"All right, we're back in Xin's area, where we're gonna get murderized, or we're gonna kill some stuff." Or fall to their deaths, one of them adds. The counter opens at Scoti 24, Basket 15, and the plan is to go up.
Up the ladders
Past the ladders there's a buff block (Strength) and a spawner that isn't active. Then a stretch that looks like a trap. "This looks like a trap, my friend." There's cobble under the floor, but they already dug out the blocks that would have set it off, so the chest is safe. It pays out well: Winged Boots with Protection I and Feather Falling III, a Protection II book, a Sharpness II sword and a broken katana. "Oh, Feather Falling, it's good for me, 'cause I'm gonna fall." Inventory full, they keep climbing.
Good sword, bad pick
One of them takes out a spawner for "a ninja guy" and comes away with a good sword. The pick is another story: "My pick is garbage." Basket is still swinging a Stone Pickaxe. Mobs spawn on the platform above them, and creepers keep turning up in weird spots. "There must be like wide area spawners or something." A Swordmaster shows up on the walkways too, on fire.
It gets tight. One of them drops to two hearts and has to back off to heal, then throws away a potion by mistake. "I'm such a doofus." The other covers with arrows.
Checkpoint to the Nexus
Then somebody goes over the edge, all the way to the bottom, and lives on two and a half hearts. Basket finds a checkpoint, and its sign reads "To: The Nexus." Basket takes it. "I'm back in the Nexus. I'm so safe." A stash turns up with a Smite III sword and a Power I, Punch I bow, and nobody is sure the bow meets anyone's standards. "I don't know what your standards are."
Falling from high places
Safe doesn't last. Back up in the cave, Basket's chat reads "BasketMC fell from a high place." Gear goes back on afterward, minus a helmet. One of them tried to strong-arm a creeper by just beating on it, and it blew up in their face. A Resistance buff helps for a few minutes, and all the iron gear is getting beat up.
Two more for Scoti
Hanging around on a platform waiting for each other isn't safe either, because there's no good place to wait. Scoti falls from a high place, and then does it again a minute later. "Tell me that wasn't near my gear." It wasn't. "I'm nowhere near my gear."
That's where they leave it, with a regroup needed. The counter ends at Scoti 26, Basket 16. Nothing was placed on the monument this episode, so it still sits at 3 of 16 crystals and 2 of 12 emerald blocks.