Western Black Lines Volcano

The volcano as seen on Day 109.

The **Western Black Lines Volcano** is a volcano located in central North America. It first appeared on Day 39 and discovered by KaraCorvus, CaptainSparklez and Ph1LzA and a prominent location of the 7 ARG.

The name of the volcano comes from the words "west" and "black lines", which were frequently used throughout the quest. They refer to the obsidian formations nearby, in the shape of an arrow pointing west towards the volcano.

## History

### Day 39

While CaptainSparklez and KaraCorvus were exploring the Laramie Online Office, they were able to find and access the command blocks inside the bedrock chamber above the void. After being activated using buttons, messages were broadcasted to the server's game chat.

```
West
Black lines

```

Alongside those was an announcement broadcast for BIGPRISM 3.2. The two due to an "overheating protocol" causing ice blocks to begin to fill the chamber, later meeting up with Ph1lzA to explore the new marked structure west of the Laramie Online office, the Western Black Lines volcano at the time.
While exploring, the group discovered a vault deep underground in a bedrock chamber with a wall of command blocks, which they began trying to activate. CaptainSparklez and Ph1LzA were killed by an explosion after triggering the wrong command block. Different results were given for different command blocks. One a book titled "seven" with a daily anecdote of unknown figures concerning the nature of Laramie, BIGPRISM, and others.
A chat message was also broadcasted to the server.

```
command execute 77775555 in directory root\information\earth\moon\login.jpg

```

### Day 40

Kwite expanded New Montana's territory, claiming parts of the Rocky Mountain range as well as the volcano.

### Day 77

After being instructed to go to the moon by a poem found in the Northernmost Volcano, KaraCorvus, GrunksPromise, Sylvee, and CaptainSparklez discovered a glass "christmas tree-like" structure with command blocks and redstone lanterns on its solid glass floor. By flicking the levers attached to the command blocks, messages were printed to the chat. The south command block produced the message "Black Lines", the command block facing to the west produced the message "West", The command block facing north produced the message "PROC 7", and the command block facing east produced the message "Volcano".

After figuring out the messages were most likely to the Western Black Lines Volcano, the group traveled there, only stopping for extra supplies.

The location of the black lines was marked by a massive arrow on the Dynmap. When the party arrived, CaptainSparklez discovered a trail of sea lanterns which led down into a cave. The group followed the lanterns down, with Kara, Sylvee and Grunk using elytras to reach the end of the trail first. At the end of the trail was a gaping hole leading into the void, which Grunk fell into, losing all his items in the process and needing to be teleported back.

Hovering precariously above the void, there was a bedrock chamber that could be accessed through an iron door. Inside was a skeleton that had been named Todd, as well as a six-page unsigned journal possibly belonging to Todd. The book also mentions KaraCorvus by name, although with her name incorrectly spelled due to misunderstanding.

### Day 109

Kara and RedVacktor returned to the volcano during the quest of the day. They discovered a netherrack trail (path of fire) runs across the continent, connecting this volcano, Laramie Online Office and the newly-formed volcano located on the east coast, south of New Deutschland.

### Day 110

The volcano was once again visited by Kara and Red, this time joined by CaptainSparklez. As they were about to leave for Hell's Gate in Australia after exploring the void hole in the cave under the obsidian, Jordan noticed that the volcano was erupting which drew their attentions to explore if there would be any additional clues to aid their quest. Kara's chat mistook the top texture of the wooden logs there as chests, but a thorough search proved that there was nothing there worth finding. However, they noticed that the netherrack trail continued on from the volcano into the Pacific Ocean, creating a fault line that goes all the way to south Australia.

They followed the Pacific netherrack trail and returned to the Australian caldera.

### Day 111

KaraCorvus and RedVacktor continued the ARG after being instructed by Josh, and started at the Western Black Lines Volcano. After arriving, they discovered that overnight, the volcano had collapsed onto itself and was now a massive hole going as far down as bedrock, almost similar to a chunk error. The hole appeared to have been carved using the sphere tool, based on the impressions into the stone walls.

While looking around the area, the two found a ravine that followed the netherrack faultline (a.k.a "path of fire"). The fault line collapsed and split through RedVacktor's base, Tombstone, eventually leading to the settlement being destroyed.

[TODO: Find VOD for this day]

## Gallery

The volcano as seen on Day 77.The remnants of the volcano following it's catastrophic implosion on Day 111.

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 Locations
Mount Sinai •
7 Volcanoes •
5757 Volcanoes •
**Western Black Lines Volcano** •
Northwestern Volcano •
Northernmost Volcano •
Hell's Gate •
Onslow Bay Volcano •
Path of Fire •
Notch Caldera •
Caspian Crossword Pit