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The story so far...
In the previous section, Vincent Adams returned after a multi-year long absence. Surprisingly, he was quite friendly with the players and was willing to answer their questions. He also began uploading a series of music videos that depicted what happened to him over the past few years. He also shared a bit more of the Lunar Children's inner-workings. He described some sort of experimental "Brain Operation" that would supposedly alter an individual's memories and personality in order to transform them into a more loyal follower. It also acts as a final test of faith, as it could be lethal if done incorrectly.
Vincent claims that he regained control of his body on the night of the Cataclysm in April of 2016. Here, he witnessed Patrem supposedly being pulled into the Parallelos... Afterwards, Vincent fled and moved to a new home. He was safe for nearly a year. However, in April of 2017, he felt his mind and soul slowly beginning to degrade... Before long, he found himself trapped in the Parallelos as well - a realm he described as terrifying. Time and space were distorted here - though he was only gone for three years, he supposedly spent thousands of years inside the Parallelos. Thankfully, he claims that he didn't need to eat, drink, or sleep while in the Parallelos. Instead, he simply walked through a seemingly endless expanse of trees.
Eventually, Vincent lost hope and stopped walking. He sat and stagnated for countless years as a tree slowly grew around him. While here, he saw a massive "storm" in the distance. This storm was actually the tendril of an Absque Fascie, who Vincent reveals are actually massive beings that dwell outside of the Parallelos. Supposedly, they even outclass Patrem in terms of strength. The Absque Fascie's tendril was slowly growing closer to him, threatening to devour Vincent. However, before this happened Vincent was rescued by someone he describes as an "Angel".
This Angel freed Vincent from the tree and pulled him up into the sky. Vincent and the Angel then flew through some sort of "fake" sky and entered into a more terrifying realm - one that supposedly existed outside of the Parallelos - the location where the Absque Fascie dwelled. Here, Vincent saw that he was previously within some sort of sphere. He also saw various other things in this realm - though he doesn't go into them, fearing that it's some sort of forbidden knowledge... Afterwards, the Angel brought Vincent back home.
Though Vincent is currently safe, he's recently begun experiencing something rather strange - he can recall two different sets of memories. One set of memories are the ones that he's inherently familiar with - the lifetime that he himself experienced. However, this other lifetime seems both foreign and familiar to him at the same time... He claims that he knows who these other memories belong to. However, he's afraid to reveal this information, fearing that it may have some "world-collapsing" ramifications. This strange memory-merging is possibly a result of Vincent's aforementioned "Aggregation"...
Meanwhile, Erika became active once again. After a fair amount of in-fighting and drama, the players eventually came to the conclusion that she's actually NOT canon - at least according to both her and a supposed friend of the GM's... It seems that the source of her "exclusive footage" and "insider knowledge" was the result of her having loose connections to the GM's. Though several players were still suspicious of her, they accepted her as a fellow Internet Detective yet again - something that seemed to make her quite happy.
Back on Silentdork, the players were finally shown a continuation of Tyler's journey. After coming in contact with the Mannequin Entity on the bridge in the Parallelos, Tyler was seemingly in two places at once - sleeping in a hospital bed and exploring a strange hotel. This hotel was actually Alex's Hall of Fame. Within it, the transcended giant Alex spoke cryptic riddles to Tyler. Most of this seemed to be a sort of meta-related commentary regarding Ben Drowned - something that was fitting considering that the long-awaited third arc, "Awakening", had just recently begun. Interestingly, Alex claims that Tyler was currently trapped in "The Machine", though what exactly this is referring to is unclear.
Meanwhile, TheLaw began assisting the players directly. He claims that his very nature is to uphold the demands of his own law - his own justice. Recent events have supposedly caused him to reconsider his allegiances and he's decided that assisting the players will result in the best possible outcome. Shortly after this, he departed to rendezvous with some sort of individual wearing a trenchcoat... Around this same time, a strange video was uploaded to Silentdork - one that was supposed recorded by SKM himself back in 2014. This video showed SKM uncovering a device near the Cellphone Tower that was supposed left for him by "The Gray Man" back in 2009.
Afterwards, the players discovered that Lunarchildren.com was once again back online - now sporting a brand new look...
Table of Contents
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- Start of Chapter
- Checkpoint #1After searching through a series of hidden pages on Lunarchildren.com, the players chat with Erika about religion.
- Checkpoint #2The IIIII account posted several odd images and an April Fools' joke. Now, Greth has suddenly returned with more vlogs and a new record label.
- Checkpoint #3After witnessing Greth become possessed by BUP, the players received several more strange files from the IIIII account. Now, they explore an expanded Lunarchildren.com.
- Checkpoint #4Lunarchildren.com updated with many new terminology pages. Now, the players seek out more hidden pages on the site.
- Checkpoint #5The players discovered a hidden page detailing the esoteric role of the "Father". Now, BUP and the Rune Entity have become active once again.
- Checkpoint #6A strange, threatening message was uploaded to Greth Vlogs by an unknown group. Now, BUP returns to share a strange album with the players.
- Checkpoint #7After speaking with Yuukichan upon the release of "Ascended E-Girl", the players discover pages on Lunarchildren.com related to Kevin.
Character Summaries
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Relevant Characters
Tyler
BUP
The Producer
TheLaw
Rune Entity
Erika
Vincent
Adams
The "Angel"
Greth
Alex
Yuukichan
"Wolfcat"
Munnin
Tenebris
Other Characters
John
Regiminis
Patrem
Mat
Hubbard
Moonman
IsocelesAssassin
GHOSTBABEL
Pumpkinhead
SKM
Astral
Tyler
Tyler00
Yugi
Kaiden
Zoromichi
NotAHoax
The Watcher
Nocta
Doug
Spencer
Kelbris
Old Man
Ben
Hubbard
Max
Samuel
Charleston
Luna
Jacob
Helper
Jeremy
J
Rosa
Chris
Hunter
Diana
Hubbard
José
Daniel
Zack Nelson
Kayd
Thomas
David
Danielle
Quia
The Man
Mason
Mason
xxxxxxxxx
The Gray
Man
Ezekiel
Thoth
Jinn
Kuu
Nathen
Hina
Eddie
SheepDog
HarryM1
Alignak
Kalfu
Sin_yarikh
Tsukuyomi
Igaluk
Losna
Hope
Hope's
Friend (M)
Hope's
Friend (F)
Tyler
(SilentDT)
William
Reynolds
Justin
Reynolds
Carla
The Flying
Child
Drowned
Guide
Glossary
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Misc.
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A
Absque Fascie
Aggregation
Alex's Hall of Fame
Amiibo
Archive
ARG
Ascension
Astral Child
Astral Observatory
Astral Observatory Forums
Astralobservatory.net
Astral Timeline
Awakening
Awakening Discord Server
B
Beacon
Believers
Ben Drowned
Blood Moon Ritual
Bloody Mary
Blue Baby
Bomb Plans
Briefcase
BroGaming
Bullet Necklace
Bunny Hood
BUP's Group
C
Candyman
Cellphone Tower
Ceremony of the Three Elements
Cipher
Cherrington High
Cleverbot
Conduit
Contact Page
Crescent
Crescent Moon Necklace
Cycle
D
Dark Link
Decoy.link
Deku Link
Demon
Detour Sign
Devium
Downloadable Files
Drezz
Drok
Dungeons & Dragons
E
Elder Children
Electro Drek
Elegy of Emptiness
Elegy Statue
Epona
Epona's Song
Eulogy
F
Fairy
Fakeworld
Father
File 59
Finitor
Fish Ponds
Full
G
Gamejack
Gibbous
GM
Goron Link
Goron Lullaby
Greth Vlogs
Guestbook
H
Hacker Group
Happy Mask Salesman
Harbingers
Harbinger's Link
Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge
Helper's Hat
Hiatus
Hole
Holy Building
Hospital
Hubris
Hubris Game
I
IIIII
Internet Detectives
Inverted Song of Time
IRC
J
Jadusable
Jadusable's ARG
Janus Room
JanusVR
Jumping
John's Cellphone Number
Johnisdead.com
K
Kamaro Mask
Key592
Killing Assignment
King Kong
L
Layered Being
Lens of Truth
Letschasethemouse
Libro Lunarus
Link
Link.exe
Listening
Listening Device
Lostmemory.exe
Lostmemory423
Luna Prophecy
Luna's Parallelos
Lunar Children
Lunar Children Forums
Lunar Children Servers
Lunarchildren.com
Lunarum Oculus
Lurch.co
M
M
Majora's Mask
Malagasy
Masks
Mask of Truth
Max Headroom
Messenger
Meta
Methods of Revolution
Minuet of Forest
Moonlight Meeting
Moon Children
Moon Children Forums
N
Neophyte
New Moon
New Wave Bossa Nova
Night of the Father
Novum Ascensionem
Nullstorm
O
Oath to Order
Observation Duty
OOC
Overseer
Overworld
Owl Statue
P
Parallelos
Parallelos Child
Parallelos Forum
Parallelos of the Ascended
Parallelos of the Dead
Parallelos of Time
Parallelos Path
Parallelos Symbol
Pididoip
Playing Cards
Portal
Postman's Hat
Prime Timeline
Pumpkinhead Gamejack
Q
Quiet Family
R
Raven Figurine
Reading Session
Remember.exe
Red Dot
Redirect Page
Regiminis's Domain
Regiminis Sigil
Revival
Room 592
Rosa
S
Safehaven
Samsara
Scrying
Scrying Device
Shazbot
Silent Hill
Silentdork
Skull Kid
Skype
Sleeproom
Sonata of Awakening
Song of Double Time
Song of Healing
Song of Soaring
Song of Storms
Song of Time
Song of Unhealing
SSTV Signal
Sphere
Steganography
Stone Mask
Strand Sensations
Submitting
Sub-Parallelos
Sub-Traversing
Subspace
Sun's Song
T
Tatl
Tenebris Symbol
Tenebris.link
Tenor
The Blackout
The Bridge
The Cataclysm
The Gate
The Factory
The Fishery
The Four Giants
The Glitch
The Killswitch
The Legend
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Misguided
The Misguided Legion
The Moon
The Ocarina
The Orchard
The Paths
The Poem
The Rule of Three
The Spire
The Three Silver Secrets
The Truth
The Whiteout
TheLinkMissing
TheTruth.rtf
Time Bomb
Time Links
Transcendence
Traversing
Truth Seeker
U
Undecim Nocte
Usekeb
V
Vampire
Vigil
Vocaroo
W
Wayward Horizon
Weenie-Licked
Whatisben.com
WireTalk
Within Hubris
Wyndstrom Institute
Y
Youshouldnthavedonethat.net
YSHDT.com
Z
Zora Link
Story
Lunarchildren.com's sudden return came as quite a surprise.
The site now featured a completely new design - one that was reminiscent of older internet webpages. The site had a very space-centric feel, featuring starry night skies, ornate pillars, and images of different phases of the moon. The announcements on the front page were all the same announcements that were present on the site back in 2018. Additionally, the site now featured a navbar leading to other pages such as "Archives", "Lore", "Anthem", and "Contact".
The page "https://lunarchildren.com/anthem" featured the same content it did back in 2018 - a lyricized version of the Lunar Children theme. However, the other links on the navbar were all still locked. It seemed as though the site was still slowly being loaded in... Additionally, the site featured its own "Redirect Page" - attempting to access a non-existent page would bring players to "https://lunarchildren.com/notfound.html", which featured an image reminiscent of the Parallelos titled "lost.gif".
As the players continued exploring Lunarchildren.com, they began noticing some strange oddities...
First, clicking on the word "She" on the "Anthem" page would link players to a completely new page - "https://lunarchildren.com/she.html". This page was titled "Holy Place" and contained two images - "realmfourth.gif" and "watching.png". These both seem to be references to Luna and her own designated Parallelos - a location that was previously referred to as "The Fourth Realm". In fact, "watching.png" seemed to be a stylized version of the classic "Lunarum Oculus" symbol from 2015.
"Realmfourth.gif", referencing Luna's Parallelos.
"Watching.png", referencing the Lunarum Oculus.
In fact, clicking this symbol would actually redirect players to yet another new page - "https://lunarchildren.com/come.html".
peer.gif
lunarchildren.com/come.html
This page was accessed from clicking on the "Lunarum Oculus" above.
we.mp3
Meanwhile, the IIIII account began sending the players cryptic messages on Discord - ones that led them to even more pages on Lunarchildren.com:
hakiehs.gif
lunarchildren.com/masked.html
This page was titled "apkreca". It seemed to be referencing the player Yoshi's old username - "Maskedsheikah".
ogdoad.mp3
In response, the player Yoshi decided to submit the "Frog Song" yet again. Shortly after this, the players were sent another new page:
kaeru.gif
lunarchildren.com/kaetu.html
This page was titled "Shift" and hid the text "XII" in its source.
ogdoad.mp3
The name "Kaetu" was quite strange... However, by using the hints provided in the page's title and source code, it was quickly discovered that this was actually a Caesar cipher that translated to "Yoshi" - yet another reference to this player. Considering that this page's image featured a frog, this seemed to suggest that her frequent submissions of the "Frog Song" were having some sort of effect...
On March 27th, 2020, the player Xenquility discovered that Lunarchildren.com had updated. José's avatar on the front page was now slightly animated, glitching and jittering slightly. Upon clicking it, players would be taken to another new page:
HETOOK.gif
lunarchildren.com/hcj.html
This page was titled "the patricide".
the.mp3
This page contained a distorted image of "The Watcher" - the name given to the mysterious alien mask-wearing entity who was stalking Greth back in 2018. However, what exactly he has to do with José and the meaning of "HCJ" is a mystery...
Later that night, Erika once again began messaging the player Xenquility.
I noticed something weird I think >.>
in that other place where people talk about arg stuff =p
Wait where did your messages go lmao
OH this is in the awakening discord
damnit
Thank you Erika :D
np np ^w^
where do you think I should post my silentdork amv's if at all >.>;
probably in #self-promotion or #art-gallery
or #other-arg if you're canon 😏
lol stop oml XD
Erika points out that TheLaw had posted a strange file in a rather unusual place - the "Awakening" Discord server. As a reminder, this is the location where "Awakening" was being played - the third and final arc of Ben Drowned.
The file that TheLaw posted was rather strange. It seemed to have no direct significance to Johnisdead. Instead, the image was a famous example of "Steganography" - a sort of "puzzle" that was used quite often during the first arc of Johnisdead. Steganography is the process of hiding files within other files - such as hiding text files within images.
Since it was so heavily related to this subject, the players attempted to see if this image itself contained any hidden messages via steganography... Sure enough, it did - a hidden link to an audio file. This audio file was a spectrogram that contained a concerning message:
"I have been compromised". It seems that BUP has discovered TheLaw's betrayal, implying that he may now be in danger... Unfortunately, the players' contact with TheLaw was still very sparse, meaning there was little they could actively do for him...
On March 29th, 2020, Lunarchildren.com updated once again. The "Lore" page, "https://lunarchildren.com/lore", was now accessible. Unfortunately, it currently did not contain links to any individual topics - only the following text:
The following excerpts contain vital information regarding our beliefs and the teachings of Father. Those willing to follow our path and ascend to Mother's sacred realm must familiarize themselves with the terminology found on this page. Provided you have proven yourself a true child of the moon, seek the guidance of an elder child for more in-depth studies.
Members are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN from discussing any of these terms outside of authorized areas. Failure to comply with elder child regulations may result in termination.
Afterwards, players found several more pages hidden across the site... The first one was discovered by clicking on the "Wisdom" header text on the page above:
mother.gif
lunarchildren.com/fate.html
This page was titled "Was it?".
This page was seemingly calling into question whether or not "something" was fate. What exactly that "something" is referring to is unclear, though. Clicking on the moon on this page would redirect players to yet another page:
scelus.gif
lunarchildren.com/chance.html
This page was titled "Beginnings" and hid the text "did he start it? will he end It?" in its source.
1111.mp3
This page contains several references to Undecim Nocte 2011, possibly answering our question regarding the previous page... Was Undecim Nocte 2011 fate? Or was it left up to chance? Cryptically, the page questions whether or not "he" started it and if "he" will end it, though again, the context surrounding this is a mystery.
Shortly afterwards, the players noticed an oddity on the front page of Lunarchildren.com - one instance of Mat's username had been replaced with "Rodney R." - one of Mat's Moon Children aliases. Clicking on this name brought the players to another page:
NEOPHYTE.gif
lunarchildren.com/watch.html
This page was titled "murderer rodney".
watch.mp3
This page contains an image of "The Watcher", labelling him as some sort of "Neophyte". Given the references to Mat, it's possible that he's Mat's neophyte - not too unlike how Regiminis was Patrem's neophyte in the past.
Another page was discovered by clicking on the word "CHANGED!" in a sentence regarding password changes:
theyrealreadyinside.gif
lunarchildren.com/transformation.html
This page was titled "upgrade".
third.mp3
Disturbingly, this page contained flashing images of brain surgery. Given the context, this is no doubt referencing the "Experimental Brain Treatment" mentioned by Vincent...
Finally, clicking on the word "Life" in one of Mat's posts led players to one more page:
finalmoments.gif
lunarchildren.com/L.html
This page was titled "ianaltd us".
moment.mp3
This page seems to be depicting someone's final moments, though what exactly is taking place is a bit unclear. It seems to involve someone encountering a cloaked figure in a long corridor.
Checkpoint #1
On March 31st, 2020, Erika and the players began discussing various different religions and religious figures.
Lok
lok
Loki more like it =p
the only loki i know is the one everyone on tumblr wanted to fuck
Why would you want to fuck such a nasty man honestly XD
Loki is really funny but he is also really REALLY gross imo
Loki turned into a horse and the male horse fucked Loki
Loki transformed into a female horse to have relations with the horse a giant was using
This was to cause him to lose a bet in which he sought to build the asgardian wall in under a few days in order to win ownership of the moon, the sun, and freya
he distracted the giants horse as a mare and did gross things with said horse, and birthed a 6 legged mutant horse to represent the crime against nature that occured lol
then he gave it to odin and odin named it "sleipnir"
HE TURNED INTO A PONYTA AND THEN HE GOT PREGNANT
tbh i cant blame my guy for being a clopper
Later that night, the player Xenquility decided to submit the "Sonata of Awakening" in an attempt to hopefully awaken and contact Tyler. While this didn't seem to work, the IIIII account did become active and change its avatar from the soda can sprite to a painting of a skeleton by the artist "James Ensor".
Afterwards, Erika continued her conversation with the players, commenting on this sudden change.
The painting style reminds me of Tarot cards xp
kinda, actually.
his profile picture is a skeleton
this is a stretch but skeleton might equal death tarot
i mean the usual is a skeleton riding on a horse
but im going to refrain from posting more tarots in the off chance they're canon lmao
I dreamt last night of tyler emerging from some water and then heading off too a place where we could walk together
for some reason this convo reminded me of this. I would say this in the #dream channel but I guess thats not for normal people anymore 😛
Emerging from some water
okay erikanon
still though im jealous that sounds HOT
I dont know what I am saying >.>
forget what I say <///<
AHEM
I knew if I said that you would get goofy tho so I had to XD
Ah okay
Erika brings up the subject of Tarot Cards, noting that the IIIII account's new avatar looks similar to them. Additionally, she recounts a strange dream she had that involved Tyler emerging from some water before going someplace to walk with her. She also briefly quotes Rosa, though this was mainly done to tease the players about them believing that she was canon.
Afterwards, the IIIII account became incredibly active, sending many strange and disturbing images in a variety of different places:
The Mannequin Entity.
A disturbing face.
A disturbing face.
Link wearing the "Don Gero's Mask".
A disturbing face.
A t-posing figure.
A disturbing face.
On April 1st, 2020, activity from the IIIII account continued. Ominously, its avatar had now changed to one of the creepy faces from the night before.
IIIII
"Benjamen"
Around this same time, the players noticed that Jadusable himself was about to premiere a video on his channel titled "king.txt". This was most likely Alex Hall referencing the infamous "King Kong" April Fools' prank from 2012. Likewise, a video was also set to premiere on Silentdork around the same time - "Kong.txt" - most likely an extension of this same joke. As the countdown to this video's premiere grew closer, its thumbnail changed several times:
KING KONG
KING KONG
KING KONG
KING KONG
KING KONG
KING KONG
...Some of these thumbnails were a bit more concerning than others.
"Kong.txt" finally premiered later that night:
Description
N/A
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The video begins with a man entering a convinience store, and heading towards the till. The till is manned by Tyler, who has suspended himself above the counter with his arms and legs.
Tyler: "Hello, how may I help you?"
The video ends as Tyler thrusts his hips forwards and steps off the counter.
Summary
- This video appears to be an OOC April Fools joke and likely has no bearing on the story.
...Shortly after this, the IIIII account posted yet again.
IIIII
"April Fools"
The players could rest easy knowing that Tyler's hip thrusts were not canon.
On April 3rd, 2020, the IIIII account became active yet again - this time in a more serious manner.
IIIII
"History Fading"
This seemed to be the Rune Entity warning the players that history was now fading. A quick look around the Silentdork channel revealed what exactly he was referring to - a section of the video "Trial" had been deleted - specifically the part that involved the "unitedagainstBEN.mpg" player video. Afterwards, the Rune Entity posted the "Dagaz Rune - "ᛞ", which is a rune often associated with change. It's possible that this was all meant to represent an upcoming change - or perhaps reference the passage of time in general...
Checkpoint #2
On April 5th, 2020, Greth suddenly became active in the Internet Detectives Discord server. He no longer seemed to be speaking from the year 2016 - instead, this seemed to be the current, modern day Greth. However, he strangely seemed to hold no knowledge of what's been happening recently - nor his recent possession by Patrem...
During this interaction, Greth posted a link to a new record label that he was starting - one that was ominously named the "Astral Observatory" and described as "Esoteric music, curated and loved by Toad the Druid." Supposedly, "Toad the Druid" was just a simple alias that Greth was using for this label.
Interestingly, the record label already contained an album on it - "test audio only". This mysterious album contained four tracks titled "Life", "Fear", "Anxiety", and "Death". This album can be listened to here.
On April 7th, 2020, a new video was uploaded to Silentdork - "time.mp4".
Description
N/A
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This video contains a distorted view of a road sign that reads as follows:
"CAUTION. CAUTION. CAUTION. NEW SIGNAL TURN ON. 4-9-20"
Summary
- This video contained a distorted road sign that read "CAUTION. CAUTION. CAUTION. NEW SIGNAL TURN ON. 4-9-20"
This video was fairly reminiscent of the video "9", or "Real?", in the sense that it featured another road sign. However, this video seemed far more distorted and looked as though it were inside the Parallelos... This time, the sign was pointing towards the date April 9th, 2020 - only a few days away.
On April 8th, 2020, Greth's strange behavior continued as the players noticed he was suddenly streaming on YouTube - "Hello again".
Description
N/A
<--- Click for Video Transcript
The livestream begins with Greth seated outside on the porch on his porch.
IIFan2001: "hello"
Greth: "Hello. How're you doing?"
IIFan2001: "im doin good"
Greth: "Oh yeah? That's good. Haven't been on here in a while. Just thought I'd catch up with people."
Gesp: "hi"
Greth: "Hi! How're you doing?"
Gesp: "good"
Greth: "I'd like the answer to whether you guys can hear me or not. Everything seems to be working. Let's see... Make that a couple people here. I guess that's about good enough to get this livestream started, technically."
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "-today cause I wanna just, catch up. I haven't posted on this channel in a long time. I think over a year easily. Last time I posted on here I was a little stressed out, so..."
((IIFan2001 posts an unarchived message mentioning how it had been about eleven months since uploads last appeared on the channel.))
Greth: "Uh, it was longer than eleven months for sure. I don't think I was like, posting on here elven months ago at all. It's been like, over a year. Sorry, I'm just checking something really quick. I wanna-"
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "Why'd you remove your message IIFan? It just said eleven months, I mean, yeah. It hasn't- it has been longer than that since I've been on here is all I was saying, for sure. I think the last time I posted on here was probably close to an actual year ago. I think the last Greth Vlogs that I posted was like, Greth Vlogs 12? I know I posted some videos after that like the "Experimentations" video. But like that was in a weird headspace. And then, ((inaudible)) you probably would've seen it, the hitch. But yeah. Yeah, last video I remember uploading was Experimentations. And that's when I was getting really high and doing weird shit. And then I kind of abandoned this place. That was after I had done my like, "hiking in the woods journey" or whatever, and some weird shit happened there too. I'm not really here to talk about that with you though. I'm here to talk about some other stuff, what's been going on with me."
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "-mentally from a lot of the internet prescence that I had. And I did some soul searching, and I'm back now. So for sure going to try and update the Greth Vlogs more. I guess if you want to you could officially call this "Greth Vlogs 13" even though this is a livestream. I might update the title to reflect that later though."
Xenquility: "Damn good to hear from you man"
Greth: "Well thanks."
IIFan2001: "or Greth Vlogs: The Return"
Greth: "Yeah. Well, the whole thing was that they always had numbers. So "Greth Vlogs: The Return" doesn't have that 13 in it. So like, maybe "Greth Vlogs 13: The Return"."
Xenquility: "Sorry to ask this as I'm sure you've already answered (Just got here) but what's been going on in the past few months?"
Greth: "I'll tell you, actually, no, no, no, this is uh, pretty early in the steam. I haven't really talked much about anything other than the fact that I haven't posted much on here recently. Past few months have been crazy. I moved into this new place I'm at now. I'm sure you guys remember the original point of Greth Vlogs was to kind of document my life in the new apartment which is no longer new. It's two years old and I have left. It was crazy. Right in the middle of this Coronavirus thing I was supposed to get the fuck out of the old place. I probably wouldn't have considering everything going on and I probably would've taken advantage of rent freezes to stay, but I was already in the middle of doing it so there was like, no point. This new place is behind me here. It's an efficiency that I live in. But it's, you know, it's my own place, there's no roommates, it's great, honestly. You would not believe the crazy shit I have around here. I got a mango tree right there that I can't really see because it's out that way, I'm growing a couple plants out here myself, I have monkeys, believe it or not. That's not even a joke. That's not an exaggeration. There are literally monkeys. There's a monkey cage right in front of me with an actual living money. Who's asleep, you can't see him. Look, I'll prove it. Check this out. That is a monky enclosure right in front of where I am sitting. And behind me is my apartment! So, apartment, monkey enclosure. I feed him grapes and flowers and shit. The type of monkey he is, they can't really eat most fruits cause it'll give them diabetes from the sugar, so they actually eat flowers."
Darkzero: "its like in the jungle"
Xenquility: "Sorry to ask but where the hell is this place?"
Greth: "Well I live in South Florida. It practically is the jungle, isn't it? I mean, look at this, look at this shit. You can't really see much because it's dark out, but I mean, this is like, all brush and tree. I mean, there's the mango- actually, you can see the mango tree now up there. It covers like the whole area above my head."
TheOtherLiam: "Florida is all just humid swamp"
Greth: "And I was talking about how a fresh mango just fell from the tree and scared the shit out of me. Well, it fell right around here, I can probably find it. Yep. Actually, it broke. You probably can't see it, but there's a broken mango down there. As you know, I've got my own things growing. Like this, we don't like to talk about it, but that's my friend."
Xenquility: "inb4 it's a disk"
Greth: "What do you mean 'a disk'?"
Xenquility: "Just a reference to some past stuff"
Greth: "Florida definitely is humid swamp. So, extremely tropical. Very, very, I mean, technically subtropics, but like, I mean, if you let this place grow it'll just turn into a swamp jungle. But uh, the main reason I'm on here is just to talk about what I've got going on."
Xenquility: "Any chance you remember that Tyler guy?"
Greth: "Yeah, I remember Tyler. I haven't seen him in a while, but, you know, I remember him. We used to hang out for a little bit. Um, me and Tyler was a werid thing. Like, we met online, then we met in real life due to-"
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "I hope he's doing okay though. Like I said, I haven't seen or spoken to him in quite a while. I don't remember much about our last encounter other than we got really stoned or whatever, so..."
Xenquility: "Sorry, missed what you said at the end there. Stream is a bit laggy on my end"
Greth: "Yeah, I would imagine the stream is going to be a little laggy. I'm doing the best I can."
TheOtherLiam: "Any chance you know when you last heard from him?"
Greth: "Sheesh, I don't know, I haven't seen Tyler probably since around the time I made uh, Greth-"
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "-yknow, which is just fine. Um, yeah, you guys uh, y'know, enough about Tyler. I've got a record label now I'm trying to push. The record label is called "Astral Observatory". We're going to be releasing small tape releases. Weird shit, I like weird stuff, I don't know if you realized. So I'm only trying to release really weird stuff. I don't know why I called it Astral Observatory honestly, it just came to me. It was just, it felt like it was something I had to call it. Like, something out of a dream, or, I don't know."
TheOtherLiam: "That's a cool name, did you go into that with anyone?"
Greth: "Uh, no, it's just me. Like I said, I kind of had the idea in a dream or something. I know uh, I used to be really into vapor wave, and I still am obviously, but I don't talk about it as much. Vapor wave seems to have sort of hit a downward curve in popularity. I would say around 2014 it was peaking, and when I actually entered the game as an artist, it was like 2018, so we were already kind of going like this. Now it's fucking, it's all future funk, which is not my scene, really."
Xenquility: "What type of "dream" we talking about here"
Greth: "Uh, I don't know, the kind of dream you have when you sleep. What? What do you mean? Like-"
((The livestream stutters))
Xenquility: "Alright missed most of what you said there but I meant more like "What were the contents of the dream"
Greth: "Like, ha, hold on a sec. Let me see if I can, uh, get my mic volume a little better. I feel like that's part of the problem. Because my mic is not picking up so well. Just a minute."
Greth briefly sets the laptop down to search for an outlet.
Greth: "Okay, bad news is uh, there's no plug out here, and I thought there would be, so we're going to have to go inside. Which is probably good for you guys, bad for me, if you'll just give me a moment. If you're a sketchy motherfucker like me, you'll know how to break in to houses. Watch this."
Greth opens the lock on his door with a screwdriver, and sets the laptop down in his kitchen.
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "-when you're living on the cheap you've got to find creative solutions for things, so I don't actually have a kitchen. So this is about my kitchen, and I am looking for a place to plug this in. And I don't think there is one. Unless I unplug my microwave, so guess what. You guys want to meet my cat? Come here, come here Luna! This is Luna. She's not happy that I picked her up. She's like 'What the fuck was that?' Alright, back to the questionnaire. Sorry about like, all the fucking shit. What? I'm trying to talk to people on the internet now. I don't have treats for you. You can come here and hang out? Come on!"
TheOtherLiam: "so your label says I can buy cassettes, why'd you choose that instead of a cd or something?"
Greth: "Uh, there's three reasons for that. Cassettes are cheap, cassettes are en vogue, if you want to put it that way, like they're popular again, and I fucking like them."
((The livestream stutters))
((An unarchived message is posted questioning the uploads on Greth Vlogs))
Greth: "Like I said, the last video I uploaded was Greth Vlogs, or uh, Experimentations after Greth Vlogs 12. Speaking of, so, the dream-"
((The livestream stutters))
Xenquility: "missed most of that"
Greth: "her name when I got her from the pound, I swear to god. So, it's just, it's always treated me well, and I felt like in my dream there was uh, something telling me that I needed to name my label that as if some, as if I already had some sort of connection to it. The best thing I can really relate it to is Majora's Mask. I always remembered liking that game as a kid, obviously, and, it worked."
Greth: "You missed most of what?"
Xenquility: "Can't remember now lmao. Excuse my short term memory loss. How's the sleep issues going? Any better at the new place?
Greth: "Your short term memory loss? Okay. Uh, as far as I can tell, I sleep better, I guess. At least I feel like once I'm out, I'm out. I've been told I sleepwalk now, which was never something before, but..."
ガンズフォーハンズ: "Why do you have that profile picture?"
Greth: "My face? I think my profile picture is just my face. Sorry, I keep getting a message, one sec."
Xenquility: "Is your body still, for lack of a better word, "resisting" sleep?"
Greth: "Um, yeah. That's always been a problem of mine, but moreso the last couple of years. What, Luna? She's being so weird, I'm sorry."
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "Come here, stop running into my computer. Meow! I'm sorry, it's just she's being annoying."
Romina Schute: "Where's tyler?"
Greth: "Tyler's at his house as far as I know.
Xenquility: "But yeah, we haven't really heard from Tyler since last April"
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "-for quite a while. Things were really cool between us at first, but I remember things getting a little tense. I can't remember what it is was about now. It was probably something stupid. It's probably why we haven't hung out, or really talked much at all."
Romina Schute: "Why did you take so long to upload videos?"
Greth: "What do you mean? 'Why did I take so long to upload videos' what videos specifically?"
TheOtherLiam: "Who is 'Toad the Druid'?"
Greth: "That's my alter ego. It is my uh, uh, I'm trying to come up with a word for it, Identity, I guess? As a dungeon synth/metal music aficionado/record producer? Mostly because I don't make music right now."
Xenquility: "all I can think of is that fucking BUP meme from simpleflips"
Greth: "What's a 'BUP'?"
Xenquility: "Not sure, to be honest. Uh, toad's face, is the best explanation."
Greth: "Well that's not very helpful, is it? Well, I think I might stand up for a minute and set you guys on here."
Greth's lights flash off and on.
Greth: "That was weird. Hold on. Going to figure out if that was my cat. Yeah, I don't know. Sometimes this place is a little creepy. I mean, you just got like, a-"
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "-you know. You know, the reason I'm having you guys stand up is so I can do uh, some drinking while I'm doing this."
TheOtherLiam: "Can you tell us any more about the 'test audio only' album?"
Greth: "Um, Test Audio Only, yeah, I don't remember where that came from either. I mean, obviously it's been there for like a year or so, or maybe more. When I first made the Astral Observatory conceptually it was around that time, about a year ago, but I never really did anything with it until now. But I don't remember uploading that at all. I kind of repurposed it and put the new logo and stuff on it, but I don't remember where it came from. I do remember there used to be some other stuff on there too. There was like, a JohnisDead album sort of thing, but I think that got removed because I didn't know what that was for either. One sec."
Xenquility: "what's a 'johnisdead' lmao"
Greth: "I feel like I used to know. I feel like I used to know what that meant. I feel like... So I started having some memory issues around the same time I was having sleep issues. Most of that's good now, but, well there's still a little weirdness. Uh oh. I think the stream froze on me. This isn't a joke, like, it froze on my end. Oh, there we go. Everything's working now, everything's working, a lot of people talking all at once."
Xenquility: "Any odd knocking at your door or anything spooky at the new place?"
Greth: "Sometimes I'll hear, in response to Xen, sometimes I'll hear banging outside at night. I don't know if I would call that knocking. I just assume that it's the monkey. Wow, way to embarass yourself on the internet, huh? Spill some beer. Yeah, I guess this was kind of a bust. I just wanted to talk to you guys a little bit cause it's been a while, but, I guess uh, I don't have that much to talk about. But I just felt like catching up. So, I'm not really sure where to bring it from here. I feel like I need to come back. I need to make my prescence known again on this channel, and I plan on updating more, so you guys can expect that. I don't know. Just that's something's telling me that I need to be here now. You know it's funny, you guys mentioned that uh, that sound outside, I think I just heard it actually, like 20 seconds ago."
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "I'm wondering if I should take a look, actually. Do you think we should go for it? It didn't come from this way, I think it came that way though. Yeah, I just heard it again. Um, I think it'll be a little hard to carry this around with me and keep you guys informed if I have my headset on though, so, just... Okay, you're free."
Greth heads back outside to investigate the noise.
Greth: "I have to turn the light on again. Hold on. Yeah, that's pretty coo- Hold on a sec."
The stream briefly freezes as Greth walks out of the range of his internet.
Emerald Heart: uh oh >.>
The stream returns as Greth nears his house again.
Greth: "I don't want to get too close to Dave's house. He's in there, probably. You can see his house, the guy I rent from is back that way."
Xenquility: "What came of the noise? Stream seemed to die"
Greth: "Oh yeah, did I cut out? I'm sorry. I was takling about... I don't know, this is a big yard, there's a whole nother house back here, where-"
((The livestream stutters))
Greth: "-a monkey cage, and that monkey does not like to be woken up."
A shuffling noise is heard.
Greth: "The fuck was that? Yeah, that's what I'm investigating buddy. I'm getting a little spooked myself, actually. Ah, fuck. THat was a huge spider web. Gross. I'm not finding anything. I feel like it was- Why's my door open? Hold on. This door was not open before. I mean it's like, I mean I can see inside, though. I don't see anyone in there. Can you? I don't know. Maybe I'm just going crazy or something. Hold on."}
Greth begins erratically staring at his door window, before poking his head inside.
Greth: "Um, I'm not trying to weird you guys out, but I don't feel like going back in there. My bathroom's light on, my bathroom light is on I mean, uh, it was not on before. I'm going around the side to check it out. Because I do not want to go in there if there's somebody in there. I'm just probably being paranoid. But that, that fucking light right here, that was not on."
Greth quickly turns around and drops the laptop, ending the stream.
Emerald Heart: "oh no <.<;;
It looks like greth is not as safe as he made himself seem at first :P
More messes at the edges of dream spheres or something :P"
BUP begins to speak in the live chat under the Greth Vlogs account.
Greth Vlogs: "Well that was fun
I hope you enjoyed chatting with my new toy
Emerald Heart: "POSSESED
Emerald Heart: OML POSSESED
Emerald Heart: POSSESSEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDD DXXXXXX"
Summary
- Greth seems largely unaware of the odd things that have been happening - including his own possession by Patrem.
- Greth writes off his previous deteriorating state as him being in a "weird headspace" and "getting high and doing weird shit" due to stress.
- Greth is now living in a new home that has a few odd amenities, including a mango tree and some pet monkeys.
- All Greth can remember about Tyler is hanging out with him and getting stoned - most likely referencing the video "A guest".
- Greth claims that the "Astral Observatory" name for his record label came to him in a dream. He conceptualized it about a year ago.
- Greth says he isn't sure where exactly the "test audio only" album came from.
- Greth confirms that "Toad the Druid" is indeed just an alias for him to use while releasing music.
- Greth claims that he occasionally sleepwalks now - likely due to Patrem's presence.
- Odd things begin happening in Greth's new home, such as unexplainable noises, doors opening on their own, and lights turning on.
- Greth suddenly disappears as he's seemingly possessed by BUP.
This seems to be a rather casual update from Greth. Here, he shows the players his new home - a small, strange abode that features a monkey cage of all things... The players are understandably confused - Greth is seemingly completely unaware of the odd things that have been happening lately. When asked about his previous deteriorating state, Greth simply claims that he was stressed out, in a "weird headspace", and was "getting high and doing weird shit". Additionally, he seems unware that he's been possessed by Patrem and the last thing he can remember about Tyler is getting high with him in the video "A guest".
Greth then begins chatting about his new record label. He claims that the name "Astral Observatory" came to him in a dream. Supposedly, he first conceptualized this record label about a year ago... However, he's not sure where the "test audio only" album came from, implying that Greth himself isn't the one who uploaded it.
Unfortunately, the stream's casual vibes didn't last long. Towards the end, strange things begin happening around Greth's home, including unexplainable sounds, doors opening on their own, and his lights turning on and off. Greth suddenly drops his laptop and disappears. Shortly after this, someone uses his account to post the following:
BUP
"Well, that was fun. I hope you enjoyed chatting with my new toy."
Given the tone and context, this is no doubt BUP. This left the players with the concerning realization that Greth was now possessed by two separate entities - BUP and Patrem... In response to this, Erika posted the following:
Erika
"oh no <.<;; It looks like greth is not as safe as he made himself seem at first :P More messes at the edges of dream spheres or something :P"
Erika mentions something called "Dreamspheres". While it's not entirely sure what she's referring to here, the name sounds similar to the "Dream Bubbles" that were present in BUP's Dungeons & Dragons game. Additionally, Greth himself previously released an unrelated out-of-character album called "Summer Dreamspheres" a year prior in 2019.
Shortly after the livestream above ended, another one began - one that was titled... "uihlkhhkhy67i8jgkughkgjkhghhghjgjhg5676798654678907yotugkjb,k.njl;l';\'\".
Description
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The video begins with Greth's laptop on its side, filming the ground. Near the end, Greth is seen struggling to drag himself forward, but is pulled back by BUP. The laptop is knocked over, and the livestream ends.
Summary
- This video appears to show Greth struggling against BUP.
The stream was very short, as it simply showed Greth struggling on the ground as BUP began to control his body.
Meanwhile, back on Discord, the Rune Entity began posting more cryptic messages. First, he messaged a player named Beast3880 the following:
IIIII
"You have been chosen. ᛇᛇᛇᛇ take those who are struck that may soon be bereft of awakeness. A home is given to the worthy fallen from the awake. What ails this traveller in foreign lands? Marked awake. ᚸ"
For context, the player Beast3880 had just recently been given a "moderation strike" in the Awakening Discord server. The Rune Entity was presumably calling out to this player, offering them a position within the Internet Detectives. Interestingly, the Rune Entity also posted "ᚸ", or "Gar" rune. This rune is also known as the "Spear Rune", and is also often associated with Odin's Gungnir spear. The Rune Entity later posted another message that made the purpose of this rune a bit more clear:
"ooses the dead as commanded by odin who marks them with a STRIKE of his gungnir spear usually represented by a STRIKE in the waking world. The valkyries set out in their journey to choose among the slain tho---------"
This excerpt went into more detail regarding the Gungnir spear, noting that Odin would often "strike" individual with it in the "waking world". This was an obvious parallel to individuals getting "moderation strikes" in "Awakening" - explaining why the Rune Entity decided to mark Beast3880 with the Gar Rune.
Afterwards, the IIIII account proceeded to post another collection of strange images:
A distorted face.
A distorted face.
A distorted face.
A distorted face.
A distorted face.
The IIIII account then posted a disturbing video of similar-looking faces morphing into one another. Unfortunately, this video wasn't archived... However, the IIIII account then posted another video - "red_head.mp4". As the name implies, this video featured a strange entity with a round, red-colored head standing in a green environment.
Unfortunately, the significance of this entity - if there is any - is unknown...
Later that night, a new video was uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 14 (?): Monkey time".
Description
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The video begins with Greth approaching the monkey enclosure previously seen in his yard.
Greth: "Ardy? Ardy-bardy? Come here Ardy!"
Greth moves to the left of the cage, and calls the monkey over with a grape.
Greth: "Ardy? There he is. Hi Ardy! Want a grape? You've gotta take it, you- you can't just... Here, I'll just shove it in there. It's gonna fall! You're not doing a very good job. There we go... That's my roommate, kind of."
The video ends with Ardy eating the grape.
Summary
- Greth briefly shows off the monkey living in the enclosure outside of his new place.
Strangely, Greth seems to be back to normal yet again. It seems that he's completely unware of the fact that BUP took control of his body during his previous stream... This could imply that BUP holds some control over Greth's memories.
Checkpoint #3
Later that night, the players discovered that Lunarchildren.com had updated yet again. The site now housed several new pages that covered many different terms and beliefs. While many of these pages existed on the previous version of the website from 2015, most of them are now worded differently and contain new information. The most notable information will be highlighted in the sections below.
The first terminology page on display was a category - Ascension.
Mother's greatest gift to man. Ascension is a holy state that allows one to transcend their limited, mortal boundaries. Through ascension, one has the ability to tap into the space between Reality and Fantasy, drawing out the dormant powers of existence itself. Only through ascension may one gain full knowledge of the parallelos and travel between them.
Ascension requires careful preparation in the form of intense studies of Father's teachings and a devout following of Mother. The process of ascension involves the precise passing of one's essence from their physical body to the above parallelos. This requires a specific set of conditions that must be met in order for a successful ascension to take place. Because of the complex nature of this process, an elder child must be present at every ascension.
However, above all else, the most important component of any ascension is the participant's faith in Mother. Only through Father's teachings can one hope to fully embrace Mother's gift and become one of her holy warriors in the parallelos above. Below are four different classifications of ascension defined by Father.
Here, ascension is described in a far more matter-of-fact manner. While the 2015 page described it as a "space between fantasy and reality", this page explains the concept in more acute detail - mainly describing it flatly as the process of separating the soul and body so that an individual's essence can travel to the Parallelos. Interestingly, this page implies that successful ascensions require certain controlled conditions to be met and that they're often overseen by Elder Children. As a reminder, the Elder Children were a set of high-ranking Lunar Children such as Jinn, Mat, and Thoth.
The four different levels of ascension from 2015 were still listed here - each with their own page. Let's look at them now:
Deviums are the first tier within the spectrum of ascension. Becoming a Devium requires the least amount of spiritual prowess from the participant and only a basic understanding of our teachings. Like most ascended beings, Deviums are above the need for a physical vessel and exist on a purely spiritual level. Deviums have been stripped of the excessive baggage we mortals are burdened with, instead prospering in an emotional state of sense and ecstasy.
However, Deviums do not possess the full power available to them through ascension. Though Deviums have been graced with Mother's gift of eternal life, they have little to no ability to manipulate the world around them and shape it in Her image. Reaching higher forms of power requires more advanced studies under the guidance of the elder children.
The way that this page describes Deviums is quite different from its 2015 counterpart... In 2015, being a Devium was described as a "terrible fate". In fact, many of the disturbing pages found on Johnisdead.com were actually implied to be the horrifying, looping thoughts of trapped Deviums. However, this page seems to be trying to paint the state of being a Devium as pleasant, claiming that they're "prospering in a state of ecstasy" - a blatant lie.
Eulogies are those who have ascended to a level beyond that of Devium. Through intense studies and years of following the will of Mother, those who ascend may reach the level of Eulogy. Through their ascension, Eulogies have the ability to attune themselves to the physical world and converse with us mortals. This allows Eulogies extended influence over the various parallelos when compared to the more docile Deviums.
Eulogies may gain further influence over the physical realm provided they have a conduit upon their ascension. Because of their flexible nature, Eulogies are considered valuable servants of Mother who greatly benefit our cause.
This description largely lines up with how Eulogies were described in 2015. Interestingly, this page now directly mentions the existence of "Conduits". As a reminder, a conduit is someone who has died as a result of someone else's ascension. Conduits are often used as vessels that somehow "power up" the ascended individual. For example, John was Regiminis's conduit, and recovering his spirit of Tenebris gave him a great boost of power and influence.
Finitor is the final level of ascension that one could hope to achieve. Finitors possess incredible power over the parallelos, having the ability to freely step through time and travel between realms. Those of this rank may enter any parallelos they please aside from the 4th Realm, as entering said parallelos requires even greater power and Mother's own personal blessing.
The only way to obtain this power is to work directly under Father, as only he holds the forbidden knowledge behind this ceremony. Only two ascended have ever achieved the rank of Finitor, those being the Tenebris Link and Father himself.
The general definition of a "Finitor" remains the same - rare, powerful ascended individuals who can even travel through time itself. Interestingly, unlike the 2015 version of this page, "Luna's Realm" is instead referred to as "The 4th Realm". While this was indeed listed as an alternate name for "Luna's Realm" back in 2015, it seemed to be the lesser used term...
Additionally, this page now outright reveals that Patrem and Tenebris are both Finitors. This makes sense, considering the fact that they both possess time-travelling abilities... Supposedly, these are the only two known Finitors in existence.
The Transcended are the rare few chosen by Luna herself to enforce her will. Transcendence is a unique ascension as those who have ascended retain their physical form. Whether or not one Transcends is purely based upon Her will. The few who have Transcended in the past have always heard Luna speak to them her prophecy through faint "whispers".
The Transcended hold incredible power. Though they persist in their mortal bodies, they hold the ability to travel between parallelos at will by actively controlling their consciousness. Their abilities are comparable to those who study the Parallelos Path, though with more freedom. However, the Transcended do suffer from some mysterious restrictions that are not fully understood. For some unknown reason, the Transcended are unable to encroach upon any loctaion they have not been explicitly invited into. The Transcended also enter a state of hibernation should they have no current tasks assigned to them by Luna. This trance-like state can only be broken through the Ceremony of the Thurses Quintessence.
It is believed that the Transcended are bound to these strange restrictions simply because they are Mother's holy servants. While they have great power, they are more of extensions of Luna herself.
A current list of known transcended according to studies gathered from both the Lunar child overseer in the orchard compound and Regiminis during the infiltration of the ranks of the misguided is as follows:
Douglas P.
Alex H.
Spencer L.
Kelbris of the Misguided
Again, this page covers many of the same topics as its 2015 incarnation. Interestingly, the ceremony that supposedly awakens a giant has been given a proper name - the "Ceremony of the Thurses Quintessence". For context, "Thurse" is another word for "Giant". Additionally, the identities of The Four Giants are outright listed here as opposed to the 2015 page which only listed Doug.
Next up is another category page - one for general Lunar Child terminology.
The following excerpts contain vital information regarding our beliefs and the teachings of Father. Those willing to follow our path and ascend to Mother's sacred realm must familiarize themselves with the terminology found on this page. Provided you have proven yourself a true child of the moon, seek the guidance of an elder child for more in-depth studies.
Below is an extensive list of important terms used within our ranks. Further reading is encouraged at our library in the holy building. For any questions, refer to our forums and seek out our elder members.
Interestingly, this page seems to contain an image of some sort of library - possibly the same library that once existed inside The Spire.
This page also contained a list of terms. Let's cover them below:
The many worlds and realms between designed by Luna. While parallelos can often be thought of as separate spatial dimensions, the word encompasses a much broader scope than just simply "space". There are an infinite number of parallelos, each serving its own unique function under one of the following classifications:
This general definition is mostly the same. However, some differences begin to arise within the different categories below:
Nearly every parallelos casts a reflection in the form of "Sub Parallelos" - shadows of pre-existing realms devoid of light and sound. These voids are mysterious places that are still not yet fully understood. While their true purpose is a mystery, those adept with the Parallelos Path have managed to utilize these otherwise barren worlds to quickly travel across the Overworld.
Where exactly the Nullspace falls into Mother's plan is unknown. Many believe that these pocket dimensions are simply natural byproducts of the existence of our parallelos, hence the "shadow" description. Others theorize that the Nullspace best represents the concept of "The Holy Dyad" spoken of by Father Alphonse, believing that these worlds are necessary blights that counterbalance our more orderly realms.
Here, it seems that the "Sub-Parallelos" described back in 2015 can also go by a different name - the "Nullspace". As described here, the Nullspace is a realm of darkness that can be used to quickly travel across the Overworld if one is adept in Parallelos Path teachings. This was described as "Jumping" back on the 2015 website.
This page also mentions a new character - Father Alphonse. Given the title of "Father", it's likely that this individual once held Vincent's position... Alphonse supposedly conceptualized something called "The Holy Dyad" - a theory that supposedly involves the concept of "light" and "dark" both existing to balance one another out. It's likely that Alphonse believes that the Nullspace's "darkness" exists simply to act as a natural "balance" to the Overworld's "light". However, whether or not there's any credence to this theory is unknown.
Our own parallelos. A realm of flesh, earth, and all physical matter. Mother forged the walls of our parallelos in ancient times on the second day of creation, protecting us from that which we could not yet perceive so that we may learn through her teachings and one day visit the realms that lie beyond.
For each passing moment of every parallelos, a separate realm exists that captures these points in time. Those who have ascended to the rank of Finitor may freely travel through these realms to reach a desired moment in time.
A realm for those who have successfully ascended beyond the Overworld. This parallelos houses our holy brethren who await Luna's descent in union while relishing an existence free of mortal woes. Though it is possible for one to travel beyond this parallelos or descend to our realm to assist those still of flesh, such a task may only be achieved by Eulogies, Finitors, or the Transcended.
Most of these definitions are generally the same to their 2015 counterparts. Interestingly, the "Overworld" definition now incorporates some of the lore found in the cult's "Legend" - the same story that described how Luna supposedly created the Earth, the Parallelos, and the boundaries between them long ago.
Artificial parallelos created by man that house our ascended brethren. Portals allow for easy communication with those who have ascended. There are also future plans among our elder children to produce more personalized constructs within our portals for further comfort for the newly ascended. Portals also act as windows to the larger parallelos, allowing for further study and examination similar to past experiments with scrying and listening devices. It should be stressed, however, that portals are only temporary constructs that are in no way replacements for the realms constructed by Mother.
Portals, too, have a similar definition. However, this definition does go into a bit more detail. The Lunar Children claim that they're currently working on ways to produce "more personalized constructs" within their portals, though it's unclear what exactly this means... It could imply that the existence of ascended individuals within these Portals is a bit more complex than what was originally believed.
Additionally, these portals somehow allow the cult to conduct further examination and study into the deeper Parallelos - presumably by working alongside the ascended individuals within them. What exactly this looks like in practice is unclear, though.
The sacred realm that houses Mother and her servants, the Absque Fascie. From here she watches over us all and whispers her will until the true end times, the time of her glorious descent when she will take us to live in her realm for all eternity.
Again, this definition for Luna's Parallelos, or "The 4th Realm", is essentially the same. It also once again claims that the Absque Fascie are Luna's servants who dwell within her Parallelos - something that's recently been called into question considering the Absque Fascie's presence outside of the Parallelos entirely...
Strangely, the "Parallelos of the Dead" seems to be completely missing from this list.
Next up is another category page - one that covers the various teachings of the Parallelos Path:
The parallelos path are teachings passed down from Father to his chosen children that allow one to reach beyond the limits of a normal child. Those who devote themselves to the parallelos path and master it may obtain abilities rivaling that of lower ranking eulogies in terms of freedom and communication concerning the parallelos. Only special children handpicked by Father may learn these teachings. Through the parallelos path, you will learn of the following techniques:
The general purpose and teachings within the Parallelos Path seem to be the same. However, it's now claimed that these skills will allow one to obtain powers and freedom rivaling that of ascended Eulogies. This isn't too big of a surprise considering that the powers witnessed in cultists such as Daniel were supposedly obtained purely through learning these Parallelos Path teachings.
Just as before, each of these teachings contained their own individual section:
Quickly travelling through the nullspace and reemerging in one's original parallelos in a different location. Jumping allows for quick travel around most parallelos akin to teleportation. However, extended contact with the nullspace is dangerous. One must be truly adept in Father's teachings to safely make use of this ability.
As described on the 2015 page, "Jumping" is the act of quickly travelling between the Overworld and the Sub-Parallelos - now called the Nullspace - to essentially "teleport". One difference between this page and the 2015 version is that it claims that extended contact with the Nullspace is supposedly dangerous... How exactly the Nullspace is "dangerous" isn't specified. However, it could simply be referring to the fact that it's naturally very dark and difficult to travel through.
Entering a separate parallelos either in a physical or spiritual sense. Much like with jumping, traversing can be dangerous for those inexperienced with the inner workings of the parallelos. This skill is one that takes many years to perfect, but once mastered, one will be rewarded with fantastic wisdom and knowledge beyond their wildest imagination.
The act of peering into separate parallelos to attain visions. For those more adept in the parallelos path, these visions may come from the distant past or even the future. Though this ability has been an incredible boon for our ranks in the past, it is incredibly taxing on the user both physically and mentally. Should one rely too heavily on this gift, they may become blind. Fortunately, devices have been constructed that allow us to receive visions in a safer manner, though much less efficiently and accurately.
The act of listening to the voices of those from beyond our parallelos. This concept is similar to that of scrying. Through listening, we can receive wisdom from our ascended brethren of the higher planes. However, much like with scrying, one must be cautious when utilizing this ability. Those who have misused this gift in the past have become deaf. Though listening devices have been created, they still require careful planning and a concentrated effort to redirect spiritual energy to effectively use, making them somewhat unreliable.
Traversing, Scrying, and Listening all seem to be largely consisting with their 2015 definitions.
Next up are a few general terms relating to Lunar Child beliefs and theories:
Mother has been observed working in "threes" countless times throughout recorded history. Because of this, the number three is often believed to hold some significance to Her and is viewed as a sacred number. Many of our most ancient rites and teachings involve the number three in one way or another to capitalize on its innate energy and to honor Luna.
Through the Rule of Three, it is believed that one may be blessed. Some children choose to adorn themselves in sigils signifying the holy number. Others partake in personal rites before sacred ceremonies, hoping to channel more spiritual energy to increase their chances of success. The number three is involved in all of the following, as observed by Father Alphonse:
-The Three Silver Secrets
-The Ceremony of the Three Elements
-The three days in which Mother forged all
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This is all consistent with what was learned back in 2015, though it goes into more detail about how some Lunar Children prefer to honor the number three through sigils and personal rites in the hopes of attaining blessings. Additionally, this page contained some corrupted text that quoted Kelbris's testament about Luna repeating the number three...
It is believed that on the eleventh night of the eleventh month, the parallelos align in a way that results in spiritual power harmoniously resonating across all space and time. This influx of energy allows the Overworld to experience an unusually powerful connection to the other parallelos, making Undecim Nocte the ample time for important ceremonies.
Specifically, this night allows for further contact to the 4th realm, which has greatly expanded our knowledge of the outer realms. However, only those truly advanced in the communicative ways of the Parallelos Path and have been chosen by Father may take part in these communications, as attempting to peer into such a highly intensive realm unprepared may cause permanent damage to one's own psyche. Just as well, any unsolicited interactions with the 4th realm is a severe transgression that will result in immediate termination.
This page is quite different. While the 2015 version of this page was covered in warnings about the taboo Undecim Nocte 2011, this version makes no mention of it. Instead, it simply refers to the yearly Undecim Nocte as a Parallelos anomaly - one in which the various realms of space and time align and makes contact between them easier - something that was also mentioned on the 2015 page.
However, the page also claims that this anomaly allows for rare contact with "The 4th Realm" - Luna's Realm - though attempting this is very dangerous and forbidden.
Next is another category page - one for various figures within Lunar Children mythology:
The following articles contain information covering prominent figures released by the elder children. New moons should familiarize themselves with all of those listed here.
This page contains what appears to be a stylized depiction of The Four Giants as holy knights of Luna. These include:
- Doug, smiling ominously with a mouse on his shoulder.
- Alex, shrouded in shadow and wearing a coat similar to Dante's.
- Spencer, possessing a fish-like head and a strange symbol.
- Kelbris, standing over the others while wearing a kingly robe.
This page also featured links for pages covering other figures and entities within the cult:
An ancient tribe of mysterious beings that have served Luna since long before man. While not much is known about this sacred tribe, they are believed to possess incredible power, though their abilities are not comparable to those who have ascended above the rank of Eulogy. It's believed that the Absque Fascie's name is derived from their lack of any tangible form.
Though they are "without faces", they make utilize special conduits of sorts to further interact with the Overworld - a realm they otherwise hold little power over. Not much is known about these unique conduits or the Absque Fascie as a whole - only that they will one day descend alongside Mother when the holy day arrives.
This page is a bit different from its previous version. Here, Absque Fascie are once again implied to be relatively "weak" and their strength is not even above that of a Eulogy - something that we know is obviously not true thanks to Vincent's experience in the Parallelos. Interestingly, it's implied that the Absque Fascie do not possess a tangible form. However, they supposedly can use some sort of "special conduits" to interact with the Overworld.
Given the various contradictions found between Vincent's experiences and the Lunar Children's mythos, it's a bit difficult to discern the true nature and powers of the Absque Fascie... For now, we'll assume that Vincent's information is more accurate as there's no reason to believe that he'd be lying.
Those who walk in opposition of Luna and her will. Through their avatar, the Harbinger's Link, these blasphemous souls resist Mother and her offerings. Such as all things, the Harbingers are creations of Mother, and are therefore a part of her plan. It is foretold that, through their hatred of Her, they will unwittingly bring about Mother's descent, due in part to the Tenebris Link's perpetual obfuscation and deceit.
Though they are powerless compared to Father, the Harbingers do possess the power known to us as The Gift. While this is often a nuisance for us, this power is actually the Harbingers' greatest weakness. Truthfully, The Gift is a curse placed upon them, as their unholy hands have no authority and their minds have not the knowledge to wield what is ultimately an extension of Her might.
Whispers from Mother herself have further proven these theories:
"My control to them."
"Bring forth the end."
"The dark one shall move among them."
(Along with said whispers, many reported the number 4 being spoken repeatedly, sometimes even in between words.)
Most of what's said here was already conveyed on the 2015 version of this page. The Harbingers are the players. Though the cult views them as unholy blasphemers who oppose their god, they are still somehow a part of Luna's plan. Supposedly, due to misuse of The Ocarina, or rather, "The Gift" - as well as due to Tenebris's deceit, the players will inevitably bring about Luna's descent.
Unfortunately, the depiction of the players here is a bit difficult to make out... It appears to show someone with their arm raised - as well as several other mysterious figures.
An Absque Fascie hailing from long before the age of man. Auxiliatis is blessed with extraordinary traversal and communicative abilities. These powers are most useful when delivery of important items and messages is needed. However, Auxiliatis is a taboo apostate of Mother. Calling upon him is strictly prohibited save for the most desperate of situations and under careful watch of the elder children.
In ancient times, Auxiliatis was responsible for bearing Her holy deliverance, be it physical matter, spiritual essence, or Her sacred testament. The only gift Auxiliatis could not give is one of Mother's essence, as no hands but those chosen by Her may touch such pure light. When Mother forged the Overworld, Auxiliatis was tempted by the material and impure took a perverse interest in the ways of man, neglecting his holy duties.
"Why and wherefore dost you bid this of me? I hath served thee and thy kingdom since my creation. I wished to partake for but a moment in the ways of man, and yet here you trap me to this right? Nay, give this power not to me but unto my brother." - Auxiliatis, Libro Lunarus
As punishment for this disobedience, Auxiliatis was cast into the parallelos of man, sentenced to be man's eternal servant.
The story of Auxiliatis, or Helper, remains the same - though some extra details have been added. This new page points out Helper's exceptionable "traversal and communicative" abilities - something that the players have witnessed first-hand though his feats and conversations in the past. This page also still refers to Helper as an Absque Fascie. However, given what we now know about Absque Fascie, this label is shaky at best. Also, whereas the 2015 version of this page contained a small reference to Vincent, any mentions of him seem to be missing from this new page...
A figure that is both conducting and conductive of the heretical Harbingers. The Harbinger's Link is representative of all violations against Mother and her glory. The Harbingers seek to impede Mother's plan through their Link, forever casting man into darkness and destruction.
However, like all else, the Harbinger's Link is an essential creation of Luna, for it is through his demise that Mother may once again descend and bring about the golden era for all eternity.
This page is about the Harbinger's Link - Tyler himself. It lines up with what we already know in regards to how the cult views Tyler - they believe that he is representative of the Harbinger's heresy against Luna and that she will descend once he is sacrificed.
However, one new detail here is a symbol that supposedly is meant to represent the Harbinger's Link - a double-sided arrow. This same symbol was previously seen in several places back in 2015... It seems that only now is its meaning finally being revealed.
Finally, we arrive at our last category page - one that covers various Lunar Children legends and events.
The following articles contain excerpts from the Libro Lunarus, prophecies foretold by those spoken to by Mother, and tales passed down throughout the ages.
For further reading, consult elder child Jennifer of the Spire's library.
This page mentions an Elder Child named "Jennifer" who is supposedly in charge of overseeing the library at The Spire. It's possible that could be referring to either Kylie or Jinn, as they were the only two Elder Children who said to have been responsible for the cult's library.
This page contained links for the following two pages:
(An excerpt from the Libro Lunarus made public by Father Patrem)
In the beginning there was humankind, and there was the void of parallels. People had nothing more than themselves and chaos. To live was endless stagnance, to die was endless stagnance, all was suffering. Until, she intervened. There was a crack, and then a bang. It echoed throughout reality, she made her presence known. "Children I come from far beyond and still thine selves so that my silver secrets ye may soon take part in." She spake aloud to the quivering masses.
She then proceeded to create for us what we now know as the Overworld, our parallelos, and for three days and three nights she gave new form to the world we now know, and instilled new secrets into the people who were to go on to govern it. On the first day, she created the earth forged through fire, light and dark, night and day, giving limits and perceivable form to these things. A place for us to dwell properly. She gave us elements and objects of a tangible nature on the physical plain so that we might build in her honor. On the first night she taught those who listened the secret of Power, so that they might know the ways of utilizing these elements.
On the second day the people eagerly awaited what glories she would bring next, what glory would they bare witness to in this time of sacred creation. Lo and behold she created walls and barriers, separating us from the chaos of the parallelos beyond and giving this world order. She made the reality of this world and gave it limits so that it might be a safe haven for her children to grow. She created a path that would lead us through what would be called life, and a path that would lead to death. Paths that would take us to many parallels and finally a path that would soon lead to her own parallel. On the second night, she taught those who listened the secret of Wisdom, so that they might know the ways of this new reality, and how to one day step beyond it when the time comes.
On the third day she gathered the people together in this new world she had cultivated, and they stopped at the foot of a great tree. "Why and wherefore hast thee taken us unto this place?" Spake a man named Benjamen. "Please tell us oh goddess!", "Nay, I shall show thee." Her voice boomed through the world. A thorn of light crashed down upon him from the heavens, there was a boom echoing through the sky and his physical form was no more. "Know this is Ascension" She said to the people. Descending down from the skies, faceless beasts without bodies spoke in ways that none but her could understand. "I shall give some the power to understand these words, I shall give some the power to move in the ways these without faces may move. I shall give some the power to move to the worlds the faceless may move and hear what only they may hear. But only they may come with me to my Parallelos." As she gave unto the people this power, some cried out "Mother do not leave us, let us come unto thee! May we not move to thine world as well?"
"Nay, not with these masks ye hold. My true people are the faceless and maskless. Move beyond thine bodies, the physical masks, and learn of the divine third silver secret my children. I will teach it on this night." But on the third night her power ran out and she spoke not of the third secret on the third night. All was silent in this unfortunate time. She collapsed to the ground, and four came to her aid. "Ye shan't have done this children" She spake "Nay, we live to serve thee mother." "Holy art thou, I shall take ye with me in this time, ye will become as those without masks and those without faces. Ye will return with me one day and carry the rest of thy brothers and sisters to glory."
Upon the dawn of the fourth day she left, taking the beasts without bodies and faces, and the four who came to aid her away with her into the sky. As she ascended into the heavens she promised to return again one day and speak the full knowledge of the third secret so that all may move unto the greatest parallelos. With that she vanished, leaving in her wake what we now know as the moon. The ultimate symbol of her holy power, the great symbol of her glory.
This is the same "Legend" found back on the original site in 2015. It doesn't seem to contain any internal changes, though it does now have a name - "The Secrets and the Thurses". Interestingly, the bottom segment of "The Legend" has been removed. As a reminder, this segment was an addendum that mentioned a "previous overseer" who communicated with Patrem and received some information regarding Luna's supposed human incarnation and birthing Tenebris's vessel - Hank's deluded retelling of his wife Diana giving birth to Ben.
This information wasn't completely erased though - it had simply been moved to its own page:
Overseer Alphonse's 2nd Communion with Father.
Once again under the careful watch of the elder children, Alphonse began his second communion with the Father.
Father revealed that before the formation of our family, Luna had descended into our world in the form of a human. In this physical form, Mother blessed a single human man with sacred knowledge. However, before doing this, the man was to provide his seed so a great evil could be born into our world. This was the price to pay for receiving such wisdom.
Luna bestowed upon the man Her wisdom and Her teachings before departing back to the 4th realm. Father explained to Alphonse that this man later became his own vessel when our family was first forged.
Father Alphonse has spent many years deciphering the words of Father. This communion in particular led to Alphonse's theory of balance we refer to as the dyad.
This page gives us some added context. First, it's revealed that this "previous overseer" who spoke with Patrem was actually Father Alphonse. Additionally, this conversation led to him creating the theory of "The Holy Dyad" mentioned earlier. It's likely that he conceptualized this while questioning why exactly Tenebris's vessel - Ben - was created in the first place. Supposedly, he eventually came to the conclusion that "light" and "dark" must exist in balance - the main thesis of "The Holy Dyad". Again, whether or not this theory is correct and holds any weight is unknown...
That covers all of the new information. However, there were also several pages that were inaccessible...
The first of these was a "Figures" page for Luna herself. This page was locked and could not be accessed. Next was a "Figures" page for "Father" - likely referring to Patrem. While this page would load, it seemed to be corrupted, containing a broken image link and a distorted background...
There also existed locked "Figures" pages for the "Deuro" and the "Tenebris Link".
Players were a bit stumped regarding the current existence of Lunarchildren.com... Given the cult's supposed destruction in both the Prime and Astral Timelines, it's very unlikely that this is the result of a new iteration of the Lunar Children - something that's compounded by the fact that there are no new announcements found on the front page. If anything, this site appears to be some sort of archive. Given its retro aesthetics and "outdated" information regarding Undecim Nocte and Father Alphonse, it's possible that this is actually an older version of Lunarchildren.com from before 2015 - or possibly even earlier.
Checkpoint #4
Afterwards, the players discovered more hidden pages on Lunarchildren.com... First, they noticed that clicking on the word "ecstasy" on the "Devium" page would link them to a new page:
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lunarchildren.com/ascension/devium/happy
This page was titled "good times".
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Next, clicking on the faded, distorted quote from Kelbris on the "Rule of Three" page would link players to the following:
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lunarchildren.com/terminology/the-rule-of-three/another
This page was titled "MORE THAN YOU KNOW".
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This page seemed to be stressing the "Rule of Three", hinting that there's "Another" and "More than you know"... What exactly this could be referring to is unclear, however.
Afterwards, players noticed that the site now featured three new redirect pages:
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lunarchildren.com/fly
This page was titled "gone".
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lunarchildren.com/gate_of
This page was titled "torment".
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lunarchildren.com/still_lost
This page was titled "keep going".
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Later that night, the players noticed that the site had updated. Namely, the "Father" page now contained text beneath its broken image link:
The provider above all and for all who adhere to him.
He manifests to keep peace amongst the mother so that she might ebb and flow rather than crash into the prima materia and break apart the fine line of firmament. This title is eternal as is the one who aligns with it that they should become him. But one should not forget: "One is not he, only he may be all."
It is thought that all men who become as kings or rulers of any kind have been blessed by his grace if not born of atleast a fraction of his blood.
It is said he once walked the earth in flesh as he did without in the heavens in times of old. However as time passed it became the duty of the sons of The Father to walk in flesh as he does beyond us. But as he is above he must be below. Embodying all that is mastery he flows through all true leaders.
Those destined to administer his grace directly can be tried and molded by their peers and through isolated effort. There are models both involving 3 trials and in some cases 4.
However this is for torch carrying fathers, in cases where faith has been lost it may be required to commit to the ceremony of assu
He is timeless our father and he makes himself Master of Time. In this is the secret as to his price of "Time" in the prayer: "Mother, Father I call on yee. Thrice the gifts I give to thee. To Father my time that he might make me brave. To mother my mind to fill that I might not be mens slave."
This page contained some rather cryptic descriptions of the role of the "Father". Let's cover each section bit-by-bit.
The provider above all and for all who adhere to him. He manifests to keep peace amongst the mother so that she might ebb and flow rather than crash into the prima materia and break apart the fine line of firmament.
This describes the "Father" as a provider and protector for anyone who venerates and follows him - something that matches up with the Lunar Children's worship of him. Interestingly, it's implied that the role of the "Father" is also to "moderate" Luna in a way. Thanks to the Father, peace can be maintained. Otherwise, Luna would crash into the world and break away the barriers between the Parallelos.
The world here is described as "prima materia", which is a term that's usually used to describe a sort of formless, base version of matter. Additionally, the barriers between the Parallelos is seemingly being referred to as the "firmament" - likely a reference to the belief that our world is enveloped by a sort of watery "firmament" that protects and separates it from whatever may lie beyond it.
This title is eternal as is the one who aligns with it that they should become him. But one should not forget: "One is not he, only he may be all."
This wording is a bit confusing. However, it seems to imply that the title of "Father" can be used by multiple different people. We've seen this in the past with how both Vincent and Alphonse held the rank of "Father" within the Lunar Children. However, "Father" is also used as a sort of religious title to specifically refer to Patrem himself. The line "One is not he, only he may be all," could be referencing the difference between these two usages, though it's a bit unclear...
It is thought that all men who become as kings or rulers of any kind have been blessed by his grace if not born of at least a fraction of his blood. It is said he once walked the earth in flesh as he did without in the heavens in times of old. However as time passed it became the duty of the sons of The Father to walk in flesh as he does beyond us. But as he is above he must be below. Embodying all that is mastery he flows through all true leaders.
This text further mythifies the "Father", claiming that anyone who has ever held any position of power such as a King or Ruler have been "blessed" by him. Alternatively, they may be his blood descendants - to some degree, at least. This seems to be attributing the role of "Father" to a sort of universal authoritative role in general.
This text also references the fact that the "Father" once possessed a mortal form - likely referring to Hank Hubbard - Patrem's identity before he ascended. However, now that Hank has ascended, it is supposedly the duty of his successors - referred to here as "sons" - to to take upon his role in the mortal world.
Those destined to administer his grace directly can be tried and molded by their peers and through isolated effort. There are models both involving 3 trials and in some cases 4. However this is for torch carrying fathers, in cases where faith has been lost it may be required to commit to the ceremony of assu
This is seemingly still addressing the mortal "successors" to the "Father". It's implied that these "successors" are chosen by destiny, though they may need to be groomed and molded first before they're ready. Allegedly, this molding process generally involves three of four trials - not too unlike the three trials that the player Jacob went through in order to join the Lunar Children back in 2009...
The text goes on to imply that these molding processes are only for "torch carrying fathers" - likely referring to individuals who willingly "picking up the torch" to become a successor. However, for individuals who have lost faith, some sort of ritual called the "Ceremony of Assu" must be carried out instead. What exactly this ceremony consists of - or even if this is the full name of said ceremony is unknown. Given the corruptions found on this page, it's possible that the full name of this ceremony was cut off.
He is timeless, our father, and he makes himself Master of Time. In this is the secret as to his price of "Time" in the prayer: "Mother, Father I call on yee. Thrice the gifts I give to thee. To Father my time that he might make me brave. To mother my mind to fill that I might not be men's slave."
This further associates the role of "Father" with "Time", outright claiming that he's the "Master of Time". Additionally, a prayer is written here - one in which the participant offers three gifts to Luna and Father. To "Father", the participant offers their time in exchange for courage. To Luna, the participant offers their mind to be filled with her knowledge in exchange for freedom. The third gift, however, is left unsaid.
Instead of going too deep into knowledge surrounding Patrem himself, this page instead remarks on his role of "Father", aggrandizing both it and him as "Masters of Time" and a sort of universal authoritative role. The page claims that anyone who has ever held any sort of powerful or influential "Ruler" position has been blessed by the "Father".
Though Patrem himself was once a mortal - Hank Hubbard - it is now the duty of his successors to follow in his footsteps. These successors are supposedly chosen by destiny and may need to be melded or groomed into their roles - either willingly through three or four trials or through the "Ceremony of Assu" for those who have lost their faith.
Additionally, it is claimed that the duty of the "Father" also involves him moderating Luna herself - keeping peace with her so that she does not descend and destroy everything. However, as with most Lunar Children mythos, it's difficult to discern whether or not any of this is "true" or if it's simply their own self-aggrandized beliefs.
On April 10th, 2020, another locked page on Lunarchildren.com suddenly became accessible - the "Deuro" page. It, too, contained a broken image link along with some text:
An extremely taboo eulogy, not to be spoken of under any circumstances without permission from an elder member. To be discussed ONLY during the most dire or appropriate of times. Disregard for these rules is grounds for IMMEDIATE termination.
5646
This was the same text that originally appeared on the page back in 2015 - though it now contained a distorted "5646" down at the bottom... This number was also the title of the video that featured a message from John. Its presence here is fitting given the fact that John himself is the Deuro. Additionally, the players realized that "5646" itself was actually a cipher that translated to "John".
Clicking on this "5646" led the players to another page:
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lunarchildren.com/figures/deuro/mesic
This page was titled "Fire Kid" and the text "/sacrament" was hidden in its source.
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This page seemed to contain more imagery relating to John. This was fitting - "Mesic" was a name that John often went by - possibly even his last name.
This page's hidden source text led the players to another page:
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lunarchildren.com/figures/deuro/mesic/sacrament
This page was titled "Undecim" and the text "gone-now" was hidden in its source.
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This page was obviously harkening back to Undecim Nocte 2011 - the night John died. Interestingly, the image here seems to feature a distorted depiction of Undecim Nocte's events... Though it's difficult to tell what's happening, at least two figures can be seen - one of which seems to be holding something over a fire.
This page's hidden source text led to yet another page:
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lunarchildren.com/figures/deuro/mesic/sacrament/gone-now
This page was titled "John".
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This page is obviously referencing John's death - with "Blue Flame" being the name of an item from The Legend of Zelda series.
Checkpoint #5
On April 11th, 2020, BUP posted the following:
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"I took something from you that I no longer needed. Maybe I'll take a few more things today."
This was presumably referring to the Dungeons & Dragons "John" Discord server, which was deleted around this time. However, BUP's second statement left the players a bit more unnerved... Later that day, Greth initiated yet another casual stream - "Quiet Stream attempt 2".
Notice: This stream was fairly long and mainly consisted of casual discussion about Vaporwave. All important details will be logged in the summary below the transcript.
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The livestream begins with Greth sitting at his computer desk in his new home.
Greth: "Hello? Hello, hello, hello? Is this thing even working? Ahhhh fuck. Youtube sucks so much.
Ryouji Goda: "what happened"
Greth: "Can you hear me? Can you hear me at all? Because if you can't hear me, that's my problem."
Various players confirm that they can hear him.
Greth: "Oh, okay. Well, the indicator on youtube is telling me there's no audio, so, I don't know. Um, I'm just bored, I'm here at my desk. I'm going to be cutting these-"
Greth shows off the J-Cards for the album "from the depths in which i dwell".
Greth: "-working on my label, and I thought I would sit here and chat with you guys while we're doing that. Answer some questions, tell a few stories, watch me mindlessly try not to cut my fingers off. So, how we doing today?"
Pako: "oh hi greth"
Greth: "Oh hello Pako! How you doing?"
Aarón: "hey greth, how are you?"
Greth: "I'm good, Aaron."
Greth makes a small error while cutting.
Greth: "Ah, shit. Off to a bad start with this today."
Ryouji Goda: "i played yakuza 0 today Was fun"
Greth: "Oh, nice. I'm a big Yakuza fan. My favourite is still probably Yakuza 3 for PS3. I've actually played every single Yakuza game except for the PSP spinoff and the PS4 Japanese-only Samurai spinoff. But I have played the PS3 Japanese-only Samurai spinoff. Like I said, I don't know if you're just getting here, today I am cutting out my J-cards for my tapes. You can see once they're cut out, they look something like this-"
Greth shows off the completed case for the album "Dungeon Dub / The 12 Imperial Sciences".
Greth: "Here's the one I'm actually cutting out right now-"
Greth shows off the completed case for the album "from the depths in which i dwell".
Greth: "-that way once my customer's get ahold of them, they look nice and neat and cool and not like I'm cutting them at a desk by myself with a pair of scissors and an exacto knife. But I wouldn't want to do it any other way because DIY is the way to go whenever you can. Do-it, yourself. Unless, of course, you're dubbing the tapes on a crappy, crappy cassette player, then maybe you should just go for professional."
Pako: "what happened in the last stream?"
Greth: "What do you mean, Pako?"
Pako: "I mean in the last seconds somebody attack you and somebody enter in your house"
Greth makes another mistake while cutting.
Greth: "Ah, son of a bitch! I just fucked up big time. We'll see."
Greth shows off the mistake, revealing he accidentally cut into the card itself.
Greth: "Uh, this is not supposed to be cut in here. That's a huge error. Fuuck. Welp, that's another waste of J-card. I'll have to print another one of those. They only cost me about 26 cents per card though, so I'm not too frazzled about it. It's the second one of these I've fucked though."
Greth shows an individual card to the screen, where he failed to lightly cut into the card
Greth: "You can see here, like, how I fucked this line here. I have to cut lines into the paper lightly so that it can fold, but I uh, totally beefed here. This one, the bottom here is sloping inwards now, and it's supposed to be straight across. As far as what you're talking about, the last livestream I did went pretty normally I thought. I remember, yeah there was some weird stuff going on, but I didn't find anything. I just went to bed."
Greth returns to cutting.
Greth: "I'll just go ahead and get rid of that since it's already fucked."
Ryouji Goda: "nice Tattoo greth"
Greth: "It's a, it's David Bowie. It looks a little weird because the angle is a little stretched on my skin, but if I get him at the right angle, it doesn't look so weird. But it's not going to show up on camera very well. Especially because he's covered in my fucking-"
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Greth successfully cuts out a card.
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Greth: "Um, I think this one is pretty good. It's got a little bit here I need to take off on this side-"
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Greth: "You guys have gotten awfully quiet on me. Weirds me out."
Pako: "tell us more about where do you live"
Greth: "Sure! I live in Florida, as you know, South Florida-"
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Greth: "-but um, I'm still unpacking a lot. This is pretty much my whole place. This is an efficiency, so it's like one big room. My bed's in the corner over there where you can't see. My bathroom, which is a separate room, I've got a separate bathroom, is over there. Exit door is right there, and so is the monkey cage right outside the door there, and my kitchen is over there. You really can't- well you can kind of see the door. It's got some coats hanging on it right here, but that's my kitchen, behind that door. But otherwise it's just me. Kind of cooped up in here."
Martin Viale: "what happened in your last stream? You scare me bro"
Greth: "That's what everybody keeps saying. I don't know. I think I was just drunk. I got drunk and I went to sleep. I'm thinking about doing some drinking now, actually. Cause I am out-of-weed. You're talking about the one I said that was uh, Greth Vlogs 13, right? Yeah, I mean I know there was a point where it cut off a little weird, but as I recall the stream kept going for a little-"
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Greth: "-What's that about?"
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Greth: "No, I don't think so. I think I was just being a little paranoid."
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Greth: "-so that it becomes foldable like that. By the way, this is why they call it a J-card. Ahaha, haha. Can you see now? It's a J-card!"
Greth shows off the folded J-card, which is folded into the shape of a J. He then takes out a brand new cassette case.
Greth: "Pop open one of these cassette holders. These cassette tape shells, cases, what do you want to call them. These are all brand new, of course. I've just got to unpack each one."
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Greth: "-now when the cassette tapes arrive in the mail, they will have a nice little home with my little Astral Observatory marker on there. I don't think it'll come up very well on camera, but, you know. I've also got my Astral Observatory logo on the back here of each card, and more than that, if you open up the J-card, there's a QR code right there, that'll take you right to the bandcamp page. I mean, you gotta like the moon on there, right? On the QR. That's a moon in the middle."
TheOtherLiam: "How've you been feeling, man?"
Greth: "Mostly okay, Liam. Just, you know, hanging out. We're all going a little stir-crazy thanks to everything that's going on, I think. I was being a little seclusive there for a minute. Ironically now that everybody's secluding themselves, I'm feeling like being a little more social. So, I've decided to bring myself back into the fold, I guess. Let's do a Poppet one, just for some variation. Something different to look at for a minute."
Greth begins cutting out J-cards for the album "Dungeon Dub / The 12 Imperial Sciences"
TheOtherLiam: "Is he a musician? I thought he was just a record label."
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Greth: "-but, this is just a record label. I haven't put any of my own music on it yet. Famously though, I did release some vaporwave two- well, a couple years ago, and a couple of people in the community actually really liked it and bought some tapes from that. But most of the stuff I'm focussing on right now is just releasing other people's music that I like. Actually, here..."
Greth Vlogs: "https://succmarijuano.bandcamp.com/"
Greth: "Uh, one of the Internet Detectives actually made one of my album covers. It's vaporwave, I don't, I like my vaporwave just a little bit shitpost-y. I don't think I'm really comfortable with showing off any of my other stuff on here, cause people seem to like my vaporwave, I don't think anyone would really be into my like, metal music or anything."
Ivan GN: "oh do you make music? its like vaporwave?"
Greth: "Well not all the music I make is vaporwave, but what I linked was. So a lot of you guys are up late, huh? This is only the afternoon for me. Well, it's not even afternoon yet. It's 11:30 AM."
Martin Viale: "was the astral observatory from majoras mask?"
Greth: "Yes, yes the Astral Observatory was from Majora's Mask. That was where I got it from. Obviously I didn't want to like, use direct Zelda imagery when designing the Bandcamp page because I don't own anything from Nintendo, but, I don't think anyone actually calls an observatory in real life an Astral Observatory. I think that's pretty much specifically a Majora's Mask thing."
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IIFan2001: "it's 8:27 AM for me"
Greth: "Okay, so it's not too late for some of you guys. I just know some of you are in different parts of the world. I guess if it was really late it'd be like Japan or something though. So I can't imagine there's anybody Japanese in here."
Greth finishes cutting out a J-card.
Greth: "Alright, so, that's another finished J-card. I think that one turned out pretty good too. Now, because these are all hand-cut obviously there are going to be variations, small imperfections. But as long they look somewhat uniform, I'm not going to be too mad. But if you look closely, you can see the one on the left side here has more actual card than the one on the right side. This one's a bit shorter and stouter. The side here has less material, that's cause of beefs and errors that I made. Yeah. Do you guys want to see some cassettes, actually? Not mine, just like-"
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Greth begins opening a box filled with cassettes.
Greth: "-all cassette tapes. The whole thing. And this is a small box. I've got way too many cassette tapes. That was something me and tyler always got along on. We always liked to share our love of cassettes and vaporwave. And the stuff you could put on cassettes, like vaporwave."
Martin Viale: "your room is kind of a mess jajaj"
Greth: "Well yeah, my room is kind of a mess because I'm still unpacking, my friend, I explained that already. See, look at that. Just full of-"
Greth briefly shows off the box filled with cassettes.
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Greth begins showing off individual cassettes.
Greth: "-to me actually. It's called 'The World's First Uploaded Human'. It's a nice tape. There's something about the actual album that speaks to me though. What's the first uploaded human, who do you think that would be when the time comes? If it hasn't already. Here's a cool one, it's ((inaudible)). This is 'Dopesmoker' by Sleep, this is a classic. It's a reprint, but, here, listen to this album, it's literally one song, and it's like an hour and a half. So you better like weird music. This is 'ARCHGOAT', I haven't even opened it yet, it's still in the seal. This is uh, 'Mo'ynoq', I think they're a black metal band. Oh, uh hey! Check it out actually. There we go, that's my album. This is my album on cassette. I did not make this cassette, another label put this out. I have several copies actually. I think you guys know Wolfcat, Wolfcat designed the cover of this with me. Summer Dreamsphere... mfgreth/succmarijuano... Let me see if there's anything cool in here that I can actually show ya... Oh, maybe just because you guys are dorks you'll like this one. By Neon95, 'Pokewave', it's fun. And I don't know, I think this one's 'Azure Sands'. There's like, seven or eight more cassettes in here and I don't feel like pulling them out."
Martin Viale: "wolfcat haha he has a Youtube channel, i know him because of the internet detectives"
Greth: "Yeah, yeah so I was saying-"
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Greth: "-Roblox, actually, to design it. Made an entire level in Roblox, and then he took the most ideal screenshot we could, and then we went to town on photoshop from there. Uh, I think his Roblox was banned though, after that. I don't know why. I think the mod's name who banned him was "Kevin"? Let's take a look in this box. It's a tough box to open. I packaged it too well. But I guess that's a good thing."
Greth drops his exacto knife.
Greth: "There goes my exacto knife. Let's see what we got in here. OOoo, this is a good one. I bought this one second hand. 'Cybereality'. This is a pretty sought after album actually, nowadays. So, I could probably sell it, but I'm not going to let it go because that's how I roll. Got some ((inaudible)). Looks like a broken tape there. Oof. The album so good I had to buy it twice in two different colours. 'Donkey Kong Wave'. Hell yeah. You think I'm joking? Oh hell no. Donkey Kong Wave is so good. So fucking good. I'm not even fucking with you. Oh, I've got to spell out DK for you here. You know I gotta to it to you. I don't think you'll be able to see it unless I- nope, oh well."
Greth spells out DK using the two cassettes.
Greth: "D.K. Donkey Kong."
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Greth: "-kong wave. There's at least two tracks you need to listen to. First one is called 'Pie' by Nothing, and the next one is the very next track called 'So Confused' by Pizza. I know this all seems very memey, that's cause it is kind of a memey album. This is like, actually a fantastic-"
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Greth: "Cause I've got 'For Sara' from that. And it's exactly what you'd think it would be. It's like Elijah but plain work doing a bunch of weird poetry and recorder stuff. Or is it flute? I don't know."
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Greth: "The next one I'm going to focus on is just because this is a double, you can see how big it is. There's two tapes in here. I think you'll get a kick out of what it's called though."
Greth shows off the "Anime Booty Jamz" cassettes.
Greth: "'Anime Booty Jamz', part one and part two. When you need to fuck but also watch anime. And then of course the infamous 'Sponge Person's Eggo Jams Volume 1'. I went for a light blue cassette because that's how I roll. There were many good options there, but this was the one I wanted."
Xenquility: "where do you find this"
Greth: "Where do I find anything, Xenquility? My power level is too high. I have all kinds of dumb shit. For example, how about a recreation of the cassette tape from 'K-On!'? Yeah, you know, the band that uh, was in the anime that the girls put together and they put out their album on cassette if you recall. This is like, a fan-made recreation of that cassette from the anime, down to the last detail. I'm dead serious. It's perfect. They put the whole thing-"
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Greth: "-this does not officially exist in any capacity. Some dude from Deutschland I believe made this. I spent like 15 bucks on it. Fifteen dollars is actually expensive for a cassette. That's why people like them. Cassettes usually only cost you between five and eight dollars. As opposed to spending like fucking forty to fifty bucks, well, I'll be a little more generous, twenty five to fifty dollars on a vinyl. I love vinyls too, but, again, it's not plural, I like vinyl too, but they're expensive. Yeah, I don't think there's anything else too interesting in here. I mean, I've got 'Furwave'. This is actually a good album, I'm like, not fronting. I know it's really weird. Furwave. But you should look it up. Furwave by Yiffo. If you like the Nintendo wii, and like, nostalgia, it's like the perfect album, actually. I'll put all of this back for now. I should probably be working on my own J-cards, but now I'm having too much fun talking to you guys. We don't have to just talk about cassettes, I'm going to keep going through them, but if you want to ask me any other questions feel free. I know people are seemingly concerned about my mental health, Even though I'm doing better than b-"
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Greth: "before my life was getting... though I seem to have a little bit of clarity now. And part of it is just doing this shit. Gotta be careful when using this exacto. I almost cut the fucking case for the-"
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Greth: "Ooooh, there's some good ones in here. This is actually probably my favourite vaporwave album period. Like, not even a joke. This is uh, 'Temple of Sadness' by Electric Dreams. If you've never listened to Temple of Sadness by Electric Dreams, you need to do that. Like, as soon as we're done here, or just put it on in the background, listen to Temple of Sadness by Electric Dreams."
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Greth: "-well fuck I can't even think of it right now. I'm just saying, this is the one you need to listen to. This is fantastic. I'm not sure anybody will ever top that one, in my opinion."
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Greth: "-print was fucked up. So I don't know if this is the good or bad one."
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Greth: "-it's pronounced. It's uh, it's a-"
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Greth: "-pretty typical future funk. But of a high quality. I kind of feel like it's overrated. The artist, BIGWAVE, a little overrated in my opinion. I feel like Future Funk as a genre is pretty overrated because it's just house music with anime asthetics. It kind of goes against what I feel vaporwave is about, but I still bought the album. It's a good album, so. If you especially like Sailor Moon he fucking samples that twinkly sound effect-"
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Greth: "-yeah, like I said, my favourite vaporwave album, I'm going to go back to it for a second, is the Temple of Sadness. This was probably the definitive vaporwave album for me. It was also the one that made me realize that like, naturewave is really where it's at. I had a few before, there was 'Organics', I'm trying to remember who releases that.... 'åmßêrVVåvê§'! åmßêrVVåvê§, Organics by åmßêrVVåvê§ is also a great naturewave album. I have another vape- naturewave by the same artist as this one, Electric Dreams. I have a few, in fact I just saw one two seconds ago. It was a STΛQQ ƟVERFLƟ 'SΛCRED GRƟVE ƟNLINE'. It's kind of like a fake MMORPG wrapped up in a naturewave album conceptually. It's really cool, but nothing beats the actual, classic naturewaves. Which is ridiculous to talk about because vaporwave as a genre is less than a decade old at this point probably. Uh, this is a good future funk album. I'm not going to talk much about it, but if you're interested the artist is uh, I think it's Tanuki, right? Yeah."
Greth shows off the cassette case and J-card.
((The player Pako posts an unarchived message.))
Greth: "Yeah, that's pretty much a requirement for vaporwave, my friend Pako."
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Greth: "-uh, when I practise my magic, I'll put this on pretty often just for the Zen, but it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what I'm doing. It's just, it helps me feel right."
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Greth: "-I actually liked it quite a bit. It's an ambient album called 'The Forest Is Sleeping Within The Trees'. It's not actually naturewave, it's ambient, but I feel like it's sort of in the spirit of naturewave. Because again, the album is called The Forest Is Sleeping In The Trees. It's by an artist called uh, I can't pronounce it, it's to difficult, 'øjeRum'."
Xenquility: "Sorry, did you just say 'practice magic'?"
Greth: "Yes, I did say practice magic. Anyways, um, the actual cassette is black. It has music on it, don't get me wrong. There's no label, there's a nice little, he wrote a number on it to let me know that I have copy 24 out of 42. But what's great about this one, is look at the J-card. This is the best. I'm not joking, this is the best J-card I've ever seen as every single one is individual. The motherfucker pressed an actual leaf into the J-card. That's the album cover. Just every single one is different. He took a real leaf and pressed it in there. That's honestly fantastic. I could never beat that. I can't do that. It's like hard plastic, too! It's high quality, it's not some flimsy paper. I mean, I'm using high quality paper for my stuff, it's card stock, but this is... Wow."
Martin Viale: "thats cool man could you show us a trick?"
Greth: "Um, magic doesn't really work that way, actually. I can't just like, show you. It's more about belief and practise and spiritualism and spells. Spell circles. This is a good album, this is 'Otaku Quest'. The artist is Dooby Douglas. I really just kind of like the art for this one. It's actually a funky ass album. It's a good album to get down to. It's fun. It's great, and it's a good album to work out to. But I mean, what really sold me is just like, look at this art? It's fucking great man. It's good stuff. You can tell these are supposed to be some famous Anime women, but also clearly covered up. I'm pretty sure that's... well, maybe not, but I've always assumed so. Because I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be Sailor Moon, and then this is supposed to be Sakura from Naruto."
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Multiple players inquire about the "spells" Greth previously mentioned.
Greth: "It's not 'spells'. I'm not a Wicken. I don't practise witchcraft in that sense. I don't cast spells, I use spell circles to invoke-"
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Greth: "-other stuff. It's a nice- it's a pretty glitter cassette, but those are super common. I think I've gone through most of the small boxes of cassettes. But like I said, I have a shit ton of cassettes. So if we're having fun, actually-"
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Greth: "-about my process. I'll be right back. I can't go far, again, it's all one room."
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Xenquility: "What do you practice?"
Greth: "I'm ready to keep going. Magic is, as I perform it, is about invoking, not about casting. Casting would require that you control natural energies to make what you want happen, which feels sort of reductive to me. It feels like you're trying to harness things which are not yours to harness, so I've never really believed in sort of thing. Um, invoking is more about asking permission. It's not that I'm drawing power to do what I want- This is a good album by the way. I you ever want to look up on Bandcamp 'Peikono Hills', if you like nostalgic video-gamey kind of stuff, it's a good one. So it'd probably remind you of like, pokemon and stuff. Two more naturewave albums, I've got a lot of them they're just kind of hanging around. I haven't shown you all the cassettes, I'm kind of skipping around, but I'm just making a point-"
Martin Viale: "Who do you ask that permission to?"
Greth: "But I've always felt a deep connection to nature, and I don't want to control nature, so instead I ask those who do control nature to work in my favour as a favour. So anytime you invoke a spirit, usually a god, you have to make that request very nicely and give something in return. Obviously the bigger the asking, or the need, the bigger the cost. Well, here's an example. I made a spell circle in ID not that long ago when the hurricane came around, if you remember that little episode with the hurricane. Quite a few of us who lived in Florida were pretty directly threatened by it. And I put out a spell circle, and you guys helped out, and it seemed to have fucking worked! I don't know. I don't know if you remember how crazy that was, but you know, the hurricane was like, out here in the ocean just bee lining right towards me. If you wanna say I was about here, it was bee lining right towards me. And then after it cut through me and Scout, actually, if you know Scout, it was gonna slice right up through us and hit Tyler. And that would have been really bad for all of us. So I drew up a spell circle, I had as many of you invoke that spell circle as I could, and it fucking worked! The hurricane never hit shore in Florida. It just kind of stalled- sadly it stalled over Puerto Rico. You know, the islands. They had some devastating losses. But at the very least I feel like I did my part to protect us. But, again, the cost of those things is pretty high, so one wonders if what I did did not affect those less fortunate than me."
Martin Viale: "So thats the last time you knew about tyler"
Greth: "Yeah, I guess. You know, before I feel like I hadn't seen Tyler around. Sometimes when I talk about him I'll remember that we did have interactions past that point, but not like, too much."
Aaroncini 87: "did you saw any cartoon? like infinity train, villainous... idk"
Greth: "Cartoon? What do you mean? I'm confused."
((An unarchived message asking about who controls nature is posted.))
Greth: "The controllers of nature... Well, that's the great question, isn't it? People have been wondering about that for a long time. I have my own views. I'm not sure how willing I am to share that right now, because it seems a little crazy."
Aaroncini 87: "ok, nice... ventilation?"
Greth: "Are you talking about my air kicking on? The vent? The AC, the air conditioner? Yeah, that kicked on a little bit ago. I have a big one in here. Since I don't have central AC cause this is an efficiency, they did install a really big, powerful AC, and it fucking makes this room frostier than the Polar Express if I wanted to. It's kind of an essential in Florida."
Greth finishes cutting out one of the Poppet J-cards.
Greth: "And that's another Poppet J-card done. Bam. I actually have J-cards from a long time ago right here. This was my first album for vaporwave. I did not sell that many copies, so still plenty of leftovers that I will do absolutely nothing with. It's kind of a fun reminder they exist though. Just got a bunch of them."
Martin Viale: "What do they usually ask for* just realized i misspelt"
Greth: "Well, in a communion of Gods, you don't really know what they're gonna ask for necessarily. You have to make an assumption sometimes. It's really a game of cat and mouse. Okay, here's a cool one. You want to talk about magic and cassettes at the same time? I'm being serious. This cassette is a spell, actually. That's not a joke. When you play this cassette, you're automatically bringing forth a spell. Not an invocation, a spell. It's dangerous stuff. Once you get into the esoteric knowledge, you know how certain things can be done and should be done. And how they shouldn't be done. This has to be used very cautiously. I don't want to talk about it too much because if you believe in this sort of thing, the more you talk about it the more you start to invoke it. As this is not linked to any specific diety, it's linked to a specific set of actions that I would not want to incur here. But it's dangerous stuff. Let's open it up! These talismans were handmade by the practitioner, which means they might look like junk to you, but they do have specific meanings. Because this is a somewhat dark spell, some of these talismans include actual ritual coins and gems and some of them are just rusty fucking nails, so you've got to be careful."
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Greth begins to show off the cassette case.
Greth: "-here's where the cassette lays inside. You fold the tarp. You have to leave it in this box, unless you're plannin-"
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Greth: "Just kind of show you the sides here cause I don't want you seeing too much, you know. But it's pretty cool. It's very cool. But it's also dangerous. So know what you're getting into, I guess. But I will tell you that the album is the 'Singing Corpse'-"
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Greth: "-but it is very useful when you need it."
Martin Viale: "What would happen if you play it?"
Greth: "Well, hopefully one would be able to speak to the dead."
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Greth: "-since a bunch of weird, esoteric, creepy music would play. But if you were to try and invoke power from it and achieve the affect you desire, one would potentially speak to the dead. I can't even shove this stuff back in here. It's always so hard to put back together. This fucking talisman. So loosey-goosey. I always hate taking this thing apart. It's such a pain in the ass to put back together. I don't play it. I've never actually played it. I've listened to it digitally once. It was- it was an experience, I'll tell you that much. I'm actually hoping to do something similar myself soon. I'm planning on putting in an invocations cassette and selling it through Astral Observatory, so if you're interested in that sort of thing, look out for it. There won't be very many copies, though, because it's such a dangerous practise I would probably only put out like two or three, maybe even only one depending on how much time and effort I want to put into this. But it would serve a specific purpose that I don't really want to talk about yet anyways."
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Greth: "If you guys- I'll make a joke here but I'm being somewhat serious. If you ask a wizard to reveal his secret's he's not-"
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Greth: "-a huge, huge compilation album. This is a CD, not a cassette, of Red Anarchist black metal. Made by my buddies. It's their production company. And look at how many artists are on there. This is like-"
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Greth: "And of course, here is one of the best albums of all time in the vaporwave community, regardless of naturewave, regardless of sub-genre. Just vaporwave. It's technically vaportrap, but if you just want to say it it's one of the best vaporwaves of all time, regardless of opinion. There it is. The classic. The 'Zeldawave'.-"
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Greth: "I actually have a couple of Zelda vaporwave albums. That one's not even my favourite, but objectively I think it's one of the best... Another naturwave, of course."
Martin Viale: "i just want to know more about this spells
i didnt know this enchanted cassetes existed so i was impressed"
Greth: "Well, Martin, if you think about it this way, it doesn't- it really, makes sense. Think about when you cast a spell, or invoke, you have to do a certain number of actions. Let's just put it that way. I'm trying to keep it very simple cause I don't want to dive too deep into this. But let's say that spell would require a number of vocalizations and sounds. One might originally achieve that by reading how to do said spell from a book and performing those actions. But if you can just put that spell to tape, and anyone can play it... Uh, in case if any of you-"
((The livestream stutters twice.))
Greth points the camera towards his box of cassettes.
Greth: "I'm just kind of choosing from it, but I'm gonna lift this up very carefully so you can see there's a whole box next to me just full of them."
Xenquility: "Cut out there"
Greth: "Cut out where?"
Xenquility: "Right before you showed us the box"
Greth: "Here's the very first vaporwave tape I got, actually. This is a classic. I don't like the label that releases this. The label that releases this kind of cheapskate, kind of rip people off big time. Didn't know that when I ordered it. But this cassette is actually a classic. It's 'Luxury Elite-'"
((The livestream stutters.))
Greth: "-black and white gold one. It's not the one I want actually. I really wanted the red one. Tyler has it. Tyler has several copies of this. This is the most common one. Are y'all ready to get memed on? Cause here's a fucking joke. I actually don't mean that. I do like this show, I do feel like it has a bad reputation now because of like, neckbeards and incels. But it's a good show. I think that Dan Harmon is a good writer. But I do have the cassette for Rick and Morty."
Xenquility: "picklewave"
Greth: "Heh, picklewave, yeah."
((The livestream stutters.))
Greth: "-the Rick and Morty logo is on a sticker on the wrapper! That means once I take this wrapper it won't say Rick and Morty at the top anymore. It says it on the cassette. It says it on the side, which is fine. But I actually really liked the placement of that. And once I take it off it's gone. Not doing it."
Vincent Garzon: "Are you from miami Florida"
Greth: "And no, I'm not in Miami. I'm about an hour North of Miami. Oh! This is one I wanted to give to Tyler, but I haven't seen him in so long. It's a shame. Ooh, here's a good one! This is uh, 'Alpha Dream Drift'. If you like Sci-fi, this sounds like a sci-fi soundtrack that never existed. To some movie or video game. It's fantastic. It's actually 'Alpha Dream Drift X' is the name. Oh, it's so cool. It's see-through! Look at it! Ooooh! It's nice."
Vincent Garzon: "Do you like hip hop trap"
Greth: "I do, actually. I like hip hop quite a bit. I don't have many hip hop tapes. I do have some hip hop vinyl. I have "The Chronic" by Dr. Dre on vinyl."
((The livestream stutters.))
Greth: "-I'm not talking about this. And if you guys want to see a cursed tape, I have no idea where this one came from. It just showed up, like, in an unnannounced package. Completely just- it had my address on it, it had no return address. It's cause I buy so many tapes, people would just start sending me shit. But like, I don't know who this came from. I don't know why. And it came in like, the grossest cassette case I've ever seen. It's old. Eugh. That used to be clear, my friends. There's like a layer of ancient grime on it that just cannot be removed anymore. And I just don't know why this was sent to me at all. It's this really gross, yellow-aged 'Barbie and the Rockers' just sent to me without meaning or warning. By who knows. Who knows. That's a cursed tape. I refuse to listen to it. I'm a little scared. Somone could have re-recorded over this and I would have no idea. I'm afraid to put it in any cassette player I own because I don't want to get 'em dirty, but also I'm just like, what the hell is on here. It could be a really distorted version of Barbie and the Rockers, or it could be... who knows."
((The livestream stutters.))
Greth shows off a cassette called 'Pikachu Noticed the Weed'.
Greth: "By the way, if you couldn't read it, that was uh, 'Pikachu Noticed the Weed'. I've got a lot of really pretty tapes, like really well made tapes. This is pretty and wellmade, but it's typical. This is 'SUPERGAMEStation64' they rock. This is a demo tape of uh, 'HKE - Dragon Soul'-"
((The livestream stutters.))
Greth: Oh, here's another freaky... this was sent to me in the mail too. Just anonymously. Well not anonymously, I know who sent me this one, but I have no idea why they sent me this one. 'Kidz Bop'. The original, actually. The first, original release of Kidz Bop on its original format. When Kidz Bop started, CDs were just taking off, believe it or not. Cassettes were um, downsloping, but still popular enough to release. So this is the Kidz Bop. I think the only cassette release of it too. Uh, what do we got on here? Oh jesus fuck, this isn't a joke. The first track is All Star. You know, Kidz Bop cover of Smash Mouth's All Star. That's the first fucking track on here, wow."
Xenquility: "THAT is cursed"
Greth: "That is cursed. I agree with you Xen. That's fucking cursed. Second track is Oops I Did it Again, Bye Bye Bye, All the Small Things, What a Girl Wants, I Want it That Way... Bailamos, My Love is Your Love, That Don't Impress Me Much, Living La Vida Loca, Believe... eugh, Kidz Bop Believe by Cher? Eugh... 'Do you believe in life after love?' says the chorus of haunted children. Uh, Steal my Sunshine? THAT'S a racist band. If you didn't know that, by the way, the bass player for, um, I can't remember the name, um, you know the band that goes "I saw the sight. Opened up my eyes, I saw the sight!" The bass player's a nazi! Fun fact. And I don't mean like recently, he was a nazi in like, the 80s. Blue, 'I'm blue da-boo-dee-da-boo-", Summer Girls, One Week, Angel of Mine, Fly, Kiss Me, yeah this is very 90s... I'm guessing the most interesting thing I have was that uh, spell tape. Here's my favourite Zelda album, though. This is 'Divine Beats' by Wizard of Loneliness. This actually, this album is a fucking banger too. If you like Breath of the Wild, like it doesn't fucking matter. It doesn't matter! This album fucks hard! It's so good. Ah, I gotta link it right now actually. It's so good. You should really listen to the track 'Cookin in Hoteno Village' especially. Want you guys to go to the right place. Don't want you to go to the wrong place. Don't go to someone's fucking youtube channel who uploaded it without permission. Just buy it, it's a couple bucks. Even if you listen to it for free he gets something out of it. Bandcamp is great."
Greth Vlogs: "https://halcyontapes.bandcamp.com/album/divine-beats"
Greth: "I think I posted it twice but who gives a fuck. So I think I'll stop tape sharing for now. Let's talk about something else. I'm still here, I'm still ignoring what I should be doing. I like my art chat sessions guys. I'm enjoying this. Traditional Greth Vlogs was always fun where I kind of just vented, but now that I can livestream it, it's just a little bit more organic-"
((The livestream stutters.))
Greth: "-not posted much on there. It's just some random scattering of like, whatever I did or felt like uploading at the time. But I will share it. I will feel free to share it. There's not much on it and you'll probably be disappointed. But you know what? Who gives a shit."
Greth Vlogs: "https://soundcloud.com/hexthrone"
Greth: "Like, if you're expecting some like, hot soundcloud rap or soundcloud hip hop, like, that's not gonna happen. I'm sorry. I love hip hop, but I have not really produced much, or any of it really."
A loud noise is heard.
Xenquility: "The hell was that noise"
Greth: "What noise? What was what noise? I'm not trying to be funny, like I straight up..."
Xenquility: "like a really deep beep of some sort"
Greth: "I couldn't tell yah. I didn't hear it. I'm not just like fucking with you, I have no idea. I do have a cursed ass tape next to me though, maybe it was this. 'Night of Terror'. Night of Terror. Some fake Dreamcast game soundtrack for some Dreamcast horror game that doesn't exist. I swear to god it sounds like it could've been real. Makes me think of Silent Hill."
Xenquility: "So what happened with the end of the last stream? (If it hasn't been asked already)"
Greth: "It's been asked several times. But I don't know. You guys say one thing, I say another like usual. The only really weird thing that happened is I keep getting messages from some fucked up nuthead."
Xenquility: "Sorry, fucked up nut head? Mind elaborating?
Greth: "Uh, yeah, that's what I said. I said- oh fuck. I just cut into my ruler. I said that uh, as far as I remember it ended normally, but you guys say one thing, I say another, like usual. Yeah, the fucked up nut head. He's been going by some handle on Discord."
Xenquility: "Would that handle happen to be 'Shadowlink' or 'BUP'?"
Greth: "Discord, that's where."
((The livestream stutters.))
Greth: "Yeah, that is his handle, actually. 'SHADOWLINK'."
Xenquility: "What's he been saying?"
Greth: "I don't know. I blocked him already. I think he's like, getting around my block some how, cause I keep-"
((The livestream stutters.))
Greth: "Like the funny thing is, his Discord was already on my friends list from before. But I never had that person on my friends list so I assumed it was somebody else who like, hijacked their account or just somebody trolling me. Alright, this one came out basically perfect. Now I just have to make two more cuts..."
((The livestream stutters.))
Xenquility: "Yeah, they essentially came in and just stole our friend's discord accounmt literally"
Greth: "-the discord was from a while back or something. He was like, never online. He just messages, actually. Ah, this one got a little curved on this edge... Just a slight... Just a tiny little... That's better. Cool. Trash... Trash... You can see, there's like, all kinds of fucking shredded papers."
Martin Viale: "you should use a ruler for cutting"
Greth: "I am using a ruler! Right here. Doesn't mean things don't slide just ever so slightly. We're talking like, millimeters. But you can tell when it curves. So I have to go back and cut it straight again, but just like, the tiniest bit. And I did. I actually got it perfectly. Which is not usually how that goes. So, go me. So if you guys know about that SHADOWLINK, like, what's up with him. He seems to know me."
Xenquility: "he is a fucking stalker to say the least"
Greth: "I'll give you that. That seems about right."
Xenquility: "I don't know how much you're willing to trust us but all I can say is that he is very powerful"
Greth: "Powerful? What's he gonna do, use his powers on me? Heh."
The livestream abruptly ends.
Summary
- Greth has initiated this stream because he's bored while preparing physical cassettes for some "Astral Observatory" albums.
- Once again, Greth seems largely unaware of his recent possessions by BUP and Patrem.
- Greth claims that he practices magic - albeit more so in terms of general beliefs, spiritualism, and spell circles. He invokes rather than casts.
- Greth claims that he's always had a close connection to nature and that he doesn't want to control it - only ask for the gods or spirits who do to move things in his favor.
- Greth shows off several cassettes that he's obtained - including one that's a sort of magical spell in and of itself that would allow someone to speak to the dead.
- Greth claims that he's hoping to create a similarly magically-charged invocation cassette soon and put it on the Astral Observatory record label.
- Greth claims that BUP has been sending him strange messages on Discord and is somehow avoiding Greth's blocks.
- Greth mockingly questions if BUP is going to his some sort of power on him. Afterwards, the stream abruptly ends.
Once again, Greth seems completely unaware of his recent strange encounters and possessions by BUP and Patrem. This stream is fairly casual and simply features Greth sharing some Vaporwave albums while preparing some physical cassettes for his Astral Observatory record label.
Eventually, the discussion focuses on Greth's own spiritual beliefs. Greth claims that he practices magic through invocation. While "casting spells" is bending the energies of nature to your whim, invocation is more akin to asking permission from whatever gods or spirits control these energies to move things in your favor. He claims that this was essentially what the Helios "spell circle" was back from 2019 - the ones that the players drew to ward off a hurricane.
Speaking of magic, Greth proceeded to show off a magical cassette he obtained at some point. He claims that this cassette is a sort of "magic spell" in and of itself - one that is somewhat dangerous and could allow whoever listens to it to speak to the dead. Interestingly, Greth claims that he's planning on creating a similar "invocation" album for the Astral Observatory record label relatively soon.
Greth also claims that he's been receiving strange messages from BUP on Discord. Though Greth has blocked BUP multiple times, BUP still somehow manages to continue messaging him. One player notes that BUP is "powerful", leading to Greth sarcastically questioning if BUP will somehow use his "powers" on him. Ominously, Greth's stream ends shortly after this...
BUP proceeded to comment on this shortly afterwards on Discord:
BUP
"That shit was boring anyways. 'THIS CASSETTE IS HAUNTED!' Please."
Later that night, Silentdork experienced a rather strange upload - a video titled "MISTAKE.wmv". This video was actually completely unrelated to Johnisdead - it was from Awakening. Earlier that day, Alex Hall accidentally uploaded "THE_FATHER.wmv" early instead of setting it to premiere. This Silentdork reupload seemed to be calling out that mistake - hence the new title.
Afterwards, Awakening-related discussion continued as the Rune Entity suddenly initiated a voice call on Discord:
A call to arms
Awaken
http://methodsofrevolution.com/?page_id=95
Awake the second player?
Oh yeah
Power is not confined to but a single realm
The link posted here was for a website that was being used in Awakening by Alex Hall - "Methodsofrevolution.com". As a reminder, "Methods of Revolution" was the next big project that Alex Hall was working on after placing Ben Drowned on hiatus. However, it now seemed that the two projects had been merged together.
The site currently had a poll on it asking whether or not players wished to "Awake the second player". It seemed that the Rune Entity was hoping to get more Internet Detectives involved in the Awakening ARG and participate in this poll. Many began doing so - voting for the "Awake" option.
Your action has been accepted. You have awoken him.
That he might return to the Hall of the Fallen King.
And the Child may soon sit upon Jupiter's throne.
He is dumb how is he gonna sit on jupiters throne without a rocket
((A link to an Awakening theory is sent.))
World lines blurring
The Rune Entity cryptically hints towards someone returning to the "Hall of the Fallen King". While it's unclear what exactly this is referring to, it sounds fairly similar to Alex's Hall of Fame... Additionally, the Rune Entity remarks about some "child" sitting upon "Jupiter's Throne". This is most likely referencing Roman mythology - specifically a throne that represents some sort of supreme authority or control over all other gods.
Finally, the Rune Entity posted a link to a theory about Awakening posted by an unrelated player. This theory speculated whether or not "The Father" was actually "Kelbris" in Alex Hall's current Awakening story - an idea that's awfully similar to Johnisdead's lore of Kelbris being Hank Hubbard - the leader of the Lunar Children. In response to this, the Rune Entity claims that "World Lines" were blurring. As a reminder, "World Lines" were previously mentioned in the video Trial - presumably in regards to them becoming convoluted and leading to misremembered events and miss-matched dates... However, the true definition of a "World Line" is still unclear.
On April 12th, 2020, a video was suddenly uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "Xenquility Today at 2:02 AM "you are never safe"". Strangely, the title of this video was referencing a message posted by the player Xenquility in Discord - "You are never safe".
Description
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The video begins with heavily distorted footage, presumably outside of Greth's house. Text from an unknown entity appears.
Unknown: "Did you think we were done with you?"
The still-distorted footage switches to Greth.
Unknown: "Why should you get what YOU want?"
As Greth begins drinking from a bottle, the screen turns white and a black entity with purple eyes briefly appears. The footage returns to Greth, who appears to be swaying slightly while filming himself outside of his house. The video is overlayed on itself, giving the appearance of two Greths. Greth begins laughing, and takes another drink from the bottle. The video cuts to Greth with a knife, which he kisses as the video distorts. The perspective switches to the first person, and the footage is given a green hue. The filmer (presumably Greth) is seen running across someone's lawn with the knife, and the video ends.
Summary
- This video contains a threatening message from someone who claims that they aren't done with Greth.
- Distorted footage of Greth holding a knife and running through a yard can be seen - presumably Tyler's yard.
This cryptic video seems to be a threat directed towards someone - presumably Greth himself. Strangely, given the wording of "Did you think we were done with you?" seems to imply that this threat was coming from a group of people rather than a single entity... This video also depicts several ominous scenes, including Greth kissing a knife, Greth running through Tyler's yard, and what appears to be a brief flash of BUP.
Overall, this video seems to imply that one or more people still have plans for Greth - plans that likely involve his continued possessed state...
Later on, players submitted the "Mask of Truth", hoping that it might spur on more activity from the IIIII account. This was a success, as the IIIII account proceeded to post two cryptic messages. The first was "III II IIII", or "324". It was accompanied with an image of Ben from Awakening titled "ben.gif".
The second message was "IIII II III", or "423". This was coupled with an image of an unknown YouTube video titled "hall.jpg".
Checkpoint #6
On April 13th, 2020, BUP started chatting with the players once again.
Hello
hey buddy
how’s tricks?
Good
I have one today
oh?
what it be
you guys have been searching bandcamp pretty hard
even though there was nothing there for you ☹️
but i decided to play your game and give you something
well that’s kind of you
what is it that's kept you out of the subspace on AO?
yuuki and her ascension caused some damage
didn't you need to fix that?
I believe i screwed that up for you 🙂
i decided to play a new game
https://astralobservatory.bandcamp.com/album/ascended-e-girl
Here, BUP acknowledges one of the major roadblocks that's been keeping the players from accessing the Subspace - Yuukichan's presence within Astralobservatory.net. As mentioned previously, the presence of her spirit within the site is causing some internal damage. BUP claims that the players were needing to fix that at one point, but he stopped them. This is possibly referencing the Dungeons & Dragons game, which supposedly would have involved placing Yuukichan's spirit within Munnin's Raven Figurine.
Regardless, it now seems that BUP is allowing the players to continue that mission, albeit in a new form - an album named "Ascended E-Girl". This album has been uploaded to Greth's "Astral Observatory" record label on Bandcamp.com and it seems to be themed around Yuukichan and the Astral Observatory in general.
"Some time ago there was a website. A cult was formed around the website. Things began to spiral downward, fast."
Interestingly, players noticed that this cassette could also be purchased physically. The Bandcamp page claimed that this physical release would be packaged with several "Astral Observatory Records" and an "Amiibo Chip" that contained a pre-loaded dungeon on it for "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening".
For context, the Nintendo Switch version of Link's Awakening allowed players to create their own in-game dungeons and share them with one-another via Amiibos. It's implied that this same "Amiibo Dungeon" may be the real-life counterpart of Munnin's Raven Figurine and that Yuukichan's spirit will be housed within it. So, to summarize...
Yuukichan was ascended - presumably sometime in early 2019. Her soul was then placed within Astralobservatory.net, where it caused some damage to the site. Here, it occasionally reached out to the players on the Astral Observatory Forums and on Discord.
In early 2020, the raven spirit Munnin approached the players during BUP's Dungeons & Dragons game. Here, Munnin offered the players an opportunity to assist Yuukichan by moving her soul from Astralobservatory.net into his Raven Figurine. This figurine would then have to be transferred to the players in real life as an Amiibo.
The Dungeons & Dragons game was ended early, foiling this to some extent. However, it seems that the same basic plan is still being played out - the players are still being offered a version of this Amiibo through the "Ascended E-Girl" album, thanks to BUP. Presumably, the players will have to load this Amiibo into The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening to unlock a special dungeon. Upon completing it, Yuukichan will presumably be freed.
As the players proceeded to download the album, they noticed that doing so also provided them with an image of the album's J-card's interior. This contained some interesting details:
First, an image of what appeared to be a "Poe in a Bottle" could be seen in the bottom corner of the image. As a reminder, this "Poe in a Bottle" was recently used to represent the player Wolfcat near the end of BUP's Dungeons & Dragons game.
This image also contained a QR Code that featured Wolfcat's infamous "Dream Emoji" - the one that he often spammed in the lead-up to the Pumpkinhead Gamejack. Scanning this QR code led the players to a non-existent page on Astralobservatory.net - "https://astralobservatory.net/subspace". Presumably, this page would eventually become active at a later date.
Finally, the image also contained a cipher on it that translated to "SKELETONKEY". The meaning of this was clarified by another hint found by the players: "You're so very close now. Unfortunately there is little else that can be done without the other keys. You'll all have them now soon. But now you have the address." This implies that "SKELETONKEY" will be one of the keys needed to eventually access the Subspace page on Astralobservatory.net. However, all the players could do now was wait...
The actual "Ascended E-Girl album itself consisted of eight different tracks:
1. yuuki in the chamber of sadness.wav
A somber, repeating tune.
2. Nocta - hole.wav
A distorted tune that was previously found on Astralobservatory.net
3. Kaiden_Zoromichi - dive.wav
A distorted tune that was previously found on Astralobservatory.net
4. m__nm_n - transmission.wav
A distorted tune that was previously found on Astralobservatory.net
5. astral dream - dream.wav
A vaporwave version of "Out of My League" by Fitz and The Tantrums.
6. astral dream - aw.wav
A short audio clip that sounds like a spectrogram.
7. null - betwixt.wav
A distorted tune that was previously found on Astralobservatory.net
8. SHADOWLINK - prize.wav
A distorted tune that was previously found on Astralobservatory.net
Most of these tracks were ones that were discovered previously on Astralobservatory.net's Subspace when the players rescued Moonman - though they were now extended and remixed to some extent. Additionally, each track was now associated with a different character. However, there were two tracks that stood out among the rest - "dream.wav" and "aw.wav" - both of which were associated with a character who was simply referred to as "Astral Dream".
While it isn't exactly clear who this "Astral Dream" is, both of these tracks seemed to be connected to the player Wolfcat. The track "dream.wav" was a distorted version of "Out of my League" - a song that Wolfcat would often post as a meme. Additionally, "aw.wav" contained a spectrogram that revealed an image of Wolfcat's "Dream Emoji" - the same one found on the cassette's inner cover. The meaning of "Astral Dream", "AW", and these references to Wolfcat were unclear...
Afterwards, Greth began chatting with the players on Discord - still blissfully unaware of the oddities surrounding him...
Oh i see you guys found the album i released late last night
Seems like i get most of my activity done at late night when I'm barely lucid and crash lol
Sometimes you compose better late at night when you cant sleep
Happens to me at least
Forgot to say when you posted it but your music was epic viale
Thanks bro
May not be greth's style though XD
actually i went and looked up your soundcloud
your music is like transformers declaring war on Earth and going absolutely apeshit on the weak humanz
its great
two thumbs up
nice
Now sporting his "Toad the Druid" avatar, Greth continues chatting about his record label. Interestingly, he claims that he himself uploaded "Ascended E-Girl"... However, given how BUP's influence is keeping him from remembering and recognizing any of the oddities surrounding him, it's likely that he has no idea what significance and spiritual oddities this album holds... This implies that BUP simply possessed Greth and used him as a vessel to upload "Ascended E-Girl".
On April 15th, 2020, Yuukichan herself finally returned to Discord to speak with the players.
hello there
Holy shit, Yuuki
Long time no see
yes
Where've you been?
I have been exactly where I was left
trapped
In Astral Observatory?
yes...
Unfortunately, Yuukichan's ascended spirit is still trapped inside Astralobservatory.net.
What exactly happened last time we spoke?
i don't have the time to explain
you must protect him by saving us
AW
we can only walk this path against him together
How do we save you?
free us from our dungeon
Yuukichan seems to be in a hurry. She posts another distorted image of a "Poe in a Bottle" - another possible reference to the player Wolfcat. She then refers to the mysterious "AW" individual referenced in "Ascended E-Girl", asking the players to "protect him by freeing us from our dungeon". Assuming that this dungeon is the same dungeon found in the "Ascended E-Girl" Amiibo, this implies that both Yuukichan and this mysterious "AW" are within the Amiibo Dungeon...
Later that night, the players discovered that the "Subspace" page found on Astralobservatory.net was now locked. Unfortunately, the players still only had one part of the login information - "SKELETONKEY".
Checkpoint #7
On April 16th, 2020, the players noticed that Lunarchildren.com now featured a new "Figures" page - one for Regiminis.
The grand child chosen by the Father. Ascended on the holiest of nights, he CAPTOR HETOOKUS a grand foolWEARhetookthenevernor and now manages and oversees our portal. Though his conduiESTILLHEREpetty Behi ndTheGatMIS111111 retrieved from the Dark One. Only then will we truly TAKEsideThe Malinsidiousagasy
This page was somewhat corrupted. It also contained what appeared to be a stylized version of Regiminis's sigil. The text seems to allude towards the fact that Tenebris once possessed Regiminis's conduit - John. However, the corrupted text spliced into it also makes cryptic references to things such as "Behind the Gate". There's also references to Kevin's Moon Child alias "Insidiae" and the Malagasy language, which was briefly used in 2016 to hint towards Regiminis's identity.
Players discovered that clicking on this page's distorted header would link them to another page:
kevi.gif
lunarchildren.com/figures/regiminis/insidiae
This page was titled "AVARICE" and contained red text that read "REGIMINIS". This page's source also hid text that read "The deuro wishes to speak".
its_for_you.mp3
This seems to imply that John's spirit is still active and wishing to communicate... Also, clicking on this page's "Regiminis" text led players to another page:
DEDECUS.gif
lunarchildren.com/figures/regiminis/insidiae/other
This page was titled "Hails from HIS time"
fiRst.mp3
This page is rather interesting as it seemingly hints towards the existence of another version of Kevin - one that originates "From HIS time" - though who exactly this "HE" is isn't clear... Supposedly, this other version of Kevin is the "First" one - according to the name of the audio file, at least... While this "First" alternate version of Kevin is still largely a mystery, it can be assumed that the strange skull-like creature seen in this page's image is meant to represent him.
On April 18th, 2020, players discovered that the description for "Ascended E-Girl" had changed. The Bandcamp page now featured an additional comment from someone simply referred to as "Researcher Greth".
Researcher Greth
"Research suggests there may be paranormal activity contained within this tape. Repeated plays have continued to eat away at my own conscious mind; this girl, why is she trapped?"
Researcher Greth is likely yet another alternate version of Greth. Considering the fact that BUP supposedly has access to various different versions of Greth from different timelines, this possibility isn't too unfathomable... As his name suggests, this version of Greth is some sort of researcher - a researcher who is supposedly unfamiliar with Yuukichan and is in the process of studying her presence within the "Ascended E-Girl" album.
Further exploration revealed that the mysterious "test audio only" album also now contained an excerpt from Researcher Greth:
Researcher Greth
"Submitted to us by an unknown sender, labeled as 'test audio only'. We used it to test our sound equipment. Then things began to get strange around here."
Unfortunately, the true origins of "test audio only" still remains a mystery, as even Researcher Greth isn't sure who sent it to him. However, the wording here implies that Researcher Greth is a part of some sort of group or organization...
Players discovered another message from Researcher Greth in another one of Greth's albums - "from the depths in which i dwell".
Researcher Greth
"A mysterious tape arrived at our door once again. This one was different than the last... it created echoes of chaos that I could not release from the chambers of my mind... wait... what am I saying? This needs further research..."
This seems to be yet another strange cassette let for Researcher Greth.
Unfortunately, there was little else that could be gleaned about Researcher Greth for the time being. Instead, the players needed to prepare for the fast-approaching April 23rd, which was less than a week away...
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