//------------------------------// // Diamond Tiara Tries Minecraft // Story: Diamond Tiara likes Minecraft // by SandyShores //------------------------------// Diamond Tiara sat at her computer, late on a Sunday night. She was busy catching up on the gossip of the premiere Canterlot royalty. Normally she would catch up on the hottest buzz with her best friend Silver Spoon, but she had said she was busy and wasn’t able to hang out this night. She read many of the stories and watched all the latest buzz worthy ‘news’, everything from ‘Celestia’s Cake Addiction’ to ‘The Great and Powerful Trixie’s Secrets Revealed’ and now Diamond Tiara was beginning to get bored. With no one to dish about the latest buzz, spending hours reading gossip about celebrities seemed almost pointless. Diamond Tiara decided to take a break, and opened up the messenger on her computer to open a chat with Silver Spoon when she saw her status was set to ‘available’. ‘Even if she is sick, at least we can chat.’ She thought to herself. DTPrincess- Hey Silver! ShiningSilver set her status to ‘busy’ ‘Well that was odd’ She thought. She then decided to see if anyone else was online to chat. SweetieBelle- Hey DT, what’s up! ‘Ugh, why did I ever add Sweetie Belle. Well, alright she’s not so bad, at least she’s nice.’ She admitted. DTPrincess- I was just catching up on some of the latest Canterlot buzz :) How about you? SweetieBelle- Oh nothing much really, just got back from the mall with Rarity and now I’m playing some Minecraft. DTPrincess- What’s that?? SweetieBelle- It’s a big place with lots of stores, but never mind that now, Do you ever play Minecraft? DTPrincess- I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it before. SweetieBelle- It’s a really fun game where you get to chop down trees and collect apples! Its really exciting! DTPrincess – Isn’t that what Applebloom already does? :P SweetieBelle- Well you can also find gems and make outfits of them too. DTPrincess- Isn’t that that your sister does ಠ_ಠ SweetieBelle- Well yes, but it’s so much more fun than that. ‘Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things. Your fun is only limited by your imagination!’ DTPrincess- Did you just copy and paste that from the website? SweetieBelle- Um…no? But doesn’t sound like fun? DTPrincess- Well maybe just a little bit, I guess I could try it out. I don’t have anything else to do. SweetieBelle- Great I send you a link to try it, you’re gonna have so much fun! SweetieBelle- Minecraft.Pojang.net Diamond Tiara looked at the link and thought there are so much more valuable things she could do with her time like seeing ‘Who Wore It Best At The Canterlot Garden Party’ but ultimately she decided to give the strange sounding game a shot. She set her status to ‘busy’ and clicked the link. She downloaded the game and started it up. She was first greeted with an unfamiliar orange Pojang logo, followed by the start up screen. Then she created a new world and waited for it to load up. When the world finished rendering, Diamond Tiara looked at her screen to see large pixilated blocks everywhere. ‘Is she serious, this is supposed to be fun. How can I build wonderful, imaginative things when each block is as big as a boulder?’ She set off in the new world and quickly adapted to the controls, she began by punching several blocks of dirt into oblivion. ‘This is kinda fun’ she thought as she continued exploring. Within several minutes of punching dirt she moved on to punching sheep as night fell for the first time. She was busy delivering a final haymaker to the third unsuspecting sheep, when she was attacked by a zom-pony. It took her off guard and quickly killed her. Despite dying, she found that the game wasn’t so terrible and immediately jumped back in. Diamond Tiara spent the next couple hours jumping around like a maniac, punching dirt and sheep, and then dying at the hands of a zom-pony. Rinse and repeat. After a while she wondered what she could do to survive, all the punching she tried failed to kill any zom-ponies and she wondered how she could make it past the first night. Luckily Sweetie Belle seemed to still be online and had her status set to ‘available’. DTPrincess – Hey Sweetie Belle. SweetieBelle- Oh hi, Diamond how do you like Minecraft so far? DTPrincess- its not too bad I guess, but I do have a question. SweetieBelle- Sure, about what? DTPrincess- I keep getting killed by the zom-ponies at night and then I have to start all over again, what do I do? SweetieBelle- Oh well that’s simple you have to make a shelter, like you would in real life. DTPrincess- How do I do that? SweetieBelle- Just take something like sand or dirt and build a shelter. DTPrincess- Oh, I didn’t know I could build things with dirt I’ve just been using it to beat the piss out of sheep. Lol SweetieBelle- Lol yeah then you can craft items using wood like an axe for chopping trees or a pickaxe for stone, or even a sword to fight the creatures. DTPrincess- Wow thanks, it’s gonna be a lot more fun now. DTPrincess is now ‘busy’. Diamond Tiara set off back into her pixilated world, and with her newfound knowledge of the game, she was able to build a shelter and survive the first night. Diamond Tiara spent the next few hours upgrading her shelter as well as crafting tools, she began to get sucked deeper and deeper into the blocky world, when all of a sudden, her father Filthy Rich came into her room. “Diamond what in Equestria are you doing?” Her father asked. Diamond Tiara quickly closed her laptop before responding. “Oh nothing daddy, I was just doing some homework.” “What I mean is I what in Equestria are you doing up this late?” Her father clarified. Diamond Tiara took a glance over at her alarm clock to see it was 1:30am. “Don’t you have school in the morning?” He asked. “Oh I’m sorry daddy I didn’t realize it was so late.” She sheepishly admitted ‘did I really stay up this late playing that game.’ “Ok, but you need to get some sleep now, alright.” Her father said. He made his way out and closed the door. Diamond Tiara breathed a sigh of relief ‘I’m glad he didn’t see what I was playing.’ She decided it was to call it a night as she made her way over to her bed. But not before she quickly ran back over to her computer to make sure her game saved.