Laramie Online Office

The **Laramie Online Office** was discovered on Day 9 by IAmSp00n. It is an office building belonging to the company Laramie Online. It was excavated by IAmSp00n after following the coordinates that were decoded from the Sheridan Disc. It is part of the ongoing ARG, and contains the BIGPRISM Computer, as well as the Laramie Online books. The unlocking of the BIGPRISM computer led to the discovery of the BIGPRISM Archived Files.

## Layout

### Central Room

The central room appears dilapidated, with holes in the walls and roof, grass patches in the floor, and vines creeping down from the ceiling. The room is walled with end stone brick with holes in it. The roof is made of stone bricks and slabs, and is lit by Prismarine lanterns behind white stained glass on the roof. The floor has red carpeting and is made of gray wool. It has three desks made of stone slabs each containing a "computer" and a potted dead bush. It also has one desk in a corner covered in cobwebs, with the computer pushed up against the corner. The room also had an unnamed tamed dog belonging to an unknown owner, but it was later killed by GrunksPromise. The desk closest to this dog had the "chair" pushed up against the wall.

The central room originally had 3 iron doors with weighted pressure plates leading to each of the other rooms, and one hole in the wall leading to a small alcove.

The small alcove contained a chest holding books, paper, empty maps, and written books. One of the written books was named "BIGPRISM 1.0", the other was named "Employees". Both books were written by BIGPRISM.

The central room contained a chest with diamonds and iron hidden behind some grass next to a computer.

### BIGPRISM Computer room

To the south of the central room was what was formerly the BIGPRISM computer room. The door to the BIGPRISM room had an Octangula hanging over it. Inside was the BIGPRISM Computer, and a chest that originally contained books, feathers, paper, and book and quills. From Day 9 to Day 20, The chest contained three of the original books found and one "replacement" created by IAmSp00n.

Originally, there were weighted pressure plates on both sides of an iron door, with the one inside the room triggering a command block that sent a message and played a noise. The door and pressure plates were removed by IAmSp00n.

The BIGPRISM computer contained a hallucinatory image of a Stella Octangula surrounded by item frames of glass panes rotated at varying degrees. There were four levers on the outside of the wall of the computer, and in its original position, only the one in the top right was pulled. The computer was made out of black concrete with a nether brick slab on top, and obsidian behind. There is a hopper on the floor directly in front of the computer where objects and passwords can be thrown in. The redstone mechanism in the computer is surrounded by bedrock, and the hopper is unbreakable. This was discovered when Sneegsnag attempted to break the machine out of rage.

The room itself was made up of the same material as the Central room, only with the floor adjacent to the iron door being andesite before transitioning to prismarine block and then stone. The room appeared to be just as dilapidated as the central room, with holes in the walls and vines growing. There was water leaking into the room from a hole in the corner. The room was lit from the roof with a single Prismarine lantern behind white stained glass.

After Day 20, one week after the discovery of the BIGPRISM Archived Files, the room was discovered to have been replaced with a massive crater leading to the void. The redstone circuitry behind the BIGPRISM computer can still be seen concealed with bedrock, along with an inaccessible hopper with a block of bedrock on top of it.

### The Boss' office

North of the central room is a long, dilapidated 1x2 hallway with a stone slab roof and floor, leading to (presumably) the Boss's office. One of the holes in the walls contained quartz ore and netherrack.

The office contains a large "Laramie Online" background behind a desk. It was later revealed that there was not anything behind the background.

The room itself is mostly undamaged, with slab floors and ceilings and endstone brick walls. A prismarine light illuminates the room. The room contains barrels in the corners. Before being looted, the barrel in the bottom-right corner of the room contained diamonds, paper, two empty maps and one filled map of the area.

The barrel in the top-right corner of the room contained paper, emeralds, diamonds, a totem of undying, another empty map, another filled map and a book titled "PARP" by Mike.

The barrels in the top-left corner of the room contained emeralds, diamonds, paper, a filled map, and empty maps, as well as a book titled "BIGPRISM" by Mariah.

### Warren room

West of the central room is a "lounge" area that appears to have a collapsed wall and roof near the end. Upon being first entered, the room held two skeletons named "Warren" (who was wearing golden boots) and "Warden" that came from the collapsed end of the room.

    The walls and roof are comprised of similar material to the main room, with cobwebs in the corner by the door. The room is lit by four prismarine lanterns behind stained glass in the roof, and the floor is composed of gray wool. Two chairs are on opposite sides of the long walls that connect to a table and then into two more chairs lined up against the entrance door. Further, towards the collapsed wall, there is one inverted chair, along with one more chair that is upright deeper in.

Into the collapsed end, there is gravel, stone, cobwebs, and a collection of blocks from the roof and walls scattered about and dropped to the floor.

It should be noted that in an earlier clue in the ARG, Warren was said to be dead, and the clue related to Warren was considered void, as was the clue mentioning a "Laramie".

## History

*Main articles: Sheridan Disc, Countdown*

Shortly before the Stella timer was finished on Day 9, a link to the 'GUNS' page was found in the element inspector. Inside the guns page, coordinates were found also using the inspect element tool. The coordinates appeared to lead to a 'face' found in Siberia.

IAmSp00n was convinced by members of the discord to investigate the coordinates, and after excavating the area, he discovered a buried chest containing the Sheridan Disc, which contained coordinates written in Base64 hidden in a spectrogram of the disc.

## Exploration

On Day 9, Sp00n followed the coordinates discovered in the Sheridan Disc to a crab-shaped dirt patch in the middle of a series of faction claims resembling a penis, then-claimed by Jameskii.

After mining through the dirt layer and then down further through stone, he eventually discovered the stone brick and slab walls, as well as the prismarine lantern and stained glass looking down into the central room. After breaking through, Sp00n looked around at his surroundings and investigated the BIGPRISM Computer room.

Upon entering, a message was whispered to him by a command block, saying "*CQMEIQKY 1.0 // QTKPJM WZUMX ERAKIPZJ!*". This was later decoded by putting the text through a Vigenère cipher using the code "BIGPRISM". The message translated to "*BIGPRISM 1.0 // PLEASE ENTER PASSWORD!*". Sp00n looked around the room and discovered that the command was triggered each time he stepped on the pressure plate. He opened a chest containing a book and quills, paper, books, and feathers. He took all of the books with quills, all of which were empty, and entered the Warren room.

He immediately went to the corner of the room and killed two skeletons named "Warren" and "Warden" before leaving.

He went into the small alcove opposite of the Warren room and opened a chest. He scrolled over books titled "BIGPRISM 1.0" and "Employees", both written by "BIGPRISM". He stored his items in the other room to make space in his inventory and returned to read the books.

He opened the chest in the center, finding iron and diamonds.

Sp00n then walked through the hallway leading to the Boss' office, however, this area was inland then-claimed by Jameskii for the penis claimart (which has been erased due to the Prime Claim Crisis faction rollbacks). He was still able to access the barrels in the corners of the room. The barrels in the top right corner contained diamonds, paper, an emerald, empty and filled maps of the area, along with a Totem of Undying and a book titled "PARP" by Mike, which he read.

In the top left corner of the room were two more barrels containing emeralds, diamonds, paper, and empty maps, as well as a book titled "BIGPRISM" by Mariah, which Sp00n also read, calling the other SMPEarth members idiots "for not doing the ARG stuff, because I'm getting diamonds out the ass".

## Computer Access

*Main article: BIGPRISM Computer, BIGPRISM Archived Files*

After much exploration, Sp00n then returned to the computer to attempt to guess the password. He spent about two hours guessing possible passwords deriving from the abandoned books and other clues within the office. He ended up attempting 8 times, each was unsuccessful and prompted custom error messages which included hints to the nature of the password: password must be written and signed in a book, the title must be the same as the content, and the ambiguous number 13. His guesses were as follows:

* The word PARP as both title and content unsigned
* Submitting the PARP book by Mike
* The word OSLA as both title and contents signed
* The word BIGPRISM as the title and OSLA as content signed
* The word DEATH as both the title and content signed
* The word LARAMIEONLINE as both the title and content signed

After the dropper spat an item into the hopper causing only three attempts to remain, Grunk accidentally hit and was forced to kill the unnamed dog in the central room. InkTea joined the two at the Laramie Online office unannounced when only two attempts were remaining.

Just before the last attempt was executed, the computer gave out an error message that said all 10 attempts (despite only making 8) has been used and it was locked out for a period of 24 hours. It is presumed that the lock mechanism was activated when the timer was up.

On day 10, another attempt was made by Sneegsnag who submitted the word FART as both title and content. However, this was done before the 24-hour timer was up, and the machine was locked out again for another 24 hours. Sp00n and Sneeg later agreed to wait until a specific time for another attempt. However, upon leaving, Sneeg discovered a foreign book placed in his inventory, with *MTc2NjEgMTkyMQ==* written on it.

A quick base64 decryption later revealed two numbers, 17661 and 1921, corresponding to a location somewhere in the icy region between Canada and Greenland. Arriving at the coordinate, Sneeg and Sp00n were joined by Kara and found a random 4x5 block of bedrock on the icy surface. A book was found in a chest-deep underwater on the seabed, containing the following code: *aEFxNDQzZmh5RG8=*. Using base64 to decrypt translates it as *hAq443fhyDo*, which leads to a Youtube video. Disappointed by the results, the group decided to retreat and wait for another day.

On Day 13, KaraCorvus went back to the computer to finish the job. Signs placed by an unknown player (although presumably, they are an admin or developer) were discovered giving away the password to the machine. Kara input 'LARAMIEONLINE' as both the title and content and a sound clip of the "ender dragon death" was played. A broadcast message was sent to the server explaining that the machine is rebooting and files will be ready the next day at 12:00 am GMT.

## Theories

    Laramie Online in the Simulation theory is assumed to be the company running the SMP Earth simulation. The office belongs to this company and appears to belong abandoned based on its state of disrepair. Apparently there are no traces of the employees other than the logs from the books. One theory is that the employees were erased from reality, as the fading of text near the end of both of the books signed by BIGPRISM would suggest. Another suggests that they were put into the SMPEarth simulation.

Warren and Warden's connections are unknown, although it is assumed Warden is Mariah's grandson due to clues found from the files that were uploaded.

*History, lore and theories* •
*Chip* •
 Southwest Octangula | Octangula Disc •
Vigenere totem of undying •
 Northeast Octangula | Nietzsche villager •
Tetrahedron book •
 Antarctic Wilderness Sundial | First Warren Book •
Red Herring Book •
Second Warren Book •
 **Laramie Online Office** | The Stella Countdown •
Sheridan Disc •
Laramie Online (company) •
Laramie Online Books •
BIGPRISM Computer •
BIGPRISM Archived Files •
Mariah Camrey •
 The Moon | The Moon Octangula •
The Hidden Moon Base