The video creator, Wifies (Who I very much recommend watching) gives context of the video he found this line in. Wifies goes over how he stumbled upon a Youtube channel by the name of \u201cAveryTheMayo,\u201d who uploaded a video of his minecraft world and how he found a weird book and mineshaft he did not create. Avery tells the viewer how he found the laptop he is currently playing Minecraft in, in a storage locker. (Keep this in mind for later) The rest of the video is Avery showing the rest of the contents of the book, with it ending with a jumble of numbers.
Putting these numbers into a cipher-code website will get you zero results. Chat gpt couldn\u2019t even solve this. So\u2026That\u2019s it? We don\u2019t know what happens next?
Not quite. You see, Avery flashes his inventory for nearly 2 frames before ending the video. In these frames, we can see his inventory is filled with random blocks, all in quantities of 1 and 2 of the items. This time, it\u2019s a code.
I don\u2019t know if you got it, but the code is simply just the 1st character that the block starts with, and capitalised if it\u2019s more than 1 of the item. By doing this, you get a string, a string that leads you to a Google Drive. https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1Zv7eBKziKf5Rb_IhlFNFxMizdhn3lYwk<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m not scared of torches going off.\u201d Avery types into the chat. All of the torches go out, Avery runs to the end of the tunnel, where there\u2019s a drop that leads to a huge tunnel system, submerged underwater. The bookshelf leads to a door, which leads to another tunnel. The tunnel leads to\u2026a cave. The cave divides two ways, one left, one right. DerLord stares at whatever is behind this square. As if he cannot take his eyes off of it. He is in some sort of trance. DerLord stares at the thing behind the door before running out. He runs out of the caves and mines, back to the original mines at the start of footage one. He opens the chest and writes in a book, He flashes his inventory again, before adding the jumble of numbers at the end of the book. The numbers. They correspond to each item in DerLord\u2019s inventory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After decoding, it reads, \u201cRun Avery, it\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What?<\/p>\n\n\n\n How does DerLord know Avery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n How does he know Avery will get his laptop?<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is it<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We never get a clear explanation for what DerLord saw behind that door. However, many online speculate it to be tied to one thing, The King in Yellow<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The King in Yellow<\/em> is a collection of loosely connected short stories by Robert W. Chambers, published in 1895. Several of the early stories revolve around a mysterious and forbidden play called \u201cThe King in Yellow,\u201d which is said to drive those who read or see it toward madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first story, The Repairer of Reputations, <\/em>is set in a near-future United States and follows Hildred Castaigne, a young man who believes he is destined to become a powerful political figure. After reading The King in Yellow<\/em>, Hildred becomes increasingly detached from reality and obsessed with secret conspiracies, royal succession, and violence. The story ends ambiguously, suggesting that much of what Hildred experiences exists only in his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Court of the Dragon <\/em>follows a church organist who is stalked through a city by a terrifying, otherworldly figure after encountering forbidden knowledge tied to the play. The pursuit ends in a surreal and horrifying confrontation inside a church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Yellow Sign <\/em>centers on an artist and his lover who are haunted by a decaying churchyard watchman and a strange symbol associated with the play. As their paranoia grows, reality begins to break down, culminating in death and madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Later stories in the collection move away from cosmic horror and focus more on romance and artistic life in Paris, with little or no reference to the King in Yellow. While these stories are less connected, the early tales form a shared idea of dread, suggesting that contact with the mysterious play opens the door to a ruined city called Carcosa and a powerful, unseen entity known as the King in Yellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s still unknown what<\/em> the King in Yellow really is. However we do know that The King in Yellow is a mysterious figure who brings madness, despair, and a sense of inevitable doom to those who encounter him. He is often described as a shadowy, otherworldly king whose presence alone can drive people insane. He appears in visions, dreams, or supernatural events, manipulating reality and influencing the minds of those around him, spreading fear and corruption wherever he goes. Essentially, he acts as a harbinger of chaos and psychological torment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most online do speculate that DerLord saw the King in Yellow, giving him a vast, incomprehensible vision of the universe, including infinite timelines and realities, and gave him a vision that flooded his mind with divine knowledge and drove him to near-insanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This ARG is honestly one of the best ones I have ever seen. The amount of time and research that went into this paid off marvelously<\/em> well. The subtle hints and clues left behind and the ending, the ENDING! Just pure art. I find it amazing when ARG creators connect their realities with real life stories as well, in this case The King in Yellow<\/em>. ARGs are probably the best videos I have ever watched, they have given me a ton of information and entertainment, and I love them. This one, \u201cSearching for a world that doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d takes the cake. \u201cWhatever you do at the crossroads, don\u2019t turn left.\u201d Minecraft. Everyone and their mother has heard about Minecraft. 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The folder contains two videos and a Google Document.
The first video titled, \u201cfootage 1,\u201d starts with a player entering the same mine that Avery was talking about. Avery looks in the chest, with the book Avery found on his youtube video, nowhere to be seen. Avery ends up mining into a new wall, and finding a cave. Avery goes down into the cave, finding multiple strange things you wouldn\u2019t normally find in a minecraft cave, such as trees and grass everywhere. The greenery ends up spreading out more and more the deeper Avery goes through the cave. Eventually, Avery sees a light at the end of the cave.
I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve played Minecraft before, but this<\/em> is NOT a normal generation in Minecraft.
Something about the way the trees are stacked makes them look as if they are a gate, a gateway to another area Avery needs to go through. The walls, all stone, making the viewer feel claustrophobic in a way, by the way it\u2019s surrounding Avery. So, who made it? And why is it in the world?
Avery goes through the trees, seeing a tunnel at the very edge of the area.
While walking through the tunnel, Avery keeps looking back. Which is weird, as this world seems like it\u2019s in singleplayer, meaning nobody else BUT Avery should be in this world, right? This all seems a bit odd until torches start going out behind Avery, little by little. Every time Avery walks, more torches go out behind him, his only light source, gone, for no reason at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what kind of practical joke this is,\u201d
\u201cBut I already heard you in the cave.\u201d
What?
Avery. Heard. Something? Someone? In the cave?
Going back to the footage, when Avery pauses every time, subtly, but surely, extra footsteps running on the stone can be heard behind Avery.
More torches go out, \u201cI\u2019m not scared of a game.\u201d
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Already, this is such a weird video. What was this world generation? Why are there extra footsteps behind Avery in this singleplayer world? Why is Avery talking to\u2026something?
Going back to the folder, if you look at the document, it reads, \u201cMy exploration into a strange tunnel I found in my minecraft world. I\u2019ve been playing this world for a while and just discovered this. This is my documentation of the search. Notably, when I installed Minecraft this world came pre-created. Always thought that was a little strange but I\u2019m not really sure.\u201d
Wait a minute, did we read that correctly? I<\/em> installed Minecraft? I? But Avery said that Minecraft was already on the computer he found in the storage locker, why is he now contradicting himself? Also, why is Avery\u2019s username now censored in the video on the google drive folder, when it wasn\u2019t in his youtube video?
Oh my goodness, it all makes sense.
That isn\u2019t Avery in the google drive footage. This is the original owner of the laptop. Now two new questions arise: What happened to the original owner? And what caused him to throw away his laptop?
Going back to footage 1, the player jumps down into the water, and swims to a piece of flatland next to the water.
\u201cI don\u2019t know why I jumped down. I wasn\u2019t scared. But I felt\u2026compelled. I\u2019ve never felt like that in my life\u201d
He felt\u2026compelled? What drove this player into jumping down to an unknown area into pitch darkness?
The player ends up going back into the water, where a network of tunnels arise. The player really has no choice but to choose a tunnel and hope for the best, that or drown. Finally, he chooses one, which leads to two paths. One leading to the left, and the other to the right. The player goes left.
The player finds a forest, and decides to explore it.
Before doing so, he leaves a trap, as well as other items he doesn\u2019t need in his inventory such as a grass block, a dirt block, and other miscellaneous items. A simple hopper trap, and he changes his render distance. For those who don\u2019t play Minecraft more than doing their homework, doing this will make the items stop moving if the player walks away. (to explore) The only way for them to continue, is if someone else came in and loaded the chunk the trap was in. Obviously, the player put this to confirm that someone or something was following them. Smart move. The player goes away to explore the forest. In it, he finds 3 signs. Nothing on the signs, however, all point to one area. Before going there, the player ends up going back to their trap to confirm their suspicions. He checks the hopper and\u2026they didn\u2019t move? That\u2019s odd. The player ends up walking away and looks at the two grass blocks in front of them.
Wait a minute. Two grass blocks?
But the player put down one grass block, and the dirt one right next to it. While yes, it\u2019s possible that grass can spread in Minecraft, it\u2019s only possible if someone else loaded the chunk.
Someone, or something, is following the player.
They know what the player does and are smart about it.
\u201cLooks like no one came.\u201d The player says in the chat.
In the text bar however, the player writes, \u201cI\u2019m not scared, but my gut says to keep moving.\u201d
\u201cMaybe I am scared.\u201d
This player is smart. But the thing following him is smart too.
The player goes to the area the signs were pointing to, a tree. He mines down, and falls into another tunnel. The tunnel, leading to a maze, leading to a giant room with a cipher over the door.
Putting these letters into a cipher-code website, again we get no results. Seems just like the book I guess, it will go nowhere. Footage 1 ends.
Footage two begins with the player just staring at the cipher. For seventeen minutes.
\u201cGot it.\u201d
It was solvable? But how? None of the cipher-code websites worked?
\u201cGood poem. But cipher stacking is pretty bad practice, you know.\u201d
Cipher stacking is what it sounds like, stacking more than one cipher code over a text, making it practically impossible to figure out with just a cipher-code website.
Who knows how this player solved it, either way, the door still is not open. The player just mines through the door, the most logical decision. \u201cUnfortunately for you, I have a pickaxe,\u201d He says in the chat.
Wait a minute. Are we seeing this right? The player\u2019s username, d3rLord3. It\u2019s uncensored.
We now know the original owner of this laptop.
That won\u2019t get us anywhere though. DerLord continues through the door, which leads to, you guessed it, another tunnel. The tunnel leading to a village.
The village is\u2026abandoned. If the cobwebs and holes in the roof weren\u2019t obvious enough. But, all of the chests contain nothing inside, it seems almost uncanny\u2014unreal at that. DerLord spots a tower at the very edge of the area. Inside, a secret room which DerLord finds. The secret room? A library. A huge collection of books, and a podium with a book and quill, someone wrote something in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI hate it here. These idiots are insufferable. They think that devotion will save them. Rest assured, it will not.\u201d
There are 8 pages of the book, detailing about the villagers believing \u201cThe King\u201d will come. However the author does not believe this and states, \u201cIf anything, their king is already here. It\u2019s watching me write this.\u201d
The author warns the reader to not go any further.
But of course, DerLord does not respect the author’s warning, and continues forward by mining through a bookshelf next to the book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DerLord goes left and continues onward.
The deeper DerLord goes into the cave, the narrower and darker it gets, it seems as if DerLord is going to have to turn back at some point.
Just then, light appears. It\u2019s the final destination.
It\u2019s another door. A yellow one. DerLord walks towards it.
He hesitates going in the door. The little crack opening the door to the other side.
DerLord stares at the yellow material on the door before going through the crack and sees\u2026
A big square covering the other side?
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhatever you do, do not turn left at the crossroads.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even with all the clues and puzzles that went into this, we will never truly know if DerLord really saw the King in Yellow or not. What really waits beyond that yellow door? Maybe we\u2019ll never know, but that uncertainty is exactly what makes this ARG unforgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"