Within Hubris

"A Distance There Is"

This is a general forum designed to have every tool, every text, and every cipher available at the player's fingertips. This forum is not meant to replace any existing forum, but rather, its purpose is to serve as a central hub for you, the player. From here, you will be able to access everything related to the story - from a specific video to a certain Wikipedia article - in one convenient and organized location.

—Guide

Within Hubris was an Internet forum serving as the official hub for players to gather and theorize during the later part of the Moon Children Arc. It was operated by Guide, a mysterious administrator account.

Site-wide details

The forum's theme remained the same for its entire run. It featured a black forum body over diagonally-striped gray background. The banner, depicting the moon over the horizon, was titled, "A Distance There Is," and was created by Garrenn, one of the site's moderators. The forum title read "within hubris" in lowercase; when viewing a forum group or subforum, these were listed as well. Below the title was a section that read, "Within Hubris latest news:", which contained the latest post from the Announcements and Story forum groups. Below it was a message that read, "Welcome back; your last visit was on (Month Day Year, Time AM/PM)".

For an undetermined amount of time after its discovery, the song "Within Hubris" was set to play on the site, with its player featured under the forum title. A PayPal button linked to Alex Hall's account was featured under the banner from February 26, 2011 until February 17, 2012.

Main page

February 17, 2011

This iteration of the site was discovered at 7:00pm. These details remained unchanged. Forum groups and subforums:

• Announcements
  • Announcements
  • Forum Help
• Story
  • General Discussion
  • Theory Discussion
  • Story Speculation
  • New Developments
• Community
  • Newbie/Help Center
  • Community General
  • Videogame General
  • Fan Created Content
  • Recruitment

In addition to the above, the Board Statistics section at the bottom featured an active user list, the current day's birthdays, the total number of posts, the total number of registered members, the newest member, and the most users ever online.

Soon after the site's discovery, two new forum groups, each with one subforum, replaced the Announcements group. The first appeared at 7:30, with the second appearing at 7:40. They each disappeared about 20 seconds afterward.

The first:

• HELP ME
  • PLEASE GOD HELP ME

The second:

• MY EYES
  • THEY TOOK

Neither of the subforums contained posts. The Announcements group was restored afterward.

February 18, 2011

At an unknown time, a new forum group was discovered, this time below the Community group.

The group and its subforum:

• Wayward Horizon
  •  ???

Unlike the other subforums, Wayward Horizon's were password protected, rendering the topic titles unviewable from the main page. Upon its discovery, the ??? subforum contained a topic created by Hubris, which was deleted soon afterward. The next topics to appear were created by Guide, Nekko, Duskworld23, and ???, respectively.

Forum groups

Wayward Horizon

This section of the forum wasn't accessed until February 19 due to its password protection. The password screen read, "Please do not attempt to enter a password unless you are authorised. Failed attempts are logged and you may have your posting rights removed upon repetitive failure." However, it was soon discovered that this was not true, and failed attempts are simply logged.

After piecing together the password, "thelensoftruth", via Guide's welcome post and the cipher on Rosa's account page, the remaining contents of Wayward Horizon's ??? subforum were finally discovered. Inside were five topics, each containing a single post.

The first topic, pinned:

• Title: Welcome To The Waywar01011001110000101
• Posted by: Guide
• Description: ????//
• 0101100101101111011101010010011101110010011001010010000001101110011011110111010000100000011100110111 0101011100000111000001101111011100110110010101100100001000000111010001101111001000000110001001100101 001000000110100001100101011100100110010100101110
  
  010001110110010101110100001011100000110100001010000011010000101001001111011101010111010000101110
  • This translates to: "You're not supposed to be here.Get.Out."

The second topic:

• Title: The First
• Posted by: Nekko
• Description: N/A
• 0111011101101000011000010111010001101001011100110011111100100000011101110110100001100101011100100110

0101011101000110100001101001011100110011111100100000011010000110010101101100011100000010000001101101 0110010100100000011100000110110001100101011000010111001101100101001011000010000001101001001001110110 1101001000000111001101101111001000000111001101100011011000010111001001100101011001000010111000100000 0111011101101000011001010111001001100101001000000110100101110011001000000110010101110110011001010111 0010011110010110111101101110011001010011111100100000011010010010011101101101001000000111001101101111 0010000001101100011011110110111001100101011011000111100100101110001011100010111000100000011011010110 1111011011010110110101111001001000000110100101101101001000000111001101101111001000000111001101101111 0111001001110010011110010010111000100000011010010010000001110000011100100110111101101101011010010111 0011011001010010000001101001001001110110110001101100001000000110001001100101001000000110000100100000 0110001001100101011101000111010001100101011100100010000001110011011011110110111000101100001000000110 1001001000000111000001110010011011110110110101101001011100110110010100100000011010010010011101101100 0110110000100000011000100110010100100000011101000110100001100101001000000110110001101001011101000111 0100011011000110010100100000011000100110111101111001001000000111100101101111011101010010011101110110 0110010100100000011000010110110001110111011000010111100101110011001000000111011101100001011011100111 0100011001010110010000101100001000000110100100100000011011010110100101110011011100110010000001111001 0110111101110101001000000110100100100111011011010010000001110011011011110010000001110011011000110110 0001011100100110010101100100001011100010111000101110001000000110110101101111011011010110110101111001 0010000001101010011101010111001101110100001000000111000001101100011001010110000101110011011001010010 0000011101110110000101101011011001010010000001101101011001010010000001110101011100000010111000100000 0010000001110000011011000110010101100001011100110110010100100000010100000100110001000101010000010101 0011010001010010000001001101010011110100110101001101010110010010000001010111010010000100010101010010 010001010010000001000001010100100100010100100000010110010100111101010101

• • This translates to: "whatis? wherethis? help me please, i'm so scared. where is everyone?i'm so lonely... mommy im so sorry. i promise i'll be a better son, ipromise i'll be the little boy you've always wanted, i miss you i'm soscared... mommy just please wake me up. please PLEASE MOMMY WHERE ARE YOU"

The third topic:

• Title: The Fourth
• Posted by: Duskworld23
• Description: N/A
• 0100100100100000011000110110000101101110001001110111010000100000011100110111010001100001011011100110

0100001000000110100101110100001011100010000001001001001000000110001101100001011011100010011101110100 0010000001100101011101100110010101101110001000000110100001100001011101100110010100100000011000010010 0000011011010110111101101101011001010110111001110100001000000110111001001101000110111100100000011101 0001101000011010010110111001101011001011100010000001001001001000000111011101100001011011100111010000 1000000111010001101111001000000110101101101001011011000110110000100000011011010111100101110011011001 0101101100011001100010110000100000011000100111010101110100001000000100100100100000011001000110111101 1011100010011101110100001000000110101101101110011011110111011100100000011010000110111101110111001011 1000100000010010010010000001101000011000010111011001100101001000000111010001011210111100100000011001 1001101001011011100110010000100000011000010010000001110111011000010111100100101110001000000100001001 1001010110011001101111011100100110010100100000010010010010000001101100011011110111001101100101001000 0001101101011110010111001101100101011011000110011000101110

• • This translates to: "I can't stand it. I can't even have a momentI can't stand it. I can't even have a moment no think. I want to kill myself, but I don't know how. Have to find a way, before I lose myself."

The fourth topic:

• Title: The Seventh
• Posted by: ???
• Description: N/A
• 0100100100100000011000110110000101101110001000000110001001100101011000110110111101101101011001010010

0000010001110110111101100100001011100000110100001010000011010000101001001001001000000110001101100001 0110111000100000011000100110010101100011011011110110110101100101001000000110010101110110011001010111 001001111001011101000110100001101001011011100110011100101110

• • This translates to: "I can become God.
    I can become everything."

The fifth topic:

• Title: ...
• Posted by: Kelbris
• Description: N/A
• GET OUT

Soon after access was gained to Wayward Horizon, the password was reset and users were booted to the main page. The new password was soon discovered to be "youshouldntbehere".

Character accounts

Immediately, users began finding forum profiles belonging to characters. These profiles were not simply listed in the "Members" group, with most listed as "Tenor". In addition to groups, it was possible to assign special titles to accounts, which were utilized in a few of the following cases.

#	Username	Group	Title	Date joined	Miscellaneous
1	Jadusable	Admin	Administrator	February 17, 2011	Birthday listed as "23 April 1984"
2	Hubris	Tenor	N/A	February 17, 2011	Made one unseen forum post on February 18, 2011 at 1:16pm
3	Ryukaki	Tenor	N/A	February 17, 2011	N/A
4	Alex	Tenor	N/A	February 17, 2011	Made one unseen forum post on February 18, 2011 at 12:58pm
5	Nekko	Tenor	Tenor	February 17, 2011	N/A
6	Duskworld23	Tenor	Tenor	February 17, 2011	N/A
7	Drowned	Tenor	N/A	February 17, 2011	N/A
8	BEN	Tenor	N/A	February 17, 2011	N/A
9	Rosa	Tenor	N/A	February 17, 2011	Location contained binary that translates to "bastionof", formerly "bastiono"
10	Insidiae	Tenor	N/A	February 17, 2011	N/A
11	Tyler	Tenor	N/A	February 17, 2011	N/A
12	Kelbris	Tenor	N/A	February 17, 2011	N/A
13	Guide	Admin	Helping Hand	February 17, 2011	N/A
530	???	Tenor	???	February 18, 2011	Joined one day later than previous accounts
2286	Usekeb	Tenor	N/A	April 22, 2011	Joined two months later than previous accounts, discovered on June 8 by MajinMew

The binary code on Rosa's page appeared around 11:30am on February 19. At first, it read:

• 1001110110011110100011001000101110010110100100001001000110010000

When reversed, this translates to "bastiono". Users were unable to gain a meaning from this, but around 6:30pm, the code was updated:

• 100111011001111010001100100010111001011010010000100100011001000010011001

When reversed, this translates to "bastionof". Soon afterward, users realized it was a reference to Guide's welcome post, where he described Within Hubris as our "bastion of defense". Upon testing "bastionofdefense" as Wayward Horizon's password, users finally gained access.

Real-life information

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User ranks

Users were able to gain different titles depending on their post count:

1. Catalyst (0)
2. Conspiracist (25)
3. Fanatic (75)
4. Devout (300)
5. Pseudonym (423)
6. Zealot (424)
7. Martyr (750)
8. Pathological (1200)
9. Puppet (2000)
10. Spirit (5000)

Guide

Guide was the official administrator of Within Hubris, and a game mechanic designed to present ARG-related material to the players. This was, in reality, the in-game personification of Alex Hall.

On July 15, the ARG was placed on hiatus, the announcement for which can be read here. This was the catalyst for the decline of Within Hubris. On the same day, Kayd Hendricks, the creator of the Ryukaki side-arc, conducted a Q&A describing his undesirable experience of working with Alex, to which Alex retaliated with a statement describing his arc as non canon, despite a Tenor account belonging to Ryukaki existing alongside the rest.

On April 23, 2012, Guide presented the players with an early alpha version of the Hubris game.

On June 2, Guide promoted Spanosa to administrator in order to combat trolls and vandals in his absence.

Police Incident

On August 8, 2012, Within Hubris was shut down by the police. At first, no one knew what happened. There was no notification of what had transpired, only a page stating that the forum no longer existed. Alex Hall announced that there was no way to get the forum back online, and revealed that the police had apparently removed it due to "death threats." With no other leads, users traced this back to a topic in which users were asked "who they would kill and why."

On August 10, Within Hubris was recreated by Kafeite and Dawn Of A New Day. The new forum, hosted on Zetaboards instead of InvisionFree, has no canon status. In order to differentiate between the two incarnations of Within Hubris, users began calling the original "Oldbris" and the new one "Newbris."

In August 2018, due to Zetaboards' merge with Tapatalk, a new, independent version of Within Hubris was introduced, nicknamed Tribris.