Hey everyone, I mean everyone freaking out about this daunting OpAphid homework you all seem to dread, listen: OpAphid is fun! Yes it is!
Would you complain if Bree made a video explaining stuff about her religion? I doubt it! Well, this is what you might get from OpAphid... well, more likely Tachyon or her partner aka "Brother". Of course the info is a bit harder to get, it's not quite spelled out in the videos. There are drops to recover, clues to put together, puzzles to solve, codes to decode, even music, yes, popular music that you all hear everyday to analyze.
Too much work for you? Don't fret about it. Up to this moment this has all been done for you, you already have most of the stuff solved by those who do enjoy the hard but satisfying work of deciphering all that. And those players will keep on working out the clues and math and puzzles and songs, and they will always share the results of their work, because that's part of the satisfaction drawn from it.
So, if you don't feel up to it, just let the others do the hard work. But do follow along, as there are subtle character and plot development insights to draw from it all. But most importantly, remember how you always enjoy analyzing (and yes, overanalyzing too) everything about Bree's videos. This is no different. Who knows, maybe this is precisely the information or point of view that you've all been asking to hear from Bree, i.e. "Bree, why don't YOU tell us about YOUR community?"
Oh and don't be intimidated by the character/entity known as OpAphid. It may be the bad guy in this story (or maybe not, you decide), but it/she has a sharp wit and is always joking around and making silly puns that sometimes turn out to be huge clues. Seriously, learn to read and enjoy her sarcasm. If you don't like her, laugh at her! It's all good. (Although it's still not clear if OpAphid is a female or a male or most likely an organization consisting of a group of people, we tend to refer to it as 'her' for convenience, identifying her with the girl in their videos. But think of 'her' messages as those of a corporate public relations department). Here's an example of one of their communications, in the context of solving one of Tachyon's puzzles which OpAphid didn't want solved:
Isn't she a riot? Well, within that message lay a clue for the solution that they didn't want revealed (the way to understand this apparent contradiction is that in-character she wanted to HINDER our progress, but out-of-character she was actually helping us), which was the following message from Tachyon to her partner:
HE NEEDS TO KNOW HOW LONG THEY HAVE BEEN ON TO HIM IT IS NOT LIKE THEY JUST STOP TRACKING SOMEONE
The key to decoding this was the three-character string 'GPS'. This information was revealed even before Bree and Daniel hit the road! These are the kinds of revelations that we can get from working out this (new to you) aspect of the LG15 saga. Another big example, a few days later, on Nov 11, almost a full week before Gemma mentioned the watcher, the latest drop from Tachyon included five
pictures of Daniel filming the ceremony, three of them practically identical to those Daniel found on Lucy's computer. Also, a text file: filename GRIGORI, contents WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS. This was 5 days before the
comment by The Deacons mentioning the Grigori in the "Man in the Suit" video (which many here considered proof that The Deacons were canon).
I apologize for the long post, just thought I'd give you a small glimpse into the deep, meaningful characters from OpAphid within the LG15 world. These are just a couple of examples of how the two stories intersect, perhaps the most satisfying to find out. Go to the forum to get the big picture, take your time to digest it all, the context is important but don't worry if you can't read it all in a day or two. Don't just watch the videos, you wont make any sense of them (especially the first batch dealing with Cassie) and you'll become frustrated. The good stuff is beyond that. There's so many other types of communications with these new characters: there's constant YouTube profile updates, there's private messaging with players (through YT PM's), there's voice messages in phone numbers to listen to (you don't need to call since others have recorded and posted them on YT), there's a few that have received live, interactive phone calls from "Brother", there's been the 3 drops from Tachyon, there's been craigslists.com posts, and most importantly, there's the fan interaction, the making friends part of it, the sharing and learning of stuff from each other. Don't try to do it all in a couple of days. If you find that something is boring or too complicated to follow, just skip the details, get the conclusion, put it in the back of your mind, and move on to the next thing. Take your time, and enjoy it.
Deagol
