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Ray Dolan

**Ray Dolan** aka **Father Fungus, Basidia**, is a Hypnospace citizen in Coolpunk Paradise. He is known for creating and taking part in the Fungus Scene music movement. He describes himself as a "recording engineer, synthesizer geek, and vocalist who enjoys coming up with new ways to manipulate sound."

## Projects

### Fungus Scene

Father Fungus is famous for creating the musical movement Fungus Scene, which he created to replace the underground Coolpunk musical movement. The movement gained popularity after the decline of Coolpunk, which is widely credited to Ray's doings. it is a mushroom and cavern themed music genre, and is described on slushmouth's guide as an off-shoot of haze.

As the game progresses, Father Fungus' fungus scene project evolves from a "coming soon" page, to 4 distinct pages in Coolpunk Paradise, all have the same musical soundtrack: "PrinceOfFungi - Moonlit Sewer Garden", except the cavern, which contains "The Cavern- Wind"

**Fungus Scene About** - Ray Dolan's main HypnoS page, dedicated to educate about the Fungus Scene, and Ray Dolan as Father Fungus. in this page we learn about his relations to FRE3ZER

**Fungus Scene Manifesto** - a simple page with a few words about the Fungus Scene.

**Fungus Scene Music** - A page Featuring Basidia's "Redcap EP", and Kavernous' "Secrets Of The Slime EP".

**Cavern Entrance** - an interactive page, leading to a premier of Dripp Boy's "The Mushroom Hop".

### Discography

* Formations (3:14)
* Ghost Of The Grotto (5:49)

## Personal Life

### Coldpunk

On november 5th, Dolan claims on his official HypnoS page to be the guy behind Fre3zer, as he signed a big contract with Esotonic.

He's the behind the scenes song writer and producer, because he has stage fright. As such, Fre3zer is played by Jan Wolf on stage, and this reveal on coolfest 99 plays a big part in the fall of coolpunk and the subsequent rise of Fungus Scene's popularity. He is notably excited about this part of his career.

### Anti Coldpunk

By november 26, he removed the information about being Fre3zer, quoting a "contractual prohibition", and showing slight displeasure at this. He also pulls his art page Colder Than The Rest, stating copyright reasons.

His status also reflects a general anti Coldpunk sentiment as seen on the right.

The final evidence of his aversion to Coolpunk is the creation of his Alt account: "COOLPUNK\_IS\_DEAD", in which he expresses extreme displeasure with the commercialization of Coolpunk, and spreads the new Fungus Scene movement.
M1NX

This article may contain spoilers for

the main story of Hypnospace Outlaw.

This article is under construction.

Parts of the article may be incomplete.

M1NX is a secret hacker group that is responsible for some of the numerous hoaxes spread around Hypnospace. Some examples of such include the Beefbrain and T-Nubs rumors.

## Forum

The page itself is a forum, and its topics include members' projects as well as their opinions of both Merchantsoft and Hypnospace.

Despite the clandestine and grey-hat nature of M1NX activities on Hypnospace, their forum is frequently visited by Dylan Merchant after he had been invited to the forum by user Dumpy\_1, much to Re3koning\_inc's dismay.

## Access

Their page is hidden behind several levels of security: finding their page login requires Second Sight, logging in requires a password, and reading the posts requires Safe Mode.

### Second Sight

Second Sight, or the program 3y3.hex, can be found inside some users' FLIST pages. The file itself, though, is under samwich encryption, so the file needs to be decrypted as well. The easiest way to do this is through Roddy Wall's FLIST, as the 3y3.hex program as well as TestPet.pet, a decryptor.

After launching TestPet.pet, one can feed the 3y3.hex program to it to receive the decrypted file. Afterward, 3y3.hex can be launched without issue.

### Passwords

Once one has Second Sight, one can go to M1NX's main page and use it to find a button to log in. To log in, a combination of a username and password is required, entered as "username?password." Several working combinations can be found on Timothy Steven's page. On Tim's page, clicking "you've reached tim, leave a message at the beep" will lead to the entrance of his page. The page seems to have nothing to click on, but when Second Sight is placed over the red lines, a link is then clickable, leading to his personal Timageddon page. By Nov. 26, 1999, he had uploaded "Timageddon's Thanksgiving Password Feast" as revenge for not being let into M1NX, lining up with his previous threats at M1NX. It is a .htx file containing some M1NX users' passwords.

The passwords are as follows:

M1NX Passwords
 slushmouth?4664664219god

## Trivia

* If an entered password is close but incorrect, the login page will display a hint of the password.
NetSettler

The NetSettler logo.

**NetSettler** is an Internet service created by Merchantsoft in 1996. Unlike Hypnospace, it does not run on any platforms with Sleeptime technology, so it is used when awake like normal. It is accredited with having made the Internet an accessible space for people outside of those advanced with technology.

## History

### Reception

NetSettler seems to have been well-received, as even users who are very critical of Merchantsoft, such as re3koning\_inc, express that they prefered the way things worked on NetSettler as opposed to Hypnospace. re3koning\_inc specifically even calls themselves a "NetSettler Loyalist" on their Hypnospace page. It also seems to have generated a significant amount of revenue, as only two years after its release, Merchantsoft had enough money to begin producing the Sleeptime technology seen in HypnOS.

### Contrasts with Hypnospace

Hypnospace is based heavily on NetSettler; GearHeadGregg says that they are almost exactly the same system. Hypnospace has several differences from NetSettler, however, all of which are met with some degree of criticism. NetSettler's zones were user-organized, whereas Hypnospace's are controlled entirely by Merchantsoft. Hypnospace is also not designed to support NetSettler pages; they can only be viewed in the Hypnospace Explorer by using the Safe Mode feature in HypnoCure PRO. Steve Guy Whitacre creates the NETSETTLER SUPPORT NOW!!! page out of anger for Merchantsoft no longer supporting Netsettler, rendering his pages unreadable. All NetSettler pages are unlisted on Hypnospace.
Hypnospace Global Newsroom

* Nov. 05
* Nov. 26
* Dec. 31

### Description

Visit the Hypnospace Global Newsroom daily for all the latest national and global headlines

### Tags

>news >tech >business >politics >weather >sports >global >bytes >ticker

**Hypnospace Global Newsroom** is a page created by Merchantsoft and is located on Hypnospace Central.

## Contents

The page shows information on technology, business and politics, while also having sections for weather and sports.

* November 5
* November 26
* December 31

* Headlines:
	+ Tech giants confident: Year 2000 glitch a non-issue.
	+ King Foods shares surge after news of Boppo's buyout.
	+ President Hughes enters final year with momentum
	+ Presidential hopefuls launch sleeptime ad campaigns.
	+ Monarch investors happy with sales performance of new game system.
* Today's News Bytes:
	+ Tech: Tech Giants Believe Year 2000 Glitch Worries 'Unfounded'
	+ Bussiness: Monarch Investors Quick To Crown GameChamp Portable Following Record Sales
	+ Politics: President Hughes Enters Final Year with Huge Poll Boost

- Headlines:
	* BREAKING: 1 dead and 7 injured in Coolfest '99 Helicopter Crash
	* King Foods shares surge after news of Boppo's buyout
	* Presidential hopefuls launch sleeptime ad campaigns
	* something bad happened in the Middle-East

- Today's News Bytes:
	* Breaking: Coolfest '99 Helicopter Crash: An Icy End to a Rocky Evening
	* Bussiness: King Foods Shares Surge After News of Boppo's Merger
	* Politics: Presidential Hopefuls Dream of Sleeptime Success
	* World: Tragedy in Middle-East

- Headlines:
	* Digital Services Host Immersive High Tech New Years Eve Events
	* Sleeptime Giants Set Record Straight After "Beefbrain" Hoax
	* more bad stuff happened in some weird country somewhere. huh.

- Today's News Bytes:
	* Tech: Sleeptime Giants Host Immersive High Tech New Years Eve Events
	* Tech: Independent Health Experts Put "Beefbrain" Hoax To Bed
	* Crime: Crooking Back: 5 of 1999's Wackiest Criminals
Hypnospace Central

* November
* December

### Description

Welcome to Hypnospace! Rated best Sleeptime Social Network by ARCMag. Need help? Come here!

### Music

Nov 5/26: Chet Pinehurst - Global GrooveDec 31: Merchantsoft Creative Team - Hypnospace Millennium Lounge Team

**Hypnospace Central** is a zone meant to be a starting place for new users. In addition to this, it houses official Merchantsoft pages such as the Global Newsroom and official guides.

> "*Whether you're new to Hypnospace or a veteran Citizen, you've come to the right place.
>
> Click the image to the left to access our "Getting Started" section. After that, check out the Global Newsroom – our virtual newspaper, and then read Hypnospace Guides for exclusive material from the celebs you love! Whoever you are, you're home in Hypnospace!*"
> ― Header Description
>
>

The header includes a link to a "Getting Started" section and a video series introduction for new Hypnospace users.

## Users and pages

* Merchantsoft: **Hypnospace Global Newsroom**
	+ **Bio:** Visit the Hypnospace Global Newsroom daily for all the latest national and global headlines
* Merchantsoft: **HypnoCure**
	+ **Bio:** HypnoCure Anti-virus software for HypnOS. Don't surf Hypnospace without it!
* Merchantsoft: **Hypnospace Guides**
	+ **Bio:** Lost? Let our verified experts lead the way.
* Merchantsoft: **Merchantsoft**
	+ **Bio:** Find out more about Merchantsoft, the team behind Hypnospace and HypnOS!
* Merchantsoft: **TV Spot Survey**
	+ **Bio:** Complete our brief survey and we'll send you 11 Hypnocoin instantly!

## Gallery

Hypnospace Central full page as shown on Nov. 5Hypnospace Central full page as shown on Nov. 26Hypnospace Central full page as shown on Dec. 31
Sarah Sanders

**Sarah Sanders,** or **QueenOfSanderverse,** is a Hypnospace user from the Freelands.

## Projects

### The Sanderverse

Sarah has a character, Sarahnia, in her husband Gill's Interactive Theater campaign The Sanderverse. Sarah has also drawn a lot of art of various Sanderverse characters, as well as a cactus with an arrow. She believes that Gill's art is much better than her own.

## Personal life

Sarah is happily married to Gill Sanders, and she seems to devote a lot of her attention to him. She likes his music and art, and most of her own art is for The Sanderverse, which she regards as his project. She also spends a lot of time thinking about what he thinks, as two of the three opinions in her "Quick Opinions" section are mostly reactions to his opinions.

In Sarah's FLIST directory, a collection of poetry can be found which suggests Sarah may actually have felt conflicting emotions about her married life. She later updates this directory, revealing that her FLIST account had been kept a secret from Gill.

### Badges

Sarah's badges are:

* HS\_InteractiveTheater
* HS\_Creativity
* HS\_CyberCog
Scaries

**Scaries** are works of horror-themed digital art. Scaries are not defined by a single medium: Linda Stevens's Scaries are short animations, DarkTwilightTiff and T1MAGEDDON's Scaries are interactive stories, and there are brief mentions of Tiff's old poem Scaries and another user's song Scaries. Scaries are defined by their community, one that originated in the defunct zone The Comic Shop.

## Notable Scaries

### True Tranquility

*True Tranquility* is an interactive story by T1MAGEDDON with feedback from DarkTwilightTiff. It has four different paths with the same basic plot: a character with a sad, pathetic life finds a virus that makes tentacles explode out of their screen and turns them into a skeleton, which is apparently what the character had been looking for all along.

*True Tranquility* is fictional in-universe, but it references a lot of Hypnospace Outlaw's actual plot. The fictional virus is named True Tranquility and has images similar to Tim's actual True Tranquility virus later in the game. Each path of *True Tranquility* cruelly satirizes a different Hypnospace user.

### Linda's Scaries

Linda Stevens's Scaries are short looping animations accompanied by a couple sentences of description. The ones displayed on her page are:

* "Prank Call," a rotary telephone whose dial is actually a fanged mouth. It devours a hand reaching to pick up the phone.
* "Clam Surprise (Depths Series)," a clam with a bloody, fanged mouth and glowing red eyes.
* "Sea sHell (Depths Series)," a seashell, also with a bloody, fanged mouth and glowing red eyes.
* "Whale of a Crime (Depths Series)," a whale stabbing an off-panel victim and spouting water from its blowhole.

### Smoulder Boulder

Smoulder Boulder is an interactive story by DarkTwilightTiff.

## Trivia

* Scaries are a likely reference to real-world Creepypasta fiction and community works
Tamara Frost

**Tamara Frost**, usernames **TamaraFrost2** and **HAP\_Tamara**, is a Spoken Word poet. She has pages in The Cafe, Coolpunk Paradise and Starport Castle Dreamstation.

## Projects

### Hypnospace Pages

In 1999, Tamara's main site has pages for her Spoken Word recording "I Choose" and several of her written poems. She also has a link to her Coolpunk page, where she has a Spoken Word interpretation of the Gray's Peak theme song. On December 31st, Tamara creates a page in Starport Castle Dreamstation complimenting them for their love for dragons and fantasy things. This has no reaction to anyone else in the zone as due to Merchantsoft slowing speeds of the Freelands and then with Re3koning\_Inc practically destroying the Freelands, everyone else has joined Cyberworldz.

### Hypnospace Archival Project

In the present day, Tamara is part of the Hypnospace Archival Project. On the Lost and Found page, she asks the player to help her find old recordings by Kevvinn-J, a friend of hers and now apparently a famous rapper.

## Personal life

In 1999, Tamara is a recent college graduate (although her status bar describes her as still in college). She believes that she's going to be a famous poet, but for now is a telemarketer. She is also an interpretive dancer.

By the present day, Tamara has become a poet for children and has published two anthologies "that your kids have probably seen at their school library." She is better known as T. Frost.
Monarch

Monarch is a company known for creating games consoles. It's heavily advertised on Teentopia due to Squisherz, a game that many Teentopia users enjoy, being released for the platform. Monarch is a Hypnospace Partner Brand.

The only known consoles the company made are the GameChamp Portable and the GameChamp Ultra CD Console.

## Trivia

* According to the developers, Monarch is a Japanese-American company based in Japan.
* Despite mostly working on game consoles, SquisherZ was created by Monarch's own developers.
* The GameChamp Portable is mostly inspired by the Game Boy Color (With the design being similar to the Game Boy Advance) and the GameChamp Ultra CD is probably inspired by the Sega Saturn and the original PlayStation.
Samantha Clausson

This article may contain spoilers for

the main story of Hypnospace Outlaw.

**Samantha Clausson,** aka **MS\_Samantha** and **HAP\_Chelsea**, is a former Merchantsoft employee and Hypnospace Archival Project team member. She guides the player as they search for evidence that Dylan Merchant caused the Mindcrash.

## Projects

### Home page

Samantha has a home page in The Cafe with several blog posts about her job at Merchantsoft. She tries to make her experience sound positive, but it's clear how overextended the company is. The page uses the Bubblegum Template, but it's been modified from the default design to look more sophisticated and professional.

### HypnoCure

Samantha is the lead developer of Hypnocure, Hypnospace's official anti-virus software.

### HSPD

Dylan, tired of Samatha's nagging, reassigns her to the Hypnospace Enforcer Department as a way to get her off his back. She is one of few characters that the player keeps a regular connection with as she works in the HSPD.

### Hypnospace Archival Project

Years after the Mindcrash, she founded the Hypnospace Archival Project under the pseudonym HAP\_Chelsea. On her HAP team page, she claims it's because she's nostalgic; however, she is searching for evidence of Dylan Merchant's guilt in causing the Mindcrash. She recruits the player because she needs a former Enforcer. Enforcer headbands automatically archive pages that are otherwise lost.

## Personal life

Samantha lists Dylan Merchant as her "cool boss" on her page, but in private ChitChats with him and emails about him to the player, she doesn't cut him any slack. Samantha was initially hired as a programmer but was later put in charge of HSPD Dispatch. Dylan Merchant wanted her to stop nagging him about keeping Hypnospace  stable, so he pushed her aside.
Czechimation

Czechimation is an art medium set to appear in Dreamsettler. Not much is currently known about it other than though it may parallel how anime was treated in America once it exploded, it is planned to be its own thing and have many things regarding that one parallel changed.

So far, the only known possible Czechimation series may be Golem Master.
Tunebox

Tunebox with the default skin

**Tunebox** or **DM\_Tunebox** is the music playing software for HypnOS. It was created by Dylan Merchant.

## Design and Function

Tunebox's design is very simple, as it is just meant to play music that the player receives on Hypnospace. When a player downloads an `.aud` or `.hsm` file the music will be added to the Tunebox library, where they can look through and select songs to listen to. The player cand also play and pause music, as well as moving forward or back through the selected songs in the library while playing. Clicking "SKINS" will change the design of the Tunebox window.

## How to Access

Tunebox is automatically installed with HypnOS, to access, the player simply clicks on the boombox icon to open it.

## Trivia

* One of the available skins (the head skin) is a reference to the Headspace skin of Windows Media Player.
StikBrix

**StikBrix** is a brand of construction set toys featuring interlocking bricks (analogous to real-world LEGO). Its tagline on Hypnospace describes it as "a Construction Toy with ATTITUDE." It becomes an Official Hypnospace Partner Brand sometime between the dates of November 26 and December 31 in 1999.

## StikBrix Brick Placer

The Hypnospace page for StikBrix features a downloadable program called the StikBrix Brick Placer which can be bought with Hypnocoin. The program lets the user place stickers of StikBrixs on their desktop, which the user can use to construct something with by moving the stickers around.
TestPet

**TestPet** is a prototype virtual pet created by Roddy Wall. It showcases all the features that are found in the official Hypnospace virtual pets, though is not officially available for download.

## How to Access

The TestPet is not officially listed on Hypnospace. Instead, it has to be downloaded from Roddy Wall's FLIST, who is the creator of the pet.

## Description and Function

The creature itself consists of a large, yellow eyeball with what looks to be a red cape hanging from it. Apart from its appearance when compared to the other virtual pets, it functions the exact same, requiring food and affection, while leaving poop all over the desktop.

## Trivia

* TestPet's design is heavily based on Muleta, of the Taurus and Muleta comic series. Muleta herself is a floating red cape with a single, large eye, though TestPet lacks a gold tassle under the eye and has a less upturned collar than Muleta.
The Comic Shop

**The Comic Shop** is a former Hypnospace Zone that was merged with four other zones (Sci-Fi Starport, Cybercog Station, The Dream Station, Gamerz Only) to create Starport Castle Dreamstation. It is referenced heavily in the Freelands and is well known for being the originator of Scaries, digital horror themed stories.

In her tribute to the now deleted zone, Linda Stevens notes how nearly no users "other than Roddy & Blastroidio" were actual avid comics fans. Most Comic Shop users likely shared interests in movies, TV and other similar mediums as Linda notes how most members were "movie buffs & couch potatoes."

## Users and Pages

Due to the deletion of the zone, it is impossible to know exactly what pages and users were listed in the Comic Shop. The list below is based on information gathered from the rest of Hypnospace.

* LindaHorror's Linda's Horror page. Linda's personal page where she shares her projects, artwork and thoughts.
* DoubleSofaSlug's Double Witness Lounge page. A page dedicated to discussion and speculation on the mystery drama Double Witness
* RingleaderRoddy's The Bullring page. A Taurus fansite.
* A user known as Blastroidio is mentioned to be a part of the zone.
~DYLANSPAGE.hsp

## Home Page of Dylan Merchant

* Nov. 05
* Nov. 26
* Dec. 31

~DYLANSPAGE.hsp on Nov. 5 (taken from PC version)

~DYLANSPAGE.hsp on Nov. 26 (taken from PC version)

~DYLANSPAGE.hsp on Dec. 31 (taken from PC version)

~DYLANSPAGE.hsp, also known as Home Page of Dylan Merchant, is Dylan's home page. The page mainly contains information on Dylan and his various projects.

## Nov 5, 1999

The page features a black background with green pipes outlining it. The top of the page welcomes the user to Dylan's official home page and has four flashing links below. The first three are jump links to further down the page, while the third is a link to ~DYLANSMUSIC.hsp. Dylan then writes that he has been "tamed" and is coding projects day and night.

The next part of the page, separated by dashes, is focused on his first big project, DM\_Tunebox, an open-source audio player for FlamingOS. He notes that he created a Beta version for HypnOS to play HSM files in addition to the previous format. Ending the section, he notes that the reader should acquire music legally and references that DigiXChange had been shut down.

The next section tackles a "Secret Project" of his, saying that it is a unique gaming experience intended to connect people and revolutionize the industry, making Hypnospace the Sleeptime Network of choice.

The last section focuses on Dylan himself, and there is a picture of him holding a bottle. It notes some of his likes, such as programming, some of his dislikes, such as artificial boundaries, and his relationship with Adrian Merchant, his brother. He writes that he is often known as the "creative" and fun one of the two while Adrian is the "business" one of them. In addition, he calls himself the one with the talent and Adrian a "balding stiff" that makes deals, though he says that the latter has accepted this dynamic. He ends the section by noting that Adrian is still a great guy and brother, and below this is an HS\_TechClub badge.

### Links to:

* The Cafe
* ~DYLANSMUSIC.hsp

## Nov 26, 1999

The page remains mostly the same save for a section under the link to his music page that reads "HAZE-O-PEDIA," giving a brief summary of the project itself: a guide to the Haze music genre he is working on with a few other "fellow music snobs" as a friendlier guide to the genre than Slushmouth's.

### Links to:

* The Cafe
* ~DYLANSMUSIC.hsp
* ~HAZEOPEDIA.hsp

## Dec 31, 1999

The page remains the same, save for a small section below the ~DYLANSMUSIC.hsp link. It is a small message to the press asking them to message Dylan if they want information on a "new Hypnospace Game Experience" via receiving a press version, though he notes that the slots are filling quickly.

### Links to:

* The Cafe
* ~DYLANSMUSIC.hsp
* ~HAZEOPEDIA.hsp
Character Groups / Alignments

The most notable character groups are the super hero’s, super rebels, citizens of Mirage and of course the hyper advanced AI Robots. Depending on the timeline the citizens of Mirage can either be on the Hero's side or the Robots side. In addition Earlier on in the storyline the Super Rebels were simply regular Super Heros.
Terry's Worm Log

## Page Information

**Terry's Worm Log** is a page created by Terry Tukums where he chronicles the worms he has found every month.

## Description

The page features a simple brown background and underlined titles stating each month, with a picture of a worm or worms underneath. Text giving Terry's thoughts on the worm(s) appears under every picture and there is a picture of a worm for every month of the year except for May, when a picture of a brush is present instead.

## Gallery

janfebruarymarchapril, augustmayjunejulySeptemberoctobernovemberdecember
True Tranquility (Story)

The four "digital parasites" which can be chosen

**True Tranquility** is an interactive story created by both T1MAGEDDON and DarkTwilightTiff. It also acts as a guide for Case #4, pointing the Enforcer in the direction of the pages affected by the shock images.

## Description

To begin a story, the user first chooses one of four "digital parasites" represented by spinning cards, with these representing actual Hypnospace users. The cards are:

* The Rockstar, based on Erick "The Chowder Man" Helman
* The Furniture Salesman, based on Alan Reynolds who is better known as ARLAN\_FER\_OBBEE
* The Lonely Shaman, based on Gus Parker from Gus's Temple of Serenity in the Open Eyed Zone
* The Biker, based on Carl Parker III of Goodtime Valley

Each card, when clicked, leads to a unique backstory about the person in question. These stories are based in truth, mentioning Chowder Man's fall from stardom for example, or the death of Carl's wife, Lisa. All stories lead however to the person encountering a link to a website called True Tranquility.

Upon clicking on the link, the user is brought to a fake website which claims that by accepting the True Tranquility website terms, they will be granted what they long for (in Gus' case for example, "true companionship" and "to be loved").

Accepting the terms causes the fake website to glitch, and leads to the end of the story, where an image is shown of tentacles emerging from a screen to consume the "digital parasite" and finally grant them "true tranquility". From here, the user can restart with a different card, but all stories end the same.

## Role in the Plot

Everyone represented by the cards is a subject of Case #4 after having their pages hacked and shock imagery placed on them. The Enforcer can thereby easily identify the affected pages based on the backstories and flag the contentious content. The perpetrator of the hacking is T1MAGEDDON, the main creator behind the True Tranquility story, and the hacker wrongly blamed for the Mindcrash after creating a Mindcrash virus which affected Teentopia.

## Trivia

* Clicking on any of the buttons on the fake website will cause pop-up messages to appear, scolding the user for their stupidity.
* While both Tiffany and Tim worked on the project, Tiffany claims her role was merely editing, with Tim doing the rest of the work. However, in Tiffany's FLIST directory, a text document can be found revealing that she was the one who originally thought of the idea for the story.
FlamingOS

FlamingOS is an operating system released in 1998 which is mentioned on Dylan's homepage, Linda's Scaries, WITW and The Dumpster. It shares a name with, and may be a direct reference to, the operating system in the game *Frog Days*. (The creator of *Frog Days* also composed the music for Zaréd Ecoheart in *Hypnospace Outlaw*.) FlamingOS was the place where ChitChat was originally released.
Link Skills

During HQ Orders and Duels, you can use certain combinations of character cards in your decks in order to get multiplier bonuses applied to the entire row. For example, when fighting a wraith with a weakness to TECH, you could use Koga, Kuya, Ginnojo, Aoi, and Yura together in your main deck for a +40% bonus to their total TECH.

The Support Partner you choose also counts towards these bonuses! Meaning that if you were in the above scenario and you didn't have a powerful Ginnojo card, you could choose someone with a Ginnojo card to be your support partner and still get that +40% bonus.

Three skills can be applied per deck row, for a total of 9 in a Full Assault. Skills can be repeated, so you could have each row use the *Dawn Faction Unite!* skill if each row had the requisite characters.

Optimizing your deck does **not** take skills into account. It only sorts your cards by their relevant Affinity power level. To get the most out of your deck, it may be better to manually choose them and figure out the best character and card combinations to use.
The Dumpster

## Page Information

**The Dumpster** is an unlisted Hypnospace site run by an unknown individual, or group of individuals (known as dumpy\_1 in M1NX and credited as Moe Dem on the site). It is a satire comedy site focused around satirizing and making fun of many of Hypnospace's worst users, technology, pages, etc.

## History

The Dumpster was created early on- around the same year that Hypnospace was released. It has remained mostly underground and unlisted, which means that only users with a link to the site, or the search function can find it. However, a large amount of users still seem to know about it, as they frequently mention articles that the site posts, such as the Goodtime Valley reacting to the Dumpster after they had made fun of Arlan for his Hallowe'en desktop wallpaper.

The Dumpster releases annual awards called "The Dumpies," handing out awards to different users based on their pages for different categories (e.g. Abusing a particular template, or a Chaos Award).

On December 26, the writer of The Dumpster went on hiatus, saying that they were tired of all the horrible garbage on Hypnospace.

## Trivia

* The Dumpster is partially inspired by and bears similarities to the comedy website Something Awful, which creator Jay Tholen occasionally frequented.

## References

1. ↑ https://variety.com/2019/gaming/columns/how-hypnospace-outlaws-fake-internet-reveals-the-flaws-in-our-own-1203176036/. Variety Hypnospace Article. Retrieved Sep 6, 2020.
Timageddon's Thanksgiving Password Feast

Timageddon's Thanksgiving Password Feast is a txt file that can be downloaded after using Second Sight to access Tim's page. It contains ChitChat passwords and M1NX passwords due to Tim being denied access into it.

## TXT File

  $$=====  T1MAGEDDON'S  =====$$

$$$=====  THANKSGIVING  =====$$$

$$$$===== P4SSWORD F3AST =====$$$$

Son of Tim here. My father spent two weeks collecting these passwords for you ungrateful imbeciles. Be thankful.

PS - He's working on a VERY special Christmas gift for you all too.

M1NX

- underground hacker group, pretty cool. -

  - let me post and I won't leak your passwords again >:)

FORMATTING NOTE: username?password

- SOME OF THESE MAY NOT WORK, TRY THEM ALL -

dumpy\_1?hsistrash93444

re3koning\_inc?4hrsmnap0lly0nouz996\_6\_2

80085?69noizpusher69

jezz0?dontcareabc123

slushmouth?4664664219god

PG 2: ChitChat for HypnOS

ChitChat for HypnOS

/user/ Ginsby9\_4U \pass\ hey2sexy

/user/ ZANE\_ROCKS\_14 \pass\ sykey2000

/user/ MS\_AdrianMerchant \pass\ falcon123

/user/ RealChowderMan \pass\ iamthechowderman

/user/ DinkDinkersen \pass\ dink2

/user/ MCOozeman \pass\ rarahorus296

/user/ ThatBrassyKid \pass\ 2pizza3yum

More to come!!!
Definable Location

In the small and odd town Mirage there are a few definable locations. The first one presented to a newcomer is the enormous Robot statue at the entrance of Mirage on Main Street. Thousands of Robot Statues were funded and created by the goverment as a thank you to the German Scientists that created the AI that has kept so many americans safe. This statue and all the other definable locations can be found on the Mirage Map .

The town center runs along side the river and Mirage Lake, in which you'll find the AI Regional database and Police Station. It sticks out from the other relatively old looking buildings as its a huge gray cube building with increaibly high walls.
~EASYSURVEY-FIN.hsp

## EasySurvey-Fin

* Nov. 05
* Nov. 26

~EASYSURVEY-FIN.hsp is the end page of a Hypnospace survey by Merchantsoft to gauge citizen feedback. It can be accessed by following through a Merchantsoft survey to the end.

## Nov 5, 1999

The page is mainlly white with a light-blue center thanking the user for their time and asking them to close the page. The top left features a purple Hypnospace logo.
Children of Horus

The group's calling card, the Eye of Horus

The **Children of Horus**, standing for Children of Hiding Occult References in Utmost Secrecy, were a group of individuals who competed to hide occult symbols (namely the Eye of Horus) in everyday media, including Hypnospace pages. Their existence was largely unknown except to members of the group.

## Organization and Members

Little is known about the internal structure of the group; in fact it is even unknown who the leader of the group was (if there even was a de facto leader). The organization did however have many famous members who partook in the group's competitions. None of the members listed their full first names on the group's hidden website (only the first letter), but it's simple to deduce who they were. Members included:

* Adrian Merchant, chief executive officer of Merchantsoft
* Artie Dispenza, artist responsible for the Earthhaze genre and creator of the Hypnospace logo
* Carrie Jacob, co-star of the TV show Desperate in Dallas, Montana
* F. Kazuma, likely a developer or character designer for SquisherZ
* A. Larsson, identity unknown
* Erick Helman, better known as Chowder Man (Disqualified)
* M. Truk, identity unknown (Disqualified)

## Competitions

The Children of Horus held annual competitions where members tried to hide as many occult symbols in media without them being found. A scoreboard was posted on the group's website which kept track of the competition standings.

While rules clearly existed for these competitions, only Rule 2 is known: do not mention the Children of Horus by name. During the 1999 annual competition, Erick Helman was disqualified for breaching Rule 2.

After every competition, a winner's banquet and "ritual cleansing" would be held. Practically nothing is known about these events, save for their existence

## Trivia

* The 1999 winner's banquet was due to be held in Basement 2 of King Foods Amphitheater, the same location where Coolfest '99 was held.
Tagging system

Hypnospace has a tagging system to help users browse and search pages. Hypnospace pages have a list of tags in the right sidebar. You can click on tags there, or search them in the search bar above, to get a list of pages that have those tags. Some page will have badges, which will automatically add the badge name to the list of tags.
Elemental Dragons bound to their Oracles Flee to the Stars

While the battle rages against the shadowlands and humanity loses more ground everyday against the horde, the elemental Oracles rally and seize the leadership of their respective (decimated) clan to show the way forward: to the stars.

The Oracle of Fire, Shiba Fujimachi, leads the Phoenix escape.

The Oracle of Water, Akodo Yariburo, does the same for the Lion.

And the Oracle of Air, Doji Gentsuko, for the Crane.

And the Oracle of Earth, Hida Tankyo, for the Crab.

And the Oracle of the Void, Togashi Daidazu, for the Dragon.

And the Oracle of Shadow, Bayushi Fukenbuki, for the Scorpion.

And the Oracle of Obsidian and Jade, Shinjo Hanabaku, for the Unicorn.

And the Oracle of Thunder, Yoritomo Waichiro, for the Mantis.

All clans survivors end up scattered in the cosmos, their ships first tailing an elemental Dragon, but soon wandering in uncertainty...
An Oath Sworn in Gold

* "Special Event Patrols" will be available during the event period. You'll be challenged to "Duels" by the Ayakashi during these patrols. Win them to collect "Event Points".
* Event Rewards will be automatically sent to your Present Box.
* 40 LP Patrols have increased gem and Event Duels drop rates.
* 80 LP Patrols are only available for 2 hours during the first three days, and again on the last day. These patrols will trigger Duels on every turn.
* Triggering any type of Duel depends on your RNG luck.
* ~~For more info, see Event Guide and Revival Event Guide.~~

* Unused items will disappear after the event.

* Unused items will disappear after the event.
* Some of these can only be obtained with paid diamonds.

## Event

* Duels
* Event Point Bonus
* Ranking
* Event Draw
* Premium Cards

  Details
* **25 Diamonds or 1 Event Ticket** - One Time
* **250 Diamonds** - Ten Times
* **125 Diamonds** - Five Times
* **SR** guaranteed for each ten pull.

* "Premium" cards can help you clear events with greater ease. However, once the event has ended, their Effects will also end.
* An arrow(s) will be displayed on the upper right side of the card's icon indicating their strength.
* Draw SSR ↑↑: 540% - 1200% UP | 500pt - 2500pt UP
 **Start:** 12/30/2020 at 3:00 UTC **End:** 1/12/2021 at 3:00 UTC
The Stadium

December

### Music

Pippy Jones & Derek Nova - International TRENNIS Cyclic Men's final at Boppo's Arena

**The Stadium** is a planned sports-themed zone. It was supposed to launch on Jan 7, 2000, but Hypnospace ended before it could be open to the public.

Adrian Merchant was particularly invested in the success of The Stadium, in hopes that it would attract the average American demographic to Hypnospace, who he feared may view the platform as a "geek club". On Oct 7, 1999, Adrian went so far as to request Dylan Merchant to cap the speeds of half of the current Hypnospace zones so The Stadium and its potential userbase could be put on Merchantsoft's high priority "speedy1" server.

The Stadium was officially sponsored by Trennis and American League Football, and was planned to feature athlete interviews, scoreboards and additional news on the two, as well as Baseball, "Brick Toss" and "Maskslamming."

The audio playing on The Stadium's home page is a sports commentary track titled "International TRENNIS Cyclic Men's Final at Boppo's Arena," starring Pippy Jones and Derek Nova. The page advertised this as a "small taste" of The Stadium's weekly Trennis audio highlights.

## Gallery

Adrian asks Dylan to throttle speeds in favor of The StadiumThe Stadium as it appears on the Hypnospace Homepage
True Tranquility (Virus)

True Tranquility is a virus made by T1MAGEDDON that was sent in emails to employees at Merchantsoft and several Hypnospace citizens: ARLAN\_FER\_OBEE, ParkerStudios1, BurnRubber50, RealChowderMan and Dylan Merchant although Dylan managed to get the virus off his page before the case becomes active. The virus was made alongside the True Tranquility story by Tim to impress DarkTwilightTiff. When someone opens the link inside the email, it brings them to a fake browser like from the story, before downloading the virus itself which causes popups and images to appear on an infected person's desktop, along with replacing their page by a beating heart with eyes.
The Y2000 Mindcrash (Page)

## Page Information

*Not to be confused with the Mindcrash (Event) or the Mindcrash (Virus)*.

**The Y2000 Mindcrash** is a page from the Hypnospace Archival Project (HAP) Intranet. It describes the publicly-believed (but wrong) story about the Mindcrash. It claims that Tim Randall Stevens' Mindcrash virus caused the Mindcrash instead of Dylan Merchant's broken car game.

## Content

The page focuses largely on Tim and his life since the Mindcrash, including a quote from a newspaper article about him and an apology that he wrote. He was blamed for the Mindcrash, convicted with manslaughter and served 6 years in prison, which ultimately changed him for the better. Over time, he tried to come to terms with his actions and make amends with the Mindcrash victims' families. He got married, had a daughter, and eventually joined the HAP. He fully believes that the MIndcrash was his fault, blaming it on his "juvenile insecurities", and after many years, the deaths and injuries he believes he caused still haunt him.

## Design

The page is designed with the Bubblegum Template, but the colors have been toned down from the default and the weird graphics have been removed, so the page looks more serious. It still has the goofy header font, though. It is published by Tamara Frost, one of the leaders of the HAP.
Vergil Timothy

Vergil Timothy is the creator of the Taurus and Muleta comic series. Vergil printed the comics in the back of his mother's house and while at a comic convention, it was noticed by toy company Gurgell. Due to Gurgell and Bixby Comics' changes, Vergil was left with a smaller amount of control over his product and after it's original idea of bullfighting angered the media, it marked the end of his career.
Timothy Randall Stevens

This article may contain spoilers for

the main story of Hypnospace Outlaw.

**Timothy "Tim" Randall Stevens**, better known as **T1MAGEDDON** or **SonOfTim** is a Hypnospace citizen and major character in Hypnospace Outlaw. He gains notoriety as a teen hacker after being accused of causing the Y2K Mindcrash event.

## Personal life

### History

Tim Randall Stevens' personal page is located in Teentopia and is only accessible through the use of 3y3. He first appears in Hypnospace Outlaw as the creator of True Tranquility, both the story and the virus. During the story, his relationship with Tiffany begins to deteriorate, and he plans to create the Mindcrash to have the opportunity to chat with her again. Tim also attempts to get into the elite hacker group M1NX, which he repeatedly tries to impress.

On New Year's Day, when the Mindcrash occurs, Hypnospace headbands suffer crashes resulting in multiple users being injured and a few even dying. Tim is accused of manslaughter and is sentenced to prison for six years, despite it having been Dylan who caused the Y2K Mindcrash.

In the present day, he is one of the four members of the Hypnospace Archival Project. He claims to have a job in computer security, as well as a wife and daughter.

### Personality

Tim is shown to be extremely tech-savvy. He uses the 3y3 tool to hide access to his personal page and is shown to be a talented hacker. His hacking achievements include obtaining passwords to M1NX accounts, programming and spreading multiple viruses, using a ChitChat spying program to watch MerchantSoft conversations, and even finding a method to edit other users' Hypnospace pages (including entire zones, as demonstrated during his Mindcrash scare). He's also a musician, having created the song that plays on the pages affected by the True Tranquility virus.

Tiffany describes him as "a little crazy." He's shown to be somewhat rude, making fun of some of the users featured in True Tranquility. He continually attempts get into M1NX and to impress Tiffany. He habitually takes things too far while trying to impress Tiffany. For example, the Mindcrash hoax, Digital parasite, and others initially being 'Scaries,' something Tiffany had enjoyed making.

## Trivia

* He is portrayed by Peter Swimm
* He shares a last name with Linda Stevens, but there is no indication that they are related.
* His "Son of Tim" character resembles Anthrax's mascot, "Notman."

## Gallery

An image of Tim from his page background.An alternate image of TimTim during present day
Trennis

**Trennis** is a sport similar to real-world tennis, but it's played on a circular court with three sections and a spot in the middle with a Center Grabber. User TruthAboutTrennis alleges that Trennis is a ripoff of Tennis, a game invented by her distant relative, Harry "Whiskers" Stone.

The Trennis theme song is "Sport Anthem," composed by Casper Sundberg of Klyfta. Trennis is also a sponsor of The Stadium, a zone that was planned for the Y2K update.

There is a broadcast of a Trennis game in the Stadium on New Years Eve.

## Trivia

* Trennis is the earliest point of difference between our timeline and Hypnospace Outlaw's timeline.
~UBIQUITOUS.hsp

## UBIQUITOUS

* Nov. 05
* Nov. 26
* Dec. 31

UBIQUITOUS as it appears in-game Nov. 05 (PC version)

UBIQUITOUS as it appears in-game Nov. 26 (PC version)

OMNIPRESENCE as it appears in-game Dec. 31 (PC version)

**~UBIQUITOUS.hsp**, also known as **UBIQUITOUS** or **OMNIPRESENCE**, is a Hypnospace user page created by Artie Dispenza and located in The Cafe.

## Content

**UBIQUITOUS** is a brief page intending to document the "Hypnospace Logo Story"; despite this, the page features no relevant text. Rather, it consists mainly of graphs and images that supposedly went into Dispenza's process to create the Hypnospace logo. There are several keywords across the page meant to portray the concepts Dispenza kept in mind when designing the logo ("hand-colored texture", "symbol: eye", "triangles & angles", etc).

### December 31

Notably, **UBIQUITOUS** is heavily overhauled to feature "A New Logo Story" by December 31. There is a sharp contrast between the page's update and the previous content it withheld throughout the game. While the page retains the same URL, it has since been renamed to **OMNIPRESENCE**. All graphs and draft content that were available before this date have been removed. Instead, there are only several pasted images of the newly finished Hypnospace 2.0 logo. However, the page retains similar briefness as the previous rendition and contains no relevant text, but rather several keywords likely related to the concepts Dispenza desired to capture with the new logo design ("rounded", "glass", "familiar", "celestial", etc).

## Design

The page features a unique layout when compared to most other pages. It's heavily visual and doesn't include any text beyond the keywords and labels attached to graphs. It appears to have been a physical document that was scanned and placed on the page as an image.

### December 31

Unlike before, it appears the page was built completely within the Page Builder rather than being a scanned document. However, the layout is otherwise similar to the previous appearance of the page throughout the game and it remains largely visual, with little text besides seemingly random keywords.

## Trivia

* "The Hypnospace Universe" graphs included in **UBIQUITOUS** parody the real-life document "Pepsi - The Golden Ratio".
* The "Oscillations" gif for the Hypnospace logo appears to feature a Celtic cross, a Yin-yang symbol, a pentacle, and the Eye of Horus.
	+ Dispenza is known to be a member of the Children of Horus, whose goal is to hide the Eye of Horus in public view.
T-Nubs

The dreaded T-Nubs themselves

**T-Nubs** (also known as **Butt Beans** or **Devil's Fingers**) are a fake drug created by M1NX member Jezzo which Counsellor Ronnie warns parents and teens about.

## Description

All of the "information" about T-Nubs comes from Counsellor Ronnie's page. T-Nubs are supposedly drug-laced suppositories that makes a user high when inserted into the anus, an act known as "shonking". Most teens apparently take them as a dare and side effects are said to include heart palpitations, damage to the "frontial and sidial" lobes of the brain (which do not exist) and eventually, death.

The music that plays on Counsellor Ronnie's page is an "Anti T-Nub Rap" entitled "Snub the 'Nub'". The drugs are also a central focus of the game Drug Runners, in which Ronnie must avoid T-Nub dealers.

## End of the Hoax

As of December 31st, all of the information on Ronnie's T-Nub page has been erased completely, either by himself or an Enforcer. The song on his page is also different now, with the "Snub the Drug" rap playing instead. All references to T-Nubs in the song and in the description of the Drug Runners game have been removed.

## Trivia

* T-Nubs' general appearance seem to be entirely based on tampons.