EthosLab's Double Life: Episode 3

Sugar Cane Hunt is EthosLab's third episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on July 2, 2022. In this episode, Etho and his soulmate SmallishBeans conduct a search party to find Grian's secret sugarcane farm. They eventually find and take some of the sugarcane, and both of them survive when Solidarity and TangoTek set a warden loose on the surface.

Plot
Etho starts his episode next to the Relation Ship, and he and SmallishBeans decide to mine a large iron vein that ImpulseSV found in the ancient city. They visit the burnt-down Ranch where they meet Solidarity and TangoTek before going down the staircase to the ancient city. The sneak through the city and Joel sets off a shrieker. They build up to the ceiling with wool and mine iron.

Etho and Joel head down from the wool platform they made using water just as PearlescentMoon and Impulse arrive using Impulse’s staircase. Etho and Joel inform Impulse that they took most of the iron, but they can see from below that there’s quite a lot left. Pearl comes down and tells them she’s looking for disc shards, so they send her to the yet unlooted area of the city while they look for chests themselves.

Joel sets off another shrieker when looting a chest, but gets some good, enchanted gear from it including a hoe, which they use to remove sculk blocks. Etho returns to their base and finds Tango near the animal farms asking for wool, so Etho grabs some shears and shears the sheep in his sheep farm. BdoubleO100 drops by and states that Tango stole a name tag from Etho’s chests.

Tango tells Etho that the name tag is going to cause a lot of chaos on the server, which makes Etho okay with Tango taking it. He gives Tango two stacks of wool in return for a virtual IOU, meaning Tango will have to help him if Etho calls upon him. The two then part ways.

Etho and Joel visit Jimmy at the Ranch and tell him to watch his back as they peak over the new wall. Jimmy asks where Tango is and Etho tells him Tango is gone. Etho and Joel go back to their ship and Joel tells Etho he didn’t have any luck finding diamonds. They meet GoodTimesWithScar, who tells them that the Jellie panda reserve is open.

Scar tries to trade two paper for the enchanted hoe, but Etho and Joel decline. Joel states he would accept sugarcane, but Scar responds that Grian doesn’t allow him to hold sugarcane, inadvertently giving away that Grian has sugarcane. They ask Scar where he got the paper, and he responds that he got it from the paper fairy. He continues to offer two paper, but Joel and Etho point out that you can’t do anything with just two paper.

Scar asks Joel and Etho for gunpowder so he can check the recipe for TNT, but Etho quickly takes the gunpowder from their chests and states that they don’t have any. Grian passes by, and Joel and Etho confront him with their suspicions that he is hiding sugarcane from them. Grian states that he only has paper, and Scar claims to have bought the paper from Pearl, who’s supposedly dealing in the woods. Etho spots Grian dual wielding sugarcane, but Grian quickly puts the sugarcane away.

Grian continues to try to sell paper to them. Joel offers an enchantment book and his enchanted hoe for one sugarcane, but Grian tells them he’ll think about Etho and Joel plan on setting up a search party to dig under Grian’s base and find his sugarcane farm. Joel gives Scar an enchanted golden helmet and Scar wears it before Grian tells him off. Grian and Scar then leave.

Etho and Joel decide to prank InTheLittleWoods’ floating base by pouring lava over the water in the ravine under it, turning it to stone, so Martyn will splat on the stone instead of landing safely in the water. They meet ZombieCleo, who tells them that Martyn killed her by hitting her off a platform. They suggest that she makes Martyn fall onto the stone they created under his base to take revenge. Joel then removes the water flowing down from Martyn’s base.

Joel and Etho inform Cleo that Grian has the sugarcane, and she accepts their offer to join their dig party. They climb up to the Ranch just as Jimmy bans Grian from the Ranch. They meet Martyn who blames them for ruining his art project (his base) and watch as Cleo and Martyn duke it out. Jimmy tells them to watch their backs, but they turn it on Jimmy and hit him several times before leaving.

Joel and Etho sneak up on Grian’s base but find Grian and Scar there; they pretend they’re there to visit the panda sanctuary. Etho spots Pearl hiding in a tree nearby. Scar leads Joel and Etho inside the panda reserve and lets them take bamboo from a chest to feed the pandas. Etho asks what the pandas are named, and Scar tells them that two of the pandas are named Sniffles and Robert.

Scar asks Joel and Etho to put a donation for the panda reserve in the chest on the way out, and Etho puts in a piece of coal, two gold ore, some steak, and lapis. Joel and Etho pretend to leave while Scar is talking to Grian before sneaking around the back of the base. Joel digs under the base while Etho spies on Scar and Grian taking iron from Scar’s secret underground stash.

Sometime later, when Grian and Scar are being questioned by Cleo about the sugarcane, Etho goes to the secret stash and steals Scar’s diamonds, diamond horse armor, and golden horse armor. He is confronted by Grian and Scar who noticed the ‘diamonds’ notification popping up for Etho, and Etho tries to sell the items back to Scar for one sugarcane. Etho and Cleo consider killing Grian for it.

Etho gives Scar the diamond horse armor back and Grian gives Etho bamboo, but Etho doesn’t mistake it for sugarcane. Etho gives Scar all his diamonds back and Scar gives Etho a mangrove propagule renamed as ‘Sugar Caine’. Etho threatens to steal the anvil in the secret stash but is stopped by Grian. Etho and Cleo leave the base together, and Cleo reveals she took one of the diamonds without Scar noticing.

Scar comes by Etho and Joel’s Relation Ship and claims that they took a diamond and gunpowder; they tell him they have neither of those things, and Etho gives Scar the golden horse armor, claiming that he didn’t mean to steal it. Cleo drops by and reveals that she took a diamond, and Scar lets Etho keep the golden horse armor as a reward for his honesty, but still doesn’t give him the sugarcane he promised.

Cleo gives the diamond back to Scar and Scar gives her iron horse armor. Etho asks Scar for the sugarcane again, but Scar refuses to give it. Etho and Cleo plan their heist after Scar has left, and Bdubs joins them. They tell him about Grian hoarding the sugarcane and Bdubs reveals that Grian stole his gunpowder. Joel joins the group, and they realize they need to have someone distract Grian away from his base.

Cleo has an idea and she and Etho leave to go to Smajor1995 while Joel stays behind to babysit Bdubs. Etho realizes there’s large wall surrounding Cleo and Scott’s houses, and Cleo tells him he and Joel are allowed to cross the wall. They explain the situation to Scott and Scott proposes to invite Grian and Scar to his Relationship Ranch. They find that Scar’s already there and Scott promises to send a signal the moment that he’s got Grian with him as well.

Etho and Cleo spot Pearl riding Scar’s horse across the bridge and Etho tries to block her path, but Pearl removes the blockage and rides away. Etho and Cleo return to Joel and Bdubs, who reveal that they visited the pillager outpost. The four go to Grian’s base and start digging under it. They question Scar who shows up there, but Scar reveals that he doesn’t know where the sugarcane is; Scar then claims that he has it in his inventory and leaves to go to the Relationship Ranch.

The group continues digging and Impulse joins the after some time. Etho gives Joel an iron pickaxe and shovel. Scott sends Cleo a message, and Grian and Scar return to the base shortly after. Etho meets Impulse as they’re hiding below ground and explains his plan to check where Grian goes after the ruckus has died down, as he suspects Grian will want to check up on the sugarcane.

Grian catches Etho in the tunnel system they created under the base and Etho goes to the surface. Both Grian and Scar are shocked by the number of holes around their base, and Bdubs exclaims that he was trying to stop the others. Etho, Joel, Cleo, and Bdubs pretend to leave, but then stick around to see where Grian goes. When Grian goes to talk with Scar, they search the place where Grian seemed to be headed.

Grian tells the group that even he doesn’t remember where the sugarcane farm is located and claims they’re getting colder and colder. Joel eventually finds the farm and Etho manages to take some of the sugarcane while Grian frantically tries to stop them. Etho gives some to Cleo and Bdubs.

The group meets Martyn who asks for one sugarcane. Joel asks Martyn for one diamond, but Martyn doesn’t have any. Martyn offers Jimmy’s horn and Joel accepts the deal; Martyn gives Joel the horn and Etho gives Martyn one sugarcane. Cleo asks how Martyn got the horn, and he explains that he took it from Pearl who got it from Jimmy.

Etho and Joel hear a warden rumbling in the woods and see Jimmy and Tango run out of there. Jimmy and Tango explain that they brought the warden up to the surface, but that their plan backfired. Etho and Joel watch from a distance as the warden approaches the Ranch and get closer when the warden gets inside the perimeter wall. They then look on as the warden escapes from the Ranch and chases after a large group of people.

Etho breaks the wall around Scott’s Relationship Ranch to try and lock the warden in there but has to run as the warden approaches. Joel shoots the warden, and it comes after them. Etho runs back to the Ranch and loses Joel in the kerfuffle. He and the others eventually spot Joel build a tower in the distance to get away from the warden. The group discusses what to do with the warden, and Scott suggests locking it inside the Ranch, since it’s Tango’s fault for bringing it to the surface.

The group meets Bigbst4tz2 who just died to a creeper, making him and Rendog the first red names. BigB reveals that he was able to recover his gear and jokingly blames Pearl for the creeper accident. He reveals that Bdubs set off the creeper that killed him.

The warden eventually falls into the water ravine, and Scar tricks Etho into getting into a boat with him before riding the boat into the ravine and jumping out at the last second. The boat fortunately gets stuck on the cliffside and Etho manages to clamber out of the ravine. Pearl hits Scar into the ravine and Etho hits Grian into it as well, which almost kills the couple, and 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.