<Ranboo> um
<Ranboo> oh boy
<Ranboo> phiiiiiilllllll
<Ph1LzA> lmao youre on your own here m8
<WilburSoot> a server is an area that has its own world spawn for when your bed breaks! 

<bleedfierceforever>: ...I know those words. But not strung together like that.

(He can't see any tadpoles, so he's probably not at spawn, except for the fact he really cannot be confident of guesses like that and why are armoured people chasing him.)

Maybe they just want to say hi.

<WilburSoot> when you die you wake up at your spawn
<WilburSoot> which is usually your bed unless you don’t have one and then you just wake up at the default spawn of whatever server you’re in

Well they can say they're friendly then!

<bleedfierceforever> ...in my experience, dead people usually stay that way.

<WilburSoot> well canon lives are different
<WilburSoot> if you lose your canon lives you’re dead for real. like me! i’m a ghost
<WilburSoot> usually dying is fine though, i can show you if you want
<Thunder1408> or you can just wait like five minutes for when tubbo inevitably falls off a cliff or something
<Technoblade> KEKW

(There is now a second person in the strange glowing purple armor. This one also has a green cloak and a white smiley face mask. He doesn’t seem to be coordinated with the first person?)

????

<bleedfierceforever> I would rather not die, thank you

He still does not trust that the person in the green cloak's intentions are friendly.

It is so much harder the hide from both of them at once.

<WilburSoot> good luck!

Person #1 gets a shot off on him. It hurts barely at all, even though the arrow lands square in his chest and also appears to be on fire?

And then Xiao Jingyan wakes up in the same place he originally fell.

bleedfierceforever was shot by Punz using [N U T]
<WilburSoot> or not!
<Technoblade> L
<Punz> welcome to the dream smp big msan
<Punz> welcome to the dream smp big man
<Thunder1408> msan
<Dream> msan

Okay, so dying here doesn't actually kill you. (Unless it's 'canon'?) That's... something. He's not sure what it is, exactly, but it's something. A sign that he's definitely in another world?

<bleedfierceforever> Does anyone else want to kill me while we're here

<Dream> well, if you're offering

It's not really a fight, given the circumstances, but it's enough to give Jingyan the impression that the man (Dream?) would be absolutely terrifying in one. He's definitely a better fighter than Jingyan, and probably one of the best fighters Jingyan's ever seen.

bleedfierceforever was killed by Dream using [Nightmare]

He's rapidly becoming very familiar with the area around spawn.

He's going to avoid getting in a serious fight with Dream(?) if he can help it. He is terrifyingly good. Would rank high on the Langya List, except for the fact that's probably not a thing here.

<bleedfierceforever> Is attacking people who we greet people around here.

<bleedfierceforever> I would not want to be rude.

<Ranboo> uuuhhhhhhh its not rude to NOT attack people but its pretty common yeah
<Ranboo> especially for new people
<Ranboo> i got killed like four times on my first day but its mostly stopped
<TommyInnit> VC2
<TommyInnit> VC2
<TommyInnit> VC2
<TommyInnit> VC2
<Ranboo> oh god
<TommyInnit> VC2
<TommyInnit> VC2

<bleedfierceforever> vc2?

<TommyInnit> YES
<WilburSoot> tommy i dont think he has a button yet!

The first person has left, but the second one is still hanging around. Upon closer inspection, there's a floating nameplate above his head, labeling him Dream. "Do you need some help with anything?"

"I'm just getting my bearings." (Because he is not going to interact with someone who can-- and has proven that he will-- kill him if he can help it.)

<bleedfierceforever> What would a button even do?

"Sure. Let me know if you want a tour." And Dream will wander off.

<awesamdude> you can call people if you have a button

Not taking a tour-- ie going deeper into the woods-- from someone who just killed him! Even if being killed is lower stakes than he is used to,.

<bleedfierceforever> How would one acquire a button?

<awesamdude> do you have stone yet

<bleedfierceforever> Why would I have stone?
<bleedfierceforever> A stone? Some stone?

He will be very slowly talked through the process of Acquiring Things. He’ll have to leave the walled area around spawn first (this is fairly easy; he can go either over or under the walls) but then he can punch a tree, make a crafting table and a wooden pickaxe, and get cobblestone. Or he can just find some exposed stone and punch it for a while, his choice. (If he makes a crafting table he gets a recipe book with it.) If he wants to do everything on his own, he’s going to need some more cobblestone and some coal; if not, here are directions to the community house, there are furnaces there he can use to make the cobblestone into regular stone. (Furnaces: also come with recipe books!) Once he has stone, he can make a stone button out of it, assuming he hasn’t been thoroughly sidetracked by this point. 

He is very capable of following instructions. He ends up punching a tree (it is so strange to be able to hit a tree with his fist and get wood from it) and acquiring a crafting bench because that seems like the option that Sets Him Up For The Future the best. ...he does quickly give up on finding coal and go to the community house, instead.

And after all that rigmarole, he has a stone button, and he manages to work out how to use it. "You wanted me on this thing?"

“I think Tommy’s the one who wanted you, actually, but it’s probably worth learning how calls work here.” Voice calls! You make them using a combination of a stone button and the chat interface that he’s been using! You can also join group calls—VC1 through VC6 all often have people in them–and you can see who’s already in them like so! You can use the chat interface to mute yourself (so that they can’t hear you) or deafen (so that you can’t hear them)! If Jingyan is interested, it looks like TommyInnit is in fact still in VC2.