Tommy's POV

Tommy was standing admiring his house when he heard Dream calling out.

"ALRIGHT EVERYONE! LET'S GO ON AN ADVENTURE!"

"Who made you the boss?" Tubbo asked.

"i-I, uh-"

"VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!"

"Ok ok! This is turning into another political drama movie..."

Voting time! Who should be leader?

"Ok! All the votes are tallied up. Err, one vote for Dream, two votes for Dream, three-fo-five votes for Dream...two votes for Phil...emmm....four votes for Phil...one vote for...Explosivo?!"

"OOPS SORRY, WRONG SERIES!" Izzy said and ran away. (total drama island reference)

"...Okay, five for Dream, four for Phil, one for Tommy..."

Tommy had a stupid grin on his face.

"...and six votes for Phil! Phil's leader!" Wilbur yelled.

"awwwww!"

"It's ok Dream."

~time skip~

The 'adventure', as Dream had called it, would be more like a test, a mining trip and a challenge all in one- to get everyone full iron armor and some diamond tools while testing the limits of the (extremely good, seeing as everyone could feel all the blocks as if in real life, and felt  it when they took damage or were hungry: Ranboo, Tubbo and Karl had to switch to non-realistic mode but it somehow wouldn't work because of a bug?) VR tech.

Half an hour later, everyone except for Wilbur and Tommy had emerged from the cave with a group total of a stack plus 5, or 69 (enough for a pick and axe for everyone with an enchanting table and a jukebox in each house), Dream happily calling it 'the funny number' of diamonds.

Tubbo wandered around the forest.

Something glinted.

Bending to pick it up, he saw it was a gem of some kind, as green as the forest floor.

What...

Meanwhile, Tommy and Wil were battling skellies.

As he killed the second-last one, the last shot an arrow at Tommy.

It was the first time he (or anyone, for that matter) had taken mob damage, and it hit the non-armor exposed part of him- his arm.

"OW!"

Wilbur swiftly killed the last skellie while Tommy plucked the arrow from his red-red? arm.

"Wil, Wil look I'm bleeding!"

It was true. As Tommy shook his arm trying to get it to stop, they came out of the cave to see the sun setting.

Tommy gulped. Everything had been extremely realistic and engaging in the VR game-

-and so did the threat of danger.

dun dun duuuuuuun...

Next chapter will feature the first TWO of Nightmare's (technically mine) own creations-mutant mobs! Here's a showcase.

Zombie Archer. Difficulty: Trivial (1/7)

Skellie Trooper. Difficulty: Simple (2/7)

Spider Warrior. Difficulty: Easy (3/7)

Hedgerat. Diff: Moderate (4/7)

Ghoulish Phantom. Diff: Challenging (5/7)

Void Blaze. Diff: Extreme (6/7)

The seventh is a boss which wi--..-==-=]lkmdu9hfh[hxml1m1l-blank

Rebooting data.

ERROR

OBJECTIVE CHANGED

CURRENT OBJECTIVE 'OBTAIN SHADOWSTONE'

A dark cavern. Crimson static sparks fill the air.

*rumble*

*growl*

I'll leave you to figure out the rest.

As you see, I'm not one to make you grieve by killing off characters...rather by showing you a glimmer of a vast untapped lake of lore...then shutting it off.

Dastardly, I am...