The North Woods Project

The North Woods Project, otherwise known as AlexHenderson100, is a Fear Mythos Vlog / Alternate Reality Game that takes place entirely within an Architect Verse, an Open Source collection of universes. More specifically, it takes place in Architect-Verse / Kryesor, a hostile universe holding strong connections to the Candleverse. The series is spread out on both YouTube and Twitter, also spanning several crossover with multiple series.
Fans can also fund the series to access continuous rewards on The North Woods Project's Patreon.
== Summary ==
The story follows Alex Henderson, Robert Chriss, and Tyler Carwile's 
school project, originally intended as a way to preserve nature and help
 the environment, but has since become a personal channel for Alex to 
post his encounters with the Slender Man, the Archangel, the Plague Doctor, the Architect, and the Sentience, a religious order, originally an obscure branch of the Timberwolves, that has since grown into its own organization that rivals the Timberwolves and worships the Slender Man as a deity. Several 
occurrences in Alex's life end up having him to spiral into insanity, 
causing himself to fend for himself in the hellish reality he calls 
home.
==Plot==
=== Season 1 ===
As an assignment for Ms. Gulliver's Environmental Science class, 
Robert Chriss, the director and producer, Alex Henderson, the cameraman 
and assistant director, and Tyler Carwile, the group's location scout, 
create the North Woods Project, a channel dedicated to "nature, 
wildlife, and how to protect it". During production, strange events 
start to occur, such as an interview with the cast showing Tyler 
remembering and contemplating a recurring dream of a tall, dark figure 
looming over him, with its arms becoming longer and longer, until he 
wakes up, and strange footage, filmed by someone other than the cast, 
found on the camera and posted to the channel.
Later, while filming the project, the boys notice a ripped, tattered notebook, an SD card, and a cardboard box with the Twin Triangles
 hidden in a tunnel that Tyler heard noises coming from earlier that 
night, as well as several scattered pages of cryptic messages hung up on
 trees, showing drawings of the Operator Symbol
 and the Archangel. The SD card contained a small video clip entitled 
"binge.avi" (an anagram for begin), showing a dead body encased in a 
hooded jacket, footage of Robert trying to catch an unseen entity 
(presumed to be the Archangel), and the Operator Symbol flashing 
throughout, suggesting that Alex will see the maker(s) of the video 
soon. 
Afterwards, Robert requests for Alex to look through some old 
footage, dating back to 2011, to find anything "unusual". He finds a 
clip from the overwritten footage, taken late at night, of an unknown 
person being haunted by the Architect. Alex makes a video stating that 
the project has already been turned in several months ago, albeit 
unfinished, and that this will be his personal channel from now on. He 
also tells the audience that he's found a missing person's report for 
Tyler, who has not been seen for two weeks, and that he is worried for 
his safety. A video is posted onto the channel one day later by a member
 of the Sentience, saying that they have abducted Tyler and has added 
him to their "collection". A message shown in the video, "Ray sends his 
regards", leads to a small crossover between Project Natural (also connected to a Twitter account), in which a conversation reveals that they've been having similar problems, and that they will stay in touch.
In a video uploaded by the Sentience, Alex receives a CD sleeve 
with the TNWP symbol, a triforce with the Operator symbol branching out 
through the middle, written on the front, and a binary message on the 
back. He goes into the woods, looking for the one responsible, where he 
is confronted by the Archangel. After being chased down and being fought
 to the ground, it pretends to be knocked unconscious by Alex, so that 
it may spring up unexpectedly and continuously teleport him through a 
hellish environment, where it reveals that a brutally beaten Tyler has 
become a member of the Sentience. After being teleported through several
 corridors, the Approved, an elite group of Proxies that were chosen 
from the Sentience by the Slender Man, capture Alex, wipe his memory, 
and put him in stasis until he is of use to them again.
The last video posted shows Alex going to Tyler's house, where 
Capper, a strange figure seeming to be connected to the Slender Man, and
 the Archangel capture Tyler. Alex runs away, abandoning Tyler to his 
doom. The text shown throughout the video suggests that Alex has known 
about Tyler's disappearance since the incident occurred, and has been 
hiding it.
=== Season 2 ===
thumb|283x283px|Trailer for Season 2 of The North Woods Project
A video posted by Alex shows him waking up from a daze with little to
 no memory of the events in the last three videos, or uploading them 
onto the YouTube account. After watching them, Alex slowly recalls the 
events in question, conforming Tyler's apparent death. While posting the
 video, Capper records over the footage with videos of him smashing in a
 Sentience member's skull with a hammer, torturing Tyler with a number 
of tools, and Alex trapped in a purgatory-like state, as well as footage
 recorded by Alex himself. Alex states over Twitter that he will 
continue to search for Tyler to uncover the truth.
Alex states later that he has been having several hallucinations 
and nervous breakdowns in the past several weeks, and that he does not 
remember ever having parents or having to use wifi or phone service to 
post videos or receive texts. He later gets a large box on his doorstep,
 with the TNWP symbol and Twin Triangles on the front, with the phrase 
"TIME'S COMING NEAR" under it. After opening the box, Alex finds several
 cryptic messages, a gun, hints that something will happen to him in 
three hours, and another tape that dates back to 2011. At the end of the
 video, footage overwritten by the Sentience shows a woman with a bag 
covering her face held at gunpoint, in which the video abruptly ends.
After reviewing the third 2011 tape, it is revealed that Tyler 
has been having dreams about the Slender Man for several years. Alex 
mentions that he has had a dream about seeing the girl previously shown 
at the end of the video. After seeing her in his dream, he runs, 
eventually falling outside the universe and into Bliss, where he was grabbed by "freaking messed up hands", until he wakes up in a cold sweat. After hearing footsteps, Tyler and Alex are forced to 
investigate, where they find the Plague Doctor. After sprinting away 
from him, Alex finds himself blacked out on a sidewalk. After several 
more cryptic posts are made via Twitter by the Sentience, Alex confirms 
that nothing has happened in "well passed three hours", and that he will continue to investigate Tyler and Robert's whereabouts.
After five 
days, Alex states on his Twitter that his weekend had almost been proven
 fatal, and that a video would be posted to the channel that weekend. 
However, during the weekend, no videos were posted, though during the 
weekend, a conversation between Alex and Robert took place over Alex's 
Twitter account, confirming that Robert is still alive and well. Robert 
sends a clip to Alex via wireless feed, and hurries away, telling Alex 
to meet with him at the house they had first started filming in.
Alex states on Twitter that he is trying to come to terms with the 
haunting past, and that everything will be explained in a matter of 
time. Days later, a video posted by Alex details the events that took 
place when visiting the abandoned house. He finds Tyler's body, ice cold
 and dead, as it appeared in "One", with a silver, skull-like mask 
strapped around his face. As he quietly tries to escape, the door slams 
behind him, trapping him in the room with no means of escape. The 
Archangel emerges from the darkness, appearing to stab Alex in the 
stomach, and slowly walks away. Alex notices that Tyler has vanished 
from where he was lying, causing him to panic, in which the video ends 
abruptly. 
In a video uploaded the next day by the Sentience, several 
Sentience 
members are encircling the same girl shown in "One", and mentioned in 
"2011 Footage: Tape 3". Muffled screams can be heard, as each member 
present is holding a firearm. The TNWP symbol is displayed over the 
victim's head, and a strange code is shown under the frame. An image of 
the Slender Man flashes quickly across 
the screen, and the text appearing in the video suggests that Alex has 
forgotten several crucial events occurring throughout the plot.
After several cryptic tweets revolving around the same code shown
 in "PANTHEON" are made by the Sentience, Alex posts a video on his 
channel showing him finding a paper bag containing an SD card and a tape
 belonging to a Super 8mm camera. After reviewing the tape, the video 
reveals Alex and Robert being ambushed by a Sentience member, eventually
 resorting to burning the person alive, in which the footage abruptly 
ends. Alex states that the footage was taken over 20 years ago, yet 
shows a contemporary version of him, causing him much confusion.
Several tweets made by an unknown source suggest that three 
subjects have been chosen for a vague experiment of some sort. Later, a 
video posted on the channel Jeff Woods
 shows the main character finding a note written by the Sentience in his
 house, with the message "TURN AROUND" written on the back. After being 
tortured, teleported, and otherwise beaten across several different 
places by the Slender Man, Jeff falls to the ground, screaming, and is 
dragged away, in which the video ends.
The next video posted on Jeff's channel shows Alex getting a call
 from Jeff late at night, with Jeff begging for his help, and suddenly 
snapping into insanity, ending the call prematurely. Alex turns around, 
only to find Jeff standing in his room, in which he tackles Alex. The 
video cuts to a sane and content Jeff, telling the viewer that he has 
been seeing the Archangel outside his house for a long while, and 
showing another card he received prior to the events in "Virus.avi" from
 the Sentience. 
The camera cuts to Jeff lying on the ground in a coughing fit, in
 which he runs to call Alex, giving him the same beg for help shown 
previously. Jeff then gets dragged away and kidnapped by the Sentience, 
claiming that he is strong enough to become a member of the Approved. 
After stating that death is mandatory to join, Jeff refuses, causing the
 Sentience to send him back with a pumpkin covered in laughter, notes 
suggesting that he might die, and that he may have a "HAPPY HALLOWEEN", 
even though Jeff claimed that it wasn't even close to October. Jeff then
 looks around his house, resulting him in getting beaten down to the 
ground, when the video ends.
In a video posted on Alex's channel, the same footage of him being 
attacked by Jeff is posted, along with new footage of Alex getting 
beaten by a screaming Jeff. A picture flashes, showing a full-body 
Capper, with the phrase "Open the Gate" written under it. Shortly after,
 it is revealed that Alex hasn't been posting on his channel or Twitter 
for an elongated amount of time, and that it was, in reality, a person 
masquerading as him. The culprits turn out to be the Enlightened, who 
have kidnapped Alex for an unknown amount of time, pretending to be him,
 and threaten that they will kill him unless the fans are forced to 
solve two riddles in three days.
After the first code is revealed instantaneously to be "The Lost 
Prophet is a false one", the fans must decipher a riddle that goes 
through binary, Morse code, universal Cyrillic, Base64, Augustus's Code,
 and is backwards, while combining the code in reverse order. Pictures 
of Alex's bloody, beaten face are posted. During the race for the answer
 to the code, a video uploaded by the Glitch, spoken in a monotone robot
 voice, reveals that it will stop at nothing to ensure Alex's safety, 
and that he is somehow under the Architect's control. The Glitch advises
 all Marked to film themselves, and that Alex's Architect Verse is soon 
going to be consumed by Rapture, before abruptly disappearing. 
Four minutes after the deadline to save Alex, it is revealed that
 the code was "Mongrel", the Enlightened's term for the Archangel. After
 the Sentience post pictures of themselves in a battle formation, trying
 to threaten the Enlightened, a video is posted by Capper, where Alex is
 beaten with a glass bottle, before revealing that Robert was, in fact, a
 member of the Enlightened the entire time. Robert pulls out a gun, 
calmly making small talk with him, before shooting Alex in the head 
several times, pulling the trigger on himself soon after. Capper calls 
all the Marked to arms, and after contact with Gabriel from The Mayhem Theory, reveals that his plan is to stop the Enlightened at all costs, and that he will reveal his identity in time. 
Soon after,
 a video is shown of Alex taking on last look at the world through a 
dead man's eyes, still being followed close behind by the Archangel, as 
he is shown next to a Crucifix, is which he disappears, presumably into 
Bliss. Capper soon after posts a video showing him donning a winter coat
 and heading out to avenge Alex's death.A video posted on Christmas day 
then shows Capper sharpening a knife, and heading out to shoot an 
Enlightened member in the head, and blow apart an entire condo in which 
an Enlightened member lives in, effectively murdering several members to
 avenge Alex, then leading into footage shown in a later video crossover
 with Jeff Woods and Sirens in the Night. 
After several full-length in-depth conversations with Gabriel, yet another video is posted by the Pawns,showing more footage from 2011, in which Alex and Tyler are attacked by
a Pawn. the footage then cuts to show a Pawn standing in front of the Gate,
saying that they have pulled strings at Gabriel's life, and that the Manipulator is not the only one to do so. Threatening to see Gabriel 
soon, the Pawns end their video message to Gabriel with an unknown 
person reciting the Architect's Phrase of Fear.
Footage from 
before Alex was kidnapped by the Enlightened is shown days later. The 
Pawns, under the Architect's influence, say that Alex knew the truth of 
Capper's identity, and that he must take off his mask in order to save 
Gabriel. Later, a video is posted showing the Pawns kidnapping Gabriel. 
== CrossoversCategory:Video SeriesCategory:Alternate Reality Game ==
* Project Natural
* Jeff Woods
* The Mayhem Theory
* Sirens in the Night
Category:The Fear Mythos