Regional Protectorates

Regional Protectorates is an unknown organization with an unclear connection to the main Hiding in My Home story. As it's discovery is so new, very little is known about the organization, as the company refuses to answer any questions.

## Discovery

### Video 22 DMs

in Dr. Tanner (22), Anthony mentions that he found some strange DMs in the private message history for the Hiding in My Home account. He then shows these three DMs on screen. The DMs are as follows, with relevant clues highlighted in **bold**:

Dm#1:

"I don't know what this is about, it's captivating, but confusing. When you made the third video I was pretty sure it was a typical ARG or something, but then the fourth and fifth ones came out and there was far less focus on code-breaking and it seems a lot more like, I don't know, just an art project or something. I have **0** idea what's going on.

First of all, one thing you should do is include more for the audience to do with each video, like at least one puzzle to work out in each video. An ARG with basically **0** puzzles isn't conventional, or a good idea. The artistry and the puzzle-solving was balanced best in Video **7**, do more like that one.

I'm sure you'll continue this until you hit **a three-digit number**, so you'll have plenty of time to implement that lol."

Dm#2:

"The poem in video ten, I found it interesting. Do you find yourself inspired by this?

Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,

Asleep on the black trunk,

Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.

Down the ravine behind the empty house,

The cowbells follow one another

Into the distances of the **aftenoon**. [sic]

To my right,

In a field of sunlight between two pines,

The **dropings** [sic] of last year's horses

Blaze up into golden stones.

I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.

A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.

I have wasted my life"

Dm#3:

"I've been watching the videos, and things look a bit worrisome for you. Be careful. Don't skip your appointments. I'm **25**, been seeing a psychiatrist since I was **9**, it's pretty much how I've remained functional, straight into adulthood

If you'd like someone to talk to, let me know and **you can email me @gmail.com**"

### Solving the DM's

Using the strange wording in the first DM, users in the HIMH discord server (Specifically Team\_Elii#2007), determined that they would have to extract a three digit number from each DM as a solution. The first and third DMs were easy, counting only the numbers that appears ad digits as opposed to being written out, the first DM resulted in the number "007", and the third DM resulted in the number "259". The second DM, however, contained no digits at all, so it was set aside for a later time.

Due to the out of place blank email in DM#3, it was decided that if the solutions were put together in order, they would reveal an email address that could be contacted for more information. With the only remaining piece being DM#2, other users set to work getting the solution. In Video 22's description, Anthony notes:

"I've started looking into them and I noticed some weird typos in the second one, but nothing else yet."

Using this, solvers found the two typos in the poem, a missing R in afternoon, and a missing P in droppings (which we know now to be the initials to Regional Protectorates). Several attempts were made to derive a three digit number from these two letters and the surrounding poem, all of which ended in an invalid email address

### The Email

The following day, user Prophet Of Cthulhu#4184 sent an email to the email address "007rp259", forgoing the three digit number for the second dm. This turned out to be the correct email address, and Prophet soon received a reply back from Regional Protectorates
The reply read:

"Thank you for your email.

If you would like to move forward, please use Twitter.com to send the following message:

@d4eonoXLm4gi4ev '[CODE]'

We appreciate your interest.

Regional Protectorates"

The email lead to a Twitter account with no activity that joined December 2020. After confirmation that the email and account was canon, several people sent in emails and sent codes to the account. The codes given are unique to each emailer, and appear to be randomly generated. To date no activity from the account has been seen.

Some small variations in the first line of the email have been noted, the following is all the ones seen so far

"You are speaking with a representative of Regional Protectorates. We are not currently answering inquiries." (The user asked if the email was from RP, and asked a question regarding Hollis Coogan)

"Thank you for your interest" (this email was lacking the "We appreciate your interest." usually seen)

Seeing as this puzzle is so new, we have yet to see what happens next. At such a time as the situation progresses, this article will be updated.

#### The second email:

On January 1st, everybody who had previously emailed Regional Protectorates got an email form Regional Protectorates, with this message in an .mp4 file (credit to @tromboomerknuckles#3239 on the discord for the transcript):

recently we received an influx of messages most of which do not follow the standard proposal format. this is unprecedented for our email proposal system -idk- which as always been uncommon something something company -idk- many of these emails are also concerning Hollis Coogan and a handful of others. These names are unfamiliar to us and we heavily discourage and further discussion of the people in question these events have prompted us to reconsider our outreach model. For those who have submitted serious proposals, you'll find out how to contact us again in the future