Day seven of Mission Impossible, Michael Deering's January 2014 challenge, opens in the stronghold with the same three players as last time. The chat shows Max_Writer and lostinthefort joining the game in the first seconds. Basket checks in from a familiar spot: "Oh, I'm at the portal." The team's new home has an end portal room.
Sorting the stronghold
The first few minutes are chores. Basket digs through a large chest of supplies and makes another one: "My chest is too full." Over voice chat, someone finds "a chest back here. It's full of mushrooms," and someone else has plans: "I think I'm gonna make the grow room over here."
Gearing up
Before going down, iron goes into armor. "I got two pairs of leggings and two helmets for you guys." It costs: "It leaves us only ten iron ingots." Max_Writer, named by the nameplate, stands in the storeroom by the chests and furnace. Then Basket heads out of the stronghold and down through the water into the caves. "...the bottom of the ravine, and there's the mineshaft right there."
Creepers and poison
The caves under the ravine are busy. "Oop, there's a creeper." One turns up next to a lava pool while lostinthefort is close by, and the advice comes fast: "Go in the water, in the fire!" Basket covers some of the lava with cobblestone and keeps moving, a diamond pickaxe in hand. Dirt is running low ("I need dirt. I don't know where I can find dirt."), and so is patience with the server. "I thought the lag was fixed, but apparently it is not."
A little later a voice says, "I'm poisoned." "Retreat, guys." The talk turns to cave spiders: "There must be a cave spider spawner up there, because I don't usually see those come out of nowhere." Somebody also has a cheerful idea about Hardcore: "You die and turn into a zombie, and you don't control it, but it comes back as a zombie with your name over it." "What are you trying to do, give me nightmares?"
The minecart chest
The mineshaft has something for the team, going by the voice chat. "Oh, I see a minecart chest." "Go grab it." Then the inventory report: "Iron, bread, and tons of seeds. We have melon seeds now, gentlemen." "And then there's pumpkin seeds here too." With passive mobs off limits, any new food counts, and the bone meal comes out: "I'm gonna go ahead and bone meal up some of this melons and stuff, so at least we have stalks coming in." Later someone reports, "Pumpkins are growing."
Lag and a big cave
Around the sixteen-minute mark the lag wins for a moment. "Stupid lag. I might get kicked here shortly." The chat shows Max_Writer leaving the game and joining again right after. Basket keeps mining. The caves open up: "This is a nice big cave. Nice big dangerous cave." Then, "Oh, another ravine." Basket picks through coal, lapis and redstone ore and still hopes for more. "I feel pretty hopeful there's gonna be diamonds in there."
Calling it
"We're at over 19 minutes, and we started a little late." The team agrees to stop, and Basket ends day seven alive in the caves below the stronghold, mining redstone near a lava pool. No death lines show in the chat this time, and nothing plays after the credits.