#Hear It Comes

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wide gull
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No, I don’t know what this is about.

rough sonnet
wide gull
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It very well might, but I legit don’t know what it is.

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So rather than guess I’m putting it here.

orchid kestrel
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Also you can't nest threads

hearty aurora
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But you can make a nest out of thread

warm wedge
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👀

shell pelican
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we’ll see if it posts anything ig

winter estuary
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idk I made a blank discord server just to keep track of what people are finding but this tiktok seems to be the most promising thing so far

shell pelican
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did you see the messages from last night?

hearty pasture
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There’s also a twitter???

winter estuary
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some of them, that’s part of the reason I want to make a central hub

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there’s a lot of discussion in a lot of places and not everyone is seeing it

shell pelican
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fair

warm wedge
hearty pasture
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Created a while ago but the @ seems consistent with Taylor Moore being a podcaster

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warm wedge
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I've been using this to keep what we found lol

shell pelican
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Hmm I would think it’s related but for the fact it joined a year and a half ago

warm wedge
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Wellll

hearty pasture
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Maybe it’s been in the works for a while and they reserved it early?

warm wedge
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When I've made projects that used twitter, i tend to grab the handle when the idea was conceived

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I imagine that they would do similar

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Exactly!

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I wouldn't discount it just yet. Who's following it?

shell pelican
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you’re right, it must be related

rough sonnet
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the cart just means it’s a commercial squarespace site

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but it may be significant that they didn’t hide that page

hearty aurora
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sure, i'll put that in my cart and buy it

shell pelican
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I mean I found it through the source code but it’s definitely interesting to me that it’s the only other page I found in it

warm wedge
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Fortunate Horse's stable hand lol

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It's apparently a magazine for and about fortunate horses?

rough sonnet
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yeah, that was taylor’s old comedy project and now it’s the name of his podcast production house

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i’d recommend listening to rude tales of magic for taylor’s production ability and to oh these those stars of space for his comedy ability

shell pelican
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this person also follows worldsbeyondpod, which is very interesting if they’re not in on it. I just tweeted them to ask

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their bio says they’re an actor/voice actor so it could be

hearty pasture
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Maybe someone that’s just snooping like us

shell pelican
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maybe

rough sonnet
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they could very well be in here

hearty aurora
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they've been here the whole time?

shell pelican
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does twitter show followers in any order?

warm wedge
rough sonnet
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they’re on every podcast platform

hearty pasture
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I think oldest are at the bottom

warm wedge
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I wish the rest of the d20 audio seasons were on Spotify, even as paywalled audiobooks

rough sonnet
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although about a third of ottsos episodes are patreon-exclusive (it’s episodic, so it doesn’t affect the story)

shell pelican
warm wedge
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I think we're onto something here xD

hearty pasture
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There’s also a private instagram but it’s new and doesn’t have anything to report. Just “worldsbeyondnumber” with no name

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AND a tik tok with no followers

shell pelican
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searched worldsbeyondpod on Instagram just to match the twitter and found this

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warm wedge
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It's not solved but i think we're getting a pretty clear picture of what's going on here lol

shell pelican
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yeah

hearty pasture
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Podcast sounds awesome I’m v excited

shell pelican
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I really hope the people that have tweeted it will be on it lol

warm wedge
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Same!!

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This has caught my attention enough that I'm invested in giving it a few episodes at least, regardless of who's in it!

shell pelican
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last time I got invested in an arg it was viral marketing for harry styles’ new album (which I don’t care about) so I’m hoping this will be more relevant to me lol

warm wedge
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Oh Gods that island one??

shell pelican
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yeah lol

warm wedge
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That had such potential that reveal was devastating

shell pelican
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yeahhhh

warm wedge
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Could have been so cool

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Sucks how many true ARGs with any real money behind them are just advertising

shell pelican
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it makes sense but it still sucks

rough sonnet
shell pelican
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Does anyone know how to tell when people followed a twitter account?

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Or even just something like socialblade but for people who don’t have a lot of followers

warm wedge
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Narp, sorry, not too sure on that one >__<

hearty pasture
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OH everything makes sense now, a different fortunate horse podcast also retweeted and yet another show podcast liked responses to it

shell pelican
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like that’s a full government official lol

hearty pasture
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Maybe he’s confused lol

rough sonnet
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government officials are allowed to have interests. he also follows a bunch of nerdy accounts including dftba employees

shell pelican
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fair it’s just jarring to see a gov.uk link on his profile

rough sonnet
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only reasonable to grab all the socials

hearty pasture
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I’m also listening to the first episode of oh these those stars of space and they said they released the theme song in an ARG campaign for that too so seems consistent

shell pelican
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also confirms that it’s “the world’s whisper” not “the worlds whisper”

hearty pasture
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Oh good point

rough sonnet
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i was on the rude tales patreon discord when the ottss arg was running, it was a fun time

sand karma
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Pardon my ignorance what is ARG?

rough sonnet
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alternate reality game, now used to refer mostly to promotional mysteries that are solved by finding clues online

warm wedge
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Often uses social media to immerse the player into the world. Check out cicada 3301 or I Love Bees

wooden acorn
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Wondering if it ties into Worlds Without Number at all

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(probably not, but still.)

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There's also an album called Worlds Beyond Numbers by Richard deHove...

shell pelican
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Yeah I saw that, I listened to the songs and they sound similar but not the same

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It’s from 2006 so seems unlikely to be related

wooden acorn
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I also feel that I'm diving far too deep lol...

shell pelican
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oh same lol, check out my messages from like 1-3am et

wooden acorn
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I had to step away and put it down otherwise I'd just burn my brain out like a hamster wheel

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I've never really been a part of ARG stuff, so I keep going down the same rabbit hole paths

shell pelican
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I’m at the point where I think we’ve mostly figured out what there is to be figured out

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(Podcast for Fortunate Horse, likely titled Worlds Beyond Number and starring Brennan, Erika, Aabria, and Lou)

wooden acorn
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Yeeeee. Some of the other Twitter interactions make me think it could possibly be Werewolf related, but it miiiight be a stretch

shell pelican
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Ooh which ones?

wooden acorn
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The ones on Taylor's Twitter post with Aabria's reaction gif

shell pelican
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Oh I think WBN is just worlds beyond number

wooden acorn
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Me, explaining to a friend who was very supportive and nodded along as I spewed info.

shell pelican
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and whisper probably refers to the audio being titled “the world’s whisper”

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but that tweet is interesting idk

rough sonnet
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thinking about what fortunate horse puts out now, there’s a cyberpunk dystopia played using shadowrun (fun city), a looney tunes fantasy saga played with d&d (rude tales of magic), and an episodic sci-fi series using lasers & feelings (oh these those stars of space). the vibe i immediately got just from the cosmic/campfire imagery was of a monster of the week game

warm wedge
rough sonnet
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taylor has also recently started composing original music for rude tales

warm wedge
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Omg please MotW i love that system

wooden acorn
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Another one was someone else asking Taylor if WBN had two W's or One and his reaction was pretty playful

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Which led me down the Werewolf By Night rabbit hole

shell pelican
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oh interesting

wooden acorn
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But that's also a Marvel thing???

rough sonnet
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yeah, werewolf by night used to team up with morbius in the 70s

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(not a joke)

wooden acorn
shell pelican
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no yeah that's valid I was just giving my theories

wooden acorn
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I do think those are both a lot closer - but we could also both be right? 🤣

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I do think a MotW thing sounds fun and Camp Cryptid-esque thing with Aabria as a werewolf ???

shell pelican
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very possible!!

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and yeah that makes a lot more sense with taylor reacting that way to someone asking if wbn had one or two w's

rough sonnet
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i will also note that taylor played vampire the masquerade with the rude tales crew and they hated the system, so i wouldn’t expect world of darkness

warm wedge
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Ok quick what playbooks would everyone play?

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Brennan as the flake or wronged would be awesome

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Erika as the Divine or infernal would be cool too

patent bramble
wooden acorn
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Yup?

patent bramble
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Oh weird, it didn't play for me at first

wooden acorn
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It reminds me of Spiritfarer, lol.

wooden acorn
warm wedge
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Omg Lou as the professional would melt me

wooden acorn
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Lou is the biggest wildcard. I could also see him as The Expert.

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Brennan as Flake would ALSO be very good, but idk

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Flake gives me big Kelmp vibes which is weird, cause The Chosen exists, but aaahhhhhhh

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I am also like.... barely familiar with MotW. It'd be fun to explore tho. I should look into it more...

rough sonnet
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motw is of course structured to be ongoing and i can’t imagine this talent being corralled for anything but a limited run so there’s that

shell pelican
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Felix if you see this sorry for being suspicious of you 😂

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velvet kindle
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Lol hi y’all I am @/3187345 from the above photo. I am absolutely just someone snooping around. Y’all are basically on the same wavelength I’m at at this point

shell pelican
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omg

velvet kindle
shell pelican
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(I’m @/angsty_ace)

velvet kindle
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Nice!

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With the instagrams, I’m not bothering with either because they’re both private so we won’t really know til the reveal

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And lol yeah I may be a VO Actor but I could only DREAM to be on a project like this

shell pelican
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fair lol

warm wedge
elder narwhal
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Oh good, folks ARE talking about it here!

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A lot of this is repetitive, but here's what I've got:
Timeline:
August 2021
Lou Wilson posts on Dribbble looking for help in designing a logo for WBN Storytelling Collective [https://dribbble.com/freelance-jobs/96272]:

"Looking for help in designing a logo for a storytelling company I'm starting. We're beginning with a TTRPG podcast and hoping to grow out from there.

The design will hopefully evoke exciting, engrossing storytelling from a diverse array of perspectives."

Aha! WBN = Worlds Beyond Number, the phrase in the source code for the webpage.

Also in August 2021, the Twitter account WorldsBeyondPod is created. https://twitter.com/WorldsBeyondPod

November 2022
The domain worldsbeyondnumber.com is registered. It currently redirects to the earstothesky website.

December 2022

Dec. 9: earstotheskynewgroundallaroundheavensplitopenandohwhatasound.com is registered.

Dec. 27:
A number of TTRPG folk mention the ears to the sky URL in social media.
Aabria's tweet: https://twitter.com/quiddie/status/1607806002195476480?s=20&t=7yFK1WZPZRywl334n6fZaA
Brennan's tweet: https://twitter.com/BrennanLM/status/1607846969409691648?s=20&t=7yFK1WZPZRywl334n6fZaA
Erika's tweet: https://twitter.com/erikaishii/status/1607810300656627712?s=20&t=HR751LIhJWqKRBHcICAGog
Erika's Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cmr10PyqPz3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Taylor's tweet: https://twitter.com/taylordotbiz/status/1607800254950146049?s=20&t=HR751LIhJWqKRBHcICAGog

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Other Stuff:
[Potential] Socials:
https://worldsbeyondnumber.com
https://www.tumblr.com/worldsbeyondnumber
https://twitter.com/WorldsBeyondPod
https://www.instagram.com/worldsbeyondnumber/

Fortunatehorse.com and earstotheskynewgroundallaroundheavensplitopenandohwhatasound.com use the same domain service, tucows.com - not much to be gleaned there, it's not a small company. Worldsbeyondnumber.com , which redirects to earstothesky, also uses Tucows.

"Taylor Moore" appears in a couple places in the source code for earstothesky.

https://worldsbeyondnumber.squarespace.com appears to be the same exact website as the ears to the sky one

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[cut and pasted from the Notepad window I opened when I realized this was A Thing. Solving these kinds of puzzles is my jam!]

shell pelican
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oh wow that wbn storytelling collective thing is very interesting, I never would’ve thought to look for something like that

elder narwhal
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I can't take credit for that one - I saw someone's comment on reddit, later saw "worlds beyond number" in the source code, and put two and two together.

warm wedge
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Great timeline holy shit!

elder narwhal
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Oh, also, just figured out that Rude Tales of Magic (the podcast Taylor Moore produces) has an LLC called Glasnost Media, so that has a small chance of turning up some stuff, maybe.

shell pelican
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When searching the name of the website I found that it was registered on Dec 10, which doesn’t tell us much, but it could go on the timeline

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oh wait was that already on the timeline and I just missed it 💀

warm wedge
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3 days 2 hrs

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Sorry I'm gonna be doing this until new year, it occupies too much of my brain now

shell pelican
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valid lmao

hearty pasture
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Only interesting thing not listed, in case you didn’t catch it, was rude tales of magic retweeting Taylor’s tweet, further supporting the fortunate horse theory.

elder narwhal
warm wedge
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There's a chance it's just signal boosting and they aren't actually associated

rough sonnet
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if that were the case i would expect more people to be boosting that signal

patent bramble
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It'd be surprising for Taylor's name to be mentioned so much in the website if he wasn't associated

gilded lantern
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i don't know a lot of html but it looks like its searching through an empty folder? someone with more conviction and/or knowledge than me try to find something that might mean something

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there were also multiple playlist files ? in the source code, musical playlists that when you open them are either empty or are songs that are 0 seconds long

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the other things I found in the files that seemed relevant were this font

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and an API that was being really mean to me because my html is bad

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if anybody can do anything with this info I'll straight up kiss you

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ALSO they're getting their countdown from a place called LogWork? though that might just be squarespace technology

wooden acorn
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So, using Font Squirrel, font looks like it's mostly Acronym Black, but might dip into other fonts for particular glyphs (Q, g) - including Tee Franklin and Sequel Sans Disp Black

gilded lantern
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tbh I saved it bc I'm a social media manager and its a nice font i didn't think it would be relevant but just in case it connects

rough sonnet
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all of that stuff is just out of the box squarespace

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i have a couple of squarespace sites

gilded lantern
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yeah tbh my company uses a smaller website designer so idk a lot about this

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the search function was the main purpose of that message

rough sonnet
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yeah, you can turn the search off in settings but leaving it up so you don’t forget to turn it on when the actual content of the site goes live is understandable

wooden acorn
twilit scaffold
shell pelican
rough sonnet
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yeah, looks like the site has updated

shell pelican
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new audio title is “new being blooms”

winter estuary
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hhhhggggg red yarn conspiracy brain desperately wants there to be more evidence on the website now that it’s been updated but i doubt it? will probably poke around anyways

shell pelican
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I’m working on comparing the source code using a text difference checker

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I didn’t copy it beforehand though so I’m using the archived version which complicates it a bit bc I have to deal with things from it being archived

winter estuary
leaden peak
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This is a copy from what I posted yesterday in #dimension-20

From what I can tell, it was made on SquareSpace, as mentioned, it counts down to New Years (New York Time), specifically it has the time stamp of Sunday, 1 January 2023 00:01 (Relative stamp: in a day )
The audio file is named "The Worlds Whisper"
The video file in the background (Of both the fire and the stars, from what I can tell, it's just a single video) is called "wbn whisper rough 1.mp4" and has a Display Name of "Tyler Moore"

So that's what I've gathered

rare needle
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OMG yessss ya'll are the best. Ive been going down such a rabbit hole with this, glad im not the only one lol ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

sand karma
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Funny how Lou pretend pitched a podcast in today's AP

twilit scaffold
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based on people involved, and one of the tweets saying something about a return : im guessing Battle for Beyond s2

elder narwhal
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So, there's a small white square in the upper left corner (desktop, Windows, Chrome) but yesterday I swear there were 3 white squares at the top center. Don't know if that's anything.

leaden peak
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Yeah I saw that too

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Same with the site's title

elder narwhal
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Today's square is a link, but it just leads back to the main site.

leaden peak
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Yeah, the quare was always a refresh button, to my knowledge at least

twilit scaffold
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if it was made in squarespace its probably just a remnant of the page template

leaden peak
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I'm not sure if it's just a Squarespace thing, but the websites all have shop functionality, like I'm looking at them and there's references to preferred currency, the cart, checkout, product thumbnails

tame junco
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um, are we aware that if you stay long enough you get some thunder and brennan reading something aloud?

twilit scaffold
tame junco
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ok cool
this whole deal is pretty brain-twisting

elder narwhal
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Here's a partial transcription of the Brennan voice over; my ability to understand it waned at the end.

"snow falling over endless white sand and a tower made of glass and the image of a night empty it spills fire (?) across the sky for a moment the sun capturing..."

rough sonnet
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a twitter link to a cleaned up version of the audio file was posted earlier in here

twilit scaffold
elder narwhal
leaden peak
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This line right above header, with the div ID of "floatingcart" noramlly has a class of "floating-cart hidden" so it doesn't show on the site, but getting rid of the Hidden part shows the cart in the bottom corner of the page

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(Likely completely unhelpful but yeah)

rough sonnet
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that’s all standard squarespace stuff

leaden peak
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Okay, good to know

shell pelican
winter estuary
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just checked the new audio's spectrogram to see if there's anything suspicious on there but it looks fine to me. i have a theory and it's very loose but i'm probably gonna put it here or on tumblr just in case i'm right LMAO

rough sonnet
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jasmine posting nothing would lead me to conclude it has nothing to do with battle for beyond

twilit scaffold
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problem is that i dont see it fitting much else either... i have no reason but i dont think its a CriticalRoll thing (none of them have said anything either)

not D20 since it would be rude AF to the current season cast to be doing this right now

not WorldBuilders or PennyArcade/PAX again none of them have commented (or not that ive seen)

shell pelican
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I think it’s just a new podcast

twilit scaffold
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i dont think it would be a long/ongoing product just because of Brennans involvement : really feels like that would be stepping on the D20/AA content?

elder narwhal
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I think it's a new podcast from Lou specifically, based on the logo design job posting from August of 2021.

shell pelican
twilit scaffold
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unless brennan is jsut an ocasional guest

winter estuary
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new limited run podcast or anthology series called worlds beyond number

rough sonnet
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spelling out my speculation: lou is partnering with fortunate horse to start a new storytelling endeavor, the first entry of which will be a short-run podcast with a bunch of big names he’s played with before

twilit scaffold
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i also just hope its not a traditional audio podcast, because i hate them and dont listen to any...

elder narwhal
rough sonnet
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taylor moore is the gold standard for producing sound-designed narrative ttrpg podcasts

elder narwhal
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Now that I'm caught up with NADDpod I guess I'll add Rude Tales of Magic to my list. And also whatever this turns out to be.

rough sonnet
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rude tales is great, but be warned that it leans much more towards the improv end of the spectrum than the actual-play end. they cut out a lot of the dice rolls and do enough editing that people who listen to actual plays for the gameplay are usually unsatisfied

elder narwhal
rough sonnet
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then you know exactly what you’re in for, great!

elder narwhal
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I appreciate the warning, though. ❤️

winter estuary
elder narwhal
rough sonnet
shell pelican
robust solar
rough sonnet
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it would be a grave sin to give away rude tales patreon discord content, but taylor is dropping hints in there

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(nothing actionable, please don’t sign up for a patreon two days before the monthly renewal just to investigate, he’s only alluding to his involvement)

elder narwhal
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If there is a group gathering info over there who would behave in a Google doc open to editing by anyone with the link, it would NOT be a grave sin to drop a link over there, just saying...

midnight flare
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I have no idea what she means by "you're missing one" but hopefully it helps put some pieces together

shell pelican
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I think it’s just bc they didn’t mention Lou

twilit scaffold
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Yea, missing Lou on Instagram

elder narwhal
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Yeah, they missed Lou because he only posted it as an Instagram story which has since disappeared. We only know of his involvement because some folks saw the story, plus the commissioning a logo.

hearty pasture
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My theory is an episodic podcast through Fortunate Horse unrelated to anything Dropout or otherwise. Brennan’s voiceover is throwing me off bc I didn’t think he would be leading but sounds pretty DM-y. Guest hosts? Otherwise I would think anyone other than Erika or Brennan is hosting. Lou is a good guess especially because he talked in his AP about DMing more, in addition to him putting out the ask. Aabria also could be heavily involved with the multiple posts but maybe she’s just extra hype lol. Maybe Taylor is producing. But with the episodic structure, they can have big names without long commitment.

elder narwhal
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But more eyes on all of this could definitely turn up a missed detail!

hearty pasture
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(Anyone other than Erika and Brennan bc they had similar tweet structure so they don’t seem like isolated leaders)

elder narwhal
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Lou commissioned a logo for WBM Storytelling Collective back in August 2021, so my money is on him as GM.

hearty pasture
elder narwhal
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It really seems like Brennan and Lou are pretty close - Brennan has spoken about them being workout buddies, and they have a 2 man improv troupe called House of Gains. I also think Brennan would support any of the Intrepid Heroes starting up a new AP venture - he's guested on NADDpod and maaaaybe Rotating Heroes?

midnight flare
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(or the loup I suppose)

elder narwhal
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There's a pinned post with a link to the Google doc I started that people have added stuff to. I'm hopeful that any discoveries will continue to be added!

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Or loopooloopool...

winter estuary
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hi! i’m the one who made the post aabria responded to and i also have a mutual currently compiling evidence on a gdrive folder lol. red yarn gang assemble

rough sonnet
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taylor has discovered that squarespace put his name in the source code and he’s mad about it

shell pelican
rough sonnet
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ah, he recently complained about it in the discord

wooden acorn
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I wonder if it's a co/side thing with Neverafter...

Esp with [NeverAfter] e5 ||the reveal of Scheherazade?|| Like, obv, one came before the other with the timeline, but if they really liked the world and wanted to explore [NeverAfter, all] ||more areas besides the more prominent white-led culture folktales and do it respectfully, then this makes sense.||

Also curious if Orion will have a hand in this at all... Iirc, they left D20 to pursue other projects and... This could be within that realm? But that's pure speculation/spitballing.

rough sonnet
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i would expect orion to be plugging it as well in that case and they don’t seem to have taken visible notice of it

wooden acorn
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Ah, true.

warm wedge
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1 day 5 hrs

shell pelican
rough sonnet
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checked to see if the audio has been updated, it doesn’t seem so

elder narwhal
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I just threw this in the Google doc; don't know that it helps at all...
ears to the sky A, 4 syllables
new ground all around B, 5 syllables
heaven split open C, 5 syllables
and oh what a sound B, 5 syllables

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I briefly wondered if "newground" was a thing, then realized I was mixing it up with Newgrange in Ireland.

wooden acorn
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There is also the website newgrounds

elder narwhal
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Oh, that's true. I'm not really familiar with them. Is it the type of site that might somehow be involved with a TTRPG AP podcast?

twilit scaffold
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not anymore : they were a flash video hosting site : so there were flash games and early animations

wooden acorn
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squints Y....es? It's possible, but I highly doubt it due to controversies.

twilit scaffold
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now they are mostly dead... i wouldnt expect it to be anything in that regards

wooden acorn
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Yeah, basically. It was less of an actual suggestion and more of a "also this" which I realize now may not actually be helpful

elder narwhal
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Even if an idea isn't the right thing it might trigger another thought which is. Brainstorming is, by necessity, filled with dead ends and u-turns.

shell pelican
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new ground could also be like “breaking new ground”

sand sonnet
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Again? I guess I missed it the first time

twilit scaffold
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Yea, he posted a couple days ago but instagram stories go away

wooden acorn
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I'm playing around in audition trying to get the rest of the transcript for the new audio

wooden acorn
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Okay, I think I isolated the rest

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Already known: “snow falling over endless white sand and a tower made of glass in the image of night and day as spells fire across the sky, for a moment the sun captured against the horizon, how stars gleam…”

New bit: “...as their heads cannot seem to move, they [sleep? feast?] on endless magic while trees motion…”

elder narwhal
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Ooooh, well DONE!

sand sonnet
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Nice

elder narwhal
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I grabbed a screenshot of Lou's Instagram story and added it to the doc. Although it's a video, it appears to be an unchanging picture and no audio.

vocal mantle
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there was also another instagram story post from aabria that i caught earlier today that is gone now.

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wooden acorn
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I'm 90% sure it's "feast on endless magic"

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You know what'd be cool. Spelljammer with Lou

sand sonnet
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I’ve been hoping for a Lou dm’d thing for a while

elder narwhal
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I believe that that's what this will be.

wooden acorn
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Don't know if it is actually anything, but there is a novel out there called "Tower of Glass" by Robert Silverberg that takes place in a Canadian tundra which could be somewhere that snow falls on white sands. Just an interesting coincidence, lol

elder narwhal
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I added a "Wild Speculation" section at the end of the Google doc. Who knows? One of the wild speculations might be true!

wooden acorn
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MY CALLING!!!/lh /j

elder narwhal
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I checked out an ebook copy of Tower of Glass from the Internet Archive, but searching for key phrases from Brennan's voice over didn't turn up anything. 😭 Good thought, though!

wooden acorn
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Damn, lol.

vocal mantle
twilit scaffold
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yea, that some faerun spelljammer lookin shit

elder narwhal
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No sound, right? But it looks like an image is maybe kinda starting to form from stars?

twilit scaffold
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just gif yea

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and nah, the stars are stationary except the single obvious shooting star

vocal mantle
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yeah def an optical illusion because it absolutely looks like the stars are shifting even though they def aren’t.

twilit scaffold
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i dunno if it was even intentional or just a quirk of our brains/monitor refreshrates of white dots on black background

vocal mantle
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oh for sure just a silly thing our brains do with an image like this

wooden acorn
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If you click thru, it's a couple sitting at a campfire

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Next to some sorta menacing looking trees...

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....... Okay, also, both Erika and Taylor tweeted about Bible Black??? Which is a... He... ntai?

vocal mantle
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coincidence?

wooden acorn
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Oh it's also a dio song. Idk, it could go either way. Folks involved are known to not shy away from wanting to get nasty

twilit scaffold
wooden acorn
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Ehhhhhh??? Idk. They may also be meaning the other meaning of bible Black which has to do with taking scripture out of context? Idk, they know they're driving people up walls and being watched like hawks right now so it could be fuckin' with us or it could be legit clues

vocal mantle
wooden acorn
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More fodder for the random speculation - just cause I haven't seen it be notes - I am 95% sure the star picture on the website is "The Pillars of Creation"...

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Which is public domain, but so is the rest of NASA'S images iirc

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Also also, can't wait until late evening tomorrow for Aabria to roll in here and torture us with even more vague hints and cackling gremlin chaos energy

wooden acorn
sand karma
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It may not be a coincidence that Lou was in the last AP of the year and there was a lot of discussion about him being a DM...

west adder
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Nope! Gonna come troll you in the a.m. bbs! Wake up! Something’s happening today! Hear it cooooooomes!

wooden acorn
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noooooooo it's too earlyyyyyyyy

shell pelican
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omg hi aabria

wooden acorn
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The tortuuuuuureeeeeeee

shell pelican
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also I’m barely resisting the urge to bother you about battle for beyond 2 again lmao, I know you probably can’t say anything anyway 😭

wooden acorn
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God, BFB was so good. Inspired me to play a Circle of the stars druid and probably catapulted it to be my favorite Circle now.

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Not me anxiously waiting for it to be 12 hours for the countdown to see if anything has changed

shell pelican
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looks the same so far but we’ll see ig

weak ice
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Whatever it is it’s gonna be at like 5am my time if I did my maths correctly and I’m genuinely considering just staying up till then 💀

wooden acorn
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Yup. Fhsjensnaie, I... Stayed up until 4 am and then woke up again at 8. Imma try to go back to sleep for a bit if SpicyBrain can calm down for at least 5 minutes

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(also, idk if y'all saw but Aabria also posted a reply to someone on her TikTok. No info, I don't think, but)

shell pelican
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oh wait that’s @velvet kindle again lol

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hello again!

wooden acorn
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More spaghetti at walls: so Erika plays violin. Lou also makes music. So does Taylor. What if it really is an album drop

shell pelican
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album drop where Brennan just says mysterious things over instrumentals lmao

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I’d buy it

weak ice
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Honestly I’d listen to it

rough sonnet
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brennan and aabria dueling monologues over fantasy beats

west adder
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Haha, such a cursed album concept

wooden acorn
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Blursed

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I'm here for it if true. I'm also here for it if not true.

shell pelican
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ooh earstothesky now redirects to worldsbeyondnumber, rather than the other way around

elder narwhal
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Also, hello Aabria! I've been waiting for you to show up in here to troll us. 😁 ❤️

hearty pasture
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Hi Aabria y’all are doing a great job driving us nuts!!

sand karma
elder narwhal
hearty pasture
elder narwhal
elder narwhal
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Folks, if I don't make it back here before midnight, it's been lovely slinging red yarn with y'all! I'm on the East Coast, so Whatever This Is drops at midnight my time, and I will be a) at a party b) smooching my hubby c) and TODAY is our anniversary! Keep speculating!! It's probably mostly gentle trolling, but I can't imagine, knowing Aabria and Brennan's DM styles, that there's not a reward for creative thinking. Unless the reward is the friends we made along the way...

sand sonnet
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So wait.. we have five circle of stars druids here?? Lol - edited, 5 including Sestia

hearty pasture
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They really grabbed us all with the star website theme lol

wooden acorn
hearty pasture
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True hahaha my wedding is about to be star themed so same

winter estuary
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setting an alarm so i don’t forget to check the website when the countdown is over

twilit scaffold
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(this is a joke, you probably shouldnt watch ABCnews)

sand karma
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@west adder come back 🥲

west adder
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Sup!

winter estuary
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omg hiiiiiii

west adder
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What’s everyone up to?

vocal mantle
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sitting on my hands, rocking back and forth for the next two hours, watching that countdown…

winter estuary
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i’m with an old friend making bread and catching up!! and waiting for the countdown of course

vocal mantle
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(i forgot to take my vyvanse today…)

shell pelican
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Trying not to think about the countdown, because if I did, I wouldn’t be able to think about anything else

winter estuary
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fuck the ball drop. this is more important

sand karma
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Reading as a distraction for the countdown 😅

velvet kindle
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Looking at some social media accounts but chilling otherwise with a nice NYE playlist

sand karma
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So can we be trolled with some fake and real hints? 😅

hearty pasture
elder narwhal
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Checking in from a party, about to play more Jackbox.

rough sonnet
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no updates afawk

vocal mantle
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aabria showed up to troll a little more and then dipped

hearty pasture
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I miss playing jackbox good idea

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She hears her name across the web and magically appears

vocal mantle
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like beetlejuice but way better

wooden acorn
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Aabria rules

obtuse relicBOT
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  1. Aabria rules
  2. See Rule 1
shell pelican
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less than an hour!!!

sand karma
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So close!

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sand karma
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For funsies I hit play with 11 min and 4 sec to go.

elder narwhal
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Less than 5 minutes!!!

warm wedge
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3!

obsidian field
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2

misty crow
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Aaaagh, this is like levels of live-watch impatience.

west adder
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1 minute!

weak ice
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Am too excited for this omfg

fringe ingot
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Aight here we go!

warm wedge
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YOOOOOOO

fringe ingot
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NO WAYYYYYYY!!!!

warm wedge
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED AHHH

elder narwhal
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HOLY SHIT WE WERE RIGHT!!!!

robust solar
hearty pasture
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CUTE so excited!!!!!!

warm wedge
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We were exactly right xD

misty crow
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Aaaagh, I just canceled my patreon and Spotify subscriptions to save some money but I miiiight have to just move it over to this project.

elder narwhal
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I am SOOOOO excited for this!!!

midnight flare
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HYPE!!!

quick harbor
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Ahh but who’s the DM??

twilit scaffold
hearty pasture
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Couldn’t decide on a GM because there wasn’t one lmao

robust solar
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Find out next week 😉

twilit scaffold
weak ice
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THIS IS SI COOL ONFG

sand karma
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Congratulations @west adder and all on the launch of your new project!!

quick harbor
hearty pasture
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Love this

warm wedge
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Judging by the picture, it's all of them trading the task?

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Cause it's the four of them as equals, rather than 1 above the rest. Just guessing!

hearty pasture
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What a badass group too I always want more content from all of them

twilit scaffold
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Yea, probably each running what they want as they have ideas ( year long epics to one shots)

sand karma
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This is so cute 🥺

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robust solar
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Hmmm

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This being under general won't work

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If we end up overwhelming that thread, we can look into making another thread for it specifically, but we'll see how that goes

twilit scaffold
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Itll probably need its own like CR once content starts coming out : would also be easier to direct people to

robust solar
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Yeah, true true

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Honestly, I think I'll just make one now

robust solar
west adder
twilit scaffold