Summary
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Avery, a YouTuber, finds a pre-built mine and a chest with a strange book in a Minecraft world he claims he didn't create. The book contains a repeating message: 'Whatever you do, at the crossroads, don’t turn left,' followed by a sequence of numbers that defy common ciphers. Avery explains he found the laptop and world in a storage locker, raising questions about the book's origin and meaning.
At the very end of Avery's initial video, a quick flash of his inventory reveals a pattern of blocks. This pattern, when translated by taking the first letter of each block's name, forms a Google Drive link, leading to a folder of further mysterious footage and documents, marking the beginning of a deeper mystery.
In subsequent footage, Avery explores a cave in the world and discovers unnatural moss, grass, and bizarrely generated trees underground. He notes the unusual composition of the cave walls, lacking diorite, granite, andesite, or ores. The greenery intensifies as he proceeds, leading to a massive cavern filled with unnaturally large trees forming a staircase and a central tunnel.
Avery enters the central tunnel, which progressively becomes darker. Torches mysteriously extinguish, and he hears unsettling whispers, suggesting he's not alone in the single-player world. These incidents cause him distress and trigger an inexplicable compulsion to jump down an unseen opening.
The Google Drive folder also contains a PDF document describing a similar discovery of a pre-created Minecraft world, but its details conflict with Avery's account of finding the laptop. Furthermore, Avery's name and skin in the later footage are censored, and a brief glimpse reveals the name 'd3rLord3,' suggesting the player might not be Avery at all.
Avery (now implicitly d3rLord) plunges into a water-filled tunnel system, navigating an endless maze of underwater passages. He hears whispers again, forcing him to dig into a wall for refuge. Upon reaching 'The Oasis,' he crafts a boat and sets a trap using a hopper and reduced render distance to detect if 'something' loads the chunk in his absence, confirming an entity is following him.
After waiting, no entity triggers his hopper trap. However, Avery discovers hidden, blank signs pointing to a specific intersection point. Later, he reveals a second trap: a grass block placed next to dirt. If the chunk loaded in his absence, the grass would have spread, revealing the entity's presence. He confirms 'Something is here,' indicated by the spread of the grass.
Avery navigates a complex maze, acknowledging that whatever is following him is also intelligent, skillfully hiding its presence. He emerges into a new room with a cipher above a door. He eventually solves the complex cipher, which involves 'cipher stacking.' A quick flash then explicitly confirms the player is 'd3rLord3,' not Avery. The video questions who d3rLord3 is, and how their story connects to Avery's.
d3rLord3 enters an abandoned village, notable for its empty structures and pervasive yellow accents, but finds no clear path forward. He eventually discovers a hidden journal entry, written by d3rLord3 himself, expressing disdain for the villagers and their king, and warning any finder to 'turn back. Disconnect. Forget about this world. It is not for you.'
The video reveals that d3rLord3 wrote the mysterious book found by Avery. The final code in the book, previously indecipherable, is broken by correlating the numbers with d3rLord3's inventory slots in the footage. The message reads: 'Run Avery, it’s here.' This implies d3rLord3 was leaving a warning for Avery, anticipating his discovery of the world. The video concludes that whatever entity was after d3rLord3 is now coming for Avery, and the mystery of the 'king' and what lies behind the censored area remains unresolved.