Mossmanfan2009

mossmanfan2009 is a Youtuber with about 490 subscribers and over 16k views altogether. mossmanfan2009's channel appears to be entirely centered around the character Dr. Judith Mossman, who appears in Half-Life 2 (and its episodes) and can be found in Garry's Mod as a spawnable NPC or ragdoll as well.

mossmanfan2009's channel is missing a description.

## ARG Details

There is a major lack of information on mossmanfan2009's ARG, however it's known that it's linked to mysterious "shadow people". The channel appears to be disguised as a generic shitpost-based channel, but seems to be hiding something dark. The protagonist of the ARG appears to be an unknown character, who is probably a sentient ragdoll.

## Videos

### mossmanmonday092721.wav

This appears to be a shitpost video that doesn't feature ARG content and therefore will be skipped. It appears to be a generic "<character> <day>" type meme.

### mossmanmondayparty!!!!.wmv

A continuation of mossmanmonday092721.wav. In the beginning, a white text on a blue screen is shown, saying "it's mossman monday!!!". The blue screen fades out and the next scene features Mossman standing motionlessly in a forest map. After a while, more Mossman models appear and begin dancing. Colored lights can be seen in the background. Unimportant things seem to be happening, but in the 10th second of the video, a code appears for a very short period of time (YmxmIGdmeXYgWFd5ZEc2dFhDRXg=). Upon being decoded, it leads to a video called "Jlct uerprru", made by neca me. Over time, the screen cuts to blue and ends with a text saying "by mossmanfan2009".

The aforementioned video by neca me features a naked humanoid figure engulfed in darkness, slowly descending, as if sinking, into the ground. Nearing the end of the video, it's dragged out of the hole into the air by an unknown force. Creepy ambience is also heard playing in the background. At the 18th second of the video, an image of five burning humanoid figures next to a giant screaming creature is shown, with the following text over it "V THE XQLQ CQU, DYKT YSQKVRI FBV WS BV GLFI AOH AKLY LCVR XJE FEOE SEVE NW VHVW OAA EPD BXJEEW. YE NVG TUI UHNHQW CIQPYI, AOH RGVRV UER YU, YBY PEIIT FVRF UF, FWT JI CRR ENWNCU HRVG". The text is encoded with the Vigenère cipher. If decoded with the key "ecan" (which was matching the most), it will say the following: "r rhr told you quit looking for us or else you will have the same fate as this man and others we are the shadow people you never see us you never find us but we are always here". The "r rhr" part appears to have not been decoded properly, but we'll assume it means "we". The shadow people seem to be warning the viewer to quit looking for them, otherwise they will end up like the man in the video.

neca me's channel features a description, which says the following: "Vj aoh jquah vhvw, vhrr aoh ete xrqwyifgredlr. Ag aei c srx qf ciqpyi yhb ete gs tezekn hrmnbap. Is cqu nxveztv tb hkspsxee yu wr akly jknq cqu", which is also encoded with the Vigenère cipher. If decoded, it will say "if you found this then you are knowledgeable we are a set of people who are to remain unknown if you attempt to discover us we will find you". This also refers to the aforesaid "shadow people". Judging by the message's less harsh tone, this was most likely the first warning, while the one in the video is the second.

The shadow people's true identity and intentions still remain unknown.

### placetauxilium.wav

This video takes place in the still-unknown protagonist's point of view. The character walks downstairs out of darkness and moves over to a gate dimly-lit with a red light, with two signs saying "DO NOT ENTER" next to it. The character visibly hesitates but turns over to the darkness and finally moves inside the hall, as if something was coming. The hall inside is very spacious and features dozens of oval containers, each containing one Mossman model in it. The character walks through the hall and turns back, hearing banging sounds and running to a door afterwards. The door appears to be locked. The lights in the hall now shut off and the character is assumingly either caught or killed. A deep, distorted voice can be heard slowly saying "I'll take it from here" before video ends. The sentence is a line in Half-Life 2, which interestingly derives from Judith Mossman.

It's unknown who the protagonist was being chased by, while the unknown concept of the ARG makes it even more confusing. However, below is a small list of possibilities:

* The player
* One of the shadow people
* A defective sentient ragdoll
* Other unknown antagonist

### respons

This appears to be another shitpost/meme video. It displays Judith Mossman holding an UZI from Counter-Strike: Source, shaking her head while "Manic Monday" by The Bangles plays in the background, and shooting Gordon Freeman, who was kneeling on the ground, in the head. The scene switches to Barney Calhoun saying "Man, Gordon. You stirred up the hive!" and multiple ragdolls flying in the background. The screen eventually fades to black.