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 		Essential Reading: The Wyoming Incident
The Wyoming Incident, tracked here on Unfiction at http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18035 and http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27872 (this link contains mild spoilers until a certain point in the explanation) is very likely the longest-running ARG in existence, from its first heartbeats (video postings and activity in the first linked forum, among other things) in 2006, to its last (so far) in 2013. The reason I would ask all prospective Puppetmasters to be aware of it, however, is not the length of TWI, but the events therein.

In summary:
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The first videos of 'The Wyoming Incident' appeared on Google Video and Youtube between July and August 2006. The original video, posted on Google Video, identified its content as what was broadcasted in Neobrara County, Wyoming, during a hijacking of several local-programming stations. While the video is safe to view, the story describes various adverse effects of viewing the video, due to a troublesome frequency in the audio.

Followers are anonymously led to The Happy Cube, a message board dedicated to "Cubing" (Read: Serial Murder), and the blog of one Gregory Miller. The character of GMiller is used to lead the story, eventually moving the blog from an independent host to a Blogger site. Eventually, progress is made. GMiller reveals, among other things, that he is not, in fact, Gregory Miller. He is the original owner of the Wyoming Incident videos, an ancient inspiration of dark impulses that his people tasked him to update into a modern format. He distributed the first few videos himself, and followed them to their final owners, including Gregory Miller, Happy Cube administrator Jack Q. Pembry, Danny Cable (who wasn't a particularly important character in any way), and Jamie. Jamie was the uploader of the second video, AKA "givemeanumber" on Youtube, and the only surviving video owner, which proved extremely angering to GMiller.

With this post came the fourth Wyoming Incident video, as he had promised to Unfiction users following the mystery, and the promises that GMiller would answer four questions from Unfiction followers, one of which he would choose himself, and that the fifth Wyoming Incident video would soon be shared on a file-sharing platform called Ares. It was around this time that the third video was discovered to have been the first posted.

A user on The Happy Cube named Iliketofix, the most recent member before followers of TWI were directed to the board, directed followers to "Hackjob Johnny presents video 5" on Ares in accordance with GMiller's schedule. It was then slowly revealed that Iliketofix, who may or may not have been GMiller, was a servant of Father Paranoia, one of nine Dark Muses mirroring the Nine (good) Muses of greek mythology. He began posting frightening, disturbing and disgusting short stories which became 'required reading' for the followers, which he later revealed as the engine for a mass harvest of negative energy from followers to the game to feed Father Paranoia.

Iliketofix tells players, among other things, that a legion of Paranoia's black-eyed children, who eat the living and wear the dead, would be joining the board to stalk players. When one of the black-eyed children eats a player, Iliketofix is replaced by Ilovetofix, who finally reveals their overall goal: to create such underlying negativity in humanity that when The Nine Muses have their way, bringing humanity to the peak of perfection, humanity will tumble from that peak and descend into an endless age of darkness. Jamie is eventually found, and followers find a consensus that yes, they do want to hear his last words. The poor acting gives away that he isn't actually dead, but Iliketofix shrugs it off, pointing out that ownership of the second video has already broken Jamie's mind, so he's no better off alive than dead.

One of The Wyoming Incident's weaknesses as an ARG, from a certain perspective, is the vast amount of lore and role-playing that takes place on The Happy Cube to bring about major developments. As such, a great length of time goes by between the previous point of note and the next.

(cont. in next post)

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 		Re: Essential Reading: The Wyoming Incident
Continuing the highlights, the ARG aspect of The Wyoming Incident returns when Ilovetofix decides he will choose a follower, and place a call to a phone booth near them at a mutually agreeable time. User detector7 is chosen, and while he fails to record their phone call, his notes revealed that followers looking for video 5 would have to search 'we love,' followed by the name of the dark brothers' mother, on a major video-sharing site. There is little time to work out that the name omitted is likely Echidna (greek mother of all monsters), however, as The Wyoming Incident crashes headlong into its first major turning point.

It's at this point that Ilovetofix brings forth the concept of The Ritual. In order to summon forth an aspect of Paranoia to join Ilovetofix, followers are to play/loop music that unsettles/disturbs them on a psychological level for half an hour. As they do this, they are to meditate as deeply as possible on what they find disturbing, in an active effort to disturb themselves. At the half-hour mark, the negative energy would disappear, and if done simultaneously by enough people, that negative energy would congeal elsewhere into an aspect of Paranoia.

It's important I note here that, if it isn't obvious, attempting to disturb oneself over that length of time would likely succeed. Even Ilovetofix backpedals a bit on this, adding that those with any prior mental instability should stay well away from the procedure outlined, and that people with prior experience with meditation (or significant mental discipline through other means) would be best equipped to perform the procedure.
The ritual, despite followers dropping away like flies, proceeds on schedule and introduces the spirit of Hackjob Johnny to the board and the followers. He didn't get much time in the limelight, though. Up until this point, TWI was relatively standard, save for its expanses of lore-building and The Ritual, but here things take their first headspin.

The week of March 2nd, 2007, The Happy Cube received a new thread atop every category, and everyone registered received a Private Message, all saying the same thing. The Wyoming Incident was nothing more than one long prank by three users from the infamous Something Awful forums. One user in particular, Senor Bambos, took credit as Puppet Master. He stated that the story had been guided primarily by whatever concepts/theories arose among the followers. He also mention that Viraldetector, who may also have been detector7, was a plant all along. To top it all off, the anonymous comments leading Unfiction users in the first thread to the first few videos were his work too, in a (successful by our very nature) attempt to use Unfiction and the Unforms as an incubator for TWI. Most of his 'artificial mythology', such as the Dark Muses, was credited to Something Awful user OC_James. He also states the ending they had in mind:
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All 9 Wyoming Incident videos being found allows Father Paranoia to enter the world, Ilovetofix would sacrifice himself and become one with Paranoia, Paranoia would give a copy of his book (likely related to the one from the botched item retrieval mission) to a chosen follower, and things would've continued until the 'apocalypse' in 2012, when all the divines (including the two sets of muses) would fight, and most of them would die, leaving humanity behind with an indeterminate fate.


Of course, TWI's following was waning, and they very obviously wouldn't make it five more years (59 users on The Happy Cube was a record for that time), so under pressure from other users on Something Awful, Bambos gave Viraldetector (henceforth referred to as The Detector by Bambos himself) the Ilovetofix account and told him to spoil the surprise however he liked, resulting in an ARG run by people from Something Awful succumbing to typical Something Awful trolling.

At this point, further confusion occurs. It's not known where user harrispi first posted on The Happy Cube, but his point was clear: This ARG was the disguise for an extremely unethical amateur social/psychological experiment suspected to be based out of the UK. Further inquiries revealed that he was hired to look into The Wyoming Incident by the mother of a follower who seemed to have suffered some permanent damage from The Ritual, and that SenorBambos was actually a typical Something Awful stereotype, who cracked Ilovetofix's account and ended the game just to troll people.

Harrispi's final words, more or less:
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The forums (The Happy Cube) will not be reopened, the 'staff' accounts have been suspended indeffinitely, and I suggest you do not watch any more of the videos if they are posted.

Thank you for your interest in this case.


At this point, it was game over. Maybe Harrispi's appearance would be the beginning of a new game, or maybe it was time to forget the mess that had been made out of The Wyoming Incident, but the game in its current form was probably over. Despite this, and even hinting at events nobody knew about, Ilovetofix just HAD to have the last word.



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Children are gone

Representative is gone

Observer is gone

Never should have trusted

the brothers most vile

the book shall be ours too

this ends here

-Ilovetofix, 03/02/2007, Topic "We Win" on The Happy Cube.

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 		Re: Essential Reading: The Wyoming Incident
I know I made it seem like that was the end, but it wasn't. Then again, with The Wyoming Incident, you never could tell.

Ilovetofix returned two weeks later with an explanation thread on The Happy Cube. He tells followers the full details of Senor Bambos' hacking: using a hint dropped in a previous thread, he was able to brute-force access to a Happy Cube administrative account, and alter Ilovetofix and Johnny's details, locking them out. Then, out of some typical morbid fascination, Bambos came back as Harrispi with the sudden detective angle for one last laugh. A lengthy post is then spent disproving and discrediting Bambos's claims to have been the Puppetmaster behind The Wyoming Incident.

And then the story takes a turn for the truly unfortunate. While Ilovetofix was blocked off from The Happy Cube by the Something Awful hostile takeover, a legion of traitorous black-eyed children in league with other dark muses stormed the Temple of Paranoia. Ilovetofix, all the other priests, and even Hackjob Johnny were massacred, and the current user of the Ilovetofix account (later re-named "theembodiment") only lived because he was lucky enough to be away on business at the time.

Theembodiment begs players to stick around for whatever reasons they can justify, as he will have to sort out this new power imbalance among the Dark Muses, and rebuild the priesthood of Paranoia. He'll need help to do that. With this premise in place, the story continued, with the intensity seemingly turned up to eleven. The previous goal of finding more Wyoming Incident videos from the set of 9 was lost, and the story took another nosedive into heavy lore and roleplay, and The Happy Cube accumulated 33 new threads in the space of about a month. Along the way, a variant on the dark ritual is performed. Followers this time around were to disturb themselves until they were absolutely certain they were about to have a mental breakdown and (before calming themselves however possible) write down the first thing that came to them in that most vulnerable of moments. By piecing all those sentences together, it would hopefully be possible to divine some new vague, cryptic nugget of information that might hopefully be useful the theembodiment.

The story was once again fully set on its terrible course, so obviously it was time to shake things up again. theembodiment's final post was in a thread named "he wants something" and then he just kind of disappeared. Time went by with no guidance, and it's impossible to know what players thought of it. Despite the twists and turns of the story so far, nobody could've predicted what came next:

In my favorite twist taken by TWI, Senor Bambos made a sudden, dramatically timed return.

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 		Re: Essential Reading: The Wyoming Incident
Bambos was not, however, a new forum moderator sent by Father Paranoia to keep things going, as with Ilovetofix or theembodiment. No, he just decided it was time to come clean. He began his explanation, on page 8 of the He Wants Something thread, by saying why his story didn't check out during his big reveal, AKA the Something Awful takeover: he wasn't the creator of The Wyoming Incident, or any of the videos, he was just the one who posted the first videos online. That was his role in the story: distribution.

Bambos stated that he was a former fan of the Coast-To-Coast radio program, and when it was revealed that a major story had been a hoax/viral marketing campaign, he was one of the only people on their forums not outraged, and posted that he would be interested in taking part in something of the sort. A month or so later, he was browsing the forums again on a lark and found that someone had responded to his enthusiasm. The response was described as a 'sales pitch' for The Wyoming Incident, or perhaps an effort to garner celebrity support for a project, on which he himself commented that he was a relative nobody at the time. The soon-to-be Puppetmaster suspected that, in the right parts of the internet, TWI could grow and spread like wildfire, and Bambos was interested enough to go along.

Their partnership quickly established itself as mysterious. The Puppetmaster made the videos and E-Mailed them to Bambos along with the basics of their descriptions, leaving where and how to spread them to Bambos's imagination. When asked how the videos were made, The Puppetmaster apparently lied, as Bambos's attempts to follow the procedure and replicate the Wyoming Incident videos only produced visually mediocre lookalikes. Of course, since only The Puppetmaster knew how to properly produce the videos, they stopped appearing because he stopped producing them. On a side note, Bambos states that the videos actually do seem to effect people, to an extent. While most people are fine, they certainly garnered instant interest from viewers, and some people would develop outright obsession.

Bambos decided first to share TWI with Something Awful, and when the first board (the first link in this thread's first post) opened here on Unforum, he realized things were snowballing. He was also given access to The Happy Cube as, essentially, a "backup moderator." As before, Bambos credited The Detector (likely ViralDetector, detector7, or both) with dropping the troll-bombs during the Something Awful takeover, but this time claimed it was without his consent. The Detector was already well acquainted with the mysteries of The Wyoming Incident, as he'd been a plant the entire time. In The Puppetmaster's words: "there were some things a normal player just couldn't pull off."

Bambos was making some progress in dealing with his friend's actions when Ilovetofix suddenly reappeared. The Puppetmaster was back, and after coming in as Harrispi to get the chaos back under his control, used theembodiment's lengthy discrediting of Bambos as a way to boot him off the project for nearly ending it. Bambos had no control of TWI from there on, but still followed along out of curiosity. Seeing theembodiment's disappearance, and the story grinding to a sudden halt, it was time he came clean about his role behind the scenes of The Wyoming Incident.

Senor Bambos at this point begins making it clear that he really only knows about as much as the players/followers do. He has no idea of The Puppetmaster's motivations, and states that The Puppetmaster always remained anonymous, never contacting Bambos from the same E-Mail twice. The Puppetmaster was actually rather uninvolved in hands-on activities, and the only location he chose was the setting of Niobrara County. Most of the time, he was the man behind the moderators (GMiller, iliketofix, ilovetofix, and theembodiment), but that's about it. Whatever The Puppetmaster's plans for The Wyoming Incident were, they were incredibly flexible.

And why did he reveal all of this in the first place? In Bambos's own words from the post:

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He hasn't spoken to me in some time. I feel rather guilty because a large percentage of SA believes me to have been the sole creator and I'm even given full credit in the Wikipedia article. In the end, I know jackshit about what this is. I don't understand his motivations. I can't make the videos. They creep the hell outta me, personally. I know nothing about the origins of this website, except that it probably served as an important "prop" in an earlier project he worked on. I think he may be the OC_James guy who apparently has links elsewhere. I just don't know.

I was just along for the ride.


Bambos relates this information through one long post and four responses to followers questioning him. Everyone's question is "what next?" and the general concensus is that the board will go back over their leads and attempt to piece together what was left of the story, or possibly track down the PM. Eventually, theembodiment returns for a time before a name change to Witness, but it's not the same, and the remainder of followers reject him, and serve only to steer occasional late-comers away from the tangled, forgotten mess TWI had become by that point. That is, until talk begins of resurrecting things before everything got complicated, and everybody being invited back to have fun again. As that falls apart, people decide that The Happy Cube will more or less be an "insiders-only club" for planning future ARGs among themselves.

As the ARG planning ground quickly shifts from The Happy Cube to other follower chatrooms, et cet era, the forum dies. And that, dear reader, was the end of The Wyoming Incident.

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 		Re: Essential Reading: The Wyoming Incident
But even though The Wyoming Incident ends there, the story was not over.

Before I continue, I want to note that I posted two links to The Wyoming Incident investigations here on Unforum in this thread's original post. If you're following the investigations along the timeline, now's the time to open the second link. Now, the story continues:

In May of 2009, Happy Cube users (including participants in The Wyoming Incident), received an E-Mail through the board from "boardmoderator", citing the a serious issue requiring the immediate attention. Though the board was long dead, members were asked to return dues to legal issues involving a former board member. Returning members found that the board was under investigation again, this time with traces of legitimacy, and a new board index: The Joseph Bright Help Center.

The original posts to the new index made the situation pretty clear: A man going by Joseph Bright, a variation thereof, or a few other names he was known to have used online, had been a participant in The Wyoming Incident, but never quite accepted that the game was over. He wasn't entirely mentally stable, which the rituals may or may not have had anything to do with, and left home to tie up loose ends and finish the hunt for the nine Wyoming Incident videos, of which only six were found. boardmoderator is, essentially, a Private Investigator (though he feels more like a consultant) trying to track Bright down.

Further prodding reveals Bright's mental hangup to have been that the Puppetmaster of The Wyoming Incident was never truly discovered, allowing him to believe that, to some extent, it was all real. He'd threatened Senor Bambos, the closest person to a Puppetmaster followers were aware of, multiple times in his efforts.

Eventually, progress was made. Bright's blog was found, and his whereabouts and story could slowly but surely be traced. As videos 7 and 8 were introduced to the board on Bright's Youtube channel, along with a seemingly unrelated video called "bak story", boardmoderator (already a mysterious character who was very clearly withholding information) seemed to go mad from their influence. This led up to his finding Video 9 himself, and the spectacular troll therein of cash4gold.com, along with posts about indie ARGs needing sponsors, prompting the partnership with Cash4gold. Trolled once more, the game was again assumed dead.

That is, until the unexpected return of Jack Q. Pembry, dead and inactive since the days of GMiller's blog, on May 27th 2009 with the post THERE IS STILL REALITY, best read in full:

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4KtFys1kCE

It's Bright.

Hurt.

Here.

You need to see this. Watch it. Remember it. The most elaborate one. Took me so long to find. It's taught me something. Names. There are names I know now.

Robert and Alexandria Franklin.

Recluse
Wyoming

Remember those names. No matter what anyone tells you, it doesn't end here.

I'm beginning to doubt it ever ends.

I will be back. Just need to rest a while.

Don't believe what they tell you - and KEEP THAT LINK

SAVE THAT VIDEO


The Wyoming incident was finally dead, save for one last mysterious heartbeat on Januray 13th, 2013. In the new thread "and so" Pembry posted "the children awoke that year", bringing him to a very easter-egg feeling 42 posts.

And that, dear reader, is where the story of The Wyoming Incident ends, as far as anyone knows.

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 		Re: Essential Reading: The Wyoming Incident
Now, this isn't nearly everything. At various points I mentioned incredible depths of lore and role-play, and I wasn't kidding. The Happy Cube is a coiled-up mess of wires, and I didn't want to sift through it any more than I already had. I even skipped over a few characters, stories, and companion blogs, in the interest of condensing this as much as possible.

During its lifespan, The Wyoming Incident probably covers every last Do and Don't of Puppetmastery, and I wouldn't be too surprised if it created a few new ones on either side. Reply with what you did and didn't like about the story, but here's my opinion on the most major things that TWI did Right and Wrong.

Right
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1. Constant twists kept intrigue flowing strong.
2. Lore and world building typically enhance an experience.
3. Continuing from 1, various plot threads became loose ends to be tied up, which can have a pretty big payoff if they're tied up properly.


Wrong
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1. Though the various twists were probably months apart in real time, someone reading through after the fact will typically start to feel the whiplash around the time The Embodiment appears.
2. Lore and world building are good, but were swiftly allowed to get out of hand.
3. The payoff of having plot threads tied up never came, as only the GMiller story arc leading up to Iliketofix's appearance ever got a legitimate ending.



In the end, there's no real telling what was intended of The Wyoming Incident. There's no way to tell, considering how abrupt every single twist was, what was 'canon' and what was a hijacking or just outright bullshit.
And to top it all off (possibly my personal favorite part of all of this) there's not even a hint out there, beyond speculation, of who the true Puppetmaster behind everything was.

I've devoted far too many of the last 24 hours to posting these 6 messages, so I'll conclude here. I consider The Wyoming Incident essential reading because it's so long, and so complicated, with so many steps and missteps, that no matter who you are, there's a mistake in here you need to learn not to make. And, perhaps, something it did right you might want to do yourself. Just remember to never let your story get out of hand.

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The game never ends, does it?
On December 9th, 2016, Jack Q. Pembry made a new post on The Happy Cube: Debts Due.

The soundcloud file he links to, And They Will Be Paid, seems to be a recording of SenorBambos. The primary clue for this is the speaker's references to the mysterious topic of conversation "never contacting him from the same E-Mail address twice." When Bambos reappeared to answer questions after theembodiment disappeared, he said this, verbatim, of The Puppetmaster. Bear in mind that there are point in the recording when Bambos seems to be responding to someone, and it's hard to tell, at this point who exactly he's speaking with, or how.

On December 21st, 2016, This Is Him was posted. This seems to be a conversation, or parts of multiple conversations/statements. If it matches up to And They Will Be Paid, it's unknown how.

On December 30th, 2016 The Places You Call Home was posted. The document, heavily redacted by Pembry, traces the whereabouts of *** (name redacted). based on context clues, especially after Bambos is mentioned, it's clear that *** is The Puppetmaster.

On January 26th, 2017, A minor Interlude. A minor person. was posted. The post consists of two pictures. These are someone's notes. They are not Puppetmaster's, referring to them in the third person. Both the author and the subject are indeterminate.

On January 27th, 337200720082009337-JB-ForFirstGroupReviewC1/3 was posted. This is a series of behind-the-scenes messages between someone by the online alias of Copperfist. At the beginning of his story arc, Copperfist was a reported online alias of a character you might ALL remember: Joseph Bright.

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 		New Post by Jack Q Pembry
http://thehappycube.proboards.com/thread/134/337200720082009337-jb-forfirstgroupreviewc2-3?page=1&scrollTo=2130

I know you don't like me emailing you. There's a good chance you don't even log in to this account now. But I need to know if my Bak Story video offended you in some way. Didn't think you'd mind. You freely offered up the story in your welcome message to me. It's a piece of an important point I have to make. I had to prod that nerve. Your reaction to it. . . seeing you on the other side of the glass for a change. . . people like us are curious by nature. You know this. It simply couldn't be helped.

I ask if you took offence because of the silence on your end. Nothing to say about my side project or the further appropriation of the Cuber Clique's personal details? Nothing at all? Stoicism is your MO, but this is overdoing it. Some guidance as we make our way to the end of this project is needed. Your mates have left me scrambling for plot. I suppose they're upset as well?

!!!

You don't decide how this ends.

***

I'm sorry, but fuck's sake, it can't go on forever. We only have nine videos. People are expecting resolution. We could use the Highwayman videos to maybe extend things? Maybe the Lusk set? See, problem there is they don't match up with the original set. It's thematically and aesthetically jarring.

You have to broaden your horizons if you want to spread your message. Truly great minds seldom linger on one work. That's what the splintering storyline I've been doing independently is about. Working new territories. A new project? A new storyline? Now those could make good use of your full collection.

You're a frontiersman, I have always admired that, but you've only mapped a tenth of what's out there!

!!!

Never said it goes on forever. There is an ending I have in mind. You think, even hypothetically, I would send you my other properties? You think I'd hand you another part of my life's work just to see you dissect and desecrate it like you did to my final videos? They're forever tainted now. You will never collaborate with me again.

"Broaden your horizons"? You misunderstand me completely. This is one story, and it's more or less a true one. You and your inventions were to draw the audience in so that I could vet the promising and haunt the unremarkable. You strayed from the path, and now any potential followers are hopelessly lost.

All I see now is JOSEPH BRIGHT, JOSEPH BRIGHT, WHERE IS JOSEPH BRIGHT. This was never meant to be about one person. Do not try to hide your egotism with your metatextual philosophizing. The same goes for the breaching of the inner circle's personal information, regardless of how you applied or altered that information. You have an astonishing number of people wishing to see you dead.

I, on the other hand, am left only embarrassed by you.

You play dinner theater. I am the real thing.

I was sorely mistaken in thinking this partnership could work.

Goodbye.

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 		WOW!!! Another new post from Jack Q Pembry

have no evidence for this, but over the years, I have learned to trust this intuition I feel now. You are reading this forum with some regularity, aren't you? You don't log in. You might not even have reregistered. But you are here. I can feel it. We are drawn to these things in our lives. You understand that as well as anyone.

So you can change your phone number, pick up and move, dump your old laptop, stop using your old email accounts, drive me to wasting what you probably think are exceptional amounts of money, and remove every trace of yourself from the internet you can... you will find your way home in the end. This has all been an intermission or, more aptly, a vacation.

You haven't heard from Mi - I mean, The Detector - in a while, have you?

I wonder what he's up to. Thought I heard he had an interview about our shared project scheduled some time ago. Do you even keep up with him anymore? You probably should have. Oh, but he's just another internet person, isn't he?

Don't make me come and find you. I'm being charitable here. I am closer than you know. Do this voluntarily.

We have work to do. Debts to repay. New works of art to put on display. This is just the beginning, Stalling, if I am being honest.

You have one week.

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