The Haunted Cartridge

September 7th

A user named Jadusable makes a post about his experience with a haunted Majora’s Mask cartridge on /x/. Along with the summary, he posts a video called “day four.wmv.”

September 8th

Jadusable makes his second post on /x/, this time with a second video, “BEN.wmv.”

September 10th

Jadusable makes his third post on /x/, this time with a third video, “DROWNED.wmv.”

September 12th

Jadusable’s roommate posts on his behalf on /x/, presenting Jadusable’s final video, “jadusable.wmv.”

September 15th

Jadusable’s notes, “TheTruth.rtf,” are uploaded and posted to /x/.  These notes clarify that Jadusable had no roommate and that each summary from before had been tampered with by BEN.  The document implies that BEN has escaped due to readers having downloaded it. Jadusable disappears and is not seen again.

"free.wmv" is uploaded to Jadusable's channel.

The Moon Children

September 17th

Ciphers posted on Jadusable’s channel lead to the discovery of youshouldnthavedonethat.net, the home website for a cult called the Moon Children.

Theories on the site suggest the cult’s goal is to bring about the apocalypse. There are five main active members: Ifrit, Nekko, Duskworld23, Insidiae, and DROWNED. All are moderators except DROWNED, who is the administrator. Several other members are named elsewhere, particularly Rosa and Alex, who share names with characters featured in videos on Jadusable’s channel.

There is one locked page, called The Truth. It is password protected.

A countdown set to end the next day is found on the site.

September 18th

Ifrit, a member of the Moon Children, reaches out and begins to answer questions. Among them, he states that Ben was his friend, that his sister is Rosa, and his email address revealed his real name: Matt.

After hearing a knock on his door, Ifrit disappears.

“fj6rt,” a video of the Song of Time, is posted as a response to free.wmv.  This reveals that the site is on a three-day cycle and resets it. The site goes down.

September 19th

The site comes back up, now in an earlier state than when it was found. Ifrit and DROWNED are no longer seen. The Truth is now unlocked, but its contents are gone.

Players discover the ability to play songs from Majora’s Mask in order to affect the website:

• Inverted Song of Time - confirmed ability to play songs

• New Wave Bossa Nova - caused Rosa to contact us via Ifrit’s email. Only a few people spoke to her, one of which received the login to The Truth.

• Song of Healing - caused Kelbris, a prophetic cult member only mentioned in passing, to appear and presumably kill Rosa


• Oath to Order - caused Alex’s death as seen in “...”

September 20th

More actions are taken in-game:

• Song of Time - intended to stop Kelbris from killing Rosa, failed to do so; it reset the cycle again

• Using a Fairy - revived Alex after his death shown in …


• Sonata of Awakening - intentions unknown; caused Alex’s disappearance

“huntyoudown.wmv” is posted to Jadusable’s channel. Shortly afterward, the Moon Children website was converted into an archive of events so far.

October 4th

Hidden text is discovered in seemingly-random pages. It leads nowhere.

October 6th

An event collectively called The Glitch occurs:

• The website updates with disturbing imagery

• A cipher that remains unsolved is found on the main page

• Hidden files numbered 1 through 63 are discovered

October 7th-9th

The non-canon Ryukaki side story starts. Click here for more information.

November 9th

“2” is uploaded to Jadusable’s channel. It contains sounds of drowning and the text, “No one came.”

 

The Moon Children II

January 1st-5th

Text is added and removed several times on the site.

February 10th

URLs for four new downloadable files were found, but they were never opened.

February 12th

Four consecutive updates to the main page occur:

• 11:38pm - You're beginning to slowly go insane.

• 11:39pm - You're beginning to slowly go insane. You begin to slowly lose your grip on reality.

• 11:43pm - You begin to slowly lose your grip on reality.

• 11:49pm - Not time yet Not yet time. Too soon. So

February 17th

A countdown leading to “Another Step” appeared on the site, set to end at 7:00pm. At that time, the site went down

Jadusable’s channel posted a cipher leading to a new forum: Within Hubris

The forum’s administrator, Guide, welcomes us:
“Here, all of us walk the fine line between absolution and conviction.
This is our last safe haven, our last bastion of defense. And yet it houses our greatest minds, and our strongest warriors.”

Two forum groups appeared for about 20 seconds before disappearing:

• "HELP ME,"

• "MY EYES",

The following users were discovered in a member group called “Tenor":
Jadusable, Hubris, Ryukaki, Alex, Nekko, Duskworld23, Drowned, BEN, Rosa, Insidiae, Tyler, Kelbris, and Guide.

February 18th

A new permanent forum group called Wayward Horizon was added. It contained one subforum called ???, which was password protected.

February 18th

The Location section of Rosa’s profile changed to include a binary message that decodes to “bastionof,” leading to the discovery of the password needed to access Wayward Horizon: bastionofdefense
Inside of Wayward Horizon, posts from Nekko, Duskworld23, Kelbris, and an unknown user are found. It appears that Wayward Horizon is where they are being kept.

February 26th

Several members of Within Hubris receive a letter by mail. It contains a newspaper clipping and a message presumably from BEN.
The following message was posted on Jadusable’s YouTube channel: “Hubris Reveal' trailer debuts on Jadusable's Youtube channel on Sunday, February 27th at 6pm EST.”
A timer titled, “They have to warn you” was added to Within Hubris, counting down to February 27 at 5pm, an hour before the time mentioned in the post.

February 27th

Jadusable’s channel posted the following three messages:

• what are you doing?

• STOP THIS

• /i

Shortly afterward, at 6:00pm, “h b i s r ea l” was uploaded.

June 8th

A new member of the Tenor group, “Usekeb,” is discovered.

Hiatus

From this point, the ARG went on a 9-year hiatus, only to be broken in 2020 by a sudden canon upload to Jadusable's channel.

Methods of Revolution

March 17th

“awakening.txt” is uploaded to Jadusable’s channel. Its description suggests the date March 20, 2020 will be important.

March 19th

“hubris.wmv” is uploaded to Jadusable’s channel. Its description contains the following message: “Attempt fifteen, trying again. I doubt I can reach these two at the same time. HE moves.”

March 20th

“end.wmv” is uploaded to Jadusable’s channel. The text in this video is signed at the end by “Jadus.”

March 22nd

“\” was set to premiere on Jadusable’s channel the following day.

March 23rd

Just before the premiere of \, it was removed and a new video was uploaded in its place, “transmission.txt.” This video confirms the return and demise of Tyler, and suggests that a societal collapse has occurred in the past couple of years.
“\” is re-uploaded to Jadusable’s channel. It contains a message from BEN.

March 26th

“Gateway.wmv” was uploaded to Jadusable’s channel. It mirrors the events of BEN.wmv’s Termina Field sequence, ending at Link using the Ocarina. It appears we have the ability to play songs again.

The video’s spectrogram contains a message: “what happened in 2012?”

March 28th

The clues from gateway.wmv led players to a new website: methodsofrevolution.com. Formerly a promotional site for an independent movie, it now contained imagery from the past few videos and several text documents containing chat logs from an unknown group.
A poll containing several Majora’s Mask songs was discovered. This appeared to be our outlet for deciding what songs to play.

The songs listed were: Song of Time, Song of Healing, Sonata of Awakening, Inverted Song of Time, Song of Double Time, Oath to Order, and Other. At the poll’s end, Sonata of Awakening won.

March 29th

“sonata.wmv” was uploaded to Jadusable’s channel. As a result, someone in a gas mask appeared at the end.

methodsofrevolution.com went back up. It now contained new chat logs suggesting the possibility of merging timelines.

March 29th

\ was renamed to “iseeyou.”

April 1st

“king.txt” was uploaded to Jadusable’s channel.”

April 4th

“CHILDREN.wmv” was uploaded to Jadusable’s channel. It appears to be the video that Jadusable had no memory of recording, taking place immediately after DROWNED.wmv.
methodsofrevolution.com changed. The front page now contained the phrase “STOP PLAYING,” repeating several times.

A new document, TheRealTruth.rtf, is found on methodsofrevolution.com. It is a new version of TheTruth.rtf containing all of Jadusable’s video summaries as well as a new entry written by BEN. Most instances of Ben in the document have been changed to BEN.
A new poll was discovered: RUN, FIGHT, or HIDE. After heated debate, HIDE won. The site went dark soon afterward.

April 7th

“2018.txt” was uploaded to Jadusable’s channel.

April 10th

“The lock screen image on methodsofrevolution.com was changed to the Astral Observatory, pushing the next update back by one day.

April 11th

“KELBRIS.wmv” was set to premiere on Jadusable’s channel at 6:00pm. After what appeared to be a struggle coming from within BEN itself, it was deleted. Soon afterward, “THE FATHER.wmv” was uploaded in its place.
THE FATHER.wmv, the final video recorded by Jadusable, officially confirms his death.
methodsofrevolution.com came back up. It now contained a new poll: AWAKEN THE SECOND PLAYER? The choices were YES and NO. YES won.
Several audio files found on the site contained scattered phrases hidden in their spectrograms. Soon afterward, a new password protected page was discovered. The password was not found in time, and the site closed soon afterward.

April 19th

“baker.txt” was uploaded to Jadusable’s channel. Taking place early on in the societal collapse, this video contains several important details:

• A disease called H.E.R.O.E.S. is affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the United States

• The government is developing a dangerous solution

• methodsofrevolution.com’s lock screen updated to include text that directly continues from where baker.txt left off.

Video Synopsis [Arc2]