatever it is, I’mI'm never playing Minecraft again," I said through gulps of air.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">"Well, that’sthat's okay," Said my dad. "Let’sLet's go downstairs and have lunch. We can play some ping-pall afterwards."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">I nodded in agreement and got on my feet. We all walked out the door, leaving the smoldering wreckage of a computer, faintly shrouded by a black mist, at the base of the computer desk.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; tab-stops: 51.0pt;">Wherever a Minecraft game is played, Chooly may choose to appear. Take my warning: never name a map Chooly, or befriend a cow named Bob in Minecraft. It may mean your life.</p>