Grian's Double Life: Episode 3

**A REAL MONOPOLY** is Grian's third episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on July 2, 2022.

## Plot

Grian starts the episode in a mineshaft, announcing that he’s gathering resources. He finds diamonds, crafts a diamond pickaxe, and mines obsidian that he got after placing water on a lava pool. He reveals that the sculk sensors now react when people are talking using the proximity chat mod, but not when people are crouching.

Grian goes to the surface and meets GoodTimesWithScar near his base. GoodTimesWithScar announces that he has rekindled love between InTheLittleWoods and ZombieCleo by secretly bringing them together in the panda reserve. He shows off his new skin to Grian and reveals that he found the deep dark but did not venture in there without Grian’s permission.

Grian tells GoodTimesWithScar he’s got something to share with him, and GoodTimesWithScar quickly digs into Grian’s underground sugarcane farm, only to find it isn’t there anymore. Grian reveals that he has the sugarcane in his inventory and that it’s truly all the sugarcane on the server; he plans on selling paper to other people on the server, since they can’t farm paper. GoodTimesWithScar asks if he can be the paper salesman, and Grian agrees. Grian crafts some paper and gives it to GoodTimesWithScar, so GoodTimesWithScar can sell it to others. Grian then replants some of the sugarcane.

Grian plans on checking whether Bigbst4tz2 received that gift that he left for him at Box next session. He passes GoodTimesWithScar selling paper to SmallishBeans and EthosLab, but the two are suspicious, believing that GoodTimesWithScar is hiding sugarcane from them. GoodTimesWithScar claims to have bought the paper from PearlescentMoon, who’s dealing in the woods. Grian dual wields sugarcane until EthosLab notices; he then quickly puts the sugarcane away. EthosLab and SmallishBeans planning on digging under Grian’s base to find his sugarcane farm.

Grian goes to Box and finds that his gift is gone but is unable to find Bigbst4tz2. He leaves as he’s paranoid about people searching for his sugarcane farm. He finds GoodTimesWithScar at ImpulseSV and BdoubleO100’s base and confides his fears in him. He later breaks into the Ranch while Solidarity tries to send him away.

Bigbst4tz2 shows up at the Ranch and he and Grian head outside after Grian gives him some mutton. Bigbst4tz2 reveals that he received Grian’s gift, but states that Rendog knows that Bigbst4tz2 has a secret admirer, just not who it is. Bigbst4tz2 places a chest with cookies in a somewhat failed heart shape as a gift for Grian. Grian gives Bigbst4tz2 a piece of sugarcane, instructing him to keep it secret.

Grian reveals that he found sugarcane on the first episode but hadn’t taken all of it; however, it seems that no one else has the rest. Grian and Bigbst4tz2 quickly pretend to be talking about something else as InTheLittleWoods passes by, and Bigbst4tz2 reveals that Rendog and InTheLittleWoods had gone on a little quest together. He vows to keep Grian’s secret safe with him, since they’re secret soulmates, and they agree to keep giving each other gifts and resources.

Solidarity notices someone doing something at the bottom of the water ravine, and Grian hits Solidarity into the ravine. Grian realizes someone is trying to get rid of InTheLittleWoods’ floating heart base. Solidarity and TangoTek put up a sign next to their front gate saying that Grian’s banned from the Ranch, and Grian leaves.

Grian returns to his own base and GoodTimesWithScar reveals that no one wanted to buy paper from him, and that PearlescentMoon stole his horse. Grian has a new idea: they could rename mangrove propagules to sugarcane since they look similar, and then strike deals with people by showing them the sugarcane but then giving them the propagules.

EthosLab and SmallishBeans visit Grian’s base and GoodTimesWithScar shows them around the petting zoo while Grian quickly goes underground; SmallishBeans follows Grian but finds that Grian was misleading him into thinking he was going to his sugarcane farm. They return to the surface and Grian secretly gives GoodTimesWithScar a piece of sugarcane that he can show to others. EthosLab and SmallishBeans try to search Grian’s base but quickly get caught.

GoodTimesWithScar pretends to have found Grian’s sugarcane farm and shows SmallishBeans the piece of sugarcane while Grian protests, telling GoodTimesWithScar not to sell it. SmallishBeans tries to buy the sugarcane for an enchanted diamond hoe when ZombieCleo drops by. GoodTimesWithScar and SmallishBeans both quickly demand that the other drops their item first, and GoodTimesWithScar gives SmallishBeans the fake sugarcane. SmallishBeans immediately realizes it’s a mangrove propagule.

GoodTimesWithScar and Grian find that EthosLab’s been digging under their base behind their backs and ZombieCleo claims she knows where the sugarcane farm is. GoodTimesWithScar repeats that he got the sugarcane from PearlescentMoon, but ZombieCleo reveals that she spoke to PearlescentMoon, and that PearlescentMoon had called GoodTimesWithScar and Grian liars. EthosLab finds GoodTimesWithScar’s secret stash and takes his diamonds and diamond horse armor before trying to sell them back for sugarcane.

EthosLab gives GoodTimesWithScar his diamond horse armor back and Grian gives EthosLab bamboo, but EthosLab doesn’t mistake it for sugarcane. EthosLab gives GoodTimesWithScar all his diamonds back and GoodTimesWithScar gives EthosLab a mangrove propagule.

After everyone leaves, Grian explains his new plan; he knows it’s only a matter of time before someone finds his sugarcane, so he plans on also having a monopoly on sand by gathering all sand from the riverbed in the ravine, which he quickly makes a start on.

Grian visits Smajor1995’s Relationship Ranch, which Smajor1995 explains has different activities for soulmates to do together. PearlescentMoon drops by for a moment, and Rendog and Bigbst4tz2 also come by asking for therapy, revealing that they just had their first fight. GoodTimesWithScar comes by and Smajor1995 decides to let Grian and GoodTimesWithScar be the first participants at the Relationship Ranch.

The first activity at the Relationship Ranch is ‘Goat Punch’: Smajor1995 puts Grian and GoodTimesWithScar in separate spaces, with a goat in Grian’s space. He explains that Grian will have to dodge when the goat is charging at him to avoid hurting his soulmate, and Grian successfully does so.

Smajor1995 tries to lead Grian and GoodTimesWithScar to the second activity when GoodTimesWithScar reveals that some people are digging for the sugarcane farm under Grian’s base; GoodTimesWithScar mistakenly thought that Grian had all the sugarcane in his inventory. The two run to Grian’s base and suspect that Smajor1995 was in on the ordeal.

Grian finds ZombieCleo and BdoubleO100 at his base with a lot of holes in the ground. Grian goes underground and finds EthosLab hiding in one of the many tunnels the invaders dug. Grian claims that the farm isn’t even that well-hidden, and SmallishBeans exclaims that they searched everywhere. Grian returns to the surface and tries to convene with GoodTimesWithScar but finds that the others keep following him to find the location of the farm.

The others keep digging around Grian’s base and ZombieCleo mentions that GoodTimesWithScar almost accidentally burned Grian’s base down when fighting her. Grian offers to sell SmallishBeans some sugarcane just as the others find the farm; both EthosLab and ZombieCleo manage to steal some of the sugarcane before Grian can harvest it himself, and the group runs away.

Grian returns to GoodTimesWithScar and finds that GoodTimesWithScar had been showing ImpulseSV around the panda zoo all that time. Grian explains that the others found the sugarcane and GoodTimesWithScar mentions that ZombieCleo had tried to burn the base down, which Grian finds odd since ZombieCleo has said the opposite. GoodTimesWithScar then states that he doesn’t know who lit the fire, but that he was the one who put it out together with BdoubleO100.

Grian reveals to GoodTimesWithScar that he took all the sand on the server, and GoodTimesWithScar plans on going to the ravine to check whether there truly is no sand left there. SmallishBeans comes by and gives Grian Solidarity’s horn, hoping that in return Grian won’t burn down the Relation Ship. Grian gives SmallishBeans a block of sand in return, which SmallishBeans doesn’t yet realize the significance of.

Grian renames the horn to Solidarity’s horn while GoodTimesWithScar reveal that he got enchanted chainmail boots from killing a baby villager while mining; the boots have Feather Falling IV and Fire Protection III. GoodTimesWithScar descends into the ravine to check for sand after Grian gives him his diamond shovel.

Grian is in a way glad that the sugarcane got stolen, since it means he can now make a proper sugarcane farm on the surface without worrying to much about people stealing it. Grian joins GoodTimesWithScar in getting the last of the sand from the ravine and they spot InTheLittleWoods also trying to get the last of the sand. Grian and GoodTimesWithScar leave a few blocks of sand behind, but not enough to make TNT.

Grian and GoodTimesWithScar go to the Ranch, but Solidarity tells Grian that he’s still banned. Grian reveals that he got Solidarity’s horn, which Solidarity had traded away. Solidarity asks to get the horn back and Grian asks to be unbanned; Grian gives the horn back while Solidarity removes the sign. Grian then steals some wheat from the farm.

PearlescentMoon and InTheLittleWoods arrive at the Ranch with a warden behind him and the group panics as the warden enters gets inside the wall surrounding the Ranch. Grian gets with a sonic blast multiple times and almost dies to fall damage. The warden escapes from the Ranch and chases after the group.

The warden eventually ends up near Smajor1995’s Relationship Farm when SmallishBeans shoots it, causing it to go after the group again. It goes back to the Ranch again just as the group notices that Rendog and Bigbst4tz2 have died, making both of them red names. Grian and GoodTimesWithScar try to lock the warden in at the Ranch, only for it to fall into the water ravine.

Grian reflects on his relationship with Bigbst4tz2 now that Bigbst4tz2 is red; he knows that all friendships are broken but doesn’t know whether the same counts for secret soulmates. The episode ends with GoodTimesWithScar and Grian both getting hit into the ravine but surviving on half a heart.

## Description

Minecraft Double Life: Episode 3 Grian is back on double life and has managed to get a real monopoly on the most valuable of things..