Legacy of Forgotten Times 2 The Revelation

After checking the frames for two whole days there was nothing new that Max had found about this mystery ARG. With every new episode of an anime release there were new frames to be added but aside from that the community had nothing to go on about. People now were doubting if this was really an ARG or some elobarate prank.

The others tried to check the images itself in order to find codes or some puzzles but it was a dead end. Some people tried to contact the broadcasting company but they couldnt get any answer. Throughout this whole time there was something gnawing at Max's mind. He did not know what it was but there was definitly something.

In the morning of the third day of his graduation Max got up as usual. As soon as he finished his breakfast he holed up in his room again and decided to check the forum for more clues. Who knows maybe the next frames the community had found might some information about this ARG.

Max was suprised to see that there was a message in his mailbox. He hadn't sent any messages to anyone and it was pretty rare to see someone message him privately since he mostly hangout in the clubs about Light Novel reviews.

Once he checked who it was from he was suprised. It was from FireSpark097. Spark was an old friend Max hadnt heard from almost 2 years now. The PM was titled "Did you check the ARG thread?" Since it was about ARG Max was curious to what this pm contained.

"Hey! How have u been doin since the last time we talked? Anyway smol talk aside did u see the thread about weird the weird pics that was spread around in all the anime? I know it might sound crazy but dont they look similiar to our old RP characters from Autumnfall? I am atleast pretty certain Brie is in there. I mean ofcourse they dont look like the appearance pictures we used in the club but the character just behind the throne in the left side looks exactly like how I imagined Brie in my head? I am also asking the others to make sure. Anyway waiting for ur reply! Have a nice day :3"

'Wait What? Could it be possible?'

Max didnt waste anytime after reading the PM and immediately check the thread to see the pictures again. This time when he started to look at it again he instantly noticed the guy standing in the throne. He had white hair and blue eyes with a military tag hanging on his neck just like the one Max was wearing right now.

The moment he saw that there was no question in Max's mind. He was definitly Linri. The character he spent 6 years role playing with. The character that can almost be called his second persona.

Once he thought about it Max couldnt help but feel a little nostalgic. He had poured at least 2 hours of his time everyday for 6 whole years. He probably would still be RPing with him even now if not for Luxor being a douchebag and deleting the club in a fit of anger just because people didnt like him being tyrannical. Max could swear that he was the most egoistical person he had ever met be it online or IRL.

After their work deleted like that the guys in the club tried to creat another RP club and continue there but no one had the motivation anymore so one of the most prominent RP clubs in Animeworld was disbanded just like that. That was 2 years ago and Max hadnt played any kind of role play game since then. It just didnt feel right.

The moment his nostalgia was over Max started to pay attention to other characters in the picture. Now that he knew their origin he could see the resemblance between them and the ones his friends played.

Max didn't take long to answer Spark's message. There was tons of questions in his mind and probably his 'old' friends had the answer's to them.

're:Did you check the ARG thread?

Yeah I've been doin fine thx for askin. Answer to ur question is yes. I can confirm that the guy sitting on the throne is my character Linri and I can probably name all the other characters. They are definitly from the times we used to RP in Autumnfall Highschool Club. So did u hear anything from others like Ai or Gendor? From what I can see their characters were there too. I think that this is some kind of ARG so do u think someone from the club created this game? Could it be that someone is making an anime out of our Club? Well that would be cool but I can see that it failing hard so whats with the pictures and in such a grand scale at that. If u find something I will be waiting for ur reply. Even better if ur Online handle is the same we can create a Vanilla talk group and discuss whats goin on there.'

Now that he had replied to Spark another important question was on Max's mind. Should he share this info with the others in the thread? At first look it seemed like the right move afterall with the scale of this ARG there was no way that he could find all the clues but he was ahead of the others by a large margin since he had a lead.

When he was considering what to do Max noticed there was over 500+ replies in the Zelka09's thread for discussion. The immediate thought he had was someone disclosing the connection between this game, Autumnfall and the pictures.

Max started to read through the thread and found out that the reason for the booming of the thread was a cryptic audio file. The poster of the audio file's account was already deleted and the title of the file itself was gibberish so Max couldnt understand the reason why people made such a big deal of it. The file itself may very well be someone playing a trick on them.

Ofcourse this didnt stop Max from opening the audio file. The voice inside was disturbing to listen to and it was some gibberish language Max couldnt understand. Slowly Max started to get dizzy and finally fainted.

Chapter end