Third Life is a gamemode where there is a 700x700 world border and everyone starts out with 3 lives. On your first life, you are green. This means that you are peaceful and are just playing Minecraft normally with your friends. When you die, you become yellow. Now this is the same as being a green name, but you are one death away from becoming a red name. When you become a red name, your goal changes. You become hostile and have to take out the other players on the server, and if you die as a red name, you are put into spectator mode and you are out of the server.
Generally, its best experienced in 3 hour long sessions.
Commands:
/reset - Resets every player to their first life (green).
/addlife <player> - Adds a life to the specified player.
/removelife <player> - Removes a life from the specified player.
Permissions:
thirdlife.admin - For the above commands.