InTheLittleWoods' Double Life: Episode 2

Bleeding Heart is InTheLittleWoods' second episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 24, 2022. In this episode, Martyn tries to win back his soulmate ZombieCleo by building the Bleeding Heart Bastion, an art piece representing his broken heart. The build is considered an atrocity by Martyn's neighbors, and Solidarity and TangoTek try to start an HOA plan against it, but they revert this idea when Martyn helps them put out the Ranch fire started by GoodTimesWithScar.

Plot
The episode starts with Martyn in a cave, stating that he’s accidentally wearing his Orange Ocelots skin from MCC. He makes plans to go to the deep dark but first goes to ImpulseSV and BdoubleO100’s base to kill some cows there for food. He jumps into the hole with the cows and pretends to be a cow when Impulse and Bdubs notice him.

Impulse and Bdubs accuse Martyn of bamboozling them by selling them potion ingredients that they can’t use, but Martyn states it’s their fault for not checking first. He notices that his soulmate ZombieCleo went down to half health and theorizes she did it on purpose to spook him. He kills some more cows in the farm but Bdubs revokes Martyn’s rights to their cow farm.

Impulse asks Martyn for a red mushroom, since he forgot to ask for one last session; Martyn gives him one as part of their deal to still let Martyn have free access to their cow farm. Martyn promises to only kill cows for himself and not for others as he dislikes his soulmate. Martyn then leaves their base, though he overhears them saying that they’ll tell Cleo about what he said.

Martyn spots a cobblestone box build in the distance and goes there. He finds Bigbst4tz2 there who invites him in, but Martyn doesn’t know how to get in. BigB tells Martyn that the build is called ‘the Box’, and Martyn breaks inside through the front wall. He asks if BigB has carrots, and BigB checks the chest but tells Martyn he doesn’t have any. BigB asks what Martyn has on offer, and Martyn tells BigB that he has a donkey with a chest.

BigB tells Martyn he’ll keep a lookout for carrots and tells him that Rendog is out doing business. Martyn tells BigB that his soulmate is Cleo. They notice Solidarity and TangoTek outside the Box, and Jimmy informs BigB that he traded cows to Ren in exchange for goats. Ren returns to Box with cows and Martyn agrees to help bring them inside.

Martyn tells Ren he came looking for carrots, but that BigB had told him that they don’t have any. Ren tries to lead the cows up the staircase to the side of Box and Martyn helps by making the staircase wider. They put the cows into the hole inside the base, though Martyn accidentally drops into the hole for a moment.

Ren tells Martyn that they do have carrots and he harvests some at the back of his farm. Martyn asks what Ren would want in return and Ren offers to make a trip to the deep dark together. Martyn states that he wants to make a safe passage to the enchanting table using wool but leave the table there so people will have to work for it. Ren suggests they take snowballs to distract the warden. They agree to meet later to go to the deep dark.

Martyn spies on Cleo and states that he thinks that the hurtful things she said to him last episode was just her regurgitating what Smajor1995 was saying. He goes to the Ranch and Jimmy lies to him that he and Tango have no animals. Martyn looks up the definition of ‘ranch’ and states that there should be animals. Jimmy tells him that he and Tango are working on getting animals but don’t have any yet. Martyn doubts Jimmy’s words.

Jimmy asks where Martyn’s soulmate is and Martyn points to Cleo, who is building a bridge nearby. Jimmy asks why Cleo is doing soulmate things with Scott, and Martyn states that they are cheaters, despite them originally stating that Martyn was a cheater, which he wasn’t. Martyn starts yelling in jealousy and Jimmy proposes that he make a small house close to the Ranch with its own bridge connecting to Cleo’s place.

Martyn starts building a dark oak plank bridge right next to the wall surrounding the Ranch, despite Jimmy telling him it’s too close. He builds a platform in the shape of a heart in the air above the ravine, roughly between the Ranch and Cleo’s house. He briefly returns to the Ranch to ask Jimmy to give back his dark oak logs, which Jimmy accidentally picked up earlier.

Martyn finishes the floor plan of the heart and makes the walls out of oak planks. He states that it’s small but enough, just like him. He claims that Cleo should see that he’s good for her and that she should be the one to say sorry since she’s to blame. He bridges towards Cleo’s house with dark oak planks, and Cleo threatens to get a flint-and-steel. Martyn calls Cleo childish, immature, and selfish, but tells her that when she stops being like that, he’ll be more than happy to link back up with her so they can be proper soulmates.

Martyn believes that Scott is whispering in Cleo’s ear, convincing her that Martyn doesn’t care about her while he was providing for her. Cleo corrects Martyn, stating that she was the one that first brought up that her and Scott’s soulmates didn’t care for them and that they should just team up. Martyn keeps up his ‘provider’ storyline and tells Cleo that Scott doesn’t care about her but only cares about winning.

Cleo tells Martyn that the current situation is best for both of them, since Cleo doesn’t feel she brings anything to the table in terms of combat skills, stating that she only has her one-liners. Martyn tells Cleo he loves puns and one-liners, and that he’ll bring the skill if she brings the vibes. Cleo tells Martyn that he doesn’t have to look out for her, since she already has Scott looking out for her and even willing to lay down his life for her.

Martyn thinks that they should think about PearlescentMoon, and Cleo suggests he gets Pearl on his side, so both Cleo and Martyn will have two health bars to go through. They notice Ren and BigB coming to Cleo’s house, and Cleo tells Martyn they’ll talk about it later. Martyn retreats into his heart and reflects on what Cleo said; he thinks they’re more on the same page than he initially thought, since it seems like Cleo is deliberately bringing people closer to fall on the sword for her, which in turn means that they’re falling on the sword for Martyn.

Martyn thinks he has misjudged Cleo but decides to continue building the heart as a statement piece, so he and Cleo will seem more at odds to other people than they actually are. He adds windows to the walls. Sometime later, Cleo bridges over to Martyn with dirt and gives him two diamonds for a sword, telling him to not die during his deep dark adventure. They both destroy the bridges they built towards each other, and Martyn states that he’s confused.

Martyn has the idea to build the heart out of nether wart blocks, so it’ll be red like a real heart. He goes caving, finds a staircase, and follows it upwards. He finds Grian still digging the staircase upwards and accidentally scares him with his voice; Grian’s shouts in turn scare Martyn. They reach the surface and Grian tells Martyn he found the ancient city and to gather some people so they can go on an expedition.

Martyn returns to his base and makes some additions to eat before visiting GoodTimesWithScar’s Jellie petting zoo; he finds Scott also there. Martyn pretends to pet the zombie flesh in the petting zoo, and Scar gives him snowballs. Scott instructs him to not respond to Jimmy’s horn, explaining which horn sound belongs to Jimmy’s. He also tells Martyn and Scar about Pearl’s craziness and accuses Scar of breaking her by giving her powder snow to stand in, though he also blames Martyn for leaving her.

Scott leaves and Martyn and Scar stand in powder snow together for a while. Martyn tells Scar he’ll try to protect Grian in the deep dark and promises to visit the Jellie petting zoo when it’s open. Martyn goes down the staircase to the ancient city after meeting up with Grian, Ren, and BigB. They sneak into the city and find that EthosLab and Impulse are already there.

The group starts enchanting while Etho and Impulse make a redstone contraption to distract the warden whenever it spawns. They eventually spawn a warden and run to the staircase through which they entered. Grian hits the warden with a few snowballs, and it charges after them as they run up the staircase. Grian gets hit by a sonic blast but manages to survive.

The group nearly reaches the surface and discusses how it seemed that Impulse and Etho were deliberately setting up a redstone contraption to summon the warden. Sometime later, Martyn and Ren escort Jimmy into the ancient city to the enchantment table. Martyn destroys Etho and Impulse’s redstone contraption and Jimmy realizes that he only has three lapis. Martyn offers to give Jimmy more lapis in exchange for something else, but Jimmy doesn’t have anything with him. They agree to an open IOU and Martyn gives Jimmy more lapis.

Ren accidentally summons the warden by breaking a candle and the group runs through the city to the staircase. They go up the staircase to the surface. Martyn goes to the Ranch and Tango asks him about his heart-shaped build; Martyn tells him it’s the ‘Bleeding Heart Bastion’ and that he made it to show his bleeding heart to Cleo until she eventually apologizes.

Tango expresses dislike for the build and states that Martyn is going to be fined by the HOA. Martyn tells him that, unless Tango gets it in writing, he’s not going to be changing or paying anything. Jimmy puts up a few signs on the cliffside close to the heart stating that Martyn should remove the build, but Martyn says it needs to be in book-and-quill; Jimmy plans to get a book with signatures from everyone living in the neighborhood.

Martyn goes around the server collecting red blocks for his bleeding-heart build. He visits Impulse and Bdubs' house, and Bdubs suggests stripped mangrove logs to Martyn. Martyn goes to the Nether to collect weeping vines and nether wart blocks before returning to the Overworld. He visits the Box and meets Ren there, who compliments Martyn’s donkey. Martyn tells him he lost his first donkey, but he didn’t care about the first one anyway. Ren tells him his and BigB’s horses are named Bee and Squirrel, and Martyn names his donkey Glen.

Martyn questions the ugly face at the front of Box, and Ren explains that it’s his and BigB’s strategy to have a base so ugly that no one will want to attack it. Martyn leaves Box and passes Pearl, SmallishBeans, and Etho next to Scott’s house. Pearl is telling Joel and Etho about her floating tower base, and Martyn pops in stating that floating bases are all the rage this season. Pearl questions Martyn about his heart base, and Martyn explains to her that it’s supposed to represent a bleeding heart and that it’s an art piece.

Martyn rides to the Ranch and finds Cleo there riding her own donkey. Cleo tells Martyn that some people have been telling lies about him, namely that he’s plotting to kill her. She lets Martyn guess who told her the lies before revealing to him that it was Impulse and Bdubs.

Cleo tells Martyn that Impulse and Bdubs also claimed that Scott was bad-mouthing her, which is how she found out that they were telling lies since Scott hasn’t left his house all day. Martyn thinks that Impulse and Bdubs are being salty because Martyn sold them potion ingredients that they can’t use.

Martyn and Cleo spot Bdubs at Box in the distance and they think he must be spreading gossip again. They also spot Pearl on the roof. Cleo then quickly leaves the Ranch, telling Martyn that she’ll get in trouble if she still there when Jimmy and Tango come back. Martyn surrounds his donkey with cobblestone. He hears Bdubs passing by after being accused of lying by Cleo, and Martyn scares Bdubs away by accusing him of lies as well in a deep reverb voice.

Martyn notices that Ren and BigB have died and returns to his Bleeding Heart Bastion to continue making the walls out of red blocks. He adds a Nether wart block roof with shroomlights before being confronted by Jimmy and Tango, who yell at him from the Ranch. They accuse him of killing their goats, but Martyn doesn’t know anything about this. They ask him when he’s going to move and Martyn reminds them that he needs to see it in writing; they threaten to make him move with TNT, but Martyn thinks that that would add to the art.

Martyn later notices Scar setting the Ranch on fire, and he quickly leaves the heart to get there. He builds up next to the Ranch’s tower and places water on top to extinguish the fire while other people arrive to help as well. After the fire has been put out, Scott, Cleo, and Martyn point out that they came to help put out the fire despite getting accused of killing the Ranchers’ goats.

Jimmy thanks everyone for helping and tells Martyn he’ll take down the HOA signs. Martyn notices that Tango seems to be making revenge plans and Martyn quickly goes to Grian’s base to warn him, reminding Grian that his base is very flammable. Martyn passes by Scar’s petting zoo and asks him for mangrove logs; Scar grows a mangrove tree for him and tells him about Jimmy and Tango stealing his horse. They make comments on Grian’s cake base and Scar tells Martyn to relay a message to Jimmy and Tango that they should have returned the horse when they had the chance.

Martyn goes to the remains of the Ranch and relays Scar’s message to Jimmy and Tango. Jimmy plans to eat Scar’s horse while Tango plans to barbeque Scar’s pandas. Martyn returns to his Bleeding Heart Bastion and ends his episode.

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Watch a guy who can't build.... Create an absolute masterpiece.