With the Ninja Academy done, Team B.S. walks the pedestal hall to the next sign: "Area: Reptilian Stronghold [Gray Wool]." "We're about to kill some reptiles." The deaths sidebar opens at Scoti_Garbidis 92 and BasketMC 71.
Story time
![Basket and Scoti in purple-checked armor beside a pedestal sign reading Area: Reptilian Stronghold [Gray Wool], with a creeper face in an item frame below it](https://www.basketmc.com/images/3221/conversions/basket-and-scoti-in-purple-checked-armor-beside-a-pedestal-s-f5302fba-content-image.webp)
Inside, a chest holds the area's story, and it gets read out loud. "Reptilians, you remember having fought these creatures back when you were alive?" The text calls them "vicious, merciless warriors" and suggests their civilization may have "learned the arcane art of enchanting their weapons and armor." The hint at the end is the useful part: "What if you can steal their enchanting equipment and use it against them?" "You know what that means?" "Yeah, it means you're gonna not want to leave" until they find an enchanting table.
So far, no lizards
The stronghold opens into another jungle cavern full of vines, wooden walkways and torches. What it doesn't have is anything that looks like a lizard. "So far no lizards in this. Lots of creepers though." The vines are a problem too: "This guy's pathing weird." Basket swings a Merciless Saber and they start hunting spawners. "I got two spawners so far I believe."
The skeletons hit harder than usual. "They're enchanted." And the creepers carry names: "they have names, that's how you know that you should be taking this a little more seriously."
Two deaths for Basket
Some of the creepers spawn up in the air, and the vines slow them down on the way to the ground. Soon after, chat reads "BasketMC fell from a high place" and the sidebar ticks to 72. Basket's account: "They spawned in the air and then he got stuck in the vines and then he just like slowly blew up my face."
More creepers show up near the spot. "There's a creeper right there!" This time chat names the culprit.
"BasketMC was blown up by Rage Creeper," and BasketMC goes to 73. At least it was a cheap one: "I didn't have anything on me though, that's good." Chat shows "BasketMC Teleporting to: Intersection 2," and Basket heads back in. One of them has a theory about the area's name: "I'm kind of surprised that the reptiles appear to be creepers."
Clearing the spawners
Back in the cavern there's a tower down below, with more spawners around it. "We're activating that spawner." "I broke one." Along the wooden path a zombie shows up wearing a creeper head. "Oh I see a reptile. Creepy creepy." Basket switches to Seraph's Avenger as they work around the edge, and offers of spare pickaxes lead to the joke of the episode: "You're pretty picky."
The island in the river
Next comes a river with an island in the middle. "Oh this thing is full of spawners. This is a trap." Worse, "they're spawning with boats." One of them digs into the hillside around a hidden spawner, while Basket builds a glowstone bridge out over the water toward the island.
There's loot along the way too, going by the talk: "Sharpness four book, emerald." Basket has a bow called Flame Spitter out over the water while more spawners turn up. "There's a spawner right here."
The sidebar opens at Scoti_Garbidis 92 and BasketMC 71 and closes at 92 and 73: two deaths for Basket, none for Scoti. The monument isn't shown, so wools stay at 7 of 16 and emerald blocks at 4 of 16. No gray wool yet, and no enchanting table.