Day 77

**Day 77** took place on 6 February 2020. It followed the events of Day 76 and was followed by the events of Day 78. This day marked the end of Week 11.

## Major Events

### The Fourth Faction Reset

* Faction claims were still missing from the SMPEarth Dynmap.
* A great deal of lag continued on the server. This meant that flying a plane would be risky, this some had resorted to using elytras or riptide tridents in order to travel.

### The 7 ARG

* KaraCorvus continued her ARG exploration as JoshA20 informed in her Twitch chat that the adventure begins whenever she returns to the "ominous prison building" that she and Grunk encountered yesterday.
	+ She was joined by Grunk, Sylvee and CaptainSparklez for the exploration.
		- Kara helped providing the latter two with context of Day 76's ARG adventures.
	+ They rendezvoused at the volcano north of the Northern End Portal.
	+ Inside the generated nether room, they found a new map art containing lines of messages encoded in Standard Galactic Alphabet which translated as follows:
		- Line 1: "*bright. and dark. black and white.*"
		- Line 2: "*i am t. he shepherd of t. he night.*"
		- Line 3: "*fast. and slow. rise and sink.*"
		- Line 4: "*blind, yet. every mont. h, i blink.*"
		- Extra thing added at the bottom: "*North*"
	+ They deduced that the message referred to The Moon and went through the portal.
		- Some fans pointed out that it is the same poem that was featured in RoastedJames's latest ARG recap video, encoded in Morse code.
	+ A player with the username consisted of cursed characters messaged Kara to go "north at x=7".
		- They discovered a glass structure at the location with command blocks that tell them these words: "Black Lines", "West", "PROC 7", "Volcano".
		- Again, they deduced that it refer to the volcano vault found on Day 39 by Kara, Jordan and Ph1LzA.
		- Jordan's bed was obstructed/destroyed so he was spawned back in the original spawn point on the overworld. Kara saw this as an opportunity for him to teleport somewhere closer to the location. He ended up teleporting in Canada.
	+ Once everyone reached the location of the black lines (marked visibly by a black arrow as seen from the Dynmap), Jordan discovered a trail of sea lanterns and followed it down the caverns.
		- Kara, Sylvee and Grunk used elytras to get to the end of the trail first.
		- However, they realized it was actually an open chasm of void. Kara and Sylvee managed to evade the void and fly back to the surface. Unfortunately, Grunk flew straight into the void and lost everything.
		- He was teleported back to the group and was distraught by this unexpected death.
	+ Hovering precariously above the void is a bedrock chamber that is accessed through an iron door.
		- Once inside, Sylvee slew a skeleton named Todd and discovered a 6-page unsigned book and quill possibly written by Todd.

### Chip's Reimbursement Program

* Chip announced that they would be logging onto the server and giving refunds to players who lost their planes yesterday due to the major plugin issues.
	+ This riled up most players including those who had not been on the server for a while, such as Technoblade who was last online on Day 58 during the Port-aux-Offensive.
	+ As soon as Chip logged on, people started yelling at them, demanding compensation. The former then set up a 5-minute countdown and promised to give everyone online $1,000,000 each (200 diamonds) as reparation.
	+ Several players, such as Grunk, TanningOil, Sylvee, Krinios, InkTea, RedVacktor, X33n, Beatsolos, Purpled, Quig, TimeDeo and Chip then convened at the Olympic Stadium for the event.
	+ More players started to log on to receive the reimbursement such as Michaelmcchill, OGBeefStew, Swiftyislive, Awtra, IDontKnowYT, Wuna301, Joko, Miqzah, Bitzel and others.
	+ As soon as the money was inserted into their accounts, most of them immediately spent it on buying faster planes and assorted guns.
		- Quig bought an airstrike and attempted to kill the players at the stadium. However, only InkTea was murdered and Quig retrieved his stuff for him.
	+ Shortly after receiving the reimbursement, Technoblade and several other players logged off from the server.
* While at the Olympic Stadium, Chip exhibited a new feature as they spawned several NPCs named *Minion*, *SloppyCarl* and *Technoblade*. The NPCs have basic movement AI and players are able to ride it on its back.
	+ They stated that they were capable of spawning such NPCs with the likeness of any players that are whitelisted on the server.
	+ Deo killed the Technoblade NPC, displaying a death message that appeared as if he killed the actual player.

### Other Events

* WilburSoot joined Sophietexas' stream for activities.
	+ Together, they explored the landmarks of Corvarian France such as The Louvre and the Parisian Eiffel Tower.
	+ Later, Kara joined them where Wilbur presented her a new art piece of a beaver to add to the museum.

* Beatsolos was elated to discover that the custom recipes allow her to craft stacks upon stacks of concrete blocks.
	+ At the Olympic Stadium, TimeDeo gave her a 69-page long book called "smp earth tips". The first page contains the only somewhat valuable information about custom recipe features, and the rest are blank pages. On the 69th page, Deo wrote "lol 69".

* TimeDeo confronted Grunk and TanningOil about the golden apples that they stole yesterday.
	+ He acknowledged that Kara had taken a stack of golden apples, then kept half a stack to herself, based on her stream VOD.
	+ Deo threatened to attack them once he crafted a powerful sword if they refused to return them.
	+ Grunk then said that he personally have none, while Tanner proceeded to return the 10 gapples he have and gave Deo his enchanted elytra as reparation, to which Deo accepted.
	+ Later, he planned on stealing something back from her base as retribution off-stream.

* Krtzyy continued expanding his underwater base.
* Osidinum continued the construction of a large treehouse located in Oasis, Bean Island. She later tweeted an update of the build.
* Swiftyislive returned to the server after a long while accompanying a new player, JinnyJhinJIN.
* JoshA20 visited The World Border Monument while walking his Dragon (pun intended). He tweeted out that he had done so, with the caption, "stumbled across a thing while walking my pet dragon today."
* Mithzan logged on to the server for the first time.

## DEFCON level

On Day 77, the DEFCON level was 4, as there was no risk of war. However, TimeDeo threatened TanningOil and Grunk on some stolen Gapples.