EthosLab's Double Life: Episode 3

**Sugar Cane Hunt** is EthosLab's third episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on July 2, 2022.

## Plot

EthosLab starts his episode next to the Relation Ship, and he and SmallishBeans decide to mine a large iron vein that ImpulseSV found in the ancient city. They visit the burnt-down Ranch where they meet Solidarity and TangoTek before going down the staircase to the ancient city. They sneak through the city and SmallishBeans sets off a shrieker. They build up to the ceiling with wool and mine iron.

EthosLab and SmallishBeans head down from the wool platform they made using water just as PearlescentMoon and ImpulseSV arrive using ImpulseSV’s staircase. EthosLab and SmallishBeans inform ImpulseSV that they took most of the iron, but they can see from below that there’s quite a lot left. PearlescentMoon comes down and tells them she’s looking for disc shards, so they send her to the yet unlooted area of the city while they look for chests themselves.

SmallishBeans sets off another shrieker when looting a chest, but gets some good, enchanted gear from it including a hoe, which they use to remove sculk blocks. EthosLab returns to their base and finds TangoTek near the animal farms asking for wool, so EthosLab grabs some shears and shears the sheep in his sheep farm. BdoubleO100 drops by and states that TangoTek stole a name tag from EthosLab’s chests.

TangoTek tells EthosLab that the name tag is going to cause a lot of chaos on the server, which makes EthosLab okay with TangoTek taking it. He gives TangoTek two stacks of wool in return for a virtual IOU, meaning TangoTek will have to help him if EthosLab calls upon him. The two then part ways.

EthosLab and SmallishBeans visit Solidarity at the Ranch and tell him to watch his back as they peak over the new wall. Solidarity asks where TangoTek is and EthosLab tells him TangoTek is gone. EthosLab and SmallishBeans go back to their ship and SmallishBeans tells EthosLab he didn’t have any luck finding diamonds. They meet GoodTimesWithScar, who tells them that the Jellie panda reserve is open.

GoodTimesWithScar tries to trade two paper for the enchanted hoe, but EthosLab and SmallishBeans decline. SmallishBeans states he would accept sugarcane, but GoodTimesWithScar responds that Grian doesn’t allow him to hold sugarcane, inadvertently giving away that Grian has sugarcane. They ask GoodTimesWithScar where he got the paper, and he responds that he got it from the paper fairy. He continues to offer two paper, but SmallishBeans and EthosLab point out that you can’t do anything with just two paper.

GoodTimesWithScar asks SmallishBeans and EthosLab for gunpowder so he can check the recipe for TNT, but EthosLab quickly takes the gunpowder from their chests and states that they don’t have any. Grian passes by, and SmallishBeans and EthosLab confront him with their suspicions that he is hiding sugarcane from them. Grian states that he only has paper, and GoodTimesWithScar claims to have bought the paper from PearlescentMoon, who’s supposedly dealing in the woods. EthosLab spots Grian dual wielding sugarcane, but Grian quickly puts the sugarcane away.

Grian continues to try to sell paper to them. SmallishBeans offers an enchantment book and his enchanted hoe for one sugarcane, but Grian tells them he’ll think about it. EthosLab and SmallishBeans plan on setting up a search party to dig under Grian’s base and find his sugarcane farm. SmallishBeans gives GoodTimesWithScar an enchanted golden helmet and GoodTimesWithScar wears it before Grian tells him off. Grian and GoodTimesWithScar then leave.

EthosLab and SmallishBeans decide to prank InTheLittleWoods’ floating base by pouring lava over the water in the ravine under it, turning it to stone, so InTheLittleWoods will splat on the stone instead of landing safely in the water. They meet ZombieCleo, who tells them that InTheLittleWoods killed her by hitting her off a platform. They suggest that she makes InTheLittleWoods fall onto the stone they created under his base to take revenge. SmallishBeans then removes the water flowing down from InTheLittleWoods’ base.

SmallishBeans and EthosLab inform ZombieCleo that Grian has the sugarcane, and she accepts their offer to join their dig party. They climb up to the Ranch just as Solidarity bans Grian from the Ranch. They meet InTheLittleWoods who blames them for ruining his art project (his base) and watch as ZombieCleo and InTheLittleWoods duke it out. Solidarity tells them to watch their backs, but they turn it on Solidarity and hit him several times before leaving.

SmallishBeans and EthosLab sneak up on Grian’s base but find Grian and GoodTimesWithScar there; they pretend they’re there to visit the panda sanctuary. EthosLab spots PearlescentMoon hiding in a tree nearby. GoodTimesWithScar leads SmallishBeans and EthosLab inside the panda reserve and lets them take bamboo from a chest to feed the pandas. EthosLab asks what the pandas are named, and GoodTimesWithScar tells them that two of the pandas are named Sniffles and Robert.

GoodTimesWithScar asks SmallishBeans and EthosLab to put a donation for the panda reserve in the chest on the way out, and EthosLab puts in a piece of coal, two gold ore, some steak, and lapis. SmallishBeans and EthosLab pretend to leave while GoodTimesWithScar is talking to Grian before sneaking around the back of the base. SmallishBeans digs under the base while EthosLab spies on GoodTimesWithScar and Grian taking iron from GoodTimesWithScar’s secret underground stash.

Sometime later, when Grian and GoodTimesWithScar are being questioned by ZombieCleo about the sugarcane, EthosLab goes to the secret stash and steals GoodTimesWithScar’s diamonds, diamond horse armor, and golden horse armor. He is confronted by Grian and GoodTimesWithScar who noticed the ‘diamonds’ notification popping up for EthosLab, and EthosLab tries to sell the items back to GoodTimesWithScar for one sugarcane. EthosLab and ZombieCleo consider killing Grian for it.

EthosLab gives GoodTimesWithScar the 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 renamed as ‘Sugar Caine’. EthosLab threatens to steal the anvil in the secret stash but is stopped by Grian. EthosLab and ZombieCleo leave the base together, and ZombieCleo reveals she took one of the diamonds without GoodTimesWithScar noticing.

GoodTimesWithScar comes by EthosLab and SmallishBeans’s Relation Ship and claims that they took a diamond and gunpowder; they tell him they have neither of those things, and EthosLab gives GoodTimesWithScar the golden horse armor, claiming that he didn’t mean to steal it. ZombieCleo drops by and reveals that she took a diamond, and GoodTimesWithScar lets EthosLab keep the golden horse armor as a reward for his honesty, but still doesn’t give him the sugarcane he promised.

ZombieCleo gives the diamond back to GoodTimesWithScar and GoodTimesWithScar gives her iron horse armor. EthosLab asks GoodTimesWithScar for the sugarcane again, but GoodTimesWithScar refuses to give it. EthosLab and ZombieCleo plan their heist after GoodTimesWithScar has left, and BdoubleO100 joins them. They tell him about Grian hoarding the sugarcane and BdoubleO100 reveals that Grian stole his gunpowder. SmallishBeans joins the group, and they realize they need to have someone distract Grian away from his base.

ZombieCleo has an idea and she and EthosLab leave to go to Smajor1995 while SmallishBeans stays behind to babysit BdoubleO100. EthosLab realizes there’s large wall surrounding ZombieCleo and Scott’s houses, and ZombieCleo tells him he and SmallishBeans are allowed to cross the wall. They explain the situation to Scott and Scott proposes to invite Grian and GoodTimesWithScar to his Relationship Ranch. They find that GoodTimesWithScar’s already there and Scott promises to send a signal the moment that he’s got Grian with him as well.

EthosLab and ZombieCleo spot PearlescentMoon riding GoodTimesWithScar’s horse across the bridge and EthosLab tries to block her path, but PearlescentMoon removes the blockage and rides away. EthosLab and ZombieCleo return to SmallishBeans and BdoubleO100, who reveal that they visited the pillager outpost. The four go to Grian’s base and start digging under it. They question GoodTimesWithScar who shows up there, but GoodTimesWithScar reveals that he doesn’t know where the sugarcane is; GoodTimesWithScar then claims that he has it in his inventory and leaves to go to the Relationship Ranch.

The group continues digging and ImpulseSV joins them after some time. EthosLab gives SmallishBeans an iron pickaxe and shovel. Scott sends ZombieCleo a message, and Grian and GoodTimesWithScar return to the base shortly after. EthosLab meets ImpulseSV as they’re hiding below ground and explains his plan to check where Grian goes after the ruckus has died down, as he suspects Grian will want to check up on the sugarcane.

Grian catches EthosLab in the tunnel system they created under the base and EthosLab goes to the surface. Both Grian and GoodTimesWithScar are shocked by the number of holes around their base, and BdoubleO100 exclaims that he was trying to stop the others. EthosLab, SmallishBeans, ZombieCleo, and BdoubleO100 pretend to leave, but then stick around to see where Grian goes. When Grian goes to talk with GoodTimesWithScar, they search the place where Grian seemed to be headed.

Grian tells the group that even he doesn’t remember where the sugarcane farm is located and claims they’re getting colder and colder. SmallishBeans eventually finds the farm and EthosLab manages to take some of the sugarcane while Grian frantically tries to stop them. EthosLab gives some to ZombieCleo and BdoubleO100.

The group meets InTheLittleWoods who asks for one sugarcane. SmallishBeans asks InTheLittleWoods for one diamond, but InTheLittleWoods doesn’t have any. InTheLittleWoods offers Solidarity’s horn and SmallishBeans accepts the deal; InTheLittleWoods gives SmallishBeans the horn and EthosLab gives InTheLittleWoods one sugarcane. ZombieCleo asks how InTheLittleWoods got the horn, and he explains that he took it from PearlescentMoon who got it from Solidarity.

EthosLab and SmallishBeans hear a warden rumbling in the woods and see Solidarity and TangoTek run out of there. Solidarity and TangoTek explain that they brought the warden up to the surface, but that their plan backfired. EthosLab and SmallishBeans watch from a distance as the warden approaches the Ranch and get closer when the warden gets inside the perimeter wall. They then look on as the warden escapes from the Ranch and chases after a large group of people.

EthosLab breaks the wall around Scott’s Relationship Ranch to try and lock the warden in there but has to run as the warden approaches. SmallishBeans shoots the warden, and it comes after them. EthosLab runs back to the Ranch and loses SmallishBeans in the kerfuffle. He and the others eventually spot SmallishBeans build a tower in the distance to get away from the warden. The group discusses what to do with the warden, and Scott suggests locking it inside the Ranch, since it’s TangoTek’s fault for bringing it to the surface.

The group meets Bigbst4tz2 who just died to a creeper, making him and Rendog the first red names. Bigbst4tz2 reveals that he was able to recover his gear and jokingly blames PearlescentMoon for the creeper accident. He reveals that BdoubleO100 set off the creeper that killed him.

The warden eventually falls into the water ravine, and GoodTimesWithScar tricks EthosLab into getting into a boat with him before riding the boat into the ravine and jumping out at the last second. The boat fortunately gets stuck on the cliffside and EthosLab manages to clamber out of the ravine. PearlescentMoon hits GoodTimesWithScar into the ravine and EthosLab hits Grian into it as well, which almost kills the couple, and 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.