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“Whatever you do at the crossroads, don’t turn left.”
Was what Megan assumed the first line to a book that she did not write.
She booted up a recording program and opened Minecraft, she typed out in the chatbox:
<TheMostMeiyoK> Hey guys!
<TheMostMeiyoK> I found this weird mine on my world
<TheMostMeiyoK> that I DIDNT make.
<TheMostMeiyoK> its about 400ish blocks away from my base and ive never been here
<TheMostMeiyoK> I PROMISE
Her character walked down the cobblestone staircase of the mine, pausing briefly to type.
<TheMostMeiyoK> i think this mightve belonged to the person who owned this computer but idk
<TheMostMeiyoK> BUT ANYWAYS
<TheMostMeiyoK> this looks normal, right?
Her character now was standing in front of a chest, which she right-clicked to open.
It had the typical items one would expect from a mine, but inside was an unsigned book and quill.
She put the item in her inventory, shutting the chest.
<TheMostMeiyoK> look at this
The book opened.
Whatever you do at the crossroads, don’t turn left.
Don’t be fooled, its listening to me
Its watchingm e.
You cant beat it. It is not from this world
At the crossroads, Dont turn left.
At the crossroad s, dont durn left.
at the crossroads, don’t turn left.
atT he crossroads, DON’T turn left.
At the crossroads, don’t turn left.
23-2 29 2, 13 10-2 12-3 24 2. 19 30-4 15, 16 10-2 10-3 10-2
Megan’s eyes narrowed hard at the screen as she stared at the numbers of the last page on the screen. Earlier, when she first encountered the place, she’d racked her brain, tried about all the possible combinations she could to try and crack the whatever code the author put.
And she stopped trying when nothing seemed to work.
<TheMostMeiyoK> pretty creepy right
<TheMostMeiyoK> I’ve been tryna decode those numbers at the end
<TheMostMeiyoK> but if anyone can solve it, feel free to let me know!
<TheMostMeiyoK> anyways, that’s it for now
<TheMostMeiyoK> see you next time!
<TheMostMeiyoK> I hope lol
For a brief second inventory suddenly flashed a random assortment of items.
She jolted back from her monitor slightly, then ended her recording.
Maybe she was in one of those freaky Minecraft ‘arg’ things she saw on Youtube? Whatever it was, Megan wasn’t any less confused.
She’d decided she would investigate further. She’d learned a lot of things from those narrators, one of those being that if there’s some weird pattern or symbols, it might be a code for something else.
And so, she went back and tried to decode the inventory flash herself, thinking it might be easier than the numbers. Taking a screenshot of the frame from the recording, Megan opened up her gallery to see the saved screenshot.
The first thing she thought o was taking the first letter of each item’s name. Maybe it was stupid. But maybe it would give her a lead. Then again, Youtubers had pretty random ways of solving these puzzles, and somehow all of them ended up working.
It was better than a caeser cipher, anything with words she could not help with. (You can thank her dyslexia for that.)
Writing down the code on a notepad, she got this:
1zv7ebkzikf5rb-ihlfnfxmizdhn3lywk
…yup. Looked totally helpful.
Then after rewatching one of those Minecraft arg investigation videos, Megan decided the next step would be to add it to make a link (based on the information she’d gotten). But saw that it was probably too long to be for a Youtube video link. She noticed it was perfect for a Google Drive folder.
But when she combined it into a link, she noticed it looked a bit odd. Maybe she did the code wrong?
She looked back at the image, then noticed some items had more than one amount.
That probably meant something.
Megan then randomly thought: what if the items with more than one were capitalized or something?
And so she did it.
And this was what she had now:
1Zv7eBkziKf5Rb-IhlFNFxMizdhn3lYwk
Then, she added it to a Google Drive link. Copy-pasted it into her browser.
After a few seconds of loading… it worked.
There was a google drive folder. It was titled Footage, with two videos, simply named footage.1 and footage.2, and a singular doc called info. Owned by a mysterious email that looked vaguely familiar.
…huh. Weird. Maybe she’d check that out.
But, she wasn’t sure. I mean, all this for some Minecraft world? She had her own life to focus on, anyway.
Nonetheless, Megan decided not to dwell on it too hard, posting her recording on the mine and the weird book on her Youtube channel, in hopes to find anyone who could help her solve this… mystery. Which, I guess, what this was now.