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Parrot had wanted to get a trident, so he took out a boat and rowed it onto some open water, where at the surface, he saw a drowned with the three-pointed weapon. After a short, easy fight, the drowned was dead and due to some good luck, had dropped the trident for Parrot who picked it up and continued his way to spawn by boat and land.
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On the way to spawn, Parrot came across a railroad leading downwards, wooden planks and some supporters holding up the rails as a track outside. It didn’t look very well made. Curious, wanting to know where it led, Parrot followed the tracks, huge blocks of redstone turning on the powered rails and dimly lighting the narrow tunnel.
When he approached the end, there was a sharp turn to the right and a small box-like trap made of obsidian. Underneath the obby, there was a small sliver of space that let him see a minecart sitting at the end, presumably tnt. This must’ve been a trap, badly hidden, and it seemed deserted. He disarmed the trap by placing some stone to cover the obby from the rock, and headed back up.
“Whoever’s trap this is, I’m so sorry.” Parrot said, as he headed back up, leaving the now useless trap behind.
15 minutes later, Parrot got a call from someone, YoClutch, who wanted him to come over to test an amusement park he was building, his reason being he had just finished the first ride.
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“Be sure to meet me at spawn, ok? I need you to test out this amusement park I’m building. I just finished the first ride.” said Clutch. Likely, someone who had finished a ride would’ve tested out the ride before letting anyone else on, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
“Will this kill me?” Parrot turned around, then hesitated.
“Nah, it's alright. I just wanted to know what you would think of it. It's at spawn, I can’t kill you there,” said Clutch. “If you agree to test it, I’ll give you these diamonds.” He held the diamonds out to Parrot.
Parrot reluctantly agreed. “Alright alright, I’ll test it, because I don’t think I can die.” Clutch threw him the diamonds, along with a fake smile that soon disappeared.
On the way to the ‘amusement park’, Parrot knew they were both headed to the same trap he had disarmed earlier. To him, these were just free diamonds, but didn’t point that out to Clutch. Diamonds weren’t always free, and Parrot was sure that Clutch wanted to kill him so badly, he was willing to give away diamonds for it. He kept following Clutch to the ‘ride’.
Getting Parrot into the minecraft, Clutch pulled the lever that powered the rail and began the ride, pushing Parrot down the track into the stone tunnel at the end.
“It’s a bit small, a little tunnel area, and it's not very decorative.” Parrot observed, saying to Clutch who was still in the call.
The cart passed some blocks of redstone that were exposed and embedded into the stone, the same blocks he had seen before. Redstone torches could’ve been easily used to save materials. He thought. “That's the only problem, it's just, right now, uh, efficiency-wise, not really doing too well in decoration yet.” Parrot said, adding in plenty of pauses and trying to throw Clutch off, to make him think he had no idea what Clutch thought was still at the end.
Parrot’s minecart bumped up against the stone he had placed at the bottom, and the cart, using the powered rails and momentum, began making its way up along with Parrot slowly. To sound clueless, he added, “Where does this go to, though? It's like there’s a big rise in the big drop on the other side,” Parrot said, trying not to laugh, knowing Clutch was listening.
He set both of his hands on the edge of the minecart to steady himself. “Oh, nice.” His minecart hit the end of the track once again, having come back down after losing momentum.
By now, Clutch had guessed his tnt minecart trap had failed.
Parrot unboarded the cart and mined it. Going up towards the surface, Parrot handed Clutch the minecaft and said that the track led nowhere, and Clutch should resolve to fix it and decorate it soon. Parrot then headed back to his former plan of the void hole, and began digging away at the stone after he made sure Clutch wasn’t following him.
He wasn't too disapointed about the delay. He got free diamonds, after all.
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