7 ARG/An Incomplete History

The **7 ARG** has a long history of clues and discoveries taking place on different days of the server's existence. Important days of progress in the ARG have been recorded in detail.

## **Day 34**

On the morning of December 25, Josh posted '34' in the *#arg-news* channel of the community discord, and "36psmpe" in the *#arg-talk* channel, of which both messages have been deleted. Additionally, Josh's discord bio had read "36psmpe" before being removed. This, along with the fact that the official twitter had at some point tweeted "36psmpe" before being deleted, led the members of the ARG discord to wonder if this had been a hint to the ARG of some kind.

Inside of a cave made of wood under Santa's Grotto, Wuna301 discovered a 'table' made of wool with two maparts and two signs hanging off of it. One of the maparts featured an image of Optimus prime from *Transformers*, while the other was an image of a collection of numbers. It was later discovered that this image could be found on google, and has no relevance.

KaraCorvus brought the cave under the tree to the ARG team's attention, directly asking in the arg channels for available members to help.

## **Day 35**

In the top right corner of the dynmap at approximately 17540, -88, the coordinates *10375 | -600* could be seen written out in bedrock. These coordinates were found to be in a location in the center of the new crater that was fromerly Santa's Grotto. KaraCorvus was sent by her chat to investigate these coordinates.

Within the prismarine base of the former tree, Kara found a secret room underneath the ice. This room contained nothing but an Optimus Prime mapart that hid another room, where she found a YouTube URL link to this video by JoshA20. The end revealed the word **Sinai** when viewed through a spectrogram.

Mt. Sinai on SMPEarth contained a cave, under which 3 skeletons named Todd, Andrew, and Jim were found, all of whom were invisible, and Jim was in a cage. KaraCorvus found a book written by 'todd', which contained a code when translated using base64 and A1Z26 reveals the words 'seven is key'. there was also a painting on the wall with the number 7.

## **Day 36**

At approximately 12:30 PM EST, Josh was spotted on the Dynmap constructing a volcano with its core exactly at the coordinates (7777, 7777). The ARG team watched as the volcano was constructed and completed while they debated on who to send to explore it. They hesitated on asking King\_Burren, as although he was available at the time, he had previously expressed that he did not wish to participate in the ARG and was "just vibing".

After one member of the discord pinged KaraCorvus, much to the rest of the server's annoyance, she agreed that she would explore the volcano when she began streaming later that day at 4 PM PST.

During her stream, Kara flew over to the seven islands just as she'd said she would. The seafloor around the 7 islands had been almost entirely lit up, presumably by sea pickles. After battling the mobs that had spawned and jumping around the islands on the surface, she found a vertical tunnel underneath the central volcano by removing the bucket of lava that had been placed in the center. She jumped in (somewhat on accident), and luckily, her fall was broken by a 1 by 1 block of water at the bottom.

She had fallen into a small room lit by redstone torches, lanterns, and lava from the next room over. She walked across the bridge in that next room, down a set of netherbrick stairs, and into a dimly lit room with a command clock encased in stripped acacia logs. When activated, she received a golden sword named 'key'. There were also two unnamed zombies behind a glass wall. Behind the corridor by the glass, was a staircase that led to a room made of bedrock with three doors, only one of which was open. However, entering caused her to be teleported to Siberia and a notice was sent in the chat for her to return in 24 hours.

## **Day 37**

Around 11:30AM CST, the members of the ARG channel noticed a new development in the volcano formation that had surfaced the day before. The initial 7 islands had drastically increased in size, without any explanation. It almost seemed like they were rising out of the water. However, they couldn't do anything until Kara returned later that day.

   When Kara returned later on, she found a room with a book called "Day 778". She then returned to the Laramie Online Office to look for new clues, and found the computer covered in bedrock, alongside a chest in a minecart with a book named "Day 779". there was also a paper renamed '5757', leading them to explore the coordinates 5757, 5757. at their time of arrival, nothing was found but a fireplace and they left to let JoshA20 continue building.

## **Day 38**

The volcano at (7777, 7777) continued to expand from the early hours of the morning and into the afternoon. It was visited by Michaelmcchill and RoastedJames around 4am EST, but they didn't do very much. Later in the day, Sylvee and Krinios explored the island, claiming the volcano and its resources for their faction, Bean Empire (much to Josh's dismay).

By the time Kara and Jordan finally returned to search for more clues, the volcano had dramatically increased in size once again, and more lava pools had been added. Furthermore, what appeared to be a fault line had begun to form from the (7777, 7777) volcano to an area off the coast of India where the volcano at (5757, 5757) had continued to increase in size. After flying over it, they found that it was a ravine that had formed in the seafloor.

As for the island that had been redubbed "Volbeano 2.0", Kara and Jordan thought the best course of action would be to see if there was anything under or inside the massive new lava pool. They did so by brewing themselves 8-minute fire resistance potions and diving under the lava pillar that was in the center of the pool.

Under the lava pillar, they rediscovered the original chamber Kara had found under the center of the volcano. However, there was a new development: the chamber had been flooded with lava. They retraced their steps, but didn't find any other changes.

While they were checking around the other recent locations, Kara realized that she'd lost the "key" sword she'd obtained from the command block when she'd first explored under the 7777 volcano. Since she couldn't recall ever taking it out of her shulker box, a few people from her Twitch chat went back to look through her recent vod. They didn't see her lose it at any point, and it was concluded that Josh or Chip must've used their admin powers to manually remove it from her inventory.

After that had been cleared up, someone in Kara's chat suggested that they go back to where Kara had been teleported to in Siberia after she activated "abort.exe" on Day 36. It took some time to figure out where exactly that was, but eventually they were able to find the general location. There, they found a bit of bedrock that hadn't been there before; presumably at the exact location she had been teleported to. By then, the trail had run dry. Kara apologized for the wild goose chase, and she and Jordan both decided they were done with the ARG for the night.

## **Day 39**

Kara and Jordan did more exploration at the 5757 island. They both carefully mined the netherrack and drained the lava, in hope of finding something at the exact spot of the (5757, 5757) coordinate. They followed a lava shaft down to the bedrock, but nothing much was found there. They ended up at the chamber that they made the day prior.

While waiting for chat's suggestion for the next location, Kara explained to Jordan about the latest announcement made by JoshA20 regarding the moon update. They then were informed about a new volcano at (7252, 7273) that had emerged along the fault line between the 5757 island and the 7 volcanoes. Meanwhile, across the Pacific Ocean, Josh had been spotted around the Laramie Online Office via the Dynmap.

The duo then mined down to the bedrock of the new volcano but found nothing as well. Disappointed, they made their way up but Kara found a lantern and a sign that has dropped as an item. The duo believed that Kara might have accidentally broke the sign that may be a clue to the whole quest. Kara then found a lantern mysteriously placed on the makeshift staircase. Jordan began to doubt Kara who was the only one among them to have lanterns in her inventory and thought she might be tricking him. However, he discovered a sign near the lantern that said "laramie is the key to the pass". They decided to make their way to the Laramie Online Office.

Not much had changed as they inspected the already-dilapidated office. Jordan noticed some command blocks under the bedrock formation across the BIGPRISM void through a 1x1 hole. That was where a hopper used to be. Kara then crafted trapdoors to get into the small entrance of the bedrock chamber. Inside, there are multiple command blocks hooked into a broken redstone circuit. Buttons were used to activate the command blocks, and two types of messages were broadcasted to the server's game chat: west and black lines.

A new message was then broadcasted when Kara activated one of the command blocks, announcing BIGPRISM 2.3. Later, she accidentally blew up Jordan when she remade the redstone circuit and pushed a button. Jordan then respawned at his home base in the Kingdom of Jordan and lost 81 levels. Kara was shocked by this and retrieved his inventory to be stored in a chest. She saw this as a retribution for her death in his train tube at Petra.

Another message was broadcasted, informing that the computer was overheating. Kara took this as a sign to get out of the chamber. While on his way back, he had difficulties on flying and was kicked out of the server. Due to that, he lost his only transport to get back to the office. As he logged back on, he was teleported back to the office, presumably by Josh. He quickly set his spawn on the bed at the office's entrance and rejoined Kara as he retrieved his items from the chest that Kara made. However, he found ice blocks started to fill the bedrock chamber. Kara assumed this was placed to overcome the overheating issue. Taking note of the "*west*" and "*black lines*" messages they have received earlier, they found some dark formations at (15656, 4411) west of the office and proceeded to go there by foot.

As they tried to find their way into the volcano through a dark maze made up of black concrete, Philza joined their VC and offered his help to the expedition. Jordan then found a deep shaft with water at its base, but both of them agreed to wait for Phil as he made his way to the volcano. Upon Phil's arrival, the trio then continue going deeper underground and found deep shaft with a small pool of water at the bottom. The path went deeper and apparently ended in a room with what Jordan described as "a reception desk". There were two barrels by the main entrance.

* The top barrel, discovered by Jordan, contains a golden sword named "Key" and a paper that said "*Hey Andrew. heres the new key for the vault. dont loose it this time!!*". There are other papers and maps as well but was left unchecked.
* The bottom barrel, discovered by Kara, contains a book titled Congratulations by Todd with a paper that said "*Found this in my inbox boss, I think its meant for you*".

Kara had previously acquired these items in Mount Sinai on Day 35. However, she claimed that the key may have either been taken from her inventory or accidentally misplaced (most probably the former). Jordan assumed the book was given the second time as a recap, or as Kara had not brought the original book that she previously acquired.

Then, the trio entered a hallway lined with quartz pillars. Kara found a door that leads to another room on the left side, while Phil found a bedrock with a 1x1 hole that goes deeper. Upon entering the hallway, a pressure plate triggered flames at either side of the entrance. They chose to enter the left room first, where multiple barrels were found, resembling a mailroom.

There are 6 barrels on each side of the wall, some of them are labelled with names. One barrel on the left side of the room was labeled Jim, containing a piece of paper that said "*remember that one time you failed? lmao nerd boomer baby zoomer*". On the other side, 7 out of 9 barrels were named after John, Andrew, Michael, Todd, Matthew, Hillart, Cora. One barrel in particular, at the bottom left corner was labeled 'everyone but Jim'. It contained the Congratulations book, as well as stacks of papers. Jordan took one stack, while Kara tried to take some of them, but managed to grab only two stacks before the rest was mysteriously taken away from the barrel.

They then went to the bedrock wall to try and get into the small hole. Phil used trapdoors and placed them at every wall to allow the trio to slide through the other two similar walls, before reaching a staircase that went downwards and a corridor to the left. The corridor ended to another dark concrete maze.

Phil went straight forward and found dead end, while Kara found a path to the right that led them to a large room with dark concrete floor in the middle. They tried to find a path but to no avail. Jordan held out the golden key and coincidentally, Phil found a hole after some of the floorings were destroyed by an unseen force. The hole led them to the bedrock vault where a map art of them going down the corridor just seconds ago was displayed on one of the walls. The hallway goes around the vault, where command blocks can be seen. Kara immediately put a button next to them, which horrified Phil as they did not know yet the consequences of doing so.

Afterward, they encountered an iron door and a single bedrock barricading the entrance to the vault, with a sign that said "WHAT IS 5 LETTER KEY". They guessed Sinai, Prism and Laramie (despite having 7 letters) before realizing that the answer is "seven", as in the deciphered password in the Congratulations book was "seven is key". Both the iron door and the bedrock were mysteriously destroyed as they entered and came across another door.

Another sign inquires "PROVIDE SYSTEM KEY". Assuming the golden sword was the key, they attempted to swipe the door with the key. A lantern and an item frame suddenly appeared next to it, prompting Jordan to put it there as they successfully managed to access deeper into the vault. The next iron door requested "PROVIDE PERSONAL PASS". At this point, they had figured out that the door was activated by voice command, they announced "Laramie" as the key. The door was also broken and they managed to get into the center of the vault. The final iron door was then destroyed by an explosion, possibly triggered by the command block above it.

Inside the vault was a wall of command block, with no instruction or signs whatsoever. Seeing this, Phil backed off as commands block are not his expertise. Jordan found that some of the blocks are directional, suggesting that activating one would trigger a domino effect. So he placed a button at the bottom left corner block. This prompted a broadcast message, announcing "BIGPRISM 2.1 PIRATE - DO NOT ENABLE, NOT STABLE" and "7PRISM BETA 0.7575". As he clicked the button, both he and Phil were blown up while Kara survived, taking four hearts of damage. This is Jordan's second death due to command blocks in the ARG quest, and Phil's second death on the server.

Jordan was able to respawn back at the Laramie Online Office where he last slept, while Phil was resurrected back at the original spawn area. Both of them were immediately teleported back to the entrance of the volcano and struggled to navigate the path to the vault. As Kara helped retrieve and store their items, Jordan and Phil got lost in the dark maze. Suddenly, the dark walls were transformed to oak woods, providing them a better way to get down.

Minutes later, Kara was reunited with the boys as they recuperated and strived for another attempt. Phil noticed the sounds of footsteps outside the vault, assuming it to be Josh, though Jordan and Kara assumed it to be either the ghost of Andrew, Laramie or even the gods of Minecraft. Chat suggested they set up a simple circuit to remotely trigger the command blocks, but Jordan said they could have an @P command, meaning it might not work. Jordan went outside the vault and found two more "security image" of the trio. One of which was when they first entered the command room, and the other at the exact moment of explosion and deaths of the two guys.

    Jordan volunteered to take one for the team in case another explosion occured. He guessed the top left button as the one that would trigger all command blocks, but nothing happened. He tried again with the second block from the top right and received a book in his inventory, but Jordan didn't notice this. He made a third attempt at the top right block and prompted a message that said "*command execute 77775555 in directory root\information\earth\moon\login.jpg*". Later, he realized the book and checked it out. The book was titled seven and contained 6 pages of an anecdote spanning between days 800 to 850 by an unknown person. Kara also received the same book, which left Phil bewildered as to what is Laramie.

They then deduced the coordinates of (7777, 5555) to a location somewhere in the Corvarian Hong Kong. A small volcano had reportedly spawned on that spot, which they assumed as the next location of the quest. They then tried to find their way out, but their escape became intense as lava had strangely appeared and came for them from behind. Phil managed to craft ladders for them to climb the entrance shaft. More lava began to fill the place as the trio narrowly escaped certain death. The volcano was last seen erupting and the grounds nearby had noticeably turned into netherrack.

Pete then joined the VC as he was concerned with the messages broadcasted from the vault, but the trio guaranteed him that nothing serious was happening and the server was in good condition. Moments later, they finally reached Hong Kong where they found bizarre-looking nether structure, with some bedrocks surrounding a singular command block. Kara constructed a makeshift netherrack platform to provide a safer space for Jordan to activate it.

Jordan pressed the button on the command block and immediately got attacked by lightning. He then tried again and narrowly missed another one. Kara tried blocking the sky over the command block but lightning could still struck past it. Phil then cleared out the lava under the platform and got struck by lightning twice even though he did not trigger it. They then received a new book titled 'seven' by Andrew, with a content that said 'they know'. Kara pressed the button one last time and half of the structures were blown up as she was knocked off to a nearby tree and survived yet again. A final thunder struck and rain ensued.

They then proceeded to a location at (5555, 7777) where a weird underwater structure had allegedly spawned. A cavern was found underneath the netherrack filled with hostile mobs. Yet, their search in the area was futile. Philza suggested using an x-ray exploit using composter, piston and lever. He did so and found an underground sign saying "*shut up phil*".

The trio was later suggested to visit the volcano island at (7777, 7777) for any new changes. An ominous thunderstorm broke soon after. Somehow, the island had significantly changed from their last visit, as the entrance shaft had been submerged with lava. Kara shot a channeling trident towards a creeper, transforming it into a charged creeper, probably first of its kind on the server.

Phil proceeded to consume enchanted golden apples and took a dive into the lava pit. He was followed by Jordan and Kara who used potions of fire resistance to sustain themselves from fire damage. Phil then constructed a shaft up to the surface, effectively removing the lava pillar. WilburSoot then reminded Phil via Twitch that he is "[deconsecrating] lands with forces you know nothing about". Wilbur then briefly joined the VC to correct Phil's pronunciation on the word "deconsecrating" despite how he had also misspelt the word himself.

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Eventually, they called off the search as the subterranean corridors and chambers had been fully flooded with lava. Phil then gave Kara and Jordan Notch apples to survive the surface, but conveniently, a water source was placed into the shaft, allowing them to float off to the surface. Phil tried the x-ray exploit again which made Kara and Jordan worried about the consequences of his action that could incur the wrath of the gods. Jordan concluded the day's quest by doing a 'I am trash' it with a composter and a trapdoor. This was captured and displayed as a map art nearby by an invisible figure, albeit it was not sized properly. As they about to leave, the invisible force then changed the map art to another picture of Phil and Kara looking at the path they built at the volcano, and later to another picture caption "MAN IN, MAN IN DA TRASH".

## **Day 55**

The 1151 countdown was expected to end of this day. People began to speculate what would happen once the timer ran out—the possible upgrade of 1.15.1 version unto the server, the release of the SMPEarth public server and such. A few hours before the timer ran out, people began to spot JoshA20 building something with netherrack near top left corner of the world as seen from the SMPEarth Dynmap. Josh then turned invisible and vanished from the live map. Not long after, netherrack structure began to emerge where Josh was. Later, people also found out that 2 more hours were added to the countdown, presumably by Josh to allow a bigger window of opportunity for him to finish the secret build.

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 fled the scene.

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 preparation. Pete and Deo kept replacing each other's sign before Pete settled with a sign that said "Dibs (AE), Business Bay 2nd, LOGLagoon 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 na wall, revealing another hall made up of obsidians. It is lined with doors labelled ith 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

These alphanumeric codes were part of the youtube URLs of some unlisted videos uploaded by Josh, titled "5" and "7" respectively. Both videos contained morse code, although both translated to base64 text reading "RGF5XZC=". This Base64 could be translated to exactly "Day]".

A hypothesized meaning of the "Day]" text is that these might be referring to the history logs of the SMPEarth Wiki. On Day 5, the End Raid took place while on Day 7, the SMPEarth Fake Moon Landing event happened. This led to theories that these clues may be connected to the Moon somehow.

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 leading to similar videos. These videos, also uploaded by Josh, were titled "40" and "45". Similar morse played in these videos, translating to the same Base64 code, "RGF5XZC=".

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, contained, at the time, a 22-hour timer counting down to 5pm EST the following day (2pm PST, 10pm GMT and 6pm AST).

## **Day 56**

On this day, the 6542 timer was supposed to end. However, due to JoshA20 needing to take a break and KaraCorvus, an honorary member of the ARG Team, being banned from twitch for 3 days, Josh extended the 6542 timer to end Saturday at 5pm est (2pm PST, 10pm GMT and 6pm AST) on Day 65. The timer and ARG was then delayed further due to Josh being busy.

## **Day 76**

    A new volcano was spotted off the borders of the map and instantly started to be explored by KaraCorvus. Due to the Fourth Faction Reset, the border and circumnavigations plugins were dismantled, allowing Kara to cross the world border and venture to the land beyond. As she entered the volcano, she found that it was a sort of prison and found a tunnel leading to a barrier walkway and a normal tunnel.

Kara went through each cells and found redstone, paper, and bones inside all chests except for one, with a four-page journal by Todd. Later, Grunk asked if he could join her exploration, to which she accept his request. Upon Grunk's arrival, they started walking down the other tunnel, yet suddenly they were took by surprise by the falling gravels that brought them down to a corridor.

The corridor was blocked off by different iron doors that require specific items to provide access. The first door requires the golden key, which Kara immediately submitted on the item frame and granted both of them permission to enter. Next, at the second door, there was a sign saying “id is 7”, prompting them to submit a paper named '7'. After that, the third door asks Kara and Grunk to “write the company name in base64 and the company name”. Once they have done that, the server accepted the book and generated a room with the message "Activation completed! generaing room. PROC will notify you when completed".

    The two then enterred the generated room filled with a mixture of nether stuffs and valuable ores. But, the server then produced a new message: "error generating. please contact supervisor. Error 404 has occurred during generation. please contact supervisor". Inside the room, they discovered a message board with codes encoded in Standard Galactic Alphabets (a.k.a the language used on the enchanting table). The message translated as "SUPERVISOR IS BEING CONTACTED SUPERVISOR ID = ANDREW".

    At first, Grunk typed in chat "josh..." to which the server refused to accept and inquire the name again. \\ PROC 8 // System failure - contact supervisor. Kara then submitted the name Andrew as deduced from the code and from her viewers. After providing the name, the message wall changed to another code. Again, it's in enchanting table language and translates to "ERROR CONTACTING SUPERVISOR, PLEASE CONTACT **PROC DEPT. HEAD**" with the bold section being in plain English.

Kara tried "contacting proc. dept. head" in game chat" but the server did not recognize the command. She then typed in chat "contacting user ID Andrew". Fortunately, the server responded with "contacting 7ANDREW". Andrew's voicemail answered, saying, *"Sorry I wasn't able to take your call this Jeremy Bearimy. enter your message after the tone and I'll get back to you! \*beep\*"*. Grunk said, "fart". The server said, "call failed". Grunk asked, "plz call back". Andrew responded with *"\*beep\*"*. Kara attempted to type in chat, "Requesting access to room creation completion module". (She admitted that she had no idea what to say and simply typed things out.) Andrew's voicemail continued, "Thanks for your message! Once I get back from etneral[sic] hell i'll be sure to contact you!" "andrew out" "peacer"

After a long time, the server responded, *"generating room. PROC dept. will contact when completed"*. The two pointed out that "Jeremy Bearimy" is the term for time used in the NBC television show, "The Good Place". They then decided to return and resume the exploration the next day.

## **Day 77**

JoshA20 informed KaraCorvus via her twitch chat that the adventure would begin whenever she entered the "ominous prison building" that she and Grunk explored the previous day. She met up with Grunk, Sylvee, and CaptainSparklez to explore, and Josh enabled world border bypass to let the group through.

At the end of the long tunnel to the right after entering was a new ring of Prismarine Lanterns. Kara and Grunk warned the group about a possible impending gravel trap which they had fallen into last time, shortly before finding said trap themselves. Although CaptainSparklez flew over it without a problem using an Elytra, Grunk and Kara had assumed it was safe and attempted to cross before falling into the pit. In the tunnel at the bottom, Kara entered the key, the correct userID, and "laramieonline" encoded in Base64 (bGFyYW1pZW9ubGluZQ==), opening all 3 doors and entering the nether room once again.

After the group entered the massive nether caves, a tunnel leading to new map art was discovered containing lines of messages encoded in Standard Galactic Alphabet. The group spent a moment translating the message.

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"*bright. and dark. black and white*."

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

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"*fast. and slow. rise and sink*."

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

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While they were translating, another small sign appeared on the bottom.

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"*North*"

```

This poem appeared to be the same poem that appeared at the end of RoastedJames' ARG recap video. The group figured that the poem was referring to the moon. As they left the volcano, they encountered a large amount of mobs on the way out that had spawned while they were inside the code room. Border bypass was disabled again once they left, and they all travelled back to the Northern End Portal to head to the moon.

After looking around the moon for a while, searching different coordinates given by the chat for structures, Kara eventually got a message from a user with cursed, glitched letters for a username.

```
"*north at x=7*"

```

Grunk eventually reported finding it, and the group discovered an incomplete glass "christmas tree-like" egg structure with a lantern on top of it hovering over the void. The structure had four small waterfalls on each of its supports, and command blocks and redstone lanterns on its solid glass floor. After a brief hiccup where "god" had to teleport CaptainSparklez due to a lack of planes in his garage, Grunk bridged over to the structure, which was also apparently incomplete. Despite this, Kara and Grunk tried activating the command blocks.

Upon flicking the lever attached to the south command block, the message "Black Lines" was said in chat. After flipping it a few more times, the command block was broken, dropping its lever. The lever was used to activate the other command blocks. The command block facing to the west produced the message "West". The command block facing north produced the message "PROC 7". The command block facing east produced the message "Volcano".

The group figured that the message was referring to the volcano that had erupted next to Wyoming on Day 39. While Kara temporarily went back to the Corvarian empire, she recieved a message from another user with a cursed, glitched username.

```
"*command "help" not found. Please complete your request before posting.*"

```

Kara, however, did not notice it.

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.

    Page 1:

```
Well this is.

Definately[sic] something..

```

Page 2:

```
Looks like this is going to be my last resting place

I'm encased
its unbreakable
they're unbreakable

Andrew is more intelligent than I had originally thought.

```

Page 3:

```
somehow this whole program has exploded.

40 million
7 billion
almost 8

4 billion years and this is what they give us?
Proctism is terrifying

```

Page 4:

```
what is a corvi..
corva?
corevarian?

they're too close

it was turned off years ago

how are they still going

```

Page 5:

```
humans are fucking weird

my days are limited
7 is not to be trusted
proctism is not to be trusted
Nothing is to be trusted

```

Page 6:

```
dont
trust
anything

```

## **Day 109**

    A volcanic caldera appeared mid-day in the centre of New Hawaii (Australia), near Uluru.

KaraCorvus and RedVacktor travel to the knewly-formed caldera in order to explore it.

Red discovered a room in the central obsidian with a poem describing the nearby Uluru rock.

        The two head to the Uluru rock and mistake an opening in the top for another clue, after further exploration they conclude that it was not the correct entrance.
They exit the opening and find another by the side with a small cavern which contained two chests and a large map-art image of the sign of Route 74.

    As they travelled over to the United States, they noticed that some volcanic activity appeared just south of New Deutschland on the Atlantic coast.

While at the site, they notice that the volcanic colouring continued to expand across the landscape.

Kara and Red decide to go to Bean York City and get a drink while they wait for the volcanic activity to settle. He also asked Kara to share some of her past ARG experiences with him.

They note that the day has been unusually long as they wondered if the clue signalled Earth Day, an Earth day, or a Minecraft day on Earth.

    A mini volcano appeared in Bean York City right beside the Rockefeller Ice Skating Rink.
After changing the time from night to day, Kara and Red return to explore the volcano south of New Deutschland.

    They searched for more clues around the site yet were unsuccessful.

Moments later, a large crater opened up in the water and connected the outside to the bedrock level below. The two jumped in and attempted to search for more clues yet realized that they were connected to the mines belonging to the former colony of the German Empire.

They exited the crater as they noticed lava flowing in and after returning to the surface they witness lava emerge from the crater.

Kara and Red travelled back to Corvantinople in order to craft Potions of Fire Resistance such that they may further explore the volcanic .

The Atlantic volcanic site further expanded towards the ocean while Kara and Red were crafting potions.

Kara and Red returned and dove in to the lava yet did not discover any new information. Upon their exist, they notice a 'path of fire' guiding them towards a long volcanic path; the path extended from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the other volcano located in the former faction of New Montana.

The path also diverges directly around the entrance to the Laramie Online Office.

## **Day 110**

    A new Volcanic Caldera was formed near Immortality.

A long trail of netherrack appeared across the Pacific Ocean, linking Hell's Gate with the Western Black Lines Volcano. The trail continued on from Day 109's "path of fire" from the volcano on the east coast to the Western Black Lines Volcano. Another trail was discovered later from the Caspian Sea to the volcanoes in the Indian Ocean, suggesting that all the volcanoes that had recently appeared are connected by the fault line. CaptainSparklez joined KaraCorvus and RedVacktor in exploring the new formations.

## **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.

 Countdowns
 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