You, Adam, and everyone else involved in the puzzle
I must say, MAJOR PROPS go to our most recent new moderator: Peter. He's been working on this since last Fall! This is really his brainchild. The story and art and writing all come from Adam and I, but the puzzles are riddles and hints and clues are all from Peter's plan. He's the true Tim Cosing (and CornCakes, but you all figured that out RIGHT AWAY - we were all very impressed by that).
Just so you know, we have all been hanging on your every step through this journey. We have PAGES of discussion about your discussions. It's been a blast to watch you work.
Anyway, I just wanted to give credit where it's due. Pretty much everything in the ARG directly feeds into what's going on in the Multiverse and especially in Sentinels of the Multiverse: OblivAeon. But none of the puzzles or amazing forum engagement would have been possible without Peter's help and puzzle-mastery.
And, of course, none of it would have worked without you all getting so into it! Thank you all for playing along! In a lot of ways, Fanatic's recent feelings echo our own: "This is no game."
Ah, it was only 7 months of work. I had roughly estimated that it would take a month or two to solve, based on the last ARG I ran.
3 days later, y'all pretty soundly proved that I am bad at roughly estimating how long it takes to solve an ARG.
It was such a joy to put together and watch everyone solve; I ended up taking the three days off work, and just madly refreshed the forum/helped assemble clues/rewrite them on the fly.
If anyone has any (non-story) questions about the whole shebang, feel free to ask!
Seconding the curiosity behind the be patient page, also, was there any moment that stood out where we surprised you, either with our tangents or how we solved some of the steps?
Did you by chance keep records of the different URLs that were attempted (either directly on the site, or things we said we mentioned trying in the thread)? If so, what are some of your favorites?
Yes, lots of behind the scenes stuff would be awesome. What was the most fun/interesting puzzle for you to create? What was the most fun to watch us try to solve?
My most burning question would be, how did you create the puzzles? Did you start with words >G said needed to be the clues or did they lay out the story and you picked the most appropriate ones and worked from there? Or was it that you started out with a puzzle and ask/told the >G crew what you needed to make the puzzle work?
To be fair…many a hint was provided on Twitter, haha. And who KNOWS how long it would have taken anyone to realize about Tim Cosing showing up so many times in the rulebook…certainly people have had it for a few weeks and hadn't pointed that out yet…
Major props to you, Peter, that was one hell of a thing to put together and it can't have been easy keep up with where the investigation was going at all times!
