InTheLittleWoods' Double Life: Episode 1

**Lost And Bound** is InTheLittleWoods' first episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 17, 2022. In this episode, Martyn loots a pillager outpost and teams up with PearlescentMoon to go mining and explore the Nether. He trades potion ingredients with BdoubleO100 in exchange for unlimited access to his and ImpulseSV's cow farm. 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. He discovers that he's soulmates with Cleo, 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 which we see Martyn walk away from spawn after greeting the other members. He gathers materials, crafts tools, and mines coal. He explains his plan to make a dating show later in the day where people can throw items for multiple-choice answers.

Martyn mines iron, crafts a shield, and fights pillagers around the pillager outpost. He loots the chest at the outpost, obtaining a goat horn, a Loyalty III enchantment book, carrots, wheat, dark oak logs, and string. He frees three allays from a cage next to the outpost and tries to take them with him but has to run due to being attacked by pillagers.

Martyn blows his horn to call for help and meets with GoodTimesWithScar and BdoubleO100. Scar asks Martyn if there were allays at the outpost and Martyn tells him that there were three of them in a cage. The three make their way to the outpost and Martyn obtains an allay while they fight off the pillagers. Scar also obtains an allay while EthosLab and ImpulseSV arrive at the outpost; Etho offers Martyn some food from his furnace.

Martyn and Etho hang out together and meet up with Bdubs, Scar, and Impulse. Bdubs and Impulse reveal they’re soulbound and Bdubs hits Martyn to check whether he’s bound to Scar, but it turns out he’s not. The five go mining together and Scar names his allay Minnie Mouse.

Martyn spots the name tags of Smallishbeans and Solidarity beneath him and digs down towards them while blowing his horn; PearlescentMoon shows up as well. Jimmy shows off his spyglass and Martyn asks Jimmy for the items to make one; Jimmy gives them to him, and Martyn crafts his own spyglass. Etho and Scar arrive and Etho and Joel find out they’re bonded.

Martyn keeps taking damage and he and Joel think that he might be paired with Jimmy. He gets poisoned by a cave spider and quickly leaves the mineshaft they’re in. He digs down to where Pearl has found an iron-rich cave to mine and smelt iron for armor. They find a dungeon and loot the chest, though Martyn mistakenly claims there were two saddles in the chest. They visit the deep dark, find another dungeon with a second music disc, and continue to mine to and smelt iron.

Martyn and Pearl go to the surface and 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 Impulse, Bdubs, Joel, and Etho who all want Martyn’s saddle, but don’t have anything good to trade for it.

Martyn builds and lights a Nether portal and invites Pearl 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 before 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 offers two cows and Martyn counteroffers that he gets unlimited access to Bdubs’ and Impulse’s cow farm in exchange for a blaze rod, though he promises to repopulate the farm whenever he uses it. Bdubs initially accepts the deal, but Impulse asks for two blaze rods, while Bdubs thinks the deal should be for one blaze rod, one soul sand, and one Nether wart. Martyn backs out off the deal for now.

Some time later Martyn is hanging out with Bigbst4tz2 and Rendog outside Bdubs and Impulse’s base when he notices an in-game message from Smajor1995 saying that the potion ingredients are useless. Martyn quickly hands Bdubs a blaze rod, one soul sand, and one nether wart in exchange for unlimited access to their cow farm. He then meets up with Pearl, Grian, and Scar and Grian informs him that there is a club with the rule that whenever you hear a horn, you need to respond with your own horn.

Neither Martyn nor Pearl have found their soulbound yet, so Martyn takes Pearl to the spawn area and sets 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.

ZombieCleo and Scott arrive at spawn as the only other two people who haven’t found their soulmate yet. He instructs them and Pearl to stand in separate gameshow boxes that he made of Netherrack. Cleo and Scott act suspicious and Martyn suspects they 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. He explains the rules but stops when Scott and Cleo 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 are soulbound to themselves and are together. 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, as well as Martyn’s claim that he was just trying to provide for his soulbound. Scott and Cleo 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 the brand new Life series! The concept is simple. Each one of us is tied to one other player, our hearts are shared so we have to be extra careful. We have 3 lives then we're OUT