ImpulseSV's Double Life: Episode 3

Put To The Test! is ImpulseSV's third episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on July 2, 2022. In this episode, Impulse gathers resources, enchants armor, and helps in finding Grian's secret sugarcane farm. He visits the Jellie petting zoo, and he and his soulmate BdoubleO100 visit Smajor1995's Relationship Ranch, which strengthens their soul bond. At the end of the episode, Impulse and Bdubs escape from a warden running amok on the server, and Bdubs inadvertently causes Bigbst4tz2 to lose his second life in a creeper accident.

Plot
Impulse starts his episode next his and BdoubleO100’s mid-century modern house. He shows Bdubs’ progress on the house and Bdubs reveals that there’s going to be a swimming pool that they can use to host events. Bdubs wants to make the swimming pool out of copper but doesn’t have enough copper, so he asks Impulse to mine copper if he comes across any.

Impulse plans to go to the ancient city, since he’d seen a lot of iron there. He and Bdubs swap armor so Impulse can enchant Bdubs’ armor. They find PearlescentMoon outside their base and Bdubs comes clean to her that he lied about Smajor1995 saying things about her; Pearl doesn’t mind, since there’s already a wedge between her and Scott.

Impulse gives Pearl a suspicious stew as a peace offering; Pearl instantly eats it and gets Regeneration, which she’s happy about since Scott seems to be taking a lot of damage. Pearl asks where the entrance to the deep dark is, and Impulse reveals he’s about to head there so he can show it to her. Bdubs tells Pearl that EthosLab has bad plans for her, but Pearl doesn’t believe him, and Bdubs realizes he should think of a new lie.

Impulse and Pearl go down Impulse’s staircase to the ancient city and find SmallishBeans and Etho there, who took most of the iron vein that Impulse had set his eyes on before. Impulse mines some of the remaining iron and spots diamonds in the distance.

Impulse meets Rendog and Bigbst4tz2 at the enchanting table. BigB gets to enchanting while Impulse reveals he already did all his enchanting. Impulse tells Ren about the pact to keep the enchanting table in the deep dark. Ren asks Impulse about the iron vein and Impulse reveals that there’s a little left, but that Joel and Etho took all the good stuff already.

Ren and Impulse notice that the sculk sensors around them keep picking up sound despite them not moving. They realize that they are activated by the sound of their voices, which wasn’t the case yet during last episode. Impulse experiments and finds that they don’t get activated when he’s crouching.

The three go up to where the iron vein was using a ladder made by Impulse, and Ren and BigB mine the remaining iron while Impulse leaves. Impulse returns to his base and finds the swimming pool mostly finished; Bdubs explains that he found out that you get a lot more copper when cutting it. Impulse shows Bdubs that he mined five stacks of copper and they discuss what additions they could make to the pool, including a large jacuzzi.

Impulse shows Bdubs he got Bdubs’ armor enchanted, though they decide not to switch back their armor. Impulse shows Bdubs that he changed the secret tunnel behind their painting to only be accessible by crouching through it, and they save one of their horses from suffocating.

Impulse returns to the deep dark to mine the diamonds he saw earlier and loot a chest. He mines for more diamonds under the ancient city and goes back up to enchant a diamond axe but realizes that he didn’t bring any lapis. He sneaks up and scares InTheLittleWoods who’s enchanting himself, but they accidentally set off several shriekers and spawn a warden.

Impulse and Martyn go up Impulse’s ladder to safety, and Martyn throws snowballs down at the warden. They leave the deep dark and Martyn suggests to Impulse that he to the Nether. Martyn shows where his Nether portal is located and they part ways, with Impulse entering the Nether. Impulse mines quartz and finds a fortress but decides not to go there and returns to the Overworld.

Impulse goes home and finds that Bdubs isn’t there. He admires the new additions to the pool area and decides to visit other people’s houses. He goes to Grian’s base and finds Etho, Joel, Bdubs, and ZombieCleo digging all over the place to find Grian’s secret sugarcane farm. Impulse joins in the digging while Bdubs is on the lookout for Grian coming home.

Grian comes home and Impulse meets Etho in the tunnel system they’ve created under the base; Etho plans on checking where Grian goes after the ruckus has died down, as he suspects Grian will want to check up on the sugarcane. Impulse helps Etho, GoodTimesWithScar, and Bdubs put out a fire, and Scar shows Impulse around the Jellie panda reserve. Scar gives Impulse bamboo so he can feed the pandas, and Impulse breeds some pandas before Scar kicks him out.

Scar asks Impulse for a donation when Grian comes to Scar and reveals that the others found the sugarcane farm. Impulse thinks a bit about what he should donate before giving Scar an enchanted diamond axe. Scar thanks Impulse profusely and Impulse leaves.

Impulse and Bdubs go to the Relationship Ranch together, where they meet Scott. Scott explains that there’s different activities on the Ranch for couples therapy, but that Impulse and Bdubs can just consider it a date since they don’t have any relationship problems. Cleo comes running through the Ranch, announcing that she set the bridge on fire with Pearl’s dog.

Scott takes Bdubs and Impulse to the first activity: Goat Punch. Scott puts Impulse and Bdubs in separate spaces, with a goat in Bdubs’ space. He explains that Bdubs will have to dodge when the goat is charging at him to avoid hurting his soulmate. Scott takes damage from Pearl being on fire and Cleo gives him steak; Scott instructs Impulse and Bdubs to talk about their feelings.

Bdubs praises Impulse for going to the deep dark twice so far to get enchanted gear for the both of them, while Impulse praises Bdubs for the amazing mid-century modern house he built. They invite Scott and Cleo to their future pool party, and Bdubs successfully dodges the goat.

Scott takes Impulse and Bdubs to the next activity: The Human Snow Cone. He explains that Impulse is going to stand in powder snow while Bdubs going to have a bucket; Bdubs is to either trust Impulse to leave the snow on time for them to not die, or call quits and remove the snow himself. Scott again instructs them to talk about their feelings.

Bdubs mentions that he needed iron last session and asks Impulse why he didn’t get any iron from the large iron vein in the ancient city. Impulse explains that he was just too excited to get back to his soulmate after surviving and that he had planned to come back later, which he did this session. However, he had found that the vein had mostly been mined already, so he apologizes for this to Bdubs.

Scott asks what Impulse could do to make it up to Bdubs, but Bdubs states that Impulse existing is enough for him. Impulse proposes that they stay in the powder snow for another thirty seconds and eats multiple bowls of suspicious stew to get Regeneration.

Cleo asks why Bdubs and Impulse were lying the previous session, and they accuse each other of coming up with the idea. Cleo stokes the fire by claiming that only Impulse was lying, since Bdubs would never lie to her. Impulse accuses Bdubs of going to far when mentioning that Scott had said bad things to Cleo, stating that he should have known better, and Bdubs apologizes.

Bdubs then picks up the powder snow, not because he doesn’t trust Impulse, but because he doesn’t trust Scott and Cleo. He suspects that they are trying to make him and Impulse cross with each other. Scott admits that they kept at the powder snow activity for far longer than others, since they chose to eat and then stay in it.

Scott explains the third and last activity, ‘trust fall’; Bdubs is to jump of a cliff with Impulse at the bottom, and Impulse is to place water in time while Bdubs is already jumping. Bdubs jumps and Impulse places the water; Bdubs only takes half a heart of damage. Scott states that it’s interesting that Impulse didn’t place the water sooner, and Bdubs and Impulse get suspicious again, believing that Scott is trying to drive a wedge between them.

Bdubs then states that the Ranch actually works as intended: he and Impulse have come closer together by viewing Scott and Cleo as their common enemies. Scott states that that means that Bdubs and Impulse passed the tests, unlike Ren and BigB.

Bdubs and Impulse visit the Ranch where a warden is running loose, trying to get inside the perimeter wall. They, along with nearly all other members of the server, are hiding on the Ranch. Scar breaks the wall open, letting the warden in, and everyone escapes through the front gate. The warden leaves the Ranch through the front gate as well and everyone keeps running.

Impulse meets up with Bdubs after Ren and BigB’s death, and Bdubs reveals he was indirectly responsible for BigB’s death, as he set off the creeper that killed BigB. Bdubs picks up BigB’s items and puts them in a barrel while Impulse fights off mobs around him. BigB comes to them, confused on how he died, and they show him the barrel containing his items. BigB and Bdubs discuss what happened before Bdubs and Impulse return home, 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.