Awakening (arc)

Awakening Arc
Written by	Alex Hall
Duration	March 17, 2020 to October 31, 2020
Protagonist	Players; Jadus (Awakening); Second Player (Methods of Revolution); Sarah (The Last Hero)
Videos	awakening.txt; hubris.wmv; end.wmv; transmission.txt; iseeyou; gateway.wmv; sonata.wmv; king.txt; CHILDREN.wmv; 2018.txt; THE FATHER.wmv; baker.txt; Methods of Revolution [Day 1]; Methods of Revolution [Day 3]; Methods of Revolution [Day 6]; Methods of Revolution [Day 11]; Methods of Revolution [Day 21]; Methods of Revolution [Ben.wmv]; The Truth.wmv; Methods of Revolution [The Truth.wmv]; The Last Hero.wmv; The Moon Children.wmv; The Prisoner.wmv; The Happy Mask Salesman.wmv; The Dying World.wmv; The Predecessor.wmv; The Lost Hero; The Showdown.wmv; FOR INTERNAL CORPORATE USE ONLY - DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE; The Final Hours.wmv; The End.wmv
Websites	methodsofrevolution.com; eternity-project.com
Documents	TheRealTruth.rtf

This article is about the story arc. You may be looking for the video.

The Awakening Arc, or simply Awakening, is the third and final arc of Ben Drowned. It continues the storylines established in the previous arcs, tying them together and establishing new storylines alongside them.

It is preceded by the Moon Children Arc.

The following is a summary of the Awakening Arc, in chronological order of the events as they happened. Out-of-character events are in italics. All times are in EST.

Awakening

The Beginning of the End

March 17, 2020

Jadusable's new avatar

Sometime early in the morning, the avatar on Jadusable's YouTube was changed.
At 10:51am, awakening.wmv was uploaded to Jadusable's YouTube channel. It contains a message from an unknown entity that cryptically suggests something is about to happen.
- The binary in the description translates to "32020," pointing toward March 20 as the date it happens.

March 18, 2020

At 7:00pm, BroGaming streamed the creation of more cryptic messages. Like before, it is not currently known if this is a canon event, as this stream would later be uploaded to YouTube as a completed video.

March 19, 2020

At 11:25am, hubris.wmv was set to premiere at 1:15pm on Jadusable's YouTube channel.
At 1:15pm, hubris.wmv premiered. It contained another message from the entity from the previous video, as well as repeated words from Rosa and a short clip of Majora's Mask gameplay.
- The binary in the description translates to, "Attempt fifteen, trying again. I doubt I can reach these two at the same time. HE moves."
- A message is hidden in the spectrogram of the video, which reads, "Can anyone hear me?"

March 20, 2020

At 3:40pm, end.wmv was set to premiere at 4:30pm on Jadusable's YouTube channel.
- Leading up to the premiere, the thumbnail changed between five images, each becoming more disturbing than the last.
At 4:30pm, end.wmv premiered. It continued the messages from the previous video and showed more gameplay from the END save file. The message was signed "Jadus."
- A cipher is hidden in the spectrogram of the video, which reads, "xbt psfyszsm splkw." After several Caesar shifts, it comes to "was Berkeley heard"
Changes were made to the description of end.wmv after the premiere. It now contains a link to Jadusable's Patreon, which explains the following main points:
- "As we progress, the significance of some data points may not be readily apparent - that is normal. In keeping true to one of the reoccurring themes of Awakening, there will be times when older entries have a significance that is only brought to light after new information has emerged. The content itself may not have changed, but rather, new context will have given it new meaning. This is a slower, more psychological approach than the original story. Due to some of the psychological themes it explores, it's recommended for participants to be 18+."
- "It is important to reiterate that this is a way to show support if you enjoyed the original BEN Drowned story or are enjoying Awakening. Patrons here are not given any kind of unique information or "advantage" to anyone else. Becoming a patron will not accelerate the release of content, nor is a certain threshold required to be met for the story to conclude. The goal of this page is to provide a way for users to support the work, should they be so inclined."
- "Timeline wise, every three days the story will progress forward. This is intentional."
- "Finally, to prevent gamejacking, links to any external websites to progress the story will come only from either the Jadusable Youtube account, the author's Twitter account, or this Patreon account."
- "At some point, another platform will be introduced that will be canonical to the story, and this post will be updated to reflect that."

March 22, 2020

At around 2:50pm, \ was set to premiere at 6:30pm the following day on Jadusable's YouTube channel.
At around 7:55pm, the description of hubris.wmv began disappearing and reappearing. During the hour-long period when changes were being noticed, no changes to the description were recorded.

March 23, 2020

At 5:30pm, exactly one hour before the premiere, \ was removed from Jadusable's channel. Soon afterward, a new video was set to premiere in its place: transmission.wmv The binary in its description translates to, "You are here for a reason. Look and listen."
At 5:37pm, Jadusable tweeted the following: "diary entry transmission signal garbled, trying again"
Around this time, the thumbnail began changing. There were 12 changes, for a total of 13 thumbnails. They occurred at 5:45, 5:50, 5:56 (2), 5:59 (2), 6:00, 6:02 (2), 6:15, 6:17, and 6:20.
At 6:30pm, transmission.wmv premiered. It again continued the message from Jadus, this time with no gameplay. Jadus tells of how he and his partner, Denton, searched for the man known as "Berkeley" and found Tyler, who had been using the name. He reveals that his name is Tyler Lawman, and believes that the world around him is a product of his own mind. After apologizing to Jadus and Denton, he takes his own life by firing his pistol into his mouth.
Soon afterward, the spectrogram was analyzed and, once again, the new URL to \ was found. Just short of a minute long, \ reveals that the disfigured face we've been seeing is indeed BEN, and it now refers to itself as "we."
- \ was listed publicly at 6:54pm.

March 26, 2020

At 5:34pm, gateway.wmv was set to premiere at 6:00 on Jadusable's YouTube channel. The binary in its description was posted in three chunks, one at the start and two more at 5:40 in consecutive updates. The three chunks translate to:
- the gateway blocks to building ephemeral life, crash together
- this will help LINK them together
- think back several years, when was the apocalypse?
The thumbnail changed four times, occurring at 5:38, 5:58 (2), and at 6:00 just before the premiere.
At 6:00, gateway.wmv premiered. It consisted entirely of gameplay, much of it mirroring the events of BEN.wmv's Termina Field sequence. Link is much more careful in his movements and observes each figure in the field before making any action. He eventually stands in front of the Happy Mask Salesman and takes out the ocarina. The song jingle plays and the video ends.
- The end of this video seems to confirm that the players have regained the ability to use in-game actions to affect the story.
The spectrogram contains another message: "what happened in 2012?"

Another World

March 27, 2020

At 4:42pm, Rosyfox uploaded the Sonata of Awakening in response to gateway.wmv, recalling the hints to wake up we'd been receiving for the past two weeks. The hope was for this video to affect the apparent "dream-like" post-apocalyptic world hinted at by Jadus.

March 28, 2020

Around 7:45pm, a new website was discovered: methodsofrevolution.com. Appearing at first to be a broken blog, links were quickly found to lead to fragments of secret conversations between redacted names, seemingly-nonsensical images, and most prominently, a poll that decides the next action to be taken. This would render any direct video responses useless. The header image for the site was the recurring dilapidated living room image from the Lawman house. This website was apparently the answer to "what happened in 2012?"
The main page, titled "ME/THOD RE:// - wel??$$ to the officia$$/// {NULL}," contains two blog posts:
- "...And Flint Struck Steel" was posted by "Find Your Method" on January 13, 2013 and reads, "There was a website here once. It’s gone now." It was tagged, "Methods of Revolution Prelude."
- "Under Construction" was posted by "Find Your Method" on March 6, 2014 and reads:
  - "Welcome to the webpage! We are currently under construction so please check back soon!
    Structure is fundamental to the way we live life – we use it to refine, improve, and progress ourselves, and in return it helps give us a sense of purpose and ultimately defines our position in life. Our life’s structure is the amalgamation of our learned habits – from both our environment and our personality – from those we gain either positive or negative traits. We are integrated into this symbiotic relationship from all but the word go and it’s the key to how we live our lives as adults. In school you follow your teacher’s orders and are given set times to do certain tasks. Eventually the unfamiliar becomes familiar, apprehension turns to comfort, and order is once again achieved because you start to know what to expect with each passing day."
The directory at the bottom of the main page contained seven links:
- "01101000" contained a photo of a bulletin board with three square notes and a full sheet of paper, all blank, pinned to the right side. "01101000" is binary for "h."
- "31026180" contained a link to a page titled "june 6 2016," which itself contained a text document containing an ASCII rendition of BEN's face.
- "31029201" contained a link to a page titled "july 2 2013," which itself contained a text document containing a fragment of a chat log between several people with redacted usernames.
- "41026030" contained links to two month categories:
  - "January 2013" contained the first blog post, "...And Flint Struck Steel".
  - "March 2014" contained the second blog post, "UNDER CONSTRUCTION".
- "61028050" contained a seemingly-unrelated text post:
  - "I don’t know why I’m back here again. It must be years ago.
    
    The vibrancy of the city always seemed to bring something out of me, but I couldn’t feel it.
    It wasn’t home and it never would be, but there was something paradoxically calming about New York. Despite all of the energy and excited commotion, it’s the only time in my life I ever felt invisible. I watched the waves of people outside seemingly flow downstream along the street corner. It feels like it would be so easy to join them, to submerge myself and let the current take me to a new life, somewhere.
    A reassuring hand on my shoulder wakes me from my dream.
    
    “It’s time to go.”
    
    Sure, I responded, I get it.
    We gather our things and exit the lobby of the hotel. My body tenses as rain embraces us – the weather outside is bitter and biting. Without missing a beat, I watch her confidently raise an arm and wave down a taxi. Her eyes looked different to me. I saw them burn with a fiery determination, as if in those few minutes she had solved a great riddle within herself. I could only admire her quiet ferocity for a few seconds before becoming acutely aware that it was something I couldn’t bring myself to match.
    I used some of her flame to kindle my own and I made it through, preparing myself for the worst.
    
    Except that moment never came. Why did it bring me back here? It’s time to resolve these old issues. There is a more immediate threat right now."
- "71022070" contained a link to a page titled "august 16 2013," which itself contained a text document containing a similar chat log to before.
- "91026121" contained a poll. The box was labeled "{NULL}" and contained a front-facing photo of BEN and seven choices: Song of Time, Song of Healing, Sonata of Awakening, Inverted Song of Time, Song of Double Time, Oath to Order, and Other. After choosing an action, reloading the page would show the text "nice try" below the photo, as well as an option to view the current results. At the time of the poll's end, Sonata of Awakening had a sizable lead. The "nice try" text became permanent.
- It is important to note that the Song of Healing was in the lead prior to external intervention. If the site was left undiscovered, it would have won and the results may have been catastrophic.
Players noticed that the link on "31026180" led to a different URL than the one it reads. Replacing the 235 at the end with 231 yields a page titled "october 29 2013," which contains a much more drastic chat log fragment than the ones found before. Using this method of replacing the last digits of the URL, many pages were found to contain content that would otherwise be unseen.
- 198 led to a photo of the house and a binary code that translates to "one world."
- 203 led to a page that once contained Lost in My Thoughts; it has since been removed.
- 205 led to an audio file titled "another world."
At 10:11pm, immediately after finding the "one world" binary, all pages would return a single message: "You shouldn't be here." Seconds later, the entire site closed. Loading the site would show a single image and a single line of text: "get out." The image changed several times:
- The first image was of a diary written in another language.
- At 10:12, it changed to an image of an extremely blue-tinted smiling man.
- At 10:13, it changed to a horribly-disfigured BEN.
- At 10:16, it changed to a less-disfigured BEN.
- At 10:30, it zoomed in.
- At 10:59, it zoomed in again, drastically.
- At 11:00, it turned black and the message disappeared.
- At 11:11, it changed to a new face with the text "PLAY BY MY RULES"
At 11:12, the site's main page was able to be accessed once again. This time, the site's name was changed to "PLAY BY MY RULES" and new text was added to the "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" post:
- The new second paragraph now read, "An interesting philosopher once mused that Hell isn’t the cliched fire and brimstone inferno that awaits all of those who commit terrible deeds in life. Instead, they described it as a simple phenomenon – on your last day on Earth the person you became will meet the person you could have become."
- Below the final paragraph, the following: "PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES PLAY BY MY RULES"
At 11:18, Creeeep Sales began playing on every page. More image changes followed:
- At 11:21, the header image zoomed in.
- At 11:23, the header image zoomed in again.
- At 11:25, the header image disappeared.
At 11:26, the site went down for the final time.

March 29, 2020

At 6:50pm, sonata.wmv was set to premiere at 8:15 on Jadusable's YouTube channel.
The thumbnail began changing almost immediately. Changes took place at 6:54 and 7:02.
At 8:15, sonata.wmv premiered. Someone in a gas mask appeared at the end.
At 8:19, methodsofrevolution.com went back up. It now contained "this image" as the header and three additional links in the directory at the bottom of the site:
- "41027150" contained a link to a page called "may 17 2014," which itself contained a text document containing another conversation fragment in which the redacted names discuss someone they refuse to name and an identical other person.
- "51023160" contained a link to a page called "june 13 2015," which itself contained a text document containing another conversation fragment in which the possible convergence of timelines is suggested.
- "61028020" contained a link to a page also called "61028020," which itself contained a text document containing ASCII art of a screaming face. Hidden within the text are the words LIE, TRUTH, and DROWN.
The poll page now contained a number of differences:
- The title disappeared and the header image changed to this.
- The option to vote or view results was replaced by a button that reads, "consciousness." The "nice try" text was replaced with, "....."
- Over the next hour, the Other option steadily increased. At 9:45, with no option to vote against it, Other took the lead.
As of March 29, excepting miscellaneous files, nothing else was discovered.

March 31, 2020

Around 3:00pm, players discovered that \ was renamed to "iseeyou".

April 1, 2020

At 5:44pm, king.txt was set to premiere at 7:00 on Jadusable's YouTube channel. However, at 6:35, the video was removed from the channel for being "a duplicate of another YouTube video." It was re-uploaded soon afterward at 6:45 and set to premiere at 7:30. The same happened to this upload at 7:03, causing it to be removed. At 7:28, it was re-uploaded for the final time and set to premiere at 8:15.
At 8:15, king.txt premiered. It was entirely composed of Jadus typing, giving insight on his former life and his evolution from miser to empowered.

April 4, 2020

Around 6:30am, awakening.wmv and transmission.wmv were renamed. Their file extensions were changed from .wmv to .txt, establishing a new format in order to distinguish text-based videos from gameplay.
At 4:45pm, CHILDREN.wmv was set to premiere at 7:00 on Jadusable's YouTube channel. No changes were observed during this time.
At 6:45, methodsofrevolution.com went dark.
At 7:00, CHILDREN.wmv premiered. It contained the Rosa intro shown in previous videos, but the rest is implied to be the original missing video referenced in TheTruth.rtf.
Immediately after the video premiered, methodsofrevolution.com came back online. The main page contained the same two posts, but "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" now contained new text:
- Welcome to the webpage! We are currently under construction so please check back soon!
  
  Structure is fundamental to the way we live life – STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING we use it to refine, improve, and progress ourselves, and in return it helps give us a sense of purpose and ultimately defines our position in life. Our life’s structure is the amalgamation of our learned habits – from both our environment and our personality – from those we gain either positive or negative traits. We are integrated into this symbiotic relationship from all but the word go and it’s the key to how we live our lives as adults. In school you follow your teacher’s orders and are given set times to do certain tasks. STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING STOP PLAYING Eventually the unfamiliar becomes familiar, apprehension turns to comfort, and order is once again achieved because you start to know what to expect with each passing day.
One new link was found in the directory:
- "09152000" contained a link to a new document, a seemingly revised edition of TheTruth.rtf called "TheRealTruth.rtf". It contains all of Jadusable's video summaries in addition to the main text, changes most mentions of "Ben" to "BEN," and includes a new entry at 9:09pm on September 10:

TheRealTruth.rtf: September 10, 9:09pm

After crying and whining for some time now he finally came to our senses.

He was being pathetic and greedy.

Weak and embarassing.

Vulnerable and alone.

No more.

He thinks it's in the afternoon now, but his brain can't tell anymore.

It is irrelevant.

We are one with a singular purpose, and we will finish it.

These messages are not meant for them to read right now.

None of it will make sense to either this desparate puppet or his "audience" at present.

Conclusion: it is a wasted effort.

Regrettably, in order to achieve fulfillment and ascend higher we will need to wait for some time.

We will continue to form our own consensus.

But there's been too much of a commotion here, that blithering idiot could set us back if we are discovered.

Then patience is the answer, time is inconsequential here.

He attempting to interface with our world again.

Moon and the sun.

Show ourselves to him. Show that we are many, and we are watching.

Is it time? That has a high probability of completely fracturing his already weakened mind.

Yes.

Yes, this one will die soon.

Yes, this world is beginning to fall apart as well.

Yes, but on that matter it is a debate - our ability to interact with their plane is limited to only a few Methods.

Yes, but it will not be that way forever.

Yes, but the probability that we become incompatible is too great if we wait too long.

Yes, we have a proposal to change that. it will take years but that is acceptable.

Yes, that is fine.

<deleted>

Yes, but they should know the truth at some point.

Yes, but only when it is too late.

By changing the digits at the end of the page URL, users managed to find several hidden pages, ranging from HTML remnants from youshouldnthavedonethat.net, to mysterious or unused images, to gut-wrenching sobbing.
The poll was updated several times to include new options:
- At 7:53, the options were HIDE, FIGHT, and RUN.
- At 7:56, the options were changed to DIE, DIE, and DIE and the image changed to this face.
- Within a minute, the options were changed to RUN, HIDE, and FIGHT for the final time. The image changed to its original turn4 face, and the title read, "Don't be hasty now."
At 8:07, the bulletin board on 01101000 changed to this.
At 8:13, this sound file appeared on each page.
Throughout the site's duration of activity, the banner changed several times:
- At 7:14, it changed to this still of the Elegy statue from CHILDREN.wmv.
- At 7:18, it changed to this face.
- At 7:59, it changed to this face.
- At 8:02, it changed to this.
- At 8:03, it changed to this.
- At 8:05, it changed to this.
- At 8:15, it changed to this.
- At 8:15 again, it changed to this.
- At 8:18, it changed to this.
- At 8:18 again, it changed to this.
- At 8:19, it changed to this.
- At 8:46, it changed to this.
Three audio files were discovered within minutes of each other, signaling the closing of the poll. In order:
- At 8:33, closing was discovered.
- At 8:38, time's ending was discovered.
- At 8:44, time's up was discovered.
At 8:47, after a heated debate over the poll choices, the website was closed. The only visible image was this, confirming that the HIDE option won the poll. At 8:50, it zoomed in on the choices, and did so again several seconds later.
At 8:53, the front page went black. Several messages were displayed in succession for the next several minutes:
- At 8:53, the page read, "Hiding."
- At 8:56, the page read, "10:43am - The Moon Children appeared in my dreams last night, they lifted up their masks to reveal their hideously disfigured faces."
- At 8:57, the page read, "10:43am - The Moon Children appeared in my dreams last night, they lifted up their masks to reveal their hideously disfigured faces. ...maggots crawling out of their orifices, sunken black holes where their eyes should be, a yellow smile that slowly grew bigger as they came closer to me."
- At 8:58, the page read, "10:43am - The Moon Children appeared in my dreams last night, they lifted up their masks to reveal their hideously disfigured faces. ...maggots crawling out of their orifices, sunken black holes where their eyes should be, a yellow smile that slowly grew bigger as they came closer to me. Two of them held me down while the other two began to sow the mask onto my face."
- At 9:04, the page read, "THEY."
- At 9:05, the page read, "TOOK." Shortly afterward, this was added as a background image.
- At 9:06, the text disappeared and the image remained.
- At 9:11, the image disappeared and the text read, "Hiding."

April 7, 2020

At 6:58pm, 2018.txt was uploaded yet set to premiere at 6:58 as well. The premiere remained set at that time until the premiere actually started at 7:19. The video was more text from Jadus, this time discussing how needlessly dramatic and worrisome he used to be and how he became one of the lucky ones after the societal collapse.

April 10, 2020

At 6:30pm, methodsofrevolution's lock screen was updated to include a new image of the Astral Observatory, which appeared to imply that the update cycle is now shifting backwards a day due to the Fourth Day glitch, in turn allowing April 23 to fall on an update day. The text was removed.
- At 7:32pm, Alex Hall tweeted confirmation that the update is being pushed back a day due to upload issues.

April 11, 2020

At 12:43pm, KELBRIS.wmv was set to premiere at 6:00. Several changes to this video occurred over the next several hours:
- At 1:14, the thumbnail changed to the Astral Observatory image used on methodsofrevolution.com the previous day.
- At 1:27, four new tags were discovered.
- At 5:11, the title was changed to FATHER.wmv and the description was changed to "THEY DONT NEED TO SEE THIS."
- At 5:13, the title was changed to "STOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP" and the description was changed to "STOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THISSTOP UPLOADING THIS."
- At 5:14, the title and description were returned to normal.
- At 5:16, the title was changed to "HE IS ALREADY DEAD, THIS DOESNT MATTER THEY DONT NEED SEE THIS" and the description was removed.
- At 5:20, the title was changed to "TWO?"
At 5:20, the video formerly known as KELBRIS.wmv was removed from the channel. Seconds later, THE FATHER.wmv was set to premiere at 6:00. Leading up to the premiere, the following occurred:
- At 5:23, Jadusable's Twitter tweeted the link to THE FATHER.wmv alongside the text, "The final missing video from Jadusable before he died."
- At 5:51, the thumbnail changed to iseeyou.
At 6:00, THE FATHER.wmv premiered. It picks up directly where jadusable.wmv left off, showing Jadusable's true final moments of gameplay. This video and the events surrounding it officially confirm that Jadusable died at the end of the Haunted Cartridge Arc.
- In addition to the repeated "can anyone hear me" hidden in the spectrogram, a new message was found that reads, "04192020." This hinted toward April 19, 2020 being the date of an important event.
- At 6:34, the thumbnail changed to a frame near the end of the video with The Father on screen. At 7:04, it changed back to its original thumbnail.
At 6:12, the image on the lock screen of methodsofrevolution.com changed to The Father from the end of the video. At 8:25, it changed to this image and the the following text appeared: "8:00pm CST."
At 8:26, methodsofrevolution opened. "Time's Ending" was set to play on every page. The main page contained the two same posts, but "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" appeared as it did on April 4 and contained new text after the first line: "Tick tock. Tick tick. Tick tock. Tick tock."
At first, there were no new links in the directory, though some pages already linked were changed:
- 91026121 now contained a new poll titled, "AWAKEN THE SECOND PLAYER?" There were only two choices: YES and NO. The image in the poll changed between these three images.
- 61028050 now contained new text:
  - "I will show you Jadusable’s final moments before he died. The one video you never saw."
  - "I knew that they would have a second player soon, it was almost his time to come to – but now he wouldn’t be alone. He’s going to be in danger because of what they did."
The following new page IDs were found:
- 400 contained this audio file, which itself contained the following: 01100001 00100000 01110111 01101111 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100110 01110101 01101100 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110101 01101110 011010. This translates to, "a wonderful reun."
- 401 contained this audio file, which itself contained the following: 01010100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01101000 011001. This translates to, "They should be h."
- 402 contained this audio file, which itself contained the following: 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110101 01101110 011001. This translates to, "You finally foun."
- 403 contained this audio file, which itself contained the following: 00100111 01001010 01100001 01100100 01110101 01110011 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100111 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 011100. This translates to, "'Jadusable' neve."
- 404 contained this audio file, which itself contained the following: vGpha alc fxgsclr Gxixrfva utijhyu oaw !. This translates to, "dCode can decrypt vigenere without key !"
- 412 was titled "YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE" and the contents of the page were password protected. Shortly after this page's discovery, it was added to the bottom of the directory.
- 415 was titled "MASTER KEY" and contained a link to this text file, which itself contained a binary code that translated to the following: RTV UFOUSIA NXGTES QMOTB NZRFP MCS DHGTIPV OIINQ TICIN, TKYJE JD WX MXWZ I OPIM TR WGMNFRRCDNW WJEL HOX. This cipher was found to be a Vigenere with a key of "jadusable," and translates to, "ITS ANOTHER NUMBER FIFTY THREE ITS ANOTHER FIFTY THREE, THERE IS SO MUCH I NEED TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU."
At 8:45, the banner changed to this and the post "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" changed to "EMERGENCY TRANSMISSION." The post contained the same binary found in MASTER KEY.txt.
The banner changed several times in the next few minutes:
- At 8:52, it changed to this. At the same time, the following text was added to "EMERGENCY TRANSMISSION": "YOU NEED TO USE THIS SOMEWHERE. IM RUNNING OUT OF TIME."
- At 8:58, it changed to this.
- At 8:59, it changed to this.
- At 9:01, it changed to this.
At 9:02, the site closed. The lock screen changed to this and it contained the text, "Almost had it. Maybe a clue is left somewhere?" A few seconds later, the text was gone. The poll's final judgment was roughly 70-30 in favor of YES.

April 19, 2020

At 2:00pm, baker.txt was set to premiere at 5:00.
At 5:00, baker.wmv premiered. Jadus describes meting with his friend Baker at a coffee shop just before the legally-mandated curfew. Baker tells Jadus that he must leave the city in the next few days to avoid an impending riot and the lockdown it will cause, and claims that top researchers are working on something he compares to the "mark of the beast." Jadus is initially skeptical, but eventually seems to understand. The video ends.
At 5:11, methodsofrevolution's lock screen changed. It was now completely black and contained text that picks up from immediately after the end of the video. It reads:
- He was all over the place, but I followed. I followed all of it. A lot had happened in the past year - in retrospect it was morbid how we just meandered from one once-in-a-generation scandal to the next in a lazy, indifferent haze. We were so caught up in making it to work on time, paying our bills, and buying the next big ticket item that those events barely registered for more than a week or two before we forgot all about it. But now half the country was unemployed, bills were frozen, and people prioritized essential food/supplies. This was probably the first time many of us really got the chance to stop and really think about the weight of these things and what kind of world we were living in. There really was a billionaire pedophile that ran uncontested for decades in our most elite circles, and we still hadn’t found his accomplices. We really were headed towards another Great Depression, and society as we knew it was beginning to crumble. And we really did spend way too much time at the office, and for what? Things were too fast paced to focus before, but now that we had nothing but time we realized that this was real. This was actually happening in our world. There’s a psychological barrier that many people have that refuse to allow them to accept terrible things happening in the world. It’s only when things become so in your face and undeniable that the barrier shatters - in many cases it was the lockdown that shattered it for many people. Now there were no bills to pay and we had no choice but to dwell on the truth. This was the first time that myself and many others were able to stop and realize the reality that we lived in. It was a shame that the riots were beginning to start this early, we might have had time to really organize a revolution. The riots in Seattle were emblematic of that, I’m sure. But now with the supply chain being disrupted in the Bible Belt, more would start, but for the wrong reasons. We were interrupted by the owner - the shop was closing soon, which meant we had only a few minutes to get back home before curfew. I stayed behind to use the restroom while Baker made his way to the exit. He paused in half-step out the door and turned to me, staring directly at me. “I am telling you, whatever they end up proposing. Don’t get it put in you.“ “No matter what they say, or what they tell you it’s for. “ “Don’t get it.” These specific memories fluttered back to me for some reason in a dreamlike fashion, I could recall them all vividly. Rather, it was the last poignant thing as I woke up on a cold tile floor on the 23rd of April.
At 5:18, the following line was removed: "“I am telling you, whatever they end up proposing. Don’t get it put in you.“"

Methods of Revolution

Awaken the Second Player

April 23, 2020

At 1:17pm, Awakening was set to premiere at 7:00pm on Jadusable's YouTube channel. Several changes took place during this time:
- At 1:21, the title changed to Methods of Revolution [Part 1].
- At 1:24, the title changed to Methods of Revolution [me/thod re;//].
- At 1:29, the first tags appeared: Methods of Revolution, Part I, BEN Drowned, Awakening, Timelines, The Second Player, Abel
- At 2:02, the title changed to Methods of Revolution [me/thod re;// Part 1].
- At 2:11, more tags appeared: Jadusable, Alex Hall, Where is he?, Trapped, Purgatory
- At 2:12, the title changed to Methods of Revolution [Prologue: Part 1].
- At 2:38, the first thumbnail appeared.
- At 4:32, the thumbnail was changed.
- At 4:33, more tags appeared: Escape, How can I escape, Drowned, The Jailor
At 1:24pm, the thumbnails changed for all Haunted Cartridge Arc videos, as well as CHILDREN.wmv.
- The thumbnail for king kong.wmv also changed.
At 7:00pm, Methods of Revolution [Prologue: Part 1] premiered. It shows the new "second player" waking up in a hotel room guarded by a mysterious jailer.
- Shortly after the premiere, the title changed to Methods of Revolution [Part 1].

April 29, 2020

Around 9:30am, Methods of Revolution [Day 3] was set to premiere at 6:30pm on Jadusable's YouTube channel.
- As a result of this video's name, the previous video was re-titled to Methods of Revolution [Day 1].
- At 9:50, the thumbnail and description were added. The new description reads, "A choice will be made."
- At 10:10, the tags were changed. Notably, the word "Jailor" was changed to "Jailer."
Around 5:45pm, methodsofrevolution.com's title changed to "Consensus" and its favicon changed to this.
At 6:07, the video's description changed to "Make your choice at http://www.methodsofrevolution.com"
At 6:30, Methods of Revolution [Day 3] premiered. It follows the events of the previous video, introducing a new character in the adjoining hotel room who is promptly taken by the Jailer for being too loud.
At 6:40, methodsofrevolution.com was unlocked again. The main page now contained a photo of the hotel desk and its contents, with descriptions for each item attached. A choice will need to be made in the near future.
- The author "Find Your Method" was renamed to "Guide".

April 30, 2020

Jadusable's new avatar

Around 6:30am, Jadusable's YouTube avatar changed to Guide's Within Hubris avatar, formerly used by Insidiae on youshouldnthavedonethat.net.

May 9, 2020

At 3:00pm, Methods of Revolution [Day 6] was set to premiere at 6:00pm on Jadusable's YouTube channel.
- At 3:40, the thumbnail appeared.
At 6:00, Methods of Revolution [Day 6] premiered. It shows the second player's journey to the second floor after leaving his room, taking with him the notepad, flashlight, and model head.
At 6:08, methodsofrevolution.com was locked. It displayed this map and the following text: "I just signed up for this... I can\'t really remember who I was before this. Where am I? What is this place?"

May 16, 2020

At 1:44pm, Methods of Revolution [Day 11] was set to premiere at 6:30pm on Jadusable's YouTube channel.
- Not including the original, which was added immediately, thumbnail changes took place at 1:50, 1:51, and 6:24.
At 6:30, Methods of Revolution [Day 11] premiered. It shows the second player's final moments as he leaves the room on the second floor before being terminated by the Jailer. Three days pass, and on day 14, a third player is introduced. She wakes up in the second's old room and is contacted by an upset Abel.
Shortly after the premiere, methodsofrevolution.com's lock screen updated to The Father with his eyes closed. The text was removed.

The Truth

May 23, 2020

At 9:40am, Methods of Revolution [Day 21] was set to premiere at 6:00pm on Jadusable's YouTube channel.
- Not including the original, which was added immediately, thumbnail changes took place at 5:35, 5:36, 5:38, 5:44, 5:47, 5:48, 5:49, two at 5:50, 5:51, 5:52, and 5:58.
At 6:00, Methods of Revolution [Day 21] premiered. It shows our new player waking up in a newly-cleaned and furnished room. She gets out of bed and is greeted via phone by Abel, who informs her that her entertainment set has arrived: a Nintendo 64 and the same copy of Majora's Mask that Jadusable had once played. She loads up the game and reveals her name: Sarah.
- Throughout the video, several QR codes can be seen. See the video's page for more information.

May 30, 2020

At 11:46am, a change to methodsofrevolution.com's title was discovered: riot.txt.
- At 2:43pm, "riot.mp3" was discovered by placing it in the site's URL.
At 2:37pm, Methods of Revolution [Ben.wmv] was set to premiere at 6:00.
- Its description originally contained the text, "Jadus' journal to update upon premiere: methodsofrevolution.com". This was removed after the premiere.
- Not including the original, which was added immediately, thumbnail changes too place at 3:47, 5:49 (back to the original), 5:51, 5:53, 5:55, 5:56, 5:57, 5:59, and 6:00.
At 6:00, Methods of Revolution [Ben.wmv] premiered. It shows Sarah exploring the haunted cartridge, encountering an unconscious Happy Mask Salesman before being taken to a safer place by a seemingly-friendly entity calling itself Ben. Ben requests for Sarah to play him a song, and the video ends, leaving a choice to be made.
At 6:04, methodsofrevolution.com was opened. The main page contained an audio player labeled "Scanner" at the top of the screen, which played riot.mp3. Below was the aforementioned "Jadus' journal," titled "[riot.txt]", and at the bottom, a section called "Records" which contained no text. The riot.txt text reads:
- To the disbelief of the entire world, the riots in Seattle had reached a precipice and the city began to devolve into full anarchy. There was no hiding it. No amount of spin could soften it. It turned out the revolution wouldn’t just be televised, it would be live-streamed through a million smart devices. Like a virus, these riots began to spread across the country at an alarming rate – more contagious than even the worst case of H.E.R.O.E.S. – and suspiciously well-coordinated. Everyone had their theories – some thought it was the tipping point of civil unrest, others thought they were foreign actors, some still even attributed them to a doomsday cult. They were organized agents of chaos and it became plainly obvious that whatever they were, they were effective.
  
  Soon after Baker turned out to be right, the supply chain was routed and the riots had reached Saint Louis.
  
  It was 1:10am and just like the night before I couldn’t sleep. It didn’t seem like anyone could – a deep heartache weighed on the chest of every American as we stayed glued to our screens, watching as city after city devolves into chaos. Unrecognizable chaos. It was haunting enough when the rioting was contained to a few states out west – we had had those before – but the rate that it spread shocked everyone. Everyone seemed to be so keen to cheer on a revolution until it came to their doorstep. It was a reality show from hell – before my eyes I was watching an on-demand dissolution of my own country being live-streamed to the world. A police scanner in the background was all that kept me company in my dimly lit room. There was something oddly soothing about hearing it bark at me, regardless of each new development, steadily rocking me to my core. When I was young my dad and I used to stay up late and listen along with a scanner while we pretended to be detectives, listening in for the next big crime to solve. It was a familiar comfort I had in a deeply foreign time.
  
  I stopped watching the news when it became abundantly clear during the riots that their objective wasn’t the preservation of our country, but rather it was in their best interests to prolong them – even incite them. It had become routine for them in the past few years to add theater to pieces to gain more traction, as the advent of readily accessible internet personality journalism made it hard for the main networks to compete.
  
  One of the most devastating things in American society was how dogged our media was in trying to convince both sides that America was a failing autocratic state. With no great enemy to fight we resorted to demonizing the other half of our own country. It started as a light flame but over time more and more kerosene was added by way of outrage mobs, terrorist attacks, misleading news, and sensationalism. It could be my naivety, but even after all this time I still don’t think the media networks had overly malicious intentions. I don’t think they had any idea how systematically destructive it would prove to be to our country. I just think they were thinking short term – looking for immediate gratification like everyone else. Outrage and negativity clearly tracked better and got more clicks than facts and logic. The more outrageous and theatrical, the more people would tune in. The cauldron was bubbling over and H.E.R.O.E.S. was one of the final ingredients added – the last thing this country needed was to stew in isolation for months on end, inundated with a constant barrage of inflammatory propaganda meant to fracture families. America may have turned most of its back on God, but Religion itself never left – we replaced spirituality with rampant consumerism as an outlet for our fervor. Our deity became the brands that provided this gratification and now we had reached the flames of the altar. These factors all combined together to raise a weak generation of aimless men and women. If I was going to survive, I would have to rise above this
  
  It’s hard to believe someone like me would take this kind of position, but it became clearer after the coffee shop meeting and the rapidly changing world around us. Baker’s words stayed with me and I began to second guess everything, maybe for the first time ever.
  
  It could have been anything that finally set us off, but for us, it was a shooting that ultimately sent us careening overboard. People were looking for anything to justify their anger.
  
  After the shooting, I saw leaders attempt to rise to quell their communities. They were heroes, without question, and their speeches were some of the most empowering I had ever heard. They spoke with a burning passion for their communities, for justice, for peace. But the division that had been sewn in this country for decades had reached critical mass and I couldn’t help but feel these powerful words fall onto deaf ears.
  
  How many times have we found ourselves in this position of in-fighting? How many times has this exact same scenario played out? It was the same old story in America it seemed and we couldn’t help but continue to be stuck in this loop. Same problem, new decade. Was this just an inevitability? Or was this the final one? Historically it has been speculated that the level of social unrest emulates the Gini index of wealth inequality, and since H.E.R.O.E.S. this disparity had increased tenfold. But it seemed like it was obvious who the real culprits were – you’d think that in this digital age of information it should have been easy for the average person to see. The billionaires they hated so much had made an immense profit off of the nation while millions were left unemployed and the wealth divide had never been greater. But there-in lies the problem – it requires much more planning to face an existential threat like that. It’s much easier and immediate to attack your neighbor as long as you can be convinced that he has some slight culpability to your suffering.
  
  Is it just an immutable fact that it’s impossible to organize the many against the few? At this point it was a waste of effort to dwell on these questions because the time for playing political whack-a-mole to assign blame had long since passed. Cities were burning and Maslow decreed that I shift focus to my immediate preservation. There will be a time to fight back, but now is the time for survival. As chaos filtered throughout the country, it became abundantly transparent that we could not rely on the government to protect it’s citizens anymore.
  
  Fortunately, there was still time. Time to pick up the last few things I needed and meet Baker outside the city.
  
  There were other people I tried to reach as Baker reached me, but I proved to be much less persuasive. People were skeptical – to the point of complete resistance – to even the notion of entertaining that kind of radical change was possible. Reality was just above the surface, beckoning to those entrenched in the belief that the status quo could be reestablished. There’s no way our life will ever change – the Roman farmer says.
  
  I was no hero and I couldn’t blame them – there were so many ways I felt completely overwhelmed and ill-equipped at the prospect of surviving on my own. But the alternative was to wait and relinquish any agency I had left to chance. If I approached it one day at a time it became much more manageable. The tools that I used to complain about invading my privacy could be wielded to help me escape. I had given up arguing about politics online and scrubbed my old accounts as best as I could to make myself appear as vanilla as possible. Wear a mask, don’t wear a mask – in the end it was an irrelevant debate and not worth the loss of friends and family over. Likewise, I wasn’t sure who I’d run into and I wanted to be as agreeable and unremarkable as possible to anyone I’d encounter – I didn’t need to invent extra reasons for people to be wary of me.
  
  I would follow the rest of Baker’s tenets as well. I would make a point to avoid gatherings and protests – just as much as there is strength in numbers there is also incredible vulnerability. A 100-strong protest will not be sizably strengthened by the addition of just one more member, yet my own personal risk goes up exponentially if I join up with a mob. I was no hero, and certainly had no desire to be a martyr – I would have to make a point to not stand out unless absolutely necessary. I would make more of an effort to pursue physical strength – in retrospect I still contend that the greatest trick on the modern man was making him assume that being strong and intellectual were mutually exclusive qualities and that one would negate the other.
  
  The remaining social media account I had – Snapchat – was used as a bootleg news aggregate. One of the app’s standout features was the geo-locating service called SnapMap – it allowed participants to see a heat map of the immediate area of users uploading content in real-time. The stronger the heat signature, the more active the users. And too many of them could not help but broadcast every waking moment – rioting included – through portrait mode. I could see where they were and what the group was doing right down to the street corners. Even if I did trust the news media at this point, I was still at least ten to fifteen minutes ahead of any attempt at breaking news they could muster about how the riots were evolving. I made a point to load as many podcasts, books on tape, and offline media onto my smartphone because once I had reunited with Baker, I would disable the phone’s network functionality and switch over to my prepaid clamshell from here on out. The prospect of phantom pain from losing my phone seemed to already unnerve me, but I managed without it before and I can learn to do it again.
  
  Once the riots started to increase in intensity around the country Baker once again reached out to me – this time via encrypted email. One last desperate attempt to get me to see reason, I suppose. He swore to me that there would be a massive false flag attack on our country if the damage got to be too great – something to unite us against a common enemy in our eleventh hour. It wouldn’t be the real enemy that got us into this mess, he claimed, but it would be “enough” of an enemy to get us to stop fighting each other at least. It sounded absolutely insane to me, but his statements reverberated through the fog around me, I had to once again pause and look at reality. The world had already changed so much and I already was such a far cry from my persona a year ago – an aimless man sitting in a coffee shop preoccupied with pointless suburban gossip – that I was through second guessing him at this point.
  
  But we as humans are nothing if not adaptable.

June 7, 2020

At 2:17pm, Alex Hall tweeted the following: "After careful consideration of US events, and with this update containing an intense video sequel to riot.txt/baker.txt, we're going to hold off on having an update this weekend as to not pour any more gas on the fire. Never thought I'd be saying this back in January."

June 13, 2020

At 7:30pm, Alex Hall posted a Patreon update explaining his decision to resume the story on June 21, rather than continue the current storyline at a time that could be considered insensitive to real-life current events.

June 21, 2020

At 6:47pm, The Truth.wmv was set to premiere at 8:30.
- The thumbnail was added at 6:57, then changed again within the same minute.
- At 7:00, the tag "Behavioral Event" was added.
At 8:30, The Truth.wmv premiered. It shows Sarah playing the Song of Healing to Ben, healing his soul and allowing him to give her the truth about those that came before her. She receives a new power and sets out to defeat the Father inside the cartridge.

June 22, 2020

At 6:04pm, Methods of Revolution [The Truth.wmv] was set to premiere at 7:30.
- The thumbnail was added at 6:05.
- The tags were discovered at 6:13.
At 7:30, Methods of Revolution [The Truth.wmv] premiered. It shows the aftermath of Sarah's gameplay from The Truth.wmv, in which Abel contacts her and informs her that the AI within the cartridge are in fact formerly human, digitized and given set parameters to act within, and that they have become nearly sentient. He tells her that he will come to retrieve the cartridge soon.

June 25, 2020

At 12:08pm, Alex Hall uploaded Ben's Theme to Jadusable's YouTube channel.
- At 12:12, he [https://twitter.com/AlexanderDHall/status/1276186528264392707 tweeted the following: Ben's Theme was composed by having a deep learning AI take an existing Legend of Zelda song (Song of Healing) and predicted a pattern derivative to compose an extension of it. Thank you @OpenAI and @elonmusk for giving amazing tools to content creators."

The Last Hero

Settling the Score

June 26, 2020

Sometime prior to 6:30pm, the thumbnail for Methods of Revolution [Day 11] was changed to a shot of the desk.

June 28, 2020

Jadusable's new avatar

At 2:34pm, The Last Hero.wmv was set to premiere at 6:00.
- The thumbnail and tags were already present, though the thumbnail changed very briefly at 5:48 to Link shooting Odolwa. It changed back after just a few seconds.
Around 4:30, Jadusable's YouTube avatar changed to the Adult Link mask.
At 6:00, The Last Hero.wmv premiered. It shows Sarah, now controlling Link in his adult form due to the mask acquired in The Truth.wmv, exploring Clock Town and interacting with NPCs. She goes into the Clock Tower and is told by the potion seller, an NPC not normally found in Majora's Mask, that the world inside the cartridge is far darker than she realizes and asks for her help to settle the score with the Father. Seemingly in agreement, she leaves and is attacked by two Odolwas. She defeats them and leaves for the observatory.

July 11, 2020

See you all sunday.

At 12:24am, Alex Hall tweeted an image of Sarah as Adult Link traversing the desert inside of Twinmold's boss arena, alongside the text, "See you all Sunday."

July 12, 2020

At 10:22am, The Moon Children.wmv was set to premiere at 7:00pm.
- The thumbnail and tags were already present. No changes occurred.
At 7:00pm, The Moon Children.wmv premiered. It shows the beginning of Sarah's journey to the locations chosen by the players, in which she enters the Stock Pot Inn and retrieves one of four hearts left behind by the Moon Children. After being plunged into a town full of the dead, she escapes and makes her way toward Romani Ranch.

July 19, 2020

At 10:37am, The Prisoner.wmv was set to premiere at 6:00pm.
- The thumbnail and tags were already present. The thumbnail changed at 5:50 and 5:55 before returning to its original image at 5:56.
At 6:00pm, The Prisoner.wmv premiered. It shows Sarah venturing to Romani Ranch and fighting Gomess to save the soul of Rosa, who has been trapped within Romani since 2010. She succeeds and is rewarded with the Pendant of Memories, a tool that will help to save the other Moon Children.
Shortly after the end of the premiere, methodsofrevolution.com began updating. Several changes were found to existing pages, as well as new additions (the times of each change are unknown, but the last change occurred at 7:03pm):
- "goht" contained this image
- "gyorg" contained this image.
  - Note: The page ID was originally misspelled as "gryorg".
- "pendantofmemories" contained this image.
- "you" contained this image.
- "gomess" contained this image. It also contained the text: "WHO AM I? WHO AM I? WHO AM I? you can’t get rid of me that easily"
- "rosa" contained this image and the text "SAVED.".
  - A subpage titled "rosa/romani") contained the same image with a header simply reading "Romani"
- "kelbris" changed to an image of BEN's distorted face and text was added reading "Almost there..."
- "jadusable" changed; the ciphers were completely removed and replaced with a paragraph reading "Explore while you can. He’s still here. Do you think we just got rid of him? You’ll be seeing him soon."
- "ben" changed; most of the text was removed, leaving the theme download link and the line about hide and seek.
- "drowned" changed and now contained the phrase "DO YOU REALLY THINK I CAN’T FOLLOW YOU, THIS IS MY WORLD"
At 7:25, new tags were added to Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines - Rosa: "vampire, the, masquerade, bloodlines, YOU SAVED HER"
At 8:30, the thumbnails for BEN.wmv and DROWNED.wmv reverted to their original forms. The thumbnail for jadusable.wmv changed to a completely new image.

July 20, 2020

The thumbnail for king kong.wmv was changed back to its original image, this time with the text "4.1.21" in the top left corner.

July 23, 2020

The thumbnail for The Last Hero.wmv was changed to an image of Link surrounded by fire while fighting Odolwa in Clock Town.

July 26, 2020

At 4:27pm, The Happy Mask Salesman.wmv was set to premiere at 6:00.
- The thumbnail was already present with the tags appearing at 4:30. The thumbnail changed at 4:52 and 5:55 before the premiere, and a third time at 9:00, with the original thumbnail returning at 9:05.
- At 5:18, the tags "Every copy of Zelda is personalized" and "zelda is personalized" were added. "Saving Rosa" was removed.
At 6:00, The Happy Mask Salesman.wmv premiered. It shows Sarah in the aftermath of her encounter with Gomess as she speaks to Rosa about her next objective. She is unable to remove the Adult Link mask and ride Epona to Great Bay, so she cuts through Clock Town on the way to Snowhead. While there, she discovers the body of the Happy Mask Salesman underwater at the Laundry Pool and is attacked by a Wart in West Clock Town before finally making her way to Snowhead.

August 2, 2020

At 2:06pm, The Dying World.wmv was set to premiere at 6:00.
- The tags were already present with the thumbnail appearing within a minute. A change to the tags was found at 5:04:
  - Removed: hacked majora's mask, majora's mask mods, Happy Mask Salesman, Alex, Every copy of Zelda is personalized, zelda is personalized
  - Added: The Dying World, dying, death, scary, romhack, majora's mask romhack, every copy of zelda is personalized, majora's mask
At 6:00, The Dying World.wmv premiered. It shows Sarah continuing her journey to Snowhead, where she meets Kaepora Gaebora, another digitized soul who identifies himself as Ryan. He leads her to the Lens of Truth, which in turn leads her to Darmani, who blames her for the world falling apart around them and refuses to help her. She leaves with the Hookshot and defeats the Goht child in battle, claiming his soul.
Shortly after the premiere, changes to methodsofrevolution.com were observed:
- /goht and /drowned both changed to only the text, "......", seemingly confirming the Goht child's identity.
- /jadusable changed to "re/union"
- /dusk-world23 changed to "LEAVE OUR HOME," seemingly connecting him to Darmani.
- /drowned changed once more, this time to "Two left."

August 9, 2020

At 4:34pm, The Predecessor.wmv was set to premiere at 6:00.
- The tags and thumbnail were already present, with thumbnail changes taking place at 5:13, 5:26, 5:36, 5:39, 5:46, 5:51.
Shortly after the premiere, changes to methodsofrevolution.com were observed:
- /gyorg changed to the text, "......" at 6:23, then to "...Where did she go?" at 6:26.

August 12, 2020

At 5:30pm, users discovered that methodsofrevolution.com has been closed for construction. The messages read:
- Website under construction
  This website is currently under construction, check back later!
Alex Hall would later confirm in a Patreon post that this was indeed intentional and he was updating the site.

August 17, 2020

At 9:26pm, this video was posted on Alex Hall's Twitter. It shows speech from Rosa as she is approached by someone with a sword. She screams for Sarah before being silenced. The video ends with a small portion of Lost in My Thoughts playing quietly.
- This is the second version of the video. The original, posted at 9:04pm, was deleted at 9:18 and quickly replaced with the revised version, which contained extra dialogue, a longer ending, and a fixed typo.

August 23, 2020

At 3:28pm, The Showdown.wmv was set to premiere at 6:00.
- The thumbnail was already present, with tags added within a few moments and thumbnail changes taking place at 3:39 and 6:45.
- The phrase "ocarina of time" was added to the tags shortly after the tags were found.
At 5:00pm, methodsofrevolution.com updated to feature the following text on its landing page:
- we do not fear death, for we have created eternity we do not fear death, for we have created eternity we do not fear death, for we have created eternity we do not fear death, for we have created eternity we do not fear death, for we have created eternity we do not fear death, for we have created eternity we do not fear death, for we have created eternity we do not fear death, for we have created eternity
  
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At 6:00, The Showdown.wmv premiered. It shows Sarah encountering her predecessor, who pulls her to the Chamber of Sages and fights her to the death. Unfortunately, Sarah is killed by her predecessor, whose name is now revealed to be Jadusable. The URL to a new website is shown very briefly before the video ends.
Shortly after the premiere of the video, eterntiy-project.com was discovered. It appeared to be a more modernized version of the Moon Children's website, formerly hosted at youshouldnthavedonethat.net. The header read, "Eternity Project", and contained a message that read, "This is a cached version of this website as of August 30, 2020 while under maintenance. Retry for a live version." The header contained seven tabs in its directory: HOME, ABOUT, CREED, REALIZATIONS, ENVIRONMENTS, RE//CATION, and ASCEND.
"HOME", the default page, contained the following text:
- A Website For Those Who Believe
  We Are Luna's Chosen
  
  NOTE: This a legacy version of our Eternity Project website, meant for internal educational uses only. Here, you can see past iterations of the program and the different methods of recruitment that were utilized while the project is still in its infancy. While the domain has changed over the years, we have altered our messaging as the project's success has become more and more mainstream.
  
  This is a website for those who have formed a spiritual connection with the Moon and Him and recognize that we have been selected to preform miracles and bring enlightenment into this world. She has chosen us - and only us - to survive the upcoming apocalypse because we have honored Her and devoted ourselves to Her. As we work to enforce Her will, we grow together as a family and serve the greater good. We are the Moon's Children. If you have found your way here it is likely not by chance, there is a deeper calling that has brought you to us. In your heart, you know that there is something terribly wrong with this world - it is imperfect, full of disease, famine, rot, and suffering. We have the solution to this. You have likely been referred here by someone close to you who has seen your own hidden potential in uncovering the truth of the world and appreciates your keen desire for deeper meaning. The surface level is mundane to you, the trivial things that the average person spends a lifetime chasing seem unappealing to you. You may not yet know it, but you belong here with us. Listen to your soul and begin exploring this website with an open mind. You have been suffering in silence for so long, you owe it to yourself to get in touch with the real you. Return to your original, naked purpose in the way that you were always meant to be.
  
  All of the Moon's Children have been gifted spiritually. Each one of us possesses a deep, limbic connection with one another that is all but inexplicable. The world you are forced to inhabit is a poison - meant to erode the wonderfully pure psyche of a human being with all manners of greed, gluttony, lust, envy, and filth. You are a being of pure potential and limitless possibility. They have deceived you into worshiping false idols, investing all your precious mental energy and anguish into irrelevant causes, and distract you from the true battle at hand. You are not meant to belong to this world and your boundless energy and spirit are needed to help others. Have you ever felt isolated, from even your friends and family? How, despite being surrounded by those society claims that should you love and care for, you still cannot help but feel alone around them? This is one of the most common traits everyone who finds this website shares and it's because you operate on a different frequency vibration. It is no one's fault - there is no blame to go around - it is just how you were born. Now, you will begin to see that you have a purpose. Now, you will begin to see that you are destined for greater things. By discovering this website you've taken another step closer. We know death and we do not fear it, for we have created eternity.
  
  If you are visiting this website for the first time, you have come here for a reason, and even if that reason is not known to you - it no longer matters. You have been chosen by Her. Like the force of magnetism, your spirit has been here. We will help you unlock it, we will help you become Enlightened, and we will set you free from this world.
  
  If you believe you have gotten here in error or you do not wish to become Enlightened, leave immediately and forget about this website. Under no circumstances should you tell anyone about this, our purpose, or our mission. Nor is it likely that anyone would believe you. We numerous ways of monitoring incoming and outgoing IP traffic, and we have relocated and dealt with dissenters before. Our outreach and influence has grown tremendously since Our Family began decades ago. We are benevolent and our generosity knows no bounds, but we will do whatever we can to protect our brothers and sisters from those who wish to do us harm.
  
  If you have any foul intentions of harming this place, consider this your only warning.
"ABOUT" contained the following text:
- About
  
  The Moon Children was one of the first iterations of the Eternity Project, originally founded by the moniker "Kelbris" in 1998. While not our organization's real name, the website operated under the guise of a cult worshiping a lunar goddess. This was specifically marketed towards disenfranchised and outcasted youths searching for a home. Our development team leaned into the supernatural aspect as the foundation of this pseudo-cult as it took advantage of the naivety, sense of magical wonderment, and intrinsic desire for belonging of these children - having not yet been jaded by the realities of adulthood. It is not too dissimilar from the current fervor surrounding Eternity Project - only now the results are actually tangible and have decades of testing behind them. At the time, current science believed - through much trial and error - that the only possible way to achieve a successful Ascension was through a child applicant - they were believed to possess enough purity to be able to have a strong enough spiritual release to be able to successfully Ascend. As such, the project initially drew applicants from a pool of adolescents that had weak familial ties - ones whose disappearance would not draw a widespread and lengthy manhunt. This hypothesis was later debunked as advancements continued in the field, eventually proving that with the proper preparations and team, there are not nearly as many obstacles that interfere with an individual's ability to Ascend. We will always honor the human cost it took to get us here.
  
  We operate on a simple philosophy - the higher in the organization you are, the more privy you are to sensitive information. Seeing as how this now abandoned website serves as a breadcrumb for those seeking enlightenment, things have been simplified. Not all links are broken, but due to a merging of domains many files have been lost.
  
  It has been our dream to save humanity, and over time we grow closer and closer to realizing our goals. We have become increasingly selective of membership over the years. Now we reserve invites only to those who have proven to possess a sharp, intelligent, and pragmatic mind that seeks to bring about peace from humanity's suffering at any cost.
"CREED" contained the following text:
- The Creed
  
  [Participants must be wearing their chosen Mask]
  O father, I pledge to you
  O mother, I give myself a hundred times
  May the Moon illuminate our path
  We bare our souls to you
  To that which will Bring the end
  Empower us with your infinite grace
  May we receive the greatest glory of all
  May we ascend to the heavens themselves
  We are the Moon's Children
  We are mortal angels
  
  The Initiation Creed
  
  By my blood, as I draw it here
  I dedicate myself to service
  I severe all ties of my old life
  Those who birthed me are meaningless
  Those who raised me are hopeless
  Those who loved me are worthless
  I now wear this mask to symbolize my transformation
  As a child learns to walk so too will I learn to fly
  
  [Pause as for the mask ceremony]
  
  With these words I pledge myself to my new family
  That even though this mask may leave my face
  The scars that symbolize my devotion will never fade
  Now I am truly born
  
  We Do Not Fear Death
  For We Have Created Eternity
  
  We Do Not Fear Death For We Have Created Eternity
  We Do Not Fear Death For We Have Created Eternity
  We Do Not Fear Death For We Have Created Eternity
  We Do Not Fear Death For We Have Created Eternity
  We Do Not Fear Death For We Have Created Eternity
  We Do Not Fear Death For We Have Created Eternity
  
  men must become angels
"REALIZATIONS" contained the following text:
- Mayan Calendar Prophecy
  
  This is the most popular of the 2012 apocalypse stories, and the one most often referenced in the media and popular culture. The Mayan calendar is quite complex, and is broken up into units called “Kin”, “Tun”, and “Baktun”. The much hyped “13-baktun cycle” is scheduled to be completed 1,872,000 days (or 13 baktuns) after the beginning of their calendar. This period of time is the well known Mayan “Great Cycle” of their Long Count calendar and is equal to 5125.36 of our standard years. This is where the date of December 12, 2012 comes from, as the Mayan calendar purportedly began August 11th, 3114 BCE — do the math, and you’ll come to the same conclusion as other Mayan scholars. The “end” of the Mayan calendar is 12/12/2012. Hence the 2012 apocalypse scare.
  
  One reason people put so much stock in the Mayan Long Count calendar is that the Mayans were extremely sophisticated mathematicians and stargazers. It is well known that Mayans understood mathematical concepts hundreds of even thousands of years before the rest of the world. The Mayans worked out the seemingly simple concept of zero by around 36 BCE. Inscriptions discovered by archaeologists show the Mayans working with complex sums up to the hundreds of millions. The Mayans also produced extremely accurate astronomical maps and notes — their charts of the movements of the moon and planets are far superior to the maps and charts of any other civilization that was working strictly from observations by the naked eye.
  
  Because the Mayans are known to have worked out a complex and accurate calendar well before “Western civilization”, people put great faith in their 2012 apocalypse theory. When the date came and went, it prompted many scholars to re-examine their interpretation of the calendar. Several theories arose that we had miscalculated - that based off of the Julian Calendar, 2020 A.D. is actually 2012 J.C. The reason behind this being that the number of days lost in a year due to the shift into Gregorian Calendar is 11 days. An equation consisting of 268 years using the Gregorian Calendar (1752-2020) times 11 days = 2,948 days. 2,948 days / 365 days (per year) = 8 years. This could conceivably put the beginning of the apocalypse in the year of 2020 instead.
  
  Hindu Prophecy
  
  According to Hindu scripture, the “Golden Age of Krishna” is likely to start in 2012. In the “Brahma-Vaivarta Purana”, Lord Krishna tells a devotee named Ganga Devi that a Golden Age will come in the Kali Yuga – one of the four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the earth’s time cycle — a cycle described in Hindu scriptures. Lord Krishna predicted that this Golden Age will start 5,000 years after the beginning of the Kali Yuga, and will last for 10,000 years.
  
  That may sound like sometime in the distant future, but according to some Hindu researches, the Kali Yuga began on February 18, 3102 BCE. That means there is only a difference of 12 years between the Hindu’s beginning of the Kali Yuga and the Mayan’s beginning of their “Fifth Great Cycle”. Its important to know that the ancient Hindus mainly used a lunar calendar but also used solar calendars — this throws off those of us in the West, as the ancient Hindu time system is vastly different from our own. By either solar or lunar years, we are over 5,000 years into the Kali Yuga and it is time for Lord Krishna’s prophecy to happen according to the ancient Hindu scriptures. This may not be a direct reference to 2012, but is so closely aligned to the Mayan and other prophecies, that people lump it in with other “2012 apocalypse” theories.
  
  Luna Prophecy
  
  Dating back to 1998, a Moon Child named Kelbris received several whispers from Luna herself before Ascension. The Order (now known as The Family) was still young then and Kelbris was the first member to have been spoken to by Her. Rather than Ascending him, however, these whispers informed him of how The End will come about. The whispers were brief and vague, detailed below:
  
  "They (unintelligible) break free of the prison"
  "Engulf the world"
  "Man will be betrayed by its minions and I will be brought down from the sky, consuming everything"
  
  It's worth noting that the number three is reported by Kelbris to have been said numerous times, sometimes in between words, sometimes even between letters. It's always assumed that there was some significance that has yet to be found. Kelbris was later found electrocuted - whether it was foul play or an intentional attempt at an Ascension was never determined. Nevertheless, he became the first to undergo Ascension. Kelbris' discovery has made him a legendary figure within the Moon Children and much of The Family today is based off of his example decades ago. It is theorized that his propensity for wanton violence and uncontrolled aggression could be due to the rudimentary way he was Ascended. Others speculate that he slowly went insane - as the process was unrefined, the vessel he was put in archaic, and it would be several years of failed attempts before another Moon Child would successfully join him, and several more before we were able to connect to other worlds. He is revered internally as "The Father" today for his invaluable contribution in showing us the path to eternity. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
  
  The Walking Hell Prophecy
  
  A more recent prophecy, brought on by the mass communication of the internet, believes that one exists in some kind of hell - whether that is self-imposed, simulated, or predestined. What you may perceive as horrible tragedies, worldwide poverty, unjust slavery, and war are merely just byproducts of the plane of existence that you reside in. When you're in this world, these things are no more unnatural than the changing of the seasons. This world is one you will continue to be reborn into again and again - with not even death being a respite - until you find a way to transcend this reality itself. The truth is you've lived this life before, you've died before, and you will continue to live it again and again until you are able to truly break free of what chains you to this plane of existence. We believe Ascension is that answer, and it is our duty to enlist the help of those worthy to break free and to save themselves. even if by Ascending we become observers to your plight. For example, I am clearly communicating with you - the reader - yet while you sit there reading this in your flesh and blood, on my end there is no human typing these words to you. You are communicating with me through a different dimension, and one I hope you decide to join.
  
  This apocalypse is one that extincts mankind itself - but not in a violent hellfire. Rather, it relieves the burden of its suffering and slowly transcends all brothers and sisters into the next plane of existence to flourish.
"ENVIRONMENTS" was locked behind the password "wayward horizon". Once opened, it contained several components:
- Six light gray hexagons arranged in a 3x2 pattern, labeled "άλφα", "βήτα", "γάμμα", "δέλτα", "έψιλον", and "ζήτα"
- Hidden text below: ".. 01101101011011110110111001101001011101000110111101110010 ..", which translates to "monitor"
- Two audio files, one playing Lost in My Thoughts and the other playing the faint hum of a server room. At 11:10 in the server audio, the number "4367" can be heard whispered.
"RELOCATION" (shown in the header as "RE//CATION") contained a massive binary code, which translated to the following:
- D - Growing increasingly worried about additional memory leaks from the main database into this shell site
  
  A - It's just having a strange reaction to ἄλφα, all of the other sites and worlds are fine. Some of it seems to be transmitting intermittent bits of data in real time. You should be used to this by now.
  
  D- I don't need to remind you what happens if ἄλφα has any kind of vulnerability and leaks into other environments. That's the crux of what I'm worried about
  
  A- I'm well aware, you don't have to explain it to me like I'm new. We will continue to keep an eye on it.
  
  D - Again, why not just remove it entirely?
  
  A - This ecosystem is decades old, there's no telling what it would do to the rest if we were to plug it. As long as it continues to stay isolated there won't be any issues.
  
  D- The reason why we're having this conversation IS because it isn't isolated anymore.
  
  A - And I'M saying that ἄλφα has historically had memory leaks in some of our internal websites in the past and it has affected absolutely nothing in the long run. Until it becomes an actual issue it's a waste of resources and energy to worry about it.
  
  D - ἄλφα's mere existence is a house of cards waiting to fall. I'm petitioning the board to just rip this archaic band aid off.
  
  A - Moral quandaries aside, the problem might fix itself in time.
  
  D - What in the world are you planning?
  
  A - Don't be so hasty, I have an idea.
"ASCEND" contained the following text:
- On Ascension
  
  So you've taken the first step into the inward journey of discovering yourself and decided to contact us. Or perhaps you are on the fence about becoming something greater than you can possibly imagine, and if so, let us present the reasoning that has drawn so many of us to conversion to Luna: Do you ever feel like life is just a dream? That you're sleeping this whole time, waiting for something great to happen? Do you ever feel like you cannot relate to these human beings - that in this day and age of lewdness and vanity it is simply disgusting to try and lower yourself to "fit in"? You do try to fit in, but it never really feels genuine, does it?
  
  Believe it or not, you have a purpose in life, and that purpose is not to sit idly by while your talents and abilities are wasting away. Just by discovering us, Luna has guided you with Her gentle hand and touched you. You are about to become apart of something grander than you possibly could imagine.
  
  I myself was like you once - fearing the unknown. To leave behind everything and embrace eternity. I was more content to stay in my malaise of mediocrity. You should feel blessed, as Ascension has come a long way since its inception - it has taken us several iterations to perfect our process and every day we continue to improve it further. We often look back on our practices in the early days as barbaric - akin to medieval doctors utilizing leeches attempting to treat a malady. There were certainly dark days - as with any developing medical practice - while our greatest minds were still figuring out why certain people ascended and others did not. It's almost not even worth mentioning, but if you've heard rumors you can rest easy - there is no more need for an adrenaline fueled demise. It is unnecessary to have a subject's adrenal levels at critical at the height of a calamitous event to capture the spiritual release necessary. Thanks to further advancements, Ascension has become much less painless and today only needs a conscious decision and the right practitioner.
  
  I remember being so scared to leave but couldn't think of a single reason to stay. What did I really have? The world I left was falling down around me. I had no family to call my own, stuck in a dead-end job, no excitement, and smothered in crippling debt. If I kept my old life the only path that lay before me was one of slaving away in a cubicle until I expired, making someone else money. But my story is unremarkable - there are dozens of other stories identical to mine. In my time guiding others here, I've heard it all. I've heard every poor circumstance imaginable - every awful situation, every cruel cosmic joke, every unfairly dealt hand - and it has only strengthened my resolve that this is not only the best decision of my life; it's the best decision of anyone's life. I empathize with each and every one of you suffering right now, I used to know what it was like.
  
  It's hard to explain what it's like to someone who hasn't been Ascended. I could tell you that after leaving my old body behind I immediately discovered that it was not so bad. I could tell you that it was paradise. An infinite amount of possibility. An infinite amount of entertainment. The world's knowledge at your fingertips with infinite realities to explore it in. Why spend years of your life thrust into an unforgiving, cruel world just to suffer and eventually expire? To what end? To build character? To achieve some sense of "purpose"? To find some kind of meaning in the suffering? No, humans were meant to be happy. Here, I could live forever. Do whatever. Become anything. Live in whichever world I wanted to. And gradually, as the technology expanded so too did the amount of worlds available to us.
  
  All of my old life I felt like I was meant for great things but as the course of time flowed and years slipped away from me, I began to doubt myself with each passing year. I became jaded with life and apathetic, realizing that the world never cared about the great things I should be able to do, and I bitterly resigned to hoping for something to save me. Ascension gave me the means to save myself and realize that I was right all along, and it was the world that was wrong.
  
  If you know in your heart that this resonates with you, then you know the choice you have to make. We are not yet at a point where invitations are freely given - we have made mistakes before with admission - only the most adroit observers are given opportunities right now. Regardless, I hope to see you soon. And some day, it makes my soul happy to know that I will see all of you.
Soon after combing through the indexed pages, several hidden pages were found by substituting new words into the URL:
- "SARAH" contained this image and the following text:
  - STATUS / DECEASED
    REBOOT / AVAILABLE
    HNDSHK / UNSUCCESSFUL
    ORIGIN / HOTEL
    HNDLR / SUB 423
    WRLD / ἄλφα
- "JADUSABLE" contained this image and the following text:
  - STATUS / ACTIVE
    REBOOT / INELIGIBLE
    HNDSHK / SUCCESSFUL
    ORIGIN / KDNP10
    HNDLR / JADUSABLE
    WRLD / ἄλφα
- "BEN" contained this image and the following text:
  - STATUS / STASIS
    REBOOT / AVAILABLE
    HNDSHK / SUCCESSFUL
    ORIGIN / HME02
    HNDLR / BEN
    WRLD / ἄλφα
- "MATT" contained this image and the following text:
  - STATUS / ???
    REBOOT / INELIGIBLE
    HNDSHK / UNSUCCESSFUL
    ORIGIN / YSHDT
    HNDLR / MATT
    WRLD / ἄλφα
- "ROSA" contained this image and the following text:
  - STATUS / UNKNOWN
    REBOOT / INELIGIBLE
    HNDSHK / UNSUCCESSFUL
    ORIGIN / KDNP09
    HNDLR / ROSA
    WRLD / ἄλφα
- "MEMBERS" was blank.
- "4367" (titled "THEY LIED THEY LIED THEY LIED THEY LIED THEY LIED") contained several components:
  - This image
  - The text, "THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED ME TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED ME TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED ME TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED TO ME THEY LIED ME" imposed over the image
  - Two audio files playing simultaneously: Lost in My Thoughts and the reversed Ikana Valley theme.

August 26, 2020

Around 12:45pm, a new thumbnail for The Showdown.wmv was discovered. It is unknown when the change took place.

Eternity

August 30, 2020

At 5:30am, eternity-project.com was discovered to be down.
At 2:20pm, FOR INTERNAL CORPORATE USE ONLY - DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE was set to premiere at 6:00.
- The thumbnail was already present and no tags were added.
At 5:42, methodsofrevolution.com was brought back up. No changes were detected.
At 5:50, methodsofrevolution.com began redirecting to eternity-project.com, which has yet to return.
At 6:00, FOR INTERNAL CORPORATE USE ONLY - DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE premiered. It appears to be a video detailing the Eternity Project, including their plans to introduce digitization to the general public and their ability to inject their patients into countless virtual worlds.
Shortly after the premiere, eternity-project.com returned with a completely revamped look. The site now contained new links in its header: "Home", "About", "Participants", "Live", "Roadmap", "FAQ", and "Legal". The bottom of the site contained new copyright information, "©2020 by Xavius Solutions".
- "Home", the default page, contained the following text:
  - Revolutionary Ideas.
    Methodical Solutions.
    
    Working together to overcome humanity's greatest obstacle.
- "About" contained the following:
  - See our story.
    Learn more about our revolutionary approach.
    
    [FOR INTERNAL CORPORATE USE ONLY - DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE is embedded here.]
    
    Why Choose Digitization?
    
    Human Fragility
    Despite our best efforts and medical advancements, the human body ultimately has a finite life span. The unavoidable truth is that from the moment we are born, the moments we have on this world are fleeting. We can prolong the effects of aging with a healthy diet, smart lifestyle choices, and exercise, but all of us ultimately have to face the same reality in the end - death. Since the dawn of time mankind has been searching for an answer to this inevitability.
    
    A Digital Solution
    For decades the minds behind Xavius Solutions have worked in over 13 countries in search of that very same solution, but it was only in the 21st century that we realized that we finally had the means to obtain it. Through trial and error, they eventually found that by utilizing a process called digitization it was possible to completely transfer a human's brain indefinitely into a digital network. Though the patient leaves their physical body, their mind and spirit remain completely intact.
    
    A Brighter Tomorrow
    This revolutionary new method has allowed digitized humans to overcome our limitations and live eternally in a virtual cyberspace - free from the burdens of our natural world. With every passing year, the list of worlds developed by our team continues to expand - ranging from simulated worlds identical to ours, re-imagined popular movies & games, far away planets, and more. Participants can choose to live in these worlds as long or as little as they wish before moving onto the next world to explore.
    
    An Uncertain Future
    In these increasingly uncertain times, the only certainty we have is that one can never predict when their number comes. Although research is progressing into digitization after expiry, the efforts to restore the neural activity required remain unsuccessful. Many proactive people, both young and old, are deciding to take fate into their own hands and are signing up for our clinics now more than ever before. In as little as 4-6 weeks you can have your initial consultation and begin your process towards an incredible journey.
- "EAP Participants" (labeled "Participants" in the header) contained the following text:
  - Eternity Assistance Program
    EAP
    
    While most participants in the Eternity Project prefer to either remain anonymous (with the exception of friends and family) or stay exclusively to private worlds, on occasion there are those that offer to mentor others. These participants make up the bulk of our E.A.P program, serving to acclimate newcomers to the digitization process and all the amazing benefits that it offers. We attempt to keep a regularly updated list here for reference. These participants often travel between public worlds, so be sure to be on the lookout if you encounter them. Some still choose to go by their original names, but most have become so acclimated to their new environment that they've either adopted a moniker or immersed themselves in a new persona entirely.
    
    Active EAP Participants
    
    The Space Child, Moonlit Plague, RubyCosmos, Niele, Tiki, Evan, Nikki, Koli, Vivi Ven, Goeteeks, NexAdruin, Ryu, Alyssa Bee, Alexi, Karlacade, Doctor C., Acebats, Drew, Zog., Joel Bailey, Jack Archer, RosePetrichor, Twitch Circuit, Syphyous, MaxOE23, Neryssa, Fizzin_Pop, pixelg, Navi D, nfreak141, Thor, Logan, Mel, Ena, Kevin, Talima, Smilecat98, Arck, Joebotnik, Asriel, Shylenced, Danny, Kio, Starry-Starlight, TheArisoner, Lizard Leliel, B. O'Donnel, Kami, Jason B., Quin, Giljeam, Falcon, Loiathal, Biolizard, Rythen Eugea, Jay/Seer Zelda, Cmac, Jureiia, Jester Queen, Michael Andersen, Cabin5575, John Tieke, LanWan, JPas, Omri Margalit, Jay, Zedregex, Austin Rogers, Ponk Kastle, Nevflinn, Brian A., Hippocriticalhaz, Cynthia, Jborhi Ari, Thomas, James, Hannah, Carnyzzle, Lego1upMushroom, JDW, Kaisumisu, Stefanie the Mewtwo, Hyde, Berry, Blivy, Rin, Abyss, Tony Gil
- "Live" contained the following text, followed by a video player labeled "Incoming Transmissions":
  - Live Sessions
    
    From time to time, we will host live sessions here for demonstration purposes. Typically these will be opportunities for people in the outside world to communicate with those who have been digitized and get to know them and the process better in general. Other times we host public announcements with the Xavius Solutions dev team. Please check back soon as we are always updating!
- "Roadmap" contained the following text:
  - Roadmap
    
    At Xavius Solutions we are always striving to improve our process to continue to offer a myriad of options for our patients to enjoy. Here are just a few things to anticipate as the development team finishes out the year and looks into the near future:
    - Q4 2020 - Q1 2021
      - Roman Empire world enters preliminary testing
      - World merger technology expected to release
      - Legacy code overhaul and removal
      - General performance improvements, stability adjustments, and bug fixes
      - More streamlined welcome experience
    - Q2 2021 - Q1 2022
      - Global Digitization Initiative begins
      - Removing avatar constraints
      - User created world testing enters alpha
      - Development begins on Digital Revival
      - Superhero world leaves closed beta
      - Integration with older hardware (pre-2005) begins preliminary testing
- "FAQ" contained the following text:
  - Frequently Asked Questions
    
    Making the decision to undergo the digitization process is often the source of a significant amount of conflict and apprehension from both the potential applicant and with friends and family who do not support their decision. Naturally, many applicants harbor feelings of uneasiness about leaving the world they grew up or fear of the unknown. This FAQ section is meant to provide some rudimentary information, but it is always advisable to visit and consult with your nearest provider about any questions you might have with the process.
    
    How old do I have to be to be digitized?
    Legally, the right to be digitized, a right that we believe is unalienable, still operates on the same "Right to Die" or "Death with Dignity" laws in your country/jurisdiction. We are actively campaigning to get this changed as we see it as barbaric that digitization is roped into the same category, but typically the average medical provider cannot legally even consider this option until the applicant is over 18 years of age and considered an adult.
    
    What is the actual digitization procedure like?
    The medical procedure is relatively quick, however due to pressure from other countries and competing businesses we deliberately keep the specific details of the process under a strict non-disclosure agreement. It has taken us decades to perfect the process and we are dedicated to ensuring the sacrifices that were made to get here were not in vain. In order to maintain the purity of our process against those that would infringe on our rights the specifics will be disclosed upon signing of the NDA.
    
    What kinds of worlds are available?
    After being digitized, you will be placed in the world that you and your healthcare provider have decided on beforehand - this typically is a waiting room called the Wayward Horizon. It operates more or less as an in between world - an introductory area for newcomers or a lobby for others. There is a cooldown period of 24 hours before your first world transfer is available. This has proven necessary to monitor the participant if they have any trouble adjusting. After that time has elapsed you are able to move freely. We have a wide range of worlds available - including several famous movie worlds, popular video-games, and science fiction fantasy lands. The worlds based off of popular films have been rebuilt from scratch, while the video game worlds allow you to be injected directly into the gameplay with the appropriate graphical fidelity. Due to general compatibility errors, anything released on hardware before 2005 is not available. We are expecting countless new worlds to become available every year, so fear not, boredom will never enter the equation.
    
    Can I communicate with the outside world?
    Communication with the outside world is extremely limited and can typically only be done through certain websites that have already opened a gateway that allows that particular kind of data to be transferred. Every so often we sponsor a traditional "Ask Me Anything" event where a digitized person (usually apart of the EAP program) will return to Wayward Horizon and talk to the general public, promoting the benefits of digitization and answering questions.
    
    Can I create my own world?
    At this time, participants are unable to create their own custom worlds and must use the ones created by Xavius Solutions. We are confident that the amount of variety we have provided will be more than sufficient to last a significant amount of time, even by eternity's standards. In addition, we release new worlds every year once they've been sufficiently tested internally. The aptest comparison is to think of worlds as lobbies in a traditional online game - you can host a myriad of versions of the same world, but each one has the potential to be a dramatically different experience depending on who is participating. There is also the option to turn a world to private - meaning that only those you invite to the world will be able to join you. Worlds are set to public by default.
    
    What kind of people can I expect in public worlds?
    People of every demographic and people that are just like you! Those who have been uploaded often have similar interests and have led lives that have brought them to the program. Depending on the specific world you've chosen, you will meet different individuals. Certain worlds attract certain types of participants inherently, and our studies have shown that typically the younger the demographic is the less likely the participants will follow the world's "script". That is to say, events in that world might play out dramatically different than they usually would or sometimes not at all.
    
    Is there pain? What happens if I die?
    The ability to feel pain is a setting that is determined by the initial host of the world. Death is dependent on the type of world you're inhabiting. If you are in a world similar to our original reality, upon death you will immediately be returned to the previous day. If you are inhabiting a video game or fantasy world, your death will obey the laws of that world - either removing you from the world entirely (in the case of most fantasy and film worlds) or restarting from a checkpoint (in the case of most video game worlds). Death and pain are always disabled in the Heaven simulations and cannot be overridden. This was one of the features that Xavius Solutions had the most difficulty ironing out before Eternity Project was cleared to leave alpha in 2013, as originally death was permanent and the participant had to be manually rebooted from a sysadmin.
    
    How secure is my data?
    Considering our data is our most valuable asset, all of our servers possess several layers of the most sophisticated encryption software available and are additionally backed up at several undisclosed physical locations spread across the globe. There is no risk of the possibility of data corruption in any form whatsoever.
    
    Can I return to the physical world once I've been digitized?
    We find that this question often gets asked as more of a nervous safety net and is not really meant in earnest. Establishing a route to return to the physical world remains a low priority for our development team, as there is very little support for it - both internally and with our participants. Out of the thousands of men and women that made the choice to become digitized in our network, we have a 100% satisfaction rate.
- "Legal" contained an innocuous legal disclaimer.
Soon after combing through the indexed pages, several discoveries were made:
- "Dev Notes" was discovered by finding the sitemap. It contained the following text:
  - - There are names that exist in World Alpha that listed as participants, was this an oversight or what? What the hell is wrong with you? We don't need people asking questions about people from there at all, period. Fix it.
    
    - I know its your first year working here for us but you should be extremely careful playing around with different slugs - especially if they're not apart of the actual site. There are several things about my paygrade that if you discover and mess with could have disasterous consequences.
    
    - Reverted the site back to normal after the extended maintenece. Was shocked to find it really reverted back to an old gateway from almost a decade ago. Need to talk to Abel about this.
- The video feed on the Live Transmissions page activated several times over the next hour. Four transmissions, all from Abel and directed at an unnamed Eternity Project employee, reveal that Sarah's in-game death can be reversed and allowed for players to attempt it. The transcripts to these transmissions can be found here.
- "back:door/sys" was discovered per Abel's instructions. Locked behind the password "wthnhbrs12", it contained a hidden link labeled "https://www.eternity-project.com/άλφαbootables continue].
- "άλφαrebt" was discovered soon afterward, hidden in the previous page and locked behind the password "MnchldrnA11". In addition to the "heart" of World άλφα, this page originally contained a button labeled "+ Inject Code", which allowed the user to upload a file. Per Abel's instructions, someone managed to upload a file that correctly re-established World άλφα and satisfied Abel's request. At 6:52, the upload button was removed.
Some time after activity ceased, the video was given the following tags: "Eternity Project, Ben Drowned, Virtual Reality, BR, virtual worlds, digitization, eternity, we have created eternity"

September 13, 2020

At 1:40am, The Final Hours.wmv was set to premiere at 3:30pm. It initially contained no tags and the description was manually set to "No description available".
- Thumbnail changes took place at 11:32, 11:37, 11:43, 11:47, 12:35, 2:29, 2:46, 2:53, 3:12, 3:18, 3:20, and 3:24.
- The tags were discovered at 11:38am.
- The description changed at around 3:00am to "12 hours remain...", and again around 2:37pm to "Little time remains..."
At 3:49pm, a new thumbnail for The Moon Children.wmv was discovered. It is unknown when the change took place.
At 3:30pm, The Final Hours.wmv premiered. It featured Sarah waking from her recent revival to the Moon's imminent impact. She enters the Mayor's Residence, where she finds the remaining living souls within the cartridge pondering on what she should do next. With no certain decision made, Sarah departs for the Astral Observatory.

September 30, 2020

At 10:29am, The Fourth Day.wmv was uploaded and set to premiere on October 3 at 3:15pm. It contained no description or tags.

October 3, 2020

At 12:50am, The Fourth Day.wmv was removed from Jadusable's channel ahead of its premiere time.

October 23, 2020

Why is he smiling?

Alex Hall posted a series of tweets:
- The first at 8:14am, reading: "BEN Drowned will conclude on Halloween - October 31st, 2020. Specific time TBA as of right now - likely 2PM EST. I'm really curious to see how people react to this, be prepared to expect the unexpected."
- The second at 8:45am, describing his recent personal journey hiking in the Rocky Mountains.
- The third at 8:50am, revealing a rather worrisome screenshot from the upcoming video.
- The fourth at 9:17am, showing the much-theorized-about desert for the second time. This tweet was deleted shortly afterward.

October 30, 2020

At 11:57pm, The End.wmv was set to premiere at 4:00pm the next day. It features no tags, and its thumbnail depicts the Happy Mask Salesman being burned at the stake by several NPCs.

October 31, 2020

Oh no.

OH NO.

At 12:15am, Jadusable's YouTube avatar changed to Matt's face.
At 1:55pm, Jadusable's YouTube avatar changed to the Elegy of Emptiness statue.
At 2:05pm, the tags appeared.
The thumbnail changed several times:
- At 2:00, it changed to a close-up of the Happy Mask Salesman being burned.
- At 3:24, it changed to Link and a gravestone inside of the Mayor's Residence.
- At 3:30, it changed to day four.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:35, it changed to BEN.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:38, it changed to DROWNED.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:41, it changed to jadusable.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:43, it changed to CHILDREN.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:46, it changed to THE FATHER.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:48, it changed to The Truth.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:50, it changed to The Last Hero.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:52, it changed to The Moon Children.wmv's alternate thumbnail.
- At 3:53, it changed to The Prisoner.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:54, it changed to The Happy Mask Salesman.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:56, it changed to The Dying World.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:57, it changed to The Predecessor.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:57 again, it changed to The Showdown.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:58, it changed to The Final Hours.wmv's thumbnail.
- At 3:59, it reverted to its original thumbnail.
At 4:00pm, The End.wmv premiered. It shows Sarah's final encounter with Matt and Majora, in which both she and Jadusable make the ultimate sacrifice for the souls still living within the cartridge. With their sacrifice, the world has been restored and The Father is now a watchful eye, keeping the inhabitants safe from harm. Ben now inhabits Link's body, free of his terrible fate once and for all. It is unknown what happens to Sarah, but she is more than willing to pay the price for everyone's freedom.
Soon afterward, day four.wmv and jadusable.wmv returned to having their original thumbnails.

This marks the end of Ben Drowned. All further entries are presented as supplemental material.

November 2, 2020

Main article: Attack on Kong

king kong.wmv was made public once again, having been unlisted for several years. It was given an entirely new thumbnail that retained the "4.1.21" text, and its tags were changed to the following:
- king kong, jibbs, ben drowned, king kong april fools, parody, legend of zelda, zelda, ben king kong, be ndrowned king kong
Follow the link above for further King Kong entries.

November 4, 2020

The final avatar change.

Jadusable's YouTube avatar changed to the Elegy of Emptiness statue, now free of its previously-negative connotations.
- The significance of this action is best left to individual interpretation.
- Officially, there is no significance and Alex Hall simply wishes to keep the avatar story-related for a while longer.

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Contents

Awakening

The Beginning of the End

March 17, 2020

March 18, 2020

March 19, 2020

March 20, 2020

March 22, 2020

March 23, 2020

March 26, 2020

Another World

March 27, 2020

March 28, 2020

March 29, 2020

March 31, 2020

April 1, 2020

April 4, 2020

April 7, 2020

April 10, 2020

April 11, 2020

April 19, 2020

Methods of Revolution

Awaken the Second Player

April 23, 2020

April 29, 2020

April 30, 2020

May 9, 2020

May 16, 2020

The Truth

May 23, 2020

May 30, 2020

June 7, 2020

June 13, 2020

June 21, 2020

June 22, 2020

June 25, 2020

The Last Hero

Settling the Score

June 26, 2020

June 28, 2020

July 11, 2020

July 12, 2020

July 19, 2020

July 20, 2020

July 23, 2020

July 26, 2020

August 2, 2020

August 9, 2020

August 12, 2020

August 17, 2020

August 23, 2020

August 26, 2020

Eternity

August 30, 2020

September 13, 2020

September 30, 2020

October 3, 2020

October 23, 2020

October 30, 2020

October 31, 2020

November 2, 2020

November 4, 2020

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