Escape from the Overworld: An Unofficial Overworld Adventure, Book One
Chapter 1 the monsters came out whenever it got dark I didn’t realize the sun was setting until it was too late I had gotten totally caught up in what I was doing building my very first tree house When you’re the son of the man who’s the best builder around it means you have a lot to prove I was Stevie from a long line of Steves in a land where just about everyone was named Steve Here’s the thing though my dad is The Steve No one calls him that to his face but everyone knows him and everyone knows I am his son My dad had forged a diamond sword when he was twelve only one year older than I am now That sword was so good he still uses it to this day to slay zombies and he is known as the best zombie slayer around He has the greatest farm in the area too with wheat pumpkins carrots and everything else He likes to go min ing and isn’t scared of going down into the fiery realm of 1
2 the Nether even though there are even worse monsters there and no sunlight to protect you from them And then there’s everything Dad has built The giant farmhouse The barn The summer home The winter home You get the idea All the houses had iron doors to keep monsters out plus torches to keep them from spawning near us My dad also tamed an ocelot he found making her into a sweet cat because cats are good at keeping creepers away I would help Dad farm and go with him to the Nether but when it came to making and handling things on my own that was different My dad would brag Someday Stevie is going to be a great builder But it didn’t feel like he was encouraging me or anything It felt more like he was saying Stevie’s going to be a great builder because he has no other option except to live in my shadow One thing my dad had never built was a tree house so I decided that would be where I’d have to show off my skills The first thing I decided to build was my own stone tools They wouldn’t be as cool as a diamond sword but everyone had to start somewhere I picked a tree that was just out of sight from the biggest house Dad had built which was the house we were living in at the time I figured this gave me enough distance so that it was my tree but it was still not too far from Dad or home Next I walked all over and gathered wood from oak trees My dad had a whole stockpile of obsidian sitting around that could be used for building though I knew better than to touch that Obsidian was really difficult to Escape from the Overworld
3 get so I knew Dad wouldn’t want me to use it after all the hard work he put into collecting it Besides I wanted to show Dad I could do everything on my own I didn’t even buy anything from the village because trading emer alds for supplies would have made it easier for me After I’d gotten my handmade supplies together I went out to the tree and made a ladder out of sticks The next step was to clear out the leaves in the tree so that there would be room for my tree house Once I had the space in the tree I started to set up the blocks for the floor Block by block that’s how I did it After the floor was done I got to work on setting up blocks for the walls I wasn’t a big fan of heights so I didn’t put the house too high into the tree As I built the tree house I had lots of time to think about things Like how the tree house was turning out okay even though I’d been really nervous about it I’d finally jumped from making small items to mak ing something bigger something so big you could actually live in it Maybe I could get some of the kids from the village to come over and hang out with me Whenever Dad and I went to the village to trade I would look for the kids my age and we’d play games like putting saddles on pigs and having little pig races But the kids never came to visit me It was lonely out here in the country It would also be great if Dad could hang out in my tree house with me and for once it would be a home I built not him When it started getting difficult to see my work I realized I’d made a major mistake One that could be Escape from the Overworld
