Day 55

**Day 55** took place on 15 January 2020. It followed the events of Day 54 and was followed by the events of Day 56.

## Major Events

### The 7 ARG

* The 1151 countdown, which was discovered through clues found in Santa's Grotto on Day 34, had ended.
	+ As s soon as the timer ran out, the message "0,0" displayed on the screen.
* A massive nether volcano emerged in the Arctic Ice at the coordinates 0,0, prompting VoiceOverPete to pay it a visit. He claimed several chunks of it yet removed them upon JoshA20 and Philza's request to wait until the timer ran out.
	+ Later, Pete returned alongside Philza, TimeDeo, Grunk, Bitzel, and TanningOil to explore the volcano for potential ARG clues.
		- Josh informed them that they ought to wait for KaraCorvus before proceeding.
* Josh accidentally crashed the server after attempting to drain a large amount of water blocks, causing Tanner to lose his third airplane.
* Pete placed a sign atop the mountain proclaiming that the Antarctic Empire was the first to arrive and claimed dibs, followed by Business Bay, and Log Lagoon.
	+ Deo remarked this as a prolonged curse of being in second place.
* Not long after that, Kara arrived and together, they ventured into the mysterious volcano and found two-story structures leading to four tunnels. All of the tunnels were dead ends, except one which led the group to navigate a dark concrete maze before discovering a hall of command blocks.
	+ Phil chose to opt-out due to his past experience and death to command blocks in the previous ARG expedition on Day 38.
	+ Kara and Deo each managed to activate certain command blocks that broadcasted "Day" and " \\ PROCTISM v.8.0 // AFTER II - WAIT XXIV HOUR" respectively.
		- XXIV is Latin for 24, implying they would somehow have to wait for 24 hours.
		- Some of them speculated whether this meant they had to wait one whole day to return, or one Minecraft day.
	+ A series of explosions led to the discovery of a hidden hallway next to the command block hall.
		- 2 rooms were initially accessible to the players, marked with roman numerals "I" and "II", each with their own alphanumeric codes: `pGphCF3UnzI` and `MDMb5j5k6_U` respectively.
		- These codes were parts of links to two unlisted YouTube videos uploaded by Josh, with the titles '5' and '7' respectively. The videos contained Morse code.
		- More rooms could be seen down the hallway but were unreachable due to invisible barrier blocks.
		- Deo tried to sneak into the forbidden area by digging through the floor, but was smote with thunderbolts by "God".
	+ CaptainSparklez arrived to join the quest, and two more rooms were opened to the group, labeled 'III' and 'IV'. Like the previous rooms, they also contained alphanumeric codes: `hkQQ_y6Pge4` and  `czSvSqcvycg` respectively.
		- These codes would also redirect to 2 more unlisted videos titled '40' and '45' respectively.
	+ By referring to the SMPEarth Wiki, Days 5 and 7 are related to the End raid and the subsequent Fake End Landing faux-ARG, while Day 40 was the day Josh teased the use of moon gravity on overworld during the God War, and finally, Day 45 marked the SMPEarth Moon Landing.
* Back in the hall of command blocks, more messages were broadcasted upon activation. Also, from time to time, the group began to notice some of the blocks were eliminated, leaving only a handful to still exist towards the end of the quest.
	+ \\ PROCTISM v8.3 // AFTER II - WAIT XXIVH
	+ \\ PROCTISM v4.3 // PROGRAM UNSTABLE DO NOT ENABLE
	+ \\ PROCTISM v8.4 //
	+ \\ PROCTISM RELEASE //
	+ \\ PROCTISM v.6.2 //
	+ Grunk found a tunnel leading to a similar structure to that in Mount Sinai, though it was mistaken as a Laramie Online Office at the time.
		- The room featured a giant fiery "5", a jail containing a skull in an item frame labeled "Jim", and another skull placed on a netherrack block.
			* Kara broke the skull, but Deo managed to retrieve it, while Philza acquired another skull in the item frame.
		- Shortly after, the last barrier of the hallway was removed and they entered rooms V and VI, but nothing could be found there.
* A broadcast message was sent to the chat saying "6542", as the group made their escape after learning that the volcano was erupting inwards.
	+ By putting the number 6542 into a smpearth url, a new countdown was discovered which would end on Day 56.
	+ During his escape, Philza died twice: once by landing too hard into one of the caverns of the mountain, and another time by suffocating in the mountain while flying in his plane. He was teleported back to the hall of command blocks to ease his return.
		- It should be noted that Philza continued to encounter a series of unfortunate events while participating in ARG quests.

### Other Events

* KaraCorvus showed CaptainSparklez her latest build in the Corvarian Empire called Kara's Ark.
	+ Jordan complimented her noble action of gathering and saving all plants (Svalbard Seed Vault) and animals from the imminent apocalypse on the server.
	+ Kara then continued to gather more pairs of animals into the vessel.
* AllanahVA logged on to the server and attempted to join in the ARG quest, but was a bit too late since much of it was already explored. Furthermore, the expedition group was in the midst of chaos to notice her request to join in.
* Though Bean Empire originally had claimed the 7 Volcanoes, dubbed *Volbeano 2.0*, an island west of their Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Somehow, the claim was revoked without notice.
	+ Eret then explored the island and claimed it for New Hawaii.
	+ Eret also claimed the eastern portion of Krakahumungus and expressed his intent to purchase the entire volcano from Kwite.

## DEFCON level

On Day 55, the DEFCON level was 4, as there was no risk of war.