Northernmost Volcano

The volcano as seen from the air.

The **Northernmost Volcano** refers to the unnamed volcano that is past the northern World Border on SMPEarth. It first appeared on Day 76 at approximately (12853, -943). It was first explored by KaraCorvus and GrunksPromise, and provided important clues for the SMPEarth 7 ARG. It also appears to have been a prison of some kind for either Andrew or Todd.

## Layout

The volcano is located past the northern world border. To reach it, a player needs to use an exploit, or world border bypass must be enabled. Like most other volcanoes on the server, it is primarily composed of netherrack.

### Outside

In front of the entrance and cell windows is a small netherrack "island" sitting on top of the arctic ice sheet. The island has its own lava river and some bone structues protruding from it. It also has small patches of snow dotting it, presumably due to the cold of the arctic.

From outside, the volcano appears to be almost 'dissected' due to the naturally generated chunks colliding with the map. The volcano appears as a shell of netherrack surrounding regular stone, diorite, and andesite. Iron bar "windows" of the cells are visible, left of the entrance corridor.

### Entrance corridor

The entrance consists of a tall, 4-block wide corridor leading into it from the south, with natural stone walls. It is lit by lanterns that are hung from its ceiling. At the end of the entrance corridor, the path diverts to the left and right.

The left path appears to be a large pit with its floor on a much lower level than the main hallway. It is illuminated with lanterns on its roof and floor. The pit can be walked over due to the invisible barrier blocks covering it, acting as a 'path'. There are small 2x2 indentations on the left, leading into the interior jail cells. Although six cells have entrances from the interior of the volcano, only three can be accessed, as three are underneath the barrier block path.

### Jail cells

There are twelve total cells, all lit by lanterns. Each cell contains a chest, a 'toilet', and a black bed. The contents of the chest consist of bones, paper, and redstone dust, although Todd's Journal was also discovered in one of the cells adjacent to the interior hallway.

Every cell is accessed through an iron door connecting to a small 2x2 indentation, with the exterior ones simply facing outside and the interior ones connecting to the interior hallway with the invisible path.

The cells adjacent to the exterior of the volcano all have iron bar windows providing a view of the outside.

### Long hallway

At the end of the long hallway to the right, there is a gravel trap that falls down into a pit. Across it, as of Day 77, a ring of Prismarine lanterns surrounds another, smaller hallway. At the bottom of the gravel pit there is a small 2x2 hallway that leads deeper into the volcano.

### Inside the pit

The small 2x2 hallway contains 3 layers of doors, each with with item frames adjacent to them where certain requirements need to be met for them to open. All 3 item frames have instructions written underneath them.

The first door has the instruction 'ENTER KEY'. To open the door, a special golden sword named 'Key' in golden, bold letters needs to be put into the item frame. Only two known keys are possessed by KaraCorvus and Sylvee. KaraCorvus' key was obtained on Day 45[needs confirmation] and is stored in her enderchest. Sylvee accidentally misplaced hers, and does not know where it is.

The hallway then opens into the room with a second iron door. It is one block wider on its left and right walls than the hallway is. In the corner next to the item frame and sign is an anvil, and a piece of paper in another item frame above it. The second door requires the paper to be renamed and inputted. The instructions underneath the item frame read 'Enter USER ID'. The door is opened by renaming the paper '7'.

The third and final room contains two doors, and is as wide as the previous one. On the left wall there is a sign with the text 'INSERT ANSWER'. A book and quill is inside the item frame next to the doors. The instructions underneath the item frame are 'PROVIDE COMPANY NAME IN BASE64'. The door is opened by writing the text 'bGFyYW1pZW9ubGluZQ==' in a book (translates to 'laramieonline') and placing it in the frame. Signing the book is not required.

### Deep in the volcano

The third set of doors opens into a large cavern, with patches of netherrack alongside the naturally generated stone, gravel, and ores. There is also lava pouring into the beginning of the cavern.

As of Day 77, there is a 'mined-out' 2x1 hole across from the entrance leading into a large rectangular room with netherrack spread along the walls. In the middle of the rooom sits a massive mapart sign with a prismarine lantern backboard that is hung from the ceiling with nether brick fence. The mapart sign reads a poem in Galactic language, with the final word being hastily added to the bottom in the corner.

```
"bright. and dark. black and white."

```

```
"i am t. he shepherd of t. he night."

```

```
"fast. and slow. rise and sink."

```

```
"blind, yet. every mont. h, i blink."

```

```
"North"

```

## History

### Day 76

After many days of inactivity ARG-wise, the new volcano appeared. Kara was the first to visit it, and she crossed the northern world border with little issue. Shortly after she entered, Kara accepted Grunk's request in chat to join the exploration.

Kara began breaking into the different cells. While most of the chests contained only bones, paper, and redstone dust, one of the cells adjacent to the hallway with the invisible floor also had an unsigned book and quill, which was discovered to be Todd's Journal.

The book detailed his imprisonment, labelling the day as '543' and saying he had been imprisoned for 23 "Jeremy Bearimy's". KaraCorvus was mentioned, incorrectly referred to as 'Corvia'. Todd accused her of being with "them", and assumed she wasn't coming to rescue him.

After Grunk met up with Kara at the volcano, they began exploring together. The two headed right, and then fell into a gravel pitfall. At the bottom of the pit was a tunnel leading to an iron door with an item frame adjacent to it.

They discovered that there were three sets of these doors, each with different requirements. After placing the final book in, however, The server suddenly sent a message in chat. Meanwhile, behind the iron door, a large cavern with netherrack and valuable ores was opened.

```
Activation completed! generaing room. PROC will notify you when completed.

```

After the two entered the room and looked around for a bit, they received a new message from the server.

```
error generating. please contact supervisor. Error 404 has occurred during generation. please contact supervisor￼

```

### Day 77

Kara and Grunk returned to the volcano along with Sylvee and CaptainSparklez after being informed by Josh that the adventure would begin when they returned. Josh enabled world border bypass so the group could enter once again.

Although the volcano had not changed unrecognizably, the ring of prismarine lanterns past the gravel trap was new, as was the 2x1 hallway in the cavern and the massive room with galactic language mapart.

After translating the galactic language, the group figured the poem was referring to The Moon, and left to discover that the entire volcano had spawned massive amounts of mobs. They successfully fought their way out, and upon crossing the northern border again, border bypass was re-disabled.

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