EthosLab's 3rd Life: Episode 1

Welcome The Village People is EthosLab's first episode of 3rd Life. It was uploaded on April 20th, 2021.

Plot
Etho begins his episode by explaining the premise of the series and theorizing on its direction, while doing basic early game work such as mining. He briefly meets TangoTek and Smallishbeans, who mock him for not having a shield. Following this he returns to discussing some of the mechanics of the series, exploring the world, and getting basic gear on his own. During this he comes across the Dark Oak forest next to the world border, and grabs some saplings.

Tango and Etho cross paths again, this time sans Joel, and agree to work together at the village. Etho hopes to be able to get diamond gear by trading. Etho plants his dark oak saplings. They set out to improve the village by harvesting and planting crops, placing lighting, and setting up a farm for sheep and chickens. He also puts up a sign proclaiming the village "Tango and Etho's Homestead". Unfortunately it seems as if there's only one villager still remaining, creating difficulties in regards to their original plan to trade with the villagers.

While gathering animals for their farm, the two of the find the Llama that will become Pizza, as well as a single cow. The two continue to make miscellaneous improvements and changes to the village, working on taming animals, and discussing the border mechanics before they decide to go caving.

After emerging from the cave they encounter GoodTimesWithScar, who is soon followed by Smajor1995 and SolidarityGaming. Following Scar leads them to 'The Day One Crew', ImpulseSV, ZombieCleo, and BDoubleO100. All 8 players begin to dance to a music disc played by Bdubs, which he describes as "vib[ing] out". Unfortunately the good vibes don't last long, as shortly thereafter the group is attacked by a horde of phantoms.

The group takes shelter in The Day One Crew(+Scar)'s base, chatting, making modifications, and jokingly dubbing it the refugee camp. Eventually, Bdubs leads a charge into battle against the phantoms and the threat is dealt with. Scar and Bdubs make mention of wanting to claim the village Tango and Etho found, so the two give deliberately wrong directions to their group before parting ways.

When they return to the Village they encounter InTheLittleWood, who takes issue with Tango and Etho claiming the village as theirs because of the fact that he and BigBSt4tz spawned there. During the dispute, Martyn plays a creeper sound and tricks the two hermits into thinking a mob had snuck up on them. Soon after the Day One Crew and Scar visit the village at the same time. Tango says they charge admission, to which the Day One Crew take issue because of letting the two of them into their base during the phantom attack. Etho argues its fair because the village "isn't a refugee camp".

Bdubs see's the dark oak tree Etho planted and wants to chop it for building purposes later. Etho won't let him, and punches when he tries to take a log. Etho marks the tree as a historical landmark, saying that no one can chop it down because of that. Scar sets the tree on fire before he and the Day One Crew leave the village. Luckily most of the tree was able to be recovered. During their exit, Etho calls them raiders, and Scar sets some more buildings on fire.

Grian comes to the village, and shows Etho the secret stash of villagers he had hidden earlier in the day. Unfortunately, Impulse came along for the conversation and Bdubs walked by just as Grian asked them to all keep it a secret. Soon Etho realizes while he was talking to some of the other players, Scar set his tree on fire again, this time burning most of it down. All 7 players gather, and Impulse all but tells about the existence of the secret villagers despite Grians and Etho's resistance.

Scar and Grian leave the village shortly after, leaving Tango, Etho, Impulse, Cleo and Bdubs, who will be dubbed the Village people. The five of them plan to make a deal with Grian to gain access to his villagers, offering him diamonds and other miscellaneous items in return for the villagers. During the negotiations for the Villagers, Grian reveals Scar tried to convince him to take over the sand biome together.

The Village People successfully begin the Villager breeding process. Afterwards Martyn comes to spread the word of Renchanting, Rendog's recently opened enchanting business. During his marketing, Grian lures over a creeper, that explodes and kills Scar, making him the very first death of the server. The group make a grave for him, Etho exchanges his Llama in exchange for 'a lifetime of free sand', and Scar and Grian leave, Scar blaming everyone else for not warning him about the creeper. Grian swears to try his best to keep Scar alive for as long as possible as repayment for killing him.

The Village People, sans Bdubs, make their way over to Renchanting and make a deal with Ren that they can enchant their gear in exchange for villagers in the future. The deal starts to break down over the matter of who will transport the villagers, and Etho starts enchanting before they reach a definite deal. Things start to escalate into threats, and it seems like a fight might break out until Etho agrees to deliver at least one of the villagers.

After Etho goes back, Ren and Martyn eventually visit to check up on him. Afterwards, sick of being in the village all session, Etho decides to go exploring with Ren. On their way, Skizzleman decides to join them and the three set off across the server. They eventually make it to the top of what will become Monopoly Mountain in the desert biome, and make a pact of loyalty to each other. Unfortunately as they are leaving, Skizzleman accidentally looks at an enderman and loses his first life. Etho claims vengeance by killing the enderman, and his first episode ends.

Description
3rd Life is a Minecraft multiplayer server experiment started by Grian. Players are thrown into a tiny 700x700 world with almost no rules, except survive as long as possible.

1st Life: Player names are green. They are not supposed to initiate battle with anyone, only defend. 2nd Life: Same as 1st Life, except their names are yellow. 3rd Life: Player names are red. They get a new goal of eliminating the remaining players. Dying again means they are out of the game and series.