EthosLab's Double Life: Episode 1

Stuck Together Forever is EthosLab's first episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 17, 2022. In this episode, Etho discovers that he is soulmates with Smallishbeans. 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.

Plot
The episode starts as everyone goes their separate ways from the spawn area. Etho hangs out with GoodTimesWithScar and BdoubleO100 and they gather materials together. They go mining but quickly leave their mine as mobs attack them. ImpulseSV shows up and gives each of them shields. Bdubs steals some iron from Etho’s furnace.

Bdubs, Scar, and Etho ask Impulse to go into their mine for them and kill the mobs. Etho gives Impulse a sword and Scar hits Impulse into the hole. The three follow Impulse into the mine and adjoining cave as he kills all mobs. Bdubs and Scar leave while Impulse and Etho kill an Enderman before going up to the surface together.

Etho and Impulse head to the pillager outpost and fight the pillagers together with InTheLittleWoods. Martyn shows Etho the allay he got and explains how to obtain one. Etho loots the tents outside the outpost while Martyn shows off the horn he got from the chest inside the outpost.

Etho takes quite some damage from his soulmate and Martyn thinks that the worst soulmate to have wouldn’t be Scar but SmallishBeans, since Joel tends to do dangerous water bucket clutches. Etho obtains an allay by giving it wood and tames a dog. Etho and Martyn use a boat to get down into the water ravine where Scar, Bdubs, and Impulse are; Bdubs and Impulse reveal that they’re in love. Etho questions whether they have a happy marriage; they assure him that they are extremely happy.

Bdubs hits Etho and gets attacked by Etho’s dog. Etho calls his dog Chumpers and sits it down, so it won’t continue attacking. The group goes mining in a cave together and bump into PearlescentMoon, Joel, and Solidarity at an amethyst geode. Etho drops down in front of Joel and they take damage at the same time, which causes them to realize that they are soulmates.

Etho and Joel continue mining and smelting 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 helmets for both himself and Etho before Etho reminds him that helmets aren’t allowed; they give the two helmets to Scar who doesn’t care about the rules.

Scar asks Etho whether it’s possible to take over the pillager outpost after killing all the pillagers; Etho tells him that the pillagers will keep spawning, but that one might be able to use them as guards if one builds their base heigh enough above the outpost. Etho asks Scar to hit Joel so they can experiment and see whether the resulting damage would hit Etho off while bridging.

After returning to the surface, Etho, Joel, and Scar run into Grian where they find that Grian and Scar are linked. Etho almost dies after accidentally throwing his ender pearl into the water. He deliberately hurts Scar’s allay by throwing snowballs at it. The group fights off an Enderman that glitches in the water of the river. The four decide to team up together.

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. They then look for the pillager outpost but forget where it is. They find Impulse and Bdubs’ base and steal some of their wheat while they are busy talking to Scott and Cleo. Scott spots Joel stealing the crops, and Etho sneakily digs inside the base while the others go after Joel; he then steals Impulse and Bdubs’ beds.

Etho and Joel run into Jimmy outside the base and laugh at the fact that he died already. Joel gives Jimmy mangrove roots while Etho gives him smooth basalt blocks. Etho crafts a boat and tries to put an Enderman in it, but nearly gets blown up by a creeper while doing so. He traps the Enderman and Joel starts hitting it, 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. Impulse asks to keep one of their amethyst shards and Joel agrees. Bdubs gives Etho his iron pants back and Etho gives Bdubs his and Impulse’s beds back in return.

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. Etho tries to trade for Pearl’s diamond by offering his spyglass, but she refuses as well. Etho harvests cocoa beans from Bdubs and Impulse’s farm before replanting them.

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 and Etho hits Grian off in turn before jumping down himself.

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. Grian extends the platform while Etho assures the others it’s totally safe. Grian coins the ship name ‘Smalletho’ for Joel and Etho.

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 uses boats to get down from the platform and they 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 and Etho show up at TangoTek and Jimmy’s base and admit that they gave up on building a base above the pillager outpost. Tango tells them about his chicken farm and Joel and Etho plan on coming by when they’re low on food; Tango tells them not to despite Etho saying that they’re all ‘team yellow’ now. Joel makes a wheat farm close to the pillager outpost and Etho leads some sheep there past Grian and Scar’s base, 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.