New ARG Link

[Cruvimaster]

1 minute ago, shaurun said:

Found this:

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There are two more images there that I discovered.

 

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Edited October 9, 2025 by Cruvimaster

[shaurun]

2 minutes ago, Cruvimaster said:

There are two more paintings there.

Thanks) 

 

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[R4TT4R]

5 minutes ago, Cruvimaster said:

There are two more paintings there.

becouse there are
click on Wagstaff on the lower one and then on bucket his holding, then you will join us in "sap drip countdown"

(or i just missunderstood you and you already know it)

 

sorry i read it wrong, don't bother please

Edited October 9, 2025 by R4TT4R

[Sick_ses]

Two new images appear on the “daytime” part if you scroll down

pretty sure they appear after finding the new wagstaff panels?

 

[R4TT4R]

Can anyone check how long it took to drop the countdown number on previous ones, cause few hours just passed and it's still "1". Isn't that weird a bit?

 

Becouse for me it would mean:
1. I'm overthinking a bit and Klei just need to like "start the countdown"
2. that we still might have something to do there to actually start it

Edited October 9, 2025 by R4TT4R

[Evelo]

Told ya ARGs are dumb.

[Sustenance]

9 minutes ago, R4TT4R said:

Can anyone check how long it took to drop the countdown number on previous ones, cause few hours just passed and it's still "1". Isn't that weird a bit?

4-5 hrs was when the first drop was noticed

[Cheggf]

Just now, Evelo said:

Told ya ARGs are dumb.

They're cool when they're actually ARGs and not just waiting sims. This one is lame as hell. 

[Evelo]

Just now, Cheggf said:

They're cool when they're actually ARGs and not just waiting sims. This one is lame as hell. 

I think they'd be cool if so many didn't utilize or rely people just checking the code. Makes those without that knowledge miss out.

[Loki99]

Willow  threw a fireball
 

[Baark0]

So this entire ARG is just 1 big waiting fest? That's not really an ARG is it now? It's got the alternate reality part, but there's not a whole lot of game going on. I feel like Klei's kinda fumbled the bag with this ARG, at least the early parts. I'm hoping it gets better, I'm just not impressed so far.

also how do you get the 3rd sap bucket panel to appear

[Milordo]

2 hours ago, Szczuku said:

In that case the lore would go something like this:

Younger Wagstaff steals the projector that was recording Maxwell's and Charlie's final act from the collapsing movie theater (as we see in an intermission animation) and discovers The Constant thanks to it. He later, figures out how to project himself into the Constant and begins exploring the world during Maxwell's reign (playable Wagstaff in singleplayer)

Somewhere along the timeline he starts working with the human that became WX-78, sets up his factory, delivers the spider to Webber's dad etc, etc.

He figures out how to open a portal to the Constant and sends WX-78 there. Somehow none of the eldritch gods of the constant nor Maxwell or Charlie really care.

Wagstaff needs more time and to disappear from the public eye in order to continue his experiments so he sets up his gateway to teleport him somewhere in the real world and cause the factory collapse. Cue the Winona cinematic: she sees Wagstaff going through the portal, the portal closes, Winona repairs it but accidentally connects it once more with the Constant and gets kidnapped by Charlie.

Whatever this arg is slowly uncovering is happening after the factory collapse and before Wilson's disapperance

After Wilson was kidnapped Wagstaff moved into his old house where he found Maxwell's Door that Wilson had built. Cue the grainy transmission in dst.

 

I gotta hand it to the devs; this could work as a way to keep Winona's cinematic 100% canon while also explaining why Wagstaff was still just a projection in the Constant up until the Scion fight, even though we see him going through the portal in the animation.

However this doesn't explain how Wagstaff was younger when Maxwell and Charlie were taken, but was old when Winona was taken. Winona is Charlie's older sister. Let's say that Charlie was 33 when she was taken, that'd make Winona, like 38 or something. In the intermission animation Wagstaff looks around 46 when he stole that projector, seemingly moments after Maxwell and Charlie were taken. If that's the case, then if Wagstaff was old when the factory burned down, then Winona should also look older

GOOD RECAP SIR. Have my potato cup!

I almost knew everything but summarized coherently like this was cool.

[hhhhddh]

yeah we got another 1, and another after a week, and another, and another, so much fun

[Milordo]

36 minutes ago, Evelo said:

Told ya ARGs are dumb.

35 minutes ago, Cheggf said:

They're cool when they're actually ARGs and not just waiting sims. This one is lame as hell. 

Ye. Check the binding of isaac keeper arg. Real cool ****. They can be cool. It's all in the creator/s.

[xx0xx]

I think this ARG explains what happened after Wagstaff was captured by the Celestial Scion in the recent update. My theory is that after being captured, two Wagstaffs came to exist in the real world. Alter, based on Wagstaff's projection in the Constant, manifested in the real world in his likeness. The time and place is Wagstaff's old house (it's possible that Alter time-traveled to this point).

In the "Interference" [Wilson Animated Short] video, the real Wagstaff is still researching the Constant when Alter (as Wagstaff) appears and tampers with the radio. Events like sending the spider or modifying WX-78 were all carried out by Alter.

In the "Next of Kin" [Winona Animated Short] video, the real Wagstaff, after being captured by the Celestial Scion, is unable to enter the Constant through his projection machine. This forces him to build a teleportation gate in his factory. When he activates it, he is pulled into the portal and transported to the Hamlet universe. The Wagstaff we see after the fire in this ARG is Alter.

[Swiyss]

56 minutes ago, Evelo said:

Told ya ARGs are dumb.

Can you stop killing the vibe please

Also, can I point something out? The sound that wagstaff makes is the same every time. Maybe there could be something hidden under that sound.

[Waywarbler]

5 hours ago, Uedo said:

I'm so sorry but ..... I. Told. You. 

Klei have been consistent for years, this was actually so much less than I ever dreamed they'd do. 

How many more times you guys gonna get your hopes up? The game is over chaps. The shark has been jumped. 

Ok? Thank you for letting us know we were fools for looking forward to this, I guess?

Do you want us to adopt the same "modern Klei bad" mindset and just have no hope for the future of this game?

I'm pretty disappointed* with how this "ARG"/comic's playing out so far too, but dropping into the thread to be the I Told You So guy isn't it.

*Edit: I spoke too soon. Peak.

Edited October 10, 2025 by Waywarbler

[Uedo]

12 minutes ago, Waywarbler said:

Ok? Thank you for letting us know we were fools for looking forward to this, I guess?

Do you want us to adopt the same "modern Klei bad" mindset and just have no hope for the future of this game?

I'm pretty disappointed with how this "ARG"/comic's playing out so far too, but dropping into the thread to be the I Told You So guy isn't it.

No :s

Giving my view point. Don't be weird. I literally don't know you or have any expectations of you.

[JoeW]

[Gooba]

only .97 left to go on the sap countdown, guys!

god im so dissapointed

[AveHortor]

I have a feeling that Wagstaff (re)constructed or repaired a zero-way proto-portal that can only view, and threw an apple through.
Because these few new comic panels reminds me of some scenes from Red vs. Blue.

[A Pufferfish]

Somebody provided me the background from under the pipe image, and it had these letters. I had removed background colors to make it readable. People in the unofficial DSTcord are saying, after de-scrambling, it reads closely to "Manifestum".

EDIT: Included the unedited image as well.

Edited October 10, 2025 by A Pufferfish

[Sustenance]

9 minutes ago, A Pufferfish said:

Somebody provided me the background from under the pipe image, and it had these letters. I had removed background colors to make it readable. People in the unofficial DSTcord are saying, after de-scrambling, it reads closely to "Manifestum".

 

manifesting a new comic panel rn dw

[Popian]

1 hour ago, JoeW said:

Is this a hint that the countdown is an expiration timer?

Edited October 10, 2025 by Popian

[Sustenance]

22 minutes ago, A Pufferfish said:

Somebody provided me the background from under the pipe image, and it had these letters. I had removed background colors to make it readable. People in the unofficial DSTcord are saying, after de-scrambling, it reads closely to "Manifestum".

 

I didnt see any other messages looking through the other backgrounds. is there any way we can use this or is it a lore thing?

Coincidence? 👀

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