Lust Chapter Two

## Leaked Emails Dead Drop

After The Lust Experience account on Instagram and shows a dead drop happening outside of a local restaurant, participants @shankfx22, @goldtongue and @timsmyname find a series of emails that have been printed out. The emails talk about The Investors possibly finding what they have been looking for and mention that Horace has "lit a fire under all of them" and claims that he is no long distracted now that Noah is back on board with The System. It seems that they are trying to keep players around and engaged because whatever it is that the Investors want they need more subjects in order to get data and it also seems that the data from participants that have been around longer may be even more valuable to them. Further details.

## The Red Room Girl and @dark2light

The next day a post from @herderlogtimor goes up and is deleted quickly after. The post has the topic "You're losing them faster than you can create hooks to them in." and when a moderator asked the creators about this they claimed they did not delete and it ands that "There are people above us. People we answer to as well." Participants soon realize that @herderlogtimor is actually an anagram for The Red Room Girl and they speculate that maybe this is Jenna. @thebuz gets a threatening phone call that seems to be from an angry higher up saying "Shit gets deleted for a reason and you’re just going to copy and paste stuff WE decided to delete? Power is a funny thing, Buz. Don’t let it go to your head or you’ll have much worse than a headache."

Shortly after another strange account shows up @dark2light saying:

*"I am upgraded.*

*A fractal is no\_path.*

*does not wind.*

*dark2light%"*

After, the account posts many pictures of leaks followed by saying "one of you" over and over again. It is clear that the message is that there is someone leaking information among the participants or at least someone wants everyone to think this. Also Light2Dark was an account that appeared during The Tension Experience so it is interesting that the inverse was used here and leads some people to believe that perhaps this is a shadow version of the same account.

## Stacey's Child - Forum Hack

@staceyerikson returns with a vengeance writing a post on the forum addressed to "Dear Investors, Dear Kristin, Dear Kristin’s new who ever the fuck you are, dear bitchy blonde and Dear speech guy who chastised me for interrupting," and accuses them of stealing her child, which is code that she wrote seemingly to mimic behavior of some sort with the intention being to use for IConfidant, and using it for their own benefit. She ends the post saying that she is going to be using her child for worse purposes and signs off with "ITsback.fuckyou"

She then uploads @mychild to the forums and shortly after five posts go up back to back from @TheController counting down from 5. In each of the posts @mychild posts a comment that sounds exactly like The Gatekeeper of the same name (5, 4, 3, 2, 1). On the final post by @TheController there is no comment from Stacey's Child and that is because it is the community who became Gatekeeper one and it is here that the community is able to process what just happened.

## "That's so Joyce"

We are then introduced to Joyce Carlberg (@joycecarlberg) who deals with participants on a more personal level and claims to work for the HCDI which is a subsidiary of The OSDM. She becomes the de facto face of the shadowy organization for us. As part of her first post on the forums Joyce send a link to what is now The Experiences Slack. A few days later @kevin and @wanda102 meet with Joyce and receive letters that seem to continue the idea of The OSDM needing further interaction from participants. One letter says, "'to wind the clock' means that the energy that you put in this is the energy that drives our plans forward”.

## The Resistance Rises

On 6/30 a FB Live video goes up that starts a scavenger hunt around the city culminating in the reveal that The Resistance (BOS) is real and that Stacey, Macy and Jenna are all a part of it. During this they select @meghanmayhem to meet with the leader of The Resistance in a few days. Before that meeting happens, several members of the former BOS begin to get messages on Facebook from Sentinel Being. These messages all tease the fact that BOS is back and that these former members will be needed for whatever comes next.

On 7/2 @meghanmayhem goes to meet with the leader of The Resistance, she goes live on periscope and is seen traveling somewhere by car with a hood over her head. She is lead to a room with plastic wrap all over and this Instagram picture is taken of her. Near the end of the periscope we see a man in a hood and glasses, that participants believe could be Clint Sears, in the video and at the end she is told to take off her hood before someone puts their hand over the camera and turns off the video feed. We are unable to see the who the leader of the resistance is from the periscope and afterward @meghanmayhem makes the same comment on the forum twice that does not quite sound like her leading some to question what it was that just happened to her:

*"When I saw the face of the leader, I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be.*

*The resistance has been reclaimed and made real.*

*I stand with their leader and pass along this message in no uncertain terms to those who have tried to control and use us:*

*“Para Bellum”."*

A few weeks back and seemingly unrelated to Lust, another ARG starts to gather members called The Midnight Commission. It is a puzzle based ARG that is challenging its members to ensure that those that gain admittance are intelligent and meet membership requirements. At it's first in person meeting, we find that it is actually run by a long time Lust Experience participant, Morgan Rooms, who reforms BOS which had fallen silent after The Tension Experience. He swears to bring The OSDM and all of its subsidiaries down.