#tldr some stuff happened in the discord server and uh

[powered-by-prower]

Tails, do you have any limits with types of engineering? Like, what's something you personally wouldn't invent?

"Well, I don't mind making weapons, but I really only keep them for personal use. I especially don't like making WMDs. So no nuclear explosives, no continent-destroying space lasers... I'll make missile batteries and robots with machine guns and lasers, but I won't do anything that you can hold an entire civilization hostage with.

"...I especially wouldn't make that thing..."

[chirality]

hey, would you be willing to explain what happened in the ARG to me?

i didn't find out about it until it was over and now i'm a bit (very) lost

A lot of stuff! Including us breaking things multiple times.

Here's RQ's official recap (it leaves out a bunch of details, but it does provide some extra information about behind the scenes stuff and the intended story).

If you want more details, this YouTube video sums it up pretty well.

Reading/watching the links above should tell you basically everything, but in case you're eye-aligned or something, here are even more sources:

This was a Google Doc we had during the ARG to keep track of what we found. It's not in chronological order and contains a few loose ends that didn't end up being relevant.

And if you, for some reason, want to read over 200 pages detailing all the events of the ARG, here's a timeline.

I'm pretty sure all of the websites made for the ARG are down now, so unfortunately you can't view them yourself. However, @strangehauntsuk and the OIAR channel are still up. If you want to see something specific, you can ask in the Statement Remains Discord server (it's 18+ though!) and someone will probably have it downloaded. (If you're under 18, send me an ask and I'll see if I can find it for you.)

If you are too lazy to do any of that, TLDR: alchemy is relevant somehow, the OIAR stopped associating with Starkwall in 2000 (or at least that's what they claim), there's this creepy park mascot named Bonzo, a German conspiracy theorist disappeared after finding stuff about the Magnus Institute, the Magnus Institute did ethically questionable psychological tests on children (including Sam, "Connor Dyer", and Gerry. Yes, that Gerry), there was a file named "klaus" that looked like OIAR records but in German?, the German translation of DPHW is TSHU, Lady Mowbray is... well uh... we don't really know anything about her, but she seems cool, some spooky ritual thing happened in 1996, FR3-D1 and JMJ (whatever that is) are very sus. (That's the gist of it, but obviously there's a lot more.)

[thepolysworldau]

Uh oh, serious post-

( This has come up a few times since making this blog, and a lot more since the discord server has been up )

( At this moment, the discord server is 13+ to go along with discords guidelines. And while there is no NSFW or adult topics within the server, the blog has brought up some, as you lot have probably noticed )

( When making this blog, I intended to target an older teens/adult audience. I didn't want to add anything graphic, but be allowed to make jokes/bring up topics like that (similar to in the actual show), but I have noticed not a majority but noticeable group of people in the fan space of this blog fall a little under the age range I am targeting for this blog )

( I have gone back and fourth on this a lot, as I myself am a minor (17, turning 18 in November), I feel weird putting age restrictions on content, especially since it isn't graphic/stuff that wouldn't be easy to find anywhere else on this site. I do, however, personally feel a bit uncomfortable with some of these folks. )

( So, I have decided that from this point on, I will not be interacting with those under the age of 16 (target audience of the blog) through this platform. I understand that there will still be younger people interested, and I am not asking them to leave or DNI entirely. However, personal conversations and interactions will be a lot less to none. There is exceptions, obviously, with friends and people I have known for longer than a year (basically people who aren't "fans" but rather people I have previously known personally), but this is just something I want to say to make me more comfortable with the blog and to make everyone comfortable with what gets brought up )

( TLDR; This blog is aimed at those in their late teens and early adulthood. There will be sexual humor and some violence seen, however there will not be any 18+ content. If you are a younger fan, you can still interact/read the blog, however personal interactions with me will not happen. Public spaces and asks are alright, however. ) ( Sorry for this long winded rant, I just wanted to get it out of my head. )