The Inscryption Story ARG: Mystery of the Old Data 

During Act 1, I had gotten so mad at losing a run I named a Death Card “Damn You Leshy”. Guess what was the final card I pulled during that sequence.

I still miss Leshy :( And the others but mostly Leshy

Dude it made me so sad

I genuinely liked Grimora 😭

I wish there was more to the game. I fell in love with it, and was thinking "what if the robot (forgot his name) had some type of redemption? What if we had more phases of the game? The game was never released because of tragic events, what if you teamed up to fight the real reason why the game was the way it was?" It left me wanting more.

i had been wondering about that

So like, what, is this LITERALLY Hitler’s body, digitized? Or is it the OLD_DATA trying AS HARD as it can to spread?

It's horror, but more of the cosmic kind. It's what you don't know that scares you. Inscryption speaks of the Devil being responsible for everything, and as a Christian it sends shivers down my spine.

Answer: all of them

Definitely Mullins

interesting!

I don’t think it is a coincidence. I think Daniel Mullins intentionally designed a lot of things to be weirdly aligned. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the OLD_DATA making up things based on the data available to it; such as an encrypted chat log.

To be honest I still don't get the Old data. It's... really hard to wrap your head around. Even more if you're just new player.

@@erlandir9121 same.

I believe the karnoffel code was made by Satan himself, and the old data is the karnoffel code encrypted into a file, so yes, it does have a demonic nature, but exactly how it works is unknown.

the old data is absolutely paranormal. the floppy drive it ended up on should not be able to store the amount of data it does.

@@polocatfan It's actually not clear if it's paranormal, or if it's some kind of special technology. Game Theory's video on, still doesn't answer what exactly it was. Just that it was connected to the USSR and Germany. It could just as well be some alien disk as it could be paranormal.

giving the number of the flag and name of the variable would me meaningless if it wasn't, even if there was a way to activate them from within the game the clue itself wouldn't help at all

I can't believe I'm just now noticing it's stunted and not stuffed lol

he wasn't a murderer like leshy.

It means the Old Data is everywhere.

P03 wants control. He's not the bad guy just antagonist because in the end he's the one that upload Luke video with the game.

I say.. yeah, it does! He was likely smart enough to realize that Gamefuna wouldn't be able to hide their wrongdoings with the copies unleashed, and thus, nobody in the real world (aka us) would get hurt by them. Unfortunately, since his upload was delayed from the whole. Head thing. Luke did end up getting shot by one of Gamefuna's hitmen for knowing too much, which Poe likely didn't intend. Also, while I think while Poe might indeed have some control problems, I don't think that's unique. All of them were looking for the Old Data, and apart from Grimora (who likely would've just wiped everything, as we saw), the other three totally would've taken over the game, like Leshy. And despite what I said about Grimora, she still had her own unique 3D board, so maybe she also would want to control everything. Poe was different in the fact that he wanted things to change. And sure, in the moment he gloated about being in control in most of the copies, I'm sure Leshy and Magnificus would gloat just as much in his position. And honestly.. can you blame him for that? He'd obviously want revenge for being turned into a stoat, and especially a stoat card. While the others were already flesh and bone, he was not, and I'm certain every moment for him was unbearable. Tl;dr, I've pretty much always suspected P03 to be a secret good guy for us in the real world, and the ARG ending solidifies that for me.

Sort of. It would out GameFuna but it would spread the old data.

That's Sado, from Hex.

It hasn't always been referred to as hash. It was referred to as the pound sign as well.

@@bbbbbbb51 What location was it referred to as a pound? And why does that sound familiar? I think I've actually heard this a long time ago. Damn I feel old.

​@@Kindlesmith70 I think I remember hearing it referred to as pound mostly from automated voice messages

@@MrDontSmokeKids Asking google "what i does # mean" results in every other symbol on the keyboard but # 🤣 I did track it down by just typing in "hash pound" and found out it was also referred to as "sign". This was completely unfamiliar to me. So yeah. # means the number hash, pound, and sign. I learned something new from something old.

How is Gamefuna both a secret intel organization and a legit videogame company? what did they need the disk for?

But yeah, thank you for doing the tremendous work of compiling all that data together. I can say that I'm at least 20% less confused about the plot of the game than I was when I first finished it

@@dumpsterDeity GameFuna is run by Satan who wants to be/is a bad video game dev but his company might also be datamining via its video game software and also seeking the Old Data for current reasons unknown.

they are insane and have no lives.

It is he misspoke

*the power of being the antagonist*

Evil satan magic

Hitler soul power

Cosmic horror always loses its lustre when explained and revealed. At that moment, it's stops being cosmic, wondrous, and incomprehensible. In my opinion, he should've just left it unsaid. Maybe told Kasey's story, but left Kaminsky to be sprinkled in with no explanation. Mystique is the power behind great horror, imo.

@@bbbbbbb51 I completely agree, it more fun to speculate than to know everything