TangoTek's Double Life: Episode 2

TREACHERY AT THE RANCH! is TangoTek's second episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 24, 2022. In this episode, Tango and his soulmate Solidarity work on the Ranch and obtain two goat horns after trading for goats with Rendog and getting help from PearlescentMoon. They steal GoodTimesWithScar's horse from the Jellie Petting Zoo since they think it belongs in the Ranch, but find that someone stole or killed all their goats in their absence. Scar burns down the Ranch in retaliation for the horse theft, and Jimmy and Tango swear revenge.

Plot
The episode starts with Tango and Solidarity at their Ranch as they vow to get a horn today. One of their cows commits suicide and Jimmy picks up its leather. Tango shows Jimmy that he put two secret barrels beneath one of their large chests containing food and resources. He gives Jimmy some leather so he can craft leather armor, since they don’t have enough iron for armor.

Jimmy and Tango discuss how they can upgrade their Ranch; Jimmy proposes that they extend the cobblestone wall at the back of the Ranch and make it curve around to the front while adding an entrance through the wall. Tango proposes to add a second story to the ranch with perhaps a lookout tower.

Jimmy and Tango work on the cobblestone wall surrounding their base and Jimmy thinks they should check whether there are any goats in the vicinity of Rendog and Bigbst4tz2’s base and lead them to their Ranch to breed them. Ren visits the Ranch and gives Tango an iron sword after seeing how poor he is. Ren asks for a tour and Jimmy and Tango show him around the property, though they refuse to let him inside.

Jimmy asks Ren whether there are still goats next to the Box, and Ren tells him there are. Tango proposes a trade and Ren shows he brought a boat with him for that specific purpose, though he hints that he was actually going to steal a cow. They decide on a trade of two goats for two cows and Jimmy and Tango let Ren take two cows from their cow farm.

Jimmy goes to goat mountain and leads one goat back to the Ranch. He spots Jimmy leading two goats with him and getting hassled by Smajor1995. They bring the goats home, breed them, and try to get the goats to hit them, but they don’t get horns. Jimmy and Tango start to make a pen for the goats.

GoodTimesWithScar shows up riding a horse, and Tango and Jimmy secretly plan to keep the horse at their Ranch. Scar asks Jimmy for three pieces of leather since he’d given Jimmy a spyglass the previous session. Jimmy asks for Scar’s horse in return for the leather, which Scar thinks is outrageous. Scar rides away from the Ranch, trampling some of the crops in the process.

Tango and Jimmy notice InTheLittleWoods building a platform in the air above a nearby ravine, and Martyn later visits the Ranch. Tango and Jimmy hear explosions and Grian’s voice around their Ranch but can’t find out where the sounds are coming from. They lead the goats into the pen and try to obtain a horn.

SmallishBeans shows up and advises Jimmy and Tango that the pen should be made of wood instead of cobblestone, which they don’t believe. One of the goats escapes the pen by jumping over the wall and Jimmy leads it back inside the pen. Tango makes a new back wall for the pen out of birch logs while Jimmy checks the Minecraft Wiki; he finds that Joel was speaking the truth about the goat needing to hit a natural block from its biome.

Tango and Jimmy continue to try and get a horn but the goats keep jumping out of the pen. They eventually find that the goats don’t drop a horn when hitting the birch wall. Jimmy brings PearlescentMoon to the Ranch for help and Tango gives her food. Pearl advises to change the back wall of the pen to either stone or dirt, since the block must be naturally occurring in the goat’s biome. Tango and Jimmy make the back wall out of dirt but it doesn’t work.

Jimmy and Tango make the back wall of the pen out of stone and Pearl obtains the ‘Sing’ horn and gives it to Jimmy. Tango witnesses Pearl freezing herself with powder snow. Jimmy obtains another ‘Sing’ horn and gives it to Tango. The two thank Pearl and make the walls of the pen higher with dirt to prevent the goats from escaping. They then give it a dirt roof and happily respond with their horns whenever someone else blows a horn.

Tango visits BdoubleO100 and ImpulseSV’s base and finds Bdubs there. Bdubs shows off his house while Tango shows off the horn he got. Tango tells Bdubs he’s free to stop by the Ranch. Bdubs thinks that the Ranch has no cows or chickens since he has all the cows and killed all the chickens, and Tango tells him that’s not true. Tango states that they don’t have any horses at the Ranch yet and implies that he will steal one of Bdubs’ horses when Bdubs leaves the base.

Tango heads to a high mountain of the map and mines for iron, but hardly finds any. He spots a panda in a nearby jungle and visits Scar at his Jellie sanctuary. Tango shows off his horn and Scar offers to trade for it. They negotiate while standing in a block of powder snow that Scar placed. Tango gives Scar his horn after Scar says he’ll give it back after a few minutes, but Scar explains that he wants Jimmy’s horn, not Tango’s, and he gives the horn back. Tango leaves, stating that he’ll see what he can do.

Tango walks past Grian next to the staircase leading to the deep dark and watches BigB and Ren crossing the bridge to join Grian’s expedition. He visits Scott’s house and admires Scott’s cow farm. Scott tells him he’s bonded with Pearl who’s purposefully been taking damage, so he needs a lot of food; Tango tells Scott he saw Pearl freezing herself earlier. The two look out at the rest of the server and Scott tells Tango which house belongs to whom.

Tango visits ZombieCleo at her house and makes a pop-up stall outside called ‘Tango’s bad advice’ with a sign saying the advice costs one iron ingot. Cleo states that she already got the worst advice, namely having Martyn as her soulmate, but gives Tango an iron ingot anyway. Tango thinks for a moment and then gives Cleo the bad advice that she should go caving with him.

Tango’s second bad advice is that she should be in the deep dark, and Cleo states that she’s technically already down there since Martyn’s down there. Tango feels terrible for her that she’s taking all the risk and none of the glory, but Cleo says it’s fine since she has a lot of food on her. Tango compliments Cleo’s house and tells her his plans to improve the Ranch.

Tango returns to the Ranch to build the watchtower on top of the main floor and EthosLab passes by after leaving the deep dark. Etho tells Tango that multiple wardens spawned. Tango can’t believe that Jimmy went down there as well, and Etho reveals that Jimmy was peer-pressured into it.

Etho asks if Tango has chickens and Tango goes to the basement to collect eggs from the chicken farm. He gives Etho the eggs and Etho gives him four iron ingots and sixteen iron ore in return. Tango asks if Etho needs anything else, but Etho thinks Tango is the one that needs help and tells him he can come by if he needs anything. Tango asks why Etho’s house is a boat, and Etho responds that it’s because he and Joel are the boat boys.

Jimmy returns to the Ranch together with Martyn and Tango confronts Jimmy for risking his life. Jimmy tells him it was peer pressure and compliments the crooked tower that Tango built on top of the Ranch. Tango thinks it looks like a foot. He goes exploring to look for sugarcane and visits Scar and Grian’s base. Scar asks if he took Jimmy’s horn yet and Tango tell him he didn’t. Scar tells Tango Grian will give him his diamond sword in exchange for Jimmy’s horn, but Grian doesn’t agree to this.

Tango returns to the Ranch and Jimmy thinks they should put a giant R in front of the tower, which Tango does. Cleo comes to visit while they are improving the goat pen and tells them that Scar did something amazing that they need to check out. They go and meet Scar, who shows them the Jellie panda reserve that he built. They ask where the pandas are, and Scar shows that he put them in a hole for now.

Jimmy and Tango spot Scar’s horse in the hole with the pandas and Jimmy asks Scar whether he’s sure he doesn’t want them to look after it at the Ranch, so Scar hits Jimmy into the hole. Jimmy sits on Scar’s horse and tries to use it to jump out, put the horse doesn’t jump heigh enough, so he simply leaves the hole without the horse. The group reacts to Ren and BigB’s death, and Jimmy sneakily steals Scar’s horse and leaves with it.

Scar confronts Tango, but Tango tells him he doesn’t have his horse and has nothing to do with it. Tango leaves Grian and Scar just as Scar is asking Grian if he can burn the Ranch down. Tango returns to the Ranch and tells Jimmy he’s proud of him. They realize that all the goats are gone and surmise that Cleo and/or Martyn must have butchered them. They confront Martyn who’s inside his heart-shaped house, but Martyn seems not to know anything about it.

Tango goes over to Scott’s house where Scott and Cleo are and confronts Cleo. He accuses Cleo of telling them to go to Scar’s place when there was nothing to see, but Cleo claims to have been talking to Martyn while they were away from their base, which Scott says is true. He then thinks that Martyn did it but Cleo states that she can prove that Martyn didn’t since she gave Martyn a flower, which he should still have in his inventory.

Jimmy comes over and repeats the accusation against Cleo. He also warns Scott against her. They accuse Cleo of killing their goats, but she denies it, and she and Scott laugh because they think it’s funny. Jimmy spots Scar setting the Ranch on fire and he and Tango rush back to the Ranch to put the fire out. Scar runs off, though Tango manages to shoot him once.

Joel, Etho, Cleo, Scott, and Martyn come help Jimmy and Tango and they eventually put out the last of the fire with water, though little remains of the ranch. Tango starts having flashbacks. Scott points out that he, Cleo, and Martyn came to help put out the fire despite Jimmy and Tango accusing them of killing their goats. Jimmy thanks the group for helping.

Tango and the others come up with immediate revenge plans against Scar while Jimmy tries to hold them back. Scott and Cleo try to egg Tango on, and Jimmy calls him down by blowing his horn; Joel responds on his own horn in sympathy. They make plans on getting revenge the next episode, 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?