Definitely Not Rick and Morty

Definitely Not Rick and Morty
Active since 2017-04-03

The Definitely Not Rick and Morty ARG centered around eBay auctions for Szechuan dipping sauce.
Type	[[List_of_Investigations#Investigation\|Investigation]]
Creator	Definitely Not Dan Harmon
Discovered	2017-04-03

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This is a potential ARG relating to the Rick and Morty TV show. This page is maintained in collaboration with /r/SzechuanSauceSeekers

Background

On April 1st, 2017, there was a surprise airing of a long awaited new episode of Rick and Morty. The episode featured a sequence about a 1998 McDonalds promotion, which offered "Mulan Szechuan Teriyaki Dipping Sauce", promoting the release of the 1998 Disney Film Mulan. Following the airing, a slew of 'Zigerian' scammers took to eBay to capitalize on the sauce hype, attempting to sell fake sauce-related items. Some of these items were: packets, pictures of packets, screenshots of listings of photos of packets, etc.

Amidst the chaos of fabricated listings, one posted by the mysterious DefinitelyNotDanHarmon reached $100,000 before being taken down due to multiple false reports on the item. Screenshots of the listing can be viewed here (link?). Reports confirming the listing are available from this article and an inverse.com article. Since then, it has surfaced that DefinitelyNotDanHarmon is part of an ARG. We know that he has taken to Reddit and has assembled r/SzechuanSauceSeekers in effort to retake his rightful place as the DEFINITE Unofficial AUTHENTIC sauce distributor on eBay, and to uncover the mystery behind The GOLDEN PACKET. DefinitelyNotDanHarmon has appeared on Reddit, masquerading as a number of users.

On Friday, May 8, 2017 a /u/StrangeManInBlack came into our discord channel causing havok. Posing as a newbie posting what was assumed to be a previous encryption text, presumably looking for answers. After spamming this text and a zip file repeatedly, the strangemaninblack was banished to reddit (temporarily), where he started posting.

Join the Szeekers at the official SzechuanSauceSeekers Discord

Description

There are a number of posts on the reddit with the tag "Saucepost", which is where most of the puzzles occur with images that contribute. These images often use enchiper.it and QR codes for information. The QR codes often lead to a TV Tropes wiki page which gives insight into the back story, or otherwise reveal behind the scenes transcripts and logs of DNDH. However, not all information is contained in these and further research may be found in these Reddit accounts

NOTE: All of the post titles are clickable and will bring you to the reddit post it is from. It is a good idea to click it if you are stuck or don't really understand it.

Want to skip all this crazy fake nonsense and just get your hands on some szauce? We're selling one pack per day for 100 days... head on over to our listings on eBay and get em while they're hot!

All proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity! Don't get bamboozled, check the top of the descriptions!