#71: An Open Letter to the Fanbase from Darek Ocanom

FUCK YOU FUCK ALL OF YOU EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YO JUST SAT THERE AND DID NOTHING

He took her. Two weeks ago the Chameleon took Kendra. She was always stronger than him; her blade, the extension of her wrath, it was like kryptonite to Gwen and the dark cloud because HE COULDN'T TOUCH HER! And then he POSTED THAT VIDEO AFTER HE TRICKED HER INTO HAMBLING HER LIFE AWAY! SHE MADE A FUCKING DEAL WITH THE DEVIL AND LOST HER SOUL

BECAUSE OF YOU!

Let me calm down so I can make you UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU DID

Eighty-four views on that video he posted to Ben's channel. Eleven people read entry #64 where Monaco first reached out to the audience for help. Sixteen people saw my Facebook post about the reddit post which got four upvotes yet still NOT ONE PERSON REACHED OUT! CHAMELEON ASKED YOU TO SIT THERE AND DO NOTHING AND LIKE BRAINWASHED LITTLE SHEEP YOU MARCHED TO THE TUNE OF WHATEVER YOUR SCREEN SPEWED OUT!

Look I wasn't allowed to interfere in all this nonsense. Not beyond what I tried to do and that was to just try my best to put the situation out there. I advertised like a motherfucker and you know what I got? A couple likes from old friends and a reddit comment saying I need to check out a FUCKING NIGHT MIND VIDEO! (No offense if you happen to read this, but it was condescending and offensive, I didn't even respond because it pissed me off so bad). I knew that what you had to do was out-of-the-way. I knew that casual passers by wouldn't really be invested or take it seriously. ALL THE SAME I thought SOMEBODY would care! It's not that you didn't find the URL in the source code of the countdown. It's not that you didn't explore the site I painstakingly worked on for Rob's big reveal. It's not that you didn't find the coordinates to the park where I had Mark leave Monaco a flash drive. It's that you didn't EVEN GOD DAMN SHOW ANY INTEREST OR EFFORT AT ALL THAT INFURIATES ME!

Monaco has his, my, OUR email attached to it. His Twitter has existed for THREE YEARS and he gave all this info out in one of the first entries after the kidnapping!! NOBODY REACHED OUT! NOBODY ASKED WHAT WAS UP! NOBODY OFFERED HELP OR CONDOLENCES OR ANYTHING, JUST SUBMISSION AND COWARDICE AND BETEAYAL FUCK ALL OF YOU!!

AAAGH!!

I JUST CANT KEEP MY FUCKIGN COOL FUCK GRAMMAR OKAY YOU WOKE THE FURY IN THIS GOD AND NOW YOU WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES ROB WILL SEND MONACO HIS FAREWELL GIFT A BOOK LONG WEATHERED THROUGH ITS TRAVELS AND THEN MONACO WILL LOSE EVERYTHING BUT HIS LIFE THE FACEBOOK PAGE FUCKING REEKS OF CHAMELEONS MUGGY LITTLE NUBS SO HE CAN FUCKING JERK HIMSELF OFF ON IT ALL HE WANTS YOU ALL SHOULD FOLLOW YOUR MINDLESS MECHANICAL GOD NOW ENJOY HIS CRYPTIC SPOOKY SHIT HE HAS NO DIRECTION HES A PURPOSELESS HACK AND YOU ALL JUST QUIVERED UNDER HIS DEMANDS YOU FUCKING SCUMSUCKER SHITHEELS.

I SERIOUSLY CAN NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THIS WORLD CAN BE SO AUTHENTICALLY SHITTY YOU FUCKING FOLLOW THE STRANGEST TRENDS AND YOU THROW YOUR GOD DAMN MONEY AT POTATO SALAD AND KICKSTARTERS FOR THE SAME GAME WITH DIFFERENT COLORS ITS SO SHORTSIGHTED AND PATHETIC YOU ARE ALL PATHETIC AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES

THIS ISNT JUST A REFLECTION ON YOU COUPLE OF PEOPLE WHO SAW MY POSTS ITS ALL OF YOU JAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE FUCKIGN BYSTANDER EFFECT HOW MANY SUICIDES HAVE YOU WATCHED HAPPEN RIGHT BEFOFE YOUR FUCKING EYES HOW MANY OVERDOSES HAPPEN EVERY DAY CHILDREN STARVING MONSTERS STALKING INNOCENT SOULS THST GROW UP TO WASTE THEIR LIVES WORKING A DEAD END JOB TO PRODUCE THE NEXT GENERATION OF DISAPPOINTMENTS HUMANITY IS SUCH A WASTE AND YOU ALL REMINDED ME EVERYTHING THSTS WRONG WITB JT

Monaco isn't going to get out of this and I can't blame anyone but myself. I see the darkest timeline has been actualized. Just know that you're going down this road with me.

#70: Game Analysis

FTP: This is a mess. Edit it later for concise.

05/26

I've played through the weird little .exe file I was given. Jae seems very despondent since Ali vanished. More and more she shuts herself in and doesn't talk about what's going on. I've shown her everything from the strange messages to the executable. She just doesn't seem to be taking it seriously. Honestly, that little aside with the flash drive was highly out of character for her. I tried getting her to help me with the new materials but she just suggested I download a special program without any instructions on how to do so. I'm pretty much on my own here.

So for those who haven't been able to access it, Most Cherished Memory starts with a little text based instruction on how to play the game. It warns against using the S key to cycle through text because it will automatically replay the program. Loading the game from the start menu causes a crash. I'm including an image of the crash screen:

https://m.imgur.com/q2yDCo6

This is clearly an old game because the web address in the image, www.toolkitzone.com, leads to a literal laborer's sale site. I don't know if this is a coincidence or a subtle nod to Ben's career path.

https://imgur.com/avOyd3i

The intro bit gives us the name of our character, Aaron. Aaron is a name from entry #6, a friend of Mammoth's. I honestly haven't thought of him in ages. Frankie popped up, so he still exists even though Casey and Jake are gone. Perhaps I can still contact Aaron through Richee. I don't know if he has anything to do with this but he was mentioned in an entry and he doesn't want to kill me. It doesn't hurt to try chasing any lead for answers to any of this.

The truth is… I think Ali is gone and nothing can get her back. This is all just a scare tactic to try and break me down into further isolation. The consequence of killing Gwen. Or worse...something will happen in three days when that timer hits zero. We will see…

There are six characters to note. As Aaron proceeds toward them, six monologues play. This is the first transcribed.

"Puzzle pieces. That's all human beings are. Puzzle pieces. No matter ouir shape, our appearance, our dream, we all want only to fit into the sprawling puzzle that makes up the universe. Fitting in, conforming...its all youve ever hated... All you've ever wanted..." 

After it plays you can move north and engage the second invisible trigger for a monologue.

"Acceptance... It's all you've ever wanted, isn't it? But they never accepted you. And they never will. You were ostracized, rejected, by everyone. Mama didn't want you either, did she? Why else would she never be there, not when you needed her most. So you were alone. Those who live in solitude tend to rely on the unreal to satiate their need for companionship. She... was the only one who cared... the only real thing you had..." 

Continue for a third.

"She loves you... you think... She loves you and you've never said it oput loud, but you love her too. You love her a lot. She's the only one you need. She's the only one who has ever truly cared... you think... When you immerse yourself in fantasy, you tend to question your own perceptions of reality." 

After this you progress into a different room northward. There appears to be a potted plant and a table in this area. You can't really interact with them. It is also here that I remembered to try pushing "t" to hear Aaron's thoughts.

https://m.imgur.com/9iwaXiN

Following this is two more invisible triggers for monologues in the room. This is the first.

https://imgur.com/v8TNkax

"But then, why would she love you? Why would anyone love you?
You coward.
You monster. You won't get off easy. The devil will have his way with you and then you'll truly know what it is to suffer.
Then maybe you won't be such a hypocrite.
All your suffering, all your sacrificial actions, they're all in your head.
Kindness is fraud. Sin is all that's real. You can't hide forever.
Your fantasies will consume you and the nightmares will be more than real."

North of this is a fifth monologue.

"How can you even breathe? How can you even stand the air around you, the sensations smothering you, from every direction, all at once? The sin so carnal, the love so synthetic--why do you walk the earth of that waking world? The air is pure here Only the aroma of ash lingers. Love hate. Hate love. If you live in fantasy, the waking world becomes your nightmare."

There is an entry way of sorts with one final monologue.

https://m.imgur.com/NKzxCD0E

"You must be strong. The guilty will not survive the cleansing. Only those sincere in their convictions can resist. You muist fight the immovable force of a tainted perception of life with an equally powerful opposing force--the absolute truth. Everything is real. Nothing is real. Love hate. Hate love. If you live in fantasy, reality will become your nightmare." 

Finally we reach the room.

https://m.imgur.com/NXzF3vO

https://m.imgur.com/ILCMaoG

https://m.imgur.com/ILCMaoG

Each of the six figurines is missing a key piece. The Faithful Lover is missing an arm that you can replace with a machete. When you do it says:

"The machete slides in with no trouble.
The eerie aura of the dull, rusted blade seems to offset the gentle statue."

https://imgur.com/1w1grl8

The Embittered Philosopher is the first one you must activate. Go to it with the marble and affix it where his eye is missing. It says this:

"The marble slides in and the eyelid tightens around it. The fact that the astatue seems so lifelike sends shivers down your spine..." 

https://imgur.com/z33T0v9

The Stoic Protagonist appears to be an armored soldier. It is missing a leg though the sprite does not reflect this. Inserting a broomstick leads to this message:

"The broom handle slides into the slot and adjusts perfectly. The handle rather looks like a peg leg, contrasting the heroic figure." 

https://imgur.com/bkEW9oD

Next to him, so close you sometimes activate this program when you activate the Stoic Protagonist's program, is the Lost Child. This figure is missing something in its chest. This is an obvious reference to the heart. On the other side are a couple of odd looking figures. One is The Gutless Sinner and the other is The Hateful Recluse. The Sinner is missing their nose, replaced by a sea shell.

"The shell fits into place and a rush of air flows through the statue... You'd swear it just took a deep breath. How could that even be possible?" 

https://imgur.com/adxSBDe

The Recluse is missing their entire jaw, replaced, oddly, by a literal fake jaw.

"The jaw clicks into place perfectly. The figure has a grim, half-human quality to it with the exposed jaw..." 

https://imgur.com/fcK59Hp

The last figure you put anything in is the STRANGE OBJECT into the chest of the child. It's not a heart, clearly. It's just a strange object that is described as pulsing and it horrifies me; I don't know why.

https://imgur.com/t1Kdf6I

But that triggers the final cutscene which I have recorded as well.

https://twitter.com/CYHTCBR/status/1132421020281909248?s=09

"Philosopher: Enhanced intellect is wasted on humans. They spend too much time dreaming and no time living.

Child: Abstract thought is just a prelude to pain... you immerse yourself in fantasy to forget the pain... right?

Lover: Love is as fraudulent as safety, pain as powerful as hate... You'll never have her, and you'll start to think you never did...

Sinner: You know it's all fake. You're nothing but a monster, a coward, and your deluded fantasies can't shield you from your fate...

Recluse: Consider it a mercy, the dream world. Abandon what is real and let the falsities consume you. Any other route brings misery...

Hero: The path you follow matters not. Embrace lies or face truth. Just make sure your devotion to the truth you perceive is absolute."

So I believe the six figures each spoke one of the monologues. I also think each of the six figures might relate to one of Chameleon's victims... I don't know why but Aaron was teleported to the space previously occupied by the Hateful Recluse. All the same, I'm not sure if Aaron is supposed to be me or Ben or what…

I've wasted the last day or so on this shitfest of a mystery fucking Rob threw at me to keep me distracted for nothing. I'm just hollow inside. Don't really know what to write anymore. Maybe j ought to hang it up and try ending it aNONONO WHATAREYOU DOINGTOME IALMOSTHAVEHIMAAAA

Assuming the demon is Chameleon at the end, I can say that Aaron ends up...assimilated in some manner. He becomes trapped in the statue, just like Darek is trapped in me. Is Aaron Darek? Am I the Recluse? I haven't been reclusive much online since she went missing… it's the world that hides from me…

The Faithful Lover is Jake. I can tell that without even squinting. Casey was involved in all of this a lot longer than Jake was. Jake playing the role of the disenchanted romantic just... fits. Also, Ben was once referred to as "the wise observer" so perhaps he is the Embittered Philosopher? It ties into the eyeball being the missing piece of the Philosopher. As for the Stoic Hero and the Lost Child, well, the Hero could be Rob and the Child could be Casey. If Rob coded this as I am led to assume, then maybe he sees himself as the noble protagonist of this story in some twisted sense.But by that logic, it may also be possible that Aaron is Rob and this is some crazy story about him. Maybe this is all pointless. Ugh. I need to breathe.

The game is up, the pieces are whatever they are. I don't think I am any closer to saving Ali. Thanks anyway though.

#69: mostcherishedmemory.exe

05/22/19

So this app will not run on mac. I don't really know what to do except ask Jae if she has the software to run this. Apparently this isn't Window-less household. I'm going to post the link here for any of you who want to try running the executable. No guarantee it isn't malicious obviously so use caution.

mediafire link

In other news the PRG files I had received yielded results, though the quality of them begs to be questioned. I do not know how coding works at all; I've always wanted to learn but never had the time. So I am going to try to paste the plaintext and hope that it does not interfere with the page format somehow.

MADRIK.prg

#include "sytem.prg"
mwin("The Jester of Bordeaux")
pause()
mwincls()
branch=random(2)
If(branch==1)
{
mwin("The tragic heroine dives from the rooftop.")
pause()
mwincls()
mwin("Behind her the flood pours from the sky and swallows the city whole.")
pause()
mwincls()
}
If(branch==2)
{
mwin("The wise old owl delivers a letter to the stoic protagonist.")
pause()
mwincls()
mwin("He follows the instructions carefully, dismembering his kin in preparation for his visitor.")
pause()
mwincls()
mwin("The outsider steps into the world of madness and faces the gutless sinner.")
pause()
mwincls()
mwin("Then, with her last breath, the heroine slays her self, spilling her secrets onto the page.")
pause()
mwincls()
}

This is "Alice 1 and 2.prg"

#incude "system.prg"
mwin("Enter the tragic hero and his impossible dream.")
pause()
mwincls()

This is another file sent to me called "Alice 1 ad 2.prg"

mwin("The World")
pause()
mwincls()

I may be wasting my time trying to figure all this programming nonsense out. I don't even know if Ali is alive right now but as long as there is even a chance of finding her I'm not going to rest until I've overturned every stone. I'll bring this to Jae and see what we can figure out tonight.

#68: Restless

05/20

I have been thinking lately. Why did Darek make me a Tumblr, then, just as Tumblr was going downhill, create a Google blog for me? Why make a Twitter? Why post Ben's videos on YouTube? To make me more aware of how alone I am. He's mocking me. Look at all the people viewing Ben's videos and meanwhile not one comment on my blog. No response. No help. No questions. No concern. It's like there's not even a reason for Ben to record his mental tailspin or me to document my self-medication and lunatic perception distortions. I am a writer. Do you know what it takes to be a writer? Embellishment. Dramatization. Generalization. Express the events on paper just as I remember them. If the details get fuzzy, fill in the blanks. It's really that simple. I know I've given an inaccurate report time and time again. This is my plight; my memories are at Darek's mercy. Yet he permitted me to remember 2016 as it actually happened. Yet he continues to impose upon me the desire to document. Yet he has provided me a platform to express myself when there has been no audience, no relationship with others outside of this game. I'm a freak in a glass cage and people are too scared to poke me because everyone close to me seems to die. That's the gist of it right? That's what you want me to conclude Darek? That you use social media to isolate us further, to twist our communication and break us down so you can do your little experiments? I'm so alone. To the one person that shared my tweet, thanks. Draw in more of the masses to stare as everything falls apart. You're doing what they want. You're sitting there and observing

05/21/19

UPDATE: I found something interesting today. Tacking this onto the already present incomplete stream of consciousness that was going to be tonight's entry. Rob messaged me out of the blue with a file labeled “MADRIK.prg” and I tried messing with it but it wouldn't open. Shortly after he sent a second file called “Alice 1 and 2.prg” but it also wouldn't open. Curious. He said "Hello Mathew" as well implying he knows I'm watching Ali's messenger.

I will try to upload the files to Twitter or another media sharing site so anyone who reads this can interact with them. I don't know if this is a lead but it's something and that's better than nothing.

#67: I Forgot Him

05/19/19

Jae surprised me. Honestly I'm not really sure what to think about what happened. I noticed a couple of tweets from Zanark on my account. I was trying to decipher them when Jae came in.

“Sorry.” She said. And she put the flash drive down on the table. I looked up at her confused.

“I took a look at this thing when you were gone last night. It had a pretty nasty program on it that redirects every link click to a weird image file.”

“Oh.” I finally managed to say. That was all I managed to say because she continued.

“I reverse engineered the virus so if you plug it into the laptop it will terminate the original procedure. Or something close enough. And also the image is saved in your system32. It might be malicious so delete that ASAP. Good luck!”

With that she turned to leave. Before she did, she said “Please find her.” I don't know what Zanark did (or how) but I guess he used Jae to deliver me guidance.

I obeyed right away, deleting the image at my first chance. As soon as the USB was recognized I could freely move through the computer. What I found on there, well…

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1290779954424647&id=100004779639577

I don't know if this is relevant to the investigation, or if Ben will flip his shit seeing I shared this anything that helps catch the culprit should be shared though. This is more important than privacy.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1290755394427103&id=100004779639577

Of course. Rob. Fucking Rob who has been there since the beginning. The forgotten player who harbored Chameleon's darkness all along. And I never even considered him anything but a side character until just now. Fuck me. He's got Ali and I have to find a way to get her back.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1290744491094860&id=100004779639577

I'm not even going to address the messages from Darek right now. Suffice it to say this is suggesting that Kendra and Chameleon made some kind of deal and she is betting her life that the audience, you, will act to save her. I guess you play some part in this too. It's not just my self-contained soap opera turned tragedy.

But I've got new leads to follow. I won't be sleeping tonight. Haven't rested well lately even when medicated. I'll update if anything major happens.

05/20/19

Update time. I meant to post this last night but I had trouble organizing everything. I was too excited by my lead to even post any tweets. I just kind of ran out and tried to find Rob.

According to his family, he had been acting out since Ali left him. They tried to be reasonable and help him out but he rejected their kindness at every step. This classic story played out exactly as could be imagined. the beginning of April he disappeared and they haven't seen him since. He had a few dollars saved up. Tough to say if he stayed at motels or just wandered the streets.

I couldn't really pin his activities down. Maybe if I was a cop or a grizzled PI people would have helped more. But I couldn't really give a straight reason why i, a young looking guy in his twenties, was asking about this dude. What info I did get led to nothing. And while I was looking I just got rocked by the gravity of everything.

Chameleon played me. I was so lost int he darkness. Everything felt false. Some things I thought I posted don't exist and things I didn't mean to post can be seen throughout the blog and Twitter. He knew. He read my nlogs. He followed my accounts. He knew what I was doing the whole time and dint say a word. He was Chameleon's sleeper agent keeping tabs on me without attracting notice. I feel betrayed as much as I feel guilt for my own betrayal. I started thinking of the universe as a computer program and a rogue variable I hadn't accounted for exposed itself in the final beta test.

Rob if you're reading this please. You don't have to do this. Whether it's your own darkness or Chameleon puppeting you, please just fight it and please just let me see my friend again. 

#66: I Don't Care

05/19/19

I've been trying. Nothing has happened. There's no leads anywhere. There's no clues anywhere. And it's fucking dumb. Chameleon has wasted my time with weird images before, orchestrated a whole puzzle with my life, and perpetually played the antagonist in this story about me and my friends. Then he sets up a great puzzle for this ARG, even links to a countdown called “ali test” AND THERE'S NOT A SINGLE FUCKING CLUE OR LEAD OR WAY FOR ME TO HELP HER! THIS ISN'T VERY INTERACTIVE CHAMELEON! Seriously! Why doesn't he just kill Ali or something? Do to her what you did to Casey because I know it was you who murdered her. Mammoth too probably, but I really don't give a shitabout him.

The cops finally got involved. Now that a few days have passed  without seeing her, Jae is all concerned about rent money and can't contact her. So she finally had the police come and they talked to me. Honestly it was kind of a nerve-wracking experience trying to trace back the memories that weren't from my previous life. After stammering my way through what felt like an interrogation, I'm pretty sure they had their suspicions about me. Then again, I reflect now, they're just NPCs in this game. I have certain freedoms as I saw with my parents. If I had just casually told them a dark controlling hivemind stole her away using someone's body, I would have been dismissed because that goes against the rules of the game.

On that subject, I took time to consider a list of suspects last night as I tried going around town to places me and Ali hung out. It was not a very long one. Ben had Mark who might have been influenced by Chameleon to do something. The dead Mammoth appearing in a part of one of Ben's videos(in the chaos of getting kicked out I never got to review his latest upload before 5/14) suggests that his death was a hoax or that Chameleon revived his body for ADDICT to occupy. Lucinda, twisted as her intentions may be, is under Zanark's protection. But Madrik, well... could Jake be my prime suspect? It's ludacris but yes. Maybe.

As for my footwork, well, we had barely settled in so all of the places I checked yielded nothing. I tried the Google building she worked at(they assumed she quit), the liquor store where she bought alcohol(hadn't seen her since Jae sent her for bourbon last week), and even contacted a few mutual connections. One was her weed dealer who had not heard from her which he himself admitted was odd. I tried calling Rob but it went to voicemail every time so far. He had been distant since she left him; he probably wants nothing to do with either of us but it was worth a try. Hell, I even hit Frankie up. Ended up just fucking smoking weed with him all night and I'm just now getting back to my senses. I don't know what to do.

I'm useless. I mean I KNOW the info I need is on her laptop. I bet I could get some useful stuff if I checked into her messenger. But I'm just kind of scared to end up at the mercy of Chameleon again, to wander the hellish mindscape of incarnate illness. I have this picture in my head of Ali just turning into zeroes and ones and vanishing into her laptop, leaving behind the corruption and rot that Chameleon so enjoys. Honestly, I have failed to consider the possibility that Kendra herself is behind this. But that's because she saved my life and I just know she would never help Chameleon willingly. He can't touch her with that sword of hers. I watched the darkness run from it.

This is torturous. After everything I've gone through, after losing Casey and losing the bubble of normalcy I had leaned on for years to cope with Darek, I'm stuck watching a timer count down what will most likely be the end of my best last friend's life. And it's not fair and I wish I didn't care but I do because having spent time with Kendra in the Outer Layer I know she's more permanent than, say, the police or my own fucking parents. Maybe though, maybe I should try and just convince myself that everything will be okay. Don't even mention the fact that my future will be uncertain and this didn't happen in the last timeline. Just drink your beer and smoke your pot and tell yourself you don't care. You don't care. I don't care. I don't care.

I don't care.

#65: I Don't Know

05/15/19

Sorry for the delayed update. I did sort through things last night and get this log typed up. Unfortunately sleep caught up with me and I passed out before I could inform all of my loyal readers. I was so focused on finding something, anything, that could give me some insight into Ali's predicament that I lost track of time.

So here's your update now that I'm conscious again. Just been watching that countdown timer going on my phone screen for a bit now. I have no fucking clue where to go from here. There's so much in my records, from the hidden images to the capitalization codes to the weird numbers at the end of Mark's video titles. My brain gets so overwhelmed and it shuts down without processing any of the possibilities. I'm trying to put myself out of the situation, play pretend that I'm a detective investigating a kidnapping totally unrelated to me.

I'm pretty sure that the kidnapper was a real person. The flash drive inside the computer suggests a real person was here besides Ali. As for the computer, it's useless. Every time I click on anything on the home screen a weird image of a face pops up and the computer restarts. I think there was some kind of virus on the flash drive but I am too nervous to check it out. I've considered asking Jae because she's good with computers but honestly, after Ben shut me down before I could argue my case, I don't want to try and involve any outsiders. This is my burden to bear.

I've viewed the video several times as well. It is a subject of fascination, as it appears so cryptic yet each clip seems to imply dark knowledge Chameleon wishes to share with his audience. And his audience is literally the audience, everyone reading. He asked you all to “keepsittingthere anddonothing”. I'm begging you not to. I feel like there has to be a hint in the contents of the video somewhere. There's footage of Ali and Ben talking. Not sure what it is they're saying unfortunately, but it might be a clue? I'm gonna keep messing with it.

Oh. I've got the video in an editor to isolate and manipulate certain portions. I actually managed to figure out some of the audio that was missing in the message. At one point just after the freaky skeleton thing, the clips say “the hackers aren't exactly” and the next clip comes from the Rememberance video. “fuckin’ angry anyone's fuckin’ watching”. I paired it up with a little research. Unfortunately all that tells me is that he wants you to observe; he just doesn't want you to interfere. Though, based on the little edited gif, Ben will be torn in two regardless of your decision. Please don't give up though. I still believe we can save Ali.

There's also a screenshot of Darek's Facebook? The faded text reads “do not trespass on his art” but “art” shifts to “heart” very briefly. It's an almost comical mourning of Casey West and talks about hiring actors to play her… it is seriously making me consider that I am in the Truman Show.

Um. References to TribeTwelve are present here as well. I don't know if that has any bearing on Ali or what but it's there. I've honestly kind of just overlooked them for the most part. There's also a segment taking pieces from the envelope video that say “remember what Ben was” and this is likely the true order of the capitalized words present in that video. Actually this is probably a reference to Mark Graves. But none of that helps me right now!

The computer is obviously the thing I need to focus on. It's clearly got something inside of it that the kidnapper wants to hide. But by hiding it they drew my attention right to it. So perhaps it's a distraction they want me to waste my time with. Or maybe there's something more to the video that I haven't found yet. Actually maybe it's the flash drive he wants to distract me from? I mean, I'm assuming it is the source of the malware afflicting the laptop. Is that what they want? I don't know if I can risk plugging it into my own device. They would have access to all of it as well then. But maybe the real secret to all of this is on that countdown page. Maybe there's something I am missing there. Honestly if I was Chameleon I would just leave a bunch of dead ends while the timer runs out just to fuck with me. So who really fucking knows anymore.

I'm getting high. Updates to come.