I awoke on a warm December morning. I live in an area where there are no seasons, so as I looked out my window, all I could see were the white, delicate clouds in the sky, dancing with one another. The Sun barely shone on my face, as I looked down towards the road. Not many cars. Just a few black and grey cars, twinkling in the light of the Sun.
I took my iPad and walked into the living room, where I saw my elder brother and sister sitting by the table and doing their own thing on their computers. My mom was in the kitchen cooking breakfast. She had left her iPad on the dining table, so I went to look what was currently on the screen while on my way to the kitchen. As always, Korean drama. I laughed inside at my mother's obsession with Korean dramas. But then again, I liked them as well.
Anyway, I set down my iPad on the dining table and went to check out what my mom was cooking up in the kitchen. French toast. It was rare that my mom didn't cook something delicious, but today, her French toast tasted quite... unlike the usual. Don't ask why or how I even knew before she served it. (Okay, so I may have stolen just a tiny little bit from one of the already finished French toasts, but still, I was hungry!)
I took my iPad and jumped onto the couch in a way that I would land laying down. I sat upright and turned on my iPad. I had downloaded MCPE the other day. My dad had bought it for me as a Christmas present. I didn't really like playing in single player mode, so I downloaded a MCPE server list app. As soon as it finished downloading, I opened it up and scrolled through the top ten servers. One of them caught my eye.
It had a very peculiar name - BrokenLens. I suppose its name was one of the reasons so many players had chosen to play on it. It was a strange name, and it attracted me to it. I noted the server IP and port in my head, and went back to MCPE.
I clicked play. I was still rather new to this game, and I had only seen people play the PC version of it. I clicked "Add new world", then clicked the button which allowed me to add servers. I entered the IP and port, and entered BrokenLens as its name.
It loaded, then I clicked on it. I was brought into a world where I could see players running around, and NPCs on stands with names above their head. I viewed the chat. I registered my account, while silently reading everything said in the chat. It was mostly role-players. 'Is this a roleplay server?' I thought. I walked up to an NPC with a name that had caught my attention.
One In The Chamber
I checked the chat once more, and I could see it was telling me to join a server with a different port to play the minigame. As this was what I thought to be a new server (I am not sure why I thought so, I just did), I understood they needed time to be able to make it so that once you click the NPC you immediately enter a game. Plus, this was 0.13.x. There wasn't much you could do back then.
I exited this server. It seemed to be a hub. I added the new server, and joined. The first thing I saw was a sort of statue. I looked around, and realised I was on an island. I walked towards the boards which were stationed next to and behind the "statue". Two of them, the ones beside the statue, were information boards. The one behind the statue had the leaderboard and signs which I clicked on, after reviewing the leaderboard. I was teleported to a waiting room. It was rather small, and it was on an island high up in the sky. There were other players there, running around, or standing still as they entered something into the chat.
I admired their skins. I was only wearing the free Alex skin from the Holiday pack. Other than that, I also focused a bit on the chat. I read through what everyone was saying. I noticed a number beside their names. I figured it to be their level. I didn't dare say anything in the chat. I didn't want to embarrass myself, and I was only a shy, 9 year old girl at the time.
