The Blackout

This article is about the aftermath of The End (Chapter 1). For other instances where the game was not playable, see Unplayable Periods.

This article is about a live event in Battle Royale.

The following page details a one-time event that is no longer playable.

The Blackout
October 15 2019 13:00:00 EST -0500Ended!
Type	Unplayable Period
Event Start Date	October 13th 2019 (2:05 PM ET)
Event End Date	October 15th 2019 (9:00 AM ET)
Events
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Chronological Order
← Previous	The End
Next →	Chapter 2: Season 1

“

This was not calculated, The Nothing is now inevitable.

”

— The Scientist

The Blackout, also known as The Nothing or The Black Hole, was the aftermath of The End event in Season X. It was present for 36 hours.

Origin

After the Meteor destroyed the rift zone around The Zero Point sphere, it caused the frozen Zero Point's explosion to unfreeze (due to The Scientist stopping the explosion in the beginning of Season X) and created a whirlpool which contained everything into the Nexus. It then resulted in The Nothing appearing in the screen. This Blackout ended when the Black Hole imploded, and spit out Reality Zero, and caused Apollo and Artemis to be formed from Athena's Matter.

Audio

• Ambience
• Piano Snippets

Black Hole Appears
Loop

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Related Cosmetic Items

Black Hole

Secret message

Throughout the duration of The Blackout, numbers appeared around the Black Hole which form a message when matched with the words in Visitor Tapes. The numbers started repeating, 11, 146, 15, 62, 87, 14, 106, 2, 150, 69, 146, 15, 36, 2, 176, 8, 160, 65, 176, 11, 146, 15, 62. When put into comparison by the number of words in all of the Visitor's recordings from the Season 10 Out of Time Challenges, it states "I was not alone, others are outside the loop, this was not calculated, The Nothing is now inevitable".

Chapter 2: Season 1 Loading Messages

• ...[security encryption M7 authenticated]...
• The Containment Field has stabilized; The Bridge is intact.
• The seven succeeded. Our manipulations averted disaster.
• The zero point is ours, and the plan can continue.
• ...[recalculating Loop shift]...
• ...[initiating sub Loop text transmission]...
• ...[redirecting, received]...
• Surprising is the sheer volume of Matter resolved around the Bridge.
• Extensive Charting and Analysis are required.
• Our best [redacted: D4] Team has been scrambled and inserted.
• We expect resistance. And similar embedded Agents.
• We've been as quiet as possible. But the gaze of others may now be turned towards Zero.
• A whole new world awaits.
• ...[end transmission; loop]...
• ...[redirecting, received]...

Trivia

• The event codename is "NightNight"
• If you missed The End event in Season X before the launch of Chapter 2, the lobby would explode and get sucked into the Black Hole the same way the Season X map did.
• There have been similar Unplayable Periods since its debut, such as To Be Continued!, which occured after both The Devourer of Worlds, Operation: Sky Fire and Collision events, the Drift To Artemis after The End of Chapter 2, and Asteria's Gaze/Stare At Asteria after the Fracture event of Chapter 3
• Save The World used the same name for the Storm King controlling people.

Gallery

Number 11

The Minigame