Timeline 2016

Due to the longevity of this series, and in order to aid in readability, the timeline has been split by year. Please see Timeline 2015 for the previous year and events.

This timeline is intended to reflect events that have happened since the beginning of the game. For character history, and past events that impact the game please see the In-Game Timeline.

Timeline 2016
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January
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias uploads "experience 1" New Finding" and finds another secret password and easter egg.
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Creepypasta Archives uploads his third experience_1 gameplay footage "More experience_1 Secrets" and finds more passwords and easter eggs including a blue screen with a strange string of numbers.
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "right before my eyes"
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets a screenshot that shows Cave of Shadows joined the Instasync chat to give everyone another cryptic message. 12
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "218".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|gel is uploaded.
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "slow".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|gel is uploaded.
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "slow".
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"In order to further interact with our viewers, we have setup an official Twitter account." 13 N\Ns0mnby creates his Twitter account and posts his first tweet.
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "first night".
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"I tend to dislike social media, however I made this account so nobody else could." 14 ! style="text-align:center;"|
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Charlie tweets "Had a long night last night. Some people are persistent as hell." 15
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "advertisement".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "suffocate".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake tweets "daExoA3BSR0". 16
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake tweets "where are you" 17
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows tweets "Viewers, the approximate release date for Broadcast #3 is January 30th. An official date is yet to be determined." 18
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "09 23051420 04152314 09142015 200805 0118030809220519 2015040125" along with a blank image.
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "old 7" along with an image displaying some type of code or cypher. 19
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "The snow was crazy today. Don't get too much of this where I live." 20
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "I was just taking a walk in the snow, then someone started following me. And whoever it is was wearing the same mask from correspondence." 21
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "To calm my nerves, I finished writing my Broadcast #2 analysis from back in December."
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias updates his blog with an analysis on Broadcast #2 and "The System". 22
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "stalking".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias uploads "Masked Person Caught on Camera (Almost)".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "announcement".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows tweets "Add music to the Cave of Shadows Radio playlist! The only rule is do not add anything you think we would not like. Playlist " 23
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows tweets "February 6" along with a dark image of the Cave of Shadows logo with the number "3" on the bottom. 24
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "______/________/___ the unexpected." 25
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "So, there is some new information that has been revealed with Cave of Shadows. I am going to make an update video sometime soon."
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "A still from an unreleased tape made in 2002. It has never seen the light of day, but you may see it soon." accompanied with an image of a sock puppet overlayed with a still image of a convenient store of some kind. 26
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "watching you".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|"congratulations" is uploaded.
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "Something just clicked with Cave of Shadows and the new video. Making video now." 27
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias uploads "Charlie".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "it".
 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows tweets "February 6" along with a dark image of the Cave of Shadows logo with the number "3" on the bottom. 24
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "______/________/___ the unexpected." 25
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "So, there is some new information that has been revealed with Cave of Shadows. I am going to make an update video sometime soon."
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "A still from an unreleased tape made in 2002. It has never seen the light of day, but you may see it soon." accompanied with an image of a sock puppet overlayed with a still image of a convenient store of some kind. 26
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "watching you".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|"congratulations" is uploaded.
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "Something just clicked with Cave of Shadows and the new video. Making video now." 27
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias uploads "Charlie".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "it".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "Something just clicked with Cave of Shadows and the new video. Making video now." 27
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias uploads "Charlie".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "it".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "it".

February
! style="text-align:center;"| Ns0mnby tweets "Remember hibernation! :)". 40
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "HELLO THERE" providing a link to his mediafire page showing a 7z file titled "YOURS". The tweet also includes an image with glowing tex that says "OUR2KIND". 28
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Some people live to ruin all the fun." 29
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "DUSTYFILE#1" and provides a link to another 7z file on his mediafire page. 30
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "VGhleSBmb3VuZCBpdA==".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "mistake".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Had a MUTINY tonight! DOn't worrry. Been dealt with. Trying to ruin the surprise. trtying to destory us and ruin and ruin and ruin and stopp" 31
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Just know that I'll be drinking some refreshing chocolate milk during the broadcast!" 32
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "No more bad bad distractions!" accompanied by a picture of an alarm clock at 4:18 A.M. 33
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Yummy!" with a picture of Dairyland chocolate milk. 34
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows tweets "Please calm down, everyone. We deleted the stream of Broadcast #3 and are publishing the source video within the hour." 35
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Broadcast #3 is uploaded.
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Hope you enjoyed the broadcast!" 36
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "broadcast".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "hiding3".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby starts a thread in the Cave of Shadows subreddit saying that he will answer any questions people have regarding the situation. (See: Ns0mnby's Reddit Page) 37
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "For all you FBI analyzers out there! :) (Word of caution. Finger print hasn't existed in fifteen years.) :(" accompanied with an image of a circle of orange paint on a water heater or tank of some sort. 38
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "We are the system. If we want control of something, we take control of it. We have had some more recent success in that. You will see! :)" 39
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "broadcast".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "hiding3".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby starts a thread in the Cave of Shadows subreddit saying that he will answer any questions people have regarding the situation. (See: Ns0mnby's Reddit Page) 37
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "For all you FBI analyzers out there! :) (Word of caution. Finger print hasn't existed in fifteen years.) :(" accompanied with an image of a circle of orange paint on a water heater or tank of some sort. 38
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "We are the system. If we want control of something, we take control of it. We have had some more recent success in that. You will see! :)" 39
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "We are the system. If we want control of something, we take control of it. We have had some more recent success in that. You will see! :)" 39
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"hibernation" is a reference to a past video Ns0mnby uploaded; hibernation" Ns0mnby tweets "Should I do a new video with new footage like in first night, or should I use old footage like mostly everything else?" 57
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Are you ready? ;)" 41
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "I need to talk to someone. Haven't gone out to see a human being in real life for a while." 42
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "awakening"
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "436c756573".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Oh! I almost forgot! If you can get anniversary to be my most viewed video by Friday, I will make a special video for you all! :)" 43
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "And it's something I wouldn't otherwise make, just to be clear! ;)" 44
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Just to be clear, that deadline is the minute it turns Saturday. You all still have time." 45
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "The goal wasn't reached. Depending on how I feel a little later, I may still give out something special for the efforts made." 46
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 * style="text-align:center;"|"clue" is uploaded.
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 * style="text-align:center;"| Awake uploads "system".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "The clock picture is not a coordinate piece." 47
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "So we have 3 out of the 4 pieces to the coordinates. I now know that it is 3 hours away from where I live. Fuck." 48
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 * style="text-align:center;"|"I just had a nightmare about the person in the mask following me. Can't get the image out of my head." 49
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "The title of my most important video!" following another link to a mediafire page with another 7z file download. 50
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "05241605180905140305".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets ":)" 51
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "I've decided to put the new livestream feature on my channel to good use. Gonna stream sometime in the next hour. I'll keep you all posted." 51
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "Join the stream." 53
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "Guys, I'm deleting the recorded stream. Nothing happened except for awake (actually asleep) telling me I'm in danger." 54
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Charlie tweets "." 55
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Because I saw it somewhere, I must address it. I am not a minion of Cave of Shadows. I am with them, and been have for a long time." 56
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "05241605180905140305".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets ":)" 51
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "I've decided to put the new livestream feature on my channel to good use. Gonna stream sometime in the next hour. I'll keep you all posted." 51
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "Join the stream." 53
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "Guys, I'm deleting the recorded stream. Nothing happened except for awake (actually asleep) telling me I'm in danger." 54
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Charlie tweets "." 55
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Because I saw it somewhere, I must address it. I am not a minion of Cave of Shadows. I am with them, and been have for a long time." 56
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Charlie tweets "." 55
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Because I saw it somewhere, I must address it. I am not a minion of Cave of Shadows. I am with them, and been have for a long time." 56
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "I MAY have to delete my Twitter soon. Sorry if I do." 58
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mny tweets "Video is postponed until tomorrow. I have to confirm something." 59
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "For now, I won't delete my Twitter. But, I will be tweeting MUCH less frequently." 60
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "Hi! :)" 61
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby tweets "How are you doing? :)" 62
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "i saw it stare".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "I had the same nightmare with the masked person. Can't sleep. Fuck." 63
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows tweets "The Broadcasting scheduled has been changed. From now on, Broadcasts will be scheduled on either the first or second Saturday of the month." 64
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "i saw it stare".
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "I had the same nightmare with the masked person. Can't sleep. Fuck." 63
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows tweets "The Broadcasting scheduled has been changed. From now on, Broadcasts will be scheduled on either the first or second Saturday of the month." 64
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows tweets "The Broadcasting scheduled has been changed. From now on, Broadcasts will be scheduled on either the first or second Saturday of the month." 64
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