The Cypher is a four-page zine set in a possibly-fictional version of the Hereford Zone, Baltimore County, MD. Set in 1996-97, its contents follow the fandom interests of its characters, peppered with local culture and original short fiction. As the Cypher continues, the locale develops an ongoing environmental disaster involving a suspicious invasive plant species, meteorites that converge in one place, videotape erasures, and a cryptid. Issues usually contain fandom writings, short story chapter, ciphertext lesson, Notes & Queries (including character-submitted codes), ads, recent film information, and county-mandated warnings. Ciphers may be fandom-content related, but some elaborate on the plot.

In the early 1990's, a small-time comic artist and writer created a comic surrounding his day-to-day life. He called this comic "Smile! You're on Camera!" and his name was James Knosst. James' son David, now 38, has finally opened a letter from his father's affair partner he received when he was young. Inside the letter was a drive, this drive contained the comic strips from SYOC, and it caused an immediate curiosity as to who his father really was. Not knowing where to begin, he opens a site to share his father's strips and court documents to try to find out who James Knosst was. He also uses the site to post his puzzles that he makes as ordered by his therapist.

It does make you wonder, what unnerving facts hide below the surface?

After the mysterious disappearance of her girlfriend, Rian has started making a video project to remember her by. As she is putting this project together, she realizes that a lot of footage from before the disappearance might contain some clues as to why her girlfriend, Tara, has gone missing.

A young boy suddenly goes missing, leaving decades of YouTube videos behind on their old computer. Half a decade later, the investigation on his disappearance continues, using said content as a trail. However, it seems finding the truth won't be easy.

Someone's watching their every move, and they want to have fun.

The Growth is a horror ARG starting on SpaceHey. It follows an unnamed character's discovery of a Growth in his room, and how the Growth begins to become a character in of itself, sucking the life out of the world around it.

PARADEF is a channel following the archival material of a paramilitary group in charge of neutralizing paranormal exclusion zones and the “afflicted” objects with dangerous properties that are found inside them. PARADEF draws the presentation of its aesthetics from Stalker (the games and the film), Annihilation, Control, and analog horror like Local58 and Gemini Home Entertainment.

SeverSoul is a channel showing a horror animation series about demon possessions and unknown psionic drugs affecting students on a small college campus in Michigan called Black Rosethorn University. Mysterious events occur around a student named John who keeps hearing voices from an unknown entity protecting him from these terrors. Within the videos of this channel are secret messages and crackable codes related to the man hosting a news program between the main episodes and within the website about the events of Black Rosethorn and a secret organization called the XOO.

A children's book author being held captive by the now sentient beings resembling the cast of his prized book series. They have gained enough power to appear and affect the real world, they are no longer just thoughtforms.

At this point, Tojiko is desperate to get rid of them.
His thoughts are poured out on his online diary as things continue to derail.
How long is this going to last?