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"the magnus protocol had a whole ARG beforehand? what?"

yes! it did!

"oh so I need to have participated in this whole big thing to actually understand the podcast?"

not at all! from the official post-mortem put out by RQ, "while the ARG was not something that was necessary to participate in to understand the magnus protocol, it was designed to contain a wealth of background story and context that would enrich any player's listening experience."

"a wealth of background context that would enrich my listening experience 👀👀👀 how can I learn about this?"

SO glad you asked. sadly, many of the materials made for the arg have been taken down since the game ended 😔 (ex., the official OIAR, magnus institute, and bonzoland websites. though @strangehauntsuk is still up!), so we're a bit low on primary sources, but in terms of learning about what happened:

for a starting point, I would really recommend this video by @pinkelotjeart

it's super accessible, it was made in real time as the game progressed and follows the solving and revelation of clues as they happened, it hits all the major points of the mystery and moments of community insanity while eliding some of the nitty gritty puzzle grinding, 10/10 would recommend.

here's the official summary put out by RQ, and I'd recommend reading through this once you've already gotten a basic handle on the flow of the story and the basic connections between major clues and events. it's got some fun behind-the-scenes info and lays out the thought process behind the puzzles in simple terms

here's the full masterdoc of all puzzles and resolutions put together in the statement remains discord server. masterdoc my absolute BELOVED, masterdoc my bethrothed, masterdoc my soul mate. I'd recommend this as a second port of call after the above video as it either contains all details about the puzzles or links to other expanded docs that do.

here's the narrative summary doc that lays out all the plot and lore discovered in three pages of plain prose. if you just want to get to the good bits as fast as you can and get blasted directly in the face by contextless lore bombs, this is the doc for you. if you don't want to start with the video, I'd say this is another good entry point.

once you've got the lay of the land, some of the game materials that I found particularly interesting include:

the in-universe east germany expat usenet forum, with all content translated into english. most of it is irrelevant space filler with occasional extremely sus lore, but I still found it fun to read through. love to soak in some fictional forum drama.

chdb.xlsx, the spreadsheet of the names of all the children the protocol 'verse magnus institute was studying/experimenting on. EDIT: here is a version of the sheet without any annotations and with all of the names in their original order, kudos to @theboombutton for catching that the commonly shared copy had the order swapped around.

klaus.xls, a (very corrupted) spreadsheet with what looks like the classifications of a bunch of old OIAR cases.

EDIT: have a few more saved materials from the game that I forgot to include.

an in-universe audio ad to apply to the OIAR that ran before archives episodes and kicked off the whole game.

an in-universe video ad to apply to the OIAR, this one is an official upload that's still up from the game itself. you can subscribe to the OIAR's official youtube channel today, if you so chose.

the robo-voicemail greeting from the OIAR's phone line.

once you start poking around in these documents, you'll find a bunch of links to others with further information, the materials I've included here just contain what I feel to be the most relevant details to getting a broad feel for the whole game. once again, huge shout out to the statement remains server, I was barely in there as the ARG was in progress and only ducked my head in every so often to find links like these. true mvps of the fandom.

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The Magnus Protocol 4 - Taking Notes

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It's the fastest and the shittiest fanart I've ever done in my life but I had to make this joke

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love love the fact that everyone immediately clocked needles as a character who will appear later again just based on the sheer amount of cunt being served by him

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The Princess Bride (1987)  dir Rob Reiner

+ IMDB Trivia 

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wonka review: i enjoyed it way more than i thought i would! it’s fun to watch a movie where everything works out just because. maybe i saw the trailer too many times but i felt like the moments from the trailer didn’t entirely jive with the rest of the movie lol. timothy chalamet was a deeply bland wonka.. not near crazy enough, but i liked a lot of the other characters! there’s one in the villain trio whos my absolute favourite. says things like “and we’ll kill them… to DEATH”. there were a lot of big names and most did well at their roles.. mr bean’s and olivia coleman’s roles i thought were well done. there are a few misc romance storylines that are cute. and there’s a VERY sweet storyline with the other main protagonist, the little girl named noodle, which i will admit to crying at.

i interpreted them using eating chocolate as a metaphor for corruption… or currency for corruption. which was interesting. and there was a very funny poke at christianity/the coming of christ related to eating chocolate. it’s vaguely referred to as a sinful thing to eat but the london/paris mishmash “town” they were in also had chocolatiers as the main thing… maybe like how we all drink alcohol but it’s still central? idk.

i also loved that the city/town it was set in did not make that much sense.. like yes there are only three main places in this town. evil inn, zoo and chocolatier square. obviously criticizing children’s movie for lack of worldbuilding is idiot behaviour.

they had a very “”wholesome”” message at the end about the important thing about chocolate being those you share it with… which is nice but like. i want to know how this man became someone to put children in squirrel attacks. the real answer is probably ‘oh loneliness and time blah blah’ but idc.

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this is mag47 right

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Yo distortion girlies check this shit out

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Simon Fairchild, avatar of The Vast

Made with pastel and lots of blue and white ink

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jon: i don't suppose u want to give a statement...?

daisy, who has been projecting IM GOING TO KILL U energy for this entire conversation: okay 🙂

jon: WHAT

daisy: okay! 🙂

fr the biggest early clue about poor jon's compulsion powers, and she gets so mad afterwards bc she doesn't really know why she agreed in the first place

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So I listened to The Magnus Archives

Patterns are all here 

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no sorry i dontreally consume any media outside of letting this purple fungus grow in my lunggs

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if i was writing yellowjackets i would kill off one of the characters in the past timeline that we already know survives and then just never explain it. for fun.

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obviously the greatest crime in new girl was making winston a cop because acab but also because winston's true calling was to be a private detective imo

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we need to talk about the fact that for many of the posters in season one, they are literally on opposite sides and/or have a dividing line between them

and now they're literally crossed over in some way for the season 2 posters

THEY'RE LITERALLY ON THEIR OWN SIDE NOW, PEOPLE!

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?