u/Dazzling_Monk_3845

The new video titled "Trapped" was released today and I got the chance to look into it.

Video itself contains the footage of X0 finding a switch and pressing it, which turns on the lightbulb and displays a text saying "He will not escape...". I'm assuming it's X0 because of the way camera has barely any movement and that it seems that the player who's perspective we're looking from is confident in their own actions.

Description of the video contains a link ( https://minecraftarchives.ct.ws/ ) to a website called "Minecraft Archives". Currently it has only one intercepted transmission with options to unlock it by entering in a key word or by guessing a 4-digit code. As of writing this I haven't discovered what the key word is, but I do believe Hawaii is somehow a hint, because it's written on the tab with the unlock and hack buttons. As for guessing the code, its a 4 digit code of a 0000-9999 format. It works kinda like Wordle, because if you guess the one correct digit in a correct position it will stay. Code is reset and randomised every time you press a "give up" button in the window that opens for you to guess the code.

First transmission contained a youtube link to an unlisted video where Edison (the main character) starts a new survival world and after a bit of playing he finds that void mass has spread to this world too. video ends. Description is empty.

Update: As of writing this there was new transmission that I also password guessed and it contained a link to a png that look like this:

https://preview.redd.it/kc8pfkh2zqzg1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5467f025e8883ef5e0f02b3bdca79e2da8d34e5

As far as I know this image doesnt contain any hidden messages and stuff, but you may find something that I didnt notice.

Also to note, this transmission also had a text saying "HELLo". I noted the weird capitalization but it doesnt really give me anything yet if at all.

That's about everything there was with this update. This took an unexpected turn with some actual ARG elements. I will be looking forward to any new releases.

I've tried going as deep as I could get and here's what I found on the channel:

Its got 6 videos as of right now and the plot is about a player EdisonPts22826 downloading a skyblock map without knowing anything about the map and later finding that on the bottom of the world void starts to spread. In the third video titled "X" we shift perspective to player/entity by the name of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX0 (I'll be calling them X0 for easier time) and they read a book containing a quick summary of an experiment being conducted on Edison, it has a warning about void mass spreading and asking if they wanna continue the experiment. Then, skipping over a video of Edison withnessing more void spreading we shift back to X0 who wanders around a VERY VERY familiar space, the hallways they wander around look exactly the same as VoidExp from Mark101's arg but no matter, X0 finds a book with message saying that they should suspend it using a command "lvl.void.expunge", which X0 does but then in another console they type lvl.X.home and the video ends. Final video shows us a perspective of Edison with red text saying "he got teleported" and then we see Edison wander around the same corridors as X0 and finding out that skyblock is fake and that he's part of an experiment. Later, Edison finds a book asking if they wanna stop the experiment and he chooses to end it, then hides in the room he got initially teleported into.

Now, on the possible ARG part and everything I've gathered.

In the description of every video there's a link to a channel named @GetPlayerTV‬ thats mentioned as the editor of the videos, and on the channel itself there is nothing important, just a Russian teen trying to be a youtuber, and everything seems unrelated to the channel I'm investigating. In the description of GetPlayerTV there is a link to a telegram channel, but after looking through it, there's also nothing ARG related, so this channel in its entirety is a dead lead.

Now a second thing, in the description of the last video there is a code: 53 6F 20 79 6F 75 27 76 65 20 66 69 6E 61 6C 6C 79 20 66 69 67 75 72 65 64 20 69 74 20 6F 75 74 2E 2E 2E 20 46 69 6E 61 6C 6C 79 0A 49 20 74 68 6F 75 67 68 74 20 79 6F 75 20 77 65 72 65 20 64 75 6D 62 20 74 6F 20 66 69 67 75 72 65 20 69 74 20 6F 75 74 2E 2E. After deciphering it in two different ways I got these results:

If using the HEX code it gives this: "So you've finally figured it out... Finally. I thought you were dumb to figure it out.."

If using Tridigital it gives this:

https://preview.redd.it/ldiiw9p1bzyg1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da60a02893ac30edaecb42268e555dac85126d13

While Novelcraft and dragonfly didn't exactly at anything for me, phrase "the ides of march" send me down some spirals.

The ides of March is occurring on March 15, is a date in the Roman calendar historically known for marking the midpoint of the month. And is also connected to death of Julius Caesar. The phrase is also widely used today to represent a moment of betrayal or a turning point toward disaster. So what do we get from it? Mention of Caesar sent me down a spiral of trying out the Caesar cihper on the words we got but to no avail even though I certainly didnt try everything yet. After that I decided to focus on it reflecting a moment in the episode rather than just being another hint, and in that regard, The ides of March fits perfectly as Edison finding out that he's a part of an experiment which can be count as a disaster to both Edison himself and those whoever is behind the experiments.

That's about everything I have on this channel so far and it seems I've hit a dead end. I'm unsure whether there will be future uploads from the channel or not, but I'll be keeping an eye out just in case it does upload. Other than that Im leaving it out to yall if you wanna go into it.

As for the videos themselves? It's seems to be a cheap copycat of Mark101, as everything in this channel just seems to be the same as Mark101 but bad.