NOG 25: Too deep we delved there…

Row 247

It has  been days since I've seen the sun. I stopped trying to count the hours; it's impossible to track with no clock, this deep beneath the earth's surface. I had thought to count the number of times I needed to sleep, but I find I'm filled with some unholy energy that lets me work unceasingly.

Instead, I dig, and I count rows. Two hundred forty-seven rows I've dug so far, tearing corridors four meters high from the living rock. I don't know why I must dig; some nameless horror compels me onward. If I stop, something terrible will happen. If I cease digging, some mother will awake to find her children slaughtered, or some hunter will return to his village to find it a blackened husk. Beasts pursue me; fell beasts. Perhaps as long as I dig and they chase me, others will be spared.

Row 562

My hands are bleeding from the digging, but I feel somewhat safer. Beside the horrific beasts, there are riches to be found; vast mineral troves that I've bent to my will. It is ingenuity that sets man apart from the lesser creatures of the world, and it is that ingenuity that has allowed me to enlist nature herself to my cause. Iron becomes tools, diamond becomes weapons. So armed and armored, I feel somewhat safer, though nothing can stop the crawling fear in my gut.

Row 598

Success! For the first time, I dare to hope that I might survive this waking nightmare! I broke into some natural cave, warned to it's occupants by the hideous moaning they elicited. I slew them all, returning them to the hell whence they came. They walked like men, but smelled of death. Perhaps I have seen my fate should I fail. I am spurred on. I'll dig forever if I must to leave this cursed land.

Row ???

I fell into a deep natural ravine, and I've completely lost my bearings. My neatly ordered rows are nowhere to be found, and I fear I may be truly lost. What's more, I've run out of torches; I currently write by the light of a nearby pool of magma. The heat is atrocious, but it's better than the dark. Wait, I hear a hissing-

WOAH! That was intense. This week we talk about Minecraft, and Civilization V, and game controllers, and other things as well. Community member in good standing TheOrangeDoor has a pretty cool project going, so definitely check that out. Maybe next week we'll talk about something other than Minecraft, but probably not.

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• [GAME] Minecraft


• [GAME] Civilization 5


• [ARTICLE] LEGOlden Wrench (donate to this awesomeness!)


• [ARTICLE] Burnt By APB? EA May Just Help You Out


• [ARTICLE] The First KINECT TV Ads Revealed


• [ARTICLE] PayPal Freezes $750K in MineCraft Dev's Account


• Episode art by LynchMob10-09