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✉️: new message (email/Twitter/Reddit/website-update…)
💿: new hidden Record ID
📀: new public Record ID

: live event (drop/chat/…)

Act 1

Aug 3

VerumInanis on Reddit
- ✉️ VerumInanis (friend of FinisAevum and one of the writers of The Door), posts two blog posts (*), each with a hidden message indicating their friendship with Finis and a desire to help them.

Aug 11

Tim Malor on Twitter
- ✉️ Tim begins Tweeting (*) (The same account followed many who played in The Door, and tweeted using the series of words from the Fragment.)
FinisAevum on Reddit
- ✉️ FinisAevum had reached out to many in the ARG community asking if they had been part of the Saturn A.E. Project and posted The Present Day (🔗). He "found" some files on drives and want to crack them (includes a puzzle)

Aug 12

FinisAevum on Reddit
- ✉️ Research and Development (🔗): He is on the run

Aug 15

FinisAevum on Reddit
- ✉️ Under Appendix I (🔗): He was able to gain access to some of the files.

Aug 24

✉️ The Tower email "TO ONE WHO EXPERIENCES REALITY"

Aug 26

FinisAevum on Reddit
- ✉️ Transfer of Control (🔗): Leading to a dead drop that we were not able to recover.

Aug 27

FinisAevum on Reddit
- ✉️ Having No Idea (🔗): Linking to another dead drop not recovered by players

Sep 2

✉️ AeternusCenter seizes FinisAevum's Reddit account, A.C. interruption ( 🔗), claiming "This is …. a game" as hint that this is an ARG

Sep 7

✉️ AeternusCenter uses FinisAevum's Reddit as an on-boarding of new recruits Lightbulb (🔗), several puzzles become available

Sep 8

✉️ The Tower YouTube Video posted: Seek the Tower (*)

Sep 10

FinisAevum on Reddit
- ✉️ FinisAevum failsafes 5-A ( 🔗), several puzzle games at 5-A puzzle

Sept 19

AC internal site update: new RecordIDs
- 📀 AETERNUS History of Aeternus Center Sept. 19, 2020, midnight
- 📀 PRECURSOR00 Precursor Division Sept. 19, 2020, midnight
- 📀 ORACLE00 Oracle Division Sept. 19, 2020, midnight
- 📀 EXPLORER00 Explorer Division Sept. 19, 2020, midnight
- 📀 ARCHIVIST00 Archivist Division Sept. 19, 2020, midnight

Sept 21

AC internal site update: new RecordID
- 📀 THESTARTINGPOINT Spatiotemporal Anomalies Sept. 21, 2020, 4 p.m.

Sep 30

AeternusCenter (AC) is introduced/shown on ARGNet (*), here we learn Alexander Clark is CEO of AeternusCenter
Several people have received packages: The Rabbit Hole as the official start of this ARG. Included were several puzzles
We also got access to ACinternal - the employee website for AC
The ID Record puzzle was solved leading to a new ID RECORD
- 💿 INITIATE Well Done Recruit Sept. 23, 2020, 5pm

Oct 1

Email from Cole Johnson greeting all new recruits
- Accidentally a link to The Tower Video was included
ACinternal new Record ID - updated regularly
- 📀 RECRUITMENT Active Recruitment regularly updated
even though we could not recover the dead drop we got the content which led us to a new Record ID:
- 💿 FSPINITLOC Failsafe Protocol Oct. 10, 1990, midnight
progressing along the failsafe trail a new Record ID was revealed and updated:
- 💿 FSP Failsafe Triggered Oct. 1, 1990, 6:19 pm
- REMARK: we decided NOT to trigger the failsafe, yet

Oct 2

TOWER: We solved The Tower Video revealing a passphrase we should send in
- TOWER: Sending the solution passphrase to Magus we received another puzzle: recursive
- TOWER: We solved the recursive puzzle. Which led us to the huge Simulation
  - TOWER: we started the Initiate Simulation phase
- MAGUS: some people received ELF File from Magus afterwards

Oct 4

ACinternal update with new RECORD ID
- 📀 PHASE1WELCOME Welcome Recruits Oct. 4, 2020, midnight

Oct 5 (Puzzle Update Monday)

Onboarding officially started with an email from Cole Johnson.
ACinternal update with new RECORD ID:
- 📀 RECRUITP100 Phase 1 Onboarding Template Oct. 5, 2020, 10 a.m.
RECRUITING: after onboarding was successful people received the Phase 1 and META puzzle. Depending on their fraction the following Record IDs were communicated in an email
- 💿 P1PARTS Phase 1: Precursor Oct. 4, 2020, midnight
- 💿 P1ETONE Phase 1: Explorer Oct. 4, 2020, midnight
- 💿 P1ALICE Phase 1: Archivist Oct. 4, 2020, midnight
- 💿 P1OMENS Phase 1: Oracle Oct. 4, 2020, midnight
  - 💿 NBCAFTOAD Phase 1: Oracle Image Oct. 4, 2020, midnight
- 💿 P1METAP Phase 1: Meta Oct. 4, 2020, midnight
RECRUITING: all four fraction puzzles of Phase 1 solved
- "just" allowing fractions to do specific actions
MAGUS: finally the magus file was decoded and a new passphrase led to some new challenges
- encode DECOMPILEDRAGONS

Oct 6

🎵 spatiotemporal Soundcloud message 01 (*) posted
PAULA: Finally the Fence Puzzle from the The Rabbit Hole has been solved just to reveal a new one:
- PAULA: Moon Puzzle which was solved fast:
PAULA: Moon Puzzle solved reavealing a new Record ID
- 💿 HELPPLEH Help pleH Sept. 23, 2020, midnight
  - reavealing Paula Lewis email
OAKLEY: Finally the The Cards from the The Rabbit Hole has been solved to reveal a new website and a way to contact Oakley Smith
- new website: OBSCURUM SPACE (🔗). Contacting Oakley with the new email info her asked us what we know about PLACEBOS
TOWER: we finalized the Initiate Simulation phase
- TOWER: and started a first Simulation 19194126

Oct 9

MAGUS: enough people were able to encode DECOMPILEDRAGONS

Oct 10

OAKLEY: people who left their mailing address at OS started to receive letters form Oakley

Oct 12 (Puzzle Update Monday)

RECRUITING: An email and a new Record ID led to the ETA puzzle
- 📀 RECRUITP101 Phase 1 Recruits: Eta Investigation Oct. 12, 2020, 10 a.m.
- 📀 ETAINVESTIGATION η Investigation Oct. 13, 2020, 10:04 a.m. - original post from Oct.12 - updated several times
ACinternal also got another Record ID update giving some background information
- 📀 RECRUITRESEARCH01 P1 Research: Morphic Experiments Oct. 12, 2020, 10:50 a.m.
MAGUS: Posted the Tower Communication Results as a new Record ID
- 💿 MAGUSTCR00 Tower Communication Results Oct. 12, 2020, 11:45 a.m
RECRUITING: A new Hint for the META puzzle was found as a Record ID which helped to solve it. The reaction to the solution was a new public Record ID
- 💿 ARTSLICETONEMENS Phase 1: Meta Hint Oct. 4, 2020, midnight
- 📀 ALLFORONERECRUIT All For One Recruit Oct. 12, 2020, 11:52 a.m.
RECRUITING: The ETA puzzle has been (partly) solved.

Oct 13

🎵 spatiotemporal Soundcloud message 02 (*) posted
RECRUITING: The ETA fragment search continued with a found floor safe
RECRUITING: The floor safe puzzle has been solved. AC is sending a Team trying to retrieve the ETA fragment
MAGUS: The Tower Communication Results puzzle has been solved revealing major hints for The Tower simulations

Oct 16

people who send their mailing address to Cole started to receive recruit letters

Oct 19 (Puzzle Update Monday)

🎵 spatiotemporal Soundcloud message 03 (*) posted
MAGUS: Magus posted a link to the Magus 5 Us puzzles from Frances asking us to solve those for him
- We agreed not to send in the solutions to Magus
  - - Later we learned that another player sent the answers to Magus…. but it seems it did not influence the game as such.
PAULA: we got a coded message from Paula
- PAULA: we were able to decode the message. For security reasons, we should contact her by physical mail (on blue paper)and telling her how to contact Oakley. Seems like AC is sorting mail based on paper color.
RECRUITING: The Gamma incident. Someone stole an important fragment. We were asked in helping to identify the theft. Two new Record IDs:
- 📀 RECRUITP102 Phase 1 Recruits: Eta Investigation Update/Gamma Incident Oct. 19, 2020, 10 a.m.
- 📀 GAMMATHEFT γ Incident Oct. 19, 2020, 10 a.m.
- 💿 GAMMALOGS-101520 10/15/20 Gamma Security Logs Oct. 16, 2020, midnight
TOWER: Not solved but ended. The first Simulation 19194126 ended. We are dead!

Oct 20

RECRUITING: GAMMA thief identifed. It seems it was Karla.
RECRUITING: We were asked to find more information about the Karla incident. But nothing really came up and Karla confessed. (loose end?)
OAKLEY: we finally solved the codes of the letters Oakley send us
- Giving us some additional command for The Tower: "Override Inventory"

Oct 22

ACinternal update this Record ID
- 📀 RECRUITFAQ Recruit FAQ Oct. 22, 2020, 1:58 p.m.
TOWER: started a new Simulation 19194127

Oct 26 (Puzzle Update Monday - due to Thanksgiving not much)

🎵 spatiotemporal Soundcloud message 04 (*) posted
ACinternal update with Record ID
- 📀 RECRUITP103 Phase 1 Recruits: SƎ┴∀pԀ∩ ∀┴Ǝ/∀WW∀פ Oct. 26, 2020, noon
The bonus puzzle in Recruit Letters has been solved giving us a bonus hint Discord Simulation Prediction Machine

Oct 31 (Helloween Special)

AeternusCenter tweets (*) "Hourglass" symbol ⌛ which led to a new Record ID:
- 💿 ⌛ The Hunter Oct. 31, 2020, 10:49 a.m.
SEEKERS: which led to a Discord channel: [https://discord.gg/KqFXpvJY] (*) and the Game of Death.
- We were asked to name somebody, who has to die: Cole Johnson, Oakley Smith, Val Irvin or Erol Klarson
- We selected Val Irvin and tried to warn him. We also selected Oakley Smith to be spared. Nevertheless, we had still to fulfill two open tasks and got a hint for the first one
  - SEEKERS: Seems like there is more hidden in the letter AC sent us: Recruit Letter Part 2
  - SEEKERS: He wants more information about The Hunter's Fate

Nov 1

SEEKERS: We found a message beneath the post stamp of the Recruit Letter Part 2
- This led to a contact of Cal Devali and the Seekers - a group that wants to awaken The Eater and know about True Enlightenment

Nov 5

SEEKERS: We used the AC prediction machine to get information about The Hunter's fate

Nov 9 (Puzzle Update Monday)

RECRUITING: we should help to decipher a strange set of images for the EPSILON puzzle, found at Record IDs:
- 📀 RECRUITP104 Phase 1 Recruits: ɛ Challenge Nov. 9, 2020, 11 a.m.
- 💿 EPSILONIMAGES ɛ Images Nov. 9, 2020, 11 a.m.

Nov 10

RECRUITING: we solved the EPSILON puzzle
PAULA: We were able to send in a blue letter to AC with Oakley's contacts to Paula. Oakley Smith confirms he is in contact with Paula Lewis
ACinternal update with new Record ID
- 📀 RECRUITRESEARCH02 P1 Research: The Eater and the Hunter Nov. 10, 2020, 1:20 p.m.

Nov 11

✉️ Oakley informs us about a Morphic event happening soon in Boston and that he needs a local Bostan Asset (BA)

Nov 12

We were able to organize a BA.

Nov 15 (The Boston Drop)

: Our BA was able to steal the Morphic Experiment: Boston Drop
- During the drop we had to solve several puzzles and found two puzzle related Record IDs
  - 💿 SPT111420-0 Spatiotemporal 111420-0 Nov. 14, 2020, noon
  - 💿 SPT111420-1 Spatiotemporal 111420-1 Nov. 14, 2020, noon
- OAKLEY: BA stole The Park Box in which we also found EBs Journal

Nov 16 (Puzzle Update Monday)

✉️ AeternusCenter tweets (*) "Script Error: Error accessing http://internal.aeternus.center/messages" (tweet deleted)
ACinternal update with a new Record ID with several new tasks
- 📀 RECRUITP105 Phase 1 Recruits: Update Nov. 16, 2020, 11 a.m.
  - RECRUITING: We were told to encode a reply in the same way as EPSILON in the EPSILON challenge
  - all four fractions got a new task:
    - RECRUITING: Explorer Challenge: Soduku like puzzle
    - RECRUITING: Oracle Challenge: Use prediction engine to discover strategy for recruiting people for phase 2
    - RECRUITING: Precursor Challenge: Construct some challenges for phase 2 newcomers
    - RECRUITING: Archivist Challenge: Answer a questionaire
MAGUS: wants some help in Hunting Frances
TOWER: Not solved but ended. The second Simulation 19194127 ended. We are dead again!
- TOWER: We immediately started a third Simulation 19194129

Nov 17

MAGUS: Even though we tried to get hold of an item Frances "dropped" during the hunting Frances events, AC was faster, and Tim Malor took it.

Nov19

RECRUITING: We encoded the message Cole wanted us in the EPSILON challenge
RECRUITING: We solved the ARCHIVIST challenge

Nov 20

OAKLEY: We finally were able to order the pages of EBs Journal revealing a message and password we might need later
SHADOWOFAETERNUS: Tim Malor posted a twitter fleet as a First Contact with shadowofaeternus
- which led to a new (empty) Record ID (updated on Nov 29)

Nov 21

The last solve also helped us to get a hint from Oakley leading to a new site [https://obscurum.space/faces] (*) with more cards
- OAKLEY: with those cards we were able to solve the cards puzzle

Nov 23 (Puzzle Update Monday)

TOWER: Second Tower Video posted: 19194129: Exploring the Balance Hall (*)
- TOWER: we could immediately decode the Second Tower Video - now we know which objects we need on the pedestals.
ACinternal update with a new Record ID:
- 📀 RECRUITP106 Phase 1 Recruits: Next Steps Nov. 23, 2020, noon
✉️ After we had sent Oakley the solve of the Cards Puzzle we received The Ark explained with a lot of story background
RECRUITING: EXPLORER challenge marked as completed.

Nov 24

TOWER: Not solved but ended. The third Simulation 19194127 ended. We are dead again!
- TOWER: We immediately started a fourth Simulation 19194130

Nov 29

SHADOWOFAETERNUS: Record ID update leading to a new drop for our Boston Asset: Recovery Sorted
- 💿 RECORDOFAETERNUS ??? Nov. 29, 2020, 1:30 a.m.
Starling our BA followed the Recovery Sorted Trail and found his personal email address

Nov 30 (Puzzle Update Monday)

ACinternal update with two Record IDs
- 📀 RECRUITRESEARCH03 P1 Research: Erol Klarson and Maude Sareq Nov. 30, 2020, 7:53 a.m.
- 📀 RECRUITP107 Phase 1 Recruits: Updates Nov. 30, 2020, 9 a.m.
  - 💿 EPSILONIMAGESCHESS ɛ Images: Chess Nov. 30, 2020, 9 a.m.
    - RECRUITING: leading to a new puzzle EPSILON chess
SEEKERS: The Hunter started a Second Game of Death

Dec 2

✉️ AeternusCenter tweets (*): "Placebos are required less every year." - first letters spell PARLEY
✉️ AeternusCenter tweets (*): "Synchronizing. Backup Channel: kQBqgGDdVg"
: discussion between the groups
- Introduces players to new "departments"/"subsections"/etc. for PLACEBOS/PERSONAL
The player who joined the seekers gave us a Record ID as "a gift": Erol and Alexander disagree on the Tower
- 💿 TOWERMEETINGLOG03 Tower Meeting (Unknown Date) Oct. 10, 1990, midnight

Dec 3

✉️ AeternusCenter tweets (*): "Dear employees, as a chance to relax from the recent stress, we will be running Terminus (Alexander's infamous one-shot, though Alexander will be unable to attend due to a conflicting founder's meeting) in the coming days. There will be a Q&A held after. It will last 3-4 hours."

Dec 5 (Boston Drop 2)

✉️ AeternusCenter tweets (*): "It appears that Aeternus Center employees will be playing Terminus tomorrow at 8 PM EST. Unfortunately, there isn't space for recruits and contractors. We'll work on having alternative opportunities in the future. Hopefully, you have other things to occupy your time."
: Our BA Starling was able to recover a Black Notebook for Oakley during Boston Drop 2
- OAKLEY: Recovering Another Notebook that might be useful soon.

Dec 6 (Final)

: We helped Oakley during the events at the warehouse
- OAKLEY: We were able to help Oakley by solving puzzles with the help of Another notebook
PARLEY meeting between PERSONAL leaders to determine whether or not to allocate resources for fighting the Eater
- Parley Finale
✉️ Tim Malor sent out an email: End of Phase 1

Interlude

Act 2

Feb 27 (Snow Moon)

✉️: Several Tweets from Aeternus Center
- leading to the AC Tweets puzzle(s)

Feb 28

✉️: More AC Tweets from Aeternus Center

Mar 1

✉️: Major Hint for AC Tweets
- leading to the solve of AC Tweets
✉️: Received a new tweet via the Aeternus Center account
- but sender was someone named John (see also AC Tweets)
- AC soon reacted and said this was a "system failure" and we should ignore the message
- Tim Malor reacted and said this was from a former project TD (hinting towards the former ARG "The Door")
NIHIL AGENCY: received M11
✉️: Received a email from Paula Lewis with a mini puzzle
- PAULA: Noise in the machine
  - PAULA: we immediatelly solved (partly?) Noise in the machine

Mar 2 (Puzzle Update Monday)

✉️: TASKFORCE: email from Tim and Discord Update
- TASKFORCE:e-fta-eb: Tim posted the Number Grid puzzle
  - TASKFORCE:e-fta-eb: Number Grid puzzle solved
✉️: ??? forgetherealone site updated with
- ???: Memory fragment 3

Mar 3

???: Memory fragment 3 solved

Mar 4

✉️: TASKFORCE: Tim Malor fleeted a location, recovering a morphic box. However, the morphic box was stolen less than an hour later.
- Tim previously fleeted about a podcast, as well as referred to a Puzzle Hunt that some players were participating in.

Mar 5

NIHIL AGENCY: sent X11
Tim tweets mimic previous tweets. Was avoiding answering questions about what happened on March 3rd/4th, but magus confirmed that Tim is Tim.
TASKFORCE: Sent instructions for EB questline, and Tim going into the ruins

Mar 7

A new channel opens in Parley Discord, called "John". John (an AE from a previous ARG called "The Door") offered the Progenitors a chance to ask questions as long as answers were provided in return. 4 questions, 4 answers, 2 true and 2 false. We shut down the conversation after two rounds of questions.
Scots sent out a game called "Reaching Out" in hopes of getting in contact with Frances Austin
✉️: TASKFORCE: Contractor update, involved needing to email NPS who told our contractors to leave
Players were informed of another drop that we might be able to grab, the clues were "deja vu" "groundhogs" and repeating messages, which reminded us of Groundhog Day protocol, where we repeated the warehouse heist. Starling went to the location of Boston Drop 2 and found a large piece of paper folded multiple times.
- Four-Fold Fragment made the shapes of Witness/Watcher, Cycle/Survivor, Engineer/Forger, Skilled/Teacher and has letters hidden/only to be found if folded a specific way. Letters spell "TRAVERSE", don't know how to use it.
spire joined Voice Chat in Parley discord. Starling conversed with Spire, playing a game of charades as Spire could only communicate via emoji. Starling found out Spire was cut off from AC systems by Magus, and was asking for help regaining entry because their battery was low. Starling stated they would try.
- Need to get higher access login information for AeternusCenter, to access the AE console and hopefully lower/break the firewall keeping Spire out.

Mar 8

✉️: ??? forgetherealone site updated with
- ???: Memory fragment 4*
NIHIL AGENCY: received M12
Reached out to magus for information
: Frances Austin posted new game "Contact"
- : Solved, gave us a method to contact via Telegram
✉️: TASKFORCE: Tim posted fleet, confirmed it was Queen Anne/Seattle, Washington area; Gas Works Park
Solved: Memory fragment 4

Mar 9

✉️: NIHIL AGENCY: warned by Spencer that someone messed with the latest signal (M12)
Scots, Starling, and Ryson have a group chat with Frances Austin to warn about the Eater, the Seekers, and that magus was still searching for them.
- Frances requested that we find their friend "trapped within Aeternus".
  - Confirmed not Paula Lewis
: NIHIL AGENCY: Signal M12 warns that "Livingston" (previous contact for Nihil Agency) "danger"
: ☽ joins Parley, asks for Answers. Progenitors give ☽ trouble, because of confusion, and ☽ leaves.
: ☉ joins Parley, asks if progenitors seek enlightenment. We let the timer run for an extended period of time, and only asked two questions
- Received information about the morphic box stolen from Tim, as well as received magus's account login, however only someone within Aeternus can use the login code.
✉️: TASKFORCE: Tim fleeted, confirmed it was Smith Rock State Park, in Oregon
✉️: Paula Lewis responded to an email, warning us that Paula is suffering from the same issue as spire. Need to open up AC systems for our AEs to remain functioning.

Mar 10

: Parley has a "Data Link" attempt to connect. Is denied, and disconnects.
✉️: Magus warned that lowering security on AC systems would allow others to breach

Mar 11

✉️: Scots attempted to get information from Taskforce Earth Control about the "Data Link". Control had no answers
✉️: TASKFORCE: Received response from "NPS" regarding the Rocky Mountain Anomaly
: Parley has a "Data Link" attempt to connect. Is denied, and disconnects.

Mar 12

TASKFORCE: Submitted new Contractor instructions
: The Tower is unable to access the network and disconnects.
✉️: Messaged Magus about Tower's inability to connect and how that is affecting Taskforce Earth procedures
- Magus countered with a possible way to write an exception into the code for the Tower
NIHIL AGENCY: sent X12

Mar 14

At just before midnight, Tim Malor tweets an SOS in morse code.

Mar 15

✉️: ??? forgetherealone site updated with
- ???: Memory fragment 5*
- Ended up being a game of "Mastermind"
NIHIL AGENCY: received M13
TASKFORCE EARTH : Control took over the TE discord, and provided access to Emergency Funding in order to assist in retrieving Tim Malor
: John initiated another game. Turned into apologies on TE's side because of the hour attempting to do logic puzzles.

Mar 16

: John responded to Frances Austin's "THRICE" command
✉️: ??? forgetherealone site updated with
- ???: Memory fragment 6*
- ???: Solved Memory fragment 6*
- ???: Memory fragment 7*
: PAULA: Solved original request for code
✉️: R & L comment that they've helped us. Posted a gif from Portal of falling infinitely in Parley
: Brief moment in Parley that was quickly deleted:

E joined
E: Tim?
E left

: Spire messaged briefly to tell us "Time is running out"

Mar 17

✉️:Tim Malor once again tweets about coffee
- Confirms he's back in Massachusetts somehow
: John informs that Tim is an Immortal. He's been killed twice in fairly quick succession.
- John commented that he was "busy processing other games in other spaces."
✉️: Messaged Magus to lower the firewall for the Tower.
- : Spire revealed to be Spier, took over Aeternus Center, deleted Magus
  - Spire gives some information on the Alchark and Morphic items.
  - Spire hopes to free the AEs trapped in Aeternus Center
: Paula Lewis is now free to talk, mentioned that her actual self might still be alive
Starling created a puzzle for FinisAevum, Finis immediately messaged in Telegram
- Finis knows magus is dead
- John implies will be talking to Finis that evening.

Mar 18

Nihil Agency has been informed of Spire taking over Aeternus Center
- We learned X12, and X13 weren't sent correctly
NIHIL AGENCY: sent X13
Another John conversation

Mar 19

Working to help Tim Malor with the EB Puzzle
- Tim Malor gave us a set of numbers to solve

4872827657278948372827983713081243692945321480375842544578153473637998226560777279328995
2110112032569105577031372884033253504256284802727845885824624357860936429669402224345285
7774989958572828712652812184510021228047353527680660671268298661280983921481927473077900

Sent Contractor Instructions
Received angry worded emails from fake NMS
Paula gave us coordinates for a possible drop (with a time limit)

Mar 20

Continued to work on new Coordinates
- solved drop location later in the day
John wants to play a new game, some players do. Tic-tac-toe with hidden rules. First one is "loser wins". Second one is 3-board Notakto.
- Received Simulation results from the Oracle

Mar 21

Starling attempts to recover drop, has difficulties and gives up after 2.5 hours of searching.
We are given additional coordinates for a separate drop, Starling retrieves without issue Agency Drop 2021-03-21
- New Puzzle
  - Necessitates a reply

We know that you have been tracking morphic events for some time. We're curious about your interests in such things and what organization you are involved with. I'm sure we can come to some equitable arrangement to ensure the maximal understanding of morphic systems and their impact on your world. We eagerly await your reply. You can leave your reply as a letter at the location you found the 12/04/20 morphic event.

* Uncertain who "we" are

John gives players encouragement after struggling with many puzzles
Tim Malor has a moment about the number "4"
- Given a new format of the large number puzzle Tim sent us on Mar 19

Mar 22

NIHIL AGENCY: received M14
Attempt talking to NPS goes well, sadly the RCKM1020 location is filled with "methane" and will be unexplorable in the immediate future
Starling collects a drop that uncovers that Tim Malor's number puzzle matches the map from the EB bifurcus box Philadelpha puzzle
Meet Chariot, appears to be a navigation AE, hints at deaddrop locations
- Starling retrieves both items immediately after Chariot posts information about them
- Chariot is almost immediately merged with John
  - John becomes fairly more helpful because of this
Dealmaker makes an appearance, offers players items in exchange for a price
- Players request a week to deliberate and make a decision

Mar 23

TASKFORCE EARTH: White Mountains Anomaly, found a camera, and a letter/email from the Seekers asking for Maude Sareq to reach out if they want to continue their work
TASKFORCE EARTH: Tim Malor attempts to navigate the ruins
- Uncover a series of 4 complex locks
Conversation with FinisAevum on Telegram

Mar 24

TASKFORCE EARTH: Tim Malor successfully navigates the ruins, and solves the locks with the answers players provided him
- received new note from EB

Mar 25

PARLEY: Introduction of Prime, in a series of polls where players decide what happens next. A tie resulted in Prime "sleeping". Prime returned later, meme'd on players indirectly through the polls, and then went back to "sleeping"
TASKFORCE EARTH: Spier is eradicated and removed from server, possibly from AC as well, warns about Cal Devali
Cal reinitiates contact with players

Mar 26

TASKFORCE EARTH: Sent in Contractor Instructions
NIHIL AGENCY: sent X14
DROP: Starling collects Agency Drop 2021-03-26

Mar 28 (Worm Moon)

LUNAR AETERNUS CENTER: Invite to new Discord appears on Aeternus Twitter, appears to be a discord to contact Cal Devali
- Cal has taken over AeternusCenter, is with the "Eternals" a division of the Seekers that were overthrown by the current leaders.
T joins Parley

T: And the final day begun with the Takeover.

TASKFORCE EARTH: Tim informs us that the base he's been using has been overrun by people he doesn't know.
- Help Tim - Heist time

T: And continued with the Heist

Received Spatiotemporal Signal, received Emergency Transmission

T: And then came the Eater

T: And now for the Transcendent

Meet Transcendent

Queued Message:

A long day, but success in some ways. Farewell. -T

Takeover
Heist
Eater
Transcendent
A…

"If you're receiving this, Arrival has activated."

Mar 29

TASKFORCE EARTH: Contractor Update
- Multiple bodies labeled "Cal" were found in a shallow grave.
- Strange device in the Cabin seems to be connected to The Tower simulations
- Map in the Cabin looks like the map from the Gamma Crystal Theft
NIHIL AGENCY: received M15

Mar 30

Dealmaker appears, to hear what deal we're making. Results in conversations with 2, and 9001.
- There is a mention of the Body of Cal Devali as something we can trade.
- We agreed to trade a Body of Cal Devali, a Morphic Key, and the Four Fold Fragment for Memory Fragment 7 and Gamma Crystal
- Need to figure out how to get our trades in the same spot for ease of trade

Mar 31

received a survey, which twisted and changed into players conversing with a possible AE
- Mentioned a terminal, mentioned a Cavern, and The Eyes The Eyes The Eyes The Eyes
Player typed in terminal to which alerted players that a Elliot Barker is now able to access Parley.
- He left players a message:

Global Message:

Whoever else is poking around these systems, I'll sync with you once I've caught up with my family and associates.

Don't mess with the terminal.

I'm taking the Icarus device offline until I ascertain the state of the world.

-E

Apr 1

Tim Malor tweeted about coffee

Apr 2

TASKFORCE EARTH: Submitted Contractor instructions
Tim Malor tweets
- "Yes. Though taking a while to get things settled with the recent takeovers and other arrivals. Updates next week hopefully."
NIHIL AGENCY: sent X15

Apr 3

TASKFORCE EARTH/DEALMAKER: Starling mailed the Four Fold Fragment and morphic key to the PLACEBOS mailbox
DROP: Starling collects Agency Drop 2021-04-03

Apr 4

Tim Malor and EBarker had a conversation in "te-sync", we have no record of what was said.

Apr 5

TASKFORCE EARTH: Contractor Update
Items mailed to PLACEBOS mailbox should have arrived

Apr 6

TASKFORCE EARTH: Attempted to initiate the Tower, waiting on 2 clients.
Cal: We agreed to work with Cal temporarily, and Cal immediately set us on the task of tracking down Tim.
TASKFORCE EARTH: Tim Malor is alive and in hiding. Gave a location for a dead drop to communicate.
- Tim and E have been talking. We need to decide what's happening to the black box.
- Tim informed us that E will be busy until at least the new moon (April 12), when a certain meetup is scheduled, if it happens

Apr 7

TASKFORCE EARTH:
- Contractor Update
  - Package to PLACEBOS mailbox has been picked up
Responded to NA's offer
- We are accepting the deal, here's hoping we don't regret it
  - But we really want the morphic stuff
Dealmaker2 and 9001 appear
- We convey the location of the items we're trading with 2
- 9001 is looking into the price of specific items

Apr 8

FinisAevum would upload the cavern game "in the usual spot"

Apr 9

TASKFORCE EARTH: Submitted Contractor instructions
FinisAevum posted "DD3 Key" on itch.io
- Passkey is Platinum
NIHIL AGENCY: received M16
- has PAEO coordinates
  - gps plus two two dot one two seven nine comma plus two one dot six seven two four

Apr 11

TASKFORCE EARTH: Informed Tim that we plan on creating a fake set of puzzles for the new AC leadership to find and get distracted
NIHIL AGENCY: New drop

Very well.

Keep track of Site 4238-7111 on /deaddrops for updates on when updates on messages have been delivered or recovered.

Messages will be sent when a morphic event nears.

Apr 12

TASKFORCE EARTH:
- Contractor Update: Lost a contractor
  - Received Contractor Names
    - The Lost One: Jenny Vasquez, had no children but a dog (corgi) and a cat (bengal)
    - Cara Rela, fresh out of college, no family
    - Dan Jones and Max Jones, one college-age son and one dog (german sheppard)
- Tim Malor informs us that E is end-running everything since it doesn't make sense for us to solve the puzzles

E is going to determine whether Taskforce Earth should be entrusted with the info/artifacts, with first person questioning/discussions/challenges, rather than letting the Bifurcus Black Box puzzles be the indicator of trust.

TE-SYNC: conversations with Elliot occur
PRIME

Error: Unable to connect to Aeternus Systems.
Notice: Archiving channel until connection reestablished.

Cal Devali
- Gave two puzzles back to back, solved both fairly quickly

Apr 13

TASKFORCE EARTH: left a drop for Tim Malor in hopes he sees ut
John conversation
- gives a puzzle, a sudoku with extra rules
Dealmaker9001 appears, turns into a huge debate

Apr 14

TASKFORCE EARTH
- Contractor Update: Jenny is safe
- Contractor Update: Found Memory Fragment 7
The Tower: 3/4 Clients Active

Spatiotemporal Signal detected

Someone Else
- Meet Dawn (she/her) wanting our help with Dawn's Magic Heist to steal an Emerald Tablet from the Council Library

Apr 16

NIHIL AGENCY: sent X16

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