The Tipping Of The Scales

The Tipping Of The Scales - The Plot Thickens

Jordan's POV

Every moment in the Mianite world nowadays was just pure paranoia. Tucker and Sonja's actions during the previous purge had raised many questions for Tom and I, however they refused to answer any of them. All we knew was that they were commanded to do it. I presumed that the Shadow was something to do with it as we had not seen Mianite or Dianite come on the server in a good few days now. As much as the Purge rules didn't apply today, no-one really knew what could happen as the trial system wouldn't work if Sonja and Tucker were teaming completely. Thankfully I had completed my mission and the Ianite armor had been collected by our Priest before the others could get to it, so that was one point to me I guess. Tom had discovered a tonne of tnt and redstone mechanisms in the inventory of Tucker and Sonja when he killed them whilst defending me but neither of us could truly guess why. We presumed it was to eradicate either the makeshift temple we built for Ianite in the end, to destroy the end portal completely or both. 

I decided to go strip mining with Tom, we both needed some diamonds and it gave us an excuse to get off Team Speak and talk in Skype just between us to decide where this alliance was going, as well as our future actions towards those who may try to pull something sneaky on us. After grabbing my pickaxe and torches, I met Tom at his house before venturing deep underground through the endless maze that was Tom's strip mine. After travelling about 2000 blocks, we bid farewell to Tucker and Sonja - making different excuses so they wouldn't be suspicous and hopping into a different call. I spoke up first, since both our characters were just staring at each other and all we could hear was the sound of us both breathing heavily.

J: "So... What the heck is going on here?"

T: "This situation is getting too out of hand for us to handle. In your short streams you haven't been able to fully grasp the pure weirdness of what has been occuring in the world of Mianite."

J: "Well please fill me in then good sir."

T: "As soon as you log off each night, they both immediately mute themselves in the Team Speak chat and talk to each other in Skype I believe. They've spent a lot of time in the Mianite temple as well as at the Priests mob grinder. They were co-ordinating with the Wizards about their new house, unmuted but all of a sudden the Wizard said something about a pit? And with that they just immediately muted themselves. Their gear has suddenly become extremely OP, like Dianite Armor level and beyond. I've been in and around every nook and cranny of their house but I can't see anything odd. I'm missing something and I can't figure out what!"

I listened to what Tom had to say with pure curiosity in my mind. It was indeed true that Tucker and Sonja were acting extremely odd however the fact they had to do it the moment I had left raised more questions than it answered. If Mianite and Dianite hadn't come on in a while, then they either had to have another method of communication or the gods came on and left messages for them when we weren't around. I thought over what Tom had said and made a plan. I decided to include Tom in it, his lying skills would be essential for this to work.

J: "I have an idea Tom. I'll need your help though.

T: "Fire away Jordan! I'm up for anything!

J: "We need to keep them away from their house for long enough for us both to search their house for any secret passages. I have a feeling they have gotten built by the wizards a passage under their house into some kind of secret room in which Mianite is leaving tasks and messages for them - which is why we haven't seen any of the gods on. You in?"

T: "Hell yeah! Let's get snooping, we'll take it in turns to search - remember your invis pots!"

And with that we both ran back to our respective houses, grabbing invis pots and bringing only the essentials that could be easily replaced if we were caught. We agreed that if either of them found us, the piles of snow we brought along would make them believe we were about to prank them and get them off our tail quickly enough to share what evidence we had incase of a trial. I ran to Tucker and Sonja's house and saw Tom throw down a splash pot of invis, I was caught in the splash and we knew the plan had begun. I created an empty slot in the inventory and ventured into the house, keeping an eye out for any suspecting names.