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I woke up to the rumbling sound of thunder, scaring me so bad I promptly fell out of my bed. As I looked around, there seemed to be no rain or even dark clouds; the sky was clear as ever… Nevertheless, I couldn’t help but notice the uproar continued. Working my way from my bed (which happens to be the highest point of my cat house) and feeling less like a lightning rod now, I dare check my HUD.

[@]FireStorm020 has attuned to the Golden Jungle

With my semi-sleepy eyes, I start blinking at the feed as more and more people attuned, leaving me confused as hell about what was going on. Looking around my house, I did spot this strange looking person. I kind of knew who he was from Stormy, but other than that I knew nothing.

His name was Amlup, one of the mods. Before I could really do anything about it, he turned the corner of the street and I could see him approaching me - slowly, but surely. He strolled along with a confidence he normally exclusively had whenever he finished a new custom map, but looking at the fresh tears in his clothes it was pretty apparent he had just encountered some sticky situations.

“Nice house. Is this the one Vechs built?” By his voice I would think he was teasing, but his face seemed stuck in that stupid ‘Imma firin’ mah lazer’ look. Walking towards the front of my plot, he waves, forcing my nice side to have me wave back.

“Yeah it is. I love it! It's so green and happy, but you can’t come in; only those invited to my pussy party can enter” Still kind of drowsy, I suddenly realized the inappropriate nature of those words. In response, I cover my mouth, blushing stupidly red. I swear I have never wanted to hide that bad in my life. He stares - or I think he does - before walking away, looking back a few times. After leaving my sight, I check my HUD. My guild is blowing up, I’m getting pings from the pervs that heard (not that I don’t mind, just adding to the blushing), and Stormy is flustered that I just said that. Tinker who is close by, smacks me with a flower, finally snapping me out of my daze.

“Get a hold of yourself, Skitty!” I stare at her, half forgetting anything else happened since I got my cat house, and half recalling that Vechs said he added a few new things. Again, my mind wanders off as it focuses on recalling what exactly it was he said. Something about 216 new plots……

“Skitty? SKITTY!” I snap my head up, and in doing so, caught the gaze of Tinker, scary and slightly aggravated because of my ignorance. Backing away slightly with my tail tucked under and around my thigh, I do respond.

“Hi Tink….Um sorry?” She just rubs the bridge of her nose, sighing.

“As I was saying, there are some new townhouses that would be perfect for your shop since so many people can live there at once.” Playing with my hair while she talks helped slightly, although outside, another set of thunderclaps make themselves audible… Another attunement, which remains to be something I can’t get used to. It takes me a few hours to prep myself to leave the safety of my cat house and find the townhouses.

Three large shapes start to come into view as I stroll past the mod office. The first one is red and orange, which aren’t colors that I specifically adore, but the name reminds me of a paper I wrote in another world, Terracotta. I continue walking, spotting shades of purple, which is more up my alley colorwise. However, this time, it’s the name that kills me, “the Grapevine”. I can’t help but snicker at the idea of living there, with all of the jokes about hearing things. Even though I’m tempted to live there I want to see the last one, and there it was.

Green as hell, but slightly cute. It was built the same way, but with the materials from the three wizards, it looked amazing! Getting closer to see the name made me bounce around with joy, Margaritaville. I had to live here! Darting down the hall looking for an open room led me to M108, hitting that buy button so hard that it almost broke my hand. Grinning so much as I sent a ping in the main chat that I needed the keys into my new shop, one that I could run closer to without bragging more about then I already have about the cat house.

I would make trips between my plots, grabbing dark oak, flowers and clay for the pots, each time stopping to stare at the sign he left for me, I often was climbing the latter blushing. After what felt like a few days, it really was, I stepped back, my shop looked great. I wanted another color, but what was already there was sufficient for me to open up the shop.

While I was working on my shop, the attunements had died down to the point that I was not jumping every half hour. It was so much better not hearing it, although the mystery around the Golden Jungle really made me wonder what was in there. I wanted to go there, to see it for myself. I started to ask around in my guild if anyone wanted to go with me, since I hadn’t set foot into the dungeon.

As I was working on this, I would grin at the safe havens in the caves out in East Commons. Slowly I started to get a large stack of gold. I had no reason to keep it, so I ran over to another guild, one that, as a Pokémon, I should have run away from, Team Rocket! I searched for one of the members and pinged them, Photon.

“Hey, I left some gold for you guys at your guild plot” Nodding at how that sounded, I dropped 15 gold ingots, or 15G. Walking away, humming a soft tune, do I get the guild’s ok for a mass attunement? Nearly squeeing with happiness, do I skip to the meeting point, warping right to the keep? I stand around playing with the little gear I had while waiting for everyone else to show up. I had better gear up but everyone warned me about bringing good items, should I die.

Slowly everyone joined me, Sam dressed as Zack from some FF game, Rob being himself, and a dozen more. I start to shake slightly, fear is noticeably starting to take over. Axyl pats my back and pushes me in. I’m freaking out even more as I roll to the ground, smacking my face into the ground. Hissing slightly at him, I look around and regret sets in.

“First floor?”

“Nope, Floor Zero.” Dahson chuckles, Axyl is already battling monsters in order to gain the levels needed to pass the first lock, I try to jump in, but I am not as adept at fighting. After what seems like hours (but not really), they lead those of us that have never been in there before to the first floor. It was a plain, huge hole in the ground, covered in long dead plants, sandstone, and granite. I watch as everyone jumps down, a few staying behind so I don’t get too lost like I used too. That always happens, monsters start to drop both behind and in front of me.

“Keep running Skitty, don’t stop!” Sam shouts at me as he runs past, whacking on the monsters, working our way down to the so called safe room. We sit there, panting slightly. Axyl stands up and clears his throat.

“We need to make a mad dash through floor two, or else we will get picked off by the Remains. Who still needs to get 10 levels, so we can just get out as soon as possible?” A few hands shot up, including mine. A groan echoes through the safe room at how many needed to grind. I poke around, playing with the bedrock that protects us, while a few others grind for levels. I needed them too, but right now it was ok for me to idle while the others worked. I drifted off with my mind wandering to an event that was not really an event for everyone else.

I was coming back from a raid that I had made through the caves. As I was heading towards my townhouse, I turned to spot something strange. A tower of command blocks with a rather nice looking god tinkering with it. I creep up, my kitty side starting to come out as I got closer. I dance around it, getting close then jumping back, while a few of the other guild members started to slowly group up. Vappy sighs loudly and watches, while Dahson tries to get me to leave it alone but I can’t, I have to know! I used to poke at things all the time before we came to this world, but I haven’t done much like I used too before.

“Skitty, no touchie”

“But... But... I’m a kitty and I wanna touch it!”

“You know what they say about cats right? Curiosity killed the cat.”

“Yeah but do you know the ending? but satisfaction brought it back!"

I watched him roll his eyes as I smacked the button, getting killed as soon as it happened. I start to giggle like a mad kitty as I run back, Vechs sighing loudly and backing away from the tower, having changed it to something else. I walk up and smack it again, thinking the same command was still there. I flinch with pain, checking my hud I noticed that I had Wither, for 15 minutes. I groan loudly and sit down, taking the pain. I can hear my guild trying to talk me out of doing it again, but damnit it's too much fun to play with. After I die four more times to that tower, I get an idea; let’s see how many times I can push the button after the first Wither. Vechs had turned down the duration of the effect so it wouldn’t last as long, but I die to it first anyway. I manage to hit it 10 times before my death, feeling proud of myself, wandering away whilst purring loudly.

I shake my head, getting me out of my daydreams of the past, to notice the sound of my friends and guild members, taking selfies with me, because clearly I must have looked funny while vividly imagining those memories. I run out of the safe area and start smacking the decayed spider jockey to get levels. While smacking the monster, my wooden blade breaks, leaving me without a weapon. I take the bread I have and start to beat the monsters with it.

“EAT YOUR GRAINS!!!” I cry out, as I run past the grinder, my tail swinging with joy. After a while we move on. Over 20 of us gather in one small room as we warp into the next floor. It's pretty, more like a sandstone temple. I try to stay towards the back of the group, watching and looking around. Wandering up and past most of the monsters I make it towards the top, a few of us have died more times then we would like but I’m still having fun. I dart past the long line of monsters heading towards the button that Axyl told me about, I get shot off the flooring that is in front of it, but I run up again, this time smacking it and warping to another safe room. I turn and start to pant as I notice that a lot of the others haven’t made it through yet. I watch my hud as many of the others keep dying trying to make it to this safe room. Someone takes out the wall on the other side, with no way in due to the invisible blocks, there to keep us from cheating and cheesing it. It takes the group while to get in the pass the next floor. Landing on the 3rd floor, faceface into the red wood, gathering myself as the others touch down, i try to look like I didn’t just faceplant, does the rushing start again. This place looks like a jungle cave from some far away land. The ground splits off and start digging towards one place, stumbling along and getting stuck seems to be what I am good at. I feel bad when someone has to turn back around and come get me.

“GUYS!! I’m lost again...it's those stupid vines.” I know by this point everyone is done with me and just want to rush the rest so they don’t have to deal with me. ShadowWolf jumps down and grabs my wrist leading me back up and into another cave with lava. Axyl is waiting for me with the rest of the guild all ready though and on the next floor.

“Do we need to build another firehouse, so we have firefighters to come save you?” He scolds but his whole body saying otherwise, giving off that teasing vibe that I have come to know. He pushes me through the door and warping us to the 4th floor. To me it seems like the base of a large tree that we can’t see the top of. I stand in awe until an arrow finds its mark in my side. Jumping back with my stone axe ready to whack a mob, does Axyl and Shadow drag me past everything and into a lake. Splashing around and freaking at the water, does QuackQuack grab my foot and drag me under. I kick him in the face, until it sets in that we are in a cave, again. He fixes his light brown shirt and pushes back his much darker hair, I squeak softly at him. He rolls his eyes and starts to mine up what little blocks there is. I wander past him and a few others, drifting off into my mind again, sometimes it's hard to smile when the darkness is closing in. I scamper ahead to the same room, this time no one is waiting on me.

“Is there another floor?” I ponder aloud, staring at the next button. How was everyone attuning, I thought there was only four floors, not five. Dahson runs up behind me and pushes it, only a minute goes by before the thunder claps, I jump back, hissing loudly at the sound, but I run and push it anyway.









It's empty for the most part, but there stood a shrine of some sort, I step forward, unsure of what is going on. Stepping past a ring of sea lanterns, lighting strikes in front of me, turning from it, do I notice that i’m floating in the sky. Screaming as I float away, trying to get the wall, not even noticing the lightning trying to strike me. Suddenly I’m not there, but in a small room. It’s nothing I had ever thought of, but the real gift is outside. Stepping out of the cave into a large jungle, with huge bushy leaves. I step forward and gasp, I used to live in a tree before this but now I wanted to live here. Forget my cat tree, I want those huge trees. I check my hud and stare in awe.

[@]SkittyKittyLux has attuned to the Golden Jungle