Watching You:Timeline

Trailheads

On 2016-07-02, the reddit user /u/stvjsmrs (which had existed for at least a month previously) posted to various gaming and ARG-related to subreddits.

/r/arg and /r/gamedetectives

We have been watching you.

Complete this test to continue a series. You are, for now, alone, but your goal is the same.

i ii ii ii  mm m m m  G GG  U U U  RR RR RR  II II  MM M M

(The /r/gamedetectives post is identical.)

This was solved to be Morse Code, leading to an Imgur image:

/r/fireemblem and /r/fireemblemcasual

We have been watching you.

Complete this test to continue a series. You are, for now, alone, but your goal is the same.

Strength is key if left unchanged.
A digit is paired with a needed glyph.
Seek an image of your own.

LISSA
shura (c)
igrene
SAKURA
roy
tiki (A:Hm)
t9

The names in the last paragraph are all characters from Fire Emblem (which was also featured in a previous ARG, Mystery of the Emblem, although the puppetmaster of that ARG has claimed no connection to this one).

/r/minecraft

We have been watching you.

Complete this test to continue a series. You are, for now, alone, but your goal is the same.

Update to now, and what would be here? Letters, not digits.
Don't have a block, pick these up instead.
First things first.
Seek an image of your own.

339
^U
351:14
^356
^387
^440
264

These were solved to be item IDs, leading to another Imgur image:

By taking the first letter of the namen of each of these blocks, this was solved to:

STVJSMRS
GMAIL
COM

or the email address [email protected]. Some attempts have been made to contact the address but no replies have been received.

/r/overwatch

We have been watching you.

Complete this test to continue a series. You are, for now, alone, but your goal is the same.

Not what’s here, but what you see normally, is what you need.
First things first of that.
Seek an image of your own.

x
Q
a zaryanova
q
F
H SHIMADA
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/r/smashbros

We have been watching you.

This was solved by taking the first letters of each character/emblem shown, with normal images being lowercase letters and inverted images being uppercase letters. It led to another image:

This image, heavily corrupted, is of a GBA Fire Emblem game.