YSHDT Arc

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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

Summary

  • 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

Summary

  • 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."
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