Last time ended with a plan to charge into the throne room. This episode is mostly about why that was a bad plan, and then the slow, digging version that replaced it.
The old Thelma and Louise
It has been a while, someone points out, since they did the old Thelma and Louise. Scoti volunteers. He puts his things in a chest, keeps his armor on, and announces that he doesn't plan on coming back, he just plans to get up there and report what he found.
What he finds is fire, charged creepers, and more traps. He respawns at the start of the area, a long way back, and the bed may have been blocked. Some of his gear is now being worn by a mob down there. The only part of the plan anyone defends afterward is that at least they know what the situation is.
Something to bring out his eyes
So they regroup at the chest. Scoti wants to know what spare armor and weapons there are, and it turns out Basket had a lot of good stuff he wasn't going to give him. Basket hands over the diamond armor and goes back to gold. A viewer says Basket needs something to bring out his eyes, and the gold is apparently working. Scoti says this changes his perception of their friendship. Basket says he's nervous Scoti will just run in and lose it all again.
Three changes of plan
Plan one is to go along the top, but there's a magma cube spawner up there and blazes higher still. A star wipe later they have changed their minds: work slowly through the middle, fall back when spawners fire, kill the mobs, break the spawners. A pickaxe breaks almost immediately. Then Scoti wanders off toward the blazes and the chat reads Scoti_Garbidis was shot by Skeleton. He was trying to pillar up and kept getting knocked off by spiders. He gets some of it back, though not a chestplate, and the food, which is what they are lowest on.
Digging around
So Basket unchanges the plan. He has a stone pickaxe, so it's going to be slow, and he starts digging a tunnel along the side wall where the pillars give some cover and nothing seems to spawn. It works. Along the way the special mob they had been dreading, a burning thing that looks like a floating chestplate, gets knocked into the lava and dies. He's not as special as we thought.
Lava behind the throne
The tunnel reaches the back of the throne. There's glass on it and bedrock underneath, and a spawner behind it that turns out to be where the fire guy comes from. One of them jumps down and smashes that spawner. Charged creeper and witch spawners sit near the front.
Basket has a lava bucket and pours it over the area to light things up. The witches swim up in it, and charged creepers turn out to be immune to fire, so the lava has to come back up. Then the arrows run out. Since they have already had half an episode, that's it for today.
