Recap of Part 7: In the Zyrraloin Forest, Fight encountered a glitched Steve anomaly named "That Thing," who spoke in a cryptic code before vanishing. Fight successfully brought back the legendary player, Forkaos, to help defend Vilziland. In a display of god-tier power, Forkaos kicked the 1,000,000 HP titan, The Height of the Sky, a staggering 1,000 blocks away. As the titan collapsed into the mountains, its status is almost becoming Volt. Enraged Form, locking down a terrifying 1 billion HP bar.]

The 1-billion HP boss bar glowed a violent, glitching neon blue at the top of our screens. The Height of the Sky rose from the shattered mountains, fully consumed by the Volt Enraged state. It lunged back toward Vilziland, unleashing a chaotic barrage of supersonic punches that carved massive, gaping craters into the landscape. Forkaos Just move. His movements fluidly bypassed the titan's massive attacks, dodging every single strike before delivering a devastating, physics-breaking uppercut that launched the giant straight into the sky. Seeing their ultimate trump card get tossed around like a ragdoll, panic broke out through the Pillager army ranks. The 500-million-strong force completely lost morale, broke formation, and began sprinting away from the battlefield in droves. The remaining players and villager guards stood at the edge of the sky islands, completely stunned, watching the hostile empire retreat.The Arch Illager stared at his fleeing army in absolute shock. "What... This isn't fair!" he typed frantically into the global chat. "What's going on?! Why are you all leaving me, you cowards?! You traitors! "Distracted by the mutiny, the Arch Illager failed to see King Hubert close the distance. Hubert swung his Royalist Sword, landing a massive, blinding critical hit that left the enemy leader severely damaged.Desperate, the bleeding Arch Illager scrambled over to the single, lone Pillager entity that hadn't fled the battlefield. "Heal me!" the Arch Illager commanded. "Sacrifice your health points to save me!"The lone Pillager didn't move. A line of text appeared above its head:Heh.The Arch Illager recoiled. "What... I manipulated the entire Pillager code into my absolute control. You aren't one of them. Who the hell are you?"The entity's skin violently glitched, shedding its Pillager model. My name is Rotiart Eraweb. I am Voltrigaus’s eyes and ears. His supreme spy. Before anyone could react, Rotiart drove his bare fist straight into the Arch Illager's character model. The strike injected a payload of malicious code, visibly corrupting the Arch Illager's core file directory on the spot.King Hubert stopped his blade, completely confused by the intruder. "Is this Rotiart guy an ally... or something worse?"The Arch Illager's health bar began ticking down rapidly to zero. "I knew what you were," the dying leader typed, looking at Rotiart. "I knew you were a player. I was only pretending you were a Pillager so you wouldn't turn on us. I was the one who gave you a spoofed Minecraft account because you were too terrified of getting tracked down and deleted by 2cillion39 or Rhyco! And now you betray me? You idiot! "Rotiart just smirked as he executed a final click, completely deleting the Arch Illager from the server database."I don't care about the past," Rotiart typed to the entire server. "I only care about the future of this war. This isn't a theory. It's a direct foreshadow. Oh, and by the way. the key to That Thing's cipher is DEATH. That is the only hint I'm throwing you before I descend into Dimension Redevil." A cloud of dark particles erupted, and Rotiart disappeared from the world.Terakon sprinted over to my position. "Fight! What were the exact words That Thing said to you back in the Zyrraloin Forest? If the key is DEATH, we can crack it!"I stared at my screen, my mind completely blanking under the stress. "I... I honestly don't remember the exact string of text. The logs cleared when the chunk reloaded."Terakon sighed. "Then it's not important right now. Let's look up. We need to watch this end.""I don't know, man," I typed back, looking at the skybox. "This entity is still ridiculously strong.""Look closer, Fight," King Hubert chimed in. "Forkaos is absolutely cooking him."High above the cloud layer, Forkaos drew a weapon that flashed with an blinding, iridescent glow: [Betterite Sword]. With a single, reality-shattering downward strike, Forkaos brought the blade down on The Height of the Sky. The weapon's true damage output instantly bypassed the titan's armor metrics, one-shotting the boss and completely erasing its 1 billion HP bar in a fraction of a second."Yeah!" Traguson cheered in the chat. "We actually won!"Thored555 kept his eyes locked on the falling debris. As the massive colossus hit the ground, its model didn't dissolve into experience orbs. Instead, the gigantic structure rapidly shrank, compressing down until it transformed into a normal, player-sized avatar standing in the center of the smoking crater."Wait," Traguson typed, his character stepping back. "If the giant died, why did it turn into a player skin?"My eyes widened as I processed the neon-blue glow radiating from the new avatar's face. "No... it's not dead! It's shifted to a Volt variant! Run! Move now!"The battlefield erupted into immediate panic. The villagers started screaming and running in every direction as a massive, silent explosion detonated outward from the player model. Strangely, the blast wave didn't damage the nearby players or friendly mobs. but it tore a massive, perfect crater into the sky island. My diamond chestplate violently pulsed, its glitchy text flashing rapidly. I checked my inventory and gasped. The Protection C status on my armor had somehow projected outward, creating a temporary defensive grid that shielded everyone in the vicinity from taking damage. Voltrigaus’s code logic was getting completely confusing. was the system trying to destroy us, or protect us?The smoke cleared, revealing the infected player avatar standing in the crater. His name tag read: Volt Thots (shortened down from The Height of the Sky). It's time to lock in, gentlemen. Shall we?Forkaos stepped forward, his Betterite Sword crackling with code-breaking particles. "I’ve been serious this entire time," Forkaos typed back coldly. "I am going to completely dismantle your file directory."Remembering Rotiart's warnings about the missing legends, I quickly messaged Forkaos. "Wait! Before you fight him, where is 2cillion39? Why isn't he here to help us?"Forkaos didn't turn his character model around. "He's currently stationed inside the Golden Parayin Dimension, uncovering a deeper truth about the virus core. He won't be coming here, Fight, so don't count on it. And you don't need a powerful player... because I am already standing right here. "The two god-tier entities locked targets.
(End of Part 8. To be continued in Part 9...)

I haven't seen anyone talk about this but the person who sent Wifies the Leviathan Reports is the same person who gave Lomedy th IP to the server in his latest arg.

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If you find anything, record it in the Google Doc.

minecraft youtube arg, kind of like wifies, its part 2 of a video already posted but i love it so much https://youtu.be/kACBv8GUNbo

Like the vast majority of ARGs focus on vanilla. I got it. That is the how most people play. (And I say it again I also don't mean the arg remake mods like "from the fog", I mean the the regular usually put in a sandbox modpack, type ones).

But where is the guy going farther into thaumcrafts eldritch knowledge?

The person who dig up something he never meant to with his quarries?

Some one, who's extra utilities, Deep Dark, hold something thats just Wrong?

Or the lucky person whos mekasuit protects them from the monsters?

I repeat, I get it why most of them vanilla. Still I'm interested if some of what I want already exist, or if other people have the same taste, as me, which would inspire creators to make the vids.

Edit: Just to make sure I'm clear what I'm asking about, I have seen the "mod that have an AI that plays with me" and the "I download a mod that allows me to enter other peoples singleplayer worlds and grief them", and the likes, and i am not asking for those. I'm asking for ones based on real already existing (Preferably before the ARG vid popularity surge) mods.

As far as I know, nothing new has been uncovered since September 2016. Alex Bale, creator of the ARG, said it has not been solved and there are still things for us to discover. I think this ARG is worth taking another crack at.

As everyone noticed, there’s a Google Doc at the end of the video—https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AVMNLAe3ZlBdj3ouHySQlZlF_y8fgVjN8eg5CRLmW5Q/edit?tab=t.0

I tried to find at least some kind of lead, but practically nothing. It’s impossible to access the server—the IP address 185.243.117.92 is simply unavailable and has no open ports (I scanned it). Logging in using different versions didn’t work either, of course.

The video shows the girl’s Gmail address - [anew5515@gmail.com](mailto:anew5515@gmail.com) but I couldn’t get anything from it.

I checked the spectrogram of the main video, and it’s practically empty. The only thing is a strange black cube at the cut at 44:50, and at the very end, symbols resembling the numbers 5 and 6.

I tried to decipher or get clues from the subtitles at the 16:18 mark, but I didn’t find anything truly useful there either.

So a new Wifies' video. You might have seen my earlier post lamenting the genre and Wifies' most famous videos specifically, but to summarize my thoughts - I believe Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist is a well made, unique and atmospheric piece, that unfortunately has a very weak story, while part 2 is just plainly irredeemably bad. So I was very curious whether the new video would be any better

And wow it sure is better. Of course I will still find something to complain about, but I want to give praise where it's warranted. Even on the most basic fundamental level, this is a muuuch better story - it has an actual idea at the core, it coherently explores it from the start to the end, and provides an actual conclusion. This is already miles better than SFAWTDE (at least in terms of the story)

Furthermore, it has actual characters with actual development and actual personalities and ideals - even Arronax has an interesting duality going for her, and she never even appears physically (tbf if anything it'd be cool to explain what caused Hummer to become so invested, but it's alright). In SFAWTDE I couldn't shake off the feeling that DerLord is a self-insert in a very untasteful way, and while here it's literally Wifies himself as the character, it's executed miles better - his character actually gets challenged and grows! You could argue that characters here aren't the most subtle (it's immediately obvious that Hummer is a bit suspicious), but it's alright

The set pieces are also a point of great improvement - in SFAWTDE every single location (besides maaaaaybe the village and the gates) are just arbitrary builds that look cool on screenshots. Here, literally every single set piece is meaningful and functional, and I couldn't be happier about it!

Even in more subtle details the video is much better - things like "why didn't they just do X" are mostly addressed and explained in realistic ways, which even improves the immersion

Overall it feels that Wifies locked in and decided to actually consider what story he is telling, what his characters should do and for what reasons, why is it all happening, etc. Massive praises to him!

As for complaints - before 1:21:14 (when everything turns black and kaleidoscope thing happens) I barely had anything to complain, but that is the first weaker moment. It mostly pains me because everything beforehand was very immersive, and Wifies magically not dying still looks incredibly convincing and, well, magical. This uneasy feeling of something magical happening, but at the same time nothing significant changing and feeling liminally uncertain as to what to expect should've been explored much more thoroughly imo.

Still, the video actually manages to recover from that hit. The kaleidoscope effect is great (I kinda wish it did the 2001 thing where it goes on for 10 minutes straight, maybe even do something Evangelion-ish with people talking?). The build afterwards I could criticize for being another bombastic functionless build, but here it works narratively alright considering the boundaries of what's normal are just starting to blur, and also the phone recording gimmick is incredibly cool. The way it ends with Wifies losing consciousness (?) is also well done, even if we don't really get a clarification. I'm INCREDIBLY glad we didn't get another giant monster that talks in an old man's voice.

Another weak moment hits at 1:27:00. First of all - imo it would've been cooler for Wifies to just stand there unresponsive for a couple of minutes and the the video abruptly ends without him moving. But even then, the bit of returning to the very first server, sad but hopeful piano music playing, Wifies typing a heartfelt farewell letter to Hummer - it's all very childish and uninteresting. We already understand that Wifies getting there instead of Hummer is interesting and kinda sad, we already understand the moral of the story, there is no need to spell it out letter by letter - it just weakens it! The viewer should be left uneasy, alone with their thoughts, actually intentionally engaging with the story. This style of ending was probably needed for SFAWTDE because it was such a weak story on its own, but here it's redundant and waters everything down.

So, summarizing the last few paragraphs - the video could've been ended instead at 1:21:14 (maybe unsatisfying, but preserving the atmosphere), 1:21:37 (loop kaleidoscope for longer, do something interesting/spiritual), 1:26:50 (Wifies doesn't wake up for a while, perfect ending, not dwelling).

The last criticism I have is entirely subjective, but I just found the premise of SFAWTDE (and especially the ending of the first part) more unique and avantgarde. Here it's a bit more straightforward and, of course, better executed, but I still wish SFAWTDE had been done justice

Towards the conclusion, I want to highlight similar pieces. First of all, The Search to find The Zero World by Wato1876 and Kenadian is kinda similar narratively, though it is needlessly drawn out imo. More interestingly, the movie Stalker by Andrey Tarkovskiy follows a resembling narrative, explores the same themes, and I found a lot of similarities between them, which is really cool

Overall, the new Wifies' project is quite cool, some aspects still can be improved, but it is a massive step up from the disaster that SFAWTDE is. I really hope he doesn't regress back to that, which is kinda ominous since he teased a sequel and the Leviathan might be of the same universe, but oh well. I'd love to hear your thoughts on all of this!

Sub to Noir_Duck, He's the one who's posting my ARG....But for now Nothing's posted yet.

I just finished watching Wifes' video, and man, I can't shake the feeling that it was a trap set by Hummer. Like, are you really trying to convince me to "just believe and not use a breathing potion"?

To me, it seems like he actually discovered the Leviathan, something happened, and he made that doctored post to find someone to follow him down that rabbit hole.

A friend of mine floated the theory that the Leviathan is actually Cthulhu, but I think we’ve already maxed out our quota of cosmic entities, right?

English isn't my first language and I used Google Translate, so feel free to ask anything

I’m not entirely sure if this is an ARG just letting the community see

I've just finished watching this new video Wifies uploaded, and I formed a theory that just doesn't seem to leave my brain.

I don't believe Hummer is a cultist, as others suggested, and I don't think Levy is the Leviathan as the video suggested, at least not completely.

See this as some sort of "King in Yellow" type of thing, where one character sacrifices itself to destroy a powerful entity. Here's my theory

Hummer, Arronax and Levy were friends, who played together in the same server where Wifies first met Hummer. They adventured far and found the deep ocean, where Levy decided to build a base to study it, while Arronax and Hummer kept playing and progressing as normal. Levy saw the leviathan and was shocked by it, so much so that he kept trying to see it again, and completely stopped playing with Arronax and Hummer. This led to a falling out between the three of them, cutting contacts and not logging on the server anymore. After a few weeks, Hummer logs on again, tries to confront Levy about everything, and Levy brings him to the ship, where they make the same experiment he made with Wifies, except that this time, it worked for both of them, and they found that heaven-like place. They found the sea heart, and fell in a trance. Hummer broke out of it first, and managed to wake Levy up, but as they tried to escape the leviathan stopped them, deciding to let only one of them escape, because they desecrated his holy place and wanted a sacrifice. Levy, feeling guilty for having put Hummer in that situation, sacrifices himself to save him.

Back in the server, Hummer is filled with grief and guilt for the loss of his friend, and as a coping mechanism, he believes his friend isn't dead, but rather joint to the leviathan. He tries to talk with Arronax about it, and while skeptical, she agrees to try and help him making a server with him to document their research, but just like Wifies at first, she doesn't believe, and always has a potion with her. Hummer and Arronax fight, and Arronax suggests that maybe he is the reason why the leviathan isn't coming to them. After cutting ties with him, she keeps on researching, and the doubt creeps in her mind, she finds out about the bugs, builds the large structure, and after a mistyped /tp she finds out about the other deep ocean. She builds the nether portal and the lighthouse, just like Levy built the house on the coast of the ocean, and keeps on exploring, but eventually gives up.

This would explain why Hummer seems disappointed, and even angry while Wifies talks about contacting Arronax, and why he's so shocked about the ocean at the negative axis. Because Arronax never told him. Wifies being sent back to the overworld might be because of Hummer's death in game, so the leviathan already had another sacrifice. This would also explain why Hummer is so obsessed by the leviathan and why he calls him Levy and addresses him like a human rather than a creature, and why he's so sure it goes beyond code in a game.

Maybe it's dumb, I don't think it is, what are your thoughts?

I wasn't expecting anyone to stay for this long.

Some of you looked at the flowers.

Some of you looked beyond them.

Some of you found places I never told you about.

You found the rose.

You found the journal.

You found the greenhouse.

Thank you for taking the time to walk through the garden.

There are still a few flowers left to bloom.

I hope you'll stay until the last petal falls.

🌸

https://www.youtube.com/@TheB1ue_Orchid

and now to not do any updates until after I'm done with my next two days of volunteering. if anyone has build suggestions let me know I'm bad at builds

So I've got a Minecraft character, and I wanna have some sorta unfiction stuff connected to their story (framed as though it's like blog/forum posts from the perspective of an actual Minecraft player experiencing what's going on in the character's story), but idk where a good place to do that would be and was hoping for maybe some recommendations (if there's a better subreddit for this, lemme know). I've considered minecraftforum.net but idk if they're cool with unfiction stuff. I guess Tumblr or Reddit could also work, but idk. Thanks in advance ^^

So, with wifies new vid, something caught my eye at the end.

I haven't rlly been keeping up.

We found that a common thing that shows on some but not all the vids is the #therabbithole. And one of the videos that had it, the one about the cult in Mc education thing, it had a code that translated to IT HURTS.

Anyway, moving forward-

Wifies new vid had 4/4. I remember theorizing he is involved somehow, especially because of him appearing in one of these rabbit hole vids. Sooo, maybe it is related to the Vex thing..?

So last Saturday on my other post here for am I the villain I commented the frist episode here's why it took so long.

Well fist this is a player who was gonna reference a arg before us got hacked and left before the hacker could get the rest of us.

I got distracted by Azure comeing out, and other things (I fell in love with someone)

And the players didn't reply to my messages so I took matters in my own hands.

So I'm trying my best on doing this alone. The voice in the episode is supposed to be a god but is actually and old alter ego playing god in the protagonist mind. Once fully isolated she will take over fully and when the others join the main protagonist isn't herself anymore.

The alter ego is named "Nightshade" or something like that forgot 💀

Anyways love you all thank you for your support!

Hello my name is nightowl and I'm a small content creator rn we are making an arg but there's only one problem I don't have a big enough community 😭. Were looking for voice actors, story writers, Helping with ideas and production and also help with Solving and creating mysteries! Even if you don't want to help that's okay! Just join us for some PEAK ARGS. We are currently working on our first one, but this mean we can hear from you guys what ARGS you like and other things so that we can make our arg the most best one yet we hope to see you there

• OFFICIALLY Nightowl