With the green wool stashed at base, red is the only wool not yet taken. This episode opens a new area, the Rage-Piglet Citadel. "Nothing bad can happen here." "Sounds like a great place." The counter reads Scoti 58, Basket 55 at the start, and it reads the same at the end.
Potions on tap
Basket has built a little machine for the run. It hands out fire resistance and strength, and there's a separate one for speed. They drink up and drop in. The first pigmen they meet aren't angry yet, so the plan is to steer around them. "My fear is that we'll get down in here and something will make all of the bad guys aggro."
Cutting across
"So is it cheaty to just pillar across here?" One of them starts a cobblestone bridge over the lava toward the citadel while the other lights it. It doesn't get far. Chunks aren't loading, there's an invisible block in the way, and the whole place is blocked in. "So ender pearling is probably not going to work great either." They give up on the shortcut and go the other way.
Lag and angry pigmen
The long way has skeletons, creepers and spawners tucked into the walls, which they break as they find them. Then the lag hits. "You're stationary on my screen." The chat shows Scoti_Garbidis leaving the game and joining again. Meanwhile the pigmen have turned. "They're mad and they're chasing."
Buffs get handed out again and there's talk of calling it for the day, but they push on. With all their armor, each hit is "about half a heart to a heart," and the pigmen carrying blaze rods knock them around badly.
Super duper separated
Up near the main building it goes wrong fast. "Real bad up here. I'm gonna die." A health potion, a missed splash potion, and suddenly they have split up. "Oh man, we are super duper separated. This is no bueno." They regroup in the hallway by a bedroom. One of them is out of healing potions, and the torches are running low. "I guess I should have brought more."
Into the building
There's no door they can see, just a bridge and a climb. Pillaring up wakes the ghast spawners, so they shoot the ghasts as they spawn and take the spawners down. Someone picks up a record along the way. "I got 11." The pigmen keep coming, so they wall off one side to slow them down.
It's still close. "I just got knocked in with these dudes." "Are you dead?" "No." "I finally killed that spawner." Then they light the room up.
A safe spot
They find a quiet corner inside and call it there. The potion supply took a beating. "We're gonna be screwed." "We'll make more. And by we, I mean you." Still, nobody died.
