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.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Hey guys, I've just gotten home from the doctor's place.
On the morning of the 8th I had another dream. Since I don't want to stress myself describing it, I had the same dream I had a few weeks ago, so I'll quote myself here:
I'm starting to get scared again. In the dream, there's a man in white standing in an open field. I see him off in the distance and decide to get a closer look at him. Once I get closer, he turns around and looks at me. And all of a sudden, the whole field is engulfed in fire and the man is right in front of me.
He picks me up by the throat and... I wake up. I wake up, covered in sweat. Last night, I had... red marks around my neck. Like the dream was real
So apparently, I woke up about 10 minutes later in the car. Isaac explained that I'd been trying to strangle myself in my sleep. We were on our way to the home of psychiatrist he knows.
About an hour later we arrived at the home of one Dr. Leonard Mengele. Isaac rapped on the door as Katy and I stood behind him and waited. When the Doctor opened the door, I was taken aback by the bright red bathrobe he was wearing. Then I got past the color we knew to relate to the Slender Man that attacked the other day, and saw a kind, balding man with small eyeglasses.
He greeted us and took us inside. My throat was still sore, so I let Isaac and Katy explain the problem, for the most part. He asked us each questions about what had happened earlier, what our daily activities were, any medications we were taking, etc. We were careful to leave out anything about the Slender Men.
After a while, he told us that we all seemed fine, aside from large amounts of stress, and couldn't find anything wrong with me that would make me try to strangle myself in my sleep, as we didn't tell him what the dream was. He told us he'd come over in a few days to check up on me again. We then stood up, thanked him and returned home, feeling slightly better about the ordeal.
On the morning of the 8th I had another dream. Since I don't want to stress myself describing it, I had the same dream I had a few weeks ago, so I'll quote myself here:
I'm starting to get scared again. In the dream, there's a man in white standing in an open field. I see him off in the distance and decide to get a closer look at him. Once I get closer, he turns around and looks at me. And all of a sudden, the whole field is engulfed in fire and the man is right in front of me.
He picks me up by the throat and... I wake up. I wake up, covered in sweat. Last night, I had... red marks around my neck. Like the dream was real
So apparently, I woke up about 10 minutes later in the car. Isaac explained that I'd been trying to strangle myself in my sleep. We were on our way to the home of psychiatrist he knows.
About an hour later we arrived at the home of one Dr. Leonard Mengele. Isaac rapped on the door as Katy and I stood behind him and waited. When the Doctor opened the door, I was taken aback by the bright red bathrobe he was wearing. Then I got past the color we knew to relate to the Slender Man that attacked the other day, and saw a kind, balding man with small eyeglasses.
He greeted us and took us inside. My throat was still sore, so I let Isaac and Katy explain the problem, for the most part. He asked us each questions about what had happened earlier, what our daily activities were, any medications we were taking, etc. We were careful to leave out anything about the Slender Men.
After a while, he told us that we all seemed fine, aside from large amounts of stress, and couldn't find anything wrong with me that would make me try to strangle myself in my sleep, as we didn't tell him what the dream was. He told us he'd come over in a few days to check up on me again. We then stood up, thanked him and returned home, feeling slightly better about the ordeal.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
An explanation.
Alright, we've taken a break from repairs for the night, we've just finished explaining our problem to Katy. We've also introduced her to the blog. She may or may not decide to comment every now and then, and she'll also be occasionally using Isaac's Twitter.
So the two of them had been studying all day and all night for a couple of days. They'd gotten their hands on some kind of... journal, for lack of a better word. It was from a Slender Man. Well, not quite a full one. One that was moving that way, like thetreeswatch is now.
His speech and writing were very fragmented. He was almost completely insane, from the looks of it. He almost became a total Slender Man before he died. We don't know his name, his identity seems to have vanished with his sanity. In his journal, from the parts we can read, he was fine until one of the Slender Men took interest in him. He talked of a white-suited man at first, and then it got stranger.
He talked of attacks on his house, his friends, and his family. There was a pattern in his entries though. Every twenty days the entry would either look different or be absent completely. When it was present, the writing scrawled all over the page, not paying attention to the margins or directions the sentences went. It was almost like someone was moving the book about while he was writing. Sentences would suddenly curve, change directions, stop suddenly. This is where that whole "power period" thing I'd talked about had occurred. The journal was in horrible shape. Parts of the papers were missing, the back cover was completely missing.
Isaac's calling me into the other room. I'll explain more later.
So the two of them had been studying all day and all night for a couple of days. They'd gotten their hands on some kind of... journal, for lack of a better word. It was from a Slender Man. Well, not quite a full one. One that was moving that way, like thetreeswatch is now.
His speech and writing were very fragmented. He was almost completely insane, from the looks of it. He almost became a total Slender Man before he died. We don't know his name, his identity seems to have vanished with his sanity. In his journal, from the parts we can read, he was fine until one of the Slender Men took interest in him. He talked of a white-suited man at first, and then it got stranger.
He talked of attacks on his house, his friends, and his family. There was a pattern in his entries though. Every twenty days the entry would either look different or be absent completely. When it was present, the writing scrawled all over the page, not paying attention to the margins or directions the sentences went. It was almost like someone was moving the book about while he was writing. Sentences would suddenly curve, change directions, stop suddenly. This is where that whole "power period" thing I'd talked about had occurred. The journal was in horrible shape. Parts of the papers were missing, the back cover was completely missing.
Isaac's calling me into the other room. I'll explain more later.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Sorry about last weeks post, guys. We were a bit stressed over here at the house, and I was rushed into making the post just before an attack. Here's what happened.
I was asleep down the hall from where Katy and Isaac were studying. Isaac woke me up and started explaining to me what the two of them had learned. I hurriedly typed out a post which as I started editing, we heard a scream from the other room.
I clicked the button and the two of us ran in to the other room. Katy was curled up in the corner. Glass was strewn everywhere, and we caught a glimpse of a bright red suit as the Slender Man darted away.
Isaac and I pulled her up and we hurried down the hall into the bathroom, where we put her inside and closed the door to keep her safe. We then rushed around the house locking down doors and closing all the windows. On the other side of the house we heard one of the doors we'd locked smash against the wall- it'd been broken open. We both turned and leapt into the bathroom door which Katy opened before us as she heard us coming.
We locked the door behind us and sat huddled in the back of the bathroom, as we listened to the Slender Man ravage Isaac's home. We listened as tables were smashed, windows were shattered and as the Slender Man slashed at walls, the floor, everything his tentacles had reach of.
And then all was quiet.
We must have remained inside Isaac's bathroom for another thirty minutes before Isaac gathered the courage to stand up and open the door. He motioned to us that it was safe, and we came out with him.
Everything was torn apart. The only thing remaining was the rooms themselves, even one of the walls leading to Isaac's room was smashed down. His notes and all that we've learned had been taken. As we looked around, we saw that the Slender Man had gouged We Know. into the door leading to the bathroom we'd been hiding in.
And then the power cut out. Later we'd learned that the circuit breaker had been ripped from the wall and thrown into the windshield of my car.
Power's just been restored within the last few minutes, so I had Katy bring her laptop over to make this post. Sorry for keeping you busy. The last couple of days have been hell. I've got to go help Isaac with repairs, so I'll explain what I'd said before the attack further later on.
I was asleep down the hall from where Katy and Isaac were studying. Isaac woke me up and started explaining to me what the two of them had learned. I hurriedly typed out a post which as I started editing, we heard a scream from the other room.
I clicked the
Isaac and I pulled her up and we hurried down the hall into the bathroom, where we put her inside and closed the door to keep her safe. We then rushed around the house locking down doors and closing all the windows. On the other side of the house we heard one of the doors we'd locked smash against the wall- it'd been broken open. We both turned and leapt into the bathroom door which Katy opened before us as she heard us coming.
We locked the door behind us and sat huddled in the back of the bathroom, as we listened to the Slender Man ravage Isaac's home. We listened as tables were smashed, windows were shattered and as the Slender Man slashed at walls, the floor, everything his tentacles had reach of.
And then all was quiet.
We must have remained inside Isaac's bathroom for another thirty minutes before Isaac gathered the courage to stand up and open the door. He motioned to us that it was safe, and we came out with him.
Everything was torn apart. The only thing remaining was the rooms themselves, even one of the walls leading to Isaac's room was smashed down. His notes and all that we've learned had been taken. As we looked around, we saw that the Slender Man had gouged We Know. into the door leading to the bathroom we'd been hiding in.
And then the power cut out. Later we'd learned that the circuit breaker had been ripped from the wall and thrown into the windshield of my car.
Power's just been restored within the last few minutes, so I had Katy bring her laptop over to make this post. Sorry for keeping you busy. The last couple of days have been hell. I've got to go help Isaac with repairs, so I'll explain what I'd said before the attack further later on.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Katy's over again. Her and Isaac have been studying really hard lately. Though I'm not sure if studying is the only thing they're doing. Regardless, they've been making some progress. Nothing too substantial. They've only been reading up on old legends about Slender Man and Der Grossman, since Katy doesn't know about our situation. We've found out that every twenty days, the Slender Men gain a boost in their powers, making them twice as strong as usual. The increase in power is due to a Slender Man storing power until they finally can't handle it and go on a rage filled rampage. I haven't heard from thetreeswatch in a while, come to think of it...
Friday, February 26, 2010
So, Isaac and I have someone else helping us now, I guess. A girl from our college, Katy, came over the other day. Apparently she was a bit worried about us, as we haven't been at school in a while, and when we actually go we're pretty quiet. We got to talking. Told her we've been a bit busy with a stressful project. Isaac did most of the talking, as I really wasn't up for chatting, nor did I really know her that well. Isaac explained that we were doing a project on a local legend. Of course, it being a big thing around here, she guessed Slender Man. We chatted a bit more, and she agreed to help us with researching and things of the like. Apparently she has connections at the college, so her helping us might be beneficial.
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