The Jacob Delmount Saga

***The Jacob Delmount Saga*** is a Twitter + YouTube alternate reality game that was started on August 13th, 2020. The ARG uses Twitter as the base platform and cosines with YouTube as well.

The ARG finished on August 16th, 2020.

## The ARG In Its Entirety

The ARG started when a Twitter account named Jacob Delmount (@JDelmount) was created. The first Tweet Jacob ever posted was a normal Twitter #myfirstTweet post. This is where Act 1 begins.

**Act 1: The Beginning**

The ARG then kicks into full gear when Jacob announced that another user wanted to send him messages. The user he is talking to in his DMs are apparently unknown through most of the first act. The unknown Twitter user claims he has a VHS tape about a supernatural beast. The ARG then kicks into YouTube territory when the user Jacob is talking to shares his YouTube account (BlairHandTape Official) in Jacob's DMs. The first act only gets deeper as the ARG continuously cosines between the YouTube channel and Jacob's DMs.

The account (seemingly the person Jacob was talking to in the DMs) claims some bad people wanted to steal his tape footage and that he was able to fend them off. He then states that Jacob will be getting more DMs the next day, which is August 14th, for more details.

The ARG once again continues in Jacob's DMs where the channel owner states that he cannot discuss any further information to him, and that he'll have to wait until tomorrow to learn more about it. Act 1 looks to be over at this point, but a mere few minutes later on the YouTube account the owner states to talk to him through his Twitter DMs.

Back in the DMs, the owner of the YouTube account states that the video will premiere on August 16th, and that he must be there to watch the tape he has gotten a hold of. The ARG then continues for a little bitoin YouTube where the owner states that he will upload the premiere soon, and that Jacob must have notifications turned on. The video description even states Jacob should be there during the premiere.

The ARG then goes right back into his DMs when the owner reveals his identity, in which it is Josh, apparently one of Jacob's friends from school, and that he only knew about his account because Jacob specifically told him via text messages.

Act 1 then draws to a close when Josh begs him to watch the tape during the premiere, and states more info will be shared the next day. Josh then also forces Jacob to share the video link on Twitter so more people can watch and see it when it goes live on his account. Jacob ends up doing it, and states he is being forced against his will, and that he must share it or he doesn't know what will happen to him.

**End of Act 1**

**Act 2: The Impostor(s)**

Act 2 then begins wen Jacob wakes up and posts that he is back online after a good sleep. The YouTube account then posts that it was time and that Jacob would need to talk to him through his DMs. The owner of the channel then states in Jacob's DMs that he lives exactly where the events in the video took place. Around a few minutes later, the description of the video updates showing an address that Jacob had censored for privacy. The description of the video updated again after the owner of the YouTube account saw Jacob's post on Twitter, in which Jacob was understandably freaked out about.

The description of the video was updated again with a scrambled word and a random code set. As it turns out, the scrambled word was an anagram for Pastebin, and when Jacob went to the Pastebin link (pastebin.com/04mAT5zD), he was greeted with a message saying that Jacob had received a new Gmail message from apparently Josh himself. When Jacob went to his Gmail, he had received a message from Josh warning Jacob about some kind of hacker who had taken his YouTube account and his Twitter, and that Jacob is being lured into a trap.

Josh then states in Jacob's DMs basically the same things in the email, and he feels like he's being impersonated. The description of the video was once again updated, this time by the owner. It said that Josh wanted Jacob to believe him by posting the Pastebin link, and that he thought he would have the channel for ever and that Josh would never see it again. It only got more intense as the original owner and the current owner argued with each other about who owned the channel in the Discussion page.

Jacob then received another email stating that the impostor is the one trying to help Jacob and prevent him from seeing the tape. He calls that Josh a fake and that he, the current owner of the account, had already made the account before the other Josh could, and that Jacob should be there for the premiere. The ARG escalated back into Jacob's DMs where Josh tired to tell Jacob who hacked him, but then the hacker regained access to the Twitter account of Jacob's friend, and once again forced Jacob to be at the premiere.

The description of the YouTube video was updated by Josh, Jacob's friend. Josh. He states that he will try to delete the video before the premiere begins, and that he'll prepare a funeral if Josh fails to succeed in deleting the video from YouTube. He states the person uploading it has a twisted mindset, and that the hacker only wants Jacob to be there so he gets a chance to kill him, and that hopefully no one sees the video ever.

The description of the video once again updated. The owner of the channel stated that Josh cannot and will not stop the owner form showing Jacob the tape that he had found, and specifically told Josh to get off of 'his' account; It then went into Jacob's DMs when the owner stated that he had already made the account and that Jacob should not trust him as he's trying to mess with him.

The description updated again, this time saying the owner has a way to get rid of Josh. Near minutes later Jacob receives a ballistic missile threat alert on his phone and he has no idea what is going on or what he should do. Jacob then states the sirens then started blaring like crazy and that he fears it will hit him, or one of his neighbors. He then sees the missile in the sky and warns everyone that it is getting closer and closer. The missile then finally impacted at a near-by house and a loud booming sound was heard by Jacob, and then being proceeded by fire crackling.

The owner of the channel then tells Jacob in his DMs that the deed was carried out and that Jacob should check the news. Jacob then did decide to check the news, only to be horrified to see that Josh's house had burst into flames, with Josh in it.

The battle only escalated back in his DMs when the owner states that Josh won't be in his way anymore because he was dead. Jacob wanted answers about who the person who launched the missile was. The owner stated it wasn't important, but Jacob was disgusted by what he just did. The owner then decided to say that they both think they that he had it coming to him. The description of the video was once again updated in which it was taunting Jacob. Jacob then decided to go off for the day, and said he had seen enough carnage for today, and that his now-deceased friend was probably not lying to him, and that Jacob will prepare a funeral for Josh in a week.

**End of Act 2**

**Act 3: The Unknown (short)**

Jacob rushes back onto his Twitter account when he finds that the description of the video had once again updated, this time containing some type of sequence that was being initiated, but failed and ended up being corrupted. It goes back into Jacob's DMs when the owner of the channel sends him very cryptic messages that only creeps out Jacob even further.

The description updated again when the description said that the owner of the channel will find Jacob if he doesn't come to the premiere of the VHS/video. Jacob then announced he had something coming up and he couldn't be on Twitter for the rest of the day, especially since nothing was really happening while he was off of his Twitter account and that things only started happening very recently.

**End of Act 3**

**Act 4: The Beginning of the End**

Jacob comes back onto Twitter and notices that it was the day of the premiere of the tape. Soon, Jacob's DMs go back into full swing when Josh tells Jacob that it was the time and that Jacob will not perish while watching it. As it turns out, the whole tape was designed to kill Jacob, as seen on one of BlairHandTape Official's discussion posts. Josh then tries to hide it when Jacob spites with him on Jacob's DMs and say it was a funny joke, in which Jacob didn't buy for a second.

Another discussion post on the YouTube channel arrived and it was that Josh was worried that his plans had gotten out and he was unsure of what to do. We can only assume that Jacob watched the tape when it premiered, because his last post ever involved him saying that the tape was super unsettling and disturbing and that he was starting to lose his senses, which eventually led to him passing out on his keyboard and sending the message as it ends with jumbled text.

His mom rushed him to the hospital where Jacob was officially pronounced dead, which was possibly what Josh was wanting to happen to Jacob. Jacob's mom left one final message on his Twitter account before both accounts had gone completely silent ever since.

**End of ARG**

## Links

BlairHandTape Official YouTube account (BlairHandTape Official)

Jacob Delmount Twitter account (@JDelmount)