The year is 1971. The recently elected Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi has been found with a knife in his throat. Precisely how this came to be the case is a story for another day.
The important thing is that Eric Underwood wakes up, after what feels like just a couple seconds later, in -
A strange forest, where the grass and trees are made out of perfect cubes.
(For anyone who wants to follow along, the seed is "glowfic" on Minecraft 1.21)
What in the hell.
He's dreaming. He was probably knocked unconscious - no, he was just stabbed, he thought he died - but he's too aware of his surroundings right now to be dying - he needs to wake himself up right now.
Nope!
Also, in the process of Trying Very Hard to wake up, he might notice that his body is also made of blocks!
Are you serious. What happens when he, say, clenches his hands and jumps up and down?
Nothing seems to happen when he clenches his hands! He can sort of feel his hands forming fists, as if he had a phantom limb, but his visible arms remain non-clenched rectangles with no visible fingers.
He can jump up and down, though!
Fantastic.
Well, on the bright side, if he's dreaming now, he might not have actually died; that could have been a dream too. Or these are just the sorts of hallucinations you have when you have lost all connection between your brain and your heart for several minutes.
He'll walk around in the dream world, then. Is there anything besides blocky trees and blocky grass?
There are some flowers, and some exposed stone in the ground. There also seems to be a snowy area with a different kind of trees in one direction.
The snow and trees are on top of a hill with a cave in it!
He is not feeling particularly cold, despite the snow around him. He's not warm, either, just... standard nondescript temperature.
Dream brain doesn't understand how gravity works, apparently, unless that dirt is somehow packed really strongly. Maybe it's partially rock? There are flecks of grey in it. But that doesn't explain how that one cube of snow is sticking to the wall.
He'll venture into the cave.
It's actually a tunnel! It just loops around and comes right back out of the hill.
He'll just keep walking around outside, then.
What happens when he picks up one of those big yellow flowers on the ground?
His hand doesn't pick it up so much as swing at it, and there's a sort of crunching feeling coming from the place where the flower is. It then disappears from his sight, and a smaller version of the flower lands on the ground, before zooming towards him and appearing in his hand.
He can now feel some sort of... area in his mind? A new sense of sorts? He can clearly see - though not with his eyes - a sort of array of square slots in his mind, with a larger grid above it, and then a small 2x2 grid above that. The flower in his hand occupies the first slot in the first array of slots, which feels closer to him somehow than the rest of the grid.
And if he... uses his mysterious new senses to put the flower in a different slot?
It moves to the other slot! He can also concentrate on the slot that the flower is in, and have his hand be holding it again - although that only seems to work for the bottom row of slots, not the larger grid.
It goes into the same slot as the first one! They're sort of stacked on top of each other within his mind.
What if he walks back over to some of the other flowers, the red flowers, and picks one up?
It goes into a different slot. He can't seem to stack the red and yellow ones together.
(Also, while he's walking, he'll notice several other tunnels in the ground, including some which seem to have black and green minerals exposed in the stone.)
When he puts the red flower into one of the slots on that grid, he sees a sort of apparition floating in the air of a... red object, which doesn't resemble anything in particular.
If he reaches for that object, it appears in his hand, and the red flower disappears entirely. The object feels sort of pasty in his phantom hand, like paint or dye.
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