TangoTek's Double Life: Episode 1

What a Start! is TangoTek's first episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 17, 2022. In this episode, Tango goes looking for his soulmate and finds he's bonded to Solidarity after dying to a creeper. The two build a house and start a chicken and cow farm, but realize they'll have to beg other players for items after losing their own stuff when dying.

Plot
The episode starts with Grian’s introductory video with Tango’s voice-over before he and the others leave the spawn area. He gathers materials and food, crafts tools, and goes mining while explaining the server rules. He finds Rendog’s furnaces and considers stealing coal from them but finds that Ren didn’t use coal to smelt his iron. Ren shows up and is grateful for Tango not stealing his iron.

Ren gives Tango food and tells him he already tested with Smajor1995 and Grian and that neither of them are his soulmates. Ren hits Tango to test whether they are soulmates, but they find that they aren’t.

Tango leaves and kills cows while constantly getting damage from his soulmate. He goes caving and hears Bigbst4tz2 through the wall of his cave. They dig towards each other and are about to test whether they are soulmates when Tango takes damage by himself; they decide to stick together for now.

Tango and BigB explore several caves to find iron but are attacked by a witch and must block themselves in after BigB gets poisoned and down to one heart. They block the witch off and continue to mine before deciding to go to the surface to mine there.

Tango and BigB meet Scott and Grian on a mountain and Grian gives Tango a bad goat horn. Tango finally manages to mine some iron. The four test out whether they are soulmates but find that none of them are bonded to each other. Grian starts screaming for food and Scott, Tango, and BigB give him some; Grian explains that he almost died in one hit and Scott theorizes that Grian must be bound to either Solidarity or GoodTimesWithScar.

Tango and BigB leave the mountain and split up. Tango finds BdoubleO100 and Bdubs lets Tango hit him, despite claiming to already know his soulmate’s identity. Bdubs reveals he’s bonded to ImpulseSV just as ZombieCleo shows up. Bdubs shares his bed with her so she can sleep for a moment, and Cleo hits Tango to test whether they are bonded, but they aren’t. Cleo thinks she might be bonded to Scar because she’s getting damaged constantly and Bdubs tells her that Grian had said the same thing, while Tango recounts how Grian had been screaming earlier.

Cleo leaves while Impulse shows up, returning to Bdubs with a bucket of water for their farm. Tango helps the two fight off a skeleton before giving Bdubs the bone that the skeleton dropped as he needs it for the farm. Tango leaves them and heads to a mountain to look for iron.

Tango is attacked by multiple zombies and a spider in a cave and doesn’t notice a creeper behind him before it’s too late; he gets blown up and loses his first life. He respawns in the spawn area and meets with Jimmy, who died together with him due to them being soulmates. Tango explains what happened to Jimmy and Jimmy tries to recall where he died so he can retrieve his items but doesn’t remember which direction to go. Tango bemoans the loss of his horn and he and Jimmy hide a chest in a tree near spawn.

Jimmy leaves Tango alone to go look for his items while Tango also looks for where he died. He finds the right cave but doesn’t find his items there. He explores several caves before blocking himself into a hole in a hillside.

Scott and Cleo come across and come inside his hole. Tango and Scott make the hole bigger together. Scott and Cleo rejoice once they notice that Smallishbeans and EthosLab have lost a life, as Scott states that they had been stealing from everyone. They reveal that the two of them are bonded to InTheLittleWoods and PearlescentMoon, but don’t know who is bonded to who.

Later, when Tango and Jimmy have met up again, they pick a spot for their base not too far from Scott and Cleo. Jimmy goes mining while Tango terraforms the area. Bdubs shows up and tries to scare Tango with creeper noises. Tango joins Jimmy in the cave he’s mining in, but they don’t find any iron. Tango gives his iron boots to Jimmy, and they realize they might have to beg other people for items.

Tango and Jimmy return to the surface and Jimmy goes to the pillager outpost to beg the people who are building there for a bucket while Tango stays behind to build a house from cobblestone, stripped birch logs, and birch planks. Jimmy returns and is impressed with their house. He shows of the different items he got from begging people, including a water bucket, and Tango finishes the house by giving it a birch slab roof.

Tango makes a room under the house and Jimmy throws three eggs he found in a hole there; only one of them spawns a chicken. They cover up the secret room and leave their base to each go look for a chicken. Tango finds three chickens and leads them all back to the base and into the secret chicken hole.

Joel and Etho show up at Tango and Jimmy’s base and admit that they gave up on building a base above the pillager outpost. Tango tells them about his chicken farm and Joel and Etho plan on coming by when they’re low on food; Tango tells them not to despite Etho saying that they’re all ‘team yellow’ now.

Tango gathers seeds and breeds the chickens. Jimmy shows up with four cows in tow and they break the door to let the beasts inside while calling themselves ‘team rancher’. Jimmy makes an extension on one side of the house to make a barn for the cows. Jimmy leaves to go ask for a goat horn while Tango stay behind to mine, though he eventually decides to go explore as well.

Tango meets BigB, Ren, Scott, and Cleo next to Scott’s house and asks them for iron. Scott complains that Jimmy had also come begging to him and Cleo. Ren offers Tango four iron ingots and his allay in exchange for a cow, though Tango doesn’t want the allay. He sees Ren and BigB’s cobblestone house on top of goat mountain and shows the others where his own home is located. Scott notices Jimmy getting cornered by Joel and Scar on a bridge in the distance and Tango heads there to help his mate.

Tango meets up with Ren and BigB again at Bdubs and Impulse’s base, finding Martyn and Pearl there as well. Tango heads inside and looks through the chests. Martyn tries to trade nether items with the others while Ren continues to offer four iron ingots for a cow. Tango leaves without getting any iron.

Tango returns to his and Jimmy’s house while starving and Jimmy gives him melons for food. Tango tells Jimmy he failed at begging in Jimmy’s absence and Jimmy admits that he didn’t get a horn either. They plan to get iron, food, and a horn in that order.

Joel shows up at the base and bonemeals the crops in the wheat farm to take wheat for himself. Joel gives Tango one bonemeal and laughs at Tango and Jimmy for not having armor. Jimmy demands that Joel take off his armor, but Joel isn’t intimidated and hits Jimmy with his axe. He gives them a baked potato each after realizing they don’t have any food. He steals more wheat and leaves another baked potato before leaving, which is where the episode ends.

Description
This is Double Life! An experimental mini series where we each have 3 lives and are randomly soul linked with another player. On the 3rd life we turn hostile toward our friends! Let's see what chaos ensues?