Clockers Limited Life

Chapter 7- Session 2

"The mansion's back, can you burn it again?"

"No, you got one mansion burning already. You're gonna have to wait. Second mansion burning comes later."

"Then they'll be more attached to it!" said Bdubs, blinking as he stepped into the sun.

"Yeah, we'll do it as a family."

"A family outing," Bdubs cooed. "Wonderful."

"And I can sneak in, cause I've got sunglasses." Scar slapped on a pair of shades, looking extremely pleased with himself.

"Right. Now what have we got to do today?" Cleo dug through a chest of supplies. "We already fed the cows. We need to trade the cows for alliances before people start stealing them. We need to do a mining trip."

"That's boring!" said Bdubs. "I don't wanna go mining!"

"Okay, then let's go caving."

"Caving's too scary," he mumbled. Cleo sighed for a long time. His stomach twisted with shame. "I could do some mining. I'll do some mining."

"Great. And Scar has his talent for hoodwinking people out of their belongings-"

"I'll be with you in a moment. Just going through my inventory," said Scar from within the mountain. He hopped upstairs. "Did somebody say hoodwinking?"

"Yes, we'll go around with a cow and see if we can get something for it."

"I can do that!"

Bdubs handed his leads to Cleo. There was a moment of sinking in his stomach at the thought of the rest of his family going off without him... but it was just delegation of labor, he had an important job and they were always a team.

"So the plan is," said Scar, "you're going down to the mines-"

"I'm going mining!" he said with all his enthusiasm.

"And we're gonna go trade with people. Definitely not hoodwinking."

"Exactly. See you, Bdubs." Of course, the goodbye was slightly awkward because the mining tunnel and the cow pen both branched off the same set of stairs.

Don't you think Bdubs is a bad player?

Good thing he isn't on our team.

He's so hard to deal with.

A liability.

Dead weight.

Just dead weight.

"BdoubleO, are you talking to yourself?"

Bdubs jerked his head from side to side, trying to tell where Etho's voice had come from. "Hello?"

"I need an easy boogey kill."

"You do?" Dad needed his help! He was going to team up with Dad!

A chuckle came from above. "You'll let me kill you?"

"Wait, I'm the easy boogey kill?" Bdubs placed a crafting table and rifled through his items. Diamond, diamond, stick. "Aha, and now I've armed myself!" he said just as Etho broke through the ceiling. Etho laughed and Bdubs put his fists by his hips, palm sweating on the sword hilt. "You be careful, who says I'm not boogey again?"

"I'm so scared," Etho deadpanned.

"Oh lay off!" Bdubs scowled, remembering all the gossip that had been spreading around the server. So fast, in these few hours. "I know what you guys are saying about me. Everyone on the server is talking about, Bdubs is deadweight.