Hourglass

Hourglass

{
    "title": "Hourglass",
    "rows": [
        {
            "field": "Stopped",
            "label": "Status"
        },
        {
            "field": "Threat meter",
            "label": "Designation"
        },
        {
            "field": "(link to Sand article, displayed as Sand), wood, and (link to glass article, displayed as glass)",
            "label": "Material"
        },
        {
            "field": "<span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"sprite-file\" to File:MSSprite poseidon.png article, displayed as 16x16px|link=Poseidon|alt=|class=pixel-image|)</span>(link to Poseidon article, displayed as <span class=\"sprite-text\">Poseidon</span>)</span>",
            "label": "Owner"
        },
        {
            "field": "(link to Poseidon's Ocean Monument article, displayed as Poseidon's Ocean Monument) (outside)",
            "label": "Found in"
        },
        {
            "field": "''(link to Poseidon's Game article, displayed as Poseidon's Game)''",
            "label": "First appearance"
        },
        {
            "field": "''(link to The Kraken Attacks! article, displayed as The Kraken Attacks!)''",
            "label": "Latest appearance"
        }
    ],
    "invimages": [],
    "images": [
        "MCMS Hourglass.jpg"
    ]
}

An hourglass is a giant time-measuring tool used by Poseidon against his prisoner participants in Minecraft Mini-Series.

The hourglass resembles a generic hourglass in appearance, except that it resembles a flat item.

The hourglass' falling sand is used to both measure the time left until the trapped participants get swallowed by the Kraken and to lower the pillars with each grain fallen.

After Poseidon managed to steal the show from CommuniKate, he kidnapped most of her contestants on top of sand pillars in front of his ocean monument. He warned her alongside Zed, Durango, and Quinn that if they didn't bring him the five enchanted ender eyes before time runs out, the contestants will get swallowed by the Kraken and subsequently banished into the Nether. To measure the time left until then, he summoned a giant hourglass next to Rudi's pillar, informing that every grain of sand fallen will lower the pillars.

Whenever the team managed to collect an eye of ender, Poseidon often showed up showing the time left until their friends get swallowed using a smaller hourglass appearing out of nowhere near him. After they managed to collect the final eye, he congratulated them for their work and dropped his miniature hourglass to the ground to stop the pillars. Later, when Theseus stole an eye of ender to break the Overworld portal, he tripped on the hourglass and accidentally dropped the eye, leaving it at Poseidon's reach.

• Poseidon's Game
• The Twist of the Plot
• Clash in the Canal
• Maze of the Minotaur
• The Kraken Attacks!

“

Your friends will be released if you collect the five enchanted ender eyes, and do so in a timely manner. As these grains of sand lower down, so too will the sand pillars holding your friends lower down into the sea, and closer to the Kraken. And when the last grain falls, they'll be fish food!

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— Poseidon revealing the purpose of the hourglass