"I think so too. We can go in the Nether or I can keep showing you around the Overworld?"

"Nether, please!"

Nether hub! It's... kind of ugly, honestly, but it sure does have a lot of paths leading away from it.

Point. "That way leads to Phil and Techno's place, that way leads to Snowchester, that way leads to the Guardian XP farm. I think a few of these still lead to where Tommy was exiled, but they might have been taken down, it's been a while."

"I have no idea what an XP farm is, or those places or those people, but okay! I will probably go look at everything I can find eventually. Is everyone, er. Friendly?"

She suspects 'no,' but. She will be hopeful.

“…Depends on your definition of friendly. Like, the egg cult definitely thinks they’re being friendly. And if you don’t like pranks then you won’t like most of the people on the server. Most people are… most people are okay.

You use XP to enchant things, and an XP farm is a way to get a lot of XP, although I guess that might not have… come up, for you, if you can just change the numbers. I could tell you who lives in Snowchester but I expect those names wouldn’t mean anything to you either.”

"No, probably not. There's an egg cult? That's such a weird thing to be a cult of."

“Yeah. —It’s not a normal egg, it promises you your greatest desire and it changes you, warps your personality and feelings. It’s… not good.”

"Wow. Uh. Do. You guys need help with your egg cult and the mind control egg at the center of it? Because that's alarming."

“They were defeated pretty badly recently, but we haven’t been able to actually destroy the egg. I certainly wouldn’t say no to help, but I want to be clear that you’re not… obligated or anything, you’re still new here.”

"I want to verify that it is actually as bad news as you're making it out to be before I go full eldritch abomination on it, but. Mind control is wrong, people are not puppets, et cetera. I wouldn't be obligated to put out a fire in my neighbor's house, but it sure would make the neighborhood nicer, and keep my own house from being burned down, you know?"

“I don’t disagree, but that’s… a bit of an uncommon attitude here. With both metaphorical fires and actual ones.”

She shrugs.

"Well, I think that's dumb. So. Egg cult! Actually, what are their tactics and how does the egg's mind control work, is there a way I can definitely avoid being mind controlled while still investigating them? I bet I can play dumb and walk right up to them and ask them to please tell me all about egg-Jesus, something something I want to understand the culture of the people around me and make friends."

“We don’t know where they are right now. They tried to kill everyone, got killed back, they’re currently… somewhere? But they’re not recruiting like they were before, because they know they’ll be murdered for it.  

You can spend quite a bit of time around the egg without getting mind controlled—it’s a bad idea but you can do it—mostly the cult’s tactics are just to imprison people with the egg. The egg’s tactic, like I said, is mostly promising you whatever you want.”

"Mm. All right. Well, I already know what I want, so. It's not like what it's going to promise will be a surprise, if I do talk to it."

She sounds... sad, and a little bit bitter.

“You’ll probably be fine then. If you got trapped with it for multiple days, maybe I’d start worrying, but that seems incredibly unlikely.”

"Quite. Though uh, please don't mention to anyone that I can mess with my own coordinates. Since I expect that knowing I can teleport will make me look like less of a tempting victim."

“I can do that.”

"Cool, thanks." Bounce, bounce. "... I am now absolutely plotting to look as tempting of a recruit as possible, I was thinking live by myself in the middle of nowhere and make it publicly known where I live and easy to get to me?"

Yvette sounds excited, like this sounds fun.

“I think it really depends how long they stay away from everything. I don’t think it’ll be particularly hard to get them to recruit you once they’re not hiding, but, well, they’re hiding. It might be a better idea for you to try to destroy the egg without involving them. Be careful if you do try, though, if you try to damage it it has a tendency to damage you back.”

"Do you know where the egg itself is?"

“Yes. —It’s in the overworld and this is the closest portal to it, if you want to see it before seeing other things, or we can wait until after.”

"... Nah. Let's start with the egg. Otherwise I'll be distracted by it instead of actually thinking about the tour."

"Alright." Then they can step back through the portal. They walk along a path for a bit, pass through a building, take a left, walk along the path for a bit again, and then Sam jumps into a hole in the ground.

Hole in the ground! She’s a bit nervous. Down she goes, though.