‘My moon, my man’

Avery is shown throughout the series to have average intelligence. He is clearly not as smart as D3rlord3 in his ability to solve puzzles, but often shows adaptability and an inherent sense of danger in whatever situation he's in. Despite this, he is shown to be very empathetic and caring, which can cloud his own judgement at times when it is needed. This can lead to him being naive, which can come off as stupidity. Avery is also shown to have low self esteem, as in DaWTDE he can be seen putting others above him and dumbing down his own achievements, often stating that he is the wrong person to be looking for D3rlord.

First off, Avery posts a video on YouTube about his Minecraft world where there’s an odd book, saying ‘whatever you do at the crossroads, don’t turn left.’

The ARG then lead us to find D3rlord3’s (Derlord, also known as derek) videos.

The first video by Derlord is as follows; On September 1st, 2025, a player named d3rLord3 began exploring the world and mined into a cave whilst creating a strip mine, only to discover unusual world generation. At the end of the cave, d3rLord emerged into a huge, open cavern covered in moss and large trees. After briefly exploring the cavern, d3rLord entered a tunnel made out of mud and started to walk down it until he saw torches disappearing behind him and hearing voices whispering around him. He states he is not scared, and jumps into a lake at the end of the tunnel.

After landing in the lake, d3rLord pick a tunnel at random and swam down it until he eventually emerged on the other side in a huge underground forest surrounding the pond he had come from.

After taking in the view, d3rLord dove back into the pond and blocked off the entrance to prevent whatever was following him from entering the same way. Knowing that it would come in through the same way, d3rLord began creating a trap to detect the entity following him using a chunk loader. After building the trap, d3rLord began exploring the area, coming across several signs that appeared to point in one direction. Before deciding to follow them, he made a quick trip back to the chunk loader, finding it unchanged. However, d3rLord had set a second trap by placing a block of grass next to a block of dirt without documenting it, which had now also grown into grass, meaning that the entity had followed through the pond and blocked off the entrance, loading the chunk and filling back the hopper with items, and incidentally allowed the grass to spread. d3rLord finds his way through and locate the exit: a huge room consisting of a giant gate and large letters arranged above it in a cipher-stacked code. Unfortunately, d3rLord also had to deal with a combination lock made out of levers in front of him, with a huge cipher-encrypted message at the top. He supposedly solved it using nothing but a pen and paper in 17 minutes. The Cipher was a poem encrypted using Cipher-Stacking (a bad practice), but he rejected the puzzle and instead simply mined through the gate with his pickaxe.

Through the gate, d3rLord discovered a huge, abandoned village that seemed to belong to some kind of civilization. Off in the distance, d3rLord spotted an abandoned house isolated from the rest of the village, containing a book and quill that appeared to catalog the villagers' attempt to summon a "king" before warning the reader to turn back and delete the world. Mining through a bookshelf to see if there was anything else he had missed, d3rLord found a pair of doors behind a bookshelf and travelled through, ending up in another hallway.

As d3rLord reached the end of the hallway, he found himself in a cave and went left, discovering that the cave was seemingly being corrupted by a black essence. As the cave became entirely black, d3rLord rounded a corner and discovered a building situated in the darkness, with only the glow coming from behind the two large yellow gates providing any illumination. As d3rLord approached the gates, he braced himself before passing by them and entering the building, only to freeze at the sight of something that’s blacked out in editing. After a few seconds, d3rLord backed out of the building and ran for his life back to the hallway, turning away from it and going the other direction until he burrowed into the walls and found himself back in the room he started off in when he was strip mining.

After arriving back at the room he started off in, d3rLord pulled out a book and began frantically writing a warning message to Avery, whom he knew would be coming next as a result of the future knowledge given by the King in Yellow and addressed by name in an encoded message, telling him to not turn left at the crossroads before putting the book and quill in the chest and logging off. At some point, the laptop was obtained by Avery, who ran a YouTube channel called "AveryTheMayo" and began using it as his personal laptop. At some point while playing Minecraft on d3rLord's world, he stumbled across d3rLord's mine a few hundred blocks away from his base, including his strange book and quill.

d3rLord briefly passes through the church, being resistant to the mental effects of its book and leaving a reassuring message for Avery after forseeing his arrival. He arrives in the caves and like Avery, is stumped by the pillars puzzle.

Avery finds the church d3rlord did, and falls into an odd cycle for 12 hours of breaking then replanting flowers after seeing what was in the church book. He eventually finds the note d3rlord left for him and breaks out of his trance, which he then charges out to find d3rlord.

During the events of this video, Avery searches for d3rLord, following his trail throughout the yellow gates until he comes across the library, where he finds him. d3rLord explains everything that happened, as well as giving a link to a Google doc documenting his experience, but pleads for Avery to leave, not willing to risk his safety. Before they can react, the King in Yellow/Hastur captures them. D3rlod tells Avery to leave, but Avery, now attached to d3rlod after being saved by d3rlod multiple times, refuses. To protect him, d3rLord kills Avery in-game with an axe, booting him off the server. At some point, d3rlord revealed his name to be derek.

d3rLord, recites a spell in the chat, shocking Hastur at the fact that the genuine spell managed to evade his sight. As Hastur's realm and form collapses, he begs d3rLord to revoke the spell, telling him that fusing with him will kill them both. Suddenly, Avery arrives, angry at d3rLord for lying about the "gold" on the tree and demanding to know what's going on. Hastur begins to revive from his presence, so d3rLord urges to leave and that he'll explain everything later. Avery stubbornly refuses, especially after hearing that d3rLord might die, as he believes that d3rLord doesn't deserve to die when Hastur only wants him. Seeing as Avery refuses to leave, d3rLord manages to punch him off the altar, disconnecting him from the server.

With that, Hastur finally degrades and d3rLord begins to fade away. Before this, he writes a final letter to Avery, thanking him for his determination and leading him down on this path to see all this beauty.

Avery stared at the screen of the disconnect. He tried to rejoining, but found the world was void. He eventually found Derek’s last note. Avery promptly broke down in tears, spending most of his time for the next few weeks mourning that man who he hardly ever got to know.

Avery works as a barista in a small coffee shop. He is a tan, white man with dyed green hair, his natural brown hair visible at the tips. He wears white t-shirts with green flannels over top, baggy jeans, and black and white shoes.

Avery’s Minecraft skin is a green slime in a white shirt, black jacket with yellow flowers, jorts, and black flip flops.

Avery, after mourning derek for about a month, goes back to work. After a week of working again, he runs into derek.