After discovering diamonds, and having everything we need to start enchanting we decide that we need to once again return to the nether to find some lava, put it in some buckets and get the "hell" (ha, get it?) out of there before we die. But after taking some damage, we resolve that we must heal up and get some ghast tears as well.
We have successfully gathered up our lava and ghast tears and head back to the overworld to craft the enchanting table, bookshelves and even... make Regeneration Potions!
We are starting to think about the Ender Dragon fight, and need a whole lot of Ender Pearls to not only find the stronghold but activate the portal. For this reason, we decide to go to the desert and build an incredibly derpy and disjointed safe house from where to kill mobs, and once that works out we just go roaming looking for endermen.
We gather together the meager ender pearls we have and find our way over the ocean to one of the strongholds, so we can go the end to fight the dragon. We run into a bunch of action and take a ton of fall damage, making it an incredibly entertaining episode... for you, not me.
We continue exploring the Stronghold, and drop down to go into the end portal and take a surprise creeper explosion to the face... will we survive, or will it be The End? Ha! Pun... get it?
(Ultra) Hardcore Season 2 [AMPLIFIED]