Basket is back from the dead, and the next floor up is all obsidian. It's hard to see anything, which gives them an idea for a block the game should add: one that eats the light, like dark matter. Then the level gets dangerous very quickly.
Suddenly very dangerous
The floor is open in the middle. There's a little platform spying on a bunch of witches on either side, and they can't tell if it's separate or not. Then something starts hitting them. There's a skeleton spawner on the catwalk up above, and the suggestion is that if you have blocks handy, you may pillar up and kill that guy. It isn't working very well. This level became very dangerous all of a sudden, so they relocate.
The chicken stairs
They fall back to a set of steps that now has a name. It's where you eat the chicken, so they're the chicken stairs. The witches on the right don't seem able to see them, but the creepers above can still get to them. One of them gets blown off a ledge. Somewhere in here the talk turns to Stranger Things season two and how rough junior high was.
Then there are ghast spawners. One of them is shooting at a ghast, gets knocked down, and briefly thinks he shot the other in the head. Blazes show up next, hell's blazes, and the fire helmet goes on. Creepers can drop on your head from the ledge above, and skeletons spawn up there and drop down too. They decide this has to be played as a multi-level problem.
Daddy's got a plan
The plan is ladders. Get up there, put down blocks and torches, neutralize the creeper spawner, and have a foothold so they're not stuck at the bottom of the whole platform. One of them needs a chestplate and only has leather. Two pillars go up and a torch goes on top. One gets himself boxed in so nothing can fall on him. You can't see me.
The witches up top start poisoning each other, which is nice. There's still a bad pinch point to get through. One of them wishes renderXR was watching, because if he had made this map, this would be so satisfying.
Both on one ladder
One goes up first with half the ladders. The other waits at the bottom. Then it goes wrong. The chat reads BasketMC was blown up by Creeper, and right under it, Scoti_Garbidis was blown up by Creeper.
The argument afterward is the best part. They collided with each other on the ladder and got pushed into the thing. One says he was trying to go down. The other admits he was at the bottom of the ladder, watching the first one be ultra pro, and then they got connected. The lesson, they agree, is that maybe nobody should be on that ladder at all. It's going to take a while to get back there, so they end it there.
