Originally shared on February 28th 2023 ———————————————————— *Also has some random art since I would feel bad for making a project that is purely text ———————————————————— About 8 months ago I tried my hand at an ARG in a similar format to Candleworld. It was originally fun to make all of the characters and locations but it quickly became evident I was not experienced enough at this in the slightest. I intended to have different genre segments of the story for certain parts but ran into the problem that I needed to actually finish those segments for the plot to progress meaningfully (don’t integrate two 8 hour games with extreme plot relevance into the middle of your ARG). In order to make up for this, I made up random complications on the spot. This didn’t help it at all, however, the ‘horrible storm’ lead up to nothing and the interactions with the library were weird and unnecessary. I just ended up making more and more inconsistencies and contradictions while shoehorning in more random elements to stall until I could finish the actual arcs that in the game segments I didn’t even finish making. Another thing I should touch on is people thinking it was canon to Candleworld- at the time (and now still) I devoted my account mostly to Klabss’s ARG, so when I posted the original message most people assumed this was no exception. I tried to work around this by reacting as the characters would, being ignorant of Candleworld, but this only caused confusion. I should have specified the difference sooner and I apologise to the Metoville participants and to Klabss for causing this. Overall I regret almost everything I did with the story after the first two days of Metoville and found myself with a jumble of ideas I couldn’t steer back to what I originally planned. I tried a couple times in the next few months but ended up stopping after a day or two. The only way I can see of continuing is by completely retconning it. The Metoville account will remain unaltered, you can believe it as a seperate canon if you wish (though everything that happened there will not have taken place and the town might be reincarnated quite differently). I’m going to also focus a lot more on Metovour rather than strange town related puzzles. I may also use the Metovour account for future because it didn’t have anything important on it. I’m going to remake the story in a comic format. It will be more similar in structure to something like Bone rather than Comment Adventures but will still have some interaction/ARG elements at times. Everything like the Billabong, Easter Game, and the Zolban Bestiary are still canon, just not the stuff after all the accounts got involved. I’m sorry I handled things so poorly and neglected the things I promised to do in Metoville and if you read this far I have to thank you so much. That being said: TLDR: remaking Metoville
