ARG Coverage

BEGINNINGS + DAY ONE:

what appears to be a pornbot messages several prominent users with the message “hey peebrain - you teleport?”. investigation of the account leads to a neocities full of strange images, audio, and links

[sitemap of the neocities]

the neocities updates to link to the blog, lovely5500. this character is a 15 year old girl named anita.

she reacts initially with confusion to all the messages, but looks into the neocities site. she establishes that she is sick, her mom will not take her to the doctor. her text is periodically zalgofied .

she recieves an ask containing the text

Struggle with thy doubts!

Cast them aside!

Forsake not thy faith!

Sickness will not take thee!

she reveals that her grandpa got this poem when he had become sick, but had died

later that day, the neocities site updates with a link to a livestream depicting anita’s room

finally, the page DAYONE on the neocities updates from a blank page to contain this message

I saw Anita I updated sceneteenz blog for productivity... Anita's symptom's are not related but she will see Death too if i cannot get to Earth-sphere The eye of H.U.R.L is ever so watch-ful I saw Death today Thank you for listening

Not recorded well enough. I spoke into my microphone again and i will embed it here

Limbo is so hot.

Resurfacing from the second circle was "the hardest thing I have ever done."

I am being pushed down but I will not allow myself to sink.

this also introduces the blog, sceneteenz

in a post from january, they describe something called “sickness stench”

by this point, players have figured out that the blog, sexymax2019, is the character max (an angel). we have learned that she is trapped in limbo, and speculate that she is anita’s guardian angel. we also learn that the sickness max is afflicted with is a result of being in limbo, and it is causing anita’s sickness.

during the first day, we also find a link to this image, introducing the character celeste

we do not yet know who celeste or sceenteenz is, but sceneteenz becomes more active as their blog gains attention.

SCENE AND ANITA DEVELOPMENTS AND DAY TWO:

sceneteenz posts throughout the day, revealing plot important information that:

angels can communicate through SSTV signals (a method we have used to decode some information)

angels can be defined as uniform resource locators (URLs), thus confirming that H.U.R.L (hierarchy of uniform resource locators) means HIERARCHY OF ANGELS

angels will disgusie themselves as “internet archetypes” to avoid the attention of HURL (explaining max’s pornbot persona)

sceenteenz likely IS an angel, but doesnt associate with H.U.R.L anymore

april is a “grim” month for them

if someone is infected with sickness stench too long, “they die!”

we also learn some things about sceneteenz

they have no concept of gender

theyre scene (its a lifestyle)

throughout the day, sceneteenz and sexymax2019 continue to communicate via tumblr instant messages, emphasizing that H.U.R.L is watching

on anita’s end for the past couple days, she describes feeling worse, and the sickness seems to be affecting her more heavily

after this post, anita uploads this video showing a figure (theorized to be max) writhing to distorted audio

later on anita’s blog, we get this:

she has remembered more about max, and links to this page of “anita and max’s internet memories”. ranging from 2009 to 2018, it catalogues anita’s interests over time, including lolcats, homestuck, fanfiction, and tumblr.

on the night of day two, we get an update to the DAYTWO page

Anita remembered.

I saw the "expanse in the midst of the waters."

I am in peril. Heaven is crashing down on me.

the final two days of the ARG were very eventful, and require their own summaries:

DAYTHREE SUMMARY HERE

DAYFOUR (ENDING) SUMMARY HERE