A Storm approaches

A Storm approaches is the first part of Season Two of the Keepers ARG.

The Forum RPG
The events of Operation Chess were first introduced in the Sanctuary forum RPG. It reintroduces Eloise Cortez and teases the escape of this season's villain as well as setting the mood for what was to come.

The Keepers Return
The ARG officially started on july 4 2014, when Eloise Cortez joined Twitter and the Sanctuary Forums.



A new generation of players was introduced to the Keepers via an orientation powerpoint and a video from the 2013 elections. Eloise also promised that there would a Keepers Q&A from July 7 until July 13 to give the players even more information about the organization that is behind the Sanctuary Network.

The First Transmission
On july 7 2014, a transmission was intercepted and posted on OpChess.com.

It wasn't long until the #HiveHum took notice. Both Kirsten Geary and Saïd encouraged the players to find out what the transmission said and soon the Buzzing also got involved.

It wasn't long until Aeloth figured out the answer.

A second transmission was intercepted and posted on OpChess.com soon after.

The binary code led to a link with recovered data from this transmission as noted by MsBehavior.

It wasn't long until Cassandra provided the solution.

After the second message was deciphered, Eloise contaced the players and asked them to join a meeting with her in the Albion Theatre. This starts the second part of this mission.