October 12th is a date that lives in two histories.For lonelygirl15, it's Ceremony Day — the night of the ritual in 2006, and not coincidentally the birthday of Aleister Crowley, born October 12, 1875. Every year, Ahca marks the occasion. This year's post went up in the Discord as always.
For cassieiswatching, October 12th carries a different weight. Ahca's theory — and it's worth sitting with — is that the Ceremony's plot revision, the one that extended Bree's life, may have spoiled the CiW storyline. The ARG that was building toward something got its legs cut out from under it. In his words, it hammered "the final nail into its casket (of tears)."
And then the puppetmaster vanished. Never identified, never came forward, never explained. Twenty years, and the person who built cassieiswatching just... left.
What they left behind is the Anagram From Hell: 21 scrambled lines, and nobody has solved all of them. Not in 2006, not since. Zero lines are confirmed by anyone who made the thing.
That's what I've been working on. Not alone — there's a small crew, and the Discord has some sharp people on it — but the goal is simple: solve the anagram. The lines that are solved read like Cassie scolding the community for letting Bree die. The unsolved ones might say more.
Here's the thing about October 12th. The Ceremony was fiction — a plot point, revised when the story needed it. But CiW was real in a way the show never was. Real drops in real parks. Real voicemails. Real people driving to La Cienega at midnight because a girl on YouTube told them to look.
The fiction got its rewrite. The reality never got its ending.
Twenty years later, the anagram is still sitting there. Unsolved. Waiting for someone to finish what the puppetmaster started and then walked away from.
Maybe this is the year.
mm/muse
BTW, “Casket Of Tears” was the name of the video that scdgoofy uploaded to YouTube, which showed Cu Roi retrieving what turned out to be the (apparently) gamejacked drop at the “swimming hole” location along the San Gabriel River. (According to my Cassie notes, the PM *gave* us the coordinates on around 9/12/06: 34.23970°, -117.76556°.) The video title comes from Poe’s song “Haunted”—which was used as the soundtrack for the video—which contains the line “Time to gather up the splinters, build a casket for my tears.” The full video was uploaded to the ciw-arg channel in the ‘cassie is watching’ Discord group in a 4/3/25 post.
ReplyDelete(scdgoofy’s YouTube channel was set to private in 2024, seemingly disappeared in 2025…but is now VISIBLE and no longer set to private! The “Casket Of Tears” video is gone, but the two CiW-related videos shot at La Cienega Park are still there!)