No More

Chapter 27: A deal

Sometime in the far future

"Don't you miss people?" asked Jennifer. "Friends? Family?"

"That's the issue," Said her aunt. "I have both of those things, but they always seemed to stick their nose in where they don't belong."

"Is that why you live alone?" she asked her aunt. "Is it because they won't stop bothering you?"

"No, I live alone because people in general simply annoy me." She replied with a bitter tone.

"How?" Jennifer asked, raising an eyebrow.

"... It's simply too much to explain." Her aunt replied, rubbing her head of the headache she's going to get for remembering those times.

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One month later

I sometimes stop what I'm doing and think back to the more blissful parts of my life.

Going to school with my brother...

Being with both of my moms...

Finding friends...

Sometimes I would just stop and think, remembering, and embracing the nostalgia.

Then, like always, I ask myself the same thing: "Why I am I distracting myself about that junk?! I got things to do!"

I arrived to my destination in the Nether: a hidden Nether Portal. It's time I finally start with phase two of the project.

I have been doing nothing but planning and collecting resources this past month as I'm gathering and preparing for phase two. I had Steam fly me through the portal and end up back inside the cave, in my mountain.

The giant, pyramid-like shrine I built to Notch and Herobrine was the center of the large, circular-like space I dug out. Despite it being about 50 blocks in diameter, I still didn't breach the outside of the mountain.

But the mountain I'm in is more of a hill in comparison to the mountain the City is built on. I almost envy it, but I'm happy with what I got.

If I need more space, I'll simply dig up, or down. Good thing I already did. I had Steam carry me towards the ceiling and pressed a button. In the far edge of the room, a 3x3 hole opened up and we descended down.

Months ago, I used [Vein-Miner] to dig down, way down. After about a hundred blocks or so, I built a large rectangular room that is 30 blocks wide, 60 blocks long, and 30 blocks tall.

It was all stone bricks with redstone practically everywhere to illuminate the area to prevent monsters from spawning.

Took me a while, but it was so worth it. How else would I build a prison to hold my test subjects?

Each cell is a 5x5x5 obsidian box, with iron bars on the every side, top and bottom, of the cell, so the captives could look outside and into each other's prison cell.

All of the cells are on the sides of the room, hugging the walls. They are side by side, and on top of each other with one block of space in between them.

In each prison cell are 5 prisoners, with 5 beds, with a dispenser to deliver the food, a redstone lamp for light, and a source of water for them to drink from.

In total, there are about 100 cells that are lined and stacked against the wall, leaving a wide space of 20 blocks down the middle of the room.

For security measures I have Blinks eyes roaming around the prison. If any of them act out of line, he has permission to use his telekinesis to repeatedly slam them into the iron bars, but not kill them.