#found documents

finally started uploading an ARG project i’ve been slowly building for a while and i’m honestly really excited about it

it follows a university archivist who discovers a hidden office and an old external hard drive labeled PROJECT_Y, then decides to document the contents before telling anyone else it exist

the story unfolds through:

screen recordings

transcribed files

archive restorations

community posts

and audience participation puzzles!

it’s very slow burn and heavily inspired by old internet mysteries, archival research, obsolete software, and weird academic documents

also i got way too invested in designing fake research papers and archive metadata for this thing

The email body was blank but there were photo attachments: Photos 1-5: Scanned copies of an aged journal. It is written in a messy, frantic script. Photo 6: polaroid of sunset on unlabeled southern interstate. Photo 7: polaroid of sugarcane field against a cloudy blue sky. Photo 8: polaroid of a cemetery, the graves in above ground crypts and mausoleums, lined up like little houses for the dead. Photo 9: older, aged polaroid of a dark-skinned woman in scrubs reading a book with a grin. Photo 10: Worn down sign with faded paint that reads "Welcome to Doucet"

I transcribed the journal so it is easier to read. I apologize for any mistakes. At this point, I've been piecing together Alice's story day and night for a few weeks. I hope someone out there is as interested in her story as I am. The Archivist. ************ 3/13/06  20:15.

I'm writing this down because I'm not sure what is happening or what is real. There is a likely chance that this is a drug-fueled psychosis. Or that I hit my head really hard. Or that I'm dead. I'm still not sure which.

So, I will try to compile the facts as I see them and maybe that will help jog my memory and figure this out.

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██████ MEMORY SECTOR UNSTABLE ██████

██ SIGNAL FRACTURE DETECTED ██

████ DATA LOST ████

#8

i hate technology.

i also hate how "Ford" formatted this garbage form.

But we needed something quick I guess. This isn't meant to replace a subject's file, it's an initial assessment so we can build out their file.

Subjects would also have intermittent checkup review after the end of a testing program, or a major event that stirs the dynamic of the facility, like a lockdown or breakout... or both, like in the case of FRANK13 (pronounced 'frankie').

Every time we got out from lockdown, you can imagine the bureaucratic nightmare that followed after.

There are also the exit review forms. If you want to be polite about it, it's for when the subjects are no longer servicing the facility. If you don't care about the subjects, it's for when they're dead. If you work in External Research, it's for when their next destination, alive or dead, needs context on what happened to them.

An agreement, not a curse

“HARK, LEDBETTER

Your family shall come to harm by none

And so to you, your ranking rightly chased

No magic shall touch you, unless thy wil’t

Until this low and sordid hist’ry faced

ORION, REJOICE!

Let cups o’erflow with draft of verity

May it taste honeyed, to your great relief

The truth shall pour yet sweeter from thy lips

Your time as terror, murderer, and thief

TIL ALL IS SAID, NO NEARER FRIEND REMAINS

Guest Name: [scribbled out]

Date: ...??? (rewrote itself)

Comments:

beautiful stay. loved the walls. they moved when i wasn’t looking. loved that.

nobody told me the mirrors were listening. i told them things i shouldn't have. i think they smiled.

bed was soft. floor was softer. hands kept holding mine while i slept.

lost count of the doors. lost count of the exits.

don’t drink the water. don’t drink the water. don’t drink the water (i drank the water.)

staff was lovely. one of them tucked me in and whispered my name, even after i forgot it.

My apologies for being inactive! I suppose the "most well protected secret location that funding permits" does NOT include reliable wifi in the budget!

However, I have some exciting news. "A" has been able to recover some documents from what is rumored to be the original testing site for Mewtwo. I've only access to one, but I have carefully scanned it here to share. Unfortunately it came with quite a few redactions.... But it's better than nothing. [:

Found Document Below: