OOG: The Home Office Timeline: Background

The Home Office Timeline: Background
Posted by lg15panda on November 10, 2008 at 10:30am

February-March 2007
The YouTube channel dehteraew comes online. The character's name is Linc. The channel name ("we are the D" reversed) is in reference to the OpAphid ARG, which was the official Lonelygirl15 ARG at the time. A number of Linc's videos are considered fan fiction or spin offs of LG15 or OpAphid videos, posted as responses to events happening in those timelines.

In these videos, Linc is a agent of the Order, serving on OpAphid's "death squad" -- getting rid of the Order's enemies by force. He works with 2 other associates known as Julie and Pete (reference to the "Mod Squad") in tracking and surveillance, and implies that he also coordinates assassinations (Return). However, as a result of failure and fallout during the events of The Human Ransom, the Order decided to permanently end Linc's employment (Awry, Pleasantries). Linc managed to survive and went underground.

April 2007
Linc resurfaced during the Maddison Atkins ARG. In his response videos, he along with the community tried to help Maddison solve puzzles against a looming deadline. When an assassin from the Order showed up in Maddison's home, he and the community ordered her to leave and Linc fled to Nacogdoches to protect her. Unfortunately, Maddison did not seem to make it out alive and Linc took this pretty hard (No More, War). Linc goes back underground and we do not hear from him for months.

July 2007
After Glenn (the Puppetmaster of OpAphid) left the LG15 team and the OpAphid ARG ended, he resurfaced to start a new ARG called Redearth88, a sort of amalgamation of the OpAphid and Maddison Atkins universes, with Glenn and Jeromy (the Puppetmaster of Maddison Atkins) in co-collaboration. In this endeavor, Linc reprised his role and got to serve as a primary character. In Redearth88, Linc's videos were posted under the channel lofisyndicate.

In this story, Linc was sent on a mission by someone known as 15over15 to protect a girl named Rachel. At first he merely kept her under surveillance until his cover was accidentally blown and had to introduce himself. Rachel and Linc went on a couple of dates until Rachel found out about him stalking her. At this time it seems the Order has gotten wind of Rachel, so Linc decides to take matters into his own hands and protect Rachel overtly, all the while Rachel thinking that he is a lunatic (Cut to the Chase). In attempt to rendezvous with 15over15, he brings Rachel into a tunnel, and mysterious events occur. Linc is knocked out and Rachel disappears (Worth the Wait?). We do not hear from Linc, though the community makes contact with Tachyon and Brother from the OpAphid ARG in attempts to rescue him.

October 11, 2007
Linc finally posts the Farewells video on his dehteraew channel. In it he explains what happened to him -- that he had gone into the tunnel in the last week of July and woke up on September 1st, with no memory of what happened in the interim. He also discusses his failures to help Bree/Maddison/Rachel, and how he isn't willing to continue. He decides to permanently go under. Activity on the dehteraew channel remains dormant for an entire year.

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