Last episode ended with a wall up in the boss hall and mobs still pouring out of the spawners. This one opens in the middle of that cleanup. The counter opens at Scoti 154, Basket 122.
The last spawner
Most of the lost gear comes back first. "I got most of my gear back." The water from last time is earning its keep: "They can't seem to handle the water very well and they get stuck in the one spot." Basket builds out over the crowd, which gets described as "a bridge to nowhere to murder all these folks."
Then one of them calls it. "That's last spawner."
Aris shows up
Chat answers right away: "[Aris] Useless Minions! Do I have to do everything myself?" A boss bar labeled Aris appears at the top of the screen, followed by "[Aris] I summon you, creatures of the Exile!"
Running doesn't work. One of them makes it to the wall and gets pulled straight back. "I got right to the wall and then it teleported me back to the middle." Chat adds "[Aris] Come back here, you coward!" Their first read on the boss: "It's a wither." Aris spawns mobs and then shoots them too, which they take as a small favor.
Then the lightning starts. Chat reads "You have been caught in Aris' death storm. Your Resistance and Regeneration effects have been removed," then "BasketMC was killed by magic." The counter goes to Basket 123. A little later Scoti goes to 155, with no chat line on screen.
Immune to arrows
They split up, one on each side, and use bows. "I'm hurting him bad, man." It doesn't last. "He's about a half." Then: "He's immune now." They talk about luring Aris over to the wall for sword hits, but there's a limit to how close Aris will come.
The mobs in here have name tags. Dark Renegades come in melee and ranged versions. Chat reads "BasketMC was shot by Dark Renegade (Ranged)," then "BasketMC was slain by Enderman," and Basket is at 125. The wall doesn't hold either. "That's a death loop if I ever saw one."
Stairs into the wall
The next idea is to dig stairs down into the wall, so whoever gets targeted can sprint out. It runs into bedrock and lava. Obsidian would hold, but "I think we only have like 14." Water goes down in a few spots to push the mobs back.
Chat reads "Scoti_Garbidis was burnt to a crisp whilst fighting Dark Renegade (Ranged)," then "BasketMC burned to death." The counter is at Scoti 156, Basket 126. Aris goes immune to arrows again. "It's essentially the first stage of a wither."
Pulled back to the middle
From here the deaths stack up. Basket is killed by magic twice, Scoti is shot by a Dark Renegade (Ranged) and then killed by magic, and dropped gear doesn't always come back. "I guess you just lose all your stuff."
One of them walks toward the stairs with nothing on to see where the pull kicks in. "It's like a little bit before we even get to the stairs." So the stairs are out. "All that progress we made is over now."
![Empty respawn corridor with chat reading "[Aris] Feel my WRATH!", "BasketMC was slain by Dark Renegade (Melee)" and "Scoti_Garbidis withered away", death counter at Scoti_Garbidis 159, BasketMC 130](https://www.basketmc.com/images/2913/conversions/empty-respawn-corridor-with-chat-reading-aris-feel-my-wrath--d43f5cff-content-image.webp)
The last stretch is rough. Chat reads "BasketMC was slain by Dark Renegade (Melee)," "Scoti_Garbidis withered away," "BasketMC was killed by magic," "Scoti_Garbidis was struck by lightning," and finally "Scoti_Garbidis was slain by Dark Renegade (Melee)."
An obsidian bunker
They end on a plan. If they always land in the same spot, they can build an obsidian shelter there that Aris probably can't break. Make it two blocks high, so the three-high mobs can't follow them in, and give it a corner to duck behind when the archers fire. First they need more obsidian.
Sixteen deaths this episode: seven for Scoti, nine for Basket. The counter ends at Scoti 161, Basket 131, and the Aris boss bar is still up. The monument isn't shown, so the totals stay at 15 of 16 crystals and 11 of 12 emerald blocks.