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Grian woke up with a throbbing headache. He knew he had flown into Tango's base, he wasn't paying attention. He didn't know why, but he felt heavy, like something was weighing him down. He wasn't wearing any armour, and nothing was touching him. It was the air. The air itself was heavy. Then Grian realized where he was. It was a giant crater with some weird obsidian grid floating very high in the air
"Where am I?" Grian questions. He takes out his comms and looks at chat.
Sapnap: who the fuck is grian
Tubbo_: you act like I knwo
Ph1lZa: I dont remember dream talking about adding anyone recently
Ranboo: where is tommy?
Tubbo_: NOOOOOO
Grian was very confused, since he recognized no one. Ph1lZa did give him some sort of memory, but he's not sure where.
Grian: Hello, I'm Grian, and I'm not supposed to be here.
Sapnap: we can tell
Technoblade: where are you? ill give you a tour
After Techno finds Grian lying in the man-made canyon, he starts the tour.
"This right here a country was blown up 3 times, where I spawned a lot of withers at once, and where I executed a child," Techno explains. "We just don't feel like fixing it up right now."
"You executed a child!?" Grian says in shock. He was talking to a child murderer. "What did they even do?"
"Oh yeah, he was a spy for both our nation and the enemy nation in one of the wars." Techno states. "Besides, I'm not the only one to kill a child here. So did the admin Dream. He beat Tommyinnit to death with a potato in prison."
Grian stops in his tracks with that last sentence. There were multiple child murderers on this server, one of them being The admin, who was in jail for some reason. Was that why spawn was in ruins?
"Grian?" Techno asks the man who just stands there. "Is everything alright?"
"Yeah. Is everyone on this server violent?" Grian replies. "Why is the admin in prison?"
"Yeah, basically all of us are fighters, and he's in prison cause he manipulated many people, including Tommy, and is just a terrible person." Techno answers Grian.
"Who is Tommy?" Grian asks Techno. "I saw his name in comms. Where did he go?"
Techno pauses to think before answering the question. "I'm not sure, but he left right as you joined, so maybe there was a glitch and you two switched. He did just lose his final life."
Final life. Hearing this makes Grian faint. What kind of a server had 3 lives?
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Tommy thought he was dead. Dream had just beaten him to death with a fucking potato. He thought he was in the afterlife. However, he was very much alive, and was wet for some reason. When he started to go up, he noticed he was in a room with shining netherite armour, just like Technoblade's hidden stash for the Manburg festival. However, the room he was in was warm and inviting, and HOLY SHIT, there were elytra. Yeah, there is no way he is on the Dream SMP. Dream banned the end, Tommy's not sure why, but he just dealt with it. He opens his comms and reads the messages being sent.
Mumbojumbo: X, did you add anyone new?
Xisuma: No, but Grian just left. Do you think those 2 are related?
Falsesymmetry: I recognize his name, I'm not sure where from though.
Xisuma: Who wants to give him a tour?
Mumbojumbo: I'll do it. He seems nice enough.
Ah great. These fucking strangers are coming to him to "give him a server tour," which will lead to him losing his lives on this server. He has nothing on him. He is weak. He will die.
With a surprisingly short wait, a man in a suit and with a moustache appears, flying down in fully enchanted netherite armour. Tommy was shaking, he was prepared to die.
"Hello. You must be Tommy. I'm Mumbo Jumbo, but everyone calls me Mumbo. I'll give you a tour around the server." Mumbo explains to Tommy. "There's some armour and elytra over there, grab some, some food, some rockets, and then we can go."
Tommy does as Mumbo says with a lot of hesitance, because he is ready for Mumbo to turn around and fucking kill him. He has an intense gut instinct that any one of these players will stab him. They seem friendly, but so were all the people that betrayed him. They seemed so rich. When Mumbo was teaching him how to fly with elytra, he notices how large all the buildings were. People with so much material to build out of meant no good. The prison was massive, Sam built it, and Sam let him die in the hands of Dream.
Shit, Tommy was back in the room. Mumbo was there shortly.
"Dude, what happened? You just stopped flying and fell to your death." Mumbo explained to Tommy
"Did I already lose one of my lives?" Tommy asked Mumbo.
"Lives? I've only heard of lives on hardcore servers, which are adult-only, and looking at you, you are under 18, so what?" Mumbo is confused by Tommy's statement.
"On my server, we have only 3 lives, and after I lost all 3, I teleported here for some fucking reason." Tommy tells Mumbo.
"Oh dear." Mumbo sighs. "At least you are safe here. We have unlimited lives"
Safe? Tommy hasn't heard that word in years. He was hoping on it to be true.