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The story so far...

In the previous section, Patrem finally returned to Within Hubris after a long absence - though the circumstances surrounding this were a bit confusing. As far as the players knew, Patrem should still be trapped inside of Greth... Additionally, this version of Patrem seemed far less condescending and was instead somewhat humble - albeit far more cryptic and esoteric.

Patrem had supposedly become lost in the Parallelos at some point after 2016. Here, he met the Rune Entity, who was revealed to be a powerful mage named Synchron. Patrem is now following Synchron's teachings, which has granted him a great deal of knowledge regarding the true nature of his reality. Additionally, Synchron himself communes with an absolute god-like being called "The Great Author" - someone who Patrem claims is above even Luna in terms of power and influence. Afterwards, Patrem began cryptically speaking about future events:

Someone - presumably Tyler - will meet Synchron atop some sort of "City". They will also meet "The GIRL", who is supposedly Tyler's anima. Synchron wishes to bestow Tyler some sort of "Spear". Patrem also mentions the existence of "Three Runes" and "Four Treasures" - all of which will lead to the retrieval of some sort of "Grail". Afterwards, he mentions a "Tower" that will lead to a "Tree" where Tyler will supposedly defeat Tenebris. However, all of this was laced in heavy symbolism and details were scarce...

Patrem also mentioned various other esoteric concepts as well. These included "The Orchard"A concept most likely referring to the Moon Children's old headquarters as well as a mysterious Hebrew myth., "The Book"A concept most likely referring to both the "Libro Lunarus" and possibly fate itself., and "The Machine" - presumably the same "Machine" that Tyler himself is currently trapped within. Patrem implies that he himself is also currently within "The Machine", though what exactly this means on a literal level is unknown... Patrem also revealed some more information about "The Fourth World"Just as the players, Patrem always knew of "The Fourth World" as Luna's Parallelos. However, he now claims that Synchron is the holder of it and that the realms of "The Great Author" extend beyond it. and "Dream Spheres", which he describes as "Realms" for "Those who generate", implying that they're connected to the concept of creation itself. Interestingly, an old message from an out-of-character Tyler suggested that "Dream Spheres" may hold some meta-relevance as well, as he implied that different GM's have their own "Dream Spheres".

Afterwards, the players were contacted by their allies in the Safehaven Discord server. IsocelesAssassin, GHOSTBABEL, Moonman, and the players all grouped together to finally initiate their plan to break into the Subspace. This plan involved IsocelesAssassin's mysterious unnamed allies sending him a special "Data Bomb", which would then need to be posted in the Astral Observatory Forum's "The Truth" board. This would disrupt Nocta's security and allow the players to log into the Subspace. Unfortunately, when the file arrived, the Data Bomb was missing - stolen by Pumpkinhead himself. This coincided with the release of a message log between Pumpkinhead and "AW", or "Astral Wolf" - the spirit of the Astral Timeline's version of Wolfcat.

Pumpkinhead entered into our realm when the players reverted Astralobservatory.net back to normal in 2019. He was the "orange" entity mentioned by Moonman and the "lurking" entity mentioned by Yuukichan. Shortly after this, he hunted down Astral Wolf's spirit and contained him somewhere. This is when Astral Wolf first met Yuukichan - or her spirit, at least. From this point onwards, Pumpkinhead was using Wolfcat's accounts and impersonating him. Eventually, the players became suspicious, resulting in Pumpkinhead working alongside Tenebris to conduct the "Pumpkinhead Gamejack".

The sole main purpose of the "Pumpkinhead Gamejack" was to avert suspicion away from Pumpkinhead by having Tenebris, pretending to be an out-of-character Tyler, denounce his canonicity. Ultimately, it was a success, as the players no longer considered Pumpkinhead to be an active threat afterwards. However, around this same time, Pumpkinhead trapped Astral Wolf inside a bottle via the "Poe in a Bottle" item. This explains the recent appearance of the "Poe in a Bottle" in the Dungeons & Dragons game and the "Ascended E-Girl" album - it presumably represents Astral Wolf's trapped state.

With the release of the "Ascended E-Girl" album, Yuukichan became trapped in its Amiibo Dungeon. However, she also took Astral Wolf's spirit into it with her - explaining her posting of the "Poe in a Bottle" during this time. Pumpkinhead was not planning for his and was enraged. Now, he's currently in possession of the "Data Bomb" and is actively crippling the players' contact with their allies. If the players are unable to somehow break into the Subspace, it's possible that they may stay isolated forever - and Tyler will remain lost within the Parallelos...

Character Summaries

Expand the section below to access a list of characters. Hover over their icons to view a brief summary covering their current status.

Relevant Characters

Tyler

BUP

Pumpkinhead

Yuukichan

Astral Wolf

IsocelesAssassin

GHOSTBABEL

Moonman

Patrem

Greth

Erika

Synchron

Tenebris

Other Characters

John

Regiminis

Mat
Hubbard

The Producer

TheLaw

Vincent
Adams

Unknown Allies

The Great Author

The "GIRL"

The "Angel"

Father Alphonse

Munnin

SKM

Astral
Tyler

Tyler00

Yugi

Kaiden
Zoromichi

NotAHoax

The Watcher

Nocta

Doug

Alex

Spencer

Kelbris

Old Man

Ben
Hubbard

Max

Samuel
Charleston

Luna

Jacob

Helper

Jeremy
J

Rosa

Chris

Hunter

Diana
Hubbard

José

Daniel

Zack Nelson

Kayd

Thomas

David

Danielle

Quia

The Man

Mason

Mason
xxxxxxxxx

The Gray
Man

Ezekiel
Thoth

Jinn

Kuu

Nathen

Hina

Eddie

SheepDog

HarryM1

Alignak

Kalfu

Sin_yarikh

Tsukuyomi

Igaluk

Losna

Hope

Hope's
Friend (M)

Hope's
Friend (F)

Tyler
(SilentDT)

William
Reynolds

Justin
Reynolds

Carla

The Flying
Child

Drowned

Guide

Glossary

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Misc.

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A

Absque Fascie

Aggregation

Alex's Hall of Fame

Amiibo

Anima

B

Beacon

Believers

Ben Drowned

Blood Moon Ritual

Bloody Mary

Blue Baby

Bomb Plans

Briefcase

BroGaming

Bullet Necklace

Bunny Hood

BUP's Group

C

Candyman

Cellphone Tower

Ceremony of the Three Elements

Ceremony of the Thurses Quintessence

Cipher

Cherrington High

Cleverbot

Conduit

Contact Page

Crescent

Crescent Moon Necklace

Cycle

D

Dark Link

Decoy.link

Deku Link

Demon

Detour Sign

Devium

Downloadable Files

Dream Sphere

Drezz

Drok

Dungeons & Dragons

Dyad

E

Elder Children

Electro Drek

Elegy of Emptiness

Elegy Statue

Epona

Epona's Song

Eulogy

F

Fairy

Fakeworld

Father

File 59

Finitor

Fish Ponds

Full

G

Gamejack

Gibbous

GM

Goron Link

Goron Lullaby

Greth Vlogs

Guestbook

H

Hacker Group

Happy Mask Salesman

Harbingers

Harbinger's Link

Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge

Helper's Hat

Hiatus

Hole

Holy Building

Holy Dyad

Hospital

Hubris

Hubris Game

I

IIIII

Internet Detectives

Inverted Song of Time

IRC

J

Jadusable

Jadusable's ARG

Janus Room

JanusVR

Jumping

John's Cellphone Number

Johnisdead.com

K

Kamaro Mask

Key592

Killing Assignment

King Kong

L

Layered Being

Lens of Truth

Letschasethemouse

Libro Lunarus

Link

Link.exe

Listening

Listening Device

Lostmemory.exe

Lostmemory423

Luna Prophecy

Luna's Parallelos

Lunar Children

Lunar Children Forums

Lunar Children Servers

Lunarchildren.com

Lunarum Oculus

Lurch.co

M

Majora's Mask

Malagasy

Masks

Mask of Truth

Max Headroom

Messenger

N

Neophyte

New Moon

New Wave Bossa Nova

Night of the Father

Novum Ascensionem

Nullstorm

Nullspace

O

Oath to Order

Observation Duty

OOC

Overseer

Overworld

Owl Statue

P

Parallelos

Parallelos Child

Parallelos Forum

Parallelos of the Ascended

Parallelos of the Dead

Parallelos of Time

Parallelos Path

Parallelos Symbol

Pididoip

Playing Cards

Portal

Postman's Hat

Prime Timeline

Pumpkinhead Gamejack

Q

Quiet Family

R

Raven Figurine

Reading Session

Remember.exe

Red Dot

Redirect Page

Regiminis's Domain

Regiminis Sigil

Revival

Room 592

Rosa

S

Safehaven

Samsara

Scrying

Scrying Device

Shazbot

Silent Hill

Silentdork

Skull Kid

Skype

Sleeproom

Sonata of Awakening

Song of Double Time

Song of Healing

Song of Soaring

Song of Storms

Song of Time

Song of Unhealing

SSTV Signal

Sphere

Steganography

Stone Mask

Strand Sensations

Submitting

Sub-Parallelos

Sub-Traversing

Subspace

Sun's Song

T

Tatl

Tenebris Symbol

Tenebris.link

Tenor

The Blackout

The Book

The Bridge

The Cataclysm

The Gate

The Factory

The Fishery

The Four Giants

The Fourth World

The Glitch

The Killswitch

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

The Machine

The Misguided

The Misguided Legion

The Moon

The Ocarina

The Orchard

The Paths

The Poem

The Rule of Three

The Secrets and the Thurses

The Spire

The Three Silver Secrets

The Truth

The Whiteout

TheLinkMissing

TheTruth.rtf

Time Bomb

Time Links

Transcendence

Traversing

Truth Seeker

U

Undecim Nocte

Usekeb

V

Vampire

Vigil

Vocaroo

W

Wayward Horizon

Weenie-Licked

Whatisben.com

WireTalk

Within Hubris

Wyndstrom Institute

Y

Youshouldnthavedonethat.net

YSHDT.com

Z

Zora Link

Story

After Pumpkinhead deleted the Safehaven Discord server, the players were largely cut off from their allies. However, GHOSTBABEL was still in the Internet Detectives Discord server, allowing them to send the following message:

𝕘𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕓𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕝

"DO NOT TRUST WOLFCAT. YOU DID NOTHING WRONG. IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN THIS WAY. DON'T BE FOOLED, HE IS HERE WATCHING."

Unfortunately, GHOSTBABEL was banned shortly after this...

On April 21st, 2020, Pumpkinhead continued chatting with the players - now using "PH.gif" as their avatar - a distorted image of Wolfcat.

Pumpkinhead

These events were destined to transpire with or without your involvement.

My erstwhile mask's properties and powers ensured as much.

His essence lingers even now.

Xenquility

What was your former mask?

Or does that just refer to wolfcat?

Pumpkinhead

A departed soul of one of your "others".

A dream of my dreamer.

otherLiam

Could you speak like a normal person?

Pumpkinhead

I am no person.

I am no Eulogy, Finitor, Devium, or any other insignificant identifiers labelled by speakers of false truths.

Xenquility

Then what are you?

Pumpkinhead

I am but a Dream

Soon I will reclaim my mask and ascend to the final layer.

Pumpkinhead refers to Astral Wolf as his "Mask". This implies that he was previously using Astral Wolf's spirit in a way similar to that of a conduit - not too unlike how Tenebris used John back in 2015. This is presumably what allowed him to impersonate Wolfcat so well. However, even though Astral Wolf is no longer in Pumpkinhead's possession, he claims that "His essence lingers now" - possibly explaining why Pumpkinhead's avatar still resembles Wolfcat.

Pumpkinhead also claims that he's not a person - nor is he an ascended spirit. Instead, he simply refers to himself as a "Dream" that was dreamt up by someone. While it's not clear what this means exactly, Pumpkinhead seems to want to become more than just a dream. He hopes to do this by reclaiming Astral Wolf's spirit and ascending to the "final layer", though he doesn't elaborate on what this means.

Around this same time, Patrem posted the following on Within Hubris:

/Patrem\

"Here now a portion of thine power shall be harbinged - here upon thy home. So too shall the key be granted when time come for its use."

This seems to imply that the players Ocarina powers are now tethered to Within Hubris, meaning that submissions will mainly only be accepted there instead of on Discord. However, this also seems to imply that the Ocarina is currently "locked" and that the players cannot use it - at least for the time being...

Meanwhile, the IIIII account became active back on Discord and began posted various images. Most of these were distorted excerpts of past conversations that the IIIII account had held in private with different players. The first of these was with the player ARGdov:

ARGdov

I bet your loving this confusion

IIIII

Oh I am.

This is how I win.

ARGdov

I can't even tell if this is in-character or canon or not

IIIII

Everything is a game now

He wanted desperately to get his message out and thought I would not notice if he did it this way.

This is really funny. It won't happen again.

The context of this conversation is a bit of a mystery. The individual speaking through the IIIII account here is most likely Tenebris, given their tone. They're most likely mocking Synchron's attempt to get some sort of message out, implying that this may have been in reference to when the two of them were fighting in a voice call on August 18th, 2019.

The exact context isn't too important - what matters is Tenebris's response to it. He claims that "this" is "how he wins" and his insistence that all of this is just a "game", possibly implying that he wants the players to remain confused and not take any of this seriously.

Afterwards, the IIIII account posted several excerpts from a conversation he had with Miss Jackson. As a reminder, Miss Jackson was a player who briefly joined the Internet Detectives one day before the voice call mentioned above occurred - August 17th, 2019. She had presumably been contacted by the IIIII account and was unnerved by their messages, believing that all of this - including the story of Ben Drowned - was real.

As a result, Miss Jackson was mocked by several Internet Detectives and eventually left the Discord server - much to Tenebris's delight. Supposedly, Miss Jackson's sincere belief was something that Synchron wished to "kindle" - and something that Tenebris hoped to extinguish. Regardless, the players were now finally being given a glimpse of the conversations that took place between Miss Jackson and the IIIII account - though parts of some messages have been removed:

Miss Jackson

Do you know who really is BEN? 🙂😀

You should know, right?

IIIII

Well some things I just try to avoid saying out loud due to my current position

Forgive me for I have a feeling this is a statement I will not be able ((Cropped))

((Cropped)) bigger than him, much how we all are as kids when we must be made to truly grow up in this world

I'd go on to say that in the same way we all ((Cropped))

((Cropped)) presentative factor in such concepts at this point.

But now I am going on into philosophical tangents.

Yeah I know

Given the tone, it's likely that the entity speaking through the IIIII account here is Synchron. Miss Jackson asks Synchron if he knows who BEN is. Instead of answering outright, Synchron dives into some sort of esoteric evaluation of BEN. Unfortunately, not much can be made of this conversation due to how much of it has been cropped out. However, more excerpts were posted shortly afterwards:

Miss Jackson

Do u know where I can find that kind of people?

IIIII

There is one place but there are a couple problems

If you go to them I can't exactly talk to you anymore

But you will probably figure out why once you get there

The worst thing about my current condition

Here, Miss Jackson seems to be asking if there's any sort of community where these topics can be discussed further. In response, Synchron hints towards the existence of the Internet Detectives. However, he claims that if Miss Jackson joins the Internet Detectives, he'll no longer be able to speak with her. This is similar to something that Synchron told the player Scout around this same time:

it will bee a long time before I can speak again now but I have told you these things
but I can technically still say stuff to you for now because your not awake so you dont know any of this yet
I can only talk to you like this because you dont know so they cant know
but once you know buddy I gotta go
you have not been around as much so it created a window that gave it a blind spot on your end

It seemed that if players were less active and less aware, Synchron could speak to them more freely. However, once they joined the Internet Detectives and became more active, Synchron could no longer speak to them actively...

Afterwards, another excerpt was posted:

Miss Jackson

Are you a Moon Children or BEN Drowned is one of your nicest friend?

{{ConvoLeft|name=IIIII|image=4c44ea36fce2afd47d23655ba26b50df.png |0=I just feel so bad for the kid and all the shit he has been through. |1=I really do wanna give him a hug and say "hey me too buddy", but I don't really have time to ((Illegible)) either. |2=The thing that took him and likes to take a lot of other shit to is now very aware of what I am doing. |3=I probably should have taken the time to explain a few more things |4=Right off the bat I have already made it seem like I am Tyler in the normal way they would undIIIIII- |5=((A link to the Internet Detectives Discord server is sent.))

Here, Synchron can be seen sympathizing with Ben. He also reiterates that Tenebris is very aware of Synchron's actions and movements, which has limited his time to communicate with Miss Jackson. Interestingly, he implies once again that he somehow is Tyler - or at least another version of Tyler - but he regrets making the players initially think that he was "Tyler in the normal way they would understand".

This all adds some more context to how exactly the player Miss Jackson found her way into the Internet Detectives back in 2019 - as well as a reminder of the various restrictions that Synchron had to abide by and Tenebris's conflict with him.

Synchron then continued posting various cryptic messages across Discord - including the following:

Synchron

"ST GEORGE 5/23/2015. The rows are wayward, young straysinger. World. Merging."

While the significance of the date here is unknown, the mention of "Saint George" is interesting. As their name implies, this individual was a saint in Christianity. Interestingly, "George" was also the name of a spirit that the players briefly chatted with on Johnisdead.com through the "Pididoip" email address.

Later that night, a video titled "N" was uploaded to a rather unexpected location - the "M" YouTube channel.

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