Invasion of the Overworld by Mark Cheverton

Author:Mark Cheverton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

PREPARATION

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hawny worked quickly, sketching out the plans for their defenses—not just walls and moats for the village, but traps for the unsuspecting mobs, areas with overlapping fire from archers, and choke points where one or two warriors could hold back a flood of attackers. This was what Shawny was best at: strategy. He was known to build great castles, their defenses nearly impregnable, and then just abandon them on one server only to construct an even greater work of strategic art somewhere else. And so they built, all through that day and into night. With hands newly freed, the villagers worked with tenacity, driving even the youngest children to build faster, everyone knowing that their lives teetered precariously on the edge of a blade, balanced between survival and destruction.

Oddly enough, few monsters came to the village that first night, Crafter’s prediction that the main attack would come the night after was obviously true. Only a few zombies approached out of the darkness, easily dispatched by Gameknight as he ran about the perimeter, protecting his workers, his village; he was the User-that-is-not-a-user after all. He felt responsible, not just for this battle or this village, but for all the griefing he’d done in the past, all the wrongs he’d committed at the expense of these electronic lives. He would somehow make it right.

And so they built through the night and into the next day, constructing dirt walls, stone archer towers, trenches filled with water, and wooden fences, all placed strategically. They then cut tunnels underneath the village, going from house to house; these were avenues of escape in case a zombie breached the wooden doors. Shawny’s commands were followed to the letter even though sometimes the NPCs didn’t understand why holes were being placed in specific locations, with tunnels brushing up against these holes but not reaching all the way down.

“Murder holes,” Shawny had answered the questioning villagers. “You’ll understand when the time comes.”

As they built the defenses, Crafter sent villagers out through their underground minecart system, relaying the defensive plans to the other villages all across Minecraft. This was not just a battle for this village, but a battle for all villages. It was important in Shawny’s plans that the monsters be denied any victims from now on, their craving for XP heightened and magnified.

“But why make them crave more XP?” the Mayor asked. “It will just make them more violent, more aggressive.”

“That’s true,” Shawny said as he directed the placement of walls, purposely only one block thick at certain locations, “but an angry opponent can be easily manipulated into a position that is favorable to you and deadly to them. We need to be able to herd all of the monsters on this server to one location where they can be trapped. The only way we can do that is to deny them XP from the villages, but offer it to them in a place of our choosing. Then we’ll close our trap and get rid of them all in one stroke.

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