Bob and the Bamboo Adventure

A CHOICE-FILLED ADVENTURE STORY

BOB AND THE BAMBOO ADVENTURE Written by Students of MS. TARCHINSKI’S FOURTH-GRADE CLASS at BACH ELEMENTARY

FIRST EDITION AN 826MICHIGAN DIGITAL PUBLICATION

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You live in a Minecraft world. Some people live in the clouds, and others live in the underworld.

There was a mod installed. A new villager who is a panda named Bob arrives. Bob the giant panda is going to cause some trouble. Bob will eat all the bamboo and scares everyone.

You could slowly work your way up and start to get your resources to fight Bob the giant panda. Or you could help Bob fix his mistakes.

If you decide to slowly work your way up and get resources to fight Bob the giant panda, turn to page 2.

If you decide to help Bob fix his mistakes, turn to page 3.

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You decide to go down to the cave to get more resources. The cave smells like garlic and blueberries!

When you are in the cave you see a zombie trying to chase you. There is a family of nine-foot seven-inch and 275 pound orange zombies living in the cave!

The zombie tells you, “I have you where I want you!”

You can run into the cave and get more resources or run a different way with the zombie still chasing you. While running away from the zombie, you find iron. You can stop to mine it, or keep running from the zombie. You keep running and find blue, garlic pancakes to throw on the ground, and the zombie stops to eat them so you can get away. You also find green baby bananas, which the panda is allergic to.

When you open the bananas they are blue!

You are low on food. You can eat some of the bananas and go look for more resources or go back to try and fight the panda.

If you decide to eat the bananas and look for more, turn to page 4.

If you decide to try and fight the panda, turn to page 5.

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You talk to Bob. You make an Ender Dragon friend for Bob and give him a Ferrari.

You ask Bob, “How would you feel if we ate all of the bamboo?”

Bob responds, “Uhm, sorry. I didn’t mean to be stealing.”

You all celebrate and eat pancakes. You say, “I’ll give you my extra bamboo if you don’t eat all of it.

You are not stealing, you are just eating! Silly Bob!” You have some extra bamboo in a chest, and you plant it. You can cut it down and make Bob a brand new bamboo forest. You tell Bob that you have extra bamboo, but first he’ll have to find them!

You can hide it in different chests around the world and set up a scavenger hunt. In every single chest there is a map with clues to the next chest.

Or you could help Bob find the extra bamboo.

IIf you decide to set up a scavenger hunt for Bob, turn to page 6.

If you decide to help Bob find the extra bamboo, turn to page 7.

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You eat the bananas and they make you even more hungry. You remember that there were more pancakes back by the zombies.

If you go back, you can fight the zombies. There’s even more zombies than before! The zombies start chasing you and chase you out of the cave, so that you’re back inside the village. You see some trees and the other villagers looking at you.

You go over to a tree and pick some purple apples and then you’re not hungry anymore. These are apples that give you superpowers and make you really strong. You could use the strength to fight Bob, or to go into a forest to get more food, where you would shake a pizza tree to get the food down! The tree has mushroom and spaghetti pizza.

The pizza makes you really full.

Now that you’re full you can either go to the gym and work out, or you’re so full that you can’t walk so you decide to rest.

If you go to the gym and work out, write your own ending.

If you’re so full that you can’t walk so you decide to rest,

write your own ending.

4

(start again at page 1)

The bananas taste like blackberries and you eat them and all of a sudden feel even more hungry.

The bananas can also make you fly up to seventeen feet high into the clouds into a kingdom of pandas eating bananas!

The bananas made you more hungry, so you had to eat some bamboo that tastes like chicken.

You and the panda both want to eat the bamboo!

You decide to give the panda banana pancakes but then fight the panda so he doesn’t come back for any more bamboo.

You can either eat the bananas so you can get invisibility superpowers or throw away the bananas so nobody gets invisibility superpowers.

If you either eat the bananas so you can get invisibility superpowers, write your own ending.

If you throw away the bananas so nobody gets invisibility superpowers, write your own ending.

5

(start again at page 1)

You start by hiding the chests. You hide one in the void base, one at the world border, one in a secret room in the base, one in the room where you found Bob, and one in a fortress.

In each chest, there is a note with a clue on it.

In the note, there are instructions to find Wither Roses. They are black. If you step on them, you take damage. Anything that touches the roses starts withering. Inside the chest, there is also a book and a map. The book says to follow the trail of Wither Roses and to be careful.

In the void base, there is a challenge. There is bamboo in front of Bob. He has to decide whether to eat it or not. If he does not eat it, an observer in the distance will send a redstone signal to the void base, which will show the chest. If Bob does bite the very top bamboo, he will see a scroll that is a map to the extra bamboo.

You can leave a note in the chests that say, “Congratulations!” that gives Bob bamboo or you can set up more tricky challenges.

If you leave a note in the chests that gives Bob bamboo,

write your own ending.

If you set up more tricky challenges, write your own ending.

6

(start again at page 1)

You tell Bob the clues to find the bamboo. All of the clues rhyme. The first clue has dragons. Bob tries to follow the clues, but gets lost because he is unfamiliar with the land. He finds himself in the Nether. You give Bob the second clue to help him out. Bob runs into the creeper and zombies, but he has to give away all of his Minecraft money to get to the clouds. He tries to run away, but the zombies take away his dragon!

Bob has to fight the zombies to get his dragon back. Bob loses his chance to go to the clouds, and now has a choice of going up the lava ladder.

He can either choose to build a stone ladder to get to the clouds or he can climb the lava ladder.

If you help Bob build a stone ladder to get to the clouds,

write your own ending.

If you climb the lava ladder with Bob, write your own ending.

7

(start again at page 1)

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