ImpulseSV's Double Life: Episode 2

RUN ETHO, RUN! is ImpulseSV's second episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 24, 2022. In this episode, Impulse and his soulmate BdoubleO100 make plans to plant seeds of distrust between other soulmate pairs. They acquire horses and participate in a horse. Impulse then ventures into the deep dark together with EthosLab, where they loot chests but also encounter several wardens.

Plot
The episode starts with Impulse and BdoubleO100 outside their base. They breed their cows and Impulse spots InTheLittleWoods jumping into 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. Martyn notices that his soulmate ZombieCleo went down to half health and theorizes she did it on purpose to spook him. He kills some cows in the farm but Bdubs revokes Martyn’s rights to their cow farm.

Impulse asks Martyn for a red mushroom, since he forgot to ask for one last session; Martyn gives him one so their deal to let Martyn have free access to their cow farm stays intact. Martyn promises to only kill cows for himself and not for others as he dislikes his soulmate. He then leaves while Bdubs and Impulse plan to tattle to Cleo about him.

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.

Impulse and Bdubs 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. They notice Solidarity stating in the chat that he’s going to get a horn, and they pick TangoTek as their target based on that info. 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.

Bdubs returns to the base after a trip and tells Impulse that he tamed a horse. He states that he successfully planted seeds of doubt in GoodTimesWithScar’s mind by lying to him that Grian visited their base earlier and had said things about Scar; Bdubs had been deliberately vague on what Grian supposedly said but had told Scar to be careful. Bdubs tells that Scar had even asked to live with them and states that Scar and Grian had a fragile relationship to begin with.

Impulse and Bdubs kill cows, cook beef, and craft saddles for the both of them. Impulse reveals to Bdubs that he’s never ridden a horse before but is willing to take up the hobby of horse riding for his soulmate. They leave their base to get Impulse a horse and run into Etho, who is also riding a horse. Impulse starts taming a brown horse.

Bdubs 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 the brown horse with help from Bdubs and they realize that it’s a fast horse. 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, starting when the frog next to them jumps; 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 tells Bdubs they’ll talk about the horse trade later, and Ren and BigB leave.

Bdubs proposes that Etho and Impulse go to the deep dark together to get enchanted gear, and Etho agrees. Impulse sets up a redstone and piston contraption inside the base; he explains that if they set up a similar device in the deep dark, it will distract the warden when it spawns. He picks up the components, and they notice that Grian already got the achievement for going into the deep dark.

Impulse and Etho set out together, descend into a ravine, and walk through a mineshaft. Etho thinks that Bdubs sending Impulse away might signify that Bdubs wants to get rid of Impulse; Impulse doubts it but suggests that Joel told him needed a break from Etho. The two dig a staircase down through deepslate and end up above the ancient city. They discuss the warden’s various abilities and drop down into the city using boats.

Etho and Impulse sneak around, placing torches and removing sculk sensors. They set of a shrieker once, which almost makes Etho give up the venture and leave. They set up the piston contraption to distract the warden in case it spawns, though they later decide to move it. Impulse breaks the nearby shrieker, though this sets it off one more time.

Etho and Impulse loot several chests and Etho sets off a shrieker as well. They notice Ren, BigB, Grian, and Martyn entering the ancient city as well. They find the enchanting table and Etho starts enchanting tools while the others arrive. The others set off shriekers multiple times and Impulse quickly sets up the redstone contraption again.

The warden spawns, and everyone runs through the city to the exit made by Grian save for Impulse. Impulse stays still until he hears the warden go back underground. He goes back to the enchanting table and enchants his tools and armor. Etho sneaks back to the enchantment table to enchant some more, but the two stay cautious since they know that multiple wardens had spawned.

Etho starts enchanting his armor when two new wardens spawn; Impulse builds up a pillar to safety and to look where the wardens are coming from and Etho sneaks around just as Ren and BigB return to them. Impulse notices the wardens closing in on Etho, but Ren and BigB lead Etho to safety and the two wardens eventually despawn.

Impulse leaves the deep dark and returns home to his and Bdubs’ base. He 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. Impulse admires Bdubs’ progress on their base and mentions that Etho left him behind in the ancient city, but that he did manage to tell Etho all kinds of stories about Joel.

Bdubs tells Impulse that PearlescentMoon came by, but that she seemed very reckless and crazy and unfazed by his warnings about what Smajor1995 might have said about her. They realize that she and Scott do not like each other, and Impulse states that those two are doing the homewrecker job for them.

Etho comes by with Joel and Tango, and Etho confronts Joel about the rumors he’s heard from Impulse and Bdubs. 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. Cleo concretely asks what Martyn is planning to do to her, threatening just go to Martyn and pretend to him that Bdubs and Impulse told her everything, and the two tell her that Martyn plans on making traps to hurt her.

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.

Sometime later, Impulse notices Ren and BigB’s death and Bdubs comes home with the black horse he traded for with Ren. He’s happy with how high the horse can jump, but notes that it is very slow. He tells Impulse he gave Ren half a stack of meat for it, which they agree was a bad deal. Bdubs then tells Impulse that he got confronted by Scott and Cleo on the way home, who had both called him a liar; he had also met Martyn who had also called him a liar in a ghost voice.

Impulse and Bdubs realize that they need to watch their back, since word is spreading around that they are liars. Impulse shows Bdubs that he made a secret room behind the painting on their wall, in which they can take refuge if things get dicey. They dig the room out further, connecting it to their secret cave system. They practice jumping through the painting and discuss how their lies did seem to work on Scar. They think that Ren dying was karma for him giving them a bad horse deal; Bdubs thinks they should spread seeds of fear instead of seeds of distrust next time, which is where the episode ends.

Description
Welcome to Double Life, a brand new series where we only have 3 lives to live and once they are gone, the series is over! This season we are "soul bound" to another member of the server and share our health and lives.