Hi, I'm Ishi

I am a peasant in the town of Dong Dank or Home, I'm not really sure what the name is of my home town. I know it's in Lords of Minecraft, but the name, sorry. I don't know if anyone really knows. These things do sometimes make me confused.

Moving on, I live in a part of town called the Barrens and is mostly sand. Before I chose my place of residence I walked all over to find the perfect spot to build my house. Location is important to me, as ids the view, I have a great view of Queen Shay's Castle on the top of the Dunes. I can sit on my porch and watch the sun or the moon rise behind the castle. It's magical. There was also a river where I thought I could fish nice and easily. But I ended up working at the sand factory. I say there was a river because it has mystically dried up all of a sudden and so have the lake and pools. All water has disappeared.

I am married, can't say happily because my husband has become a demon and all he wants to do is fight and eat people. This makes me very sad because he was such a nice person before all of this happened and I was ever so happy and loved him oh so much. I still do, but... He has left me, took all f his things and moved out. This makes me very sad and I cry a lot. 

In a way I suppose you could say I am rather sensitive and emotional. And I get scared a lot. I do really wish he could come. That would make me feel a lot safer, even if he is a demon. I have been blessed by the holy Barsiddius and has become a priestess, so demons can't hurt me. The only thing that hurts me is that they have taken my husband away from me and that he may be suffering and there's not much I can do about it. I can't help him for I know not where he is.

The demons have ruined so much in my life, but they have also given me new friends that have helped me very much. The generals helping me to try and find the demons in a moment of incredible bravery on my part. In the end all I did was fall down in to the demon cave and they had to rescue me. Seems to be the one thing I'm really good at, this falling in to holes thing. Fell of a cloud and died too once. I was running too fast and couldn't stop in time. So I fell very far and I died. That was very sad. I was feeling very strange the whole time I was a ghost and my husband became very sad when he found out. The one time he came home that is. And actually was himself.

I do really miss him ever so much.

Though as I said I have friends to keep me company and try to cheer me up. One very special and close friend sometimes pretends to be my bunny rabbit and dresses up as one for me, just to make me happy. Isn't that a very nice friend to have? I made a home video of him hopping around so I can watch it when he has to go and do his important generally stuff...

Isn't he the cutest thing ever?

I need to stop now so I can get up in time for my job at the sand factory. I'm an exchange student and member of the button pressing Union. And I'm a little bit afraid that the bosses will be terribly man at me if I'm late. I may continue my story at a later date.

Bye-bye!

Lords of Minecraft

Important in my life, Universe and everything right now is Lords of Minecraft. Never heard of it? It's a role play server in Minecraft where anyone can join, visit and have a look around. If you like it there yo can rent your own plot and build a house, a restaurant, a bar or whatever you like. You will need gold to buy the things you need and you will have to get a job to earn that gold. Official jobs provided by the creators, are farming wheat, fishing or digging sand. Working hours are okay, about five minutes every 20-24 real life hours. That would be about half a day every other month in game time, I think. There are other jobs you can do that are provided by the community of players on the server. You can work in a restaurant or a bar, to give a few examples.

The people in this universe are dwarfs and known as peasants by the rulers, who so far has been the lords, recently the queen moved into town. The lords as well as the queen have special powers they can use to help the peasants and give them funny things or to hurt them. It can sometimes be understandable since the peasants were often will get in their way when they are trying to do something. So you should really try to stay away from them. 

All lords and the queen are YouTubers, who records some of their videos on the server. Some livestream as well. When word gets out that they are on there's an increase of players on the sever and I can understand that. They are our celebrities and in many cases the reason for playing on the server. Maybe you could end up in a video on YouTube, but you could also be sent to jail or get killed and have to live the rest your life as a ghost. That sounds so wrong, but in Minecraft no one really dies for ever. True for most video games, I guess.

Why is it important in my life? 

No, I don't chase the lords, or the queen. It's fun to see them now and then, but I try to stay away. I want to live as a living dwarf/peasant and not be a ghost. I don't want to get killed.

I like being a part of this community: to visit council meetings in my part of town, to read books by other peasants at the library, to visit events organised by other players for example Oktober Fest or the Haunted House at Halloween. There's going to be a masquerade ball and Olympic games. Some people have book clubs or poetry evenings, while other have theaters and set up plays. And let's not forget the Hoedown tournaments where brave peasants fight until death. Okay that may also sound wrong, but remember that death is not a permanent thing. But I suppose they will become ghosts...

It is a Minecraft server, but very different because of the community, the role play aspect and the fact that there is a steady flow of videos on YouTube to keep you updated on things that are going on. There's not a lot of grinding to get food or building material, there are sometimes monsters to fight, but normally not. Nights are not scary as in other Minecraft games, unless you play in peaceful, but that's usually quite boring. It's not like playing in creative mode where you have infinite blocks, break blocks with one punch and can fly. You'll need gold to buy your blocks and some food, you have to mine and dig blocks that you wish to remove. You can only buy the blocks that are specific for the district you live in and every district has it's own color palette. 

If you don't have anything else going on when you're there it can be quite fun just walking around looking at all the amazing houses and things people have created. There's a lot of really nice builds and a lot of inspiration to be had from just walking around. Though I do believe some of the best builders have been made squires to the lords and shipped out of town to their respective home base to build amazing things for them only to enjoy. Wish they would sell tickets to go on guided tours to their bases now and then.The lords wouldn't have to participate themselves if they didn't want to.

I do also enjoy watching the videos and livestreams from the server, and maybe some of the lords other stuff if I have the time. Most of them are rather new as YouTubers or at least new to me, but I've been watching one YouTube channel for a long time. He's OldManWillakers in the game and BruceWillakers on YouTube. And he is one of the guys, if not the guy, who has created Lords of Minecraft, as well as other games. Another guy who makes sure everything works in this world is Nisovin, a gnome with magical powers and really a wizard with all those technical stuff I don't understand at all. Thank you guys for the server and for the videos!

Should I mention the others? I should at least tell you their names, right? In game names, YouTube names. There's Roamin, HCJustin, WastedTime more known as Deadbones5, Coestar, Spydster also known as Spyd, ElectricityMan also known as Slagar and queen Shay. We have a king as well, king Poose, but he has left the kingdom to the lords to rule over. 

Anyway, I'm going to leave you now, maybe to go and play one of my favorite games at this moment. If you like Minecraft and have an account I'd recommend a visit at least. There's a link at the top of this post that will tell you what to do. Maybe you'll find that, like me, you never want to leave. Or maybe you're already there and we'll meet someday.

Why 42?

• It's not the year I was born
• It's not my age
• It's not he number of cats I have
• It's not the number on my house
• It's not any part of my phone number

The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately no one knows what the question is.