The Ninja Academy is a walled town in a huge cavern, and from the ledge above it the problem is easy to see: spawners everywhere, some of them high up. One of them reads the welcome out loud, calling the town "the last part of your path to becoming a ninja," with the advice to "move fast, be observant, and know when to pick a fight and when to avoid it." The deaths sidebar opens at Scoti_Garbidis 87 and BasketMC 61, right where the last episode left it.
The plan is to run
One of them has a plan the other won't like: "We're gonna run in there and just run till we find the wool." Spare armor, a bow and a sword go into a chest upstairs first, in case things go badly. Then they go. "Checkpoint!" Chat confirms it: "Scoti_Garbidis Teleporting to: Ninja Academy."
The town fights back right away. "There's pitfalls all over, man." Then "tons of fast creepers" and "lots of bad dudes." By the time one of them admits "I don't know that we're gonna be able to just run in," Basket's death screen is up: "BasketMC was slain by Fallen Ninja." The sidebar moves to BasketMC 62.
Down the pitfall
The way back runs through the first tower, where one of them fell in and found "a spawner there, a bunch of bad guys." Basket sorts through a chest of gear, one of them enjoys the dropped experience ("Delicious Basket XP!"), and "killed that spawner" takes care of the source. Basket switches to a sword called the Ferocious Blade and follows the hole all the way down, where another chest is waiting. Inside, among the vines and grass, is a Potion of Swiftness with Speed II. "I'm telling you, man. I think they want us to run in there."
Bridge from above
Back on top, they go through the options. There is the "charge in approach," or they can "bridge up and then take out the spawners on the top, because that's where all the bad guys are coming from." Neither of them has a water bucket anymore. They pick the bridge, with Scoti up on a pillar above the town and a mossy stone walkway stretching out toward the roofs.
It doesn't reach. "I'm like one block short." "I was four blocks short." One of them spots lit-up item frames with "obsidian over top of it," but it stays out of reach, and the worry about skeletons is that "as soon as they spawn they can shoot you."
Rooftops and vines
"This is starting to seem like it's going to take a long time." The new idea is to jump down onto the roofs and look from there. The mobs follow. "Climb those vines!" Chat shows "Teleporting to: The Nexus" with no name on it. "Did you just teleport to the Nexus?" "No, something else did. I think a monster maybe."
One of them reports a safe room with a chest holding "an emerald, eight apples and an awesome sword." Basket crosses a pond to the back of the town, where "two spawners right on top of each other" keep sending mobs, and starts tunneling into a building with mossy stone walls. "This building seems very promising." "Treasure is always hidden in the most ornate building." The episode stops there, to be continued.
The sidebar closes at Scoti_Garbidis 87 and BasketMC 62, with one death for Basket this episode. The monument isn't shown, so the count stays at 6 of 16 wools and 3 of 16 emerald blocks.