Northwestern Volcano

The **Northwestern Volcano** (also called the 0,0 Volcano) is a massive volcano located around the coordinates of 0,0 near the northwest corner of the map. The volcano emerged on Day 55 when it was first spotted from the SMPEarth Dynmap about an hour or so before the 1151 Countdown reached its deadline. It is notable for being a clue in the 7 ARG.

## History

About 1 hour and 20 minutes before the timer hit zero, VoiceOverPete was informed about the new volcano and the timer. He then ventured northward and would be the first to reach the massive volcano. Pete then started claiming it for the Antarctic Empire, much to the distraught of the majority of his chat, Ph1LzA and also Josh (who began to summon thunderstorms as a warning). He revoked those claims and left the place.

5 minutes before the deadline, Pete returned to the peak of the volcano. He erected a sign that said "AE was here 1st" and lit up the place with some torches. He invoked the gentlemen's code for non-agressions as TimeDeo and Grunk began to made their way to the same volcano as well. Much later, Philza also arrived at the mysterious volcano but upon Josh's request, they awaited KaraCorvus' arrival to participate the quest.

Bitzel and TanningOil also joined the party, as Phil tried out his x-ray glitch to view any possible hidden passage in the mountain while Grunk lent one of his pair of elytras to Pete as a preparation. Pete and Deo kept replacing each other's sign before Pete settled with a sign that said "Dibs (AE), Business Bay 2nd, LOG Lagoon 3rd", prolonging Deo's curse of being in second place. While Pete was discussing on the quest with his Twitch chat, Josh admitted in Phil's stream that he had accidentally made random circles on the ice around the volcano. They then interacted with one another with jokes and tricks. Grunk, while doing a MLG water trick, let out water to fall by the side of the mountain, giving it the impression that it's crying. In an attempt to drain the water, Josh accidentally crashed the server. He admitted that he set it to 2.4 million blocks of water for the drain command and he had to rollback the server in order to restore the world. Unfortunately, TanningOil lost his plane due to the rollback.

Upon Kara's arrival, they began scouting for entrance at the base of the nether volcano. Grunk found a tunnel on the northern side of the structure. Once everyone was there, Kara then led the "group of unlikely heroes" (as Grunk called it) into the heart of the mountain. They reached a cavernous lobby made up of end stones (moon rocks) and has a top floor. Up there, Grunk discovered a central chamber, also built out of end stones with 4 tunnel branching to different directions. There are also two pictures of the group going into the tunnel and gathering by the lower lobby placed as custom map arts on item frames, just moments before.

All four tunnels appeared to go deeper and made up of black concrete, which Phil remarked its dark appearance resembles the void. He also noticed the redstone lamps above each tunnel, signaling a numbers 1-4 respectively. Tunnels 1, 2, and 4 were all dead ends, but tunnel 3 led the explorers through a short maze of darkness and into a hall of command blocks. The floor was littered with assorted redstone components too. Due to his past experience with the command blocks, Phil chose to stay away from the hall as the rest of them proceeded to experiment with the machinery. As expected, more explosions ensued.

They soon realized that some of the blocks changed colors and textures and began focusing on activating those blocks. Kara activated a default command block (orange) using the redstone clock and it emitted the word "Day", while TimeDeo activated another block using pressure plate and it revealed the following message: "\\ PROCTISM v.8.0 // AFTER II - WAIT XXIV HOUR". XXIV is a Latin number for 24, seemed to be meaning that something will be revealed after a period of 24 hours.

They returned to top lobby and trying to see if they skipped any other room. While all of them were there, the 24-hour message was broadcasted, even though no one was activating it, and suddenly, explosions were heard from the hall. The group took it as a sign to come back and try activating the components again. One of those explosions appeared to have blow up a wall, revealing another hall made up of obsidians. It is lined with doors labelled with roman numerals. The first two doors, "I" and "II" were accessible to the players, and contained 2 different alphanumeric codes in a bedrock chamber.

* Door I: pGphCF3UnzI
* Door II: MDMb5j5k6\_U

Chat helped them to deduce them leading to the discovery of 2 unlisted videos uploaded by Josh, entitled "5" and "7" respectively. Both videos contained Morse codes that translates to base64 codes that read "DAY 5" and "DAY 7" respectively. By referring to the SMPEarth Wiki, Day 5 was the End Raid while Day 7 was the Fake Moon Landing, thus noting that it could have something to do with the End/Moon.

        More doorways were visible down the hall, but inaccessible due to a barrier block wall. Deo dug through the floor and bypass the barriers, much to everyone's disagreement for ruining the quest. He then returned to the hole and made his way back, but was quickly smote by an unknown power. It was assumed that the next rooms (labelled III and IV) would be unlocked after an in-game day had passed, based on the 24-hour message and the redstone lamps were deactivated, possibly via daylight sensor. Kara then announced that CaptainSparklez would be coming to join the quest and they awaited him in the top lobby. A hidden force suddenly began extinguishing the torches and lanterns.

Shortly after, Jordan arrived and Phil helped to catch him up with the progress of the quest so far before distracted by another series of explosions in the lobby. Grunk took note of this as a way to lure the players out of the hallway in order for "God" to continue worldediting. The group returned to the hallway and found that the first barrier blocks have been removed, unlocking the next two rooms marked III and IV.

* Door III: hkQQ\_y6Pge4
* Door IV: czSvSqcvycg

Each room, built out of netherrack, also contained 2 more alphanumeric codes that led to videos entitled "40" and "45," with similar morse playing in them, translating to DAY 40 and DAY 45 respectively.

Jordan, seeing that the entire hallway is made up of obsidians, tried to light up a nether portal using flint and steel, yet to no avail. Kara activated the pressure plate and the message changed to "\\ PROCTISM v8.3 // AFTER II - WAIT XXIVH." Later, an image of two specific command blocks was placed in the command room nearby, and when activated, those two command blocks read out "\\ PROCTISM v.4.3 // PROGRAM UNSTABLE DO NOT ENABLE" followed by explosions. Phil began to notice some command blocks started to vanish. After more and more disappearing of the command blocks Kara pressed the command block again and it changed to "\\ PROCTISM v.8.4 //".

Grunk found a tunnel leading to a similar structure to that in Mount Sinai, though it was mistaken as Laramie Online Office at the time. The room featured a giant fiery "5" and a jail containing a skull in an item frame labelled "Jim" another skull placed on a netherrack. Kara broke the skull but Deo managed to retrieve it, while Phil claimed the one in the item frame. After exiting this area and entering the main area once more, there was a server announcement that read "\\ PROCTISM RELEASE //" followed by "\\ PROCTISM v.6.2 //."

    Philza and Jordan tracked down the explosions and found that the volcano was erupting inwards and lava started to flood the inside of the volcano. Phil decided to leave the volcano instantly while the rest then erected a wall in an attempt to contain the lava, but that did not stop it from filling in the mountain.

    Finally, the last barrier of the hallway was removed and they entered rooms V and VI, but found nothing in there. Moments later, another message was sent, reading "6542." The community entered these numbers into the SMP Earth website, similar to the previous timer, eventually discovering the link "smpearth.com/6542-2." This page, known as the 6542 timer, originally contained a 22-hour timer counting down to 5pm EST the following day (2pm PST, 10pm GMT and 6pm AST).

On Day 60, a new ring formed around the volcano.

## Gallery

A photo from the air, taken by Eret during the aftermath of the Fourth Faction Reset on Day 81.Another photo of the volcano from the air, taken by Eret.

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