The Manticore Foundation has uploaded a new episode!

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Link: https://youtu.be/93qZJQKdanI

Catch up with the TMF Series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF5P0K4QJikE0s5l5O62FFTV6SJHvoqa3&si=CV1bkX5ptnjZerQx

The Manticore Foundation is a secret Foundation based on experimenting on humans to create powerful entities that shape humankind.

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Looking for an ARG

Please remove if this is the wrong place to ask 😂There was an ARG I saw a few years ago that I’m desperately trying to remember the name of but I can’t for the life of me.

From what I can remember it was the haunted sentient video game set up with a really cool playable pixelated world and characters that begin to get more aware, I know the ARG had a discord where some of the characters would interact with the players and it was how you got the links to continue onto the next level. I’m 99.9% sure it started with a K? My brain says crayolla but I don’t think that’s quite right somehow lol.

I’m really curious about how the ARG ended now that I’ve remembered it all this time later. I appreciate this post is very vague so I have no expectations! I’m just running out of keywords for the google search engine 😭

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deltarune fan here. Trying to figure out this (unofficial) ARG about the game - no results.

ARG about deltarune (that pretty much everybody in the community didn't notice) that I just can't figure out. Spoilers below on what part i got stuck on.

>!kZrS1SVaj4w is a code found by reading left to right in the denoscriptions of the videos, but it doesn't seem to work on any decoder or youtube/imgur links.!<

The video (to start it all) is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N1QbRfKsCo

If somebody could give me a hint to what I do next (in spoilers) please do.

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Creepy YouTube channel.

A year ago I was browsing YouTube and this channel got recommended to me. For some reason I can’t find any videos or discussions about this channel and I haven’t ever even participated in an ARG before so hopefully one of you will find something.

The videos are all highly compressed and they always featured a random object or environment that slowly got more abstract with every video posted and after a few seconds a mouth fades in and says a part of a story. The voice is always a low quality TTS and the sound of the videos are always manipulated in some way. The link to the channel is: https://youtube.com/@thefrogmagician9866?si=epDlClIwQ0T3Vcmv

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Kauliflowr ARG

I know that scratch is a kids website, but I recently found a surprisingly interesting ARG by a talented creator on the platform, going by the name of kauliflowr. they are mainly an animator, but recently released a game as part of the ARG.

So far the ARG has been limited to just scratch, with the clues hidden in the project denoscriptions. With the way scratch is set up, it's possible to make animations using the program, which is what Kauliflowr has been doing, but it also lets them hide clues in the costumes, the code itself, and audio. If you want to look for said clues, click 'see inside' on any of the projects. There are some simple codes, and I think there's a spectrogram somewhere.

Kauliflowr is the name of both the profile/creator and the main character of the story. From what I can tell, the storyline thus far can be boiled down into this;

\- beret guy, Kauliflowr's boss, seems to be trapped in a place called the void, and creates several plant machine hybrids to go out into the world, one of them being kauliflowr ( https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/925281423 ). They begin Kauliflowr industries, which releases several advertisements for products. We're introduced to a new character named broccoli at the end of this animation, who takes over as kauliflowr's manager.

\- It seems like there was a retcon here. In the first animation, there's some crossover with The animation Game's storyline (TAG X). Tt's not an ARG, but not a super streamlined story either. Kauliflowr gets injured in a fight with a robot. ( https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1096586983 )

\- We're then introduced to beret man's boss, the oracle, who warns beret man that kauliflowr is going to die, while also threatening him. the rest of the animation is just holiday fun with the gang. ( https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1115845751 )

\- kauliflowr goes on a dinner with broccoli, thinks it's a date, and... something happens. It's not clear what. My guess is a mental breakdown. There are more clues within the code, audio, and project itself, even more so here than any other project at this point. ( https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1194586138 )

\- beret man apparently gets fired? and dies as a result?? but leaves a message for broccoli to "secure a seed from the oracle's garden" and affix it to a machine of sorts. Only thing is, an "agent" blows up the machine - thats what it's called in the project files, anyways ( https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1242414607 )

\- Kauliflowr clicker has a ton of stuff packed in and I'm not entirely sure what it means. we get to see what really happened at the end of the date, but get introduced to several new characters that were hinted at in the past. we also see that there are several... iterations? of kauliflowr? there are 3 main endings, and several cutscenes leading up to it, with varying dialogue, but those "endings" all lead to the same cutscene, being what happens after the date. ( https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1246616268/ )

This is the kind of ARG you can piece together by yourself, which is fun, but there is also room for discussion and community collaboration to figure out the story. I'd encourage everyone here to check it out for yourself. The studio 'kaulifowr stuff' has all of the animations featuring kauliflowr, as well as other projects with lore relevant information. ( https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/34130384/ )

Also, Kauliflowr is a surprisingly good animator, for using a "software" like scratch. It's not even meant for animation, but there are some really cool animators on the platform, even if they're hard to find. I'd recommend checking out Kauliflowr's other stuff

too.

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How do you create good lore for an ARG that doesn't sound corny or unoriginal?

Please help, I really want to make my own ARG for the first time and I have so many ideas (atleast in my opinion, creative doesn't always mean greatest) for my storyline but not only can I pick one, they also suck... What do you guys always use to check if it's good? My arg is also half analog horror btw...

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