Dawn Bloom/Timeline

This is a condensed timeline of the ARG's events and major developments in The Black Watchmen's investigation.

1970s - 1980s

• "Kick Drive" project developed at Montauk

2016

Nov

2016-11-14

• Full moon

• 2 million pounds of fish washed up on miles of beach in Southampton, NY, USA

Dec

2016-12-14

• First mysterious signal detected at False Point in Montauk, NY

• Special Taskforce Q98A66 set up.

2016-12-19

• TBW Agents crack the cipher from the first signal

2016-12-24

• Alice & Smith officially announce Operation DAWNBLOOM

2016-12-27

• Announcement of the first attempt at a return broadcast, to be carried out the next day

2016-12-28

• Estimated appearance of a second signal

2016-12-29

• Agents discover the formula for the broadcast frequencies

• First successful signal vanishing

2016-12-31

• Agent contacts Peter Moon, co-author of a popular series of books detailing supposed secret government projects at Montauk Air Force Base. He replies, interested in the project.

2017

Jan

2017-01-02

• New signal found off False Point

2017-01-03

• Liaison confirms they have the second signal's data, later made available for analysis

2017-01-06

• An agent reaches out to Peter Moon once again. He responds

2017-01-10

• Several messages sent by the agents (Beehive and Camp Hero coordinates)

2017-01-12

• Full moon, used for coordinates as per Zaelong's coordinates in the previous messages

• Agents choose to stay back and only observe the Beehive in Boston, avoiding any and all contacts with the unknown entity

• Liaison, Diagnostic and Brain went out on a boat to receive the signal sent by MoonMan

• Diagnostic gets hurt by the drone, and what seems like bone fragments

• 3rd signal is lost

2017-01-16

• Liaison updates the agents on Diagnostic's condition

• Liaison, Diagnostic and Brain gets kicked out of the vet

• Diagnostic hijacks the van, leaving Brain and Liaison at a fast-food

• Diagnostic suspected of being affected with some kind of Lycanthropy

• Control goes MIA chasing a lead

• Control poses as Ms Alma Oakley to infiltrate Pfizer and place trackers on shipments

• Agents locates the trackers set by Control

• Tactical regroups with Liaison and Brain to locate the two trackers in New Haven, they find 2 containers and 2 homeless women

• Agents try to decipher the messages left in chalk by the homeless women and Brain

• Liaison opens a letter marked with the Black Watchmen logo, but cannot divulge contents to agents until cleared by Control

2017-01-18

• Liaison, Brain, and Diagnostic stole a boat in Montauk to try and disable the drone with nets and thermite

2017-01-20

• Dispatch informs agents that Q98A66 is unreachable

• Liaison's legs are severely injured by thermite and shrapnel

• Diagnostic blown to pieces, but make a raft and bring Brain to shore

• Diagnostic experiences physiological changes

• Later that day, Liaison connects on Discord. He is injured and complaining about the Minions movie at the hospital

2017-01-22

• Liaison briefs the agents about the contents of the Black Watchmen envelope: Q98A66 must compromise Lphabeta

• Control and Tactical are in Pennsylvania to infiltrate Lphabeta and acquire signal #3's data

• Agents can provide mailing addresses to receive and analyse leaks from Control's infiltration

• Liaison updates the agents on Diagnostic's condition (heart worm infection)

2017-01-25

• Q98A66 became aware of an additional radio signal emanating from the far side of the moon.

2017-01-26

• Full moon

• Diagnostic suffers severe health complications

• Dr Talcom wants to use Rupture Bone

• Agents determine the best way to stimulate the worms is blue light between 460-480 nm

• Later, Liaison provides details on what happened exactly in the operating room

• Brain on Discord, giving chores to agents and pointing at a YouTube video.

2017-01-27

• Encrypted drive recovered from Lphabeta containing transmissions #3 and #4 and Farside transmissions 1~4 recorded in Pearl Harbor. It is decided that Lexic_Meise would receive the drive and decrypt its contents

• Liaison alarmed about Brain's connection to Adjective Alpha

2017-01-30

• Control is having a dinner with Lphabeta's CEO. She also updates agents about the status of letters sent to Brain.

2017-01-30

• Q98A66 attempt to record from an inland water source

• Signal #4 recorded at Money Pond

• A discussion with Medical lead to a better understanding of the possible underlying mechanisms affecting him.

• Second attempt to capture the drone, using nets and the Roswell Device

• A drive is recovered from the drone

• Liaison told the Discord that Adjective Alpha was missing.

2017-01-31

• Adjective Alpha sings with a human voice in an unknown language and is then put in containment in a glass framed shower

Feb

2017-02-02

• Control uploads the truncated contents of signal #4 on Discord

2017-02-03

• Tactical smashes Liaison's phone for fear of it being compromised

2017-02-05

• Farside signal 5 received by our farside probe.

2017-02-07

• Controls obtains Signal #3's contents along with pilfered Farside signals and sends those to an agent by mail, as time is pressing

• Peter Moon vetted and approved as an outside expert for the operation. Agents are asked to no longer contact directly.

• CHRP.exe found on the drive recovered from the drone. The drive is determined to likely be a bomb.

• Lphabeta twitter account discovered

• Progress made towards establishing agent Kokuei's cover to infiltrate Lphabeta

• The two homeless women are found dead

• Brain is interrogated and tortured

2017-02-08

• Agents are worried about Liaison's medical condition, and advise him to call/visit a doctor for a check-up.

2017-02-09

• The team is having a shuts down for the day due to a snowstorm.

2017-02-10

• Brain connects on Discord while the other members of the team are sleeping, and releases some new documents to the agents

• Brain locked himself in the back of the van. The cold weather becoming a threat to his life, agents tried unsuccessfully to help him get out.

• Liaison, Diagnostic, and Control moves to Albany to meet up with Tactical

• Agents contact Dispatch concerning Brain's situation, which in turn contacts Medical to get him out of the van. Medical then assumes the role of Liaison in his absence.

• Medical uses a document created from agent's reports of the Crimson Library as his profile picture, which deeply disturbs agents previously exposed to the virus.

• Tactical is MIA after we believe he encountered hostiles, and is supposed to be either wounded or captured

• Liaison and Diagnostic never checked into Albany's point

2017-02-12

• Diagnostic's third transformation (Hotel incident)

• Controls comes to Discord to answer agent's questions. She gives her version of what happened in Boston

2017-02-13

• Agents receive distress call from Diagnostic via email between 12 and 2 am

• Turkey Mountain incident

• Brain's nicknaming points to Liaison and Diagnostic being different Liaison and Diagnostic

• Liaison (Schrodinger) goes to Liaison (Virgin Sacrifice)'s autopsy

2017-02-15

• At about 4:30 pm EST, the whole team was pinged and is heading back to the hotel base command for an emergency situation

• Tactical's arm and some of his clothes were picked up from the Hudson river earlier along with a kind of green and lavender saline sludge

• The team went to Prisvalde's home, but found nothing of interest. Just a lot of illegal substances, computer equipment, and some food, no signs of abduction.

• NT4 cracked poltate-expedition-documents.tumblr.com's password (savethebiologist)

2017-02-17

• Liaison relays part one and two of Transmission #5 from Money Pond

2017-02-23

• Subject Diagnostic's failing health suddenly went into a period of rapid recovery, but the subject lost awareness of his senses. He was clearly trying to find out where he was, but we lacked any way to cause any sensory response

2017-02-24

• After 8 pm, Diagnostic began speaking as though someone was carrying a conversation with him, and by midnight he had become hysterical to the point we tried to sedate him. The sedative had no effect, and he reached a point of hysteria that we brought Specialist and Agent Tursk out of concern for Demonic or Rift Entity activity

2017-02-26

• Division 66 tweets about a hostage situation related to DawnBloom, leading to the Hostage Situation.