2015 Timeline

Due to the longevity of this series, and in order to aid in readability, the timeline has been split by year. '''Please see Timeline 2016 for the next year and for the latest 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 2015
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April
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows Youtube Channel is created.
 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows Youtube Channel is created.

August
! style="text-align:center;"| ! style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|12
 * style="text-align:center;" |"Welcome to Cave of Shadows" is uploaded.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows launches their official website  using weebly's free website service. (See: Cave of Shadows Website)
 * style="text-align:center;"|14
 * style="text-align:center;"|Broadcast #1 is uploaded.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias Doyle creates his YouTube channel.
 * style="text-align:center;"|29
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias Doyle makes his first post in his blog analyzing Broadcast #1.
 * style="text-align:center;"|30
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby's YouTube Channel is created.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "i feel like a wound"
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias Doyle makes his first post in his blog analyzing Broadcast #1.
 * style="text-align:center;"|30
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby's YouTube Channel is created.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "i feel like a wound"
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "i feel like a wound"

September
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 * style="text-align:center;"|19
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias Doyle makes his second blog post acknowledging that he is not the only one intrigued by the Cave of Shadows YouTube Channel and that they delayed Broadcast #2 several times over.
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias Doyle makes his second blog post acknowledging that he is not the only one intrigued by the Cave of Shadows YouTube Channel and that they delayed Broadcast #2 several times over.

October
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby creates his Reddit page.
 * style="text-align:center;"|3
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "ᐊᐳᑦ ᐊᒥᖅ ♦"
 * style="text-align:center;"|7
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "jrgnsn"
 * style="text-align:center;"|8
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "INNOCENCE"
 * style="text-align:center;"|15
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias Doyle makes an account on the Cave of Shadows website.
 * style="text-align:center;"|20
 * style="text-align:center;"|"Unforseen Delay" is uploaded.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows updates their website with a Broadcast countdown and Forums page.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "hibernation"
 * style="text-align:center;"|21
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias makes another blog post announcing that he has seen the Unforseen Delay video and notices the message in the last few frames.
 * style="text-align:center;"|29
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias Doyle creates his Twitter page and posts his first tweet.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "This account will act as my hub for Cave of Shadows related things, including links to my new blog posts. So yeah." 1
 * style="text-align:center;"|30
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "ハロウィーンは角を曲がったところであります" (Japanese for "Halloween is just around the corner". 2
 * style="text-align:center;"|21
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias makes another blog post announcing that he has seen the Unforseen Delay video and notices the message in the last few frames.
 * style="text-align:center;"|29
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias Doyle creates his Twitter page and posts his first tweet.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "This account will act as my hub for Cave of Shadows related things, including links to my new blog posts. So yeah." 1
 * style="text-align:center;"|30
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "ハロウィーンは角を曲がったところであります" (Japanese for "Halloween is just around the corner". 2
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "This account will act as my hub for Cave of Shadows related things, including links to my new blog posts. So yeah." 1
 * style="text-align:center;"|30
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "ハロウィーンは角を曲がったところであります" (Japanese for "Halloween is just around the corner". 2
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "ハロウィーンは角を曲がったところであります" (Japanese for "Halloween is just around the corner". 2

November
! style="text-align:center;"| Awake creates a Twitter account and posts its first tweet. "f3024454251434350255f4950254251402958475"
 * style="text-align:center;"|1
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "So, what the hell happened to Broadcast #2? Did it get 'delayed' yet again?" 3
 * style="text-align:center;"|3
 * style="text-align:center;"|Broadcast #2 was scheduled and was meant to be broadcasted on this day, but there was no broadcast.
 * style="text-align:center;"|4
 * style="text-align:center;"|"a25vd2xlZGdl74657374" is uploaded.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|"_this_is_important_" is uploaded.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|"something happened" is uploaded.
 * style="text-align:center;"|5
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby makes his first reddit post titled "recueillir" containing his email address. 4
 * style="text-align:center;"|6
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets a snapshot of an private YouTube message he received from Ns0mnby. 5
 * style="text-align:center;"|8
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "can you make the pig sound".
 * style="text-align:center;"|17
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "correspondence"
 * style="text-align:center;"|21
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "awake".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "reality".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "puppet".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "hiding".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "era".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "hiding2".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "monitor".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "land of the free".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "still here".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "location".
 * style="text-align:center;"|22
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "run".
 * style="text-align:center;"|23
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "home".
 * style="text-align:center;"|24
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "hiding2".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "monitor".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "land of the free".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "still here".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "location".
 * style="text-align:center;"|22
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "run".
 * style="text-align:center;"|23
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "home".
 * style="text-align:center;"|24
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "run".
 * style="text-align:center;"|23
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "home".
 * style="text-align:center;"|24
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 * style="text-align:center;"|24
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake tweets "459402e4545435029544145425c4140254651484025475"
 * style="text-align:center;"|25
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "56d6f686".
 * style="text-align:center;"|26
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "cold".
 * style="text-align:center;"|28
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "NzZFNjk2NDc5NjE2Nzc=".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake tweets "97d656e656025686470247f6e602562716025677" 6
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake tweets "1191013297114101321101111163211610410132101110101109121" 7
 * style="text-align:center;"|30
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby posts a thread on his Reddit page titled "suntan lotion in 2000 i can still smell him" in Base64 and provides a link to the "Finger Eleven - Bones and Joints" music video on YouTube.
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake tweets "97d656e656025686470247f6e602562716025677" 6
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake tweets "1191013297114101321101111163211610410132101110101109121" 7
 * style="text-align:center;"|30
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby posts a thread on his Reddit page titled "suntan lotion in 2000 i can still smell him" in Base64 and provides a link to the "Finger Eleven - Bones and Joints" music video on YouTube.
 * style="text-align:center;"|30
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby posts a thread on his Reddit page titled "suntan lotion in 2000 i can still smell him" in Base64 and provides a link to the "Finger Eleven - Bones and Joints" music video on YouTube.

December
! style="text-align:center;"| Cave of Shadows posts a comment on the discussion page of their YouTube channel
 * style="text-align:center;"|10
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "return".
 * style="text-align:center;"|11
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "danger".
 * style="text-align:center;"|12
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "S=F0J07I".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake tweets "footage found in 2007". 8
 * style="text-align:center;"|13
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "Well guys, it looks like Cave of Shadows is gonna actually show Broadcast 2 this time." 9
 * style="text-align:center;"|14
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "control".
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Asleep uploads "fail to comply".
 * style="text-align:center;"|16
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "waking up".
 * style="text-align:center;"|19
 * style="text-align:center;"|Broadcast #2 is uploaded.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Cave of Shadows updates their website with a large string of text on their homepage that reads "1/1/16" 10
 * style="text-align:center;"|20
 * style="text-align:center;"|Charlie creates his Twitter acount.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Charlie posts his first tweet "I love me some social media." 11
 * style="text-align:center;"|21
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias creates a Cave of Shadows Instasync chat for other people to discuss their findings on the Cave of Shadows YouTube channel.
 * style="text-align:center;"|24
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "OBZG64DBM5QW4ZDBBUFA".
 * style="text-align:center;"|26
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "anniversary".
 * style="text-align:center;"|28
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "tapes".
 * style="text-align:center;"|31
 * style="text-align:center;"|_experience1_ is uploaded.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "CoS posted a video: [link] In the description it says "midnight cst". Now I am really gonna stay up all night."
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|YouTube user "Creepypasta Archives" posts his gameplay footage of experience_1. (1 of 3 videos)
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|24
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "OBZG64DBM5QW4ZDBBUFA".
 * style="text-align:center;"|26
 * style="text-align:center;"|Ns0mnby uploads "anniversary".
 * style="text-align:center;"|28
 * style="text-align:center;"|Awake uploads "tapes".
 * style="text-align:center;"|31
 * style="text-align:center;"|_experience1_ is uploaded.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "CoS posted a video: [link] In the description it says "midnight cst". Now I am really gonna stay up all night."
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|YouTube user "Creepypasta Archives" posts his gameplay footage of experience_1. (1 of 3 videos)
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|YouTube user "Creepypasta Archives" posts his gameplay footage of experience_1. (1 of 3 videos)
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|

"There are Secrets"

And reuploads a new version of experience_1
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Creepypasta Archives makes his second experience_1 gameplay video using the hidden password.
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "In the game there is an alternate password that goes to a hidden part that talks about finding 4 pieces to receive a reward." 12
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 * style="text-align:center;"|Elias tweets "In the game there is an alternate password that goes to a hidden part that talks about finding 4 pieces to receive a reward." 12
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