Shadowpaw wrote:This is a basic list of important (and some not so important) facts about the timeline of events of the board (as much as the board is supposed to know):
2005
April 1: The Town of Odyssey Created
May 1: AREM shows up, warning of impending doom
May 1: Shadowpaw is de-admined / jailed and renamed 1115100040
May 1: First term elections draw to a close
May 2: Ballots announced as missing, results not revealed.
May 3: Bennett Charles stages an illegal takeover of the Town Odyssey, destroys AREM and claims Margaret Faye has given her blessing.
May 3: Citizens race to solve AREM's final clues, discovering a couple of account with information to help bring down Charles.
May 3: The real results are uncovered and Bennett Charles is brought down. Shadowpaw imprisons him and AREM is treated like a hero.
May 3 onward: Margaret Faye is not heard from again and Bennett Charles is imprisoned.
More information can be obtained from
this thread and
this thread.
July 12: Shadowpaw pms "Secret Informant" about an opportunity
July 20ish: A bug in the board cripples the town and some accounts are deleted
July 21: Rachael is the first to discover Blackgaard's DNA is missing
July 21 onward: Hank Murray, Professor Bovril, Abdul, Tasha Forbes, Richard Maxwell, Alfred Brownlee, and Jellyfish appear
July 23: Mysterious guest post appears in Crestwood, once decrypted leads people to believe the DNA will be auctioned off
July 24: Auction begins, the DNA is up for auction and villains/members bid for it
July 24: AREM returns to the board, dropping strange cryptic clues related to the auction and the people bidding
July 24: NSA shuts down the banks to prevent people from bidding on the stolen goods
July 25: Abdul robs members of the Blackgaard clan
July 25: Bank accounts re opened at the close of the auction, citizens realize their accounts have been drained of funds
July 25: Various villains rounded up and sent to prison, all with motives.
July 26: Prisoners released on bail, NSA conducts investigation and forces prisoners to answer questions. Glossman is revealed to have been controlling AREM and escapes with the DNA once everyone realizes they have been played.
July 26: Alfred Brownlee reveals he had figured it all out and was trying to help
July 26: Eugene Blackgaard reveals Richard Maxwell was the first AREM and different from this one
July 26 onward: Richard Maxwell not heard from again
This is easy to follow in the recap
posted here, minus a few elements that were only recently introduced.
Everything remains calm, for a while.
2006
April 15 onward: Nearly all stocks begin to fall
May 3: Bennett Charles released from prison.
May 5: Bennett Charles manipulates members to donate money to him to start a faction
May 7: Bennett Charles creates "The MAC Lovers" (using Robo to buy it and Eugene Kendall to lead it) with trouble makers making up the faction. It's a front for anti-Shadowpaw propaganda and eventually turns into anti-administration
May 18: Margaret Faye sends out a distress private message to DanP740
May 28: Secret Informant arrives, using the account to protect his real identity and announces that on July 12 he received a private message from Shadowpaw the previous year that may have some relevance today
May 30: Margaret Faye sends out a distress private message to OrigamiKid
June 12: Shadowpaw discovers the existence of the "MAC Lovers" faction and shuts it down
June 21: Shadowpaw last seen in public
June 23: Davari Hassan joins the board, making threats
June 24: Davari and the Red Scorpions kidnap Catspaw, Me, Eeyore, NatetheGreat, Rachael, Kris Doyle, Evil Chick, and J-man and demands $20,000 ransom to release them
June 25: Dr. Watson pays the ransom and Davari releases all but Catspaw, Me, and Eeyore
June 26: Davari demands the three hand over the ruku virus and TA-418 or he will kill a victim
June 26: Catspaw, Me, and Eeyore refuse, Margaret Faye is killed and reveals that she went missing because she uncovered a timeline of events and has hidden it in an abandoned user account. A series of riddles will eventually lead the board to this account where the timeline will be made known.
June 26: Project D.O.L.L.Y. appears on the stock market
June 28: Margaret Faye leads the town back to Secret Informant.
That's the story that you know thus far...
It's so much fun to read... probably as much fun for newer members who weren't here as for the older members. It does make me wish more then ever that I had joined this amazing place a year or two earlier, though. 
