EthosLab's Double Life: Episode 2

Warden Shenanigans is EthosLab's second episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 24, 2022. In this episode, Etho trades for cows, gets a horse, and ventures into the deep dark to enchant his gear while his soulmate SmallishBeans builds a ship for them.

Plot
Etho starts his episode next to SmallishBeans at the location they picked for their base last episode, and Joel shows off his new skin with Etho’s face on his shirt. They decide on their official name ‘Boat Boys’ and Etho states that they should always have a fishing rod in their inventory in honor of that. Joel thinks they should live in a boat and Etho agrees.

Joel plans to work on the base and they discuss various wood blocks he wants to use; Joel wants to use wool and Etho shows Joel their sheep farm. Joel realizes that wood and wool are the most flammable blocks. Etho sets up a system that automatically shears the sheep and breeds the sheep. Etho asks Joel whether they should team up with anyone and Joel thinks that’s a good idea.

Etho leaves Joel and visits ZombieCleo’s house, finding her building a bridge. He offers to barter with her and asks if she has sugarcane or cows. She responds that she and Smajor1995 have cows and they cross the bridge to Scott’s place. Etho explains he’s there to barter and asks for cows and perhaps dark oak. He gives a spyglass to Cleo as she didn’t spot the dark oak saplings right next to them.

Scott asks Etho for sugarcane, but Etho tells him he’s looking for that too. They settle on a deal of two of Etho’s sheep for two of Scott’s cows. Etho asks Cleo and Scott whether they are partnered, and they tell him they are, but that neither of them will die if the other dies; Scott hits Cleo to demonstrate and Cleo hits Scott back.

Etho returns to Scott’s house with four sheep and puts the sheep in Scott’s new sheep pen. Scott and Cleo let him take one grown up cow and four baby cows, and he puts them in a hole close to his and Joel’s sheep farm. Joel gives Etho a saddle and Etho retrieves a white horse that he covered with dirt earlier; he finds that it has a lot of hearts but isn’t fast and can’t jump high. He goes through several other horses before settling on a black-and-white patterned one.

Etho runs into BdoubleO100 and ImpulseSV, who initially mistake Etho’s horse for GoodTimesWithScar’s horse, but Etho reveals he just saw Scar ride by on his own horse. Bdubs shows Etho his own white 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. They tell Etho about their mid-century modern house, which has enough room for visitors.

Bdubs helps Impulse tame a fast 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 they have 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.

Bdubs proposes that Etho and Impulse go to the deep dark together to get enchanted gear. Etho enters their base and parks his horse inside. Bdubs and Impulse tell him about the golden apple they have, and Impulse sets up a redstone contraption; he explains that if they set up a similar device in the deep dark, it will distract the warden.

Impulse and Etho set out together, descend into a ravine, and walk through a mineshaft. Impulse states he’s happy with their alliance, though Etho thinks that Bdubs sending Impulse away might signify that Bdubs wants to get rid of Impulse; Impulse doubts it. 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 notice Ren, BigB, Grian, and InTheLittleWoods 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. Etho stays perched near the exit and notices the warden close by. Grian hits the warden with snowballs, causing it to get angry and chase them as they run up the staircase while Etho stays behind in the city.

Etho sneaks back to the enchantment table and finds that Impulse stayed behind as well. Impulse tells Etho the warden went back in the ground, but they realize that multiple wardens spawned and that they must stay careful. Etho starts enchanting his armor when another warden spawns; Impulse builds up a pillar to look where the warden is coming from and Etho sneaks around just as Ren and BigB return to them.

Ren leads Etho to safety away from the warden before Etho, Ren, and BigB all slowly sneak back to the enchanting table. Martyn and Etho loot another chest, and the warden goes back in the ground, only for another one to spawn right after. The group escapes using the staircase made by Grian with Etho trailing behind.

Etho finds Ren and Martyn trying to convince Solidarity to go down to the ancient city as well. Etho goes up to the surface and walks past TangoTek, who is working on the Ranch. Etho tells Tango that multiple wardens spawned. Tango can’t believe that Jimmy went down there as well, and Etho reveals that Jimmy was peer-pressured into it.

Etho asks if Tango has chickens and Tango goes to the basement to collect eggs from the chicken farm. He gives Etho the eggs and Etho gives him four iron ingots and sixteen iron ore in return. Tango asks if Etho needs anything else, but Etho thinks Tango is the one that needs help.

Etho returns to where Joel is building their ship and compliments the build. He tells Joel about the venture into the deep dark and shows off all the loot he got by putting it in a chest. Joel shows Etho around their ship, which he has called the Relation Ship.

Etho and Joel visits Impulse and Bdubs’ base to ask for sugarcane and Etho retrieves his horse that he left there. Bdubs implies that Tango, who is also there, might have tried to steal a horse from him. 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 and Etho gives them the nickname ‘Gossip Girls’.

Etho and Joel lead a big group of pillagers across Cleo’s bridge to Box, warning Cleo and Scott to stay inside as they pass. Etho and Joel question Ren and BigB, convinced that they have sugarcane, but Ren and BigB firmly deny this. The group fights off the pillagers together with Martyn, and Etho and Joel eventually believe Ren.

Etho and Joel walk back past Scott’s house and find PearlescentMoon hiding there with her dog next to the cow farm. They ask if she has sugarcane, but she tells them she doesn’t. They tell her they heard from Scott that she’s been intimidating to him, and she shows them that she’s been freezing herself in powder snow to ‘tickle’ Scott. Etho and Joel return to the Relation Ship and react to Ren and BigB’s death, which is where the episode ends.

Description
Double Life is an odd mix of a Social and PvP Minecraft game started by Grian. Players are thrown into a tiny world with almost no rules, except survive as long as possible.

In this version players have 3 lives that are linked to their soul bound partner which is chosen randomly at the start of the game. Red Players are given the goal of killing all the other players in the game.