Day 9

**Day 9** took place on 30 November 2019. It followed the events of Day 8 and was followed by the events of Day 10.

## Major Events

### The ARG and Guns Update

* The Stella Countdown timer reached zero at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. A server restart for the map update also happened at this time.
	+ An update revealed the addition of guns, jetpacks, airstrikes, grenades, new vehicles, and flashbangs into the server.
	+ Chip immediately called an airstrike on InkTea's house.
	+ Faction claims briefly became invisible on the Dynmap.
	+ There were various changes to the sounds made due to the gun update. These are most likely bugs, not features.
		- Creepers were made to mimic an explosion from a grenade.
		- Pistons activating and sheep shearing sounds were made to mimic a gun reloading sound.
	+ Iron nuggets also now show up as grenades, though they don't seem to function as grenades.
	+ There is a gun that spawns charged creepers.
* New coordinates were discovered on the the Stella Countdown redirect page via inspect element.
	+ Chip was spotted heading to the "face" that was found in Siberia at the coordinates, before vanishing from the Dynmap.
	+ Members of the ARG community in the SMPEarth Discord convinced IAmSp00n to go visit the coord, as he was interested in the ARG since it reminded him of a server he ran where he ran his own small puzzles.
		- A buried chest was found containing a wait disc named Sheridan.
		- Sp00n needed to find a diamond in order to craft a jukebox to play the disc. He attempted to bargain for one for a Mending book, but nobody he'd messaged had a diamond. He instead went mining to find some.
		- After mining some diamonds to craft a jukebox, Sp00n played the disc. A jazzy tune ensued, with some weird, indecipherable noise and a fart noise appeared at the end. The audio was analyzed through spectogram, revealing an alphanumeric text and the word Sheridan.
		- The spectrogram was decoded via base64 text unraveling a new set of coordinates.
		- Sp00n wished to focus on his own building after the immediate solution and did not want to answer to any coordinates found after the decoding, although he did say that he may try later in the night if no other streamers went after the coordinates.
		- The Discord Chat had difficulties in trying to find any other streamers to solve the ARG, and waited for IAmSp00n to be finished with his own buildings.
		- Sp00n later agreed to go after the new coordinates that were placed on a crablike shape in the dirt.
		- Upon digging through the dirt, Sp00n entered the "office-like" building containing a series of books describing 'employees' and information on Holofractals as well as transcripts from conversations with employees.
			* A computer called "BIGPRISM" was found in one of the office's rooms, demanding a password. It displayed error messages after failed attempts that were broadcasted to the server chat. For the next several hours, including into Day 10, IAmSp00n attempted various passwords given to him by his chat and the Discord ARG team.

### Its Jawsh v. Kara Corvus

* Jawsh argued that Kara stole diamonds from land that was claimed by the German Empire. Kara agreed to pay the number of diamonds that were mined.
	+ Jawsh argued that Kara initially denied the evidence. Kara defended herself by saying that she wasn't intentionally ignoring evidence; rather, she simply did not see the parts where she stole diamonds.
* Kara wanted diamonds in reparations for her own land being terrorized by Mason. It was determined that this should be done through a separate trial.
* The resolution of the trial was that Kara was made to pay Jawsh back 12 diamonds, the exact amount she had mined from the land. The border disputes were agreed to be argued in a separate case.

### Fille-Kpop Conflict

* An ongoing conflict taking place within the territories of Canada and Korea. It was perpetuated by resident factions fille and Kpop.

### The Stock Car Quarrel

* During his first day on the server, ArchieMcW of Madagascar 4 jokingly declared war on Bean Island while in a voice chat with Sylvee and Krinios.
* Archie was murdered by a mob a few minutes after declaring war and immediately surrendered.
* Bean Island established an alliance with Archie and he agreed to change his faction's name to 'MadaNASCAR'. The two factions plan to construct a large race track on the island of Madagascar.
	+ Bean Island also claimed a portion of Madagascar as part of the agreement.

### Other Events

* Jameskii was seen on the server for the first time.
	+ He claimed a large portion of Australia.
* The Brittanic House of Law was built by WilburSoot.
	+ Its Jawsh v. Kara Corvus was the first-ever trial to officially be held in the courthouse.
* TommyInnit and VoiceOverPete formed an alliance after Pete agrees to help with the construction of SootCharlie's rail.
* Kara asked Pete's permission to mine in the Antarctic Alps. Pete gave her permission and then asked her if she would like to join his expedition, which she accepted. King\_Burren and Jameskii also decide to join the expedition, with DinksterDaily joining in later.
	+ Pete wanted multiple people to join him in the expedition so that items could be retrieved easier in the event of death.
	+ Pete later died in the cave, as did King Burren. Kara retrieved both Burren and Pete's items and passed Pete's items on to Ph1lza, who built up a new set of armor for Pete after his armor had been broken.
* For 2 full minutes, the name '\_JustMaxiorZ\_' appeared on the SMPEarth Dynmap, prompting speculation from the players and viewers.
* ArchieMcW joined the server for the first time and established a claim on the island of Madagascar called Madagascar 4.

## DEFCON Status

On Day 9, the DEFCON level was 1, as multiple conflicts occurred on this day.