Lust Chapter One

## The Creators

@bcbishop contacts Clint Sears and gets asked "Why do you keep going back? Do they have something on you? I don’t want to be involved and you keep walking in." A few days later, @rizzzoooooo receives a USB hidden inside a dog toy from Sarah Sinclair who was waiting for him at his house. On that USB is an audio recording of a call from The Man with the Stick to Darren Lynn Bousman where he is woken up in the middle of the night and is clearly upset that they have called his house and involved his wife. It seems that they want him to at least continue to act like he is in control even saying "Call your boyfriend Clint. We need people to think the small dog lover is back at keyboard" before the call ends (Full audio).

## Always Watching

Several participants have strange encounters with different characters on the same day. @julierei and @bcbishop get similar phone calls saying that the caller saw their periscopes and are "Always watching" before hanging up. Then @lilmsfancpants has a visitor at work who walks up to her and tells her "They're always watching" before quickly walking away. Two more users @111error and @thebuz have visitors come to their homes at night. @111error is told "I’m here to tell you, you don’t know who you are fucking with, Morgan. We are always watching" with his voice becoming increasingly menacing near the end definitely the creepiest of the "they're watching" messages.

@thebuz is visited by Michelle from The OSDM this interaction has a similar theme as all the rest however she makes a very interesting and creepy point about poisoning someone with a sealed drink, after Buz drinks from the beer that she brought him, "Would you have to put something directly into the container or could you just rub it around the outer rim? - would you even notice". She also makes the point that "they are always watching" but participants theorize that she was alluding to the fact that there is more happening than they are currently aware of and perhaps other parties that participants have interacted with have found ways to cleverly disguise "poison".

## Otis and The Ritual

During this time, @jared notices a strange post from Otis Fletcher's Facebook page that was quickly deleted which includes a Latin phrase that translates to "I concede/submit/surrender to you" which leads participants to believe that The OSDM has gotten to Otis and he may be in danger.

About a week later, Andy (@confuseddude) sees Noah outside in public and decides to record a periscope and follow him. He follows Noah to a warehouse where he ends up in a room he clearly should not have found. There is some kind of ritual that appears to be in progress here. We see Otis first and he says "son, you should not be here!" and takes his phone and we can hear Andy starting to panic. Another voice, off screen, says "coming here you've made a terrible mistake... turn this thing off" as they struggle to turn off the phone we get a shot of a partially nude girl laying on the floor inside of a pentagram as well as some sort of idol that is being used in the ritual. Participants believe that this second voice belongs to Horace Sinclair.

Shortly after this, there is more weird activity on Otis' Facebook with several strange posts happening before the entire account is deleted (View posts). One of these posts said "I took John's phone you bastards!" and participant @mike recalls that during his first meeting with Otis he mentioned the name John. The theory is that John is actually Otis and these strange occurrences we have seen have been Otis taking over John's life and essentially giving it over to The Lust Experience.

Not long after this Otis goes live on Facebook and seems much more malicious than previous encounters with him. He has a deck of cards and uses them for a metaphor stating that "*2 of diamonds are average, everyday good people. It gets put on the bottom* of the deck" and "*The King of Clubs, is on the top. Nobody knows that he’s on the top!* ", that leads to a lot of discussion about who the king of clubs is in this situation (Read more here). Participants believe that this live video may have happened in the same location as the Sinclair periscope from the Prologue and an interesting point is made that maybe this place is not actually the Sinclair's home but some sort of safehouse being used by whoever is in control to look like a neutral home-like location.

## Stacey

First, we see Stacey's go live on Facebook to assure everyone that "Everything is fine" with IConfidant however, she looks visibly exhausted and shaken and during the video she keeps looking to someone offscreen that seems to be forcing her to make this video. Then, @daela gets a visit from Stacey at her house where she finds a wire hidden in her house and removes it for her.

The next day, Stacey goes live on Facebook again, this time she implies that everyone is bugged and being listened to. She also says that The Investors are supporting IConfidant and that "They don't want money, they want emotions". Participants find out that she has no clue who they have actually been talking to because the original iConfidant's that were planned to be a part of the program are not who participants have been communicating with.

## IConfidant Ends

Information starts leaking and rumors circulate that the friendships aren’t true, and that the program as a whole is a sort of beta test for some sort of AI. A coworker of Stacey's, named Kristen, leaks information to us through a series of dead drops and info leaks. It is rumored that Stacey has strong ties to mysterious investors and is doing all of this for them.

A meet and greet is organized, the first chance for the participants to finally meet their iConfidants in person. At the event, it is found out that Sabrina Kern has resurfaced. The OSDM had placed her into position so that she could speak with all of us directly, single-handedly gathering all of the trust and secrets that we each placed into our iConfidants.