The death counter starts at 3 for Scoti and 1 for Basket. This is a long one, close to half an hour, and it covers a garden, a graveyard full of the map's beta testers, and the first floor of the village barracks. The counter ends at 4 and 2.
The garden and the sinkhole
They cut through a garden on the way to the front door of the next building. There's a drowned zombie and a creeper in the water. Inside they find melon seeds, a nice bow, and a pair of pants that one of them claims on sight. One of them leaves a pumpkin pie and coal in an oven. "Coal in the oven's kind of cool, actually."
Next to the library there's a sinkhole, a spot that got blown up earlier, and the water there looks weird. They swim down, find a ladder, and fight their way back up through creepers and spawners. Then they take a short break to run an emerald back to base.
The barracks sign
Back out, more spawners go down, and creepers drop through a hole in a tower's second floor. One of them finds an axe that turns out to be a proper weapon with Sharpness on it. A sign outside the next building reads "the barracks." "We probably don't want those people to get turned into mindless zombies with white eyes that want to kill us." "Too late."
The beta graveyard
Up the hill is a graveyard. Every grave has a player head on top and a "Here lies" sign, and they work out quickly who these are. "These are probably testers." Each grave has a chest. Most hold bones or torches, and one has a splash potion of swiftness.
The best grave holds the Pioneer's Blade. Read out loud, it's Smite VIII and Looting II, and the lore says it was forged to honor the ancient heroes who explored and conquered this land, and that it's possessed by their souls. Then, by a pair of doors: "Oh! I just cursed us." Zombies and silverfish pour in around them, and one of them says their sword is laying waste to them. "I got the sword of heroes, man. I earned it."
Before they leave: "Thank you to the beta testers, though. You guys rock." "Thank you for not murdering us." They dump their junk in a chest by the graves as a waypoint.
Into the barracks
The plan is to charge in and light it up. With swiftness splashed on them, Basket runs straight up a ladder and deep into the building, right-clicks a bed by accident while placing torches, and then trips a trap. Creepers pop up out of nowhere, and the chat says BasketMC was blown up by Creeper. Counter: 2 for Basket.
Scoti hands over a sword, a pickaxe, torches and a regeneration golden apple, and gives directions: left, then right, follow the torches. One of them calls it pulling a Scoti, running deeper instead of lighting things up first. Basket gets the gear back, including some cool boots and a bow.
One heart left
The barracks are rooms of beds, holes in the ceiling, and zombies in heavy armor. A few minutes later the chat says Scoti_Garbidis was slain by Zombie, and the counter reads 4 and 2. Basket throws a Frost Trap into one fight, and in another a Smite sword breaks.
There's a secret room with a chest and a spawner hidden behind a painting, and another spawner near the beds that keeps the zombies coming. "I have one heart!" No crystals or emerald blocks placed yet, so it's still 0 of 16 and 0 of 12. "I think this is a long episode, man."