The catacombs are behind them and a new level is ahead. The death counter reads Basket 46, Scoti 33 at the start. By the end it reads Basket 46, Scoti 36, and every one of those three belongs to Scoti.
A staircase episode
One of them spent the time between episodes building a staircase, with railings, and almost made it a half episode on its own. "It was mainly just building stairs, it wasn't all interesting." The reply: "You know what I've been waiting for on YouTube? A Minecraft stair building episode. You blew it."
A bunch of stuff came over from the catacombs basement too. Out of one chest come a splash regeneration potion and a splash potion of healing, and in go some gold weighted pressure plates and zombie flesh, dropped into "your expertly sorted chest." A room got lit with glowstone instead of cobble, since they had plenty. There's supposed to be a secret somewhere, and they still haven't found it. "You know why you don't know where it is? 'Cause it's a secret!"
Dark gray or black
The next stop is the Alchemical Stronghold. "This is gonna be totally not good." A dark carpet on the floor marks its wool, and they can't agree on the color. Dark gray, maybe. Or black.
Inside it's dark and loud. Spiders, a creeper, a zombie, and a lot of baby zombies. "Why are there so many babies?" So far it's all natural spawns.
Sand, end stone and a buried creeper
The cave opens up into sand. Up above, a creeper is stuck in the blocks. "Somebody buried him up to his neck." That gets them thinking about trap sand: put a torch on the wrong block and the floor might just drop out.
Deeper in there are end stone pillars topped with end portal frames, "just for looks," they guess, plus end stone stalactites and stalagmites. A sword breaks in the middle of a fight with a creeper and a baby zombie, and a fresh one goes on the bar.
Witches, and more witches
Then the spawners. Skeletons below, witches all around, and poison on both of them. One breaks a spawner, one falls into a pit, and Basket's health drops to the last heart before the regeneration kicks in. "Don't hit me, I'm down to half a heart."
With a bow about to break, one of them switches to the Kingly Get-Away Weapon, the Punch X bow from the catacombs. It doesn't hit hard, but "it literally sends people out of this chunk." There's a tower on the far side with a sign on it, and a lot of iron in the walls. The plan: go skyward, or run through "like madmen" and throw down torches.
Three for Scoti
The torch run goes badly. Poison, a spider, a creeper, and then the chat line: "Scoti_Garbidis was killed by Witch using magic." Scoti greets the death chest ("I missed you") and finds a regular bow in it. Out in the cave there's a charged creeper.
They come up with a theory. The witches throw potions at each other, creepers spawn in the middle of it, get hit, and blow up. A couple of minutes later it's "killed by Witch using magic" again, and this time Scoti comes back without grabbing any armor. Server lag kicks in. "This level is terrible." "This is nothing compared to the other ones."
They pillar up with cobble and someone goes after a witch spawner in the pit. "Up, up, up, out of range!" Then a third chat line: "Scoti_Garbidis was shot by Skeleton." "Worst episode ever!" "I believe in you." It's about 17 minutes in, so they call it and agree to meet back there next time.