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The Island Over Spawn: GopherCraft UHC S10 Episode 6

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A card reads "Episode 06, GopherCraft UHC 10." It's Day 6, and Basket and pulse2010, the purple Cave Prospectors, are out on the frozen sea. "We're trying to find some oak. A quest for oak."

Spawn in sight

Spawn turns out to be a floating island over the ice, and somebody has already pillared up to it. The render distance is short, so players pop in and out of view. "We can go right on top of him and he wouldn't know." "That can be said for us."

The Tab list shows everyone hurting. BasketMC has seven hearts, pulse2010 five and a half, Steel_Douglas two and a half, TopStiGear one and a half, OjiiOtousan seven and erynfaith three. Neither of them has an apple. They do have lots of gold, so a gold sword comes up, until the numbers come out: four attack damage, less than stone. "Well it's pretty much useless."

pulse2010, with a purple nameplate and white armor, stands behind a crafting table on a frozen sea, with snowy spruce trees and hills behind

The cottage offer

Chat stays friendly. TopStiGear writes "I take it you are not wanting anything at my cottage." OjiiOtousan answers "didnt know who that was... come out and we'll start over," and erynfaith types "Nah I think we'r good." Then OjiiOtousan asks for "the love note i sent you" back.

Basket and pulse2010 sneak toward the middle, watching for names. The plan is to wait for sunset, when the border shrinks again. "People will panic."

A floating island with spruce trees on top hangs over a frozen sea at sunset, a thin pillar running down from it, with snowy cliffs to the right

Two players down

At sunset the server warns "Soul Crusher will wake in 2 minutes!" Then the line comes up: "TopStiGear was slain by OjiiOtousan." Basket types "gg," and OjiiOtousan asks "Can I haz tea now?" The red lines follow, and the border shrinks 300 blocks over five minutes.

In the dark, someone with a torch shows up across the water, zombies trailing behind. They go under the water and back up for air, and one of them spots the player on top of a tree. A moment later chat reads "Steel_Douglas was slain by pulse2010." "Good job! Got him! Flawless victory!"

The drop has "water bottles, food, sugar cane," which is the thing they needed for books, plus flint and 23 arrows. Still no apples. The Tab list now shows four left: BasketMC and pulse2010 on purple, OjiiOtousan and erynfaith on orange.

Tops Cafe

OjiiOtousan takes over the business in chat: "Tops Cafe now under new management!" and "50% off the top on your first Latte!" erynfaith adds "mmm donuts." The orange pair look to be up on the island. "See their names?"

Basket and pulse2010 dive under the water to craft out of sight. "I got 24 ladders." TNT comes up, and a flint and steel, but they skip both.

Up the ladder

The ladders go up a cobblestone pillar toward the island. The plan is to charge. If the orange team shoots, they shoot back. If it turns into sword fighting, they back off and switch to bows. "Sometimes you can trick them into thinking that it's now melee time."

Looking straight up a cobblestone pillar lined with ladders toward the stone underside of a floating island against a blue sky

OjiiOtousan posts "Now serving Wheat Grass!" and then "Or not - cuz its nasty." The border closes in again. "I guess you can go first maybe." The server posts "End of Day 6. Players remaining:" with pulse2010, BasketMC, OjiiOtousan and erynfaith. Basket is alive by the ladder with pulse2010, and the end credits follow.