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the last ding of the teleport sounded as donut felt the world around him shift, the blown up base he had been standing in vanishing and for a moment he was in the dark, clenching his totem tight as slowly the world came back into view, first the end stone floor appeared followed by the walls that were lined with signs and chests and lastly the players.
one of them moved a little to make room for donut and grinned wide, holding out his arms as if to hug donut, the netherite armor making a clanking noise as they moved.
"donut!" the players voice rang out stepping closer to the admin, but before he could do anything donut had jumped and placed obsidian right under his feet eyeing the two players a little suspicious, having to kneel a little as to not bonk his head against the end stone roof
"what ar-" the other player began with a raised brow but donut was quick to answer before he even finished his sentence
"i know we are in the void dude-" he said quick taking a reminder of his pearl in his inventory if he so needed it-
"no no!" the first player with the netherite armor quickly shook his head and held up his hands in a surrender motion "its nothing like that donut- we just want you to rate the base that's all!" taking another step towards donut
with narrowed eyes the admin reached for his pickaxe "really?"
"yes yes dr.donut!" the player nodded quick staring at his pickaxe "do- don't grief my base!"
silence rose up in what donut would consider a sorry excuse for a base, but after a moment he slowly put his pickaxe away watching the players close as he stepped off the obsidian "alright.. I'm choosing to trust you" he glanced towards the signs stepping closer to read them.
r8 base dr donut, also pls give 1mil?
glancing around the tiny box donut soon turned to the players for a split moment, eyeing them a little "well this isn't much of a base guys-" he said as he went to write down his rating on the empty sign beside the first one "I'm going to give it a 3 out of 10- good starter base but I've seen better…"
"can you pay me 1mil?" the player in the netherite asked as he was writing down the rating
"uhh-"
"or or!" the armorless player quickly butted in pushing his friend a little to the side "you can pay me 300k for a mystery box!"
"300k??" donut blinked looking at the two as he finished writing "that's a little much-"
"yeah well its good stuff!" they stepped over to an enderchest and opened the lid, the whooshing of its inside sounding out into the very quiet base..
"er… alright sure-" donut finally said sounding as hesitant as he felt watching the player dig around the chest before pulling out a shulker box and dropped it in front of the admin with a little grin.
handing over the 300k donut then peeked into the shulker noticing it had nothing but a dirt block in it, though before he could speak up a loud explosion rang out and he had barely time to react before the floor under him vanished, revealing the void below "what- no!" he yelled as he felt himself start to tumble, twisting around in the open air, the wind roaring in his already ringing ears from the explosion.
almost in an instant the player without armor had been blown up and the one with had managed to pearl away, his taunting calls to donut ringing out into the endless end
"bye, bye donut!!"
twisting more donut tried to aim himself up towards the islands he could just make out fumbling in his inventory as he finally grabbed a hold of his pearl and with all his might threw it towards the disappearing islands above
"come on come on!" he yelled watching as it reached the max height before it started to fall back down into the void, just in the same moment he felt the agonizing burn of the void below start to eat away at his armor and skin.
void death was probably the worst kind, at least in his opinion.
and he was reminded of it often, especially when he felt himself be consumed by it in such a painful way as it did.
his throat closing up until he couldn't breathe anymore and his whole body starting to melt away from his bones-
and then nothing.
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the sudden respawn made donut huff out in pain as his back landed hard on his bed which made his body do a little bounce before he tumbled off the bed grunting as he hit the floor.
he was quick to push himself up to sit though catching his breath as his body recovered from the void damage.
it took a moment before he was able to push himself up to his feet with a slight stumble coughing a little "great-" he mumbled a little taking a deep breaths as his lungs fully recovered.
"i should've known dude!" he groaned rubbing his face a little in frustration "it screamed trap I'm an idiot!"
he was not looking forward to having to replace all his items, but suddenly that thought was pushed way back as he heard what sounded like chests opening-
another trap.. he thought to himself slowly stepping over to peek into his chest room, the room itself was intact, he had fully expected it to have been blown up, it should be seeing someone was raiding it- it was the norm.
but it was fully intact, in fact the only thing that was out of the ordinary was the guy currently going through his chests, he stood out a lot compared to donuts rather dark color choice for his base.
the others brightly colored clothes basically screamed to be spotted.
there was no getting around it, it didn't even seem like this guy was very geared up anyway, unless he was taking items out of his hallway of chests-
but he couldn't hide here either, stepping out onto the glass floor of his chest room donut slowly approached the player who seemed way too interested in what was in the chest to notice the approaching admin.
when he was close enough to be in reach he raised a fist and punched the guy right in the side of his head, his knuckles connecting to the earphones-
the player- feinberg according to his name tag let out a surprised yell at the sudden attack stumbling to the side and ended up loosing his footing and falling to the ground- though to donuts surprise he was quick to pull out an iron pickaxe and and swing it towards donut.
it was his time to be caught by surprise, the pickaxe managing to hit him right in the side of the stomach, and without armour that wasn't exactly ideal- it pierced right through his skin making him stumble and slam into the chests, a hand quickly covering the wound.
"wh- wha- you scared the fuck out of me!" fein stumbled onto his feet "i thought you were a mob!"
it took a moment before donut managed to speak through the pain "what are you doing in my base..?!" he breathed out pushing himself more onto his feet a hand still firmly placed on the chest
"oh-" fein pressed his lips tightly together, peeking at donut through his very pink visor "i just.. stumbled across it-" he said watching donut a little " i wasn't going to take anything i swear-" he then quickly added at donuts look towards him "i was just- looking.." he scratched the back of his neck a little finally putting away the pickaxe glancing down at the blood covering donuts side before quickly away and looked through his inventory pulling out some bread and held it out to the other.
"im sorry for.. the scare that wasn't my intent.."
blinking confused donut hesitantly reached out for the bread and took it from the other eyeing him closely.
"ahuh-" he simply responded at he ate the bread, interesting choice of food.. though made sense if the guy only had iron tools he supposed…
he relaxed a little as he felt the wound on his side heal up and the blood vanish, both from his clothes and hand.
"is that void damage?" feins voice suddenly brought him back out of his thoughts, even though fein had those… strange visors on he could feel him staring towards his neck.
with a quick blink donut shifted his shirt a little as if trying to hide it "no-" he said as if embarrassed, there was no way he was in the mood to be laughed at for falling into the void, he just wanted to regear and get back out.
though fein pushed on "looks painful- you should eat a gapple" he commented as if donut didn't know of it "if you want it gone quicker."
"yeah.. i know.. thanks.." donut stood up straight now taking a deep breath "are you new to the donutSMP?" he asked a little
"psh.." fein seemed amused "i guess its obvious- ive been here for a bit and already got killed once- rookie mistake on my end though for accepting a TP, I'm not used to server and i guess forgot people suck ass"
"you've come to the wrong server if you're looking for friends-" donut muttered a little stumbling over to some chests and started to grab his extra gear from it.
"so it seems- by the way, how do you have spawners do you allow cheats in this server?" fein watched as the admin put on his extra gear he had saved for these kinds of situations before opening the shop to buy some totems
"no.. its just part of the server" he looked back at fein as he held a totem in one hand.
"hmm okay.." fein seemed to think a little "I'm also guessing the ender dragon got beaten ages ago if you've been to the end and gotten void damage-"
donut didnt respond for a while seeming to think a little before looking at fein again "if you want an elytra i wish you luck, they have gone up a lot-" he pulled out a pearl now gripping it
"well.. not really, i was more thinking just beating the dragon as the fastest person here on the server."
"what-"
"i thought it could be fun to try and see how fast i could do something like that in a big server with PVP instead of just.. on my own i guess."
he sounded way to genuine, and it made donut slightly confused "why.. why would you think the dragon wasnt beaten on this large of a server..?" his confused look probably said more than his actual question, it seemed weird to think that the dragon was still going to be there..
"ah- well i guess i assumed everyone had their own end.." fein shifted a little on his feet, feeling slightly embarrassed now
donut nodded slightly "well you're at the wrong server then… and if i were you and you're planning to stay id get some money to buy some things… maybe make some farms-"
"uhh right.." fein nodded "well.. again im sorry for the scare… and sorry for the hole in your wall-" he pointed towards the way that donut assumed he had entered his base from "ill block it off" he promised and stepped towards the hole.
"dude- wait before you go-" donut stepped after fein grabbing his wrist as he had turned around and was heading out of the base
it made fein pause and look back at donut with a questioned look, his eyebrows raised though it was barely visible under the curly light brown hair..
"as a.. welcome to the server gift.. and a thanks for not taking my stuff or blowing anything up-" he let go of feins wrist and dropped an enderchest down on the ground rummaging through it for a moment before he pulled out a shulker and handed it to fein.
the other player looked confused but took the gift "woah- thanks" he placed the shulker down and looked what was in it with wide eyes "holy-" he pulled out a netherite chestplate looking over the gold armour trim before at donut "you just have multiple sets??"
"you saw my chests didnt you?" he asked a little confused of the reaction, this really wasn't a lot
lowering the chestplate a little fein chuckled "yeah guess so…" he pulled the chestplate on "well thank you, im sure this will keep me more safe- espeically if i accidentally am found snooping through peoples bases again" he flashed donut a smile as he put the rest of the armour on and pulled out the tools the shulker had as well before he put the box back in his inventory
"it will also help you stay more hidden.. you are kinda easy to spot.." he looked fein up and down slightly before quickly pulling up his chat and gave him some money as well.
"you just keep giving" fein chuckled as he noticed the money transfer.
"gotta make a good impression.." donut shrugged a little "if i want people to stay playing my server that is.." he said it quietly "and youre honestly the first player ive met in a while who didnt try to murder me on the spot-"
"well you never know" fein grinned a little, though there was no ill intend behind it "i doubt i could beat anyone in a competitive pvp battle though- well thank you again-" he looked up towards his name tag "dr.donut" he lowered his gaze down to donut meeting his gaze for a split moment, his lips quirked into a little smile.
"see ya.." donutt did a little wave watching as fein went back through the hole in the wall and placed the first block down though paused and looked donut "maybe I'll see you around donut.. might just stay a bit-"
donut just chuckled a little "we'll see.."
a laugh came from fein as he placed the last block in place and began to block off the tunnel until donut could not hear the blocks being placed anymore, leaving him in the silence of his base thinking..
glancing at his teleport requests he sighed a little and accepted one, the countdown starting before with a whoop he disappeared from his base.