The Core of Alwayslookback

Hey guys, as I said on unForum, we're making one last post to tell you where we were going to go with this before we decided to stop it where we were.

So, in the beginning, it was going to be about a war between the light and the dark, with Devon being on the side of the light and Isaac being on the side of darkness. The light was attempting to cleanse the world of darkness, and the darkness was more or less trying to take over the world. We were eventually going to split it into two blogs, one for Devon and one for Isaac, with each basically being the headquarters for each side respectively. The players would choose what side they wanted to be on and they'd work against the other side towards their goals. If the darkness had won, everyone in the ARG would have died, and if the light won... Well, only Devon would have died.

Now, in the beginning, it was meant to be a friendly thing that a couple of friends and I decided to do for kicks. We started with a basic idea. Slender Man following someone and eventually one of them would die or disappear. We then decided to make it our own and add our own elements to the Slender Man mythos, thus the legend of the darkness and light and the other Slender Men were created.

Eventually, I started to get more or less obsessed with the ARG and making it something big. In my obsessiveness, I eventually irritated one of my friends to the point of quitting the ARG. So then I desperately searched for someone to take over the roll that the friend had left empty, Isaac. Finally, the job went to a friend of ours, Leo, and it was good for a while.

I then started to lose interest in the blog, as a lot of my ideas weren't going into the ARG and were simply disregarded and were considered "jumping the shark". So I eventually stopped putting ideas in all together and basically let Leo do whatever he wanted with the blog.

Eventually, the ARG started falling apart. From the post "Good news? Kinda." and on, we were just posting with no or little planning, thus making it very unorganized and, inevitably, uninteresting. A lot of the ideas that were put into the ARG were taken from other sources. (e.g. JAFool and Marble Hornets) We had done this at the beginning, only taking minor details from the other Slender Man ARG's and making them work in ours. We were going to move away from this and use all our original ideas, but Leo eventually ran out of ideas and used a journal as a point of interest in the ARG.

Where the blog was going to go before we quit, was the Doctor, Leonard Mengele, was going to be the human connected to the red Slender Man, Katy was going to be connected to the black suited Slender Man, and Isaac was going to connected to the white. Katy, Isaac, and the Doc were going to be a few hundred years old, as when a Slender Man dies, the human dies, and vice versa. Katy and Isaac would be working to gain the light, which would start the world anew, cleansing the world of all its imperfections and darkness, whereas Devon and TTW were going to be trying to stop them, using the light to simply rid the world of the Slender Men.

After decreased player interactivity and increased trolling, we decided to throw in the towel and stop doing the ARG. We hope you guys enjoyed it while it was going and thank you all for your participation.