Tommy is not listening because he has already wandered off. Such is the way of Tommy.

Well, there he goes. That bodes well.

"I will meet you back here for the meeting." And off he goes to go mining.

Mining: involves significantly more zombies, skeletons, etc., than Jingyan is used to! (If he finds a cave, anyway. If he's strip mining he might not notice.)

There may or may not be embarassing trips back from spawn before he a) puts a bed near where he is mining and b) actually makes a sword.

People say the letters "F" and "L" in chat a lot, particularly when he or anyone else dies. It's kind of unclear if they have a meaning beyond being the thing that is said when people die.

It's not surprising that somewhere, even when death is so bizarrely low stakes, would develop rituals around death. That's probably what's going on.  He has no idea. (Ooh, more iron--)

He can get quite a bit of iron (and also get much more used to how the world works here) but eventually his stone button will vibrate and make a noise!

He answers the stone button. "Hello?"

"The cabinet just finished talking, we're heading to the meeting room. It's by Church Prime if you want to meet us there."

"Thank you, I'll go head over there now." Which he does.

(He's managed to get a full iron set of tools, but he has no armour yet.)

There are five people standing around; two (a humanoid fox and a tall half-black-half-white being) are visibly nonhuman. He recognizes Tommy and Tubbo, though, and as he approaches, they're wrapped up in a familiar argument:

"Tubbo, I-- I hate to, uh, break the immersion here, of you and your little party, but you know I'm not just going to stay quiet."

"Okay, well, if you do want to speak, be positive and apologetic for me please--"

"That's just not how I--"

"--Jingyan's here! Hi Jingyan."

(There is a very unenthusiastic chorus of "Hi Jingyan"s.)

He is not going to look visibly startled at the non-humans, that would be rude (even if being in a group with a fox creature is... concerning.) "Hello, everyone."

"Right, okay, are we ready to enter, is everyone composed, you know?"

The fox-person glances at the people Jingyan doesn't know and then says "Yes, okay, ready."

"We're heading in?"

"If you're ready, then yeah. Fundy and Quackity, your seats are on the left side of the table. Tommy, you're on the right, closest to me, yeah? Ranboo, Jingyan, you're not part of the cabinet so you'll be standing."

"Don't fuck this up, Tommy."

They start walking towards the door. "I'm telling you, I'm, I'm likely going to! I don't understand what-- I'm just addressing the elephant in the room, which is me, although I'm not the size of an elephant, in height I am, not in weight, I'm not wide, but if I was wide though, if I was stretchy, this world would be real different right now-- I can't control me gob, is what I'm saying, I'm like a fucking--"

They're at the door.

"Last call for objections before I open the door and we go inside."

He has no objections other than the Sense of Impending Doom.

(He-- he's not that much like Tommy. But he has been in that place where you should just shut up, but you can't, and-- his reasons are and were different, but he sympathises. And is growing aware of how Doomed this is.)

"Three, two, one, go."

Dream's already inside.

There's a long moment of silence. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Tommy is the first one to break it. "HI."