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The Story of Zepheniah Mann
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The Story of Zepheniah Mann
A Team Fortress 2 Mystery

Hello everyone. I'm not sure how many people play TF2 around here, but the Halloween update was released yesterday. Ever since this update, bizarre things have been happening. This is a secret letter found on the Halloween update page, written by a certain Zepheniah Mann, founder of Mann Co., the company who create the game's weapons. It details many things in the game's universe, such as the creation of Gravel Pit, the founders of RED and BLU (aptly named Blutarch and Redmond), Saxton Hale's father and other details. A small section of the letter is covered by sand, which seems to involve a mystery man receiving an unknown object as part of Zepheniah Mann's will.

This is a family portrait hidden in a link on the letter. It shows (from left to right), an ancestor of Saxton Hale, Blutarch, Zepheniah Mann, Elizabeth (Mann's servant, a possible ancestor of the announcer), Redmond, and an unknown figure again obscured by sand, who is presumably the same man from the letter.

Now, in game stuff. CP_Dustbowl has been replaced by CP_Gravelpit as the server default map. The letter mentions Blutarch and Redmond purchasing a mound of gravel to their father's dismay. Underneath Control Point C, underneath the map, is a hidden ammo box. Before the Halloween update picking up this crate would result in the following console message:

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CMaterial::PrecacheVars: error loading vmt file for detail/detailsprites_harvest
CMaterial::PrecacheVars: error loading vmt file for vgui/maps/menu_photos_koth_harvest

the "harvest" mentioned is the map "koth_harvest_event", a new Halloween map, which is haunted by the ghost of, you guessed it, Zepheniah Mann.

This is pretty much all I have right now. I didn't think this would fit in right in the ARG sections, so I put it here instead. Well, I hope you people can make something of all this. Thanks for reading.

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:51 pm

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