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The Astral Arc is the sixth arc of Johnisdead. This arc began on October 22nd, 2018, and ended on June 5th, 2019. This arc saw the introduction of the <b>Astral Observatory</b> - a group of online paranormal enthusiasts with some unknown connection to the Lunar Children. Throughout this arc, players were required to navigate the Astral Observatory forums and interact with its various members while avoiding the suspicion of <b>Nocta</b> - the mysterious leader of the Astral Observatory.
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The Astral Arc is the fourth arc of Johnisdead. This arc began on February 4th, 2017, and ended on June 5th, 2019. This arc covered the aftermath of The Truth Arc, introducing a new character named <b>Greth</b> and his connection to the <b>Astral Observatory</b> - a group of online paranormal enthusiasts with some unknown connection to the Lunar Children. Throughout this arc, players were required to navigate the Astral Observatory forums and interact with its various members while avoiding the suspicion of <b>Nocta</b> - the mysterious leader of the Astral Observatory. Meanwhile, Tyler began investigating the Lunar Children on his own terms.
  
<h2>October 22nd, 2018</h2>
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<h2>February 4th, 2017</h2>
 
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At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. This page no longer had a title and contained an image of a red-tinted Tyler grinning titled "<b>maj.jpg</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/9/96/Maj.jpg|target=_blank]]</span> This page also featured the audio "<b>recruit.mp3</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:listen.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/d/d9/Recruit.ogg|target=_blank]]</span> Hidden within this page's source code was the text "<span class="canquote">howdoesitwork</span>" repeated 55 times.
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At 2:27 PM, the player Scout discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page had reverted to how it was in 2015, with the "Foggyworld248.jpg" image and the audio "background.mp3", also known as "@90 by Kevin".  
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At an unknown time, players discovered that Johnisdead.com now featured a new favicon of a crudely-drawn smiley face. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/4/46/Favinew.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
 
 
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<h2>October 23rd, 2018</h2>
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<h2>February 24th, 2017</h2>
 
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At 1:58 PM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. This page was now titled "<b>construction</b>" and once again featured the green, distorted image of Tyler titled "awaken.jpg". This page still contained the audio "recruit.mp3".
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At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "<b>construction</b>" and contained an image of someone's face on top of the Libro Lunarus titled "<b>DSC_0324.jpg</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/2/2e/DSC_0324.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
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At 2:19 PM, players discovered that Johnisdead.com would once again redirect players if they attempted to access a non-existent page. The pages player would be redirected to seemed to all be previously discovered canon sources such as the Silentdork YouTube channel and Doug's blog.
 
 
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<h2>October 24th, 2018</h2>
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<h2>March 24th, 2017</h2>
 
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At 9:53 AM, the player Jos discovered a new page on Johnsidead.com - "<b><span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://johnisdead.com/</nowiki></span>home.html</b>". This page was simply the previous version of the front page which featured the red-tinted image of Tyler.
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At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uplaoded to the Silentdork YouTube channel. This video's title consisted of glitchy characters that reversed the browser's title. <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=dYMZjZrAiEY&feature=emb_logo|target=_blank]]</span>
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At 9:56 AM, the player Jos discovered that Johnisdead.com would sometimes redirect him to a new website when attempting to access a non-existent page - "<b><nowiki>https://astralobservatory.net/</nowiki></b>". This site appeared to be a blog themed around paranormal activity and conspiracies. Players noticed that some of the wording within the blog posts found on this page were distinctly cult-like. <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/6/68/AO.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 
 
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10/24/18 - Announcements - Astralobservatory.net
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3/24/17 - ((Blank)) - YouTube (Silentdork)
 
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<span class="vip">The Astral Observatory
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This video consisted of a black screen with a reversed song playing in the background. The following text can faintly be seen on the background:
July 28, 2018 - Thoughts
 
Welcome to the Astral Observatory.
 
 
 
This is a website dedicated to sharing news, opinions, and thoughts from an underground collective that believe in what some may call paranormal or supernatural. We believe in that modern society has pulled a warm blanket over our eyes, trying to lull us into a false reality in which the masses, now imperceptible to the greater machinations of the universe, are more malleable for cooperation.
 
 
 
We have been exposed to some of the truths that shattered that illusion, and now we seek more.
 
 
 
If you are interested in joining us on this journey, bookmark this webpage for further updates, and head on over to our forums for new community of people like us, and we believe, yourself.
 
  
 
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<span class="vip">Still here</span>
 
 
Malicious Attack; Forums Offline
 
October 22, 2018 - News
 
Dearest believers,
 
 
 
I have some news you may find unfortunate. On Sunday morning, around 12am, this site was taken offline. I do not know how or why, but during that time our bandwidth was temporarily re-purposed for another website, ‘johnisdead.com’. While I’m not sure why this has happened, I can only conclude it was some form of malicious hack. Please stay patient while I work to get my previous posts on this website back up, and work to restore the forums to their former glory. For now the forums are locked.
 
 
 
We will get through this.</span>
 
 
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The announcement welcoming users to the site was posted on July 28th, implying that the Astral Observatory has existed for several months.
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The text "<span class="canquote">Still Here</span>" appears, implying that Tenebris survived the "Kill Switch".
 
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The members of the Astral Observatory believe that society has obscured various truths regarding the nature of the paranormal and reality itself. The author of these posts claims that the Astral Observatory has been exposed to information that has "<span class="canquote">shattered that illusion</span>", and that now they want more.
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On October 22nd, an announcement was posted on Astral Observatory claiming that Johnisdead.com had stolen their bandwidth on October 21st. This explains why Johnisdead.com now redirects to Astralobservatory.net.
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It is revealed that the Astral Observatory has some <b>forums</b> that are temporarily offline.
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At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Astralobservatory.net contained a link to their forums - "<b><span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://astralobservatory.net/</nowiki></span>forum</b>". Unfortunately, these forums were still offline.
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At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "<b>So many still trapped</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsL99L5_yqI&feature=emb_title|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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3/24/17 - "So many still trapped" - YouTube (Silentdork)
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This video featured a black screen with the song "@90" by Kevin playing. A faint image of the Libro Lunarus can be seen at the end of the video.
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At 10:01 AM, the player Jos discovered that the Javascript code on Johnisdead.com that redirected players could now be read. The redirects were as follows:
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This video featured a faint image of the Libro Lunarus along with the song "@90" by Kevin.
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Johnisdead.com - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://johnisdead.com</nowiki></span>
 
 
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Silentdork YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/user/silentdork</nowiki></span>
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YouTube Details:  
 
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Greth Vlogs YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB62RBGB5A5uRaLv-95fMrw</nowiki></span>
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YSHDT.net - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://youshouldnthavedonethat.net/</nowiki></span>
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Doug's Blog - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://letschasethemouse.blogspot.com/</nowiki></span>
 
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Lostmemory423 YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT-n6eNjB3rNoDYsKWuP-DA</nowiki></span>
 
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"M" YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfjnw6rFLW3-NhEphVdPymw</nowiki></span>
 
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Vincent Adams YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrrgIhl-3DkhgKIHEkB4OQ</nowiki></span>
 
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Johnisdead.com "home.html" Page - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://johnisdead.com/home.html</nowiki></span>
 
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<li>
 
Astralobservatory.net - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://astralobservatory.net/</nowiki></span>
 
 
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<h2>October 25th, 2018</h2>
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At 3:28 PM, the player Jos discovered that the generic "<b>404</b>" page on Johnisdead.com that users were sent to before being redirected was now titled "<b>lost?</b>". This page also contained a dark image of Tenebris and the elegy statue titled "<b>ha.png</b>" and hid the text "<span class="canquote">find your way</span>" in its source code. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/c/c7/Ha.png|target=_blank]]</span>
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At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "<b>4‍/23​‍/2017 ebuTouY</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5cDGWeRgc|target=_blank]]</span>  
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<h2>October 31st, 2018</h2>
 
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<li>
 
At 4:02 PM, players discovered that the front page of Astralobservatory.net now contained a new announcement titled "<b>Good news and bad news.</b>".
 
 
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10/31/18 - Announcement - Astralobservatory.net
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3/24/17 - "4‍/23​‍/2017 ebuTouY" - YouTube (Silentdork)
 
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<span class="vip">Good news and bad news.
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This video simply featured a black background with the sounds of someone drowning.
October 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
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Hello everyone, I have both good news and bad news to report today, Oct. 31st. The good news is that soon, our forums will be up and running once again! The bad news is, most of the our previous posts have become corrupted. I was unable to salvage anything but the protected forum. Some users may need to find that they will need to re-register themselves, even. We will rebuild.</span>
 
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It is revealed that any content on the previous incarnation of the Astral Observatory forums has been lost.
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This video simply featured a black background with the sounds of someone drowning.
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The author mentions a "<span class="canquote">protected forum</span>" that contains some archived posts. This implies that there is some degree of secrecy within the inner workings of the Astral Observatory.
 
 
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At 4:16 PM, players discovered that the Astral Observatory forums were now accessible. These forums contained a header that read "<span class="canquote">Seeking the truths that lie beyond the grand illusion</span>" and a small image of the "<b>Astral Observatory</b>" location from Majora's Mask. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/3e/Site_logo.png|target=_blank]]</span>
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The following characters were discovered on the forums: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/f/f0/Aof.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 
 
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<b>nocta</b> - The mysterious leader of the Astral Observatory.
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<h2>March 26th, 2017</h2>
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Signature: N/A
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The players began using Discord as their main method of communication.
 
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<h2>April 3rd, 2017</h2>
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Rank: "<b>Site Admin</b>"
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At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Vincent Adams YouTube channel - "<b>show me</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr3kM2iIIn4|target=_blank]]</span> {{#simple-tooltip-img: http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/a/ae/Lens.png | The title of this video was originally a HEX cipher.<br />- Solved by Unknown (4/3/17)}}
 
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4/3/17 - "show me" - YouTube (Vincent Adams)
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This video shows footage of someone's room as the the Lunar Children theme can be heard playing on a keyboard.
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Groups: "<b>Leader</b>", "<b>Truth Seekers</b>"
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This video shows footage of someone's room as the the Lunar Children theme can be heard playing on a keyboard.
 
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Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 21st, 2018 at 11:44 AM</span>"
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YouTube Details:
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<b>Samuel_Charleston</b> - A mysterious member of the Astral Observatory forums who had yet to make a post.
 
 
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Avatar: N/A
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Description: "<span class="canquote">show me</span>" {{#simple-tooltip-img: http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/a/ae/Lens.png | This was repeated over 200 times.}}
 
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Signature: N/A
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Tags: "<span class="canquote">show me show me</span>"
 
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Rank: N/A
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At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Vincent Adams YouTube channel - "<b>Foolish child</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMml5FXw-eU|target=_blank]]</span> {{#simple-tooltip-img: http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/a/ae/Lens.png | This video's title was originally an Ascii85 cipher.<br />- Solved by Unknown (4/3/17)}}
 
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4/3/17 - "Foolish child" - YouTube (Vincent Adams)
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This video begins with Vincent recording himself outside at night.
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<span class="vip">Vincent: "(Sigh) Just found my phone on the sidewalk. I don't know what the hell's going on here, what with the waking up in the park bullshit and the kid and the website... those people. (Indecipherable)."</span>
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Vincent approaches a building and opens the door.
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<span class="vip">Vincent: "Stupid..."</span>
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Patrem's voice can faintly be heard in the background:
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<span class="vip2">Patrem: "Foolish child, did you think you would remember this?"</span>
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<span class="vip">Vincent: "...Get on my laptop."</span>
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Groups: "<b>Truth Seekers</b>"
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Based off the description and the things said by Vincent, this video was recorded on March 19th, 2015 - the day Vincent briefly broke free from Patrem's control and spoke with the players. Vincent mentions the park where he spoke to the kid asking about the "Purple man", which he also discussed on Within Hubris back in 2015.
 
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Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 21st, 2018 at 11:12 PM</span>"
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<b>moonman31</b> - A male forum-goer who often posts memes and "trolls" other users.
 
 
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Avatar: An image of the McDonalds mascot "<b>Mac Tonight</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/c/cf/49.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
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Description: "<span class="canquote">march 19th 2015 Did you think you would remember this?</span>"
 
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Groups: "<b>Believers</b>"
 
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Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 31st, 2018 at 12:59 PM</span>"
 
 
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<h2>April 23rd, 2017</h2>
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<li>
<b>yuukichan</b> - A female forum-goer who enjoys anime and often posts messages containing Japanese emojis.
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At 6:30 PM, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "<b>Going to kevins</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgYgIAEl6rE|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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4/23/17 - "Going to kevins" - YouTube (Silentdork)
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This video begins with Tyler walking through a dark house. A timestamp appears in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen: <span class="vip">4/11/15</span>, meaning this was recorded on November 4th. Footage of Rosa from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines can faintly be seen warning to "Not open it", as Tyler approaches a door. As he turns the knob, an image of Doug smiling can be seen while strange noises play. Tyler turns to his right as Doug attacks him. We are shown either Tenebris or Regiminis holding a sign that says, "<span class="vip">SHE TOLD YOU NOT TO OPEN IT</span>". The video cuts to black as a soft, distorted voice is heard.
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<span class="vip2">"We need to lock him up. But (Indecipherable) first. Just don’t let him kill himself."</span>
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The video cuts back, now showing the inside of a dim server room. The timestamp now says <span class="vip">??/??/15</span>.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "This place is so fucking huge. (Indecipherable). I don't know who the fuck these people are. Hey, at least I found my fucking phone. Now if I can just find a fucking exit. What the fuck is this shit?"</span>
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The video cuts to black again before showing Tyler inside of a dark room with the camera pointed at a strange lamp. Loud, muffled drum can be heard in the background.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "Okay, I managed to find something like a fuckin’ lamp. This is the only light. This is the only lamp. I don't know what the fuck these people are doing in here, it’s dark as shit. I think the exit might be through this way."</span>
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The video cuts to Tyler walking around in a dark room.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "It’s always so fucking dark… I don’t think anyone’s in here. Not gonna risk turning the light on though. I think I’m almost out… What the fuck is this fucking…"</span>
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The video cuts, as evident by the audio.
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 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Fuck fuck fuck, I’m going in fucking circles… Damn it, it’s so fucking dark. I’m fucking walking through walls or some shit. My eyes are fucking playing tricks on me cause I’m fucking teleporting or some shit through all these fucking rooms cause I keep seeing the same shit again and again-"</span>
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 +
Tyler suddenly teleports into a new room, now staring outside through a metal grate on the wall.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "Oh wait, wait, what? What the fuck? Fuck it, fucking solid metal fucking door! It’s fucking-"</span>
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 +
A loud voice suddenly rings out as the screen flashes green.
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 +
<span class="vip2">“HURRY, STOP THE-"</span>
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 +
Tyler yells as the video cuts to black. Distorted voices can once again be heard.
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<span class="vip2">"((Indecipherable)) Did you get Douglas up here? Good. Take the Harbinger’s Link to the interrogation chamber. I have a few questions. ((Indecipherable))."</span>
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 +
We are shown some dim lights slowly gliding overhead as if someone were being transported through a hospital on a bed. The video then cuts back, now showing the inside of a freezer. Ice can be seen on the floor. Tyler's breathing is pained and he is obviously freezing.
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 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Jokes on you, I happen to fuckin’ like the cold…"</span>
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 +
Tyler begins beating on the door of the freezer.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "Fucking pricks... fucking pricks, let me out. Let me out."</span>
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 +
Tyler films the fans on the back wall of the freezer. As he does so, distorted voices can be heard:
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<span class="vip3">"You’re wasting your battery."</span>
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 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Maybe I can get out through these vents..."</span>
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 +
The video cuts as another distorted voice can be heard:
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 +
<span class="vip3">"Really, you should listen to yourself. Just this once."</span>
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 +
The video cuts twice more as Tyler is seen lying on the ground in pain. Just before the video ends, someone enters the freezer and picks Tyler off of the ground by his hair.
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Avatar: An image of the character "<b>Yuki Nagato</b>" from the anime "<b>The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/37/Yuuki.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
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This video shows what happened to Tyler in 2015 after he departed for Kevin's house. Upon opening a door, Tyler was attacked by Doug and taken to the Spire. While there, he attempted to find his way out, only to get stuck in a spatial loop of sorts - constantly coming across the same rooms.
 
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Signature: An image of the character "Yuki Nagato" kissing an alien from the "<b>Aliens</b>" franchise. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/b/bb/Yuukisig.png|target=_blank]]</span>
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Description: "<span class="canquote">oct 11th 2015 never made it shouldnt have went outside shouldnt have opened the door they got me</span>"
 
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Groups: "<b>Believers</b>"
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Tags: "<span class="vip">Friends?, / \\, Tired, Still among, lies, Father, new year</span>
 
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Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 31st, 2018 at 12:59 PM</span>"
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At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Youshouldnthavedonethat.net began updating with journal entries from Hope - the young cultist girl who spoke with players through the sign-in page during the previous arc:
 
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<b>NotAHoax_M12</b> - A male forum-goer who is a fervent believer of outlandish conspiracy theories.
 
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Avatar: A photo of a crashed UFO. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/35/51.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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Signature: N/A
 
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Groups: "<b>Believers</b>"
 
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Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 31st, 2018 at 1:57 PM</span>"
 
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Players began searching through the Astral Observatory forums. The following is the structure of the various message boards and the threads contained within them:
 
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Board - "<b>Welcome</b>" - "<span class="canquote">Helpful topics for those new</span>"
 
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Sub-Board - "<b>Help & FAQ</b>" - "<span class="canquote">A board for asking questions that either nocta or another can answer; the board rules are also posted in here.</span>"
 
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7/28/18 - "Forum Rules" - nocta
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4/23/17 - Hope's Journals - YSHDT.net
 
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<span class="vip">nocta 12:00 PM: "These are the rules of the Observatory's forums by which you must abide. Do so and you will enjoy your stay here.
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<span class="vip">I guess it's time to clear things up.
-No spam. All automated messages, advertisements, and links to competitor websites will be deleted immediately.
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Hello.  I don't know who's out there, and I'm not sure I want to.  Kinda didn't think I'd ever feel the need to come here again, but I feel drawn to this place like there's unfinished business.
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 +
I'm going to tell you what's happened so far.
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I'm not sure where to start, so it may take a while to get my head in the right place for this.
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Maybe it would be best to tell anyone reading this that I used to be involved in the Lunar Children.  They had their ways of molding young and impressionable minds. I was one of them and so were several of my friends. I wish I knew why we fell for all of it, but knowing wouldn't change anything.  If we'd been smarter, maybe one of my friends wouldn't be comatose right now.
  
-Post in relevant sub-forums only. Messages posted in the wrong topic area will be removed and placed in the correct sub-forum by moderators.
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There was a big event where we were meeting a while back.  I was not told exactly what was going on, being a lowly peon like I was. That was the day of the incident that ruined my life.  There was a lot of people, too many people, and I wish I had known about the outsider guy they brought in sooner than I did.  God, that day was the worst.
  
-Respect other users. No flaming or abusing fellow forum members. Users who continue to post inflammatory, abusive comments will be deleted from the forum after two warnings are issued by moderators.
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I'm really sorry if it sounds like I'm beating around the bush, I just don't know if anyone who poses a threat to me can see this. I've done well to stay pretty low so far, so who can blame me for being paranoid, right?  So, once we made it out of there, a few of us stayed together for a while.  I don't know how many actually escaped.
  
-Harassment. No threats or harassment of other users will be tolerated. Any instance of threatening or harassing behavior is grounds for deletion from the forums.
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When it had all settled, it was just us hiding out in a motel. I couldn't go back to my parents, we were so far away and I didn't have the guts to return after running away like I did.  When we ran out of money, we had to find another way. One of us was very sick from the start, I don't know what happened to make him like this.  It got worse.  One day, he was just unresponsive.  We didn't have anywhere to keep him safe, so we sought shelter in the only place we knew of.  We went back to the site of the disaster and hoped that whatever had caused so much pain was no longer there.  It wasn't there.
  
-No Pornography, please.
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I mean that in two ways.  When we arrived, it was just untouched as if nothing had happened.  We went inside, and it seemed like the morning of the incident.  There was no ruin, no bodies.  The sanctuary doors were still attached, like the blast that took them off was just a dream.  How was that possible?  Even weirder was that later that night, as we slept in the most comfortable pews we could find, I heard a voice that sounded impossibly close to me.  I couldn't tell what it was saying, but it sounded familiar.
  
-Bandwidth. All signatures must be 500 x 500 pixels or smaller. Posts containing over-sized images and signatures will be removed.
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The other way that I meant that it wasn't there...well, that's harder to explain.  We had to leave in order to find food.  Well, I did.  The others stayed behind.  I wasn't gone for long.  I came back to find some kids playing near the entrance to the holy place (why do I still call it that?), and that it was smoking ruins.  I panicked.  I ran to the entrance and screamed for the others.  I was hysterical, and crying, and by the time I got to the door, I noticed that the place was just fine.  I was met at the door and assured that everything was okay.
  
-Illegal content. No re-posting of copyrighted materials or other illegal content is allowed. Any posts containing illegal content or copyrighted materials will be deleted.
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But the kids were still playing. They didn't turn to see me. They just had no knowledge that anything was wrong in the first place.  Could they hear me?  Were they real?  Was I hallucinating the fire?  I didn't know at the time.
  
-Do NOT try to break into the Truth!"</span>
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Hell, I don't even know if I know now.  Later, I came to find that no matter what, it's impossible to get the attention of anyone outside the building or its property from within it.  In fact, I'm not even sure what they see when they look in its direction.  Is it like it was before the incident?  Is it just an empty lot?  Whatever the case, it looked like we had a safe place to stay and no rent to pay for it.
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About a week after deciding to stay there, we became much more comfortable with knowing we couldn't be discovered.  I mean, we had lost everything and had no plans for the future, so at least one thing went our way.  Turns out that getting a job is much harder when you don't have a home address.  I left the property when those kids showed up again and asked what they saw when they look in its direction.  They told me it was empty.
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I didn't want to believe it, but at this point, who am I to complain?
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Time passed pretty quickly after all that happened.  It has now been a year since that day.  I want things to get better for us.  The others aren't too well.  I don't have much more time to spend talking here, so if anyone is reading this, I might not be back after this entry.  Many people I knew have died, and I'm scared for our friend's health.  He hasn't spoken a full sentence in months.  We can't take him to a hospital.  We can't risk being found by surviving cultists, if there are any.  We're the only three left that I know of, and I would rest easy if only I could know the Lunar Children name has truly died.
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All I can do now is hope.</span>
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Nocta forbids users from attempting to break into "<b>The Truth</b>" - the password-protected board on the forums that was mentioned previously.
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Hope reveals that she is a former Lunar Child. She is currently living with one of her friends after surviving the cataclysm that destroyed the Spire. She mentions that another one of her friends is currently in a coma.
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After living in a motel for a brief time, Hope and her friends returned to the Spire. Despite the chaos that ensued, Hope and her friends perceive the Spire as completely normal.
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Upon approaching the Spire a second time, Hope sees it as a pile of ruins. When she gets closer, however, it returns to normal. Outsiders seem to not be able to see the Spire at all.
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The cataclysm that destroyed the Spire on April 23rd, 2016 is described as an explosion of sorts.
 
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<h2>April 24th, 2017</h2>
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<li>
Sub-Board - "<b>Introductions</b>" - "<span class="canquote">A board for asking questions that either nocta or another can answer; the board rules are also posted in here.</span>"
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At an unknown time, players discovered that more journal entries from Hope had been posted on the front page of Youshouldnthavedonethat.net:
 
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10/31/18 - "We starting over?" - moonman31
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4/24/17 - Hope's Journals - YSHDT.net
 
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<span class="vip">moonman31 1:32 PM: "Y'all know me, still the same OG."</span>
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<span class="vip">It is 6:16pm.  He has stopped responding to us entirely.  No matter what, he just doesn't react.  We have no choice but to take him to a hospital, and hope for the best.  If you're out there, wish us luck.
<span class="vip2">nocta 1:34 PM: "Welcome back moonman. Keep the trolling to a MINIMUM this time?"</span>
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<span class="vip">moonman31 1:35 PM: "I promise nothing. (kidding)"</span>
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Well, it's been about six hours since we arrived at the nearest hospital.  He's in the care of people we can't trust, but we couldn't even feed him anymore, so what were we supposed to do?  We can't spend the night in the open at the hospital, so we came back.  I contemplated telling my other friend to stay there, and that she needed to be seen as well.  I didn't.  She insists that it's just a cold, and it might just be a cold.  We just can't afford the luxury of assuming anymore.  I'm still updating here, I guess.  If anyone's out there, I sincerely hope we're not enemies.  The one thing I'm afraid of now is the others being harmed.  It might be a while until I say more here, it might not. I don't know anymore.  The last six hours have been beyond stressful.
<span class="vip3">yuukichan 1:40 PM: "MOONIE!!!!"</span>
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<span class="vip4">NotAHoax_M12 2:06 PM: "Of course you'd be the first back besides Nocta and Samuel"</span>
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Earlier today, those kids came back. I walked up to them and they ran away.  I guess it's for the best since we don't know what's in the rubble that they see.  I haven't bothered racking my brain to figure out the deal with that, by the way.  After a while you just learn to accept shit no matter how weird it is.  And that brings me to this morning.
<span class="vip">moonman31 2:06 PM: ((A gif from "The Simpsons" is posted)) <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/a/a3/Simpsin.gif|target=_blank]]</span>
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I woke up really early for some reason, and found that some of our stuff had been moved.  Maybe I'm just imagining it because of the stress, but I could have sworn I left my hat next to the pulpit with the rest of my stuff.  I found it in the pew next to me.
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Anyway, we're going to the hospital to check on our friend.  I hope he's okay.
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We never made it to the hospital.  I am okay, she's okay.  We just couldn't get close to the place, I can't explain it.  Something was keeping us from it.
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I left to go to the hospital by myself after that last entry, and ran the whole way.  I know how unlikely it is that I'm being followed after so long, but even so, it's still really hard to feel safe out here in the dark with nobody else.  I found that he had been put under for whatever reason, and has yet to wake up.  They're not sure what's wrong.
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I returned to find the place empty, which isn't very comforting this late at night. Some stray drawings were left lying around on her side of the sanctuary. I liked them a lot. She came back a short while later, turns out she just went out to get food for the night.  I'm tired of being so paranoid all the time.</span>
 
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The user "<b>moonman31</b>" introduces himself on the newly created forums.
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Hope dropped her male friend off at the hospital. He has now completely fallen into his coma and is unresponsive.
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Hope and her female friend attempt to visit the hospital the next day, but are unable to approach it for some unknown reason.
 
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The other users welcome Moonman back to the forums. Judging by their wording, Moonman has a history of trolling the others.
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Hope mentions that her female friend has left some drawings around the Spire.
 
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<h2>April 25th, 2017</h2>
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At an unknown time, players discovered that more journal entries from Hope had been posted on the front page of Youshouldnthavedonethat.net:
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<span class="vip">yuukichan 1:41 PM: "Hello everyooooone~"</span>
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<span class="vip">Nothing much going on right now.  Woke up at like 6.  Really tired.  You know how sometimes you can see something once and then it's everywhere?  It's very irritating and I want it to stop.  I swear I've seen this weird thing six times since I woke up.
<span class="vip2">nocta 1:42 PM: "Hello again Yuuki"</span>
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<span class="vip">yuukichan 1:43 PM: "Nocta! Pls fix my group status QwQ"</span>
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Once, just ONE TIME, I would like to have a day where it feels like things are looking up.  ONE DAY.
<span class="vip2">nocta 1:44 PM: "I'm working as fast as I can as everyone sees the message and re-registers... patience."</span>
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<span class="vip3">moonman31 1:50 PM: "Welcome back kiddo."</span>
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Okay, so I just woke up to the sound of a loud crash from outside, sounded like thunder but the sky is clear right now.  Not amused.  I think I'll see if she wants to go to the hospital with me later, kinda hope she does since I'm not a fan of walking there by myself.  She's feeling a lot better now, so I guess I was just worried for nothing.  Now we just need to know what's wrong with him.
<span class="vip">yuukichan 1:55 PM: "Where is grampa? He's registered but he hasn't posted yet... TTwTT"</span>
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I came back inside after a short walk, and it wasn't a great idea to even go out there in the first place since it's currently like 50 degrees and I didn't have my jacket.  Anyway, I came back inside and decided to kill time by wandering around inside.  I came around to a closet we haven't been inside of much, since we really have no need to be rifling around in them, but I was curious and it looks like it paid off.  I now hold in my hands a small box, maybe the size of a shoebox, but locked.  A three-digit combination lock built into it is keeping me out. I've tried several famous three-letter combinations, yet none have worked so far. I don't know anyone who might be good with this sort of thing, and taking this out into the open is an obvious invitation for trouble.
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I looked at more of her drawings a few minutes ago.  Very relaxing.
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Wow, that was an incredibly obvious solution.  I dropped the box on its corner and it popped right open!  Also, I realize now that I typed "three-letter combination" but wow, I meant number.  Never doing this that early again.
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After breaking it open, I recorded the contents.  Inside were some unopened letters, a Rubik's cube, six one-dollar bills, a newspaper clipping, $600 in twenties, a necklace, and a Bible.  Score???
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I like this necklace though, kinda like one I used to have.  It would make a nice gift.
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 +
On the way to the hospital, we talked about what was in the box.  I gave her $300 and kept the other half for myself.  We arrived and were allowed to see him, and he looked much better than when we brought him in.  He must be eating again, which is great.  He also spoke clearly to us, something he hasn't done in a long time.  He says he doesn't know what's wrong with him and he understands if he's been a burden on us.  God, I feel so horrible if that's the impression he got from all this.  I just want him to be okay again, like he was before the incident.  Maybe a little less serious.  She drew a picture of him while we talked and gave it to him.  She's so adorable.  I'm glad he's speaking again.  For the last year, he's just been wandering and talking mostly nonsense.  In the last month, he stopped moving and speaking.  I don't know what they did to make him better, but I'm glad they did.  He hasn't been discharged yet, not sure how long it'll be before we can take him back. Or how long it'll be before he's back to the way he was before we brought him here.</span>
 
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The user "<b>yuukichan</b>" introduces herself on the newly created forums.
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Hope explores the Spire and comes across a lockbox that was sealed with a three-digit number. She was able to break the box open and found a <b>necklace</b>, along with some other valuable contents.
 
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<li>
Yuukichan asks Nocta to fix her group status, referring to the "<b>Believers</b>" group.
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Hope visits her male friend at the hospital. He is now doing better and can speak with them. Hope's female friend draws some pictures for him.  
 
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Yuukichan notes that "<span class="canquote">grampa</span>" is registered but hasn't made a post yet. This is referring to "<b>Samuel_Charleston</b>" - a member who has not yet posted. He is also the only member aside from Nocta who is in the "<b>Truth Seekers</b>" group.
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Hope's male friend is very apologetic. She mentions that she hopes he returns to how he was soon, though maybe "<span class="canquote">a little less serious</span>".  
 
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<h2>November 11th, 2017</h2>
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10/31/18 - "Nice to be back." - NotAHoax_M12
 
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<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 2:01 PM: "Glad my favorite group of people are back online. Well, soon to be. What's up with the avatars? Uploads are broken."</span>
 
<span class="vip2">nocta 2:01 PM: "I know, just use TinyPic for now. I will get it fixed."</span>
 
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 2:05 PM: "I'm sure this is really frustrating. Take your time, Nocta."</span>
 
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The user "<b>NotAHoax_M12</b>" introduces himself on the newly created forums.
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At 11:32 PM, players discovered a new video on the Silentdork YouTube channel - "<b>.</b>". This video had actually been uploaded on October 23rd, 2013, but it had only now been made public. This video also contained closed captions created by the uploader that reveal more information. <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTi6Na_CVNc&feature=emb_title|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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Sub-Board - "<b>General Discussion</b>" - "<span class="canquote">Talk about anything not relevant to the other discussion forums here</span>"
 
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<span class="vip">yuukichan 2:12 PM: "WE GOT TO A 1000 PAGES LAST TIME LET'S DO IT AGAIN! TALK ANIME HERE!! o(〃^▽^〃)o"</span>
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The video begins with Tyler playing Remember.exe, exploring the bottom of a massive pool. If the user turns on closed captions, strange captions appear.
<span class="vip2">NotAHoax_M12 2:12 PM: "I remember a lot of double-posting, is what I remember."</span>
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Wolfcat 2:31 PM: "Where my Kemono Friends at."
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<span class="vip2">Captions: "11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111"</span>
<span class="vip">yuukcihan 2:40 PM: ":o ! I LIKE THE NEW GUY" ((An edited gif from the anime "Kemono Friends" is sent))</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/4/43/151556056559.gif|target=_blank]]</span>
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Wolfcat 2:53 PM: "<nowiki>https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/244/430/a3d.gif</nowiki>"
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "...Will kill my character? I'm hoping for like a drain or something."</span>
<span class="vip">yuukichan 4:20 PM: ((A fan created gif for the anime "Kemono Friends" is sent))</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/37/Kemonospin.gif|target=_blank]]</span>
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<span class="vip2">Captions: "this story is older than all of you and now you show up"</span>
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<span class="vip3">John: "A drain?"</span>
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<span class="vip2">Captions: "but so late"</span>
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<span class="vip3">Captions: ". ...Filed missing persons report just before 2017 new years eve... Do you really think he is still alive? ...deaths all linked to members of local religious group Dimensions Where is Tyler? W h e n"</span>
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The user Yuukichan creates a thread for casual anime discussion. It's implied that a similar thread existed before the Astral Observatory forums were purged that surpassed 1000 posts.
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This video's captions reference the disappearance of the Lunar Children and a missing persons report being filed around January 1st, 2017.
 
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Two gifs relating to the anime "Kemono Friends" are posted by Yuukichan: <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/4/43/151556056559.gif|target=_blank]]</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/37/Kemonospin.gif|target=_blank]]</span>
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Tags: "<span class="canquote">Play, Games, This, Game, sucks, dick, Let's Play</span>"
 
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<h2>November 12th, 2017</h2>
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At 12:27 AM, the player ARGdov submitted the "<b>Sonata of Awakening</b>" by sending it to the Johnisdead.com Pididoip email address. <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/1/1f/Argpididoip.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
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At 1:27 AM, the player Scout discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "<b>Comatose</b>" and contained a distorted image of Tyler titled "<b>Awaken.jpg</b>", which contained the word "<span class="canquote">HELP</span>" hidden within the distortions. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/b/b0/Awaken.jpg|target=_blank]]</span> This page also contained a disturbing track titled "<b>Awaken.ogg</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:listen.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/3c/Awaken.ogg|target=_blank]]</span> The text "<span class="canquote">dtrH</span>" was hidden within this page's source code.
 
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At 1:34 AM, the player ARGdov sent another email to the Pididoip email address, asking how the players can help tyler. "<i>Tyler, are you there? Can you hear us or speak? Tyler, I hope I've managed to get your attention, I think I have, and I can only hope this message gets to you. ((...)) in any way you can. Where are you? What's happened?</i>".
 
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At an unknown time, the Pididoip account sent a response to ARGdov, asking "<span class="canquote">Who's Tyler?</span>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/5/55/Argpididoip2.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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At 1:57 AM, the player Dila discovered that the page "/hole" had changed. The page was now completely black with white text reading "<span class="canquote">whats lost can be found m /</span>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/31/Jidhole111.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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At 2:50 AM, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "<b><span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://johnisdead.com/</nowiki></span>memory</b>". This page was titled "<b>Forget</b>" and contained audio of a deep voice asking "<span class="canquote">Did you forget me?</span>" titled "<b>ForgetMe.mp3</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:listen.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/2/24/Forgetme.ogg|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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At an unknown time, players discovered that staying on the page "/memory" for too long would redirect them to a new page - "<b><span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://johnisdead.com/memory/</nowiki></span>john</b>". This page was titled "<b>J</b>" and contained an image of a blue John titled "<b>John.gif</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/9/9a/John.gif|target=_blank]]</span> This page also contained a song titled "<b>Hello_again.mp3</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:listen.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/d/d8/Hello_again.ogg|target=_blank]]</span> This page hid the text "<span class="canquote">New Year New You</span>" in its source code.
 
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At 3:08 AM, the player ARGdov received an email from the Pididoip email asking "<span class="canquote">Where did that suitcase go?</span>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/e/ec/Argpididoip3.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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<h2>November 13th, 2017</h2>
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At 1:22 AM, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube account - "<b>Hello again</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88G23cXq5g4&feature=emb_title|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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<span class="vip">moonman31 1:46 PM: "So let's get down to brass and talk about it, and this seemed like the most appropriate section. How does someone redirect bandwidth from one website to another? I smell a conspiracy about this 'johnisdead.com' :ugeek:"</span>
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This video begins with Tyler recording himself in his room at night.
<span class="vip2">nocta 1:46 PM: "It was some asshole messing with us. I'd suggest letting it go."</span>
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<span class="vip3">yuukichan 1:52 PM: "I'm gonna fight them (ง •̀_•́)ง"</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "So hey. It's been a while. Probably about a... year? I don't know... Yeah, about a year- a little over a year. Since, uh... I've been involved in any way with this YouTube channel."</span>
<span class="vip4">NotAHoax_M12 2:03 PM: "I'd be scared of whoever you try to fight, Yuuki."</span>
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Dense 4:34 PM: "|...by which a new vessel' may then be obtained. The flesh must be made weak. the mind must be made weary. the upon one who ye hath chosen shall descend lunar wisdom. Exalt him upon the hour of choosing and then through worldly works father thine children anew.|=ll"
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Tyler is often seen squinting and rubbing his head as if he is having trouble remembering something.
Jos 4:47 PM: "Ok I join the fight to WHERE IS THE GUY *starts throwing punchs into the air*"
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<span class="vip">moonman31 7:15 PM: "Shut up Hoax"</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "And... I've just decided to come check it out because if there's still one thing I can remember it's that today's, uh... kind of an impactful day on my life, and... in some ways this YouTube channel is involved... it just crossed my mind to come check it. And... I suddenly see I have like 14,000 subscribers, I was never expecting that, I'm- I'm a little shocked, I'm a little concerned, confused... I don't know why. I... really don't know why I have so many subscribers. I don't- I don't know where this has all come from or why there, I guess, why you're all mostly from South America, I'm not sure why that is, either. But... I guess I should start with introducing myself. Again. Or... maybe for the first time, I don't know. Hello, my name's Tyler. I, uh, started this channel I think... first upload was... two, maybe three years ago. It's really kinda hard to remember. First upload was a video of me and John and, uh... Kevin..."</span>
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A very faint image of Regiminis can be seen on the screen. Tyler takes a long time attempting to remember Kevin. His memory seems to be deteriorating.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "This YouTube channel's mainly- its main purpose was just I- I... I wanted to archive some old videos of just friends before my life, you know, just started turning into shit. And I don't mean to soapbox, I mean... actually, that's exactly what I mean to do because that's what this channel is for to begin with in a way... Just me bitching about my life, a kind of video diary... Not like very orderly kept or anything, but you know, just uh... Just my thoughts. My thoughts from my- my very... sometimes complicated, sometimes not-so-complicated mind. It wasn't ever really meant to be a show or anything. And... I guess there's been some weird happenings in my life..."</span>
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Tyler has a pained look on his face as he appears to be reminiscing.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "...And I mean really weird. Really hard to explain."</span>
Moonman questions the logistics of Johnisdead.com redirecting bandwidth from Astralobservatory.net.
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The video cuts ahead. Tyler is now looking at his monitor.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "...But, uh, let me try to organize my thoughts here. Um... last year something happened to me. I'm... pretty sure in the month of June."</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "I don't know if I got in some kind of accident... I... don't remember if it involved a break in or.. it- a- some person at all. I... don't really remember anything. I don't remember if it had anything to do with the people stalking me. It probably did. Those people, but... I was injured and I was in a coma, and I was in that coma up until a little bit after New Year of this year. I guess I woke up on January 1st. And... I've been having a really hard time remembering my life before that even happened, I mean, it's- it's not like anything crazy, it's not anything really crazy, like I can still remember my name, I like obviously remembered how to get back to my house. I remember, like, key details of my life. I remember John. I remember, uh... I guess I think I had a girlfriend at some point, um... I think... Um..."</span>
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Tyler continues rubbing his head.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "I remember those people. Who they hell were they... The... something children. I don't know... The, uh, the... Sky? Space? Moon... Lunar? The Lunar Children? And I mean they never formally introduced themselves, they just kinda started invading my life. I'm... to assume it had something to do with, uh, the disappearance of Kevin, and uh... maybe John's death, I don't know. I've just been having a hard time remembering really anything. You know, finer details. I feel like a lot's happened in the last few years, but I- at the same time, I can't be sure, because... I can't remember. Makes me kinda glad that I have these videos, but looking through these videos it just kinda fucks with me more because... there's a lot of weird shit happening in the videos that I really don't remember, and then in some situations I'm... looking desperately for videos that I was sure were there, but they're- they're not."</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "...Life's been good for me though for the past year. I haven't seen those, uh... those cultish people that literally kidnapped me at a point. I haven't had any run ins with, uh... the police, which is a blessing, because..."</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "I mean... I probably look like a sociopath saying this, but I- I know they're working with them... some of them, maybe all of them, I don't know. I'm- I'm blessed that even though I live in this town, I live pretty far off the grid, so I mean I don't have to be right up in their, uh... right up in their domain, I suppose. Probably a bit of a pain in the ass for them to, uh, get involved even if they can or want to anymore, I don't know. I don't know what's happened, it's almost seemed like they've died off..."</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "But... You know... Something just doesn't sit right with me. It's... not like I forgot about this YouTube channel all together just because, you know, I forgot things. I still remembered, in some aspects, this YouTube channel. And, for about a year I'd been avoiding it, and for sensible reasons. A lot of shit's happened in my life. If you've paid attention to anything on the channel I've- I've been stalked, uh... some evil shit has gone down in my life, so you know, I don't really feel comfortable uploading every day, but... It's been rattling around in my brain you know, the uh... the memory of John and the disappearance of Kevin, and... I think about it more and more, and... while I never really got any answers, you know it was a hostage situation, I don't really have a full explanation in my own mind as to how I even got the hell out of that, but uh..."</span>
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Tyler takes another long pause.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "I can't help but think... maybe this is somehow connected to John and Kevin. You know, against my better judgement I've decided to just get on this YouTube channel, and I guess just bitch about it. Bitch about my life. Bitch about how I miss my friends, I miss having a life. I mean, I shouldn't say I miss having a life, it's not like I don't have a life. Since I woke up I, uh, I've been having the most peace I've probably had in a long time. No, uh, no need to look over my shoulder 24/7, uh, no need to, uh... constantly look out my windows. Yeah, I got tinfoil on my window over there, but I mean it kinda at this point... I know I put it up a long time ago out of, uh... paranoia of being watched, but now it's just, you know... now it's just kind of a comfort thing, you know? Leave it up because, you know, it feels nice. No light coming in and hitting me in the face in the morning when I wake up, you know? But, uh... I don't know. I haven't really wanted to say this to myself... I wouldn't really say I've been an atheist necessarily at any point in my life. Uh, I know- I know John was, but uh... Some magic shit has definitely gone on in my God... God... Some magic shit has definitely gone on in... in my life during all of this shit... and I've seen some things that I frankly just don't know how to put into words for anyone on camera right now, or even to myself... And sometimes I feel like... I don't know. I feel like... Maybe I'm... this is all happening to me because I'm like fucking chosen or some shit, and I mean that sounds, now, that sounds really conceited, I guess. I don't mean chosen like I'm something fucking special, but like I'm chosen by something nasty. Something fucked has business with me. It would explain, you know, why what seems to be a, uh, cult has become very particularly obsessed with my life. I mean, there was a point where I thought you know, maybe you know, just... just cult things, just you know, wanna fucking find somebody and sacrifice them to whatever personal fucked deity that we have, uh, constructed for ourselves. But... I've managed to be lucky enough, you know, I haven't... haven't died, and it seemed like they were going through, you know, a lot of stalking, a lot of bullshit to get me, but... in retrospect, if all they wanted was to just kill someone or fuck with someone or abduct someone, they could have switched to somebody a little more accessible. Somebody who's not all the way out in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere in the woods, away from everything. But they didn't. They... seemed to be obsessed with me for years. And I don't know why. I do know whatever the fuck they're fucking with... it's real. When I was in a coma I had this dream, and... they don't want me to remember... They don't want me to remember anything, uh... Faceless... What am I talking about? I- I, uh... What was I talking about? Um... Fuck. Uh... Uh... when I woke up, I yeah, I just remembered, when I woke up I had this necklace, and I don't remember anything about this, I... it's weird because I remember something about a necklace, but I don't remember this at all."</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "This... bullet. I know I used to have a gun at some point, or... maybe I wanted one. I'm- I definitely would have wanted one, but... I don't remember having a gun that would hold bullets like this. But, uh... it's like a bullet keychain, I don't know what it is or where it came from. I don't think it's- it was mine, or maybe it was I guess, because I woke up with it around my neck... And I haven't been, like, wearing this thing forever, since I- since I woke up. I don't know why I felt the need to specify that... Yeah, yeah I've been taking it off and stuff and, uh..."</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "But what did I receive in the mail? What? From the postman, uh, what, uh... the suitcase... I had a suitcase, uh... I had a suitcase?"</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "...Where did that suitcase go?"</span>
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Tyler speaks directly to the audience for the first time in over a year. He gives a general update on how his life has been the past year.
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Tyler claims that he got into some sort of accident in June of 2016 and was in a coma up until January 1st of 2017. His memory is worse than ever and he is having trouble remembering many details.
 
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Tyler mentions that he now has a bullet necklace. He isn't sure where it came from - only that he woke up with it already around his neck after recovering from his coma.
 
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Tyler remembers receiving the briefcase containing the camera from Helper, but he isn't sure where it went.  
 
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Board - "<b>The Truth</b>" - "<span class="canquote">Only those chosen may enter here; the greatest truths that only the ready minds are capable of discussing are within here; to access you will need to belong to the 'Believers' usergroup or above</span>"
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Description: "<span class="canquote">Meant to upload this yesterday but had some problems and was not feeling too great either'Edit: I dont know who you people are but I am going to make the poor assumption you hold no ties with that cult. I dont know how to speak spanish and I dont think google translate is very reliable so I am sorry I cant really communicate with all of you but assuming you are here because you are on some level concerned, thanks I guess. Ill be uploading more soon when I can get my thoughts together more clearly to try and sift through all of this shit.</span>"
 
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Tags: "<span class="canquote">You have forgotten, But you still remember, The USB, Find it</span>"
 
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At 2:00 AM, players discovered that the videos "Taking a walk" and "Waiting.wmv" had been privated on YouTube.
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At 9:20 PM, the player CircleHunter discovered that the video "Paranoid knocking" had been renamed to "<b>did you think I would just vanish?</b>" and now featured Regiminis as its thumbnail.
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At 9:20 PM, the player CircleHunter discovered that the videos ".", "3", "5646", "Regiminis", "calling john", "stuck at work", and "found a cool thing and now i am gonna go to work i guess" had all been privated on YouTube.
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<h2>November 15th, 2017</h2>
 
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At 2:30 PM, the player Wolfcat created a thread titled "<i>What's up, spookboys</i>", introducing himself to the Astral Observatory members. Several of them replied to this thread:  
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At 10:19 PM, players discovered that the video "5646" had been renamed "<b>Its Tyler</b>" and its description now read "<span class="canquote">YOU MUST KEEP MOVING TYLER. DO NOT LET YOU WHO. WE ARE LATE FOR SOMEONES BIRTHDAY. HAPPYBIRTHDAYBEN</span>".
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At 11:51 PM, players discovered that the description of the video "5646" now read "<span class="canquote">Whats a few more moments to the man from the dawn of time? Who am I? The liar? The child? The Governor? The first son? The liars body?</span>".
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At 11:59 PM, players discovered that the description of the video "5646" now read "<span class="canquote">You know who you are.</span>".
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<h2>November 16th, 2017</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 12:02 AM, players discovered that the description of the video "5646" now read "<span class="canquote">I am not safe in my home</span>".
 +
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<li>
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At an unknown time, players discovered that the tags of the video "I am not safe in my home" now read "<span class="canquote">Daniel was a short lived tool, so many have I used. Closer closer and closer</span>" and the description read "<span class="canquote">Who is he?</span>".
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<li>
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At 1:00 AM, the player Eve asks if Patrem is responsible for the recent YouTube video changes.
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<li>
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At an unknown time, the player Eve's Discord message is responded to with an eggplant emoji reaction. {{#simple-tooltip-img: http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/a/ae/Lens.png | On Discord, users can "react" to each other's messages with emoji's. These emoji reactions appear below their posts.}}
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<li>
 +
At 1:09 AM, players discovered that the video "I am not safe in my home" now contains new closed captions. These captions read as follows: "<span class="canquote">They want you to forget over and over stalling tactics. but what is a few more moments to us. Why did you do that Daniel? He was not supposed to see you! We see. Regiminis is not ready to be brought to him yet we are not ready. Impatient. I flick the domino. Awaken. You know who you are</span>".
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<li>
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At 1:23 AM, players discovered that the description of the video "I am not safe in my home" now read "<span class="canquote">Children forum notes</span>". {{#simple-tooltip-img: http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/a/ae/Lens.png | This message was originally an unknown cipher.<br />- Solved by Unknown (11/16/17)}}
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<li>
 +
At 2:10 AM, players discovered that the description of the video "I am not safe in my home" had returned to normal, except it now contained out-of-place capitalized letters that spell out "<b>SPIRK</b>" - the username of the player Spirkiroid.
 +
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 +
<li>
 +
At an unkonwn time, players contacted the player Spirkiroid, who still had the Lunar Children Forums downloaded. This resulted in them rediscovering who Daniel was - the Lunar Child who spied on Tyler.
 +
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 +
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<h2>March 4th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
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<li>
 +
At 7:17 PM, the player ARGdov discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "<b>ERROR</b>" and contained an image of the elegy statue along with a text box from the game "Chrono Trigger" that read "<span class="canquote">Enemies will attack even if you’re not ready!</span>" titled "<b>ERROR.png</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/4/49/Error.png|target=_blank]]</span> This page featured audio of a man laughing titled "<b>awaken.ogg</b>".
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 +
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 +
<h2>April 23rd, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
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<li>
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At 4:45 PM, the player ZenCoder discovered that the front page of Lunarchildren.com featured a post from a user named "<b>TheArchiveGuy</b>".
 
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<b>
 
<b>
10/31/18 - "What's up, spookboys" - Wolfcat
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4/23/18 - "Update" - Lunarchildren.com
 
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
Wolfcat 2:30 PM: "I stumbled across this place while looking up some rad music from Majora's Mask. I expected this place to be some sort of Zelda fan-board so I was a bit surprised to see people talking about aliens and stuff, lol. That's good, though. I've always been interested in listening to theories and stuff on YouTube, even ones that people say are a bit "out there" like the hollow Earth and hollow Moon stuff. Anyways, yeah, I'll probably stick around a bit, so what's up guys."
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<span class="vip">April 23, 2018 by TheArchiveGuy
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 2:34 PM: "Very cool, someone new! Welcome friend. You will get used to the crazy lot that tends to lurk this place, and you will definitely learn a thing or two!"</span>
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Update
<span class="vip2">moonman31 2:35 PM: "salutations newf-... newfriend."</span>
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"You may not know me, and that is fine. I am the current owner of this website “Lunar Children”. Some of my friends knew people a part of this cult. I wish to help them out by reconstructing this website. I discovered this server in a fishery that had no power. Hell, the system must of been running on battery power or something. Wires were coming out of the ground connecting to the server room. I must of done something wrong cuz as soon as I got the server home, most of the files were lost or encrypted. I also linked another domain to this one by the name of “johnisdead.com” which also acted strange once I got this server home… It’s been a long day, just finding this thing was a hassle. I will post the encrypted files here for anyone to solve. I see am getting some traffic, so if anyone is able to solve anything, send me an email to “pididoip@johnisdead.com”. I will be uploading some files once I get my Internet working better. fucking 10 MBPs right now…"</span>
<span class="vip3">yuukichan 2:38 PM: "WELCOOOME~"</span>
 
Jos 4:44 PM: "Yeah me too, me too, i'm new, I been waiting for the forums to come back online so I could tell you guys about me lol."
 
<span class="vip4">nocta 5:56 PM: "Welcome, detective."</span>
 
 
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<ul>
 
<li>
 
<li>
The Astral Observatory members welcome the new players with open arms.
+
<b>TheArchiveGuy</b> is someone who has recovered the Lunar Children servers from the fishery. He claims he is reconstructing the site because he had friends who knew people who were once members of the cult.
 +
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 +
<li>
 +
TheArchiveGuy mentions that he is also in possession of Johnisdead.com.
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
Nocta refers to the player Jos as "detective", implying that he knows of the Internet Detectives player group.
+
TheArchiveGuy mentions that many of the files on the site are corrupted. He asks the players to email him at the Johnisdead.com Pididoip email address.
 
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<ul>
 
<li>
 
<li>
At 4:20 PM, the player Jos created a thread titled "<i>Hehe how funny...</i>", sharing a strange "Princess Peach" fetish video he found online.  
+
At an unknown time, players began emailing the Pididoip account hoping to contact TheArchiveGuy.
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 +
<li>
 +
At 5:32 PM, players received a response from the Pididoip account. TheArchiveGuy says the following: "<span class="canquote">I will be uploading the files directly on lunarchildren.com. so wait for them there. Did you know anything at all about the cult? Are you a member or something?</span>" <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/34/Josemail.png|target=_blank]]</span>
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At 6:02 PM, players discovered that Tyler had uploaded a new video to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "<b>The usual</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXGvPw9oNlk|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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</li>
 
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<b>
 
<b>
10/31/18 - "Hehe how funny..." - Jos
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4/23/18 - "The usual" - YouTube (Silentdork)
 
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</b>
 
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
Jos 4:20 PM: "<nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZEs5JPe1A</nowiki> this is funny, isn't it.-.. heheh"
+
The video begins with Tyler looking at his computer screen.
Wolfcat 4:26 PM: "Oh no..."
+
 
<span class="vip">moonman31 7:17 PM: "You are on some weird shit friend"</span>
+
<span class="vip">Tyler: "You know... I remember reading that this day is supposed to be important to those fucking people."</span>
 +
 
 +
He pulls the camera away from the screen. We see that he is viewing the Lunar Children website and Johnisdead.com.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "It has something to do with, like... one of their fucking kids dying or some shit. Ben? ...Any information on anything regarding these people is so scattered all over the fucking place. And no matter how hard I try to focus I still feel like I'm under some kind of trance... Like, my mind is just really... hazy. ...Oh, something I just remembered that I should say before it leaves my brain again. You might not believe it because I didn't bring my camera with me because that was before I got my new phone. I have a new phone, by the way. But, I went walking in the woods one more time and I found that fishery again. But... it was empty. The... homeless black guy or whatever wasn't there anymore, and... I remember a while back- before this time there was one other time I went there, I didn't have my camera then, either. But... I went there and there was like this big stack of fucking computers in a room that I couldn't get into before because there was too much shit falling down, but I got in there... and there's just a big stack of like computers... like, machines and shit and... some of them were on... like, on beeping and flashing but not plugged into anything, just the cords were like running into the fucking dirt... I didn't bother digging, obviously, but... There's no cords of really any kind- there is a power line running by the building but it doesn't hook into anything, it's just passing through the woods heading over to like actual civilization. That's just... weird. It's just, fucking... the cords just go into the ground. It's fucking weird... But I went back, though, and those weren't there either. I-I mean, I'm not a fucking computer wizard or anything, but... were those, like, the fucking servers for this shit? Lunarchildren.com? And... My-best-friend-is-dead? Oh, and somebody messaged me this link a while back. Or emailed me or something, I don't fucking know, I can't remember anymore, which is depressing because I think that that was literally just yesterday."</span>
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 +
Suddenly a loud bang is heard as if someone threw something at Tyler's house.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "God fucking damn it..."</span>
 +
 
 +
Text briefly appears on the screen:
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 +
<span class="vip2">"key592"</span>
 
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<li>
Moonman claims that the player Jos is "<span class="canquote">on some weird shit</span>".
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Tyler remembers that April 23rd is an important date for the Lunar Children. He is also seen visiting the Lunar Children website, indicating that he is becoming more knowledgeable of the cult.
 
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<ul>
 
 
<li>
 
<li>
At 4:53 PM, the player Jos created a thread titled "<i>What are your thoughts about visitors?</i>", asking for opinions on aliens.
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Tyler mentions that he visited the fishery again and found the servers. He then visited the fishery for a second time and noticed that the servers were missing. This was because they had already been recovered by TheArchiveGuy by that time.
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Tyler hears a loud bang coming from outside his house and the video ends.
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
</ul>
 
</ul>
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<p style="display:inline;">
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<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
<b>
 
10/31/18 - "What are your thoughts about visitors?" - Jos
 
</b>
 
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 
Jos 4:53 PM: "One thing is clear, the universe is so big and vast that saying they don't exist would be ridiculous in the eyes of stadistics I don't think we are the first intelligent species, and I don't think there is not a only planet out there in the life zone of a star. What are your thoughts, you think they came to observe us, or they are contacting the biggest gov in secret? or there is no aliens near our star?"
 
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 5:13 PM: "There are absolutely visitors in our midst brother. You are simply opening your eyes to the grand conspiracy that the US Government has been trying to hide our entire lives: They're here. They're among us. And they are in control."</span>
 
Jos 5:17 PM: "Everyone needs to open the eyes and fight them, they cannot hide forever, humans will gain true independence from these unknown creatures!"
 
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 5:19 PM: "That is the struggle we fight brother"</span>
 
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<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 
 
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<div class="fadediv"></div>
 
<ul>
 
<ul>
 
<li>
 
<li>
The player Jos brings up the topic of aliens. NotAHoax chips in, claiming that aliens are indeed real and that the United States government is keeping their existence a secret.
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Description: "<span class="canquote">YOU ALL HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS USE IT</span>"
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Tags: "<span class="canquote">5646</span>"
 
</li>
 
</li>
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</ul>
 
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</div>
 
<ul>
 
<ul>
 
<li>
 
<li>
At an unknown time, the player Dense's post in the "Johnisdead.com" thread which contained the translated description of the video "J J S K K N V G H" was edited by Nocta. The contents from the post were completely removed and replaced with "<span class="canquote">.</span>".  
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At 6:42 PM, players discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. This page now contained a link to another page - "<b><span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://johnisdead.com/key592/</nowiki></span>control</b>".  
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
At 5:16 PM, Nocta sent the user Dense a PM on the Astral Observatory forums which read "<span class="canquote">I would stop while you are ahead.</span>".  
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At 6:42 PM, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - <b><span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://johnisdead.com/key592/</nowiki></span>control</b>". This page contained an image board where players and characters alike could post images and messages. Unfortunately, nothing from this image board was archived.
 
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</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
At 5:48 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that a new announcement had been posted on the front page of Astralobservatory.net titled "<b>New users</b>".  
+
At 10:40 PM, players discovered that Tyler had uploaded a new video to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "<b>Unusual</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G678FzQ3OPc&feature=emb_title|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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<b>
 
<b>
10/31/18 - Announcement - Astralobservatory.net
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4/23/18 - "Unusual" - YouTube (Silentdork)
 
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
<span class="vip">New users
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This video begins with Tyler filming outside.
October 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
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As the forums come back online, and while our previous users find my previous post and continue to rejoin, there is something I would like to address: new users
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "It's funny because I was just getting ready to record a video, actually. And... I was just going to talk about... try- I was just going to try to clear my thoughts, just try to collect everything together for the first time in my life, everything nice and organized... just... my- my understanding now on... the Lunar Children and everything based on these books I've been going through and public records and shit, and... you know, I feel like this has happened before to me, actually. I'm sitting there minding my own fucking business and... something hits the wall of my house, and I'm... I'm assuming it was this!"</span>
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 +
Tyler pans the camera over a bucket lid on the ground.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "But you know, it's fine. It's fine. I've had people in my yard before."</span>
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 +
Tyler pulls a knife out and begins walking through his yard.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "I feel like this exact... this exact thing has happened to me before... in fact I think I might even have it on video, I don't know."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler walks up to an old white truck that's sitting in his yard.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "...But nothing on my truck. Or... that guy's truck. ...Wait... what the fuck is that?"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler sees an orange 'Detour' sign sitting in the woods.
  
We have always been a lightly secluded gathering of folk, but we have always embraced new users and brought them into the fold; there is, however, a small influx of users joining that are related to ‘johnisdead’.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "What now? And more importantly, who? The Mathew guy? SKM? That, uh... the fucking Patrem guy? John-"</span>
  
I suppose I knew this would happen, and there’s only one way to address. Welcome them, teach them, and embrace them… with one eye open.
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The video stutters and turns green when Tyler says John's name.
  
These users will be placed into the ‘Internet Detectives’ usergroup as they are identified (that name is what they already call themselves in other parts of the internet).
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "Kevin?"</span>
  
Keep lips sealed on certain subjects. Stay wary.
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Tyler begins walking up to the sign. As he gets closer a low sound can be heard. He begins walking away from it.
  
Change their minds.</span>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "No... I'm- I'm not fucking with it right now."</span>
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Tyler walks away from the sign but somehow ends up right in front of it once again.
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<div class="summary">
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "...I said I'm not fucking with it right now."</span>
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
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<div class="fadediv"></div>
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He walks away from the sign only to once again appear right in front of it.
<ul>
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<li>
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "Wait... What do you want!? I'm not fucking fucking with it right now, I said."</span>
Nocta addresses the players joining the forums. He tells the other users to welcome the players, but to keep an eye on them and not reveal any secretive information.
 
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<li>
 
Nocta seems willing to indoctrinate the players rather than outright banning them.
 
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<li>
 
At 5:57 PM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had changed. The page was now titled "<b>The timer (won’t) reset</b>" and contained an image of a moon with occasional flashes of a smiling face appearing titled "<b>infinitecycle.gif</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/d/de/Infinitecycles.gif|target=_blank]]</span> This page also contained the audio "<b>brokencycles.ogg</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:listen.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/4/4b/Brokencycles.ogg|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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<li>
 
At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had changed. The page appeared exactly the same, but the audio file had changed from "brokencycles.ogg" to "<b>brokencycles.mp3</b>". Despite the different file extension, these two tracks were exactly the same.
 
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<li>
 
At 10:24 PM, players discovered that Tyler had uploaded a new video the Silentdork YouTube channel - "<b>experiments</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbR73XqQC6s|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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10/31/18 - "experiments" - YouTube (Silentdork)
 
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This video begins with Tyler recording outside his house. He approaches the "Detour Sign" and begins speaking.
 
  
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Tyler again tries walking away only to come upon the sign once more.
  
Tyler: "Hey, everybody. So, it's been a little while since my last video, not counting the, uh... that- that... that thing that got uploaded. I mean... I don't really know what to say about that, 'cause I mean by now I'm just kinda numb to the concept of shit getting uploaded to my channel that was not uploaded by me. But, uh... Ow, shit, that's hot. Um... I wanted to do a video today, because if you remember this thing has just kinda popped into my life, and... I mean, it just looks like a fucking "Detour Sign" really, but... there are some strange properties this thing seems to have."  
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "...Alright, I've played this game before, fine."</span>
  
Tyler is now touching the "Detour Sign", inspecting it. While he's touching it, a strange, moaning sound is emitted from the sign and a faint corruption can be seen.
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He begins walking backwards while keeping his eyes on the sign.
  
Tyler: "And, uh... You know, I was doing all the, uh, the Lunar Children research. Uh, that's mostly dead-end stuff. A combination of dead-end stuff and scary stuff, because people don't react well whenever you bluntly ask about that kinda shit around here. But, uh... yeah, the "Detour Sign". Um... last video that, uh, I recorded myself and uploaded myself, um... it kinda seemed like the- this thing... there's a bug, get off me. Kinda seemed like this thing sorta causes you to teleport... And, uh... Yeah, not really sure how or why? Um... I am assuming though, whatever this is, it has something to do with, uh, the... the "magic bullshit" regarding that website. Uhh, "Johnisdead.com", which is down right now, by the way. Um... didn't mean for this to be like, uh, update vlog kinda thing, but uh..."
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "I've played this exact fucking game before, that is fine. It is fucking fine. You can't move me if I do this because that's not how your little stupid fucking game works. You can't move me if I do this. Oh yeah, that pisses you the fuck off, doesn't it?"</span>
  
The video cuts ahead.
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Some strange sounds are heard in the background as Tyler gets further away.
  
Tyler: "Shit, sorry. I-I guess standing too close to this thing for too long causes, uh... some kinda, like... I guess, like, device, uh... fuckery. ((Laughs)) But, uh, what was I saying... Oh yeah. Um..."
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "You can't fucking move me if I do this!"</span>
  
The video begins corrupting again.
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Tyler turns around and begins walking away. The video corrupts and he once again appears in front of the sign.
  
Tyler: "Anyways, I didn't mean for this to be, like, uh... talking about, like... every other thing in my life kinda vlog video, but uh... there's a couple of guys I've been in contact with. Um... Yeah, I should mention, uh, and I'm sure probably plenty of you already know Johnisdead.com and, uh, the Lunar Children website are both down. That's because, uh, this other guy is now kinda in charge of the thing."
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "God fucking damn it! (Laughs) ...What do you fucking want? What, do you want me to walk around it? What stupid fucking thing do you want me to do? What pointless fucking thing do you want me to fucking do? Do you need to fucking... stab it?"</span>
  
The video cuts once again.
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Tyler jabs the knife at the sign.
  
Tyler: "Jesus Christ, my phone. Okay, lemme just like, uh, get away from that thing. Uh... What was I saying, oh yeah. Um... this guy I've been in contact with- a couple of guys, actually. There's a guy named, uh, Jose... or, as he's called on the blog that's now down, uh, the "Archive Guy". Uh, I got in contact with him whenever I noticed that there were changes happening on the Lunar Children website that didn't seem culty. Um... all I really know about him is, uh, basically shit that he already said in his one blog post which is, uh, he's just got some friends who were friends of friends who had relatives, I guess, in the Lunar Children, and I guess there was like a big sorta cataclysmic event for them that occurred and they all disappeared, so these, like, people of distant relation are just trying to figure out what the fuck happened there and he's just their friend, and they don't know how to do fucking anything with computers so he's just kinda managing the salvaged network content off of the, uh... I guess, oddly enough, this, uh, server that was actually inside of that, uh... that old, rundown fishery. I don't know, anybody that pays attention I guess might remember I mentioned some computers that were there that seemed like they were actually working and turns out, hey they were actually working, and they were apparently actually hosting these websites. I don't know, maybe... maybe that's just news to me, and uh... some of you people out there somehow already knew that. But, uh, that's news to me and that's kinda fucking weird. Um... But yeah, right now they're offline because, uh, he's just having some financial issues - Jose. Um, I don't know if I'm supposed to be saying his real name, but, uh... He's just having some financial issues, so he can't manually host himself. Um... A little too much on his electric bill, I guess. But, uh... Yeah - that's basically what's going on with that. Um, he's just trying to, like, prune the content and, nice guy that he is, he said of course he'll be- I'll be first to be informed if he finds, like, anything new. Seeing as this- seeing the tie-in pretty close to me for a lot of weird reasons. Um... other guy I'm in contact with, uh..."
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "What do you want? (Sigh) Do I need to fucking touch it?"</span>
  
The video cuts once again as we can hear the "Detour Sign" moaning.
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As Tyler touches the sign the parallelos symbol appears and a scream is heard. Tyler realizes he is in a new location when he pulls the camera away from the sign. This new place has a lot of strange stuff sitting on the ground.
  
Tyler: "Damn, my fucking camera right now. But, anyways, um... Oh yeah, the guy - the other guy. Uh, Tony. Who... I met through the YouTube comment section, actually. I've - I've been making a handful of friends there, actually. A lot of them, uh, not like the most clear English speakers, but that's actually okay. But, uh... Yeah, uh, Tony... I guess wants to come hang out. I guess, uh... he said that he, like, has experience with the kinds of issues I'm dealing with here, whatever the fuck that means. But... You know, I've - I've been basically a hermit for about seven or so years, save for like associates with employees at jobs, so fuck it. I haven't, like, had any serious serious reason in the last year or so to believe I'm still actively being stalked by a cult, so why do I need to act like one of those like "targeted individuals" bastards. I wanna have friends, so you know, I'm just gonna let this Tony guy come on over. Maybe he wants to kill me, I don't know. I know nothing about this guy. He mentioned some shit about, like, some fucking Discord internet group he wants me to get involved in. I don't remember what he said it was called, uh... Really this is completely irrelevant and I'm kinda like rambling at this point because this whole video was actually just supposed to be me talking about this magical fucking construction sign that has just materialized in from Johnisdead.com world, and, uh... yeah. Let's, like, get back to what this was supposed to be about - this construction sign. Detour sign.
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "More of this shit... More of this shit. Thanks. Thanks. (Sigh) Fucking thank you."</span>
  
Tyler approaches the "Detour Sign". Strange moaning can be heard again. The video cuts ahead a bit.
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Tyler: "It seems to make you teleport..."
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "(Sigh) Thank you. I need a fucking smoke..."</span>
  
Tyler begins carrying the sign.
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Tyler pulls some cigarettes out of his pocket but can't get a good flame on his lighter.
  
Tyler: "Carrying it over here... One thing I've worked out is I guess, um... I don't know if it's limited to short distances, because last time I fucked with it, the damn thing - well, the last time I recorded myself fucking with it..."
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<span class="vip">Tyler: "Fuck this."</span>
  
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Tyler: "-here to, uh... over there, like... in front of my house. But, uh... I don't know if it's limited to short distances, I don't know if there's a way to, uh, control it. I - I kinda feel half fucking retarded because I mean it's - it's just a fucking construction sign. I'm talking about it like it's some kinda machine, but, uh... "Detour". I don't understand what this really means, like does it mean detour from where I'm currently at? ((Laughs)) Like... You wanna walk off somewhere else, you run into this - oh, detour to other area. That's basically what happened, but last time - the non-recorded time I touched it, uh... I basically set it up right where it's at right now, and... I went instantly from here to right around where that sunshine is at over there."
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Description: "<span class="canquote">Video I recorded about a week before the last one that came out all messed up in my phone and I could not get it to work. But I checked my phone today and suddenly it works now. Must be that Samhain magic I guess. I have not messed with the sign much more since that point. I have been waiting for that guy I hung out with last time to come back again so maybe I could try and see if he would like to help me try a few Ideas I have had with it. Also johnisdead.com seems to have come back since then, but Archive guy never emailed me or anything like he said he would. Not sure what the deal is with that but I assume he is probably just really busy. The cult main site is not back however and idk what the deal is with that.</span>"
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The parallelos symbol that appears as Tyler touches the "Detour Sign". <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/c/cd/Detour.png|target=_blank]]</span>
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At 10:35 AM, the player Wolfcat created a thread titled "<i>MKUltra</i>", asking about the MKUltra experiments.  
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Wolfcat 10:35 AM: "I thought MKUltra was just something related to that Polybius game, but apparently it goes much deeper than that. Have you guys seen the creepy shit with Nickelodeon stars like Amanda Bynes? <nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65T9LRBZHw</nowiki>"
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Jos 11:02 AM: "Mkultra was fucking real i told you, old friends of mine went missing. If i were a gov, i dont see a reason to no start MKultra again when no one is watching."
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<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 12:31 PM: "It's all connected my brother. MK Ultra is the mind control program the government initiated to gain an edge on the communists and Vietcong, technology given to them by their OTHERWORDLY MASTERS"</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Oh shit, this has started. What's up everybody. I look- I look like shit. Uh... I'm starting up this new vlog channel as like a sub-channel to my normal one. I don't really know what I'm doing with it yet, um... I just figured it'd be cool to start something new in my life that's creative or at least keeping me entertained because I don't have internet right now except for the mobile data on my phone. I just moved into a new apartment, um... I'm really into it, uh, I got new roommates and all my shit is set up except for the fact that the place looks like garbage and I'll show you that in a second, but that's just because I've been lazy and really haven't put everything together yet. (Coughs) Uh, I guess I'll give you a little sneak peek at the place and uh hopefully from now on I'll be doing, uh... fairly regular uploads about my life and what's going on and keeping in touch and- holy shit I need to trim this beard... Alright."</span>
Jos 12:45 PM: "I've nerver seen them again, all people around me just were like they were never there or they didn't ever exist, I KNOW MY FRIENDS WERE AND ARE REAL I AM NOT CRAZY."
 
 
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At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Greth Vlogs 2</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvIHtVOfLxk|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">October 31st, 2018</span>
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This video begins with Greth giving a tour of his room.
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<span class="vip">Greth: "As, uh... As I mentioned, here's my room. It's a little messy right now because I haven't got a whole lot of shit really put together. There's the girlfriend's Xbox. My poor PS4 is like... in the fucking closet here."</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Um, yeah, it's just uh- it's a pretty sick place. Got my pet guinea pig named Hella Jeff hanging down there. Got all my Blu-rays and shit over here. There's probably a lot of fan interference in the audio, that's okay."</span>
  
<i>moonman31 1:46 PM: "So let's get down to brass and talk about it, and this seemed like the most appropriate section. How does someone redirect bandwidth from one website to another? I smell a conspiracy about this 'johnisdead.com' :ugeek:"
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Greth walks through the hallway and begins showing some other rooms.
nocta 1:46 PM: "It was some asshole messing with us. I'd suggest letting it go."
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yuukichan 1:52 PM: "I'm gonna fight them (ง •̀_•́)ง"
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Got my bathroom up in here. I like to light incense because my shit smells."</span>
NotAHoax_M12 2:03 PM: "I'd be scared of whoever you try to fight, Yuuki."
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Dense 4:34 PM: "."
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Jos 4:47 PM: "Ok I join the fight to WHERE IS THE GUY *starts throwing punchs into the air*"
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moonman31 7:15 PM: "Shut up Hoax"</i>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "I'm out of my room. Here's, like, the place. Uhh, Matt's in there, leave him alone. Here's the kitchen... You know, I mean... it's cool, I do a lot of shit in here. Um, there's our living room. We haven't really set it up. This is mostly my stuff, I'm a horrible, horrible roommate who hasn't put anything away... uh, with my bookshelf, actually. Up here you can see there's a lot of shit on it already. We got our own patio set up, and here's my favorite part - give me a sec..."</span>
Jos 7:48 PM: "Moonman, be nice."
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<span class="vip">Greth: "So, we're back at the front door which is actually by my room. Umm, my room's right... right there. And behind that..."</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Sorry for the darkness, give me a second..."</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Ba-boom. Ba-boom... Ba-boom. We got the garage, and that's my car. What's up. I've never had my own garage before, that's exciting I guess. We got the weird clown table as I call it that we're going to maybe repaint... I don't know. We got this TV stand that we have to take upstairs. I've got a lot of shit on this too because, again, I'm terrible. You got some chairs out here that we're actually probably going to leave here. Washer, dryer- the works."</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Uhh, we're back in my room now. I have not showered yet today, sorry I look like shit. Uh, just thought I'd give a little intro to what's going on in my life and... I don't know, maybe next time on video I won't look so crappy. I was up till 4am talking to Tyler. Um... Yeah, that's the place... and I'll keep you guys posted about stuff that's going on, and... What I'm gonna be doing and if anything interesting happens, and uh... Hopefully I'll make another one of these soon. Maybe a little more interesting than this one. I look like fuck... Alright, guys. See you around."</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Hey guys, I uh just took a shower and trimmed my beard. Uh, I guess I just wanted to make a clarification of purpose of this channel here, um... The main reason I'm doing it is not, uh... (Coughs) To expect any sort of, like, long-term viewership, or... anything really worth mentioning. Hold on, I'm get- trying to get this movie started so I can watch it after I finish this video. Uhh... fuck, hold on a second. (Laughs)"</span>
  
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">November 1st, 2018</span>
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Another video cut forward.
  
Wolfcat 10:16 AM: "You guys haven't had any connections to Johnisdead in the past? Like, you guys didn't piss off any spooky deep web people, did you? I mean you guys don't really seem like the type that'd go out and anger anyone purposefully. Well, except for Moonman, but he seems to do it in an endearing way."
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Okay. (Laughs) Uh, I think I fixed that. Anyways, um... A major clarification of purpose here is that, uh, I don't except any sort of long-term viewership from these videos. I just wanted to, um... Really give myself and outlet where I could speak my mind and just kind of... not necessarily be creative but just give myself an outlet, because... Um, I'm going through a pretty stressful time with this whole move and like... a lot of big changes in my life, and... most of them have been positive... but it can still really... you know, uh, rack your brain. I don't know how to process new things sometimes and even though I've been living in this apartment now for... about a week, um... I'm not really entirely sure where this, uh... where this adventure is going to take me. God, I'm fucking fat. But I hope that, uh... Sorry, still trying to get my movie set up. I hope that, uh, you know maybe you guys will be interested in what I have to say and kinda showing you what I'm doing on the daily... Not literally everyday, I can't imagine I'll remember to do this everyday. But, um... Maybe I'll be interested enough in what I've got to say and what I'm doing with my life that... maybe I'll have a regular viewership amongst my friends at least. Um... I'll catch you guys on the flipside there. I'm about to watch a movie I like, uh, before work. Umm, what'd I do with the case... Ah, here it is. It's um... The Man Who Fell To Earth with David Bowie... It's, uh... actually a Japanese print because, uh... this movie was very expensive to get in English at one point and it has English audio, so there's no reason not to just get a Japanese copy. I'm getting off-topic... See you all later. Peace."</span>
<span class="vip">moonman31 12:26 PM: "You are learning fast"</span>
 
<span class="vip2">NotAHoax_M12 12:33 PM: "No, this john is dead website is new to us. I am convinced it is controlled by some otherworldly force to stop US from SPREADING OUR TRUTHS"</span>
 
Jos 1:03 PM: "May I hear from those Truths too? I want to learn."
 
<span class="vip3">yuukichan 1:12 PM: "Stick around and you will find out!!"</span>
 
<span class="vip4">nocta 1:40 PM: "I don't like where this thread is headed. Locking."</span>
 
 
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At 12:34 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "<i>Idk if this happened to you guys...</i>" created by the player Jos on October 31st, 2018.
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">October 31st, 2018</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Hey guys. I, uh, decided to make one last part to this introductory video. I know, I keep saying goodbye and then not fucking doing it... But, uh... Decided that it'd be interesting, maybe, if since you kinda saw my new place for the first time... I go check out my old room at my parent's house where I was for quite a while. It's not the only place I've lived in my life, in fact it's... I didn't even live there too long in retrospect, but... A lot of you kinda know that room. Especially if you talked to me on Skype and Discord back in the day, uh, during the uh... major stuff that was happening with... the website and stuff. You probably remember I had a clicky-ass fan. Whenever I would talk on Skype it would be like:"</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "And everyone would get fucking annoyed at me. That's not going to be a problem anymore, obviously. Uh, but the other place, or the new place rather doesn't- doesn't have internet yet... and that means I would have to upload this video on mobile data and I don't really want to do that yet... and my parent's house isn't very far away so we're just gonna kinda take a little trip there to check out the old place. I wanna grab a few things that I needed that I still haven't grabbed from that house, and we're gonna... look at the old room. It's, uh, pretty much fucking empty now except for like a desk, but maybe it will be interesting to see that, I don't know."</span>
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Jos 6:08 PM: "But, let's imagine you are watching tv, and you divert your attention to your mobile phone or something else for like 5 minutes, and when you turn your attention back to the tv, it has switched channels without you noticing. I am crazy or something? It didn't happened recently but it happened several times."
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Fuck, this asshole won't move... We're good! Yay."</span>
  
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">November 1st, 2018</span>
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Wolfcat 10:47 AM: "I mean, I live in my Grandma's old ass house from the 1920's and I have't seen any ghosts yet. If anything, seeing signs that ghosts exist would be cool because that'd mean that there's something after death. It'd be comforting, especially if the ghosts were in your own home. They'd be family, essentially."
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Someone is listening to fucking Apple Bottom Jeans. In 2018. I think it's that guy."</span>
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 12:34 PM: "GHOSTS are the life force that separates us REAL HUMANS with souls from our ALIEN MASTERS..."</span>
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Jos 12:35 PM: "Yeah, you never had this feeling of... this is not the only reality but, idk, i feel on my own skin there is something more out there, idk, i want to know what it is..."
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<span class="vip2">moonman31 12:38 PM: "HOAX would convince you an egg sandwich was an alien conspiracy if he could."</span>
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Jos 12:40 PM: "Well, who knows if all life in Earth except humans was made by them just to test how we develop or something like that? then chickens would be alien origin."
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Auuuugh, did I make it? Did I make it? Yeah, fuck you."</span>
<span class="vip2">moonman31 12:43 PM: "Don't give Hoax any new ideas"</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "And here it is. It's all empty now... In case you've been a friend of mine for a long time on the internet you probably know I made a series called 979. A lot of that shit was shot right out back here... Um... There's my desk I still gotta move back. I'm not- I'm not doing that now. Here's the old bathroom... One fucking working light, of course. Uh... gross-ass shower. Fun fact, this might look a little familiar. This shower was also used in that series as like... a fucking replacement for a lab or something, I don't know. It was supposed to be a spooky video, so you couldn't really see much anyways. And you, uh, can see Link is still up there. I gotta take that bad boy down and take him with me. But that will happen soon enough. Umm, yeah. Uh, I guess I can open closets, but... Ugh, there's nothing in here I'm expecting. ...Yep. Okay, that is it."</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "I, uh, got what I came for. Uh, primarily tea from a company that no longer exists. Uh, so... those are going to be hard to replace but I figured I might as well use what I got left while I still got it. Goddamn, these camera angles are crazy, I'm sorry I'm just kinda moving while holding the phone. Um... For real now. I'm gone. See ya."</span>
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At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Greth Vlogs 4</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX6ZKrv-GTw|target=_blank]]</span>
 
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<span style="text-decoration:underline;">October 31st, 2018</span>
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<i>Jos 4:53 PM: "One thing is clear, the universe is so big and vast that saying they don't exist would be ridiculous in the eyes of stadistics I don't think we are the first intelligent species, and I don't think there is not a only planet out there in the life zone of a star. What are your thoughts, you think they came to observe us, or they are contacting the biggest gov in secret? or there is no aliens near our star?"
 
NotAHoax_M12 5:13 PM: "There are absolutely visitors in our midst brother. You are simply opening your eyes to the grand conspiracy that the US Government has been trying to hide our entire lives: They're here. They're among us. And they are in control."
 
Jos 5:17 PM: "Everyone needs to open the eyes and fight them, they cannot hide forever, humans will gain true independence from these unknown creatures!"
 
NotAHoax_M12 5:19 PM: "That is the struggle we fight brother"</i>
 
  
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">November 1st, 2018</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "So this is just a quick update. Um... I'm getting ready for work... Or actually I'm driving to work. Uh, you can see I've got my sweet Secret of Mana sweater on. (Laughs) Um... I guess, as I had to explain in the actual ID, um... Part of the reason I'm doing this is because it helps me feel closer to you guys regardless- regardless of whether you actually watch them or not, I feel like... I'm kinda reminding myself that I need to... interact with ID more. (Coughs) The Internet Detectives more because it's a community that kinda adopted me post-Within Hubris and it's a community I like a lot, and uh... I've been put in a position recently where, uh... I should not take said community for granted and I should really just be around... And I know this really has nothing to do with Discord or, like, moderating or whatever- any of that. But it just kind of helps me stay focused and, you know, have an outlet and let you guys know I'm here, I guess. Um, this is the quickest of updates... Not the hardest button to button, kinda the easiest one... but it was worth saying... and I love you guys, and I appreciate you guys... and I think that despite some vitriol that the group can kinda have towards itself sometimes that we have a long time together still of good times ahead. And... my hair is very long so I'm sorry if it's in my eyes. That's it. Bye."</span>
 
 
Wolfcat 1:35 PM: "Some say they're on our very moon, or maybe even living within it."
 
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 5:38 PM: "That is INTERESTING that you think that way. I have often wondered if they have a base somewhere within our SOLAR SYSTEM although I doubt it is THE MOON."</span>
 
Jos 5:42 PM: "You must think like them, best place? THE ASTEROID BELT around the solar system, the one between Mars and Jupiter, Thousands and thousands of asteroids there, impossible to detect."
 
 
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<h2>November 2nd, 2018</h2>
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At 7:22 PM, the player Jos discovered that Tyler was hosting a livestream on the Silentdork YouTube channel titled "<b>testing testing 123</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrmLLIO6Ri0&feature=emb_title|target=_blank]]</span>
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Hey guys, uh... I'm just making a quick video. Um... (Coughs) I uploaded another video, uh... but... I don't know what happened to it, so... I'm just making this to say that... sorry for the lack of whatever video was supposed to be up. Uh, it just... wasn't showing up. After I uploaded it I don't know what happened. Uh, it's a little weird. Um, but I'm not too concerned- it wasn't really much other than bullshit anyway, so... Sorry about that. We'll keep this going, though."</span>
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Description: "<span class="canquote">never live streamed before but some spanis hfriends pm'd me about a live stream or something so I thought "hey got some stuff to talk about why not live stream for the first time ever" this is a test however. Thought it was cute might delete later</span>"
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At 7:42 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that Tyler was hosting another livestream on the Silentdork YouTube channel titled "<b>First live stream: general talk</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBTqnGtI0GM&feature=emb_title|target=_blank]]</span>
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Description: "<span class="canquote">Not sure what happened to 5</span>"
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The figure holding the while mask: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/9/9e/Grethweird.png|target=_blank]]</span>
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<h2>May 5th, 2018</h2>
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At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Greth Vlogs 7</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf6Nvcotiac|target=_blank]]</span>
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5/5/18 - "Greth Vlogs 7" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
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This video begins with Greth recording himself in his car.
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<span class="vip">Greth: "Uh, shoot. I didn't realize I was recording already. Hey guys, what's going on. Uh... Some weird shit was happening last night. Uh, I don't really know what that was about. Um... I don't know what to say. I think it was probably just some kind of error. Um, I've been using my mobile phone right now exclusively. It's not even a great one, it's a Samsung, uh... Galaxy J7, not even an S7, so it's like not top of the line shit. Um, but... I'm on my break from work right now, just kinda taking a quick video to say that I wouldn't worry about whatever was going on last night. Um... I was having some pretty heavy conversation with Tyler the night before... Maybe I just don't remember making those- that video- it could be anything, honestly. Uh, that, uh... that whatever happened at the end of that video, I'm not too worried about it. Probably no big deal. Um, but I'm gonna keep up the v-logs, or vlogs- whatever you wanna call them. Uh, this is just a quickie to say that yes, I'm alive. Everything is fine, uh, I've been at work today so far. Uh, I will be here until tonight... even though I'm on break right now I'm going to fucking McDonalds like the horrible human being I am. And then, uh... hopefully I'll make another vlog or two by the end of the day. Probably just the one... other one for tonight. Um... but yeah, I'll keep in touch and everything's fine."</span>
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Greth assures the players that everything is fine. He brushes off the strange clip of the masked at the end of "Greth Vlogs 6(?)" as a glitch or some footage he forgot that he recorded.
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Description: "<span class="canquote">lmao I'm so tired</span>"
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At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "<b>heard something outside</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gIJy6L7LDQ|target=_blank]]</span>
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The video has a very glitchy beginning, looking somewhat similar to a VCR. Greth begins recording in his dark room. It sounds like something is knocking or rattling against his window.
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 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "...There's something out there."</span>
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 +
The video begins corrupting again. What appears to be a face can be briefly seen in the glitchy footage.
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 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "...Fucking heard it. Can't see shit..."</span>
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Description: "<span class="canquote">Not a vlog, kind of weirded out. I live in a condo complex so people come and go all the time, but this sounded like it was directly outside my window, and I live on the second floor.</span>"
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The strange glitchy face: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/8/8f/Something.png|target=_blank]]</span>
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<h2>May 6th, 2018</h2>
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At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Greth Vlogs 8</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG4vq6GJeLA|target=_blank]]</span>
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This video begins with Greth recording himself as he drives.
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<span class="vip">Greth: "What's up everybody, uh... Just finished another day of work. Still light out for once, holy shit. Umm, heading back to the apartment.... You know, I don't... Sorry, fixing my hair... I don't really know... I don't know what to say at this point, um... because I just feel like... something weird is going on... I- it could just be me. I think maybe it is just me. Um, I'm very nervous, I guess, about this new place. I've only been there for... uh, like two weeks or something, I guess, or a week and a half. So... I think maybe my, uh... jitters are just get- getting the better of me. Sorry about the fucking- blocking the camera, I'm just... Sometimes driving is like the easiest way to get this out because I don't have to focus on what I'm saying as much, I can just drive and go with it. But I feel like something weird is happening... but it's probably just me and it only seems to happen when I'm alone at night and not really... focusing on my surroundings, or... Ah, listen to me, I-I sound fucking crazy. Uhh, I don't know, there's nothing wrong with the apartment I'm just paranoid probably because of nerves, and I think... I'm playing into it, um... There's going to be a bunch of people over tonight both as kind of a housewarming and goodbye party for my... my buddy Ben is leaving for Orlando to go back to college, uh he's uh... gonna try to get into computer sciences and try to be a programmer. Ironically I'm thinking about getting certifications and getting into security, um... computer security, not... (Laughs) not a security guard. Because I can't do GameStop forever. Uh... (Sigh) I... there's just a lot of emotions right now... and, uh... especially without my uh partner, my girlfriend, with me... Uh, I'll be seeing her soon, but just going to that room every night alone is starting to become less enjoyable and more stressful and... (Sigh) I'm starting to wonder if there's just something wrong with me, honestly.... Uh... Yeah..."</span>
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Greth in the darkness: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/6/64/Darkgreth.png|target=_blank]]</span>
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<h2>May 7th, 2018</h2>
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At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>happy birthday</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GozXNKSpSx0|target=_blank]]</span>
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This video begins with a black screen. We hear a sound getting louder as a masked figure suddenly appears. Corruptions ensue as some text briefly flashes on screen:
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<span class="vip">"TIME IS UP"</span>
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<span class="vip">"WE KNOW YOUR SECRET"</span>
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A figure wearing a silver alien mask appears, claiming to know a secret that Greth is supposedly hiding. The players dub this entity "<b>The Watcher</b>".
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Description: "<span class="canquote">NOT ONLY IS THE ORIGIN OF MY THOUGHT UNKNOWN TO ME BUT THE ORIGIN OF MY MOVEMENTS IS EQUALLY HIDDEN I DO NOT KNOW WHY I EXIST</span>"
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The entity known as "The Watcher": <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/8/81/Whois.png|target=_blank]]</span>
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At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "<b>SKMRETURNS</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeH7vqWg5G8|target=_blank]]</span> {{#simple-tooltip-img: http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/a/ae/Lens.png | Half of this video's title was a keyboard shift, while the other half was a Caesar cipher.<br />- Solved by Unknown (4/29/20)}}
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"Can you hear me?"</span>
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<span class="vip">"Is this bloody thing working?"
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<div class="indented">
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Description: "<span class="canquote">Scarcely have we begun to acquire a little information when death arrives before we can put it to use.</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
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 +
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 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that the descriptions of both "SKMRETURNS" and "happy birthday" are excerpts from pieces written by the French author "<b>Voltaire</b>". This officially confirmed that Greth Vlogs was canon to Johnisdead.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>greth vlogģgghhghhhhhhhhhhhhggggģ</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxd-Fy5mpg|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
5/7/18 - "greth vlogģgghhghhhhhhhhhhhhggggģ" - YouTube (Silentdork)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins similar to a VCR. The entire video has a blue tint to it.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "(Sigh) So apparently somebody uploaded a YouTube video, um... to my channel. Um... I don't know how that happened. I'm really starting to get stressed out about this-"</span>
 +
 
 +
The video cuts to a shot of someone driving down a highway. It suddenly cuts again to one of Greth's videos that was used in Jadusable's ARG - 'SAVING ALEX.MP4'. The video corrupts a bit before cutting briefly to another one of Greth's old videos - 'NEWWAVEBOSSANOVA.MP4'. We are shown a brief image of "The Watcher" before the video cuts back to Greth. He says something but there is no audio. We are then shown a very brief clip of 'Unusual'
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth mentions the video "happy birthday", believing someone has hacked into his account.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
The video begins glitching out. "The Watcher" can once again be seen during these glitches.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
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 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Screenshots:</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
"The Watcher": <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/0/0d/Whois2.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth looking very tired: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/5/57/Ggh.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>May 8th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Greth Vlogs 9</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGpJk5cN3QY|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
5/8/18 - Greth Vlogs 8 - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with Greth recording himself in his room.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "Uh, hey everybody, uh... Just making a vlog because I did not make any vlogs yesterday, so uh... I figured today would be a good day to do that. Trying not to fall off the wagon. Uh, so to speak. Um, yeah. I'm feeling a lot better. Uhh, woke up today- I actually didn't get a lot of sleep at all. I- you can tell by the... circles under my eyes. But, uh... I'm actually feeling great. Today I... Again, sorry about the lack of videos yesterday. I didn't upload any... I just wasn't in the mood. I had to deal with a lot of stuff yesterday. Um, but, you know... I'm starting to think there's, uh... nothing to be scared of here, and uh... I was probably- just my imagination playing tricks on me before. So... Uh, that's a short one. I will talk to you guys later."
 +
 
 +
A cipher briefly flashes on screen that reads:
 +
 
 +
"C O N T R O L"</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth claims he didn't upload a "Greth Vlogs" video yesterday, implying that he doesn't remember creating and uploading "greth vlogģgghhghhhhhhhhhhhhggggģ".
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth once again mentions that he hasn't been sleeping wel.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Text reading "<span class="canquote">C O N T R O L</span>" appears, implying that Greth is under the control of some unknown entity.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>May 10th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Greth Vlogs 10</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQs-1ELqnAw|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
5/10/18 - "Greth Vlogs 10" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with Greth recording himself while walking outside.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "Another simple update today. Um... Walking to the store to get some breakfast, or stuff to make breakfast. Uhh, not been sleeping well at all... To the extent that I feel like I'm having sleeping problems again... Um... At this point I'm thinking about just rolling with it, honestly..."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video cuts forward.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "I, uh... don't really know."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video begins corrupting. Whenever the person walking behind Greth comes into view the camera zooms in onto them, sometimes turning green.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "I mean that's what the, uh... weed is for. Puts me to sleep, but I'm out. And, uh... things have been getting kind of weird around (Indecipherable)"</span>
 +
 
 +
The last word Greth says is very corrupted and loud. Whenever he says it the camera zooms in on the person who was walking behind him. Greth slows down and turns around towards the direction the person was. He looks back at the camera looking confused.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "...Was somebody back there? (Laughs)"</span>
 +
 
 +
As Greth begins to laugh the video stutters. The screen slowly tints purple before ending.
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth continues having sleeping problems. While walking outside, a green entity can be seen following him from a distance.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Screenshots</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The green entity following Greth: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/6/63/Person1.png|target=_blank]]</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/7/7b/Person2.png|target=_blank]]</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/e/e5/Person3.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth with a purple-colored tint: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/1/1e/Gv10.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>May 12th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Greth Vlogs 11</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2J9z1caXsc|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
5/12/18 - "Greth Vlogs 11" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with Greth lying on his couch looking tired.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "Sleep... doesn't really exist anymore. I kinda just... continue to exist.... in reality. No escape. Sleep doesn't exist anymore. At all."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video cuts ahead.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "So, obviously... trying to make it clear that I, uh... I am at my wit's end. ...I wonder why... my body is rejecting sleep so much. Starting to think there's a reason.... Well, I uh... I don't know about any of that but... I was, uh, talking to Tyler again... Trying to explain some of the things that's been going on. He doesn't, uh... seem to understand... yet. But I think soon he will."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video cuts once more.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "...I think I'm losing myself. Just... I'm going nuts here. (Laughs) Fuck..."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video corrupts. We see what appears to be "The Watcher" once again in darkness.
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth is slowly going insane due to the lack of sleep. He believes his body is completely rejecting sleep for some reason.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>May 19th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Escape</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SONnGPUZpcM|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
5/19/18 - "Escape" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This is video begins with Greth walking through an airport. Various announcements can be hard over the intercom. We cut to a shot of an airplane on a landing strip before cutting once more to Greth now sitting aboard the plane. The video ends with some slight corruptions.
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth boards an airplane headed for an unknown destination.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>July 28th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Greth Vlogs 5</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ZCRZ3TrB0|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
7/28/18 - "Greth Vlogs 5" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with someone moving through a dark house. We can see a skull-like object on the wall but it is difficult to tell if it is a mask or merely a poster. The video tints purple and corrupts as the person recording reaches a doorway. We see Tyler sitting at his computer. Tyler turns around and the video ends.
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
This video simply features someone sneaking up behind Tyler in his house.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>August 16th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>Greth Vlogs 12: General Update</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qmNiyXqTbQ|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
8/16/18 - "Greth Vlogs 12: General Update" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with Greth walking through some woods.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "Hey, everybody. Um... making a video just to keep in touch, it's been a while. A whole lot has happened, uh... I've just been travelling around, hiking."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video is already glitching a bit, cutting to black a few times. We are shown some brief footage of the woods. The audio seems to have some slight distortion. We cut back to Greth.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "Trying to figure myself out... keep away from that apartment."</span>
 +
 
 +
We are shown more brief footage of the woods.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "Uh, that's what I'm doing right now, I'm in the middle of a hike right now. As you can see it's very beautiful around here."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video cuts to a corrupted shot of an old boat on the back of a truck.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "Uh, not much life out here to really see or anything like that. Just, uh... me and nature. You know..."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video begins stuttering more as the distorted sounds come back.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "...But it is hot."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video goes through several corruptions. It is difficult to make out what these images are. We cut back to Greth where we can see Tyler falling over in the background next to the "Detour Sign" while coughing. The video corrupts further before ending.
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
It's revealed that Greth boarded the airplane so he could take a hiking trip away from home, still believing his apartment is responsible for his poor sleeping patterns.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At the end of the video, Tyler can be seen teleporting into the background next to the "Detour Sign" - presumably having just touched it again.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>August 18th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>RWBN RWBN</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxBFegntQFk|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
8/18/18 - "RWBN RWBN" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with Tyler laying on his bed looking tired. When he faces the camera the video corrupts badly. Tyler makes a quiet, raspy sound and the video begins corrupting. We can faintly see what appears to be Tyler struggling overlaying corrupted footage. The video ends with Tyler's arms falling back down to the bed as if he had fallen asleep again.
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Tyler appears to be attacked while laying on his bed.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: "<span class="canquote">Night night</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>August 25th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>experimentations</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwNLZ1ERSs|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
8/25/18 - "experimentations" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begin with some slight corruption overlaying Greth. He is in his garage talking to the camera.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "Hey, it's been a while. Uh, I tried to run away from my problems, and uh... sometimes you find out you can't do that as easily as you thought... So I'm taking a different approach now. There's a lot of things you don't understand that I do now- I do now."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video corrupts and stutters several times.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Greth: "But soon everyone will get it, man. Uhh... I'm about to do some exploring, so I'm going to take you with me."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video cuts to Greth lighting a pipe. He exhales some smoke and laughs as he video stutters. Greth continues smoking. We see him stare into the camera as the video gets darker and darker. The video cuts to some distorted footage of Greth looking into the camera as some slow music plays in the background. We hear what sounds like someone either entering the room or moving around within it. Greth quickly flicks his lighter for some light and looks around worriedly. At the end of the video a loud sound plays as a faint glitchy image appears.
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth claims that he's finished running away from his problems. Instead, he is now experimenting with drugs in an attempt to subdue his sleeping issue.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
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 +
Tags: "<span class="canquote">i'm, still, here</span>"
 +
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 +
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 +
</div>
 +
<h2>August 28th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Silentdork - "<b>A guest</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YrC4Jwl8yg|target=_blank]]</span>
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</li>
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<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
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<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
8/28/18 - "A guest" - YouTube (Silentdork)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with Tyler sitting in his room. He is speaking to Greth as vaporwave plays in the background.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "You know what I don't think that, uh... the people following my Youtube channel actually know about?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "What's that?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "My personal religion."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler holds up a book and shows the camera. It's a bit difficult to read, however.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Odin. ...Man. Have I told you about the runes that I'm studying? The Armanen Futharkh?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "No..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "It's 18 runes that correspond to, uh... Man, this music is like really religious for what I'm talking about. (Laughs) It's 18 runes that correspond to the 18 runes that Odin talks about in the Rúnatal."</span>
 +
 
 +
The vaporwave ends.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Oh, well just cut off on me why don't you. (Laughs) But, uh..."</span>
 +
 
 +
The vaporwave begins playing once again.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Okay..."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video cuts Tyler leaning back in a chair.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Who cares."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Okay (Laughs)"</span>
 +
 
 +
The video cuts once again. Tyler holds his bullet necklace in his hand.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Man... So... Do you know anything about the Lunar Children?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Uh... I mean, I was reading about them on the website... And watching the videos."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Do you know about what happened on their uh, big 4/23 incident of like two years ago?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Is that where they drowned the kid? Or..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Oh no, that was like... almost two decades ago."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Oh..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "...In like I think 2002? Or..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Oh was this- Oh was this... the house fire?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uh, no that was my uh, that was- that was my friend, John..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Oh..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uh..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "No, tell me more about it."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "I'm asking about it cause all I know is that, uh... For some reason they have this like fucking fetish for me, like I don't understand in the grand scheme why specifically they require me for something that they're trying to do, but I guess they like failed too many times in a row? Due to I guess as far as I'm concerned, going off what information I can find, some like unseen forces keep preventing them from, uh, getting their job done. And I guess their, uh, big fucking deity decided to fucking eat them or something? I don't fucking know because, like... There was like this 'oh shit' meltdown post and, uh, apparently after that everybody at that building that they had in Ohio just vanished. Everybody that like regularly attended suddenly was all on like a missing persons list..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "...Well, I mean... I know there's like, uh... There are people on the internet that I can, uh... introduce you to who know a lot more about this than I do... And I think they, uh... have been trying to contact you for some time."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Well, I mean, I got like a lot of people trying to contact me all the time. A lot of the time in Spanish. But, uh..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "No this is different. I mean it's not just the random YouTube comments sections, it's uh... There's a, uh, Discord. Do you know what that is?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uh, I..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "It's like a... It's kinda like a gamer Skype thing?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "That sounds... pretty gay. But, uh... (Laughs) But yeah I do have a Discord account."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Okay..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "But, uh... Yes."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Okay. Because they, uh... They first contacted me because I was involved in something a number of years ago relating to a kid. Uh... There was like this website and I made some videos that helped some people, um... It might have something to do with what's going on."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "...What was the website?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Uhm... Youshouldnthavedonethat.net."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video and audio stutter as Tyler makes a strange noise. During the stuttering an image of BEN and an image of Regiminis can be seen. The video cuts back in with Tyler looking through a box of vaporwave cassettes, presumably back right after Tyler talked about Odin, considering the book is seen nearby.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "What should I put on...? Pick one. Should I put on, uh... 'Eternal Desolation', 'Equip', or uh... I forget what this is actually called but it's by R23X."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "I dunno."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uhh, just pick one at random."</span>
 +
 
 +
Greth picks 'Eternal Desolation'
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Okay."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler puts the cassette into the player. He leans back and nearly drops some cassettes.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Oh shit."</span>
 +
 
 +
The video cuts back to the previous scene after Greth mentions YSHDT.net.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "(Ok)ay."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uh, yeah... I've never heard of that website."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Alright, well, uh..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Well, actually... Uh, the- That phrase sounds a little familiar. But, uh... Actually, I don't- I don't think I've ever, uh... I don't think I've ever been to that website, no."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Okay... Well it's, uh... It's a little... (Sigh) Actually it's- I'm having trouble remembering if it's new or old..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "...Oh, now I remember where- where I heard the phrase, because actually, uh... That guy, José, um... Or the 'archive guy' that's apparently on the same server that he salvaged out of that, uh... fishery building."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Okay... Is that server somewhere nearby? Or..."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "It's actually at his house. Well I mean I'm assuming it's at his house. I've never been to his house, I don't actually know where he lives. I know he must live close or else he couldn't have gone to physically go get it like he said he did."</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "So... Who's the original server owner?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "I guess the Lunar Children collectively. I don't know specifically... Like, okay-"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">Greth: "Wait, so... Wait who's- Who's Patrem then?"</span>
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "I've worked out that Patrem was a guy named Hank, actually... Who I guess was involved in a lot of occult stuff and for whatever reason started doing it, like, out of his own building... Like, I guess like he used to own that fishery? And I guess back in like the late, late, late 90's to early 2000's he started running his scheme out of there? Like, I guess what went on to become the Lunar Children. Whatever he was doing was like a precursor to it, maybe? I don't know, or maybe it was? I don't know, this is just like collective word around town I can get, and like... bits of like public record information. But, uh... Basically, um... Yeah, the guy owned that fishery- I don't know what the, like, legality deal on the property is right now. I kinda- and this is like bordering on conspiracy theory tier thought, but like I have for years now kinda assumed there was something fucked about the local police force. Um... And now I have reason honestly to believe that they... A lot of the police force is probably like directly involved with this cult... Because I guess at a time they were actually a pretty big pervasive local thing until a lot of, like, the big players moved north over to Ohio... But that's like the most of what I've managed to establish just doing the reading up and talking to people local that want to talk"</span>
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</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
In this video's description, Tyler mentions he has another video he was planning on uploading but it is currently glitched. He claims that he figured something out about the "Detour Sign" in that video.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tyler and Greth discuss the Moon Children and the Lunar Children.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tyler questions what took place on April 23rd, 2016. Greth isn't sure, and all Tyler knows is that some cataclysmic event took place at the Spire involving Luna punishing the Lunar Children.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth offers to introduce Tyler to the players on the Internet Detectives Discord server. Tyler claims that he does have a Discord account.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth mentions having helped the players by submitting songs on a website. When he tells Tyler that the site was "Youshouldnthavedonethat.net", the video glitches.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
TheArchiveGuy's real name is revealed to be "<b>José</b>".
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tyler says that he's never visited "Youshouldnthavedonethat.net", but claims that he remembers the phrase. He believes that he remembers the phrase from one of the sites on the Lunar Children servers - likely referring to "YSHDT.com".
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tyler introduces Greth to his personal religion - <b>Odin</b>. He also claims he is studying the "<b>Armanen Futhark</b>" runes.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tyler tells Greth what he's learned about Patrem and the fishery.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: "<span class="canquote">I had this other video I planned on uploading that I recorded before this that was pretty important, it featured me figuring out something pretty important about that sign in my yard. But something fucked it up and I am trying to figure out how to fix it (maybe the sign itself? idk) but this is the guy I talked about in that video who was gonna come hang out with me who knew a bit about the various cult doings in the area.</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: "<span class="canquote">hidden in plain sight Kevi</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>October 11th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 7:30 PM, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>never sleeping</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO74YoQKx8o|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/11/18 - "never sleeping" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with Greth sitting in his house reading a book titled 'Moon Magic'. A trippy song with vocals is playing in the background. The video briefly fades into a clip of him lying on his bed. The video then quickly flickers between an image of "The Watcher" seen in earlier Greth Vlogs and a shot of Greth looking at the camera menacingly.
 +
 
 +
We are shown another shot of Greth lying on his bed while struggling to sleep. The video cuts out before showing a hand slowly grabbing Greth's face as the music stutters. We are once again shown a shot of the menacing looking Greth accompanied by ominous music before the video ends.
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth is looking extremely tired. He is reading a book titled "<b>Moon Magic</b>".
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
"The Watcher" is shown briefly along with a menacing-looking Greth.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Screenshots</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
"The Watcher": <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/5/54/Never1.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
A menacing-looking Greth: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/f/f4/Never2.png|target=_blank]]</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/9/99/Never3.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 9:00 PM, the player Dense submitted the video "<b>GORONLULLABY</b> - a video featuring Goron Link playing the "<b>Goron's Lullaby</b>" in an attempt to put Greth to sleep out of fear for his deteriorating mental health. <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://youtu.be/xNZXDwEBNjE|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At 11:46 PM, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "<b>J J S K K N V G H</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nYDKFKDfeo|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/11/18 - "J J S K K N V G H" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with Greth lying in bed, yawning. The video slowly corrupts, making his face look like its frowning. The video cuts to black before showing footage of a purple moon. Images of a maniacally smiling Greth occasionally cut in along with shots of him wearing the white mask from before.
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The "Goron's Lullaby" successfully places Greth to sleep. Unfortunately, it is revealed that Patrem was housed within his body all along. Just like with Vincent Adams, now that Greth has fallen asleep, Patrem has taken over his body.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth can be seen wearing the white fish-like mask from before.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: "<span class="canquote">|...by which a new vessel' may then be obtained. The flesh must be made weak. the mind must be made weary. the upon one who ye hath chosen shall descend lunar wisdom. Exalt him upon the hour of choosing and then through worldly works father thine children anew.|=ll</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Tags: "<span class="canquote">poor decision</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Screenshots</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Images of Greth: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/2/2e/Sleep1.png|target=_blank]]</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/a/a7/Sleep2.png|target=_blank]]</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/9/98/Sleep3.png|target=_blank]]</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/9/9e/Sleep4.png|target=_blank]]</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/34/Sleep5.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>October 22nd, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. This page no longer had a title and contained an image of a red-tinted Tyler grinning titled "<b>maj.jpg</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/9/96/Maj.jpg|target=_blank]]</span> This page also featured the audio "<b>recruit.mp3</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:listen.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/d/d9/Recruit.ogg|target=_blank]]</span> Hidden within this page's source code was the text "<span class="canquote">howdoesitwork</span>" repeated 55 times.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that Johnisdead.com now featured a new favicon of a crudely-drawn smiley face. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/4/46/Favinew.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<h2>October 23rd, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 1:58 PM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. This page was now titled "<b>construction</b>" and once again featured the green, distorted image of Tyler titled "awaken.jpg". This page still contained the audio "recruit.mp3".
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At 2:19 PM, players discovered that Johnisdead.com would once again redirect players if they attempted to access a non-existent page. The pages player would be redirected to seemed to all be previously discovered canon sources such as the Silentdork YouTube channel and Doug's blog.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<h2>October 24th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 9:53 AM, the player Jos discovered a new page on Johnsidead.com - "<b><span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://johnisdead.com/</nowiki></span>home.html</b>". This page was simply the previous version of the front page which featured the red-tinted image of Tyler.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At 9:56 AM, the player Jos discovered that Johnisdead.com would sometimes redirect him to a new website when attempting to access a non-existent page - "<b><nowiki>https://astralobservatory.net/</nowiki></b>". This site appeared to be a blog themed around paranormal activity and conspiracies. Players noticed that some of the wording within the blog posts found on this page were distinctly cult-like. <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/6/68/AO.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/24/18 - Announcements - Astralobservatory.net
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span class="vip">The Astral Observatory
 +
July 28, 2018 - Thoughts
 +
Welcome to the Astral Observatory.
 +
 
 +
This is a website dedicated to sharing news, opinions, and thoughts from an underground collective that believe in what some may call paranormal or supernatural. We believe in that modern society has pulled a warm blanket over our eyes, trying to lull us into a false reality in which the masses, now imperceptible to the greater machinations of the universe, are more malleable for cooperation.
 +
 
 +
We have been exposed to some of the truths that shattered that illusion, and now we seek more.
 +
 
 +
If you are interested in joining us on this journey, bookmark this webpage for further updates, and head on over to our forums for new community of people like us, and we believe, yourself.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
Malicious Attack; Forums Offline
 +
October 22, 2018 - News
 +
Dearest believers,
 +
 
 +
I have some news you may find unfortunate. On Sunday morning, around 12am, this site was taken offline. I do not know how or why, but during that time our bandwidth was temporarily re-purposed for another website, ‘johnisdead.com’. While I’m not sure why this has happened, I can only conclude it was some form of malicious hack. Please stay patient while I work to get my previous posts on this website back up, and work to restore the forums to their former glory. For now the forums are locked.
 +
 
 +
We will get through this.</span>
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</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The announcement welcoming users to the site was posted on July 28th, implying that the Astral Observatory has existed for several months.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
The members of the Astral Observatory believe that society has obscured various truths regarding the nature of the paranormal and reality itself. The author of these posts claims that the Astral Observatory has been exposed to information that has "<span class="canquote">shattered that illusion</span>", and that now they want more.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
On October 22nd, an announcement was posted on Astral Observatory claiming that Johnisdead.com had stolen their bandwidth on October 21st. This explains why Johnisdead.com now redirects to Astralobservatory.net.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
It is revealed that the Astral Observatory has some <b>forums</b> that are temporarily offline.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Astralobservatory.net contained a link to their forums - "<b><span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://astralobservatory.net/</nowiki></span>forum</b>". Unfortunately, these forums were still offline.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At 10:01 AM, the player Jos discovered that the Javascript code on Johnisdead.com that redirected players could now be read. The redirects were as follows:
 +
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 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Johnisdead.com - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://johnisdead.com</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Silentdork YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/user/silentdork</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Greth Vlogs YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB62RBGB5A5uRaLv-95fMrw</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
YSHDT.net - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://youshouldnthavedonethat.net/</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Doug's Blog - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://letschasethemouse.blogspot.com/</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Lostmemory423 YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT-n6eNjB3rNoDYsKWuP-DA</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
"M" YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfjnw6rFLW3-NhEphVdPymw</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Vincent Adams YouTube Channel - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrrgIhl-3DkhgKIHEkB4OQ</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Johnisdead.com "home.html" Page - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>http://johnisdead.com/home.html</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Astralobservatory.net - <span class="canquote"><nowiki>https://astralobservatory.net/</nowiki></span>
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
<h2>October 25th, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 3:28 PM, the player Jos discovered that the generic "<b>404</b>" page on Johnisdead.com that users were sent to before being redirected was now titled "<b>lost?</b>". This page also contained a dark image of Tenebris and the elegy statue titled "<b>ha.png</b>" and hid the text "<span class="canquote">find your way</span>" in its source code. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/c/c7/Ha.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<h2>October 31st, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 4:02 PM, players discovered that the front page of Astralobservatory.net now contained a new announcement titled "<b>Good news and bad news.</b>".
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - Announcement - Astralobservatory.net
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span class="vip">Good news and bad news.
 +
October 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
 +
Hello everyone, I have both good news and bad news to report today, Oct. 31st. The good news is that soon, our forums will be up and running once again! The bad news is, most of the our previous posts have become corrupted. I was unable to salvage anything but the protected forum. Some users may need to find that they will need to re-register themselves, even. We will rebuild.</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
It is revealed that any content on the previous incarnation of the Astral Observatory forums has been lost.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
The author mentions a "<span class="canquote">protected forum</span>" that contains some archived posts. This implies that there is some degree of secrecy within the inner workings of the Astral Observatory.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 4:16 PM, players discovered that the Astral Observatory forums were now accessible. These forums contained a header that read "<span class="canquote">Seeking the truths that lie beyond the grand illusion</span>" and a small image of the "<b>Astral Observatory</b>" location from Majora's Mask. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/3e/Site_logo.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
The following characters were discovered on the forums: <span class="ext-link">[[File:screenshot.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/f/f0/Aof.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
<b>nocta</b> - The mysterious leader of the Astral Observatory.
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Avatar: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Signature: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Rank: "<b>Site Admin</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Groups: "<b>Leader</b>", "<b>Truth Seekers</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 21st, 2018 at 11:44 AM</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<li>
 +
<b>Samuel_Charleston</b> - A mysterious member of the Astral Observatory forums who had yet to make a post.
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Avatar: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Signature: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Rank: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Groups: "<b>Truth Seekers</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 21st, 2018 at 11:12 PM</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<li>
 +
<b>moonman31</b> - A male forum-goer who often posts memes and "trolls" other users.
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Avatar: An image of the McDonalds mascot "<b>Mac Tonight</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/c/cf/49.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Signature: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Rank: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Groups: "<b>Believers</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 31st, 2018 at 12:59 PM</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<li>
 +
<b>yuukichan</b> - A female forum-goer who enjoys anime and often posts messages containing Japanese emojis.
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Avatar: An image of the character "<b>Yuki Nagato</b>" from the anime "<b>The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/37/Yuuki.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Signature: An image of the character "Yuki Nagato" kissing an alien from the "<b>Aliens</b>" franchise. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/b/bb/Yuukisig.png|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Rank: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Groups: "<b>Believers</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 31st, 2018 at 12:59 PM</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<li>
 +
<b>NotAHoax_M12</b> - A male forum-goer who is a fervent believer of outlandish conspiracy theories.
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Avatar: A photo of a crashed UFO. <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/35/51.jpg|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Signature: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Rank: N/A
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Groups: "<b>Believers</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Joined: "<span class="canquote">October 31st, 2018 at 1:57 PM</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<li>
 +
Players began searching through the Astral Observatory forums. The following is the structure of the various message boards and the threads contained within them:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Section - "<b>Forum</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Board - "<b>Welcome</b>" - "<span class="canquote">Helpful topics for those new</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Sub-Board - "<b>Help & FAQ</b>" - "<span class="canquote">A board for asking questions that either nocta or another can answer; the board rules are also posted in here.</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
7/28/18 - "Forum Rules" - nocta
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span class="vip">nocta 12:00 PM: "These are the rules of the Observatory's forums by which you must abide. Do so and you will enjoy your stay here.
 +
-No spam. All automated messages, advertisements, and links to competitor websites will be deleted immediately.
 +
 
 +
-Post in relevant sub-forums only. Messages posted in the wrong topic area will be removed and placed in the correct sub-forum by moderators.
 +
 
 +
-Respect other users. No flaming or abusing fellow forum members. Users who continue to post inflammatory, abusive comments will be deleted from the forum after two warnings are issued by moderators.
 +
 
 +
-Harassment. No threats or harassment of other users will be tolerated. Any instance of threatening or harassing behavior is grounds for deletion from the forums.
 +
 
 +
-No Pornography, please.
 +
 
 +
-Bandwidth. All signatures must be 500 x 500 pixels or smaller. Posts containing over-sized images and signatures will be removed.
 +
 
 +
-Illegal content. No re-posting of copyrighted materials or other illegal content is allowed. Any posts containing illegal content or copyrighted materials will be deleted.
 +
 
 +
-Do NOT try to break into the Truth!"</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Nocta forbids users from attempting to break into "<b>The Truth</b>" - the password-protected board on the forums that was mentioned previously.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<br />
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Sub-Board - "<b>Introductions</b>" - "<span class="canquote">A board for asking questions that either nocta or another can answer; the board rules are also posted in here.</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - "We starting over?" - moonman31
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span class="vip">moonman31 1:32 PM: "Y'all know me, still the same OG."</span>
 +
<span class="vip2">nocta 1:34 PM: "Welcome back moonman. Keep the trolling to a MINIMUM this time?"</span>
 +
<span class="vip">moonman31 1:35 PM: "I promise nothing. (kidding)"</span>
 +
<span class="vip3">yuukichan 1:40 PM: "MOONIE!!!!"</span>
 +
<span class="vip4">NotAHoax_M12 2:06 PM: "Of course you'd be the first back besides Nocta and Samuel"</span>
 +
<span class="vip">moonman31 2:06 PM: ((A gif from "The Simpsons" is posted)) <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/a/a3/Simpsin.gif|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The user "<b>moonman31</b>" introduces himself on the newly created forums.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
The other users welcome Moonman back to the forums. Judging by their wording, Moonman has a history of trolling the others.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - "AAAAH WE'RE BAAAACK" - yuukichan
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span class="vip">yuukichan 1:41 PM: "Hello everyooooone~"</span>
 +
<span class="vip2">nocta 1:42 PM: "Hello again Yuuki"</span>
 +
<span class="vip">yuukichan 1:43 PM: "Nocta! Pls fix my group status QwQ"</span>
 +
<span class="vip2">nocta 1:44 PM: "I'm working as fast as I can as everyone sees the message and re-registers... patience."</span>
 +
<span class="vip3">moonman31 1:50 PM: "Welcome back kiddo."</span>
 +
<span class="vip">yuukichan 1:55 PM: "Where is grampa? He's registered but he hasn't posted yet... TTwTT"</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The user "<b>yuukichan</b>" introduces herself on the newly created forums.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Yuukichan asks Nocta to fix her group status, referring to the "<b>Believers</b>" group.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Yuukichan notes that "<span class="canquote">grampa</span>" is registered but hasn't made a post yet. This is referring to "<b>Samuel_Charleston</b>" - a member who has not yet posted. He is also the only member aside from Nocta who is in the "<b>Truth Seekers</b>" group.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - "Nice to be back." - NotAHoax_M12
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 2:01 PM: "Glad my favorite group of people are back online. Well, soon to be. What's up with the avatars? Uploads are broken."</span>
 +
<span class="vip2">nocta 2:01 PM: "I know, just use TinyPic for now. I will get it fixed."</span>
 +
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 2:05 PM: "I'm sure this is really frustrating. Take your time, Nocta."</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The user "<b>NotAHoax_M12</b>" introduces himself on the newly created forums.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<br />
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Sub-Board - "<b>General Discussion</b>" - "<span class="canquote">Talk about anything not relevant to the other discussion forums here</span>"
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - "A N I M E" - yuukichan
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span class="vip">yuukichan 2:12 PM: "WE GOT TO A 1000 PAGES LAST TIME LET'S DO IT AGAIN! TALK ANIME HERE!! o(〃^▽^〃)o"</span>
 +
<span class="vip2">NotAHoax_M12 2:12 PM: "I remember a lot of double-posting, is what I remember."</span>
 +
Wolfcat 2:31 PM: "Where my Kemono Friends at."
 +
<span class="vip">yuukcihan 2:40 PM: ":o ! I LIKE THE NEW GUY" ((An edited gif from the anime "Kemono Friends" is sent))</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/4/43/151556056559.gif|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
Wolfcat 2:53 PM: "<nowiki>https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/244/430/a3d.gif</nowiki>"
 +
<span class="vip">yuukichan 4:20 PM: ((A fan created gif for the anime "Kemono Friends" is sent))</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/37/Kemonospin.gif|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The user Yuukichan creates a thread for casual anime discussion. It's implied that a similar thread existed before the Astral Observatory forums were purged that surpassed 1000 posts.
 +
</li>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Files:
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Two gifs relating to the anime "Kemono Friends" are posted by Yuukichan: <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/4/43/151556056559.gif|target=_blank]]</span> <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/3/37/Kemonospin.gif|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<br />
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Section - "<b>Theories & Discussion</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Board - "<b>Aliens & Visitors</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
This board had no posts.
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<li>
 +
Board - "<b>Ghosts / Demonology</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
This board had no posts.
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<li>
 +
Board - "<b>Political Conspiracy</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
This board had no posts.
 +
</li>
 +
</div>
 +
<li>
 +
Board - "<b>Supernatural, Folklore & Etc</b>"
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - "JohnIsDead.com" - moonman31
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span class="vip">moonman31 1:46 PM: "So let's get down to brass and talk about it, and this seemed like the most appropriate section. How does someone redirect bandwidth from one website to another? I smell a conspiracy about this 'johnisdead.com' :ugeek:"</span>
 +
<span class="vip2">nocta 1:46 PM: "It was some asshole messing with us. I'd suggest letting it go."</span>
 +
<span class="vip3">yuukichan 1:52 PM: "I'm gonna fight them (ง •̀_•́)ง"</span>
 +
<span class="vip4">NotAHoax_M12 2:03 PM: "I'd be scared of whoever you try to fight, Yuuki."</span>
 +
Dense 4:34 PM: "|...by which a new vessel' may then be obtained. The flesh must be made weak. the mind must be made weary. the upon one who ye hath chosen shall descend lunar wisdom. Exalt him upon the hour of choosing and then through worldly works father thine children anew.|=ll"
 +
Jos 4:47 PM: "Ok I join the fight to WHERE IS THE GUY *starts throwing punchs into the air*"
 +
<span class="vip">moonman31 7:15 PM: "Shut up Hoax"</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Moonman questions the logistics of Johnisdead.com redirecting bandwidth from Astralobservatory.net.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Nocta urges the players to cease discussion of the topic.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
The player Dense posts the description of the video "J J S K K N V G H".
 +
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 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
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 +
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 +
<li>
 +
Section - "<b>Forum</b>"
 +
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 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Board - "<b>The Truth</b>" - "<span class="canquote">Only those chosen may enter here; the greatest truths that only the ready minds are capable of discussing are within here; to access you will need to belong to the 'Believers' usergroup or above</span>"
 +
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 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
This board was locked and required a password to enter. Only users who are trusted and added to the "<b>Believers</b>" group may receive the password.
 +
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 +
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 +
<ul>
 +
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 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 2:30 PM, the player Wolfcat created a thread titled "<i>What's up, spookboys</i>", introducing himself to the Astral Observatory members. Several of them replied to this thread:
 +
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 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - "What's up, spookboys" - Wolfcat
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
Wolfcat 2:30 PM: "I stumbled across this place while looking up some rad music from Majora's Mask. I expected this place to be some sort of Zelda fan-board so I was a bit surprised to see people talking about aliens and stuff, lol. That's good, though. I've always been interested in listening to theories and stuff on YouTube, even ones that people say are a bit "out there" like the hollow Earth and hollow Moon stuff. Anyways, yeah, I'll probably stick around a bit, so what's up guys."
 +
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 2:34 PM: "Very cool, someone new! Welcome friend. You will get used to the crazy lot that tends to lurk this place, and you will definitely learn a thing or two!"</span>
 +
<span class="vip2">moonman31 2:35 PM: "salutations newf-... newfriend."</span>
 +
<span class="vip3">yuukichan 2:38 PM: "WELCOOOME~"</span>
 +
Jos 4:44 PM: "Yeah me too, me too, i'm new, I been waiting for the forums to come back online so I could tell you guys about me lol."
 +
<span class="vip4">nocta 5:56 PM: "Welcome, detective."</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
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 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
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 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The Astral Observatory members welcome the new players with open arms.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Nocta refers to the player Jos as "detective", implying that he knows of the Internet Detectives player group.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 4:20 PM, the player Jos created a thread titled "<i>Hehe how funny...</i>", sharing a strange "Princess Peach" fetish video he found online.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
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 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - "Hehe how funny..." - Jos
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
Jos 4:20 PM: "<nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZEs5JPe1A</nowiki> this is funny, isn't it.-.. heheh"
 +
Wolfcat 4:26 PM: "Oh no..."
 +
<span class="vip">moonman31 7:17 PM: "You are on some weird shit friend"</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Moonman claims that the player Jos is "<span class="canquote">on some weird shit</span>".
 +
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 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 4:53 PM, the player Jos created a thread titled "<i>What are your thoughts about visitors?</i>", asking for opinions on aliens.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - "What are your thoughts about visitors?" - Jos
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
Jos 4:53 PM: "One thing is clear, the universe is so big and vast that saying they don't exist would be ridiculous in the eyes of stadistics I don't think we are the first intelligent species, and I don't think there is not a only planet out there in the life zone of a star. What are your thoughts, you think they came to observe us, or they are contacting the biggest gov in secret? or there is no aliens near our star?"
 +
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 5:13 PM: "There are absolutely visitors in our midst brother. You are simply opening your eyes to the grand conspiracy that the US Government has been trying to hide our entire lives: They're here. They're among us. And they are in control."</span>
 +
Jos 5:17 PM: "Everyone needs to open the eyes and fight them, they cannot hide forever, humans will gain true independence from these unknown creatures!"
 +
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 5:19 PM: "That is the struggle we fight brother"</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The player Jos brings up the topic of aliens. NotAHoax chips in, claiming that aliens are indeed real and that the United States government is keeping their existence a secret.
 +
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 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, the player Dense's post in the "Johnisdead.com" thread which contained the translated description of the video "J J S K K N V G H" was edited by Nocta. The contents from the post were completely removed and replaced with "<span class="canquote">.</span>".
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At 5:16 PM, Nocta sent the user Dense a PM on the Astral Observatory forums which read "<span class="canquote">I would stop while you are ahead.</span>".
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At 5:48 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that a new announcement had been posted on the front page of Astralobservatory.net titled "<b>New users</b>".
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - Announcement - Astralobservatory.net
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span class="vip">New users
 +
October 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
 +
As the forums come back online, and while our previous users find my previous post and continue to rejoin, there is something I would like to address: new users
 +
 
 +
We have always been a lightly secluded gathering of folk, but we have always embraced new users and brought them into the fold; there is, however, a small influx of users joining that are related to ‘johnisdead’.
 +
 
 +
I suppose I knew this would happen, and there’s only one way to address. Welcome them, teach them, and embrace them… with one eye open.
 +
 
 +
These users will be placed into the ‘Internet Detectives’ usergroup as they are identified (that name is what they already call themselves in other parts of the internet).
 +
 
 +
Keep lips sealed on certain subjects. Stay wary.
 +
 
 +
Change their minds.</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
Nocta addresses the players joining the forums. He tells the other users to welcome the players, but to keep an eye on them and not reveal any secretive information.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Nocta seems willing to indoctrinate the players rather than outright banning them.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 5:57 PM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had changed. The page was now titled "<b>The timer (won’t) reset</b>" and contained an image of a moon with occasional flashes of a smiling face appearing titled "<b>infinitecycle.gif</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:viewimage.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/d/de/Infinitecycles.gif|target=_blank]]</span> This page also contained the audio "<b>brokencycles.ogg</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:listen.png|frameless|link=http://johnisdead.withinhubris.com/images/4/4b/Brokencycles.ogg|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had changed. The page appeared exactly the same, but the audio file had changed from "brokencycles.ogg" to "<b>brokencycles.mp3</b>". Despite the different file extension, these two tracks were exactly the same.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
At 10:24 PM, players discovered that Tyler had uploaded a new video the Silentdork YouTube channel - "<b>experiments</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbR73XqQC6s|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
10/31/18 - "experiments" - YouTube (Silentdork)
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
This video begins with Tyler recording outside his house. He approaches the "Detour Sign" and begins speaking.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "Hey, everybody. So, it's been a little while since my last video, not counting the, uh... that- that... that thing that got uploaded. I mean... I don't really know what to say about that, 'cause I mean by now I'm just kinda numb to the concept of shit getting uploaded to my channel that was not uploaded by me. But, uh... Ow, shit, that's hot. Um... I wanted to do a video today, because if you remember this thing has just kinda popped into my life, and... I mean, it just looks like a fucking "Detour Sign" really, but... there are some strange properties this thing seems to have."
 +
 
 +
Tyler is now touching the "Detour Sign", inspecting it. While he's touching it, a strange, moaning sound is emitted from the sign and a faint corruption can be seen.
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "And, uh... You know, I was doing all the, uh, the Lunar Children research. Uh, that's mostly dead-end stuff. A combination of dead-end stuff and scary stuff, because people don't react well whenever you bluntly ask about that kinda shit around here. But, uh... yeah, the "Detour Sign". Um... last video that, uh, I recorded myself and uploaded myself, um... it kinda seemed like the- this thing... there's a bug, get off me. Kinda seemed like this thing sorta causes you to teleport... And, uh... Yeah, not really sure how or why? Um... I am assuming though, whatever this is, it has something to do with, uh, the... the "magic bullshit" regarding that website. Uhh, "Johnisdead.com", which is down right now, by the way. Um... didn't mean for this to be like, uh, update vlog kinda thing, but uh..."
 +
 
 +
The video cuts ahead.
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "Shit, sorry. I-I guess standing too close to this thing for too long causes, uh... some kinda, like... I guess, like, device, uh... fuckery. ((Laughs)) But, uh, what was I saying... Oh yeah. Um..."
 +
 
 +
The video begins corrupting again.
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "Anyways, I didn't mean for this to be, like, uh... talking about, like... every other thing in my life kinda vlog video, but uh... there's a couple of guys I've been in contact with. Um... Yeah, I should mention, uh, and I'm sure probably plenty of you already know Johnisdead.com and, uh, the Lunar Children website are both down. That's because, uh, this other guy is now kinda in charge of the thing."
 +
 
 +
The video cuts once again.
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "Jesus Christ, my phone. Okay, lemme just like, uh, get away from that thing. Uh... What was I saying, oh yeah. Um... this guy I've been in contact with- a couple of guys, actually. There's a guy named, uh, Jose... or, as he's called on the blog that's now down, uh, the "Archive Guy". Uh, I got in contact with him whenever I noticed that there were changes happening on the Lunar Children website that didn't seem culty. Um... all I really know about him is, uh, basically shit that he already said in his one blog post which is, uh, he's just got some friends who were friends of friends who had relatives, I guess, in the Lunar Children, and I guess there was like a big sorta cataclysmic event for them that occurred and they all disappeared, so these, like, people of distant relation are just trying to figure out what the fuck happened there and he's just their friend, and they don't know how to do fucking anything with computers so he's just kinda managing the salvaged network content off of the, uh... I guess, oddly enough, this, uh, server that was actually inside of that, uh... that old, rundown fishery. I don't know, anybody that pays attention I guess might remember I mentioned some computers that were there that seemed like they were actually working and turns out, hey they were actually working, and they were apparently actually hosting these websites. I don't know, maybe... maybe that's just news to me, and uh... some of you people out there somehow already knew that. But, uh, that's news to me and that's kinda fucking weird. Um... But yeah, right now they're offline because, uh, he's just having some financial issues - Jose. Um, I don't know if I'm supposed to be saying his real name, but, uh... He's just having some financial issues, so he can't manually host himself. Um... A little too much on his electric bill, I guess. But, uh... Yeah - that's basically what's going on with that. Um, he's just trying to, like, prune the content and, nice guy that he is, he said of course he'll be- I'll be first to be informed if he finds, like, anything new. Seeing as this- seeing the tie-in pretty close to me for a lot of weird reasons. Um... other guy I'm in contact with, uh..."
 +
 
 +
The video cuts once again as we can hear the "Detour Sign" moaning.
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "Damn, my fucking camera right now. But, anyways, um... Oh yeah, the guy - the other guy. Uh, Tony. Who... I met through the YouTube comment section, actually. I've - I've been making a handful of friends there, actually. A lot of them, uh, not like the most clear English speakers, but that's actually okay. But, uh... Yeah, uh, Tony... I guess wants to come hang out. I guess, uh... he said that he, like, has experience with the kinds of issues I'm dealing with here, whatever the fuck that means. But... You know, I've - I've been basically a hermit for about seven or so years, save for like associates with employees at jobs, so fuck it. I haven't, like, had any serious serious reason in the last year or so to believe I'm still actively being stalked by a cult, so why do I need to act like one of those like "targeted individuals" bastards. I wanna have friends, so you know, I'm just gonna let this Tony guy come on over. Maybe he wants to kill me, I don't know. I know nothing about this guy. He mentioned some shit about, like, some fucking Discord internet group he wants me to get involved in. I don't remember what he said it was called, uh... Really this is completely irrelevant and I'm kinda like rambling at this point because this whole video was actually just supposed to be me talking about this magical fucking construction sign that has just materialized in from Johnisdead.com world, and, uh... yeah. Let's, like, get back to what this was supposed to be about - this construction sign. Detour sign.
 +
 
 +
Tyler approaches the "Detour Sign". Strange moaning can be heard again. The video cuts ahead a bit.
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "It seems to make you teleport..."
 +
 
 +
Tyler begins carrying the sign.
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "Carrying it over here... One thing I've worked out is I guess, um... I don't know if it's limited to short distances, because last time I fucked with it, the damn thing - well, the last time I recorded myself fucking with it..."
 +
 
 +
The video distorts further and it is difficult to hear Tyler.
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "-here to, uh... over there, like... in front of my house. But, uh... I don't know if it's limited to short distances, I don't know if there's a way to, uh, control it. I - I kinda feel half fucking retarded because I mean it's - it's just a fucking construction sign. I'm talking about it like it's some kinda machine, but, uh... "Detour". I don't understand what this really means, like does it mean detour from where I'm currently at? ((Laughs)) Like... You wanna walk off somewhere else, you run into this - oh, detour to other area. That's basically what happened, but last time - the non-recorded time I touched it, uh... I basically set it up right where it's at right now, and... I went instantly from here to right around where that sunshine is at over there."
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
 
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
YouTube Details:
 +
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 +
<div class="indented">
 +
<li>
 +
Description: "<span class="canquote">Video I recorded about a week before the last one that came out all messed up in my phone and I could not get it to work. But I checked my phone today and suddenly it works now. Must be that Samhain magic I guess. I have not messed with the sign much more since that point. I have been waiting for that guy I hung out with last time to come back again so maybe I could try and see if he would like to help me try a few Ideas I have had with it. Also johnisdead.com seems to have come back since then, but Archive guy never emailed me or anything like he said he would. Not sure what the deal is with that but I assume he is probably just really busy. The cult main site is not back however and idk what the deal is with that.</span>"
 +
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 +
<li>
 +
Tags: N/A
 +
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 +
</div>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<h2>November 1st, 2018</h2>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 10:35 AM, the player Wolfcat created a thread titled "<i>MKUltra</i>", asking about the MKUltra experiments.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
11/1/18 - "MKUltra" - Wolfcat
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
Wolfcat 10:35 AM: "I thought MKUltra was just something related to that Polybius game, but apparently it goes much deeper than that. Have you guys seen the creepy shit with Nickelodeon stars like Amanda Bynes? <nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65T9LRBZHw</nowiki>"
 +
Jos 11:02 AM: "Mkultra was fucking real i told you, old friends of mine went missing. If i were a gov, i dont see a reason to no start MKultra again when no one is watching."
 +
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 12:31 PM: "It's all connected my brother. MK Ultra is the mind control program the government initiated to gain an edge on the communists and Vietcong, technology given to them by their OTHERWORDLY MASTERS"</span>
 +
Jos 12:45 PM: "I've nerver seen them again, all people around me just were like they were never there or they didn't ever exist, I KNOW MY FRIENDS WERE AND ARE REAL I AM NOT CRAZY."
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
The player Wolfcat asks about the MKUltra experiments. NotAHoax chips in, claiming that it is connected to aliens.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 12:26 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "JohnIsDead.com" thread once again.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
11/1/18 - "JohnIsDead.com" - moonman31
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">October 31st, 2018</span>
 +
 
 +
<i>moonman31 1:46 PM: "So let's get down to brass and talk about it, and this seemed like the most appropriate section. How does someone redirect bandwidth from one website to another? I smell a conspiracy about this 'johnisdead.com' :ugeek:"
 +
nocta 1:46 PM: "It was some asshole messing with us. I'd suggest letting it go."
 +
yuukichan 1:52 PM: "I'm gonna fight them (ง •̀_•́)ง"
 +
NotAHoax_M12 2:03 PM: "I'd be scared of whoever you try to fight, Yuuki."
 +
Dense 4:34 PM: "."
 +
Jos 4:47 PM: "Ok I join the fight to WHERE IS THE GUY *starts throwing punchs into the air*"
 +
moonman31 7:15 PM: "Shut up Hoax"</i>
 +
Jos 7:48 PM: "Moonman, be nice."
 +
 
 +
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">November 1st, 2018</span>
 +
 
 +
Wolfcat 10:16 AM: "You guys haven't had any connections to Johnisdead in the past? Like, you guys didn't piss off any spooky deep web people, did you? I mean you guys don't really seem like the type that'd go out and anger anyone purposefully. Well, except for Moonman, but he seems to do it in an endearing way."
 +
<span class="vip">moonman31 12:26 PM: "You are learning fast"</span>
 +
<span class="vip2">NotAHoax_M12 12:33 PM: "No, this john is dead website is new to us. I am convinced it is controlled by some otherworldly force to stop US from SPREADING OUR TRUTHS"</span>
 +
Jos 1:03 PM: "May I hear from those Truths too? I want to learn."
 +
<span class="vip3">yuukichan 1:12 PM: "Stick around and you will find out!!"</span>
 +
<span class="vip4">nocta 1:40 PM: "I don't like where this thread is headed. Locking."</span>
 +
</poem>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="summary">
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Summary</p>
 +
<div class="fadediv"></div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
NotAHoax claims that they have no connections to Johnisdead.com and have never heard of it before.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Yuukichan says that the players will learn the Astral Observatory's "<span class="canquote">truths</span>" if they stick around.
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
Nocta claims he doesn't like where the thread is heading and locks it.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
</div>
 +
<ul>
 +
<li>
 +
At 12:34 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "<i>Idk if this happened to you guys...</i>" created by the player Jos on October 31st, 2018.
 +
</li>
 +
</ul>
 +
<div class="transcriptsum mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
11/1/18 - "Idk if this happened to you guys..." - Jos
 +
</b>
 +
</p>
 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>
 +
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">October 31st, 2018</span>
 +
 
 +
Jos 6:08 PM: "But, let's imagine you are watching tv, and you divert your attention to your mobile phone or something else for like 5 minutes, and when you turn your attention back to the tv, it has switched channels without you noticing. I am crazy or something? It didn't happened recently but it happened several times."
 +
 
 +
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">November 1st, 2018</span>
 +
 
 +
Wolfcat 10:47 AM: "I mean, I live in my Grandma's old ass house from the 1920's and I have't seen any ghosts yet. If anything, seeing signs that ghosts exist would be cool because that'd mean that there's something after death. It'd be comforting, especially if the ghosts were in your own home. They'd be family, essentially."
 +
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 12:34 PM: "GHOSTS are the life force that separates us REAL HUMANS with souls from our ALIEN MASTERS..."</span>
 +
Jos 12:35 PM: "Yeah, you never had this feeling of... this is not the only reality but, idk, i feel on my own skin there is something more out there, idk, i want to know what it is..."
 +
<span class="vip2">moonman31 12:38 PM: "HOAX would convince you an egg sandwich was an alien conspiracy if he could."</span>
 +
Jos 12:40 PM: "Well, who knows if all life in Earth except humans was made by them just to test how we develop or something like that? then chickens would be alien origin."
 +
<span class="vip2">moonman31 12:43 PM: "Don't give Hoax any new ideas"</span>
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
The player Jos brings up the subject of ghosts. NotAHoax believes that ghosts are a manifestation of our souls - something that aliens do not possess.
 +
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 +
<li>
 +
Moonman31 jokes about NotAHoax's conspiracy theories.
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
<li>
 +
At 5:48 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "What are your thoughts about visitors?" thread once again.
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
11/1/18 - "What are your thoughts about visitors?" - Jos
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">October 31st, 2018</span>
 +
 
 +
<i>Jos 4:53 PM: "One thing is clear, the universe is so big and vast that saying they don't exist would be ridiculous in the eyes of stadistics I don't think we are the first intelligent species, and I don't think there is not a only planet out there in the life zone of a star. What are your thoughts, you think they came to observe us, or they are contacting the biggest gov in secret? or there is no aliens near our star?"
 +
NotAHoax_M12 5:13 PM: "There are absolutely visitors in our midst brother. You are simply opening your eyes to the grand conspiracy that the US Government has been trying to hide our entire lives: They're here. They're among us. And they are in control."
 +
Jos 5:17 PM: "Everyone needs to open the eyes and fight them, they cannot hide forever, humans will gain true independence from these unknown creatures!"
 +
NotAHoax_M12 5:19 PM: "That is the struggle we fight brother"</i>
 +
 
 +
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">November 1st, 2018</span>
 +
 
 +
Wolfcat 1:35 PM: "Some say they're on our very moon, or maybe even living within it."
 +
<span class="vip">NotAHoax_M12 5:38 PM: "That is INTERESTING that you think that way. I have often wondered if they have a base somewhere within our SOLAR SYSTEM although I doubt it is THE MOON."</span>
 +
Jos 5:42 PM: "You must think like them, best place? THE ASTEROID BELT around the solar system, the one between Mars and Jupiter, Thousands and thousands of asteroids there, impossible to detect."
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
<li>
 +
The players and NotAHoax casually speculate about the existence of aliens.
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
<h2>November 2nd, 2018</h2>
 +
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 +
<li>
 +
At 7:22 PM, the player Jos discovered that Tyler was hosting a livestream on the Silentdork YouTube channel titled "<b>testing testing 123</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrmLLIO6Ri0&feature=emb_title|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
11/2/18 - "testing testing 123" - YouTube (Silentdork)
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
 
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
 
 +
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 +
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 +
 
 +
<p class="fauxheader">Updates</p>
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
YouTube Details:
 +
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 +
<div class="indented">
 +
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 +
Description: "<span class="canquote">never live streamed before but some spanis hfriends pm'd me about a live stream or something so I thought "hey got some stuff to talk about why not live stream for the first time ever" this is a test however. Thought it was cute might delete later</span>"
 +
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 +
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 +
Tags: N/A
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
At 7:42 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that Tyler was hosting another livestream on the Silentdork YouTube channel titled "<b>First live stream: general talk</b>". <span class="ext-link">[[File:vid.png|frameless|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBTqnGtI0GM&feature=emb_title|target=_blank]]</span>
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
<p style="display:inline;">
 +
<b>
 +
11/2/18 - "First live stream: general talk" - YouTube (Silentdork)
 +
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 +
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 +
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><poem>The video begins with Tyler sitting down at his computer. He begins speaking.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Alright, uhhh… Am I live? I was testing a few minutes ago and I wasn't sure if things were messing up. I've never, uh… I've never livestreamed before. Okay, cool. Hello, hello, hey. Hi, woah, hell yeah. Okay, alright I'm live. Also, sorry if I look like shit, I just got out of the shower. And had a long day at work. And, uhh… I'm feeling a little, uh, frankly nervous because… well, we'll get to that."
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "Um… I was getting some PM's actually from various Spanish friends- 'What am I doing?', Uhh, I just got back from work, actually. 'How are ya men?' Uh… 'Spik Spanish', says Valentin2232, Uhh… I wanna apologize, I don't actually know Spanish and I don't know where all the Spanish people have come from. I get a lot of people mentioning something about a guy called Jordi? Uhh… I have noticed I think my channel actually subscribed me to him at a point? Uh, I don't know anything about the guy frankly and I'm sorry about that. I don't wanna seem like I'm being rude or anything, uhh…"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler briefly looks behind himself as if he heard something.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uh, but I… I don't really- I don't really know Spanish, uh… Not tryin' to be racist or anything, but no habla. My apologies. But, uhh… What was I going to talk about… Oh yeah, I was gettin' a lot of PM's."</span>
 +
 
 +
The player Camilo Canio says "<i>You like a rockstar, hell ya!!</i>" in the livechat.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uh, thank you, I don't feel like a rockstar, but thank you, uh, Camilo Canio. Uhh… I got a bunch of PM's about something about a livestream - a lot of it in Spanish, and again I don't speak Spanish so I'm really really sorry. I apologize. But, uhh… And I just wanna make that clear so if anybody thinks I'm ignoring them, I'm not trying to ignore them, I just don't know like- I literally just can't understand what's being said, so apologies, I'm sorry."</span>
 +
 
 +
The player Diana Madina says "<i>I love you😮❤🙌</i>" in the livechat.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uh- I, uh… I love you too Diana Madina. Um, so… Anyways, I had some stuff I was gonna talk about that I've been meaning to go over for a while and I've just been busy with work and life and just various weird things that happen to me. For example, I get a lot of weird phone calls, a lot of weird shit in the mail, uhh… which is something I'm about to get to, actually. Umm… I, uh… hold on…"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler clicks something on his computer.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Okay, there we go. I get a lot of weird shit in the mail - that's something I was about to get to, actually."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler once again looks behind him as if hears something.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Is my microphone picking that up? Or am I just fucking hearing shit?"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler scoots his chair back and looks out his bedroom door.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Whatever, let me not lack- bluh, let me not act like a psychopath in front of everybody, but-"</span>
 +
 
 +
Players ask "<i>what's behind you?</i>" in the livechat.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "What's behind me? Uhh… My, uh… covered windows so that I can feel like people can't watch me while I'm sleeping, you know, because I'm basically - I'm more or less one of those crazy targeted individuals bastards at this phase of my life. But, uhh… anyways, I'm gettin' sidetracked here."
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "I got PM's about a livestream and it got me thinkin' hey, I could livestream and talk about the various bullshit that I guess I probably need to mention to the people that care now that I've got a giant following out of nowhere for my shitty private vlog about my cult stalker life. But, uhh… I guess, what to go over first?"
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "This was, uh… a while back before I hung out with that Tony guy, which by the way, uh… Tony, if you're out there - hey, please come back and hang out again, that was a really fun time and it was really nice to run into somebody who I can see seemingly has, uh… somewhat of a similar experience to me. I hope you're doin' okay out there, man. Uh… things have been lookin' kinda weird on your YouTube channel, so uhh… I hope you're doin' okay, man. Anyways, uh… Before I hung out with that Tony guy, I got a couple of things that I never made videos about it- talking about it."</span>
 +
 
 +
The player Juan Manuel CH asks "<i>are you a ghost?</i>" in the livechat.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uhh… Am I a ghost? No, Juan Manuel, I'm… not a ghost. I think that was Juan Manuel… Yeah, Juan Manuel, I'm not a ghost… I-I don't think, I think I'm alive. I think I go to work every day. I think, uh, support my lonely swamp trailer life. But, uh… a couple of things I guess I should have talked about before, uh…"
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "The sign- the sign experiment video and Tony coming over - which, by the way, before - I'm the king of gettin' sidetracked here - before I get on to what I was gonna say, uhh… That sign video, which technically I recorded before the Tony guy came over, and we were just so caught up with everything we were doing that, like, we never even went outside to mess with the sign. It was… frankly the first time in about, well… god, like a decade that I- that I had like a nice time in which I didn't feel like I need to worry about just weird shit in my life. So… just didn't really think, oddly enough, to mention the sign at all to him, but… hopefully, Tony, if you're out there, you can come back again. I'll show you the sign. Uhh… I really should have done that in the beginning, I don't know why. I should have done that, I didn't. Um… In fact, I think a couple of these things might have even shown up in the video because I just had them sitting around."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler picks up a photo sitting on his desk.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "First off, I got this in the mail. Um…"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler once again looks behind himself, supposedly hearing something.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "I-I got this in the mail. Kind of a… cute picture of a couple and it's nice, I guess, because most of the shit I get in the mail is either really threatening or, uh, just in Spanish. I'm- I'm startin' to think that there's like a… I dunno if I mentioned this before, I'm startin' to think maybe there's a Spanish branch of these Lunar Children people or something because I get a lot of really threatening stuff in Spanish a lot of the time and frankly if it stopped that'd be really- that'd be really sweet of you all."
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "But anyways, um… Nice portrait of a couple of people. This is really an uncharacteristic thing I received in the mail. I remember when I first got it, just for the shit of it, I like… cleaned it up and I put it in a frame. But… I just today - because I decided I wanted to get it out and talk about it and accidentally broke the frame I remember when I went to pick it up. There's something on the back of it that says, uh… '1990 - Diana'. I dunno if, uh, this has something to do with, uh… well, anything. I think, uh… I think that Hank Hubbard guy had a wife or something. I dunno."
 +
 
 +
Tyler: "I've been asking - I've still been asking a lot around town with, uh, with the people that are kinda in the know and wanna actually talk about the local cult. Uh, which, by the way, I got recommended a book - hold on. Let me… Where did I put that book? Oh, my stupid ass."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler picks up a rather large book titled "<i>Drawing Down the Moon</i>".
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "'Drawing Down the Moon', apparently is something that used to be on their reading list, but I've read this front to back and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with anything. It really just seems like a lot of stupid hippy garbage. But, uhh… you know. Crazy cults and what I'd like to know about them."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler picks the photo back up.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "But, uhh… I got no idea who these people are. Maybe… maybe this is Hank? Which, I don't really know a lot about the guy other than he led the Lunar Children at a point."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler picks up a red mask with horns on it.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Another thing. I found this whenever I was walking around in the woods lately kinda close to…"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler once again looks behind himself as if he hears something.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "...The fishery, and, uh… it kinda seems familiar to me, but I dunno where I've seen this before, uhh… I didn't actually go to that fishery, really I don't- I don't wanna go back to it. I don't really… I don't really know… why… Uhh, any- anyways, uh, I dunno what this brittle piece of fucking garbage is, but maybe it's one of the cult masks. There's like a thing on the inside of it that looks like an 'R', but it's a really pointy 'R'."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler shows the inside of the mask. The letter "<i>R</i>" can be seen written inside.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "And this has all been in like the last, uhh, few months. I actually can't remember exactly what day I found this and what day I got mailed this, but, uhh… I know it was before… before I hung out with Tony. Umm…"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler once again hears something and looks over at the corner of his room.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Uhh… Sorry, my- my head's a little cloudy right now, uhh… and there's probably, uh… I don't- I don't know. Uh…"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler looks back into the hallway again.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "You can't hear it? Can anyone hear anything? Like, is my room just silent for the rest of you? A-anyways, um… A couple of days ago- and, I forgot to mention, actually, about a week ago I wanna say, I misplaced I guess somehow that necklace I found. I dunno if anyone remembers me mentioning - whenever I woke up in the hospital a while back there was this necklace, and they told me that I just had it whenever I woke up in the parking lot - or not woke up, but whenever I turned up in the parking lot. But… the necklace, I… don't know where it's at. But, uhh… yeah, I-I don't know what that came to mind suddenly, but… yeah. Necklace. Don't know what the fuck happened to it."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler holds up three pieces of a gas mask.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "But, very recently I found, uhh… this. And… this. And… this. Right at the edge of my yard. Not, uh… sure what the deal is, but that's… that's two now. Two masks. Two weird masks turning up in a very close proximity to my yard, and I'm… you know, the paranoia's been heightening for me again, you know? But hey, life's got its ups and downs. Meet a new friend, regain some old issues or something, I dunno. But, uhh… I don't really understand any… anything, really. And I'd really like that noise to stop. But, uhh…"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler begins looking over the gas mask.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "This isn't familiar, though. But, it kinda is. Was I wearing this…? I don't… I don't know. I gotta… man, this chat's goin' crazy. I dunno how I got so famous just being a crazy asshole in a swamp, but, uhh…"</span>
 +
 
 +
The player Noaimi say "<i>Tyler check the noise</i>" in the livechat.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "You know what, Noaimi, yeah, actually - I'll, uh… I'll check the noise, and I kinda gotta go to the bathroom anyways. I'll, uh… I'll be right back."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler stands up and leaves the room. While he's gone, the lights in his room begin to flicker. SKM enters the room and picks up the pieces of the gas mask from Tyler's desk.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">SKM: "Thank you… And just one more… Thank you. Alright. Thank you for finding that for me. Here... I grabbed this. Felt to add something to it…"</span>
 +
 
 +
SKM tosses the Bullet Necklace into Tyler's chair.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip2">SKM: "Watch over my brother for me. I'll see you soon."</span>
 +
 
 +
The lights flicker once again as SKM leaves the room. After a while, Tyler returns with some alcohol and a glass.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "I had to grab myself a little drink too because I'm really-"</span>
 +
 
 +
As Tyler's about to sit down, he sees the Bullet Necklace. He begins laughing as he picks it up before sitting down.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "I-I couldn't have been sitting on this the whole time. I couldn't have been sitting on this the whole time, could I? Wait… where's the, uhh… where did that mask go?"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler begins shakily pouring himself a drink while he reads the livechat. The player Wolfcat says "<i>he took the mask</i>" in the livechat.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "No no no, wait… Who took the mask? Someone's in my fuckin' house? Someone's in my fuckin' house. Someone's in my house?"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler stands up and picks up a knife.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Okay, so someone's in my fuckin' house, alright. Cool. Someone's in my house, is that what you're saying? Someone's in my fuckin' house. Cool. Fuckin' awesome. Great."</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler walks out of his room.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Hello…? Hello? Hello? Hello?"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler returns to the computer and sits down.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Someone's in my fuckin' house aren't they?"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler puts the Bullet Necklace back around his neck.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "No. No no no, I'm not- I'm not… not too happy right now, but hey, at least I got my fuckin' necklace back!</span>"
 +
 
 +
Tyler seemingly hears or sees someone out of the corner of his eye. He grabs his knife before slowly standing up.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "There you are you motherfucker. Hey… Hey. Hey!"</span>
 +
 
 +
Tyler runs out of his room in pursuit of the man inside his house.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Hey! Get the fuck back here- hey! Motherfucker!</span>"
 +
 
 +
Tyler returns to his computer to end the stream.
 +
 
 +
<span class="vip">Tyler: "Hold on, I'm gonna get my fuckin' guns."</span>
 +
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 +
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 +
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 +
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Latest revision as of 12:46, 29 June 2024

The Astral Arc is the fourth arc of Johnisdead. This arc began on February 4th, 2017, and ended on June 5th, 2019. This arc covered the aftermath of The Truth Arc, introducing a new character named Greth and his connection to the Astral Observatory - a group of online paranormal enthusiasts with some unknown connection to the Lunar Children. Throughout this arc, players were required to navigate the Astral Observatory forums and interact with its various members while avoiding the suspicion of Nocta - the mysterious leader of the Astral Observatory. Meanwhile, Tyler began investigating the Lunar Children on his own terms.

Contents

February 4th, 2017

  • At 2:27 PM, the player Scout discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page had reverted to how it was in 2015, with the "Foggyworld248.jpg" image and the audio "background.mp3", also known as "@90 by Kevin".

February 24th, 2017

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "construction" and contained an image of someone's face on top of the Libro Lunarus titled "DSC_0324.jpg". target=_blank

March 24th, 2017

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uplaoded to the Silentdork YouTube channel. This video's title consisted of glitchy characters that reversed the browser's title. target=_blank
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3/24/17 - ((Blank)) - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • The text "Still Here" appears, implying that Tenebris survived the "Kill Switch".

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "So many still trapped". target=_blank
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3/24/17 - "So many still trapped" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • This video featured a faint image of the Libro Lunarus along with the song "@90" by Kevin.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "4‍/23​‍/2017 ebuTouY". target=_blank
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3/24/17 - "4‍/23​‍/2017 ebuTouY" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • This video simply featured a black background with the sounds of someone drowning.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

March 26th, 2017

  • The players began using Discord as their main method of communication.

April 3rd, 2017

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Vincent Adams YouTube channel - "show me". target=_blank
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4/3/17 - "show me" - YouTube (Vincent Adams)

Summary

  • This video shows footage of someone's room as the the Lunar Children theme can be heard playing on a keyboard.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "show me"
  • Tags: "show me show me"
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Vincent Adams YouTube channel - "Foolish child". target=_blank
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4/3/17 - "Foolish child" - YouTube (Vincent Adams)

Summary

  • Based off the description and the things said by Vincent, this video was recorded on March 19th, 2015 - the day Vincent briefly broke free from Patrem's control and spoke with the players. Vincent mentions the park where he spoke to the kid asking about the "Purple man", which he also discussed on Within Hubris back in 2015.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "march 19th 2015 Did you think you would remember this?"
  • Tags: N/A

April 23rd, 2017

  • At 6:30 PM, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "Going to kevins". target=_blank
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4/23/17 - "Going to kevins" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • This video shows what happened to Tyler in 2015 after he departed for Kevin's house. Upon opening a door, Tyler was attacked by Doug and taken to the Spire. While there, he attempted to find his way out, only to get stuck in a spatial loop of sorts - constantly coming across the same rooms.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "oct 11th 2015 never made it shouldnt have went outside shouldnt have opened the door they got me"
  • Tags: "Friends?, / \\, Tired, Still among, lies, Father, new year
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Youshouldnthavedonethat.net began updating with journal entries from Hope - the young cultist girl who spoke with players through the sign-in page during the previous arc:
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4/23/17 - Hope's Journals - YSHDT.net

Summary

  • Hope reveals that she is a former Lunar Child. She is currently living with one of her friends after surviving the cataclysm that destroyed the Spire. She mentions that another one of her friends is currently in a coma.
  • After living in a motel for a brief time, Hope and her friends returned to the Spire. Despite the chaos that ensued, Hope and her friends perceive the Spire as completely normal.
  • Upon approaching the Spire a second time, Hope sees it as a pile of ruins. When she gets closer, however, it returns to normal. Outsiders seem to not be able to see the Spire at all.
  • The cataclysm that destroyed the Spire on April 23rd, 2016 is described as an explosion of sorts.

April 24th, 2017

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that more journal entries from Hope had been posted on the front page of Youshouldnthavedonethat.net:
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4/24/17 - Hope's Journals - YSHDT.net

Summary

  • Hope dropped her male friend off at the hospital. He has now completely fallen into his coma and is unresponsive.
  • Hope and her female friend attempt to visit the hospital the next day, but are unable to approach it for some unknown reason.
  • Hope mentions that her female friend has left some drawings around the Spire.

April 25th, 2017

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that more journal entries from Hope had been posted on the front page of Youshouldnthavedonethat.net:
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4/25/17 - Hope's Journals - YSHDT.net

Summary

  • Hope explores the Spire and comes across a lockbox that was sealed with a three-digit number. She was able to break the box open and found a necklace, along with some other valuable contents.
  • Hope visits her male friend at the hospital. He is now doing better and can speak with them. Hope's female friend draws some pictures for him.
  • Hope's male friend is very apologetic. She mentions that she hopes he returns to how he was soon, though maybe "a little less serious".

November 11th, 2017

  • At 11:32 PM, players discovered a new video on the Silentdork YouTube channel - ".". This video had actually been uploaded on October 23rd, 2013, but it had only now been made public. This video also contained closed captions created by the uploader that reveal more information. target=_blank
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11/11/17 - "." - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • This video is gameplay footage recorded by Tyler and John. They appear to be walking around a giant swimming pool.
  • This video's captions reference the disappearance of the Lunar Children and a missing persons report being filed around January 1st, 2017.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "."
  • Tags: "Play, Games, This, Game, sucks, dick, Let's Play"

November 12th, 2017

  • At 12:27 AM, the player ARGdov submitted the "Sonata of Awakening" by sending it to the Johnisdead.com Pididoip email address. target=_blank
  • At 1:27 AM, the player Scout discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "Comatose" and contained a distorted image of Tyler titled "Awaken.jpg", which contained the word "HELP" hidden within the distortions. target=_blank This page also contained a disturbing track titled "Awaken.ogg". target=_blank The text "dtrH" was hidden within this page's source code.
  • At 1:34 AM, the player ARGdov sent another email to the Pididoip email address, asking how the players can help tyler. "Tyler, are you there? Can you hear us or speak? Tyler, I hope I've managed to get your attention, I think I have, and I can only hope this message gets to you. ((...)) in any way you can. Where are you? What's happened?".
  • At an unknown time, the Pididoip account sent a response to ARGdov, asking "Who's Tyler?". target=_blank
  • At 1:57 AM, the player Dila discovered that the page "/hole" had changed. The page was now completely black with white text reading "whats lost can be found m /". target=_blank
  • At 2:50 AM, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "http://johnisdead.com/memory". This page was titled "Forget" and contained audio of a deep voice asking "Did you forget me?" titled "ForgetMe.mp3". target=_blank
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that staying on the page "/memory" for too long would redirect them to a new page - "http://johnisdead.com/memory/john". This page was titled "J" and contained an image of a blue John titled "John.gif". target=_blank This page also contained a song titled "Hello_again.mp3". target=_blank This page hid the text "New Year New You" in its source code.
  • At 3:08 AM, the player ARGdov received an email from the Pididoip email asking "Where did that suitcase go?". target=_blank

November 13th, 2017

  • At 1:22 AM, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube account - "Hello again". target=_blank
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11/13/17 - "Hello again" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • Tyler speaks directly to the audience for the first time in over a year. He gives a general update on how his life has been the past year.
  • Tyler claims that he got into some sort of accident in June of 2016 and was in a coma up until January 1st of 2017. His memory is worse than ever and he is having trouble remembering many details.
  • Tyler mentions that he now has a bullet necklace. He isn't sure where it came from - only that he woke up with it already around his neck after recovering from his coma.
  • Tyler remembers receiving the briefcase containing the camera from Helper, but he isn't sure where it went.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "Meant to upload this yesterday but had some problems and was not feeling too great either'Edit: I dont know who you people are but I am going to make the poor assumption you hold no ties with that cult. I dont know how to speak spanish and I dont think google translate is very reliable so I am sorry I cant really communicate with all of you but assuming you are here because you are on some level concerned, thanks I guess. Ill be uploading more soon when I can get my thoughts together more clearly to try and sift through all of this shit."
  • Tags: "You have forgotten, But you still remember, The USB, Find it"
  • At 2:00 AM, players discovered that the videos "Taking a walk" and "Waiting.wmv" had been privated on YouTube.
  • At 9:20 PM, the player CircleHunter discovered that the video "Paranoid knocking" had been renamed to "did you think I would just vanish?" and now featured Regiminis as its thumbnail.
  • At 9:20 PM, the player CircleHunter discovered that the videos ".", "3", "5646", "Regiminis", "calling john", "stuck at work", and "found a cool thing and now i am gonna go to work i guess" had all been privated on YouTube.

November 15th, 2017

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the video "5646" was once again public on YouTube.
  • At 10:19 PM, players discovered that the video "5646" had been renamed "Its Tyler" and its description now read "YOU MUST KEEP MOVING TYLER. DO NOT LET YOU WHO. WE ARE LATE FOR SOMEONES BIRTHDAY. HAPPYBIRTHDAYBEN".
  • At 11:51 PM, players discovered that the description of the video "5646" now read "Whats a few more moments to the man from the dawn of time? Who am I? The liar? The child? The Governor? The first son? The liars body?".
  • At 11:59 PM, players discovered that the description of the video "5646" now read "You know who you are.".

November 16th, 2017

  • At 12:02 AM, players discovered that the description of the video "5646" now read "I am not safe in my home".
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the tags of the video "I am not safe in my home" now read "Daniel was a short lived tool, so many have I used. Closer closer and closer" and the description read "Who is he?".
  • At 1:00 AM, the player Eve asks if Patrem is responsible for the recent YouTube video changes.
  • At an unknown time, the player Eve's Discord message is responded to with an eggplant emoji reaction.
  • At 1:09 AM, players discovered that the video "I am not safe in my home" now contains new closed captions. These captions read as follows: "They want you to forget over and over stalling tactics. but what is a few more moments to us. Why did you do that Daniel? He was not supposed to see you! We see. Regiminis is not ready to be brought to him yet we are not ready. Impatient. I flick the domino. Awaken. You know who you are".
  • At 1:23 AM, players discovered that the description of the video "I am not safe in my home" now read "Children forum notes".
  • At 2:10 AM, players discovered that the description of the video "I am not safe in my home" had returned to normal, except it now contained out-of-place capitalized letters that spell out "SPIRK" - the username of the player Spirkiroid.
  • At an unkonwn time, players contacted the player Spirkiroid, who still had the Lunar Children Forums downloaded. This resulted in them rediscovering who Daniel was - the Lunar Child who spied on Tyler.

March 4th, 2018

  • At 7:17 PM, the player ARGdov discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. The page was now titled "ERROR" and contained an image of the elegy statue along with a text box from the game "Chrono Trigger" that read "Enemies will attack even if you’re not ready!" titled "ERROR.png". target=_blank This page featured audio of a man laughing titled "awaken.ogg".

April 23rd, 2018

  • At 4:45 PM, the player ZenCoder discovered that the front page of Lunarchildren.com featured a post from a user named "TheArchiveGuy".
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4/23/18 - "Update" - Lunarchildren.com

Summary

  • TheArchiveGuy is someone who has recovered the Lunar Children servers from the fishery. He claims he is reconstructing the site because he had friends who knew people who were once members of the cult.
  • TheArchiveGuy mentions that he is also in possession of Johnisdead.com.
  • TheArchiveGuy mentions that many of the files on the site are corrupted. He asks the players to email him at the Johnisdead.com Pididoip email address.
  • At an unknown time, players began emailing the Pididoip account hoping to contact TheArchiveGuy.
  • At 5:32 PM, players received a response from the Pididoip account. TheArchiveGuy says the following: "I will be uploading the files directly on lunarchildren.com. so wait for them there. Did you know anything at all about the cult? Are you a member or something?" target=_blank
  • At 6:02 PM, players discovered that Tyler had uploaded a new video to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "The usual". target=_blank
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4/23/18 - "The usual" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • Tyler remembers that April 23rd is an important date for the Lunar Children. He is also seen visiting the Lunar Children website, indicating that he is becoming more knowledgeable of the cult.
  • Tyler mentions that he visited the fishery again and found the servers. He then visited the fishery for a second time and noticed that the servers were missing. This was because they had already been recovered by TheArchiveGuy by that time.
  • Tyler hears a loud bang coming from outside his house and the video ends.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "YOU ALL HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS USE IT"
  • Tags: "5646"
  • At 6:42 PM, players discovered that the page "/key592" had updated. This page now contained a link to another page - "http://johnisdead.com/key592/control".
  • At 6:42 PM, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - http://johnisdead.com/key592/control". This page contained an image board where players and characters alike could post images and messages. Unfortunately, nothing from this image board was archived.
  • At 10:40 PM, players discovered that Tyler had uploaded a new video to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "Unusual". target=_blank
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4/23/18 - "Unusual" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • Tyler is investigating his yard after hearing something hit the side of his house. The beginning of this video appears to mirror the video "Not safe in my home".
  • Tyler finds a random "Detour Sign" sitting in his yard. The sign seems to emit strange noises, and whenever Tyler tries to walk away from it, he ends up teleporting back in-front of it.
  • Tyler touches the "Detour Sign". As he does, the parallelos symbol appears and he is teleported to a random location in the woods.
  • A voice sounding similar to Patrem's is heard claiming that Tyler's "friend" has given him this "gift".

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "Getting tired of this shit"
  • Tags: N/A

Screenshots

  • The parallelos symbol that appears as Tyler touches the "Detour Sign". target=_blank

May 4th, 2018

  • At an unknown time the player Greth began uploading videos to a new channel titled "Greth Vlogs". At first, it was not immediately apparent that these videos were canon to Johnisdead. However, over time, it soon became clear that these videos were a pivotal part of the story. The first video uploaded to Greth Vlogs was titled "Greth Vlogs 1". target=_blank
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5/4/18 - "Greth Vlogs 1" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth introduces the players to his new channel. He mentions that he's just moved into a new apartment with a few roommates.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A
  • At an unknown time, Greth posts a message in the Internet Detectives Discord server specifying that he created the Greth Vlogs channel so he can become more connected with the players.
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 2". target=_blank
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5/4/18 - "Greth Vlogs 2" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth gives the players a tour of his house. He mentions that one of his roommates is named "Matt" and a white mask can be seen in his closet.
  • Greth mentions that he was up until 4 AM talking with Tyler.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 3". target=_blank
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5/4/18 - "Greth Vlogs 3" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth visits his old family home. He mentions a separate ARG that he had created in the past known as "I Am 979".

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A
  • At an unknown time, several arguments take place within the Internet Detectives Discord server as players disagree on various moderation policies.
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 4". target=_blank
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5/4/18 - "Greth Vlogs 4" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth references the drama in the Internet Detectives Discord server and expresses his love for the community.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 6(?)". target=_blank
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5/4/18 - "Greth Vlogs 6(?) - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth explains that he attempted to upload a separate video titled "Greth Vlogs 5", but it completely disappeared.
  • At the end of the video, what appears to be a figure holding the white mask from Greth's closet can be seen.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "Not sure what happened to 5"
  • Tags: N/A

Screenshots

  • The figure holding the while mask: target=_blank

May 5th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 7". target=_blank
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5/5/18 - "Greth Vlogs 7" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth assures the players that everything is fine. He brushes off the strange clip of the masked at the end of "Greth Vlogs 6(?)" as a glitch or some footage he forgot that he recorded.
  • Greth once again mentions having spoken to Tyler the night before starting Greth Vlogs.
  • Greth mentions that he is very tired.

Updates

  • Description: "lmao I'm so tired"
  • Tags: N/A
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "heard something outside". target=_blank
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5/5/18 - "heard something outside" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth is hearing something knocking on his second story window.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "Not a vlog, kind of weirded out. I live in a condo complex so people come and go all the time, but this sounded like it was directly outside my window, and I live on the second floor."
  • Tags: N/A

Updates

  • The strange glitchy face: target=_blank

May 6th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that Greth had uploaded a new video to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 8". target=_blank
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5/6/18 - "Greth Vlogs 8" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth claims he is becoming more and more paranoid in his new apartment. He questions if there's something wrong with him.
  • Greth mentions that a party will be held at his apartment that night to bid farewell to a friend of his named Ben.
  • A few video glitches can be seen followed by Greth sitting in his car as the footage slowly gets darker and darker.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

Screenshots

  • Greth in the darkness: target=_blank

May 7th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "happy birthday". target=_blank
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5/7/18 - "happy birthday" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • A figure wearing a silver alien mask appears, claiming to know a secret that Greth is supposedly hiding. The players dub this entity "The Watcher".

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "NOT ONLY IS THE ORIGIN OF MY THOUGHT UNKNOWN TO ME BUT THE ORIGIN OF MY MOVEMENTS IS EQUALLY HIDDEN I DO NOT KNOW WHY I EXIST"
  • Tags: N/A

Screenshots

  • The entity known as "The Watcher": target=_blank
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "SKMRETURNS". target=_blank
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5/7/18 - "SKMRETURNS" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • SKM appears to be attempting to get in contact with someone but is having difficulties.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "Scarcely have we begun to acquire a little information when death arrives before we can put it to use."
  • Tags: N/A
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the descriptions of both "SKMRETURNS" and "happy birthday" are excerpts from pieces written by the French author "Voltaire". This officially confirmed that Greth Vlogs was canon to Johnisdead.
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "greth vlogģgghhghhhhhhhhhhhhggggģ". target=_blank
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5/7/18 - "greth vlogģgghhghhhhhhhhhhhhggggģ" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • Greth mentions the video "happy birthday", believing someone has hacked into his account.
  • The video begins glitching out. "The Watcher" can once again be seen during these glitches.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

Screenshots:

  • "The Watcher": target=_blank
  • Greth looking very tired: target=_blank

May 8th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 9". target=_blank
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5/8/18 - Greth Vlogs 8 - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth claims he didn't upload a "Greth Vlogs" video yesterday, implying that he doesn't remember creating and uploading "greth vlogģgghhghhhhhhhhhhhhggggģ".
  • Greth once again mentions that he hasn't been sleeping wel.
  • Text reading "C O N T R O L" appears, implying that Greth is under the control of some unknown entity.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

May 10th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 10". target=_blank
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5/10/18 - "Greth Vlogs 10" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth continues having sleeping problems. While walking outside, a green entity can be seen following him from a distance.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

Screenshots

  • The green entity following Greth: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank
  • Greth with a purple-colored tint: target=_blank

May 12th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 11". target=_blank
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5/12/18 - "Greth Vlogs 11" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth is slowly going insane due to the lack of sleep. He believes his body is completely rejecting sleep for some reason.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

May 19th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "Escape". target=_blank
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5/19/18 - "Escape" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth boards an airplane headed for an unknown destination.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

July 28th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 5". target=_blank
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7/28/18 - "Greth Vlogs 5" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • This video simply features someone sneaking up behind Tyler in his house.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

August 16th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "Greth Vlogs 12: General Update". target=_blank
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8/16/18 - "Greth Vlogs 12: General Update" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • It's revealed that Greth boarded the airplane so he could take a hiking trip away from home, still believing his apartment is responsible for his poor sleeping patterns.
  • At the end of the video, Tyler can be seen teleporting into the background next to the "Detour Sign" - presumably having just touched it again.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

August 18th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "RWBN RWBN". target=_blank
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8/18/18 - "RWBN RWBN" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Tyler appears to be attacked while laying on his bed.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: "Night night"

August 25th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "experimentations". target=_blank
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8/25/18 - "experimentations" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth claims that he's finished running away from his problems. Instead, he is now experimenting with drugs in an attempt to subdue his sleeping issue.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: "i'm, still, here"

August 28th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Silentdork - "A guest". target=_blank
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8/28/18 - "A guest" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • In this video's description, Tyler mentions he has another video he was planning on uploading but it is currently glitched. He claims that he figured something out about the "Detour Sign" in that video.
  • Tyler and Greth discuss the Moon Children and the Lunar Children.
  • Tyler questions what took place on April 23rd, 2016. Greth isn't sure, and all Tyler knows is that some cataclysmic event took place at the Spire involving Luna punishing the Lunar Children.
  • Greth offers to introduce Tyler to the players on the Internet Detectives Discord server. Tyler claims that he does have a Discord account.
  • Greth mentions having helped the players by submitting songs on a website. When he tells Tyler that the site was "Youshouldnthavedonethat.net", the video glitches.
  • TheArchiveGuy's real name is revealed to be "José".
  • Tyler says that he's never visited "Youshouldnthavedonethat.net", but claims that he remembers the phrase. He believes that he remembers the phrase from one of the sites on the Lunar Children servers - likely referring to "YSHDT.com".
  • Tyler introduces Greth to his personal religion - Odin. He also claims he is studying the "Armanen Futhark" runes.
  • Tyler tells Greth what he's learned about Patrem and the fishery.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "I had this other video I planned on uploading that I recorded before this that was pretty important, it featured me figuring out something pretty important about that sign in my yard. But something fucked it up and I am trying to figure out how to fix it (maybe the sign itself? idk) but this is the guy I talked about in that video who was gonna come hang out with me who knew a bit about the various cult doings in the area."
  • Tags: "hidden in plain sight Kevi"

October 11th, 2018

  • At 7:30 PM, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "never sleeping". target=_blank
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10/11/18 - "never sleeping" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • Greth is looking extremely tired. He is reading a book titled "Moon Magic".
  • "The Watcher" is shown briefly along with a menacing-looking Greth.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

Screenshots

  • "The Watcher": target=_blank
  • A menacing-looking Greth: target=_blank target=_blank
  • At 9:00 PM, the player Dense submitted the video "GORONLULLABY - a video featuring Goron Link playing the "Goron's Lullaby" in an attempt to put Greth to sleep out of fear for his deteriorating mental health. target=_blank
  • At 11:46 PM, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "J J S K K N V G H". target=_blank
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10/11/18 - "J J S K K N V G H" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • The "Goron's Lullaby" successfully places Greth to sleep. Unfortunately, it is revealed that Patrem was housed within his body all along. Just like with Vincent Adams, now that Greth has fallen asleep, Patrem has taken over his body.
  • Greth can be seen wearing the white fish-like mask from before.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "|...by which a new vessel' may then be obtained. The flesh must be made weak. the mind must be made weary. the upon one who ye hath chosen shall descend lunar wisdom. Exalt him upon the hour of choosing and then through worldly works father thine children anew.|=ll"
  • Tags: "poor decision"

Screenshots

  • Images of Greth: target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank target=_blank

October 22nd, 2018

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. This page no longer had a title and contained an image of a red-tinted Tyler grinning titled "maj.jpg". target=_blank This page also featured the audio "recruit.mp3". target=_blank Hidden within this page's source code was the text "howdoesitwork" repeated 55 times.
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that Johnisdead.com now featured a new favicon of a crudely-drawn smiley face. target=_blank

October 23rd, 2018

  • At 1:58 PM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had updated. This page was now titled "construction" and once again featured the green, distorted image of Tyler titled "awaken.jpg". This page still contained the audio "recruit.mp3".
  • At 2:19 PM, players discovered that Johnisdead.com would once again redirect players if they attempted to access a non-existent page. The pages player would be redirected to seemed to all be previously discovered canon sources such as the Silentdork YouTube channel and Doug's blog.

October 24th, 2018

  • At 9:53 AM, the player Jos discovered a new page on Johnsidead.com - "https://johnisdead.com/home.html". This page was simply the previous version of the front page which featured the red-tinted image of Tyler.
  • At 9:56 AM, the player Jos discovered that Johnisdead.com would sometimes redirect him to a new website when attempting to access a non-existent page - "https://astralobservatory.net/". This site appeared to be a blog themed around paranormal activity and conspiracies. Players noticed that some of the wording within the blog posts found on this page were distinctly cult-like. target=_blank
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10/24/18 - Announcements - Astralobservatory.net

Summary

  • The announcement welcoming users to the site was posted on July 28th, implying that the Astral Observatory has existed for several months.
  • The members of the Astral Observatory believe that society has obscured various truths regarding the nature of the paranormal and reality itself. The author of these posts claims that the Astral Observatory has been exposed to information that has "shattered that illusion", and that now they want more.
  • On October 22nd, an announcement was posted on Astral Observatory claiming that Johnisdead.com had stolen their bandwidth on October 21st. This explains why Johnisdead.com now redirects to Astralobservatory.net.
  • It is revealed that the Astral Observatory has some forums that are temporarily offline.
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Astralobservatory.net contained a link to their forums - "https://astralobservatory.net/forum". Unfortunately, these forums were still offline.
  • At 10:01 AM, the player Jos discovered that the Javascript code on Johnisdead.com that redirected players could now be read. The redirects were as follows:
  • Johnisdead.com - https://johnisdead.com
  • Silentdork YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/silentdork
  • Greth Vlogs YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB62RBGB5A5uRaLv-95fMrw
  • YSHDT.net - http://youshouldnthavedonethat.net/
  • Doug's Blog - http://letschasethemouse.blogspot.com/
  • Lostmemory423 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT-n6eNjB3rNoDYsKWuP-DA
  • "M" YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfjnw6rFLW3-NhEphVdPymw
  • Vincent Adams YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrrgIhl-3DkhgKIHEkB4OQ
  • Johnisdead.com "home.html" Page - http://johnisdead.com/home.html
  • Astralobservatory.net - https://astralobservatory.net/

October 25th, 2018

  • At 3:28 PM, the player Jos discovered that the generic "404" page on Johnisdead.com that users were sent to before being redirected was now titled "lost?". This page also contained a dark image of Tenebris and the elegy statue titled "ha.png" and hid the text "find your way" in its source code. target=_blank

October 31st, 2018

  • At 4:02 PM, players discovered that the front page of Astralobservatory.net now contained a new announcement titled "Good news and bad news.".
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10/31/18 - Announcement - Astralobservatory.net

Summary

  • It is revealed that any content on the previous incarnation of the Astral Observatory forums has been lost.
  • The author mentions a "protected forum" that contains some archived posts. This implies that there is some degree of secrecy within the inner workings of the Astral Observatory.
  • At 4:16 PM, players discovered that the Astral Observatory forums were now accessible. These forums contained a header that read "Seeking the truths that lie beyond the grand illusion" and a small image of the "Astral Observatory" location from Majora's Mask. target=_blank The following characters were discovered on the forums: target=_blank
  • nocta - The mysterious leader of the Astral Observatory.
  • Avatar: N/A
  • Signature: N/A
  • Rank: "Site Admin"
  • Groups: "Leader", "Truth Seekers"
  • Joined: "October 21st, 2018 at 11:44 AM"
  • Samuel_Charleston - A mysterious member of the Astral Observatory forums who had yet to make a post.
  • Avatar: N/A
  • Signature: N/A
  • Rank: N/A
  • Groups: "Truth Seekers"
  • Joined: "October 21st, 2018 at 11:12 PM"
  • moonman31 - A male forum-goer who often posts memes and "trolls" other users.
  • Avatar: An image of the McDonalds mascot "Mac Tonight". target=_blank
  • Signature: N/A
  • Rank: N/A
  • Groups: "Believers"
  • Joined: "October 31st, 2018 at 12:59 PM"
  • yuukichan - A female forum-goer who enjoys anime and often posts messages containing Japanese emojis.
  • Avatar: An image of the character "Yuki Nagato" from the anime "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya". target=_blank
  • Signature: An image of the character "Yuki Nagato" kissing an alien from the "Aliens" franchise. target=_blank
  • Rank: N/A
  • Groups: "Believers"
  • Joined: "October 31st, 2018 at 12:59 PM"
  • NotAHoax_M12 - A male forum-goer who is a fervent believer of outlandish conspiracy theories.
  • Avatar: A photo of a crashed UFO. target=_blank
  • Signature: N/A
  • Rank: N/A
  • Groups: "Believers"
  • Joined: "October 31st, 2018 at 1:57 PM"
  • Players began searching through the Astral Observatory forums. The following is the structure of the various message boards and the threads contained within them:
  • Section - "Forum"
  • Board - "Welcome" - "Helpful topics for those new"
  • Sub-Board - "Help & FAQ" - "A board for asking questions that either nocta or another can answer; the board rules are also posted in here."
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    7/28/18 - "Forum Rules" - nocta

    Summary

    • Nocta forbids users from attempting to break into "The Truth" - the password-protected board on the forums that was mentioned previously.


  • Sub-Board - "Introductions" - "A board for asking questions that either nocta or another can answer; the board rules are also posted in here."
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    10/31/18 - "We starting over?" - moonman31

    Summary

    • The user "moonman31" introduces himself on the newly created forums.
    • The other users welcome Moonman back to the forums. Judging by their wording, Moonman has a history of trolling the others.
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    10/31/18 - "AAAAH WE'RE BAAAACK" - yuukichan

    Summary

    • The user "yuukichan" introduces herself on the newly created forums.
    • Yuukichan asks Nocta to fix her group status, referring to the "Believers" group.
    • Yuukichan notes that "grampa" is registered but hasn't made a post yet. This is referring to "Samuel_Charleston" - a member who has not yet posted. He is also the only member aside from Nocta who is in the "Truth Seekers" group.
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    10/31/18 - "Nice to be back." - NotAHoax_M12

    Summary

    • The user "NotAHoax_M12" introduces himself on the newly created forums.


  • Sub-Board - "General Discussion" - "Talk about anything not relevant to the other discussion forums here"
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    10/31/18 - "A N I M E" - yuukichan

    Summary

    • The user Yuukichan creates a thread for casual anime discussion. It's implied that a similar thread existed before the Astral Observatory forums were purged that surpassed 1000 posts.
    • Updates

      • Files:
      • Two gifs relating to the anime "Kemono Friends" are posted by Yuukichan: target=_blank target=_blank


    • Section - "Theories & Discussion"
    • Board - "Aliens & Visitors"
    • This board had no posts.
    • Board - "Ghosts / Demonology"
    • This board had no posts.
    • Board - "Political Conspiracy"
    • This board had no posts.
    • Board - "Supernatural, Folklore & Etc"
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    10/31/18 - "JohnIsDead.com" - moonman31

    Summary

    • Moonman questions the logistics of Johnisdead.com redirecting bandwidth from Astralobservatory.net.
    • Nocta urges the players to cease discussion of the topic.
    • The player Dense posts the description of the video "J J S K K N V G H".


    • Section - "Forum"
    • Board - "The Truth" - "Only those chosen may enter here; the greatest truths that only the ready minds are capable of discussing are within here; to access you will need to belong to the 'Believers' usergroup or above"
    • This board was locked and required a password to enter. Only users who are trusted and added to the "Believers" group may receive the password.
  • At 2:30 PM, the player Wolfcat created a thread titled "What's up, spookboys", introducing himself to the Astral Observatory members. Several of them replied to this thread:
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10/31/18 - "What's up, spookboys" - Wolfcat

Summary

  • The Astral Observatory members welcome the new players with open arms.
  • Nocta refers to the player Jos as "detective", implying that he knows of the Internet Detectives player group.
  • At 4:20 PM, the player Jos created a thread titled "Hehe how funny...", sharing a strange "Princess Peach" fetish video he found online.
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10/31/18 - "Hehe how funny..." - Jos

Summary

  • Moonman claims that the player Jos is "on some weird shit".
  • At 4:53 PM, the player Jos created a thread titled "What are your thoughts about visitors?", asking for opinions on aliens.
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10/31/18 - "What are your thoughts about visitors?" - Jos

Summary

  • The player Jos brings up the topic of aliens. NotAHoax chips in, claiming that aliens are indeed real and that the United States government is keeping their existence a secret.
  • At an unknown time, the player Dense's post in the "Johnisdead.com" thread which contained the translated description of the video "J J S K K N V G H" was edited by Nocta. The contents from the post were completely removed and replaced with ".".
  • At 5:16 PM, Nocta sent the user Dense a PM on the Astral Observatory forums which read "I would stop while you are ahead.".
  • At 5:48 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that a new announcement had been posted on the front page of Astralobservatory.net titled "New users".
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10/31/18 - Announcement - Astralobservatory.net

Summary

  • Nocta addresses the players joining the forums. He tells the other users to welcome the players, but to keep an eye on them and not reveal any secretive information.
  • Nocta seems willing to indoctrinate the players rather than outright banning them.
  • At 5:57 PM, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had changed. The page was now titled "The timer (won’t) reset" and contained an image of a moon with occasional flashes of a smiling face appearing titled "infinitecycle.gif". target=_blank This page also contained the audio "brokencycles.ogg". target=_blank
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had changed. The page appeared exactly the same, but the audio file had changed from "brokencycles.ogg" to "brokencycles.mp3". Despite the different file extension, these two tracks were exactly the same.
  • At 10:24 PM, players discovered that Tyler had uploaded a new video the Silentdork YouTube channel - "experiments". target=_blank
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10/31/18 - "experiments" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "Video I recorded about a week before the last one that came out all messed up in my phone and I could not get it to work. But I checked my phone today and suddenly it works now. Must be that Samhain magic I guess. I have not messed with the sign much more since that point. I have been waiting for that guy I hung out with last time to come back again so maybe I could try and see if he would like to help me try a few Ideas I have had with it. Also johnisdead.com seems to have come back since then, but Archive guy never emailed me or anything like he said he would. Not sure what the deal is with that but I assume he is probably just really busy. The cult main site is not back however and idk what the deal is with that."
  • Tags: N/A

November 1st, 2018

  • At 10:35 AM, the player Wolfcat created a thread titled "MKUltra", asking about the MKUltra experiments.
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11/1/18 - "MKUltra" - Wolfcat

Summary

  • The player Wolfcat asks about the MKUltra experiments. NotAHoax chips in, claiming that it is connected to aliens.
  • At 12:26 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "JohnIsDead.com" thread once again.
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11/1/18 - "JohnIsDead.com" - moonman31

Summary

  • NotAHoax claims that they have no connections to Johnisdead.com and have never heard of it before.
  • Yuukichan says that the players will learn the Astral Observatory's "truths" if they stick around.
  • Nocta claims he doesn't like where the thread is heading and locks it.
  • At 12:34 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Idk if this happened to you guys..." created by the player Jos on October 31st, 2018.
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11/1/18 - "Idk if this happened to you guys..." - Jos

Summary

  • The player Jos brings up the subject of ghosts. NotAHoax believes that ghosts are a manifestation of our souls - something that aliens do not possess.
  • Moonman31 jokes about NotAHoax's conspiracy theories.
  • At 5:48 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "What are your thoughts about visitors?" thread once again.
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11/1/18 - "What are your thoughts about visitors?" - Jos

Summary

  • The players and NotAHoax casually speculate about the existence of aliens.

November 2nd, 2018

  • At 7:22 PM, the player Jos discovered that Tyler was hosting a livestream on the Silentdork YouTube channel titled "testing testing 123". target=_blank
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11/2/18 - "testing testing 123" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "never live streamed before but some spanis hfriends pm'd me about a live stream or something so I thought "hey got some stuff to talk about why not live stream for the first time ever" this is a test however. Thought it was cute might delete later"
  • Tags: N/A
  • At 7:42 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that Tyler was hosting another livestream on the Silentdork YouTube channel titled "First live stream: general talk". target=_blank
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11/2/18 - "First live stream: general talk" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

November 3rd, 2018

  • At 8:50 AM, the player F.N created a thread titled "Brand New", introducing themselves to the forums.
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11/3/18 - "Brand New" - F.N

Summary

  • Yuukichan welcomes the player "F.N" to the forums. The player then quickly changes their username to "CelestialLight".
  • At 1:39 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Paranormal Encounter" created by the player F.N on November 2nd, 2018.
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11/3/18 - "Paranormal Encounter" - F.N

Summary

  • Yuukichan believes that ghosts are real and claims to have been around them ever since she was young.
  • At 5:35 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "What are your thoughts about visitors?" thread once again.
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11/3/18 - "What are your thoughts about visitors?" - Jos

Summary

  • NotAHoax confirms that he is a believer of the "Majestic 12" conspiracy theory, explaining the "M12" in his username.
  • NotAHoax reveals that he grew up in New Mexico, where he witnessed "visitors" take away his mother. He claims that the next day, his father was taken as well. Since then, he's been searching for the truth and wishes to expose the government's lies.
  • At 5:39 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "What are your thoughts about visitors?" thread once again.
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11/3/18 - "Idk if this happened to you guys..." - Jos

Summary

  • Yuukichan reiterates her belief in ghosts.
  • At 11:37 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "MKUltra" thread once again.
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11/3/18 - "MKUltra" - Wolfcat

Summary

  • Yuukichan assures the player Jos that he is not crazy and attempts to make him feel welcome in the Astral Observatory.
  • At 11:47 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "AAAAH WE'RE BAAAACK" thread once again.
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11/3/18 - "AAAAH WE'RE BAAAACK" - Yuukichan

Summary

  • Yuukichan explains that Samuel_Charleston is not her biological grandfather, but just an elderly member of the forums. She claims that he doesn't have a family anymore.
  • At 11:48 PM, the player Dense created a thread titled "G O O D MUSIC", urging users to post their favorite songs.
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11/3/18 - "G O O D MUSIC" - Dense

Summary

  • NotAHoax shares the song "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash. target=_blank

November 4th, 2018

  • At 12:29 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "What are your thoughts about visitors?" thread once again.
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11/3/18 - "What are your thoughts about visitors?" - Jos

Summary

  • Nocta claims that the purpose of the Astral Observatory is to "break the veil" and find the truth.

November 5th, 2018

  • At 1:41 PM, the player Deadhead created a thread titled "Moon Children", hoping to learn how much the Astral Observatory members know about the Moon Children.
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11/5/18 - "Moon Children" - Deadhead

Summary

  • The player Deadhead creates a thread about the Moon Children hoping to learn if the Astral Observatory members are aware of them.
  • NotAHoax and Yuukichan appear to be unaware of the Moon Children, though they appear somewhat interested.
  • At 2:22 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "What are your thoughts about visitors?" thread once again.
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11/3/18 - "What are your thoughts about visitors?" - Jos

Summary

  • The player Wolfcat jokingly posts a screenshot of a forum bot named "Majestic-12 [Bot]". NotAHoax believes it to be real.
  • At 2:29 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "G O O D MUSIC" thread once again.
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11/5/18 - "G O O D MUSIC" - Dense

Summary

  • NotAHoax shares another song he enjoys - "Harvest Moon" by Neil Young.
  • At 2:41 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "My Introduction" created by the player CelestialLight on November 4th, 2018.
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11/5/18 - "My Introduction" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • NotAHoax welcomes the player CelestialLight to the forums.
  • At 2:45 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "MKUltra" thread once again.
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11/5/18 - "MKUltra" - Wolfcat

Summary

  • NotAHoax welcomes the player Jos to the Astral Observatory.
  • At 2:57 PM, the players discovered that Nocta had made a post in the locked "The Truth" board on the Astral Observatory forums. Because this post was made in a locked board, it is unknown what its contents were.
  • At 7:23 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Paranormal Encounter" thread once again.
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11/5/18 - "Paranormal Encounter" - F.N

Summary

  • Yuukichan explains that her first encounter with ghosts occurred when her mother began writing on the walls.

Updates

  • Files:
  • A photo sent by Yuuki of her walls covered in her mother's writings: target=_blank

November 6th, 2018

  • At 12:48 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Hellooo" created by the player CircleHunter on November 5th, 2018.
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11/6/18 - "Hellooo" - CircleHunter

Summary

  • The player CircleHunter introduces himself to the forums.
  • Nocta identifies CircleHunter as an Internet Detective and a former member of Within Hubris. Yuukichan refers to CircleHunter as a "ben drowned guy", implying the Astral Observatory members are aware of not only the Internet Detectives, but a fair amount of history regarding Within Hubris and "Ben Drowned" as well.
  • At 12:58 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "What are your thoughts about visitors?" thread once again.
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11/3/18 - "What are your thoughts about visitors?" - Jos

Summary

  • The Astral Observatory members ponder the existence of aliens within the universe.
  • Updates

    • Files:
    • An "X-Files" image with text reading "THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE" sent by Moonman: target=_blank
  • At 1:01 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Paranormal Encounter"" thread once again.
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11/6/18 - "Paranormal Encounter" - F.N

Summary

  • Yuukichan fears she scared away the rest of the users after posting the photo of her mother's writings.
  • At 1:04 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "My Introduction" thread once again.
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11/6/18 - "My Introduction" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • Yuukichan welcomes the player CelestialLight to the forums.
  • At 1:05 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "G O O D MUSIC" thread once again.
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11/6/18 - "G O O D MUSIC" - Dense

Summary

  • Yuukichan shares the opening of the anime "Parasyte". target=_blank
  • Nocta shares the song "Old Lace (To John)" by Emily Bindiger. This is the same song that can be heard in the background of the Greth Vlogs video "never sleeping". target=_blank

November 7th, 2018

  • At 12:58 PM, NotAHoax created a thread titled "Harvard Agrees: They're Out There".
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11/7/18 - "Harvard Agrees: They're Out There" - NotAHoax_M12

Summary

  • NotAHoax links to an online news article relating to aliens.

November 11th, 2018

  • At 12:02 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had changed. This page was now titled "tlopa" and contained a purple, distorted image of Greth smiling titled "pqbxh.gif". target=_blank This page also contained a distorted audio track titled "fillicaelo.mp3", which roughly translates to "Child of the sky". target=_blank
  • At 2:44 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "G O O D MUSIC" thread once again.
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11/6/18 - "G O O D MUSIC" - Dense

Summary

  • Nocta shares a link to a video he has uploaded on his own personal YouTube channel featuring the song "Sky Children" by Kaleidoscope. This is the same song that appeared on the recent Johnisdead.com update.
  • The video shared by Nocta is titled "Sky Children - Kaleidoscope". See below for more information. Through this YouTube channel, Nocta's real name is revealed - "Kevin Hendricks". This implies that Kevin is somehow related to Kayd Hendricks.
  • At 2:44 AM, Nocta shared a new video titled "Sky Children - Kaleidoscope" on a yet undiscovered YouTube channel titled "Kevin Hendricks". target=_blank target=_blank
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11/11/18 - "Sky Children - Kaleidoscope" - YouTube (Kevin Hendricks)

Summary

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: ((This video's description contained the lyrics heard in the song "Sky Children" by Kaleidoscope))
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    Kaleidoscope Lyrics

  • Tags: "he, was, never, safe"
  • At 3:06 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Cryptids" created by the player CircleHunter on November 6th, 2018.
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11/11/18 - "Cryptids" - CircleHunter

Summary

  • Nocta expresses interest in internet-based cryptids. Moonman is excited to discuss Slenderman.
  • At 5:42 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "A N I M E" thread once again.
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11/11/18 - "A N I M E" - Yuukichan

Summary

  • Moonman discusses anime with the players and calls the user "Darkzero" a cuck for their comments regarding the anime "Kemono Friends".
  • At 5:43 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Harvard Agrees: They're Out There" thread once again.
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11/11/18 - "Harvard Agrees: They're Out There" - NotAHoax_M12

Summary

  • Moonman jokes about the "veil" growing thick.
  • At 10:44 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Moon Children" thread once again.
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11/11/18 - "Moon Children" - Deadhead

Summary

  • Moonman mentions that people online have always been interested in the Moon Children, implying that he's known of them for quite some time.
  • At 10:57 PM, Moonman began chatting with the player Wolfcat through PM's.
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11/11/18 - Chat with Moonman - Astral Observatory Forums (PM's)

Summary

  • Moonman offers the players something that he believes they might want - a brightened clip from the video "Sky Children - Kaleidoscope" titled "mask of truth". See below for more details.
  • At 11:05 PM, Moonman shared the video "mask of truth" which was uploaded to his own YouTube channel - a previously undiscovered account named "moonman". target=_blank target=_blank
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11/11/18 - "mask of truth" - YouTube (moonman)

Summary

  • This video is a short clip of "Sky Children - Kaleidoscope" that has been brightened. Tyler can faintly be seen, revealing that he was present at whatever ritual was taking place in Nocta's footage.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: N/A
  • Tags: N/A

November 12th, 2018

  • At 12:58 PM, Moonman began chatting with the player Wolfcat in PM's once again.
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11/12/18 - Chat with Moonman - Astral Observatory Forums (PM's)

Summary

  • Moonman offers to answer three questions:
  • When asked if Nocta is the same Kevin known as Regiminis, Moonman answers "In a way, yes.".
  • When asked if the footage involving Tyler and Greth's car from "Sky Children - Kaleidoscope" was recorded after 2015, Moonman answers "Yes.".
  • When asked of Nocta is "The Watcher", Moonman replies "No idea.".
  • At 4:03 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "G O O D MUSIC" thread once again.
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11/12/18 - "G O O D MUSIC" - Dense

Summary

  • Moonman shares a Vaporwave track he enjoys titled "Private Caller" by Saint Pepsi. target=_blank
  • At 5:43 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Ok, this is important." created by the player Jos on November 4th, 2018.
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11/12/18 - "Ok, this is important." - Jos

Summary

  • The player Jos claims that he is currently on the run after his family completely disappeared. Moonman suggests contacting the police for help.
  • Moonman calls the player AMGain an edgelord after they suggest Jos take a hostage.
  • At 6:00 PM, a new user named "Kaiden_Zoromichi" joined the Astral Observatory forums and posted a thread titled "I have returned.". His avatar appears to be his own original character from the "Kingdom Hearts" series - an anime-esque character wearing a black cloak. target=_blank Kaiden_Zoromichi appears to be a returning user to the forums, and he has already been added to the "Believers" group.
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11/12/18 - "I have returned." - Kaiden_Zoromichi

Summary

  • The members of the Astral Observatory welcome Kaiden_Zoromichi back to the forums.
  • It's implied that there was once a "Roleplay" board on the forums, but Kaiden and Yuukichan were the only ones who ever used it.
  • It's implied that Moonman and Kaiden are not on very good terms with one another.
  • At 7:25 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Ok, this is important." thread once again.
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11/12/18 - "Ok, this is important." - Jos

Summary

  • Kaiden is skeptical of the player Jos's story.
  • Moonman claims that Kaiden has crafted an entire backstory surrounding his original character.
  • At 11:15 PM, Moonman sends the player Wolfcat a PM that reads "I may be interested in chatting further, but it needs to be away from here, and no where that eyes know of- not your discord or skype groups you boys have advertised those too frequently.".

November 13th, 2018

  • At 2:33 PM, Nocta sent the player ARGdov a PM on the Astral Observatory forums titled "What game is it you play, ARGDov" that read "I would like to know. I've been told you haven't been with the Detectives for some time."
  • At 7:00 PM, the player Wolfcat sends Moonman a PM on the Astral Observatory forums, asking "Would a newly created discord server work? The only people in it are about five others that I closely trust, other Internet Detectives who are on these forums..
  • At 8:15 PM, Moonman responded to the player Wolfcat's PM on the Astral Observatory forums with "should work just fine".
  • At 8:26 PM, a separate Discord server named "Safehaven" was created. The player Wolfcat sent Moonman an invite link to this Discord server in a PM on the Astral Observatory forums.
  • At 8:34 PM, Moonman joined the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players. Moonman's Discord avatar was an image of the character "Mac Tonight" in a digital, vaporwave-esque environment. target=_blank
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11/13/18 - Chat with Moonman - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman is well aware of "Ben Drowned" and the story surrounding the Moon Children. He also knows of Tyler, Matt, and the players as well.
  • Moonman says that the rest of the Astral Observatory forum-goers don't know the full history of "Ben Drowned" and the Moon Children - only he and Nocta do.
  • Moonman claims he is physically incapable of answering certain questions for some unknown reason. He is also unable to tell us what is in "The Truth" board.
  • Moonman says that his inability to speak about certain things is not caused by Nocta.
  • Moonman says he's been a member of the Astral Observatory since its creation, which he claims was in July of 2018.
  • Moonman simply describes Samuel Charleston as an "older dude who posts on the forums". He isn't sure why he's been absent lately.
  • Moonman knows of Greth, but he is unable to tell us how.
  • Moonman saw Tyler's recent livestream, but he doesn't know anything about the red "R" mask that was shown.
  • At 8:38 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Does anyone have/ever tried to do a Tulpa?" created by the player Jos on November 12th, 2018.
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11/13/18 - "Does anyone have/ever tried to do a Tulpa?" - Jos

Summary

  • The players discuss the concept of tulpas. NotAHoax doesn't know what the players are talking about.
  • At 8:39 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "I have returned." thread once again.
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11/13/18 - "I have returned." - Kaiden_Zoromichi

Summary

  • NotAHoax welcomes Kaiden back to the forums.

November 14th, 2018

  • At 4:10 PM, the player ARGdov sent Nocta a PM on the Astral Observatory forums claiming that he was no longer a member of the Internet Detectives and that he now truly wished to discover the truth.
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11/14/18 - ARGdov's PM - Astral Observatory Forums (PM's)

  • At 5:25 PM, Moonman briefly chatted with the players in the Safehaven Discord server.
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11/14/18 - Chat with Moonman - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman informs the players that he is currently stoned.

November 16th, 2018

  • At 7:54 PM, Nocta replied to the player ARGdov's message with a PM on the Astral Observatory forums that read "How far does your curiosity go?".

November 17th, 2018

  • At 6:44 PM, the player ARGdov replied to Nocta's message with a PM on the Astral Observatory forums explaining that he wishes to learn to real truth behind all the recent going-on's.
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11/17/18 - ARGdov's PM - Astral Observatory Forums (PM's)

November 19th, 2018

  • At 9:18 PM, Moonman became active in the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players.
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11/19/18 - Chat with Moonman - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman describes his inability to speak about certain subjects as a "spooky-ooky thing".
  • Moonman claims to have met other members of the Astral Observatory in person.

November 20th, 2018

  • At 9:46 AM, Moonman became active in the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players.
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11/20/18 - Chat with Moonman - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman reveals that he was a member of the Internet Detectives in 2016. During this time, he spoke to Jeremy on Skype - just like the players did during The Truth Arc. He also claims to own the "Moon Magic" book seen in the Greth Vlogs video "never sleeping", heavily implying that he is Greth.
  • Moonman claims that Nocta would know Thomas - Kayd's friend. This further connects Nocta "Kevin Hendricks" and Kayd Hendricks.
  • Moonman says that the "Truth Seekers" group on the Astral Observatory forums is simply a moderator group and is nothing special.
  • At 7:07 PM, Nocta sent the player ARGdov a PM on the Astral Observatory forums asking if he would like to become friends.
  • At 7:10 PM, ARGdov replied to Nocta's message with a PM on the Astral Observatory forums accepting Nocta's offer.

November 22nd, 2018

  • At 11:30 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Cryptids" thread once again.
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11/22/18 - "Cryptids" - CircleHunter

Summary

  • Yuukichan jokes with the players about the Pokemon series.
  • At 11:36 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Spirit World" created by the player CelestialLight on November 5th, 2018.
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11/22/18 - "Spirit World" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • Yuukichan mentions that there are people who believe that realms beyond our own reality can be access through the parallelos. This reveals that she has a basic understanding of the Lunar Children concept of the "parallelos".

November 23rd, 2018

  • At 2:23 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Ok, this is important." thread once again.
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11/23/18 - "Ok, this is important." - Jos

Summary

  • Kaiden claims that Moonman is simply making fun of him in reference to his OC's backstory.

November 24th, 2018

  • At 12:09 PM, the player Zero discovered that Astralobservatory.net was completely offline.
  • At 2:29 PM, the player Deadhead discovered that Astralobservatory.net was once again online. The site now contained a new announcement on the front page titled "Website temporarily down, but we’re back.".
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11/24/18 - Announcement - Astralobservatory.net

Summary

  • Nocta explains that Astralobservatory.net was offline for a brief time due to a sudden DDOS attack. He claims it would be easy to blame the players for this attack, but he isn't completely sure it was them.
  • This post contained bolded letters that spelled out "he is trapped".
  • At 2:37 PM, the player Jos created a topic on the Astral Observatory forums titled "Page suspended".
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11/24/18 - "Page suspended" - Jos

Summary

  • Kaiden believes that the players are partially responsible for the DDOS attack on Astralobservatory.net.
  • At 3:18 PM, the player Jos discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "https://johnisdead.com/heistrapped.html". This page was titled "trapped" and contained an image of a pained Greth titled "trapped.gif". target=_blank This page also contained a rendition of the "Astral Observatory" theme from Majora's Mask titled "astral.mp3". target=_blank
  • At 3:55 PM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the audio "astral.mp3" hid the text "what do you think you can do to save them" in its source code.
  • At 5:36 PM, Nocta joined the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players. He had no avatar.
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11/24/18 - Chat with Nocta - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Nocta claims that the players cannot change anything, and all they're doing is worrying his friends.
  • Nocta implies that the players have only been given information from one side of the story and they assume to much.
  • At 8:41 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Ok, this is important." thread once again.
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11/24/18 - "Ok, this is important." - Jos

Summary

  • Kaiden implies that he will share his odd past experiences with the players. It's likely Kaiden is simply referring to his past roleplaying adventures, however.

November 26th, 2018

  • At 1:44 PM, Moonman and Nocta became active in the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players. Many messages in this chat were deleted before they could be properly archived, so a simple approximation is given in their place.
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11/26/18 - Chat with Moonman and Nocta - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman and Nocta have a brief argument. Moonman tells Nocta that no one is enemies with one another, but Nocta simply calls him an idiot.
  • Moonman asks Nocta if he can just "let it go". Nocta says he can't and leaves the Safehaven Discord server.
  • Moonman claims that the situation isn't exactly what we believe it to be. Moonman believes that his life may now be in danger.
  • Moonman believes that there may be a traitor among the Internet Detectives.
  • Moonman is able to reveal more to us now. He believes that the more we discover on our own, the more he is able to speak about.
  • Moonman confirms that he is indeed Greth, but he never made "Greth Vlogs". He also claims that the Greth seen in the image on the front page of Johnisdead.com is not him. This means that Moonman and the other members of the Astral Observatory are from a separate timeline. Players commonly refer to Moonman's timeline as the "Astral Timeline", while they call their own timeline the "Prime Timeline".
  • Moonman claims that there are some "dark things" happening within the Astral Observatory behind the scenes, and he is frustrated because he believes he may be too late to stop it.
  • Moonman reveals that he no longer has access to "The Truth" board on the Astral Observatory forums. The password has been changed, and he has not been given the new one. He reveals that the previous password was "pqbxhtlopa" - the two ciphers that were previously discovered on Johnisdead.com.
  • Moonman notices that a post has been deleted from "The Truth" board on the Astral Observatory forums, but he doesn't know what post it was since he no longer has access to that board.
  • Moonman recalls submitting the "New Wave Bossa Nova" on Youshouldnthavedonethat.net, implying that the Astral and Prime timelines are fairly similar at some points.
  • Moonman begins acting oddly as he is seemingly attacked by an entity. He posts strange messages such as "EVERYTHING IS TYLER AND NOTHING IS TYLE" and begins deleting his own posts. When asked who is doing this to him, he reacts to one of his own messages with an alien emoji, implying that "The Watcher" is responsible.
  • The player Wolfcat submits the "Bow and Arrow" from Majora's Mask, resulting in Moonman returning to normal.
  • The player Jos submits "Epona's Song", resulting in Moonman leaving with someone who was knocking at his door.
  • At 4:41 PM, Moonman became active in the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players once again.
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11/26/18 - Chat with Moonman - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman explains that someone came to his house and he felt the need to leave with them. This was likely a strange effect caused by "Epona's Song".
  • Moonman says that he's safe - he just felt the strange urge to leave with the person who visited him.

November 29th, 2018

  • At an unknown time, Nocta sent the player ARGdov a PM on the Astral Observatory forums that read "Just keep an open mind to possibilities and we will get along well.".
  • At 1:42 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "A N I M E" thread once again.
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11/11/18 - "A N I M E" - Yuukichan

Summary

  • Kaiden confesses that he watches anime to no-one's surprise.
  • At 1:45 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Kingdom Hearts" created by the player Wolfcat on November 14th, 2018.
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11/29/18 - "Kingdom Hearts" - Wolfcat

Summary

  • Kaiden confesses that he plays "Kingdom Hearts" to no-one's surprise. He claims that Yuukichan is also a fan of the series.
  • At 1:46 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "My Little Pony" created by the player Wolfcat on November 2nd, 2018.
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11/29/18 - "My Little Pony" - Wolfcat

Summary

  • Kaiden reveals that he's a fan of "My Little Pony" to no-one's surprise.
  • At 1:49 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "G O O D MUSIC" thread once again.
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11/12/18 - "G O O D MUSIC" - Dense

Summary

  • Kaiden shares the song "Venice Rooftops" from the video game "Assassin's Creed II". target=_blank
  • At 1:52 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Video Games" created by the player Darkzero on November 16th, 2018.
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11/29/18 - "Video Games" - Darkzero

Summary

  • Kaiden claims he is currently playing through two Zelda titles - "A Link to the Past" and "Ocarina of Time". He also claims he has a YouTube channel where he wishes to speedrun them sometime.
  • At 1:54 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Magic" created by the player CelestialLight on November 23rd, 2018.
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11/29/18 - "Magic" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • Kaiden ponders if time travel could be considered magic or science.
  • At 1:56 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Art" created by the player CelestialLight on November 13th, 2018.
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11/29/18 - "Art" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • Kaiden expresses his resentment for Moonman.
  • At 2:00 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Hehe how funny..." thread once again.
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11/29/18 - "Hehe how funny..." - Jos

Summary

  • Kaiden insults Moonman for his use of drugs.
  • At 11:13 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Ok, this is important." thread once again.
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11/24/18 - "Ok, this is important." - Jos

Summary

  • Nocta urges the players to keep discussion within the topic civil.

November 30th, 2018

  • At 9:30 PM, the player ARGdov responded to Nocta's message on the Astral Observatory forums with a PM that reiterated his eagerness to learn the truth.

January 11th, 2019

  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "Escape p.2". target=_blank
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1/11/19 - "Escape p.2" - Greth Vlogs

Summary

  • This video seems to be a recording of Greth travelling to the hiking trail where he met Tyler following the video "Escape".
  • A woman can be heard speaking to Greth while he's driving. This is likely his girlfriend, who was mentioned in a previous Greth Vlogs video.
  • This video ends with an image of Moonman. This image coupled with the description implies that Moonman somehow leaked this video to the players.

Updates

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  • Description: "You weren't supposed to have this"
  • Tags: N/A

January 21st, 2019

  • At 12:20 AM, Yuukichan created a thread titled "Haunted houses".
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1/21/19 - "Haunted houses" - Yuukichan

Summary

  • Yuukichan asks if anyone's ever been to a place that lets them interact with ghosts.

January 26th, 2019

  • At 1:09 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Haunted houses" thread once again.
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1/21/19 - "Haunted houses" - Yuukichan

Summary

  • Yuukichan claims to have recently visited a haunted location. She says "It wasn't just any old house... But it *was* an old house", implying that it may have been her childhood home where her mother was seemingly haunted by spirits.
  • Yuukichan says that her experience at this haunted location was eye-opening and it "awakened me further to The Truth in ways I never hoped", implying that she witnessed something disturbing related to the paranormal.
  • Yuukichan claims to have taken photos at the haunted house, but she doesn't have access to them at the moment.

January 27th, 2019

  • At 11:42 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Haunted houses" thread once again.
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1/21/19 - "Haunted houses" - Yuukichan

Summary

  • Yuukichan is frustrated that her photos are corrupted and cannot be sent. She claims "I wish I could will things into existence". The "i" in "existence" in this sentence is a link that redirects players to a new page on Johnisdead.com. See below for more details.
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the "i" in the word "existence" in Yuukichan's newest post on the Astral Observatory forums linked to a new page on Johnisdead.com - "https://johnisdead.com/hh.html". This page was titled "case file" and contained the image that rapidly flashed photos of an old house titled "hh.gif". target=_blank This page also contained a piano theme titled "mater.mp3", which is Latin for "Mother". target=_blank The mentions of "mother" and the contents of "hh.gif" seem to imply that these photos are the ones Yuukichan took.
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the audio file "mater.mp3" contained a voice whispering "stop" at the end in reverse.

January 30th, 2019

  • At 12:52 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Timelines and time travel" created by the player Mercury on January 26th, 2019.
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1/30/19 - "Timelines and time travel" - Mercury

Summary

  • The players discuss time travel. Kaiden scoffs at them, claiming to have experienced time travel personally.
  • The players ask Kaiden to explain his experiences with time travel. He claims he will in an upcoming YouTube series, implying that perhaps he's simply referring to his past roleplaying adventures rather than actual time travel.
  • At 6:47 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Art" thread once again.
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11/29/18 - "Art" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • Yuukichan and Kaiden praise the player Jos's fanart.

January 31st, 2019

  • At 11:20 PM, players discovered that the Greth Vlogs account had left a comment on the video "Escape p.2" that read "upon several worlds did these men stumble, each world only slight less and more than the last. inviting themselves into these folds allowed their conscious too see her".

February 1st, 2019

  • At 11:59 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "The Hidden Truth" created by the player CelestialLight on November 12th, 2018.
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2/1/19 - "The Hidden Truth" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • NotAHoax claims that politics are a staged chess game played by aliens. Moonman agrees, though it's unclear how serious he is.
  • At 3:01 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Moon Children" thread once again.
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2/1/19 - "Moon Children" - Deadhead

Summary

  • NotAHoax compliments the player Dawn, saying that he is a natural born leader.
  • At 3:46 PM, the player Jos discovered that the page "https://johnisdead.com/heistrapped.html" had been added to the list of Johnisdead.com redirects.
  • At 3:53 PM, the player Jos discovered that the avatar used for the Greth Vlogs YouTube channel had changed into an upside down image of Greth's face with a purple tint. target=_blank
  • At 6:59 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "The Weather And Will Power" created by the player CelestialLight on January 30th, 2019.
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2/1/19 - "The Weather And Will Power" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • Moonman shares an image of the super villain "Weather Wizard" and links to the vaporwave track "天気予報 - 雰囲気". target=_blank
  • At 8:11 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Art" thread once again.
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2/1/19 - "Art" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • The players call Yuukichan their friend, embarrassing her.

February 4th, 2019

  • At an unknown time, the player ARGdov was promoted to the "Believer" group on the Astral Observatory forums, signifying that he had gained Nocta's trust.
  • At 12:34 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "do you have any alien proof?" created by the player Jos on February 3rd, 2019.
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2/3/19 - "do you have any alien proof?" - Jos

Summary

  • The player Jos claims to have proof that aliens exist. NotAHoax asks Jos for this proof.

February 5th, 2019

  • At 12:02 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Aliens Spotted" created by the player CelestialLight on February 4th, 2019.
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2/5/19 - "Aliens Spotted" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • Nocta locks the thread for being redundant and the excessive arguing within it.
  • At 12:14 AM, Moonman became active in the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players.
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2/4/19 - Chat with Moonman - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman informs the players that ARGdov has been accepted into the "Believers" group on the Astral Observatory forums, meaning he should onw have access to "The Truth" board.
  • Moonman claims that the player CelestialLight has also been added to the "Believers" group and has access to "The Truth" board. Moonman says this is highly unusual for multiple users to be added to the "Believers" group at once.
  • Moonman says that Nocta is watching closely to see if any info gets leaked from "The Truth" board. This is how he will know if ARGdov and CelestialLight are truly trustworthy or not.
  • Moonman confirms that he was the one who uploaded the "Escape p.2" video to Greth Vlogs.
  • Moonman tells the players to keep an eye on Yuukichan, saying "Something is not good there".
  • At 12:35 AM, Nocta sent the player ARGdov a PM on the Astral Observatory forums that read "I’ve been watching. I have recently removed some sensitive material from The Truth, but you now have access to this forum which is mostly empty, for now. The current password is 'mindconstruct'. I change it every time new material is posted in there.".
  • At 12:37 AM, the player ARGdov gained access to "The Truth" board on the Astral Observatory forums and discreetly leaked its contents to the players:
  • A thread titled "Internet Detectives" created by Nocta on November 5th, 2018, at 2:57 PM. This topic contained only a single post that read "[original post has been pruned]- nocta".
  • A thread titled "Welcoming a new brother into our fold." posted by Nocta on February 5th, 2019 at 12:15 AM.
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2/5/19 - "Welcoming a new brother into our fold." - Source

Summary

  • Nocta welcomes the player ARGdov to "The Truth" board on the Astral Observatory forums. He tasks the other members of the Astral Observatory with teaching ARGdov their ways.
  • Moonman is present in the thread, implying that he was given permission to re-enter "The Truth" board. Moonman expresses his confusion over two users being promoted at once.
  • At 12:38 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Haunted houses" thread once again.
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2/5/19 - "Haunted houses" - Yuukichan

Summary

  • The player thetraveler posts the image "hh.gif". Yuukichan confirms that these are the photos she took while at her mother's haunted house.
  • At 10:58 AM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Webcomic General" created by the player ADULT_LINK on February 4th, 2019.
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2/5/19 - "Webcomic General" - ADULT_LINK

Summary

  • The Astral Observatory members discuss webcomics with the players. NotAHoax enjoys "Perry Bible Fellowship", whereas Yuukichan is a fan of "Homestuck".
  • At 12:07 PM, the player Wolfcat message Yuukichan on the Astral Observatory forums with a PM that read "Hey, this is just something I was wondering after seeing the haunted house thread. Forgive me if this is a personal question, but is the haunted house you visited the same house that had the writing on the walls? The one you posted a picture of a while back?

February 11th, 2019

  • At 9:43 PM, Yuukichan responded to the player Wolfcat's message on the Astral Observatory forums with a PM that contained the phrase "the woods" repeated 110 times.

March 2nd, 2019

  • At 10:49 AM, the player Jos discovered that the front page of Johnisdead.com had changed. The page was now titled "Go there" and contained a distorted image of Tyler titled "hitilp.gif". target=_blank This page also contained the audio "future.mp3". target=_blank
  • At 10:54 AM, players discovered a new page on Johnisdead.com - "https://johnisdead.com/hitilp.html". This page contained the audio file "misrem_old.mp3". target=_blank This page was titled "here" and contained the image "p_message_from.jpg". This image was a distorted photo of Hank Hubbard along with a piece of paper with Elder Futhark runes written on it. target=_blank These runes have been translated below:
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3/2/19 - "p_message_from.png" Runes - Johnisdead.com

  • At 1:20 PM, players discovered that the image "p_message_from.jpg" could be opened by a .zip file manager to reveal three new files:
  • A video titled "t.mp4". target=_blank
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3/2/19 - "t.mp4" - Johnisdead.com

Summary

  • Tyler is attacked by someone in his yard.

Updates

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  • A video titled "j.mp4". target=_blank
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3/2/19 - "j.mp4" - Johnisdead.com

Summary

  • This is a heavily distorted video of someone sitting in a car.

Updates

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  • The image "messagefrom_.jpg", which featured more runes written down on a piece of paper. target=_blank
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3/2/19 - "messagefrom_.jpg" - Johnisdead.com

March 10th, 2019

  • At 8:58 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "What Happened to Everyone?" created by the player CelestialLight on March 9th, 2019.
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3/10/19 - "What Happened to Everyone?" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • Moonman chides the players for partaking in pointless drama and posts a link to a vaporwave track. target=_blank

March 19th, 2019

  • At 12:22 PM, the Astral Observatory members began posting in a thread titled "Dragons" created by the player CelestialLight on March 10th, 2019.
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3/19/19 - "Dragons" - CelestialLight

Summary

  • Nocta suggests that dragons could perhaps exist.

April 22nd, 2019

  • At an unknown time, the Astral Observatory forums became flooded with forum bots attempting to scam users.
  • At 1:44 PM, Moonman became active in the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players.
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4/22/19 - Chat with Moonman - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman explains that he's been laying low as of late. Nocta realized that the players had posted the contents of "The Truth" board on the Internet Detectives Tumblr, and he believes that Moonman is responsible. Nocta now does not trust Moonman at all.
  • Moonman says that Nocta still trusts the player ARGdov, which is the most important thing at the moment.
  • Moonman reveals that he was the one responsible for all the scambots on the Astral Observatory forums. He invited them so that they would slow Nocta down.
  • Moonman reveals that there is a secret part of Astralobservatory.net known as the "Subspace". The Subspace contains the Astral Observatory's secret cult-like information, whereas the Astral Observatory forums are more of a recruitment tool for new members.
  • Moonman says that Yuukichan, Kaiden, Nocta, and Samuel are a part of the "inner" Astral Observatory and partake in more cult-like activities.
  • Moonman has managed to hack into parts of the "Subspace" and retrieve some email snippets between Astral Observatory members. On April 23rd, 2019, something involving an "agent of Luna" bringing the "final piece of the puzzle" into place will occur. This will somehow involve the parallelos.
  • Moonman isn't sure what's wrong with Yuukichan. He believes she is conflicted on some things.
  • Moonman mentions that the "Subspace" is locked with a password - which he no longer knows.
  • Moonman mentions that members of the Astral Observatory can be referred to as "Astral Children".
  • Moonman reveals that there are two members of the Astral Observatory who have yet to return - IsocelesAssassin and an unnamed Spanish user.

April 23rd, 2019

  • At 5:45 AM, the player Jos discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "LevANnhUa". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "LevANnhUa" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • This short video contains imagery of gates and a strange, green environment. The description implies that Tyler will be travelling somewhere.

Updates

  • YouTube Details:
  • Description: "Your time away from us has come to a close You are coming to see us now Final day Did you expect us to start counting for you? After the bridge, the next destination is the gate."
  • Tags: "Luna, Tyler, Mistake, Tenebris awaken, lostinforest"
  • At 6:15 AM, the player Pedropi3 discovered that Tyler was hosting a stream on the Silentdork YouTube channel titled "Good Morning". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "Good Morning" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

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  • At an unknown time, players discovered that a new video had uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "111111". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "111111" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

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  • At 6:40 AM, Jos discovered that Tyler was once again hosting a livestream on the Silentdork YouTube channel titled "awake". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "awake" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

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  • At 8:14 PM, the player Deadhead discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "sacredartifact.mp4". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "sacredartifact.mp4" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • The haunted Majora's Mask cartridge is shown in a wooded area.

Updates

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  • At 4:25 PM, the player Mugen Kagemaru discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "423". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "423" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • A man is praying before the haunted Majora's Mask cartridge, resulting in the mannequin-like entity that previously represented Drowned manifesting.

Updates

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  • At 5:50 PM, Moonman became active in the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players.
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4/23/19 - Chat with Moonman - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman has convinced someone within the inner circle of the Astral Observatory to leak him some videos. The video "sacredartifact.mp4" was one of these leaked videos. Moonman was able to hack into the Greth Vlogs YouTube channel to upload it.
  • Moonman believes that these videos have something to do with what the Astral Observatory members were discussing regarding an "agent of Luna" and the "final piece of the puzzle".
  • Moonman believes that Nocta may be following orders from someone or something from the players' timeline.
  • At 6:41 PM, the player Mugen Kagemaru discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "guidance.mp4". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "guidance.mp4" - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • This video seems to be a continuation of the video "423". A man wearing a gas mask appears behind the mannequin-like "Drowned" entity and commands the kneeling man to rise.

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  • At 6:55 PM, the player Mugen Kagemaru discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "soon". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "soon" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • This video shows Alex along with text reading "We will show you were later" along with the "Detour Sign".

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  • At 7:04 PM, the player Mugen Kagemaru discovered that a new video had been uploaded to the Silentdork YouTube channel - "g4". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "g4" - YouTube (Silentdork)

Summary

  • Alex informs the players that Tyler has been taken somewhere. We will apparently be told where he has gone at a later point in time.

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  • At 7:48 PM, the player Mugen Kagemaru discovered that a new video had been uploaded to Greth Vlogs - "a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.". target=_blank
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4/23/19 - "a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead." - YouTube (Greth Vlogs)

Summary

  • This video contains more footage of the mannequin-like "Drowned" entity.

Updates

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  • Tags: "YOU ARE UNDER ATTACK"
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the boards on the Astral Observatory forums were no longer visible. Instead, there was text that read "Punish ye who have traitorous roots in holy soil".

April 24th, 2019

  • At 9:29 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the title of the video "Escape p.2" had changed to "joyous parallelos", and the description now read "I’m glad you have this.".

April 25th, 2019

  • At 11:51 AM, the player Wolfcat discovered that the text on the Astral Observatory forums had changed. Throughout the day, the text would periodically change:
  • 11:51 AM: "Did you think that would work?"
  • 11:58 AM: "That’s not going to work, either."
  • 11:58 AM: "The more you try, the more you will fail."
  • 12:11 PM: "It is amusing to see you flounder with every attempt, hacker. Whats secrets do you hope to gain from this?"
  • 12:29 PM: "020224 200414 14212411 0414152106162123"

April 30th, 2019

  • At 4:30 PM, players discovered that the text on the Astral Observatory forums had changed. Throughout the day, the text would periodically change:
  • 4:30 PM: "ON24 200414 14212411 0414152106162123"
  • 5:28 PM: "ON24 20A14 14212411 04141521061621D"
  • 7:52 PM: "ONE 20AS B212411 04141521061621D"

May 1st, 2019

  • At 8:48 PM, the player Jos discovered that the text on the Astral Observatory forums solved to the following: "ONE HAS BEEN ASCENDED".
  • At an unknown time, players discovered that the Astral Observatory forums had returned to normal.

May 17th, 2019

  • At 9:02 PM, NotAHoax posted a thread titled "Man is this place dead or what?" on the Astral Obsevatory forums.
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5/17/19 - "Man is this place dead or what?" - NotAHoax_M12

Summary

  • NotAHoax questions where the other Astral Observatory members went.

May 18th, 2019

  • At 8:47 AM, Astral Observatory members began posting in the "Man is this place dead or what?" thread once again.
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5/18/19 - "Man is this place dead or what?" - NotAHoax_M12

Summary

  • NotAHoax finds it suspicious that the Astral Observatory members are gone.

June 5th, 2019

  • At 11:23 AM, Moonman became active in the Safehaven Discord server and began chatting with the players.
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6/5/19 - Chat with Moonman - Discord (Safehaven)

Summary

  • Moonman reveals that he's managed to hack into Nocta's account on the Astral Observatory forums.
  • Moonman claims he's about to "pull my final act of defiance".
  • At 11:59 AM, Moonman posted a thread on the Astral Observatory forums titled "!?!" which simply read "be free internet detectives".
  • At 12:13 PM, players discovered that they had all been given moderator powers on the Astral Observatory forums. The following discoveries were made:
  • A thread created by Nocta in the "The Truth" board on November 12th titled "The History of Us". This thread was deleted and its contents could not be recovered.
  • A thread created by Nocta in the "The Truth" board titled "Test". This thread was deleted and its contents could not be recovered.
  • A thread created by Yuukichan titled "ascension". This thread was deleted, but its contents were recovered - a single post by Yuukichan that read "are you awake?". This reveals that Yuukichan was the one member of the Astral Observatory who was ascended.
  • At 12:17 PM, the player Jos deleted Moonman's "!?!" thread in an attempt to cover his trail.


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