ARG/March-June 2019

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## March 12, 2019

After 500 members joined the official Discord server, Clockwork Concierge was successfully recruited to the server, where he serves as a bot and a moderator. He (mostly) uses dialogue boxes as a form of communication rather than just plain text.

The Clockwork Concierge cleaned and rearranged some of the channels, such as renaming the #ninjas text channel to #ninja-village, and deleting #join-log and replacing it with the #dojo. The Clockwork Concierge chatted with members, and he explained that he was sent to the server by The Archivist. The Concierge also hinted at #the-shop text channel and gave more information about the Clockwork Castle.

## March 13, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge criticized Phil, the Clockwork Operator, as he learned how to read the Concierge's manuals.

## March 14, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge revealed that there is a connection between The Iron Hood and the Money Sink inside the shop.

## March 15, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge dropped a hint that The Archivist told the Concierge to guard an evil object inside of the Clockwork Castle. The Concierge then posted a message with important names censored, which was deleted by SaboTeam.

Paraphrasing of the deleted message:

The first asterisk word was blue, like the name of a friendly character. The second word was red, like the name of something related to evil. The first asterisk word was six letters long, and the second word had an apostrophe, according to Boo, a person who was able to memorize part of the message before it was deleted.

## March 18, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge returned to the server to ask an important question about Colos and Suses.

## March 19, 2019

The Shopkeeper was summoned into the server by Doom Man's fake Shopkeeper dialogue box, and she gave a sneak peek of the 16-bit Picnic Panic shop. Later, the Clockwork Concierge and Phil discussed their plan to funnel Time Shards from the community in order to fund a Discord branch of the shop.

## March 20, 2019

The Time Shard emote was introduced to the server.

## March 21, 2019

KuningasEST was streaming a speedrun of The Messenger at the time, and the Clockwork Concierge recommended others to watch it. Also later that day, the Clockwork Concierge referenced another video game.

 **Clockwork Concierge** | https://www.twitch.tv/kuningasest

## March 22, 2019 (Discord)

The Clockwork Concierge started keeping record of the amount of Time Shards the community had amassed. He also held a small quiz for bonus Time Shards.

Later that day, the Clockwork Concierge received a message from The Archivist to deliver to Phil. Thierry intercepted the message in stead of Phil, and per the Clockwork Concierge's request, Thierry closed down #the-void channel, since it was too expensive to maintain while The Archivist was away on a dangerous quest.

The Clockwork Concierge would go on to offer more bonus Time Shards, involving Pitou reactions. Then the Concierge wrote messages related to the Demon King that were swiftly deleted by SaboTeam.

 **Phil (Rookie Clockwork Operator)** | Don't you spoil here.

 **Clockwork Concierge** | I will let you all get to it then. Do try to DM me the !progress command whenever you are curious.

## March 22, 2019 (Twitch)

The Shopkeeper visited Kammesennin's Twitch stream of The Messenger.

During Kammesennin's stream, Kammesennin read The Shopkeeper's "Current area" dialogue in Quillshroom Marsh. The actual Shopkeeper chimed in by posting a comment in Kammesennin's Twitch chat, where The Shopkeeper confirmed that the "I once had to look through the mud for an artifact" quote was a reference to the Magic Seashell.

The Shopkeeper went unnoticed in the Twitch chat until a bit later, around the time Kammesennin reached the Arcane Golem fight.

 **LeShopkeeper** | Oh, hi.

The Shopkeeper also dropped a rumor about The Iron Hood and the money sink in the Twitch chat.

 **LeShopkeeper** | Some say he hid in the sink...

During the cutscene that occurs after defeating Barma'thazël, where Ninja is a shopkeeper, Kammesennin asked out loud if The Shopkeeper had any stories to share, and she responded with the following.

Kammesennin offered to wait before progressing the story even further, but The Shopkeeper declined the offer.

After the "Ray Troid" joke that occurs between Ninja and Soldier in the game's dialogue, one of Kammesennin's Twitch stream viewers mentioned that they did not understand the joke.

 **ZeoLive** | Indeed. LuL

## April 4, 2019

To celebrate Sabotage Studio's birthday, the Clockwork Concierge held a trivia quiz with 2,000 Time Shards as the prize.

## Flashback to December 5, 2018

Up to this point in time, the official The Messenger Discord's server icon was that of the 8-bit Shopkeeper. To celebrate the winter season, the server icon was temporarily updated to artwork of "The Presentkeeper," a Christmas-themed version of The Shopkeeper. Soleil pointed out that The Shopkeeper's Twitter avatar remained unaltered, provoking The Shopkeeper to respond in turn.

## April 12, 2019

The Shopkeeper popped by to give a sneak peek of the upcoming Discord branch of the shop. She also referenced an event that occurred on 4 months ago on December 5, 2018.

## April 15, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge announced that he was seeking a couple of more moderators. Later, The Shopkeeper dropped by and mentioned a lore tidbit about Monk and Quillble. However, the messages were swiftly deleted by SaboTeam. The Shopkeeper went on to chat about various things with the community.

## April 19, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge delivered a message from The Archivist.

## April 24, 2019

The community was 75 Time Shards short of being able to afford the shop, but the Clockwork Concierge provided assistance.

## April 25, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge arrived on scene to celebrate the community finally gathering 10,000 total Time Shards to open up #the-shop. When he began speaking, he had difficulty turning on his microphone (dialogue boxes). He then threw the Time Shards into a converter.

After converting all 10,000 Time Shards, #the-shop text channel opened. Nobody could post in the channel, except for The Shopkeeper herself, and a single lucky member who was temporarily granted the Discord role, "The Messenger." Damyon was selected to be the first Messenger, and he unlocked the talent tree, revealing three potential upgrades: "Oracle," "Colos or Suses," and "The Scrying Orb." GaidenGravity was selected to be the next Messenger, and he purchased "Colos or Suses."

## April 26, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge began the "Colos or Suses event," and the Concierge referenced a popular typo he made during the quiz from April 4, 2019. Community members PM'd the Clockwork Concierge if they wanted to join Team Colos or Team Suses along with a supporting argument for their team, and they would be assigned a corresponding "Team Colos" or "Team Suses" Discord role. The team they joined was displayed in the new event text channel, #colos-or-suses. Also later that day, the Clockwork Castle was threatened by the Demon General, which prompted the Clockwork Concierge to recruit a couple of moderators earlier than scheduled.

## April 30, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge dropped by to talk about the "Colos or Suses event."

## May 3, 2019

Phase 1 of the "Colos or Suses event" ended. The Clockwork Concierge generously bestowed a large number of Time Shards to the community and spoke of a mysterious shop upgrade called "the letter H."

## May 6, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge examined the supporting arguments for Team Colos and Team Suses that would be used for Phase 2 of the "Colos or Suses event." He was also unable to perform an ASCII shrug using a dialogue box, so he wrote one with plain text.

While Boo talked about his guitar stream of The Messenger, it segued into Clockwork Concierge referencing "the kids" who built him, but the message was deleted by SaboTeam. The Clockwork Concierge became sad and was comforted by the community.

## May 7, 2019

Clockwork Concierge revealed more information about himself, and Phase 2 of the "Colos or Suses event" began. Later, the Clockwork Concierge was sorted to be underneath the "Characters" role instead of the "Moderator" role in the member list. And shortly afterwards, the "Characters" role was renamed to "Character" in order to be consistent with the other Discord roles.

 **Clockwork Concierge** | IT'S ON!

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## May 8, 2019

Phase 2 of the "Colos or Suses event" continued.

 **Thierry** | Yeah, let's kick this off @Clockwork Concierge

* : 13

 **Thierry** | #colos-or-suses

* : 24

## May 9, 2019

Phase 2 of the "Colos or Suses event" concluded.

 **Clockwork Concierge** | What it means will be adressed tomorrow.

## May 10, 2019

Suses joined the official Discord server with both the "Character" and the "Team Colos" Discord roles. Like the Clockwork Concierge, Suses speaks (mostly) via dialogue boxes rather than just plain text.

 **Suses** | Yo this is amazing, we decided to spend our weekly shards here starting next week.

## May 13, 2019

Colos and Suses made a Commemorative Plaque for the community, to celebrate everyone who participated in the "Colos or Suses event."

## May 14, 2019

As the community drew closer to the 2nd opening of #the-shop, the Clockwork Concierge again hinted at the mysterious "letter H" shop upgrade, and "The Letter H" finally appeared in the shop's talent tree. Then the Concierge referenced a typo a community member made when they mistakenly translated "Sclout" as "Sabout" on the Commemorative Plaque. Later, Suses dropped by with a brief passing comment about a person named "Keenathan."

## May 15, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge greeted a new member named Mike. Later, Suses heard something related to his boss fight.

 **Clockwork Concierge** | Or shall I say, CHECK MIKE???

## May 17, 2019

Suses and Colos purchased ice cream, which was followed by the 2nd opening of #the-shop. Stéphanie was selected to be "The Messenger," and after participating in Chapter 1 of the text adventure and earning 1,000 Time Shards, she purchased "The Scrying Orb" from the shop. Purchasing "The Scrying Orb" resulted in an upgrade called "The Jukebox" to appear in the shop's talent tree.

The Shopkeeper explained that the Scrying Orb's contents would only be visible to members with the "Ninja" Discord role. She warned that the Scrying Orb would break if anyone spoke of the orb's contents.

The #scrying-orb text channel appeared, and a member named the "Scrying Orb" joined the official Discord server with the "Character" Discord role. Only the Scrying Orb was allowed to post in this channel. It would appear "online" in the list of Discord members whenever it would type in the #scrying-orb channel, then log "offline" when finished. The orb produced its first vision, a sneak peek of the Voodoo Totem. Later, Phil talked about the Scrying Orb, which caused the surface of the orb to crack (but it remained functional).

Note: Although in the past it was dangerous to talk about the Scrying Orb, it's currently safe to talk about the scrying orb without fear of repercussions.

## May 22, 2019

The scrying orb attempted to produce a vision but did not receive enough Time Shard emote reacts, so the vision fizzled out. Later, Suses mentioned the name "Keenathan" once again, and he also revealed that he had sort of met Pitou before.

## May 24, 2019

The scrying orb produced a vision, a sneak peek of Ninja entering the Money Sink to reach The Craftsman's Corner.

## May 30-31, 2019

Suses ate meatloaf served by the Clockwork Concierge. It was mentioned that there would be a Devolver E3 press conference.

## June 3, 2019

The server celebrated the release of custom Arcane Golem hand emotes and a couple of Monk emotes. Sabout, famously known for creating Pitou, hinted that the server needed an emote of Pitou doing the thing.

## June 4, 2019

Sabout released a drawing of Pitou doing the thing, which became a server emote.

 **Sabout** | Do the thing  now

## June 9, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge informed the community that there would be an official announcement regarding the release of Picnic Panic in the Devolver E3 Press Conference.

 **Clockwork Concierge** | https://www.twitch.tv/devolverdigital

## June 10, 2019

During the Devolver E3 Press Conference, it was revealed that Picnic Panic DLC would be released on July 11, 2019. The original release date estimate was June-ish, so a new meme formed that Picnic Panic's release date would be June 41st.

## June 11, 2019

JustDenys1 told a story about a kolobok. Colos and Suses listened intently and referenced an in-game glitch involving the Colos & Suses boss fight, in which Colos could escape the arena and run forever. The Clockwork Concierge awarded the community Time Shards for JustDenys1's story.

## June 12, 2019

Vitalya posted a music cover their friend, DiZ Like, made of the Corrupted Future music. Clockwork Concierge's microphone (dialogue boxes) failed to turn on for a bit. Afterwards, he acknowledged contributions from the community and awarded 600 Time Shards.

## June 14, 2019

The community amassed enough Time Shards to trigger the 3rd opening of #the-shop. Heather won the battle royale style quiz and purchased the "Oracle" (live Sabotage Q&A) from the shop. Purchasing the "Oracle" resulted in a mysterious upgrade called "Pitouette" to appear in the shop's talent tree.

 **Clockwork Concierge** | The Shop will open in 10 minutes.

## June 18, 2019

The Scrying Orb produced another vision, this time involving Suses.

Later, one of Suses's messages had a white bar mistakenly generated at the bottom of its dialogue box portrait. Soleil posted a light mode screenshot of Suses's message, which blinded Suses.

 **Suses** | Anyway, check out these reps!

## June 20, 2019

Kyleberry noticed a "birthday cake" emote react on the live Q&A announcement and asked who else shared a birthday on June 21. Soleil responded with a meme image to explain it would also be Babushka's birthday, and Suses laughed.

## June 21, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge wished Babushka a "happy birthday" and announced that the live Q&A would occur soon.

 **Clockwork Concierge** | https://www.twitch.tv/sabotageqc

Sabout was asked during the live Q&A when the community could have 16-bit Pitou. Sabout promised that he would deliver 16-bit Pitou for the community next week.

## June 24, 2019

Suses chatted with the community for a bit.

## June 27, 2019

The Clockwork Concierge questioned Sabout's progress on 16-bit Pitou. Sabout showed off a sneak peek.

## June 28, 2019

Sabout posted 16-bit (seize-bit) Pitou.

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