Hi, everyone.
Back in October, I was honored to be trusted by Noxon the task of putting together a walkthrough of Freddy's 'treasure hunt'. As bonus content, I included some stuff I had recently researched and compiled (with help from several key people involved in the band's online presence).
A few days ago, Noxon posted this bonus content. You can read it here:
https://dreamtheater.club/blog/2018/12/31/dream-theater-treasure-hunt-walkthrough-pt-6/The article consists of the following:
- Ciphers: a description of 5 of the ciphers used by Freddy, and how they work.
- Easter Eggs: a compilation of funny stuff we discovered while treasure-hunting.
- Summary: the key details/dates regarding the hunt, and a table with all the codes/ciphers/games involved.
- A short history of Dream Theater online fan communities, going back to 1993 (or, possibly, 1992).
- A short history of Dream Theater online, going back to 1996.
- Distance over time timeline
- 2019 anniversaries
- Sources and resources (i.e., the tools I used when writing.)
As you can see, some of the content is not related to the hunt. If that's the one you'd like to read, you can simply search for
Bonus tracks with your browser, and read what's below that title.
I hope this (particularly, the histories of the band's communities and websites) is of some interest.
Thanks once again to Noxon, Bosk, Weymolith, Mark Bredius, Setlist Scotty, Bogie, Rob Webster, Rudy van Ijzendoorn and Steffen Barabasch, for their help and suggestions. Thanks also to Darko Böhringer and Mark Maryanovich for their pictures and never-ending kind words. Finally, thanks to all the fellow Discord users for allowing me to use screenshots of their tweets.
PS: To anyone who would like to print and read the complete document (a 115-page PDF file), I can send you a link to my Google Drive.