What is Project Sweetbeast?

Sweetbeast is an experimental multimedia ARG interactive story adventure I started officially in December 2021. I've had this world and these character's in my head since 2017. It's a fun experience full of lovable characters, supernatural occurences, and monsters. I don't have any plans for how far this will go or if the story has a definite end, but there are lots of arcs and a main overarching plot. It's mainly text-based, but also has/will have images, gifs, videos, and possibly full voice-acted animations in the future. Viewer interaction can decide where the characters go or how it advances through an askblog, but the whole transcript of the chapters can be read here.LATEST UPDATES AND INTERACT WITH THE STORY HERE!!https://project-sweetbeast.tumblr.com

The Lost and Found is where our story takes place. In the world of Sweetbeast, long ago, the Lost and Found was spontaneously created from an abundance of pure energy, and serves as a place where all the anomalies, "glitches", and anything that disobeys the laws of physics go- sort of like limbo. It's a sort of "flipside" to the normal world, made to "even the balance" and keep the normal world safe from anomalies and too much energy. The normal world relies on this energy to survive, which the Lost and Found constantly creates, and for millennia they remained in balance- until now.The Lost and Found opens up random portals periodically as a result of too much energy, and this inevitably results in plants, animals, and people coming in. The result? A mysterious country of a colonized liminal space, complete with their own governments, huge cities, and a whole lot of monstery reality-bending inhabitants who are stuck there.The normal world is occupied by intelligent anthropomorphic creatures with animal aspects, called Madgers. However, when one enters the Lost and Found through a portal, a remarkable transformation occurs.

If a Madger comes in by accident without consenting, they become a Madgrem. Madgrems are immortal, they don't need to eat or drink since they now can live on pure energy that's all over the Lost and Found. With living off energy comes reality-bending properties, color changes, monstery features, and cartoony physics.If a Madger comes in on PURPOSE, however, they become a Maskie. These are basically Madgrems, but they are required by law to wear a specially made mask at all times to stay stable. If they don't? The results are disastrous.

• CHAPTER 1 SHORT SUMMARY
• CHAPTER 1 FULL
• LATEST UPDATES (TUMBLR)
• FARLEY'S CELL (animated)

so you’ve heard of Project Sweetbeast but don’t know what’s going on with it? here’s a quick summary of what’s happened so far (what i’m calling chapter 1).PART I: RANGY DOCTORat the very beginning, an account appears online called project-sweetbeast, and it starts sending out cryptic messages. here is the first one:< NUNTII DEVICE TEST v.X1002 >
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SEARCHING FOR CONNECTIVITY
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CONNECTION STATUS: WEAKafter some people interact with the site, asking it if there’s anyone there, eventually someone responds. he seems someone frantic and surprised the message sent, and asks the viewers where he ended up. they tell him he is being broadcasted onto a website. he replies that he is broadcasting this from a sort of alternate dimension, then draws a self portrait for the viewers to see.he says his name is Dr. Hazard, and he says he is a scientist that studies portal anomalies, and now he lives inside the place these portal networks are connected to. this place is called the Lost and Found, and is a sort of “limbo” where anomalies and supernatural occurrences/reality breaking oddities go to “even out” the natural balance and keep the normal world safe.he has little conversations with the viewers and tells us a little more about his world. there are no humans, his world is inhabited by diverse animal-like humanoids called madgers (basically furries.) he also explains that portal travel is dangerous, and that anyone who goes in becomes transformed. there are two things a madger can become when they transform:MADGREMS are madgers who have come to the Lost and Found by accident, not with their consent. these look mostly like their previous selves except for some color changes and reality bending properties.MASKIES are madgers who have come to the Lost and Found on purpose, with their consent. they look similar to madgrems, but their faces are masks of any shape. they are required to keep this mask on by law to prevent “mass death and destruction”. Dr. Hazard is also a maskie, as well as all characters except one encountered so far.there is also no way out of the Lost and Found- once you’re there, you’re there forever, and you can’t travel in between portals. it turns out that so many madgers have gone here, it’s been colonized and civilized, and whole cities are built out of this “flipside world”.Hazard explains that there is a big problem going on that he needs our help with. something has put the Lost and Found off balance and portals are being opened up constantly, with pure energy and chaos leaking out into the normal world more frequently. if this happens too much, both the normal world and the Lost and Found could be completely destroyed. his job is to find out the cause of this and stop it before it’s too late, and he needs our help.but before he can explain further, he is cut off by the device he uses to communicate powering down. he explains it automatically teleports to a nearby energy hotspot and that he will be looking for the device and that hopefully, no one interacts with it in the meantime. he also says to keep sending messages so that he can track its location, and says goodbye to the viewers.PART II: THE SCARLET COUNTRYof course, someone interacts with the device. more like someones.
the device sends out a keysmash, and the viewers ask who’s there, leading to the camera being turned on, revealing the device being inside someone’s mouth. a maskie is yelling at the person we’re in the mouth of to “drop it” and to “stop eating things off the ground”. they reveal themselves as Grimley, the one who tried to eat the device, a big dudebro himbo kinda guy, and begal, the smaller, grumpier one who was scolding him, wearing a cloak. Grimley is excited and talks to the viewers without questioning the fact they’re from an alternate dimension, while Begal thinks it’s just a prank and brushes it off. Begal let’s the viewer know they’re in a “stuck together” situation thanks to something called the Farley Program where older maskies teach newcomers the ropes of living in the Lost and Found.They also tell the viewers that they’re heading to a place called the “Scarlet Country”, which is the first big city Grimley has ever been to. they enter this huge enclosed tree filled bright flashy urban crazy city, and Begal leaves Grimley with some money and the device and the viewers are left to talk to him and suggest where he should go next. He talks with the viewers and gets to know them a bit. everything’s going fine until someone asks him if he knows any “tricks”, and he takes off his mask, revealing a horrifying unsettling distorted face underneath. he seems pretty proud of himself.he heads to a store and picks up some goods, until he gets stopped by two officers and gets handcuffed. Yikes.PART III: SMELLS LIKE STARDUSTGrimley is completely taken aback and asks why he’s being arrested, and they tell him it’s because he took off his mask. he is in the midst of being driven to some sort of headquarters when he tries to contact Begal with the device, but in the chaos he drops the device and it falls stories and stories down into who knows where and we lose contact with him.Soon, though, someone new contacts the device.An unknown stranger, really excited and talking strangely, starts talking to the viewers through the device about wanting to be their friend and being really cryptic and goofy in general. he reveals his name is Farley, and he’s some sort of weird reality bending critter in between the void. he keeps spouting nonsense until he shows the viewers a cool trick: he hacks two other blogs and speaks through them. he keeps talking to the viewers and having fun entertaining them, and reveals he’s basically been alive since the beginning of time and is some sort of extremely powerful entity. he eventually learns that Grimley has been arrested and gets very upset. he says he was the first person he met and that he’s a great guy and is now determined to get him out of jail, but needs to talk to his “bestest friend” to get him out. he promptly disappearsThe device eventually picks up a conversation between Farley and a new person, and they’re arguing over whether it’s safe to let Grimley out of prison or not. the new person is very close to Farley and is insistent on him staying careful and safe, and doesn’t want to take any risks. Farley remarks on how he’s changed.Suddenly, the stranger hears the viewers on the device and asks Farley to bring the device to him. a viewer says he would rather not, and he tells them “since when we’re you the one in control?” he then reveals himself as Dewey Stardust, some sort of famous entertainer with lots of status and power, good friends with Farley. He talks to the viewers, explaining that he’s a sort of figurehead for the police but actually dislikes them, and that he has no evil intentions with the device but is curious.And that’s chapter 1!