PearlescentMoon's Double Life: Episode 3

Complete CONFUSION is PearlescentMoon's third episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on July 2, 2022. In this episode, Pearl visits the ancient city to gather disc shards and steals GoodTimesWithScar's horse as he's trying to sell her paper. She joins into a demonic alliance with Rendog and InTheLittleWoods called the Broken Hearts Club and obtains Solidarity's horn by pretending to sell Scar's horse; she later leaves the horse at the Ranch because she felt bad for Jimmy. Pearl plans on building a house in the middle of the bridge between Smajor1995 and ZombieCleo's houses, but this plan backfires when Cleo sets the house on fire with Pearl's dog Tilly inside. At the end of the episode, Pearl escapes with her life as a warden is set loose on the surface.

Plot
Pearl starts her episode inside her sky base and shows the changes she made to the base. She makes plans to go to the deep dark to loot chests for disc shards. She crafts shears and leaves her base. She visits BdoubleO100 and ImpulseSV’s house, who give her a bowl of suspicious stew. Pearl instantly eats it and gets Regeneration, which she’s happy about since Smajor1995 seems to be taking a lot of damage.

Pearl asks Impulse and Bdubs where the entrance to the deep dark is, and Impulse reveals he’s about to head there so he can show it to her. Impulse and Pearl go down Impulse’s staircase to the ancient city and find SmallishBeans and EthosLab there, who took most of the iron vein that Impulse had set his eyes on before.

Pearl looks for chests throughout the ancient city; she knows that she’s risking her life but thinks that because her dog and soulbound Tilly is on yellow, so should she be. She sets off a shrieker and realizes she didn’t bring any wool, so she gathers some in the city. She encases shriekers in wool and breaks them, but nevertheless sets another one off.

Pearl loots a chest and reacts to InTheLittleWoods and ZombieCleo’s death. She realizes that the sculk sensors react to her voice thanks to a mod, but not while she’s crouching. She takes a skeleton head and continues to encase shriekers in wool before breaking him; she sets another one off but doesn’t spawn a warden. She notices Bigbst4tz2 sneaking around the city as well.

Pearl loots two more chests and spots Rendog and BigB on the woolen platform above her, close to Impulse’s staircase. Ren tells Pearl to stay quiet, but Pearl tells him she’s crouched. She asks them whether they’re looting chests as well, but they tell her they’re just mining iron. Pearl mentions that she saw BigB sneaking through the city earlier, and BigB pretends that it wasn’t him.

BigB throws pieces of iron down at Pearl, but Pearl and Ren warn him that he might set off the shriekers that way. Ren warns BigB not to anger Pearl, reminding him of how she caused their deaths; Pearl counters that it was their own fault they died. Ren states that it wasn’t technically her fault, but the fault of the demon within her; Pearl thinks that Ren is evil for blaming her for his own mistakes.

Pearl continues looting chests throughout the ancient city and finds enchanted diamond leggings and a name tag. She sets off more shriekers and spawns a warden. She waits at a safe distance for the warden to despawn and decides to leave but plans on coming back another day. She starts going up Impulse’s staircase when she realizes she forgot to enchant.

Pearl goes down to the enchanting table but sets off a shrieker and spawns another warden. She quickly goes back up the ladder to Impulse’s staircase and goes to the surface. She meets GoodTimesWithScar near her tower, and Scar tries to sell her paper for TNT. Pearl offers him a piece of gray wool from the ancient city. She puts on the skeleton head and Scar offers her six paper for the head. Pearl distracts Scar by pointing out the pillagers behind his back and steals his horse.

Pearl returns to where she met Scar but finds that he left. She worries that her base might befall the same fate as the Ranch. She rides to Scar and Grian’s base and spies on them from the top of a tree. They talk to Joel and Etho, and Pearl is baffled that no one noticed her. She meets Scott and Cleo near the Ranch and they ask her if she had sugarcane that she gave to Scar or Grian; she responds that she didn’t. Scott and Cleo explain that Scar and Grian have been going around claiming that Pearl gave them sugarcane.

Solidarity comes out of the Ranch and asks Pearl what she would like to have in return for leaving the horse at the Ranch, and Pearl states that she wants friends. Jimmy tells her he’ll be her friend and she’s always welcome at the Ranch, but Scott and Cleo tell Jimmy about how Pearl has been deliberately hurting Scott and tried to move into his house. Jimmy changes his mind and doesn’t want to be friends anymore.

Scott tells Pearl that if she keeps being annoying to Jimmy, he’ll eventually be her friend, and Pearl plans on using that technique on Scott and Cleo. She rides through Scott’s Relationship Ranch and starts building a new home out of dirt in the middle of Scott and Cleo’s bridge.

Pearl notices that Scott is taking a lot of damage and witnesses him leading goats to his Relationship Ranch while getting shot by skeletons. She rides to him and complains about him taking damage. She decides to kill the mobs around Scott to protect him.  

Pearl informs Scott that she’s going to live on the bridge because Scott once mistakenly said that it was his and Pearl’s bridge. Scott thinks that Pearl should bring it up with Cleo since she’s the one who built the bridge, but Pearl tells him it’s too late. Scott tells Pearl about how Martyn pushed Cleo off a bridge. Pearl threatens to kill Cleo one more time so Cleo and Scott will have to break up, and Scott reminds her that she can’t since she isn’t on her red life yet.  He compliments Pearl’s build in the sky, and she thanks him.

Scott tells Pearl that if she just acts less unhinged, people will be nice to her. Pearl reminds him that Ren and BigB kicked her out after she saved their items from Scott and Cleo. BigB shows up and Pearl notices a message from Ren in the chat talking about the flammability of her base. Pearl quicky leaves to go to her base.

Pearl finds Ren and Martyn under her base chanting and dancing around burning logs. Pearl puts out the fires and is utterly confused about what’s happening. They tell her they were summoning her and point out to her that what all three of them have in common is that they have no friends; Ren reveals to her that BigB ditched him.

Ren apologizes to Pearl for blaming for his death, and Martyn apologizes for leaving her at the end of the first episode. Ren states that the three of them are the same and proposes an alliance as ‘the Broken Hearts Club’, stating that he’d rather be aligned with the demon within Pearl than with anyone else. Pearl thinks that both Ren and Martyn have demons inside them as well but are in denial about it. Pearl asks whether this means they’re friends now and Ren says they are. Pearl introduces them to her dog Tilly and Ren feeds Tilly steak.

Ren states that he has a plan to seal their alliance and proposes that they meet up later; Martyn suggests spawn as their meeting place. Ren tells them he’ll put the summoning spell in the chat when he’s ready, and the three part ways. Pearl is confused since she wasn’t supposed to have friends.

Pearl rides to the Relationship Ranch and meets Scar, who tries to threaten her to get his horse back. She hides on top of the Goat Punch house. Scar shoots at the horse and Pearl tells him the horse will die if he keeps shooting it. Scar continues to ask her for his horse, but Pearl claims it’s her horse now and rides away.

Pearl goes to the Ranch where she finds Jimmy and Martyn and offers the horse to Jimmy. Jimmy asks what Pearl wants in the return and gives her steak; Pearl responds that she wants friendship. Jimmy is confused on what that entails, and Pearl tells him that she wants the Ranch and everything inside it to be hers. Jimmy blocks off the gates and tells Pearl the Ranch is closed.

Pearl uses a tree to jump over the wall surrounding the Ranch and onto the roof of the Ranch. She offers the horse again, and Jimmy tells her he would love to have the horse, but that she can’t have the Ranch. Martyn then suggests that Jimmy offer his horn, and Pearl gives Jimmy Scar’s horse in exchange for Jimmy’s horn.

Pearl asks Jimmy to get off the horse so she can heal it with her pickaxe, and Jimmy realizes the horse is on low health. Pearl tells him he needs wheat and haybales to heal the horse, and Jimmy rides as far away from her as possible before getting off the horse and healing it. However, Martyn quickly gets onto the horse and rides it away from the Ranch. Jimmy asks Pearl for his horn back, but Pearl refuses to give it back and runs away herself.

Martyn gives the horse back to Pearl, and Pearl gives Martyn Jimmy’s horn so Martyn can mock Jimmy with it. Pearl returns to the Ranch and offers Jimmy Scar’s horse again; she again asks for his friendship, i.e., everything he owns. She eventually just gives Jimmy the horse because she feels bad for him. Jimmy warns her of a zombie behind her, claiming that that’s what friends do. He asks for his horn back, but Pearl reveals that she gave it to Martyn.

Pearl returns to her base to empty her inventory and gets building materials. She goes to Scott and Cleo’s bridge, places a jukebox to play her ‘otherside’ disc, and starts building a house in the middle of it. She is confronted by Scott and Impulse from one side of the bridge and by Cleo, Martyn, Etho, and Bdubs from the other side. Cleo protests Pearl building on her bridge, but Pearl tells her that Scott had said last episode that the bridge belonged to Pearl.

Scott steals Pearls ‘other side’ disc from her jukebox and Pearl hits him multiple times with her axe. Scott tells Pearl they’ll both die if she kills him, but she doesn’t care since that’ll mean she’ll be on her yellow life like Tilly. Cleo threatens to kill Tilly, who’s inside the half-built house, and Pearl threatens to kill Cleo.

Pearl asks Scott what he did with the disc, and Scott reveals that he threw it in the water. Pearl hits Scott off the bridge into the water ravine. Pearl gets hit into the water herself and asks Bdubs for the disc, but he tells her he doesn’t have it. Scott gives the disc to Joel who gives it to Martyn, and Pearl chases him up the waterfall to his Broken Heart Bastion.

Pearl states that she thought she and Martyn were friends, and Martyn whispers to her that he’ll give her back the disc. Pearl and Martyn pretend to still be cross with each other until they’re both inside the base, after which Martyn gives Pearl the disc back. Martyn thinks that he and Pearl are doing very well for themselves and reveals that he traded Jimmy’s horn to Joel in exchange for sugarcane.

Martyn suggests planting the sugarcane near Pearl’s base since everyone seems to be too afraid to go near it. Pearl agrees, but first wants to recover her jukebox from the house she built on the bridge. She notices Cleo setting fire to the house and quickly heads there to put out the fire and extinguish her dog Tilly. She gives up on building a house there after that since she doesn’t want to risk Tilly’s life.

Martyn meets Pearl at her base after she sends him a cryptic message and Martyn tells her he already planted the sugarcane in a secret location. Pearl spots a warden close to spawn, and she and Martyn head there to check it out. Ren messages them, asking them to meet at spawn. They meet Ren and tell him about the warden, and they decide to lead it to the Ranch.

The three meet Jimmy and TangoTek, who explain that they want to lead the warden to the panda sanctuary. The group reaches the Ranch where Grian and Scar are with the warden behind them, but the warden isn’t able to pass the back wall of the Ranch. The group hides inside the Ranch walls and Pearl overhears Grian and Scar saying that they were planning on killing her.

More people convene at the Ranch and Grian gets sonic blasted through the wall. Scar breaks the back wall letting the warden inside and everyone runs to the gates to escape. The warden follows them through the gates and Pearl runs to the Relationship Ranch along with a few others. Pearl places a sculk sensor and tries to draw the warden to Scott’s cows and sheep; Scar calls her ‘Scarlet Pearl’ for trying to get them all killed.

The warden goes in the other direction, and the group notices that Ren and BigB died. Jimmy and Tango meet up with them and explain that they wanted to kill the pandas. Scott is surprised that Pearl isn’t the one doing the most unhinged thing today.

The warden eventually falls into the water ravine. Pearl watches as Scar tricks Etho into dropping into the ravine with a boat, but Etho doesn’t drop far and manages to clamber out. Martyn hits Jimmy into the ravine and Pearl hits Scar into the ravine as well. Grian gets hit into the ravine, and Grian and Scar survive on half a heart. Some people place water to try to wash Grian and Scar to the warden and Pearl hits Jimmy into the ravine again, which is where the episode ends.

Description
In this episode of Double Life, PearlescentMoon travels where one should not travel in hardcore, awakens a monster, causes mischief and maybe makes... Friends? Can we really trust them? I'm not sure, but the peace doesn't hold for long.