User:Vratislav/The Quiet Guest

My friend had small private server. I used to play there with my 5 friends. Everyone built their houses and sooon our village was created. Despite some lags everything was going pretty well. It was normal minecraft server. We all thought it was...

One night I was playing with my friends. About 2 AM they started to leave. I didn't fell tired so I decided to stay a little longer. When I was alone I started to build ,,observatory" on nearby mountine. I took me like a hour, but observatory was finished and it looked pretty nice. I was just going to turn minecraft off and go to sleep, when I saw something.

From the observatory I could see nearby terain clearly. My render distance was set on 15 chunkes. On the distance I saw something like buildings. Yes it was definitely building figure in the fog. I didn't remember someone building there. It was too far from village and everyone already has their home. But maby they did it when I wasn't here? I decided to check that out.

When I got there I clearly saw like whole different village. Even bigger than ours. That defitely has to be built by player. Bulding style was very similar to my friends' so I thought that they had to bulit that. However there was something strange in that village. It looked like it was badly generated. You know, when you play on 1.5 version map and then update it to 1.12. New terrain will generate unnatural. You can clearly see the border between old and new terrain. It was the same there. Whole village and nearby terrain looked like it was cut off from different map and randomly paste on out server. It was perfect square winter biome in the middle of normal forest.

It weirded me out but I decided to explore the village. I noticed that buildings were damagged. Almost all glass was broken. s

ome houses looked like they were burned. It looked pretty apocalyptic. Definitely village was abandoned but I feelt strange out there. Like I was not alone. Then I saw something. It was... snowman. Two blocks of snow and hay bale on top. It has hands made of two levers on left and right. Snowman was just standing in front of one house. It was not alone. 5 other was standing in a different parts of village. I decided to ignore them. In fact their presence made me feel uncomfortable.

The feeling grow stronger as long as I was exploring building by building. It was so quiet there. Like abnormaly quiet. Despite game sounds and music swiched on I couldn't hear anything. Not even a single chicken or cow noise. Only my footsteps and doors sound when I opened one of them.

I was checking out one of houses when I finnaly heard something. On that moment I realise how much I prefered to not hear anything. It was... soun of breaking a glass. My heart rised. For a moment I couldn't move. There was no doubt about what I heard. Sound came from a distance and then everything was quiet again.

I checked player list but I saw my name only. However I was not alone. I typed ,,WHO'S THERE?" on chat but there was no response. I left house and then I saw something. Something that definitely wasn't here before.

On the middle of the road one dropped item was slowly floating in place. Someone has leaved it here. A written book. I was terrified but I picked it and opened.

Only this was written inside: ,,Do you see how they sleep? So quiet. Don't wake them up. Be quiet."