Day two of Nether Adventure starts where day one ended: four players in the Nether next to a portal packed with cobblestone, and no way back. Team ScoOpBaLo (Scoti_Garbidis, optimus1971, lostinthefort and Basket) now has to live on what it carried through, survive the ghasts and find a Nether fortress. The episode title is not exaggerating.
Stew and iron
Food comes first. Red and brown mushrooms grow on the netherrack, and spare wood becomes bowls for mushroom stew, though nobody can keep track of them. "Who has all the bowls?" A chest, a crafting table and a furnace go down on the netherrack, and the iron from day one goes in to smelt. "I'm gonna make us chest plates and maybe boots if you guys are cool with it." The plan for the month gets settled too: "Yeah, we're gonna go nomadic."
By the five-minute mark the armor is being handed out, and an armor bar shows up on Basket's HUD for the first time this month.
The first ghast
"As soon as I get this last set of boots for Basket, I say we move out." They do not get to leave quietly. A ghast finds the camp first. "This thing is ticked off." The team grabs the furnaces, empties the chest and breaks it. A fireball bursts right next to lostinthefort and sets the ground alight.
Basket ends up in the flames, and the health bar drops to half. "Oh, that's half my life there." A bowl of stew brings it back up. Someone points out more mushrooms. "Dude, I do not care about mushrooms right now. I care about not getting murdered."
Keeping tabs
On the move, the team drifts apart, and optimus1971 gets left behind. "Sorry optimus, I didn't realize we were leaving you behind." The new rule: "From now on guys, if we say rolling out, let's try and at least keep tabs on where everybody's headed." A clock is out of the question, since it does not work in the Nether. The mushroom count is healthier: "I have 60 red and 25 brown." The goal is still a fortress.
Two at once
The chat shows optimus1971 earning Time to Strike! while the team gathers glowstone. Then comes a huge open stretch. "Man, it seems like a great big open area to run across to get killed in." Then the ghasts arrive. "There's two of them." "I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die, guys." Water is no help down here: "I have water, but I can't put you out." Everyone digs into the netherrack. "They're firing at us through the netherrack." Nobody dies, and the chat shows no death line.
Somewhere safe
With about two minutes left, there are still ghasts overhead. "It's either sit underneath the ghast or run away, 'cause we can't kill it." In the scramble, the others lose track of Basket. "I can't believe Basket left us like that." "I think Basket headed south?" Then: "I've caught back up with Basket."
"We gotta get someplace safe. Somebody dig a hole, build a house, whatever." The team comes back together in a pocket of netherrack and calls it a day.
All four finish day two alive, with iron armor handed around, plenty of mushrooms and no fortress yet. The credits roll after that, and nothing comes after them.