The fight with Vhisarion goes on. The counter opens at Scoti 120, Basket 92, and the dragon's health bar is still close to full.
Spread out, light the floor
First up is a Warlock. "I'm going to get strength and give him the beat down." It goes down, and they agree to keep their distance from each other, because otherwise the dragon is "gonna be able to just shoot down and hit both of us."
Glowstone goes on the ground to cut down the natural spawns, partly to see whether it breaks. "That'll help with natural spawns, but the other spawns will still be there." A while later: "So far the glowstone is still there." Then chat announces the next one: "An Elder Warlock has spawned." "I'm here to serve you, my master!"
One runs, one shoots
Scoti's count goes up by two within a few seconds, with "Scoti_Garbidis was slain by Cursed Bones" in chat. "Where'd you die?" "Right outside the front steps there." The gear is probably gone.
So they split the work. One of them runs laps of the arena, killing everything and grabbing the speed and strength boosts at the little shrines. The other stays on the bow. "I will try to do the running because I can't hit anything with my bow." Even the runner admits "I'm gonna die in a second." Someone builds a little hidey hole with signs to stop the knockback, and it doesn't last. "Oh, he took out my... signs." The arrows do start landing, though. "I hit him." "Yes! Good job." "Only a hundred more times."
Four deaths in a minute
Around the 14 minute mark it all goes wrong at once. Scoti's count goes up by two more, with Cursed Bones in chat again. Basket is "slain by Bonecrawler," respawns, and dies again right after "Vhisarion knocks you back to the ground," this time to Cursed Bones.
"You want to take a quick break? Think about it?" "Is this the end of the episode or no?" "No, I think this is the middle. We're gonna come back and be victorious."
Which way is clockwise?
"Welcome back, guys, to Operation Try Not to Die." The plan is for both of them to run the loop the same way. It doesn't start well. "I'm going clockwise." "No you're not." "Okay, I'm going counterclockwise then." And then: "Don't ask me tough questions like what direction a clock goes around right now."
The Warlock "has knockback on that book," so the rule is not to let it touch you. Fire is the other problem. "When we're in fire, they have a boost of damage." There's a theory too: when they aren't upstairs, the dragon doesn't seem to spawn Warlocks, and "as long as there's not a warlock up here he won't get healed."
Making progress
For all that, Vhisarion "has one little smidge of damage that we gave him still." The last round costs one more life each. Scoti and Basket both die to Cursed Bones, and the gear has to be hauled back down to the chests. Sorting it turns up one disagreement. "You threw away the string? The string we could use to make a bow." "I was throwing away things I don't like, and right now I don't like anything."
The episode closes on a hopeful note anyway. "We're making progress."
This episode's deaths, going by the counter: Scoti 5, Basket 3. It ends at Scoti 125, Basket 95. Vhisarion is still alive. The monument isn't shown, so the totals carry over: 14 of 16 crystals and 10 of 12 emerald blocks.