Frog Fractions 2/Timeline

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The following is a rough timeline attempting to explain the overall chronological course of events without delving too far into the details of each occurance.

Legend:

JC - Jim Crawford
RS - Rachel Sala
JB - Justin Bortnick
THD - An episode of Train Hot Dog, Jim's weekly podcast.
RPP- Red Pages Podcast, Justin's infrequent podcast
FF2 - Frog Fractions 2 

Clues that are considered open are labeled #Unsolved

Twinbread Era - March 2014 to April 2014

On March 10, 2014, the Kickstarter campaign for Frog Fractions 2 launched. The pitch video for the campaign contained several cryptic clues. These clues first led people to twinbread.com[1] and eventually the discovery [2] of the Obama Shaving Simulator Flash game. Completion of the game provided the following message:

If you want to see PUBLIC_FIGURE alive again, bring the money to 37.871764,-122.265303 at 2014-04-05, 3PM local time.[3]

The coordinates led to the UC Berkeley campus, where several people met on April 5, 2014 with Jim Crawford, who was kidnapped/arrested by time travelers for crimes related to Frog Fractions.See video. While being dragged away, Jim dropped a bag on the ground containing 10 floppy disks. The disks contained a password protected archive of this video recreation of each scene/level from the original Frog Fractions.

2014

11-March - Kickstarter Launch. Contains Kickstarter Video, leading to twinbread.com .

12-March - Recipe on Twinbread.com is entered in Frog Fractions. Leads to Obama Shaving Simulator.

13-March - Obama shaving simulator leads to fake tweet, advising of UC Berkeley Event

14-March - Stuff on twinbread.com leads to castlevania_passacaglia_of_disrepair.rom #Rickroll

5-April - UC Berkeley Meet. Acquire Floppy Disks containing Bug Porn and stinky.arj

11-November - stinky.arj is cracked, unlocking Live Action Frog Fractions

Dormant Period - May 2014 to May 2015

Aside from the floppy disks being solved that lead to a dead end video, the ARG laid dormant for nearly an entire year, with no new clues found or discoveries made.

Train Hot Dog Era May 2015 to October 2015

In this era, majority of clues are found on the Train Hot Dog podcast and the Red Pages Podcast. The only active time-travel.club pages were not fully operational. In September, The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio Fall 2015 Quarterly Brewsletter is posted on Kickstarter and renewed interest in the ARG among backers begins.

2015

28-May - THD 1: Dorf on Golf - The first episode of Jim Crawford's weekly podcast, Train Hot Dog, in which he (usually) talks to himself on a train.

25-June - THD 7: Keyboard Kato. Red Pages Podcast Extrasode 3: Chatting with Jim Crawford is posted.

16-July - THD 10: Steam Hot Dog - Borg King of Spades visible in spectrum.

30-July - THD 12: Stay On Your Toast - Encoded Message leads to time-travel.club.

6-August - THD 13: Butt Folk - Spectrogram contains gadsby/password123.

13-August -THD 14: Discharge - Contains a Ridermail from Tunisia discussing time travel.

4-September - THD 17: Kitten Gains - Youtube image shows 'Decay Truth' upside down. Missing from YouTube playlist.

24-September - The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio Fall 2015 Quarterly Brewsletter posted on Kickstarter. Leads to decaytruth.info. Admin page found. #Unsolved

30-September - IP Hashes in decaytruth.info decoded, giving the characters 12bzayx. #Unsolved

1-October - THD 21: Shark Lips - Contains slowed-down speech that is found to be a line from Myst mentioning 'Red Pages'.

7-October - THD 22: Ashen Stools - Braile in spectrogram contains the GPS coordinates for Indiecade. The Red Pages Podcasts Episode 55: Frog Fractions 2 is a Yacht and Extrasode 3: Chatting with Jim Crawford are investigated. The line 'And Herbie screamed' is noted.

10-October - Upon further investigation, an image of a borgified painting by Gustav Klimt (suspected to be the borg queen) and binary reading "dispatch 1" is found encoded in the Red Pages Podcast.

11-October - The Red Pages Podcast tweet a borgified King of Spades, and a message from Herbie that "you have the pieces".

Time-travel.club/accesslevelbeta Era October 2015 to February 2016

This era contains 2 meetup events resulting in amiibos (Indiecade and Museum of Jurassic Technology) as well as a smaller event that obtains quartz. Progress was mostly felt by new logins on the website and through information obtained in those events.

13-October - JB tweets Mario Maker level containing PWD:SCREAMED - password for Herbie login on time-travel.club. Contains Requisitions and Operations lists.

26-October - Indiecade 2015. A Luigi Amiibo is aquired directly from JC and JB at the event.

25-November - THD 29: Bumper Sandwich Booger Lips - Leads to slow scan television image. #Unsolved or #Joke

15-December - Polygon posts an article summarising the ARG to date.

16-December - An ad for Bug Mars tourism with the Bug Bros. Travel Agency is posted in the comments of the Polygon article, including a phone number. People call said phone number.

2016

6-January - People who previously called the Bug Bros. Travel Agency receive callbacks advising them of the password "caravanserai". This is found to be valid for the username samuel on time-travel.club. Login contains a list of 'available operatives', which updates daily.

7-January - Typo in the "more" broken link under Scientific Projects on Samuel login is fixed after being noticed on Unfiction.

??-January - Operatives Parker and Arthur disappear from operatives list until late May. Dwayne disappears and is yet to return. Exact date is unknown.

??-January - User Quaxo's appendix is removed. #FF2CausesAppendicitis

14-January - bobobobobobob tweets a borgified horse (suspected knight) at JB.

15-January - The Luigi Amiibo is accessed. It contains a scene from The Legend of Zelda and the address of a pastebin image, leading to the Gustav email account. RS tweets an image of a borg rook.

16-January - Email regarding upcoming delivery of good sent to Gustav email account from Samuel. Dwayne owes Samuel a rematch.

17-January - Email received in Gustav account advising of a delivery of goods to a Amazon locker in Cerrito, El Cerrito Plaza on January 20th.

18-January - JB tweets about Chess.

20-January - Goods from Amazon locker are retrieved. They are a bag of Quartz Healing Crystals. #Unsolved

27-January - THD 37: Top Ten Citrus Fruits - MP3 contains Thumbnail for Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT)

4-February - THD 38: Odonym - Missing on trainhotdog.cool. Only available on youtube.com

9-February - Red Pages Podcast leads to date and time for MJT Meet

16-February - Map of location of MJT meet emailed to Gustav account. Case codes 042 492 added to the Gustav email account, as a note marked 'contingency'. Case codes origins are unknown.

18-February - MJT meet. Aquire Mario Amiibo. Contains link to imgur album containing Propaganda Posters. #Unsolved

19-February - RS reposts the Propaganda Posters on her Tumblr. These copies contain additional metadata. #Unsolved

Post Posters Era Feb 2016 to July 2016

While some new logins were acquired during this time period, not much was made of them and no events took place. Justin printed a new business card but it had to be sent in by a good Samaritan. Mostly, the ARG was plagued with questions about the posters and the quartz with little newness to it.

26-February - Anonymous user adds vasquez/jurassic to FF2 Mind Map, vandalizes it. Number 3 wants a sandwich.

??-March - User Irregular Programming's appendix is removed. #FF2CausesAppendicitis

10-March - THD 43: Desolate Clovis - JC talks about DST.

14to18-March - Game Developers's Conference - RS hands out FF2 stickers, JB hands out business cards with history of time travel and clemens/tundra login.

22-March - clemens/tundra login becomes active on time-travel.club. Message from No.3 - Content coming soon message. Deliver report to No.4.

26-March - RS tweets photshopped FF2/Mass Effect 2 screen for Screenshot Saturday

7-April - THD 46: Poison Oak Place - Audio glitches surrounding JC screaming OAK!. #Unsolved

8-April - clemens/tundra login updates on time-travel.club. Contains dead link to email client.

9-April - RS tweets photshopped FF2/Halo (5?) screen for Screenshot Saturday

16-April - The Frog Fractions Facebook page posts photshopped FF2/Dark Souls screen for Screenshot Saturday

23-April - The Frog Fractions Facebook page posts photshopped FF2/Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time screen for Screenshot Saturday

Playscape: Los Angeles Podcast (PSLA) 8: RS is guest. Sound anomalies. #Unsolved

13-May - New location - Badger Kennels is added to the operatives list on time-travel.club.

15-May - Party lounge opens(FINALLY!) under Number Six's login. Message hidden in source code.

16-May - Justin Streams him playing "Spooky" Games. Ends with him flashing a business card from Insomniac Games. https://www.riking.org/webm/LordHuffnPuff%202016-05-16%2014_08-21357932960.mp4

27-May - Agents Arthur and Parker Return to the operative list on timetravel.club.

4-June - RS tweets photshopped FF2/Doom screen for Screenshot Saturday

7-June - JB tweets that he will be at E3 with new business cards. #Unsolved

29-June - Broken link to email client on Clemens login changes from /getanettefunicellohohohohoho.html to /getannettefunicellohohohohoho.html, after discussion about the typo in the Discord.

Age of Decay July 2016 to Present

These are the most recent events of the ARG. This period begins with new lore on a corrupted new login and seems to have provided a lot of information and possible hints in this time. Notably, Justin's streaming activity seems to have been more frequent and time-travel.club/client.html was made available and a good deal of twitter activity from official accounts happened.

JB Retweets a tweet about Raffi song Joshua Giraffe, which mentions Frogs Size 12 and getting Annette Funicello. Joshua/Giraffe is found to be a login for time-travel.club. The login contains a corrupted library of books about Zagmar.

Additional books are added to the Zagmar library, and random typos that had been discussed in the discord chat are fixed.

JB streams himself playing Boktai II, which is the source of the book titles it the Zagmar library.

JB draws attention to the book 'Eggs as Usual Breakfast etc.', published in 1979 by American-French writer Nidra Poller. #Unsolved

July-7 - The ID3 tags for Red Pages Podcast E77 contains the message "The password is behind your eye".

@RESIST_DECAY is noticed. It appears to the the official twitter of time-travel.club.

30-July - JB live streams, apparently from 1901. He reads a newspaper about Annie Taylor going over Niagra Falls in a barrel. #Unsolved

10-August - THD 63: The One Where Jim Doesn't Talk - Train Hot Dog is instead hosted by Justin. He reads out facts from 1901. Some are inaccurate.

13-August - @RESIST_DECAY taken over by Pontiff Zagmar. time-travel.club/accesslevelbeta.php changed from login page to white screen with only the plaintext "help". Zagmar posts picture of Jim Crawford, saying that the prisoner has offered to join their cause in exchange for freedom.

15-August - @RESIST_DECAY reclaimed by the Resistance. Says that the intruders are receiving assistance from prisoner JC101-B, and to contain and eliminate them if necessary. accesslevelbeta returns to prior login page. A patron contributor for the Red Pages podcast receives a note in the mail, with some eyes on the front, and the message "The eyes have you" on the back.

16-August - A terminal becomes active under Number Six's login on Time-travel.club. The login details are found to be Number Six and "theeyeshaveyou". Typing dir provides console commands, including an email client. 2 emails are available, discussing the recent incursion by Pontiff Zagmar.

17-August - Several Easter Eggs are found in the http://time-travel.club/client.html terminal.

27-August - New emails arrive on the terminal and the gustav email discussing suits, Justin streams and drinks a ginger beer (recipe made in 1901) he claims is from his friends at Ashby Brewery ad Indie Games Studio, https://twitter.com/AshbyBrewery becomes active after questioned. Gustav email implies he has terminal access #Unsolved x 2

28-August - Terminal receives a Sombra Skull after discussion of the game detectives in the FF2 discord #Joke

18-September - Justin streams and discusses a mystery box, hints heavily that someone should attend Indiecade 2016.

28-September - Kickstarter Update #12 for backers only: Jim asked people who had pledged at the level to be included as a character to make sure he had their picture.

12-October - Justin streams again and tells people to go to Indiecade.

15-October - The box is claimed at Indiecade 2016

24-October - Box contents are uploaded online