APRAween 2021

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Strange Vibrations

Halloween is always crunch time here at the foundation, as various anomalies and superstitious humans alike cause trouble. But, rest assured, this year we won't be having any sort world-ending scenario. Maybe. At the very least we can be sure we won't hear anything from Cul De Sacula. All personnel are to keep a keen eye out and report any strange happenstances, regardless— we can't afford to be too lax after last year's chaos.


Notice to all personnel, whoever the hell keeps crossing out my name on official documents and replacing it with “Dr. Poots” better fess up now or I'll make sure they regret it.

Dr. Potts

Hey, I don't know what's going on but someone keeps replacing my lab coat with an obscenely large baguette. You guys know that I'm from Canada, not France, right? Thanks for the free bread, I guess?

Dr. Lapointe

Somebody replaced all the coffee delivered to our admin department with literal dirt water, it must have been one of the other interns. Not me.

██████ Mogwe

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Days til Halloween

Buttons Pressed

5

Days til Halloween

Gamer Ghost

Ok this isn't an emergency, however, it turns out that HQ is haunted, and this ghost is extremely annoying. He called me a “scrub?” Look, I don't know what it means either, just convince him to leave. Call him names or something, I don't want to deal with this. He's been going around personnel communication lines, comments on various documents, a lot in our forums, etc. You'll know him when you see him, by the sharp rise in your blood pressure— or maybe that's just me.

Bin Folks, Administrator

Author's Note

In 2021 there was an actual forum attached to the World Anvil page APRA was originally hosted on. This whole APRAween was largely inspired by and centered around the new forum feature at the time. I can't build a whole forum just to archive this one event, and I don't have the time/energy to track down and get permission from the various readers who participated to archive their forum posts.

Sorry! Just know there was a forum, and CoolCatMat1997 was trolling people in it, while they hit back. This included various troll posts like “is ur refrizzerator running?” under the Info forum and “UR MOM LOL” under the “Anomaly Sightings” forum, among others. At one point he made fun of the ACF for not storing passwords correctly.

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Days til Halloween

Flamewar

Keep up the insults, he's really mad and this is really funny. He took my #1 Administrator mug and crossed it out so it read “-1 Administrator” yesterday and this is due penance.

Bin Folks, Administrator

That's fantastic Bin, when that's all cleared up can you please look into the whereabouts of our containment director? Last I heard, she said something about an “irreplacable sandwich” and stormed off somewhere. Thanks.

Tired Jim

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Days til Halloween

High Score

Who smells like spoiled milk now, huh?! Who's the idiot now, huh?! Who's the see-through sammy now, huh?! CAN'T STOP ME NOW MOM, CUZ I GOT ALL THE PASSWORDS. LMAO I CANN'T BELIEV HOW MANY OF THESE WERE JUST YOUR CATS' NAMES LMAOOOOO.

Anyway I OWN you scrubs now lmao, get ready for MATT MAYHEM.!!!

MATT'S PASSWORD VAULT

All ur passwords are belong to MATT. None of you can see this anyway lmao. You all SUCK and SMELL and TOO DUMB TO FIGURE OUT MY MASTER PASSWORD VAULT PASSWORD.

CoolCatMatt1997
  • godmattscool
  • themattisalie42
  • password123
  • youlol
  • luckynumbermatt
  • gamerjuice02
  • tooslow124
  • l33th@x0r
  • toomanycharacterslolwhatareyougonnadoaboutit?
  • 200720072007

Author's Note

Originally, this was hidden behind a password protected puzzle. The password for this was accidentally typed by Matt in a forum post.

Distress Call: Investigations Supply Closet

I will admit, I was actually lucky to get locked in the evidence room last year since I avoided the...everything— but I really did not want to make this a tradition. I don't even think anything bad is going on! This supply closet is so much smaller, and our containment director seems to have fallen asleep in here hugging a large sandwich. She is snoring and will not wake up. I tried to tear off part of the sandwich and she...somehow gave me this death grip without waking up, so I'm still hungry. Please, whoever locked me in here, let me out when you've got the time.

Fumiya Harada, Investigations

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Days til Halloween

Final Boss

Heads up to all personnel, things just took a turn for the worse. Our uh…visitor seems to have gotten (hilariously) mad at all your prodding— and not so hilariously decided to take revenge by releasing everything we have in containment. Our containment director is missing at current so we're all scrambling around like heads without chickens.

We need as many personnel as possible to figure out what password goes where and shut down whatever the hell this idiot thinks he's doing. These should automatically override whatever he's done— but make sure to reset the password on your way out.

Bin Folks, Administrator
CONTAINMENT OVERRIDE SWITCH

Why. Why do we have this? Look I understand a switch that re-locks everything but what genius thought it was a good idea for it to be a 2-way switch?

Confused security personnel

The hoagie told me to do it.

Nadalia Trent, Containment Director

Someone please get that sandwich away from her. Put it in a new cell, and don't tell her where it is.

Serious Jim

CONTAINMENT OVERRIDE ACCEPTED.

CONTAINMENT OVERRIDE SWITCH V2

We had a long talk about this Nadalia, why did you do it again?

Serious Jim

No, this one only turns it off, because I listened.

Nadalia Trent, Containment Director

Oh, that's fantastic! I assume this means that you removed the old override, right?

Serious Jim

Uh…

Nadalia Trent, Containment Director

CONTAINMENT OVERRIDE ACCEPTED.

CONTAINMENT OVERRIDE SWITCH V3_FINAL_REALLYTHISTIME_LAST

Nadalia, I was looking into this and found that this switch opens and closes a specific supply closet. Why on earth would you need that?

Serious Jim

Hoagie told me, trust them.

Nadalia Trent, Containment Director

God, I don't know why you still work here, and I don't want to deal with it— as long as you left the other overrides alone we should be fine in case something happens.

Serious Jim

CONTAINMENT OVERRIDE ACCEPTED.

Author's Note

Each of these overrides were originally password locked, requiring passwords from the prior day's vault to access. Each override prompted readers with a hint, for example, one asked who the “biggest idiot” was– the correct password being “youlol”.

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Days til Halloween

Achievement Unlocked

It was just a prank bro, why did you have to kill the vibe? Your a bunch a nerds, MATT OUT.

CoolCatMatt1997

I hope that scr...nope, I can't even say it— I hope that awful gamer ghost never shows up again, god. We've got people compiling a full report on this particular anomaly and the damage done, which should come around shortly. Good work, all of you who put in overtime to stopping him, unfortunately we are tight on money and you will not be compensated for this beyond the satisfaction that comes with making that idiot mad.

Bin Folks, Administrator

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Days til Halloween

Author's Note

Thank you to everyone who read and participated this year! These are real fun to do and I'd love to keep making them— and I would especially like to make the next one even better!

Somehow I ended up improvising a new character, which also is impacting some of APRA's core lore— that being Nadalia Trent and her beloved hoagie. The CSO was only supposed to be mentioned once offhand, not become a whole thing! She's definitely going to become a recurring character, and will have her own staff member article later on! I'll have to go back and edit all the Halloween articles now to change her title from “CSO” to “Containment Director” to better fit in with established titles— this is why the CSO was only to be mentioned in passing, because it didn't actually fit in the ACF's structure and I didn't want to rework established lore.

But, here we are— I've decided to expand slightly on the structure of the ACF. So, instead of it being the Adminsitrator, Jim Council, the site/team leads— it'll now be Administrator, Jim Council, DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATORS, site/team leads. This means some quickish editing to the ACF article itself, which will include the mention of this and then a new paragraph/section on departments.


2025 Addendum

Hi hello, 2025 Grace here! There were a number of edits that had to be made while reformatting this for the new website, as most of the links and multimedia puzzles no longer work. Containment Overrides, for example, used to be password locked. Not to mention the uh. Entire interactive forum element.

Hopefully this is still an enjoyable read, even with most of the interactive elements removed! These ARGs are always gonna be a little awkward in post, since they're fundamentally interactive, live events.

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