TidalVortex

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Operation TidalVortex
Active since 2017-12-19
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Live event 14 of The Black Watchmen, involving the long lost mysterious figure Whitechapel.
Type [[List_of_Investigations#Official|Official]]
Creator Alice & Smith
Discovered 2017-12-19

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On December 15th, 2017, Alice & Smith released the Whitechapel DLC for The Black Watchmen, a PARG (Permanent Alternate Reality Game). 4 days after the release, a live event began, known as Operation TidalVortex.

The mission began as the situation room previewed a Dagaz rune, and the event was officially classified as live.

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Briefing

The Situation Room during the TidalVortex live event.

On December 19th, 2017, at approximately 1:54PM UTC, a briefing email was sent out to all Black Watchmen agents. This email contained a classified document from site 7361, which proves that Mr. Whitechapel is behind the mysterious occurrences in New England. The email also contained the following instructions:

  • Record yourself reading the following incantation:
A custodia matutina usque ad noctem
  • The Situation Room will broadcast a symbol in realtime, draw it on your cellphone to submit your voice recording.

It is believed that once this chanting reaches critical mass, this intercepted broadcast found in the in-game situation room will be understandable.

After agents received the briefing, the Black Watchmen Map along with the in game map began to fill up with symbols indicating an agent in that area had recorded and submitted their chant. Soon after these symbols appeared, audio cues of agents chanting began to play, each audio cue being repeated after ending.
The Situation Room after the second signal intercept attempt appeared.

At approximately 1am UTC, the in-game situation room updated to show what looks like a nebula on one of the screens. When clicked on, it opens up this link to Signal Intercept Attempt #2 uploaded by Dispatch. As of now, it hasn't been solved yet. However, this is a different signal from the first attempt so more information on that signal should be coming soon.

As of now, this is all that is known. This page will continue to be updated as more of the event plays out.