Out of the four men to travel towards Riran's ridiculous island 30000 blocks from spawn, only one of them would make it. When the first ghast fireball was fired it was bedlam; Uumdi and Phil ran one way, Malaclypse ran another, Huey another still. Within minutes it was over for Uumdi and Phil, while Huey and Malaclypse struggled to locate eachother. The journey would be over 3000 blocks in Nether distance, and they only had one Durability II Diamond Pick between the two of them.
Huey fell into the fucking lava at -700 blocks or so (GF). Malaclypse pressed on, crossing lava lakes, dueling ghasts and blazes, and by the grace of god, he made it. He found the nether portal to the shittiest inhabited island on the server, and his true love, Riran, with ten strikes of his pick left to spare.