empires s2 recap - week 1
[note: normally, these recaps will be released over the weekend, so i apologize for the week wait on this first recap. thank you for your patience!]
the videos released from saturday, june 25 to friday, july 1 were: pixl 1, gem 1, lizzie 1, sausage 1, katherine 1, jimmy 1, false 1, scott 1, fwhip 1, shubble 1, joel 1, joey 1, gem 2, sausage 2, joel 2, pixl 2, fwhip 2, lizzie 2
this week, the players began to establish their empires and their characters, and began to uncover the history of the world they’re in. falsesymmetry is introduced as a new fwhip, who locates the stronghold, finds the portal already opened, and the emperors enter to find the dragon already killed, though not by any of them.
-fwhip and pixl go caving
-pixl discusses his plans for his savannah empire and character, as a “dungeon master” or “lorekeeper” - he won’t be doing much with his own character, but rather doing more worldbuilding and telling the story of the world itself
-sausage and gem go adventuring together and collect wood and saplings from every kind of tree; they establish themselves as allies
-gem makes her empire in a flower field/mountain
-gem changes into a “sun princess” skin
-gem makes a starter house and farms, and beats a pillager raid
-lizzie settles in a birch forest, builds a tent for/with a sheep
-lizzie builds a diagonal tent for a fox that kills chickens for her
-lizzie tries to bring a panda and parrots from a very far jungle, they die like right on her doorstep
-lizzie then builds a path and dedicates it to him, called the last panda trail
-sausage discusses his jungle empire, sanctuary, which exports wood, and which will be a place of safety and refuge, particularly for the friends sausage had where he came from who are lost
-sausage builds his encanto-inspired starter house
-katherine recounts the story of her old kingdom, where she was a princess and secretly a monster slayer, which fell shortly after her birth
-katherine builds her starter house and tames a cat
-jimmy travels to a mesa, finds a sheriff’s hat, and chooses to make a wild west-themed empire
-jimmy builds a starter wagon and receives a diamond from sausage
-scott establishes his kingdom in a meadow with the theme of being colorful, eccentric, and collecting many things
-scott builds his starter house, which includes both types of nether wood
-fwhip gathers building materials and raids a pillager outpost to free the allays
-fwhip finds a cave to hold his goblin-themed empire, and builds his starter house
-shubble arrives to her new swamp kingdom, the evermore, which she’s been assigned as part of her training as a resident witch
-shubble plants a sprout, which grows into a small house, and says she needs to make a hat and wand
-shubble goes to katherine to commission a hat, chooses a mangrove propagule as a temporary wand, and builds a mailbox so the witches can send her letters
-joel confirms the mezealean king died
-joel settles in a plains next to mountains
-joel spends much time collecting quartz, builds fountain that makes him a 'god'
-joey starts with a lore sequence of pirates fighting against skeletons on ships in the stormy sea, wakes up on the beach
-joey finds a place in the jungle to settle, near sausage
-joey goes endbusting with everyone still having only a wooden pickaxe
-joey builds a starter base ship in the cove
-gem builds a barn for her animals and expands her fields
-jimmy and gem go mining and end up summoning the warden; they get away without dying, though jimmy is blown up by a creeper
-gem builds an automated bee farm
-sausage, joey, and pix visit the outer end to collect shulker boxes and elytra
-jimmy and sausage set up a deal providing access to terracotta in exchange for wood, and declare themselves allies
-sausage brings several villagers back to sanctuary and sets up his villager hall, and mentions that he can talk to animals
-joel’s fountain is lifted up, into a sky island
-joel does some detailing on the sky island, including trees and flowers
-joel brings a bunch of pigs to jimmy's while he’s streaming as a prank
-pixl builds a shulk-based xp farm, and establishes it in lore as being built by an ancient people
-pixl pranks jimmy with a skulk shrieker under his wagon
-fwhip builds a skeleton spawner, which he intends to sell access to, and an entrance to his cave
-fwhip promotes his skeleton spawner to lizzie, who can’t afford the pass, and brings jimmy gifts to get on his good side
-fwhip builds a secret railroad between his base and joel’s
-lizzie collects more animals and names them all
-lizzie clears out a geode ands sets up a crystal farm so that she can buy access to fwhip’s farm and sell the crystals to the other empires
-lizzie buys the skeleton key from fwhip
