Whatever you do at the crossroads, don't turn left.

THEORIES / OBSERVATIONS

 

Avery’s Post

Avery is seen to be at the final crossroad – between him and the gates. Notably, he is in creative mode, as his health/hunger bars are not showing.

Inventory (L-R):

Jungle/Oak Leaves — position 1
Moss — position 3
Stone — position 5
Honey — position 7
Slime — position 8

Possibility 1:

All of the blocks shown have been encountered during d3rLord3’s footage. Leaves, moss, and stone could have been acquired at the cave that led to the mudbrick tunnel. The honey and slime could’ve been acquired at the exit of the cave. He was following d3rLord3’s path.

Possibility 2:

At this exact location, d3rLord3’s inventory was changed by an entity, shown at @https://youtu.be/3V7Rvo4Gvic?t=2169. This could mean that Avery’s inventory was also changed, thus he entered creative mode to investigate. The entity’s intentions and thought process are unclear.

One possibility is that the inventory could’ve been changed into a cipher, keyword, or something of the sort.

The change might’ve been to paint a symbolic image. For example, the slime could represent Avery, and the honey block (considering its gold/yellow color) could represent The King in Yellow. Conveniently, the block is placed on his left. However, I am uncertain about the other blocks ahead.

Possibility 3:

It’s important that avery is in creative mode. Therefore, the items could’ve been specifically chosen and arranged to be a part of a cipher/keyword by Avery himself.

Inventory Change (@https://youtu.be/3V7Rvo4Gvic?t=2169)

By taking the first letter of each block in his inventory, and adding an underscore whenever there’s a space, we receive a code:

_Nby_hKgyfYmm_SYfaiQ_mCah_ _ _vliNByL_.

When placed in a Caesar cipher decoder with rot 6, the code becomes:

_The_nQmelEss_YElgoW_sIgn_ _ _broTHeR_, which resembles the phrase “The Nameless Yellow Sign Brother”.

Capital Letters (possible keyword/cipher/etc):

NKYSYQCNBL/TQEYEWITHR

This could possibly be a reference to the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign – a cult that worshipped Hastur, or the King in Yellow. This concept originated from H.P. Lovecraft’s interpretation of the story; “The King in Yellow” written by Robert W. Chambers.

Cave Cipher

d3rLord3 mentioned that the cipher was a nice poem, and that cipher stacking isn't good practice. From the description of the video, Wifies mentioned that he stacked two substitution ciphers that could be solved with a simple Vigenère.

DMCTSTJBWTKKAWUBWLVQCVYONL
PCUIGVITUHQADUSSJMEWWRFABD
DDDAVOGHPHAFHMUIGHGHGODTK
IUCCHWEPBGJLHCTAQMTHIJM

bro... half the letters look like an h... i tried to compare my observations with other individuals on reddit (most reliable source ever)

The first of the stacked ciphers is a Vigenère. It has a keyword CIPPSA (YELLOW in Caesar Cipher rot 22), which gives us this string of text:

BENEATHTHESKYOFMELTINGGOLD
ANCIENTECHOSOFASHEPHERDSMO
LDBSGZOHNZLQPMSARSOHEGOES
ISUNSEENTRUTHALLBUTFAUX

I attempted to make out what the words could be:

BENEATH THE SKY OF MELTING GOLD
ANCIENT ECHOS OF A SHEPHERDS MOLD
BSGZOHNZLQPMSARSOHE GOES
IS UNSEEN TRUTH ALL BUT FAUX

The string of text was rather short, thus I was unable to solve it. However, Wifies did reveal the cipher in "Searching For a Christmas That Doesn't Exist". The deciphered text is:

BENEATH THE SKY OF MELTING GOLD
ANCIENT ECHOS OF A SHEPHERDS MOLD
AN OLD DECAY IF LEFT ONE GOES
IS UNSEEN TRUTH ALL BUT FAUX