Johnisdead Arc

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The Johnisdead Arc is the second arc of Johnisdead. This arc began on May 14th and ended on November 4th, 2015. This arc introduced Tyler and the malicious cult that is pursuing him, the Lunar Children. Many new websites and YouTube channels were introduced throughout this arc, including Silentdork and the titular Johnisdead.com.

May 14th, 2015

  • At an unknown time, the front page of YSHDT.com was discovered to have the text "Escape to the future to return them all. -R" hidden within the source code. The page now featured the image "him.jpg - a dark purple and red image. target=_blank The page also contained the audio file "WeShallRiseAgain.wav.
  • At 9:51 PM, Patrem began speaking to the players on Within Hubris. While this was happening, "Drown", now going by "Drowned", rejoined the Skype group and began chatting with the players. Despite taking place in two different places, both of these conversations intertwined with one another. Because of this, they will both be archived below:
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5/14/15 - Chat with Drowned and Patrem - Within Hubris / Skype (Internet Detectives)

Summary

  • Drowned returns to the players' Skype group. The players ignore Patrem's warning to not listen to Drowned, angering him. Drowned is being pursued by Patrem, who he often calls "father".
  • Drowned claims that "Three are gone". When asked who the three were, he cannot say. Drowned claims "They were never really there."
  • Patrem hunts down Drowned, chasing him off of Skype. Patrem claims that he originally had sen his "neophyte" to silence Drowned, but he ended up doing it himself.
  • Patrem claims the players have "lost fellow detectives", "But, They were never here", referring to the three who are gone.
  • Patrem says the players will recover one of their fellow detectives soon but they must find him first.
  • Patrem warns the players about someone known as "Regiminis" - "Be aware. The grand one is coming. Regiminis.".
  • Drowned links the players to a new website - "http://johnisdead.com". John is the name of a fellow player within the Internet Detectives group.

Updates

  • Pages:
  • At an unknown time, Drowned linked the players to a new website - "http://johnisdead.com". This page was titled "WAKE UP" and contained an image of a foggy street at night titled "Foggyworld248.jpg". target=_blank The audio "background.mp3" also played on this page - a slow song with a few loud distortions throughout. target=_blank
  • At an unknown time, Patrem's status on Within Hubris changed to "exsecutus", which is Latin for "executed" or "pursued".

May 15th, 2015

  • At 12:21 AM, Patrem PM'd the player Eve on Skype:
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5/15/15 - Chat with Patrem - Skype (PM's)

Summary

  • Patrem describes the three as taken, dead, or having forgotten respectively.
  • Patrem reveals that the "John" mentioned in the URL of "http://johnisdead.com" is indeed the same John who was once a fellow player and often went by the username "Mesic".

May 16th, 2015

  • At 12:13 AM, a new user named "SKM" began posting on Within Hubris. Their avatar was a distorted image of the popular character "Max Headroom". target=_blank
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5/16/15 - Chat with SKM - Within Hubris

Summary

  • SKM confirms that the previously mentioned "grand child" and "neophyte" were both referring to "Regiminis" - a cultist who was chosen to ascend by "Father Vincent" himself after having mastered occult teachings like the "Path of the Parallelos".
  • SKM says he will contact the players in a more secure method sometime soon.
  • SKM refers to Patrem's cult as the "Lunar Children".
  • SKM confirms that the "three who are missing" and the "three who were never really there" is referring to the players John, Jacob, and Tyler, revealing that they were secretly characters all along.
  • John died on November 11th, 2011 - 11/11/11.
  • Jacob went missing sometime before 2011.
  • Tyler has currently lost any memory of this entire situation and the players. SKM is currently working on a way to get the players in contact with him.
  • SKM mentions that Regiminis has hijacked something known as the "portal" and supposedly "renamed it" for petty reasons.
  • SKM doubts the players know who Vincent was before 2015, but can't be sure since "Vincent" isn't their real name.
  • Since November 11th, 2011, Vincent has been unaware that Patrem is housed in his body. Likewise, Patrem is trapped inside Vincent, unable to escape his vessel.

Updates

  • Pages:
  • At 12:48 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/tyler". This page was titled "CONTACT" and was completely black. The audio on this page was "findhim.mp3", which unfortunately was not archived.
  • At 1:55 AM, SKM edited all of his previous posts to read "Catch me if you can purple bastard XD" to hide information from Patrem.
  • At 5:56 AM, Patrem posted the following on Within Hubris:
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5/16/15 - Chat with Patrem - Within Hubris

May 17th, 2015

  • At 12:13 AM, the player Zack Nelson discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now contained a cipher written in green text that translated to "key592".
  • At an unknown time, the player Wolfcat discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/key592". This page acted as a directory. Two files were linked in the directory - an image titled "_o_n__urned.png", which featured a red, distorted photo of John, and a text file titled "fate.txt", which read "February 19th, 2015 Check your notes". target=_blank
  • At an unknown time, the players checked the timeline for the date "February 195h, 2015". The following quote from Patrem was found: "He also enjoyed music. o n urn d. Now he has ascended.".
  • At 3:14 AM, the player Zack Nelson discovered that "fate.txt" had updated, now reading "He also enjoyed music. John Burned. Now he has ascended.", revealing that Patrem was attempting to tell the players that John burned several months prior with the phrase " o n urn d".
  • At 3:20 AM, the player Oceanstuck discovered that "fate.txt" had updated once again, now reading "Too late...".
  • At 3:31 AM, the players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now contained an image titled "DSC_0488.jpg", which was a photo of a power line on a cloudy day. target=_blank The audio on this page remained the same as before, but it was now linked using the following method: "/uploads/background.mp3".
  • At an unknown time, the players discovered that the audio "background.mp3" as a reversed song. The metadata for the file revealed that it's true name was "@90" and it was composed by someone named "k3v1n".
  • At an unknown time, the front page's title was changed to "RESEARCH".
  • At an unknown time, the players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/uploads". This page was titled "8/29/2014 4:44 AM" and featured a simply block image design titled "GOH.png". target=_blank This page also contained text that read "UPLOADED FROM REMOTE SOURCE 8/29/2014 4:44 AM". target=_blank
  • At 3:52 AM, the player ARGdov discovered that the page "/key592" had been updated. A link to a new image was now available - "firekid.jpg", another distorted image of John smiling. target=_blank
  • At 3:55 AM, "firekid.jpg" was removed. On Skype, the player ARGdov asked "you think we might be getting messed with?", to which another player Oceanstuck responded "clearly".
  • At 4:00 AM, the player Archery discovered that the file "fate.txt" had changed again, now reading "you think we might be getting messed with? clearly" target=_blank target=_blank
  • At 4:04 AM, the page "/key592" was deleted.

May 18th, 2015

  • At 12:03 AM, the player ARGdov discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had changed. The title now read "WAITING" and the green text that translated to "key592" was now smaller and no longer a cipher.
  • At an unknown time, players discover that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now featured three links - "fishery.jpg" which linked to a photo of the fishery, target=_blank "firekid.wav", which was an audio file that hid "firekid.jpg" within its spectrogram, target=_blank and a text file titled "i.txt", which read "one page remains at this moment...You tryed but got it wrong...".
  • At 12:14 AM, the three links were removed from "/key592".
  • At 12:53 AM, a new file appeared on "/key592" titled "threei.txt" which read "A brand new name". target=_blank
  • At 12:59 AM, a new file titled "R I I I S.txt" appeared on "/key592" followed by another file titled "REG I I I S.txt". These files both read ". . .". target=_blank target=_blank
  • At 1:01 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/regiminis". This page contained a video titled "deadjohn.webm" which featured heavily distorted footage of John at his computer along with the text "I'M WAITING". While the original video was not archived, a gif recording of it can be viewed here: target=_blank target=_blank

May 19th, 2015

  • At 9:10 PM, the player Seeker discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "HERE" and featured a green cipher that read "HP/NCLEC/ T:LAHDNOT/URIR.M". This page also played the audio "l_nar__il_ren.mp3", which unfortunately was not archived. target=_blank
  • At 9:17 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that "/key592" had updated, now containing a link to an audio file titled "output.wav". This file contained Morse code that translated to "safehaven". target=_blank
  • At 9:19 PM, players discovered that the page "/tyler" had updated. The page was now titled "PLEASE STAND BY" and featured text that read "PLEASE STAY ON THE LINE LINK WILL BE ARRIVING SHORTLY". This page contained a video titled "operator.webm", featuring distorted footage of Tyler's face along with the sounds of static and some unintelligible voices. target=_blank This page also contained the audio file "linebusy.mp3", which was a corrupted "Vaporwave" sounding track. target=_blank This page also featured text that would repeatedly move down the page. The text, which originally was written in several different laguages, was as follows: target=_blank
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5/19/15 - "/tyler text" - Johnisdead.com

  • At 9:37 PM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered that the page "/tyler" had updated. The page now featured another audio file titled "dial.mp3", which was a quick succession of phone dial tones. target=_blank
  • At 10:02 PM, the player Mugen Kagemaru solved the cipher that had appeared on the front page. This led players to a new website - "http://lunarchildren.com". The site featured text that read "Drezzed again you bloody shazbots, you'll have this place back when I damn well please. -SKM" and contained a video titled "MAXYHAXXXY.webm", which featured the character "Max Headroom" laughing repeatedly. target=_blank target=_blank
  • At 10:20 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/safehaven". This page was titled "GEOLOCATOR" and contained the text "/safehaven/???".
  • At an unknown time, the player Wolfcat discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/safehaven/592". This page contained a chatroom where the players were able to speak with SKM in a relatively safe environment.
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5/19/15 - Chat with SKM - Johnisdead.com (Safehaven)

Summary

  • SKM explains that at some point in the past, the Moon Children split into two groups - the Moon Children and the Lunar Children. The Lunar Children is ran by Patrem and is the cult the players have been dealing with throughout the ARG. Those who oppose the Lunar Children often refer to them as "The Misguided Legion".
  • Johnisdead.com contains countless departed spirits. The Lunar Children apparently described the site as "Wayward Horizon" but on a much larger scale.
  • The spirits on Johnisdead.com have some control over the site and its various pages. SKM was originally going to show us Lunarchildren.com himself, but one of the spirits linked the players to it first by posting the cipher on the front page.
  • Drowned is a helpful spirit that has been assisting SKM for quite some time. It has some connection to the name "Lostmemory423".
  • SKM destroyed Tyler's hard drive. He did this so that Tyler would create a YouTube channel to store his old videos, giving the players an opportunity to contact him. SKM links the players to Tyler's channel "Silentdork", though nothing has been uploaded yet. target=_blank
  • SKM says that the videos Tyler is going to upload is old footage of his friends Jacob, John, and a new person named Kevin.
  • Regiminis is pursuing SKM and Drowned. Drowned manages to keep Regiminis at bay for a while by changing several pages on Johnisdead.com. He eventually discovers the chatroom, however, forcing SKM and Drowned to escape.

Updates

  • Pages:
  • At an unknown time, the front page of Johnisdead.com updated. The title now read "LEGION" and contained the text "I have something to show you http://johnisdead.com/lostmemory423".
  • At an unknown time, the players discovered the page "http://johnisdead.com/lostmemory423". This page was titled "I'M HERE" and contained an image named "hisgoal.jpg", which appeared to be an image of Patrem. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "Icanfinallybreathe.mp3".
  • At an unknown time, the page "/lostmemory423" changed. The page now contained an image titled "Drowned.png, which was a a photo of a man in a gas mask reaching towards the camera. target=_blank This page also contained the image "eyes.gif" tiled repeatedly behind "Drowned.png", which was a short clip of two glowing eyes. target=_blank target=_blank Another audio file began playing on this page named "drown.wav".
  • At an unknown time, the audio file "Icanfinallybreathe.mp3" was removed from the page "/lostmemory423".
  • At an unknown time, the page "/lostmemory423" changed again. The image "Drowned.png" was now gone and the page also featured text that read "DROWNED" that slowly moved down the page. This page rapidly updated several times - each time the text reading "Drowned" would get smaller and smaller. target=_blank
  • At an unknown time, the page "/lostmemory423" changed again. The page was now titled "..." and all of the images, text, and audio files were gone.
  • At an unknown time, the page "/lostmemory423" changed again. This page was now titled "LEAVE NOW!" and contained the video "R.webm" which was a short clip or a red skull-like entity. target=_blank The audio on this page also changed to "GETOUT.mp3" - a high pitched song playing in reverse. target=_blank Another audio file also played on this page named "STOP.mp3" - a loud sound of someone struggling to breathe. target=_blank
  • At an unknown time, the page "/lostmemory423" changed again. The video "R.webm" was removed. There was now text that read "I'M WATCHING".

May 20th, 2015

  • At an unknown time, the front page of Johnisdead.com updated. It was now titled "JOHNIS" and contained the image "HOME.jpg" - a photo of the remains of a burned down house. target=_blank

May 21st, 2015

  • At 2:50 AM, Helper became active in the Skype group and began casually chatting with the players.
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5/20/15 - Chat with Helper - Skype (Internet Detectives)

  • At 3:36 AM, the player Zack Nelson discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "T" and contained the image "hewaits.jpg", which featured strange purple colors. target=_blank The page also contained the audio file "FRIEND.mp3, which was a deep voice saying "An old friend would like to speak to you.". target=_blank
  • At 3:45 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now contained a link to in image titled "DELAPITATED.jpg - an image of a building that has fallen into disrepair. target=_blank
  • At 3:47 AM, SKM and Patrem became active on Within Hubris.
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    5/21/15 - Chat with SKM and Patrem - Within Hubris (JiD Thread)

    Summary

    • SKM informs the players that Tyler will soon be uploading videos to his YouTube channel "Silentdork".
    • SKM implies Patrem is in a weak condition. Patrem then begins posting corrupted messages and SKM posts a cipher that translates to "592".
    • At 4:20 AM, Patrem's status on Within Hubris changed, now reading "fluxus", which is Latin for "flowing" or "unstable".
    • At 4:34 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now contained a link that led to the image "tempdrezzed.png - a corrupted version of Patrem's avatar. target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "Jacob". target=_blank
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    5/21/15 - "Jacob" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler and Jacob joke about weed. Jacob seems excessively tired.
    • Jacob recalls a previous weed trip where he witnessed Egyptian imagery. Tyler jokes that Jacob was some sort of prophet.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "I honestly forgot I even had this video, but in the panic to save shit on my hard drive I am glad I found it. If you see this man, I really miss you. Lets hang out and smoke again when we get the chance."
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • Jacob: target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "Fun night with john and kevin". target=_blank
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    5/21/15 - "Fun night with john and kevin" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler, John, and Kevin test out various paranormal and demonic summoning rituals they find online.
    • Tyler references an "obscure religion" that Kevin is a part of that he never elaborates on.
    • We are unable to get a good look at Kevin's face due to occasional video corruptions.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "I think this was back in 2010, a little after jacob went missing actually. I remember me kev and john had a big argument about magic and shit that night. Kevin always had these vague beliefs he would never elaborate on and john was always strictly atheist. I guess I was always in the middle on everything so I guess that's what held us together."
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • Tyler wearing a necklace: target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "Fun night with john and kevin 2". target=_blank
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    5/21/15 - "Fun night with john and kevin 2" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler, John, and Kevin attempt to contact spirits through a Ouija Board.
    • Tyler asks the spirits if Kevin is "good". The Ouija Board points to "nine".

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "This is the only other video I can find from the good old days. I think this was from the same night as the last one. I have no idea what the hell happened to you kevin. Johns birthday was a few days ago too, at the time of this upload I am feeling really shitty. I miss you guys so much."
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • John with a flashlight: target=_blank
    • The moon: target=_blank

    May 22nd, 2015

    • At 2:03 AM, Drowned posted "It's time" in the Skype group.
    • At 2:11 AM, Drowned posted the messages "He is there, Tyler." and "silentdork active" in the Skype group."
    • At an unknown time, players began speaking to Tyler through the comment sections of his videos.
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    5/22/15 - Chat with Tyler - YouTube (Comments)

    Summary

    • Tyler does not remember any of the players, though they do seem familiar to him.
    • Tyler has a Skype account he used in the past to chat with John and Jacob. However, he claims that Kevin was always rather secretive and didn't have an account.
    • Kevin went missing sometime in 2011, the same year Regiminis ascended and John died.
    • Tyler agrees to add the players on Skype.
    • At 9:28 PM, the player Zack Nelson discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "9bZHz5PhHxM 1:41 WATCH THE SKY" and contained the text "watch?v=". The page now contained two videos - "FIREKID.webm", a short corrupted video of John, and "FOG.webm", a short corrupted video of one or more people walking down a street. target=_blank target=_blank The page's background image was "fwoogrglyd.gif" - a few clips from the "FOG.webm" video. target=_blank
    • At 10:39 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/lunar". This page was completely blank.
    • At 10:43 PM, the player Sengi discovered that the page "/lunar" had updated, now containing text that read "Wait".
    • At 11:01 PM, the page "/lunar" began updating rapidly. While this was happening, John's Skype account began calling players. Since these site updates and calls were related with one another, they will both be logged below:
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    5/22/15 - Chat with John and Unknown - Johnisdead.com (Lunar) / Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • The players speak with one or more spirits on Johnisdead.com by typing questions into Skype. However, the spirits claim that they are not speaking with John.
    • The spirits claim that the players' Ocarina powers will not work.

    May 23rd, 2015

    • At 11:55 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the page "/tyler" had updated. The page was now completely black and contained an audio file named "callwaiting.mp3".
    • At 11:55 PM, the front page of Johnisdead.com updated. The page now contained an image titled "NOTTHEONE.jpg" - a disturbing image of John's face. target=_blank

    May 24th, 2015

    • At 12:04 AM, the page "/tyler" updated. The page now contained an audio file titled "dial.mp3" - an audio file made up of phone dials that translated to "To bring him back".
    • At 12:24 AM, the player Eve discovered that the page "/tyler" had updated once again. The page now contained text reading "pididoip@" - a link to an email address hosted on Johnisdead.com.
    • At an unknown time, the players begin conversing with various spirits by contacting the "pididoip" email account. The name used along with the "pididoip" account was "K".
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    5/24/15 - Pididoip Emails - Johnisdead.com

    Summary

    • The "pididoip" account allows players to contact various spirits from another world.
    • A friendly spirit named George speaks to the players and warns them that they will hardly ever speak to the same entity twice.

    Updates

    • Files:
    • A photo of strawberry milk is sent in response to the player ADULT_LINK asking for chocolate milk. target=_blank
    • A distorted purple image is sent in response to the player Oceanstuck sending a drawing of fellow player Mugen Kagemaru badly injured. target=_blank target=_blank
    • A spirit claiming to be named "George" sends the player ADULT_LINK a photo of chocolate milk. target=_blank
    • Screenshots:
    • ADULT_LINK's Emails: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • Spirkiroid's Emails: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • Unanimous Emails: target=_blank target=_blank
    • At 1:38 AM, Tyler joined the Internet Detectives Skype group and began chatting with the players.
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    5/24/15 - Chat with Tyler - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Tyler chats with the players. He mentions that he has a girlfriend named Carla.
    • Tyler is initially confused and suspicious as to why he's already a member of the Skype group, but the players manage to convince him nothing strange is taking place.
    • Tyler links the players to the original track that was used for "linebusy.mp3" - the vaporwave track "Start Life" by Nouveau Life™. target=_blank

    May 25th, 2015

    • At 8:38 PM, the player Spirkiroid discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "PHONELINES" and hid the text "CALL BACK LATER" in the source code.

    May 26th, 2015

    • At 12:09 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now featured the "firekid.jpg" image from before along with the audio "wait.mp3", which was a simple dial tone. target=_blank The text "PICKUP" was hidden in the page's source.
    • At 12:14 AM, the player Spirkiroid discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/pickup". This page was completely empty and acted as a directory that housed files similar to the page "/key592".
    • At 12:19 AM, players discovered that the page "/pickup" had updated. The page now featured a link to the "_o_n__urned.png" image from before, though it was now named "(727).png". The number 727 is an area code in Florida used for phone numbers. target=_blank
    • At 12:21 AM, players discovered that the page "/pickup" had updated. The page now featured a link to a text file titled "otherline.txt" that read "1 5 6 - 0 ascending twice. a number you've already known". target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, the players began calling numerous phone numbers in an attempt to guess the correct one.
    • At 12:45 AM, John's Skype account posted the message "8-2" in the Skype group.
    • At 12:59 AM, John's Skype account posted another message reading "78-2" in the Skype group.
    • At 1:07 AM, the player Eve called the correct number "(727)-378-2592" in a Skype call. The song found previously on Johnisdead.com, "@90 by K3v1n", began playing through the phone. After the song played, the call ended. However, the number immediately called back. When answered, the players heard only a demonic laugh. Any attempt to call the number after this was met with beeping. Players began texting the phone number with simple greetings.
    • At 1:20 AM, the phone number began sending texts to various players who had called it. While this was taking place, Tyler became active in the Skype group and began chatting with the players. Both Tyler's messages and the texts sent from the phone number will be logged below:
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    5/26/15 - Chat with Tyler and Phone Number - Text Messages / Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Tyler lives alone in a trailer surrounded by woods in rural Florida. The phone number claims he is near the fishery.
    • Tyler states that he visited the remains of John's house earlier and shares a photo of it. He also mentions that Jacob used to live on the other side of the state.
    • Tyler says that Kevin used to be a member of a mysterious religious organization that he describes as a "youth group". He says that while John was an atheist, Kevin was intensely religious. He adds that Kevin would never talk much about this religious group, though.
    • Tyler says that the police were not of any help to him regarding John's death and Kevin's disappearance. The police simply blamed John's death on "faulty wiring" and told Tyler to not look into it any further.
    • Tyler says that the day after he recorded "Fun night with john and kevin", Kevin got a phone call from his religious group. Kevin was apparently late for a group meeting.
    • Strange things have been happening around Tyler's home. His doors have been opening randomly and his home phone is only producing a dial tone.
    • The last time Tyler spoke to Jacob was around October of 2009. Jacob had told Tyler that he had a new job that would take up all of his free time and that he had to move away because of it.
    • Tyler's girlfriend Carla lives in Australia.

    Updates

    • Files:
    • Tyler sends a photo of the remains of John's burned house. target=_blank
    • Tyler sends five photos he took inside of Kevin's abandoned home. target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • Tyler sends a photo he took inside of Kevin's abandoned home. Some "police tape" can be seen on the floor.
    • At 11:42 PM, the players discovered that the site "Lunarchildren.com" had updated. The page was now a simple blog with a default WordPress theme design. The blog had a single post made by a user named "MattR" titled "Technical Difficulties". MattR refers to himself with the code name "Operator".
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    5/26/15 - Announcement - Lunarchildren.com

    • At 11:59 AM, Tyler became active in the Skype group and began chatting with the players.
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    5/26/15 - Chat with Tyler - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Tyler says that he's had a weird day. He woke up later than usual and found that his trailer had no power and was much hotter than usual. He also says the doors in his trailer were difficult to open and his phone has been acting strange lately.
    • Tyler was going to visit Kevin's house to take more photos, but decided to turn back after seeing a shadowy man who appeared to be teleporting and moving oddly around town. He recorded this and uploaded it to YouTube.
    • When Tyler arrived home, he found a paper at his doorstep that depicted various moon goddesses. Some strange symbols were drawn on the back along with writing that implied Tyler was being watched.
    • Tyler is planning on taking his footage of the strange man along with the weird paper to the police the next day.
    • According to Tyler, Carla claims she has never seen the symbols drawn on the paper before. She quickly accuses Tyler of being obsessed with these symbols and begins worrying about him.
    • The necklace Tyler is seen wearing in the "Fun night with john and kevin" videos is a crescent moon necklace given to him by Carla. He says that Kevin often interested in it, and once it eventually went missing, he accused Kevin of stealing it.

    Updates

    • Files:
    • Tyler uploads a photo of a strange paper he found outside his home. The front has details on various moon goddesses, while the back reads "ALL ARE HER" with a strange circle symbol followed by the word "WATCHING" and a symbol that resembles an eye. target=_blank target=_blank
    • Tyler uploads a new video to his YouTube channel - "The weird guy". See below for more details.

    May 27th, 2015

    • At 1:52 AM, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "The weird guy". target=_blank
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    5/27/15 - "The weird guy" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler talks about the strange person he saw moving oddly in town who seemed to teleport into a library. He shares several photos and a short video clip of this event.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: N/A
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • Tyler's Photos: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • At 11:27 PM, the player Spirkiroid discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "luner" and contained text that read "WATCH THE MOON". The page also contained the image "LCD249.bmp" which featured a the moon on a cloudy night along with the audio "CHILD.mp3", which was an altered version of the file "GETOUT.mp3" from earlier. target=_blank target=_blank
    • At 11:54 PM, Helper became active in the Skype group and began chatting with the players.
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    5/27/15 - Chat with Helper - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Helper casually chats with the players. He informs them that he has finally found his hat.
    • During this conversation, several updates were discovered on Johnisdead.com and Lunarchildren.com. Because of their size, they will be logged below separately.

    Updates

    • Files:
    • Helper posts a photo of three desserts he is considering buying: target=_blank

    May 28th, 2015

    • At 12:37 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now linked to a new text file titled "update.txt" which simply read "lunarchildren".
    • At 12:38 AM, players noticed that Lunarchildren.com had updated, now featuring several new pages under a drop-down menu titled "Terminology". Below are the terminology pages and the definitions written on each.
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    5/28/15 - Lunarchildren.com Pages - Lunarchildren.com

    Summary

    • The mysterious term "Parallelos" comes up once again, but is not explained. Context clues imply that "Parallelos" are essentially dimensions or realms. "Parallelos" is Latin for "Parallel".
    • The pages claim that the "Deuro" is something referred to as a "taboo eulogy" that is not to be talked about. "Deuro" is Latin for "Burned".
    • The pages describe a mysterious species known as the "Absque Facie" - an ancient race of entities that serve Luna in her dimension. The Absque Facie hold special powers, but they supposedly aren't as powerful as fully ascended Lunar Children. They also have only limited access to our "Parallelos". "Absque Facie" is Latin for "Without Face".
    • The pages refer to the date November 11th, 2011, as "Undecim Nocte". The Lunar Children claim that on that night, the "Parallelos" were aligned and a time anomaly occurred. They make mention of Regiminis's ascension, describing it as "extremely successful". "Undecim Nocte" is Latin for "Eleventh Night".
    • The pages speak about an entity known as the "Tenebris Link". It is rumored that this entity was once an Absque Facie until he entered something known as the "first eulogy" as a vessel. It's also said that the Tenebris Link apparently took the "first eulogy's" name as its own, stealing its identity. The Tenebris Link apparently kept control of the "first eulogy" until November 11th, 2011. After this, it chose the "deuro" as its new vessel. Tenebris Link is Latin for "Dark Link".
  • At 12:46 AM, the players discovered that MattR had posted a new announcement on Lunarchildren.com titled "Update". MattR announces that there are several new terminology pages on the site and that they are currently working on some message boards.
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    5/28/15 - Announcement - Lunarchildren.com

    • At 1:15 AM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "/727/" and contained the text "Safety".
    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now simply contained the text "???".
    • At 1:20 AM, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/safehaven/727". This page contained another chatroom where the players spoke to SKM once again.
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    5/28/15 - Chat with SKM - Johnisdead.com (Safehaven)

    Summary

    • SKM says that the Lunar Children are attempting to slowly chip away at Tyler's sanity by scaring and stalking him.
    • SKM explains what the symbols found on the paper Tyler found mean. The circular symbol with two lines is the symbol for the "Parallelos". The symbol that resembles an eye is the "Lunarum Oculus", which simply means that Luna is watching.
    • SKM says that the "Parallelos" are essentially parallel dimensions and timelines. The Lunar Children believe that when someone ascends, they are travelling through different parallelos, and that Luna exists within her own sacred parallelos.
    • SKM explains his history with Patrem. In 2011, SKM and his nine year old brother visited some family in Florida. SKM says his brother was a frequent user on Within Hubris who often claimed to speak to "Ben". Patrem began contacting SKM's brother, promising him that he would be able to fly. SKM's brother was later abducted by Patrem in a local park, never to be seen again. After this, SKM began investigating Within Hubris and the Lunar Children.
    • SKM explains how he met Drowned. Around the beginning of November, 2011, SKM was contacted by "BEN". On November 11th, SKM was investigating the Lunar Children when suddenly his computer blew out. While this was happening, SKM claimed to have seen the "Elegy Statue". When SKM booted his computer back up, he found a text file titled "lostmemory423" which read "you do not realize how much you have helped me, but I shall help you. Father had him taken for the children. They are near there.". This led SKM to the fishery.
    • SKM explains his and Drowned's recent actions. On May 14th (The beginning of the Dead Arc), SKM had Drowned lure Patrem into the players' Skype group. This caused Patrem to use up a lot of his energy and resources. While Patrem was distracted, SKM was able to overload him with data. This allowed SKM to download Patrem and trap him within the "/key592" page.
    • SKM describes MattR as a "bloody fool" and claims he isn't too important. He says that Matt always wears a skull mask with a parallelos symbol dawn on it.
    • SKM shares the leaked definition of "Eulogy" with the players. Eulogy is simply a basic ascended person. "Eulogy A eulogy is defined by its capabilities as an ascended child. One who has simply Ascended may communicate to this realm by some means, however one who has more capabilities (such as minor manipulation of this reality, minor physical manifestation ect...) is to be seen as a eulogy capable of even greater power. But more often than not, a eulogy will remain a capable as it is upon awakening in its asended form."
    • SKM tells the players that Tyler cannot trust the police in his town, as they are either members of or being bribed by the Lunar Children.
    • Drowned begins speaking in the chat under the username "lostmemory423". They are much more comprehensible this time.

    May 29th, 2015

    • At 9:33 PM, Tyler became active in the Skype group and began chatting with the players.
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    5/29/15 - Chat with Tyler - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • SKM has managed to get Tyler's power back on.
    • The police acted strangely when Tyler went to them. He was forced to give them the paper he found delete the video of "the weird guy" off of YouTube. The police then interrogated Tyler for a long time, asking him odd questions.
    • Tyler is planning on visiting Carla in Australia near the end of 2015.
    • One of the players accidentally mentions the Lunar Children website in Tyler's presence. Tyler takes interest in it but is too tired to investigate further.

    Updates

    • Files:
    • Tylper posts a photo of his phone while he was gettin strange calls: target=_blank

    May 30th, 2015

    • At 12:21 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now contained the video "itwasme.webm", which featured a distorted, long haired figure with clips of "The weird guy". target=_blank
    • At 10:52 PM, the player Eve discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated once again. The page was now titled "12121" and contained the audio "laughter.mp3", which seemed to be a short clip of John laughing and Tyler saying something unintelligible. target=_blank The page also contained the text "12121May 30th, 2015 You are wrong".
    • At 11:50 PM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com returned to its previous state seen earlier in the day at 12:21 AM.

    May 31st, 2015

    • At 9:49 AM, the player Eve discovered that Lunarchildren.com had updated. The site now had another drop-down menu titled "Ascension" with several new pages.
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    5/31/15 - Lunarchildren.com Pages - Lunarchildren.com

    Summary

    • The Lunar Children describe ascension as a "state of existence", allowing one to gain the power to travel beyond their own parallelos. The Lunar Children also claim that while ascension grants one a great deal of power, its ultimate purpose is to serve Luna.
    • The "Parallelos Path" is mentioned once again. The Lunar Children suggest those who wish to ascend to study it before attempting ascension.
    • Vincent's full name "Vincent Adams" is revealed. The Lunar Children refer to him as "Father Vincent Adams" and claim that he is the current "Overseer".
    • The definition for "Eulogy" is the same one SKM shared with the players previously, with a bit of added context. The page claims that the term originated from a speech made by an Overseer from the Orchard. The Overseer supposedly referred to a cultist who was sacrificed to Tenebris as a "Eulogy", which is what first spawned this term.
    • The definition for "Devium" is someone who has ascended but is stuck in a strange, chaotic, limbo-like state because they have not undergone proper training. The Lunar Children claim that it is very rare for deviums to rise above their initial power level.
    • The Lunar Children mention something called "Novum Ascensionem", also known as "Newly Ascended Syndrome". This is a condition that many deviums suffer from that causes them to act strangely.
    • The Lunar Children mention a "Portal" that is ruled by Regiminis. This portal supposedly houses many deviums.
    • Pages for two more terms, "Finitor" and "Transcendence", are listed. Unfortunately, these pages are empty.
    • At 7:38 PM, Tyler became active in the Skype group and began chatting with the players.
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    5/31/15 - Chat with Tyler - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Tyler tells the players that someone was knocking on his door and threw a bucket lid at his trailer. When he went to investigate, the perpetrator was seemingly able to teleport and avoided capture.
    • Tyler says the person who was outside his home left a strange recording device on one of his old trucks.
    • Tyler informs the players that he is heading to a nearby motel to spend the night and that he will upload a recording of the day's events soon.

    June 1st, 2015

    • At 1:25 AM, the player Spirkiroid created an off-topic thread on Within Hubris titled "WITHIN HUBRIS EMPIRE PART 3". This topic was a forum game in which players would govern a fictional empire based off of Within Hubris by voting on various laws and regulations.
    • At 1:58 AM, Patrem made a post in the "WITHIN HUBRIS EMPIRE PART 3" thread that read "Fake World".
    • At 2:01 AM, Tyler became active in the Skype group and began chatting with the players.
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    6/1/15 - Chat with Tyler - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Tyler has safely made it to the motel. He says that the person outside of his home was wearing a bumpy, tan mask with no facial features. He also describes the mask as having fur on the edges and holes on the top.
    • The players begin hinting that the Lunar Children are involved by suggesting that perhaps Kevin's religion has something to do with all of this, but Tyler isn't convinced.

    Updates

    • Files:
    • Tyler uploads a new video to his YouTube channel - "I am not safe in my home". See below for more details.
    • At 2:26 AM, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "I am not safe in my home". target=_blank
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    6/1/15 - "I am not safe in my own home" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler chases the masked man through the woods. The masked man always manages to avoid capture. Several strange video corruptions occur that involve imagery and sounds from "Ocarina of Time" and "Majora's Mask".
    • Tyler thinks about moving to Australia with his girlfriend.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "This man showed up in my yard masked and began causing a comotion. I dont understand what his damn probblem was. Who was he and what the fuck will he want? What is going to happen to me?"
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • The masked man passing behind Tyler: target=_blank

    June 2nd, 2015

    • At 1:06 AM, the player Zack Nelson discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "fakeworld" and was complete white aside from text reading "Come and See" which slowly moved down the screen. The page also contained the audio "orld.mp3", which was a distorted version of "@90 by k3v1n". target=_blank
    • At 1:08 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/fakeworld". This page simply featured a white background with the text "How to get inside" written in several languages. target=_blank
    • At 1:38 PM, Tyler became active in the Skype group and began chatting with the players.
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    6/2/15 - Chat with Tyler - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Tyler says that he was forced to change rooms at the hotel. The hotel received a mysterious call from overseas asking for Tyler to be relocated to room "592".
    • Tyler sends the players a recording of the audio device left outside his home. He claims the audio deteriorates each time he plays it.
    • Tyler says an older man got carted out of his motel room while shouting "152" repeatedly.

    Updates

    • Files:
    • Tyler sends a recording of the audio device left outside his home: target=_blank
    • At 1:40 AM, players discovered a new page on Johinsdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/152". This page simply contained the text "YOUR NEW LENSE OF TRUTH http://janusvr.com/". target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the page "/fakeworld" contained a JanusVR room. The room was incredibly dark with only a small amount of light entering from a hole where a generic JanusVR skybox could be seen. There were several images strewn across the room including a red, mirrored version of "Drowned.png", a mirrored photo of a digital clock that reads "4:23", numerous indecipherable images of glitchy colors, and a large image containing text reading "GET OUT". The audio "orld.mp3" also played in this room. target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank

    June 4th, 2015

    • At 7:50 PM, the player Eve received a text message on her phone from someone going by "dustesilverwolf". The message read "I’m under control for now. E-mail. It’s the only way I can speak at this moment. I don’t know much.".
    • At an unknown time, the players began emailing the Pididoip account on Johnisdead.com.
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    6/4/15 - Pididoip Emails - Johnisdead.com

    Summary

    • The spirit emailing the players claim that Tyler has started working again and that he will soon be back online.

    Updates

    • Screenshots:
    • Email screenshots: target=_blank target=_blank
    • At 8:41 PM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "Please Wait" and featured a black background. The page now contained a video titled "control.webm" which featured a short clip of John, red and distorted. target=_blank The page also played the audio "noise.mp3" - a short, haunting melody. target=_blank

    June 5th, 2015

    • At 12:00 AM, the player Zack Nelson discovered a new page on Lunarchildren.com - "http://lunarchildren.com/archives". Unfortunately, this page was password protected and could not be accessed. target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, the player DankyTooBlazed access the page "/archives" with the password "NOTTHEONE". The page contained a single download link to a video file titled "blood-moon.avi" with the text "Please note, this is not the complete video. We will have that up soon.". target=_blank
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    6/5/15 - "blood-moon.avi" - Lunarchildren.com

    Summary

    • MattR and a cultist are attempting to contact Patrem with some sort of device.
    • Patrem is summoned and the video abruptly ends.
    • At 11:01 PM, Tyler became active in the Skype group and began chatting with the players.
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    6/5/15 - Chat with Tyler - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Tyler is optimistic because nothing strange has occurred since his trip to the motel and he is once again working.
    • Tyler is considering buying a gun and some security cameras.

    June 6th, 2015

    • At 1:13 AM, John's Skype account called the players in their Skype group.
    • At an unknown time, John's Skype account called the players a second time.

    June 8th, 2015

    • At 2:06 AM, the player ARGdov submitted the "Song of Soaring" on Within Hubris. target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, the players come to the decision to inform Tyler of the cult and explain the entire situation to him.
    • At 10:50 PM, the players added Tyler to a separate Skype group and began chatting with him.
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    6/8/15 - Chat with Tyler - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Tyler is planning on moving to Australia to live with Carla near the end of 2015.
    • The players attempt to warn Tyler about the Lunar Children and explain everything to him, but he leaves for work before they can do so.
    • At an unknown time, the players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now contained the audio "soaring.wav", which was a recording of an airplane taking flight. The page also once again featured "HOME.JPG" - a photo of John's burned down house that had appeared on the site earlier.

    June 9th, 2015

    • At 11:18 AM, Tyler became active in the Skype group and began chatting with the players.
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    6/9/15 - Chat with Tyler - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • The players attempt to explain the entire situation to Tyler. He doesn't believe them, and all of the players' proof cannot be viewed by him - links turn to gibberish, sites appear completely black, and files simply do not exist.
    • Tyler leaves the Skype group and cuts off contact with the players.

    Updates

    • Pages:
    • At 1:44 AM, players discovered that Lunarchildren.com now required a password to enter.
    • At 1:53 AM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now completely black and contained text that read "Under Construction".
    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated again. The page's title was removed and it now contained the audio "patrem.mp3", which featured the piano track "Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2" with a few loud corruptions followed by Patrem laughing. target=_blank

    June 10th, 2015

    • At 1:59 AM, Patrem began speaking with the players on Within Hubris.
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    6/10/15 - Chat with Patrem - Within Hubris (JiD Thread)

    Summary

    • Patrem is responsible for Tyler being unable to view the players' links and images.
    • Patrem mentions that Regiminis's "true awakening" will take place once the "burned one" is pried away from the "wayward cretin".
    • Patrem says the one who used John's Skype account to convince the players to tell Tyler the truth was the Tenebris Link.
    • Patrem claims that he was the one who first granted the Tenebris Link power in this realm.
    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now contained the image "V.JPG", which featured a purple, glitchy face. target=_blank The page also contained text reading "Under Control" and hid "FATHER" in the source code.

    June 11th, 2015

    • At 3:01 AM, the player Eve discovered that "V.JPG" contained some unintelligible numbers.
    • At 3:22 AM, the player Spirkiroid emailed the "Pididoip" account asking for help.
    • At 3:43 AM, the player Spirkiroid received an email from the "Pididoip" account that read "2_1_52". target=_blank
    • At 3:50 AM, the player Spirkiroid received another email from the "Pididoip" account that read "Night". target=_blank
    • At 3:52 AM, the players regained access to Lunarchildren.com after logging in with the username "Nocturne" and the password "23152".
    • At 5:50 PM, the player Eve discovered that the room on "/fakeworld" had changed. The section of the wall that previously contained the image of "423" being displayed on a clock was now gone, revealing a greenish skybox. target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank

    June 14th, 2015

    • At 12:01 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the front page of Lunarchildren.com had updated. The page now contained the audio "theme.mp3", which was a slow, relaxing song played on the piano. target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, the players discovered that they had been locked out of Lunarchildren.com. The username and password no longer worked.

    June 16th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "HIDE" and contained the text "Nocturne", "THIS WILL HAPPEN MORE OFTEN IF YOU LET THEM SPOT YOU", ".pi;y+-$H{wa", and "They know you've been watching"
    • At 10:30 PM, the player Spirkiroid regained access to Lunarchildren.com after logging in with the username "Nocturne" and the password ".pi;y+-$H{wa". The site now had a new layout featuring a banner with a moon reading "Lunar Children" and a smokey looking background. target=_blank The page now contained a new announcement posted by a user named "liquidsaint" titled "General site changes and security improvement".
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    6/16/15 - Announcement - Lunarchildren.com

    Summary

    • The Lunar Children refer to the players as "Harbingers" and they call Tyler the "Harbinger's Link".
    • The person Tyler chased in the video "I am not safe in my home" was a Lunar Child named Daniel. Daniel was tasked with observing Tyler and leaving the audio device with him, which Liquidsaint refers to as "the beacon".
    • Liquidsaint says that since Daniel was spotted by Tyler, he will be removed from "observation duty". Instead, an "elder member" will take his place.
    • Liquidsaint calls Daniel's teleporting seen in the video "jumping", and states that this was Daniel's trial to be worthy of the "Parallelos Path".
    • Liquidsaint says that MattR will be sending him more footage of the "Blood Moon Ritual" later in the evening, claiming that Tenebris was recorded attempting to communicate during it.

    June 17th, 2015

    • At 1:31 PM, the player Zack Nelson discovered that liquidsaint had made a new post on Lunarchildren.com titled "Blood moon ritual part one".
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    6/17/15 - Blog Post - Lunarchildren.com

    Updates

    • Files:
    • Liquidsaint links to an extended version of the Blood Moon Ritual video: target=_blank
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    6/17/15 - "bloodmoonritualpartone.wmv" - Source

    Summary

    • A new Lunar Child has been chosen to conduct the Blood Moon Ritual. Much to his surprise, he is actually the sacrifice spoken of in the ritual and is killed by MattR.
    • As mentioned by liquidsaint, Tenebris begins communicating. Tenebris refers to himself as a "salesman", claiming that he is the true controller. Tenebris also says that Luna will be summoned after the "death of three" while using plenty of Majora's Mask symbolism.

    Updates

    • Screenshots:
    • The Happy Mask Salesman: target=_blank
    • Tenebris's message: target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, Johnisdead.com updated. If a player attempted to access a page that did not exist, the site would redirect them to a series of empty pages before finally redirecting them to one of several canon ARG sites. Below is a list of redirect pages and their eventual final destination.
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    6/17/15 - Johnisdead.com Redirect Pages

    • At an unknown time, Lunarchildren.com updated. MattR and liquidsaint now both had avatars. MattR's avatar was a photo of himself wearing his skull mask. target=_blank Liquidsaint's avatar was a photo of a blurry, distorted man. target=_blank

    June 18th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, Lunarchildren.com updated. Players found several new things:
    • The site now had a new layout featuring a banner titled "21.png" reading "Lunar Children" with the moon cycles in the background. target=_blank The site also now had a new background titled "background2.png" that appeared to be a dark, smokey image. target=_blank target=_blank
    • Players noticed that the "Blood moon ritual part one" announcement made by liquidsaint was now renamed to "TRUTH", and the video was moved to the page "/archive" from before, though this page was now once again locked with an unknown password.
    • Near the bottom of the page was generic copyright information. Near this section was text reading "Lunar Children". The "L" in this text was a link that would take users to an audio file titled "showmesad1.mp3".
    • At 4:30 AM, MattR made a new announcement on Lunarchildren.com titled "Theme Update, Security and Forum Progress", where he claims that the Lunar Children forums are getting closer to completion.
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    6/18/15 - Blog Post - Lunarchildren.com

    • At 5:00 AM, players discovered that Lunarchildren.com had updated. The page now played the audio "whoishe.mp3". target=_blank
    • At 5:30 AM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "Run" and contained the image "finduswaitinginthe.jpg" - a dark image of a forest. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "searchfornewpaths.mp3", which was a loud, distorted noise. target=_blank
    • At 5:37 AM, the player Eve discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/asleep". This page contained the image "a_different_sleep.gif" which featured Kelbris's face shrouded in darkness. target=_blank This page also played the audio "sleeptalk.mp3", which were Bongo Bongo's sound effects from Ocarina of Time. target=_blank
    • At 5:37 AM, players discovered that staying on the page "/asleep" for too long would redirect them to another new page - "http://johnisdead.com/asleep/rememberme/index.html". This page contained the image "D.gif", which as a disturbing face smiling in the dark. target=_blank The audio "LEAVE.mp3" also played on this page - the "Southern Swamp" theme from Majora's Mask played in reverse. target=_blank
    • At 6:23 AM, the players discovered that they had been locked out of Lunarchildren.com. The username and password no longer worked.

    June 20th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the room on "/fakeworld" had changed. Part of the wall that read "GET OUT" was removed along with several other images. The audio also no longer played.

    June 23rd, 2015

    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "Soon" and contained the image "FTP0592.jpg" - a photo of a green moon. target=_blank
    • At 4:19 PM, the players discovered that the page "/fakeworld" had updated. The page now contained the video "see.webm" - a glitchy video of a swinging noose. target=_blank
    • At 4:35 PM, the player ADULT_LINK entered an incorrect URL on Johnisdead.com was redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/where". This page was titled "MORE TO DISCOVER" and contained the image "index.gif" - a distorted image that appears similar to Patrem. target=_blank This page also played the audio "she.mp3", which was a reversed piano version of "theme.mp3". target=_blank This page's source also contained 15,000 lines of the HTML element "<hr />", which results in line break. In addition to this, the page's source edited the size of "<hr />" elements so that their size is 5000. This resulted in the page being able to scroll for an incredibly long time.
    • At 5:00 PM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now returned to its original state, containing the image "foggyworld248.jpg" and playing the audio "background.mp3". The page was now titled "MORE TO SEE".

    June 26th, 2015

    • At 3:18 AM, the player Eve discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "KEEP SEARCHING" and the background image "foggyworld248.jpg" was now small and repeated across the page. This page also contained five audio files playing at once:
    • "background.mp3" - The same audio from before.
    • "lost.mp3" - A loud, continuous noise that sounds like a scream. target=_blank
    • "hiding.mp3" - Another loud, continuous noise that differs slightly from "lost.mp3". target=_blank
    • "keeplooking.mp3" - A distorted voice saying "Keep looking.". target=_blank
    • "KEEPLOOKING.ogg" - Another distorted voice saying "Keep looking.". target=_blank
    • At 4:01 AM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/hole". This page was titled "Welcome" and contained the image "hole.gif" - a distorted image of Majora's Mask. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "hole.mp3". target=_blank
    • After staying on the page "/hole" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/hole/fall". This page was titled "terriblefate" and contained the image "falling.gif", which was a strange, distorted image. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "fall.mp3" - audio of Link falling down a hole near the beginning of Majora's Mask. This page also contained four pop-ups:
    • A pop-up of the page "http://johnisdead.com/hole/fall/watching" titled "Watching" contained the video "mask1iswatching.webm" - an image of a green face with eyes full of static.
    • A pop-up of the page "http://johnisdead.com/hole/fall/findyou" titled "Findyou" contained the video "mask2willfindyou.webm" - an image of a green pig mask.
    • A pop-up of the page "http://johnisdead.com/hole/fall/waiting" titled "Waiting" contained the video "mask3iswaiting.webm" - an image of a green fish-like entity.
    • A pop-up of the page "http://johnisdead.com/hole/fall/sleeping" titled "Sleeping" contained the image "mask4issleeping.gif" - an image of Kelbris with a green filter. target=_blank
    • After staying on the page "/hole/fall" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/hole/fall/lostinforest". This page was titled "Lost?" and contained the image "lost1.gif" - a photo of some sort of entity in the woods with a green filter. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "areyoulost.mp3", which was the theme of the "Lost Woods" from Ocarina of Time played in reverse. target=_blank This page also contained the text "est/5 "***** IS SHE"?" hidden in the source code.
    • After staying on the page "/hole/fall/lostinforest" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/fall/lostinforest/they". This page was also titled "Lost?" and contained the image "old2.gif", which appeared to be a distorted image of Patrem. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "wowuk.mp3". target=_blank

    June 28th, 2015

    • At 1:05 AM, the players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/fall/lostinforest/where". This page was titled "STOP IT" and contained the image "struggle.jpg", which appeared to be a very distorted photo of someone. target=_blank The audio "Icannot.mp3" also played on this page.
    • After staying on the page "(...)/fall/lostinforest/where" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/lostinforest/where/whataretheydoingtome". This page was also titled "STOP IT" and contained the image "eetneq4.jpg", which was a distorted, mirrored photo of a man. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "helpuswearehurting.mp3". A pop-up also appeared on this page:
    • A pop-up of the page "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/where/whataretheydoingtome/stopit" titled "STOP IT" contained the image "letmegoplease.gif" - a distorted photo of a soldier. This page also contained the audio "LETMEGOPLEASE.mp3".
    • After staying on the page "(...)/lostinforest/where/whataretheydoingtome" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/where/whataretheydoingtome/weareinpain". This page was also titled "STOP IT and contained the image "suffer.gif" - a strange, distorted image. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "5.mp3".
    • After staying on the page "(...)/where/whataretheydoingtome/weareinpain" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/whataretheydoingtome/weareinpain/woods". This page was also titled "STOP IT" and contained the image "finduswaitinginthe.jpg" - the same image that had appeared on the front page earlier. This page also contained the audio file "lost.mp3" - one of the audio files playing on the front page. This page hid the text "fakeplace, here, I".
    • After staying on the page "(...)/whataretheydoingtome/weareinpain/woods" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/weareinpain/woods/itis". This page was also titled "STOP IT". This page also contained the audio "GOAWAY.wav".
    • At an unknown time, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/weareinpain/woods/fakeplace". This page was titled "FAKE" and contained the image "fakeplace.gif". target=_blank This page also contained the audio "faraway.mp3". Text was found on this page reading "THREE OPTIONS ONE IS RIGHT x=FIND x=SICKNESS x=THETHIRD AFTER FAKEPLACE/x". A pop-up also appeared on this page:
    • A pop-up of the page "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/woods/fakeplace/___n_" titled "WHERE" contained the image "maiden.gif" - a distorted image of a woman. target=_blank The text "Who am I?" was also found on this page, along with the audio file "45_-_NeverCould.ogg".
    • At an unknown time, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/weareinpain/woods/here". This page was also titled "STOP IT" and contained the image "uotls.gif". target=_blank This page also contained the audio "___.wav". A pop-up also appeared on this page:
    • A pop-up of the page "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/woods/here/popup" titled "STOP IT" contained the image "help.gif" - a distorted photo of a man. target=_blank The audio "screaming.wav was also found on this page.
    • At an unknown time, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/weareinpain/woods/I". This page was titled "FATHER" and contained the image "hidden.gif" - a black and white image of the Happy Mask Salesman. target=_blank
    • After staying on the page "(...)/weareinpain/woods/I" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/woods/I/am". This page contained the image "am.gif" - a distorted image of the Happy Mask Salesman that was seen at the end of "bloodmoonritualpartone.wmv". target=_blank
    • After staying on the page "(...)/woods/I/am" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/I/am/true". This page contained the image "true.gif" - an image of the Happy Mask Salesman coated in static. target=_blank
    • At 1:27 AM, the player Sengi discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/woods/fakeplace/thethird". This page was titled "THIRD" and contained the video "thethirdgiant.webm" - a clip of a green fish-like entity. The audio "GETOUT.wav" also played on this page - the same high-pitched, reversed song from earlier in the file "GETOUT.mp3". target=_blank
    • At 1:27 AM, the player Sengi discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/woods/fakeplace/sickness". This page was titled "flight" and contained the image "1hgy65r.gif. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "air.mp3". A pop-up also appeared on this page:
    • A pop-up of the page "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/fakeplace/sickness/giant" titled "2ndGIANT" contained the video "icansmellyou.webm" - a disturbing clip of a green man wearing a pig mask. This page also contained the audio "KILLYOU.mp3".
    • At 1:27 AM, the player Sengi discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/woods/fakeplace/find". This page contained countless pop-up's with the title "laughing" that all contained the image "D.gif" from earlier.
    • After staying on the page "(...)/woods/fakeplace/find" for too long, players were redirected to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/(...)/fakeplace/find/you". This page contained a password protected .zip file titled "WhoWasTheFirstAccount.7z". This file contained a video file titled "alwayswatchingyou.wmv". target=_blank
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    6/28/15 - "alwayswatchingyou.wmv" - Johnisdead.com

    Summary

    • An entity wearing glasses appears to be watching Tyler.

    Updates

    • Screenshots:
    • Tyler holding the device with text appearing on screen: target=_blank
    • A green version of "D.gif" appearing as Tyler opens a door: target=_blank
    • Text reading "ITS NOT TIME FOR THAT": target=_blank
    • A distorted face: target=_blank
    • Someone wearing glasses: target=_blank
    • Various images appearing next to Tyler: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • A red, smiling face: target=_blank
    • At 2:18 AM, John suddenly became active on Skype and joined a video call with the players:
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    6/28/15 - Chat with "John" - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    Summary

    • Text and images begin appearing over call implying that Tyler is in trouble. A timer begins counting down.
    • The player Dawn of a New Day submits the "Song of Inverted Time", which promptly stops the timer. target=_blank
    • At 9:19 AM, the player Faut discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "TIME" and contained the image "FoggyWorld223.jpg - a photo of a foggy street similar to "FoggyWorld248.jpg". target=_blank The audio on this page was once again "background.mp3".

    June 30th, 2015

    • At 1:02 AM, the player Eve discovered that the page "/key592" had returned, though it was now empty.
    • At 1:12 AM, players discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now had a link to the image "heistryingtohide.gif" - a photo of a young boy wearing a gas mask pointing. target=_blank
    • At 1:16 AM, the player Scout discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The link to the image "heistryingtohide.gif" was now gone.
    • At 2:38 AM, the player Circlehunter discovered that a Reddit user named "shnnhs223" had recently come across Johnisdead.com and was asking about the ARG. Circlehunter posted an introduction to Johnisdead. (Link)
    • At 4:56 AM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "mymasks" and contained the image "BinReset.png" - an image of John's eye with the Happy Mask Salesman and BEN. Tyler's face could also be seen in John's pupil. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "t.mp3", which was a distorted version of the "Song of Unhealing". target=_blank This page hid the text "Every game has rules, he chose this game when he chose the boy.".
    • At 5:18 AM, the player Circlehunter discovered that a thread had been posted on Reddit titled "donttrusttheinternetdetectives" by a user named "TLink". Their post simply read "http://johnisdead.com/listen". (Link) (Link) target=_blank
    • At 5:22 AM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/listen". This page was titled "trustme" and contained the image "Bentlres.jpg" - a dark image of John smiling. target=_blank This page also contained the image "assimilating.gif", which was a corrupted version of "Bentlres.jpg". target=_blank The audio "htaed.mp3" played on this page - (wip) target=_blank
    • At 4:46 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now contained a link to a text file titled "number.txt", which simply contained the phone number found by players previously - "(727) 378-2592". target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, the players Scout and Ryfoxx called the phone number. When called, the "Song of Unhealing" played through the phone before hanging up. Afterwards, the number would immediately call back with sounds of static and distorted whispering.
    • At 9:14 PM, the player Ryfoxx discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now contained a link to a text file titled "gate.txt" which contained a link to the players' Skype group. This file was removed almost immediately.

    July 5th, 2015

    • At 4:45 AM, the player Eve discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now featured a link to the image "BeReTins.jpg, which appeared to be dark fire. The page also had a link to a text file titled "ILLUSION.txt", which consisted of the word "LIES" repeated countless times.
    • At an unknown time, the player ADULT_LINK discovered that the file "ILLUSION.txt" contained several misspelled words: "LTES, LRES, LIEU, TIES, LIEH". The misplaced letters in these words spelled out the word "TRUTH".
    • At 4:47 AM, the player ARGdov discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "Tlink" and and contained the image "BitEnsRe.jpg", which was a corrupted image of a hand and someone's silhouette. target=_blank This page also contained the video "TL.webm" - a short clip of a red John staring at the camera.
    • At 12:09 PM, the player Sengi discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now contained its own JanusVR room which was a red landscape with an unfinished house in the center. target=_blank

    July 7th, 2015

    • At 1:40 AM, the player Leslie discovers a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/truth". This page was titled "LIES" and redirects players almost immediately.
    • At 11:34 PM, the player Leslie discovered that the image "BinReset.jpg" hid a secret link to an audio file. This audio file contained a series of strange, electronic noises.
    • At 11:49 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the audio file uncovered from "BinReset.jpg" contained a hidden image within it by viewing its spectrogram that simply read "GET OUT". target=_blank

    July 8th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the page "/fakeworld" had updated. The page was now black and contained green text that read "LOADING ASSETS". The audio "bones.mp3" also played on this page - loud, percussion-like sounds. target=_blank Players also discovered that the JanusVR room hosted on this page had also been expanded. The room now featured a large, purple colored landscape that was fully explorable outside of the small room from before. target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank

    July 12th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork titled "Bored and had a weird dream". target=_blank
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    7/12/15 - "Bored and had a weird dream" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler hasn't been using Skype and is instead using a more anonymous chat program called "Linphone" that was suggested to him by Carla.
    • Tyler claims that he occasionally checks Johnisdead.com, still believing the Internet Detectives are the owners. He mentions a page that the players haven't seen before - a completely red page with a piano playing.
    • Tyler has a bad cough and the video corrupts several times. During one of these corruptions, the video "mask1iswatching.webm" appears with the word "ME" written over it.
    • Tyler describes a strange dream he had:
    • Somebody was knocking on Tyler's door. Whenever he approached it, the door would turn green.
    • Tyler opens the door and enters a forest as he hears a voice say "It's not time for that.".
    • Tyler passes by John's burning house and comes across the fishery.
    • Tyler saw many people at the fishery - A big man, countless figures with masks, three people, four green entities, a man wearing a robe, a large red man, and a smaller red man on fire.
    • A large smiling entity in the sky started descending as the four green entities grabbed it.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "Everything has been sorted out since the incident with the masked person who invaded my property. Ill be moving in with my girlfriend at the end of the year, which means Ill be leaving the country so I can say goodbye to anymore locale stalkers. But for now life is pretty boring, so until then Ill just use this channel to vlog about things whenever anything worth bullshitting about comes to mind. (On a side note, I really need to get a new phone. Its been fucking up forever but now that I see the way the video recorded I know its probably on its last leg.)"
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • The short corruption featuring "mask1iswatchingyou.webm": target=_blank
    • Faint images of a forest: target=_blank target=_blank
    • Strange video glitches: target=_blank target=_blank

    July 13th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "seeyou" and contained the image "TIME.jpg", which appeared to be a photo of Tyler taken with a thermal imaging camera. The words "It's not time yet" could be seen hidden in this image. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "36.mp3" - a deep wind-like sound. target=_blank

    July 20th, 2015

    • At 1:58 AM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "thetimeisnear" and contained the image "v.gif" a strange pattern with an eye in the center. target=_blank This page also contained the audio "forever.mp3", which was a strange song with distorted, droning sounds. target=_blank Hidden in this page's source code was a link to YouTube video titled "3Song inspired by sleep deprivation (hardcore techno music)" which had been posted on a new YouTube channel belonging to "Vincent Adams". target=_blank target=_blank
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    7/20/15 - "3Song inspired by sleep deprivation (hardcore techno music)" - YouTube (Vincent Adams)

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "-=- feedback would be cool"
    • Tags: "Sleep Deprivation (Symptom), Sleep (Quotation Subject), Health (Industry), techno, dance, music, hardcore, hardstyle, Hardstyle (Musical Genre), Falling, Shuffle, Sleeping, Rave, Falls, Bed, Melbourne, Trance, While, Falling (Symptom), Trance Music (Musical Genre), tired, sleep, please, help, me"
    • At 2:08 AM, John's Skype account posted "1Helpme" in the players' Skype group.
    • At an unknown time, the players discovered many new redirect pages on Johnisdead.com:
  • "http://johnisdead.com/say_goodbye" - This page contained an image of a "DEAD END" sign titled "sign.gif" and audio of a song titled "say_goodbye.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/hold_on" - This page contained an image of two people holding hands titled "hold-on.gif" and audio of a song titled "holdon.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank This page also hid the text "ADTINEO" in the source code, which is "HOLD ON" in Latin.
  • "http://johnisdead.com/lost_forever" - This page contained an image of a sign reading "FOREVER LOST" titled "limbo.gif" and audio of a song titled "lost_forever.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/anotherone" - This page contained an image of various "DO NOT ENTER" signs titled "noentry.gif" and audio of a song titled "anotherone.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/misleading" - This page contained an image of what appears to be an old drawing of some sort of jester titled "mislead.gif" and audio of a song titled "misleading.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank This audio contained the numbers "6802" playing in reverse.
  • "http://johnisdead.com/mute" - This page contained an image of a disturbing, flashing face titled "listen.gif" and audio of a song titled "mute.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/blue_flame" - This page contained an image of a house burning titled "engulf.gif" and audio of a song titled "blue_flame.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/occasions" - This page contained an image of a disturbing, smiling face titled "smile.gif" and audio of a song titled "occasions.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/imagine" - This page simply contained the audio of a song titled "occasions.mp3". target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/pray_for_rest" - This page contained images of people praying and screaming faces titled "oYz2ZF0icHXn.gif" and audio of a song titled "pray_for_rest.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/fantasy" - This page contained an image of a mirrored, forest environment titled "fantasy.gif" and audio of a song titled "fantasy.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/smoke" - This page contained an image of what appears to be a bag of weed titled "smoke.gif" and audio of a song titled "breathe.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/back" - This page contained an image of a red, disturbing face titled "back.gif" and audio of a song titled "back.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/go_back" - This page contained images of collapsed buildings titled "N.gif" and audio of a song titled "goback.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/cant_swim" - This page contained images of people reaching out of water titled "water.gif" and audio of a song titled "cant_swim.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank This page also hid the text "B" in the source code.
  • "http://johnisdead.com/in_m_yhead" - This page contained an image of a demonic face titled "inmyhead.gif" and audio of a song titled "in_my_head.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/getout" - This page contained an image of an ancient drawing titled "E.gif" and audio of a song titled "getout.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/gone" - This page contained a mirrored image of a woman titled "angel.gif" and audio of a song titled "gone.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/oooooo" - This page contained an image of a sign reading "Caution trip hazard" titled "oooooo.gif" and audio of a song titled "oooooo.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/lost_in_my_mind" - This page contained an image of a woman missing a face titled "WHATIS.gif" and audio of a song titled "lost_my_mind.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank
  • "http://johnisdead.com/neverending_dream" - This page contained an image of a tree in a field titled "trappedinside.gif" and audio of a song titled "forever.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank This page also hid the following text:
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    7/20/15 - /neverending_dream Cipher - Johnisdead.com/neverending_dream

    • At 7:58 AM, the player ADULT_LINK submitted the "New Wave Bossa Nova" in an attempt to help John speak. target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, the redirect script on Johnisdead.com was encoded further. The players were no longer able to read it and were now forced to discover pages manually.

    July 21st, 2015

    • At 1:20 AM, the player Eve received another text message from the "dustesilverwolf" number that simply read "3".
    • At 1:30 AM, the player Spirkiroid received an email from the Pididoip account on Johnisdead.com. This email simply contained a link to an unlisted video on the Vincent Adams account that was originally uploaded on February 15th, 2015 - "It worked again! Going to call this one "Staying awake"". target=_blank
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    7/21/19 - "It worked again! Going to call this one "Staying awake"" - YouTube (Vincent Adams)

    Summary

    • This video simply features a song created by Vincent Adams along with an image with text reading "new song from sleep deprivation".

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: ":D"
    • Tags: N/A
    • At 2:03 AM, the player Eve received another text from the "dustesilverwolf" number - "ONE TWO THREE".
    • At 2:16 AM, the player Spirkiroid discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/3". This page contained the image "III.gif" and the audio "up_in_flames.mp3". Hidden within this page's source code was the text "Use A key to unlock". This page also contained a password protected .rar file named "three.rar" which contained the audio file "three.mp3". This audio file featured a slow, disturbing song and several hidden images that were uncovered via spectrograms: target=_blank target=_blank
    • A drawing of a house on fire with text reading "He burned".
    • An excerpt of the "Luna Prophecy" from the original Moon Children website reading "The number three is reported ((Illegible)) to have been said numerous times.".
    • Two symbols that appear to be a diamond with eight arrows pointing outwards. Two circles are within the diamond.
    • A drawing of three figures positioned above the word "three". Each figure has a symbol drawn on their heads - An arrow pointing up and down, four circles, and a question mark. The figure with four circles drawn over their face appears to be on puppet strings and has the diamond symbol mentioned earlier floating above their head.
    • At an unknown time, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "Taking a walk". target=_blank
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    7/21/15 - "Taking a walk" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler decides to go for a walk because his electricity is out again.
    • The video turns green and displays "mask1iswatchingyou.webm" as Tyler walks into the woods. The same thing happens when he looks into a sewage drain, only with the video "mask3iswaiting.webm" instead.
    • Tyler finds a "HELP WANTED" sign asking for "Helpers". Each time Tyler says the word "Helper", the Postman from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess can be heard.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "Power went out today so I decided to just go on a little walk. The camera is fucky as usual so the footage of me going by the fire-station and then off into the river bank seems to have completely vanished. Its in my memories still I suppose. Atleast there is the part at the end, There was a man walking behind me with a funny parrot, and I didn’t notice a first but upon looking at the footage here I guess it was trying to say hi to me."
    • Tags: N/A

    July 22nd, 2015

    • At 10:42 AM, the player Faut discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/help". This page contained an image containing text reading "Try again?" titled "andagain.gif" and the audio "help_me_out.mp3". target=_blank

    July 23rd, 2015

    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the page "/fakeworld" had updated. The text on this page now read "LOADING ASSETS DISTENDING...". target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, the player ADULT_LINK discovered that the room on "/fakeworld" had expanded, now featuring more empty land.

    July 27th, 2015

    • At 4:50 PM, the player Ryfoxx decoded the obfuscated redirect script on Johnisdead.com. These pages were simply blank pages with no sounds or images that would redirect the players several times in a row. After looping through a cycle of redirects, players would then be sent to one of the previously discovered redirect pages with sounds and images. Below are the new pages discovered through this redirect script:
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/wearetrapped
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/prison
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/prisoner
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/cantmove
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/ishouldntbehere
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/idied
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/cantbreathe
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/ambegan
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/vasgevang
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/gevangene
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/gevangenis
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/recursion
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/escape
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/404
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/leave
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/goaway
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/hapis
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/tutuklu
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/moriens
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/mereor
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/down
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/forever
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/get_out
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/go
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/away
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/return
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/cantgetout
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/stuck
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/saveus
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/gordeme
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/selamatkansay/
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/mortuum
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/vinctum
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/terperangkap
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/mourant
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/prisonnier
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/mati
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/macet
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/hildako
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/lagun
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/kaixo
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/exit
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/whoareyou
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/idontknowwhereiam
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/savemeplease
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/hellowhoareyou
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/123
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/secret
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/password
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/solution
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/patrem
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/trapped
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/tearing
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/dead
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/dying
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/hurt
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/pain
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/whereami
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/turnback
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/helpu
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/gaeth
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/banduan
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/atrapado
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/prisión
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/morí
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/redmig
    • http://www.johnisdead.com/kimsin

    July 30th, 2015

    • At 6:34 AM, John's Skype account attempted to initiate a call in the Internet Detectives Skype group. Unfortunately, no one was available to answer.
    • At 6:40 AM, John's Skype account sent the message "PARADISE".
    • At 6:41 AM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/paradise". This page contained an image of a tropical island titled "paradise.gif" and the audio "paradise.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank This page also contained a password box. target=_blank target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, players discovered that entering the correct password on the page "/paradise" would redirect them to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/paradise/tricked". This page contained an image of many flashing dots titled "mislead.gif" and a heavily distorted image of a red figure titled "FOOLEDYOU.webm". target=_blank target=_blank
    • After staying on the page "/paradise/tricked" for too long, players were redirected to a text file - "enlightenment.txt". This file read as follows:
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    7/30/15 - "enlightenment.txt" - Johnisdead.com

    • While attempting to translate "enlightenment.txt", the player ADULT_LINK discovered the YouTube channel "lostmemory423" - a YouTube account previously associated with a Ben Drowned related computer game called "Remember.exe". This channel's avatar was a very faint image of the elegy statue with glowing eyes. target=_blank The name of this channel implies it belongs to Drowned. This channel contained six videos:
    • Players discovered the video "void" - a video that had been uploaded on August 19th, 2013. target=_blank
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    8/19/13 - "void" - YouTube (lostmemory423)

    Summary

    • Cryptic footage of Majora's Mask and the game "Remember.exe" is shown. Text from Majora's Mask when the player learns the "Elegy of Emptiness" is shown as well.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "The rules of my world"
    • Tags: N/A
    • Players discovered the video "IMG_1506" - a video that had been uploaded on June 29th, 2014. target=_blank
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    6/29/14 - "IMG_1506" - YouTube (lostmemory423)

    Summary

    • Unfortunately, this video is no longer available and no transcript exists. This video presumably featured someone recording themselves walking around a grassy area.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "I saw everything I have a story I want to tell you It starts here"
    • Tags: N/A
    • Players discovered the video "IMG_1507" - a video that had been uploaded on July 13th, 2015. target=_blank
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    7/13/15 - "IMG_1507" - YouTube (lostmemory423)

    Summary

    • This video documents someone's attempts to find "the masks" by following some sort of "span class="canquote">numbers". Unfortunately, they got lost in the forest.
    • The events of this video supposedly took place on December 1st, 2011.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "Was looking for fathers house. The masks were waiting."
    • Tags: N/A
    • Players discovered the video "IMG_1508" - a video that had been uploaded on July 17th, 2015. target=_blank
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    7/17/15 - "IMG_1508" - YouTube (lostmemory423)

    Summary

    • The description of this video implies that the man from "IMG_1507" met with "the masks" on December 2nd, 2011. "The masks" told the man where to go, but he got lost once again on December 3rd, 2011, which is supposedly when this video was recorded.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "It is december 3rd now. You found the masks and talked to them, they told you where to go yesterday but you got /lostinforest. was you need to go here"
    • Tags: N/A
    • Players discovered the video "2" - a video that had been uploaded on July 20th, 2015. target=_blank
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    7/20/15 - "2" - YouTube (lostmemory423)

    Summary

    • The description and contents of this video imply "Drowned" was drowned by someone during an ascension, further connecting them with Ben. The one drowning Ben claims that someone named Diana is waiting.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "pleasestopidontwanttodothisanymoreITSTOLATENOWpleasesomeonehelpmeSILENCEBOYTHISWASYOURCHOICEyoudidntsayitwouldbelikethispleasesomeonehelpmeNOONECANHEARYOUNOWBOYITISTIMEFORYOUTOASCENDDIANAISWAITINGpleasehelpmeidontwanttodieNOHILDYOUSHALLBENOTDEADUTANEVERLASTINGGLORYTOYOURMO"
    • Tags: "mymemories, help, me, remember"
    • Players discovered the video "3" - a video that had been uploaded on July 20th, 2015. target=_blank
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    7/20/15 - "3" - YouTube (lostmemory423)

    Summary

    • This video contains further imagery and sounds relating to drowning. The description implies Drowned has forgotten who they are, relating to the name "lostmemory".

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "whathaveiforgotten whoami"
    • Tags: N/A

    August 3rd, 2015

    • At 4:34 PM, John's old account on Within Hubris, "Mesic", posted the message "Game has been getting boring. Ill change the rules." in the Johnisdead thread on Within Hubris. The avatar used by the Mesic account was an image of "Dark Link" from Ocarina of Time. target=_blank
    • At 4:46 PM, Tyler uploaded a new video to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "Found a cool thing and now I am gonna go to work I guess". target=_blank
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    7/31/15 - "Found a cool thing and now I am gonna go to work I guess" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler shows off a "Max Headroom" poster he found outside his house. Max Headroom is the character often associated with SKM.
    • Tyler mentions that he is starting to learn "FruityLoops" - a music creation program.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "finding cool and free shit is always nice"
    • Tags: N/A

    August 4th, 2015

    • At 2:05 AM, Patrem became active on Within Hubris and began chatting with the Mesic account. This conversation fully confirmed that Tenebris is using John as a puppet, among many other things. See below for more details. Halfway through this conversation, Tenebris began using a separate account named "BEN". This account's avatar was a distorted image of the elegy statue. target=_blank
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    8/4/15 - Chat with /Patrem\ and Tenebris - Within Hubris (JiD Thread)

    Summary

    • This conversation revealed some useful information that provided context for subjects previously discussed on the Lunar Children website:
    • The entity using John's "Mesic" accounts is Tenebris. On the Lunar Children website, Tenebris was described as a mischievous entity that uses the spirits of others as vessels, and that he is currently using a spirit known as the "Deuro" as a vessel. According to Patrem, the entity using the "Mesic" accounts is currently using the "Deuro" as a puppet, confirming that Tenebris is indeed the one using John's old accounts.
    • The "Deuro" is John. On the Lunar Children website, the Deuro is simply referred to as a "taboo eulogy" - a person who ascended that the Lunar Children are forbidden to speak of. Considering that "Duero" is Latin for "Burned", the fact that John died in a fire, and Tenebris now has access to all of John's accounts, it is clear that the "Deuro" is indeed John.
    • Tenebris is BEN. This is outright stated by Tenebris when he claims that "the one this one pretended to be yes, this one is mine" while using the BEN account. It's important to remember that "Ben" and "BEN" are two separate characters - Ben is an innocent child who was drowned and ascended, whereas BEN is Tenebris - the malicious entity who took his name and used his spirit as a vessel.
    • Ben is the "First Eulogy". The Lunar Children website outright states that Tenebris used the "First Eulogy" as a vessel and began using its name as well. This lines up perfectly with what happened with Ben - Tenebris began using him as a vessel and began going by "BEN" - that is until November 11th, 2011, when Tenebris began using John as a vessel.
    • Regiminis wants to take back John. Patrem claims that Regiminis is seeking John. This also lines up with a previous statement made by Patrem in which he claimed Regiminis wishes to pry the "burned one" away from the "wayward cretin", referring to John and Tenebris respectively. It's implied that Regiminis will gain some sort of power if he retrieves John.
    • Tenebris will give John to Regiminis if he can retrieve Ben. It is implied that Tenebris misses Ben, referring to him as his "old toy". If Regiminis is able to capture Ben, he and Tenebris will trade vessels.
    • Tenebris implies he "changed the rules", urging the players to ask what he did.
    • Tenebris describes Patrem as "Man to Kafei, Kafei to Salesman", and refers to him as the "father of lies".
    • Tenebris sends a link to a new website - "http://whatisben.com". It's implied that Ben's spirit will be housed here once Tenebris reclaims it. See below for more details.

    Updates

    • Pages:
    • At 3:39 AM, Tenebris posted a link to a new website - "http://whatisben.com". This page was titled "not so fast" and contained a distorted image of the elegy statue titled "it.gif" and the audio "26.mp3". target=_blank target=_blank The text "we will be here soon. wait here." was hidden within the page's source code.
    • At 3:39 AM, Tenebris posted a link to a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/whatdidido". This page contained the image "it.jpg" and the audio "it.wav". target=_blank This page also hid the message "take" in the source code.
    • At an unknown time, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/whatdidido/take". This page contained the image "ocarinagone.gif" and the video "take.webm". target=_blank See below for more details. This page also hid the text "Do you wonder what I have done?" in the source code.
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    8/4/15 - "take.webm" - Johnisdead.com

    Summary

    • Tenebris has stolen the players' Ocarina powers and given them to the Lunar Children.
    • The Lunar Children's forums are operational and are being used to submit songs. Matt R has submitted the "Bolero of Fire" specifically.
    • At 3:00 PM, the player Ryfoxx discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now featured a link to a new video on Vincent Adams' YouTube channel - "Trip". target=_blank This page also hid the text "key592" in the source code.
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    8/4/15 - "Trip" - YouTube (Vincent Adams)

    Summary

    • Vincent shows off his music set up. The tabs on his computer further indicate that he is suffering from constant memory loss, and the description indicates that he is recording these videos so he does not forget everything.
    • Vincent falls asleep during the video. This allows Patrem to take over his body. Patrem is then seen walking outside.
    • The description implies this video was recorded on March 10th, 2015 - several days before Vincent regained control of his body in a nearby park and spoke with the players on Within Hubris.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "03/10/15 I control you child, and your futile attempts to remember this are nothing but a game to me
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • The lyrics seen on Vincent's computer screen: target=_blank
    • The browser tab revealing a Google search for "memory loss": target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, the player Ryfoxx discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. he page now contained a link to the file "path.txt" which simply read "do/t". target=_blank target=_blank

    August 5th, 2015

    • At 12:30 AM, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "Fire at my work". target=_blank
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    8/5/15 - "Fire at my work" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • A fire broke out at Tyler's workplace right next to him. He records himself and his co-workers standing outside the building as fire trucks pull up. This is presumably the result of the "Bolero of Fire" being submitted by the Lunar Children.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "Today was a REALLY scary day at work. Idk what happened, but the fry vat I was working on just suddenly caught on fire right in front of me. I had to hold the camera weird and not talk much because I didn't want my boss to get mad at me for filming, but I didn't get the company logo in any shots so idk any reason for them to be mad. If anything I should be mad because that fire actually nearly hurt me really badly."
    • Tags: N/A

    August 6th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the page "/fakeworld" had updated. The page now contained text reading "Loading Assets. Distending… Waiting for Authorization." target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the room on "/fakeworld" had changed. The room was now much darker and players could not see very far. Nothing was discovered in the darkness.

    August 8th, 2015

    • At 11:56 PM, the player Faut discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now contained a link to a new website - "http://tenebris.link". target=_blank

    August 9th, 2015

    • At 12:17 AM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now contained a link to a new directory on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/key592/key59". target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the page "/key592/key59" had updated. The page now had a link to the text file "find.txt" which read "“ten b is.l /_____". target=_blank target=_blank
    • At 12:25 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered a new page on Tenebris.link - "http://tenebris.link/tyler". This page contained a distorted version of the photo Tyler sent to the players showing a police line in Kevin's house titled "line.gif". This page also contained the video "operator.webm" - the same video previously found on the page "johnisdead.com/tyler" featuring static-covered footage of Tyler.
    • At 12:36 AM, the player Ryfoxx discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now contained a link to the text file "moon.txt" which read "/5moon". target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the text file "moon.txt" had updated. The text now read "m-s_c".
    • At an unknown time, players discovered a new page on Tenebris.link - "http://tenebris.link/mesic". This page contained an image of an eye titled "eye.gif" and audio previously featured on the front page of Johnisdead.com, "noise.mp3". target=_blank
    • At 12:37 AM, the Mesic account became active in the Internet Detectives Skype group. The username changed to "Tenebris" and several messages were sent:
    • 12:37 AM: "IHAVEHIMNOW"
    • 12:38 AM: "heisnolongerwithyou"
    • 12:39 AM: "undermycontrol"
    • 12:43 AM: "youfoolsarewastingtime"
    • At 1:48 AM, Tenebris informed the player ADULT_LINK that he had killed George. George presumably died after falling from a great height.

    September 4th, 2015

    • At 12:47 AM, Tenebris posted a series of messages on the Internet Detectives Skype group:
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    9/4/15 - Chat with Tenebris - Skype (Internet Detectives)

    • At 2:06 AM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now completely black with text reading "WHAT DID I DO" and the audio "back.wav". target=_blank
    • At 2:25 AM, the player ADULT_LINK discovered that the page "/whatdidido" had updated. The page now contained the image "it.jpg" and the audio "it.wav". target=_blank This page also contained the text "I am the supervisor who reports espionage agent when in the field. I am a spiritual agency believes that help half a seance. I am a pitcher's ability to throw the ball in the strike zone consistently. What am I?". target=_blank
    • At 5:58 PM, the player Eve discovered that the page "/whatdidido" had updated. The page now hid the text "ido/To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over/" in the source code.
    • At 6:00 PM, the player Sengi discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/whatdidido/control". This page contained an image of a Floridan weather channel broadcast titled "itrains.gif" target=_blank This page also contained the video "therainhasbegun.webm". target=_blank
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    9/4/15 - "therainhasbegun.webm" - Johnisdead.com

    Summary

    • Another post from the Lunar Children forums is shown. This one is made by a new character going under the username "Ezekiel_Thoth33".
    • The Lunar Children submit the "Song of Storms" as a way to further test their Ocarina powers.
    • The name "Diana" is mentioned once again - "Diana descends. The three lay at my feet."

    September 5th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "stuck at work". target=_blank
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    9/5/15 - "stuck at work" - Source

    Summary

    • Tyler records some heavy rainfall at his workplace, implying that the "Song of Storms" played by the Lunar Children has taken effect.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "Yesterday it was raining extremely hard out of nowhere. Just as I was about to head home, and I was stuck inside for about 2 hours. I didn't catch the part where it was storming so hard the wind was jerking the doors open (except one time in the beginning) A nice stranger was there giving me awkward conversation though so that was cool I guess."
    • Tags: N/A
    • At an unknown time, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "passing by johns house". target=_blank
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    9/5/15 - "passing by johns house" - Source

    Summary

    • Tyler visits the remains of John's house now that the rain has stopped.
    • Tyler expresses his disdain with the local government, noting that the road to John's house has been closed down ever since 2011.
    • While Tyler is examining the remains of John's house, several faces flash on screen along with the text "soon he will belong to REGIMINIS".

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "Took this after I finally got out of work yesterday. I don't know why, but I felt like passing by johns house and taking the forest route home. On a side note, I guess my phone is fucking up again, which sucks because I was hoping I wouldn't have to buy a new phone. But it looks like I will have to. If I didn't know any better, that part about 3 minutes in almost looked like it had weird glitchy faces."
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • The text seen flashing on screen: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • A strange skull-like face: target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "fishery". target=_blank
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    9/5/15 - "fishery - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler comes across the fishery while walking through the woods. He briefly explores while a figure can be seen watching him from afar.
    • Cryptic text appears implying that something involving John and Tyler's necklace took place at the fishery:
    • "111111 JOHN YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE. THATS HIS NECKLA WHY IS K I HERE NO DO NOT TOUCH THAT IT WAS NOT MEANT FOR YOU JOHN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE Ja why are you here?"

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "I almost forgot to throw this online, yesterday on my way home through the woods after passing by johns house I went into an unfamiliar area of the woods to try and "take a short cut". The result was finding a cool run down building (it kinda looks like a fishery), I am planning on heading back later to film around a bit more seeing as I didn't even know it was there in the first place. Rather strange seeing as I have roamed these woods since I was a kid and have lived here my whole life."
    • Tags: "HELP THE ROOF IS COLLAPSING PLEASE DONT LET US ALL DIE"
    • Screenshots:
    • Cryptic text appearing over the video: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • The figure seen stalking Tyler: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • The faint "D.gif" seen in the video: target=_blank

    September 7th, 2015

    • At 8:52 PM, Tenebris sent several messages in the Internet Detectives Skype group: "Curiosity", "I’ll send him", "Confusion", and "Sabotage"

    September 9th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "Manifest" and contained a distorted version of the avatar used for the Silentdork account titled "powergenerator.gif". target=_blank This page also hid the text "Malagasy" in the source code. This page also featured a new video - "Governing.webm". target=_blank
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    9/9/15 - "Governing.webm" - Johnisdead.com

    Summary

    • Matt R. confirms to the other Lunar Children that they indeed have obtained Ocarina powers. He then implies that the powers will be used to strengthen Regiminis and allow him to watch Tyler.
    • The image used as the avatar for the Silentdork account is revealed to be Regiminis's sigil.

    September 10th, 2015

    • At 2:00 AM, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "accidental recording". target=_blank
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    9/10/15 - "accidental recording" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler accidentally begins recording at a convenience store. A red figure can be seen watching him with text reading "GUESS WHO?".

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "I was at a convenience store earlier and must have started recording on accident while I was holding my phone in my hand. I decided I would upload it though, because I didn't notice while I was there, but when I went to get some beer off the shelf in the end, it looks like some guy was smiling at me from the room behind the shelves. It is kinda hard for me to tell though since everything started getting fucked up near the end. Oh well, at least I shouldn't be seeing him again anytime soon."
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • The red figure watching Tyler: target=_blank
    • Miscellaneous beer cans: target=_blank target=_blank
    • The text at the end of the video: target=_blank

    September 15th, 2015

    • At 10:20 PM, the player Spirkiroid discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now contained the audio "beginning.mp3" - distorted dialogue from the character "Rosa" from the game Vampire: The Masquerade - "I’m sorry, sometimes I see… nothing. Disregard what I say.". target=_blank This page also attempted to display an image that did not exist - "t_tl.jpg".
    • At 10:23 PM, the players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/rosa". This page was titled "Listen Carefully" and contained the image "skyup.gif". target=_blank This page also hid the text "I will speak to you soon" in the source code.

    September 16th, 2015

    • At 5:13 PM, the player Eve discovered that the page "/rosa" had updated. The page now contained a video - "fortune.webm". target=_blank
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    9/16/15 - "fortune.webm" - Johnisdead.com

    Summary

    • Imagery representative of Tenebris appears along with text reading "I AM TRUE". It is reiterated that Tenebris is a puppetmaster of sorts.
    • A clip of someone knocking on a door only to be answered by an unknown figure followed by static plays.
    • The red figure seen in recent videos is shown again. The text "I have the damn trinket she gave him" appears, referring to the crescent moon necklace Carla gave to Tyler.
    • Rosa warns someone to not open a door while the song "Who's That Knocking?" by The Genies plays.

    Updates

    • Screenshots:
    • Images relating to Tyler's eventual trip to Australia: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • Images of Tenebris: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • A strange, distorted image of Majora's Mask: target=_blank
    • A faint "D.gif": target=_blank
    • A faint "thethirdgiant.webm": target=_blank
    • A faint "mask2willfindyou.webm": target=_blank
    • Images of the red figure from recent videos: target=_blank target=_blank
    • An image of Tyler's necklace: target=_blank
    • Various other images: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank

    September 18th, 2015

    • At 12:35 AM, Tenebris became active in the Internet Detectives Skype group and posted several messages:
    • 12:35 AM: ((This message was not archived before it was deleted))
    • 12:38 AM: ((This message was not archived before it was deleted))
    • 12:39 AM: "Tatl speaks"
    • 12:42 AM: "fingers on hand, three of three, twice"
    • At 12:43 AM, the players discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. This page now contained a link to a chatroom where the players were able to speak with Rosa.
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    9/18/15 - Chat with Rosa - Johnisdead.com

    Summary

    • Rosa explains that when Kelbris approached her (Something that occurred during Jadusable's ARG), she was thrust into a chaotic world where she witness Luna herself. Rosa implies that this was her punishment, and that something else occurred when Kelbris approached her brother Matt."
    • Rosa describes Luna as a "horrific terror of unimaginable power". Though she has now been freed from Luna's realm, she believes she was only released as a part of someone's heinous plan.
    • Rosa claims that she no longer wished to become involved, but she is now forced to as a part of "their game".
    • Rosa says she has seen many different "links" in the past rise and fall. However, she believes that if the players save Tyler, the cycle may be broken.
    • Rosa reiterates that Johnisdead.com is a dangerous place. However, she claims that someone created "/key592" as a secret safe haven of sorts, explaining why said page is never corrupted by spirits. Rosa claims that the page was created with "the rule of 3" in mind - a belief that the number three holds power.
    • Rosa claims that Tyler will meet one of the "Transcended" tomorrow - likely referring to the term "Transcendence" that was mentioned on Lunarchildren.com.
    • Rosa says that Tyler will be forced into a ceremony on November 11th, 2015 at the fishery. She claims that the Lunar Children will be attempting to correct the mistake that was Undecim Nocte 2011 - 11/11/11.
    • Rosa confirms that the four green entities seen previously on Johnisdead.com and spoken of in Tyler's dream are indeed "the four giants". She reveals two of the four giants' identities - Kelbris and Douglas. This means that when Doug was ascended during the YSHDT Arc, he was actually ascended into one of the four giants. This also explains the various connections between Doug and Kelbris.
    • Rosa claims that "the four are not a mere tool", and that the ceremony on November 11th, 2015 "will not bring the moon he is calling for", implying that the ceremony will somehow involve the four giants and that it will not go in Patrem's favor.
    • Rosa explains that the players' Ocarina powers are actually an extension of Luna's own power, and Tenebris holds some control over it. This is how he was able to give it to the Lunar Children. However, Rosa reassures the players that they will eventually regain this power.
    • Rosa implies that after spending so much time within the Majora's Mask cartridge with Ben, the game left an "imprint" on him. This explains why Tenebris still often speaks using Majora's Mask symbolism.
    • Rosa explains that on November 11th, 2011, Tenebris lost control of his puppet, Ben. After this, he wandered around in a shadowy form. This is the figure that Tyler saw in the video "The weird guy". Tenebris then used the spirit of the recently deceased John as his new puppet, seemingly only because he thought it would be fun to torment Tyler using the visage of his departed friend.
    • A spirit simply named "k592" begins speaking in chat, warning Rosa that Regiminis is coming. Rosa explains that k592 is simply a spirit that is helping Rosa host the chatroom.
    • Rosa warns that if the players fail to save Tyler, Luna will descend and the Absque Fascie will "take all as their masks".
    • Rosa tells the players that while SKM is a valuable ally, he has his own goals that he wishes to reach above all else.

    September 19th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silendork - "returning to fishery". target=_blank
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    9/19/15 - "returning to fishery" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler visits the fishery once again. He notices that a door he previously opened was now closed. After knocking on it, the door opens and Tyler comes face to face with the same green entity seen in the video "fishery" - one of the four giants. Tyler then runs away from the fishery.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "I am not going back, yesterday is the last time I go anywhere near that area of the woods. But damn it took me a long time to get the hell out of there after I saw that man. It felt like I was wondering through the woods for hours and fucking hours."
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • Images of the green entity: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • A faint "D.gif": target=_blank
    • The door that the green entity was behind: target=_blank

    September 25th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, the player Sebastien discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now completely black aside from green text that read "/myname". The page also contained audio of slow, ambient sounds titled "it_was.mp3". target=_blank Another audio file titled "d.mp3" featured a deep, reversed voice saying "Come on let me in, it's me Douglas.", revealing that the transcended, green entity seen in "fishery" and "returning to fishery" was Doug. target=_blank
    • At 11:22 PM, the player Spirkiroid discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/douglas". This page would attempt to load an image titled "zed.jpg" that did not exist. This page also contained the video "me.webm". target=_blank
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    9/25/15 - "me.webm" - Johnisdead.com

    Summary

    • "D.gif" and "mask1iswatching.webm" are shown, confirming that both of these files depict Doug. This also confirms that "mask2willfindyou.webm", "mask3iswaiting.webm", and "mask4issleeping.gif" depict the other three giants.
    • Doug claims that he will be knocking on Tyler's door next.

    Updates

    • Screenshots:
    • Images of Doug: target=_blank target=_blank

    October 8th, 2015

    • At 10:08 AM, Tyler uploaded a new video to Silentdork - "Paranoid knocking". target=_blank
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    10/8/15 - "Paranoid knocking" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler has become increasingly paranoid due to constant, unexplainable knocking coming from the walls of his home.
    • Tyler begins hearing knocking again. While he goes to investigate, the video begins corrupting as cryptic imagery relating to Patrem, the four giants, and the red entity seen in recent videos begins flashing on screen.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: N/A
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • Images of Doug: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • An image of "mask2willfindyou.webm": target=_blank
    • An image of "thethirdgiant.webm": target=_blank
    • A snippet of the newspaper article about a death in the Lawman family from Jadusable's ARG: target=_blank
    • An image of the sewer great Mason was trapped in: target=_blank
    • Images of the red entity wearing glasses: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • Images of the purple entity with a wrapped up head: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • Miscellaneous images: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank

    October 9th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, the player Eve posted the comment "Tyler, you need to come back to us. We are not trying to hurt you, we care about you."
    • At 2:25 AM, the player ARGdov discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Silentdork - "calling john". target=_blank
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    10/9/15 - "calling john" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler mentions that he dreamed about visiting Johnisdead.com where he was able to speak to John. Following this, Tyler attempted to call John's phone number only to hear a disturbing voice.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "I accidentally stopped the recording early but yeah that was really weird. I had a dream last night I went to that website I was shown a while back, johnisdead.com, made by those assholes who I guess wanted to make some joke out of my friends death or something. And in the dream it actually wasn’t just a blank red page with music or weird sounds, someone I talked to on the website told me to call john. So I looked through some of my old shit and found his old number. I was just expecting a disconnected message, or someone to already have the number taken over, but I guess whoever has it now also has a fucked up phone."
    • Tags: N/A
    • At an unknown time, Tyler responded to the player Eve's comment with "Why the hell do you people always lose your shit so hard in my comment section? “We are not trying to hurt you, we care about you." Like jeez are you some kind of cult? Goodnight actually before I get sucked into whatever is going on here; I have work in the morning.".
    • At 2:38 AM, the player Spirkiroid noticed that the phone number Tyler dialed in the video "calling john" was the same number that sent texts to various players in the past.
    • At 2:47 AM, players discovered that the description of "calling john" had changed. The description now read "TAGS". Following this, players began first discovering new tags on various Silentdork videos:
    • calling john - "Why, dont, you, check, again, old, friend"
    • Paranoid knocking - "We, have, no, need, to, knock, child, regiminis, shall, be, watching, you, until, your, time, comes"
    • accidental recording - "Icanseeyounow, Iamherewaiting"
    • Jacob - "what, do, you, think, they, did, to, him?"
    • Found a cool thing and now I am gonna go to work I guess - "The, hackers, message"
    • Bored and had a weird dream - "the, four, will, come, and, open, way, for, goddess, on, november 11, you, have, to, make, choice"
    • At 3:03 AM, players discovered that the description of "calling john" had changed again. The description now read "i hit the Fucking end button a bit to early. oh well, I called johnS old pHone ERlier because i had a strange dream about the website i was shown before but it doenst matter suppose Yeah i don't think i should call that again no ok llllll llllll 111111". The capitalized letters in this description spell out "FISHERY".
    • At an unknown time, the players discovered that tags had been added to the video "fishery" - "HELP THE ROOF IS COLLAPSING PLEASE DONT LET US ALL DIE".
    • At 3:06 AM, players discovered that the description of "calling john" changed once again. The description now read "i hit the Fuckilledusing end button a bit to early. oh well, I called johnS old pHone ERlier because i had a strange dream about the websitdhne i was showwhereamin before but it doenst matter suppose Youknowwhereweareburriedeah i don't think i should theyarewaitingtocall that again no. You Know where we were buiried. they are waiting".
    • At 3:07 AM, players discovered that the description of "calling john" completely disappeared.

    October 11th, 2015

    • At 11:06 PM, players discovered a new video on Silentdork - "Im going to". target=_blank
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    10/11/15 - "Im going to" - YouTube (Silentdork)

    Summary

    • Tyler visits Johnisdead.com. The front page is completely red aside from some text telling him to visit Kevin's house. Tyler decides to do so.
    • Tyler mentions his trip to Australia. He claims that Carla has become more obsessed with anonymity lately and has gotten Tyler to use a browser called "Pale Moon".

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "I know whoever runs that thing probably watches my channel, so here you go. I might have over reacted a bit at first, but fine, I don't know who the fuck you are but Ill actually go to kevs house, I haven't been in a really long time anyways and was thinking of going by to reminisce."
    • Tags: "blood, moon, ritual, ground, I'll, see, you, soon, Harbingers Link"

    October 12th, 2015

    • At 10:14 AM, players discovered a new video on Lostmemory423 - "IMG_1509". target=_blank
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    10/12/15 - "IMG_1509" - YouTube (lostmemory423)

    Summary

    • The man from previous lostmemory423 videos is exploring the fishery. He seems to have a British accent, implying he is indeed SKM. The description implies that on December 2nd, 2011, SKM met with the Lunar Children at the fishery.
    • Writing found on the walls of the fishery seems to imply that the four giants are under Tenebris's control. Other writing implies that John interrupted something - possibly Undecim Nocte.
    • A note left by the Lunar Child forum member Ezekiel is found. The note informs the reader that the fishery is no longer being used by the Lunar Children and that all activity has been moved to a location known as the "Spire" in Ohio - most likely the spire-like building seen in the YSHDT arc. The note was left for whoever has been tasked with transferring valuable items from the fishery to the Spire. Ezekiel closes the note by warning the reader to stay away from the fish ponds and to report any "strand sensations" experienced inside of the fishery.
    • While exploring the fishery, the man recording comes across an FBI application form and the flyer left outside Tyler's home.
    • The man recording is gifted a briefcase along with the message "FOR YOU, NEW CHILD", implying that he has carried out whatever the Lunar Children asked of him and has gained their trust.

    Updates

    • YouTube Details:
    • Description: "December 2nd 2011, you were a day late to your meeting, but their moon was early as their saying goes. You could have never seen them, but some of them were still there, watching you as you moved through their home, hoping that you might help them. They are still in pain now."
    • Tags: N/A
    • Screenshots:
    • Various fishery drawings: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • Drawings relating to Tenebris and the four giants: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • A drawing of three figures - one of which appears to be Regiminis - and a moon-shaped object. The phrase "Burned interrupts" is written: target=_blank
    • The papers found at the fishery: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
    • The note left by Ezekiel: target=_blank target=_blank
    • The briefcase gifted to the person recording: target=_blank
    • At 8:09 PM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now contained the text "Listen". The page also featured an internet radio plugin - "http://us1.internet-radio.com:8269/". This caused the "Song of Unhealing" to play along with various other reversed songs and noises.
    • At 8:58 PM, players discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now featured a link to the audio file "numbers.mp3, which contained simple phone dialing sounds. target=_blank
    • At an unknown time, players began dialing John's phone number once again. Doing so would result in disturbing sounds.
    • At 10:20 PM, Tenebris sent the message "Run" in the Internet Detectives Skype group.

    October 13th, 2015

    • At an unknown time, players discovered that Johnisdead.com now featured a large number of new redirect pages:
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/years" - This page contained an image of text reading "early years". This page also featured a slow, peaceful sounding song.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/sky" - This page contained a distorted photo of the sky. This page also featured a slow, droning song.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/head" - This page contained a photo of a man with a pig head wearing a suit. This page also featured an incredibly loud bass-boosted song. This page also hid the text "trying to feed her son", who officials say by then had been "deceased for at least six days." in the source code.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/try" - This page contained an image of text reading "TRY SOMeTHING NEW". This page also featured a reversed, peaceful sounding song.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/thats_ok" - This page contained an image of text reading "THERE'S NOTHING HERE". This page also contained audio of a song featuring the lyrics "There's nothing here…".
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/me_and_john" - This page contained a disturbing face that looks similar to Tenebris. This page also contained some unknown reversed audio.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/underground" - This page contained a distorted photo of some underground catacombs. This page also contained some disturbing, droning sounds.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/flesh" - This page contained a strange, mirrored face. This page also contained loud sounds of static.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/blood" - This page contained a image of a blood splatter. This page also contained some unknown, loud audio.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/again" - This page contained an incredibly blurry image of a man walking down a road. This page also featured audio of a slow, peaceful melody of three repeating notes.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/mister" - This page contained a scrolling image of a clown wearing a suit. This page also featured an incredibly loud, bass-boosted song.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/wool" - This page contained a distorted image of a wooded area. This page also featured a peaceful sounding song featuring an electric guitar.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/excursion" - This page contained a disturbing image of a baby doll. This page also featured a loud, reversed song.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/my_dear" - This page contained an image of text reading "Hello my dear". This page also featured a slow song with vocals.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/dream" - This page contained a distorted, blurry image. This page also featured a quiet, slow song.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/terror" - This page contained an image of a disturbing woman with a monstrous face. This page also featured an incredibly loud static sound.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/destroy" - This page contained an image of a demonic looking face. This page also featured a loud song consisting of droning sounds.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/equa" - This page contained a distorted image of a man staring at the screen. This page also featured a heavily distorted song.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/down" - This page contained a heavily corrupted image. This page also featured a distorted song containing heavy use of drums.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/without" - This page contained an image of someone sitting in a dark room with a single window. This page also featured incredibly loud audio that alternated between high and low pitches.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/destroy" - The contents of this page are unknown.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/faking" - The contents of this page are unknown.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/focus" - The contents of this page are unknown.
    • "http://www.johnisdead.com/vice" - The contents of this page are unknown.

    October 25th, 2015

    • At 2:15 AM, Tenebris posted the message "Run" in the Internet Detectives Skype group.
    • At 2:18 AM, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/run". This page contained a distorted image of some train tracks titled "tracks.gif". This page also featured the audio "pastevent.mp3". target=_blank
    • At 2:31 AM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page now featured a distorted image of train tracks titled "anomaly.gif". target=_blank target=_blank The page also featured the audio "scared.mp3". The message "REMEMBER. THE HOUSE" hidden within the source code.
    • At 2:41 AM, players discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now featured a link to a text document titled "execute.txt" which simply contains the text "ry.ex", referencing the Ben Drowned fan-game "lostmemory.exe".

    November 1st, 2015

    • At 6:37 PM, Drowned became active in the Internet Detectives Skype group and posted the message "they have him and I am scared, he let me out of his box and im waiting in my house but something bad is gonna happen in ten more days I just know it. The masks just wont stop watching him".
    • At 7:20 PM, Drowned posted another message in the Internet Detectives Skype group: "Come to my mind CB~ home pass I have to tell you the e h he is coming to get me me". This message was formatted in a way that the letters spelled out "help me" vertically.

    November 3rd, 2015

    • At 12:50 AM, the player Spirkiroid played the Ben Drowned fangame "Lostmemory.exe". He claims he walked into a house and saw a TV filled with static. Following this, the light broke. Spirkiroid then went upstairs and was teleported behind a locked door. The character Cremia from Majora's Mask then appeared in front of the player - faceless, floating, and crying. Text then appeared reading "hernamewas diana". Spirkiroid was then teleported outside of the house where more text appeared: "heisnotthefather". After this, Spirkiroid was teleported under the map into a mass of water.
    • At 4:28 PM, the player Spirkiroid noticed a text file that was placed on his desktop by "Lostmemory.exe". This file contained confusing formatting that revealed that Drowned was actually two spirits fused together: Ben and Max - SKM's younger brother. This file was titled "ezekielthoth33.txt" and read as follows: target=_blank
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    11/3/15 - "ezekielthoth33.txt" - Lostmemory.exe

    November 4th, 2015

    • At 9:48 AM, the player Juplaylp discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. The page now contained a link to a text file titled "findthename.txt" which read as follows: "The ANSwe3r is right In front of yOu fac3e it INP LAiN S IGHT lunarCHILD"
    • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com updated. The page was now titled "NAME" and hid the text "33" in the source code. This page also contained a strange image of a dark environment with someone's silhouette. target=_blank


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