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At 11:19 PM, the player Mugen Kagemaru submitted the "<b>Song of Storms</b>" in response to Patrem's "wet the ashes" phrase.
 
At 11:19 PM, the player Mugen Kagemaru submitted the "<b>Song of Storms</b>" in response to Patrem's "wet the ashes" phrase.
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<h2>February 20th, 2015</h2>
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At 12:33 AM, Doug made a new post on his blog. He claims that the cult told him to stay away for a while. He also says it started raining outside, implying the "Song of Storms" has taken effect.
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2/20/15 - Blog Post - Letschasethemouse
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<span class="vip">They said I had to stay away for a while.
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That I'd be given more time to sort things out.
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I don't know what this all means. Right after they told me this, it started pouring outside.
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Is this a sign of things to come?</span>
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At 12:42 AM, Doug replied to a player's comment warning him about the cult's secrecy. Doug replied "<span class="canquote">They're only secretive to outsiders, just like any religion. They're my friends and family. I won't turn my backs on them.</span>"
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At 12:50 AM, Doug made a post that simply read "<span class="canquote">It's raining too hard.</span>" along with a picture of a flooding room. (Link)
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At 1:01 AM, Doug replied to a player's comment warning them to leave their room. Doug replied "<span class="canquote">Sure, I'll go outside. Where the streets are worse than my house.</span>"
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At 1:07 AM, the player ADULT_LINK submitted the "<b>Song of Storms</b>" to stop the rain.
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At 1:09 AM, Doug made a new post on his blog. He claims that the rain suddenly ended and says he might go visit the fishery.
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2/20/15 - Blog Post - Letschasethemouse
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<span class="vip">This is quite odd.
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It seems like the rain stopped, even though it was supposed to go on until the next day.
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Everything is still flooded, though. I hope the place of meeting is alright...
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I might head out there now.</span>
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At 1:17 AM, Doug made a new post on his blog. He reconfirms that he is heading to the fishery.
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<span class="vip">I'm going to head out to the meeting place guys.
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Hopefully it's not as flooded as I'm worrying about.
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I'll post more tomorrow.</span>
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At 1:18 AM, a user named "31071157 356670" began chatting in the players' Skype group. Their username was a cipher that translated to "drown", though some users referred to them as "numbers guy". Drown is apparently being chaased by Patrem and appear to have ties with "Ben".
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2/20/15 - Chat with Drown - Skype (Internet Detectives)
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<span class="vip">drown 1:19 AM: "Found you"​​​​​
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​​drown 1:20 AM: "Just like me"
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drown 1:24 AM: "Got away from him"
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drown 1:25 AM: "Got away from patrem"</span>
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Eve 1:26 AM: "Are you Vincent?"
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<span class="vip">drown 1:26 AM: "No"
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drown 1:26 AM: "Couldn’t save him"
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drown 1:27 AM: "Doug"
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drown 1:27 AM: "Like me"
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drown 1:28 AM: "I"
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drown 1:29 AM: ((Drown enters a call with the players))
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drown 1:29 AM: ((The "Song of Unhealing" (A reversed version of the "Song of Healing" from Majora's Mask commonly associated with Ben) plays))
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drown 1:29 AM: ((Audio of someone drowning plays))
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drown 1:30 AM: ((Drown leaves the call))
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drown 1:33 AM: "Who"
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drown 1:33 AM: "You already know"</span>
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At 1:33 AM, the players John and ADULT_LINK discovered the front page of YSHDT.com had update. The page now featured a swf file titled "swf.swf" which played the "Inverted Song of Time" before cutting to the perspective of someone standing in the fishery looking out a window while breathing heavily. The video then cut to the word "No" before ending. The page's title now read "..." and "/vincent" was found in the page's source.
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At 1:33 AM, the player John discovered a new page on YSHDT.com - "http://yshdt.com/vincent". This page's title read "1" and "He may be given more time to live yet." was found in the source. This page also featured four images: "Doug.jpg" - a photo of Link transforming into "Deku Link" with blood on it (Link)  "2.png" - a photo of Link transforming into "Goron Link" with an "X" drawn on it (Link)  "3.png" - a photo of Link transforming into "Zora Link" with a question mark written on it (Link)  and "him.bmp" - a photo of Patrem. (Link) The audio on this page, "time.wav", was a continuous drum beat. Players also discovered that clicking on "Doug.jpg" would link them to Doug's blog and clicking on "him.bmp" would link them to Patrem's Within Hubris profile.
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At 1:47 AM, Patrem posted "I can see you boy." on Within Hubris.
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At 1:47 AM, drown became active on Skype once again, seemingly being pursued by Patrem.
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2/20/15 - Chat with Drown - Skype (Internet Detectives)
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<span class="vip">drown 1:47 AM: "Im scared"
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drown 1:53 AM: ((Drown enters a call with the players))
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drown 1:54 AM: ((Audio from "jadusable.wmv"</span> <span class="supple">(One of the videos from Jadusable's ARG)</span> <span class="vip">plays. The audio seems to be from 3:49 to 4:19 in the original video))
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drown 1:56 AM: ((The "Song of Unhealing" plays))
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drown 1:59 AM: "He's coming."
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drown 1:59 AM: ((The "Happy Mask Salesman" can be hear laughing))
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drown 2:00 AM: "He's here."
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drown 2:00 AM: ((Audio from "jadusable.wmv" plays. The audio seems to be from 4:21 to 4:58 in the original video))
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drown 2:01 AM: "He's smiling."
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drown 2:01 AM: ((Drown leaves the call and the Skype group))</span>
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At 2:28 AM, the player Jacob receives an email from someone named "Mason". Mason is the friend Doug mentioned who handles new recruits who wish to join the cult. Jacob is tasked with doing a series of tests in order to prove he is worthy of joining the cult, the first of which is reciting the cult's offical chant.
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2/20/15 - Chat with Mason - Email
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<span class="vip">Hello.  This is Doug’s friend, Mason.  He’s allowed me to use his E-Mail to contact you, so that you don’t believe it is spam.  Since we’re thinking that we’re going to have an opening in the future, we would gladly accept you into our group.  But first, you must pass a short series of tests to make sure you would be loyal to our cause.  The first, is the official chant for recruits into our order. Please make a video, or record you reading this: I spit on my mother’s womb for it is filth, Luna shall cradle me with her glory.  I strike down my father for he is weak, our Father shall grant me his might.  I shall know that this family is sacred, a meta tribe of masters.  I will heed the cry, of the children in the night, for I am as they are.  I am, have been, and will be as a god. Though we may be of flesh we shall transcend, into the night, our mothers arms and know the euphoria of flying. The glory of ascension
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At 3:13 AM, the player ADULT_LINK submits "Epona's Song" hoping to save Drown.
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At 3:27 AM, Patrem became active on Within Hubris. He began chatting with the players in the ARG thread:
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2/20/15 - Chat with Patrem - Within Hubris
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<span class="vip">/Patrem\ 3:27 AM: "Now that I have stabilized myself in this plane I can take a moment to explain.  You think yourselves detectives, and yet you fail time and time again at the most simple of tasks. That child only seeks to mislead you. I have been watching you, you frightened sniveling children. You lack patience and you lack courage. Why should I even begin to help you when you can’t even stay on the path laid plain before you?"</span>
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ADULT_LINK 3:42 AM: "Which child?"
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<span class="vip">/Patrem\ 3:48 AM: "Fool, the one who had you all cowering in fear. Mortals are all the same, cowering idiots. If not for our mutual needs I would waste no time with you ignorant children."</span>
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Mugen Kagemaru 3:58 AM: "A name, smartass. Give their name. You might think yourself clever, but assuming we know who you speak of when we don't doesn't get us anywhere."
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Mugen Kagemaru 3:58 AM: "<i>Patrem: "Mortals are all the same, cowering idiots."</i>"
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Mugen Kagemaru 3:58 AM: "True of them as that might be, it doesn't help if you make assumptions."
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Mugen Kagemaru 3:58 AM: "<i>Patrem: "If not for our mutual needs I would waste no time with you ignorant children."</i>"
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Mugen Kagemaru: 3:58 AM: "Nor would we give even you the time of day if we didn't have anything else to work with. Show some gratitude and take our limits into account."
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<span class="vip">/Patrem\ 4:34 AM: ((A disturbing audio file is posted. This file contains the "Song of Unhealing" along with a voice repeating the name "Ben"))</span>
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Patrem claims that he has now "stabilized himself" in our realm, implying that "Epona's Song" is allowing him to speak more clearly now.
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Patrem insults the players for repeatedly failing.
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Patrem reveals that "Drown" is "Ben" and they wish to mislead the players.
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At 7:03 AM, the player Jacob uploaded the video "official chant for recruits" to his YouTube channel. This video simply features Jacob reading the chant as requested by Mason. (Link)
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At 3:30 PM, Doug made a new post on his blog titled "Watched". He says he visited the fishery which strangely wasn't flooded at all. He also claims he thought someone was watching him through a window. (Similar to "swf.swf")
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<span class="vip">I went to the meeting place. It was, oddly, not as bad as I'd imagined it'd be.
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It's closer to the water level, but there wasn't any flooding.
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However, the entire time I was there, I felt odd. For a second, I could have sworn I saw a figure in the window watching my every move, but that's probably just my paranoia.</span>
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At 3:55 PM, a user named "The Man" joined the Skype group. He claims that he is the GM (Gamemaster - the person currently running the ARG). He also says that "Drown" was simply a distraction and not to take everyone and everything at face value. Since this was the GM speaking OoC (Out of Character -- Non-canon), it has no bearing on the story.
 
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Revision as of 13:37, 30 December 2019

The YSHDT Arc is the first arc of Johnisdead. This arc began on January 22nd and ended on May 14th, 2015. It is highly recommended that one is knowledgeable on both the Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge story written by Alex Hall and the video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask before reading through the timelines.

January 22nd, 2015

  • At 7:12 PM, a user named thelaw joined the Within Hubris forums. They created a thread titled "Arg" where they mentioned a new website they discovered called "YSHDT.com". " (Link)
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1/22/15 - Chat with thelaw - Within Hubris

  • At 8:03 PM, players began investigating YSHDT.com. The front page contained the following:
  • An image titled "soon.png" featuring the text "I'm still waiting. Let's play again soon." in a text box. (Link)
  • An audio file titled "Game over.wav" which was a music box version of the game over theme from the original "The Legend of Zelda" game playing backwards. (Link)
  • Source text (Text hidden within the page's HTML code) that read "The sky is falling, the people are crying. Where is your link now?"
  • Title text (The text that appears as the page's title in a browser's history and tab bar) that read "It's been too long."
  • At 8:44 PM, the player Sengi created a thread for investigating YSHDT.com. (Link)
  • At 8:48 PM, thelaw posted the following in the YSHST.com thread: "yes hello I am that new guy. So the ARG is coming back soon?"
  • At 10:10 PM, the player Sengi discovered that YSHDT.com had only been registered on January 15th.
  • At 10:19 PM, the player GreyouTT discovered that a hidden image of Link from "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" could be seen in "soon.jpg" if the image was brightened.

January 24th, 2015

  • At 8:59 PM, the player GreyouTT submitted the "Oath to Order" hoping to summon a new link. (Link) (Submitting songs and items from "The Legend of Zelda" series to affect the ARG is a mechanic carried over from Jadusable's ARG that is commonly referred to as Ocarina powers.)
  • At an unknown time, the text in "soon.jpg" changed, now reading "I survived." (Link)
  • At an unknown time, the players band together and form a group called the "Internet Detectives". The Internet Detectives' main goal is to solve the ARG and they mainly chatted in a Skype group.
  • At an unknown time, two new players, Tyler and Jacob, created a theme song for the Internet Detectives. (Link)

February 13th, 2015

  • At an unknown time, YSHDT.com underwent several changes. The front page now featured a SWF file (A flash movie file) titled "dontstickaround.swf" featuring the "Oath to Order" being played followed by the "Skull Kid" laughing from Majora's Mask.
  • Players discovered that once "dontstickaround.swf" finished playing, the page would redirect them to a new page: "http://yshdt.com/news". This page hid the text "What does he know?" in the source and "0" in the title. An image titled "1s.png" that featured a newspaper article about a sort of "spiritual discovery" written by someone named "Douglas P.". The only colored object on this image was a single red dot. (Link) The article read the following:
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2/13/15 - 1s.png - YSHDT.com

  • Players discovered that the capitalized letters found in "1s.png" spelled the word "LINKED", which led to the discovery of "http://yshdt.com/linked". This page's title read "Linked". An image titled "blue.jpg" featured a photo taken below the ocean's surface. (Link) The audio "eulb.wav" played on this page which was discovered to be an SSTV signal (A series of tones that can be translated to reveal a hidden image with special programs). The image hidden within the SSTV signal was of BEN (The ghostly spirit that possessed the Majora's Mask cartridge from Jadusable's ARG) along with the text "GAME OVER. CONTINUE? >YES. >NO." (Link)
  • Players discovered a new page - "http://yshdt.com/warning". The title of this page read "Untitled Document", and source text was found that read "Curiosity killed that cat. That's what the mother said to the brat. But the cat didn't listen. And then lost it's vision. Because it couldn't find it's way home. Go home."
  • At an unknown time, the page "/warning" was deleted, replaced with a generic 404 "error" page. However, this 404 page hid a SSTV signal titled "Soon.wav" which revealed the text "Find your way home. He needs you. But you cannot help him If you cannot help yourselves. 4 days." (Link)

January 22nd, 2015

  • At 2:50 AM, the player Kidpichu discovered that text had been added to the page "/warning" that read "For more information, see /home."
  • At 2:50 AM, the players discovered a new page - "http://yshdt.com/home". The title of this page read "Play Ball". This page featured the image "home.bmp" (Link). Also discovered on this page was an audio file named "brats.wav" which was the Internet Detectives theme song followed by someone whispering "no".

February 16th, 2015

  • At 3:44 AM, the player Jacob discovered a text file hidden within the image "home.bmp" with steganography (The process of hiding files within other files) named "warning.txt" that read “How can you play a game you haven’t even started?”.
  • At 3:44 AM, the player Jacob discovered another hidden text file. The image "1s.png" hid the text file "oh.txt" in which someone named "Doug" expresses his regrets for joining a religion.
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2/16/15 - oh.txt - YSHDT.com

  • At 11:00 PM, the front page of YSHDT.com changed, now playing a SWF file titled "Game over.swf". This SWF file featured gameplay footage from Majora's Mask showing Deku Link being killed. When the game over screen appeared and the player was asked to continue, the cursor would highlight the "No" option. After this, the "Dawn of the Second Day", "Dawn of the Third Day", and "Dawn of the Final Day" transitions would appear before corrupting.
  • Players discovered that staying on the front page of YSHDT.com long enough would redirect them to a new website - Letschasethemouse. (Link) This was a blog owned by a user named "DandP". DandP's posts can be read below:
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2/16/15 - Blog Posts (6) - Letschasethemouse

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  • DandP has been invited to join a secretive cult by a friend.
  • DandP is interested in joining his high school's newspaper team, indicating that he could perhaps be the "Douglas P" who wrote the article about a "religious discovery" seen in "1s.png".
  • Players began chatting with DandP through the comments of his latest post. Below are the conversations:
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2/16/15 - Chat with DandP - Letschasethemouse Comments

Summary

  • DandP confirms that he is Douglas P - the same person who wrote the newspaper article.
  • Doug claims that he has not written any articles and is not on the school newspaper team, which implies that we are speaking to Doug in the past.
  • The player Jacob asks if he can join the cult. Doug says his friend will be contacting Jacob soon to begin the recruitment process.
  • Doug claims that Jacob is the only player who lives close enough to be eligible to join the cult. This implies that the cult is based in Florida, since that's where Jacob lives.
  • Doug says the cult has something to do with the moon, indicating it has some connection to the "Moon Children".

February 17th, 2015

  • At 1:00 AM, Doug made a new post titled "Deja Vu" talking about the cult's base of operations - an old fishery in the woods:
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2/17/15 - Blog Post - Letschasethemouse

  • At 1:01 AM, Doug made a new post titled "Fishery" providing two images of the cult's compound: (Link) (Link) Players began chatting with Doug through the comments of his latest post. Below are the conversations:
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2/17/15 - Chat with DandP - Letschasethemouse Comments

Summary

  • Doug says he had to hide while taking these pictures, implying the cult is dangerous.
  • Doug says he will attempt to pry for more information.

February 18th, 2015

  • At 7:07 PM, the player ADULT_LINK submitted the "New Wave Bossa Nova" in an attempt to contact someone. (Link)
  • At 9:29 PM, the player Eve discovered a new page on YSHDT.com - "http://yshdt.com/help". The title of this page read "Untitled Document" and simply contained the text "No.".

February 19th, 2015

  • At 12:10 AM, a user named "/Patrem\" joined Within Hubris. The word "Patrem" is Latin for "Father", and their status read "Vocatique" - a Latin term that means "called" or "summoned". This imples that the "New Wave Bossa Nova" summoned Patrem. Their avatar depicted a strange, distorted, purple entity. (Link) Patrem began speaking with players in the thread they created for YSHDT.com discussion. (Link) The covnversation went as follows:
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2/19/15 - Chat with Patrem - Within Hubris

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  • Patrem hints that three players are not what they seem.
  • Patrem implies that he is "The Father" (The mysterious leader of the Moon Children from Jadusable's ARG) and is the one who honored Luna first.
  • Patrem claims that he was "trapped inside" someone named Vincent at the fishery, implying he is a ghostly spirit of sorts using someone named Vincent as a vessel. He also claims the players already know Vincent.
  • Patrem posts the mysterious messge " o n urn d. Now he has ascended."
  • Patrem tells the players to try and "wet the ashes", claiming that "Some children have drowned, others will burn."
  • At 12:59 AM, Patrem posted "Sｉncｅ I am in the ｍｉdｓｔ oｆ mｙ tｒaｖｅlｓ．.. Ｉ mｕｓt biｄ you fａｒeweｌl. Ｗｈenｅvｅr ｔhere iｓ a meｅtｉｎg， ａ pａｒｔinｇ iｓ sｕre tｏ foｌlow．" in the Within Hubris chatroom. This is a quote from the "Happy Mask Salesman" from Majora's Mask, further connecting Patrem with "The Father". (In Jadusabe's ARG, The Father was often represented with the Happy Mask Salesman character.)
  • At 1:14 AM, Doug made a new post on his blog. His friend is unhappy with him approving Jacob without his permission.
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2/19/15 - Blog Post - Letschasethemouse

  • At 2:30 AM, Doug replied to a player's comment asking him why his friend would be upset over this. Doug replied "I have no idea why. I'll try to figure this out as I go."
  • At 11:19 PM, the player Mugen Kagemaru submitted the "Song of Storms" in response to Patrem's "wet the ashes" phrase.

February 20th, 2015

  • At 12:33 AM, Doug made a new post on his blog. He claims that the cult told him to stay away for a while. He also says it started raining outside, implying the "Song of Storms" has taken effect.
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2/20/15 - Blog Post - Letschasethemouse

  • At 12:42 AM, Doug replied to a player's comment warning him about the cult's secrecy. Doug replied "They're only secretive to outsiders, just like any religion. They're my friends and family. I won't turn my backs on them."
  • At 12:50 AM, Doug made a post that simply read "It's raining too hard." along with a picture of a flooding room. (Link)
  • At 1:01 AM, Doug replied to a player's comment warning them to leave their room. Doug replied "Sure, I'll go outside. Where the streets are worse than my house."
  • At 1:07 AM, the player ADULT_LINK submitted the "Song of Storms" to stop the rain.
  • At 1:09 AM, Doug made a new post on his blog. He claims that the rain suddenly ended and says he might go visit the fishery.
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2/20/15 - Blog Post - Letschasethemouse

  • At 1:17 AM, Doug made a new post on his blog. He reconfirms that he is heading to the fishery.
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2/20/15 - Blog Post - Letschasethemouse

  • At 1:18 AM, a user named "31071157 356670" began chatting in the players' Skype group. Their username was a cipher that translated to "drown", though some users referred to them as "numbers guy". Drown is apparently being chaased by Patrem and appear to have ties with "Ben".
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2/20/15 - Chat with Drown - Skype (Internet Detectives)

  • At 1:33 AM, the players John and ADULT_LINK discovered the front page of YSHDT.com had update. The page now featured a swf file titled "swf.swf" which played the "Inverted Song of Time" before cutting to the perspective of someone standing in the fishery looking out a window while breathing heavily. The video then cut to the word "No" before ending. The page's title now read "..." and "/vincent" was found in the page's source.
  • At 1:33 AM, the player John discovered a new page on YSHDT.com - "http://yshdt.com/vincent". This page's title read "1" and "He may be given more time to live yet." was found in the source. This page also featured four images: "Doug.jpg" - a photo of Link transforming into "Deku Link" with blood on it (Link) "2.png" - a photo of Link transforming into "Goron Link" with an "X" drawn on it (Link) "3.png" - a photo of Link transforming into "Zora Link" with a question mark written on it (Link) and "him.bmp" - a photo of Patrem. (Link) The audio on this page, "time.wav", was a continuous drum beat. Players also discovered that clicking on "Doug.jpg" would link them to Doug's blog and clicking on "him.bmp" would link them to Patrem's Within Hubris profile.
  • At 1:47 AM, Patrem posted "I can see you boy." on Within Hubris.
  • At 1:47 AM, drown became active on Skype once again, seemingly being pursued by Patrem.
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2/20/15 - Chat with Drown - Skype (Internet Detectives)

  • At 2:28 AM, the player Jacob receives an email from someone named "Mason". Mason is the friend Doug mentioned who handles new recruits who wish to join the cult. Jacob is tasked with doing a series of tests in order to prove he is worthy of joining the cult, the first of which is reciting the cult's offical chant.
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2/20/15 - Chat with Mason - Email

  • At 3:13 AM, the player ADULT_LINK submits "Epona's Song" hoping to save Drown.
  • At 3:27 AM, Patrem became active on Within Hubris. He began chatting with the players in the ARG thread:
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2/20/15 - Chat with Patrem - Within Hubris

Summary

  • Patrem claims that he has now "stabilized himself" in our realm, implying that "Epona's Song" is allowing him to speak more clearly now.
  • Patrem insults the players for repeatedly failing.
  • Patrem reveals that "Drown" is "Ben" and they wish to mislead the players.
  • At 7:03 AM, the player Jacob uploaded the video "official chant for recruits" to his YouTube channel. This video simply features Jacob reading the chant as requested by Mason. (Link)
  • At 3:30 PM, Doug made a new post on his blog titled "Watched". He says he visited the fishery which strangely wasn't flooded at all. He also claims he thought someone was watching him through a window. (Similar to "swf.swf")
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2/20/15 - Blog Post - Letschasethemouse

  • At 3:55 PM, a user named "The Man" joined the Skype group. He claims that he is the GM (Gamemaster - the person currently running the ARG). He also says that "Drown" was simply a distraction and not to take everyone and everything at face value. Since this was the GM speaking OoC (Out of Character -- Non-canon), it has no bearing on the story.
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