You may have noticed that I started this in October of 2018, and am only back now, on June 25th, 2020. My personal life is of no concern to you. The only thing you'll learn about is what I've been investigating.
There was a company. A rather major broadcast company, actually, that had a lot going on for it. Television stations in several major cities, competing with industry titans. Fitting that it was called Upstaged, then, owned by parent company Upstaged Communications.
In 2006, however, this company disappeared. Just... poofed off the face of the earth, without leaving a single trace. Even better, they took everything with them. All their buildings, all the memories attached to them, everything. Nobody remembers them. Nobody remembers who they were, what buildings they inhabited. Nobody but the workers.
I was one of the workers. I was just a technician for Upstaged Station 85; nothing too fancy. But I remember it existed before going under. And me, being the little sneak that I am, managed to squeeze my way into the central server network, named Marionettes. When I got into it, nothing worked for me, and three days later I found out that the company had been dissolved effective immediately due to a rather poorly defined scandal that certainly didn't exist, and I was supposed to leave. So I did, and got a new job elsewhere, and forgot about Upstaged.
Until October 20th, 2018. I received a package. Unmarked. It contained a hard drive with a program on it, and told me to install the program, which I did. Turns out that it's a remote access key for Marionettes and its database, which is somehow still active. So, as one might imagine, I went digging.
Should be pretty evident, but I found some stuff. There's an image database, a chat database, and more. Unfortunately, it's all search-based; there's no grand list for all of it. Or at least, if there is one, I haven't found it. So I've been doing some investigation in real life, and try and find out people that've been working with this. There's been a bit of branching, since each user had chat logs with multiple other users, so it's interesting.
As of right now, the main people of interest for me are Lily, Riley, Joshua, Wyatt, Thomas, and Nashiko. They all seem to have been doing some sort of investigation or upkeep with the company after the fact, but more interestingly, they've all been using Marionette's chatting software long after the company has died. What happened to Lily is of particular interest to me, because I cannot figure out what it is. And somehow, her latest chat log got corrupted, despite not having that issue with other parts of Marionettes before. But as soon as I read her chat log, things started to get corrupted a lot more often.
Why am I doing this? Because someone sent an unmarked envelope to my door, and I'm stubborn. I'm going to see what's going on.
Why am I putting it online? To make sure I never forget. Upstaged was forgotten about before. This ensures that I never forget it again.
Expect updates to be sporadic. I have a busy life, and you'll get no updates from that half of things. Only from this side of the curtain.
Hope this proves to be interesting, or something. Don't really know why you're reading it, but since you are, enjoy the ride. I'm going to figure out what's going on here.
