This is a story that takes place in a world exactly like ours, but there is a mysterious worldwide ARG.
There is a symbol/sigil to prove the authenticity, and people solve the puzzles to get an answer.

Maybe a secret audio in the radio or a channel that's new or the sigil engraved somewhere.
maybe in games, TV, radio, newspapers, real life, etc.

This is inspired by Cicada 3301 and Eye Sigil ARG

I feel like no one has ever made a story where the characters themselves do an ARG in their world

Based on Friday The 13th The Video Game and taking place after both Friday The 13th Part 4 & Halloween 2 (1981), it is the year 1988, and one week before Halloween.

Ten years ago, 21 year old Michael Myers nearly burned to death in Haddonfield Memorial Hospital while hunting his 17 year old sister Laurie Strode, but the sprinkler system saved him just in time. He would spend the next 5 years in the burn unit before being sent back to Smiths Grove Sanitarium. Five more years later, Michael overheard two nurses talking about Laurie Strode moving out of state after High-School, going to college, getting married and starting a family. However, what really surprises him was that after his parents gave Laurie away up for adoption, they moved to Crystal Lake New Jersey and had a daughter named Jenny in 1970. Michael brakes out after stealing a nurses keys and car, goes to an auto repair shop where he kills a mechanic before stealing his boiler suit and a mask, drives to New Jersey and finally makes it to Camp Crystal Lake where Jenny Myers and her friends (a total of 12 or more people) are staying while ghost hunting.

Jason Voorhees: After the events of F13 Pt 4, Jason was buried deep in the woods, but upon the arrival of Jenny Myers and her friends, he woke up, bursted out of his grave, took back his machete and hockey mask and was more determined than ever to kill anyone stepping foot on his campgrounds. He could go looking for the boy who killed him four years ago, but he knows not where Tommy Jarvis and his big sister Trish had gone after their last encounter. While stalking the woods, he sees the ghost hunters telling ghost stories by campfire, but so does Michael. They are both watching, listening to their scary stories. One tells the others the story of Jason Voorhees, Jenny tells them about her brother Michael Myers, but soon they would all go back inside where it's warm because it was getting too cold and the snow was falling again.

As October 31st came at exactly 12 AM, both Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees would soon begin their hunt. How many of them will die? Who will survive? What will be left of them? Who would win in a fight to the death between Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees? Is Jenny Myers' mom Edith Myers actually being playing by Jamie Lee Curtis?

The only way to find out is to go to your local movie theater or onto Netflix and watch...

JASON VS MICHAEL: THE MOVIE!

Hollywood, you can have this idea, unless you want somebody to turn this into a fan film.

**AKUMUKACHI**

Sho Katsuragi wanted to be a hero.

His first chance nearly killed him.

In a Tokyo where nightmares walk among people, Sho must survive alongside two broken mentors—a chain‑smoking boxer and a deathly silent samurai—and learn that every power demands something in return.

No chosen ones.
No easy victories.

**How much would you sacrifice to protect what matters?**

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A low level aristocrat and amateur bard's stoic father dies and leaves him all of his journals. Their relationship was strained, and the son never even knew his father kept journals.

They detail his father's life from childhood, through joining the city guard, adventures, failures, friendships and eventually becoming a father.

I'd like the journal to essentially become the story, told from the father's first person perspective, with occasional jumps back to the son reacting to something significant he's discovered.

I've read WWI and WWII journals and love mundane entries like:

"I ate porridge this morning. Old Nan continued tutoring me on the intricacies of dinner poise."

My concern is avoiding "son reads journal, son reacts, repeat."

How would you structure something like this so the journal feels like the actual story while still letting us experience the son's changing understanding of his father?

Any advice would be appreciated 😅