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Delta: PRISM

The pinnacle of perfection, Delta: PRISM is a cyberpunk utopia within a dystopian wasteland. Remnants of the world we know as Earth have withered away with time, engulfed by the Dust that threatens humanity. Among the Deltas that cultivate life and progress, a streamer finds herself exiled for reasons unknown to anyone beyond the Triad. Or maybe, that's just what she wants you to think.

Memoirs of Death

He is Death. No need for an introduction as you already met but let me elaborate on this quickly. Every human being dies at least three times in their life...

analoghorrorinanutshell

A certain web series creator has become rather cynical as of late. He claims that the ARG/Unfiction community has become toxic, elitist and is forcing originality for originality's sake. Going by the alias of "the fearmaster" and posting the usual totheark/Local 58 style videos, he seeks to prove that nothing is completely original and everything is derivative of something that came before it. It's impossible to create something new without first using someone else' work as a starting point. And it's impossible to build off of anything if you don't have the means of which to do so. Can you prove him wrong? We'll see about that.

NULL

While uploading a video he made to YouTube, a man notices his computer has been logged into a strange account with an odd name: NULL. There is one video; he watches it and makes a response, asking whoever is behind it to stop. They don’t listen, and bizarre videos keep popping up, with strange codes and messages that he can't understand. Solve codes, translate sentences, examine images, and help make sense of this channel that someone has made just for him.

ECGO

If you wanted an Instagram-based mystery box specializing in monochrome design, this it it. Submitted by a follower, there's a proper writeup in the "Read More" to gain better perspective on what precisely has been going on and what this all might be.

A mysterious man started challenging university students from Brazil; he claims to be in search of "exceptional individuals", and challenges them to solve his puzzles, donating money for charity as players progresses through his challenges. However, something more sinister seems to be underlying the challenge - constant warnings about an evil organization running the country from the shadows, and KuroYotogi himself seems to employ some sort of surveillance system with dubious ethics and intentions. At the same time, his games are raising money for a good cause, and his warnings seem to promote protection.

As the games progressed, it was revealed the man's name was Alexandre Kurosaka. It became clear that these challenges were an attempt of his to assemble and train some sort of code-breaking task force to auxiliate him in his fight against a criminal conglomerate called "KURO". Few details were actually revealed about KURO's nature or Alexandre's relationship to it. It also became clear that two "entities" had access to the KuroYotogi twitter: Alexandre himself and some sort of AI or algorythm called the Yotogi System, which seems to be Alexandre's surveillance system, although details have not been explained so far. Game phases were held at groups of the UNICAMP and USP universities, as well as a final phase held in the christmas of 2020 at a big, cross-university facebook group. This final game was particularly revealing about a few things; through it, players uncovered a strange scientific paper that seemed to be a study conducted internally at KURO, evaluating the effects of an experimental drug in enhancing the physical capabilities of those that take it - although at a great cost, as most of the rat subjects of the study died after taking it. Players also found out that Alexandre has stolen some sort of secret weapon from KURO called the Henshin System; a blueprint of said system was found. The illustration implied some sort of power-armor, with the text indicating that the user of this weapon was capable of transforming into something, acquiring great physical prowess through this process.

Unfortunately, after this game, KuroYotogi ceased its activities. Tweets made at the time ad after implied that Alexandre succeeded in attracting KURO's attention, but failed to create whatever sort of task force he had in mind; this left him defenseless against the organization, which managed to push him back into hiding through virtual and presumably physical attacks, forcing to vacate whatever headquarters he had been using and go into "constant movement"; "They know I'm weakened. They think they'll get me. They're wrong", wrote Alexandre on February 14th. The last thing mentioned by Kuroyotogi was a tweet from February 21st, 2021 - a tweet from the automated Yotogi System, announcing that a new base had been found, and monitoring would be resumed. The account has been silent since, raising questions to whether he escaped KURO after all and, if yes, what is he bidding time for.

KuroYotogi

A mysterious man in search of "exceptional individuals" challenges university students from Brazil to solve his puzzles, donating money for charity as players progress through his challenges. However, constant warnings about an evil organization running the country from the shadows run parallel to the challenge, and KuroYotogi seems to employ a surveillance system with dubious ethics and intentions.

Five months ago (March 7, 2020), a link appeared on r/arg to a Reddit user known as u/RabbitBoyMidas. In our community, the project is often referred to as RBM (Rabbit Boy Midas) or SWC (Southern Woods Cult). The latter is more encompassing of the project.

A mysterious post stated that initiation would soon arrive. It was from this point that a couple of cryptic songs and puzzles were rolled out. Messaging the user on Reddit would yield certain answers when given specific responses. This period was short, however, as initiation would begin on March 11, 2020.

By this point, it was revealed that there would be four phases, each with their own leader. In order to be initiated into the Southern Woods Cult, you must pass through all four phases. Now, the fourth phase is currently underway. In this time, we have found lots of information about each phase, persona, and background.

The majority of this project unfolds between two places. Members of the Southern Woods Cult post on the Reddit, which is where puzzles and structured information take place. This is an ARG, however, because these cult members frequently participate in the Discord. This means messaging with initiates, revealing important plot points and character info, and even using Voice Chat with discord members.

The experience is mostly puzzle, as there are many puzzles solved as posts come out. The project is also tagged mystery because each high-ranking cult member (Macromvulate) has a mysterious backstory that has to be solved along with the puzzles.

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Z5cXVX4

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPtkEH1Fs1ophgLVQ-TmqNw

Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gN67L8EUzaqCS6DvWjD3luLdVYFYVlBgJ2-TubCSGS0/edit

Southern Woods Cult

The mysterious Southern Woods Cult is searching for new applicants and recruiting has started. Pass through the four phases and get to know the elusive members of the cult. You too can become a Burrower that falls under the reign of Xylkón.

Unknown 9

A secret cabal of scientists, paranormal researchers, and mystics known as the Leap Year Society have discovered a different layer of reality known as The Fold. A series of connected narratives ranging from an ARG (Chapters), a trilogy of books (Genesis), podcast (Out of Sight), comic (Torment), and a video game (Ascension) explore the world that lies just past our consciousness.

The ASPMC

The American Society for the Protection of Magical Creatures (the ASPMC) was founded over a century ago to encourage the protection of magical creatures and their habitats. In the intervening years, the organization has atrophied and become a shadow of its former self. Remnants of ASPMC have taken it upon themselves to digitize their efforts and provided a series of missions for new recruits to help out.

Pangent Tech

(A.K.A. Pangent Technologies | Human Souls) The minds of a man and a woman are trapped as data inside a Cube, inside which time and space are meaningless. In our time, three women work at Pangent Technologies London to develop the dangerous tech that becomes the Cube (555), while posting puzzles, memes and game hacks, and being antagonized by their bosses. Also Eric is there.