The plan is simple. Finish the last building in the bazaar, then the market itself, and head for the castle. They have come through the whole village without losing anything that mattered. That does not last.
Enchanted armor, sort of
The last building has a sign out front that seems to say enchanted armor, so hopes are up. They cut a hole in the roof, spot a creeper, torch the room and back off before anyone gets shot. A ladder turns out to be right under the hole, and a skeleton spawner goes down.
The back room of the shop is where the stock is kept. It is dyed armor. Purple leather, mostly. Not as exciting.
The bazaar
The market is busy. There is at least one spawner on top of the stalls, poison spiders somewhere, and creepers coming from behind. They find a minecart chest, some note blocks, and a building that turns out to be a duplex they only did half of before. Its other half has a redstone room and a witch. Don't hit the redstone. One of them hits the redstone. Nothing happens.
Then a creeper does. The chat reads BasketMC was blown up by Creeper. Scoti stands over the dropped gear in case more creepers come, a witch spawner gets taken out, and they sort it all back out: chainmail, pants, boots, and a trade of bread.
Everything goes wrong
They head across to the part of the roof they skipped. There was no door there. There is a door now. Baby zombies pour in, everything is on fire, and the chat reads Scoti_Garbidis was burnt to a crisp whilst fighting Zombie.
Scoti had never reset his bed. He wakes up all the way back at their first base, at the beginning of the map. That is far away.
Before he can get back, it happens again: BasketMC was blown up by Creeper. Two explosions where his gear was lying, and a big hole in the floor. They had accomplished everything perfectly fine all the way through, one of them says. Some deaths, but nothing really lost. All of a sudden, everything is gone. Right before the castle.
Starting over
Scoti makes the long trip back in piecemeal armor while the leftovers get gathered up. The TNT survived. Not much else did. They make a stone sword, a wooden sword, a pickaxe, and joke about doing the castle no-armor style.
They go looking for the spawner behind the mob, then work out they have already been in that room and whatever spawner it had is gone. A creeper still lurks by the chest that used to hold the gear.
The list
One of them gets lost trying to find the inn where the bed is, and the inventory check comes at the end. Good axe is gone. Good sword is gone. Scoti's Bow is gone. They have some grinding to do.