PearlescentMoon's Double Life: Episode 1

New Chaos Begins! is PearlescentMoon's first Episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 17, 2022. In this episode, Pearl teams up with InTheLittleWoods to go mining and explore the Nether. They trade potion ingredients with BdoubleO100 and ImpulseSV and Pearl obtains a horn in exchange for a brown mushroom. At the end of the session, Martyn organizes a gameshow called 'Lost and Bound' with Pearl, Smajor1995, and ZombieCleo as participants to find out whom he and Pearl are soulbound to. Pearl discovers that she's soulmates with Scott, but both Scott and Cleo reject their soulmates, claiming to have been abandoned by them. Martyn then blames the situation on Pearl, abandoning her in turn.

Plot
The episode starts with Grian’s introductory video, after with Pearl and the other members go their separate ways from the spawn area. She gathers materials and food and goes mining, crafting both a shield and iron boots. She sneaks up on SmallishBeans and Solidarity who are mining beneath her and scares them by talking loudly but keeping her name tag hidden.

Pearl comes down to the amethyst geode where the others are hanging out and meets GoodTimesWithScar, InTheLittleWoods, and EthosLab there as well. She finds that the others already obtained allays and witnesses as Joel and Etho find out they’re bonded. Pearl leaves the others to continue mining but manages to scare Jimmy and Joel again with her voice. Joel and Jimmy come down to where she is, and Pearl finds the first diamond on the server.

Pearl and Martyn find a dungeon and loot the chest with a music disc, though Martyn mistakenly claims there were two saddles in the chest. They visit the deep dark and makes plans on how they will eventually get to the enchantment table. They find another dungeon with a second music disc and continue to mine to and smelt iron while discussing who their soulmate might be.

Martyn and Pearl go to the surface and Pearl tames a dog while Martyn tames a donkey. They meet with Jimmy who tells them he lost all his items when TangoTek died; Pearl gives him iron ingots and he leaves to go look for Tango. They meet with ImpulseSV, BdoubleO100, Joel, and Etho. Impulse gives Pearl and he and Bdubs offer to give more in exchange for Martyn’s saddle, but Martyn refuses since he’s not in need of food.

Pearl spots a frog next to Bdubs and Impulse’s base and walks past Bdubs and Impulse who are farming to look at squeal at it. Bdubs and Impulse get upset and threaten to kill the frog when it seems to trample their crops; Pearl asks them not to kill it and to look after it for her or she’ll kill them. She then spots that Joel and Etho have taken the frog in one of their boats and tells them they can keep it, since she actually wants another type of frog anyway.

Pearl goes off by herself and Bdubs goes after her to tell her that Joel and Etho took her frog. She tells him she knows already, and he hopes that he won’t be blamed in case the frog gets hurt. Pearl tells him she’ll blame him anyway since the frog is still close to his base. Bdubs asks her for iron, and she tells him she has 51 iron. He gives her steak, watermelon, and mangrove propagules and she gives him one iron ingot. He threatens to kill her frog and she gives him ten more iron. Pearl thanks him for the food and they leave each other.

Pearl spends some time trying to get goats to charge at her to obtain a horn and eventually gives up. She finds Martyn again who invites her to an adventure in the Nether. They mine quartz for XP and Martyn gathers brown and red mushrooms. They go to a fortress and kill blazes for blaze rods, though get set on fire multiple times. They find that the treasure room of the fortress is outside the border of the map and make plans to sell the blaze rods they’ve gotten to people who don’t know about the potions ban.

Martyn and Pearl kill hoglins for food and find another fortress. They gather nether wart and soul sand, though Martyn leaves one nether wart, hiding it under a staircase. Pearl finds a chest and takes gold ingots before she and Martyn leaving the Nether. They go to Bdubs and Impulse’s base to trade the items they obtained in the Nether. They ask for diamonds which Bdubs and Impulse don’t have; Bdubs gets upset about Pearl’s dog trampling his crops and Martyn names the dog Tilly since it’s just tilling the soil.

Bdubs and Impulse are interested in buying items, though they also want a brown mushroom. Pearl suspects that they want the mushroom for soup, but they deny this. Bdubs offers two cows since he assumes that Martyn and Pearl need food, but they reject the offer and start walking away.

Pearl walks back and asks Bdubs and Impulse for a horn. Bdubs gives her a horn, revealing to Impulse that he pranked him with it earlier, and Martyn gives the two a brown mushroom in return. Martyn and Pearl spot Rendog, Tango, and Bigbst4tz2 head to Bdubs and Impulse’s base and Martyn stays behind to trade some more while Pearl goes off on her own.

Pearl meets with Grian who reveals he’s paired with Scar, but that Scar doesn’t know it yet. Scar shows up with bamboo, claiming that Smajor1995 and ZombieCleo had stolen it from the pandas earlier. Scar points out to Pearl that someone tried to build a base above the pillager outpost, which she thinks is a dumb idea; he then reveals that it was them who did it. Grian informs her that there is a club that states that whenever someone blows a horn, others need to respond with their own.

Martyn meets with Pearl again and informs him he has bartered for a lifetime access to Bdubs and Impulse’s cow farm. He explains that he noticed people saying in in-game chat that the potion ingredients are useless, so he quicky sealed the deal before Bdubs and Impulse would notice.

Neither Martyn nor Pearl have found their soulbound yet, so Martyn takes Pearl to the spawn area to set up the gameshow ‘Lost and Bound’. He explains to her that he’ll be asking the contestants three questions and based on the answers they give by throwing one of three items down, he will determine which one of them is her soulmate. He’ll then check whether he was right by punching them.

Martyn sets up the gameshow and Cleo and Scott arrive at spawn as the only other two people who haven’t found their soulmate yet. Martyn mistakenly thinks that there should be a third person coming but Scott corrects him. Martyn instructs Pearl, Scott, and Cleo to stand in separate gameshow boxes made of netherrack. Martyn suspects that Cleo and Scott might be soulbound to each other, but they vehemently deny this.

Martyn tries to start the gameshow but is interrupted by the constant sound of horns and Scott being attacked by a goat. Pearl takes damage at the same time as Scott which leads her to find out that he is her soulbound, though only Martyn seems to not have noticed this. He explains the rules but stops when the others keep laughing. They tell him to keep going with the show, but he demands to know what’s going on. Scott eventually builds up with dirt and jumps down, showing that he’s soulbound to Pearl. He then hits Cleo to show that she’s bound to Martyn.

Scott and Cleo explain that they had met everyone else on the server and had concluded that Martyn and Pearl had to be their soulmates, since they had been away all that time. Scott then declares that he and Cleo have decided that they are soulbound to each other. They had been looking for Martyn and Pearl, making themselves vulnerable in Scott’s eyes, while Martyn and Pearl had just been doing their own thing in the Nether.

Cleo and Scott are also upset that Martyn and Pearl kept burning in the Nether, but Martyn counters that they had porkchops from killing hoglins. Martyn and Cleo start fighting before Scott and Cleo decide to leave. They reject Pearl’s offer to team up like the previous season and her excuse that she had just been following Martyn. They also reject Martyn’s claim that he was just trying to provide for his soulbound. Scott and Cleo call the two of them cheaters and leave to go to their homes, leaving Pearl and Martyn behind, confused and distraught.

Martyn removes the gameshow boxes and predicts that Cleo and Scott will come back to them when they’re in need of food, at which time he and Pearl should reject them in turn. Pearl mourns the loss of her, Scott, and Cleo’s ‘Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss’ alliance, and Martyn claims that he’s innocent in what happened. He starts blaming Pearl for the situation and breaks up with her, leaving her alone at the end of the episode.

Description
Welcome to Double Life! A brand new series taking place on the new 1.19 update where every member of the servers' health is linked to someone else! In this series we have 3 lives. If we lose all 3 lives, we're out!

Dangerous situations have become now even riskier than before with our health shared with a mystery partner!