BdoubleO100's Double Life: Episode 2

Planting Seeds of Doubt is BdoubleO100's second episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 24, 2022. In this episode, Bdubs works on his mid-century modern house while sowing distrust between soulmates and their partners.

Plot
The episode starts with Bdubs and ImpulseSV outside their base. They find InTheLittleWoods hiding in their cow farm pretending to be a cow. They accuse him of bamboozling them by selling them potion ingredients that they can’t use, but Martyn states it’s their fault for not checking first. Impulse asks Martyn for a red mushroom, since he forgot to ask for one last session; Martyn gives him one as part of their deal to let Martyn have free access to their cow farm. Martyn promises to only kill cows for himself and not for others as he dislikes his soulmate.

Bdubs and Impulse head inside their base and Bdubs explains his plan for them to be homewreckers; he wants them to plant seeds of doubt in the heads of others and make people break up with their soulmates. They go a secret cave behind their base and place signs on the wall with the names of all the soulmate pairs. They then go over which person from each pair they want to like them; they decide on EthosLab from the Etho/SmallishBeans couple but make no definite choice yet for the other pairs.

Impulse shows Bdubs a secret water source he made in one corner of their base and plans on making different stews now that he has the red mushroom, while Bdubs plans on working on the house. They find GoodTimesWithScar blowing his horn nearby, and he asks them whether there are any horses in the area; Bdubs decides to go with Scar so they can both get horses while Impulse stays behind.

Bdubs and Scar tame horses together, and Bdubs lies to Scar that Grian had come by his base earlier. He doesn’t tell Scar what Grian supposedly said but tells him to be careful in his relationship with Grian. Scar tells Bdubs about how Grian kicked the Jellie pandas out of his base and forced them to live in a hole, but Bdubs implies that what Grian said to him was way worse.

Scar suggests that Bdubs should divorce Impulse, so he and Scar can go live in the forest together. Bdubs instead states that there’s room for a third bed in his and Impulse’s base, and Scar expresses his own doubts about Grian before leaving Bdubs, who’s gathering mangrove roots.

Bdubs returns to Impulse and tells him about his conversation with Scar and how he successfully planted seeds of doubt; Bdubs states that Scar and Grian had a fragile relationship to begin with. They leave their base to get Impulse a horse as well and run into Etho, who is riding a horse very similar to Scar’s. Bdubs initially thinks Etho stole Scar’s horse, but Etho reveals he just saw Scar ride by on his own horse.

Bdubs shows Etho his own white horse. He and Impulse tell Etho that Joel swung by earlier and are vague about what Joel said but imply that Etho should keep his guard up around Joel. Etho is distraught, and they tell him they’re telling him this because they consider him a friend, pretending that they promised Joel not to say anything. They tell Etho about their mid-century modern house, which has enough room for visitors.

Impulse tames a brown horse and Etho feels Joel taking damage, so he deliberately gets off his horse and jumps down a hill to take damage, to teach Joel to not take damage. Rendog and Bigbst4tz2 arrive on their own horses, and Ren tells Bdubs he found the rarest horse in the game (a pure black horse), offering to trade it for something valuable later; he rejects Bdubs’ offer to trade it for Bdubs’ white horse.

The group has a horse race to the Bdubs and Impulse’s base; Impulse wins the race, though Bdubs and Etho are close behind. They then do a jump test, and all the horses can jump two blocks, but BigB’s and Bdubs’ horses can’t jump three blocks. Ren and BigB leave after this.

Bdubs proposes that Etho and Impulse go to the deep dark together to get enchanted gear, and Etho agrees. Bdubs goes caving and mentions how he’s showing seeds of friendship with Etho; he even gave Etho his Piercing bow. He returns to his house and plans to finish it so he and Impulse can organize a house party at one point. He works on the snow walls when he notices Impulse and Etho have reached the enchanting table.

Bdubs hears PearlescentMoon laughing behind him and asks her how her alliances are going. She tells him that Smajor1995 ditched her for ZombieCleo, that Martyn left her, and that her dog died. Bdubs tells her Scott came by and said something he can’t tell her about but cautions her to be careful.

Pearl assumes that Scott means to do something to her, and Bdubs tells her if she ever needs a place of refuge, Bdubs and Impulse will invite her in with open arms. Pearl shows Bdubs the disc in the sky in the distance and tells him she lives there by herself with her resurrected dog. Bdubs retracts his offer for her to have a home at his house, since she seems too reckless.

Impulse returns from his trip to the deep dark and tells Bdubs that several wardens spawned, but that he made sure that they could go back down there by making a path straight to the enchanting table. He tells Bdubs that Etho didn’t really understand the dangers of the deep dark, but that he did manage to tell Etho all kinds of stories about Joel. Bdubs tells Impulse about Pearl and her crazy recklessness and how she seemed unfazed by his warnings.

Etho comes by with Joel and TangoTek and they discuss how Impulse found a huge vein of iron in the deep dark while escaping the warden. Etho confronts Joel about the rumors he’d heard from Impulse and Bdubs, and Joel is outraged; he states that he hasn’t seen the two all session and shows off his Etho shirt to them. He theorizes that Impulse and Bdubs are projecting their own problematic relationship onto himself and Etho. Bdubs tells Etho that his offer of sanctuary still stands.

Cleo comes over on her donkey just as Etho and Joel are leaving, and Bdubs tells her that Martyn has been saying bad things behind her back. Impulse states that lots of people have come to their house to hang out before opening up about their feelings about their partnerships. Cleo concretely asks what Martyn said about her, and Bdubs states he can’t tell her what Martyn is planning, but he and Impulse warn her to sleep with her eyes open.

Bdubs tells Cleo she is welcome to stay at his and Impulse’s house as a place of refuge. Cleo is outraged since she gave Martyn diamonds earlier that session. Bdubs then tells her Scott had also been saying things about her, but Cleo claims that Scott hasn’t left his house all day. She calls Bdubs a liar and questions him and Impulse on when exactly Scott came over.

Cleo states that Bdubs should never lie to her, despite her and Bdubs being divorced. Bdubs breaks and apologizes to her for lying, stating that he’ll never do it again. Cleo leaves and Bdubs thinks his tactics didn’t work on Pearl and Cleo because neither of them is with their soulmates; he admits that he got too greedy with Cleo in also mentioning Scott to her. He and Impulse think that they did manage to plant seeds of doubt in people, which is where the episode ends.

Description
Double Life is a Minecraft SMP where your health is tied to one other person on the server. That person is called your soulmate. If your soulmate loses hearts, you lose hearts. You and your soulmate have 3 lives and will be eliminated after that. The goal is to be the last couple standing.