About the ARG

The Haunted Majora's Mask ARG follows the story of a malevolant entity called BEN that a college student named Jadusable discovered in an old copy of Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. What first started out as a creepypasta on 4chan turned into a full-blown ARG when the players unknowingly helped release BEN onto the Internet. In their attempts to stop it, players stumbled across the Moon Children cult, a group that somehow had ties to BEN. Various characters and players - Ifrit, Rosa, Alex, and Ryukaki - tried to take on BEN and failed, sacrificing themselves so we may have a chance to defeat him.

The ARG is on pause for an indefinite amount of time, but while you're here, look around the wiki and the Within Hubris forum. The information you gain may just save your life.

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Arc 2 is the timeline for the second arc of the ARG. It encompasses the Moon Children side-arc, the Ryukaki side-arc (which is a side story to the actual ARG), and the entirety of the "Waiting Game" before Arc 3 began. This timeline contains a date-by-date system of everything that happened in the ARG between September 17th, 2010, and February 16th, 2011, including the events and discoveries on the date it happened or was discovered. This timeline is an essential must-read for new and old players alike to understand what happened in the ARG during Arc 2.

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Letter from the Editor

May 10, 2013

Important notice: Please, whatever you do, do not edit quotes from characters unless there is a mistake. Just because something is grammatically incorrect doesn't mean that the character was when he or she said it. Please be careful with what you edit. Thank you.

--Circle Hunter (talk) 02:55, May 11, 2013 (UTC)

March 26, 2013

A reply to the previous letter (below this one), and hopefully something good to hear...

This is CircleHunter, and I am your new admin. Immortallies recently agreed to let me take care of the wiki. I realize the ARG is rather dead, and that most of you have given up, but I feel differently about it.

For details about the ARG and the destruction of Within Hubris, see the previous letter.

When the original players read the story of Jadusable, it was only a creepypasta. When it continued with YSHDT.net, it was treated as reality. The players were saving lives (and killing the same guy over and over). Then, after Ryukaki, and the introduction of Old Within Hubris, it was put on hold. When that happened, the reality ended and it became a story. I feel that, if and until the third arc is continued, the second arc and what began of the third should be treated the same as the first.

Because of this, I have a plan. I may sound like a hopeless guy dwelling on the past, but I believe that what we lost when Old Within Hubris was taken down can be recovered. The good news is, I have found a way to see the old forum, however, not the topics. Also, I found a program that claims to be able to reconstruct the files from removed URLs for personal use. The downside is that the program was only developed for Linux, and I'm not even sure that it works. This is where it gets a bit more crazy.

A few months ago, I was snooping in the InvisionFree support area, and I believe I found that the original creator of the forum could request an archived version. The request takes time to be processed, but it may just work. The problem with this method is that Alex Hall, the Author, is a very busy man.

Not to mention, I have a few tricks up my sleeve...

So, in the meantime while I figure out what to do about our lost information, I ask that anybody who has something to add (canon, of course) please help. If anybody from before the ARG was paused has any theories saved on their computers, or anywhere, please let me know. A list of what I am currently concerned with is on the Theories page. Anything is useful.

Thank you for reading this. Hopefully you feel that the ARG is not dead, but at an indefinite cliffhanger. If you have anything to contribute, please do. Remember, if the ARG begins again, you could be saving lives.

--Circle Hunter (talk) 18:45, March 26, 2013 (UTC)

December 3, 2012

This is a letter I should have written a long time ago. I apologize for having not done so.

If you are reading this, you have either stumbled across the Haunted Majora's Mask ARG through Google or StumbleUpon or Youtube or something similar, or have come from Within Hubris as a new or returning player.

The first thing I would like to state is that the ARG has been on perma-hiatus since July. The Author, Alex Hall, has moved on to another project for now, which you can find by searching for "Methods of Revolution" on Google or by asking on Within Hubris. It is highly unlikely it will begin again any time soon. The second is this: while searching through the wiki, you may discover that many of the pages are incomplete or broken, and critical information linked on the pages leads to broken URLs. This information isn't coming back. The pages will remain incomplete or broken. And I will explain why.

The main reason why this wiki will remain forever unfinished is because the first Within Hubris had a police report filed against it for "alleged death threats" and the site was shut down without warning. It was quickly re-created by fans but the massive amounts of information and theories compiled on the site have been lost forever. Some people managed to archive a large portion of the forums, but not enough in my opinion.

Within Hubris was the main hub of the ARG since February 2011. In trying to fix the wiki and complete it much of the information and links I compiled were in some way connected to the topics on Within Hubris. Archiving in a topic was much easier than trying to get it all on the wiki. And now, guess what? The information is gone.

I have put, in total, at least three months' worth of my time into this project, only to have most of it destroyed when the forums were taken down. And with interest in the ARG at an all-time low, and no one willing to help me with the wiki, I refuse to comb through the archives some fans managed to save to put massive amounts of information straight on the wiki. Not to mention I still hear many complaints about the wiki without a single person actually lifting a finger to help change what disappoints them.

If you are interested in the ARG and you come across something that's missing because of a broken link and you want to find out more, the wiki cannot help you. All you can do is go to Within Hubris and make a topic, or ask an older player who was there and remembers the information or event or has access to an archive. Unless other people want to work on the wiki then the wiki is going to sit here as it is, unfinished and incomplete.

I apologize for the inconvenience. If you're distressed because of this predicament, take it up with the police for removing Within Hubris and destroying our main area for the ARG.

Immortallies (talk) 10:10, December 3, 2012 (UTC)