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Okay, so how do we save this??? Yes, he's kind-of seen the Leviathan, he wasn't a vampire, he casts a reflection, but he couldn't just say that!
"Kind-of seen is a strong word, but I've felt him" What. What were the words coming out of his mouth. What did he just say. Felt???
"Him?" Thank kelp, Wifies chose to focus on the pronoun and not the mystical kelpfodder that had just exited his mouth.
"Him, it, listen," he started, choosing to forgo the discussion of how exactly he started to refer to all forms of himself per he/him when he was using it/its for literal decades. "I can take you there." His sight locked onto Wifies' in an attempt at eye contact. "But it's up to you."
Silence.
"...what, you can take me to... feel the Leviathan?" The other seemed pretty unconvinced. "To the Leviathan," Hummer corrected, stepping a bit closer. "Yeah. But it's up to you."
"Yeah, wait, 100%." Okay, that went about as expected then. "If you can, that'd be great, I would love to."
Hummer hummed (hah) and started walking back towards the exit. "Let's get going before the sun sets." He held the door open for Wifies. "Uh, I've got a boat, and it will go out to my ship."
'Okay, let's do this', Hummer thought to himself as they started rowing in the direction of his ship
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"It's actually a pretty cool ship, did you build it yourself?" Came a voice from behind him, disrupting the relative silence that had accompanied them so far.
And indeed it was, sails and masts looming out towards the night sky, huge considering the party of one that was meant to reside in it. Hummer didn't spend that much time in there, on regard of the fact that he could travel quicker and with much more joy in his true form, so most of his stay onboard was simply ensuring it looked lived-in enough. Sleeping in the bed, leaving knick-knacks, setting out maps and charted courses. And, over time, it became a nice space to just... keep his stuff in. Humans were good at making treasures, and a boat was the perfect place to keep them close at all times, without waterlogging the more sensetive ones, like books or paper.
"Oh, nah, I just stole it form a youtube tutorial," was all he said, getting a soft laugh out of his passenger, as they sailed closer and closer.
"I respect it," Wifies replied. "I mean, it looks pretty good, so whatever you did worked."
Hummer once again elected to ignore the warm, fuzzy feeling that the praise elicited in him. "Okay, we are here now," he announced instead, parking right next to the ladder on the side of the ship and helping his passenger up.
"So, are we going to see this thing?" Wifies inquired eagerly, not even bothering to wait until he was on deck. Oh okay, apparently his patience only exists sometimes, noted.
"Uh, yeah." Kelp, he was tired. "But first, let's go to sleep." Amazing plan! "Umm, I've got beds in this chest here."
It's not a well known fact, but as an entity who doesn't really exist outside of Minecraft (yet), he could get tired in-game. His eyelids drooped and stuck together, his limbs felt like they were made of lead (which, if you usually do not have limbs, is quite the odd sensation), and he felt about 20 seconds away from collapse. He hopes that sleeping with humans around will still leave him refreshed, considering that if an actual human sleeps it just skips the game's night cycle entirely. Well, here's to hoping!
He went around the ship on autopilot, securing the little boat to the side, checking the thing for damage, getting a quick drink of load-bearing water, and it felt like no time had passed before he was lying in bed, Wifies just a few blocks away in his own.
He felt the exhaustion taking hold as he faceplanted into the pillow, faintly registering Wifies saying something-
Suddenly, it was day.
"Is there a reason we're doing this in survival, by the way, and not in creative?" Wifies said, and Hummer was aware that this was the sentence he'd started saying before they fell asleep, but he showed no signs of having paused speaking, and Hummer's body felt exactly as it usually did after a full 8 hours. Huh. "I feel like it's just easier to look without worrying about dying."
And oh. He'd only now registered what the other had been saying, too absorbed in the confusing mechanisms of a living being in a video game world, and it left a bad taste in his mouth, not unlike accidentally biting down on a drowned or a pufferfish. Creative mode. They believe that they can find him in creative mode.
"Well, I don't think Levi really wants to be found in creative," he started, focusing on not letting any of the disgust or disappointment shine through his tone. "Like, think about it. Do you want to be found by somebody that's flying around, and they're immortal- It just doesn't make sense, does it?" Kelpdamnit, he definitely sounds like a madman now. But he can't help it. The thought of players who gave themselves full control of the world, humans that usurped godlike power and now believed themselves invincible, just- flying over and seeing him, observing him, trying to kill him, until they decide they've had their fill and disconnect? It left his metaphorical scales feeling slimy and gross. A god, reduced to a glorified zoo animal by ordinary people, escaping their lives into the screen. It just- felt wrong. If a human wanted to see him, they would have to try harder.
"...I mean-" Wifies said, interruping himself with a half laught, half scoff. "Do you think Levi wants to be found? And he isn't just part of the game, like, can he want anything?" There it is. He was too good to be true, something like this had to happen sooner or later. He logically knew that this would probably happen - the human was pragmatic, very evidence-driven, very realistic. But to hear his own existence dismissed as 'code in a game' that 'cannot want anything' made whatever words he was about to say die in his mouth, a half-aborted sound escaping instead. He took a second to clear his throat and compose himself, before continuing:
"Okay, I mean, listen, you can do you or whatever," he started. Okay Hummer you've got this, you need to slowly get him to actually believe. How hard can that be? "But you know, you're on my turf. And the way it's usually found, I think it's 98,5% of all accounts of Levi, they're found in survival." Logic! Yes, okay, that works. The logical human, who does logical things, may do illogical things, if presented with the proper, logical arguments!
...okay, he's sounding a bit insane even to himself, so better move on from all of that.
"So, you know, you can fly around and be immortal, you can- you have the choice." Here goes nothing. "You can do it the easy way, or you can do it the right way."
He finished his little empassioned monologue, and immediately felt a bit bad. Yes, the other did basically tell him 'to me you are just lines of code", but he wasn't exactly aware of the fact that the one and only, literal, in-the-flesh Leviathan was standing right in front of him. Oh kelp he'd made it awkward didn't he, his human will leave and he'll have to look for another one-
"...okay, yeah, we can do it in survival, that's fine," Wifies said, with only a slightly-forced laugh. Yes! He doesn't think he's insane! Or maybe he does and is just nodding along to avoid conflict, but who cares! He had time to convert him still!
Hummer smiled. "Okay, lovely! Uh, take this tropical fish, by the way." He tossed the bucket to the player, who picked it up from the ground.
"Thaaank you," he said, looking at his new possession with curiosity. Hummer chose to ignore it, regardless of how cute it was, and stepped over to his water... through? basin? wooden container thing.
"Umm, okay, so first of all, like, open up your F3 menu," he started. Wifies just hummed in response. "Can you see everything? Like, all of that clutter, everything."
"Yes, yeah," was his response, delivered by a half-focused Wifies, presumably looking at the wall of text currently in front of his face.
"Okay." Hummer looked him up and down before continuing. "So, when you're finding Levi, you do not want that in your face, but there's some really important things you need to keep track of." He took a breath in. "So, we're going to just clear all of that and keep a few things."
"Alright, sounds good." Damn, his human was smart! "Okay, so press F3 and F6..."
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"Yep. Okay, I'm pretty sure I have everything," Wifies announced, and Hummer had to force himself not to let out a sigh of relief. That took way longer than it had any right to, but finally it's done, and that's all the matters.
"Okay, nice. Well, I'll run through everything quickly just so you know and you got the grasp of it," he spoke quickly, as if he was running out of air, and sagnificantly too fast for any kind of important relaying of information. But, judging by the quick 'mhm' of his human, they were both very impatient to just get this over with.
"Umm, firstly, like FPS and memory, you can see them on the left hand side? If your FPS drops or your memory spikes, that means something very big has happened in the server, and you just need to flag that and try to find out what's changed."
"Yes, okay, sounds good."
"Talking about the entity side of stuff, people always think that all the false reports are always about them being drowned or guardians and thinking they're Levi. You got to make sure that what you're looking at is not that. So, if you look at your entity and render stats, uh, if you look at me, it should say for targeted entity 'player'" Please work please work please work please work please work-
"Right, it does." Oh thank kelp.
"Another thing as well is the entity counter. If you look at the top left, it says zero out of two entities. Those two entities are you and me." That was his most complex lie so far, actually. The 'player' thing took far too long to get the hang of, and he was almost scared that it would say 'unknown entity', or, even worse, 'leviathan'. He just has to worry about the entity counter now, which is, by far, the easier one to trick. "There should be no other entities that spawn in this sea." Courtesy of his territory markings. "Okay. So, if, for some reason, that says zero out of three, there's something else here. You need to find out where it is and what it is, use the targeted entity to find out what it's called." Another 'mhm' from Wifies. "And take a screenshot, flag it, and return."
"Okay, that sounds good, that makes sense." Either humans are sagnificantly easier to work with than he thought, or this is the world's best and smartest human. Either way he's really enjoying himself.
"The final thing is entity hitboxes. I gave you that fish, right?" "Yes." Wifies nodded, putting the item in his hand.
"Okay, put it in there." His human stepped onto the wooden container and released the fish. "If you can see, there's a big, sort-of white box around it?"
"Yeah, yeah." Smart human.
"So, this ocean, especially further down, it gets pretty dark, it's pretty hard to find an entity. If, for whatever reason, that entity counter in your top left goes up to zero out of three, like it is right now, you need to try to find a white, bright, box and go towards it, that's the easiest way you're gonna find an entity. You got that?"
"Okay, yeah yeah yeah, I think I'm ready." Wifies tossed the bucket, fish included, in his direction.
"Nice, it's time." He ran towards the back of the ship.
"We're going down?" Wifies asked behind him, barely keeping up.
"Uhh, yes." Okay checklist: potion, check, F3 menu, check, farm, check, subtitles- SUBTITLES. "Actually, one more thing. Uh, turn on subtitles. That's really important." He explained. "There's some really quiet noises in there. You need to know what they're called."
"Ohhh, yeah, good idea," his human responded, digging through his settings. "Alright, subtitles are on."
"You're ready?"
"Yes."
"Okay, there is a farm over there, by the way, if you need any food," he added, as he realized that 'farm' was not, in fact, checked.
"Okay, thank you." It seemed that amused Wifies, if his quiet laugh was anything to go by.
"Okay, nice," he threw absentmindedly, once again thinking about all the logistics of this hopefully very interesting trip. "Uhh, this is it, this will take you down."
"You're not coming with me?" He felt his resolve melt slightly. Oh how is he allowed to say that so adorably??? But no, his plan would be either needlessly complicated or ruined by that. Besides, if nothing goes wrong, Wifies will return with much more excitement than going down together could ever cause him.
"No, uhh, no, I'm not, get in." He pulled out the water-breathing potion out of his pocket and splashed them both with it.
"Okay?" Wifies said, now dripping with splash potion.
"Uhh, okay, now you've got water breathing, yeah keep going, keep going-" He prompted the other, and he walked into the admittedly pretty small flying (swimming?) machine. "Uh, if you check your inventory, it should say in the top right you much time you've got. Once that goes down to 10 seconds, I'm going to call this back up, okay?" He looked his human over. "You've got that long to go down there and explore and try to find Levi. Do you have any questions? No? Okay, lovely, see you down there."
"See you soon! I'll be back with like a minute left!" he heard from the rapidly descending contraption.
He felt an almost buzz-like sensation moving through his veins, and he streched and cracked his knuckles, hearing them pop.
'It's go time.'