Day five of Mission Impossible, Michael Deering's January 2014 challenge, starts inside the stronghold the team broke into last time. Steel_Douglas, Max_Writer and lostinthefort are all on screen, and the plan is to clear the place one room at a time. Zombies wait behind doors, and skeletons shoot from the dark. The chat shows Basket and Steel_Douglas both earning Monster Hunter early on.
Dead ends and iron swords
Most of the halls lead nowhere. "Dead end here." "We're running into lots of dead ends." Someone finds "11 iron ingots on me. I don't know where they came from," and swords get made: "Do y'all have iron swords now?" "Yeah." A spare bow gets repaired. Someone also notes, "We're not gonna be able to make an enchanting table, guys."
The first fatality
Then a shout: "Oh, creeper!" The chat reads "Steel_Douglas was blown up by Creeper," and a few seconds later "Steel_Douglas left the game." In hardcore, that is the end of the run. "Aw man, we lost the Chuck Norris of Minecraft." "Caught up in our freaking doorway." Someone says it plainly: "Our first fatality." The three left pick up what they can, find more iron and three apples in a chest, and stop to eat mushroom stew.
Room by room
After that, nobody rushes. The idea is to step into a room and back out to see if any creepers follow. When a group comes at them, the call is "Fall back, fall back." Rotten flesh piles up, and someone eats zombie flesh "to save the good stuff," followed by "I'm poisoned!"
The libraries
A fountain room leads to a library full of bookshelves and cobwebs, with wooden balconies and ladders. A chest there holds an enchanted book with Blast Protection IV and Fire Aspect II. Now there are books. "We can have an enchanting table now." All they need is obsidian. The library crosses an abandoned mineshaft and a ravine, so both get blocked off and lit. "I think the library makes a good home, personally." Then a second library turns up past the fountain.
A spawner over the lava
"I hear a silverfish." Someone guesses "we might be near the portal room." Another chest turns up an iron chestplate and "two more diamonds." Then the team finds a spawner on a stone staircase above a pool of lava. "We have to make this our home. You have to get rid of that." Basket goes at it with a pickaxe, and the spawner bursts apart in flames. The lava doesn't stay put. "Don't get burned up."
Planning the home
Back by the fountain, the plan takes shape: "I think we should make this fountain the central part of our home, libraries on either end." Creepers sit behind iron bars, and another opening into the mineshaft gets sealed. A last chest has bread, apples, string and "no diamonds, but sharpness." The three regroup, and the call comes: "We should probably stop." Basket, Max_Writer and lostinthefort end day five alive in the stronghold. The end card follows, with nothing after it.
