[I advise reading the previous post for info on what is going on here]
So there we were, walking down the staircase, pretending to bump our heads on the low ceiling. Thermiteguy was first, but had to go back while I was going down. I waited until he came back down. At the bottom was a rather low area, where we only needed to dig a few blocks to find bedrock and start a branch mine. Did we do so? Of course not. We had our "f3s on" (A bunch of numbers showing frame-rate, coordinates and numbers above mobs, activated by pressing f3) and saw some mob a few blocks above the bottom of the staircase. We listened, and realized it was a skeleton, this was gonna be hard.
I busted a hole in the wall to where I thought the cave would be, a skeleton leaps out, I dodge its first arrow. Me and Thermiteguy charge in, dealing blows to the skeleton, me with a stone sword, him with an iron one. We managed to kill the skeleton, and magically only had about one heart depleted on each of us, suddenly another one of those idiots popped out of nowhere and shoots Thermiteguy, he gets knocked into an alcove for about half a second, the skeleton hits the wall in an attempt t attack my friend again, I sneak up on him and hit him with my sword, Thermiteguy pops out and helps me crush him to dust.
After this encounter, our healths are about seven and a half hearts. We go through a series of caves and such, facing zombies, and to a lesser extent, more skeletons. After this, we have aquired roughly 20 iron each, I have 10 gold, and Thermiteguy has about 20 lapis. At this point we should have gone back and dropped our stuff off, but no, we didn't learn anything from the Ghast incident. We came to a dead end, where Thermiteguy went and started a long hallway. I went away and mined some coal, I found some more iron, too. When I came back, my friend had finished up the hallway and was about to start a branch mine. I saw a multitude of numbers, though, which meant a cave.
We were chattering on while I dug a staircase towards the numbers until I came to a cave and a skeleton promptly shot me in the face, backing up with about five hearts left, I called for Thermiteguy to come and back me up with this skeleton. It couldn't shoot me where I was, because it was about three or four blocks below me. It was very close though, and moving would cause it to be able to see me. Thermiteguy came rushing down and, rather recklessly, fell down the ledge, to be met by Feme Ur, the friendly, face shooting skeleton. Turns out that Feme Ur had two friends, P. Elvis(P being Presley, of course), and Rhea B. Cage. Thermiteguy was quickly demolished.
The area of this place was not friendly to items. So these skeletons were fighting with this current that lead straight into two lava pools. I didn't watch where Thermiteguy's items went, but they seemed to go near the smaller lava pool before being cut of of sight. As I surveyed the landscape, Thermiteguy pleaded for me to get his stuff. Honestly, I tried really hard.
So, when three skeletons are right below you, there is a forceful current going towards lava, and who knows what to your right (It was covered by stone, but I could tell it was hollow) you are faced with a more than difficult task. First, I tried getting the skeletons to get picked off, one by one. No success, one heart lost. Second, I tried getting them to shoot eachother. It appeared to work to an extent, but none seemed to die. one and a half hearts gone. After this, I noticed a large amount of arrows that had stuck to the ceiling above them as a result of their failed attempts at shooting me. Perhaps I could use this to my advantage? I cleared some of the stone the arrows were attached to, but I had to get a bit closer. I took about a heart of damage while trying to get close. Some of the skeletons actually got hit by these arrows, but the arrows were all gone. There was only one thing left to do. With about one and a half hearts left, I grabbed up my sword, and charged at the unholy things, hoping to kill as many as possible.
I don't even think I touched the ground.
With both our inventories emptied, Thermiteguy was getting really sad(He was whining that entire time about getting his stuff) Apparently, a couple seconds before I died, Thermiteguy had attempted to get his stuff, and succeeded for around a millisecond. To Thermiteguy, it was beyond doubt that all of his items had despawned. I assured him that wasn't so, since he had picked it up, therefore resetting the despawning timer. When I got there, it appeared that the skeletons had despawned instead of our items. They were nowhere to be seen. I jumped in and collected my and Thermiteguy's items. I called for him to get down, but for some reason, he took EXTREMELY long. I said I was actually going to keep his stuff if he didn't come down. In the end, I think my ten gold had flown into the lava, this really bummed me out, but, oh well.
I got killed another time somehow, I think it was some sneaky zombie. At this point, I was frightened my stuff had gone into lava. It survived, magically, but I blocked the path for the water to go into the lava. In the end, Thermiteguy went back up, smelted his iron, made a set of iron armor, came back down, fell into lava, respawned, refused to come down when I had found a new cave system, complained until I gave him some iron, complained that he got ripped off, and eventually he had to go.
I, on the other hand, found 2 gold, about 25 iron, and about 40 lapis.
Tomorrow, we are going to explore that new stretch of cave, hopefully I can get a lot more resources, and perhaps diamonds.
