Child's Play - A Hermitcraft 8 AU

Breaks and Mega Tanks - Ren

Summary: Ren is placed with the job to gather logs and plan a shop for the future of Octagon. Of course, this is all the more difficult when he died to a tnt blast while farming logs, leaving him a child from the respawn glitch.

(Author's Note: Inspired by Ren saying that he let his inner 10-year old decide the design for the log shop. I heard that, and ran with it.)

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The Octagon.

It sounded cool for a name, right?

At least that's what Ren thought, but Ren had died a few days ago while in the middle of the project, and instead of working on it, he went home at the respawned age of seven and went to planning mode. His judgment for ideas were... questionable to say the least.

But despite being younger, there was no time to fully break. That was what Doc said, and Doc was really smart so it had to be true. Lots needed to be done, and death was inevitable so they just had to push through the side effects.

In the meantime, the now ten year old Ren was looking through the checklist of to-dos to see what was the most rational project to start.

A good portion of the projects surrounded planning builds, another to decoding the message from Xisuma's place, and another to build shops and make profit. At the end of the day, priorities centralized around planning a design for the Logz shop and exploding a bunch of trees to sell at said shop (and given that was what killed him earlier, Ren preferred to not look at the monstrosity in the eye or it's stinckin' tnt).

"Shop planning sounds fun," he said to himself, pulling out the colored pencils and markers from the shelf—all washable otherwise Doc might kill him, and Ren didn't want to be dead twice in a week. Next he pulled out the massive box of legos, many of the sets being vehicles or Star Wars ships, with a few figures in it. Two were painted to be miniatures of Ren and Doc, which Ren used now to help decide the scale of builds.

On a piece of paper was a list of questions he had pre-planned for wherever he was deciding the style of the creation. There was a section for block pallet, general size, use of the building, and room for extra notes. Every word used was more simplistic and straight to the point, with Ren already anticipating he'd be kinda young when planning builds and older when executing them.

"So a logs shop..." Ren mumbled to himself, building a few trees to represent the tree farm that decimated him due to a lag spike and a fall into the system. He still was salty about it. "It needs to be something cool. What's cool?"

He turned his focus from the legos to his sheet of paper, making a few random doodles out of shapes. After a couple seconds, he was already coming up with a doodle that didn't look half bad.

"It needs to be big. Really big with LOTS to look at." Ren drew some large shapes on the page, all of them ending up cubed. "And scary. So scary everyone will bow at its feet and give it lots of derpcoin!" He quickly drew some of the premium derpcoin he'd seen in an ad with a light blue marker. With a dark blue pencil he tried to get the details in of the derpy face, though it didn't really... look like a face.

Ren changed his focus from fantasizing about owning lots of derpcoin to the shape of the base. "It's cool. Cool and intima-nating. Like the crab-spider walker thingies." He drew a quick picture of those creations Doc had built, not giving them justice in the slightest. But with the idea of what the colors looked like, he was able to pick a quick block pallet.