Chapter Text
"Alright. I got the wood. Now what?"
Pyro pressed a button on the keyboard, making sure Scout was watching. A menu appeared. Scout's avatar was displayed in it.
"Woah, is that me?" Scout moved the mouse around, which moved the avatar as well. "Heh. Cool."
"Whoops."
Pyro pressed a different button, opening another menu.
"Uhhh, okay.. It's blank."
They pointed to the blocks of wood in his inventory, then to the 2x2 blank area in the menu. "Move it there," they mumbled.
Scout moved the whole stack to one space.
"No, make sure there's wood in every space."
He clicked the wood again, picking up every piece. "Uhh, how do I just get one?"
"Right-click."
"What?"
"Here." Pyro clicked for him, and let him fill the spaces himself. A new item showed up in a separate space next to the four boxes. "Get that."
Scout put it in his inventory. "'Cruhhh.. Crafting.. table'? What's that?"
"It lets you make bigger items like tools and stuff. But you have to put it down first."
"Oh, okay. Cool. Should I make a tool?"
"Uhhhh…" Pyro picked at their gloves, examining the area of the game Scout was in. "Not yet. You should build a house before it gets dark."
Scout nodded, exiting the menu and scouting (heh) out a good place to build his house. He killed some sheep and cows on the way, much to Pyro's dismay (and to which Scout would defend himself by saying "Hey! You told me I need food!").
After a while, he settled on a field next to a mountain, with a village in the distance he would explore later. For now, he was focused on his house, as per his friend's advice.
He went for a classic, square oak wood house. After finishing the outline, a problem came to light.
"Aw, crap. I need more wood." He looked around for some trees, which were getting harder to see in the dimming light. "Is there a thing you can get that makes you see better?"
"There's uhh, a potion of night vision. But it's really hard to get 'cause you gotta make a brewing stand which you need a blaze rod for and to find a blaze you have to go to the Nether—"
"Dude, what? Ain't there somethin' easier than that?"
Pyro stared blankly at the screen for a second (though it looks like they're staring blankly all the time with that mask, anyway).
"..Oh yeah, torches! But you gotta get coal. And to get coal you need a pickaxe. But it's already night and mining at night is scary."
"Why," Scout teased, "are there monsters?"
"......Did I not tell you?"
Scout punched at what he hoped was an oak tree. "Uhh, tell me what?"
"That there are monsters at night."
"What?!"
Hssssss..
"Wha-"
BOOM!
A massive explosion was set off directly behind Scout's character, leaving a huge crater and sending his stuff flying everywhere.
A red overlay appeared on screen, along with the words 'You died!'
Scout pushed his chair out, standing up and cracking his back.
"Yeah, I think I'm done playin' for now."
The sound of a throat being cleared. The two of them looked to the doorway, where Soldier was standing.
"Medic said it's my turn on the computer."