Let’s Play A Minecraft Tale Ep. 1 - The Adventure Begins!

= The Video =

Official Description
“My sister and I begin our journey through the world of Minecraft! Adventure awaits, as does many perils. Watch as we stumble our way through the Minecraft life.

Beginning
The cold open shows ImmortalKyodai (Sierra) and Venturian(Jordan) trying to survive their first Minecraft night. Immortal is running ahead of Venturian as he tells her to keep running and not to stop when she bumps into a tree and loses her sprinting speed. Venturian can see a creeper in the tree behind her as he tells Immortal to keep running, and he gets into view of both of them right before the creeper explodes. While seemingly being too far to make Immortal take any damage, she screams at the sound of the explosion and climbs out of the hole the creeper left, mumbling “oh my gosh oh my gosh” as she starts running. The Minecraft Tale Theme starts to set in as Venturian watches his sister blindly sprint away saying “Jordan, help!”

Intro and Theme
The Minecraft Tale theme only has Venturian and Immortal on the intro as it’s just the two of them in this specific series. As time goes on, their other intro will consistently show the four of them alone even when inviting guests to join them or when one of them can’t join because they’re sick.

Distractions Galore!
Venturian opens the video with “Greetings, everybody— who will maybe sometime watch this video! Sometime… Probably not ever!” With Immortal adding in some crosstalk that summarizes something to the same point. Venturian continues, Immortal getting excited when he says “tale” because of their channel name “Venturiantale.” They move around a bit as they talk, examining the landscape. They’re in a spruce forest next to a desert, and can see multiple sheep around them tapering off into the sand. There’s a frozen lake that sits midway into the desert biome as well. This general area where the biomes meet will eventually become their first base of operations.

They begin to travel away from spawn almost immediately, which is to be expected with these playthroughs. Venturian isn’t perturbed by Immortal pointing out the pun, and walks past her saying, “let’s see how long we can live before dying a horrible death,” moving both of them directly into the desert. Immortal wanders behind Venturian, questioning why there’s sand so close to snow before Venturian confirms that what they’re standing in is a desert. Immortal is excited by the combination of snow and desert and hops off to break her legs as Venturian admits that their spawn isn’t the greatest.

He turns to his sister as she wanders back to regroup and explains that the first thing they need is a habitation. When Immortal agrees, saying that makes them animals, Venturian doesn’t like being compared to animals and starts listing different synonyms for home with Immortal helpfully offering a few of her own. Venturian eventually concludes that what they actually need is a mansion. Immortal asks if she can say the “snow thing.” Venturian tries to tell her not to, concerned it’ll become the new catch phrase of the channel, but Immortal chimes in and says it anyways.

Struggling to Mine or Craft in Minecraft
Venturian tries taking command again, saying they need wood as they once again walk back into the spruce forest. Immortal chimes in before he can finish his sentence, saying they need to stop walking in circles. Venturian just adds more emphasis to the fact that they need lots of wood and Immortal walks off agreeing to help get them wood as Venturian travels in the opposite direction of her. Venturian immediately grows distracted, saying he wished the game would allow them to build with the ice before Immortal interrupts his train of thought asking if they could build anything with dirt. He isn’t bothered by the question, saying that they could, but not try to build anything out of sand. Immortal clarifies that she meant craft and not build, asking if they could make a pickaxe with dirt.

Venturian at this point realizes that he forgot to introduce himself and ImmortalKyodai to the audience, saying no one is going to know who the pair are. As he introduces her, he says he doesn’t actually know what her name means, and assumes that she doesn’t either, leading Immortal to explain her name to her brother. As Venturian turns back to his tree, he looks back at his sister and asks her if anyone actually wants to watch the two of them collecting wood. She immediately says no before asking if she can make a pickaxe. Jordan asks what they would even need a pickaxe for at that moment, and Immortal doesn’t have much of a response beyond “digging?” The two laugh it off and Jordan decides they should get an axe before a pickaxe because when night comes things will be actively trying to kill them and they needed shelter.

The Crafting Challenges Begin
Venturian continues punching random trees as Immortal struggles to figure out how to make an axe. She eventually asks for help, revealing she doesn’t know how to make anything in the game. Venturian asks her why she’s even playing, which ends up being a combination of fun and having to learn how to play somehow. Venturian isn’t of the same mindset, stating bluntly that she’ll be learning through dying. She starts showing a glimmer of hope as she figures out how to make planks, but when Venturian asks her if she knows how to make a crafting table, she reveals that she does not. He sighs and concludes that the two of them were dead. In the time it took for him to complain and start trying to teach her how to make one, she manages to figure it out on her own.

When Immortal places the crafting table down, she leaves Venturian alone with it to get more wood. He turns his 13 logs of wood into planks before opening the table as Immortal sings to herself in the background. Venturian admits he’s not sure how to make an axe after crafting 24 sticks for no particular reason, but manages to figure it out pretty fast. He makes three axes as Immortal asks if she can start building the house. He says he’s not sure about that, but she insists that she knows what she’s doing and she’s already got the planks to do it.

Venturian offers to collect wood if she’s going to build the house. As he walks away he suggests turrets, a moat of lava, and man-eating lavaproof alligators— only one of which being physically possible in Minecraft. Immortal glazes over his suggestions and asks how he wants the house built, focusing a lot on the idea of building a house in a tree. Venturian expresses concerns of pterodactyls getting them if they have a tree house, and Immortal decides she’s going to do it anyway.

The First Night
Immortal notices that a sheep seems to be following her around, and Venturian declares it the Murder Lamb, saying he heard about it before. He says the sheep is a ninja, trained to kill, and not to look at it because it’s stalking her. Immortal responds by punching it until it disappears, despite Venturian warning that the sheep will fight back. The two quickly get back to their tasks at hand with both taking note of how easily distractible they are. Venturian decides he’ll have to edit down some of the footage, much to Immortal’s dismay.

Friend or Foe? Ninja Sheep.
They have a petty back and forth before realizing the sun is setting. Immortal sings another song to herself as Venturian slowly starts realizing that they’re very obviously “noobs” to the game. The two work on the house together as night falls. Immortal suggests a round house and starts making wood puns. Venturian argues that she’s probably going to get a dislike for the puns, and Immortal argues that a dislike means someone watched the video, making it a Net Win. Upon realizing they left their crafting table below the house, Immortal leaves to get it. She worries that punching the crafting table will make it disappear like the sheep. Venturian changes the story so that the sheep’s actions were entirely in self-defense, with Immortal needlessly striking it down.

Creeper Harassment Begins.
They play around with joking Norse-like accents as Immortal adds the fourth layer to the house walls, and eventually get to ceiling work. Venturian runs out of wood early on, leaving Immortal to work on it by herself. With no door, Venturian offers that they beat off any intruders with a stick before looking out on the sea of hostile mobs that have conglomerated in the desert. Once again changing the narrative, Venturian says they’ll be safe because they’ll have the sheep guardians protecting them. Immortal makes more windows in the house, with Venturian expressing concern for arrows coming through. Venturian steps out of the house as Immortal wonders if they’re just going to sit inside all night, saying that it doesn’t sound very fun. Disagreeing with her as he returns to the house, Venturian is followed up the stairs by a creeper who explodes on the top step, obliterating the entire staircase but not killing either sibling.

Venturian hops down to collect the wood that got dropped in the explosion, and Immortal falls down with him while offering to help. Immortal builds back the staircase as another creeper approaches the two and blows it back up again, this time not even harming either sibling. Venturian makes note of their lack of torches, stating they would be nice. He follows up by saying a gun would also be nice. While Venturian stares out the windows with boredom creeping in, Immortal experiments with crafting, finding that she can make a boat. She tries asking how much wool a bed would need, but Venturian dives back into his roleplay, saying that the sheep army was watching, waiting for them to come out— once again changing their narrative. Venturian tosses Immortal an axe and when she asks what to do with it, they conclude on killing specifically sheep.

Ground Control to Major Vent…
The two talk like they’re making military logs in a tape recorder, making note of the explosions and Immortal falling out of the tree several times. Eventually, Venturian agrees with Immortal’s earlier point that waiting in the treehouse was boring and Immortal punches through the wall and immediately is confronted by a creeper. The creeper pursues Immortal as she runs, and cold open plays out, with the creeper exploding above Immortal making her scream and ask her brother for help. The two temporarily regroup before Venturian gets attacked by a spider, leaving Immortal to try to run back to the house alone. The sun starts rising as they finally make it back, and Venturian tries (and fails) to jump two blocks to get back into the house. Right when he realizes he can build under himself to make it up there, a creeper walks up next to him. It explodes the house’s staircase a third time and once again not killing either sibling. As the sun continues to ride, Venturian decides they probably had the worst first night of anybody ever.

Un-Treed the Treehouse
The tree that the house was originally built on got destroyed from the creeper explosions, making the shell of the house suspended in air. The two start trying to prepare for the night, Immortal going to punch more sheep for wool, and Venturian chopping down trees for more wood. Venturian calls Immortal a heartless killer for killing the sheep, once again changing the sheep narrative. He then goes on to wonder aloud why a desert is so close to a cold place, an observation that this place was magical once again. Immortal goes back to murdering animals as Venturian tries to figure out how the house works, shooting down the idea of the pair going mining even though they still desperately need coal. The house is once again suspended in the air, and kind of looks like a pig nose from the outside.

The two separate again, with Immortal trying to find stuff for torches and Venturian finishing the house. Again, Venturian takes one of Immortal’s ideas (she earlier suggested the two should go adventuring, and Venturian thought that wouldn’t be able to find anything interesting) and suggests that the next day, the two should pick a random direction and start walking. As Immortal agrees, Venturian manages to make eye contact with an enderman in the distance, and watches it progressively teleport closer as one of the scarier and longer-winded enderman noises plays in his ears. He calls it a Slenderman thing and goes back into the house to hide from it after it disappears. Immortal manages to find her way back to the house on her own as Venturian notes that the sun is setting again. They realize for the first time all game that neither of them have had any food, and only a few moments later Immortal thinks she’s started starving.

The Plight of Pigaria
Venturian doesn’t give her pleas any attention when he stumbles onto a large group of pigs, saying he just found the capital city of the tree pigs. They then start laying siege onto said city, Venturian declaring they should kill all of them. They then eat the pork chops raw as neither have either collected any stone nor made a pickaxe to make a furnace. Venturian notes the “city” they found as Pigaria, saying he’s heard of it in stories. When Immortal calls what they’re doing hunting, Venturian disagrees and says that they walked into the pig’s stronghold. They conclude that what they’re doing is fighting warriors, saying that the pigs live in the trees and attack from above. Immortal hears something moaning, and Venturian declares it to be the powerful moaning butterfly, something of legend. Immortal declares butterflies to be her only weakness before going back to chopping down trees, discovering birch wood for the first time. The two agree that “Birch Wood” sounded very epic as a name, Immortal quickly deciding that their spruce house’s name was now Birchwood.

The Raid of the Sand Village
As the two contemplate the name Birchwood, Immortal points out the setting sun, and the two begin their trek back to their home, now named Birchwood. Immortal once again manages to get lost, and as the sun goes down, Immortal decides that she’ll find her way home somehow. Upon noticing a spider, they declare that the army of spiders is approaching and they need to go as soon as possible. They proceed to loiter and wander around trying to find each other for a full minute, with Venturian standing in an area where he could already see what he assumed was their house and Immortal not even knowing where the river was. The two make jokes about skeletons being Katniss when Venturian notices a desert village in the distance. The two approach the village and enter a house.

The villages get dubbed Squidarians just in time for zombies to start attacking the house, trying to punch down the door. As Immortal talks about returning to Birchwood, Venturian decides they need to start looking for loot. Neither sibling makes any move to protect or defend the Squidarians. The pair find and loot torches from the villagers. Immortal gets shot down by a skeleton soon before Venturian gets exploded by a creeper. The sound of banging doors surrounds Venturian as he refuses to respawn as they start making an outro. They decide that ending with everyone dying was a perfect way to end the video, joking about the possibility of getting a golden globe in the future before closing the video off.

Trivia

 * With the video currently resting at almost 1.8 million views, it’s safe to say that many people wound up seeing the video. Alternatively, one person 1.8 million times.
 * Contrary to its large viewership, the video has 22k likes.
 * It’s not said when these videos were recorded, but Minecraft Tale episodes one and two, as well as a video of Venturian playing TF2 in a Majora’s Mask server, all came out on January 31th, 2013.
 * With these being the first videos on the channel, that makes January 31st the anniversary of Venturiantale.
 * The latest edition of Minecraft the two could be playing at this time was 1.7.4, which came out on December 10th.
 * While this is their first video on this channel, this is not the first video Cierra and Jordan had uploaded to Youtube.
 * The “Snow Thing” is the phrase, “Snow in the flow in the cookie dough,” in a rhythmic way with snow, flow and cookie dough being given more emphasis than the rest of the words.
 * Venturian could actually build with ice if he has a Silk Touch enchantment on a pickaxe, as Silk Touch could pick up ice since 1.3.1. It was also necessary to pick up packed ice, which came out in 1.5.
 * Funnily enough, Frozen by Disney would release in the United States later this year on November 27th, 2013. Its first teaser came out June 19th, 2013 too, so by this point any influence from Frozen was impossible.
 * With Jordan saying that nobody was going to know who they were since they didn’t introduce themselves, it seems they made the video with the specific intention for it to be the first video released on their channel.
 * ImmortalKyodai is two words put together— Immortal meaning everlasting or never decaying, and Kyodai actually being 兄弟(Kyōdai), the Japanese word for siblings.
 * Without the accent on Kyōdai, there is actually the possibility for the word to translate to 巨大(Kyodai), meaning different variations of huge, instead.
 * Later in the channel’s life, Immortal actually gets her own Minecraft series that she plays on her own.
 * Venturiantale became somewhat recognizable for its lack of editing, and even in this video there doesn’t seem to be any cuts, time jumps, or things removed for time.
 * Venturian keeps wondering about creatures like dragons and pterodactyls making it uncertain if he knew what content Minecraft had in it going in.
 * Both Cierra and Jordan say “crapping table” after Jordan struggles with the pronunciation. Since a big part of not just their channel, but their daily life includes not swearing, it seems they’ve designated crap as not being a swear word worth counting for.
 * He also asks for turrets and guns, also things that can’t be crafted in the game.
 * The two siblings make constant pop culture references that are really overt and easy to pick up on
 * This includes quotes like “GET TO THE CHOPPA” and “Say hello to my little friend”
 * Alternatively, this also includes “Herp-a-Derp” and other popular memes of 2013
 * At some point Jordan asks what anyone would even do in a laboratory in Minecraft. This was before the rising popularity of Dan TDM, ThinkNoodles, and many more popular Minecraft figures who worked in laboratories.
 * In this video, they establish that Birchwood has to be said with an intense gravelly accent.
 * To answer Jordan’s question in the beginning pair collectively lasts about 35 minutes before dying a horrible death.