SmallishBeans' Double Life: Episode 1

Chaotic Duo! is SmallishBeans' first episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 17, 2022. In this episode, Joel discovers that he is soulmates with EthosLab. The pair loses their first life after a skirmish with an Enderman. Together with GoodTimesWithScar and Grian, they attempt to build a base above a pillager outpost, but this ends in total disaster. The two eventually decide to settle close to the pillager outpost.

Plot
The episode begins with Joel explaining the rules of the season. He and the others go their separate ways from the spawn area. He finds mangrove trees, gathers materials and food, and crafts tools. He runs into Grian and they realize they’re not soulmates since Joel takes damage when Grian doesn’t. He leaves Grian behind to look for his soulmate.

Joel goes down into a ravine and finds a dungeon with a mob spawner. He loots the chest and saves the spawner’s coordinates. He returns to the surface before going caving while complaining about his soulmate taking constant damage; he notices in the chat that EthosLab killed a raid captain and thinks he might be paired with Etho.

Joel meets Solidarity in a cave; Jimmy asks Joel for some of his salmon, but Joel refuses since he needs it himself. He deliberately hits Jimmy to make his soulmate annoyed at him; it makes them realize they’re not bonded. They find an amethyst geode in a mineshaft and hear PearlescentMoon’s voice above them. GoodTimesWithScar, InTheLittleWoods, and Etho also come down to where they are and Joel and Etho realize they’re soulmates after they take damage at the same time.

Joel announces to the others that he and Etho are in love. Etho takes Joel aside in the mineshaft and gifts him a crossbow to show he truly cares about him, and Joel gives Etho an iron ingot in return. Joel asks Martyn who he’s paired with and he doesn’t know; Joel hits Martyn while pretending he’s getting damage from his soulmate.

Joel and Etho smelt iron for armor and Scar makes fun of whether their relationship is true love. Scar hits Joel with his axe and Joel hits him back, almost killing him. Joel gives Scar some mutton so he can recover. Joel crafts spyglasses for both himself and Etho as well as two helmets before Etho reminds him that helmets aren’t allowed; they give the two helmets to Scar who doesn’t care about the rules. Joel tattles to Grian about Scar wearing a helmet.

Joel and Etho continue mining together with Scar. Joel gifts Scar a water bucket that he can use for clutches. He asks Scar to hit him so they can experiment and see whether the resulting damage would hit Etho off while bridging. They find that soulmate damage can make someone move a bit, and Scar calls off the experiment since it’s too much fun.

Etho and Joel take turns hitting Scar to send a morse code message to his soulmate. Etho tells Joel about Scar’s idea to make a base above the pillager outpost so they’ll have infinite guards.

After returning to the surface, Etho, Joel, and Scar run into Grian at a river ravine. Grian hits Scar to see whether they are linked but is confused about whether he himself is taking damage; Joel deliberately hits Scar multiple times so Grian can realize he wasn’t mistaken and Grian lets out a scream of anguish. Etho almost dies after accidentally throwing his ender pearl into the water.

Grian asks Joel to keep his bond with Scar a secret for now since Scar doesn’t seem to realize it. Grian offers to swap soulmates with either Etho or Joel. Scar returns to the group after getting his allay back. The group fights off an Enderman that glitches in the water of the river.

Etho and Joel later spot Bigbst4tz2 jump down into a cave, and they jump down after him, meeting Smajor1995, Rendog, and ZombieCleo in the cave as well. As they leave the cave sometime later, Etho reveals to Joel that he broke Ren’s zombie farm, and Joel steals some wheat from Ren’s farm on the way out while Scott tells him off. They find ImpulseSV and BdoubleO100’s base and steal some of their wheat while the two are busy talking to Scott and Cleo. Scott surmises that Joel is stealing the crops and he and Etho run away.

Etho and Joel run into Jimmy outside the base and laugh at the fact that he died already. Jimmy states that his items have despawned and Joel gives Jimmy mangrove roots. Joel loses half his health after Etho nearly gets blown up by a creeper. Joel starts hitting it and Enderman that Etho trapped in a boat, but accidentally breaks the boat and the Enderman kills Joel, which kills Etho as well.

Etho and Joel respawn and quickly head to the spot where they died. Jimmy tells them he stole Joel’s spyglass while they retrieve their items, which have partly been put in a chest by Impulse and Bdubs. Bdubs asks to keep one of their amethyst shards and Joel agrees.

The group meets with Martyn and Pearl and notice that Martyn is riding a donkey with a saddle. They all try to barter for the saddle, but Martyn rejects their offers and Joel moves away in his boat with a chest inside. He bonemeals and harvests more wheat from Bdubs and Impulse’s farm and he and Etho get away in their boats while Etho takes a frog with him.  

Joel and Etho meet with Grian and Scar, who laugh at their yellow names. Joel and Etho are incredulous that Scar hasn’t found out yet that Grian is his soulmate. The four make their way to the pillager outpost and Grian gives horns to both Joel and Etho. Grian hits Joel off the bridge leading to the outpost.

Etho, Joel, and Grian reach the pillager outpost and find that Scar started building above it already. Joel and Etho fight off pillagers and the three go up to the dark oak plank platform. Etho assures the others it’s totally safe. Grian coins the ship name ‘Smalletho’ for Joel and Etho, despite Joel stating that they’re called ‘boat gang’. Grian uses saplings to plant a dark oak tree on the platform to collect more dark oak wood and Scar almost hurts Grian by removing the bottom of the tree from under Grian.

Joel and Etho build a dirt bridge leading from the platform towards the world border. They place a water bucket and Etho starts making a dirt staircase downwards, but the pillagers use the waterfall to swim upwards, so they quickly remove the water. A pillager spawns on the platform and Scar acknowledges that the whole thing is a bad idea.

The group notices pillagers congregating beneath them and Joel places water to see them swim upwards before removing the water. Grian, Joel, and Etho use their fishing rods to try to pull Scar towards them. They use boats to get down from the platform and hurriedly run away as they’re being chased by pillagers. They walk past Cleo, and she joins them in running across the bridge to Scott’s place, where she blocks herself in with wood. The others keep running with the villagers behind them.

They lead the pillagers all the way to Bdubs’ base, who is enraged about this. Joel and Etho escape the base through a tunnel dug by Grian after Scar accidentally lets some pillagers inside, but the group eventually manages to kill all the pillagers. Joel deliberately tramples on Bdubs’ farm and he and Etho nearly get killed by zombies. Grian gives Bdubs a horn, though Bdubs tells them that Impulse is planning on killing anyone with a horn.

Joel and Etho tells Bdubs that they have decided to make their base near the pillager outpost. They head there and pick a spot that’s far enough, so they won’t aggravate the pillagers. They make a farm on a lower level of the hill they’re on and Etho leaves to gather resources while Joel adds a spruce plank border to the farm and terraforms the terrain underneath the farm. Joel makes a cobblestone wall designating from which distance the pillagers get aggravated.

Etho returns to their base expecting Joel to have built a castle and Joel shows him the wall he made. Etho tells Joel his trip wasn’t successful and puts the ores he mined in a chest. Joel goes to TangoTek and Jimmy’s house to bonemeal and harvest wheat from the farm there. Tango gets upset at Joel, so he gives Tango one bonemeal and laughs at Tango and Jimmy for not having armor. Jimmy demands that Joel take off his armor, but Joel isn’t intimidated and hits Jimmy with his axe. He gives them a baked potato each after realizing they don’t have any food. He returns to his own base and ends the episode.

Description
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