Bacca and the Riddle of the Diamond Dragon: An Unofficial Minecrafter's Adventure
6 JEROMEASF rushed past the window It was enormous shiny and moving very fast What in the Overworld was that Bacca won dered out loud But inside he already knew Dragon Being a master crafter Bacca was no stranger to dragons In fact one of Bacca’s favorite games to play was Dragon Escape in which he and his friends lured an Ender Dragon into a biome they had created Then they tried to evade it as it chased them around a complicated parkour course It was great fun But dragons almost never showed up unan nounced like this What was this one doing here at Bacca’s castle in the middle of the night The dragon made another circle around Bac ca’s bedroom tower Bacca watched it go by Just to make sure he looked for the telltale wings long tail and giant teeth Yep There they were Defi nitely a dragon But something was strange in the way its bright crystal skin caught the light Almost like it was like it was Bacca did not have time to complete the thought Without warning the dragon began to descend through the top of Bacca’s bedroom The stone bricks it touched either exploded or melted away The dragon knew what it was doing digging down to find Bacca’s position When Bacca’s roof was completely destroyed the dragon hovered above him in midair The best way to kill a dragon was with a bow and arrows but Bacca was an axe-guy Besides his bow was in a chest somewhere downstairs Bacca con sidered his options It would be easy to head down the winding staircase and outrun the dragon but
BACCA AND THE RIDDLE OF THE DIAMOND DRAGON 7 then it might follow him and wreck his awesome castle that he’d so painstakingly crafted Before Bacca could arrive at a firm decision the enormous dragon did something he’d never seen a dragon do before It spoke Hello it said in a voice as deep as an ocean trench Are you Bacca Bacca was surprised but only for a second What’s this about Bacca replied coolly You just smashed up my roof You got blocks every where And what if it rains tonight Seriously Not cool Sorry the dragon said sheepishly I wouldn’t normally do something like this That’s exactly what you would normally do Bacca replied skeptically You’re a dragon I guess so the dragon said But I’m only here because it’s an emergency Oh yeah said Bacca What kind of emergency The dragon hesitated Also Bacca added am I crazy or are you made of diamonds Yes the dragon said I am It was true The dragon’s entire body from its wings to its claws to its tail sparkled in a way reserved for the most precious of all substances in the Minecraft universe The entirety of the great beast was made from diamonds Bacca had never seen anything like it Whoa cool said Bacca Thank you I think the dragon replied bashfully Well I don’t want to be rude Bacca said but as dragons go you don’t seem very confident Especially not for a dragon made out of diamonds
8 JEROMEASF It’s been a hard couple of weeks the dragon replied sadly Some bad stuff has happened Well one bad thing One really really bad thing Imagine how bad something would have to be to make a diamond dragon lose its confidence It’s that bad That does sound bad Bacca admitted But why are you bothering me about it The dragon stopped hovering and perched on what was left of Bacca’s bedroom wall I come from somewhere far away an entirely different server plane it said It’s a plane that most inhabitants of Minecraft don’t know about The creatures there are very different For example we have an emerald dragon and an ice dragon and even a pumpkin dragon Bacca thought that a dragon made out of pump kins would be particularly fun to carve up in a fight but he decided to keep that thought to himself What do I call you Bacca asked Dragons don’t have names in the conventional sense his visitor replied You may call me the Diamond Dragon if you wish Nice Bacca said My axe is made out of dia monds But I call her Betty Anyhow I’m here because the dragons of my server plane need your help the dragon contin ued Two weeks ago a sacred and powerful object was stolen from us called the Dragon Orb From it the power and wisdom of all dragons radiates Without it the many dragons on my plane are lost and weakened Our powers are draining away That’s lousy Bacca said Do you know who took it Yes we do the dragon said
BACCA AND THE RIDDLE OF THE DIAMOND DRAGON 9 Oh Bacca replied cheerily Then problem solved right You’re a bunch of dragons You can disintegrate anything Who’s going to stand in your way if you want your Dragon Orb-thingy back The dragon shook its enormous head which was bigger than all of Bacca to indicate that it was more complicated The Dragon Orb was stolen by a clan of hos tile creepers who call themselves The Creep the dragon explained They’re bright purple and they live in a magic fortress at the edge of the server Without the Dragon Orb we are powerless to pene trate their fortress There is normally a door inside but they have placed a magical barrier in front of it That isn’t very nice of them Bacca said The Diamond Dragon continued We don’t know why they stole our Dragon Orb or what they plan to do with it but when they took it they left something behind It’s a riddle We think A riddle Bacca asked The enormous dragon nodded We all knew immediately when the Dragon Orb was taken the dragon said We could feel it And when we looked where it should have been we found a mycelium block with writing on it in a crooked creeper hand It said To open the lock bring us the key What does that mean Bacca asked We erm were kind of hoping you could figure that out said the Diamond Dragon What answered Bacca I’m a crafter not a riddle-solver-guy The dragon looked at Bacca seriously I think that crafting is the only way to solve this riddle and the other riddles that I fear may lie
